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> It's not an analogy, it's a parody.

Whatever it is, it's fundamentally flawed. People studying to be theoretical physicists know it's a long and hard path. Also, they are eligible for a number of quant jobs.

> No education makes you "eligible" for a "related" job (unless the job is "college professor").

So, those doctors, lawyers, nuclear physicists, rocket scientists, architects, civil engineers, mechanical engineers... should have just got an English major, since their education didn't do shit.

That's outright ridiculous, and wrong. Pretty much anything in hard sciences and technology(programming being a notable exception) requires a related formal education. And it's not bureaucratic - the job needs the background. Your well roundedness and critical thinking and whatever doesn't make you a doctor.
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I've been on Globalscale's treadmill since the very first "SheevaPlug" release. It wasn't until 2 products later "Dreamplug" that they really worked out their heat and power problems.

I'm a bit worried that a device like this, crammed in with a hard disk is going to bring all that back up again.

Its great if its cheap to run 24/7, but it has to actually be able to do this without overheating and locking up twice a week to be useful.

I'm hopeful though. I've had great luck with $149 Dreamplugs as permanent home servers. This is cheaper and fits the hard drive inside. Nice.

With these on the scene, it becomes ridiculous to "turn that old desktop into a home server". That 100watt desktop will cost you as much in power in a year as just buying one of these, not to mention being noisy, large and ugly.
> but there was no indication

The post mentions: "here is the information we can share". I am guessing they whetted it out with the police and deliberately didn't mention the security cameras and other specifics.
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What's that additional layer of PHP code good for? Call your API from Javascript.
You are absolutely correct that futures or call options could ameliorate this issue.

However, I think stockpiling cancer drugs is a market distortion, which might justify government intervention in the form of price ceilings for various generic drugs.
The problem with Cassandra is you never believe the responses to your queries..... until it is too late.....
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"Note: Looks like we are trending in Hacker News. We would like to offer a TP2 for the best comment in HN. We learned a lot from the HN community over the years - It is the least we can do."
Halfway through the post I was expecting it to turn out to be a chatbot, not a real person.
This is the worst piece of interview footage I've every seen. Why is the interviewee shot at the profile? Why do I care to see the interviewer head on?

I stopped watching after the second zoom in on interviewee.
They probably wanted to say 1.2 Watt-hours per hour.

Where I live, a watt-year costs about a buck so it would be $1.20 to run it for an entire year.
Wow, finally this months old story is making the rounds here?
One way to check if there is in fact some truth to a bit of folk wisdom / superstition is to see how universal it is.

I was born in Russia, and have never heard about the sugar+hyperactivity thing before moving to Canada. At the same time, nearly everyone back in Russia is sure that going out lightly dressed in cold weather will make one sick, and this seems to be news to Canadians.
b = a[:]

This happens to be fastest, and language recommended way to copy lists.

I really don't buy the argument about languages being intuitive to people who don't know the language. Languages should be optimized for people who know the language. I think Matz has mentioned it somewhere regarding "principle of least surprise" and Ruby.
These things are a form of "premature optimization," which I think anyone can be misguided into, but which younger/less experienced programmers are particularly prone to, because they naturally tend to have uneven skill development, so they'll try to build from strengths before branching out.

Premature optimization of typing = complex text editor

Premature optimization of debugging = excessive unit tests or formalism

Premature optimization of product = coding features without feedback
yes, we are using mongo from 1.6.3. Reliability, Locking and Data security (not losing data) are never first priorities on their to-do list, they just push new features and busy doing marketing propaganda about how web-scale mongodb is(which is fake). I submitted a jira issue about losing data when sync a slave, it's already 3+ months, all they did is let me try the new releases to see if it fix the problem. I tried the latest 2.0.1 release, and it's still cause data loss. Every time I sync a new slave, I pray to god, hoping not lose data.

How come a DB lose data so frequently and it sill call itself web-scale? It just breaks when you need scale!

For auto-sharding it's also super unreliable, tried once and it failed, and now we are using a lib that do application level sharding. We are also considering move to other databases that at least know not losing data is the first and most important thing of a DB.

