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But the bible itself isn't a good philosophy book. Meta-bible discussions, including those by Christian scholars, might form a good corpus of philosophy, however.
Ask HN: I need powerful and very fast, but silent servos. Where?
I'm currently working on a robot, and this robot needs to be really fast. Think of it like a robotic arm, but it needs to move about as fast as a human can turn his head.

For that, I need appropriate servos that can immediately make such a motion, without a long spin-up time. The effect is that natural movements should be simulatable with that.

Of course, I'd like the servos to be as quiet as possible and as small as possible. The question is : what servos do I buy? Money is not a problem.
Well, no, not really. This is another aspect of the last government's spending patterns: they measured "success" or "progress" in terms of how much they spent, not the end result. Jo(e) Voter can be told spending a billion on aid is good; he perhaps doesn't see that half of that goes to well-paid quango employees back home, and the other half into a dictator's Swiss bank account.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, on the other hand, is completely focussed on outcomes.
I think doing something for profit - purely for your own good - is the most noble thing you can do.

(When I say for your own good, I mean what's for your own good long-term. Cheating, stealing, lying, etc., is ruled out, because that's not in anyone's self-interest, long-term.)
In September 2000 Google had money in the bank only because it had closed a $25M VC round just over a year before. Its revenues were tiny. Its market share was tiny. It was not profitable. Its success was far from assured. By the time Google turned its first profit, the vast majority of its revenues came from AdWords. To say that AdWords had nothing to do with Google's success is akin to saying that Windows had nothing to do with Microsoft's success.

And personal attacks are not nearly as bad a form as promulgating demonstrable falsehoods as if they were facts.
Curious name for a "debugging tool", but maybe that's just me.
If I had invested money in Tesla, I'd take it out right now and handle the loss. This company is going to fail - all the signs are there, this sounds like a repeat of those 1999-2000 companies, complete with the scandals and fights with reporters.
Electrical and Industrial seem to still be on the list.
Update: Thanks for respecting the HN guidelines and for improving the title.
Owen Thomas should have let another reporter pick this one up. His anger and bias is transparent, and raises serious red flags regarding the veracity of his article.

It reads like an angry spat and a hit piece rolled into one:

The one specific claim Musk made about my reputation ...

Musk also accused me of “collaborating” with the lawyer representing Justine Musk, his ex-wife, in their divorce case. Also false: I picked up the phone and called her lawyer, and he had the courtesy to answer my questions.

An aside to Musk: Making false statements is something the law frowns on.

If you're reporting on your own involvement in a story, you're too close. Instead of using the pages of your rag to angrily defend yourself, let another reporter present the facts, dispassionately.
Thanks. While he's sorted for a little while, I'll definitely pass this info on for the next time he's due an interrogation. Annoyingly for him (and his bosses) they had to pass him over for promotion in case he was booted. I'm sure he'd love a bit of security!
I agree. I'd love to see a similar benchmark with InnoDB.
I don't think your choosing good or typical examples here.

Both are relatively "applied". The "basic science" would be a bit harder to have funded - abstract math research, basic physics research, marine biological research.

Now, I would actually say the government should be spending more on basic research and less on applied research but that's an entirely different question.

Most basic research has payoff sooner or later. It's just fairly clear that the market isn't going to be financing things with a fifty years window.
Are you sure you couldn't write it?
It's market share was not tiny. It was growing rapidly, and was already dominating.

I think I've had enough of this argument. People like you are never wrong - you are arguing absolutely orthogonal to me, and punctuating it with personal attacks.
If it is so important to help poor nations, why don't people just vote with their money instead of having to vote in pandering politicians who will nonetheless squander the money?

I mean, at worst, only 51% will get their money spent on things they thought are great noble causes.(Let just assume that every Noble Cause is important) That's not taking into consideration on weather the politicians are managing it wisely.
What we can learn from Musk:
1) Don't get drunk with Journalists
2) Don't insult Journalists
3) Divorce can apparently cost up to $170,000 a month
Misery loves company? More seriously, I take your point. I say that a lot ("Good to know it's not just me."). I'll have to think a little bit more about why.
You come to me for the good stuff...
There's Smashing Magazine and Six Revisions that I follow.
Congratulations, you are a sociopath.
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By "overrated" I don't mean that it's bad. It's overrated in the same way that The Mythical Man Month is the most overrated software engineering book, or Sgt. Pepper is the most overrated album. Those are important works, but they don't live up to the level of hype around them. In fact, I don't think anything could.

I agree with your point, though. (But not sure why it only applies to Americans? ;)
What has changed in the few weeks Tesla has been a public company? Doesn't seem to be any underlying change that would have shifted the company towards failure unless that was already the path.

