skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seriously. I'm 32, and never had a "boss" per-se. I've had consulting clients, and I've been at a company before, but always on my own terms.

I recently started work with a part-time client in a more traditional arrangement and it's quite...trying. I had thought it'd be the opposite: someone else is running things, you just show up and get things done. If they make poor decisions, whatever, it's their money and time. In practise, I'm finding it extremely difficult to deal with. I'll stick it out because I said I would but it is not as pleasant as I had thought.

It's not a good thing, and I wish as a teen I had been subjected to higher work discipline. Yes, I know, I'm whining about first-world problems (while living in a third-world country).
That's in 6 months when they need some PR again.
The difference between some of those and twitter's namespace is that Twitter is not a public utility. It is a privately operated company with a defacto monopoly on short status updates (micro blogging).

We could look towards email and dns, though, as examples of a more fair distribution of namespace resources.

Organizations would do well to investigate what their options are to retain control over their namespace, lest it fall whim to a mishap such as this instance.
This could change a lot, especially for smaller developers that knows javascript really well.

The one thing it would lack in the end is native performance.

Even with mozillas latest JS magic asm.js:
http://i.imgur.com/46hCFEJ.png
It has some precedent. I have read that at pioneer times you could have been given deed to the piece of land but only on condition that you did something with the land. If you didn't used your land in any way it could be taken away from you.
Who's gonna let me fly in space for $10/mo?
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QE as any kind of remedy is a farce. At best it has a kind of placebo effect on the stock market. In reality, with QE the Fed exchanges reserve deposits for treasury securities to execute policy aimed at lowering longer term rates which is supposed to increase demand for loans. Those reserve deposits are not lent out because reserve deposits are never lent out. Reserve deposits are used for interbank settlement.
Holy cow!! I live in the US (specially Dallas, Texas) and my carrier is AT&T and I have the "unlimited" plan (which is actually not possible to get now a days bc they have data caps, they just throttle me if I use too much data, hints the quote around unlimited)
Where is the market for this, apart from Facebook (Open Compute Project)? Is it set to compete with CPUs like the Xeon E3-1220L series? Will it end up in HP's Moonshot? I thought that bigger boxes with virtualization would be more economical for most uses than closets full of low-power CPUs.

Perhaps I/O is the key here, N of these A1100 CPUs can easily saturate N x 2 x 10GbE, a single box with 64+ cores probably cannot push 16 x 10GbE.
I nearly spit water out of my nose. And probably the corner of my eyes.
>>it's impossible to prove either intelligent design or evolution because neither is reproducible.

I don't even know where to begin..... If that was the case science could tell us nothing about anything that isn't perfectly reproducible.
It was UK investments, UK investors, and UK depositors. The only thing Icelandic in this case was the flag of the bank.
Well, no, first you discuss the idea in a Working Group mailing list, which is like HN – you get lots of great negative feedback. When you have fixed all your initial bugs, you write a draft RFC. With which implementers can create independent implementations. If there are not anyone willing to do this, this is a sign that the idea is not wanted enough, i.e. not widely useful enough to warrant an RFC in the first place. The implementers will find bugs. You fix those, and discuss some more. Eventually, you, the mailing list and the implementers will be happy with the standard, at which point you move to have the RFC published as an official RFC.

Anyhow, this is all for a “Standard track” RFC. An “Informational” or “Experimental” RFC has no such requirement, and can basically be submitted by anyone for anything.
I think the point is more for PR purposes and public awareness than it is to actually buy people new computers. If it is, it's a rather good tactic. It gets your attention, doesn't it? ;)
I'm sorry I might have misunderstood you. But if you have money in your personal bank and none in the corporate bank, why would you pay yourself (and be taxed on it) rather than just use the money (your money) to cover the living expenses?
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Sad to say, reddit sounds more human today than HN. So many people here saying, "He only tweeted 3 times in 2013, he deserves to lose it". Have some empathy!

You think the hacker who tricked Paypal and Godaddy is in the right here to steal it? I can't believe it.
Lol, it's probably hyperbole.

But think about it - what exactly does American produce these days?

Yes, they still have a heavy manufacturing base - but that's declining and fast.

If you stifle innovation, you've basically shot yourself in the foot.
> Copyright... Not so much. That is actually useful. Open source and free software would not work without copyright law.

