skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“[gives users access to] Windows, Mac OS, Google’s Chrome OS, Dell’s custom cloud solutions, Citrix cloud software, and even Google’s Chrome OS.”

They seem really excited about Google's Chrome OS.
Signatures aren't a way to authenticate yourself securely. They're just a more definite version of a checkbox that says "I agree". They're not supposed to be secure, they are and always have been easy to forge. When was the last time someone checked the signature on your credit card?

The only protection signatures offer is by law - it is forbidden to sign as someone else.

These scanned/digital signatures are nothing new. People have been signing documents and faxing them (in effect copying them) since faxes exist. That's basically the same: nobody can tell if you just pasted a copy of a signature on the document before you faxed it, or if you really did sign it.

In Estonia, the digital ID card enables people to digitally sign documents. There's a law that says these digital signatures are as valid as a handwritten signature, and must be accepted as such. It has become very popular [0]. To me it is a very smart idea to train your citizens to use digital signatures which are both more reliable and easier to verify.

[0]: http://news.err.ee/sci-tech/16da12d4-ddca-43a5-b12f-024866e9...
After the Death Star petition, albeit cute, it was inevitable that they would.
I wonder if it supports Google's Chrome OS?!
Wikipedia has a decent list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LFTR#Disadvantages

Though it's missing a few key elements. Note that a lot of the advantages of LFTR designs rely on technology that hasn't been invented let alone demoed or proven yet. For example, in-situ fuel reprocessing.

The biggest thing is that nearly every aspect of building and operating a LFTR is completely new. From how to keep the reactor humming along and avoid having a criticality excursion or avoid accidentally quenching the reaction to how you get power out of the heat from the reaction to how you refuel it. Damned near everything is untried and untested. It's going to take a lot of iterations to smooth out the bumps, even if we accept the idea that the overall inherent safety of the design is superior.
ANA and JAL Ground Boeing 787 Fleets After Emergency
The Most Heartbreaking, Inspirational Story in Football This Year Is A Hoax
amazing. When I was writing "e-mail" I meant SMTP based post. AOL used SMTP, which is Internet standard and defined by RFC and yet prohibited from communicating with other servers? wow. are you sure? I am in denial. (:
I bet you found the thread on their mailing list. I was the one who ran the benchmark and it was one core vs. one core. In the other benchmarks we had multiple machines, but not the Redis benchmark. We clarified after they speculated that a multi/single comparison was performed.

The main issue they had was YCSB's method of storing multi-attribute objects as maps (from attribute names to their values) and the fact that Redis cannot support search across keys so YCSB searches within a single set.
How do you test an MVP when there is the "Chicken or the Egg" problem?
I am almost finished with an MVP/beta version of a SaaS that helps businesses of specific industry market to potential customers. While I believe the service will be considered valuable to both the companies that sign up and their potential customers, I really don't know how to proceed with a proper way to validate this hypothesis.

For me to find truly test whether or not my customers (the businesses) are willing to pay for the service, I need users otherwise it is hard to argue a return on the investment. On the flipside, I can't get users without businesses signed up.

I'm considering offering a 3 - 6 month beta period that would be free to companies. The problem I have with this is that it's not really testing the viability of the service. Moreover, I won't be able to work on it full time since I do not have investors and I am afraid of falling short on bug fixes, feature releases, and most importantly, marketing to end-users. I could probably seek out investors but this is another chicken and egg situation; I will not have truly tested the service's viability to investors.

How does one tackle the dilemma of having two customer bases that are dependent on one another?

Bonus question: If it is to proceed with the beta period, would you seek out investors? If so, at what point?

Thanks,
Chance (long time lurker, first time poster)
If you write Go, definitely check out GoSublime[1]. It's very powerful and gives you an IDE like environment inside Sublime Text 2.

[1] https://github.com/DisposaBoy/GoSublime
How do you achieve such low costs?
Added to homepage (bottom right)

Added to blog post
It's amusing to see that they've reinvented the "active health checks" wheel for their system, because HAProxy [1] does this out of the box.

Side-note/rant: I am always surprised that HAProxy doesn't get more attention on hackernews, because it is an incredibly powerful tool. IMO, it is definitely one of the biggest technical unsung heroes I'm presently aware of.

[1] http://haproxy.1wt.eu
Sorry to hear about your experience as a growing start-up we definitely run into issues with growth.

We do not offer monthly plans, everything is on a per-usage basis except we default to a monthly price to keep billing simpler for our users, so that was just a misunderstanding on billing.

