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> You pay enormous amounts of money for the knowledge there's a dependable fix to the database in X hours

That's a problem right there. If you're paying ludicrous or plaid amounts, say 7 or 8 figures, then X might be reasonable and you'll get a decent team to work with you and fix your issue.

However, if you're only paying enormous amounts, then X becomes "whenever they feel like it", and a fix specifically requested for you is out of the question. You have to wait for the next patch cycle and hope your bug is fixed in the next patch. Anybody you talk to will begin every sentence with "I'm sorry you're having this problem," and they will be offshore.

Source: my company used a shitty db which oracle bought to squash competition and drive you towards the Big O product. We paid only 6 figures for support and got nothing useful. Then they bought Sun, which we were also into, and the same thing happened to us.
The poem is contradictory about that. Both appear equally travelled. The one chosen has a grassy patch up ahead.

Its a great image of starting out on a journey/project and just seeing the first little bit of the path. There is no knowledge of the condition of the rest of the path.

The 'perfectly logical' character of logical puzzles would stand in that fork forever but we because of intuition or impulse make a choice which we later imbue with meaning.

I like this sentence from the article:

"The poem isn’t a salute to can-do individualism; it’s a commentary on the self-deception we practice when constructing the story of our own lives."
The first 10M items (comments and stories) on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10002791
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I eventually just set up my own mail server. It was difficult and unpleasant, but when I was done I felt a lot better about my mail.
A bit further on the west (in Bosnia & Herzegovina) Google's street view is still not available (not even in our capital). As for the names of the streets, OpenStreetMap is far more detailed (and precise). Even Bing's Maps are more usable.
> You give it data, it gives it back utterly reliably and very fast.

Well, it does... if you massage your data correctly, cause Oracle does not support many formats, and if it does not return some cryptic error for a condition that you'd never expect to exist in a DBMS.
Tried it but the mobile app could be much better.
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> So information you're looking for is out there somewhere in digital form.

Were that true, you'd think Google would be able to find it.
IIRC the image recognition doesn't even show up if you just move your mouse randomly across the frame. I have been requested to identify pictures like two or three times in total.
how I did it:

degree BS Mech Eng to Manufacturing Eng

I saw an opportunity to create software around a specific manufacturing problem and started my own software biz. sold after 10 years and started working as an employee in software related positions.
I love the quip on loadbalancing. It is like that though really it is more like round-robin as the choice is arbitrary. We do not know about conjestion or trouble up ahead.

In loadbalancing the choice is made by the system - in this case the 'request' choses the lb/path.
There are hundreds of thousands of words on Wikipedia about en dash, em dash, hyphen, and minus.

Here's one discussion over over ten thousand words: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(poli...

The least interesting thing about Mexican American War is what type of dash you use between Mexican and American. There are over twenty thousand words about that dash on wiki meta.

15,000 words would be okay if at the end of it there was some kind of consensus, or something that could be tramsfered to different articles.

The future people are going to have a skewed image of us if they think meta wiki is representative.
Which natural gas pipelines are being held up exactly?

The real problem is the price (i.e. excess supply and lack of storage capacity):

http://www.eia.gov/dnav/ng/hist/rngwhhdd.htm

Natural gas has been down for a lot longer than the oil price, and even with hydraulic fracturing there hasn't been much incentive to produce or capture the gas. The deeper shales in Ohio and Pennsylvania produce other hydrocarbons along with gas, so they were seen as a better bet (up until a year or so ago anyway).

The railroads (and utilities, and really everybody) benefited more from the drilling enthusiasm of a few years ago than they ever would by holding up a pipeline.
In practice recursion is not something that you use that often I think. I've always seen it as a low level construct. The filter/map/reduce idiom or, alternatively, list comprehensions get you a long way.

Not to say recursion is not important. Without it lambda calculus is not Turing complete. But Clojure does provide explicit TCO. Saying this is a big difference is excessive IMHO.
This is true. If it's still the 1990s, you can live with this. In 2015, its annoyance factor can get a bit much.
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Why would anyone house priceless artefacts like that in a forest in a fire-prone area? Why would anyone build anything in a fire-prone forest?
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Somebody could always start a non-profit and continue the work - we don't have to leave it to Google and stay disappointed.
If you have iOS everything integrates so no need for the app if you do not like it. Android is a bit harder to setup, but you can get mail, calendar and contacts working there too
This guy just wants to eat some meat and trying so hard to rationalize himself (or herself). I wonder if he will eat lizard's tail after it gets cut off. Hey it grows back like an apple tree, and the tail itself is not sentient.
I run my own mail server, use GPG with Enigmail and I'm logged in to Wickr all day.

