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Those are the SPECint_rate benchmarks, for throughput. These are different from the regular SPECint, and they're published separately. Oracle has published no regular SPECcpu scores.

Even the rate benchmarks are not very impressive. Oracle rigged the comparison in their press release. They compare a 16-core SPARC to an 8-core Intel. If we do apples-to-apples, the Oracle result is pretty humdrum:

- Oracle T5-1B, 16-core SPARC, 436 / 467

- Dell M520, 16-core Intel, 533 / 553

The M520 contains 2x E5-2450@2.1 GHz. This is far from the fastest Intel chip. You can get them up to 3.6 GHz. It's just a common and inexpensive configuration. Let's not even talk about the respective pricing.

Personally, I haven't used anything newer than a T1. Because I haven't seen anyone buy a new Sun box in that long!
So the third party integrator which processed the transaction as a web service... would then turn around and drop files on an FTP server at a bank, to _actually_ make the ACH happen?

I think maybe OP is essentially a third party integrator?
How is a company like Amazon able to constantly funnel cash back into their company while Apple's reserves just grow? Do you think it's the nature of the business (small margins for Amazon, giant for Apple) or different company priorities?
Part of the problem is that the US is unique in taxing world wide income. That creates a lot of problems both for companies and US citizens abroad
Check out https://telemetryapp.com -- it handles your requirements I think.
Odd, I pretty sure that wasn't the link I submitted.
This. Just to add a couple resources: https://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrus... , http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo
Posts without urls get penalized. You'd be better off posting this as a story using that link, then posting your text as a comment in the thread.
You make several good points, I would add:

I've seen the inner workings of a few situations (not Mark's though) - all I can say, as a general statement, is that one person is rarely responsible for all a company's problems (especially a company as large as Zynga). It is easy to pin something on a CEO, but you also have to realize that a CEO typically reports to VCs and VCs report to the bottom line on their portfolios. In turn, only a few people report to the CEO and there can be a lot of mismanagement that is out of the CEO's governance.

Again, this is a general statement - I can't say anything more about Mark's situation without having been there.

Well, now I guess he has all the money he needs and does not have to report to anyone - whatever he does next should be the true judge of character :)
The best argument for the holiday, is the fact that we're one of the only major nations doing something so foolish as double taxing foreign profits.

The idea of eg paying China's corporate income tax, and then paying America's on the way home, is absurd to say the least. A lot of companies will be stuck with 45% to 60% income tax bills on foreign profit. I can think of few things to make America less competitive overseas.
I wonder what he'll do next.
When I heard the number in my head it was obvious because I remember the price being 700 (thus 700/7 = 100)

now I checked, and it is currently 500something, but I think their peak was near 700, what I can guess from the real information, and from my "remembered" information (that is kinda important anyway, prices changes tend to be a lot about psychology) I guess that they are aiming for a 100 USD share price in some medium term.
Yea, it is sad that Jonathan Schwartz had problems too.
Why I (we?) invested $378,000 in Calm.com
You might be interested in StoneSoup, a project a friend of mine developed for teaching his week long Intro to Video Game Programming for middle school and high school students. Most of the students have little to no prior programming experience, and by the end of the week they have several games in Processing which they can call their own.

https://github.com/JohnEarnest/StoneSoup
Zynga is a perfect case study for everything that is wrong with the modern VC funded, Wall Street bailed-out pyramid scheme known as a "startup".

The smart folks have realized that going public is where the money is at. And you don't need to produce value to go public, you just need to get Wall St. to be your evangelist and convince ignorant investors that your company's shares will be worth more than their IPO price at some uncertain point in the future. Does this sound familiar to anyone else? Yes indeed, its the same old "Penny Stock" scheme that common folk fall for (see: Wolf of Wall St.). This well oiled money printing machine evolved out of the Dot Com boom, wherein it existed in a functional but crude state. It has since been perfected.

So, what is a start-up? Is it a vehicle to solve a problem? Or a marketing-based ponzi scheme designed to pump and dump stock after stock in IPOs, making the "investors" unfathomably wealthy at the expense of common folk through zero-sum wealth transfers?

This is the real question Sam Altman and PG have to answer. Because it seems to me for every Elon Musk, there are hundreds of Mark Pincus clones, just itching to ride the next wave all the way to the bank.
It's mainly a tax thing: to bring the offshore cash to the US, which it would have to do, it would have to pay income tax on it. The combination of deferring this tax and the reduced dividend payout which come from buying back their stock more than pays for the interest on the debt.
Well sure, but DKIM can sign the sender so it can do the SPF work connected with an envelope spoofing filter. Still, my idea was that a spammer who can put a valid DKIM signature won't likely have any problems with SPF.
Google Docs works now — you pinpointed the problem exactly.

