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Erlang for abstraction and C for performance sounds cool. I'd be interested in how much (or whether) you are using C++ (vs C). I hope you'll address that in your write up.
[Edit just to make this comment sensible w/o it's predecesor:

Its author asked whether discussing the Constitution was relevant in the context of general human rights (rather than a matter of US law), and observed that there are a number of abridgements we tolerate with respect to our rights in the US.]

My point is that the Constitution is an instance/attempt to enshrine what people viewed as natural rights of man into law. In that context, i think the Constitution is relevant, in looking at what it was that they were attempting to guarantee.

I'm not materially concerned with the abridgment of rights in extreme cases. In order to guarantee a orderly/functioning society, we submit to some limits on our inalienable rights. The important thing is that they are inalienable.

The material point is whether access to communities that only exists on the internet is something that shouldn't be interfered with or denied at the whims of others with whom our interests may diverge. I.e. can your internet service provider disconnect you because they don't like you? :P
Not sure why that would happen. I studied Neuroscience as an undergraduate and the topic never really surfaced, largely because enough research has been done to confirm what most of us had already suspected: It's mostly nature, with a bit of nurture to round out the edges. Still, rounding those edges is a big deal, so posts like the one we're discussing here are worth a read (though, to be frank, this one was a little dull. You need good study habits and a bit of humility to be successful? I'd hope all college students know this, not just the ones at MIT). There's a nice book on the subject by Steven Pinker, though a lot of it is filler.
True, the website is full of bs. But since it actually talks about the products and technoloies (kind of) it only rates 6 of 10 on my enterprisey-bullsht scale. Others are far worse

(*couch* puppetlabs.com *couch* ;)
Just for the sake of argument, what if it were a pro rata commission on the lifetime value of the customer, paid continuously as money comes in the door, and only while you are employed with good standing?

What I'm really getting at: is the problem with commissions themselves or the way in which commissions were structured at the places you worked? Putting aside cash flow and accounting issues, could you design a commission structure that incentivises correct behavior?
There is no one book to learn from. On the topic you wish to learn about, find the best book you can or the best lecturer/mentor you can. (You're in a very good position to do this. Since you are on Hacker News you are well connected to the kind of people that can point you in the right direction!)

Inri is talking about the conscientious personality trait [1]. This is highly correlated to success in school and in the workplace.

You may consider yourself a struggling student but often a struggle is needed for success. If you're doing this already then have faith that you are on the right path as eventually it will be borne out. My point is that you can learn a conscientious personality, and you can become smarter and stronger willed. Every human is born with some willpower. Every human is born with some intellectual ability. Intellectual effort and willpower are both cumulative. They are like muscles, simple exercise of them grows them.

I have never met a man or woman who has fulfilled their potential.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscientiousness
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I have another message for struggling students: Go outside and get some fresh air; exercise; smile. It's only a grade.

I have experienced first-hand the shock of discovering just how hard university is, but pushing yourself harder and harder until you break is not the answer. You need to be smarter about how you work, you need to develop proper study habits, and you need to get over your fear of asking for help. But at the end of the day, grades are just grades. Once you finish university and get your first job, none of this will matter anymore.

University is far harder than programming jobs, so don't judge yourself too harshly for struggling. Many things are more important in life. Remember to enjoy the most intense learning experience you will ever experience, and don't forget to look after your own health.
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Unfortunately, while you may stumble upon an analogy that describes what could happen to some "poor business", they will all be disingenuous because your analogy leaves out the scenarios that Uncle Art would probably want to see action taken on.

What is happening in many cases is the Boston Red Sox gave the guy selling the Rolexes a booth to sell them in, and directed people searching for "Rolexes" to his booth. The Red Sox hung up ads along the way and made money from all the people who walked past those ads on their way to get Rolexes. Someone reported those Rolexes stolen, so the Red Sox kicked the guy out with no penalty to the guy or the Red Sox, and then let some other fake watch seller setup shop in the same booth. This kept happening for years, and Rolex had to lay off 4000 people, while the Red Sox made a killing.
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Most of those aren't actually done at NASA, but at university centers with NASA funding and are already open source. Typically they are large, monolithic, un-extensible Fortran 77 programs though :(
Yes, but the answer shows that you were aware of it before, which means you have already come in contact with the concept, leading to a higher probability for you to actually use it.
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ep-engine (the core of membase and what handles all of the data moving around between networks, memory and disks) is almost entirely C++.
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It's a check-in game for crying out loud.

Not really. It may have started that way, and that part may still exist in the application, but that's not why most people use it.
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You probably mean "three bytes in UTF-8", talking about "UTF-8 characters" is really confusing.
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What is a human right anyway? Ask an Ayn Rand fan, a libertarian, a Hobbesian, the United Nations, or a Swedish legal positivist, and you willl get different answers.

We need to define these things, otherwise the discussion becomes a clash of presuppositions and worldviews.
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Something he doesn't explicitly say: it looks from the description and tests made like MVP is becoming a paid-blogger system.
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Any discussion of rights without discussing duties is vacuous because rights can't exist without duties ie: My right to X imposes a duty on you to provide or not prevent me from X.

