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WTF with VCs investing into all this crap? There are very few scenarios were you would be better off with NoSQL solution and there are established players serving those niches already.
They still do actually (the wired one). They just don’t advertise it anymore:

http://www.apple.com/shop/product/MB110LL/B/apple-keyboard-w...
"left-wing bias" from some mouths simply means a lack of a right-wing bias. Wikipedia - for example - has a left-wing bias in the eyes of those behind "Conservapedia."
Are you sure about that? I haven't seen anything anywhere that suggests that. :-/
I wish Apple would make a mechanical keyboard. Those flat keyboards are fine for laptops. For a desktop, I want something substantial.
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He has to write this email in a way that doesn't make investors recoil, and he did his best.
Dear Twitter,

They're going to let me be CEO again, but as part of the deal I had to fire a bunch of people. Mostly engineers since I'm told there are many of them who cost too much and don't seem to impact the top line. Please let's all be nice about the whole thing, so it doesn't turn into a PR disaster.

Jack
Tierra was interesting, but these days I would point anyone interested in that direction instead at Avida and BEACON.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avida

http://beacon-center.org/welcome/

In particular this was a surprisingly interesting overview of their recent work:

http://beacon-center.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/BEACON20...
They don't even seem to have added Moments to the Android app, or at least I can't find it if it's there.
I think they chose Hy over other Lisps because of closer Python interop. After all, the post is aimed towards Python programmers.
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This was discussed pre-announcement at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10364197.
It's fractionally slower, true, because of the serialization hit (string to binary). The real juice comes from the GIN index - and if you apply it to specific columns instead of a complete document, you have a rocket ship on read.
Ingo from ArangoDB here. I agree that vendor tests are always biased, of course you want to show that your product is competitive.

But as there is no independent institution that compared our product and as we want to know where we stand with ArangoDB, Claudius did his own tests. And as the work is already done, why not share it.

We tried our best to do it as open as possible. PostgreSQL performed very well and we have a problem with memory consumption - have a look at the charts, we will try to improve there.

- Every database configuration is public

- All test scripts are available on Github

- We publish updates if we get pull-requests or comments with suggestions for improvements

We did that before and after the last test, some database vendors sent us improved snapshots of their databases which found their way into the latest products (OrientDB and Neo4j).

If you have suggestions for improvements, please let us know.
If anyone who's part of the layoff is around SF and is looking for a new opportunity, let me know -- me [at] smaili.org
Clicking the link got me "Error establishing a database connection." :/
Ok Jack... Look at what happens to guys like you in France.

https://www.rt.com/business/317705-air-france-job-cuts/
Also, incidentally, how Java 1.0 handled events in its windowing toolkits IIRC.
Holy &#$^%, that's harsh. I mean, usually you announce the layoffs but leave it for a few days as you talk to people, look for voluntaries etc. Cutting a remote worker out as you send the announcement email is unwarranted and cold, and burns bridges unnecessarily.
"and probably that someone was drunk"

It's a strange assumption. I doubt drunk people ever get to be around Buk launchers (even in separatists' camps)

You should keep in mind that rebels shot down military plane allegedly carrying 40 Ukrainian soldiers (and crew) - month before MH17. This was a serious military transport plane Il-76, not some light planer. They shot other aircraft too. One could imagine that shooting at planes has become norm rather than unexpected at the area.
Solved! Thanks, that was a fun hour! :D
Oh, I don't know, I've worried about the Facebook grey goo scenario for years.
They've used the DCI 4K resolution standard as the basis for their 4k screen, which is defined as 4096 x 2160 at 16:9 aspect ratio. This screen has a 16:10 aspect ratio, thus 4096/16*9 = 2304, the vertical resolution on the 4K iMac.
"Don't worry, it'll be ready by spring." lol
Not really. We're probably closer than we are far apart, but I think the distinction is important; for instance, we usually discuss the presumption of innocence in terms of "innocent until proven guilty" and then base our opinions off the modern (indeed, message-board) interpretation of the word "proof". Mathematical certainty was not an objective of the framers, or of their predecessors.

Which is relevant here, of course, because of the demand for access to source code to increase certainty.

But: you'd be right if you assumed the "1st and 4th Amendment" thing was what actually motivated me to comment. I'm a message board nerd too!
What makes you think I want easy?

The harder something is, the more rewarding it is.

