skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I expect the above was at least partly a joke - inequality is a relation between multiple parties, so not a property of one individual. Obviously, points of reference were implicit.
Can you elaborate what you mean by "exponentially"?

For ARMv7 vs x86, yes, x86 just destroys ARMv7 (Cortex A15 etc.) in double (float64) performance.

While I do think x86 is still faster vs ARMv8, the gap is likely much less per GHz, because ARMv8 Neon now supports doubles much like SSE. Of course Haswell has wider AVX (256-bit) and ability to issue two 256-bit wide FMAs per cycle (16 float64 ops). Cortex A57 can handle just 1/4th of that, 4 FMA float64 ops per cycle.

That said, low to mid level servers are not really crunching much numbers. They're all about branchy code such as business logic, encoding / decoding, etc. Or waiting for I/O to complete.

So why would you care about math in a low end server CPU if it's not being used anyways?
You likely have been upgrading and maintaining your car. Users with IE7 who expect the world to freeze with their hardware are like car owners who do not change their oil yet would be amiss when their car stops functioning after 10 years.
Dave McClure: The Gospel of a Lean VC [Entire Talk]
Ah, that explains why the Kickstarter page looked so..., well, sloppy. (No offence.) It seems as if one requires an entire marketing department to start a "proper" kickstarter these days.
All the claims about Iceland doing things differently are useless and I am quite sick of hearing them.

Like the US, Iceland provided financial support for its ailing bank system when the crisis appeared. That Iceland officially nationalized banks and the US left the banks officially in private hands is really a trivial detail. Iceland supported their banks and ultimately returned them to the control of their previous owners, the same effective strategy as the US.

And some unsecured creditors lost in Iceland and in the US, depending on the circumstances. Again, a detail, not the main picture, which wasn't really that different than here.

Just stop with the "Iceland's different" baloney, just stop.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E2%80%9311_Icelandic_finan...
:set mouse=a enables mouse pointer in vim
Why is it the moral of these types of stories is don't use GoDaddy?
You ever buy a Porsche(s) when you first heard they were going to water cooled?
It's also not even designed to hide or move US profit, so it's doubly irrelevant. Double Irish Dutch Sandwiches don't do anything for money made in the US.
Good.

There are few things which can effect change better than billionaires in fear of losing hundreds of millions of dollars a year. When it happens to small fry you lament because they can't do anything to change and end up settling to save themselves or losing and losing everything. When it happens to the 55th largest company you rejoice because they have the power and motivation to change the rules.
First of all, in other similar languages like Modula-2 and Ada, there is no need to use pointer arithetic as much as C developers do.

Even in C, most developers that use it, are doing micro-optimizations without ever testing their assumptions in terms of performance.

Finally, as a single developer it is easy to keep track of most C traps, the problem is when a project has more than a few developers, with different skill levels. Then the party starts.
Vringo isn't your average patent troll and actually has a fascinating back story and history behind it. Here's a good link to understand the background.

http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/31/why-google-might-be-going-t...
It's only retroactive back to 2012 and the patent expires in 2016.
What do you mean by Dropbox data leak?
Scientist may never discover a single "cure". Cancer cells tend to exhibit a greater variety of traits than the healthy cells in your body. In other words, cancer cells represent a more diverse population of cells in your body than your healthy cells, which should be near identical copies of each other (assuming that the healthy cells are all part of the same tissue of course). That is one reason why cancer is so hard to effectively treat. How do you find a drug that kills all the cancer cells in your body given that there is so much variety among the cancer cells? Even if you discover a drug that kills most of your cancer cells, and you use the drug, you will then be left with cancer cells that are immune to your drug.
Or perhaps they realized there's no point in wasting money on patent lawyers and just relied on Google's defense lawyers. 5% of nothing is nothing.
It's interesting, currently my business (bootstrapped and small) is doing just fine. Profitable, making more than I used to working for someone else, and I'm STILL scared shitless most of the time. The wife and I want to build a house and have kids and that sort of thing, and it all scares me.

