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The smart money always leaves before the price goes down.

The dumb money always leaves after the prices has gone down.

If you don't know who the dumb one is, it is you.

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And while the number of deaths varies each season, the CDC estimates that the flu kills a minimum of 3,000 people in the US each year. Just to put this Ebola thing in perspective.

"For example, people might get so scared of Ebola in the affected countries ... and throw them out on the street to die."

That might make it worse. In Africa, the distance between the gutter and the water supply isn't very far nor clearly defined (bad water causes a lot of deaths in Africa already). And given that the Ebola virus causes people to literately leak, dropping them in the street may containment local water supplies. Plus, the Ebola virus can probably survive in wet but dead tissue a lot longer than in the open area. So each one of these bodies would become a mini bio hazard, until the tissue decays to the point that the virus dies.

So if the airmen wore shirts and were less sexy, you'd feel the whole situation was more safe? Or, do you need to take a time out and have a cold shower? Because it kinda of sounds like you are one Tom of Finland book away from hyperventilating.

This sort of appeal to superficial appearances generally doesn't hunt on HackerNews.

Hey, this is Hackernews, not Reddit. You can't just completely make shit up here.

Don't schools teach reading comprehension these days? "... the solid state disk in the active routing engine failed on one of our core switches. This triggered a failover to the backup routing engine..."

The gov't announced months ago that unclaimed assets seized from Silk Road would be auctioned. The waiting period has now expired.

And why shouldn't it be fast? There is a single person who holds over $1B USD of Bitcoin, so big Bitcoin positions are normal. If you have the US money on-hand, this is a 5 minute decision. No need to drag it out.

The real story is the losers dumping their Bitcoin positions as the market goes down, while the smart people buy up those coins too. I guess the forums and IRC channels are full of people telling you to sell cheap. And next week, they will be telling you to buy high.

You are assuming that you'd recognize innovation as innovation as innovation, if you saw it. Would you?

Because self-driving cars are a huge deal. It would eliminate the range issue of electrics, because you could send your car to a charging station and get in another. Plus, reduce overall transportation costs. Parking costs in a large city can be $300/month. Self-driving cars plus car sharing will make that obsolete.

Nothing. As they've stated, Google X isn't even working on space elevators. It was just an off-handed comment that someone made, that the Reddit crowd now fixates on.

No, like actual the actual moonshot. No one really knows that Google X is working on, and this is the first media visit to the lab, so it is hardly just PR stunts.

I read this whole thing, but they left out a description of the NSA planted back doors. As everyone knows, the NSA has compromised all crypto systems. Since the audit did not reveal the NSA back door or doors, what else is missing?

More likely iSECPartner's is the NSA's new RSA 2.0

Why is not having a FB account "disdain"? I realize that you have some sort of anti-FB ax to grind and does most of HN. I haven't logged into FB for 6 months, but it is because of apathy, not disdain. Why would John be any different?

Because on-premise solutions are even more vulnerable to DDoS. A large data centre will have large amounts of connectivity, giving you a lot of head room for most types of attacks. But in this case 20Gbps of extra traffic was too much too. What on-premise solution can handle 20Gbps of extra traffic?

And I don't think Basecamp is technically "cloud", but collocated. They appear to own most or all of their servers.

Yes you do. Because DDoS, so like the service is down for users and attackers.

I'm surprised that on a technical forum there is still this complete misconception of what a DoS is.

Based on what? The Otto Group is battling unions in Hermes, like Amazon is battling unions in their warehouses. Is there any difference at all?

I know Europe like to view US as a big monster to scare kids: you better behave or big mean US will eat you!

But is there anything objective that the German gov't is going to help anyone anymore than the US gov't? Maybe healhcare?

How? I'm corrupt, and their are scavengers rummaging through the alley that runs behind the office. How do I leverage this poverty to make some sweet green? I've watched them dig through the trash, and they don't have anything, and they are just collecting bottles and cans for recycling. How do I profit from this?

This is just cargo cult thinking: Java is bad. GC is bad. C++ is not Java, so it is good.