I also use Orbot, Text Secure and Red Phone on my Mobile.

The problem that I have is that despite talking up these to my peers, no one uses the secure channels. Even friends that created Wickr accounts message me on Facebook.
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> 51% of his emails passed through Google servers

I was playing with an idea of an "off-Google email delivery" for Gmail recipients. Basically they would get a short note saying that a reply to your email is available, please pick it up [here], with a link leading to a TLS'd page on a non-Google server. The same page would offer them an option of replying to the conversation right there if there's a need to do that.

I'm pretty sure this would piss the hell off some Gmail users, but that'd be exactly the point - to make them at least stop and consider that not everyone's a fan of passing all their communications through Google.

Is there anything like this out there?
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I'm white native-born American, so grain of salt.

I don't think this was racism, just fear, ignorance and bureaucracy. We happen to be in a low-grade technology/security conflict with China at the moment, so that's where investigators and prosecutors are going to pick up their annual review points at the moment.

I think the same thing could have happened with a white or Chinese Russian-American professor.

But maybe not with a white or Chinese Canadian-American professor.
Hey guys! I am the creator of this kit. If you have any thoughts or suggestions, please let me know.

@axelut thank you for the almost nice comment on the link.
Right, note that up-thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10204222) I was agreeing with the general call for OS safeguards such as confirming that a particular device be allowed to act as a particular class.

Signatures become relevant due to what will inevitably happen if those safeguards become common: right now someone is selling devices like this to marketing people. If Windows 11 breaks that with a permission check, the companies have the choice of either dropping that product or changing it to pretend to be a Microsoft USB keyboard on the whitelist. If it's some fly-by-night marketing services company in China, there's limited recurse to go after them unless you have a lever such as being able to revoke signing keys.
I should definitely take a closer look at this approach. Thank you.

PS You are also welcome to PR =)
Here is a thought...

Email is supposedly a digital metaphor for snail mail. With snail mail, you receive a letter in your mailbox (which you check every other day), and you take the letter out, process it, and either store it somewhere safe or discard it (POP).

That is how email used to work. At some point things changed so you no longer regularly clear your mailbox, but you just open the letter, read it, and put it back in (IMAP).

Actually, you no longer get the mail in the mailbox. You call the post office and ask them to read the letter to you (webmail).
> For every 1 PostgreSQL DBA there are 20 Oracle ones.

And only one has any idea what he's doing.

It's the MSCE effect, where incompetent people flock to the platform where they most easily can get a a job, and a trusted certificate where you must only recall some answers is a great tool for them.
Cool! i'll take a look and let you know.
Thanks for your answer.

Out of interest, were you working in a manufacturing position when you wrote the software for your business or did you spot the opportunity from the outside?
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I converted from EE. I'm doing well.
I bought several indie platformers. Super Meat Boy, Braid, Noitu Love 2, and a few others.

I also bought Deadlight.

I think there is a fairly huge market for platformers. However, it's certainly a very crowded one. There are over 500 platformers on Steam. Want to make one with pixel graphics? There are already 97 of those.
i am probably repeating myself (but these topics repeat themselves too :))

If you are interested in switching away from Google, take a look at https://github.com/sovereign/sovereign

It is ansible playbook to setup most of the stuff you need daily (and extras on top) on own barebone dedicated/vp server. Super easy to get going. (not "Install" button like easy, but nowhere close to pains of setting up mail server, making sure antispam and dkim signing work, etc,etc,etc)
Good for you! :)

Do you have any advice?
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I agree, but it's not just VALIS. Probably most of his prose dealt with this theme. Personally I liked "Ubik" better.
It costs money. Even if it cost 5$/year it would be a major hurdle. But it costs 40$/year for the same level of functionality as gmail. Sadly, most people will consider this a no-brainer in gmail's favour.
Or he is referring to clauses in his contracts; it's not that unusual for contracts to let copyright revert after a certain time period.
Interesting - but too cryptic - point. The article mentions a scholar, Richard Poirier, who was at Rutgers when I was a lit student there. I vaguely remember lectures on "Emerson as the American Nietzsche", etc but that was a lifetime ago.

American nihilism is terrifying. Philip Dick has created indelible images of it. Minority Report and also a book which was recently made into a series for Netflix a "what if the Nazis won WWII" story.

I remember growing up and having a hugely idealistic idea of the 60s. I saw MLK, Bob Dylan, etc as these incorruptible, anti-commercial fonts of wisdom. And in my lifetime they are used to sell khakis and Chryslers.

This poem fits into that narrative. Everything is ultimately for sale - that is American nihilism?

