skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found the following two documents on the replication protocol:

http://www.dataprotocols.org/en/latest/couchdb_replication.h...
https://github.com/couchbaselabs/TouchDB-iOS/wiki/Replicatio...

From the end of http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Replication
I'm serious. Deliberately failing to make that distinction is intellectually dishonest, and that degrades the discussion.

As to your second point, Facebook is not running around taking pictures of you. Your friends are. If your privacy is being violated, it's your friends (to use the term loosely) who are doing it. Facebook provides a platform, but they are not the primary actor. That's another distinction I don't see being made frequently enough.
Info on the Android port is here:

http://apps.keithflower.org/?page_id=152

I'm about to release an update to match the iOS version accompanying Gambit v4.6.5 (as close as I can get).
> a one-paragraph throwaway rant

personal nitpick, but the linked post didn't read like a rant to me. seemed fairly polite, (unless you're facebook) in contrast to the sneering jab he was replying to.
I do agree that business and industrial products are better served to address and focus on the utility aspect refine it as time permits. I was disapointed it didn't talk about a better mouse trap, my favorite being a 5 gallon bucket and peanut butter.

http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/easterly110.html
>A developers are the ones whose idea of a "puzzle" is solving the fundamental business problem via software. B programmers think that super elegant engineering is great, and don't care about business so much.

I couldn't agree with this more, although I would say "B programmers love to solve every problem. A programmers love to solve the problems that matter."

I have worked with many people, some quite brilliant, that simply can't prioritize issues. If they perceive something as broken or sub-optimal, they absolutely must fix it, no matter how minor the problem. If you can reign them in and keep them focused, this type of programmer can produce great things. But it takes a lot of management time and energy. I'd rather work with someone who can see the larger picture and focus on solving the actual problem, even if the implementation isn't 100% perfect.
I tried to write a Lisp application once. Couldn't figure out how to make something standalone that could be run from bash. Most of the websites and discussions I looked at around the issue suggested that one would be wrong for even wanting such a thing. Eventually did my project in python.
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It's hard for me to say anything on this topic without resorting to hyperbole. I have a serious sleep disorder and in desperation, I tried a polyphasic experiment about 7 years ago.

I was determined to see it through no matter what the cost. The conclusion I came to was that it is a complete scam, perpetrated on life-hackers who are often, productivity hounds. Polyphasic sleep does not work; it does not improve productivity; it is not healthy. The only people who have slept like this on a consistent basis are soldiers or other people in extreme situations, where wakefulness is equivalent to survival and so the damage to your mind is a trade-off. If you are not fighting to stay alive, then you gain nothing by not following your body's natural rhythms, and you can seriously mess yourself up by experimenting with alternatives.

Then again, you're young so you'll probably recover. Probably.
or anyone else's

Via what, immaculate typing?

His explanation really betrays the fact that he doesn't understand what plagiarism is.
Destroying Facebook from the inside, assuming you had control over and an understanding of whatever system they use to manage their server farms, would surely be trivial. I highly doubt there's something as apocalyptic as a designed "self destruct", or even a need for it.
This is true, I also found that they can still tag pictures of you even if you have disabled/canceled your account.

Forcing people to use their FB profiles as the only means of accessing a service is a downright scary thing considering how much information we know they hold. I wish everyone would have just used openid... I was quite happy with iming/emailing/ and status updates through away messages. We don't need FB. But FB needs us.
Sure, but how does a map defeat the measures stores take to get you to buy impulse items. If you want to buy milk, there are two possibilities. The first is, you know exactly which brand of milk you want to buy, and you will seek it out explicitly. Or, you don't care, and will pick whatever's easiest. That's the area for optimization: pick the highest profit milk and make it the first one the doesn't-care-about-milk consumer sees. Put lots of impulse items on the way to the milk. And so on. A map on the phone does nothing to prevent impulse buys.

On the other hand, why even bother going to your store when groceries can be ordered online and delivered? Then you don't need a map at all.
Couchbase mobile is the CouchDB server running on android and ios, it works and is a released product by Couchbase, they are also planning to supercede these with native implementations (TouchDB for iOS and Android)

While building TouchDB Jens documented the replication protocol here: https://github.com/couchbaselabs/TouchDB-iOS/wiki/Replicatio...

I am working on (actually am right now) the in browser implementation of CouchDB called PouchDB (https://github.com/mikeal/pouchdb) it is nearing a beta release.
ASDF and Quicklisp are two different things. Quicklisp uses ASDF.

ASDF hasn't solved many problems. It was basically another system definition tool (with a different license). We had them before. What ASDF provided was that open source / free software used a common system definition.

