skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, it was UK capital, UK profit, UK risk, they were just using the Icelandic banks for more favorable tax and trading conditions. I swear, it sometimes seems like the whole of UK is in finance and looking at screwing the system globally.
> Intel is in a better position than the RISC vendors were

Actually, Intel might be in a worse position with respect to vendor lock-in. I'm guessing a lot of early servers' lower layers like OS, webserver, etc. were proprietary; convincing the vendor to support x86 would have been a hard sell; and porting your application to an x86 environment was difficult.

All of these things would have had a tendency to lock people into their existing hosting choices.

Nowadays most servers run mostly / completely FOSS (at the lower layers) that can be easily ported to ARM. I'd imagine porting code to x86 from VAX or DEC or mainframe or whatever, was a lot more painful than porting PHP, Django or Ruby web apps to ARM today.

Of course, Intel does have deeper pockets and much of the desktop market, and may well be able to use that to keep ARM in check despite the fact that switching CPU architectures is probably much easier for website owners today than it was when Intel was trying to break into the server market.
Keep in mind I said many, not all, but based on the conversations I had with older people in the Czech Republic when I lived there for a year I'm pretty sure it's a real thing.

It's also good to keep in mind that when you get most of your information from people who chose to leave the selection bias is rather high/peculiar.
The insurance part needs to run collaboratively across the whole country at least for the economies of scale to kick in. AIG are still a recognisable brand, and an insurance company of that scale is an incredible asset for a society to have (as are Allianz and AXA, etc...)

Also, large insurance companies are incredibly complex, and take a very long time to build up. It would be very silly to let something like that go under for short-sighted reasons.
The ownership of twitter namespace is Twitter's alone, not the user's
It's basics of cryptography, to have a stream statistically indistinguishable from random data. If TrueCrypt volumes were not random, that would be a huge fail. Otherwise it's just a necessary condition to be secure.
The decision was about foreign, mostly UK, banks who gave (they call it "invested") money to Icelandic trading desks. These money were denied to pay back taken from Icelandic citizens. Keeping local banks from default on domestic deposits in favor to "foreign investors" (speculators) and letting them to face loses is what the govt of Iceland did, which was a proper decision. Overconfident, high ranked idiots who put funds in an obvious ponzi scheme are those who shall bear the consequences.
Is it possible to hold a foundation to help people upgrade from ie7?
I think that's missing the point a bit. Using gmail as your primary address will make you vulnerable to Google arbitrarily (or even justified) shutting down your access. We all heard stories about that.

What you should do, is make sure that you trust your registrar. Paypal sure have some questionable practises, but the real culprit in this story is clearly GoDaddy.
A simple analogy for you:

You are Engla, the mother of little Johnny. One day, at Johnny's school shows up a little girl called Bjork. Bjork seems to come from a nice family, and you like her Mom, Icelandi.

One day Johnny comes home from school and says Bjork is running some kind of saving scheme, and can he put his pocket money in it? You remember some of the older kids at school doing something similar one time, so you say sure, because besides, Icelandi seems like a nice lady, and you're sure she's got her eye on it.

Johnny gives a bit of his pocket money to Bjork every month, and Bjork's little saving scheme seems to be going really well. Bjork seems a little better dressed these days, and Icelandi is driving a new car. Icelandi is always prattling on at the PTA about how clever little Bjork is.

One day, Johnny comes home in tears. Apparently Bjork showed up at school and said she'd lost track of her accounts, and she no longer had any money to give him. You ring up Icelandi, furious, and ask her to refund little Johnny's money.

"No no", says she, "I think you'll find it's all on Bjork, and not my responsibility". You note she still has her shiny car. Later that day, you find out Icelandi completely refunded Thor, Bjork's little brother, for all the money he had lost, but every other child at school also lost all their money.

Icelandi is hailed on the internet as some kind of popular hero.
Same type of questions: what's the difference from other blogging sites? What's the business model? Maybe because of its huge user base? I think all these questions have already been answered though.
Third post of the same is the best?
I did, still seems kinda arbitrary..
Yes, the author needs to take Statistics 101..
Or he felt a bit remorseful about the whole thing and figured that at least he could help the guy not getting caught in the same net again.
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At $400 I assume youre thinking of something like an Intel X520 DA2 plus optics. If you can tolerate the power you can do 82599 with dual Phys for more like $150-200.

Obviously I have no idea on the network controller or its sdk/driver support.
Or look into alternatives in the microblogging space. What ever happened to Status.net/ostatus?
We also make software for healthcare customers, and asked the same question re: IE7 support internally. Sadly our stats show that IE7 usage for our clients is at 59%! Down from a peak at 81% but still crazily high. We're hoping the April no support for XP deadline will change things but sadly IE7 is far from dead in UK healthcare.
IE8 has compatibility mode that will work just fine will all those "designed for IE6" pages. Same for IE9. In IE10 and 11 I found the compatibility mode to be less accurate in mimicking oldIE.
> 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 ?