The really interesting thing though is that in general working for yourself is not much if any more risky than working for someone else. Sure if you are at Apple or Google it's unlikely they are going out of business, but companies big and small go bankrupt all the time. Layoffs happen all the time. That's the way things work. You just have to make yourself valuable and work hard. Especially in our business, if you are remotely competent it isn't hard to find work right now.

I really should find a way to feel less stressed. Things are mostly fine, and I know for a fact that I could get a job tomorrow if I wanted/needed to. "Failure" for me would likely mean taking a high paying dev job at a great company that I respect. I should just relax and do good work and hope for the best. It's hard though, and I see where the OP is coming from.
I lost a nice handle (@Houselogic) a few years back. Sent Twitter all the proof and email trail and everything, but they were useless. Every time I email their support, it's a new ticket and I have to explain the whole situation again and again. I gave up after two years.
> If he doesn't want to use this limited and valuable resource he should maybe give it up so someone else can get good use out of it.

You mean Communism?
That does sound really good.

On the other hand, we're talking about security here, and, sadly, a company that has extra helpful support may be more easily socially engineered. The author's advice to use gmail.com addresses only works because Google basically has no customer support for gmail.com, so there's no one to social engineer!
I'm not a lawyer, but as I understand it, the validity of a patent, and the infringement case, are handled by separate courts, each on its own schedule. You can get an infringement judgement against you for a patent that is ultimately invalidated, and the judgement still stands.
AIG failed. A team in London trading CDS broke the company. The only reason why the corpse of AIG was kept alive was because AIG owed Goldman Sachs a lot of money. Taxpayer bail-out funds that went to AIG passed straight through and into the bank account of Goldman Sachs.

I recently saw an ad by AIG. It's actually sickening. This company failed. Their assets should have been taken over by good insurance companies who managed their risks properly and did not engage in speculative instruments.

By rewarding bad actors like AIG, moral hazard has been introduced into the markets. Anybody who says they support free markets and capitalism must surely agree that AIG should have been allowed to fail. Yes, it would have caused chaos but that's why lawyers and bankruptcy courts exists.

With politicians picking the winners and losers, it's no wonder lobbying is such a popular business.
> a PC perfectly maintained from 1994 until now would be hopeless in today's infrastructure.

Not if they upgraded both their hardware and software along the way. Even without upgrades, their computer might function just fine, but they should not expect to browse websites created with technologies that were not yet dreamed of when their computer was born.

People expect to make phone calls on their 5 year old phones, but it would be unreasonable for them to complain that they cannot download the latest version of snapchat on it. People with old browsers and hardware can expect old websites and software to work for them. It is unreasonable for developers to be required to create new websites that work for outdated and insecure browsers.
"Knowledge from failing a business is (IMHO) one of the greatest, if not the greatest, ways to accumulate intelligence in business. That is extremely valuable."

Amen.
Try teaching the HR officer who is afraid of the maximize button to use a VM. Even Windows 7 XP mode is scary - the chrome is different.
The Terms of Service agreements for those companies probably all allow them to get away with it.
Woah ! What a story. You can trust nobody. Well hope that twitter people are reading this and can understand how badly they are trolled. All the best buddy. All the best.
If I own it, it's none of your or anyone else's business what I do with it. One should neither pass judgement on how I use it, why I use it, or if I use it, because it's mine (provided what I do with it isn't criminal in nature). Dislike != ok to take my shit.
Ok. I won't.
So called "intellectual property" is an other way to decrease the value of manual work and increase the income of pure "possessions".

By making creative work "property" that can be owned and making minimal creative acts "possessable" in a way, that other creativity is inhibited or at least "billed", actual work is diminished for pure "property" holding.

The only way, non-possessing people can climb up "from rags to riches" is by their work. But working is less and less valued in this system.

