skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The terms crony-capitalism, klepto-capitalism, and casino-capitalism are all very descriptive of the US economic system, which has become like a bad Yakov Smirnoff joke: "In America, bank robs you!"

So what's happened to the $85 billion a month ($1 trillion a year) that Ben Bernake has pumped into the banks in the last year, during the third round of quantitative easing (QE3)? "It all got bottled up in the banks, and essentially none of it ... got lent out." Source: http://www.npr.org/2013/12/17/251796694/year-in-numbers-the-...
Tickets cost $275.

You'd think they'd quote the price in BTC.
Keep up the good work! 6-year customer here. Notwithstanding some lost features compared to the old UI, your new web interface really lives up to your company's name. Everything is fast and snappy even when I'm accessing it from halfway around the world.

But I'm not sure it's a good idea to emphasize the fact that you use JSON. Sure, it's cool right now, but I find it technically more interesting that it replaces IMAP with something that is built on top of HTTP, a somewhat RESTful protocol.
> Not if they upgraded both their hardware and software along the way.

The "upgrades" necessary would be a new computer in all but case, so unless your name is Theseus, you've got a new computer.
No, he thinks that they only have 81.9672131148 users, you idiot. Read the post next time.
Wow, hedging against patent trolls by backing them is some sick and twisted logic.
The government heavily interfered in 1929 under President Herbert Hoover instead of taking the tact taken by President Harding in 1921 to cut the budget, fix taxes, and right the ship. You would think Hoover would have learned from Harding being his Secretary of Commerce, but he turned out to be an idiot and sent us into a tailspin that didn't get fixed until 1946.

Bernanke should have looked earlier and not to the policies of Hoover. I fear we will have the same continuing problem until we look to 1946 to get us out.

Capitalism has nothing to do with 1929.
It has support for virtualization. There is a two stage translation where the first stage handles guest operating system and second stage handles the hypervisor mappings. Both stages have nested page tables.

Also there is an IOMMU implementation for supporting virtualization for IO. For example, the IOMMU and CPU MMU page table mappings are synchronized such that a DMA controller would also adhere to page table mappings set up for the CPU.
Good summary, but after reading this thread I'm still confused.

Why ARM?

How does the ISA impact the aforementioned criteria?

Why would a phones demand a different ISA?
GoDaddy and Paypal have every incentive to bury their shoddy security practices and deny everything that the OP is claiming, to avoid a PR disaster. They might quietly return to the issue later and perhaps address some of their security issues... maybe.
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I am not much aware about posterous, how different was it as compared to posthaven ?
> IE7 users make up 1.22% of our traffic right now, and this will decline as more computers are upgraded and can use modern browsers.

No computer exists that is able to run IE7 but not IE8. And because IE7 came out way past the "optimized for IE" age, I doubt there is software around that requires 7 and doesn't work with 8.

This is in contrast to 6 which is what IE was stuck in for years, so software began depending on that.

If you could upgrade from 6 to 7, then you can upgrade from 7 to 8. Even more so considering that IE8 has an IE7 compatibility mode built in that can be enabled without having to touch the site itself (by setting the HTTP header in the server).

The same is true for local software embedding the IE control, but there you need to set some registry flag to do it.

There is no excuse for sticking with 7 and 8 is so much better to develop for. It's 2014. I would stop caring about 7. People still using 7 are used to sites not quite looking right anyways (as the majority of sites stopped caring) and in all likelyhood, they might not even notice the odd rendering glitch.
Regarding the IOMMU:

A recent post revealed some security problems using firewire (and a few other technologies) related to DMA[1]. Would the IOMMU features you're talking about prevent that problem?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7123121
Well I don't see how it is a Win for MS when their ad revenue is ~3% that of Google. In a sense, aren't they paying more ?
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Thank you for the feedback :-) I got a really nice comment on Reddit, regarding some other things to look out for with SSH: http://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1wepnf/ssh_fundame...
That logic only works once an actual payment is made. Claiming you are willing to pay and actually paying are two very different things.
Do you know of anything more accurate, especially under Hyper-V? I've tried installing ntpd and even using the most aggressive settings and host time sync off, they drift like mad and the system log is filled with kernel warnings about time changes.
Reservoir – Android library to save objects on disk using key/value pairs.
Dan Ariely has written extensively on psychological research that involves paying people for various activity.

Paying immediately removes intrinsic benefit and self-motivation. If before you were (and considered yourself) a great sport for coaching a local kids' baseball league and volunteering at a library over the weekend, once the money enters the equation, you're just another chump trying to pull money out of the system, grinding at it before you can go home and relax.
The idea that you should preserve investor's cash is a good notion, but not at the cost of forgoing fair compensation to yourself and the early founding team. In the long run, everyone is better off from this approach.

