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www.uspsoig.gov 5y ago

USPS Service Performance Data

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www.razer.com 5y ago

Razer Project Hazel – The Smartest Mask

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www.hashicorp.com 5y ago

HashiCorp’s Homebrew Tap

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investors.spotify.com 7y ago

Spotify Announces Strategic Acquisitions to Accelerate Growth in Podcasting

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news.northeastern.edu 8y ago

Schools are safer than they were in the 90s

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jwst.stsci.edu 8y ago

Selections Made for the JWST Director’s Discretionary Early Release Program

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www.theatlantic.com 8y ago

Why Are Middle East Girls Better in School Than Boys?

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iterm2.com 8y ago

iTerm2 3.1.0 Changelog

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theintellectualist.co 9y ago

MIT economist believes U.S. is shifting to be more similar to developing nations

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www.cnn.com 9y ago

'Arrested Development' returns to Netflix for a fifth season

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kotaku.com 9y ago

Guy Finds StarCraft Source Code and Returns It to Blizzard

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www.ocasia.org 9y ago

Esports Will Become a Medal Event at the 2022 Asian Games

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www.forbes.com 9y ago

How Did 'Zelda: Breath of the Wild' for Switch Outsell the Switch Itself?

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www.bloomberg.com 9y ago

The Internet Association Sends Trump Its Wish List

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help.github.com 9y ago

GitHub: Require two-factor authentication in your organization

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support.apple.com 10y ago

OS X El Capitan v10.11.6 Update

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www.alfredapp.com 10y ago

Alfred Version 3 is Coming

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www.whitehouse.gov 10y ago

Thinking Outside the Cable Box: How More Competition Gets You a Better Deal

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whattheythink.com 10y ago

USPS, Shiny Objects, Recovery, and Recession

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www.eff.org 10y ago

Publicly Funded Research Should Be Publicly Available

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blog.hipchat.com 10y ago

Hipchat Downtime – An update on this week

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medium.com 10y ago

How We Hacked the Media and Landed Six-Figure Contracts in Four Days

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www.independent.co.uk 10y ago

First genetically-modified human embryos could be created within weeks

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www.okcupid.com 10y ago

An OkCupid Analysis of Colleges by Sex, Smarts and Party Habits

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github.com 10y ago

Disable Windows 10 Tracking

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

Ask HN: What inspired you to become an entrepreneur?

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datacenter.iers.org 11y ago

A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2015

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

Ask HN: A legitimate, open-source, Sharepoint alternative?

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Did you buy them off Amazon? I find that RXBars from Amazon have typically been sitting in a warehouse for many months at a time and are often stale.

Every bar I've bought in-person at a traditional grocery store has been significantly fresher and has a much nicer consistency.

Not surprised to see this, I've run into many issues with Meraki devices over the past 2+ years.

Their support team is amateur at best; at one point I had 6 Meraki engineers working on a DHCP problem (yeah...DHCP) and their recommendation after several weeks of troubleshooting - do a factory reset.

I have dozens of stories...don't even get me started.

This train of thought can be dangerous - especially once your business grows to support more than a handful of customers.

Can you name a profitable organization that has successfully eliminated ops/devops? I've yet to find any example of this.

At a certain level of scale, silos can be a very beneficial thing.

I have a related experience to share.

Two weeks ago I called 911 after hearing a loud car crash within a few blocks of my apartment. Took out my phone, placed the call, and listened to music for ~6 minutes before I was able to talk to someone. Once the 911 dispatcher took all of the information I had, the call was transferred (another ~3 minute wait). The original dispatcher introduced herself to my local dispatcher as "911 north".

FWIW, this is a city in the top 30 by population.

People block ads because they can. It's that simple. Morals and philosophy have little room when all it takes is a few mouse clicks to disable virtually all ads. The barrier of entry (or de-entry, if you will) is incredibly low.

Ads support the entrance of new products into the market.

It's going to be difficult for this trend to stop until there are some technical hurdles built. Until then, I think it's unrealistic to say we should subject ourselves to ads because "historically the market has worked that way". It may have worked that way in the past, but times are changing.

Open source software can be trusted as much as we can trust ourselves - and that's as good as trust gets. I'll take that any day over trusting one party with a vested interest in making money.

Like you, I appreciate the sentiment - happy to hear Apple speaking up. However this shouldn't change how we use Apple products. I operate under the implication that the device is compromised from the factory. Closed source software cannot be trusted, good faith is not enough.

I'm not certain if forcing businesses to comply with custom-tailored laws is more ethical than businesses forcing customers to comply with restrictions. Neither of these outcomes is an ideal solution.

Getting lawmakers involved is a very poor move, and only opens the door for more foul-play and market manipulation. At this point in time, why are we not content with no solution to this problem? Things take time to resolve - and we certainly don't need to be jumping the gun by getting lawmakers involved.

I agree that 5% to the engine developer is a wonderful deal - however, having a working game engine in no way means 90% of the work is done. That's when the really difficult work begins.

Video games need to trigger an emotional response in order to be successful. From visual design, to audio design, game rules/logic, controls, testing, marketing...this list goes on. It's far more than raw tech resources; psychology is a huge factor in game development.

Uber needs to accept responsibility and live with their mistake.

"Intruders"? Uber gave their permission when they uploaded the key to a public service (...a key to a publicly accessible database, nonetheless). Doesn't matter if it was accidental...Uber doesn't have the right to inconvenience another company (GitHub) with a subpoena because of their own mistake.

Personally, I'm excited for the change. Waiting any longer to adopt systemd could have had serious repercussions on the entire community (across distros). Big players are already using it; RHEL7 and CoreOS. It's time for a paradigm shift with our approach on managing infrastructure.

Both the sysvinit and systemd crowds have brought up great points - issues that needed to be addressed. The strong willed nature of the *nix communities is what makes them great. Strength in numbers. "Fighting" is a natural process; whether it's a team or a family.

Incredibly excited to see what kind of impact this has on computing as a whole. Time to learn something new.