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Sites like this seem to indicate there are tonnes of fake accounts on Pinterest: www.buyrealpinterestfollowers.com

My guess is that the majority of accounts are fake, and most posts are uploaded by spammers. However, this may be not much of a problem - like the HN / Digg / Reddit community the core Pinterest community is enough to rise the "good" stuff to the top I guess. If "social filtering" does work better than Google's algorithmic filtering and can't be gamed - Pinterest will succeed.

In some ways Amazon has had similar functionality for a while, called the "wish-list". They could easily have build something similar based on their existing data.
I was in a similar situation - a few months in my final year at high school I got five unconditional acceptances from universities. basically, after that point I did hardly any work at school - although up till then I had worked hard and good exam results that got me the offers.

For a few months I mucked about, went to parties, chased girls, cycled.... it was awesome.

When I went to university I knew I had to start working hard again and I got a First and won a year prize and went on to do post-grad research work - although I did leave in the final year of my PhD to co-found a startup because I had realised that I didn't want to work in academia.

Both teachers at school and my PhD supervisor told me I'd regret my decisions - and I haven't and it's nearly 30 years since I left high school and 17 years since I dropped my PhD work.
I don't agree that most secondary indexes are high cardinality. Some definitely are, but there are plenty of indexes with low cardinality, simply used for quicker scanning of those relevant values.

First up, in his example we're talking about 10k rows with a size of 35 bytes. At 8050 bytes of available space per page, that gives a fan-out of 8050/35 = 230. 10k/230*8kb = 350kb. At 350kb of inserts (hobt data, he doesn't go into secondary indexes), memory is completely irrelevant - the only force going on here is latency on writing the log to disk.

If we had a huge data set (as in, did not fit in memory, at all) with high cardinality - sure, we'd have a lot of cold leaf level pages. With no further info on his case, I can only assume most of the hobt and secondary indexes will fit in memory. At worst we'll have to read a cold leaf level page into memory to perform the addition in-memory.

As is there's no mention of even a clustered index, causing all of this to be heap inserts which is arguably one of the fastest insert methods there are (barring certain very special cases).
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Doesn't that just imply that tests are failing to measure what we want teachers to teach and we should fix the tests ?

The whole reason that test results are being used as opposed to manual assesment, is that test results have proven to be a better predictor of long term outcomes. Test results aren't perfect but they're better than what was previously used.
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Don't forget sexism and homophobia. Not giving women the vote and being mean to gays has been justified on the basis that it's the natural order of things as revealed by God and/or natural selection.
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Its getting ridiculous by the day, the way laws are being set here in India.

Recently the Supreme Court of India, has ordered that all cars must get rid of their sun films. Even tinted glasses of any tint percentage aren't allowed. This is because they think the kidnapping, terrorism and crimes against women will stop if the cars get rid of sun films and tint on windows. People are predicting heavy bribe business in early days after ban is enforced.

In another instance, the court has also ordered that heavy vehicles like lorries, trucks and other goods/passenger vehicles get speed regulators fixed preventing them from going above some level(I guess that is 60 Km) this is because some boy died in a over speeding accident. From what I hear, there is a strike planned to counter this.

Coming to Piracy, its ridiculous to think that they are going to stop piracy by banning torrent and video sites. In a country where pirated CD's are available on the footpath for the price of peanuts, Piracy isn't going to be that easy to solve. In fact of bulk of the piracy business happens, through those means. Very few people apart from the computer savvy ones know how to use torrents, or even know what torrents are.
While I know the article was about the UK, in the USA a lot of clinical data is not stored in an RDBMS.

The software is written in MUMPS, which has a built in (sort of) document oriented data storage layer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS

You can read the Wikipedia page and look at some sample code and draw your own conclusions on whether that's better or worse.
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As a non-American I'm always surprised that people want them to go away. I can't imagine buying anything without using coins. Is every price rounded up instead of the deceiving 99 Cents? Do you buy two items for 50 Cent each instead of one so you can pay with a bill?
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Do you mean that this kind of error can be prevented at the DB level? It is only possible in very trivial cases, like you know a man can't be pregnant. In the DB you can only ensure that data is internally consistent, not that the data entered corresponds to the real world facts, which is really the issue here.
Hindsight is a magical thing. Speaking from personal experience you need to stick with trying to find the job that you are passionate about. I took a job that wasn't ideal over another job offer. The decision came down to the fact that it was in a location (and other personal factors) that all fell in my "comfort zone". The job that I didn't take would have been a much better cultural fit and more in line with my long term goals. I just didn’t have the foresight to see this at that point.

I underestimated the negative effect of taking a job that had a tech stack I wasn't passionate about, would have on me personally and professionally. I did learn a lot of valuable lessons from the job I took and by no means was it a write off. I ended up staying there a few years but can’t help wonder how things would be different if I had taken the other job.

