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The legality of the request is in question. I assume you are referring to 49 U.S. Code § 46504 (link: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/49/46504). There are many people who can argue both sides of that law.

I personally think he did not violate that law and thus was not legally required to disembark.

Apache can mitigate slowloris attacks through mod_requesttimeout. I recommend using this.

Also, the saying, "Fake it 'til you make it".

The study looked at perceived athleticism. I wonder if the same could be said about entrepreneurship?

One thing I never knew about ping is that if you ping a broadcast address, then all hosts will respond! But for some operating systems (windows I think?), you need a packet capture to see this. It's been useful when probing around unknown networks.

I only found that out by reading the source code. It was part of a short-lived attempt to become a better hacker by familiarizing myself with the Linux source code, kernel and all. The more I learn, the more impossible it seems to ever master it all...

The particular brand I track has gone down 15% over the past 6 months (mostly since January). Some products are not decreasing as quickly as others.

Costco sued J&J Vision Care a few years ago over anti-consumer behavior in the contact lenses industry (I characterize it as anti-consumer. The Vision Care industry characterizes it as pro-consumer). They dropped the lawsuit in 2016, probably because Johnson and Johnson discontinued the practice: https://www.law360.com/articles/800034/costco-drops-antitrus...

Costco did support a different lawsuit by state of Utah against Contact Lens Manufacturers. The Manufacturers lost their first appeal in December 2016: http://www.sltrib.com/news/4731439-155/contact-lens-makers-l...

Hopefully this will begin reducing the prices of contact lenses. Kudos to Costco for sticking up for its customers.

Here is one manufacturer's opinion on this matter: https://www.alcon.com/content/unilateral-pricing-policy

Thank you! I will edit my comment accordingly. I listened to the video and it was driving me mad that I couldn't find that part.

That was the timestamp in the Politico post, but I missed the conversation.

I guess that Five Guys is popular with the NGA.

(editing comment since it is inaccurate)

For those interested, the original Youtube interaction is in the link posted in the child comment.

[2]: http://www.politico.com/blogs/ben-smith/2009/05/in-which-the...

It's a niche topic, so there aren't any other sites that discuss my topic (except news articles).

If there are other sites, I can't find them! :)

I recently created a web page that provides - in my biased opinion - unique, relevant information on a niche topic that I'm interested in. It's been impossible for me to crack the top search results on this topic. Instead, the top 20+ results are all news articles repeating the same thing.

I never had reason to complain about Google's algorithm until I became a content creator. Now, I wonder what other great web pages I'm missing out on.

Hacking is "sexy" and sensational, but if you really wanted a corporation's data, wouldn't it be easier to just get your agent hired as an Ops person at your target?

The "Auto Dealer Lobby" in Texas has been saying this would happen for a while: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2016/05/20/texas-aut...

I assumed it was just the usual political grandstanding to keep Tesla out. Here we have an example of this happening.

Can you share if you needed to do anything to deal with time drift issues when using tsc? For my own systems, incorrect timestamps would cause a lot of issues.

No secret - I used s3s3mirror. Multithreaded copying.

Thank you for your response and adding clarity around how the story came to be. You must forgive us if we are inherently suspicious.

I did try EMR + s3distcp a while ago. AWS Support recommended it and provided instructions in their docs. It was not very fast for me. The data I was trying to copy was about 400 GB of small 5-20 kb files - not ideal for fast copying. I gave up and used a different method.

I suspect Evernote, if using S3, would have a similar data profile of many small objects.

Nothing against the author, but it sounds like another story that Google PR pitched and influenced. It is normal these days. I am sure AWS does the same. That is why the technical details may be light. The submitter is likely a Social Media Manager for Google (nothing wrong with that - kudos for not obscuring it!)

I, too, have wondered about the technical details when I see stories like this. If the data was originally stored in S3, they probably used the Cloud Storage Transfer Service (https://cloud.google.com/storage/transfer/). The secret sauce appears to be parallelization of the transfers.

When I copied hundreds of GB of data from one bucket of to another AWS bucket, it took me days to do! Then I realized it was because I was running a single threaded process. The slowest part was getting the list of objects to copy. If I had a separate, faster index of the objects, then I could have done a copy in parallel much more quickly and max out the bandwidth available to me. (Maybe that is part of the rationale of Netflix's S3mper?).

I'm curious to hear other thoughts on accomplishing fast transfers of S3 data.

Edit: theoretically speaking, if you had 1 TB of data to transfer, and a paltry 100 Mbps (12.5 MB/s) connection, you could do this in under 24 hours if the entire network was fully utilized. Not a network engineer so go easy on me if I am wrong!