Quicklisp OTOH provides a service. It uses ASDF. I provides library management and a collection of libraries.

The process over that to improve these libraries, make them better documented / more portable / rated / ... is something that happens over time.

Quicklisp does not solve all problems. It does not aim to. But it solves some.
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PouchDB is ready for some testing and play. Dale Harvey has put a lot of work into it recently: https://github.com/daleharvey/pouchdb

I'll see what I can do about getting a good publication of the replication protocol. People have been asking about it for a long time. I've only come to fully grok it late last year when I tried to write PouchDB and I talked through it with Dale when he picked up my slack. We can probably get that together.

A great first example that I'd love to see is using PouchDB to implement Backbone.Sync for a Backbone app.
It doesn't work on Safari, I guess. This is the message I get when I visit dropmocks.com:

"Sorry, our uploader doesn't yet work on your browser (which doesn't support drag and drop file uploads)"
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1) we are quite clear with our companies that we are aligned in the goal that they need to perform to receive future funding from 500 (as well as others)

2) 500 is usually a minority investor in following rounds, so decisions still likely made primarily be lead investor

3) if companies and follow-on investors are more worried about our decisions & subjective assessments rather than the company fundamental business metrics, then there is already a problem.

we are in this business to be successful and make money. much as aim to help all of our founders, we sincerely hope they are too.
Nice! I didn't realize so much had been done on dataprotocols.org yet!
Which an authority figure sent him to against his will. Authoritarian power is universally derived the ability to assert the right to legitimate force over others. This is in sharp contrast to voluntary institutions and businesses such as Facebook or Google, which assert no right to legitimate force, and are therefore limited to the power which individuals choose to grant them for catering to their preferences.
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/02/fizzbuzz-the-progra...

Pertinent passage:
FizzBuzz was presented as the lowest level of comprehension required to illustrate adequacy. There's no glory to be had in writing code that establishes a minimum level of competency. Even if you can write it in five different languages or in under 50 bytes of code.
> I think you're ignoring most of the motives for Wayland development.

I know there are other motives, but it's largely about getting more pretty rendering and the fact that X has a lot of baggage. Also, I'm still shocked that the only reason on their FAQ under "Is wayland replacing the X server?" is that VT switching is "horrible."

> I disagree. For example, xpra (http://xpra.org/) ships images across the wire and works much better for me than X11 forwarding over both local and remote links.

xpra is faster for me over remote links, but native X is superior on local links, in speed, simplicity, and also robustness. X11 forwarding is super-simple and rock-solid; xpra is awkward to set up and is rather flaky. I fear that since network transparency is not a core, high-priority feature of Wayland, it will end up having a "second-class" feel like xpra does. Just because network transparency is under development right now doesn't mean it will be good. Their FAQ says it's not a high priority feature, and I've read several mailing list posts from developers that agree with that sentiment.

> That looks like trolling. A better link might be http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Wayland-Beyond-X-14320....

My link may portray Wayland in a negative light, but only insofar as yours portrays it in a positive light.
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Just curious, but why exactly do you want indoor mapping? Is finding your way around buildings really that problematic? What exactly is the point?
There is a world of difference between citizens complaining how their governments are corrupt, and husbands complaining how their wives boss them around. The former is a macro problem - if you're unhappy there's very little you can do to make a difference, you really need everyone to get behind your cause but because of weird behavioral science quirks this happens very rarely. The latter is a micro problem - learn to have the courage to set boundaries in your life, and the problem will go away.

Facebook is a problem of the latter form. It's entirely within your control to limit the information you give them, carefully select privacy settings (which are quite extensive), or not create an account at all. In any case, nothing about it is heinous violation of your freedom and imposition on your private space, since the whole thing is voluntary.

To me the problem seems the opposite of the camp problem. There are a few "weird" kids who cannot understand how people could possibly like Facebook, so they make it a personal crusade to make it known all the time. Look, our adult society is pretty good at accepting behavioral outliers. Not ideal, but probably the best the world has ever known. But sometimes it's the outlier that's the problem. Consider that many people don't see Facebook as a privacy issue once they've weighed everything carefully and not because they're idiots. Perhaps they treat "Facebook-haters" strangely not because they're not on Facebook, but because they go out of their way to annoy everyone by trying to make a point out of it all the time?
The violence statistic was a mistype: one third of women murdered are murdered by an intimate partner.

Check this out: http://jec.senate.gov/public/?a=Files.Serve&File_id=9118...

It refers to your study, but clarifies some stuff.

All other things being equal (skills, experience, etc), resumes with female names were responded to less than resumes with male names.

Women who have children are paid less than men who have children in the same occupation even if they are at the same level.