You have the right attitude in not wanting to get an unrelated corporate job just for the sake of having a job. So my advice would be to keep looking and if you need work desperately then settling for a temporary job outside of tech(or in) while you continue your search is better than getting tied into the corporate job you don’t want to be doing. It will be much harder to get out of that job and onto the one you really want.

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Just in: the motion to get the draconian IT Rules 2011 act annulled has been negatived. https://twitter.com/#!/PRSLegislative/status/203069104331030... This and acts like it are central to such ridiculousness even being possible ...
Before anyone get's too excited, note that according to a comment on the same article 96% of those men where under 1 week old - and thus legitimately males with midwife episodes.

edit: apologies, that was from a comment on the article.
I'd say it's banknotes that I don't use any more (here in the UK, which has the advantage of coins that go up to GBP2). For small amounts (vending machine, street food) it's coins; for anything larger it's credit card.
Don't just down vote, answer the question?
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Lest I forget, there is also ignorance-- willful cluelessness; can't be bothered to learn something; won't have a reasoned discussion. I do label these individuals "stupid." Don't get me wrong, it's not immediate prejudice, but it doesn't take much time talking to some people to learn that they are willful in their efforts to remain uninformed.
I agree on the most part, however there are certain situations where you just get sick of explaining stuff (see: Feminism 101) to people who have done no research or have ignored the research because they are so headstrong about their issues.
One doesn't need to be smart to find stupidity (in others or in our own). "Stupid is as stupid does."
Maybe it is the amount of shadow-casting items on that page but if your landing page maxes out my cpu and lags badly, I say goodbye faster than 20 frames render. (I use Opera.)

edit: They do look good though!
I moved the cursor across the page and nothing of interest happened. This is Firefox 12. It did work on chrome though.
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I'm surprised to see so many HNers come out against counting lines of code. Sure, it's imperfect and this developer got screwed, but how are managers supposed to make informed, data-driven decisions on what the right course of action is? Many of us extol the virtues of A/B testing landing page designs and gathering deep metrics and analytics but turn around and slam managers for making decisions based on line code counts.
Lazy grads?  Consistent with your experience?
Thanks for the link.

What a name for a product servicing the healthcare industry. :-(
You can do that and that will take care of the "pregnant man" case, but it won't stop a hospital from accidentally recording all births as still births, or other mistakes.

Some things that might seem like mistake aren't mistakes, e.g. people over 18 having pædiatric procedures (e.g. undecended testes is often caught shortly after birth and an orchidopexy is often done in pædiatric wards, but if it was undetected and ignored, for 20 years a 20 year old might need it.).

It's hard to solve a people problem with technical solutions.
How does this help? At all?
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Also, LESS is pretty useful for rapid prototyping since you can use the less.js and skip the compiling part altogether.
I'm curious if readers of HN have seen this type of overparenting. I haven't, but perhaps it's because the people I work with are hungry and very educated? (And perhaps it's a given that people will check sports scores at the office)
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I am using airtel in New Delhi and the sites seem to be working. specifically checked vimeo, xmarks, pastebin.

This is from our leased line via Airtel, so it seems that corporates are exempt from the ban.
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Norway is using about 7% of their gov budget to defense. U.S. 22% gotta show somewhere.
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Actually, based on my experience of dealing with hundreds of teachers and thousands of students, that won't work either. Test scores are a poor proxy for what students actually know or can do, especially in mathematics. The original linked article provides evidence for that. You put in the caveat "Of course ... this won't work for all districts" but then you're arguing for exceptions to be allowed. That's just a mess.

There is no simple fix. There are bad teachers (and I'm leaving the term undefined - it's a bit like porn - undefinable, but recognisable) who get good test results and glowing evaluations, and there are superb teachers who get mediocre test results and undistinguished evaluations.

It's easy from the outside or from a limited perspective to suggest "obvious" methods of assessment or "obvious" actions to improve the situation, but in the end, no one has really defined what they mean by "good teaching," so proposing assessments of something undefined will just result in more proxies to be distorted.
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Where is this GWT compiler for Go? From what I understand, GWT is for Java translation only, and it only works well on code that doesn't reference any third party libraries. It doesn't work that well on code that makes heavy use of annotations either.
I'm not following... Could you explain a little further? My understanding is that prepared statements will be added to the plan cache, in the same way that stored procs have associated plans for each query on the proc.

One warning about this is that at times you should consider having a new plan generated - especially if the data changes over time.
I noticed this the other day and just toggled it on myself. Making IPv6 easy to implement will hopefully ramp up adoption.
They only blocked http access, it looks like.
Sites that support https still work.