Not true at all. Copyleft licenses as currently written wouldn't work without copyright law; all-permissive licenses like MIT and BSD would become the default state. I'll happily take that trade, and several folks at the FSF and other FOSS organizations are on record saying the same.
In Pakistan some carriers don't charge you for the traffic to and from facebook. So if that's all you plan to do with you cellphone internet, cost reduced to zero! Mission accomplished!
There was a brief (1min 30sec), funny interview with Mukhtarbay Otelbayev discussing his achievement on Kazakh TV. He says: "When Westerners think of Kazakhstan, they think of 'Borat'--I want to break that opinion." It was posted to YouTube on 11 Jan 2014, and it's in English. The URL is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnjJYDDYJDg [video]

His proposed solution to the Navier-Stokes problem is free online at http://www.math.kz/images/journal/2013-4/Otelbaev_N-S_21_12_... [pdf]

Otelbayev's proof is a hundred pages. It's in Russian. There is a 1-page English summary at the end. He says his students are working on an English translation, and it will be available soon.
Any comments on the capital controls that are a key component of this?

Iceland banned Bitcoin too, for the same reason:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_Bitcoin#Icelan...
well f. it i'll wait for firefox to do the same. don't want another MS in town.
I agree with the comments on Ars.

This sort of 'litle parent that could' story are the post child for pro patent folk.

No, that's not how it works. No, small one-time inventors to not benefit from the current parent system. Irritating as anything seeing it being played out this way.

This is a commercial patent trolling company, from the inception it was so, and it remains so now. These are the people who the current patent system benefits.
1.5 gigs costs me 75$ (50$ per gig pay before, off contract, with one of the Canadian telcos).
Who's going to pay $50K for a stolen twitter handle? The value has surely dropped quite a bit.
Or if you have any sense of history, languages like Modula-2/2+/3. (And undoubtedly a few (dozen?) others I'm unaware of.)

Nothing new in software development. All the "new" shinies are decades (!) old.
Or resold, even more sensibly...
IE7 shipped with Vista. I've seen a few organisations that started deploying Vista and updated their XP systems to IE7 so all their workstations are running the same IE version.

Admittedly, there aren't many of these companies given most gave Vista a miss in favour of 7 or something else entirely, but they do exist, and it is a plausible reason that IE7 is still around for some.
No, 42 coin. http://www.42coin.org/
You could look at the appendixes in texts by Bishop, MacKay, Barber and Rasmussen/Williams to see what they expect (and they expect a pretty thorough understanding. The last 3 are freely available content

http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/itila/book.html

http://web4.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/D.Barber/textbook/090310.pdf

http://www.gaussianprocess.org/gpml/chapters/RW.pdf

Also, an excellent list of ML resources: http://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1jeawf/mach...
Halfway there; now we just need it to go up by a decade every decade, retroactively.
I am not a lawyer, but even even MIT/BSD licenses only work because of copyright granting the originators the right to release under any license and restrict certain things, such as liability, usage of the originators name, etc.
Vey cool. Thanks for this.
The counterargument is that Google's notoriously poor customer care team could ignore your plea when they deny you access to your own gmail address for god-only-knows-what reason. But it's still probably safer to go the gmail two-factor authentication route.
> You can think to yourself: “ugh, patent trolls are disgusting”. But the protection of intellectual property is what America is built on. Smart people invent things. Then they get to protect the intellectual property on what they invents. Other companies can’t steal[1] that technology.

"Protection of intellectual property is what America is built on?" Hyperbole much?

"Smart people invent things. Then they get to protect [...] what they invents." Oversimplification much?

Not exactly a home-run defense of patents by Mr. Altucher.

[1]: As admitted by the article, there was no "stealing" here anyway.
And there's nothing wrong with "just reading". Plenty of people post 100+ times per day and say nothing interesting at all.
Considering MS holds 30% of all search volume, this is a win for them.
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No one said he didn't "log in" for years. You can log in every day and leave no trace.
My problem is that it's too volatile. It's like penny stocks in a way, because a simple article talking either good or bad about BC could mean a huge swing in value.
I haven't read the patents yet. According to the original article and it's comments, looks like there are two aspects are infringed: auction model and user re-targeting model.

It looks like the auction model based on the number of hits is pretty obvious now, but it was not quite obvious in 1999. The re-targeting model is definitely novel in 1999.
And in that case, you won't be able to replace your computer in this way.
I was wondering Google started to use Adwords from 2012? But I heard about re-targeting in 2012 though. It is said Google knew it from 2005, but didn't buy it or failed to buy it. Not sure. Interesting story.
Fair enough. I actually use a static blog generator myself (Pelican[1]), but I write so rarely that I hadn't considered those issues.