So if internet access was a right, what is the corresponding duty it imposes and who is that duty imposed upon? Must the state (and therefore you) provide me with a super computer & T1 connection or is free netbook and dial-up for all sufficient? Or perhaps your rich neighbour. Why not TV or radio as human rights?

Claiming these things as human rights imposes unjustifiable burdens upon others when you have no right to do so. If you disagree, please explain why I should be forced to ensure you have access to facebook and where your power of imposition comes from.

But just because something is not a right, doesn't mean that universal access is not a good thing. Plenty of goods such as education, healthcare and sanitation fail the duty test but their universal access is still a very good thing. We may even agree that these things 'should' be a right but in that case the right is a political one based on mutual agreement, not some inalienable human right.
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The site seems to advocate that people use this as a opportunity for self-expression, which would hopefully cause there to be such diverse designs that the best you could do is train classifiers for specific high-profile individual people. Even then, those targeted individuals could just use a new, randomly generated dazzle every day.
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Well one of the basic tenets of the hacker mindset is to automate anything and everything.

If you find yourself working so much that you dont get time to spend with your family, you are most likely spending a lot of your time in doing tasks that can either be automated by a computer or assigned to people willing to do it for less than what your time is worth or maybe what you are willing to pay for in exchange for time with your family.
But it did not come from within Inri; it seems rather clear that the author would have flunked out without R.'s coaching.
Thank you. I will give it a try.
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There is another comment in this thread by squeee which is the first one I read that my Uncle Art would understand, something like, "If someone shoplifts in your store, this bill allows the government to shut down your store."

Actually, it's more like, if the government gets a tip that someone shoplifted in your store, the government can instantly shut your store down for a long period of time while it gets investigated.
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It looks like the DOSBox equivalent of Winebottler to me
The tweet seems quite old, though: "9:43 PM - 18 Oct 10"
Better than it be out there, posing as correct.
>"How about the right to own a printing press?"

Wouldn't the equivalent be owning an ISP in that case?

I think a better analogy might be the right to own and read a book. Which is pretty a pretty fucking important right.
Sometimes, yes. Sartre, speaking of him, had friends and followers, among them Vian and Camus, who liked him more for his role as moral mentor full of wisdom (he was older and lead a different and less animated life) than only as a writer.
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That is impressive, though ;)
I recommend not 1, but 3. Even better if you read them in this order:

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I'll go to with the 'The Good Parts' book but compliment it with 'High Performance Javascript' by Zakas. It comes as a natural continuation of it after you have everything from 'Good Parts' sink in in your head
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So, a self-proclaimed "technology evangelist" doesn't know how to properly credit someone? You are essentially saying you have no clue how Google search works?
The idea sounds awesome... but how many on us even have the guest account enabled on our laptops?
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Some kind of (silly) e-patriotism... go hackernewtors!
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Wow, someone really doesn't like draft RFCs!
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Definitely not the case in Australia (thought as far as I know all carriers unlock for free/small fee). Locking at all is just a dick move - the telco already made you sign a contract, if you want to switch carriers, they still get their money.
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This post is an eye opener, true and engaging. You can co-relate to the maths example with anything hard. You have give it time. I had a math book in school where it said, "If you love mathematics it will love you back." Actually if you look at it, for competency in any topic you have to work with it. You will eventually get it, if you are ready to work hard.

It may take some time but what the hell if you really want to understand something you got a give everything to it.
True, but this time it came from him. :)
Having used CouchDB, and seeing what's being done with CouchBase I'm actually glad to see this.

The problem at the moment is the fragmentation - CouchBase doesn't have all the features of CouchDB - but what it lacks, it makes up for in the memcached features which start to put it on a par with the likes of Redis for speed, with a much simpler API that other document store databases (you can't beat the language of the web for simplicity vs a binary driver)

Hopefully it will be a smooth transition and I will most likely hold off using CouchBase right away - but I foresee me using it in the next year for sure.
I looked at couchbase and it seems somewhat user-friendly. The way to preview your created views by using only a subset of data is nice. Another nice thing is the split into ?16? different databases that allow compaction to occur on a smaller level rather than having to compact the whole 60 gb file at once

The downside for me so far:

- I couldn't find any way to import my current couchbase single server data over to couchbase.

- The old couchdb webinterface (futon) made browsing through data easy, the couchbase interface seems to make this a bit more complicated. (Maybe I didn't look in the right places?)

- I couldn't figure out if I can still hook up the _changes feed to elasticsearch
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Very common business moddel all across Africa too. When the DV2011 signs popup you know it's time for people to apply for the annual green card lottery. I believe the application process has specific requirements for pictures and needs to be done online, so places offer that service.
I think the annology needs to be as close as posible to relating to "real life" and products and services being infringed. How about:

SOPA is like a law that would allow your local bar to be shut down if some of its customers meet there to swap pirated Music and Films, only the bar is website on-line.
I should have worded the original post differently....

