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After days, there is finally an incident up: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/kzvk0c2s5fy7

I had the same experience. For years, like clockwork I had monthly episodes of debilitating back/neck pain that only my chiropractor could "fix".

After reading Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection by John E. Sarno ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/144873.Healing_Back_Pain ), I recognized that my body was trying distract me from my troubled relationship at that time. On my next painful episode, I mentally said "F*ck it, there is nothing wrong with me physically" and the next day the pain was gone, never to resurface again. The whole thing coincided with my relationship finally ending, so that might have had a positive impact as well.

It still blows my mind though, how much grief my brain gave me over the years.

Happy Kagi user here. I'm gladly paying $25 per month because of all their AI features, which work well for me overall. Yes, I could set up API keys on OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Mistral and get a similar experience for less, but I prefer the convenience of their interface and have clean search results bundled into the experience. I will continue to recommend them and hope that T-Shirt becomes available soon.

With over 100 sensors and 14 nano cameras, the e1 precisely analyses your teeth, gums and automatically removes over 95% of the detected biofilm, in less than a minute.

Real-world "things we ran into" stories like this are super helpful when choosing a service or technology.

Unfortunately, I have a similar experience with Firebase, where I wish I would have known that:

* Don't like the text of your Firebase Auth SMS verification message that we send on your behalf -> tough luck

* Your app name is longer than 15 characters? We are not going to include that hash in your Firebase Auth SMS message that is required by Android to perform an automatic login.

* Global Firebase Auth SMS pricing does not work you economically? Welcome to implement the whole thing yourself anyways.

* Dealing with development environments is flakey, as Firebase's emulators work 98% similar to production, but you will regularly hit things that are different.

* You can't completely automate environment creation/tear down, as not everything is covered by Terraform or Google's own APIs, so you will end up doing manual things in their admin interface.

* Real-time subscriptions in Firestore end up not being worth the tight schema coupling between client and server, as you can't control when the updates fire and you end up with a lot more unintended side effects than what this technology benefits you.

So after a year of workarounds you finally end up deeply understanding the trade-offs involved in Firebase and make the decision that its downsides exceed its out of the box benefits. :(

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Looking for help with converting a small Android app (36 .java files) to Kotlin and add two smaller features.

Interested? -> project+kotlin@k2labs.net

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Existing Laravel/MySQL-based dashboard needs a successor. Looking for someone who has experience creating Nova dashboards with role-based access control.

Interested? -> project+dash@k2labs.net

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Looking for someone who has experience building scheduling/workflow systems to convert existing crontab that simply runs 30 scripts at different times pulling data from external sources (that sometimes fail and need to be retried) and also have dependencies between each other into a more robust & manageable system.

Interested? -> project+byecron@k2labs.net

My company ran into this time and again, trying to get our browser pre-installed by the manufacturer only to loose the deal last minute as Google would threaten to withhold device certification if there is a different browser pre-installed (beside Google Chrome).

Google is a big bully and if you try to compete with them in an area they care about, they will use their market dominance to keep your product out. They have been deserving that fine for a long time.

https://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/details/#details

IP addresses as Targets You can load balance any application hosted in AWS or on-premises using IP addresses of the application backends as targets. This allows load balancing to an application backend hosted on any IP address and any interface on an instance. You can also use IP addresses as targets to load balance applications hosted in on-premises locations (over a Direct Connect or VPN connection), peered VPCs and EC2-Classic (using ClassicLink). The ability to load balance across AWS and on-prem resources helps you migrate-to-cloud, burst-to-cloud or failover-to-cloud.

Looks like you need an active VPN connection to access external IPs.

Interesting, thank you. So a potential mitigation strategy could look like this:

- Route 53 failover record * primary record: Google global load balancer IP * secondary record: Route 53 Geolocation set (really need that latency) - Elastic Load balancer record per region * routes to mirror region GCP IP address (ELB's application load balancer seems to able to point to AWS external IPs) * optionally spin up mirror infrastructure in AWS

Seems brittle. Does Azure support global load balancing with external IPs?

Does anyone have such (or similar) setup actually in production? How did it work today?

Traffic is coming back. Looks like Google fixed their load balancer problem within 28 minutes.

Grrr. So much for global redundancy.

What is going to be faster? Updating DNS records with TTL 3600 to point to a single data center or Google fixing their problem.

We host DNS at AWS, but servers in GCP. Should we use AWS's automatic DNS failover feature to cover for such a case?

100 grams of shrimp are roughly 100 calories. Let's generously assume that one shrimp from the video yields 200 grams of meat. So he would need to continuously catch 10 shrimp a day to satisfy a 2000 calorie diet. Seems to me that the shrimp population of this stream in the video would be exhausted pretty quickly and he would need to move elsewhere to continue hitting his calorie goals.

Given that we are surrounded by an incredible amount of high-calorie food (100g of a Snicker's bar provide 488 calories), it is easy to forget how difficult it is to source calories in the wild.

Seems like the 3rd time in the past 12 months?

Can somebody please explain to me why this can't be mitigated against? Is it because they offer DNS as a free add-on and can't be bothered to spend the bucks to make their service more DDOS-proof?

