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The Ikea in Covina, CA delivers to Las Vegas [1]. There are also similar, cheaper services [2].

[1] http://www.ikea.com/us/en/store/covina/services/

[2] http://modernlv.com/
If you want just a single node, use Couch or Mongo - Riak wasn't built to work reliably OR quickly on a single node; Riak gets all of its fault-tolerance, low-latency, and great performance from > 3 node clusters (preferably > 5).

Weak data model is by design. It's a Key/Value store - if you need something more complex then it isn't the right fit for you; Riak is not meant to replace relational databases.

Small community? Certainly not. Weak adoption? Definitely not. Adobe is using Riak, Braintree, and hundreds of other LARGE companies.

The query API is pretty easy to use from the clients in my experience. If you want REAL performance you can write Erlang map/reduce workers - which admittedly gets more complicated but you get far more performance out of that than doing it in JS (which is limited on ANY platform, no just Riak).

Your gripes really aren't legitimate, purely because you're not understanding the use-case for Riak.

We use riak for ONLY TWO pieces of data in our app (out of hundreds of pieces). Everything else is in a relational database. Riak is perfect for FAST GROWING data that maps to the Key/Value model very easily; I can't even begin to describe how perfect Riak is for that. Everything else fits into MySQL/PostgreSQL perfectly and without a hitch. Our fast growing data is handled purely by Riak and Map/Reduce using Erlang workers is FAST.
The problem of course is that not all vaccines are given for herd immunity reasons. Pertussis herd immunity really only exists among kids, and one way to read this is that while this is important in the public school setting, the fact is that the disease will never be controlled in the wild. The CDC makes ever longer lists of Pertussis vaccination recommendations but we have no way of really knowing what's required and once people reach the age of majority, society doesn't have many options, so relatively short-lived immunity as in that vaccine is not a global herd immunity issue but rather an attempt to control herd immunity in a very specific setting.

Similarly, you are never going to get enough herd immunity to make a flu vaccine worthy of mandating for this reason but that doesn't keep the CDC from issuing recommendations.

Vaccines are given for a number of reasons. Some truly present population-wide herd immunity considerations (Measles, Polio, possibly to a far lesser extent Diphtheria, but that is complicated by the fact that we simply don't know how common sub-clinical diphtheria is in vaccinated populations given that the vaccine targets exotoxins rather than the organism itself).

The vaccination regimes have become out of control. There is no need to require the vast number of vaccines that are routinely given today. Stick with the big ones. Don't require all the others. Use the others in the case of individualized risk. Yes, I know the autism theorists suggest the big vaccines are to blame but there is little evidence there. However, aside from MMR, DTaP, and Polio, there are few diseases out there which are so severe a menace to public health and safety that we can't just let people decide on their own.
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> I'd be more worried if it was a gradual but consistent 27% decline than a day-after-earnings 27% decline.

How about a gradual and consistent 80% decline? That's GRPN since IPO.
Yep, its linked from a couple of pages but needs to be more obvious. Will fix.
I can live with dash. It's living without terminal IO that sort of puts a damper on things.
Speculation is "we turned down Google" was actually "Google got one look at our books and said 'fuck no'".
To make it easier for everyone, the comment where he demands the cash is here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=765645#c13 - otherwise you have to read through lots of drivel before you get to the juicy part. This guy sounds absolutely nuts, the other property for opacity has been supported for over 8 years now and the dude is still using old code? Wow.
I had a programmer dad, and was homeschooled. The first thing he did when I asked how I could cheat at the various qbasic games we had (a la game genie) was hand me a Learn Qbasic book. He said I'd know how to cheat once I finished working my way through the book. Eventually I did learn how to cheat, but got bored with it. So I made them harder ;)

Sorry yours wasn't the same!
The opposition that is seen from some people to moving away from SysV style init is amazing to me. I don't have much experience with systemd, but upstart has been a refreshing change from the old shell scripts.

Having been both on the packaging side, as well as the admin side, I can't imagine not abandoning the daemonize and PID file paradigm. The number of package I've seen that have init scripts that don't properly stop or start the daemon, or don't check the pid file and or subsys lock file; or daemons that don't properly chdir, or don't release an errant file descriptor, make me want to scream. Not to mention the process monitoring and full lifecycle management, it just seems like a no-brainer decision.

There's a lot of noise coming from people saying that their laptop doesn't need it, booting isn't that slow, etc; the driving force isn't targeting laptops/desktop, it's targeting the largest use of Linux -- servers. The process management is the big win, and boot time is just a bonus.
Slate is so bad, and so concerned with debunking popular opinion, that they're often an inverse leading indicator - in other words, if they're saying something is terrible, it will probably be good in the near future. So maybe now is the time to invest in daily deals sites.
Any reason you can't just sleep/suspend your system at ignition-off? I can see that there might be times when the system does go down hard and you've got no option but to reboot, but still, that should be rare.

