skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Stack Overflow runs off a single server" that is a cluster of how many physical servers with how many processors and how much ram?

Three Dell R720xd database servers (two in New York City, one in Oregon, using SQL AlwaysOn Clustering) (Global "Sites" DB & Stack Overflow dedicated):

- 2x Intel Xeon Processor E5-2680 @ 2.70 GHz
- 384 GB RAM
- 21 drives
- Mirrored Pair for OS
- 16+1 Intel 710 200GB SSD RAID10 for databases
- SQL Server 2014 CTP2
- 2x 10Gb network team
At this point, mainly cost and size (just plug it into the back of the tv and it is out of the way). Potentially, apps, but that is a sore point at the moment, as there are not many to speak of.
Official Blog: Lenovo to acquire Motorola Mobility
Lesson learned: don't expect a business built on breach of standards of conduct to be sustainable.

Monitoring call records and targeting ads based on them sounds very close to what the NSA has been exploiting in mobile apps (c.f. revelations a couple days ago). Atrocious. I blame both Pingjam and the app developers for callously abusing end-user trust and integrating with such a shady third-party.

This also reminds me of top comment on the $50,000 Twitter name social engineering attack article[1]: setup a list of vendors that have pathetic security practices, but in this case the list would be of apps that integrate shady third-parties.

I'm not sure if these guys are super-slick sheisters or legitimately clueless. This 'woe-is-us' blog post, written in the style of the humble lean innocent entrepreneur, certainly strikes me as disingenuous.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7142523
I don't get it. If you don't have the capacity to transport what you are producing, you can't be producing. Or put very simply: you can not be allowed to burn off unwanted gas. The cost is certainly not zero, it is an enormous sum that dwarfs whatever profit they could hope to get from selling it, and it is failed states only that would allow this massive negative externality.

There seems to be no learning in the American midwest. Every other time some novel way of destroying the environment comes along, disenfranchised states quickly clear out all regulatory law to make place for the new boom, and when it's over they are left with unemployed single men with a bunch of new trucks and a wrecked environment while the companies made off with the profit.
Basically the author is trying to sell books by jumping on a crappy populist view and trying to imply Bill Gates mentioned him.

As per the article yesterday on HN, India's life expectancy has raised by 5 years in the past 10 years. That blows my mind, and a quick google confirms it. http://goo.gl/X7H416

And that's on 1 billion people. And no you can't get average figures like that unless it's the entire population getting some significant benefit.
Agreed.

Looking at per-capita energy utilization, you'll find that Nordic countries have markedly high consumption.

Another high per-capita energy-use country is Trinidad and Tobago, which puzzled me until I discovered it's a huge exporter of ammonia fertilizer -- the manufacturing process is hugely energy intensive.
The irony. It's illegal in the US where EU countries cannot send data because of the weak data protection laws and the UK with 'strong' laws is the one selling off all your private medical records (including identification details) for a paltry sum.

The price list looks so cheap that Russian or Nigerian scammers can afford these extracts and it would save them a hell of a lot of time setting up ID scams and instantly make them much more profitable.

No longer any need to mass mail in the hope of finding someone likely to buy V!agr4, the NHS will give you a list of likely marks to direct market to and save all the useless pitches to women !
Why hasn't Twitter just given @N his name back?
Also, I had a friend with a similar (perhaps worse) story. His company sent every employee an e-mail about being on time, to which he pushed Reply to All and typed "FUCK YOU!" He laughed to himself and went to push the Discard button, but accidentally hit Send in the process. He was about to try to ExMerge it out of Exchange when he heard a BlackBerry vibrate and realized that no amount of ExMerge would get it off the BBs. He spent the next hour going door-to-door apologizing, and also managed to not get fired.
It's really too bad. The Moto X is my favorite phone since the Nokia N9. And I work at Nokia.
i hope the best for both of you... you deserve it :)
I am wating for the Android beta ;) #tizyaaaaa
Depending on your keywords you targeted in the initial campaign, you may run into some issues scaling out your campaigns into phrase + BMM match keywords as "rv recipes" & rv menu creation seem to be something people are looking for quite a bit.