It was a huge pain to recreate a textarea, but worthwhile in that I could finely tune the editing experience. I started out with a textarea, but as I tried to disable certain parts, it just became very apparent that I couldn't hack it to death. Better to start over and fake it. It was very interesting learning about the logic behind word-wrap!
iPhones and profits up, iPads down for Apple in Q2 of 2014
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Building a relationship with an ODFI generally takes many months (3-6) and multiple audits (sometimes including PCI), in addition to specific risk and capital requirements. Marketplaces generally have higher compliance & capital requirements, as consumer debits are one of the riskiest ACH transactions. For their customers, Balanced (and others) remove a lot of the compliance & business overhead in exchange for a higher fee (most ODFI's charge less than $0.15/transaction even at low volume).
> you'll see all sorts of bitwise hacks in order to improve performance.

How much time does nginx spend parsing HTTP requests compared to waiting for network or disk IO?

> SIP even publishes a "torture test" RFC

This is actually very clever. I wish other protocols had something like it to help weed out partial and buggy implementations.

> They even suggest a parser should guess as to the message sender's intent.

This may be a little bit too much

> This is not a programming language.

A lot of incredibly powerful uses for technology come precisely from the unintended scenarios - the clever ways to abuse technology and force it to do something it was never intended to. Remember HTTP itself was conceived to do a tiny subset of what it does now.
I have stamina mode activated most of the time but I will check out the tips. Thank you.
Rather than pay a dividend, wouldn't it be better to take less margin on a low-end iPhone, iPad, or Mac to increase market share? The iPhone, for example, will always have a small global market share because they only sell high-end phones.

A phone that's $50 cheaper would translate in tens of millions of phones sold.
> We have statements from the two most relevant people in this situation: the accuser and the accused. Their statements are contradictory. Without further evidence, I see no reason to believe one over the other.

Sure, and that's a legitimate conclusion to reach. Its different than a "no evidence" situation, and different reasonable people can reasonably view the contradictory claims as having different weights and not simply offsetting.

EDIT: And we actually have more than that, since we have statements from several individuals related to the events, plus the Github official statement in their press release on the investigation they commissioned, and those statements do not amount to simple direct contradictions of each other; but the point remains, there is a difference between a "no evidence" situation and a situation where there is a pile of evidence but where a particular observer doesn't find it sufficient to justify a particular conclusion or action.
Burnout is damage from prolonged stress. Stress happens when an organism faces demands beyond its sustainable capabilities to meet. All stress implies a recovery period, because the stress involves digging into reserves.

I don't think the exact varieties of stress really matter all that much. It's all just a matter of too much stress over time.

I think stress levels can be measured pretty well via biomarkers. Waking body temperature tracks cortisol and adrenalin (higher is better). Resting heart rate (higher is better) and heart rate variability are useful to track. I find when my waking temperature is below 97F it is clearly warning that I am burning out. If possible I might spend a day or two without leaving the couch or thinking about anything.

Athletes track this stuff and back off training accordingly to manage stress. I don't think work/career stress is essentially different from athletic training. It's just that so much white collar work stress is psychological and not obviously quantifiable.
I never tried accessing it through a console. Only through a fairly modern $40ish DVD player and a web browser, no complaints.

I'd drop them instantly without thinking twice if a better solution existed with equal or better selection, cheaper prices and more promising short term goals.
Awesome, I wasn't looking for something so full featured. I just want to be able to check the temperature without having to get up :)

If you're from the Pacific Northwest, get into the PNWBA quickly. Lots of great people and so welcoming to amateurs.
This has been posted at least 16 times in the last year. The submissions have been deleted and reposted; ring-voted; and now, upvoted with a ring of sockpuppets. We just banned all the suckpuppets.

It looks like a fine app, but please stop using shitty tactics to promote it on HN.
I would prefer that you explain what you think they are supposed to do other than turn back to crime when they get out. The comment you were replying to was talking about how difficult it is for ex-cons to become productive members of society, and you just replied, "Aren't they already entrepreneurs?" This seems to imply that you believe the problem he was describing is not real because of their inclusion in the category of "entrepreneurs."