And with the patent system, the true inventors are getting very limited money (in big companies, it is most often just a fixed amount per patent) -- the rest of the value goes to lawyers, the companies investors and the buyers of the patents when the company goes bankrupt or looses interest. Thus creating a system, where part of the mobile phone or the software or whatever gadgets price must pay the royalties for the patent owner (not the inventor!). Thus this amount goes away from the money that can be paid to workers and inventors. The whole system improves income generated by possessions, but reduces income possibilities for workers and creative people.
And your company has an IT department that thinks IE7 is more secure somehow, or you have some proprietary enterprise software that takes advantage of the quirks of IE7 and breaks without them.
The attacker was posing as a PayPal employee, not the card owner. Of course, PayPal still needs better security, but posing as an employee of the same company is a classic social engineering exploit.
That is not what I could infer from your statement.
ever the optimist eh?
Two factor is irrelevant when they will give up your account for just the last four card digits.
Wow the Microsoft angle is pretty corrupt. They paid the plaintiff a million bucks plus 5% of the judgement they get against Google, effectively bankrolling their lawsuit and putting a patent troll on commission.

There's near-endless bitching and whining about Google being evil these days, but even today nobody sinks as low as Microsoft.
I think you're referring to OOP in the literal, "program uses objects so it's object-oriented" sense, whereas parent is referring (more accurately, IMO) to the common, "classical" understanding of OOP as implemented in Java/Python/Ruby. When people say OOP, that is what they are referring to, and in that sense parent is correct, JavaScript is not really OOP. And in the broader JS community, heavy use of OOP is very uncommon.
All the technologies described in this article have many competing patent claims by academics at Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, and a few others. Obviously it's hard to tell right now which patents will go through, but I'm pretty sure they won't be royalty free. The main difference is that the procedure is now so easy that most academics will just infringe.
The 99c domain names.
It is clearly America's downfall -- and America is pulling the world with itself.
Was there anything in particular that made you migrate away from GoDaddy?
Francia prohíbe el uso del teléfono móvil sin auriculares
Almost 334 now; it was the first thing I checked after reading that story.

A hostile take over might be cheaper than paying royalties.
We're using eventsource push - just to say "you need to poll for changes now". I think that's cleaner than trying to push the actual changes.

Our actual push does include some extra detail, but the important bit is just "here's a new state that exists on the server - if you haven't already heard of it, you probably should poll for changes now".

It's out of band(ish) - because JMAP is connectionless. And because depending on which platform you're using, there might be a nice channel for push notifications already.
Every now and then our government can be corrupted by rich folk to do good.
I remember thinking exactly that, when Microsoft was hit by the $100M Stac Electronics judgement in 1993. "Surely large companies will understand now that they have a lot more to lose from software patents than they could possibly have to gain," I said to myself. "I'll bet they're calling their pet Congressmen and writing checks this very minute."

I've been wrong before, but not usually that wrong.
> Problem is, that was exactly what drove policy in the United States between 1929 and 1933.

I don't understand how people think that the policy during 1929-1933 was "do nothing" when the following things occurred during that time period: Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, Glass-Steagall Act, the Federal Home Loan Bank Act, the Emergency Relief and Construction Act, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, the Hoover Dam(!), and more.

Despite Hoover stating that he wanted less government intervention, that isn't actually what happened. Basically, the notion that "we did nothing" during 1929-1933 (as you've suggested) is a giant misconception that really needs to die.

You can read more about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Hoover#Great_Depression

N.B. I don't claim that these policies were effective. Just that "nothing" is far from the truth.
I've been thinking that I could use Docker together with a load balancer for scaling out Java services. I think the post provided me with some helpful hints on how to do this.

So, I look forward to the next post about how to use nginx for automatically detecting when a new container is available and make use of it.
I'm really surprised you were still on GoDaddy.. but good thing you moved away. And yes, sometimes small tasks like moving domains can feel like moving a mountain.
Last time someone made ARM CPU with 1100 in model name, Intel bought them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StrongARM#SA-1100.
"To start, he believes he’s eliminated the technical advantages enjoyed by Amazon, Google and Yahoo.
"

I hope this is just reporter hyperbole, and not a real quote, because if not, that's pretty arrogant, and from a quick glance, pretty wrong ....