So either the shares aren't worth what they were listed at and investors made a bad call or it could be people getting out purely because the share price is heading in the wrong direction right now.
This is helpful from a PESTEL perspective. I wonder, however, how these dynamics impact on making a customer. In other words: How do we make customers out of people who have no money? There is bartering, etc., but I cannot help but think there must be a way to (a) help those who have not and (b) still turns a sustainable monetary profit. Is there a sustainable, charitable business process beyond mere corporate charitabile giving?
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That's basic journalistic ethics, and basic journalistic ethics are dying right with traditional journalism. I'll bet you the majority of the audience for this site wants the drama.
I can only speak authoritatively about Americans, because I've only lived in America. Residents of other countries may be different :)
I've flagged this article -- I don't think this is the kind of stuff that belongs on HN, even on the weekend. The vast majority of it is a burned reporter doing his best to douse someone in gasoline in retaliation. Whether or not there is any truth to his claims, it's clear that this article is very far from impersonal.

One article giving Musk's version of events is plenty; let's not have every single back-and-forth get posted here.

As far as Tesla goes: some companies you invest in because you think you'll make money, and others you invest in because you think they're a good idea and you want to see them succeed. Regardless of its financial situation or management, I think Tesla is pretty clearly in the latter camp. They have managed to make electric vehicles viable as a high performance sports car, and they did it at a time when most people regarded electric vehicles as impractical.
Connection pooling only helps if you have a limited # of clients running on machines you control. In a maximum-scaled-out situation, you're gonna have eg hundreds of physical app servers so connection pooling is gonna make a difference, but only in individual client latency.

In the CouchDB case your clients might even be remote web-browsers and while some of them might use keep-alive, with real traffic most clients will be requesting just a couple of resources anyway, so again, connection-pooling / keep-alive is only going to make a small difference.

Not saying that you shouldn't try another benchmark with more efficient resource utilization, but at some point (hopefully) these databases all become disk-bound.
Ok - long delayed response since I lost my damned login :)

Thanks very much for all the replies, MUCH appreciated - and it seems to have given me the big kick I needed.

Since I posted, I managed to wangle a £10k raise. Basically gave a polite ultimatum with a well sourced list of equivalent jobs ~£30k. It's a good start!

I also took on board some of the Rentacoder type tips and have started to build up a rep on there. Did a few all-day $20 jobs, which was horrible, but I've just now finished a couple of jobs at $150 and $250 with around $500-800 due to complete soon. On top of that, I dug out a couple of old contacts and emailed on a whim. Could have £2k monthly coming in from their project overflow.

I'm also gonna look into doing some FOSS stuff if I can somewhere I'll make a good fit.

tl;dr: thanks an effing million. I was wallowing in self-pity and knew it. I really needed something like this. Now I'm slowly getting rich :)
How do you imagine the design of individual processes participating in that distributed architecture? Each of them is going to have to keep a lot of data in memory and allow concurrent access to it.

Your argument is like saying we don't have to bother with wheels on aircraft because flying is a much bigger problem than rolling on wheels.
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The most noble? Really? So, for example, running a casino is more noble than volunteering for Doctors Without Borders?
Re: Code Monkeyism's Diatribe on scala 2.8 RC's
Is it ok to have a personal homepage there ?

I've been looking for a online community where the other users don't annoy me for quite a while.
That sounds like a recipe for population replacement. Historically a wonderfully bad idea.

Why are Canadians (like whites everywhere) not having children? It strikes me that we should answer that question before replacing them by populations a bit further left on the civilizational bell curve.
Don't they not show / hide & archive old tweets anyway? Seems like they could really simple transition Cassandra in if they wanted to.
It is possible to configure CouchDB so that with a single client serial importing data, you can get less than ten inserts per second (3 fsyncs per insert). For a brief window we shipped that as the default configuration.

I'm not saying CouchDB is a speed-demon. It's not designed to be. It is designed to absorb real-world load spikes without falling over. And eventually when it falls over (as all databases will) it is designed to pop right back up again with only a few ms downtime.
Smashing Mag's Twitter feed I find to be be more useful than the site itself. There's a fair bit of fluff but there's a lot of good stuff too. Plus, it's updated at a furious rate.
Your critique also applies to inflation. If a vacation that costs $1000 this year will cost $2000 next year, people have an unnatural incentive to purchase it today rather than wait until they actually wanted to purchase it.

Further, inflation means that you have no incentive to save money since it will be worth less in the future.

You are making a broad generalization that deflation is bad, when in reality what I think you are going after is price stability.