How do you figure?

Microsoft earned $3.2 billion in the Online Services division in fiscal year 2013. According to Microsoft's annual report, advertising accounted for "nearly all of" that division's revenues.

$3.2 billion is about 5.6% of Google's trailing 12 months revenues of $57 billion. Subtract out Motorola, and it's about 6% of Google's ad revenues.

What's more, the settlement locks in Microsoft's liability at 5% of Google's. If Microsoft were to grow its share vs. Google, then it would get to pay less than the proportional amount.
You can take it from the other end. These employees are locked on IE7/8 because there's not enough external forces to make it a business issue. When they won't be able to use critical resources because of their browser or OS, the upgrade will just happen, how painful and costly it will be (as long as it's less costly than not accessing the said resources)
Usually, large increases in life expectancy are from reductions in infant mortality.

Medical technology has increased the maximum age of humans surprisingly little; for example Ramesses II died at the age of 90 or 91 [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramesses_ii
That's not really true. Companies regulated under Solvency II will require sufficient capital to survive a 1 in 200 years worst case event. Sort of (but not really), 1 in 200 companies will face death-knell liquidity crisis every year.

The question is, what do we do then? Do we let a company that took 50 years to build up fail? It is so easy to destroy something, and such a pain in the ass to build it.

Maybe the idea instead is to make it such that we only have to bail out a portion of the 1 in 200 companies that fail each year? The portion that should be considered a going concern.

What about General Motors? That is an incredible wealth-generating asset. A blip in the cash-flow statement could have made that into 1-2% of its productive capability, but the US didn't let that go down.
> An earlier GCHQ operation [...] to identify users and target them with propaganda

I like how the UK gov thinks of "democracy".

> However, the prime minister has previously said that: "I'm satisfied that the work these agencies do is not only vital but is properly overseen."

Ok, we can go back to sleep then. Thanks a lot, Mr. Cameron.
They might not get a conviction for images of child sexual abuse, but they'll put you through the grinder to get you to reveal any encrypted data. The US has some protections and case law for this. The UK has RIPA and peoe have gone to prison for not revealing encrypted content. Some cases have maximum terms of 2 years but some have maximum of 5 years.

This needs to be factored into the risk assesssments of people using encrypted volumes.
Seems like a fairly inefficient algorithm -- could replace lines 6-44 with

%request homejoy.com/cleaning
Probably it is build it and they will come strategy.
Ireland is actually the exception; they were the only country to do that.

The consensus of mainstream economics at the time was "holy shit are you fucking nuts?", and I don't think it looks any more sane with the benefit of time.
Very interesting... and thanks for the detailed post... even though @N is a protected account now, its current set of 30+ followers may know the shameful deed done by the current owner. May be Twitter should suo moto take action too.
"the junk drawer for stuff that doesn't go anywhere else"

I really want to know where to put that stuff. Creating an object to put the "filterBlah" function that you only use once is overkill, so it sits there as a one-off method in your View or Controller or Model. I've worked with large enough code bases for long enough that I know there's always hacky junk there, and I'd just like to know more strategies for addressing it. Do large code bases have a strategy for putting the one-offs in a place where they are obvious and organizable?

I'm now working on a 5M line code base, and at that scale, you kind of have to put the code into acceptable, bad, worse and awful categories and come up with strategies to fix it. There IS no good code at this point. I've actually done refactoring with regexes, but I want better tools for reasoning about extremely large and weird code bases.
I spend RM600, which is about $200, annually on my 3G line. Living in a developing country does have its perks sometimes.
The "we take X seriously at Y company" line is so tired. These companies are so incompetent that it would be funny if not for people getting screwed IRL.
I don't think FAT even bothers to zero the data when it's allocated, so you might be able to see what was previously stored in a block by reading it straight after allocation.

OTOH this might be driver dependent.
Except that the current system of enforcement is broken and the current length of copyright is ridiculous.
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Holy cow:

"If your portfolio generates US$750 a month or you are willing to transfer 750+ domains to Fabulous, please complete the form below."

That's a little out of my range though I'd be willing to pay a premium (how much of a premium?).
Reminds me of harvesting ICQ numbers. There was a time when you could search 6-digit ICQ numbers for expired freemail addresses like Hotmail (they deleted your account after a while), register that freemail address and reset your ICQ number password to get a brand "new" 6-digit number. I think this doesn't work anymore, since most freemail hosters don't "free" expired email addresses but keep them locked.