Also Canada has reliably much better snow, and way, way more wilderness.
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My language's main feature was deterministic multithreading, of the synchronous school. It also forced a certain structure: All threads started and the shared variables they can write to have to be in the same area, arguments are always named, and sequence doesn't matter (optional in Python), shared variables can only be written to by one thread, but read by all. In contrast to some other deterministic multithreading solutions, the sequence in which IO is effected is also deterministic, not only the sequence of application to shared variables. The compiler had a typechecker and compiles to C++, using GCC to do the rest. I guess I should submit it to HN sometime...
I left hardware engineering less than a year into my first job more than ten years ago. I'm curious, how is it supposed to work?
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They triangulated it using the three microphones I guess. Also I guess you can figure that out by looking at the debris pattern because they seem to have a lot of knowledge about the used rocket.
It's really just that a strong social media network is needed. Twitter's format works well for this, but I wouldn't be under any delusions that no one would fill the gap that Twitter left. Social media isn't very entertaining unless it capture a significant portion of the market, I'm fairly confident that people would settle on a new service instead of being fractured across a bunch of different social networks. This is a big part of the reason why Facebook and Twitter have lasted so long. There are lots of other companies providing very similar services, I've tried a few, but without friends on there there isn't much of a point.
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We like to think of ourselves as a Pandora for leads. We integrate with a company's twitter, linkedin, and CRM (salesforce or hubspot) api to understand their previous customers. The system also adjusts itself to user feedback so that every day they get better leads than the day before. All of this aggregates into a 1-5 star rating given by the system. This way, users are able to visibly see the quality of their leads.

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This. I never understood this mentality that all cuts are bad or evil or whatever. Funny, we never question when these companies go on a hiring spree. No one asks, "Do they need this many engineers? Will these people have jobs in two years?"

Restructures happen all the time, especially at dotcoms. If you work in this industry, then you can expect some level of volatility.
Well, as the population increases so does the number of disturbed:

http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-03.pdf

We are only talking about a handful of people.
Well, that's the opposite of what the article is arguing: everyone assumed LaDue was "disturbed", but struggled to find any evidence of it.

The article is arguing that school shootings have become "normalised" or even "traditional"; there's a template to follow and kids are adopting that role, assembling a collection of grievances and weapons. It's a sort of self-radicalisation, like the Unabomber.
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That's what work study students are for. They cost any university pennies on the dollar. Simply cataloging and backing up stuff is about as well protected from IP lawsuits as you can get.
Keep in mind that around 6000 people (maybe outdated number) died from that war so far. I doubt they're getting justice for them or their families either. They might get a scapegoat in some time, however. Even a very guilty one.
It was most likely the ICC, the UNSC is the only body that can instruct the ICC to start a tribunal and that's the role that the ICC plays for in the whole UN eco-system opening a completely separate international criminal tribunal to would be a bit odd especially since it won't have any mandates and I'm not even sure if the UNSC can do that.

P.S.
The Lockerbie trial wasn't an international tribunal, or an international trial it was awkwardly constructed due to the fact that neither the US nor the UK had a working extradition treaties with Libya and the case was not turned over to the ICC.

The trial was conducted in the Netherlands yes but under Scottish law and that's because the dutch did had an extradition treaty with Libya as well as some weird treaty with presumably either the UK, the commonwealth or even historically the Kingdom of Scotland which allowed them to establish a Scottish court on dutch grounds.
What is the best way to overcome the conscious or unconscious bias against long-term inmates of Dilbert land?
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>> In general, the right wing is more unwilling to hear opposing views than the left wing, so good journalistic practice itself is more left than right.

That's merely your assertion.

If you look at the BBC's reporting on items such as the refugee crisis, the EU, Global Warming, the economy, etc it all pretty much lines up with what The Guardian promotes.
"The most commonly cited statistics suggest that high-frequency traders are making, at most, a few billion dollars a year in the stock markets." ... source?
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Interesting. I was very happy to hear that someone doxed him and he had to move as a result.
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Hey,

Stock in the dumps, 336 chumps are fired.

