skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not bad at all, that's approximately the message-passing overhead I measured in C++ on a similar CPU a while back.

I think the main utility for such a benchmark though is to establish a lower limit on theoretical per-message overhead. Any practical system is likely to want to do something interesting with the content of the messages.

But this lets us say "expend an average of at least 5 us of useful computation on each message in order to keep the overall cost of message passing below 10%".
heroku has unofficially supported 9.2/json for a couple months.
Why we switched to MongoDB
That is all. No blog post. Just a taste of reality.
A Language for Embedded Developers
There is this book: http://www.amazon.com/PostgreSQL-High-Performance-Gregory-Sm...

I haven't had a chance to finish it. But it does look like the author knows what he's talking about.
I click on "Try Bing" and it brings me to their landing page.. fine. So I click on "Shopping", thinking it will give me an "honest search result" but where does that take me?

It takes me to "www.ciao.se", a price comparison site that I stopped using years ago (pricerunner, pricespy or even amazon will all give better results in terms of prices and the information presented). As far as I know, the retailers that want to be listed on ciao.se need to pay for that privilege.

At least clean up your own house before you go acting all high and mighty, MS.

Also, I've never seen google present "Commerce" as anything but a commercial service, bought and paid for by the sellers on that service.
Their blog post: http://youtube-global.blogspot.de/
UX and the Kano Model
Regardless of the message the Microsoft is trying to deliver here they could at least make a website that does not make me close the tab in the first 10 seconds. What a mess.
YouTube gets sleek new design with cross-site Guide feature
I think that concern is valid even though I agree that Google's shopping results are deceptive to the average user; if Microsoft can't make a campaign out of it that is less about Google's failing and more about how Bing offers better value, it doesn't do them any good.
No. The grandparent post just stated an almost 1 to almost 13 month window.
Never, ever. Why cannibalize their product's long-term viability?
Could we set up a mesh network on that drone-botnet? How much storage would each one have? We could hide that datacenter in a cloud!
I was part of the team that built this and I can say from extensive use that it does work. It doesn't do everything that I'd love for it to do (for example, we're still working on supporting higher screen resolutions), but it's a really solid start. Please do check it out, and let us know what would make it more awesome!
I had the privilege of working with Derek "back in the day." He has worked on some pretty impressive mission critical, low latency message systems.
Existing databases won't be automatically upgraded.

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/upgrade-heroku-postgre... has information about the upgrade process.
> The answer to that seems pretty clear: theft with
> assault or intimidation.

I don't see any references to 'assault or intimidation' being part of the charge in that article. There's also the part where the prosecutor got the charge 'upgraded' to a felony instead of a misdemeanor, which was based on his prior record rather than the facts of this particular case (at least according to the article).
What is Google doing that is, in your opinion, shady?
Combine that with the third guy and unlimited range, and you have DRONEMAGEDDON!
NATS is new to me, are there interfaces for anything other than Ruby, Go, Node, and Java? C or Python? Any other resources about it? Thanks!
You may want to look into using postgresql functions to modify the json that comes out. Probably much faster, especially if you have lots of nested stuff coming from different tables.
Solving 'the Google problem' key to ensuring the Internet's success
Can you elaborate on "off-contract"? It sounds like even without the subsidy you still have to commit to a two-year contract.
McAfee appeared unresponsive, but when nurses undressed him, he said quite clearly, "please not in front of the press"

You couldn't write stuff this bizarre if you tried.
This recent Princeton study found that income and happiness are correlated until $75,000, after which happiness is flat.

http://wws.princeton.edu/news/Income_Happiness/
AFAIK this is the way to go: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Marking_works
A clever strategy that few thought of; it deserved to win.

On the downside, this is surely going to give me nightmares about government drones getting infected with a terrorist virus and unleashing drone-botnet-mageddon on the masses.
I don't see this as a bad thing, quite the opposite. This will make it an order of magnitude easier for people to buy Bitcoins in Europe, simply by using their bank accounts. Once everyone uses Bitcoin as the preferred currency to buy stuff, it won't matter if the governments shut down this specific bank. People will continue to use their Bitcoin addresses through other services or tools.

The most important goal right now is to get people to use Bitcoin, and for services to adopt Bitcoin as well, so it can have a real economy behind it. Once it has a large enough global economy behind it, it should be unstoppable.
503 unavailable. I don't know, but I'll bet $10 that this is another Wordpress blog that made it to the HN homepage. Somehow it are almost always Wordpress blogs that go down.