They may not want a job, but we definitely want them to have options other than crime.
Until everything is given out for free with no ads, there will always be piracy. However, that would mean that there would be no way to pay for the content, so there's always a balance that needs to be struck.
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Nail on the head; I work alone at home and it's getting to me (even though I'm somewhat introverted). #1 can't really work for me but #2 is a good idea. I just wish I could grow big enough to have an office with a couple full-time employees so I could be around people daily.
how does this differ from iRedMail?
If you want to support this initiative, you can contribute yourself here: www.makegameswith.us/summer-academy/scholarships :)
They still return code that runs javascript in the main codecademy domain, so you could potentially modify the servers to return tainted data to steal cookies and whatnot.
Maybe a mod edited it? There was another submission of this link that never made it to the front page.
All that has been priced in for some time.
Especially as many HHMI scientists, both within and outside Janelia had very strong careers within "traditional academy" first.
Qworg said:

"Its amazing how difficult these problems are. This type of work relies on things that humans are optimized to do - forage and produce food. We are arguably the best robot for some of these tasks."

It really is amazing how difficult some of these problems are. That was the point of GP's post. By saying "currently" you wave away that point without addressing it.

While robots are getting better, there are lots of things we take for granted about human and animal competence and that we have made very slow progress on replicating in robots.

It's much more fun to think and talk about those tricky bits than to simply expect them to be solved.

I don't need statistical proof that there is an automation trend. I'd like an argument about why the interesting hard parts are going to turn out to be doable.

You might infer from my username that I am moderately optimistic.
Freeboard is in public beta right now and there is no charge. We will post price information soon, and we will always have a free option, like dweet.io.

All current functionality will remain free. New functionality that we end up building may fall into a paid category.
I would be interested in the details with regards to problems you had. I deploy a java/tomcat application to Elastic Beanstalk, and haven't had any issues, going so far as to heavily modify the environment using .ebextensions scripts to replace apache configurations, install additional packages, etc.
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Public relations: having your CEO and other key contributors guest post at semi-reputable news sites and blogs in your niche (ex. not at the spammy places that just got murdered by Matt Cutts). White hat link building isn't that distinguishable from public relations. You're just pitching people with a high pagerank to write some stuff about you and include a link.

Sign up for Google authorship to get your little mugshot next to your search results.

Syndication with rel=canonical pointing to the real page is great at garnering traffic and links that would otherwise be difficult to earn, especially if it's on a 'media' site. People are more willing to tweet/like/blog and link to a link from a publisher than they are to a non-publishing business, even if that corporation is just using the site as a sock puppet. As a solo founder, you should do that yourself, so long as you're not terrible and the stuff that you write is useful to your target customers.

RG's not the best example of white hat, given that they recently got hammered for a brazen paid link scheme.

The way I'd put it is that there is no such thing as a free link. You either pay the linker under the table as in most black hat arrangements, or you pay to put in the effort to create something worth linking to. Either way people are getting paid, even if it's in sweat.
Your facetious comment, amusing as it is, has spawned a discussion below that is comical in its absurdity. Let me put an end to it.

We use the unit 'kilometres per litre' when discussing mileage in India, the country where I was born. Now, India is not the most populous nation in the world, but I wouldn't be so harsh as to call Indians 'no one' ;)
The article talks about drug dealers. Unless you call the cashier at the local liquor store your dealer (and you're super weird if you do that; don't do that), it seems exceedingly clear from context that they're referring to illegal drugs. Blatantly ignoring contextual clues like that is obnoxious at best.
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It is, but, like everything, it just takes practice and iteration. Every design I do gets a little better than the last.
Some companies certainly split their stocks to encourage demand, but I don't think any do it for "desperation." As for Apple, they've proven time after time they don't really care about short-term expectations.
The headline should read, "Facebook earnings gain as they insert 82% more ads".

There's got to be a point where it just gets too saturated for users, just like Myspace did. Maybe not this time?
Amazon and Apple are very different companies. Apple designs, manufactures (well, mostly contracts out manufacturing), and sells a relatively small number of relatively high margin products that they sell boatloads of. (And, like Amazon, they have some cloud services but at Apple's scale these are a pretty small piece.)

Amazon on the other hand continues to build out enormous infrastructure both for Amazon Web Services and Amazon.com. AWS is also in something of a price was with Google right now with various headlines today somewhat hyperbolically predicting that cloud services were headed towards essentially free. That said, Amazon is arguably building a huge (and costly) moat around its business.

They're both impressive companies. But Apple's business requires a whole lot less reinvestment relative to revenue both now or in any near- to mid-term foreseeable future.
Don't know, IMHO jwz's article had a better title and was a better introduction than the actual project.
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Left as an exercise for the reader!
The world’s largest social network has been on an acquisition tear this year, effectively moving to transform itself into a tech portfolio company.