As for DNS we offered it as a new service in labs, because we were testing it with our customers and improving it based on their feedback. And Im sure if you opened up tickets regarding it, it helped us track down bugs.
It would require a couple of styling changes, but if your blockquote tags weren't text-align: center, the snippets would be much easier to read.
That's very interesting. My hypothesis would be that even in that case the value Indians give to gold jewelry isn't just because they like shiny yellow metal, it's because they're using gold as a way to keep savings in a place where they don't trust the currency. In fact, from your article:

It’s in steel cupboards and in bank vaults across the country, where India’s housewives and other private owners have stashed their jewelry and gold savings.
Why Distributed Teams are Less Effective (2010)
In 2011, a frustrated citizen in Killeen, TX started collecting signatures in a parking lot to recall the entire city council. Enough people signed to officially recall 5 seats.

Reference: http://www.kcentv.com/story/16070848/killeen-city-council-re...
why buy more than one? can you please elaborate on the use case a bit more?
Translation: "We really don't want any more Death Star petitions getting through."
What makes American's so special is the fact that we are a unique country. A country that was built on our core values, as they are laid out in our constitution of the united states that has guided us and has never steered us wrong.

We are the same country that came to the worlds aid (and europe, especially) during WW1 and WW2.

Our beliefs aren't perfect. They just happen to be less wrong then others, IMHO... and in the opinion of a large majority of our country.

If you can't understand why the right to keep and bear arms is an essential aspect of being american then you are short sighted and have refused to see how history repeats itself over and over throughout mankind.

I 100% believe Benjamin Franklin said it best when he said the following: "Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."

Once you start picking apart our constitution, little by little, you soon open up the flood gates for rights and liberties to be taken away much more easily.

They can already wire-tap without a warrant. Now they want the guns. This is how it starts...

First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for the socialists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me.

Lets modify the above...

First they came for the assault rifles,
and I didn't speak out because I didn't own one.

Then they came for the bolt action rifles,
and I didn't speak out because I didn't own one.

Then they came for the pistols,
and I didn't speak out because I didn't own one.

Then they came for me,
and there was no one left with the capabilities to defend me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came...

Having the ability to arm yourself and defend yourself and uprise against OUR OWN GOVERNMENT should the need arise is specifically why the 2nd amendment was written the way it was... and I believe they felt very strongly about this. It's #2 on the list after all.

When we try to outsmart the people that made our great country, we usually mess it up.

Just my 2c.
IPv6 is slated for sometime later in 2013, we've had a lot of customers request it and probably closer to Spring / Summer we will be testing it.

As for unlimited bandwidth that is something we offered because we didn't have time to write bandwidth accounting and wanted to focus development on the core service more, we figured that was more important for us in the short run.

We will be switching to paid bandwidth in the future and offering bundled packages with each server and then a simple flat per GB price after that.
Enterprisey types can already buy "Zero Clients" and "Thin Clients" similar to this from Dell for around that price, before you add in the cost for the monitor/keyboard/mouse.

I think the idea is to convert that into something the consumer market could use.
What are some nontrivial examples? I've only been an iOS developer as my day job for about a year now, and I don't know everything - but rarely do I need to resort to code to do my interfaces.

That said, merging xib's is a pain in the ass. I wish they were more like Android's human readable layouts.
> And this is going to be a serious problem for Google, in the long run. Once you lose reliability and accountability, people start looking elsewhere.

Google's customers are advertisers. They get personal support, with real people. It is the advertisers that need to be reassured about Google's services; who need to be convinced that Google do not tolerate any kind of extra ad clicking. (Not saying that's what happened here!!)

It is incredibly annoying that quality original content gets removed while the blurry cat clips get reposted all over youtube. And the blurry reposts prove that YouTube will continue to make money for Google even if they take down original content.
I haven't touched a sudoku in a few years, but I went through a phase where it was interesting.

I developed a system with dots and sometimes little numbers (I think? I don't even quite remember it now) to track the possibilities that worked really well -- I could do advanced puzzles in pen, without ever guessing and being forced to backtrack.

Sudoku online was broken for me, though, because I couldn't use my method.

Pen/paper is a great interface for Sudoku -- very fast and flexible. Are there actually virtual interfaces that beat it, or is the only advantage portability (I'd have my phone at the doctor's office, but I'd probably forgot to bring a Sudoku book)?

I watched the video for this app -- is there support for any method of tracking number possibilities in a given square, or is the only option "make a reasonable guess and see if your score goes up or down"?

The latter is all I saw, and that's a horrible way to do Sudoku, no matter how pretty the graphics are.

It's interesting as a logic puzzle, not as a guessing game.
wow - where are these developers getting the designers to do these landing pages?
I get an invalid cert diagnostic.

You attempted to reach www.whitehouse.gov, but instead you actually reached a server identifying itself as a248.e.akamai.net. This may be caused by a misconfiguration on the server or by something more serious. An attacker on your network could be trying to get you to visit a fake (and potentially harmful) version of www.whitehouse.gov.
"McKinsey receives about 100,000 per year."

