skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like a wide range of Intel CPUs support ECC.

http://ark.intel.com/search/advanced?ECCMemory=true
It's a pun on a way to explain open source: Free as in freedom, not free as in free beer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_as_in_Freedom:_Richard_Sta...

So Free Beer isn't beer you don't pay for but it's recipe is freely available, i.e. open source.
What’s the Real Impact of a Minimum Wage?
Sometimes it's not about the prices.
Most of the time.
Always, actually. Especially when it comes to web hosting.
I took ads off my website 12 days ago in favor of Bitcoin donations
Last week I posted ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7412174 ) how the progress of the first 6 days went on my site after taking down all traditional ads and relying strictly on BTC donations to pay for the costs of my space website ( http://www.spaceindustrynews.com ). It's been 12 days, here's what I've learned.

The reaction of the BTC community has been awesome. Thank you!

Day 1: I received 0.0125 BTC which equals ~ $8.00 USD.

Day 2: 0.0015 BTC = ~ $0.95 USD

Day 3: 0.00 BTC = $0.00USD

Day 4: 0.00 BTC = $0.00USD

Day 5: 0.00 BTC = $0.00USD

Day 6: 0.00 BTC = $0.00USD

Day 6.5: 0.1761 BTC = ~$100.00USD -SIDE NOTE: Thank you!

Day 7: 0.00 BTC = $0.00USD

Day 8: 0.00 BTC = $0.00USD

Day 9: 0.00 BTC = $0.00USD

Day 10: 0.0054 BTC = ~$3.00USD

Day 11: 0.00 BTC = $0.00USD

Day 12: 0.00 BTC = $0.00USD

What did I learn?

In that time my site my site got 73,938 Pageviews and 26 BTC donations.

I learned: Traffic doesn't = donations

I took all of your suggestions into consideration, including adding a Paypal link to donate. Not one person donated via Paypal.

Paypal Donations : $0.00

What I learned:
Though I'm pretty sure that out of those 73,938 users I'd assume that some of them have a Paypal account. After all, there are over 110,000,000 Paypal users worldwide.

I've added links to explain what bitcoin is, hopefully this will spread the word of BTC a bit to those that have never heard of it, helping its mainstream appeal.

You can see this here : http://spaceindustrynews.com/birth-of-the-universe-detected-by-scientists/4229/

THANK YOU for all the PMs, encouragement and donations.

Since I'm getting a lot of PMs about donations, you can donate at this address: 1LaZC85Atb75XRxPdreWpAhF69UFpAT1am
You can try Dokku (https://github.com/progrium/dokku) - it's still fresh so I wouldn't recommend running anything critical on top.
Entrepreneurs have no cap on their income but don't always make more than an employee. Try both and see what you like.
I think most of the HN crowd is too old to have experienced this, but even worse are "course textbook access codes" that some schools require students to buy a stupid token that locks them into a high price regardless of whether or not the purchased unit is used, new, or pirated. This especially goes on at certain lower-tier institutions like cc's, FPUs, etc.

Several of my younger friends in the 20s or going to continuing ed have reported on this phenomenon.
My autonomous Lego Rover at GDC 2014 in pictures.
How will assert help if the failure happens in production code? Wouldn't it be better if the error was logged to a file.
>You should read the Quantum Physics sequence I mentioned above. There is no Royal Road, and the whys and hows just cannot be explained in a few lines.

Life is short.Just read Volume III of Feynman Lectures here

http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/III_toc.html
> protesting 1k+ karma users

well, I'm going to voice my concerns and complain about it, but I'm not going to sabotage the system out of spite. that's childish.

> but eventually anyone who is endorsing poor quality comments would likely lose the ability to endorse.

If that happens it'll be because some invisible moderator has a different idea about "quality comments" than I do.

If it happens, I will lose the ability over endorsing puns.
It's popular here to blame the growth of administrative and non-teaching staff on a self-serving bureacracy, but I don't think that's the case, it is due to circumstances.