In nearly every study of gender inequality in pay, there is an unexplained discrepancy that favors men.
Sorry, had a bit of trouble whilst improving it. Back up now.
n.b.:

Markets aren't efficient in any space ;)... (review the assumptions required for an efficient market, so see how reality violates all of them with consequences, or just look at the empirical, historical data; also see behavioral finance literature).

All existing investors/shareholders are diluted in new rounds, almost always. And all shareholders -- including investors -- in high-tech startups are minority shareholders (less than 50%), with the exception of single founders early on, typically. (Minority shareholders, investors especially, still have certain rights.)

I hope these notes help!
I loved summer camp...but hate Facebook. Use another analogy Camp didn't make me sign a privacy policy to go there, or keep all of my information after I left. It was nice, and simple and there were no gimmicks. Pay for camp have a great time! That is if you were interested in it.
You could have read a manual (creating standalone applications is documented for each implementation) or asked other users.

SBCL:

http://www.sbcl.org/manual/#Generating-Executables

CLISP

http://www.clisp.org/impnotes.html#image

and so on...
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I see. I can buy that. It's just that you said that people who love summer camp suck at thinking for themselves and I don't see the connection. "If you like summer camp then you suck at thinking for yourself" just sounds like a logical fallacy, that's all.
May I please see the puzzle?
AFAIK he has very bad RSI and doesn't write much code these days. He spends most of his time talking at conferences.
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This is a valid point, and I can only assume you are being downvoted due to "stereotyping." The sample group IS an important factor. For example, Milgram's famous "electric shock" experiment was repeated in many different countries. Germans for example, were very susceptible to authority figures, Australians were lesser so. Results are going to change based on the group being tested. It still doesn't change the fundamental finding of the study, however.
Plagarism is generally more sucessful when you don't list your sources.
Comparing parents to genocidal dictators is quite a bit more hyperbolic than the OP.
I have encountered groups of developers that have gone both ways - some actually paid attention to the people who knew things, and others paid attention to the people who claimed to know things. For example, I like to think I can tell wizards from blowhards, but I am also pretty sure I can be fooled in the short term.
Except, it still is advertised as one (or at least implied to be):

"Go is a general-purpose language designed with systems programming in mind."
http://golang.org/ref/spec#Introduction

You could nit-pick and say that it says "in mind", but the point still stands that they're trying to imply that it's suitable for systems programming. It is not; certainly not at the level of an operating system kernel, etc.
Thanks Colin!

You have been very helpful on keeping me on my toes. I'll be working on a tool to prevent me from making such mistakes again.
Another site with a fixed header taking a large chunk of the screen. Seriously, what's wrong with you designers!!??
Check this video out. I watched it many years ago, and was completely baffled by it (and still am): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfPeprQ7oGc

It's just 5 minutes. Well worth watching.
Want to know the difference between people who use facebook and the people that don't?

The difference is that the people who don't use Facebook care that you do.

We just don't like being left out because we don't have Facebook.
It's looking like a great release: auto-compaction, compression, speed improvements, security stuff. Can't wait to try it.
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Steve Pavlina is a known charlatan whose lies have been disproved on several occasions.

Further reading: http://stevepavlinalies.wordpress.com/
http://www.scottfreethinking.com/2010/02/why-steve-pavlina-i...

I don't think he lasted 5 months on his polyphasic regimen for the same reasons listed in the sleepmemo article.
The mechanism pictured in the linked article -- take that homunculus, fit it with lots of strain gauges, and attach it to a full body haptic feedback harness mounted on a gimbal. Create a mechanism that keeps the pilot's head and body in the same orientation as the homunculus head and body. This enables the pilot's own inner ear to be the stabilization gyros.

Voilà: an animated tethered "Terminator" robot that has eerie human-like balance and motion. The entertainment possibilities for this are awesome. For bonus points, scale it up by a factor of 3 or more. (Anime mecha giant robots, anyone?)

The tech has actually been around for decades.

http://www.raytheon.com/businesses/rids/businesses/gis/strat...
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> It's entirely within your control to limit the information you give them, carefully select privacy settings

Except Facebook unilaterally changes its guarantees about privacy, year after year, always in its own favor.

This takes you up to 2010:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/04/facebook-timeline

In 2011 and 2012, they further codified how your private information is also subject to what your friends do. Some of this is common sense, some not so much.
http://money.cnn.com/2012/03/22/technology/facebook-privacy-...