Some one summarized the issues of mongodb, http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=FD3xe6Jt , we experienced most problems in the article. So just a remind for someone who want to create serious product using mongodb, read the article, it's not FUD, it's just so true that I hope I read it 1 year ago, so we don't have to try moving so much legacy data to a new database solution.
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I knew white space means a lot in Python (Disc: newbee and learning Python still!). Just found this, and thought someone out there might be able to throw some more light.

Python 2.7.2 (default, Jun 12 2011, 15:08:59) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.
>>> a=[1,2,3]
>>> b=a
>>> b
[1, 2, 3]
>>> a=[1]
>>> b
[1, 2, 3]
>>> id(a)
18704984
>>> id(b)
18721728
>>> c = [4, 5, 6]
>>> d = c
>>> id(c)
10755928
>>> id(d)
10755928
>>> print c, d
[4, 5, 6] [4, 5, 6]
>>> c = [7]
>>> print c, d
[7] [4, 5, 6]
>>> e = c
>>> c.append(8)
>>> print c, d, e
[7, 8] [4, 5, 6] [7, 8]
>>>
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That's pretty shameful. I wouldn't really consider this a clone so much as a shameless ripoff with no attribution whatsoever. How does this kind of stuff make it through the approval process? I suppose the process is more to cover Apple's own ass than to protect developers.
That's still within the realm of human error.
You are talking SoC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_on_a_chip) right? I think most NAS you get for retail users are made by some of those chips. Also true for small home routers.
What sort of beers do you recommend doing this with?
I think you accidentally posted that in the wrong thread. The notice refers to this item:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3201351
I've always been a little confused as to why whenever Jobs and Gates come under discussion, there is an instant contrast drawn with either one placed on completely different extremes. One was good other was bad, one was creative other was not, one was spiritual and zen-like and the other was stuffy and corporate. It's almost like they cannot be reconciled in any way possible.

I feel like people often conflate people with their creations and forget that they both are human beings who change, evolve and behave differently under different contexts.

I mean, they both are/were great visionaries and their greatness was manifested in different ways just like their weaknesses in personalities. They both created lasting companies which changed the world at an age where most of us are still figuring out what to do with our lives.

You don't have to hate BillG in order to like Steve Jobs or vice versa.

I personally find inspiring traits in both of them.
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An illustration would've been great, but I wanted to test my ability to describe something just with words.
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Despite being a non-programmer, I found this article really user-friendly.
One thing is true for this product is that the pricing per MB of RAM is cheaper than those on market. However most of them have 1.2Ghz or so processor and a 3.5" bay instead of 2.5", I really need some benchmark to tell. You don't want portability and 24/7/365 uptime with the same device.

Comparing eggs here, the closest you can get for something like this, say QNAP's, would cost 149 for a 256MB 1.2Ghz SoC stuff with 1 bay.

What most of us here would wonder, is what OS could we load into the system with adequate driver support, or just some firmware like tomato (http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato).
Assuming that she has a smartphone, has anyone checked to see her last known gps position?
He set up separate hosting for some static splash pages and got some
information for us from vendors.

I never did get a clear explanation of his role, and he stayed at
another site with the project manager, so I really don't know how much
work he did, only that I didn't see him do very much.
I don't see why not. Different classifiers have different bias/variance characteristics. If you want to increase variance and decrease bias, than boost your classifier. (This is why boosting is usually applied to simple classifiers.) But whether that will actually help depends on the characteristics of the problem and the classifier used.

I guess bagging is a different story. So far as I know bagging usually decreases variance with no bias penalty, so it is more a trade-off between variance and speed.
Thanks for noticing - I got my numbers completely off. When I ran the benchmark on my machine it turns out it was still using the original copy.

One way to catch deepcopy bugs might be to create an autocopy function which can detect if it is a 'shallow' object and use copy, or if not use deepcopy.

I am going to try and write an implementation that doesn't slow it down too much. It might be worthwhile since copy bugs are so common in Python projects.
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If you're taking your time to design some important large scale system, using proven technologies is easier overall with higher up front costs.

Prototypes are another story. You'd optimize against mental overhead.
Usually the cops are on that sort of thing. I hope.
But it might be worth checking Google Latitude, MobileMe, Loopt and the like; if she used any of those indirect passive GPS services.
I hope she is ok and has just gone walkabout. Even then, a courtesy "I'm ok" call goes a hell of a long way.
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As somebody who doesn't know python, I find a = list(b) to be not very intuitive. b is a list already, why call list() on it?