>Interesting take on things ...
The parent's suggestion is that to refer to a YC investment as a "bet" is a little bit of a misnomer. It's a targeted, reasoned investment, not "120K on 'Little Devil' to win."
There's maybe some truth to what you're claiming, but I think you're describing something overly-nefarious. Startups are inherently risky for their investors. They're going to try to market themselves well to cover up that risk. That seems like the entirety of it.

People played the heck out of Farmville, and I'm certain Zynga has had other successes. It's not like they don't produce some value.

EDIT: I guess to elaborate, what I need to hear from you is evidence of deception before I can accept your claim.
Do they save money on dividends if they have more shares because of rounding?

eg: let's say they have 100M shares and will pay US$ 2.15 per share. That's US$ 215M dollars paid.

Now they do a split and those 100M shares become 700M, dividend prices also are divided by 7 and become US$ 0.3071428571 per share, then they decide to round down to 30 cents per share.

It means they paid the same dividend as before but the total spent was US$ 210M

In other words they paid the same amount as before but rounding it down they saved 5M dollars or 2.3% of the money they could have spent otherwise.

If so this could also explain why 7. Since it's a prime number there are more chances that the division won't be round.
When to use PhoneGap versus developing a native iOS app
Have you been slighted by engineers in some fashion?

Tell me how we have offended you as a class, so that we can improve this tendency.

I am genuinely interested.
> Start thinking for yourselves, ditch this shit before it’s too late and learn how to write some actual fucking code. The information is out there, you can do it. If you need handholding with factories and providers and service provider factories then consider that the world doesn’t need your bullshit code and go and get a job you’re actually good at. Stop ruining it for the rest of us.

It's unfortunate that this post was written in a provocative manner with a very inflammatory tone, because once you look past its rant-y nature, I think it raises an interesting argument.

From what I could tell, the gist of the post seems to be that instead of relying on someone else's pre-made, out-of-the-box general framework solution (which you have to heavily configure to your specific needs, and is so complicated that you end up needing to hire highly trained consultants), you can create simpler, more elegant solutions simply by writing them yourself from scratch.

I'm not going to agree nor disagree with that argument, I'm only trying to state what I think the gist of it is.
Nah, justice would have him driving the company bankrupt and going down with the ship, winding up as a product manager at Facebook or something, slugging it out for Bay Area housing with the rest of us.
Apple started trading mini options a little while back, they're on blocks of 10 shares.
iPhone 5s actually proved the exact contrary seems to be true...
My spider sense is tingling - from an ignorant observer on the subject of corporate taxes, this seems wrong.

As someone who isn't 100% ignorant about taxes in general, I've noticed that there's a shitload of completely wrong information about taxes out there. It's amazing how many smart people are incredibly ignorant, and then spread that ignorance, about how taxes actually work. So I have to ask:

Is this how it really works? At least for personal investments, IIRC you get some sort of foreign tax credit. From my initial searching, it seems like there's something similar for corporations.
Profit margin sure is a big difference, and also Apple makes more profit in one quarter than Amazon has EVER made in its entire company's history. Amazon is in the retail business, and it's razor thin profit margin when compare to traditional tech.
Apple simply CANNOT funnel that much cash back into the company, unless you consider paying absurd amount of money buying over-priced social networks a smart investment.
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It might help US M&A however.

For example, check out this story about how Skype was a lucrative acquisition for Microsoft in part due to US tax rates.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/microsoft-skype-deal-shows-...

tl;dr: Microsoft had beaucoup bucks stashed in the EU that they didn't want to bring back to the US due to our corporate taxes, so they put it to use by buying Skype.

Also, keep in mind that not every corporation is in such an enviable position as is Apple.
Probably find a popular company he likes and make a knock-off version on the cheap.
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Is updating the source rebuilds the image from scratch?
Re "zero point of failure mail system": I also use Dovecot, and I learnt about DSync recently, although haven't played with it yet. It provides two way synchronisation of mailboxes between two Dovecot servers, so you can store the same mail on two boxes, in completely different locations.

The clever thing is, it can recover from a split brain scenario completely, safely, and without any losses. If your two servers can't see each other for a few hours and you make conflicting changes on both of them, then it apparently is able to recover completely and entirely automatically when the connection comes back up.

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Dsync

You could have one remote server in a DC, and the other locally in your office. Point your mail clients at the one in the DC, but then configure your office router to intercept connections to the DC server and re-route them to the local office server. When you're in the office, you hit the local office server. When you're outside of the office, you hit the DC server.

[edit] Any chance your can elaborate on your S3 test setup? I've considered something similar. I would be interested if there was any mail server software that already does this. The alternative would be to use an S3 based filesystem as your store, but this doesn't seem very efficient. You'd definitely want local caching of messages in this setup.
I don't think you're avoiding the 40% once it's laundered.