(1) Good investors run (on average) profitable portfolios, and they are not going to be made or broken by pennies on the dollar from the disposition of the firm's assets in a bakruptcy.

(2) Good founders should have enough 'skin in the game' that the signalling behaviour forgone by avoiding this strategy should not be the make-or-break between succusseful outside investment (or not).

(3) Following up, if (1) and (2) are in place, everyone is best served by having the founding team fully solvent. Preferably before and after the company succeeds or fails. All of the principal founders, investors, and employees want each other to be thinking clearly, rationally, and open-mindedly...with well-understood motives.
> pharma was another

I thought pharma relied on patents to offset the massive cost of regulatory control over the product. (FDA fees, cost of running patient trials, etc)
2-step verification from Google. Login by using both your password and your phone.
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/180744?hl=en
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"Best, Most Original Idea Man’s Ever Had Returns 114,000 Google Search Results"

http://www.theonion.com/articles/best-most-original-idea-man...
Well, you can kind of use decision forests, and similar approaches, to combine algorithms. The lack of human-readability makes it pretty tough unless you're in a domain where you can effectively apply weighted heuristics (which I found to work pretty well in NLP, albeit with a lot of experimental tweaking to arrive at the right model for my domain).
Probably should have made this a throwaway. Oh well.

I prefer that the problems be fixed properly if possible.
I wrote in 2009 describing the situation and asked for approval. I was turned down. Reviewing the support ticket now, I think I could have handled the sale more professionally. Maybe that's why.
Just because the same thing can be invented independently doesn't mean the system is ridiculous. In fact, it's the very fact that the system relies on to create research competition.

Being the Vringo is the motivation to invent things before the competition does.
OT: @cesar your account is [dead] and looks like it has been for some time.
fastest record modulo mclaren and ferarri's hypercar showdown, anyway.
Right. DMA creates security holes because it does not sit behind an MMU. It can change the memory of any guest OS. That means any OS or code that can program the DMA controller can bypass security. IOMMU prevents that, because all IO devices sit behind this MMU.

You can have this protection, but then face programming issues if IOMMU and cpu MMU use different page tables. You have to update both. ARM IOMMU is designed so that it is automatically in sync with the CPU tables.
Here's some things with more substance (I don't think the blog author is doing any SEO machinations, but there's just not much to learn from his last few posts. Essentially he's written Data Science advice similar to many other authors, but he's substituted the words "Machine Learning"

I could dig up other ML gotchas/guidelines posts, need to dig thru bookmarks)

http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~pedrod/papers/cacm12.pdf

http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/dme/html/datasets04... (read Challenges in each dataset)

http://alpinenow.com/blog/machine-learning-is-not-black-box-...

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/minka/papers/n...
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I had no idea this existed!
I read that and thought, how funny if Google bought Vringo out, then determined Google owed $10B. Of course that'd mean paying Vringo, which is a vile thing.

I don't think it's corrupt though. Sounds like MS said hey, here's some money (versus losing a settlement for far more, like they did over XML), and if you win against Google, then we'll pay likewise. Otherwise, you'll fight both of us.

Of course it'd be nice if MS stood up and fought, but it's easy to say what other people should do with their billions.
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Just find it interesting to see how different the conversation on the same topic is over at reddit, http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1wfwfp/how_i_los...
Err, a) you clearly cared enough to respond this far, and b) the question is how do you know that you have not made a mistake not do you care if someone else thinks you've made a mistake
The 'hybrid' silver bullet approach is easier said than done, although if anyone should take a crack at it, I guess Google's as good a bet as anybody. I've tried every single hybrid approach known to man thus far, and they've all felt awkward and forced. Still gonna write native code until I'm blown away by something.
he was probably posing as an employee of the account holder, not paypal
Well - if you don't support that, set it by (NAB-) policy.
Did you even bother to read the damn article or are you throwing blind shit on the wall here.
iirc the finance industry grew a ton over the same time period.
I tried really hard to understand the 2 patents in question in this case. I can see that both patents relate to a method of assigning value to search results based on how long a user spends looking at the result, or number of clicks, etc. But I am sure I am missing a bunch of nuances. Could someone with Patent background explain these to patents:

http://www.google.com/patents/US6314420
and
http://www.google.com/patents/US6775664

Or maybe link me to the explanation. I am interested because from what I have understood this sounds really obvious, just application of good business practices to the internet. If customers like a particular product (click on one link a lot), you get more of that product (show the link more often), so you can sell more. Is there more to it? There has to be, right?
Because AFAIR, you need to point to two working implementations of a spec before turning it into an RFC.
On the topic of github emails, I'd love the ability to set an email for notifications on a per repository, instead of just per organisation basis.
Is it because Google operates servers and whatnot in the US that they couldn't sell all their ad inventory at $1 to their Ireland division or another company or something?
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I can easily see paying yourself living expenses, once you've taken investment (or have paying customers), as a good thing. That's basically "ramen profitability", and getting to there as fast as possible is important.

