skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll try to find the link in a moment, but Microsoft was doing something like this 5+ years back. The premise was similar to Google using commodity hardware in their datacenters. Throw together "compute blocks", set them all up and when performance degrades sufficiently you remove the container and install a new one in its place.

EDIT:

Also, I'm surprised I got the time right, for some reason 2005-2012 is one big blur to me and I usually pick the wrong end of that range when guessing when things happened. It also seems that none of these articles mention what I recalled reading in articles years ago about just replacing a box once its performance degrades. I'm either misremembering or that ended up being a non-feature once fielded.

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/04/01/micro...

A more recent article, this one is MS in VA: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/02/boydton/

A critique of the approach:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9080738/6_reasons_why...
If you're looking literally at the definition of "people who changed massive numbers of lives" then the relatively recent leaders such as Hitler, Stalin, Mao whould be at the top:

1. Autocratic leaders individually affected more change than the comparable democratic leaders (Roosevelt, Churchill) because they had more radical actions and more direct power to change and/or take lives on a huge scale;

2. Relatively modern events affect huge amounts of people compared to older events - WW2 killed more people than were alive at the peak of Roman Empire, and directly 'affected' far more than that (~2 billion?).

3. Really recent political events are comparably tiny - events such as 'War on Terror' or Rwandan genocide are impactful, but order of magnitude smaller than the atrocities we did in 20th century.

Of course, we might rather want to glorify entirely different kind of people :)
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What we're doing is looking at the actual MSRP offered by dealers on vehicles in inventory inclusive of options. On Edmunds, KBB or any other pricing site what you're looking at is what you theoretically would pay if the vehicle you wanted existed in inventory and doesn't really represent true pricing at the moment. Their pricing isn't really representative of what happens when you go to a dealership and say I want this car, with these options. Many/most times that exact configuration of vehicle doesn't exist. (With a few exceptions... Honda's and Toyotas are different). Our AVG MSRP is really a view of the price with options included in dealer inventory and not just the MSRP as configured by the manufacturer. What people have told us is that they want to know how much it's actually going to cost me when I go to the dealership to buy a Mazda 5 (enter your favorite car here) . Our pricing reflects that almost perfectly.
Maybe with their windmill kites?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5754619
I think the real reason is that Pinterest will remove pins, boards, and even users that are abusive.
If copyright never expired. Disney would owe a lot of money to the heirs of the Brothers Grimm.
Replace copyright with monopoly and your argument is equally sensible. Using textbook micro, the cost of copyright is clear. The copyright on Mickey Mouse raises the cost of goods featuring it. In a world without copyright, my expenditure on Mickey Mouse videos will decrease likely resulting in consuming somewhat more Mickey Mouse videos but for lower total cost and deploying some of the saved money to other goods that I desire. Hence, I will consume more of that good and a greater variety at the same income making me better off.
I prefer http://lessmeme.com/less.html because it lets me quickly see which items are new.
So far they've got 2 for male/female. I'd imagine it could be feasible to create several variants for different goal types.
Presumably, he already had tenure.
Check it out, there is a new book in the series. POSA. The Performance of Open Source Applications.
Aren't all property rights "government-created monopolies"?
They're really easy to add, expand, replace. Google's been using them for many years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_data_center
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Modular_Data_center
> My original guess for the barge-building in Portland was a ocean-based prison facility for the government to use for interrogations.

Not a bad guess at all, since it really does look like a modern prison ship: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vernon_C_Bain_Correctional...
Well, we certainly live in a very weird time. There's a level of expectation of dads now that there wasn't for my dad. There is now an expectation of 50/50 in raising children even with stay-at-home moms. That means cooking, cleaning, laundry, entertainment, etc., falls on the dad a lot.

Whereas even 30 years ago this certainly wasn't the case. My father was a good dad but certainly didn't clean anything other than the garage. He didn't bathe any of us kids or tuck us in. He sure as hell didn't buy groceries. What he did do it kept the yard clean, the roof clear, the garden growing, the cars running, and coached baseball.

I think too many dads these days are too busy being mom #2. And women think that's what they want but in reality it emasculates their husband in their eyes.
Academia (and knowledge) is not only basic science.

But yeah, there have been discoveries: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_of_cosmic_microwave_b...

See how many schools can offer a Machine Learning course. See how many professors know what's Map-Reduce.
Premium features are being worked on as I type this. The one I'm most excited about will be the ability to schedule 'peeks' at a site. Load times, pings, email notifications and browser agent tweaks will be also be included. I'm also toying with providing html/js/css file diffs over time. So much to do!
Physical property rights and intellectual property rights are different things.

