skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's not forget that Iceland's banks were bailed out by foreign governments. All those UK "Icesave" high interest savings accounts were bailed out by the Bank of England.

If Iceland had more than 300,000 people, you can be damn sure the debt wouldn't have been forgiven, and there would be tariffs on cod and aluminium until it was paid back.
The Glass-Steagall Act, at least, what people mean when they say "Glass-Steagall" was passed in 1933 and signed by FDR.[0]

You are correct, of course that Hoover didn't "fiddle while Rome burned" but fiscal policy was largely non-interventionist and monetary policy tight until the Emergency Banking Act of 1933[1] which was the "severe government intervention" I mentioned in the OP.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass%E2%80%93Steagall_Legislat...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Banking_Act
Hackers and Founders Mumbai Meetup – 1 Feb
Probably a Microsoft + Google buyout = status quo is a fine thing if it cheapens the bill
Those are excellent points. Some of it only applies to you (being a large customer and having 2 degrees of separation), but I too would feel a lot more comfortable with 3 decent- and competent-sounding guys like them than with a larger company like GoDaddy.
I agree. The basis for the plaintiff's suit no doubt consists of rarefied lawyerese, and the plaintiff has probably added no value to the world. But they get many millions. How has the property law been allowed to tie itself up into this knot?
Around 100% for anyone using the normal Tor browser bundle.

Tor is designed to hide who you are talking to, not the fact that you are using Tor. IPs and other metadata about normal Tor relays are published publicly by the network and are used by the client to build circuits through the network.

There is a special form of hidden entry node called a bridge that is designed for use in censorship-happy countries like China, but using them is a manual process that isn't the default. Traffic through bridges is a very low percentage of overall Tor usage.
This is it, not sure how you could read this another way. When reading the article it hit me that this was a great bit of business from Microsoft.

A million dollars isn't much for MS to pay to make this go away... and then only paying 5% of Google will be forced to pay if they lose in court.. Microsoft's legal advisor must be happy with himself today
Count me as an anecdotal rebuttal - no issues, even after machine-washing the damn thing.
How fancy does you blog need to be? WP tosses most of the spam, lets you moderate the rest of these comments, makes it minimally painful to post text and images, and works without JavaScript. What more do you need?
I value any company's committment to security however there are ways that Twitter can prove who the owner of the account was, if they really wanted to.

Let's see if this story hits real news headlines and affects Twitters stock before closing bell tomorrow and action will happen.
India's demographics is extremely skewed. There are some states that have had higher life expectancy and sex ratio than countries like the US. The higher overall numbers can be attributed to the poorer states doing better over time.
>Ah yes, if you aren't working a job that is directly helping the poor and/or wounded, fuck you for being a leech right?

Please quote where I said this.
(Possibly) Nicer nesting of Models/Views/Collections in Backbone.js
> All the claims about Iceland doing things differently are useless

I don't understand your comment. What Iceland did - allow its banks to default on their debts - is completely different from what eg. Ireland did, ie. nationalise the debt.

That it then nationalised the bankrupt banks is a different matter. It nationalised them, sure, after they defaulted on the debt.
My Gmail Account Hacked. How do I secure it?
This happened with me in first time since I am using GMail (since 2005).

I was in Starbucks using my laptop in the afternoon for an hour.

I didn't notice anything major until I tried log into GMail and GMail notified that my account is disabled for security reasons. I ignored(stupid me!) and reset the password

Meanwhile few days ago GMail service disruption happened and I noticed I am received lot less emails that I used to get(may be 5-10%).

Then I started noticing that people complained that I am not replying to their emails, while I was not even receiving them.

Also, When I am sending emails, I get the message http://imgur.com/5U1nFXM&VrIjeVi&WTe9BIU

30 minutes ago, I accidentally checked my Gmail Trash and OMG! all my email are here. What happened?