The only thing to do, is get on your coconut radio and wait for the planes to bring you some cargo. While you are waiting, Kafka is a useful MQ for event processing and is being used to solve real world problems today.

Inside Facebook, the top 1000 daily photos is known as the "Buddha List", because viewing them is a transcendent experience, after which your waking life is little more than crude construct of colorless shapes.

And then you get fired for looking at private user photos.

Because at the military level, all encryption is assumed to be compromised. Plus, it is assumed the phone may contain data of national value, so it assumed an adversary would spend unlimited resources to crack the encryption.

For example, lets say "unlimited" is $100 million dollars. How many groups would spend $100 million to lets say, get details about the missile defense system in Taiwan? Plenty.

As other posters have stated, this is not a phone for anyone but only very specific gov't employees.

The fact is "trusted proxies" are a real thing right now. Plenty of private networks require that you trust one or more private CA roots and all SSL are intercepted and filtered. It is sort of a pain to do. You have to use something like Microsoft System Center to push the root onto all managed computers.

This IETF proposal just formalizes it.

But you rapidly reach a point beyond which most users can get to. Three steps: (1) open console, (2) copy, (3) paste is about the limit on what an average computer user can do these days.

So downloading a 100KB extension for a browser which you use for downloading stuff all the time is a "huge barrier"? Wow, talk about a 1st world problem.

And "when I teach ruby", "well ok, now download xcode"... ok, Xcode is a 2.5GB download, but it is a one click download and install via App Store. And really? Xcode for Ruby? Are you really doing that?

I don't get it. The Shuttle project included a lot of things that had never been done before. So things didn't quite go to plan and some people died? But in the mean time, it performed useful tasks.

Predicting failure is easy, because something will always go wrong. There hasn't been a perfect anything built yet.

What is also surprising about these dredged up past articles, is that they all invariable criticize the engine (SSMB/SSME), even though the engine was never a major issue. Yes, the rebuilds between flights took longer than expected, but it was the first ever re-usable engine and is still an amazing achievement.

Except that record companies were never created for anyone's benefit except their own.

But also this article was written in 2006. It is now 2014, and hiphop has not been killed. In fact, this particular issue became a big nothing.

Record company's are really just banks now. They finance the artists, and perform marketing. And once the music is for sale, they take a portion of the profits. And to do so, they have some rights over the work, just like a bank has over a property under a mortgage.

Ideally, you wouldn't need outside financing to take your music to market. But if you do, you need to get the best deal. And if you are a nobody, that deal isn't going to include much for you. So bootstrap with small investors first and short term deals.

Banks, errr... record company's need a big portion of the profits, because half of their investments will fail. Well, half is probably generous. But if the rate of return for being a record company was so great, there would be more people doing it. Actually that happened, and there are lots more record company's now than ever, because you no longer need to be big to fight for shelf space in HMV, as HMV is almost bankrupt.

Facebook has dozens of sysadmins working 24x7, but they also have 200,000 servers.

While diagnosing issues may require logins, you aren't going to be fix anything on 200,000 servers without automation. At large scale, all problems becomes programming problems.

It also means the death of jobs for sysadmins that only know how to go in tweak *.conf files and reboot servers. So, I guess that sucks for you.

I think the poster meant IP not port.

Most proxy servers can be configured bind to a specific IP. So if your proxy server has an external IP and an internal IP, configure the proxy server to bind to the external IP. And then use IPTables to block any connections from the external IP to the internal network.

There is also a touch of irony. Buffet has always been about rational investment. Nothing explains his approach better, than "Always take advantage of market folly". If you don't know who the mark is, then it is you. Its a good way of making a point, possibly for the last time as he is 83 and will retire or die soon.

Taxes. Lottery winnings may be taxed depending on state taxes. Though it is not clear if this is a lottery or gambling. Gambling winnings are not normally taxed in the US.

Or maybe that is irrational, and your tendency towards Loss Aversion is lying to you. After getting your first cheque for $25M, your biggest worry shouldn't be about losses due to inflation on the remainder of the $1B sitting in trust, as you did not have $25M before, and now you do.