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Nice! Low power usage is great, but I would like my data to be protected as well. Usually manufactures of devices like this are lacking in making sure my data is protected. After checking the specs I'm missing (for me at least) two basic requirements:

- please make use of https for logging into the device or using the apps on it. Lots of people use open wifi and are not using tunnels like the more technically crowd here on HN.

- Please make sure the device itself is fully encrypted. Devices of this small form factor are easily stolen and full disk encryption is at least making it harder for a common thief to end up with your personal data.

Without these measures I'm not really interested in using these devices for my personal use nor in advising others to buy them.
I'm curious and I might be missing more than half of my brain. Would you be willing to show some examples of bad coding on their source tree?
I ve seen this screen, but it only comes up after you give facebook Oauth access to your Gmail.
Are you familiar with the school trials that they're doing ? - essentially giving the videos as homework and spending the class time with teacher helping the kids with problems they had with understanding. Their performance metrics are also miles ahead of everything else.

(fyi they are a non-profit)
It is amazing the bump in traffic you can get from here
in the UK they recommend that if you need help, you actually shout fire. Sadly in big cities people will 'put their heads down' and walk past muggings. The idea is that if you shout fire, then all those individuals are also at risk, and therefore come to help.
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It depends on which scope you define it at. Within the python interpreter, and the guarantees it gives, it is one of the definitions. However, at a higher level, the definition is really to give one variable the value of one list appended to another; without knowing how python works, you can't guarantee that it will be a new list.
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The syrup comes from the motion of the fluid in the tree - when it gets cold at night the sap goes into the roots, when its warm during the day the sap rises. so to get a good flow you need cold nights and warm days.

during the flow the sap picks up the maple taste from other bits of stuff in the tree - grade b is actually the first sap produced in the season and has the most of this 'stuff'. As the season goes on theres less and less of this stuff so then you start making grade a and fancy.
I honestly have no idea, but I get the impression that the voting ring scheme isn't intended to be too harsh. Try giving and getting a few upvotes unrelated to your friends?
Are you thinking of palettes here?
selection bias? Is KA randomly selecting these schools for their trials? Or is it a convenience sample? In that case the schools that elect to work with KA are not likely to be typical American schools.
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There are many people who are not expert in your programming language but need to understand it, though. When you work in an environement where you need domain people, who are hired for their domain first and are programmers second, this can matter a lot.
That's 512 MB of RAM, not storage.

You could run FreeNAS (v7, not sure about later) on that. Not sure if it's worth it for a single drive device.

What does it do?

It's a headless computer, in a tiny form factor that sits on the mains socket, with a drive bay. You use it for whatever you'd use a tiny headless computer for. The low power requirements make "always on" acceptable; thus things like torrenting or file serving or etc etc are okay.

Compare this tiny low-power device running a Linux distribution for file serving with that old desktop - bigger, uglier, hotter, more power hungry.
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Indeed, and where would gaming be without the late night pizzas?!

I therefore nominate Mark Angela, the CEO of Pizza Express, as the gaming giant of the century.
From a developer standpoint, the App Store did eliminate the barriers to entry for mass distribution. In order to distribute for Sony, Nintendo, or XBox, you had to go to large publisher. Just as it is with iTunes, any studio, big or large, is capable of distributing on the App Store. Even if Steam isn't difficult to get published, the App Store certainly has the perception of being easier.
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Attacking the messenger is shallow. How about you look at the points - whether valid or not - he or she raises instead and try to refute them? It matters little if that person is well known or someone entirely new. I don't see how the relative anonymity of a person is in any way related to his or her credibility.

Besides, calling a position you don't agree with "trolling" with no further argumentation is 4chan level of discourse, and I know what I'm talking about when I say this. I will not take a side in this discussion because I'm not qualified to voice an opinion over things I do not understand well enough (databases), but I had to point this out.
You really believe that Apple TV will annihilate console and PC gaming? That's adorable.
Of course arguing who has the most influence in the gaming world is not exactly useful, but arguing that Apple and Steve Jobs had the most is just protype retardyness.
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It depends on the site (and possibly other factors -- title, who submitted it, etc). I submitted something from my own site once with a desire to get feedback on a specific question (not with specific intent to get traffic per se). It was hardly looked at.
Given the current discussion about MongoDB, I think that the following post is worth revisiting.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2538037

I'm not a Riak user, but I agree with Basho's analysis on this case.
Yup the Apple II and clones where kind of a half decent gaming platform then. Except only for rich kids, because nobody else could afford one. At least here in good old europe i would go with commodore or atari.
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Do you get access to the bootloader etc? They dont seem to be selling it as an open platform, so a bit unclear...
Work on a new implementation might be a good idea. :-)

The last months I've used the PCRE regexp library, which afaik is the one used in most implementations wanting Perl compatibility. I was a bit shocked... I thought it was good?