Expressing the value of allowing intellectual property rights to expire does not require arguing that physical property rights ought to expire.
Last I checked, all those entities were firmly connected to the Earth's crust.
SFDC is in the enterprise software business, full stop. Their SMB offering is SFDC. Was this an aqucihire?
Yes it is common.

eg. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRwPSFpLX8I

A shipping container is a standardized container. It's like designing a PC case. Standard sizes makes things very convenient.

It's like Legos and interchangeable computing parts. But bigger.
Dammit! Now it's January? I hope it doesn't keep slipping. It was supposed be August in the beginning but then popularity pushed it down to November, then December...I want wanna drink some fancy science!
> Maybe racism is best solved by treating all as equals instead of creating further insular groups?

Straw man argument, your 'creating further insular groups' representation of the original idea is not at all obviously equivalent, and you make no effort to support the representation.

> The first step is to stop snarking at people who dare to ask.

It's really not.
and a common phrase (though a little less used than in previous generations) meaning 'generally'
Songwriters everywhere would hate this. :-) I speak from the recent experience of trying to register one cd of seven songs, some of which were previously released on my website, some of which weren't, some of which had lyrics previously published, some of which weren't. The email threads with the library of congress on how to properly register, and how to properly amend my previous registrations, are legendary. If a songwriter with 50-100 (or more) songs were given a semi-short registration expiration, they'd never get anything done.
How is it different from eBay Motors? Most of the cars have free carfax, they have cheaper pricing to get the car history and I am covered by eBay buyer protection [1].

eBay Motors: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Honda-Accord-EX-2008-honda-accord-ex...

Carwoo: http://carwoo.com/new-car-prices/T85363842-2014-mazda-mx-5-m...

[1]: http://pages.ebay.com/motors/buy/purchase-protection/index.h...
> So they can still subpeona data moving through the switch

Well if they weren't an american corporation they would be doing this anyway. Besides, perhaps the most important data wouldn't ever have to be transmitted into the country.
Matt Welsh? He is quite sane and gave up tenure at Harvard to go work for Google.
Finally, something with better bandwidth and worse latency than Andy Tanenbaum's station wagon.

> Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
-- Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Computer Networks, 4th ed., p. 91
Those would seem to be the most important people to understand why they think transit isn't fitting their needs. It could be that (1) they are wrong and just don't understand the system, or (2) the local transit system actually fails them (doesn't serve close enough, often enough, safe enough, direct enough, late enough, etc.) in a way that can be improved.
I helped build the Earthquake Notification Service a few years ago when I was at the USGS. I'd be disappointed if they shut it down...
Yeah I don't know what I was thinking. I think it's bad for everyone but the topic was about women.
It sounds like you know what you want to do. All I can do is share with you my experience. I haven't had a "job" in 2 years. It's been the happiest time of my life physically, emotionally and financially.

I knew quickly after getting a job that I wanted to do a startup. I read TechCrunch every day so I thought I knew something. After a couple of jobs and 6 years later I was still super comfy at my corporate job. But I hated it. I came to realize one day that life is meant to be lived right freaking now. So I left, all of a sudden, one day.

Initially, doing a startup with no money really sucked. You just watch your savings go down and to the right. But it taught me an important lesson really early. How important cash flow is. It forced me to think about making money as soon as possible.

So, I wouldn't look at it in terms of taking a pay cut. In fact, you can decide for yourself how much you want to pay yourself. To supplement that income, assuming that you're now good at sales, you can do a consulting engagement when you want a nice bump in cash. It's great when you want to go work on your startup when you're in a different country for a little while.

To get to that step wasn't easy for me, however. It was a lot of god damn work. Before turning things around I drained my savings and built up credit card debt. I made many mistakes and lost lots of money before having any small amounts of success.
Wireless communication doesn't work that way. Its bandwidth is not proportional to the number of transceivers.
I'd rather Congress vote on specific exceptions rather than blanket it for everything. I'm one to believe our culture actually is for the poorer due to the lack of historical works entering the public domain. The problem is that it's a counterfactual, so we wouldn't really know if it were true.
that argument maybe applies when you have a company such as Disney making a tangible economic benefit (to both the corporation and the economy at large) - although it's arguable whether breaking the monopoly gives more overall economic gain than what Disney loses.

but even assuming that it does, it only works when there's a huge empire providing thousands of jobs themed around a work, right? so how do you codify the difference between Mickey and $random_forgotten_book_from_1920, from which releasing copyright could only be a good thing for the economy?
> but there's no reason to believe it matters to the authors

One reason may be to increase the number of folks using the library. I'm not saying that would happen, or that the original devs care, but it's conceivable, isn't it?

> and you are not in a position to tell them what should matter to them.