Jack
Tbh twitter is pretty good professionally, if you follow the right people / organisations in your field and write accordingly. Much better than spammy Linkedin too.
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Some decades of reengineering the gender relations didn't change this passive role at all - so why do you expect this to ever change?
Just out of curiosity, do you think below repo is better documented or does it suck as well? No offense taken, as long as you are honest :)

https://github.com/MitocGroup/deep-microservices-helloworld
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It's all about your own internal GC. When you meet someone, you don't know if they're worth remembering or not. It takes a few encounters (or generations) before your mind realizes that this is necessary information. If you want to prevent an object from being GC'd in Ruby you can assign it to a constant. In real life you can hack your brain by making an association with an constant in your life. A good trick is to try to remember their face and the name of a celebrity. The extra few seconds you spend thinking about what celebrity has the same name is usually enough to trick my brain into remembering. Can't think of anyone famous? Ask them. At least you'll spend a bit of time talking about their name and it's a fun ice breaker.
Well, the world wanted a tribunal at the UN but Russia veto'd it.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/29/us-ukraine-crisis-...

Its clear that Russia sees guilt here and anything it can do to confuse people and make people think like you (see! Its all biased, wake up sheeple!) is part of their disinformation strategy. Sadly, this stuff works.
The thing that is weird about this case is that one of the principals, Morgan Gustavsson, is actually the dude who invented the real laser hair removal that is used in clinics and has been involved in dermatology since.

I don't know if he was actually involved in this project or not, but that was the one thing that made me think that this maybe wasn't 100% a scam?

Anyway, the implication they make in their pitch isn't that it's an open laser, but that it is a laser confined to a fiberoptic wire which leaks into the hair when pressed against it. Gustavsson has published some papers on this a few years ago in which he refers to the concept as a TRASER.

Of course, if this really is such a revolutionary advance, why go to Kickstarter to bring it to market? Why not traditional investors. Gotta be easier to get funding for a significant manufacturing outlay, right? Just to not have to sell a piece of the company? To justify that there is a market?

I personally don't have the background to make any judgments about this and I definitely don't understand the article he published, but I just thought it didn't completely fail the smell test.
The Time demographic likes patient explanations, but I like quick analogies, so in that vein; do people talk excitedly about all this air we breathe?
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There's a fantastic hotel at Kansai airport in Osaka that I used to stay at to recover from the trans-Pacific flight: http://www.nikkokix.com/e/
They also reconstructed the front section of the plane from the wreckage which indicated where the shrapnel had entered.
> The investigation team consists of 24 investigators with members from Ukraine, Malaysia, Australia, Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom and Russia.

Please, read the sources before making this type of comments.
Or "plan social" in french.
I'm just going to quickly jump in here. I'm David, one of the co-founders of Fixed.

Every single contest is custom written, and has an extremely thorough review which includes:
1) automated check (check for missing/incorrect information)
2) low level review (primarily done by a team in India that uses Google Street view to measure the distance to closest signs)
3) high level review (performed by an Advocate in SF who double check the previous steps, and also reviews all notes and input from the user).

The advocate in SF then finalizes the contest letter and submits.

In general, about 2/3 of the tickets issued by the SFMTA and other parking ticket authorities have some issue with them.

I'd also like to point out, that it is not in our interest to submit frivolous contests. Each submitted contest requires time and resources on our end to submit the contest AND monitor the contest and process the return letter.

Finally... if your wife had two similar contest submitted, I might suggest that the SFMTA has become fat and lazy from lack of oversight, and continues to make the same trivial mistakes in each ticket.
Yes. The USA is addicted to prescription drugs. That addiction puts significant money in the pocket of pharmaceutical companies. Those companies may or may not be American. Either way their pockets are lined with American dollars.
It could have been a lot worse. People on here seem to confuse being polite with corporate speak. Yes, he could have summed it up in a single sentence: "I'm firing 336 people." It would also have been a hell of a lot more rude.
People should be a lot more skeptical about crowdfunding anything they don't understand. It's not really a prepurchase and it's risky to treat it as such.

Heck, it's risky enough pre-ordering games from AAA studios.
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That one's a proper improvement.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10380018
The Aviation Herald has a very good writeup: http://avherald.com/h?article=47770f9d/010&opt=0
That's sort of the point, isn't it?: Showing how the market's idea of a "successful megabusiness" is sort of incompatible with the fundamental science required to enable that stuff at all.

Really, we're all still riding the 1970's VLSI wave, finding new stuff enabled by that basic technology. But we still feel the need to talk about whatever is coming next.
hy is cute, but there's another skywalker: pixie.
While they may be jargon, they're not meaningless. I mean, roadmap? Is there anyone who has worked at a tech company that doesn't know what a roadmap is, and why it's important? Is there anyone who doesn't know that nimbler means better able to react to changes in the marketplace?
> - Voting is a right - nothing to do with taxes

Your rights can only be secured if the Government can pay for them.
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> Of course, if this really is such a revolutionary advance, why go to Kickstarter to bring it to market? Why not traditional investors.