The size of IT infrastructure has grown immensely compared to 30 years back, so you need people to take care of that. My department has four IT support people, and they carry a full workload.

The amount of foreign students has grown, consequently you need people to keep track of immigration requirements that seem to get worse each passing year, and you also need cultural programs, you can't expect people from non-western countries to be thrown into an alien culture and succeed.

The number of non-traditional and first-generation college students has grown, if the student body consists only of middle-class and wealthy people you don't need support staff for the students who teach them how to study.

Then there is career services, these things are expected these days. Back when you knew the major employers, and they had a hiring pipeline at your university.

There is also this competition through facilities, gyms and really fancy dorms are the norm, and those things need looking after.

Anyone who proposes cutting back on administrative staff must give suggestions how to deal with all these issues.
That's an OVH service. And it's supposed to be their recycled `very` old hardware.
Say I sue you for the tort of conversion (use of property inconsistent with someone else's property rights). Even if that property is most of your net worth, I still just have to prove my case by a preponderance of the evidence.

I think civil forfeiture is a bad idea because it is ripe for abuse. But its underpinnings are not "legal sophistry" nor are they unconstitutional. I stress the distinction because its useful to understand that not every bad idea is unjustifiable or unconstitutional.
I think the problem is the loans. It drives prices up. Because when college prices go up, kids just get a bigger credit. It looks so far in the future, at 18 they don't really know if they will be able pay them.
I see it as another sign that colleges are ripe for a shake up.

Colleges offer five things (from an academic point of view):

1. Access to information.
2. Directed learning.
3. Time to explore your own interests.
4. Research facilities.
5. Qualifications.

Access to information is easy enough outside college (books, Internet, etc...). Lack of research facilities is only really a hindrance if you're trying to study a hard science or engineering. Time to explore your own interests is easy enough without college, in the worst case you could borrow money, not pay college tuition fees, and study just as long.

So that leaves two remaining benefits (and arguably only one benefit to real learning); directed learning and qualifications. The college system directs you towards the ideas in a field that are deemed as key to understanding the subject more fully. Having access to mentors gives the students guidance and reassurance. Qualifications are seen as the reward for the work (not by everyone, it's possible to study for the fun of it too, but that just preaching to the choir on a site like HN).

The requirement for colleges for certain qualifications would be easy to fix. The main factor that is lacking from non-college learning is the directed learning aspect. It can be fun to learn a little bit of everything, but colleges can bring you up to speed in something quicker because of this guru-led focus. If/when mavens from a field are simple to interact with, efficient learning is unlocked. The "hacker" community is a great example of this, we have all the resources at our disposal, including access to the leading lights, no other group has it quite as good. Now imagine how other fields could grow with the same blend of learning opportunities that our group has.
Install 5 different things, or just run Erlang on all nodes.
The Gamechanger - Arduino powered vuvuzela TV remote control
> If people were so rational, everyone would go to college because the expected value of college still dwarfs the cost of college.

No, the expected value of a college degree is a result of a labour supply/demand curve and it wouldn't remain the same if you drastically shifted the supply curve. If everyone went to college, the additional earning power of a college graduate relative to the mean would be zero.
I believe their Irish site sells worldwide: http://www.kimsufi.com/ie/
> I see several people putting forth the argument that people are the most efficient at allocating money for themselves. That is not true except in an Ayn Rand novel.

I've never read an Ayn Rand novel, yet I still agree with that statement. I guess if you call someone an Ayn Rand supporter, that is supposed to discredit them? It's a pretty basic economic principle. If you take $10000 from your bank account, you are less likely to impulsively purchase a new car than if someone walked up to your house and gave you $10000. Seriously, it's super simple, and has nothing to do with Ayn Rand.

> If people were so rational, everyone would go to college because the expected value of college still dwarfs the cost of college.