However prices are not naturally stable b/c an economy is a dynamic, ever-changing thing.
Or you could just use MySQL.
While I wouldn't have put it as crudely as megablahblah he has a point, the unusual ad pricing structure probably puts off quite a few potential ad buyers.
I could write it, but it would either be dog slow or take 10 times as much time to write. The only way of using multiple cores would be to implement everything on top of shared memory. That implies using no pointers in any of the data structures and implementing a custom garbage collector.
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One who has ever created any HTML page or started dynamic web programming, has already met with forms. Forms are special components which allow the site visitors to add information on the HTML page.
Using a loan service to pay for concert tickets is unbelievable. This is EXACTLY why states like KY remain poor. A person that clearly has no savings would do so much better to have $200 in their savings account.
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Exactly. Prices are value neutral. When the government decides that housing prices should be higher (applies its own value judgments to prices) it creates a bubble which may then burst, leading to deflation, which of course would be viewed through the lens of this value judgment as "bad".

A price is just the nexus of supply and demand and cannot be good or bad.
> why don't people just vote with their money

It would be really great if that was possible. However, we can't simply buy "$1 worth of helping poor nations" in the way we buy products in the supermarket. And that's why we can't "vote" with our money. (The appearance of micro payments might change that, though.)

So we have to trust some organization with the money, and that leads to exactly the same issues of trust.

However, the government is under greater pressure and control than most other organizations. Or, at least they should, in a democracy. So trusting them with the money is not worse than trusting any other help organization with the money - except, of course, when you know the people of the help organization personally. But most people don't have such connections.
Pattern tap (http://patterntap.com/) is great for finding examples of individual design elements.
I can't stand Smashing Mag. Yes there are some good articles, but seriously most of that is simply linkbait articles, 10 this and 25 that.
Ugh I really miss HFStival. Now that I live in Chicago I have to fork out $200+ for Lolla tickets.
I think you're getting hung up on the idea of a deflationary spiral. We are not anywhere close to that.
I was only kidding
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That was my first thought as well. The expire/expireat commands are one of the main reasons why I chose Redis.

I'm honestly not sure why wycats would make that statement. It's not like the interface for expiration is particularly opaque.
I agree with this and have been saying it for a while. Quora could avoid inaccuracies like this one by weighting a person's answer on a topic based on their endorsements in PageRank fashion. e.g. I endorse you on Google, which has more weight if I am myself endorsed on Google with the weight increasing based on the number of times I am endorsed and how many people have endorsed the people endorsing me and so on. I'm relatively sure Quora will do this eventually.
I didn't go as far as flagging but I agree with your points. The only reason it is relevant is perhaps that it's related to a front page item from a few days ago. Apart from that its just a retaliatory rant, I agree.
What a moron...
That's why I like the twitter. It's more "look at this X" and a direct link without all the padding that would go into justifying an article.
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I am informed by the NYT project. :) For practical reasons, that approach wasn't right for us... at the time. Those details (for sake of clarity and sanity) didn't make it to the article.
Wife and I both bought one. Use them extensively to surf, read, etc from our roofdeck (right now actually). She has great luck propping up in kitchen while cooking and baking. I use mine at work to go outside and brainstorm away from my desk and other distractions.

Would buy again in an instant!
Do you believe the converse, that inflation is good for the economy (people buying things now bc the price will double in a year)?

Unless you're willing to prescribe a specific policy remedy, I suggest you clarify your thoughts before making the argument you're making.
With Emacs(w/paredit)+SLIME you would be doing "interactive development" which is really a fundamentally different and better way of using Lisp. I cannot recommend it enough.
But you can't really pick up most primary sources and actually get anything out of them without understanding the historical/philosophical context they were written in. If you can find someone with little to no philosophical background who can pick up A Critique of Pure Reason or the Tractatus and actually get anything out of it then you've probably found Kant or Wittgenstein reborn.

That's why the parent commenter said you need a guide/instructor to properly understand what is going on in these books, and I agree with that. But for people without such a luxury, secondary sources and articles are a good method for gaining some rudimentary understanding of the philosophical topics.
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If you're referring to the blue shift key, it means "caps lock". Tap the shift again to remove caps lock.
Why should making housing affordable be a goal? What exactly does that mean? Why is someone earning a low income better off being locked into a 30 year mortgage at a rate of 6% on something that will appreciate at 1% per year on average?
Alright, so it's not the optimal language for something with a large amount of mutable shared state being hacked at by threads. No one ever tried to bill it as the "one true language" - maybe it's better for glue in this case, or APIs or clients, etc. Maybe it needs some jython, etc.

This is why multiple languages (a diverse toolbox) and multiple interpreters each with their pros and cons is also a good thing. Each one will have its shortcomings, and it's almost impossible to achieve all of the goals of all of the modern programming languages in a single language.