Citation? That's highly dubious.

There are 111.5M adults in the US between age 22 and 55.

Of those, 64.9% are considered "participating" in the labor force. That brings us to 72.4M. Of those, 61% are considered "blue collar", i.e. manual labor. It's fairly safe to assume McKinsey isn't attracting that subset.

We're now down at 28M. Without further subdivision, I'm fairly comfortable in feeling skeptical that one in every 280 white collar workers in the US applies for a job with McKinsey every year.
Those statistics are not apples to apples. Notably the UK started classifying common assault (no injury) as a violent crime which more than doubled the "violent crime" rate.

You might ask why the people who fed you this talking point used a clearly deceptive statistic instead of an obvious one like murder.
Ah... it was a joke!... Sorry, didn't get it :-P
I had to deal with a "This site may be compromised" notice on a client site recently, and Google handled it within a few days. So it's not always bad.
sounded like an interesting idea - but doesnt actually count down my assigned time on mountain lion
Because Dell is not a software company? They might as well get into designing clothes.

EDIT: Obviously a hyperbole. But that seems pretty damn arbitrary.
Cool, I'll definitely use this, though it does not support landscape attachments. I need to be able to rotate the signature. Thanks.
Squash has client libraries for Ruby, Objective-C, JavaScript, and preliminary Java support.
This thought just occurred to me. Most companies in the world, the people who care about mundane reports on the company are a subset of the people who own shares in them. With Apple, it's the other way about - the share owners are a small subset of the people who care about these news reports.
I am not a lawyer, but my understanding is that proximity is not needed, and in fact was not present in Aaron Swartz' case.

Aaron had unauthorized access to MIT's network, through which he downloaded JSTOR's documents, and the value calculation they would use was based on the effort of various academic authors around the world. MIT complained to the prosecutor, and who brought the case despite JSTOR not being interested and no complaint from the actual owners of those documents (which mostly was not JSTOR).

In my parallel scenario, the cable company takes the role of MIT, open source repositories take the role of JSTOR, and open source authors take the role of the academic researchers, journals, etc who owned the documents downloaded. The parallel is exact. If the cable company (like MIT) complained, the fact that the other pieces of the puzzle do not want charges brought would not stop an overzealous prosecutor from being able to charge me.

What could I be charged with? Of the 4 initial charges against Aaron Swartz, the fact that he caused damage only matters for the last one. The first three are only concerned with the fact of unauthorized access over a network of valuable property. My parallel scenario has that.

The amendment that is being proposed saying that violation of terms of service does not suffice to count as unauthorized access under this bill would protect my case. That change is definitely needed. As I've commented elsewhere, the fact that Aaron's access required physical trespass means that his lack of authority did not merely stem from violating the terms of service. Therefore I don't believe that he would have been protected by the proposed bill that bears his name.
That one story went viral. Has anyone actually validated it?
It's interesting to note that a lot of gold (40% of annual production) is mined just so that it can be locked away somewhere, without any further utility derived from it. This is essentially speculative demand, so one could reasonably argue that gold is in a (many thousand years old) speculative bubble.

Central banks could burst this bubble easily by selling off their gold reserves. It is of course very hard to judge how low that would drive the price of gold, but it seems rather clear that the "proper" price of gold should be much lower than it is today.

Today, gold isn't used much for industrial production. But part of the reason for that is actually the price of gold. Gold does have useful properties as a chemical element, but engineers specifically design their processes so that they don't need too much of it.

How much more use for society could be gotten out of gold in actual production, if the gold price bubble were burst by central banks selling off their reserves, making gold more affordable for industrial purposes?

This line of thought is dual to the criticism against hedge funds participating in commodity trading. Once hedge funds create artificial demand for certain commodities such as rare earths by actually storing them in newly built warehouses, the price for those commodities could be driven through the roof, with nasty side cost-push inflation as a side-effect.
Love how the article discusses when they've gotten funding, but never discusses revenues. "Funding" feels like it's talked about like a blessing, a manna from above, as opposed to what it is: investment/debt that the lender expects to see a return on.
From: http://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Compton

WARNING: Compton suffers from a very high crime rate due to the gang violence, which is well-documented. It is recommended to stay no more than as long as necessary. Danger increases during the night time.

Helpful!
they agreed on shipping it back to germany within the next s-e-v-e-n years. why is that? this sounds kinds dodgy to me - as if the banks who "might" store it would have to earn it first.

btw: france once transported it's gold reserves back to france in a nuclear submarine - classy.
Fixed up the marketing page.