If I really did bet for $10 that it's wordpress every time a site goes down on the HN homepage, I could simply quit my job. Perhaps I should ask $10 to optimize Wordpress websites (aka install a caching plugin and done), hmm...
Property rights, in the sense that's necessary for capitalism, requires authoritative enforcement to actually work, which in requires government. Both theoretically and empirically. It's not a novel idea at all.
Bitcoin needs to interface with the legacy banking system, so that people can easily exchange bitcoins with EUR, USD, etc. (Don't you, critics, always complain it is complex/shady to buy bitcoins?)

Well, bitcoin-central is precisely that, an interface to the decentralized Bitcoin system.
It suggests you might just want some competition in search department. Why not defect to Bing?
Official PostgreSQL apt repository for Debian/Ubuntu available
Snapseed for android vs Instagram
After watching (and thoroughly enjoying) mtgx's second linked video [1] it's become a little more complicated to discern the left or the right of copyright. I think the talk's final point of speaking of "values" is very pertinent and in a way relevant to the way this conversation branch progressed.

From your quote about DJs your copyright values seem to be at the opposite side of openness (whatever the antonym of openness is), but having been reading and enjoying your comments for a while I suspect that comment might just be misguiding. I think I'd like to read more about what your values on copyright are.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyf_0SMAsFA
You forgot the unlimited "Why I...and you should too" headlines.
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Let's try this one for size: how about we look at the merit of what Microsoft is discussing here, instead of making what is essentially an ad hominem attack.

I had no idea that Google shopping results were more or less ads. I thought it was an aggregator of shopping results. This is news to me.
How about where troops are pinned down in an extremely hot firefight and running low on ammo. The commanders aren't going to risk letting a human piloted black hawk land because it's just too damn risky, but a drone might get the go ahead.

It also makes sense from a purely rational point of view because the major costs of that capability are pilot training (millions) and maintenance. It doesn't hurt nearly as much to lose a chopper when you don't lose those millions spent in pilot training along with it, so you can take much greater risks with it
I'm trying to figure out whether it was intended as Scrooge-google for the holiday season or screw-google...
Anyone else bugged by the fact that the top two comment threads, for this article, are about pedantic details of the article format rather than it's actual content? You have to go halfway down the page before you get a comment that's even on-topic
So is it a setting that affects only your own replies? Or is it something you set in an original email or reply that you're composing, that compels all recipients who click the reply button to reply to the entire addressee list by default? Because I can't see much use for the former, but the latter could be really useful.
This is significant, because Bitcoin exchanges are illegal in Europe, unless they get a payment processor license.

- Converting to/from BTC will become easier

- Accepting Bitcoins as a merchant will be easier
I agree here. I was un aware that google started doing this. Thank you microsoft for informing me.
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I have long since used Google

I don't think that means what you think it means.

In fact, I'm pretty sure it means exactly the opposite of what you think it means.
People thought the human body could not run a mile in less than four minutes until Roger Bannister did it in 1954. Once he had shown it was possible, two months later two other runners did it in the same race.

I've heard this a million times, but is it true? Nearly every athletic record from that era that was feasible to break has been broken since — usually multiple times — but we tend to ascribe those new records to better nutrition and medical/physiological/kinesiological progress [and steroids] rather than a psychological cause. Why would this one be any different?

And that's kind of how the rest of the article goes… a just-so story about why children of adults of low socioeconomic status often end up in low socioeconomic strata. It seems like lack of availability of similar educational opportunities (for one) at least warrants a mention.
After your contract is over, you are technically off-contract.

In the past T-Mobile has also offered customers the ability to have a monthly plan that didn't require a contract. I'm hoping that they keep that around.
I don't think it's too ridiculous. Sure, it's by no means the only determining factor of tax rates, but I find it hard to believe that tax rates are entirely independent of a government's bottom line. Thus, if this just goes straight to their bottom line, it will have some (small) effect on the future tax rates.

If you're just trolling due to my (potentially) incorrect use of the word "could" then carry on.
The most interesting part to me here is the MSN butterfly on the video. Microsoft has a YouTube competitor - who knew?
FAIL. Shitty design, and none of the messages about Google posted by Microsoft inspires trust (infact, it arouses suspicion). It seems more like Microsoft is desperate to get more customers this festive season. It's a very very desperate attempt.
probably large amounts of writes.
Because it's trendy?
It's a long article. People get annoyed and internet-ranty about details before they get a chance to read the whole thing. I'm guilty.
How quaint, a terrorist virus? No, it'll probably just be normal government drones with normal government software that unleashes drone-ageddon on the masses.