I work with a fair number of embedded systems myself. Most avoid full boots where possible.
yes, with n_val=3 (default) 3 nodes is the minimum. I was merely testing (actually had 3 riak instances on a single box as a "cluster") but with r,w=1 and n_val=1 it was about the same (slow), which was disconcerting. cpu was very high in one instance (others were nearly idle, and IO was low. I did not try dw=0 though (if that would even work). Might be worth a try.

I am going to try bitcask too, to see if eleveldb was the culprit and could be tuned.
> The one surprise in ARMv8, is the omission of any explicit support for multi-threading. Nearly every other major architecture, x86, MIPS, SPARC, and Power has support for multi-threading and at least one or two multi-threaded implementations.

What does this even mean? Are they talking about atomic operations? Hyperthreading?
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I believe that Michael Saylor announce this about 13 year ago (in 1999). If I remember correctly, he had a column in Newsweek or Time talking about it. Then Microstrategy's stock tanked (they had to restate their earnings), and his fortune pretty much vanished overnight.

It's interesting to see how much has happened in the past 13 years, and how technology has made this kind of thing feasible. The proliferation of high-quality online educational companies (Khan Academy, Udacity, Coursera, etc...) has made it possible to get a real education online. It isn't quite equivalent to live education, but the best online education is definitely getting close.
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I deleted my account. There was a fair bit of a debacle in doing so, which appears to have been rectified.

Honestly, I really liked Quora for some of its content, but the UI/UX is just simply atrocious (I have said ad nausea here on HN and other places that Quora suffers from the Digg Effect; trying to wrap their idea of UI/UX around the content too much and thus preventing users from fast, mass consumption of its content.)

I deleted my account on principle: Facebook is simply the wrong model to follow on privacy issues, and the founders of Quora, being ex-facebook have no fucking clue what is an acceptable level of privacy.

And before HNers like Wpeitri and people like Brin/Schmidt can chime in; NO you're fucking wrong. 100% transparency in every little aspect of life is NOT the future, because fuck you, that's why.

I estimate about ~500K active users on quora (pure guess) which puts the user account value quite high (which would put the account value at $800) -- and personally, if my account is that valuable, then fuck them screwing with the privacy settings on the account I make there.

I refuse to be a part of this BS, and will not go back to quora.
So what drove the indigenous in Africa to migrate to Europe?
The Stoics were fond of saying "The inner part cannot be delivered into bondage." In other words, we are free when we decide to be. Nelson Mandela or Martin Luther King may have been more free while in jail than most people are on the outside as they go about their daily lives.

The upshot is that society doesn't owe me (the inner part) freedom. Society can't give that to me. It can't take that away from me. Only I can do that.
If someone writes poor code, what makes you think they will be able to write quality comments? The reality is that if you are poor at expression, you are generally going to be poor at it in all mediums.
That's actually an almost reasonable definition of CISC for laypeople. Take a look at the definition on wikipedia.

A complex instruction set computer (CISC, play /ˈsɪsk/)
is a computer where single instructions can execute several
low-level operations (such as a load from memory, an arithmetic
operation, and a memory store) and/or are capable of multi-step
operations or addressing modes within single instructions.

Now the reality is that on the whole things are not quite as cut and dry. In this case they're doing it to give access to dedicated hardware for power gains most likely, which is why something that's typically close to RISC would add something like that. As time has gone on, both CISC and RISC systems have moved more toward a blend of both in-order to get the best of both worlds, from what i've heard interally most x86 chips actually work like a risc chip they just translate between things in the instruction decoder.
Information Technology is not a good title. Incidentally, Knuth said that he was interested in computer science and had little interest in Information Technology. IT is subject to fads, such as ITIL, the Information Technology Indoctriation Library, which is an outlet for the frustrated British colonialist impulse, and all that implies.
This makes me sad - no one appreciates quality any more. Youtube's audio bitrates max out at 160kbit.
The bug was filed by no less than YHWH Himself. I've heard of cases where people tried to sue God, but this is the first time I've seen the reverse. Can't He just smite them?
A prototypal language can easily simulate classical OOP. The converse is not true. Take a look at how CoffeeScript implements classes. There are also a plethora of libraries that provide various class/inheritance models, with whatever taste of complexity you'd like.

You also want "real typing". Do you mean strong typing or static typing? In either case, the language will fight you all the way, being intrinsically weekly/dynamically typed, and so it is somewhat orthogonal to prototypes vs classical OOP.