One of the email caught my attention saying "Your Google Play Order Cancellation Receipt from Jan 21, 2014". What? This is not me for sure.

http://imgur.com/5U1nFXM&VrIjeVi&WTe9BIU#2

I called Google Play Help Center and made sure that this account is cancelled. Now I am sure that my account is hacked, so I googled to know why all my emails are going to Trash and Google told me to check my filters (https://support.google.com/mail/answer/63601?hl=en). Guess What? Google was right

This person set up the filters to make sure I don't know what he has ordered
http://imgur.com/5U1nFXM&VrIjeVi&WTe9BIU#1

I am not sure who this person is except that this person was in the Starbucks since the order time is around the same time I was there.

I have changed my Gmail password but I would like to know what approaches/advices/suggestions people have to secure Gmail or any service that needs password

P.S I am not going to login to any website in Starbucks or public Wi-Fi.
As Rasmus Lerdorf and folks like Terry Chay have been saying forever, PHP is the framework.
Was @n private before? It is now. If this kid is trying to sell the handle to someone, the buyer is likely in for a rude awakening if and when Twitter does the right thing and returns it.
They(and you), did hear of the company that originally got these patents. Here's the very interesting story behind the patents.

http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/31/why-google-might-be-going-t...

edit: I am rate limited from replying to fpgeeks reply below so I will post my reply here.

First, the author is extremely clear that he invested in Vringo, in fact the whole article is about why he did so., so I am not sure why you talk about it as if it is kind of a revelation. Second, the article is very informative about the history of the patents and is highly relevant. Third,which of my comments are pro Vringo, really? Fourth, can I be suspicious that you're short Vringo stock, or do you get a free pass just because you have an older HN account.
FTTH in San Francisco petition
One of the main efficiency gains is in massively reducing the number of round trips required to do a series of operations. This batching of operations is hugely important on high-latency connections, relevant for us in Australia all the time but also of importance on mobile connections the world over. Even 4G networks have relatively high latency, but can do a burst transfer pretty efficiently.
I would bet a small amount of money that Twitter outlasts Medium. And if Medium outlasts Twitter, do you think Medium will just sit by and say "well that sucks that none of our users can access their blogs"?
https://twitter.com/csoghoian/status/428228534675308545
How about documenting the EventSource interactions?
> It seems to be pretty well established now that this system does not support innovation (at least not in the software business.

Back when I was actively studying this stuff, it was noted that there are four specific industries where intellectual property just doesn't work as intended. Software was one, pharma was another, and I forget the other two but a quick Google ought to surface them with more credibility than I can drop here.

That's not to say it works much better outside those industries, but it's not completely pointless.
while it clearly doesn't, I wonder though if someone is using twitter so infrequently they would even care what their handle is. It's not like it has any intrinsic value or meaning. Why not just pick a random guid and use that as a handle (like I did) since I don't care one hoot what the handle is as I use twitter for exactly two things. Machine Learning datasets, and following a dozen or so people. I can do that from a guid as effectively as if I had @2600
> Oh, they know how my brain works?

That seems like a rather bizarre idea to attribute to Svbtle. It seems clear to me that the "you" in their copy is someone who is likely to be interested in their product. That's an extremely common wording in marketing copy.
Wonder how would you prevent or detect this hack attempt early. Are there services that monitor for DNS changes? Could you up the TTLs on the MX records so if you did notice a breach, you would have adequate time to resolve it?
America’s future doctors are starting their careers by saving Wikipedia
SSH fundamentals, CSSH and Fabric (Python).
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Strained car analogies are the 1999 Slashdot PT Cruiser of internet arguments.
Hadn't thought of that. Even if so, I'd say they still failed - the car doesn't look like an old film, it looks like crappy CGI, with a lazy "blur shadow" underneath and wooden-doll driver.
Hunter S. Thompson's advice on living a meaningful life
How the World Gets Drunk
Oh come now. Patent trolls are a massive nuisance, but they don't represent an existential threat to this country - let alone all of human civilization.
I can only shake my head in disbelief when I heard Rails or Django developers touting their framework and saw their actual codebase (ever see FatCRM codebase back in the days? it has been improved significantly these days, but it used to be ... hard to read).