Also, conversion rate is a better overall metric than bounce rate (harder to test that from the start though).

[1] http://imgur.com/85u1grB
Lenovo to Acquire Motorola Mobility from Google
The crazy part is that it's virtually impossible to successfully sue for wrongful termination, but companies still go to extreme lengths to cover their asses.
It's over, Android is finished. With Google parting hands with Motorola and abandoning Nexus all together (Google Play Edition phones will take over), the consumer is entirely dependent of consumer-oriented manufactures like Samsung. A black day for Android, a good day for Samsung its monopoly.
I think you're missing the Chromecast button on the YouTube page. You shouldn't have to mirror the tab to fling YouTube to the TV.

Mostly I use it for Netflix, Google Play Movies & TV, and Plex.

Also if you have an Android or iPhone the native application on either device will have the Chromecast icon to fling the video. It's the same icon in Chrome (and maybe other browsers? I'm not sure) to fling from your computer.
> a shortage of single women

I don't get this. Wouldn't single women also want to move to North Dakota to get a good job?
It looks like Google used the Motorola patents to get Samsung to tone down its Android skinning: http://recode.net/2014/01/29/after-google-pressure-samsung-w...

If this keeps Android from being forked by Samsung, I'd say it's not such a big loss.
> ....(maybe a trait of BSD fanaticism?)...

downvoted for ad homenim
Congrats on launching. Suggestions:

* Some of the images are broken, you should fix those
* You should add all the product images from every site. Not having multiple angles is annoying
* You should consider making the thumbnails rotate when I move my mouse across the image on the search pages
* Would be nice if there was a larger selection of furniture
Fail Safe: Debbie Millman’s Advice on Courage and the Creative Life
Pretty much any chair will get uncomfortable if you sit in it long enough. I would just get a refurbished herman miller and take a lot of frequent breaks to stand up.
To my eyes, Google has been looking for the "Next Google" since at least 2004 or so.
Completely offtopic, but I can't resist:

What's it like being in a position to choose how $500k per month is spent? Wow. That's equivalent to about forty engineers' salaries per year.

EDIT: I visited your website and am not sure what to think. http://joelrunyon.com/ Is it true that those sorts of marketing tactics will convince people to entrust you with how to spend $500k/mo? (Personal branding is rather important. I was just a little surprised that those particular methods would be effective.)
> There's an environment ripe for disruption.

Hah, good luck with a business in which your plan is to allow people to linger for hours after a $1 purchase. Cafés tolerate lingering only as long as you regularly purchase a worthwhile amount of their product (ie. buy a $5 coffee every day, maybe a sandwich and pastry, etc...).

Furthermore, McDonald's restaurants are franchises, which means each location has a different owner, usually someone who's clawed their way into the middle class and saved up some money to start a business. Not the corporate fat-cats that no doubt come to mind when thinking of McDonald's. It's not like a location with adequate seating and business can make up lost revenues for another location.
They all use iPhones and Macs, so they probably think that locked down devices are the norm.
A Brief History of Mind-Bending Ideas About Black Holes
Aubrey deGrey is just wasting time and money. He has a $5M+/year budget and his publications are crap- they are all in his house journal. I've been waiting for him to publish something interesting.
Just so I understand this better, would you mind explaining what, if anything, you think they did wrong?
In mine and my wife's parents cases, Netflix. They didn't even know such a service existed before though, or they might've had a different solution in place already.

My sisters, Netflix and for my younger sister mainly YouTube and Google Music (which she rarely used before she got the Chromecast, as she has an iPhone and the app just came out for iOS).
What IRC would look like in 2014
Do you have any evidence for your claims? From what I have read and seen, the effects of poverty are often are a reinforcing, positive feedback loop. Here is a small example: financial struggles alone, irrespective of inherent talent or background, actual reduces one's cognitive ability on a day to day level [1]. How's that for being kicked while your down? And I'm sure I don't need to explain how privilege and wealth benefits those who are born into it.

