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I severely doubt that anecdote. Nearly every government decision (e.g. where to build roads) involves calculations that put a value on human life, never mind the more obvious ones about what drugs to provide via socialized medical services.

This is sometimes awkward to discuss in public, where emotion plays better in the media, but I'm fairly certain that it's been standard government practice to do such cost benefit analysis for decades.

(If the proposal did actually exist and was rejected then it seems more likely that a politician was using the emotional argument as a convenient cover for not implementing a policy that they disagreed with for other reasons.)
You're seriously arguing that a throw-away comment from an anonymous internet poster is enough to invalidate her story, and that we should ignore the victim's story because we might find ourselves in the attacker's situation? What the fuck is wrong with you?
I agree. The right thing to do would be to take down this video until the revenue has been verified by you.
How do you know it was successful?
very simple and useful advice. thanks a lot hackerblues.
That sounds like an impossibly huge fireball for a rocket. IIRC even nukes don't create fireballs that large. Maybe I'm underestimating the amount of energy in a rocket.

My guess is that the main threat would be an off course rocket, or debris from an explosion, and that the probability of damage is acceptably low 3 miles away.
I agree. Total BS.
Not exactly BS, I think. I think they are all well intended but naive points (first two of them) and some over-idealistic and simplified - "Do not go into any competition".

To grant him some benefit, in his last point he did say, to take his advice too with a "pinch of salt".
Nice try with what?
That's one of the tough myths to overcome when building on top of a relational database. Changing the Database has traditionally been Hard, so everybody has been trained to think that way, therefore nobody is allowed to change the database because Changing the Database is hard. Try it at your bigco and the old guys will do everything in their power to stop you (thus making changing the database hard to do).

Ignore that rule and build yourself an environment where changing the database is easy. I make schema changes to my stuff all the time, and seldom push a release live that doesn't do so. The tools are in place to ensure that it's No Big Deal, so it just works.

If you live in a world where changing your SQL database is easy, it sort of takes the wind out of the "start with NoSQL, because changing the database is easy" argument. You get all the speed advantages of being schema-flexible, and you can write ad-hoc queries when you want to, so you're flexible in that direction too.
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Peddling something that amounts to psychotherapy. without a grounding in science is clearly suspect. Not necessarily bogus as some belief systems like religion, which have no scientific basis, can have ends which justify the means.

These people are promising some kind of transformative process which feeds on an individuals desire for change. They are literally parasites feeding on the desperate, but it is important to remember parasites aren't necessarily* bad, just unpleasant to those of us who don't need their services.

* generally (IMHO) bad, just not necessarily
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I used a combination of Arduino boards (Atmega controllers), Velleman dimmers and a Velleman relay board to control all the lights in my home, with pushbutton switches that have feedback LEDs. Then I wrote an application on top of that (running off an AT91SAM9 dev board) that implements mood combinations, also exposing a protocolbuffers/http based API (events are IP multicast) that I use to control everything with my Android phone. I also use it to configure the Arduino's (and upgrade them remotely using avrdude). It's still not completely finished, but so far it's been working quite well for me. The central application runs in an OSGi container, and exposes every light and mood as a service, so I would like to plug some light sensors into it so I can let it control some lights automatically (for example the one at the front door). I was lucky enough that I knew what I was going to need so all the wires were in place when I needed them. For future additions I think I'm going to have a look at Z-Wave or Zigbee.
Thanks for the advice and the encouragement harscoat.

I read somewhere that humility is the other side of greatness and try my best to live by that. Lying to yourself about your weaknesses is just destructive in so many ways.
Depending on how noisy your house's electrical system is, the commands and responses between controllers and devices can be lost. I control my sprinkler system with X10 from a Linux box and my first iteration flooded my back yard when I was on vacation a couple of years ago when a power-off command wasn't received.
I think the real problem is that once you start looking at animals as intelligent (in some capacity) and capable of suffering (in some capacity) every decision similar to "ok, now lets eat it" start to seem horrendous. But we still need to eat them, because not everyone can be a vegetarian.

The "intelligence threshold" or "emotional threshold" are imperfect, but they're the best we came up until now. They have clear imperfections and consequences that we don't want, but if we keep in mind that those are stop gaps and not real solutions, we shouldn't try to follow "logical consequences" that seem insane.

We should try to find better solutions. I'm all for vat-grown meat. I'd never eat an animal again.
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If you’re building a B2B app to manage payroll, “Cloud hosted SaaS payroll for your business” is not a good headline. “Spend less time worrying about payroll” is a better one. “Cut payroll management costs by 37% instantly” is even better.

From my experience, the user needs to first know what your product is. After that, you can sell the benefits. Benefits are not easily understood without knowing what the product is.

