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I couldn't reach the linked article, but it's about 74 years combined since 2012, as summarized by this Reddit post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/418h2r/iceland_senten...

Longest term was six years.
I'm a native of Iceland. There are mixed feelings with respect to the sentences. We are generally proud to have a system that does imprison bankers but there are frustrations that the true architects of the financial crisis not only got off scot free but also with a substantial portion of the loot scurried away on Tortola. There has been substantial revisionist history practiced by the guilty and their defenders and the more time passes since the crash the fuzzier memory becomes. After all the electorate voted the parties that were largely responsible for the system that crashed back into power.

I'll answer any questions that you would be curious about local sentiment and coverage.

EDIT: Having finally gotten to a copy of the article I want to point out several factual statements in the article that I find a little bit challenging to agree with.

1. Iceland let the banks fail.

Not really. It was a restructuring. In the restructure a holding company handed all the assets over to a new corporate entity. All debts and obligations were honored.

2. Iceland avoided austerity

Many social programs were cut. Great cutdowns in the healthcare system, so much so it is on the verge of collapse now.

3. Geothermal is clean energy

Ask anyone from Reykjavík. Silver can no longer be kept without wrapping it in cloths, otherwise it goes dark in a day due to the hydrogen sulfide pollution. It's also not renewable. You can farm the area for about fifty years before it's too cold to extract and then it takes a millennia to recover.

4. Value of ISK/EUR

That may be the artificial value while capital controls are in effect. True value is way below that. I might cover the "snowhenge" problem later, it's a doozy.

5. Quoting the President on the banks.

You would have to know how much of a fluffer for the banks the president was for the banks and the oligarchs before the crash to know how stinky that sounds to an Icelander.
"3+ years" is a filter for people who give up or have self-doubt. We put that on our job postings because it filters out people who don't think they are qualified. People with 1 year experience applying to a 3+ year position DO get their resumes glanced at (the reason I say 1 is because we rarely hire a straight up college grad, because we want someone who has a month of working in an office that understands the difference between the college sensitivity bubble and real life)

A tough realization for the entry-level people: You're not special and your "skills" are meaningless. Entry-level hiring is a crapshoot. You just hope you get someone that is capable of learning so you don't waste 3 months of training and then have to go back to hiring the next useless entry-level person.

My words of advice: If you're reading a job posting, you're not going to get the job. People get jobs by meeting other human beings. If you want to deal with jobs online, throw a bunch of random buzzwords on your linkedIn profile and wait for the recruiter swarm to come vett your bullshit.
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Diaphragm gas meters of this type were invented in 1844. The design is basically unchanged to this day.
I had wondered what that would look like. It is even more confusing than I had imagined.
utterson is in fact an established 7 year old static blog engine: https://github.com/stef/utterson/

for avoiding confusion please change your projects name.
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[This submission might be better suited for "Show HN"]

Focus on one thing. Either getting feedback or collecting signups.

If it's feedback, just drop the signup and make trying it no-risk. More users means better analytics. More users means a better chance of finding someone who loves the service.

If it's harvesting email/facebook/gogole+/twitter id's, then keep the signup. That's still a product but not the one you are pitching.

As someone who is curious and skeptical, the first approach would work for me...to the degree I would click on some buttons. The second (and currently implemented) approach doesn't. After many years on the internet, I am reasonably confident I won't get much out of giving you push access to any of my inboxes.

Decide what business you are in.

Good luck.
I'd be interested in this if it were nearing completion. I think structuring the book around problem-solution pairs is a nice technique. But it would be a much better read if fewer irrelevant statements of opinion were strewn in. Also, a lot of the bizarre statements of irrelevant "fact" should be checked, for example:

> In the Old Times, creating a repository was days, weeks of work.

I can't begin to comprehend what this may mean. "svn create" (or whatever it was called) was always instantaneous. Setting your project up for network access took longer because you had to read docs and write a config file, but the same is true for Git.

> Optimizing compilers (...) may remove assertions.

Bullshit. Using NDEBUG removes assertions, and yes, this indeed means that assertions must be side-effect free. But an optimizing compiler? No. If that actually happened for calls to impure functions (and no, it really doesn't happen), it would be a major compiler bug.

> a nasty reminder of the old days when computers stored data and code on different kinds of rust, and languages enforced that

Code and data do live in different places in memory; nowadays more than ever, for reasons of security. C's original "declarations before statements" rule (the context here) was simply because it makes it much simpler to write a primitive single-pass compiler.

> The standard C library often puts destination arguments first, which is a hangover from assembly language. MOV X, Y.

... or maybe it's an analogy with assignment statements, X = Y?