Many people get off fine without college. You are touting your preferences as the only "rational" set of preferences. There is more to life than the "expected value of college."
What area are you in? The simple solution to that is to get local restaurants to join an online ordering site like GrubHub -- I would be surprised if you're in a major suburb and none of the restaurants are already enrolled there or on a similar site. They're the "BCC" for online-enabling restaurants.

The thing that makes it so easy is that it operates on fax. It seems antiquated, but that means any restaurant with a phone line can offer all the modern conveniences without even having a computer on-site. Small business owners are super busy and constantly being pitched to buy services they don't have time to set up, but this takes no setup -- sign this contract giving us $x for any new orders we send your way, tell us your delivery radius, put a fax machine in your store, and you're now online. GrubHub can do the hard work of putting their menu online and running the website.

When a new order comes in, the restaurant gets a fax (and fax machines confirm receipt, so GrubHub knows it got there). You, as the customer, now get online ordering, re-ordering of previous orders with just a few clicks or taps, prepay with a credit card (or not), etc.

https://www.grubhub.com/
Someone already pointed out that DO's selling point are SSD drives. There's also a difference in the underlying technology. OVH uses OpenVZ, which are containers more than VMs, whereas DO is based on KVM.
I'd vote you up, if you you had written "the USA government". At this point in time, it seems like a good thing to distinguish "USA Government" and "USA citizens".

I agree: naive to think that the USA government is the only one doing such things. But now that we know at least one government or breakaway agency is doing such things, we can defend ourselves against them.
A coworking space is an option but find what works best for you and try different options. I personally work best at coffee shops, but I split my time between coffee shops and home.

I would just add that you should be wary of burnout. For that I diligently log my time and try to manage my schedule. We have flexible hours which sounds nice but it is easy for me to work all the time. So, go to work (even if it is just a home-office) and then go home. I have a space at home that is exclusively for work. having those clean lines is what has kept me sane.
It's OpenVZ.. IMO you can't compare KVM with OpenVZ, even tho DO thin provisioning of their KVM is far away from "true KVM" (own ISO installs etc..)
This was already discussed today in this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7452178
Looking at my local university's budget, research and educational costs still account for most of the budget. But research costs are becoming enormous - they're spending over 1/3 of the budget on research, and only half as much on education.

Which isn't to say that we shouldn't be spending money on research, or that universities shouldn't be the ones to do it. But considering that government funding for research has been stagnating lately, I wonder if a less-explored factor in the situation hasn't been that we've slacked off on investing in research and are sticking our kids with the bill instead.
I think a lot of the rise in tuition has to do with jobs. Society tells people they need to earn a living through a job. This makes people desperate for jobs to the extent that they'll generally pay whatever it takes to maximize their job prospects.

So, basically you have a situation in which demand for the best possible education is inelastic. Pretty much everybody wants it and is willing to pay anything they can for it. If you offer students more money to spend on their education, they naturally will.

That means that schools are in the very powerful position of deciding who deserves the privilege of an education. But, at the same time, they're competing with each other for the best students. If money is no object for the students, you can bet that schools will spend as much as possible to get the "best" students. Fancy buildings aren't just there to impress donors. They're there to impress prospective students.

I think MOOCs will help and basic income will help. High tuition isn't a problem if you don't need to go to school. You don't need to go to school if you don't need a job and you can educate yourself elsewhere.
Facebook Wants To Build A Better PHP With Hack. Spoiler: It’s Really Good.
iirc only the desktop Messenger got shot. Dunno if Jabber survived, though.
I could see this being economical with quad copter (drone) delivery. But, home delivery from a car? Man, the gas expenses (among other car related expenses) would eat the profits to a bare minimum. Especially driving around SF.
Ask NH: Remote jobs in the East (China, Japan, etc)
Hello,

I'd like to ask for advice regarding remote jobs in the East.