So I don't think you gain any readability over the slicing syntax.
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The page is too text-heavy. I can't tell what it does even after trying.
Yes, indeed it should be $7 instead of $6.

I didn't run it when I posted the comment. I just copied it from the article.
For those trying to use the arrow keys to walk around the 3D environment, and finding their browser window tries to scroll instead, WASD seems to also better for me on Chrome.
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Let's see:

I learned Basic because I had a C64 (show of hands: anyone else?)

I learned Fortran because my Running Start advisor didn't think 8 credits of C in a term would fit into high school credits well and I had to match HS and college credits according to an arcane formula. Ok, I still shiver at the thought of Fortran....

I learned some C years later because it was a "serious" programming language. Not very well though.

PHP because it seemed like a good idea at the time.

Perl because I wanted to apply for jobs using it.,

Python because I was unemployed for a bit and bored.

Ruby because a customer asked me to teach them (yes, I objected saying I didn't know the language. I was told "that's ok!")

and so on.

However the things that have made me better have not been knowing all these languages but knowing the human side of the problems I am solving. I taught myself accounting to run my own business, never knowing that it would become my life (I now write open source accounting software).

So if I were to give a new programmer advice, it would be:

1) Learn a few languages, because then you can learn new ones easily.

2) Learn about databases, not just SQL, but also as much about the low level implementation as you can.

3) Learn about problems and other unrelated disciplines so you can better solve the problems. So yes, math, statistics, accounting, biology, chemistry, permaculture, etc. are all good things to study.
Does a product exist combining a panic button with a gps (or mobile location) that links to police, ambulance or fire. 1 click police, 2 clicks ambulance, 3 clicks fire... sort of thing?
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Why the downvotes? Why would I bother mentioning alternatives next time, sheesh.
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Your "white girl vs brown girl" scenario is a pure straw man. It does not deserve to be answered.
Albeit a bit different, Kickstarter tiered "products" are one way to test this...
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It doesn't have any new abstractions except for those two really useful ones. Oh, ok, but it other than those it doesn't have any new ones. =)
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And it could be the future of videogames[1].

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It is true that it might be confusing for the end user but it is a nice alternative to classic Tabs. Especially useful if you need to have more than 4-5 view controllers in your stack. On the other hand, the project can also lead to something like the latest LinkedIn app has. Just check it on the App Store. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/linkedin/id288429040?mt=8
I'm familiar with DDG, donttrack.us, dontbubble.us. My question was because even without an account or using its search engine, with AdWords and other products, Google is able to track people to provide them – and those who fall in the same bucket – targeted advertisement (which is what Facebook uses the same data for).

I am not much concerned about this – but I'm starting to, sometimes it is actually a bit creepy –, but I see a lot more people concerned about Facebook tracking them than Google, which I don't understand, since Google has been doing it far longer and in a much more pervasive way, yet very few people express concern about Google these days. I remember the uproar when Gmail introduced content targeted ads, but now nobody cares anymore, directing all attention only to Facebook.

Tangentially, the issues raised by dontbubble.us concern me more than being tracked.
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What sounds better, grade A or grade B? If you know nothing else about the two products, which one are you going to buy? Which one would you expect to be cheaper?
I really like the idea--a low-maintenance and (almost) hassle-free way of tracking feedback of my web projects across the internet, as opposed to supervising a multitude of individual social media accounts/platforms for data.

However, I wasn't happy with the execution or the results for 2 reasons:

1) I felt mislead with your description that I could try this out "in a single click". It's not a single click. The first click is the initial submit button ("Compile Free Report"), followed by a link to download the actual report. I automatically get turned off whenever I'm required to download something in order to try out a service/product. I think it's worse than requiring an e-mail signup, because I feel like its encroaching on my computer's security on the local level. The only reason I went through with it anyways was to provide some feedback.

I feel like you may lose a lot of users this way because you're asking them to do YOU a favor (download an unknown file from a not-yet trusted source), without even offering a reason/incentive to them to begin with. I have no idea what's in the report, or if it will even benefit me. It sounds scammy. It would be helpful if you at least included a preview of the report prior to the download link, so that I could determine the value of the report and decide if I'm interested in downloading the rest on my own accord.