(I can certainly understand if he hopes to achieve that, but to think he already has is, well, hubris)
Note that the author is an investor in Vringo.
I'm still wondering WHY the hacker took a twitter handle and why he didn't blackmail his victim into keeping quiet.

$50k is hardly worth such a bold crime with no exit strategy.
This is, ironically, one of the reasons I feel more secure with their 3-man firm than with GoDaddy. GoDaddy has all the resources to put in place a well-architected ISOwhatever procedure with flow-charts, custom software, and government document review... and then fail at their one job. These guys, on the other hand, pretty much will be forced to having an actual human who knows me decide "Is this chap claiming to be Patrick really Patrick?" I feel really secure that a smart geek who has standing orders from me "I DON'T TRANSFER DOMAIN NAMES EVER." can reason out an ad hoc verification process which is much, much more likely to reject a fraudster than the GoDaddy CSR following the manual will be. (I mean, since they're two degrees of separation from me and our mutual friend is a business acquaintance well known to both of us, they could literally just call the friend and say "Someone is claiming to be Patrick and wants to transfer all his domains. You know that's a thermonuclear change since you're in this industry too. Call him and ask whether he knows about this. We'd both appreciate the favor. If he does we're good, if he doesn't, we're blocking this chump.")
Not logging in for months or years at a stretch counts, IMHO.
I read it as Microsoft paid a million dollars and will pay 5% of what Google pays. I dislike Microsoft as much as the next guy, but it seems like they believed the patent would win in court and wanted the cheapest way out.
Well at least you didn't make some bad pun involving Israel, jews and money....
Well, you can just kill yourself at 37, assuming you're American and pessimistically that you're male. There's no difference between that and having a "shorter" "life expectancy".
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I applaud them for moving the web a small step forward. Every minute saved by not worrying about IE7 is a minute that you can spend creating features for standards compliant browsers. As more sites drop support for older versions of IE, more employees will pressure their IT departments for updated browsers.

Maybe one day we will see nothing but evergreen browsers in the logs...
+1 DNSimple. 2FA and a truly simple interface. VERY easy templates for common things like blogs, email, etc. Really easy to get up and going on a domain there.

Referral link, gets both of us 1 month free service: https://dnsimple.com/r/96a980397648e9

Also everything patio11 said above. :)
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/11/06/why-vringo-...

Specifically, Vringo states, yesterday the USPTO "mailed a notice that it will issue a certificate confirming that all of the claims of U.S. Patent No. 7,775,664 challenged by Google remain valid and unchanged." For those of you keeping track, this is the second of two patents -- the first of which was validated in a similar decision in July -- which had been the subject of a contentious, long-standing legal battle between Vringo and the likes of AOL, Google, IAC/Interactive, Gannett, and Target. Now that both patents have been validated, it paves the way for Vringo to collect royalties
One thing to consider is if Vringo is bankrolled by a steady $200+million revenue stream, they are most likely going to turn around and use that money to buy up patents all over the place. I doubt the money will be used to create any products. We'd be looking at the next Intellectual Ventures, backed by a massive hundred million dollar guaranteed revenue stream.

Even if you hate Google, this is a pretty raw deal for the industry.
Let me know if you need a copy of emails :)
Bing was infringing and Vringo had tens of millions in cash and big investors like Mark Cuban bankrolling it. They certainly didn't need a paltry million bucks to continue the lawsuit.

Vringo already had the jury verdict against Google before the MS settlement. Also, maybe Bing has only 5% of Google's revenue/profit.