[1] http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S37/75/69M50/inde...
>>As a child of immigrants, I constantly see how culture is the root cause of a lot of my parent's "bad"/unacceptable-in-America behavior.

Yes, but kindness is not one of them.
>Move everyone to standing desks and cut out the costs of chairs. I'm not joking. I've been using one for over a year and I can't bear to sit for long periods of time at work any more.

Standing up for a long time is not good either. The key idea here is change. Stand up, sit down, move around.
> It's not a corporate policy. I've personally had hours-long study sessions at McDonalds restaurants with just a drink purchase.

Just because it is not enforced where you are, does not mean it is not corporate policy. It can also depend on how busy the McDonalds is, I can imagine when it is after lunch, and the store is almost empty, they aren't going to kick anyone out.
Just as an FYI - I believe you're using SENS as in:

"SENS stands for Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence, a detailed plan for reversing human aging. It is an engineering approach that seeks to slow and then halt aging processes that are the side effects of our body's metabolic cycles"

source: http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-sens.htm

Correct?
I can't get it to occur either.
Apple will never compete for serious market share in China no matter what happens. They'll be lucky to hold onto 5% to 7% of that market. The domestics will dominate, due to nationalism, price, and those companies better understanding what Chinese consumers want. There's a reason Android already has 80% (and climbing, as iOS loses market share) of China.
So Kay says “... rich countries got rich and why poor countries stay poor” and Gates says that's false.
I think if you actually look at the data numerically then Gates wins eg. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo#t=238
> I've been thinking of going through any MIT OCW on the subject

Are there any MIT OCW courses on this? I haven't come across any.
Because W|A can tell me that the caloric equivalent of the molasses spilled in the Boston Molasses Disaster of 1919 is 36 kilotons of TNT:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28Calories+in+2300000+...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Molasses_Disaster

So you can do unit conversions with all sorts of weird facts, like the nutritional content of molasses.
Unfortunate. I was sitting waiting for a Moto X successor to see if I could get a phone designed in the U.S./assembled in the U.S.
This is weird but it seems very little countries have alot going for them. They have to be efficient I guess.

Estonia is the other one, government and all processes are entirely computerized and PKI is used to control access. Yeah I know it is a tangent - but the other summer I make from the story is that the smaller the government the more tansparent it has to be - there are fewer combinations for government bureaucrats to use to further their own private agendas that may well be to the detriment of the entire country.
Search the headline in Google and click through with a google.com referrer.
First I wouldn't put ask_hn.htm on your main domain. Secondly, the app, while well polished, doesn't offer anything original. It looks like you sunk a big chunk of cash and resources into the design and engineering. You should've focused more on answering why you're doing what you're doing.

You have an app. But what does it really do? Why would I use TaggTo? When would I use TaggTo? How does TaggTo make my life better? Does TaggTo offer me a way to express myself creatively?

The biggest and most important question, do you have a community around TaggTo or the ability to build a community around it?

I'd either pivot into something more community-driven or sink more funds into marketing.
>So, ignore the async arguments, because everybody else (mostly) can do that too.

True, but other async platforms lack a developed ecosystem of add-ons written to be asynchronous.
The memory anchor is the product name though. I go back to PH often to find products I didn't have time to check out and to jump back into discussions, and the product name is the thing I'm looking for. I can find it in seconds, and I can also see how certain products have moved up the leaderboard in seconds. Sentences as the visual lead would greatly complicate that behavior, one I think is a primary one.

Said another way, the atomic unit is product names, which I actually think is more effective than the Show HN model. Some tagging/categories would really help overall, but I think this design actually helps beyond a cursory first-glance at the homepage.
Also, without diving into a little bit of how your campaigns were structured, the number of keywords & match types, it's tough to say that one domain will perform better long term, as your quality score on your ad level & landing page could change depending on the keyword/ad/landing page correlation.
what are some food blogs you can recommend?

also, is lifehacker becoming the next about.com? seems like anyone and everyone can write for it, and i found their content to be pretty cheap these days
> Are you sure non-Iceland people were wiped out?