Note that three out of these four examples are just irrelevant opinions, so they should be removed from the text even if they weren't factually false.
... in the United States, where real banks are FDIC-insured.

If this crap had happened to an institution that was audited, protected, and enumerated in US dollars, this whole fiasco would be only a bad day for the Cryptsy owners, not the depositors also.

But you get what you get when you go with a non-fiat currency. It's interesting to me to watch people in the BTC space re-learn the lessons learned by financial systems since the dawn of currencies; at least they're learning them faster in the digital age.
DataPower now can be programmed with Javascript, as well as XSLT:

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Why is this comment grey?
Former "owners" after selling stock. And if people building and running company don't want to own it anymore...
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What about the thousands of sites and apps that store the entire navigation menu behind a hamburger menu button? If no one clicks on it, that's kind of an issue, since people won't leave the site/app front page.
Referrals DO work for the initial position. I'm a developer and spend my entire day staring at a screen. When I was on the job hunt, I barely sat in front of my screen. Referrals come from meeting people, whether or not it's from prior work or just a good random conversation.
Oh, I see. We've been wondering about that with a friend for a while, without finding the answer anywhere. We assumed it was to allow people to react in case of fraud, being less active on week-end.

Thanks for sharing!
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A friend of mine once opined that inflation is functionally the government's ability to tax savings accounts---waking up one day and finding out your money is worth 10% less because of government policy is pretty equivalent to waking up one day and finding out the government just took 10% of your savings account.

But you demonstrably don't escape price fluctuation by moving to a non-fiat currency; you just move the causes around.
No; if you push the questionmark key; it's the same hotkey that powerpoint, for example, (the main proprietary alternative to this web-based app) uses when you are giving a presentation.
They also support MySQL. At least they did when I tired it some time ago.
I live in Chicago and frequently shop at one of the Walmart Expresses that's closing on Sunday. Obviously it doesn't have the selection of a suburban supermarket many times its size, but I've never had a problem buying normal things there. And with the possible exception of Aldi, it has the best prices in the city.

I'm sure it has something to do with being in a big city.
... and with the current technological limitations in finalizing transactions, it's arguable how much utility it has as a short-term medium of exchange.

Most "short term" media I use, I don't expect transaction finalization in scales of hours.
I've used both WordPress and Drupal, but like Drupal, WordPress has issues of it's own. In regards to the database, WordPress stores all Post metadata in a single table as a Key Value store. They also don't even typically use InnoDB and zero constraints. Also, the very cult like atmosphere is very strict in not creating your own tables (whatever) and use the tables as they have created them.

That said, I hate Drupal with a passion (I don't get to make the choices at my current place and it's D.O.D Government work) and would rather work with WordPress if a CMS based on PHP is absolutely necessary, their user interface is much, much more friendly - and as a programmer I hate views, panels and all that other cruft I'm forced to work with because "that's the Drupal way."

Edit: Oh yeah, unless they've recently changed it, they store PHP serialized data in the databases, and full urls for the website, so moving domains is quite the fun times and you need a special plugin to do so (even as simple as going from dev.example.com to example.com breaks the serialized strings if you just run some queries on the database). The fact that they store whole urls with domain and everything in the database like that has always skeeved me out.
Any hashtag is an instant chat room and a whole slew of more cool things
They thought they had eliminated radiation as a possible cause of the Pioneer anomaly, but hadn't.

Double checking electromagnetic forces is an excellent idea.
It's okay; the FDIC will.... Oh. Whoops. ;)
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US congress would have passed a law making it impossible to jail bankers for their wrongdoing.
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In short, the company is not worth the paper its cold-wallet keys weren't printed on. ;)
As a brit born a few years too late for this to be a sensible possibility at all I'm sick and tired of the social pressure from every angle telling me I'm not a real adult until I have a mortgage.
In Minneapolis Target is experimenting with "Express" locations. Think of a Walgreens with a fully functional grocery section.
I consider these prosecutions a good thing, even though the selection of who goes to prison and who gets to enjoy their spoils seems arbitrary. For instance none of the politicians who played benefited from and played a large role in the Icelandic financial crisis have been prosecuted. The financial oversight institutions failed too, but somehow their failure to do their jobs is acceptable?

From a game theory perspective persecuting bankers is correct. The incentive for people who are already wealthy to take massive risks gets reduced when they know they may go to prison when it all hits the fan. It has little to do with real justice, though.
Since the link seems to inaccessible, this website seems to be a mirror of the same content:

http://americannewsx.com/crooks-crime/iceland-sentences-26-c...
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Sorry if I was a bit harsh, but it just seemed to me that your comment seemed a bit like some schools of thought which basically amount to "no one should have any advantages over anyone else because it's not fair, so we should handicap everyone to the same level", but with nations instead of individuals. Or maybe "we shouldn't implement any new technologies until we can make them equally available to everyone worldwide".