Leonard Cohen gets at something in the poem/song "Democracy" describing America as the cradle of the best and of the worst. The same engine that powers innovation and imaginative leaps also fuels the intolerance and wackiness so visible in our political process.

The poem in question says in short - you can choose any path; just come up with the good story and an advert slogan to explain it later.

American nihilism?
Two can play that game. I would not reply to such an email unless the sender specified some very good reasons for doing so.
It is also worth remembering that once a startup migrates past initial growth and becomes a solid "big company" (e.g. Uber, AirBnB, and others mentioned here) they will often have Oracle in a few odd spots in the org where there are specific apps that may be best-in-class for their specific purpose but are also tied to Oracle as the DBMS. If HR and Finance are orgs run by different people I would bet that both of the have an Oracle DB or two hidden in the back somewhere...
I don't know about Syncthing, but BTsync can hardly be used as a backup solution since it's more suitable for syncing stuff (hence the name)

E.g: How do you recover after a file deletion? Because it will also be deleted from BTsync...
> why don't they just build a full scale version in some town somewhere? I see only animations and prototypes

They're building a demo 500m track in Tel Aviv. We'll see if it works as expected.
And his father is a theoretical physicist specializing in gravitation and general relativity, it's not like one day he got off his bed and "gave theoretical physics a shot".
Elite scientists also have more money and spare time to do this shit. This is pretty poor science; one presumes the author has no artistic inclination.
When learning Emacs Xah Lee's works has been really helpful, and I'd like to thank him. If someone think Xah's wrong they have to produce better ressources.
From my experience at a previous company (who Oracle acquired, ironically), even if you're not using any Oracle software at all, Oracle will still demand to audit you because "any company over a certain size has to be using an Oracle product". And of course, you can get out of it by purchasing a license for their product.

The cost of declining? Dancing with Oracle's lawyers for months or years. The company opted to allow Oracle in, and no Oracle software was to be found (this was pre-Sun acquisition, so they couldn't even attempt a claim at MySQL or Java).

These tactics are nothing new for Oracle.
So these books that the fight has been about are out of print and essentially do not exist anymore. They do not make money for anyone. They do not contribute to anyone or anything. For all intents and purposes, they might as well not have existed at all. Google tries to make a library of these nonexistent works so that they can once again benefit humanity and the copyright holders (which is pretty much never the authors when it comes to books) are upset because they're losing out on their $0 of profit. Yeah, copyright law really works well in this country.
Serious pursuit for a technical person probably winds up looking a lit like Stallman's lifestyle...though perhaps with less fame and public purpose.
This is primary meant for replying to gmail-originated emails.
Interesting way to think about it, but before POP, I think the snail mail analogy would be something like: you'd drive to the post office (telnet/log in to the compute terminal), open your letter and read it. Then possibly put it back in your P.O. Box, or put it into a folder that's kept at the post office.
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Obviously not s-f as such, but - quite a few novels by Nabokov. "The Luzhin Defence" (aka "The Defense"), "The Eye", "Bend Sinister", "Transparent Things" - all very immersing, and posing the question of what's the true reality, its underpinnings and seams. Challenging reads for sure, every detail matters.

Some might recommend Pynchon as well, personally I'm not convinced but to each his own.
I could see a product like this with handwriting recognition software for transcripts and the ability to sync with Evernote and other services as very popular in the corporate world.

If you think about the man hours wasted transcribing notes from lengthy whiteboard sessions, you could make a pretty solid ROI argument to execs: "Shorten your meetings, let your employees pay attention, automatically self-document all meetings for future reuse."
If you send an encrypted email from protonmail.ch to someone who uses another email provider, he get's a notification email with a link that does just that.

However the recipient should know the password to see and reply to the email.
Exactly. Monorail systems of the 1980s never really had their breakout moment, either, likely for a lot of the same reasons. Dedicated, elevated right of way can get expensive, not to mention the cost of each elevated station with ADA compliance. It also adds quite a bit of blight, which is apparent in the sample renderings.

I've been comparing the coming evolution of transportation to the evolution of computing. Shared servers (equates to buses), dedicated servers (equates to car ownership) and cloud computing (equates to the idea of on demand autonomous vehicle networks).