I ran into a couple of cases with bugs (one regexp couldn't be ported from Perl and another over complex one from a newbie hung(!) the process). It seems inefficient with backtracking, or? (Maybe this is fixed now?)
I'm not sure what your alternative to a "startup" is, a lobby group or advocacy group? Should Khan, Resig and the others quit and become teachers in the school system or work for Obama?

I'm a big fan of changing (disrupting, making less relevant) systems from the outside. Maybe KA won't bring about the change you seek, maybe it will take homeschoolers, or the Internet, or society taking advantage of the technology we have so one parent can stay home.
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Really? I'm curious to know what code you write then? I write code that does things faster/better/cheaper/easier -- but theoretically at least a person could perform whatever task I'm writing.
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"Schemaless" most of the time means "code based schema". Dealing with multiple schema versions at the same time is always possible, relational or not, but it causes significant bloat and complexity. When I hear gradual migration I think code decay, but I can see why it could be useful sometimes.

In my view, schemaless models are only desirable if the schema is not known until runtime, e.g. user specified fields or message structures, external file formats that you don't control but might need to query, etc.
Wow. Just wow.

Every single system you name is made up of a large number of complex sub-systems designed and built to exacting requirements, and any one of them can still break at any time. Thinking you "got it right" just because it didn't break one time in one set of circumstances is unbelievably naïve. There's a reason all man-rated launch systems have redundant backup systems, and even the fallbacks don't always work right.

By the way, let me know when you get micrometeoroid shielding "right" -- every space agency on Earth will want to talk to you. You might even win a Nobel Prize.

You're also completely ignoring navigation. Just because you can fire up a rocket doesn't mean shit if you're at the wrong point in your orbit, or pointed in the wrong direction.

You're also failing to distinguish between "I can get THIS rocket into orbit" and "I can get a rocket big enough to carry people and a useful payload into orbit and/or to the moon". Think you can just "scale up"? You're wrong. Effects that were too small to measure before will suddenly kill you. Materials that could handle the strain of the smaller rocket will crumble under the increased forces.

Oh, by the way, every time the weight or configuration of your spacecraft changes, you're gonna have to rework your navigation assumptions.

Might I suggest playing with Orbiter for a while? Once you've done that, spend a few minutes thinking about the fact that you've just been overwhelmed by a vastly simplified simulation in which nothing ever goes wrong. Now picture the real world.

Oh, by the way, your heat shield is cracked, but nobody noticed because your budget didn't allow for more than one guy to inspect it, and he was too drunk. Have fun getting home.
The iPhone, despite (and perhaps because) the fact that it's not a dedicated gaming platform, has wiped the floor with the portable gaming industry. Only fringe people and parents of young children buy a PSP or DS these days. Taking stats from [this article](1), even a successful portable console like the DS has sold only 50m units since 2004. That's 8 years ago. That's 6 million units a year or thereabouts. The iPhone 4S approached that number by the end of launch weekend.

I can't imagine there are any gaming companies serious about portable gaming who don't consider iOS their primary market. Hundreds of millions of customers who actually buy apps. You'd have to be dumb to ignore that.

In the same way, I expect that if the Apple TV does deliver on basically the same sort of disruption that the iPhone delivered to the mobile phone industry, we will see consoles becoming, perhaps not extinct, but at least fringe. Why buy any console, even a Wii, when your Apple TV already supports thousands of cool games?

Of course, this makes a large number of assumptions about the Apple TV. But I don't think they're that far-fetched (though Apple may choose to go in a completely different direction, of course). So, if a disruptive Apple TV comes out, with its sights set on the TV industry as the iPhone had its sights on the mobile phone industry, you can bet your ass that consoles will be a barely noticeable casualty of this battle (in the same way that cheap HD cams, point-and-shoots, and a wide variety of single-purpose devices are being wiped out by the iPhone without even being its target).

Apple gets convergence. Any tech gizmo industry where you have to buy one device for each piece of functionality you want is in deep shit the moment Apple makes a move in their neighbourhood. Consoles are one of those industries.

