skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Linode vs. Digital Ocean: The Not-So-Scientific Way
Great idea! You're going to be making money hand-over-fist!

You already have great ideas for the product road map, (skill personalization, etc) and how to scale!

Excited to see a post about the status in 6 months!
This bares a striking resemblance to the DefCon Mystery Box and badge puzzles that Ryan Clarke (aka LosT/1o57) designed. Lots of crypto, hidden messages, esoteric references, ancient languages and symbols, quasi-mystical, etc. I don't know if he's behind it, but I wouldn't be surprised if he designed the puzzle(s).

http://1o57.wikispaces.com/DC20+Badge+Contest
Russell Brand to Pirate Bay users: Download my DVD please!
it will be yet another thing that dissuades people from public service

Lets face it, greed and easy-money is absolutely the wrong reason to be in "public service".
Last I checked, browsers (chrome? firefox?) only allow 6 concurrent downloads from a web server. Do all resources load concurrently if you have seven large javascripts in a page?
see: drupal.

having to execute the whole application from the entry point on every page hit is just awful. APC will only save you the loading from the disk and compiling part, not the whole execution chain.

with node and others the application is just sitting there, listening to a port, and fires the right callbacks when a request comes in. the application startup cost is paid once. not on every request.

there are people who have tried to reproduce it in php by having php running and serving multiple requests in a similar manner. This is really treacherous since php didn't even pretend to free memory under any circumstances ever, until about php 5.3.

since moving over to writing servers, i just feel that the php model of executing the script when a url is hit is just fundamentally wrong.
Nothing stops you from doing HFT on one exchange, or on multiple ones independently. Most of them have APIs.
This seems more like Nike getting mad that Tiger took his son to a Putt Putt that didn't use Nike balls. He isn't really contradicting his endorsement by using the balls that Putt Putt gives him to play miniature golf with his son, and they aren't really contradicting their position as League of Legends pros by playing other games during their downtime.
excellent copywriting on this site. I need to learn how to write better copy. any tips?
Cool though it's going to be egg on OP's face when someone else implements this in 12 lines of Javascript
This must be some kind of journalist meme... :-)
I'd also start to think about how to capture the demand side of this market (clients looking for freelancers). Aggregation is nice but if you can scale up the demand side you'll have fewer problems getting supply.
You can see the last 24 hours here. Note data collection for MtGox was stalled due to their extreme server load. http://live.bitcoinindex.es/
Yeah, writing anything that doesn't conform to typical rules of lexicography.
Understanding the Y Combinator using Java (2009)
If you land one gig the $40 pays for itself. Assuming the leads are quality and you can close, this seems like a no-brainer.
Quite the contrary. There is zero reason for any other alt currency to become popular unless it is particularly useful in some way that bitcoin isn't.

And the same rule applies to bitcoin itself. It only has succeeded, and will continue to succeed, if it is useful in a way that fiat currency isn't.
Tech talk by go (lang) book author
Hey HN, Caleb Doxey, the author of "An Introduction to Programming in Go" is giving a tech talk this coming Wednesday in Menlo Park. There are talks on SQL and Android also. Free food and drinks. It should be a good time so if you're interested check it out: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/sendhub-tech-talk-pizza-night-tickets-9520747813
This issue goes well beyond "market knowledge." MtGox _is_ the market; they control the order book, trade matching engine, data feeds and even the custodian accounting system. If you own your very own completely unregulated trading exchange and deposit syatem then you have a big incentive to cheat the market. One way to do so would be to allow your own trades to jump the queue in the order book. By ensuring that your order are always filled ahead of everyone else's (even when you place them later in time) you would have a massive advantage if you start doing market making trades. Another dimension is that MtGox plays not only the role of an exchange but also the role of a custodian for US dollar accounts. MtGox's systems decide how many USD a particular trading account has for buying Bitcoin. This incentivises them to create US dollars "out of thin air" for their own trading account and then use those fictional US dollars to buy Bitcoin from MtGox customers. Combining these two advantages (money "creation" power and total market book control), they could extract huge sums of money from customers through trading without even having to invest a single dollar from the "real world." And if this market making strategy were to go wrong and MtGox loses too much fictional USD currency they could simply reverse the trades! Worst case scenario, if they lost too much money, they could just disappear without paying out customer USD balances. This is why real financial exchanges are heavily regulated and the different roles are played by different legal entities (eg exchange role vs custodian role).
How to learn to program in 10 easy steps.
From the tilt of your comment, I assume you think that a properly constituted, wise SCOTUS would rule software patents unconstitutional, or more likely in violation of statute. What's the short case for that? I don't see how my black box with some novel capability becomes un-patent-worthy as soon as I replace the gears and levers inside with a digital computer.
and subsequently in 0 lines of js.
I think Haskell has the market cornered on tying the knot. http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Tying_the_Knot
What problem are you trying to solve here? Is this really simpler than finding a tech cofounder?