IMO, if you want to teach type theory, you ought to be doing it in a language like Haskell anyways. Which might not the best thing to expose an absolute beginner to. ;)
Photoshop and other Adobe apps have components written in Java. Without Java, those components will silently fail. Thus, the on-demand Java installation hooks will be present for as long as current versions of CS are supported on OS X. For reference, Adobe CS 3, released 5 years ago, is still supported by Mountain Lion: http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/faq.html#a139_12...

I suspect the on-demand Java installation process will be around for quite some time.
Clojure arithmetic is fast enough if you add optional type annotations or otherwise take advantage of unboxed values. Ordinary calculation-intense code will be hundreds of times faster than in Python which might be enough in most cases.

If you need deeper support for vector math, scientific calculations, and the like then Incanter is probably what you want. It does all the complicated fast math stuff that always benefits from carefully planned and hand-tuned libraries.
Sorry, you're wrong. Next you're going to try to tell me that gay means homosexual when we all know it means happy.
Hey now, just try to imagine how bad it would look without his fading images! One could see why he'd be so upset!
I agree with oz about the importance of structure and tinkering.

VMs are also going to be your bread and butter for learning most things. You can set up clusters very easily with just a couple of VMs. MSDN subscriptions will let you set up test environments for Windows, and as otherwise mentioned, CentOS is free.

I believe the best way to learn a concept is to have a running system that breaks. You'll find out a lot of new information by just trying to debug the systems. Bonus points if the computer is physically inaccessible and you manage not to lock yourself out of the box remotely.
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Options were on the to-do list that never got done. I've not traded options before so it would be a bit of a time commitment I didn't have to research first. Though I'm guessing the buyers of the options would want a hell of a premium also, so the benefit would be in the leveraging and not the margin.
For those who dont get it (as I didn't): http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=YHWH
I think they are talking in the hardware sense: hyperthreading/SMT
Yes people feel temporarily annoyed and quickly forget, and a tiny, tiny minority actually leave for good. Not even a blip.
Humanities have always been the pursuit of the idle rich. Those without a hefty trust fund have found that they need to work to support themselves, and to find work they need skills. For those people we can only hope that their required electives provide them opportunity to expand their minds.

By the way, what did you have in mind for the means for society to compensate these non-productive people? I say non-productive because they have no jobs, thus requiring some form of compensation from society. How do you seriously propose this be done?
Can you point to a company that actually got bitten by this strategy? I can point to several for whom it's working well.
Hey Dave, if you are still interested -- I figured out what is causing my funky search results. If you set your google search to return 100 results on a page, you will see the same: multiple results in a row from a few domains. (I edited my original post too, so that people can see how to duplicate the problem).
It's funny that someone so enlightened as he is unaware of a suitable find and replace all in whatever tool he is using. Also, that had to be the most god awful webpage I have seen since geocities shuttered.
I am not sure I understand how systemd's development inhibits progress of any of the things on your wish-list.
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That says something.
I have already requested that Quora delete my account via email (which they did).

I might not represent the majority, I am not sure. But I think that it is wrong to say that users will not punish them.

People are becoming more jaded with each incident (regardless of which company) and becoming less tolerant of these antics. Eventually people will reach their breaking point.

Or it just might be that I am getting old and crotchety. Get off my lawn!
I'm getting sick of them as well. Most of them follow the same formula by having a declarative statement pointing out that someone is either wrong or doesn't understand something or this that or the other will never work. They seem to be pretty popular on here though as many of them have lots of comments.
I got prompted by Chrome to allow 3 different plugins to run on the homepage alone.

This site might be useful to the internet as the canonical web design anti-pattern repository.
Reasonable and fundably talented people can easily save the kind of amount offered while working at said "safe job".
You don't need that anonymous function in Clojure, (filter bar xx) is enough just like Haskell.
This is really interesting. I don't do as much REST API work as I'd like to, and I assumed twitter's scheme was standard rather than a shining exception. Thanks for teaching me something new :)
Dick Gabriel, IIRC, mentioned that many PL research was done in lisp, but your PhD would look dull if it was just a set of lisp macros, so students devised a concrete syntax and built a separate native compiler. I believe lisp as an atom will never be more popular than in the Symbolics era (lisp from top to metal, hard to beat), lisp genes,though, are all over the place recently.
As someone who wears all 3 hats, print/web/graphic designer, front-end developer, and back-end developer, I generally apply to whichever description seems the most relevant to my skill-set and what I would LIKE to be doing at the company(ie. which I would come off strongest in during an interview).