So, sure - I'd love to see python used for this problem - and all problems but thats me being irrational, that will never be true. What is true is that eventually the GIL will go away, or a non cPython interpreter will rise above cPython as the defacto standard.
What will happen to mortgage interest rates if the contract can be easily invalidated by a judge? That luxury (to the borrower) is not free, and will be borne by all other borrowers.

Lenders resort to foreclosure b/c they realize that if they give an inch, they will absorb all of the losses. If you invest in something, even if you borrow money to do so, you typically agree to suffer the losses and to profit from the gains.
Am I the only heavy python user who didn't know who Brett Cannon is?
Perhaps HNers could share general design tips as well?

These are the two most important to me:

1) Don't use Adobe Photoshop. Use Adobe Fireworks. It's faster and simpler and everything you need for web stuff (gradients, masks, etc.). Use PNGCrush on any PNGs to remove all the extra info and layers before deploying.

2) Spacing\padding is one of the most important things that determines how professional a site looks to users, even if they can't verbalize it. For navigation buttons or tabs, a background height to inner font-height ratio of 2:1 looks way more professional than 1:1.
As you or someone else mentioned, your service will probably not stop at just GA. If so, then this will be quite valuable - creating a unified interface to all major analytics systems. My vision was too limited when I first thought about what you were doing. Great work!
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The book is from 1991, almost 20 years ago. There is a lot of outdated information. You should perhaps look for something more recent, that covers C99 and features commonly found on current compilers.
Take it. Find interesting problems and challenges to solve so that you expand your responsibilities over time. People will notice, and with the right networking, you should be able to move up/ be promoted.

Edit: a job, even if below you, allows for savings and retirement matching, both of which allow you greater flexibility in the future.
Actually, I believe PyPy has a GIL as well (unless they've removed it recently).
I can't participate in reddit any more!

No submission I make gets any traction.

Any story I find interesting already has 500+ comments. If I add a comment, nobody replies or votes on it. It's just lost in the noise.

I'm not looking to be an karma superstar, I just want a place to actively engage with some other Internet folks from time to time.

Reddit got too big. Perhaps HN will one day too.

I still browse reddit all the time, I just can't use it.
I don't disagree with some of your larger point. Most people will get the fullest benefit out of a classroom setting, with an engaging and well-read class leader and an engaged and thoughtful group of students to argue with.

However, I still believe that a determined outsider can get real benefit out of philosophy on his or her own. (Not the fullest benefit, but significant benefit.) I completely agree with you about cultural/historical/philosophical background, which is why in my answer I made a point of recommending not just titles but specific editions for classical works. Maybe we could call this the best of both worlds: good primary sources, filled out with enriching secondary material, all in one edition? (It does tend to make those editions more costly than some, and also heavier.)
Since it looks like skeptical philosophy is covered pretty well, here are some books from religious philosophy that you'd probably do well to read:

The Tao te Ching

The Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas

An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent by John Henry Newman

Either/Or by Kierkegaard
Altruism, by itself doesn't mean much of anything. I could give 10 bucks to a poor man and than that poor man proceed to squander it. I could have given money to the wrong people(who I thought was nice), who then proceed to buy capitals for criminal activities such as murdering individuals.

Of course, it's easy to sneer at the wal-mart or Henry Ford people of the world. However, remember that they have made it much easier to help people by increasing productivity.

An engineer who built a safe water supply system has saved more people than most doctors in the world. A sanitation company has saved lives by preventing the accumulation of trash and by disposing it safely. All of which are occupations that are unseen to the public eyes.

Doctors, we can see. Doctors who work on charity, we can see. But what we can't see is those profiteers who nonetheless help people but are in the background.
> the decision to do things for the public good comes ultimately from the "will of the people"

This is a nice theory, but who is voting on such minor issues, when you have wars, economic turmoil &c.? Absent voter pressure, isn't the reality is that such allocations are determined by lobbying?

> a rather small percentage of public expenditure.

Doesn't the suggestion of crowd-out point to an unexamined cost, which is the opportunity cost of the researchers? What would they be doing if not directed by government monies? If their efforts are being applied sub-optimally, what cost does that represent?
I don't think Moneta's Redis interface uses the ruby expiration code: http://github.com/wycats/moneta/commit/522be344cfeddb4a4dbf8...
With private charities, at least I can move my money around or start my own.

Beside, democracies suck in actuality. Theory doesn't mean much of anything if they don't work in reality. The Californians vote for programs but not for higher taxes. There are whole lot of lobbying that's going on. Who have time to read thousand pages bills made by congressmen?