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Exactly. This controversy was both discovered and promoted by Monty, who has much to gain by the rejection of Oracle's brand of MySQL and the promotion of MariaDB. Having said that, I agree that this is a dick move by Oracle. It reminds me of when RedHat started shipping their kernel as one big source tarball, without patches, which undoubtedly pissed off both Oracle and the CentOS folks. Maybe they're taking a page from the RedHat playbook.
Was about to mention yotel - I loved my stay in my yotel at gatwick. Stayed in a similar 'tinyroom hotel' in Moscow last year - it wasn't as nice as Yotel.

My only complaint is not really with the concept itself, it's just that I'm generally using these things, I'm nervous I'll sleep too long and miss my flight.
Probably not the article I needed to see after coming home from moving my oldest into his dorm. Guess I might as well go get a rocking chair on the lawn.

Actually, I think this article is wrong in one important way. It doesn't take into account the effect of laying down new memories. The more, new experiences you have, the slower time appears to have passed [past tense, how it's remembered], while, paradoxically, making it pass [present tense, while experiencing] go faster.

So, spend all your time on the couch, watch time pass slow but evaporate. Go do something new and different, watch it fly by while having had more there.

Memories play weirdly with verb tenses...
You are being paid by the Kremlin

Yep. I registered this HN account five years ago especially to wait for your comments. And my real name is Anna Chapman.
I think you missed a point there. Maybe your perspective is one of having a fixed residence for all of your life. Unfortunately, my life didn't progress that way and every time I move to a new place I have to go through the same rigmarole all over again.

I can assure you that I'm not alone in this. I don't see why a UID can't pave the way for further changes in government clauses.

Furthermore, I know of quite a few other countries where their ID cards help them do tons of things that in India are neigh impossible without further documentation.

As for cyber cafes and hotels requiring IDs - hotels everywhere require IDs for the most part and the cyber cafe bullshit is because of idiotic govt. representatives not understanding the whole terrorism through email communications bit.

I find it quite ridiculous that India doesn't have any sort of unified ID system so far. I've been traveling for the past one year and have been through several countries, almost all of which have their respective ID systems. These IDs help them open bank accounts, get credit cards, cross borders, and do much more.

There is certainly a need for it in India.
It's interesting, but you're going to get a lot of human complication involved. You'll need administrators with the expertise to vet all those types of people. If money is flowing through you, customers will expect you to guarantee quality. And guarantee you don't send a criminal into their house to entertain their kids. I did essentially this just for math tutors for the math portion of the SAT for high schoolers. By far the most work was in hiring and managing staff.

If money is not flowing through you then the product is Angie's List.
I believe that the note on the bottom, about machine learning, is not germane to the graph displayed. The graph is a straight visualization of hacker news post rank.

The machine learning discusses this earlier blog post: http://metamarkets.com/2011/hacking-hacker-news-headlines/

I don't understand why the authors combined boosting with stochastic-gradient descent.

Boosting means you do greedy, forward-selection of features. You add one feature at a time, the one that has the largest gradient with respect to the loss. i.e. you pick the feature that looks like it will fit the data the best, given what the model currently knows, and then add the feature to the model. You can then choose the optimal weight for the feature using a line search.

Why is SGD necessary in this scenario? After you picked your features, did you go back and re-adjust the weights? I'm not sure why this is necessary. If you are going to do SGD over many features with strong normalization, why not do it over the entire feature vector and see which features disappear?
Could you forward your comment to the author of Dilbert, please?
Viewed in isolation, your point makes sense. But in most start-ups (at least the ones I've worked for) there are multiple unambiguous decisions from the CEO along with a good number of ambiguous ones that are all deemed to be "top priority". You can't do them all and you don't know the weights that are assigned to each of the "top priorities" so you duck out on things that seem like lower priorities. In a typical chaotic startup company it wouldn't surprise me at all that something like regular 1:1 meetings with your manager could fall by the wayside.
Wow. Govt chaps or outsourcers? Mind giving the village name? It would be useful if it could be converted into an rti request, or just simply for detailed knowledge on the types of scams one can expect.
The third world is going to use the cheapest, easiest, proven technology to get to first world standards of living, just like the first world did. That is just how its going to work. Look at China and India as case studies.

If people really want clean technology, then we need to develop cheaper, easier to implement and deploy technologies than gas and coal. Anything else will not get the job done.
People that argue that Tor enables crime do not realise that Tor also enables law enforcement (LE). Anonymity has been a tactic of LE from the beginning. Undercover LE use anonymous looking clothes to blend in with civilians to monitor criminals, police fighting drug cartels in Mexico wear masks to protect themselves and their families, informants require anonymity in order to assist LE with information. But there aren't sites in the onion exchanging this sort of information, you don't see it, which is the way it is designed to be.
Subjectively a good way is to remember how long summers felt when you were a kid. A summer felt like forever in the first couple of grades. Now think how long summers feel now, they just sort of fly by. It is kind of scary.