The obvious benefit being that you don't actually have to give Kickstarter "investors" any money back.
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They did that and they also used string to track back from the impact sites to a rough point in space.
Interesting reaction many are having,

I think its pretty clear on the world stage that Russia had involvement in this, either it was supplying the weapons or worse case is was Russia's 'Moderate rebels' that did it. Which seem to be how first world powers these days get what they want without putting their name on it

The fact Russia Vetoed a UN investigation and Putin has stated a few times when asked that it would be a waste of time to do an investigation sends a clear and strong message.

The interesting thing to me, is why it has come out now? the US propaganda machine is in over drive lately. US has spent years funneling 'moderate' rebels towards Syria, while using ISIS as the poster kids for more draconian surveillance and not really doing anything about them.

I mean its pretty clear right? US(cia) created the environment that allowed ISIS to grow and then used them to push forward their international agenda (removal of Assad (before that Iraq/Afghanistan destabilization ready for a US friendly government to be installed)) and domestic agenda (removal of rights for the 'greater' good).

Just this week we have the US stating they are stopping training 'moderate' rebels (I quote as I do not believe there are ever moderate rebels) but then proceeds to sell Saudi Arabia missiles that TODAY Saudi Arabia have given to the 'moderate' Rebels.

We see. Luckily we live in interested times, and the internet has made it so we can see more of the world stage without local filtering (newspapers/local new) interesting times indeed.

TL:DR: Russia's moderate rebels most likely shot the plan down, Russia knows this stalls investigation. Then a bit of a rant of, Why this has come out now
I doubt it. In 2005 a 1GB Corsair stick was $189 [1]. Going to 16GB from 8Gb would have set you back an extra $1500, even assuming your motherboard could have taken it.

[1] http://www.statisticbrain.com/average-historic-price-of-ram/
I would totally disagree with the term "Data Science." It maybe used loosely but it certainly is more than statistics and more akin to science. Any inter discipline study has these issues.

It is science since you are taking data to answer a question. If your not answering a question or using a scientific method it falls short.

Good example is all the medical data science that has been happening in the past decade or so. http://www.oreilly.com/data/free/how-data-science-is-transfo...
Scans might be easier to sell to parents when putting the child in a different educational path than an IQ test. IQ tests may be perceived as just an individual rating the child, and parents that aren't completely happy with a result will get in the mindset that the tester "rated the child wrong" or "didn't measure the right things." An actual brain scan may be harder to argue and more effective in the end from the parents' point of view.
The way electronic Turing-complete machines resulted in a new industry segment with market leaders dedicated to vertical integrated products in the field is very unusual.

Usually it happens a lot more like LASERs. There is no giant LASER segment of the economy. There are just lasers in barcode readers, medical gear, machine tools, lasers in robots, lasers in survey gear, lasers in hand held power tools, lasers in pointers, all manner of things not sold by LASER Inc a giant conglomerated manufacturer or even made by a LASER economic segment of dedicated LASER companies.

My gut level guess is Data Science will be more like LASERs and less like computers, as will nanotech.

Everyone will be doing nanotech, they'll just call it plain old ore refining, or plain old medical care, or plain old IC manufacturing, and they'll be no Nanotech Inc company or even market sector.
Pax Americana started in WWII (which killed over 55 million people) and since then, there has been no global conflict of a similar scale. Cf http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/massacre.html (top result in DDG).

Whether you consider that global relatively free trade is not beneficial to the rest of the world is up to you, but as a citizen of the rest of the world who did benefit I'm quite glad the US did not go isolationist after WWII.

Regarding schools, whether the taxpayer's money is used appropriately is another discussion, irrelevant here since Americans, through their elected representatives, chose to spent the money in this way.

Funding-wise, last year's budget spent $100bn and this year wants $117bn on the Federal end for "Education, Training, Employment and Social Services" (see link above) of which $69bn in 2015 is for Education (see: http://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/obama-administration-2...).
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There seems to be a large number of people who are convinced that the only difference between the present day and a SciFi wonderland is human will. For example, look at the people who think Mars colonization is a good idea, or the popularity of Ray Kurzweil (and to a lesser extent, people who are overly optimistic about self-driving cars).
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Perhaps totalitarianism is the natural end result of the vague Marxian communism? They definitely tried to be communist after all.