Funny that you seem to be falling victim to what you accuse others of doing i.e kneejerk birching and whining.
Let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater.
Fuck software patents... Absolutely.
Copyright... Not so much. That is actually useful. Open source and free software would not work without copyright law.
Copyright only triggers when you copy somebody else's work, I.e. a specific expression of an idea.
Patents trigger when you merely happen to have the same idea.
NodeJX vs Vert.x vs Node.JS Cluster
GoDaddy has one job: making sure that, with regards to domain names I've purchased, people accessing them get sent to IPs which I control. GoDaddy just demonstrated that they're capable of failing at their one job if anyone applies a determined high schooler level of intelligence to defeating their security processes.

I run a business which collapses catastrophically if I lose control of my Internet presence, and I'm at least as Internet-exposed as "a guy who owns a desirable Twitter handle."

I don't care about elephant hunting. I put up with years of my intelligence getting insulted by SSL certificates being hawked by models. I can appreciate that the economics of the business mean that there need to be upsells to continue offering the low low prices. Fine. But if you cough up a domain, that's it, we're done. I care about that like Thomas cares about SSL CAs offering a CA=true cert to a third party.
OpenCL server farm.
Doesn't MSIE8 have a MSIE7 compatability mode that basically runs the IE7 rendering engine in a wrapper (like IE tab).

Can't you use MSIE7 on the internal system and have a recent browser for web access?
If you're refering to this: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/sep/14/twitter-us...

at the bottom a twitter representative is quoted as saying that as long as they give you permission to sell/buy a handle they won't block/lock the account.

Also apparently CNN also purchased a handle[1].

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/cnn-acquires-cnnbrk-twitter-a...
So if Google took over the company and settled for paying a massive amount to them, this would in turn force Microsoft to pay 5% of that. Except anything Google paid, would essentially go back to Google. Could you bankrupt Microsoft this way?
I'm in two minds about the UID stuff. There are advantages and disadvantages.

But one thing that you MUST have for sensible synchronisation is the global MODSEQ. Otherwise there's no single state you can use to know if there's new data on the server short of (as you do with POP3) fetching the entire UIDL list every time.

The way we do this with Cyrus replication is to reinject the message if we get a UID clash - so you can have delivery at both ends of a (theoretical - not yet finished) master<=>master replica pair. Upon discovering the mismatch, BOTH messages get new UIDs larger than any yet used, which brings all clients into agreement.

But anyway - our unique identifiers in JMAP can be anything the server would like. We use 'fNUMBERuNUMBER' at FastMail, which is a folder/uid pair - but a more modern server could use UUIDs that don't change for moves between folders. We could even implement it in Cyrus on top of the Digest.SHA1 field if we built a reverse mapping database and deduplicated on it.

But synchronised modseqs... I don't see a way around that. We've been discussing "modseq validity range" stuff - where a delivery logs an intent to use a modseq, and then clears the intent upon commit. Any request that includes a range past that intent needs to wait for the commit to complete or abort.
I wonder if there'll be a rush for IE10 compliancy when Windows XP support comes to an end like COBOL systems needed Y2K compliancy leading up to 2000?
I mean I guess that is one way to look at it. The other could be that they settled. If Google wins the case they pay 5% more of zero, if they lose, Microsoft pays more but so does Google. Its not totally win-win but yeah I can see it mostly being such. But to even get a settlement like that, wouldn't Vringo have to accept it? It isn't just Microsoft malice.
It sounds like you surrendered and gave up. Why would you do this?
Interesting, but who's running Server 2008 as a corporate desktop OS?
Almost Everything About The Bulk Collection Of Phone Data Is Illegal
No, the judge would alter his ruling because of a Microsoft appeal. Judges are remarkably unimpressed with such attempts to use their rulings like that.
The customer portal is at https://control.akamai.com/

www is literally just a sales site.
Maybe I'm jaded by perennial Internet jargon, but I couldn't find any content in this article.

Sample of many words written with nothing said: "People are starting new businesses made for the way customers want to consume technology – more flexible, with more choice and control". Mm. Enlightening.