The thing is, if you look at new technologies, they've revolutionized things not only here in first-world nations, but in thirld-world nations too. Phones are a prime example of this: a few decades ago, there were lots of 3rd-world nations where they didn't have widely-deployed telephones. The US and Europe had them of course, because they had spend oodles of money over many decades installing twisted-pair copper lines everywhere, giving us 1950s-level phone tech. Then along came cellphones, and they were expensive at first, so only businesspeople (like realtors) and rich people bothered to pay for them. Should the US have held back deploying cellular infrastructure, in order to wait for the 3rd world countries to deploy basic twisted-pair POTS? Heck no. Because after a decade or so, the costs came down so much and phones got so cheap that the 3rd-world nations just went ahead and installed cell towers everywhere, and skipped landlines altogether. There's a lot of 3rd-world nations with better cellular coverage than a lot of places in America! It's a lot cheaper to install a cell tower to service hundreds of people than it is to install twisted-pair wiring to hundreds of homes, so that's exactly what they did: they took advantage of superior and less-expensive technology to catch up with the developed nations faster. It would have been stupid and wasteful for them to deploy the older POTS technology.

It's like that with all technologies: costs get driven farther and farther down, and people in developing nations are able to take advantage of that, so those economies are improving rapidly, and the quality of life in those nations is rising greatly.

The way I see it, this "gap between the haves and the have nots" is not a problem, and doesn't even exist, if you're looking at a worldwide scale. It is a problem here in the US because things are so corrupt and broken, but that's an entirely separate issue. For the most part, things are improving a lot for people in developing nations, with some obvious exceptions in the Middle East.
The problem is that the public is misled about what the law is going to be used for. Mandatory decryption will get much less support if the electorate knows it's going to be used for non-terrorism related crimes.
Does anyone know why this hasn't been circumvented by an update to Adblock? It's been a couple of weeks now, and Adblock has always been on top of these things.
Hello Ben, thanks for the great tool.

If Bolt supports MVCC using a page log, why does Redis destroy Bolt on random write volume?

Also, I'm seeing wildly different write performance measures. Siddontang on #237 back in 2014 for Ledis suggests 970 Sets per second. This HN article mentions 800 requests per second. Running "bolt bench --count 10000000 --batch-size 10000 --write-mode rnd" gets me 29203 ops per second. Can you shed some light on what random write performance I can expect?
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The article states that a dark matter halo around the earth is considered a plausible explanation for the anomaly. Combine this with the possible "hairy" configuration of dark matter around the earth [1], and it fits in rather well with the inconsistent way in which the anomaly manifests itself: probes are affected differently depending on how close they fly by the root of a dark matter hair.

[1]: http://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/earth-might-have-hairy-dark-...
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I don't see a quandary. Yes, that's evil.
Right. I'm talking about for our particular industry. This definitely isn't true of all.
I frequently mistakenly hit "flag", and quickly have to "unflag" it.
No, it isn't "simply age." I know projects started in 2014 that defined their own string types since there are a lot of things that std::string doesn't support. For example, you can't turn a C string into a std::string without copying. There is basically no usable unicode support in std::string. Copies of std::string use copy-on-write, which may create hidden race conditions when sharing data between threads. If you want to fix those problems, you need your own string type.
A couple of weeks ago, I pulled ROM Kernel Manual: Exec off the shelf, and this is like that book. The author explains what the code does and how and why it does that.

I can't help but think that today, this would be posted on Github with a nominal and non-literary README.MD and the dubious assumption that the code is self explanatory and the why doesn't matter.

What I love about this is that the author cares that I get something out of just considering downloading the code. Even if I decide the code isn't for me, I walk away learning something. It's not sales and marketing. It's enthusiasm.
My last job was a little similar, and only towards the end did I realize how other people dealt with this. Here is what they did (I never did it):

Get to work kind of early, put your stuff on your desk, fill coffee mug, etc. Make it look like you're there. Re direct your office phone to your cell.

Take your laptop or books you want to study to the nearby coffee shop, and do whatever you want there - side projects, learning, teaching yourself programming languages, etc. etc. Be sure to answer your cell and respond to work emails.

Come back into the office around lunch time and sit in the lunch room to eat, then head out again for the afternoon.
It's easy to cover your tracks by saying you were in a meeting, or working with so-and-so, or whatever.