I even shake my head faster when I read the split in opinions in Rails world: the Rails DHH and the DCI/Service Rails.

Moreover, I keep shaking my head when the Django and Rails community voiced their complain over their so-called bloated framework just because they want an API service.

Last but not least, I shake my head again whenever I heard that Django and Rails is not like NodeJS.

C'mon guys... you guys speak a lot of bad things about JAVA yet you've become Java Enterprise Edition.

I suppose JavaEE (especially 6 and 7) does work better in terms of writing maintainable code.

Stuff like Service pattern, Repository pattern, Data mapping pattern, DTO, Value Objects, Mocking are pretty much "common" in most Java projects I've seen or worked on.

I felt that no matter how cool Rails and Django are, when it comes to medium-to-large codebase, Rails/Django are definitely either following the patterns that pretty much common in JavaEE or may not be so comfortable to use anymore.
Mozilla Ichnaea: geo-location from cellphone towers, wifi networks, etc
It is a long shot, and would take ton of money in fees mainly for a very skilled private investigator but you are absolutely correct this is one route to go.
No,

Iceland banks didn't collapse, the government nationalized them to prevent their collapse. (Edit: as another poster mentions a portion of the debt was paid down by other states too. Again, that's a detail, not a fundamental difference).

Some foreign-deposit operations did collapse but the bulk of the banks, their shares and national operations, were protected by the state.

"The Financial Supervisory Authority (FME) has acted to "ring-fence" the Icelandic operations of Landsbanki and Glitnir, stating its aim of "continued banking operations for Icelandic families and businesses."[126] NBI (originally known as Nýi Landsbanki) was set up on 9 October with 200 billion krónur in equity and 2,300 billion krónur of assets.[127] Nýi Glitnir was set up on 15 October with 110 billion krónur in equity and 1,200 billion krónur of assets.[128]

Talks with Icelandic pension funds to sell Kaupthing as a going concern broke down on 17 October,[129] and Nýja Kaupþing was set up on 22 October with 75 billion krónur in equity and 700 billion krónur of assets.[130]

The equity in all three new banks was supplied by the Icelandic government, and amounted to 30% of Iceland's GDP...."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E2%80%9311_Icelandic_finan...
If you have a lot of domains (or willing to pay a premium), I am a huge fan of Fabulous.com. Good support, good pricing, my impression is fairly secure. They have an executive lock feature:

Executive-lock (E-Lock) allows for the domain name to be frozen. This means that the domain name is:

1. Unable to be transferred out to another Registrar.

2. Unable to be pushed to another Fabulous account.

3. Unable to have changes to its nameservers.

4. Unable to have the registrar-lock status removed.

You can define whatever conditions you want and they manually do them if you want it unlocked. It could take many days to unlock your domain, but it definitely isn't going anywhere.
But the article passes other unrelated things to the models.
The "fat model" pattern is simply organising your logic and relationships into the model layer. How well you organise it is up to you. If you just dump things from the controllers into random parts of the model then that's your choice but there are plenty of ways to design it well.
Sorry if my reply came off as snarky, your post felt a bit condescending and seemed to ignore the content of the point I had previously made.
How about setting up a company, GIVING the handle to the company, then selling the company?
That's pretty impressive, actually. I just built a new server, and was comparing 80W and 95W packages. I didn't realize Intel had sorted out power so effectively that they could compete with ARM architecture. (Though, to be fair, this new ARM from AMD is a beast...ARM's grown up and Intel has shrunk down.)

Three generations back is still plenty fast for me. I'm running a Core 2 Duo on my desktop, as mentioned, and I don't see any reason to upgrade. I can't imagine needing vastly more in a web server.