More than just skills, reliability and dedication is what you want in any cofounder/early employees. Would this give that to you?
I don't memorize any passwords except for one - the master password for KeePass.

All my passwords are randomly generated, I set the minimum at 30 characters. My most important passwords are 40 to 50 characters.

I highly recommend a similar system. I feel a lot safer than when I had to remember passwords for my email accounts, banks, credit cards, Ebay, Paypal, my webservers, FTP, SSH.

I even store my credit card info in KeePass, so I don't have to type the 16 digits every time.
I am always shocked by the number of professionals I work with who either do not fund their 401k, or only to matching, instead of going for max. Yes I understand hitting your maximum can be difficult, but it should come before frivolous expenditures. You are investing in yourself and if you have family, them.

Yet while the excuses are legion the majority of these same people have no issue with car notes(s), cell phone contract(s), and buying breakfast/daily.

Fortunately my company offered a pension when I joined, they have since converted to 401k and frozen pensions at the end of the year. Yet it is there and one more safety for me.
deffffinitely, that will help make my job easier.

I'm going to charge $200 per listing and let refers keep 100%.
Defined contribution can be transformed into defined benefit if the contribution is a deferred annuity.

The reason pension obligations can be discharged in bankruptcy and 401k contributions can't+, is because the former is a contractual obligation to a future stream of payments, while the latter is a transfer of vested property.

Neither employers nor unions like this idea however because they both like to use pensions as a slush fund. Some workers also might not like it because annuities don't have great returns.

+There is the unlikely possibility of a clawback of 2 years at most.
Precisely.

Although a public keys can be re-created from the private key, so the wallet doesn't have to store that.

And the address is actually a hash of the public key, to make it shorter and more readable.
Related: I recently was chatting with a retired 401k salesperson who explained to me the real reason for employer-matched contributions. The highest compensated employees, typically executive management, are subject to deferral limits that are based on the contribution rates of the regular employees.

> Why is it important for companies to encourage their employees to save? Aside from “it’s the right thing to do,” there are actually compliance reasons why this is necessary. “It helps with nondiscrimination tests,” says Robert Richter, vice president of SunGard’s wealth & retirement administration business in Jacksonville, Florida. He adds, “Highly compensated employees are subject to deferral limits that are based on non-highly compensated employee contribution rates. If non-highly compensated employees defer at low rates, then it will limit the amount that the highly compensated employees can defer. Safe harbor plans are a way to eliminate that test, but in order to use the safe harbor provisions the employer is required to contribute to the non-highly compensated employees either a minimum matching contribution or an across-the-board contribution, even for those who do not defer.”

- http://fiduciarynews.com/2013/11/are-401k-plan-sponsors-pois...
Cloud To Butt Plus [Chrome extension]
It says $1.30 / day but I only see the ability to pay per month. Is it possible to do like a week instead of a full month? Trying to evaluate if the leads match what I'm looking for.
I didn't say anything about problems with their genetic testing (heck, I bought it myself), just with their marketing and interpretation. Those are the things that are now on pause.
Stacked diacritics are used in Thai and other Asian languages, as well as rarely-seen languages such as those of the Yukon.

The right-to-left control character is for embedding e.g. Arabic or Hebrew script inside Latin text (or vice versa). It is actually a controversial feature of Unicode as some people feel it belongs in a higher-level protocol.

Check out the examples here http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=... for an idea of what rendering non-Western scripts can entail.
but the data show rates of change at <orders of magnitude> in variation. that simply is the problem. its not that its accelerateing or not, simply absolute level is not consistent with any concept of a (stable) store of value. Its a false argument to think that because the asset itself is inflating it's "storing value"; the variance of returns to the asset in increasing and the volatility as a risk factor is agnostic to direction. If it were not, it would be a fault in any event because its value as an investment would (essentially) preclude its use as a currency (because the forecasting/bookeeping overhead).
Thanks!!

Here's what I've used:
http://copyhackers.com
http://unicornfree.com/

Also, I've dissected landing pages from people like Ramit Sethi, Amy Hoy, Brennan Dunn, and Joanne Weibe.

Hope that helps!
That is an interesting point. You can of course always buy an annuity to benefit from the risk spreading whilst retaining control over your pension funds up to that point.

Are there products that let you do this pre-retirement as opposed to at retirement? If so they certainly don't seem as popular as the traditional save-to-65-then-buy-one approach.
I (mis)understand that the question is about unifying principles of computer science

by studying the subject one is supposed to learn how to think about layered computer systems; However upon closer study each layer turns out to be of very different nature; what has the network in common with the sql database?