[1] http://blog.getpelican.com/
> I don't think it's possible to buy a certificate with a dot at the end,

Citation needed.
> What Iceland did is subtly different. It lets foreign
> banks to fail, to bear the consequences of their own
> risky and stupid investments, and refused to tax its own
> people to cover foreign bankers loses.

What?

Hundreds of thousands of personal depositors across Europe saw their money go poof in Icelandic banks, and their local governments had to pick up the bill. If you are a tax payer in the UK, for example, you got a gigantic FU from the Icelandic government who said "nah, we're not going to bail out our banks, you guys should instead".

You can start with: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008–11_Icelandic_financial_cri...
Nginx will use all of the cores if you configure it so I dont see creating a bunch of containers in the same machine as a great way to scale WordPress. I don't see why you don't just include mysql in the container/image. As far as I can tell people don't want to do that because it just makes things too simple. Anything that is easy can't possibly be a "Best Practice".
Co-location, rented space inside a datacenter.
For anti-entropy in a distributed system, one could use a combination of the following:

1. Get everything created since last sync. A created index (as opposed to updated index) would not need to be resorted for subsequent updates. This would get only new mail.

2. A fixed-size Merkle tree, 8 blocks per level, 7 levels deep, with around 262144 blocks at the base. This would be the best tree configuration for syncing from a few thousand up to 40 million emails. This would identify all mail updated since last connection, within 4 roundtrips with a minimum of bandwidth. The tree should be incrementally updated using XOR at both client and server whenever an update is made. It's possible to use a tree with less depth for fewer roundtrips but with support for less emails or requiring more bandwidth.

3. Push sync. Server would push all creates/updates to client while client is connected.
Steps developers have taken with a large Rails app to break it into services.
And where the profits went too.
Optics are a big chunk also. A new controller with DAC Gbe phy is probably more like 7-8W. They only need to do the controller on this chip. A couple watts for the Phy are part of the motherboards budget.
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I only realized recently that there are separate championships and rankings for male and female competitors in chess.

Given the physical advantage argument in sports, how do they motivate the split in chess?
How is this different/better than what you could already do with Cordova (aka PhoneGap)?

(Not trolling... this is an honest question.)
I already start to feel like a grandpa talking about 8080, x86 processors. The next generation may not even remember what x86 is. The movie mimzy predicted intel to stay there until the far future, when they are able to fabric self-assembling smart chips.
Actually, I take care not to use any quality software, but quality software that isn't written by douchebag(s). This, of course, rules out many great applications, but I the metric ton of smugness I get in return is worth it.
What a quote. Ouch!

"they [Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers] made quite a point of my not having been involved for some years, and that’s true. And I think as I’ve distanced myself from the firm there’s been a corresponding decline in the firm, but I won’t go further than that."
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Any new access protocol for mail should be designed to work over persistent secure socket, not over HTTP. Additionally, there should be a minimum of work imposed on the server by the client.
While I agree with your comment in spirit, I would like to point out that this is how beginners get messed up with implementation and language concepts.
It's amazing that Dhrystone is still used in 2014. Some things just never know when to die [1].

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhrystone#Shortcomings
Beware Chinese.

They may browse your website using IE7 ON PURPOSE to get a new computer.
Not sure, but maybe there's something in the noted upcoming 'toolchain' that might be interesting? Personally, I'm not holding my breath.
Somehow young developers seem to think only C and C++ offer native features.

I wonder how we got sidetracked like that.
I tend to disagree:

The right of ownership includes to right to use what you own in your own way.
I think Iceland is used as a coutner-example to Greece, Ireland or Spain and not the US.

Notice as they keep comparing the Icelandic unemployment rate to the EU average unemployment rate ?
A binary protocol running over persistent socket would have fewer round trips and parsing latency. HTTP and SPDY can't compete with that, because they introduce too much header overhead and complexity.
This basically ignores my first point: Per charge transaction fees. As a small(ish) company with not much leverage for big contracts with payment processors, you'll want to have a certain minimum amount you charge to people. With your scheme, they'll still have lots of small charges. Then they have to include those charge fees, which in turn makes people complain again.

Bottom line: It's a conscious business decision to not serve customers for whom it's a problem to once pay 20 bucks or so and then draw from that credit.

Edit: Thinking about it, not even Skype works any different. Why should an IaaS?
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I've had good experience with reinventing the most important part of the wheel. If I try to solve a common problem myself first, I will gain insight into the pitfalls, so that I can make a better decision which pre-made solution to use.
Could you explain to me what's the difference between Linode and DigitalOcean in that regard?
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That a portion of their debt was paid by other states is the key. Ireland swallowed all of the bank debt, and Iceland did not. There is not a day that goes by in which that is not considered in Ireland.
That's exactly what the OP said though..
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Why would a company ever ever ever accept 6 digits of a credit card number as a way to authenticate an identity??