[1] http://venturebeat.com/2011/10/13/video-game-sales-drop-6-pe...
Interesting that it's on paste.lisp.org. It strongly reminds me of Emacs' rx macro. I suspect this a port of another toy regexp implementation -- otherwise I would expect the author to use `itertools.chain` rather than implementing something that does exactly the same (`iconcat` in this sample).
Where can I get info on the MySQL 5.5 issues? I'm considering upgrading from 5.1 to get the new InnoDB plugin...
it's still a valid point as there are no references to back up any off the claims in the post. he should at least have included links to issues in their jira or some way of replicating the problem he is experiencing.

as it stands now it's not fact based and could as much be opinion as there is no way to weight the merit of the claims against anything substantial :(
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If anyone is interested, from someone that uses maple syrup instead of sugar, Shady Maple Farms organic maple syrup grade B is the best. The other brands, even when organic and pure, just don't have the same type of clear taste for grade B.

You can find it at any organic/health shop.

If you can't wait, here is a non-affiliated Amazon link:
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After reading most of the comments now , I believe it is. I cant understand why would people just try to bring down something which is popular by all means by doing such rash publicity . HN should be a little careful while posting such links without verifying the source.
How about not logging to Facebook at all?

You don't seem like the kind of user FB targets anyway...
You might be interested in this: http://swtch.com/%7Ersc/regexp/regexp1.html
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If only all articles would go such great lengths in finding sources and then linking directly to them. This is how articles should be written, no matter the subject.

No artificial splitting over pages, links to offsite sources instead of only linking in-site, real links, no "click here" in the link text.

Amazing work.
This is almost as perplexing as the Buttered cat paradox:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buttered_cat_paradox
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Why call it a regexp engine? Those are actually parser combinators with backtracking. They can parse much more than just regular languages, but are exponentially slower compared to a proper regexp engine.
Are we sure this isn't an Oracle employee?
>> Suddenly mr. C gets a call from his boss. “We’ve decided
>> to rewrite our apps in JavaScript. It is pretty fast
>> nowdays, ya know.” says the boss and hangs up.

Umm... Instead of proceeding to rewrite the app and author this blog, the author could have realized that JavaScript (or Scala, Java, Python etc.) could realistically be faster than C and should have explained the same to his/her boss.
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Typo: could realistically not be faster
Does it matter, if they're right?

Edit: to the downvoters, this is a serious question.
A bit like complaining about a specific compiler and getting a reference to papers on optimisations. :-) That said, it looks interesting; will read after lunch.
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There is a reason why Law firms sends by snail mail, and I think if they choose to store it online, i do not think they will trust it to a other company, that they do not own, they will either make there own service or use branche-organisation product.
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Have you talked to Greenplum? They have a postgres derivative that can cope with Yahoo's clickstream data.

(I am not affiliated with either of them).
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I'll take well-understood pain that I can patiently work around, one time, over the course of days or weeks, if the alternative is random bugs that bite you in the night for years at a time.

Joins are no fun, yes, but as you gritted your teeth and implemented those cute little table-based key-value stores, did you find yourself mentally calculating the time required to restore the whole system from backup while muttering tiny prayers? Probably not. Did your code wake up the ops team an average of once per month for several years? Did you lose data? Did you have to put up an apologetic blog post? Did anyone have to get on the phone and rescue customer accounts, one at a time, with profuse apologies and gifts? (Now that is a non-scalable process...)

But at least this argument about maintenance is a real argument. The one about wanting to save time during initial development by skipping the declaration of schemas reads like the punchline of a Dilbert cartoon that you'd find taped to the wall in the devops lunchroom.
Professional hard drives are almost impossible to find, at any price. The price for the highest-end (therefore most demanded by capacity hungry customers) 3 TB pro drives went up more than 100%, and there aren't available anywhere anyway.

I have just enough stock to ship customers until end of November (a couple hundred terabytes) then...
The implicit patent grant is not holding in Europe and it is debatable if it's valid in the US for derivate works.

Basically OpenJDK is effectivelly useless if you're not dancing on Oracle's music.
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I presume he's referring to the silent truncation stunt Mongo has been accused of by others before.

"Oh THAT", say Mongo boosters. "You should have read the IRC logs of June 22nd", they continue, "there was a 3 line patch posted in the channel. It totes fixes that problem".
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The original point is that, once you achieve LEO, a free-return tragectory to the moon is just a question of delta-v. And not that much - the Soyuz-based moon roundtrip being offered for US$ 100M is a Soyuz docked with a mini-bus-sized booster stage.