Well, there here are several basic fields such as algorithms / data structures / some understanding of complexity, without them one can't really understand much of anything. So these are the bricks and mortar used in the field.
Very nice, but I'm afraid to use it since I may discover some of my own original riffs are the same melodies already used by Nickleback and Britney Spears, and just knowing that would severely damage my creative ego.
A delightful synthpop duo actually made a song that would make an ideal tie-in :P http://spray.bandcamp.com/track/pretend-girlfriend
Sure, but there first in line in-front of all other creditors. So first Detroit would have to completely default on all loans as in everyone get's 0$ before they could go after pensioners. In this case the Judge basically said, bankers are just as important than you despite whatever the state law said.
you can get the sample email here for free - https://confirmsubscription.com/h/i/7030908AEF2E8C7E
Ernest Hemingway's Havana Retreat
>> "a robotic voice told them to find the prime numbers in the original image. By multiplying them together, the solvers found a new prime"

#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
printf("%d\n",2147483629*2147483647);
}
$ gcc test.c -o test 2> /dev/null
$ ./test
19
Yes, I guess 'barbecue pit' isn't a good choice of words. I was referring to the street vendors who sell barbecue meat, etc. The ones near my home seem to be shut down.

http://inhabitat.com/chinese-government-bans-outdoor-bbqs-in...
You said that testing for BRCA variants was an example of what the FDA was acting on, didn't you? I'm not sure how else to interpret that first line.
While I generally agree with your view on pensions. 401K is currently not a good solution because many of them have higher fees and perform worse than an index fund. Over a 30+ year period, those higher fees often result in a 2-5% loss in income which can easily be tens of thousands of dollars or more. What happens if you are unlucky to retire right when a crash occurs? There is an upside though: tax-free income.

There are some 401K plans (not many) that allow you to have index funds as your core which is definitely good. But not sure how to handle the market crash problem.
You're assuming all your important software does that many iterations.

In reality you'd be lucky if all of it does one iteration. In which case it will only take a day on one machine.

You're also underestimating how massively parallel GPUs are becoming.

The more important question is - why settle for 53 bits and worry about it?
WineBottler 1.6 Released
What are these advantages?
NSA tracks phone locations under executive order
In the oil & gas industry, it's common for companies to offer both 401(k) plans with matching and traditional pension plans.
i appreciated the narrative as a creative work and information piece. the weaving of stories was masterful and when things began harmonizing it was neat. however, this also lends itself to more of an entertainment piece which left me with some dissonance. it's structured as an entertainment journalistic piece that questions the utility/efficacy of entertainment journalism. to me then, its structure does not necessarily lend itself to a call to action as was intimated in its closing third.
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Happy to talk if anyone wants to know what its like working at AppNexus
I have twins. It's nature, shaped by nurture.
Forget about the constraints
No, if they stop paying your salary, you can stop working for them. If you work your entire career, you don't really have a recourse if they then refuse to pay the pension you were promised. You can't go back in time and choose another career.
Depending on your alternative tax advantaged investment options, you may not want to max your 401k contribution. For various tawdry reasons most 401k plans have terrible investment options. You certainly want to take the free money (i.e. up to match) but if you have alternative tax advantaged options (e.g. IRA, HSA) with better fund options you may want to max those first before the 401k.
It exists: BBM.
Blue air. Second largest one.
> Worst case scenario, if they lost too much money, they could just disappear without paying out customer USD balances.

So you risk your (incredibly profitable) business just to skim a little on the spread? Doesn't seem worth it.
EDIT: There is actually a whole series:

http://www.fiftythree.org/etherkiller/
I am gonna to use this password, super strengthful...
"intheworldworldworldworldworld"
Hi everyone, I see a lot of comments and questions on the state of packaging for Docker in various distros. Recently we started working closely with maintainers of major distros, and making sure we made their life as easy as possible, while continuing to ship our own upstream builds on average once a week. This required a few compromises - for example supporting dynamically linked builds of docker, which introduces some complexity in the codebase but saves everyone a lot drama and quasi-religious flamewars on distro mailing lists. Sometimes you have to pick your battles...

The result, I think, is that the availability and quality of docker builds on various distro has improved a lot.

This is in great part thanks to the hard work of Tianon Gravi (https://github.com/tianon) who handles PR (Packagers Relations) for Docker and is doing a phenomenal job. The packagers we work with are particularly nice and awesome too, special thanks to Paul Tagliamonte from Debian who has been super supportive and patient with us as we slowly got our act together. More recently the Fedora team has been really receptive too.

Lastly thanks to Proppy from the Google team for contributing these docs!
You probably agree that the end justifies the means, but not seeing that because you haven't explored the situations in which it would for you.
I really like Elixir.