You should get better results with "Hosted payroll for your business" on the frontpage than "Cut payroll management costs by 37% instantly" (Unless of course all your visitors are already aware of you and what you do - this is never the case). The "Cut payroll management costs by 37% instantly" should be used on the "take a tour" page to describe the benefit and drive conversions.

I'd be curious to know if you have any stats related to this that you can share? It seems a bit counter-intuitive that a "flat" descriptive headline is better than flashy benefit, but the data I've seen shows that.
that wasn't there originally ;)

edit: So that means the banner works!
I'm using Redis as a backend to store course availability information at my university. If the set contains the course ID it has an open seat. Data is scraped and processed continuously and there are ~7200 courses so Redis is a good fit.
I really didn't understand why she felt the need to say that, I'm not really sure what the relevance was to sexual assault.
I think a more common and more important use is callback functions.
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I remember when I purchased a shareware version of the first Doom. I ordered it by sending a post card to a Finnish game retailer. After a week or two, I received a few diskettes. I was thrilled: a new game was just delivered to my home!
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Not only that, I VERY, VERY rarely close my browser.

I actually keep Chrome running all the time just for GMail. My main web browser is Opera. Chrome's drag & drop support for attachments also helps. I used to use Firefox with Gears specifically for GMail, but that doesn't seem to work very well anymore (and Google have abandoned it with no replacement as yet).
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I haven't tried -C on SSH, but I'll make a note to try it next time I get the chance. We use QNAP NAS so we're more or less stuck to specific kernel versions, but the userland is fairly complete (as you have basically got a ton of disk space for userland apps!)
The idea of fixing bugs before implementing new features is that the bugs in your program might interfere with new features. Or finally fixing that bug requires you to do some large scale refactoring, a completely different approach, who knows.

So if you happily go ahead with new features, you might find out later that you're building on sand, and fixing the old code plus all the new code might be massively more expensive.

Regarding version control: I think this depends on your community. In 2000, it was standard knowledge in University/UNIX/Java land that developing software without version control is not only a bad practice, but just unprofessional. This might have been different in all those small shops doing VB or Flash stuff.
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I have been practicing ashtanga yoga 4-6 times a week for several years now. I must say that it suits well to a programmer. Even though I sit by the desk about 8 hours a day, I never have any aches or pains. The daily practice kind of moves the body to the background, since the body becomes quiet and it does not complain. Practicing yoga postures also involves meditation, so its a good way to relax.

I suppose this can be achieved by practicing martial arts as well. The main thing is to have a regular exercise that you find meaningful.
I've had it happen to me - I guess on two occasions.

I was shocked, It felt repulsive (because a drunk woman 30 years older than you grabbing for your balls trying to stick her tongue into you mouth is hardly attractive). It didn't feel good, but I didn't feel "damaged" because of it either. I left the place and went home.

No blogging, no police, no drama. It's not like there was some sort of conspiracy to destroy my person. It was an unfortunate sexual misconduct that a person needs not to dwell upon.

There is a big difference between unwanted approaches, even being creepy - and actual rape or "sexual assault".
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If dolphins became legal persons then how would you take one to court? If one ever broke into your house or something.
Ask HN: Transient/non-degree student application advice?
Has anyone on HN gotten into a tough school as a non-traditional student? If so, do you have any advice on increasing my chances of acceptance?

I took a year away from college and I have now decided to apply to Georgia Tech as a non-degree student first and apply next fall to be a degree seeking student.

Please and thanks.
Why would you trust such a site ?

If they become even moderately successful, I will always be worried that the big brands / local importers - just bought the top slots and the site is nothing more than a marketing tool.

But maybe its me being cynical
Does anyone have a cache of the article?

http://blog.nerdchic.net/archives/418/ is down, and I'd rather read whatever happened directly from one side than from a third party.

Edit: relevant part (they're at a pub):

"And then I went to the loo, and as I was about to go in, (name), who had been speaking in the Hadoop track, called me over, and asked if he could talk to me.

I’m on the board of Apache. I’m responsible for our conferences. I work on community development and mentoring. If you’re at an Apache event and you want help, information, encouragement, answers, I will always do my best to provide. So this wasn’t an unusual request, and it wasn’t one I expected to end the way it did.

He brought me in to the snug, and sat up on a stool. He grabbed me, pulled me in to him, and kissed me. I tried to push him off, and told him I wasn’t interested (I may have been less eloquent, but I don’t think I was less clear). He responded by jamming his hand into my underwear and fumbling."

OK I'm going to agree with the author here (assuming this is true). If you're escalating without complaint, there's nothing wrong with putting your hands down a woman's pants. If she's indicated she's not interested though, it's being an asshole.
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[...] where the impure side of things was as easy to write as the pure
computations, that would be great.