Remember my grandma sometimes got confused what day or week it was and as a kid I could never understand that. How can you miss such a long period of time like a week and not notice, but now I start to sort of understand.
Some of these, at least, are excellent ways of learning how to think about a solution to a problem. Take the Friday the 13th puzzle for instance -- you can do a lot of floundering around with a puzzle like that in some languages until you realise that it's exactly equivalent to looking for all of the Sunday the 1st dates, and it's been a long time since I worked in any language that didn't have an easy way to do that. Sure, some puzzles are just puzzles for the sake of cleverness (the typical "think outside the box" things), but others are about decomposing or restating a problem to make it much simpler that a frontal assault on the original problem as stated. If you're the sort that can immediately intuit the decomposed problem all of the time, cool -- most people need to train their minds to work that way.
Honestly of my tweets showed up at the speed of email instead of the speed of an IM my twitter experience wouldn't suffer one iota.
Indeed, despite Lisp's vaunted expressiveness, in many flavors of Lisp you'd have to write something about as complicated.

Common Lisp lets you redefine syntax to support equally easy function composition. You can even get rid of the parentheses syntax altogether and switch to Haskell syntax. People don't do it, though, because Common Lisp is not a functional programming language, and that also would be against Lisp nature.

I don't know if Clojure has reader macros that are as expressive as Common Lisp ones (I'd be happy to learn the answer from some Clojure hacker). Other Lisps are either very old or domain specific.
I wrote "lawsuit", not "licensors".

There was only one lawsuit, and it was settled before information was leaked. Others license voluntarily, but we still don't know, what exactly. It is just educated guess that it is exFAT and ActiveSync, because exact licensing conditions are under NDA.
It's interesting that the London Olympics logo is so embarrassing. The UK government have form, as the old Office of Goverment Commerce found to their chagrin. Their logo was even more naughty when rotated 90 degrees, and its logo was literally just the text OGC in a very elegant font. They paid £14,000 for it.

In fact, it's an awesome logo, if not for the unfortunate letter formation...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1901656/OGC-unveils-new-logo...

For the image...

http://www.google.com.au/search?tbm=isch&source=mog&...
> RADIOACTIVE WASTE THAT IS LETHAL FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS

Honest question, isn't the fuel also lethal, and decaying it makes it less lethal? I understand storing the waste might be somewhat problematic, but is it really that hard to put it somewhere safe?
You have learned a language sounds like you are done learning. The longer I spent with a language (both formal and natural ones) the more I am aware of what I don't know yet. Since I realize that, I never considered having learned a language again. If a language, even my mother tongue, does not feel like a struggle, then I am just taking a break from learning.
Demonoid Domain Sale Banned Over Legal Issues
Thanks, but that's far too much to take in at once. How about just one simple example?

I did skim through them, so to be specific: hakyll, Pandoc, warp, and scotty are what I'd call practical programs, though they approximate more popular programs written in other languages, so there's the question of why someone who wasn't already a Haskell programmer should choose them. Pipes, conduits, and most of the stuff by Kmett appear to be libraries implementing other abstractions that themselves would have be justified by use in a practical program.
You realize that what he is arguing is more like "do you want to have sex?" "no" time passes "do you want to have sex?" "yes" sex then "do you want to have sex?" "no" sex.
Yeah, losing your present lifestyle and job to go live in one of the most xenophobic country of the earth, and one that doesn't have a lot of skilled English speakers at that, just to make a point, sounds like a good plan, right. You really have to be one of those "wapanese", people from the west who are obsessed with japan, to be insane enough to do such a thing through your own will. You don't have a choice if you're employed at a company that does business in Japan and you have to move there for a year or two. But someone who does it with nothing compelling him to ? Madness. Japan is the last country I'd want to live in, among the developed, industrial countries of the world.

People talk about racism in Europe and America. Well, of course racism is still alive and kickin', but they don't know what racism is until they take a look at Japan.
In the west we're at the point where we're taking in lots of immigrants from diverse background, be it educated or uneducated, from various countries and cultures in the world. That isn't the case in Japan. It's already kinda exceptional for an European to live in Japan.

It is ridiculous to expect anyone to go live in Fukushima just to make a point. Hell, it might be technically impossible. For a white foreigner to work in Japan, you have to take an upper class job, that is, something in engineering, education, entertainment.. or else you'll never get any work visa. But the thing is, there probably ain't a lot of those jobs in the evacuated area of Fukushima. So what you are asking him to do might even be impossible. There might be a way if that person is willing to travel long distances from home to the workplace.. who'd do that kind of stupid effort anyway just because some bloke on the internet asked him so ?
How well does this work with LaTeX and other document formatting systems?
Your angry capitalization does not substitute for understanding of where the waste will go and what the actual health impact would be. We have actually had some time to see how this goes, what are the results so far?
What a waste of natural resources. All this just so I can poke someone?
Interesting, that is dated from August of last year (1 year ago). In fact there are several articles from that time, here is another one: http://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-product-design/rent-a-... which has a bit more detail.

