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Our startup uses a pair of Sonicwall TZ215s to establish a site-to-site tunnel between our China branch office and our U.S. HQ. It has been quite difficult to get the tunnel stable…

This is a fabulous speech. Should be required viewing for HN folks.

I went on a Piracetam (Nootropil) phase during high school for about 3 months. I would not qualify the effects as subtle. They were quite dramatic in my case. Razor-like focus and …

Filco with cherry browns. I love it. Bonus: the keys can be easily desoldered from the PCB, opened, and cleaned. Comes in handy when you spill beer all over...

I don't know of anything good for under $300. I would recommend looking at the Discovery Back family of OfficeMaster task chairs: http://officemaster.com/products/index.php?view=fa…

Good to see multi-billion dollar manned spaceflight programs making some real scientific progress! Less humans, moar robots in space. Kthx.

First, find a TLD that isn't administered by a company doing business in the U.S. on http://iana.org/ If relevant to your domain's future content, optionally consult http://en.wiki…

Nothing like a blackout will get visitors to sit up and take notice. Blackout for justice.

I have used StartCom for a few years, and have had positive experiences every time I needed to contact a person for help. They seem to be an ethical company.

I've snapped awake from night terrors many times, and my personal experience is that exploding head is an altogether different phenomenon (although the adrenaline rush is the same.…

Yes. Along with my exploding head, very occasionally I wake into a hypnagogic panicked state where I cannot catch a breath or move. I'm not sure what it is, perhaps sleep apnea.

If it's not really, really loud and sudden, I would guess that not exploding head, but a hallucination common to hypnagogic states.

For me, it's usually like an electrical buzz. But sometimes it's more like a gunshot, a tearing sheet of paper, or an indecipherable vocal shout. The sound does not feel dreamlike …

Thank you for posting this. I "suffer" from EHS but never knew there was a name for it. Just as the WP entry says, I experience it just after lying down to sleep. Probably happens …

My sites are relatively insignificant, I only reach an audience of 100k-200k users. My post was intended as a message of encouragement for those with a significant non-techie userb…

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.3261 : All actions in 102(c)(2) are extremely broad. An entire "foreign infringing site" can be knocked offline and blacklisted solel…

In the interest of preserving free speech, 1) I hereby pledge to disable access to all (or most) of the content featured on my websites 48 hours before the full house vote (date un…

He's in a better place, now. http://explosm.net/comics/2645/