The non-tax paying, non-residents? Yes.

They were subsequently bailed out by foreign governments and/or entities, but from Iceland's standpoint — which is the important one when it comes to their taxpayers' finances — they were wiped out.

That is why the UK and Holland, in particular, were so pissed at Iceland and threatened to block EU-entry negotiations at one point. They spectacularly footed the bill, and I presume so did other countries. They then sent it to Iceland.

Iceland, on its end, raised its middle finger. Slowly.

Not just once, either.

The politicians tried to sneak the debt back in to be accommodating. And twice, a popular vote was organized and the referendum yielded a big fat no by a massive landslide.

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

Credit Agricole, btw, was bailed out using US-funds funneled by Bernanke's largess through AIG, rather than by France:

http://money.cnn.com/2009/03/07/news/companies/aig.fortune/i...
I remember reading something a while ago that there aren't actually enough coffee beans produced of a high enough quality to produce Starbucks-level quantity at current Blue Bottle-level quality. I'm curious whether this is the problem Blue Bottle intends to solve, or if they plan to be "Yet Another Starbucks".
Is access to Nytimes mandatory? it is blocked from my country and when I enacted vpn I hit a paywall.
Motorola to Join Lenovo to Create a Truly Global Smartphone Company
This is very confused thinking. I'm not sure where to start here.

Browsers are really the most stable backwards compatible platform you'll find provided you:

1. stay away from proprietary extensions, applets, plugins, and what have you.

2. stay away from the new features that aren't standardised yet.

The different parser models are there, and are STILL there. they will be there forever. Why? because DON'T BREAK THE WEB.

"At best, most browsers these days estimate what they are doing, diving into some wierd mode full of edge cases purely by accident if you step on the wrong stone."

Evidence or it didn't happen.

"As for proprietary extensions, they are the most stable in IE. The IE8 change was the first since IE4 and it was primarily a security model change. "

IE's proprietary extensions are the most stable, except they aren't, at all? Are you reading what you're writing before you send it?

By popular demand IE has been forced to expunge the worst of it, and support standards. The ones that don't change every browser release.

"Now we have NaCl on the horizon (ActiveX v2) and every vendor fighting their own extensions into the "standard" by buddying up for a new "standards" group."

Well then don't use those.

"It's a minefield which throwing critical applications into is a bad move both from a logical and risk perspective."

It's only a minefield if you go into it with extremely misguided and confused thinking like you apparently have. There is a huge, rich, extremely stable platform here that you missed out on because you ironically are only interested in the whiz bang new shiny feeding frenzy going on. Just don't use those parts that are changing rapidly. they are easy to spot. Use the old parts that haven't changed since 2004. If they've been around for 10 years they'll be here for 10 more years.
Once, as a relative UNIX newbie, I "cleaned up" a Sun box, until I had moved things I needed for boot off the boot partition. I got it all back, manually mounting partitions, and etc. but I was certainly in a cold sweat for about 15 minutes.

Perhaps the only lesson is "slow down."
Well, a quick definition says "happening by accident or chance." Well I suspect he didn't know the proper definition (I certainly didn't) it's not that bad a choice.

Thanks for the comment though - I personally always appreciate a gracious correction.
As a result Hacker News now gets an A+ rating from SSL Labs: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=news.ycombina...
Lenovo to acquire Motorola Mobility
Yes, good point, thanks.
> there have been proposals to link it via undersea transmission cables to the European grid

A transmission cable is sometimes discussed, but so far Iceland has been taking advantage of the fact that aluminum smelting is a workable way to congeal cheap power into transportable money. Aluminum smelting is typically by electrolysis [1], and aluminum is light and compact relative to its value so easy to ship, so smelting aluminum and exporting it essentially allows you to "export electricity". Not at the same rates as you could sell actual electricity, but with easier transport/storage characteristics that makes it still attractive. The largest power plant in Iceland (a hydro one) is entirely purpose-built solely to power a smelter [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall%E2%80%93H%C3%A9roult_proc...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A1rahnj%C3%BAkar_Hydropow...
The 'default to MIT' idea was developed primarily by Tom Callaway. The policy for documentation is in effect inbound/outbound since CC BY-SA became the standard Fedora docs license at a certain point (replacing the horrific OPL).