After migrating a Java application that ran on EC2 to AppFog over the weekend, I wouldn't recommend running mission-critical apps on their infrastructure yet. A few things that I ran into

- After EC2 East was slow like molasses, I switched over to EC2 EU which was still speedy

- That caused their CLI tool to fall on its nose when trying to tunnel to the database (right now the bridge always gets installed in EC2 East). Fixed with a simple patch in the Ruby source

- Looks like the backend connector in nginx won't connect to your app if you have Basic-Auth on your root index

- Later MySQL became unavailable with "Host '10.0.47.186' is blocked because of many connection errors; unblock with 'mysqladmin flush-hosts'". No connection limiter between different apps?

I think AppFog is offering a great value should they be able to iron out all the kinks. I'm crossing my fingers that this will happen quickly.

How does DDG's relevance engine work?

e.g. Adele is on tour right now, but DDG won't return a SeatGeek listing for it

What's cause and what's effect?

Is GitHub a great product because the founders optimized for happiness or where they only able to optimize for happiness because they had a home-run product on their hands?

The comments in this post made me finally switch from bash to zsh (including integrating it with autojump).

After a few hours of cobbling together a decent config, I found http://bitbucket.org/Josh/oh-my-zsh/src/ to be a way better starting point. All the defaults make a bash user feel right at home (keyboard shortcuts etc), plus it organizes all the bazillion zsh options in a sane configuration layout.

I'm interested in sleep hacking as well. Please report back here what you think of the device. Thanks!

4000 computers over 6 hours... Makes you wonder about electricity costs of this experiment.

Thanks, but I was actually hoping not having to compile my own PBX ;) . Something as simply as plugging in a phone into the Ethernet jack...

We are 4 people right now. 3 founders and one that we brought in from the previous company.

What if you have exhausted your network (which admittedly wasn't that large)? How do keep those referrals coming?

I think one has to accept that some days are more productive others less (or not at all). That is why hacking is a creative art form and not a data entry job. The more you freak out about it the harder it gets getting back into flow.

Personally, if I'm absolutely stuck at how to approach a coding problem, I simply start coding the dumbest solution for it, violating every rule in the book just to move forward. Usually that is enough to get the ball rolling and with today's tools, refactoring the code afterwards does not take very long at all.

Talk about timing. I'm in the process of having to write a couple of adverts myself. I tell you its hard. Especially if you haven't launched yet.

How can you get people excited without disclosing the whole thing that you are trying to build?

What I really need is a job advert copy writer to sprinkle some magic pixie dust on the thing that will cause talented people to send in their applications...

Bonus link: http://joblighted.com/statistics lists all job boards worth posting to.

I read Hacker News. Does that mean I can only date geek chicks? What if there aren't any?

1.) Don't do it yourself. Use Amazon's Alexa Web Search service (aws.amazon.com). Through that you can access Alexa's 10 billion page index, complete with all the pages, run complex queries etc. Plays nicely with EC2.

2.) If you must do it yourself, Heritrix is the most sophisticated crawler out there (crawler.archive.org).

3.) Nutch is an option, but nowhere near as powerful as Heritrix.

Don't try to reinvent the wheel, writing a robust crawler is a lot of work as there are endless edge cases to take care of (if you are looking into a general purpose web crawler)

Any Wall Street hackers reading this? I heard that while you earn big chunks of money at investments firms (nice 200-500k bonuses if you are really good), you are still seen as a second class citizen to the actual people that deal with the money stuff.

Is it possible to attract such talent in NYC through a great start-up working environment (like described in Joel on Software) while paying less, or are money and prestige too though to beat?

I'm generally a person that values function more than form, but I have to say it is a real daily joy to work on gorgeous hardware like a Macbook Pro. The reason Macs are more expensive because they only offer high-end hardware specs. A similar spec'ed Dell comes roughly at the same price. If you are hacker, always use the best tools there are. This is an invest in yourself.

Hardware aside, the real reason you should switch is OSX and the applications around it. Stuff just works. Sounds like a marketing message but its true. You can focus on accomplishing the task rather than wrestling with shortcomings and crutches of the environment. Application developers on the Mac also have the philosophy to integrate with existing services as much as possible, which makes a huge difference, because most of the stuff you use is able to talk to each other. Compare that to Windows where every application/service is its own island.

Imho, OSX is by far the best platform out there right now bar none. It's amazing to see how even non-hackers are blown away once they switch.

You should too.

While there are a bunch of browser screen shot SaaS out there (browsershots.org browsercam.com), I haven't found a good app to do the same thing locally (that ideally controls the corresponding VMware instances as well).

Anyone seen such as a beast or do you need to roll such a thing by hand?

I used to be bleeding edge, always upgrading to the latest version of anything that came out, but as a consequence ran into occasions where things broke that were working perfectly before (and ended up wasting time getting things back to normal again).

My guess is that with 10.5.3 the majority of the rough spots have been smoothed out and all my favorite applications had time to make the Leopard transition.

* 15" Macbook Pro, 4GB, 10.4.8 (waiting for 10.5.3 before upgrading). * Quicksilver (one of the big reasons I switched to Mac in the first place) * IntelliJ IDEA for Java backend stuff (imho, the best code virtuoso tool out there bar none; once you get used to leveraging all the functionality, you will feel crippled in any other environment). * iTerm for terminal needs * Journler (perfect for note taking and keeping interesting reference web pages locally searchable) * VMware Fusion for Windows development stuff * NetNewsWire to consume my daily news fix efficiently