I'm wondering about the part before taking investment - when you don't have any money coming in, are still building out a product (or even a prototype), and have cash in your personal bank but none in the corporate bank. Is it appropriate to pay yourself nothing then? Should you make this phase as short as possible? (Well, obviously yes, but in practice this means a lot of different trade-offs, like picking a less ambitious project that you can complete more quickly, or doing consulting to bootstrap the business, or pivoting to a business that focuses on profit more than userbase, or not doing a startup at all. At what point should you be willing to sacrifice future possible gains to ensure that you have money coming in to cover your living expenses?)
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Show HN: my weekend project workplac.es
A few days ago with a few of my mates I launched a new project called workplac.es

There has been many times in the past where I would start working at a new company to find out that the person recruiting me deliberately misled me
during the interviewing process and that the job or workplace was not as expected.

With that in mind we have created http://workplac.es that let you you rate and review companies anonymously.
You sign up using your Linkedin account to prove that you worked at and can genuinley review a given company. We don't post anything on the behalf of the user.
Would love to get some feedback

What do you guys think of the idea and the website?
The author has very, very low standards for video quality. Rift resolution over an equivalent area is far, far less than a standard tv. 1080p is not going to be an improvement worth even noting because it is spread over a huge field of view. It needs 4k to be viable for video consumption.

For video, as opposed to immersive gaming, you want an Avegant Glyph. Still in Kickstarter and projected to about $3M in pledges. No screen door and no visible pixels. It uses projection onto the retina from a micro-mirror array to give apparent resolution much higher than 720p over its 45 degree FOV. Reviewers can't say enough good things about the movie experience.
I think they realize that Bitcoin is still volatile and growing. You can pay in bitcoins if you like.

Also, the hackathon is $100 and there are supposedly over 1000btc in prizes.
What if Google had bought Vringo after the settlement with MS but before the judges ruling? Then it'd be a private contract?

Sort of the inverse of the Mosaic licensing, where Spyglass got a royalty off of IE revenue, and MS proceeded to give it away for free.
We're talking past each other, I think. I don't have any problem with bootstrapping (as my biography probably makes pretty clear) and understand that, under many business models, bootstrappers will go cash-flow negative early on. Not a problem.

At a funded startup, though, you've already committed to "We either grow big or fail ingloriously." If your personal paycheck is the difference between solvency and insolvency, you've already failed ingloriously. That's fine and expected, but don't put your family's financial situation at further risk by deferring the paycheck for the final few months.
Colo in this case means?
I honestly think this guy doesn't get it.

The proper way to separate concerns in Django is through applications, which have their own URL routes, models, and views (although they can invoke any other thing in another app).

Through Class-based views you can define base views for common behavior for templates and basic logic, and the built-in views are usually good enough to contain most patterns and easy enough to customize for any other use case you might think of.

A good rule of thumb is that an application should generally have less than a dozen views (I'd say 5 or 6 is enough already). Since each app has its own forms and models file, adding utility methods in an extra file contained within an app is reasonable.

I've used this to manage Django apps with over 50.000 lines of custome code (not counting several dozen extra apps and admin sites with their own customization) and it has never been a problem.

Fat models are just a massive problem. If Python supported extension methods then perhaps you could load your own extensions when performing an action, but a proper design of forms and views that aims for maximum simplity has never failed me.
You seemed to have missed the part where Vringo bought the patents from Lycos, a company google killed on the open market by, in your terms, doing better research.
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I had a report from the manager in another company who bought our hosted solution that everything was misaligend.

Turned out clicking a link from an email opened Netscape Navigator 4 for him!
Normally he uses Internet Explorer if he clicks on Internet on his desktop
Alternatively, it creates a motivation to not even try in the first place. If you've come up with an idea, there's a good chance someone else has as well. Why work on an invention if there's (1) a very good chance that someone else will get there first and (2) this will force you to toss all your work out the window, even if your implementation is better.