I've seen many job postings where Front-End Developers are just HTML/CSS luckily this seems to be changing to include scripting languages, which I favor. Generally the database, server work is handled by the Back-End Developers and with communication the business logic is handled by both but more commonly by the back-end developer or general programming guys. (Depending on company size of course)

Design belongs to designers (but really, more often than not, upper management). At this stage in the game, good designers can give you HTML/CSS, great designers can give you scripting work as-well. But their are also great designers who can't write a line of HTML/CSS, but that's more of a experience/working as-a-team thing. I would much prefer to work with a designer who can't code, but understands basic limitations of the web and is a fantastic mockup/layout-guy, then I would with a semi-decent mockup and semi-decent coding guy. (Let's face it, if you have time and it doesn't match your usual style, you generally try to make it conform as best as possible)

Anyways, like all answers...it depends.

Keep in mind too if an ad is looking for just a HTML/CSS guy; knowing how to script may be a bonus and may come off as such, until you sit-down and the 'coder' already in place, doesn't want you touching anything. Oh, silly politics.
That's weird... I've never felt my brain physically try to escape my skull before.
You can read about how we chose our tech stack here: http://branch.com/b/choosing-the-best-technology-for-my-webs...

(Seriously, though, it was just the first thing that came into my head when setting up the other X-headers.)
I enjoyed programming in Clojure, but chose Python once more for a new project because w/ Clojure I don't know which projects are doing well. (Templating? Web app library? Postgresql?).

Wrt Python I know I'll do fine w/ Django, Flask, Jinja2, Psycopg2, Tornado...
I think that we're heading in that direction whether we like it or not. The classic newspaper is in essence a "middleman" between writers and readers who makes money by picking writers who will be popular and selling ad space. Whether or not there are publishers or an audience, there will always be writers -- it's the middleman who is being rendered unnecessary.

We're seeing the same phenomena in the music industry and television, and it happened in radio long ago (which is why most radio content is completely disposable, public radio being the exception).

What does the end-game look like? Probably something like Google News or the App Store.

It's possible that entities such as the New Yorker or the NY Times or The Economist can survive if they figure out how to switch from their middleman model to a "make good stuff and sell it to people" model, but it's problematic -- switching business models is very hard.
Hey binary, if you still care -- I realized that these google search results of link after link from the same domain, happens only when you have the search setting to return more than 10 results per page (worst problem at 100 results/page). Change your settings to 100 and you will see the same.
So many people learned (a dialect of) BASIC despite it's faults because it was the one language available on nearly every home computer on the market, and typically accessible directly from the main UI of the computer. Considering how the browser may as well be "the computer" for many people, JS is in the same position.
Sounds pretty terrible to work there. On a serious note, it's awesome how much stuff gets converted from hackathons
Whatever happens I hope things work out for you.
Because until OEMs start manufacturing tablets with sensible bootloaders that can boot anything, Windows RT devices will be the only game in town.

These tablets will be built in volume. Up until now, with x86 PCs, alternative OSs enjoyed an ecosystem of mass produced, cheap computers that could run competitive OSs. Microsoft is trying to stop this from happening in the ARM device space.
At first glance, I thought this had something to do with the TRS-80 CoCo. What a let down!
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During my perl experience, I learned that any special character next to $ is usually some magic variable that does something. So I would bet that $\ also does something.

edit: oh yeah.

$\ - The output record separator for the print operator. If defined, this value is printed after the last of print's arguments. Default is undef.
At a guess I'd say it's because this pathway has already been mapped out by some OCaml researchers: http://anil.recoil.org/papers/2010-hotcloud-lamp.pdf
Yes, this "language" is clearly a joke. I'm surprised to see so many comments treating it as if it were serious.
Although I agree with some of your points about transparency, I'm not a fan of the tone. Hence downvoted.
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+1

One interesting feature of Indonesia where I am right now is that unlike any other nation I have ever been to, handicrafts are used for everyday things. If you remember, this is what Barak Obama's mother was studying when she moved here so many years ago. The fact that handicrafts are still valued, and that hand-woven (and decorated) tablecloths still decorate my mother-in-law's table, or that much of the furniture is hand-made (though this is sadly changing as Cheap Plastic Crap(TM) is replacing it) gives the country a sense of vibrancy that wouldn't exist otherwise. Even today, while mass-produced T-shirts (a major Indonesian export) are used for every-day wear, for particularly important gatherings, hand-dyed batik is still a status symbol every bit as much as hand-made suits are in the US (I have seen shirts sell in boutique markets for $500 USD!)

What we are missing is quite frankly a sense of place.

But on to your bit about the industrial revolution in England, let me suggest reading "The Servile State" by Hillaire Belloc (you can find a PDF on-line for free since it is out of copyright). He suggests that the industrial revolution, which began in England, occurred specifically because of Protestant efforts to get peasants off their land, and thus unable to earn a living other than working in the factory. While his writing style is very early 20th century, his views on history and slavery are backed solidly by everything I have ever studied directly and while the book is a sort of cult classic for Libertarians, it is hard to see why since the book is as uncomfortable with liberal capitalism as it is with socialism.
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