Micrometeorites? Did Apollo have that? I am not implying it's easy - I'm implying LEO is the hardest part when it comes to a moon-orbit trip.

And in the case of an unmanned craft, it's easier: you don't have to bother with life support, atmospheric braking and most of the radiation shielding.
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I can see what you mean about the filesystem of the future, but as it is a lot of these sites are only online for desktops, dropbox is the only one for ios, and is only doing a descent job.
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These are not new approaches to data modelling.

Document databases, network databases and hierarchical databases (IMS, CODASYL etc) predate relational databases by decades.

Relational is the universal default for a simple reason. When first introduced it proved to be far better, in every conceivable way, than the technologies it replaced.

It's as simple as that. Relational is a slam-dunk, no-brainer for 99.99% of use cases.

Still, if you really want a fast, proven system for one of the older models, you can get IBM to host stuff for you on a z/OS or z/TPF instance, running IMS. It'll have more predictable performance than AWS to boot.
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@mechanical_fish yes and it was a mysql installation. Weird things happen with all systems once you push them up to the edge of performance both of the hardware and interconnections between servers.

Slow interconnect between servers caused me headaches in the past with mysql for replication. Shared switched did the same. Problems with locks under high contention did the same. Problems with the client libraries the same. In fact all storage systems have similar problems and pain. Some are just more battle tested than others.
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Well I don't think that in

b = list(a)

it's clear in any way that the purpose of "list" is to make a copy.
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My thoughts are towards an appliance-like experience with minimum setup involved, more like installing a NAS, which the average Joe can manage nowadays without dedicated admin.

Of course things will go wrong, and there'll always be a need for support, but you can mitigate a lot with just software, e.g. pairing of bricks for mirroring, growing capacity by adding pairs, and supporting this through wizard-like UIs.

As for complicated failures, should they occur, there's always outside help (for which an ecosystem of its own might appear if such a software stack was successful enough).
And the Apollo program was hardly a poster-child for capitalism: federal government-run program, very centralized and partly militarized, very wasteful and expensive, at a time when marginal rates of taxation where above 70%.

Let's be honest: massive technological pushes that do not deal with production efficiency have nothing to do with capitalism or even democracy.
but for some very narrow hotspots in your code it can mean a massive difference :)
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I've only ever found it in Booths, which is a fancy Whole Foods-style supermarket local to me in northern England. It's labelled with the Canadian flag and "100% pure Canadian maple syrup," but no grade. I love it on my pancakes, but now I'm worried that what I've been eating all these years isn't actually real!
Two large companies, Google and IBM, have invested a lot of money and have built multi-billion dollar businesses based on Java: Android and the Rational/Websphere Suite. They're probably losing a lot of sleep at night knowing another large and independent player like Oracle owns the thing. I would. IBM has even "joined" the new OpenJDK effort. But it's just a matter of time until they resign over some $$ or licensing dispute.

I wonder why they don't seriously team up and do something about this. Google has already many language and vm designers on board, with Python, V8 and Go all increasingly popular. IBM too is no stranger to building languages, runtimes and databases from the ground up.

Instead of setting up a true open standard for a cross-platform environment and language, they choose to spend billions on patents and legal fees to defend their status-quo.
I find your conclusion disturbing, to say the least. In what parallel universe is it a good thing to have one corporation control an entire market?

ESPECIALLY if the name of that corporation is Apple - doing its best to destroy customer and developer freedom while baiting everyone with aqua-glazed convenience.
This is an interesting article with regards to helping the V8 compiler optimise JavaScript code. Often, if C like speed is required, it would be easier to just write C rather than try emulate it through esoteric language features, but I wonder if these kind of compiler optimisations could be included via a language that compiles to JavaScript, such as CoffeeScript, at the expense of readability.
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Mostly I agree with the article. But I'm noticing a new trend now with Steve Jobs. For the first weeks after his death, he was excessively glorified (deserved or undeserved is not for me to comment here) by the media and by the grand majority of commentators. Now that some time is past, the new trend seems to be...not renegging on the earlier attitude so much as bringing to light why his innovations aren't quite so universal, or that they are "overstated" (again, while I agree with this article, I'd hardly call a lot of his contributions overstated). Perhaps I'm just being more selective in the posts I read, but has anyone else noticed this?