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austengaryon A Long, Ugly Year of Depression That’s Finally Fading

Not an overnight fix. But with sustained effort, meditation changed my life. Eventually other things fell in place. Diet, exercise, relationships, mental health. Buddhist teachings really helped too.

I started here. http://headspace.com

austengaryon The Secret Government Rulebook For Labeling Someone a Terrorist

Your logic is correct, but this would require real-long term regulatory change. Remember it's still the NSA. People are slowing changing sentiment to policy more accepting of personal choices toward those that don't infringe upon to others. The NSA in scope is still an ideologically healthy organization. Until a fundamental shift in scope we should champion their organization. Over time you are correct but I posit that is a socially healthy operation where you feel the counter. Do we not as society want to do away with those who wish us harm? That is really all they are doing here. That's the balance. You're right the people will have a direct say who and who does not belong. That is a good thing and the purpose of why we were formed nation. For this exact power. Protection.

People don't care what you do so long as it doesn't harm them. Sentiment is changing towards that. It's reflected in the data. Expenditure will just be greater with any the counter.

austengaryon Sierra Leone's chief Ebola doctor contracts the virus

It's about respecting the loss of life for someone who devoted their own to improving others'.

austengaryon How to Read a Research Paper [pdf]

I suppose quantum computing presents one of the few exceptions? And on the other end, distributed systems? Where else is new ground being explored? Cross functional work?

austengaryon Do You Know What an Angel Investor Is?

Need more of you in LA.

austengaryon What Unsustainable Growth Looks Like: Herbalife, Groupon, and More

Growth isn't just exclusive to startups. It's a health indicator for a majority of businesses. Just the same, a tech company does not equate to a startup. There is a priced in expectation for growth in nearly all capital seeking companies. Yes, there are sectors and utilities where full saturation prevents growth, however population as a constraint is hardly common.

austengaryon A New Codecademy

You'd suggest SICP to someone just starting out?

austengaryon HFT Quote Stuffing is a software bug

This is fun

https://twitter.com/nanexllc/status/458663948800520192

austengaryon Airbnb closes $500M round of funding at a $10B valuation, led By TPG

#1-13 https://storify.com/MDanijel/marc-andreessen-on-private-valu...

Speaking of Twitter last night:

https://storify.com/ramcha/danielle-s-truthstorm-tips-on-sta...

austengaryon Another.cat

You should start at once

austengaryon Propose HN: Screenshot Saturday

No c99?

austengaryon Ask HN: Idea Sunday

I'm with this guy

austengaryon Ask HN: What's the most successful company YC has rejected?

Maybe SendGird

austengaryon Merry Christmas, HN

Merry Christmas all

austengaryon Python Flask NSA Backdoor

Alternatively, a more popular version for Rails: https://github.com/goshakkk/nsa_panel

austengaryon Send payouts with Stripe

Err... but... anti-establishment... err... fuck PG... err grumble... grumble.

austengaryon Posting to HN is like exposing yourself to the eye of Mordor

I can't tell if you're being ironic or the spirit of this thread flew right over your head.

austengaryon Show HN: Free hi-resolution photos for your website. 10 new photos every 10 days

Isn't this a bit much?

Apparently you're new here.

austengaryon Show HN: Free hi-resolution photos for your website. 10 new photos every 10 days

What I surprise; HN crapping all over a show submission. Not even in a constructive form, hate for the sake of hate. Love it. Though to be fair, I'm glad you all seem to see no value in this. I'll use these and won't in turn have to replace them as they take on the ubiquity of Bootstrap

austengaryon Elon Musk: thinking of producing sequel to Thank You for Smoking; for the planet

Oops. Perhaps I should dug deeper before posting. Either way, a nice thought; I couldn't imagine better execution and direction from Musk. His narrative of ambition in regards to progressive philanthropic efforts would be unparalleled in film.

The groundwork has already been set with a couple of his most recent interviews. The vision is there.

http://www.ted.com/talks/elon_musk_the_mind_behind_tesla_spa... http://foundation.bz/20/

austengaryon Ask HN: What are the "big five" dedicated server hosts to look at first?

I did receive that from the upper portion of your response. I was just eloboarting further for the OP as your first did insulate that de facto equals to correctness. Yes precisely but one with such a question has already deomstated anayalsis to a level of a threshold where such alternatives would not hwve been considered if not for the existence of prior sufficient evidence for valid uncertainty of accepted standard.

austengaryon Yahoo submits bid for Hulu

I think the genius will instead lie in her plan for internal consolidation for the two platforms to converge in harmony as complementary.

Taken together the two most recent poaches (i.q. provided Hulu) have much crossover especially while accounting for further past acquisitions. Amalgamating successfully will position them as key content provider in the market.

austengaryon Ask HN: What are the "big five" dedicated server hosts to look at first?

Why do you think that is? Hosts push cloud as it furthers their bottom line.

Cloud is popular because it is cheap. For consumers and providers. If you know exactly the resources you'll need and have infrastructure in place to scale then sure, VPS/cloud hosting might be good if you're looking to cut costs.

In the end though, you'll always be sharing and limited. If you're approve dynamic allocation then you'll just be paying for it at a premium.

austengaryon Ask HN: What are the "big five" dedicated server hosts to look at first?

Rackspace, Softlayer, Savvis, Hetzner, ServerBeach.

austengaryon Show HN: See what the best startups in the world are using

You like to point fingers, eh? Is my name pg? I have no idea why.

I will take a gander however and assume someone didn't like what was presumably a rhetorical and pretentious response.

I do though agree. As to your first response, a quick right click will show that the site is made with Wordpress. The lack of formatting for the stack grids suggests it MAY be a plugin from which this is being retrieved; nevertheless with the choice of Wordpress, I am doubtful.

austengaryon Show HN: See what the best startups in the world are using

They're manually adding this data.

austengaryon Show HN: See what the best startups in the world are using

Would die to see this. OP get on it.

In all seriousness, I would PAY to see this. I would pay extra if you add hosted graph widgets that empirically conclude the largest reciprocal relation between valuation and an IIS/MSSQL stack.

austengaryon Show HN: See what the best startups in the world are using

Very nice. Throw some charts and graph up in this bitch, compare against time for popularity. I like data.

austengaryon Skype backdoor confirmation

A backdoor in their encryption protocol. They claim it is secure.

"The Skype Security Policy is: ... 4. Messages transmitted through a Skype session are encrypted from Skype-end to Skype-end. No intermediary node, if any exist, has access to the meaning of these messages. [1]"

[1]: http://download.skype.com/share/security/2005-031%20security...

Aforementioned referenced on + additonal security overview/facade: http://www.skype.com/en/security/#encryption

Their hybrid peer-to-peer/client–server implementation allows for eavesdropping. This is now confirmed to be in practice.

austengaryon The Next Pandemic: Not if, but When

The Next ______________: Not if, but When