Last 10 years I work remotely, mostly with U.S. based clients, server-side & mobile software development. Usually I find new jobs (I am mostly interested in long term ones) using craigslist, networking & linkedin inquiries.

I had a thought recently that I'd like to find some software development gigs in China, Japan, Singapore, etc. So maybe somebody have any experience in these markets? Is remote working style acceptable in these countries? I know how to get clients in U.S. but what are the tricks & tips in above mentioned countries? Is there a craigslist? Where to start? :) Looking forward for your ideas :) Thank you!
This is true within a fixed labor market, but it gets more complex with globalization. If a country's educational mix changes, its position vis-a-vis the world labor market can also change. How to manage that in a way that produces a net-positive outcome is more complex, though.

The Danish educational strategy is more or less betting on "going upmarket" via levels of education that are much higher than the global norm. Denmark can't compete on price, so the idea is to get everyone a high level of education and position the entire country as essentially a high-end consulting/services firm. Hence a goal to have 50% of people have bachelor's degrees by 20xx (I don't remember the target date). Part of hitting those numbers is maintaining the structure where not only is there no tuition, but students are paid to attend university (about $900/month if in good standing and studying full-time).
When it comes to learning web development, my advice to beginners is to
1. Have a project in mind
2. Pick a language and _not_ a framework

I don't need to stress on the 1st point for you.
Regarding choosing language and not framework, my reason is that too many beginners get caught up in which framework to use debates which basically sidetracks them from the main thing: learning. Also, frameworks do a lot of things for you. For eg, a higher level framework will most probably provide you with login management which would include cookies, sessions etc. While I know it is good to not reinvent the wheel, if you let plugins and framework do most of the heavy lifting, the learning process gets hampered.

Without a framework guiding you, you are bound to make mistakes in terms of architecture of your app. But it is fine in the learning process. Knowing what is going on is better than using seemingly magical solutions. Maybe later yes, but for now stick to the basics!

I personally started off in PHP. For PHP I'd suggest Toro microframework. It gives you routing and that's it. Whatever language you choose, pick the smallest framework for the maximum learning. For python, afaik flask is pretty light.
Note that you've gone in the space of a couple of sentences from "I don't understand this," to "This is dumb." I recommend going with one or the other; mixing them is trouble.

The use of tech here is in the ordering, inventory management, and delivery. In particular, the instant gratification. Before the mobile web, this would have been expensive and difficult. You'd need paper catalogs, phone center operators, dispatchers, trained drivers, and a lot of stock-keeping magic. Plus some very smart supply chain management. Now you need some software and off-the-shelf smartphones and you can cheaply test a whole product idea.

Now they're apparently betting that the cost per delivery can be kept low enough that they can bring you fancy bread and baked goods at a decent margin. On it's own, I'd call it a mildly interesting proposition.

The question for me is what they're planning next. Amazon started as just books, Netflix as mail-order DVDs, Square as a weird dongle that plugged into your phone's audio jack. All began with something basic, something many people laughed at. But they were all playing bigger games.
"In the UK there is much less demand on textbooks, because we don't have the same pushy publishers. "

I wonder why?
Services could be hidden through the use of port knocking.
If people were so rational, everyone would go to college because the expected value of college still dwarfs the cost of college. Even for those individuals who would graduate with a significant amount of debt, it is far more worth it to have a degree than not.

Those calculations are by necessity based on estimates based on earlier generations of college graduates. Moreover, those results have a selection bias of people applying to college.

Finally, the reason why you can't implement your plan in the US is because it totally violates the 13th amendment. Do you really think it's a good idea to give colleges fractional ownership of a person?
Algorithmically, it's just finding an eigensystem...
I agree. Most of those loans, however, are sponsored by the government and can't be defaulted on. No normal lender would give an 18 year old $50,000 to get a degree in anthropology, because they are unlikely to get it back. When the student is legally obligated to pay it back, then there is much little risk to the lender.