Moreover, the current system creates a perverse incentive to obfuscate your patent. Although all patents are (eventually) published, there's no requirement that they be published in a manner that's useful (no source code) or discoverable (non-standard jargon). The incentive is not always to make the patent well known until after a party has already invested significant resources into an enterprise, at which point the patent can be used for something pretty close to extortion.
Because they ask questions only the user would know about the account and its history:

We will need to ask you questions to verify your identity. These questions will be different based upon your account and history with us. Please understand that these verification steps are for your protection.
Yeah, Judge Posner wrote an excellent post about how pharmaceuticals and software were basically polar opposites in their needs for patent protection:

http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/2012/09/do-patent-and-copy...
In the video that accompanies this article, Mark talks about how one of his goals is to bring down the cost of subscribing to data access on just your phone.

I know this is elementary, but I just realized that each year I spend $1,200 on the ability to access data on my phone. That is a pretty hefty expense.
awesome- I have already posted my reviews. This could grow really quickly!
As magicalist notes below, the author of this story is an investor in Vringo.

Separately, given the allegations in the Ars comment thread:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/01/court-orders-goog...

I'm more than a bit suspicious of a brand-new account that's posting pro-Vringo comments.
You can grant both but for no longer than a year.
IMAP works, but not particularly well for a lot of modern tasks. Its highly stateful, requires a fair amount of knowledge on the part of the client to make things work correctly, and too many extensions are optional, requiring a lot of fallbacks for when functions are missing. Implementing a client or a server well is difficult.

JMAP isn't the be-all and end-all of mail protocols, but it goes some way to address some of the problems in IMAP. We're using it in production right now at FastMail so we already know its pretty good as a low-latency, stateless protocol.

As for the IETF (and standards bodies in general), they're useful in their place, but they're also a slow-moving beast and thev're published a great many "standards" that have either never been implemented or are just rubbish.

But there's nobody forcing you to implement it. Its there, its documented, and we're encouraging others to get involved to make it work. If others get on board then we'll see improvements everywhere. If not, then FastMail will continue to use it and get the advantages that come from it.
Worse, overwriting SSD's with random data would halve their lifespan, and some SSD's don't even allow you to control where exactly you are writing to. Better to just never write unencrypted data to the drive at all.
Never underestimate the enticing nature of boasting. I can think of more than a few would be anonymous attackers who were caught precisely because they wanted to brag about their achievements.

I'm not really sure I understand the psychology behind it and whether it's a juvenile attempt to demonstrate relative power (e.g. "I did this to you, ergo I'm more powerful/smarter/whatever") or something else entirely.
The inventor Ken Lang sold to Lycos and bought back. He is the CTO at Vringo. See the comments after the original article.
Good analogy. Another one is email. If you used an email address for personal conversations and commercial transactions, that should not entitle you to keep the email address. You should give your email address to another person that wants it.

For example, I used one email for most of my life. But recently, I stopped using that email address, and have used another one due to wanting to boycott that company. Since I no longer use that email address, I should have to give the password to another person. This is just the right thing to do in all cases.

That would FREE UP a lot of email addresses. If you have any email addresses that you do not need, you are obligated to give your password to another person. If you don't, then they can't use email.

Just make sure that if you use that email to sign in to other websites using that email and password combination, go to all of those websites and notify your friends that you are giving your email to someone else and you are not the same person if you see future comments using that name.
Yes. This seems like his final conclusion. Gave me something to think about.

Wild story coming out today because I was just setting up a couple domains/emails today on Google Apps. There's actually a section in the process in which they suggest setting the MX TTL to 1 Week.
> But guessing 2 digits correctly isn’t that easy, right?

The first few digits of card numbers refer to the provider (Visa, Amex, etc) [0]. Given that Paypal gave the last four digits of the card, I'm surprised they wouldn't give out the provider as well, so guessing this would be even easier.

[0] https://github.com/stripe/jquery.payment/blob/master/src/jqu...
Don't use godady is what I would take away from the story.
But for how long?

Google is a bit scary lately, with removing experimental region support because 2014 is the "make mobile fast" year.
Also they killed Chrome Frame.

I really wonder how long they will support XP.

I don't think a company which wants to stick to XP is well served by migrating to Chrome! (edit: Not that sticking to XP would make sense anyway...)
Everybody with a Terminal Server installation from 2008. It's actually surprisingly common :/
just found this in the Windows version:

Internet Explorer 9 or newer is required.

Couldn't help but laugh.
Just out of curiosity which country are you in and how much data are you getting?

I ask because I am in Australia (where its well known that the cost of data is insane) and I am getting 1.5 gig a month for $15.
You didn't say it, but that's the impression you've given both myself and parent.
How is buying potentially thousands of computers for people cheaper than gracefully degrading features from a bootstrap site?
To be fair, credit cards* are much more common now than they were in the 80s. Cash is mostly a back-up medium.

* or Eftpos cards, if you're in Australia or New Zealand.
> that runs on modern web browsers.

Never mind your protocols, I'm pretty sure nothing can go wrong here!