As for costs, sending 1 TB out will cost $90,000 in S3 transfer costs, before any other discounts.

Though satire, the fake Moskovitz quote was interesting: "I don’t want to elaborate too much on our end goal / purpose, but I will say we are not without a plan."

I wonder at what point it became clear to Facebook that they were sitting on a targeted advertising goldmine? Surely it was not on the minds of Zuckerberg and Moskovitz (or anyone else!) in the company's early years.

How have you observed the total cost being different from the raw price? In what ways were you surprised?

Can you help me understand how much you define "a lot"? Is it about 2 tickets a month, or more?

With AWS we do have a direct line to a Technical Account Manager which we utilize for the rare P1 (Prod down) situations. That gets things moving quickly if it wasn't already moving quickly with Support.

I consider it mandatory because of the various random issues you will face, even without high levels of traffic. Also, when leveraging new features many times the documentation isn't as refined (e.g. the ALB when it first came out). Support is valuable in explaining how to really do something without wasting much time.

AWS premium support is the best support experience I have encountered so far and should absolutely factor into choosing a cloud provider. Reading frequent stories of Google support nightmares across all their services makes me think twice about using GCE. GCE must find a way to counter this.

Also, the AWS premium support fee is negotiable for some customers from what I have heard. They don't like to negotiate down, though!

When I read this article, I could replace the name of "Evan Spiegel" with almost any other Silicon Valley executive and get the same result:

> While other Snap employees and executives sit next to each other in an open floor plan, Spiegel’s office towers over the building's old lobby at the top of a flight of stairs. The door to the office is locked and protected by a special keypad."

In every company I've been in that uses open offices, the executives get closed door offices.

> To the group’s surprise, the meeting was in the security room, where Snap's security guards are stationed, according to one person familiar with the matter.

Isn't this a matter of safety? I remember this historical story at one large company I worked at: after a layoff, the employee returned to his manager's office with a gun. Thankfully, the situation was defused.

> Beyond vague statements like “building the world’s best camera” and making “communication more real and authentic,” there’s little-to-no communication inside Snap about what’s in the pipeline.

Just about every company...

> “There were times when we would do PowerPoint presentations, and you literally would spend 50% of the time formatting it,” one of the former executives Business Insider spoke to recounted. “What shade of yellow, that sort of thing.”

Just like any big company!

I have nothing for or against Snapchat. It reads like a poorly crafted hit piece against the CEO.

Has anyone else noticed how pristine the audio quality of a Slack call sounds? I wonder how they optimized it. My company's voip, and Lync, and Skype all fail to deliver the same kind of call quality. I've only noticed / admired better call quality when making a call within Cisco to another employee.

I don't use video much but I hope they've done as good of a job as they did with audio.

This is great news. I hosted a mutual friend from China for several weeks. At the time, the guest had a family relation in China who was pregnant with her second child. She choice to abort the baby because the associated financial penalties would be too high.

I hope more research is done to quantify the number of unregistered births. I personally find 25 million unregistered out of 30 to 60 million estimated to be a bit high of a ratio.

I didn't want to skew the discussion even more off-topic. Plus, I know I didn't have the time today to respond to all the counter-arguments to the article.

It's not just economists. I recall professors in other departments were contacted for "consulting" work. General Electric offered one political science professor a lucrative hourly rate (I think it was $650/hr) to consult on a legal case for the Dabhol power plant. This was years ago, so surely the fees have gotten larger. The professor turned it down for other reasons but said it would have been "easy money".

There are some stories they do that are really good. But as with all stories - ProPublica or not - please understand there may be an implicit bias or agenda.

On a different matter involving trial lawyers and an industry group, they reported a "scandal" where there was none. I am familiar with that issue (so I have my own biases!). It was my opinion that they were repeating the trial lawyer's argument and calling that an investigative journalism piece. Others may disagree with my assessment. I do not want to link to that story here.

This is one reason why I choose not to financially support ProPublica.

EDIT: I'm getting sick of the downvotes on Hacker News. This is not reddit where a downvote == disagree. Just don't upvote it. It's frustrating to take a few minutes to write a comment and then watch it get nuked because it's "controversial". But please feel free to downvote away because my off-topic rant.

Good luck getting your hands on one. Nintendo appears to be botching the supply chain (as usual!). Stores know this will be one of the hottest products of the season but my contacts tell me they are getting very little information on when they will get more after the first day sellout and how many.

When the iPod released, I remember thinking that Apple was tremendously overvalued. I did back of the napkin calculations and couldn't see iTunes + iPod sales supporting their market capitalization. Obviously, I was very wrong and I often remember this whenever I evaluate trends. I could not anticipate one of the most lucrative investment opportunities right there in front of my eyes.