Not only does it have a clean, pleasant syntax, macros, but it has all the good parts from Erlang, namely:

* BEAM VM (isolated heaps, very well tuned scheduler, concurrent garbage collection)

* Pattern matching, once you've tried it, it is hard to go back.

* Ability to call Erlang code

BEAM VM is really a secret gem and many didn't get a chance to play with it because they didn't like Erlang's syntax (personally, I do like Erlang's syntax, but I think many don't). Well there is little excuse now.

If you like DSLs and macros (yes, yes, I know it makes many people scared) this you can do neat stuff like these projects:

https://github.com/elixir-lang/ecto -- DSL to query databases
Oh, I know that! What I'm not sure of is whether the black mucus happens because of pollution or something else.
> The possibility, however, is so miniscule as to be drastically outweighed by the benefits of vaccination

Good point - there's a societal gain to vaccination.

> If a parent declines vaccines that are on the standard "minimum required vaccinations for public school enrollment" list, the parent is invited to seek another doctor. And, for me and my kid, I'm thrilled that she has that stance.

It sounds like you've looked at the evidence, and made a rational decision.

I plan to vaccinate my children too, on a healthy schedule. :)

There's still a lot of value in discussing the beliefs of those who don't. They are people, with free will, and yelling at them / labeling them doesn't solve a whole lot. Though you / other HN commenters might have a different view on this.
Computer science ultimately boils down to the study of how to efficiently compute a solution to a given problem.

From here the field has a bunch of different areas that investigate aspects of this including things such as how difficult a problem is to solve, what kind of hardware is required to be able to compute a solution, the efficiency of an algorithm to solve the problem, data structures which make solving the problem more efficient, etc.

But ultimately the field is the study of efficiently in computing a solution to problems.
Dealing with IRC in Node.js
Google has succeeded in spite of their stupidity in this regard, not because of it.
"And I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and our sins be upon us, because of our use of not and lisp-value."
This looks like an awesome read!

Both my sister and my partner's sister are expecting shortly. I was happy to place an order for two copies through Amazon. I'm sure it will bring about some chuckles on Christmas day.
What kind of politicians and policies will of these retired, former professionals vote for? Maybe it will be something like "Tax the idiots stupid enough to save and give it to the newly poor".
It's interesting to see Elixir mentioned more and more. I don't _quite_ see the use-case for it, but I'm so content with Erlang I'm almost surely not the audience the language targets. Will be fun to see if Elixir builds its own community or if Elixir folks slowly filter into the Erlang community as a whole.

- - -

EDIT

It occurs to me that the HN crowd might like Lisp Flavored Erlang: http://lfe.github.io/ It's a lisp-2 written by Robert Virding, co-creator of Erlang, and is backed by a great group of folks.
Tesla's Industrial-Grade Solar Power Storage System
How have I never thought of this? I am using this from now on...
They do that because they think it makes sense financially.

They have a history of trying to corner out the market by trying to force traditionally multi-game events into only hosting LoL and not hosting competitors games. They aren't supporting professional gaming, they are supporting their marketing, under the guise of helping out e-sports. This is my opinion on the matter. Riot is also known for many shady business practices, especially with regards to competitors, and they are also owned by Tencent, arguably a company with one of the worst reputations in the world.
Hey, which VM do you use and what kind of a performance hit is there?
Data haul by Android Flashlight app 'deceives' millions
Sorry but tl;dr
Fellow SaaS founder here. How did you decide to increase the price? Just because you expect to deliver a higher value or somehow you had a perception from your clients that the price is low?

Just curious.
Majority of my Amazon order over the past several years as a Prime member have mostly been UPS. I rarely had a OnTrac order (maybe a handful of times) but every time they were a nightmare. It seems hit or miss but I rarely have an OnTrac delivery as it is.
Is gold in World of Warcraft generally expected to be exchanged for goods and services and dollars and yen?

Even so, maybe, maybe just not a very serious one, assuming we don't write it off as "part of the game".
Implicit in my characterization "copyright for ideas" is that this proposal will somehow extend copyright, as it's currently understood, to cover ideas. I understand your point that copyright as it exists today does not cover more abstract ideas.

The main difference I was attempting to emphasize between copyrights and patents is that copyrights are automatic whereas patents must be filed and granted. And my point is that your proposal, which seems quite reasonable to me, would seem to work just fine with the copyright model of automatic rights: no patent filing required. And for that matter, the distinction between elaborate designs, which cannot be copied, and "flashes of insight", which can, looks a lot to me like a principle of fair use.

No?
Well said!

I should have wrote originally: "To alleviate irrational fears, we'd need a study showing zero correlation."