From your post, I'm going to assume that you haven't used the languages
I'm talking about; sorry if I misread that. SML/Ocaml/F# are not purely
functional languages, so side effects work just like you'd expect coming from C/Python/etc. The language
encourages functional programming (for example, variables are immutable by default),
but imperative code is far from difficult to write. I highly recommend
you try one of these languages. They may just be what your looking for.
try it and see :D

I think I'm going to be attempting a solution, too (though it's not the same as yours)
I really can't tell. As far as I know, all people in my department publish freely his documents: either in ArXiV or in the department page for submitted papers. Also, ArXiV has a huge numnber of articles in Mathematics, the growing trend is to submit it there. I guess that most mathematicians (or at least, young ones) at least provide some draft version of their published manuscripts online, freely available.
> If you believe this, then I recommend doing a start-up

I did (http://www.tapeditor.com)
> The numbers you just put above mean nothing to me. Feet per Gallon is something humans can visualize.

Can you tell me quickly, without getting out pen and paper, how many gallons in 42 cubic feet? I suspect I can calculate how many litres in 42 cubic meters a damn sight quicker.
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I am just saying there are two sides of the story and we have not heard the other side yet. And we are talking about a professional and personal life getting ruined here (the guy is already screwed up regardless of what comes out of this, with this HN submission and even a Techcrunch article about that).

We are getting a pattern of events that emerges we need to analyze that. Public history of multiple sexual harassment claims in blog posts, "flirting with a couple of guys", "having several drinks", "private party in my room". Try to be fair here - we need to hear the other side of the story here for sure.
"What you need to do is discover what you like. You have to work on stuff you like if you want to be good at what you do."

Isn't it after working quite a bit on stuff we don't quite like that we start to like them? Maybe it's hard to discover what we like before we have given it a chance practiced or worked on it a bit. My bet would be that most people who thought they liked violin, math or hacking at 1st sight, already had worked on it without knowing before. Their parents listened to music, went to concert with them, a teacher showed them how to build a Turing machine with paper and tape...

I like that post, I would dare edit last sentence to "Go out, work, practice, and learn"
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There have been several HN posts about useful "plumbing" commands to tunnel things through networks (netcat, socat, ssh-tunnels, ...). DeleGate not only can proxy simple byte streams through the network but also convert between a diverse set of application-protocols. While I wouldn't advertise it as a production server it makes it extremely useful if you have to proxy yourself out of a limited network.

The link goes to the examples-page, the main page is of course reachable at http://www.delegate.org/.
I have nothing to add to the discussion. It sounds to me like your approach to the book is solid. If you write the book outlined here I will buy it, for me and for my kids :)
I was impressed by the concealment method used in the bomb, since the explosive has a similar consistancy to ink/toner - but this is just ridiculous.

Responding to each terrorist threat, post-threat, by banning any method they used in their attack is a bad way to secure the western world.

The terrorists will just adapt and find other methods, as they have proven time and time again. In the interim, millions of travelers take their shoes off at airports, can no longer carry liquids on planes and have perfumes and aftershaves confiscated.

With all the different ways our lives have been adjusted because of each attack attempt I have to ask myself if we are not letting them win.
Most coaches are full of crap. So are most parents, teachers, therapists, doctors, lawyers, tax accountants, designers, programmers, consultants and freelancers of every variety, and anyone who ever talks about, writes about, or even thinks the word "entrepreneur."

But oh, no, HN hates business coaches especially because of the sneaking feeling that they're tricked by approaches that HN readers cannot understand. Those tricksy life coaches, they'll never get one over on us! All advice should be free! All you have to do is read once to understand! They can't fix your life if you make no effort therefore they are bogus! If they cannot quantify and prove the vaguaries of the human heart, more so than the best scientists in the world, they are a lying thieving scumbag!

Please.

The original essay is fine-ish, except that it states that the mere presence of good speaking skills means you should suspect a person. The mere presence of a statement like that in a blog post means you should suspect a person. When a person makes a statement like that, you should be on your guard about everything else the person has to say (write), because that indicates a sweeping generalization and no small amount of personal/professional jealousy.

Oh yes, witty mnemonics, they're a sign that evil is afoot!

But so is showing that you belong to a community and attempting to gain its respect as "one of us" by loudly attacking a presumed common enemy.

See, bloggers just want your money and attention too.
Grokking Ruby itself is more important. Rails is just a bunch of DSLs for web development. Anyway, feel free to contact to me.
This actually interests me, since it's hard to find open source projects you might want to be involved in.