It took me a long time to understand it was better to do the above, than it was to sit at your desk and be seen to not be working hard (i.e. reading a programming book, or reading HN)
I would imagine there is little stopping someone from forming an insurance company in the BTC space: pay them BTCn a month, and they will ensure you for losses due to fraud for up to BTCx. I believe in previous scandals, some talk was made of doing precisely this (basically constructing an FDIC-equivalent BTC holding structure). There's nothing really stopping someone from setting up an insurance backstop in a non-fiat currency; it's just harder to do than having a government declare "If the whole system tanks, we will magic up a trillion goon-dollars to cover everyone's losses."

Of course, that replaces the issue of technological fraud with insurance fraud (and the technological risk of compromise to the insurance holder itself, though "put all your eggs in one basket and make sure it's the BEST basket" is an old and trusted software engineering paradigm). It actually feels like a way big, stodgy institutions could get into the BTC space if they chose to.
Your response to that should be: "you are not a responsible adult until you are debt free."

That is actually one of the secrets to a lower stress longer lasting life IMO.
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I know that they also support MySQL. We have Periscope connected to a MySQL database.
But will still be used to fight crime, so?
Yeah, things would improve massively for the poor and middle class.
Is it just me or is Periscope allergic to showing the "Pricing" page? (SaaS anti-pattern) Or is it free?

The blog content is good though
The real owners of the banks. One of them is actually in jail, Ólafur Ólafsson. Björgólfur Thór Björgólfsson and Jón Ásgeir Jóhannesson escaped mostly unscathed, at least compared to the rest of us.
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So, the default example for node.js spawns the worker as root in the 'container'. Since this is a simple chroot, the worker could execute a 90's style chroot escape (open; mkdir; chroot; fchdir; chdir ../../../; chroot.) and gain root on the host.

Is this a joke?
Would you expect startup-ers to go to prison for having caused the dotcom crisis of 1999? People who did fraud went to prison. But it's not a crime to make bad business decisions. In fact right now, tech companies are red hot (a bit less since this summer). I am sure people will loose a lot of money on current valuations. Should the management teams of Tesla, Amazon or Jet.com go to prison for that?
no kidding ? sarcasm

They also don't isolate anything. especially when the container system is running as root. Neither does chroot.
Relevant: http://i.imgur.com/eIM5o.jpg
If they artificially manipulated the stock themselves and hid their interest in the company to the degree where holdership limits were broken, yes.

You also have to realize what sort of lending put the banks under. Using their influence in the banks they directed the loan officers to make out unsecured loans to their own companies. That was a big part of the banks all failing simultaneously.
Frustrated that the author neglected to elaborate on the crucial detail - the truth behind Iceland's post-2008 "revival" is that it imposed capital controls on its own citizens. It imprisoned their money to avoid "capital flight." This affected everyone. Even students on school trips had to fill out copious government paperwork before exchanging minimal amounts of -their own- money for foreign currency.

I know I'd want to take my earnings and get the hell out, if my government started bowing to leftwing populism and came for the bankers like a medieval pitchfork-waving mob.

Capital controls mean that the "recovery" is completely artificial, and until they're fully lifted we won't know just how deep Iceland's problems really go.
Didn't completely understand what you mean with the gravitational waves and speed of light but for calculating gravitational force in a point you basically need to have a function describing the form of the object(and the density if the object doesn't have uniform density) and then do a (weighted)integral regarding the force excerted by each infinitesimal point in the object.
I'm not sure I get the hate on bankers. I don't like the bailouts - those could've been handled better - but people seem to be angry about the fact that they offered loans that they shouldn't have. That is, non-bankers were given money that they shouldn't have been given, and the claim is that we should be more selective about offering capital and opportunities to non-bankers and the underprivileged poor.

If somebody offered me a billion dollars at a 3% interest rate or whatever it is right now, I would seriously consider accepting it knowing that I don't have the capacity to pay them back. There are a lot of things in the world that pay better than 3% interest and that are relatively safe.

Similarly, a bank that gave out loans whenever you asked(up to the 10 loan limit, maybe) would be a great opportunity even for people who couldn't pay it back out of income. You could buy an empty plot of land and put a small apartment complex on it. You could buy a 4-plex and apply any number of forced appreciation techniques(put in a coin-operated laundry, redo the piping to reduce the amount spent on plumbers, plant some flowers outside to increase the attractivity, etc.). Of course, just betting on general appreciation of single-family homes is bad money.

Basically, I was too young to really experience the effects of the 2008 and I'm feeling envy rather than anger about these people's ability to cheaply obtain capital. So I don't empathize with these news reports about punishing bankers. Can someone explain why I should feel anger instead?
Victor Frankl's, "Man's Search for Meaning". Title says it all. An incredible book that shares an incredible perspective. Helps me get perspective while providing insight so that it doesn't all seem pointless.