Whether it's a robot uprising, or a bug/oversight in the software, or Big Brother, is up to your own personal taste in dystopian horrors.
Actually, there's some practical application for that. In an emergency situation where communication is down, a network of drones could be setup to provide a network for first-responders and aid-workers to coordinate their efforts. It could even tie-in to base stations that would have the long-range power to connect different meshes. (note: I know nothing about these drones, but looking at what's been done already, it's seems feasible).
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I experimented over a few months and found 5 tactics to get my traffic going. Title is key, then easily scannable content, sharing, analytics & cross posting.
Software is eating the world, but the smartphone is pretty hungry too
"From automatic app updates, to account registration & syncing..to widgets & lockscreens. None of these are a fatal blow but all taken together start adding up to a significant advantage."

I think you're overhyping all of these. The one huge feature that is sorely lacking in iOS is contracts/intents/services.
All this does is make Microsoft more evil.

Edit: People don't like my short reply I guess, let me elaborate.. All this site does is say, "Google is secretly being evil and shoving ads in your face," but all I see is Microsoft low-blow trolling its competitor, and if that's not evil, then 4chan may as well be wikipedia.
> Built by private interests doesn't equate to non-existence.

Sometimes it does.
When you say that happiness does not seem to be correlated to wealth do you mean that having a larger salary does not seem to be correlated to wealth or that having a more savings/less debt (to some extent this is two scales, to some extent it is one scale) does not seem to be correlated to wealth.

I find it hard to think of someone whose annual income is in the 200k+ range but who is in massive debt as rich or wealthy. Similarly, someone whose annual income is below 50k but who has no debt, owns their own home free and clear and has massive savings could easily be thought of as wealthy. Of course, "massive" when talking about money is relative to income and debt/savings are likely to be orthogonal to happiness to a large extent. With regards to money and happiness, I think the Micawber principle states it best: "Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery."
"Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes." - Airplane II
Thanks for your post, it literally gave me goosebumps.

> Ordered society will succumb to chaos and nothing will be done. There will be no roads for you to travel, no places for you to tour, no joy for you to find.

I'm a guy in his early 30s, recently separated, living in a rented studio, with only a laptop, a few books and a plasma TV (for watching sports from time to time). That's it, but I don't care, as long as I can earn my living, earning a salary, getting me through life.

Yes, I'm happy because I can afford paying bills with money earned through my work (I still hate the bills per se, though :) ). My model is my peasant grand-mother, now almost aged 85, who has worked for each day of her adult life (she got married at 17). She only once went on a trip/tourism thingie to the mountains that she can see from her backyard. She hated the whole thing :) because that meant that while she was on the trip with my grand-father work would not get done back at home. When I last spoke with her she was upset that her body was feeling more and more weak, and that prevented her from working (feeding the cows, doing stuff around the home etc.).
Can someone explain what the use of being a certified bank is? I know it's easier to do bank transfers then, but Mt. Gox allows this already, also in Euro. And I thought Mt. Gox was a certified bank actually, especially considering the legal documents they require for Euro transfers.
It's also the name of a great short story by Cory Doctorow (link below). Bit of a ripoff by MS on the title.
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-09-17-n72.html
I was a bit worried about how this would work on a company intranet. I know my IT network security people are pretty paranoid about bridge networks and all that. Looking at Sauce Connect[1], they recommend to put the service on a dedicated machine on your intranet that you can zone off so it only has access to the parts of the network you want to allow.

Seems like a decent solution to allow a running a cloud service behind a firewall.

[1] http://saucelabs.com/docs/connect
Or you could just use skilled radio operators.

Though I suppose those have been getting scarcer than sophisticated drones anymore :(
Just tried it and it worked really well.
I was surprised too. Anyone have a video of a drone infecting another drone?

The symptoms of infection should be obvious:

var actions = [
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The sleeping habits of an MIT student on a typical night
How does this do against something like BrowserStack? I love BrowserStack, but it can be really slow and unresponsive at times.
lol - take a moment to look at https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade - there's rather a substantial list.
You know that Wordpress now accepts btc as payment for addons for their blog hosted service?
Financial industry in the city? Otherwise London contracting rates I would guess. I know nobody approaching that level of pay that's not doing one of those things, unless they've moved into non-dev areas of the businesses they're in.

You only know a few devs, I think your sample is highly skewed.
Just do it!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel%E2%80%93iron_battery
"Security module"? You can't bolt-on security.
No. But all new development isn't being done on it.

My point is that stories like this are becoming the new norm especially with companies like 10gen and Datastax wining and dining CIO/GMs pretty hard. MongoDB in particular is getting a (misguided IMHO) reputation as a drop-in replacement for MySQL. And the last MongoDB training session had developers from banks, insurance companies, finance houses etc.