I think it'd be interesting to see how these two product lines stack up on all the variables: cost, performance, power under load, etc.
That seems like a pretty unfair approach -- if it's valid to have a patent, seems like you shouldn't penalize someone who doesn't have the resources to "actively participate" in the market by preventing them from licensing or selling it to others.

I personally don't care for patents, but even more unfair than what we have would be letting some, but not all, actors get and enforce these patents.
Looking forward to attend it!
This is largely a showcase of stupid economy in United States. If you look back past 20 years, there really isn't any meaningful economy growth except the high tech industry. In most cases, you simply higher price for the same house, transportation, education, healthcare, food, lawsuit, and other BS. Instead of encouraging people and companies to do great things that actually improve living quality, the current economic and political system simply drags everything down.

American voters stuck too much with personal values and elect a congress that does not do anything and gets 10% approval rate. Now we have to deal with this kind of stupidity. #thanksobama
It depends, is it anemic model? or ActiveRecord like model?
story archived here in case it did/does go down:

http://pastebin.com/g7R6Ren2
We probably will publish this as well. We're focussing on the core API first. Having said that, it's really very simple. Here's the entirety of our (currently internal) spec for push events at FM:

This is a text/event-stream resource, as described in
[http://www.w3.org/TR/eventsource/](). The following events are pushed:

- progress: Sent during a long-running api method call to let the client
know not to timeout the connection. The data is a JSON object with a single
property: `connectionId`, with the id the client sent for that connection.
This event does not set a new id in the event source stream.

- push: Sent whenever the user's highest modseq changes. The event id is
the new highest modseq. The data for the event is a JSON object, with the
following properties:

* **clientId**: `String` (optional). If the change was due to an action initiated by
the API, the `X-ME-ClientId` header will be echoed back as this property. This
allows clients to ignore push events for changes they themselves have made.

* **mailModSeq**: `Number` (The highest modseq for a mailbox)

* **contactsModSeq**: `Number` (The highest modseq for contacts/contact groups)

* **calendarModSeq**: `Number` (The highest modseq for calendar events).
Call me curmudgeonly, why replace a protocol that works...instead roll up a library to provide the functionality...

Those things called standards generally find their way through bodies like the IETF. Maybe I missed it while reading on my phone, but I don't see this submitted as an IETF draft...
This COULD make sense. Are all other names taken up on twitter? Is it difficult to tweet without using the @N name? I never used twitter before.
I wrote a Chrome extension that supports side-by-side, syntax highlighting, and some other stuff: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/github-side-by-sid.... It draws a lot of inspiration from having used Phabricator. For anyone interested, the source code is at: https://github.com/mduan/Github-Enhancement-Suite/.
And that part was never really answered either. How can he pose as an employee calling in from an outside line? Does PayPal not tell you when an extension from PayPal is calling you?
Well, OK, but a certain level of assured "ownership" is beneficial to everybody. Twitter handles, email addresses, mailing addresses, phone numbers, etc., would not be very useful if Twitter, ISP, postal service, telcos, etc. frequently exercised the right to deny access to previous users at any time.

Seeing how easily GoDaddy handed over the domain, it seems one can't even own a domain properly, and that is supposed to be a lot closer to an "ownership" right than Twitter handles.
Looking forward.
well, that's story deadlines for you.
Does the ARM architecture have anything like the nested page tables in recent x86-64 chips? Or is that an orthogonal processor feature that is not required (or forbidden) in a particular implementation of ARM/x86-64?

To make a real entrance into the server market, I would expect good virtualization support to be nearly a requirement.
Good to see a detailed write up, although i knew most of it... Only heard about CSSH and Fabric.
Well, if your chairs are indeed "nicer than some other chairs", then you probably can.
I work for a fairly large org. Once I finished an internal app and sent out an email for some folks to check it out.

I soon received an email that the website was not working for someone. The screenshot showed that the browser they were using was Lotus Notes.

They were clicking on the link in their email and it was opening it in Lotus freaking Notes.

"Uh, no, we don't support that."
The whole idea of selling products & services are built around emotions. Read the work of Sigmund Freud for deeper insights into how powerful emotions are and how our triune brain is wired for them.