If defaulting on student loans were possible, then the cost of college would decrease.
This paragraph is the meat of the article:

"That doesn’t mean the two innovation houses want to work together, however. Google isn’t interested in taking money from DARPA because its ambitions are in the more lucrative consumer market, and any association with DARPA leads to headlines like, "What the heck will Google do with these scary military robots?" DARPA doesn’t want to give Google money because it wants to use its $2.7 billion budget to fund startups with scarce resources, not Goliath tech companies, and its investments are supposed to seed technology that can one day be purchased by the Pentagon for national defense, which Google is unlikely to play along with."

Note that there's nothing definitive, these are personal opinions of the author. Both of these opinions may be wrong: Google may not want to turn away from very lucrative government funding and application areas, it just doesn't want to do it publicly, this article is probably a PR piece smoothing the public's fears.

On the other hand, DARPA's big funding targets have always been selected with the goal of "make the peaks higher" so it also stands to gain enormously from Google's robotic conglomerate.
The app is incompatible with Galaxy SII ?
With systemd you simply do:

journalctl -f

where the f stands for follow.
I'm very happy I went to a University that had text book rental. When I was in school it was $7 per credit. So taking a full 16 credit load would cost $112 per semester for text books. Regardless of if the course used one, ten, or no books the fee was included. So I paid $7 for text book rental for water polo (1 credit "class" with no books), $21 for an upper level CS course with perhaps 1 book, and $21 for an English class that may have required reading 10 books. We never had to deal with selling the books back since we never bought or owned the books. If after a course, particularly a course in your major, if you wished to keep the book you could by paying for it.

EDIT: I have heard that most people would spend $112 on a single course, let alone even a single book. I don't think the publishers and text book companies really like(d) my University. Yes, this is in the U.S. too. I think if a school's student body comes together and "demands" text book rental they can get it. Talk to your student council and apply pressure on the staff and faculty to incorporate it.
So, a bakery that delivers? The tech industry sure is expanding its scope.
If you read the article again, notice how the fast majority of those millions of dollars have gone to private companies who failed to deliver working systems. Each of those companies passed multiple rounds of competitive bidding, too. The government staff processing things by hand can at least point to a ton of successfully processed requests rather than a complete write-off.

Outside of shallow libertarian magical thinking, privatization isn't a panacea. Anyone who has worked for or with a large corporation has stories which are at least this bad — the main difference being that you rarely about about the failures unless it leads to a major lawsuit. The usual argument is that you aren't required to do business with those companies but … just try to live without insurance, telecommunications, cars, etc. Markets allow you to select the least-bad option but it often takes regulation or changing the problem to make significant improvements. Before someone mentions Google: consider how happy you'd be if their QA-in-production / no live support mentality was applied to your retirement checks rather than your free email…

There are two real problems here: the first is the well-known fact that we're still figuring out how to deal with large-scale IT projects, which affects everyone, and the fact that government agencies are significantly blocked from doing things the right way. For the last couple decades, politicians have “shrunk” government by giving jobs to the private sector rather than hiring lazy government workers. What this actually means is that instead of hiring the same person directly they're hired at a significant markup – equal or greater pay plus the overhead costs of all of the contracting company's staff and profits – and all of the work is pushed into a procurement process which forces you into the worst possible form of waterfall.

You're not the first person to notice that things aren't efficient – and I'm certain that staff at OPM would agree, given how many of them were quoted saying just that. The solution is easy – allow them to hire good people in house at market rates and give them the needed support / autonomy – but that's politically dicey. This and your proposed solution are both likely to fail as long as Congress has a sizable contingent of people who benefit from problems, even those created by their policies, and everyone receives donations from companies which do business with the government. This also won't magically go away with privatization, as anyone who has seen large deals go to the company which bought the best lunch can tell you, but at least in the case of the government the details are public knowledge.
Bicycles are your friend in the likes of SF :)