I'm not telling them anything -- I'm expressing an opinion and asking questions. [sidenote: isn't it ironic to be called "disgustingly arrogant" and attacked for asking questions on a matter of free speech? I think my discourse has been polite and respectful[1]].

> Nothing on that page constitutes a waiver of GPLv3. It is merely an offer of an alternative license to a subset of potential users.

Perhaps waiver was the wrong word, but lets look at this a moment:

The offer is to everybody (barring a small (arguably dubious (enter lawyers)) subset of potential users, where (again, presumably) the license is more like MIT than GPL.

At any rate, the decision is in the hands of the authors.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6614482, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6614179
This is precisely how Feynman got the patents on the nuclear submarine and the nuclear airplane.
Looks like the patent disclosure refers extensively to challenges and opportunities of the maritime environment - power generation, heating and cooling, etc.
The same reason anyone hides trade secrets. For competitive advantage, etc...

Perhaps also for legal reasons. For example larger companies use shell companies for purposes of reduced liability.
Not to mention that when you find one particular solution that works (eg. 6 chicken breasts a day), it gets very boring, very quickly. Although I doubt that drinking Soylent everyday is going to help with the boredom!
I might eat this as snack food, or to replace an occasional meal, but the idea of eating exactly the same thing every single meal scares me a little bit. I guess I just don't have confidence that modern science has fully quantified everything that's needed in a complete human diet. Don't get me wrong - I'm sure Soylent is great stuff - I just think that I wouldn't want to completely give up 'normal' food for it (besides the worry factor, it also seems really boring).
It probably counts when the request is made, without waiting for a connection to be successful.
And interestingly, Patri Friedman used to work at Google...
Maybe this is just so their data centers can be movable between cities so they can negotiate better tax agreements and power contracts.
You and the reference comment are engaging in dog-whistle politics

Aaaand now you've stooped to insults. We're done here, and so is the thread.
why make your own from real food when you can have powders mixed by an idiot for twice the price?

http://lesswrong.com/lw/h2h/soylent_orange_whole_food_open_s...
And now that we have decided that divorce is bad for the kids, the women, and the men, maybe we can be comfortable saying divorce is a bad thing.
One of these Microsoft container centers is outside Chicago, near O'Hare Airport in Northlake:

Satellite View: http://goo.gl/maps/2pX5u (Note the transformer farm right across the tollway)

Containers being loaded: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt5ROTu6ceM
@Karunamon:

>I was more referring to compatibility, here.I was more referring to compatibility, here.

Yeah I know, but I got carried away :)
In the US, the constitutional basis for these rights is not the same as physical property rights. In fact, in addition to being limited in time and scope, it is explicitly to promote the general advancement of the arts and sciences... you might not like that as a reason, but that is the reason.
Let's not get carried away! There are no bribes. These are merely campaign contribution. Legal campaign contributions.
There's never been a startup who achieved serious traction but wasn't able to monetize itself.

You're joking, right?
I meant "and there is NO Yahoo"
I suspect what rayiner means is that copyright should never expire for American corporations. Also, the Brothers Grimm would probably qualify as "crunchy hippies" in his book, so it's not like they were worthwhile people.
Again... not Musk.
A Ford Fiesta 92 is around 500 euros in Spain. I don't know how is it in Germany, but here at Spain you even can get cars for 1000 wich are pretty decent and pass the inspection.
There's no economic axiom that says existing copyright holders inherently generate maximum economic value from a copyright, either.

Why give someone else a crack at it? There are a lot of excellent reasons, here's two: 1) Because competition is always a good thing in the private sector. It has been demonstrated constantly throughout free market economic history that competition generates greater innovation, as opposed to the lack of competition. 2) It's a massive net benefit to a nation's culture to have copyrights expire such that the public can own its history (and individuals can then do with it as they please), of which characters such as Mickey Mouse are a part.
I wouldn't put it past Google to use a tongue-in-cheek name, especially when a good hunk of WALL-E takes place around a massive starship that serves as a floating ark.

The nautical double-entendre that ZeroGravitas mentions only sweetens the deal.
There isn't really.
Why is it when we talk about gender, race, and technology together we get so bent out of shape? It’s a fact that in the US the tech scene is predominantly made up of white males. Because of that we have some people who want to add some diversity to our community. And these people have designed and built special programs to address this. Try and remember what got you interested in the tech scene may not work for the next kid.
joezydeco: Your reply seems to be dead, I'm not sure why.

I think that's the same one the datacenterknowledge.com article I linked refers to though.
The middle of the ocean could be a a very high margin location for IaaS hosting.