I meant contracts you sign. Legal documents. Not job leads. Appreciate the reply though abbasmehdi. =) I'll give that a look.
The features I got exited most about (and am relying on today) are: databases per user, continuous replication and the _changes.

From my understanding, these are not part of the CouchBase server, right?
What are the future plans for these features?

Telling from the 2 CouchConfs I've been to, Couchbase is focused on huge one-db setups, distributed and fast ... but what about the "database per user" setup? Is this going to die?
Give it time. They are very nice, unlike the amateurish Android look and the advantages you get from the development environment can't be ignored forever.
I think it would have been hard to get around the fact that Kodak was based on selling consumables like film and paper that digital photography simply doesn't require. Even the point-and-shoot camera business is disappearing these days, or rather bifurcating into a business divided up between high-end DSLRs and electronics manufacturers supplying sensors to mobile phone manufacturers.
Your post makes me grumpy for the following reason:

What you're talking about isn't a failure of willpower, dedication or ambition.

It's a failure of knowledge. It's a failure of knowledge of the resources that are available to them, and it's a failure to awaken from the Samsara of self-doubt.

Inri137's doing the Buddhist thing and trying to shake people awake. These are skills that you can acquire. Sure it's modulated by willpower, dedication, ambition, and some natural talent, but that's not the important part imo. To quote FDR, the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Fuck fear.
My iPad app does something like this: http://switchapp.net/

It's not full user accounts, but a multi-user web browser. You can protect your bookmarks, logins & web history and it also has a guest mode.
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that's because there is no _changes feed in the current couchbase 2.0 server.
Companies may be advertising it, but users don't know and don't care. I know tons of people who own Android phones and not one of them bought it because it was "Android". They all bought out of brand loyalty or physical specs. Half of them didn't even know what "Android" meant.

When they see the same brand they trust with a much more polished, professional looking OS that has much better games, etc., they'll jump in a heartbeat. MS just has to get the price low enough that the vendors will feel compelled to push it at least half as hard as they're trying to ram Android down everyone's throats.
There is no such thing in Australia. While there certainly is more of a market for unlocked phones then in the US, the majority of phones bought in Australia are locked. This includes prepaid phones and phones on a contract.
It's a common assumption in microecnomics that competition always drives down prices. It doesn't always - every other business knows that starting a price war is suicide, as everyone will lose. The competitors will try to steal business with a similar price, and try to compete on branding and service.

Actually, his best bet is to get a retail space, then get a friend to make a few calls to the cops about suspicious vans around the Chinese embassy, and ask if they are allowed to be there. The legal system is geared against "unofficial" (i.e. poor) business people - itinerant vendors and bugger all rights.
My dream iPad game is a port of XCOM UFO Defense.

There's three or four 'remakes'/ports floating round the net:

http://ufo2000.sourceforge.net/
http://openxcom.org/
http://xenowar.net/

Am a little bit surprised there's not a turn-by-turn iOS battle in the UFO mold (like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Squad_Nemesis).
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The point of the app is obvious if you'd just use the damn thing. It's an extensive frontend to DOSBox that allows drag-and-drop importing of ISOs and game folders, simple peripheral configuration, graphical game browser, and so on. It's the nicest distribution of DOSBox you'll ever use.
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Oh... that is a shame.
I also got confused by the elasticsearch repo in the couchbase project on github: https://github.com/couchbase/elasticsearch

I don't see any external commits though
Whenever I'm pretty sure of a hunch I have, I like to review this list to remember how utterly useless human cognition is:

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Well, as an aspiring Fantasy writer I fully intend to release my first book in "beta" and refine it over a number of months :)

In my experience of writing occasional short stories online, Sci-Fi/Fantasy readers love updates.

I mean; quite often as a fantasy reader myself I think "hmm, I wonder how that character got there" or "what is her backstory". The ability for the writer to insert those things, fix plot/canon errors (as well as spelling/grammar) and other things pointed out by the reader is really cool

(Don't get me wrong; whilst I enjoy those prospects I'm not suggesting traditional publishing and "hardware" books (:P) will die - I hope not!)
Of what use is it to think this way? It's just another excuse to not try and succeed. Life isn't going to see you sitting over there with a 10-point lower IQ potential and give you some extra breaks.

If learning comes harder to you then it just means you've got to work that much harder. Bad luck.
Really appreciate what you are doing and you did good. I don't know if other people noticed but I would have preferred you to not smile much( or at all) while listening to her or answering her questions.This could be just my personal preference.Smiling while talking about such a serious issue kind of undermines the seriousness of it a bit.
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I really don't get the point of that either. As far as I can tell, it wraps... Wine. What's the purpose? I could just run Wine (or DOSBox) directly, same result.
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I mean Contract Agreements/Documents. If any of the admin can edit the title to say the following, that would be amazing. I'm not sure if that's possible / who to ask. just noting it here =)

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