It isn't about blame, it's about finding one person (and only one person) who is likely to be able to fix the bug or at least know who to delegate the bug to. The workflow is around reducing signal to noise, so that if you get an email from Squash, it's something you need to take action on. Either fix the bug or find someone who can. That's why it always tries to find one person to give responsibility to.
The bottom of the page now has a "countries supported" text with an american flag. Hope this clears things up a little bit . If you are interested in getting notified when we support other countries i would be happy to email you.
I shall repeat: It is very very very hard.
We were featured on CNET, AllThingsD, Kotoku, 148Apps and even reviewed on TV.
Result: You get a nice bump in downloads for a couple of days then it drops back down.

The best thing I have learnt is your budget should be at LEAST 50/50 between marketing and development. If you spent 3 months making the game with 2 developers then your marketing budget should be in the tens of thousands if you really plan on getting anywhere.

Simply having and spending the money won't get you good results though. It needs to be spent really wisely with a lot of thought placed into metrics and analytics. You need to have them in the game. You need to test screenshots/icons/descriptions. Simple change of screenshots helped us get 25%+ more downloads a day.
There is a lot of info out there but it is a huge uphill battle right now. If you take a look at some app review web sites you'll notice every single day there are well over 20 very well polished games being released on iOS and Android. That is every single day. Most don't get anywhere.
Data breach has Manitobans fearful
Yes, I'm aware. I made an intentional sacrifice of accuracy to benefit brevity. If you look at a graph of new fission reactors built in the west you'll notice that it flat-lines. Taking into account this new reactor, that would put the rate of new reactor construction in the US at an average of somewhere around 0.06 reactors per year. At this rate we can expect to build 5 additional reactors in the 21st century...
>find invaluable in one of my software engineers -depending on the job-.

I think you kind of answered the question yourself. ;)
It's more about finding one person to give responsibility to (or who can delegate responsibility). Emailing a whole team means a whole team ignores the emails.
If your "if by 'if by "if by whiskey"'" comment means to regurgitate the tired and immature recursive "100 pushups" style threads so popular at Reddit, then these sorts of comments add nothing to the discussion, worsen the HN community, and are completely uninteresting to me. But if you mean to inject more clever and lighthearted humor into the overly dry and serious HN community, then I believe you do this community a great service, and I commend you for it. Don't bother arguing with me.
Pentakill or not league of legends
Similar devices already exist.

(http://liliputing.com/2012/06/74-mk802-android-4-0-mini-pc-f...)

Dell probably have good deals with their suppliers, and are hoping on volume, and so could bring the cost down to something where $50 makes sense.
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Takes a long time to load for me, and it's a bit jerky.

I often feel like all these HTML5 effects are not needed to convey the message.

(However, it's cool that the videos start playing on the scroll event.)
Nicely done! Tried it out and will definitely be keeping it. I like the website as well, the utility of the app is obvious from one quick glance.

I think it'll be useful in convincing yourself to do that 15-60 min task that you've been putting off.. or just to get you motivated (I'll fix this bug quickly in 15 mins... and before you know it you've fixed a few).
You're confounding "gold as a way to implement currency" with "gold as a way to lock monetary policy". And that's so common I address it in the original comment:

>Gold's proponents usually mention that a gold standard would set a fixed money supply that can't be altered by a central banker. Yet if that's what you want you could just change the law to impose that rule on the central bank, just as you'd need to change the law to move to a gold standard.
I'll Pay You to Read My Book
I had an extremely bad experience with Developer Auction. Ultimately using the site got me fired from my job and the team at Developer Auction was extremely non-responsive/uncaring about it all. Matt Miszewski in particular was extremely callous.
I once did a test on my own network to see what would happen if I assigned two computers the same MAC address (but different IP addresses). You know what happened? Nothing. Despite my best efforts (for all of 30 seconds), I couldn't see any meaningful difference in the behavior of the computers. I was expecting tons of dropped packets as my switches tried to figure out what port that address was really on, but it didn't happen.
and yet, we have no way to positively identify anybody here as an Hacker, we must put up with secret infiltrations by non-hackers who upvote non-hackish stories.
29 under construction in China, simultaneously:

http://www.iaea.org/PRIS/WorldStatistics/UnderConstructionRe...

Rather an exception of course. But a big one.
Now I would just buy a Grid rack from Nvidia.
I understand and generally agree with your point. However, if we're going to slide and dice, it should be pointed out that the Apache Software Foundation (founded in 1999) was named after the Apache web server (1995), not the other way around. So, if the context clearly suggests the web server, as it does here, I think he's OK.
It's all guys??? That seems like a very atypical group of designers.
The problem with the analogy is that it's too specific. But I'm still hiring for right now. That you can easily learn next year's technology is something I'd rather you don't do on my time.
Dell reinvention plan: Project Ophelia brings full PC to USB stick