I think it has to be understood in light of the historical circumstances that existed during 2008-2009: the fact that Fedora had begun using an Apache-style CLA a few years earlier, and the fact that Red Hat was, for a moment, contemplating broad use of an Apache-style CLA (until about mid-2008).

"License of the project" certainly makes sense for nearly all FLOSS projects. Certain aspects of what distros do might be a little different though. Fedora is a project but it has no true 'license' as such other than the sum total of all the licenses of the pieces of the distribution and other things associated with the project (such as infrastructure projects and wiki content). So there's no single "license of Fedora". There are some Fedora-specific projects where 'license of the project' would work and I would say for those projects the Fedora contributor agreement is of dubious value. The other scenario, and the main one originally contemplated for the Fedora CLA, was the somewhat absurd case of RPM spec files. It's not clear to me that spec files, to the extent copyrightable, should match the 'license of the project' being packaged (which is often not pin-down-able to a single license).
Sale for the MotoX at least have been... unimpressive.
To me `dd` stands for "destroy disk"
Love Telesc.pe. Used it at http://lighthouse.io as a first test app, been great.
"We believe Blue Bottle Coffee is at the forefront of a ‘consumer movement’ or mega-trend in which consumers are moving to higher quality, artisanal micro-roasters of coffee, where quality, attention to detail, beauty and a distinctive experience are being sought over more mainstream alternatives.”

Yeah, maybe on Market Street, Tony. The majority of the country (and the world) isn't going to pay $6 for a cup of coffee. That's reality.

Seems like a purely hype driven VC play to invest in BB. They make a great product, yes, but the SF micro-niche coffee clientele will have a very tough time scaling to profit in a country where Dunkin Donuts is considered great coffee - and Starbucks.

Also, not sure why BB would raise this cash from VC vs. debt financing. Whole thing is hilarious.
I can't stand this kind of thing.
Why? Because artisanal at scale is no longer artisanal.

Not in food and beverages, anyway.
Sure fancy electronics are made at scale and we consider some of them to be best of breed.

But in food and beverages, best of breed is never, can never, should never be at scale.

Thus this just means another chain of coffee. Great.
Even if it's an improvement on existing chains: it's bad for independent artisanals (just like Blue Bottle was) everywhere it goes. Which is bad for all of us.

I guess I just don't like "selling" the uniquely artisanal concept when it's no longer uniquely artisanal. It feels hollow and deceptive.
One co-founder is busy with moonshots and the other with getting Google+ integrated everywhere he can. I say this only slightly in jest. Google's two co-founders are focussing on something most people hate and things that have a small chance of paying off many many years from now.
http://investor.google.com/releases/2014/0129.html

"Google will maintain ownership of the vast majority of the Motorola Mobility patent portfolio, including current patent applications and invention disclosures. As part of its ongoing relationship with Google, Lenovo will receive a license to this rich portfolio of patents and other intellectual property. Additionally Lenovo will receive over 2,000 patent assets, as well as the Motorola Mobility brand and trademark portfolio."
The CBC had a great re-imagining of the speech

"The state of the union speech Barack Obama would never give"

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/the-state-of-the-union-speech-b...
Terry, why do you regularly use racially charged language? I understand your meaning fine, I'm just curious whether there's any specific reason you use racial language so much, or if it's just sort of one of your things.
I work for a Forex (have USD? Want JPY?) service provider that runs a 24-5 service (At any time of day during a weekday an exchange will be open somewhere, on some continent. They all close on weekends)

We exclusively push code on Fridays.
Would this enable the private industry to create services and analyses based off this cheaply available data?

Yes, it seems heinous at first, but are there legitimate, palatable Big Data opportunities here, assuming the data is properly anonymized?