It still works if you find an expired domain name, register the domain name and then do the whole password-reset procedure. Might be cheaper to buy a 6 digit number on eBay though :)
the original: http://imgur.com/Ls9kAR9
The a248 cert is used for all SSL requests for properties delivered over Akamai's non-ssl network. It's useful to be able to serve SSL requests even if the cert doesn't have a the hostname in question on it.

Regarding the cipher sneering below: Akamai's default settings probably err on the side of acceptance. Not all of their customers are Amazon.coms - mom & pop ecommerce are unlikely to do anything that would cause a visitor's SSL connection to fail, and changing the ciphers back to the high-acceptance settings would increase their cost of implementation per cert. I'm guessing they manage more than a few of those.
Yes.

[1] http://yudkowsky.net/singularity/simplified/

[2] http://www.nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon.html
There's no other way to prevent capital flight, right ?
>Also, large insurance companies are incredibly complex, and take a very long time to build up. It would be very silly to let something like that go under for short-sighted reasons.

I agree. AIG shouldn't have been so short-sighted. But since they were, they deserve to fail like every other business who doesn't adequately plan for the future.

Oh wait.
Software patents need to be abolished for good.
I'm using a small local regitrar, europeandomaincentre.com - I originally picked them because they can accommodate all sorts of international domains, and partially because they are within walking distance of my office. That way, if something goes wrong, I could go there and talk to them in person.

Their customer service has been really great since, so I'm staying. It's probably slightly more expensive than I could get elsewhere, but for the sense of security I get, it's completely worth it.

Point being- In this shitty business, where trust is everything - I prefer a small player who I can have a direct personal relation to, over some big nameless corporation.
Persistent connections are tough on patchy mobile networks.

Parsing latency isn't really an issue; all this stuff is IO bound anyway. CPU cycles are cheap.
Given the population size of Iceland policies that work well there might not be instantly replicable on a larger scale. Nevertheless, Iceland is a fantastic place to visit.

Being such a small welfare nation makes Iceland special in many ways. Their political openness and strong traditions of democracy are very interesting to observe, popular examples of which are the Bobby Fischer and Wikileaks stories. Iceland is often considered the world's oldest active democracy, their parliament was founded in 930 A.D.

Also the rugged nature is incredibly fascinating, and while easy to overlook it is one of the most amazing holiday destinations I have ever experienced.
Looks pretty nice. Do you edit the reviews?
It's part of a trade zone with the EU, so that mostly makes sense. (There's more to the EU than PIIGS, brw.)

Comparing its unemployment rate with that of the US would seem as bizarre as comparing Ohio's with that of the EU.
>What about General Motors? That is an incredible wealth-generating asset. A blip in the cash-flow statement could have made that into 1-2% of its productive capability, but the US didn't let that go down.

You make it sound like GM had no control over it. And that additionally, when a company goes bankrupt, all the wealth just disappears into thin air. Neither is true.
Is it not possible to use the last bills as verification of who you are? screenshot of the bank statements and asking GoDaddy to verify their bank data and you've shown that it is in fact you who paid the bills.

Also if account data is changed they MUST keep a log of what your data was before. At least anything beside passwords.
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This is ridiculous! What is the use of being the premier institute in the world, and do just about nothing about such a obvious immorality!?

The kids in these countries are already suffering under oppression/war/famine/ you name it.. things you won't want upon yourself, much less on your kids.I know a guy who plays a rpg with me who is from Syria, he is 14 year old, and his school is defunct. Just few months back I recommended him Coursera and EdX.. and now this..? This is shit!

Whats next? Edx, Khan Academy follow course!?

This is almost like that rule that was imposed back in 2003-2007 era.. when all rpg players with name Osama/Usama were banned, or forced to change their usernames. People who had their legimate natural name as Osama/Usama way before 9/11.

Talk about overkill!
For all the posts I would make, and the first one having been what it was, it should have included: don't use GoDaddy. I just, can't express how immediately my sympathy disappears when I read that word. The amount of arrogance it takes to be in tech and still use GoDaddy is beyond comprehension.
This isn't on Coursera. Take it up with your elected officials.
I found this story interesting for the social engineering aspect. The lack of "outrage" is actually quite refreshing.
What's also terrible about the patent system is there is simply no way for any of us to tell, when we develop something, if we're infringing on patents or not. We're all subject, at any time, to being subject to some massive infringement lawsuit.

What I do not understand is why the big companies do not all get together and lobby to abolish software patents. Do they think that if they acquire enough patents, they will win? They all seem to be losing as many patent suits as they win. Pyrrhic victories all around.
Hey Jdubya, you got me - first time using this site and I was just sounded excited because I am! But you're right, I don't actually have a hand in the pot yet, I am close friends with the guys that created it though and will be helping them out with marketing as it grows. Glad you like the look of it so far, they are a talented bunch and good guys all round.
I'm closely involved in a big system that uses Catalyst (perl's nearest equivalent to Django). We spend allmost all of our time in Model classes (MyDomain::Model::Whatever, not MyWebApp::Model::Whatever that's just a dumb connector). It works well and I get the shits every time I have to deal with code that doesn't separate this stuff out properly. Also works on the front end using modern javascript.
> Today’s announcement builds on...