I am pretty sure that many of the next 10+ years of in-house built enterprise apps will be using NoSQL databases. Which will in turn then result in university courses changing thus affecting the next generation of programmers.
Holy cow: I knew about the Penn hire and the Scroogled campaign, but the connection didn't "click" until I read your comment. I should have realized that there was a connection. The dirtiness I feel when loading the Scroogled site now makes a ton of sense.
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I'd say pretty much every bigger city (500k and up) has at least one. Some of them are even part of a bigger international network.

Places you could try looking them up:

http://www.the-hub.net/network

http://desksnear.me/search
That is fantastic. hoooo boy I'm gonna have fun with that
I've read hilarious stories about them, but I've never been part of one. (Someone replied to all once at my old job when they shouldn't have. Then they said oops. End of boring story.)
Looks interesting, but can't you already do this in Chrome using User Agent Overrides (under Developer Tools)?
Maybe something is different if you're out of the US, but I didn't see a ciao.se website at all. From the Scroogled site, I clicked "Try Bing", searched for "toy trucks", and clicked "Shopping" at the top of the results page. (There was no shopping link that I spotted on the Bing homepage.) I was directed to the following page: http://www.bing.com/shopping/search?q=toy+trucks&qpvt=to...
much faster for me.
Not sure, but for some reason there are a few friends who feel compelled to pollute my twitter stream from this app.
It's great for manual testing, just be aware that the performance of the machines they host the browsers on is REALLY bad, to the point that it may make it hard to do testing of HTML5 apps. For basic website testing it works pretty great.
Next he is going to have someone send him a cake with a file baked into it.
This reminds me a lot of the anti-Microsoft stuff that Novell put out in the 90s.
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Correct. Trendiness (availability of devs, ease of use) usually beats technical superiority. History tends to repeat itself, and we know how MySQL v Postgres played out.
Mtgox wishes it was a bank :)
They ask for the docco for AML (trading) requirements - so they're not shifting the 5M btc that they've processed to dodgy criminal types - like lawyers & politicos :)
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Responsible Disclosure Can Be Anything But
TL;DR: Bitcoin-Central.net, a French Bitcoin exchange gets many needed protections and features: (1) FDIC-esque insurance to fraud/etc., 100kEUR and 0BTC; (2) Personalized bank account numbers, making transfers easy (IBAN); (3) Segregation of client and company money; (4) Very easy and secure way to transfer money; (5) An ID is the only thing needed to sign up
Ok, lets go with that for a minute.

"Maybe the point being made is that the amount of power Google has over publishers is unhealthy."

Framing it in an adversarial way may confuse the issue. The #1 challenge for any business is getting customers. When ever a business emerges that has a large influence on customer acquisition, it annoys businesses.

Lets re-frame the debate into one from the last century. In the US the telephone company knew the address and phone number of every business in a city by virtue of providing the service. One of the ways they leveraged that is they would publish a book, called the "Yellow Pages" which listed every Company and their number. Because the information was collected into one place, the it gained economic value (information economics being an interest of mine). It had so much "value" to customers that it was the first place they looked for the phone number of a business. Businesses realized that for generic things like plumbing, locksmiths, auto repair, being at the front of the list was better than being at the end of the list. Since the list was lexicographically sorted you started seeming names like AAA Locksmith, and A1 Plumbing. Hacking the name to be at the front. Then the Phone company decided to offer up "ads" where you could place an add on the same page as the listing, now even if your name was Zlotnicks Plumbing you could put an advertisement on the first page where plumbing started. That got you business. The complaint then was "Since everyone uses the Yellow Pages, I am forced to pay high prices to get an ad in their pages just so that people will know I exist."

By that same logic businesses may end up paying search engines to appear (and they do for Shopping links according to Bing's Scroogled.com web site).

And this comment: "I for one believe that in order to have the most accurate search results, the rankings should be based on content, not money."

I can totally agree with that, but I may internalize that differently that you do. I think that giving a search engine a choice "pay us or don't crawl us" they will simply opt not to crawl. But to understand why that makes sense economically you have to think about how the information involved gets its value. In this case a collection of 99 versions of a news story for 'free' is more valuable than 100 versions of the same news story. And its worth is exactly zero for uninteresting stories.
Or use chrome profiles, they are working well for me.
Interesting study but I can't read the scale on the X-axis. All the numbers are bunched up which may be because I have my computer screen in portrait. Zooming in fails to rectify the issue as it just magnifies the left hand column only.
But yes, you are correct. If you sign up for a value plan you're on contract. They're subsidizing rates not phones in this case.
I recently got a iPhone4 from Virgin Mobile USA for $349 and $30/month plan and it's working just fine. Glad to see others are going this way as well.
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