Credit card numbers are not secure. Therefore, they should not ever be accepted as authentication. Especially only 6 digits of it! This is by far the most shocking part of this story. As if I needed another reason to despise GoDaddy.

[Edited to add] I would sure love to see a scarlet letter list of companies which allow such practices, so I can never use them.
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The lack of an independent invention defense (or some variation of this) is pretty much 80% of what's wrong with patent law in my opinion. A sampling of the issues an independent invention addresses:

* Obviousness. Patents are required to be non-obvious to a "person holding ordinary skill in the art", but obviousness is highly subjective and difficult to assess (especially for a non-technical jury). In contrast, evaluating whether something was independently invented, while not necessarily simple, is a more objective test.

* Utility. One of the rationales behind the patent system is that we want to encourage inventors to share their ideas with the world instead of just keeping them secret for as long as possible. While the patent system requires publication of the invention, it doesn't require publication in a manner that's particularly useful. If you could only assert patents against people actually using them, then you would have a strong incentive to make them useful (e.g. source code).

* Supply and Demand. The current system grants a flat 20 years to each patented invention, regardless of how difficult or expensive it was to invent. Recognizing independent invention creates the opportunity for a more flexible system. Inventions that are hard to reproduce independently are more valuable to society and should enjoy a longer term than easier ones.

The obvious problem with all of the above of course is how feasible it is to assess whether something was invented "independently". I've addressed that to some degree in this blog post (http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121011/14171220681/yes-in...), but I admit it's a hard problem.

EDIT: Typos
It sounds like you don't have a hand in the pot at

workplac.es by the tone of your comment.

I am not sure if you intended to sound like you just

discovered workplac.es but really you are the marketing

person Melissa right? It always irks me when people leave

positive reviews or comments on their own products. It feels
so cheap...

I am sure that is not what you are meaning to do though.

I hope that you guys do well. It is best to be transparent on HN.

Just letting you know. workplac.es looks better than Glassdoor already.

I hate Glassdoor.

Please crush them.
They sure are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOqWlOrlkIg

(2013 Tesla Model S P85 vs 2014 Chevrolet Corvette C7 Z51 Drag Racing 1/4 Mile)
Some IMAP servers allow you to use a send folder to inject mail to be sent. I think that's a pretty reasonable way to go about it with the way IMAP works, but afaik no client implements it.

Agreed on the messageid thing. I frankly think that IMAP is too messy to try too hard for interop with. Using a relatively similar data model and being able to work correctly with a maildir should be considered enough.

But I love this idea and hope it takes off in spite of that. It's really time to revamp the interface to mail servers to be more friendly to webmail. It'll make a huge difference to the level of choice of webmail providers/software.
My point is simply that, although there are already ways for you to watch non-iTunes-store content onto your Apple TV, Apple has no incentive to provide you with an additional method like USB mass storage or SMB streaming.
Iceland has a population of 320,000. It's the size of a small city. And all of the banks they let fail dealt primarily with money from outside of their borders - letting those banks fail had not material impact on their economy. If it had been a bank where Icelandic people got their mortgages they'd have bailed it out just like every other nation.
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Will Bitcoin merchant fees really be lower?
You might want to mark up your sarcasm slightly better as people are already falling for it in other posts you made.

Poe's law and all that.
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I understand it was a sarcasm, but there's one difference between the two. A Twitter handle or a domain name is something unique as opposed to a game console of which there were millions of copies.
Instead they played that same game and are now part of the big software patent companies. In a selfish perspective, it does make sense.

I fear Google one day understands that they should join this mafia and start suing for their patents, under the pressure of their shareholders.
You are so wrong on so many levels that it's scary.

> 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).

It is a fundamental difference. When Iceland took over its banks, it basically said: your deposits are insured if you are a tax-payer. Customers living elsewhere, share holders and (non-Icelandic?) bond holders were wiped out; they were owed something one day, zero the next, and it matters little to Icelanders who may have generously picked up the tab -- they didn't. The banks were recapitalized when needed, and a few bank execs got thrown in jail for good measure.

I beg to ask how this is in any way similar to what happened in the US, the UK or Ireland. Or Greece, for that matter.
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Another bug report, though I'm not sure if this is on your side or an issue with the data HN is feeding: it looks like you're indexing even killed/dead HN stories, which leads to a lot of spam on some queries. Example: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=air+max#!/story/forever/0/air%20ma...