I'm not saying Facebook is evil, exactly... no more than a parasite is. ;) Their business model doesn't align them with their users' needs for privacy.
"you're removing value from other people's valued medium/experience" because smoking can be a social exercise.
We summed it up here: https://blogs.apache.org/couchdb/entry/apache_couchdb_1_2_0
I disagree. His actions lately have driven many, including myself, away from supporting GNU projects and into supporting other free alternatives. Using the GPL 3 on software such as gcc has caused many people, such as Apple, the FreeBSD foundation, and the OpenBSD foundation, to seek alternative sources for GNU software, such as the clang project and the pcc compiler project. His reluctance to use modern technology, such as cell phones, has distanced himself from many who realize the benefits of such actions, and who know that such devices are available prepaid, and with off buttons, for if you want to use them anonymously. His petty name-calling of closed-source products that he doesn't like, such as iClone for the iPhone, has served to turn off many to his message, to the detriment of the FOSS community.

I agree with many of his principles, however, his time has come and gone. His view of computing seems stuck to how it existed 25-30 years ago, which is proving increasingly detrimental to recruiting new people to the cause of Free Software. By ignoring why people use closed products, such as his views on why Free Software users would use closed source dictation software ( https://lists.csail.mit.edu/pipermail/csail-related/2012-Feb... ), he has made Free Software less capable of competing because it doesn't do what people expect software to do. Once he realizes this, and that one can and should look at why people use alternatives to GNU software, then we can possibly move forward. Unfortunately, I don't have much hope that that will happen as long as RMS is at the helm.
Yes, I was able to find the SBCL one, but as I recall at the time it interacted badly with the FFI (uffi? Something like that? I don't remember the name), and it wasn't clear how to combine it with a build system like make. I'm sure it can be done, but it was inordinately difficult compared to, say, python, where creating standalone scripts is essentially the very first thing in the tutorial.
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I found that insightful, "you are never alone".
http://www.apache.org/dist/couchdb/notes/1.2.0/apache-couchd...

Highlights I like:

* Speed improvements (native JSON parser)

* Autocompaction (no need to create daemons to compact db periodically anymore).

* Snappy compression enabled by default (should reduce db sizes and perhaps provide some speed improvements)

* Added built-in changes feed filter _view. This basically means you can use your view to filter your changes feed.
This is pretty interesting.
It's kinda like high stakes online poker where you take luck out of the equation by playing thousands and thousands of hands.

Basically, you're going to have a run of bad cards (companies) and a run of good ones. But if your decisions are consistent, and adjust to migrate towards successes, you'll end up ahead no matter what... assuming you're moving in that direction.

It's really not spray and pray, just as high stakes poker doesn't really have anything to do with luck.
Is Damien Katz still involved or completely moved onto the Membase...Couchio...Couchbase entity now?

I like the layout and high contrast of the new site. My only comment is perhaps a header link to the "Quick Links" at the footer. I tend to want to look at documentation quite a bit and the scroll to the footer was not intuitive.
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It could also be that the group with more time to calculate decided to make the number closer after thinking that the researcher would know 3.5 was the average.

If they provided the data set (all the numbers given) we would get the important... standard deviation which would get us closer to that answer.
"... scientists should be encouraged to share results that perhaps are inexplicable or against current thinking"

Exactly. I very much appreciated the openness here, and was frankly more interested in how the issue was going to be resolved than in the FTL anomaly itself.

I fear that the OPERA fallout will constrain researchers to only spoonfeed us closely vetted, PR-sanitized, approved-by-committee results, with little visibility into the processes that produced them.
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I agree and would take it even further to say that drawing a line in the sand based on personal convictions is almost always a good choice.

> Walking out may feel good, as righteous indignation so often does, but it doesn’t help your situation

I think that walking out of these situations is not so much a sign of giving in to righteous indignation but more of a way to abort a situation that has already become unsalvageable. In this case, the prospective employer making demands like these is in itself a glaring signal that you don't want to work at this place. Continuing to sit at their table after voicing your disagreement in the absolutely ridiculous "hope" of getting a job offer is not only a waste of time for both sides, it's a surefire way to be humiliated. Might as well leave while you still have the high ground.

Back in the day when I was occasionally interviewing people for positions I came across utterly incompatible applicants quite often, and sometimes those interviews were extremely uncomfortable for both parties. Actually, I wished more people walked out of my interviews when I myself could not.
I have a bit of an addictive personality and the easiest way of preventing myself from wasting time is just by getting rid of the thing. Your response is the generic moderation response; some people just don't understand that it would be far more of a waste of energy to try and discipline myself than it would be to prevent the problem from arising.
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Damien works full-time on Couchbase technology now. Some of which is still applicable to Apache CouchDB and is and will be contributed back to the project, but he is no longer directly involved. The rest of the team more than makes up for it though :)
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