So, what would you ultimately like to see? A reddit type interface to talk about open source projects, with perhaps ties into Git/Github etc?
One way of doing this:

1. Get some million tweets from twitter API (each tweet is exactly like what the article describes as a 'document')

2. After ignoring common words (e.g. 'a', 'an', 'the' ... ) in a tweet , start assigning some kind of relevance rank to all the other word pairs found in the tweet
e.g. its likely that 'Cricket' and 'Sachin' (Or 'NBA' and <top NBA player) will both increase each other's relevance rank, WRT to each-other.

3. Process all the tweets like this, while maintaining the output of step 2 in a most suitable data structure. You would also need to start dropping word-pairs (to avoid having the problem of storing Million-C-2 words! ) based on some logic/heuristic.

4. If we have a good logic for having reasonably not-big storage (by avoiding the million-c-2 explosion), then what we have is at the end of processing: A simple look up of a million words, where each word has its 'top' max_allowed(k) semantic words.

PS: The most complex piece in the approach is to come out with a solution for dropping word-pairs (in step 3)
Brilliant! Just cleared so many thoughts going on in my mind about college - should I go or not? what should I take up (too many to choose from).

Now I know what to do - go learn and do something. It will make things clearer.

Not only for college but life at general.

Any chance PG said anything about college? Any talk? Essay? Links please.
That's not representative of RDBMSs in general. In Oracle we don't think twice about adding a column to a table during production hours. The only issue is if the new column has a default value and you have millions of rows that you need to "backfill" but that's just a big transaction; it's nothing remarkable in and of itself, if you could do a transaction that big anyway, you'd just go ahead and do it. And of course, in Oracle readers don't block writers and writers don't block readers, we have MVCC.

Once again, NoSQL is shown to be a reaction against MySQL, not RDBMSs in general.
Lol, thanks for letting me know, I guess I should take this as a compliment, when looking at all the services blocked in china. I have to take a closer look at this.
Also amusing that the high-end laptop is the lowest-end MacBook.
Priority seems to be messing up messages over IMAP. One inbox gets the original message in formatted goodness, and one gets the message's raw content as text (including meta-content, like attachments, separators, etc). Changes which one it comes into, too; I think it's whichever was pulled first.
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That's obvious, but I don't think that's xentronium's point. It seems to be poking fun at the way the differences in the sexes now and through history that the post calls us to consider can be applied to that line. Something like that. I don't claim it to be particularly well thought out.
How reliable is the latency/jitter in wifi-based MIDI? Last time I was seriously trying to do things with MIDI on a computer for real-time control, admittedly a few years ago, even USB had problems on normal (non-real-time) OSs. Ended up having to stick with PCI interfaces to avoid latencies >10ms cropping up too frequently for my needs. The most recent set of benchmarks I can find that include the whole end-to-end timing are from 2004, though: http://www.suac.net/NIME/NIME04/paper/NIME04_1C03.pdf
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It's not arbitrary bullshit to the recruiter, it's her bread and butter. She really wants managers because they are decision makers whom she can pitch her services to, nothing to do with the client.

Never give contact information for other people to recruiters, whether that person is a developer or employer, they will be spammed relentlessly because that is how recruiters make money. Some of them are so despicable they might claim you referred them.

Recruiters (with very few exceptions) are the lowest of the low, always keep that in mind when dealing with them and act accordingly.
no, a glance at the @Cookssource twitterfeed (referring, amongst other things, to Poe's Law) makes it clear that to a large extent this is an epic trolling. http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Poes_Law
Yes, downvote me. That just shows that you prefer to be tricked by people who are putting on a show as being "one of you."

Where, I ask you, is the science that proves that there is a correlation between speaking skills and valuelessness? Or witty mnemonics and an intent to trick or defraud?

This essay, and the comments, are more of the same deception that the OP accuses a whole industry of. It's just that the call is coming from inside the house.
This is what we do. The biggest benefit here, for us, is that if a release goes horribly wrong, or our testers find a disastrous bug, we can easily roll back to a clean state and only lose the time it takes to load the VM.

I've tried using a VM for doing development, but I've run into the issues mentioned in the parent article: Visual Studio 2010 is memory and CPU hog. I've maxed out the RAM in my laptop, and it still ran too slowly to be really useful.
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Someone pasted the content of the post in the other thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1875865
That was but one example out of many. Oracle is a great database. It isn't great at everything, however. Geographically distributed, fault tolerant, scale out architectures as often required for big online services? Not a great fit. Multi-petabyte complex analytics processing? Not a great fit.

There is a set of relational database folks fixated on the false dichotomy of relational databases OR non-relational databases. In practice, they are often combined in a variety of ways. Insisting on One True Database is like insisting on One True Operating System or One True Programming Language. Stop obsessing over tools and build useful stuff!