2) 50% of my report is blank, and 100% of it is inaccurate. I submitted my domain willworkforamac.com . My Mixpanel and Google analytics data from the past month indicates that I've been averaging a couple hundred of unique visitors a week, from various regions among almost all continents. The report indicated I had 0 results from today to all time. Did I enter my domain in the wrong format?

And output files as pdfs? That seems to be the norm, and doc files aren't as universally compatible (I run an old version of MS Word, for example, so I was notified of format/layout deficiencies when I opened the file)
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Someone submitted the same link 8 minutes earlier: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3202003
A couple of recommendations.. 1) mobile SDK for integration into third party apps, 2) Desktop app that integrates seamlessly with the operating system.

Knock those out and you could have a viable Dropbox alternative.
What are the chances that some news crunching system at a trading firm caught up on this development and predicted the up side on the Seagate stock? I am interested from the technology point of view. Do we have deployed systems that are able to pick up on such connections?
I think the people at the DMV produce something of value. They limit who's allowed to drive making the roads safer. That is extraordinarily valuable.
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My great-great step-grandfather invented Log Cabin syrup. I grew up surrounded by a ton of old Log Cabin memorabilia. It was actually the first mass produced "maple" syrup.

I can't ever remember us eating it though (it was sold to GF a long time ago and no longer bears the family name).
Many are moving to Neo4j, including some of the major social networks.
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HD prices right now are reacting the same way gas pump prices go up when crude does, even though their local tanks are full.

Quick to rise, slow to fall. The real crisis will be at the end of November. But the market won't recover until next year.

Good for SSD I guess which already had falling prices.

ps. HD103SJ is a fantastic drive but bad for price comparisons since it almost never went below $50 - Seagate also bought Samsung's HD division so who know what is going to happen to those great drives now.
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The maple syrup I have from Trader Joe's says "100% Pure Vermont Maple Syrup Grade A Dark Amber"

I'm not sure the article is correct. It's common for people to say Grade B has more flavor. But is more flavor better flavor? I usually like very strong flavors, like Double IPAs, but does that mean IPAs are better than more subtly flavored Belgian Ales? I've been under the impression that Grade B has more flavor, but not better flavor. That Grade A has a less over-powering, cleaner flavor.

I haven't done a taste test, but it would be fun to line up shot glasses of different Grade A and B to test. Mmm, like beer tasting but with maple syrup. Other than the flavor thing, the article was very interesting.
You can do anything in any Turing-complete language. JavaScript not only can manipulate trees, it often does. Of course, rather or not you see Lisp in it depends upon how you are identifying Lisp.
Even if you own your own home, you typically still have to pay taxes. You may have to earn some income if you don't have money saved up for your taxes, so you'll probably have to pay income taxes as well.

Bottom line, it's difficult to fully opt out. But what you suggest is not a bad start.
"Any non sex photos would be flagged as inappropriate content and removed immediately."

I love how backward that is!
That seems like a poor allocation of engineering resources, because $200 + fully loaded costs of a sysadmin for an email server >>> $50 x users.
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Bad for comparison? The HD103SJ was within $5 of the cheapest 1TB drives at their lowest of $45 (on Newegg).
I feel a kind of social responsibility to flag this anonymous FUD.
I would love to see a thorough approach in which such claims are actually shown and can be reproduced. This helps everyone immensely...from 10gen to people looking to adopt.
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Is this actually true ?
Someone from 10gen needs to confirm and accept it ,if they are.
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10gen's order seems to be, #5, then everything else in some
order. #1 ain't in the top 3.

So, #5, #1, then the other 3 in some order :)
Why you have doubts? Just look at how many articles are written about Siri in a daily basis. Most recent being bloggers writing about siri going down.

For me I use Siri everyday as it's a quicker way to accomplish many things once accomplished thru hunting and pecking to say do a google search. Obce you get to google you then have to type your query and then click to go website to read info. Siri you just ask her a question and she pulls up the info taking a five step process and turning into a 2 step process.

Any tech that simplifies and makes things easier usually becomes the norm.
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I was planning adopt MongoDB for my big project and this post puts some doubts. Is this true? Could anyone confirm or deny this?