But there isn't anything since then. And to me its even stranger that their homepage they don't mention the installation. So my take on that was this was a 'demo' and not a real installation. Can you tell me if there are any being commercially operated ?
But poft hasn't indicated that he's done anything illegal. Being a paedophile is viewed with disgust by society, but in itself it isn't illegal. Or even immoral if you use an utilitarian moral system. Whatever happens inside your own head doesn't cause any harm to others.
Jab, Punch, Jab — the Startup Mantra | TK's weblog
if you find an instance in the code examples where ASI doesn't do its job i'd happily merge in a pull request that inserts a semicolon manually https://github.com/maxogden/javascript-for-cats
Jokingly, I've seen those before and yes there are always fun to watch - the only thing that could impress me now is if they build one on Mars.

But jokes aside, don't you think with the way the users' numbers are going, the way the stock is plunging, the way that judges deny settling of privacy related issues, don't you think that Facebook should immediately pause all this type of projects and get back to drawing board?? you know, figure out how to increase revenue before possibly filling out the last pixel of white space with overwhelmingly irrelevant, boring and/or spammy ads??
Yep, twitter is not the classical realtime taught in school. He probably would have done better by referring to it as "everyone in the same living room commenting on the TV". Its timeliness is directly linked to how many people are at / watching the same event. The tweets about a NASCAR race or the plane coming down in the Hudson really would be a pain / confusing if received hours later. For a lot of stuff, this doesn't matter so much (like e-mail).

"Pause and Consider" is pretty much a lost concept in the online news world. Look at the Apple screw fiasco for a point when the repeaters didn't. Maybe having a distributed network of sorta timely servers wouldn't be such a bad thing. I seem to remember debates happening fairly rapidly on USENET.
I hadn't seen this specific introduction, thanks! I first learned ruby through _why's poignant guide which definitely influenced the approach I took here
So AT&T isn't decentralized? I'm not an AT&T customer, nor do I live in the states, but I assume AT&T is a a decentralized network which uses a communications model or let's call it a "protocol" to talk to other networks.

If you tell me AT&T is centralized because it's covering a country, or that you can call all your family and never leave AT&T's network, that doesn't mean it's centralized per-se, it might be centralized for it's own services, which makes sense for any company.

But it's still part of a decentralized network of communication providers, which use a protocol... A live one actually, kind of like what twitter could become a king node of (after all, the celebrities are there, right?).

Oh... I see what you meant, I might have misread that whole post!
How travel makes time slow down
Ode to a Non-Technical Product Manager
What I Read About Startups and Entrepreneurship
Imagine tweeting what you ate for lunch, only to have it show up at dinnertime.

I believe this is what the author means when he says the value of twitter is in realtime delivery.
And Automattic is the company to build it.
I think Nietzsche meant that either you are talking about objective known facts and there is no discussion, facts just are (or not); or, in the most common case, you are talking about subjective ideas, feelings, opinions, etc, and these are just other names for taste.

So both are right, we should not be discussing taste and we are deemed to only discuss about taste.

I'll let some other HNmate complement with a Steve Jobs quote, if they wish.
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Damien, to be honest, once radioactive fuel is "in the country", as far as I know, feeding it into a reactor produces more radioactive waste than the original material.

But I could be wrong about that. I'm sure some of the nuclear experts, and captains of industry, and Wall Street apologists whose jobs depend on it would be able to give you a more scientific answer ;)

As far as I am aware, the safest policy for "the country", whatever that territory might be, is to get any radioactive material "outside" ASAP.

Also, as far as I am aware, there is no shortage of governments who are willing to be the hosts of such long-term poisons/weapons material, which doesn't really say much for them morally, does it?
I'd take out the link to Sincerely. People don't need to know who the wizard is behind the curtain, only that it's magic to them. Say something like "Postcards cost time and money to ship. To save you the hassle of buying a postcard, looking up the address of the offending junk mailer, filling it out, and going to a mailbox to drop it off, we handle all that for you. That frees you up to focus your time and energy where it's best spent: crafting the perfect rant."

Well done though and great use of both Sincerely and Stripe... not to mention actually launching!
jQuery Masonry: A Pinterest-Style Dynamic Grid Layout
See also http://www.queness.com/post/11133/the-famous-pinterest-dynamic-grid-layout-and-design-inspirations .
I find it interesting that no major harm seems to have come to Facebook after they revealed what it looked like inside their data center :-) Some folks would have you believe that a refrigerated room full of servers was a state secret.