Where's the link to the actual announcement?
> Wow, hedging against patent trolls by backing them is some sick and twisted logic.

But not unexpected for Mark Cuban.

This is the man who owes his status as a billionaire to hedging. If he hadn't hedged out his Yahoo exposure at the very top of the dot-com bubble, then he would've been worth about $60 million by the time his lock-up period expired.

$1.4 billion vs. $60 million. Being one of the richest 500 Americans, vs. not even being able to buy the Dallas Mavericks. You can see why Mark Cuban believes in hedging.
the land of free enterprise, hey ?
This is very sad news. Restricting education access for some people looks like very bad move for whole MOOC community. I wonder what made them to do that? Would Coursera be sanctioned or even close otherwise?

I wonder what is the process how those restriction are being applied to the company and what are the consequences if you not follow this (law)?
If first World countries can do 1 evil, it's suppressing/eliminating education for the oppressed and/or poor. (So they have no chance for future equality and can continue to be dominated by us.)
I would if I were in US.
Actually, the original version, something like:

pall = (lines...) ->
(console.log line) for line in lines
return

Is going to get you much better performance in JavaScript than using the forEach method.
I mostly agree. Though, you'd get some interesting reverse engineering related problems.

Ie look at the patent, come up with a problem that would make this patent obvious, lock some engineers in a sealed room with the problem, and wait for something like the patent to fall out. Was that independent invention, then?
came up a while back https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6632576
evaluating whether something was independently invented, while not necessarily simple, is a more a objective test

Only if you take a very generous interpretation of "independent". For an reinvention to be truly independent, the reinventor would not only need to not have read about the original invention, but also to have not read about anything inspired by the original invention, and not talked to anyone who read about anything inspired by the original invention, etc.
> But the protection of intellectual property is what America is built on.

Is it? I recall the story of how the textile industry in America was built upon designs illegally smuggled out of Britain.

Also, the movie, auto, and aviation industries were all hobbled for years under patent lawsuits. It was so bad in the aviation business that development in the US pretty much ground to a standstill and the center for aviation progress switched over to Europe for a decade or two.
That's just wrong. The failed banks owned around half of all mortgages in Iceland, including my own.
Of course they spied on YouTube and Facebook.

What's more important is whether they obeyed the law; and whether we know what the law actually means; and if the peoe doing the oversighting know what the law says.

One example is the debate about granting access to metadata. GCHQ was involved in that debate and lots of reporters wrote articles. But no one noticed that the existing laws exempt GCHQ and that they had been slurping this data all along.

All the data collected by squeaky dolphin appears to be publicly posted information, and used in bulk, so it's less troubling than privately posted information or individual's identified data.

I'm not sure if the "identify and target for propaganda" programme was ever created or was just a proposal.

The Interceptions of Communications Commissioner has reports about mistakes in information interception, and GCHQ does report mistakes to that office. But oversight still needs to be improved.
>Take it up with your elected officials.

Yeah, how's that working out?

But I totally agree this is not on Coursera.
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What about IE8-9-10? I mean, I don't care, but my website frontpage still looks wrong in IE10 and I didn't do anything fancy. The overlay doesn't work in IE<10. I mean, IE is a mess in general. I wouldn’t buy a PC to all that use this terrible piece of crap, but at least we can rant about it, no? I mean, they should have said: OK, we take the pain to STILL support this shitty IE, but please stop using IE7 we will buy you a PC if you do.
I did not have any problems accessing Google Translate and Outlook.com while connected to Tor.

But yes, I fucked up and posted a USB drive similar to the one that I've ordered from Amazon in the last year.
Sadly, the IE7 compatibility-mode is not a perfect copy: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2009/03/12/site-compatibi...
It happened me as well, I just shut down the account.
Yes - they would be violating US sanctions on the countries in question, and would be subject to heavy fines. For an example of a company being penalized for violating these sanctions, see http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/rbs-iran-sanctions-fine-ross-mcewan...
Hey, welcome to Hacker News!

When I first came here, I was surprised that people downvoted my comments, so here's just a heads-up in case you wonder about the same: people didn't downvote your comment because they don't love India, or because they don't love that you do - they downvoted your comment because it does not meaningfully contribute to the discussion.

Additionally, some may wonder, do you completely, absolutely, love India? That seems like a rather black-and-white attitude for a forum like HN. Or are there things about India that you hate, too? Things that don't make you love it less but still could be better? Maybe some that relate to the subject of this post? That would be a place to start.
http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/ is supposed to be generic to any NIC