I guess the ISPs are only sniffing port 80?
That's a... bug. If you resize the window even by a slight amount, just once, everything starts looking perfect.
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No I don't have numbers in hand. I remember a few developers sharing their numbers here, though. Maybe you can search.
Do the investors get to see the company's exact exact numbers (DAU, MAU, Revenue, etc) before they invest? I assume they do, but wouldn't those numbers get to the public somehow?
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I think that the reason behind this block-unblock cycle that reliance goes through every time a movie of theirs is released is quite simple. They do not want to block these sites permanently because then they lose an edge in the competition with airtel.

On the other hand whenever a movie from Reliance entertainment comes out they want to avoid the cams to spread for the first few weeks so they block these sites. Once the first couple of weeks have passed they undo the blocks.
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Where is the cursor on my phone? :)
Standardization helps aim everyone to B quality. It tries to pull up the underachievers, but drags down those at the top. On average it may be helpful, but not at the very top.

The standards of Walmart, P&G, and similar companies help the companies achieve economies of scale. They allow C level performers to overachieve. But... You don't want to be the only free thinker in Mayberry.

Similarly, standardizing education may help the masses, but it's not for the best students or teachers.
No, It means the people who are blocking sites don't know how to do it properly.

Having said that, this is hardly surprising.
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Right, no DB can enforce checks for things that could be true but aren't (e.g. a trigger can't prevent you from wrongly entering an adult woman as pregnant, she might even look pregnant to the eye and not be). But a DB can prevent you doing things that don't make sense (e.g. age must be a positive number, men can't be pregnant, etc etc).
At least vimeo is still blocked on port 443.
'What a great subscription based business' is always my very first thought when I read news from Candy Japan. And every time I try to come up with a similar idea matching my region but I don't find any.

And these income reports are clever Marketing.
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Germany has been successful in shaking of attempts to censor the net. Also the pirate party is gaining support every day and is at 11% on the federal level and entered a couple state parliaments.
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I used to think people are stupid.

Then I stopped being a teenager and realized that, hey, most people are actually pretty cool. When they're being stupid it's usually just a lack of information and when you educate them a bit, they get better.

But then the internet reminded me that there are, in fact, stupid people all over the place, they just don't live in my IRL filter bubble.

Evidence: http://notalwaysright.com/ http://clientsfromhell.net/
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Valuations are based on what someone else might pay - and they might pay a few billion for Pinterest.
Time to start distributing tor.

Though I am frankly amazed that pastebin was blocked. I know what its used for... everything. It is about as nefarious as a chalk board. When are those getting banned?
I think that's because they redirect to http?

The Pirate Bay works on https (I love that they have legit certs)
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We are very complex nation, this won't work. Here education politics won't work. Only Religion and Cast policy matters to them, and they know common man(mass) don't use internet, so their is no opposition from that side. They can legislate whatever to hide mistake. That is the reason they wasted parliament session on cartoon discussion. Many Educated class don't give damn about politics.
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Basically anything that makes content sharing easy, becomes a threat to the government.

The thing is Radio, TV and Papers are already bought by the government. Its paid media, and media that is isn't paid is generally killed.

Internet is a dangerous beast. No centralized control, amazingly rich content can be shared seamlessly. This is dangerous to the government. That is why there is so much commotion.
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What about the Netherlands.

Net Neutrality:

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/255296/dutch_n...
And every time I try to come up with a similar idea matching my region but I don't find any.

I did the same, but my idea didn't really work. Too bulky and sensitive to the shipping delays.
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But Germany do censor a lot, they're #2 in Google 'Censorship' Rankings: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,690569,00...

A lot of YouTube videos cannot be played in Germany.
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Aren't our ISP's blocking the pirate bay nowadays after a court order? Just googled a bit and I see some articles about it (I'm Dutch but not currently living in the Netherlands so not 100% up to date).
I can access most of the websites using https, but Vimeo redirects to http site.
This argument does not hold up to analysis. You can break it just by making your data set larger.
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In Germany, there is also an army of lawyers working for the content industry. They'll have your traffic monitored and if you happend to get caught torrenting an mp3 or movie, they'll try to extort about 1,000 Euros per instance from you. That this is legal tells a lot about that country.
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AFAIK the Scandinavian countries have a good record in this matter, well better than most other countries.
This is the closest I've seen them come to recognizing that the importance of free software may vary by where it sits in the stack. Think about it... the full stack of applications is a tree, right? A free root node is much more important than a free leaf node.
Pastries do sound troublesome. Even with candies I have to avoid sending anything crumbly or containing chocolate or otherwise they will take severe damage during some trips. For example many postal systems are automated and move mail through conveyor belts that can sometimes crush items.
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I said most secondary indexes are high entropy.

If you have a large enough data set that you have to do a leaf read per insert (or close to that often), it will kill your throughput.
They're not as cheap though, are they? Here are a couple of articles on poverty, obesity and cheap calories that you might find interesting:

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10% of a poor person's income turns out to be about $25/week according to this article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2123448/Poorest-peop.... Hardly earth shattering or likely to lift them out of poverty if they somehow manage to save it.