I think the sweet spot really is having these atomic units that can act independently (off rails, stop anywhere without stations) but are a cooperative part of a larger network. It's going to entirely change transportation. It's the first alternative I've seen for America that can genuinely rival car ownership.
I always feel like the hindrance to new public transportation systems is never the technology or the price. A lot of existing public transportation systems are superior to cars, like metros, aerial tramways, even buses. The biggest problem public transportation faces is the lack of adoption. And in my opinion this is because people never felt and never will feel comfortable about transportation if they have to abolish the basic "horse and carriage" metaphor. A moped is just like a small horse, more powerful and less heavy on maintenance - but otherwise the metaphor holds - same with a car. A train however violates the basic "horse and carriage" metaphor - you can't put a train inside your garage (stable) over night and it won't be just waiting for you once you leave your house. skyTran has the same problem - and I really believe if we want such technology to be adopted we don't need to improve so much the technology as we need to change its perception in the eyes of the people.
Question to anyone:
how hard it would be to integrate pgp (or pgp-like) thing on browser level?
would immediately solve all the headache.
let's say:

Special UI for storing private/public pairs in a browser (private key never leaves the PC)
special javascript commands (assume some standard here) to invoke native windows which can not be controlled via js. sign, type message, encrypt. confirm this specific message is actually signed by specific person (pretty trivial in terms of coding and bulletproof UI, except for "public identity storage" part which exceptionally hard).

Looks like very simple htmlsomething standard could overturn all the state of modern web privacy.
Out of interest, I was looking at one of the IR touchscreen frames you linked to.

The control boards seem to vary in terms of the number of touch points they can monitor.

So I'm wondering how you distinguish between a marker pen and the larger whiteboard eraser.

Is it possible to access the raw output from the IR sensors I wonder.
I kind of found a sweet spot where I'm using a European-based email service. I created my Google account with it, but I'm not really using it constantly (just to comment on YouTube videos now and then and use Google+ like once a week). I'm also using Google's Docs occasionally, but just to share the .pdf docs with people I interviewed to show them a preview of the article that is going to be public in a couple of days anyway. I'm using Facebook like once per week (I don't have it installed on my phone), I don't own any Apple products, I'm using OpenStreetMap instead of Google's Maps, I'm using DuckDuckGo instead of Google's search (and I love it). On my laptop, I'm using a Linux-based operating system. I'm perfectly happy. It's a perfect privacy/usability combination for me.

I changed a lot of my habits since Snowden came out and I am perfectly happy with it.
The lizard can feel pain when the tail is cut off, and even if it can be cut painlessly it probably prefers to have an intact tail. This is more like lab grown meat - something that's technically an animal but with no more awareness than a plant. If somebody is vegan only for ethical reasons then the article makes a good argument for them eating sessile bivalves.
Yes, Oracle's database is really very, very good, and if you know how to use it it's really powerful. I really did like working with it, but hope I never will again due to the company that sells it.

While Oracle is powerful (and fast and scalable and feature-rich), if you get to know another enterprise RDBMS in depth you'll find that once you start leveraging vendor-specific features you'll get more power as well (perhaps not as much as Oracle, but still quite a lot), at the expense of vendor lock-in.

Using an ORM or other abstraction layer to be DB agnostic for some businesses would be a better financial choice, since once Oracle's burned you, you can burn your bridges and walk away to something that might be technically less powerful, but will probably save you a lot of money. Vendor lock-in has its own costs. It depends on your scale and your plans to scale. Running large scale enterprise apps Postgres might be very risky (Postgres is getting better, though), but DB2 or another alternative might work as well and give you some leverage when the Oracle audit thugs come in to extort more money from you.

While I know I am biased, I sincerely believe that Oracle the company is a money grubbing monstrosity that acts effectively as an extortionist to their customers (they aren't alone here, but stand out to the degree they push the envelope of greed, they're a good 10 years ahead of the competition). They ruined Sun/Solaris, they ruined MySQL (letting it wither when it could be much further along by now), they are doing very dubious things with Java, they hosed OpenOffice, and I need to stop at PeopleSoft because my blood pressure is raising - and are pretty much trying to be the MS of the 90s in the markets they are in, and being in a position to be able to walk away from a business like that is a very practical business decision.
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It's more a Shelbyville idea.
I love that poem. And Dickinson. This case reminds me of Plato's Allegory of the cave. Beyond that - the quick transition from Truth to 'success'. And the telling of fairy tales to kids to make the lightning less scary.

Wonderful monad of a poem.

And there are great images of angles in her works.

```
There's a certain Slant of light,
Winter Afternoons –
That oppresses, like the Heft
Of Cathedral Tunes –
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I noticed the opportunity from within, and I jumped ship and went for it. But that was a different time because I was young, no kids or typical bloated American overhead.
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If you are in the USA, everything you emailed six months ago is open for reading by any government agency without a warrant, without letting you know in any way.

(and if you are not in the usa, just assume it is realtime)

This is why everyone should probably have their own private email server locked down in their home. Postfix can be made pretty secure.