Due to speed-of-light delays, some of the ideal locations for hosting high-speed trading arbitrages are in the middle of the ocean. Being half way between two exchanges would allow you to notice a small difference in price of some commodity in two different exchanges and buy and sell microseconds before your competitors on the mainland know that there's an arbitrage opportunity. See http://www.physicscentral.com/explore/action/stocktrade.cfm
How did you meet her?
Is there information available anywhere on the required resources? Specifically:

1) How much space does the compiled code require? Can conditional compilation be used to omit unused features?

2) What is the overhead for the various data structures?

I'm thinking that it might be interesting to use this on very limited environments (PIC microcontrollers for example) where every byte matters.
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I don't think it's fair to say that SF "flops" on public transit. Look at the map. LA, Houston, Dallas, and Philadelphia are public transit flops. San Francisco is merely mediocre.

And (as pointed out), this is during the BART strike. I fully expect SF's transit system will be considered "good" once everything's settled.
No, Any.do is a different company
Imagine harder. Snow White and Cinderella were both compiled in Grimm's Fairy Tales, which was so popular that the brothers produced 7 editions over more than 40 years. It was the Harry Potter of its day. And yet, when Walt Disney was casting about, trying to find a story that would make the first ever full-length animated feature, there was Snow White, published 120 years before, just sitting in the public domain. Absolutely top quality "intellectual property" available for free, and Disney seized the opportunity. I may be painfully naïve, but I can see that happening again.
Lol thanks, but it got moderated somehow
Physical property rights can and do expire. If you throw something away, you don't own it anymore. If someone squats in your property for many years they get more rights. Physical goods often have a natural degradation with time, unlike copyright. I wish copyright was as weak as physical property rights.
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"Property does not exist because there are laws, but laws exist because there is property" -- Bastiat

The idea being that proper governments recognize rights that already exist, they don't create those rights. One could argue that so-called intellectual property rights aren't rights that existed before governments created them.
Consistent with this, too:

http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/15/4334356/larry-page-wants-t...
The Internet Archive puts obsolete software directly in your browser
Affiliate links are explicitly how the site makes money: http://thesweethome.com/how-to-support-the-sweethome/

So I guess I'm not too harsh on them.
Or put a "Report a Pirate" bounty and crowdsource it.
And alas, the European Convention on Human rights dies not have any limitation on copyright like the USA, nor mention the motivation for having copyright at all! There are some parts if USA constitutional law that are nice.
Wow, I had a visceral, negative gut reaction to this comment. But upon further reflection it's actually an interesting point I'd never considered. So, hm, thanks.
Don't most legal systems view rights as people's birth right, or "government created"?
Sure worked for the NSA, didn't it?
If you only have 20 people to reach out to, you don't need much structure in how you go about doing it. Your goal should be to make those meetings happen at all.

Ask them for advice around the thing you are working on. Your goal at this stage should be to find 10 users who love your product.
I've never been to saleforce.toobig, but they are already irritating? Buying up this, and that, and closing them down.
rayiner has the qualifier "So long as Disney keeps making use of Mickey Mouse". I assume that's not the case for the Brothers Grimm. I'm not a fan of Disney's practices, but rayiner makes a good point.
Your entire database's keyspace must fit in memory if you're using Bitcask. If you're using LevelDB, you have compaction overheads. Also, sibling resolution can get very messy, and complicated if your app works in a way that can potentially result in sibling explosions.
Ask HN: Why the need for newer versions of software?
I feel like when an application software product gets released, there is never an end to the changes to it. Year after year, there are new versions being released. I wonder what actually goes into these new versions.

Some things I get:
- For hardware development tools, newer versions will support newer hardware models.
- Web browsers need to keep up with the evolution of the web.
- Operating systems need to support different form factors and architectures.

But many things I don't get:
- Word processors
- Spreadsheets
- Photo editors

What more functionality do these need? Maybe for a fraction of users, some new features are useful. But when most users use only the established features, why is there such a pressing need to release new software year after year?
Of course there's a good reason: copyright exists to motivate the production of creative works, but creators typically are not motivated by the thought of royalties 80 years down the road.

Also, real/personal and intellectual property differ enough that I don't think the analogy from your second paragraph is particularly instructive. For example, with physical property I can't think of any obvious analogs to remixes and derived works.
I'm not sure how to gauge whether I sound like a crunchy hippie, but I'll try not to.

It's nice that children and hobbyists can read and perform Twelfth Night without paying gratuitous royalties to a company that is now completely unrelated to the long-dead William Shakespeare. It would be nice if, in 3013, children and hobbyists could read and perform The Lady's Not For Burning without paying royalties to a company that is by then completely unrelated to Christopher Fry.
It's still in beta.
NSA chief says government must stop media from reporting further on the leaks