As I've told lots of folks, there isn't a lot of 'secret' non-obvious stuff for most folks when they decide to build an entire data center just for their gear. It completely removes the constrains that a generic co-location facility has to support 'any' gear, and that freedom allows you to do custom stuff which makes you more efficient. When the building, power, cooling, and compute is one integrated system its like a really really big PC cabinet :-)
About 3 days of revenue... Not bad!
FWIW, the fives are equally sound as well.
There are two different issues in play here.

One is the issue of micromanagement versus giving people the initiative to achieve the desired result. Ironically, even the military leans heavily on the side of initiative, if only because that's the only way you can effectively lead a large number of people. You only address the details that are important at your level in the chain of command. This takes dialogue and even a degree of pushback. You don't just say "I want to fly this many sorties per day" and punish people for not living up to that if it's unreasonable. They're expected to tell you it's impossible to maintain the aircraft on that kind of schedule.

There's also the separate issue of whether there's such a thing as non-negotiable orders. It seems clear to me that there has to be such a concept for any organization to work. It's even necessary for that to be the case in order for initiative and delegation to work. There will always be decisions made far above your pay grade, and the people who made those decisions can't delegate the details down the chain unless there's some assurance that the people down the chain won't deliberately sabotage the high-level decisions. That way lies politics and other bullshit.

In the OP's situation, both sides failed. The CEO made the high-level decision that 1:1's were mandatory. The VP's mistake was his failure to enforce the decision down the chain, and the manager's mistake was to silently ignore or disobey the decision. (If the manager disagreed and pushed back in the first place, it wouldn't have become a problem). When the CEO became aware that the manager was not holding the 1:1's, he was immediately forced to attend to details below his level. This wouldn't have happened had it been clear from the outset that the decision was not, at the present time, negotiable. By making that point, the CEO resets expectations and from then forward has regained the ability to delegate.
No no no. Teaching people to only use a semicolon in some cases is even worse. It's far better to just tell them to use semicolons everywhere, as they should. ASI is an error-correction mechanism, after all.
You are managing other people and you think it is reasonable never to meet with them? Why? On what basis do you even review their performance?
No problem; we're pursuing other leads in the data center space of course :-)
I like this post a lot. It perfectly sums up why I quit reading Slashdot. There was a time when reading Slashdot posts could expose you to new ideas, real world examples of technical solutions, and other people trying to learn more.
Now it's mostly pedantic sniping, and lame cliched jokes from socially frustrated wankers.

I do most of my reading on Reddit (front page reddits are just cotton candy, but there are good ones to be found). I only started reading HackerNews about a year ago, and mostly just for the articles from lesser known blogs that don't get posted on Reddit. Being something of a HackerNews newbie I haven't been around long enough to notice a change, but I hope it doesn't go the way of Slashdot.
I dont know if this is a good idea or not, but IMHO the only way this can happen is to have a postgres compatible version of wordpress.
I think what he's trying to say is that Facebook lacks intent data (which is the richest at a search engine like google).

Open Graph actually does give Facebook a great deal of behavioral data that includes intent. But AFAIK it's just an arbitrary policy decision that Facebook is not using off-Facebook data within Facebook, and also not using Facebook data outside of Facebook. I didn't mean to write a tongue-twister, sorry there.

If they change their mind on the arbitrary policy decision they'll have a lot more data to work with.
Indeed; why doesn't it have Reddit's ability to collapse whole threads?
What is it with every startup these days being named /Hip[a-z]+/?
It would be great if we can easily get rid of these comment threads that are indeed irrelevant to the primary discussion.

Downvoting (for users who enough karma to downvote comments) is one response to such an issue. Flagging the particular comment (which can be done by going directly to the comment through the "link" link on it to its direct URL), for users who have that power, can also help. Both powers are better exercised if users develop a consensus (which I share with many veteran users here) that the site guidelines are important. The Hacker News welcome message

http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

gives an overview of the community experiment here, summarizing the site guidelines.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The Hacker News FAQ

http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

gives some additional details about how Hacker News is administered. The welcome message distills the basic rules into a simple statement: "Essentially there are two rules here: don't post or upvote crap links, and don't be rude or dumb in comment threads."
The answer to "Why time appears to speed up with age" is to be found in the messy details of neurology, genetics and evolution, not in an aesthetically pleasing mathematical formula.
10/10 troll. hats off.
You are blacklisting someone because he reports being harsh with a subordinate who was not doing his job?
Could you build a well-designed and easy to use interface which taps into the wealth of information and knowledge available on Archive.org? Would it be kosher according to their terms of use? I can imagine this would be a great project or who knows, a startup even.