The lesson when/where emotions are involved should be to develop your empathy.. now that will open up you mind & provide clarity!
EXACTLY. Same thing happened to a friend of mine who was working overseas all year long.

Somebody just moved in and started living in his house. And just tossed all of his personal belongings out.

To be honest, I kind of disliked my friend for a while.
AIG should have been allowed to fail, and I don't think it would have caused as much chaos as we actually got. The insurance parts of AIG (regulated by the states) were good, it was the financial products division (regulated by the feds) that double dipped and failed. The states would have dealt with the insurance parts in a better manner than the fed.

GM should have been allowed to go into bankruptcy (given the Feds wanted to kill Buick, the best seller for GM in China) and dig out themselves.

[edit] although Iceland's bank and AIG are totally different scenarios
New Chameleon Protocol Defeats VPN Blocking
Mark Cuban is bankrolling a patent troll? From what I've heard from him, he absolutely detests patent trolls, I'd be surprised if he's backing one.
Decreased economic activity can be mapped to increases in government deficits, which can be traced to 1982

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USDebt.png

> People don't make 50 million a year living in a hut in the middle of nowhere.

They also are aware of other countries and venues to receive that income. While a poor schmuck getting his $15 mil bonus from AIG won't have anywhere to hide - we got him, anybody who has a choice of where the payments are made will choose a more accommodating tax regime.
That philosophy is also in The Richest Man in Babylon and every single book written on finances ever. If you can't pay yourself first, you will never save anything.
Read the article, it explains the percentage calculation.
This is quite frustrating. I don't use Gmail or Google Apps mail, so that I can't be compromised by a malicious insider (however unlikely) or a flaw in their authentication systems. Instead my security is exactly as weak as my registrar's authentication.
Because JSON is cool!
It wouldn't have any effect on business they do in the US.
HTTP can be made persistent too, both with good ol' KeepAlive and with recent innovations like SPDY. Massive savings in latency, especially when SSL is involved.
Yes. This is the point of adverse possession: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_possession

Land should not remain unused.
"Screw you nerds, i'm going to change bedpans for the elderly"
Yes, unfortunately

http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-cuban-heres-why-im-takin...
That's because I was responding at a level of detail appropriate for the parent comment:

I thought Java was on a much lower level than Python. Why is C more low-level?

At that level of understanding, I think it is just fine to assume that Java means Oracle JVM, Python means CPython, and C/C++ means gcc (or your choice of C-to-native compiler). Yes there are many alternative implementations of these languages, but for the most part those are pretty obscure and a beginner does not need to know or care about them just yet.
It's far from obselete: http://sta.li/faq
He's definitely a squatter. If you own something and you don't use it, you're a squatter. I own an old original Nintendo that I haven't used all year. That's why if someone comes into my house and takes it, it's my own fault.
So, all the biggest examples come from the little things...
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> this site with a page 1 google ranking for a search for "nursing jobs"

INCORRECT! The #1 ranked page is in fact nursingjobs.org. The website in the OP is ranked #7.

Edit: I'm an idiot.
Probably no-one. I can think of a bunch of people who run it as a Terminal Server though.
Parsing and lexing in Haskell is one of its shining glories.
I think it would be better to find an existing user and execute the scheme - a registration date of "yesterday" and a post count of "1" probably wouldn't qualify you.

It reminds me of the MSFT settlement in the early 2000's where you could get a (I think) $100 check from Redmond. It was somehow "transferable" and a few of my friends bought people's right to redeem the check by doing things like giving out gift certificates or handing out free ice cream. (IANAL so excuse me if I didn't use the proper lingo there)

IIRC, I think they made in the tens of thousands.
This point cannot be stressed enough. If you hide stuff from your spouse about money, you're going down a real bad road. If your life at home is shaky, there is no way you are going to be able to lift a business successfully. The two cannot be siloed off from one another.