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I don't understand this mentality. Even the most developed countries have problems with people going hungry for a variety of reasons. Why shouldn't food be free? Why is it that you must pay to eat? Reducing basic human requirements to dependency on economies and money will always leave some people out. To say that food should not be free is to say that you value wealth and economy over people's lives. In fact, as technology makes it easier to produce more food, we should be using that abundance to provide food to anyone that wants it.
They rarely, if ever, go off on their own. Modern explosives (and WW2 era explosives qualify as quite modern) are pretty inert and safe to handle. The fuses and cases are designed to be robust and safe to abuse - after all, they have to be transported in rough conditions, thrown about in a hurry, mounted and dismounted. A fuse has to do a lot of things to get the main charge to detonate.

The main danger is that the fuse is damaged by rust and erosion, and not all fuses were designed to be fail-safe. Such a damaged fuse can then activate on being tampered or moved. But a burrowed, undiscovered bomb going off on its own, I don't think such a thing ever happened.
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To get a salary indication for holland you can try this site.
http://www.intermediair.nl/overzicht/sollicitatie/salariskom...

Another option is this forum. A lot of dutch IT people post their salary and job benefits in this thread.
http://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_messages/1446515/0

Here you can get some information about cost of living, this is only a indication, in my own experience you always spend more then these numbers.
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Ah, early GUIs. For comparison, take a look at Xerox' Cedar and Smalltalk, or Wirth's Lillith and Oberon, all from pretty much the same era.

The Lilith systems are often overlooked. They predate the Blit, are programmed in Modula-2, translated to bytecode. Oberon is a bit more well-known, but still not as much as both the language and the OS deserve.

Lilith demo video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob0lznzkykc

Some screenshots & pics: http://pascal.hansotten.com/index.php?page=photos-of-lilith

Cedar demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-_zVkrWCOk

(Smalltalk and Oberon are a bit easier to find and more well-known anyway)
There are valid uses. My hybrid photo-sharing/blogging service lets you send an email update with thumbnails inline, so you can tell family/friends about your latest doings without making them click a link out. http://ourdoings.com/

I suppose you could generalize this by saying HTML email is useful when you have images that are informational, not just decorative.
I would be less concerned about HN'ers being able to decipher the intracies of the law around the US patent system than a jury of 12 random people...

That said, you are likely correct in one common misunderstanding. Too many people conflate,

1. the US patent system

2. patent law.

The latter could be working as well as could be expected in any part of the US legal system or indeed the world. This is difficult to tell without being a lawyer and many HN'ers, like ordinary people, do not grok it.

The US patent system itself, however, is an entirely different matter. The core aspects are far easier to understand and is routinely and increasingly derided, including by top members of many professions the world over as well as representatives of the US justice system. The latest cases have only furthered added to these views.
As I was trying to go back to read this post again from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4312731 I noticed it was deleted. This blog post explains why.

Edit: The reason I was going back is for my Wayback Letter project: http://www.waybackletter.com/archive/weekly/08-29-2012.html
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Well there is a difference between discovering a goldmine and actually mining it. If you discover some gold dust in a stream panning for gold, that's a nice discovery, but if you actually can manage to dig and mine the gold out, that will make you money, but even goldmines aren't free to build. You need equipment, people, permits, land rights, etc.

Also, don't forget that many of the people who make money in a gold rush are the ones selling pickaxes, shovels, and other supplies. Think Parse vs devs building apps, who is getting rich?
On what particular URL? Depending how servers are configured they may not like haxx.ly.
Without getting into code changes, I'm glad to see they abandoned that childish theme the whole project had.

Gratz on the release
They were certainly pretending like it wasn't an issue when I contacted their support some time ago.
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'actually have them interacting positively with people in the United States'

Most (all?) Iranian players would probably be playing on European servers.

This is in part due to the hour differential, and partly because WoW clients sold in Europe automatically (only?) connect to EU servers.

In far too many hours of playing WoW, I've never encountered a player from the US.
If you implement ACID using the "normal" locking semantics (such as the ones the SQL standard authors who defined the isolation levels used in the language were assuming) you can tell the difference because old values are not preserved.

Instead, we would have had contention: in the case of my example walkthrough, to implement the repeatable read semantics that I requested, the first connection would have taken a share lock on the rows it queried, causing the second connection to block on the update until after the first connection committed.

This means that you would not have been able to have the semantics where the first connect and the second connection were seeing different things at the same time (which, to be again clear, is due to none of the data being destroyed: MVCC is providing the semantics of a snapshot).

(As for your text analytics work, I am curious: are you using gin and trigrams at all? There are a bunch of things I dislike about PostgreSQL's implementation of both, but if you haven't looked at them yet you really should: if your use case fits into them they are amazing, and if not the entire point of PostgreSQL is to let you build your own data types and indexes using the ones it comes with as examples.)
Ah, early GUIs.

Sadly, the 5620 launched in 1984, the same year as the first Macintosh. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apple_Macintosh_Desktop.p...
As a nickel expert, it would actually take more than 120 average semi truck trailers full of nickels to pay off $1 billion.
If you come from a poor financial background, wouldn't it be good financial (and common) sense to accept the scholarship?

And as hashpipe rightly said, by turning down your reservation seat you probably let a less deserving (mark wise) reservation candidate over a more deserving candidate who probably won't even receive a scholarship let alone the seat. I would even go as far to say that you perfectly gamed the broken reservation system.
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I'm pretty sure that all non-UK stations normally air things a week after they are aired on BBC, it just happens that the first episode of this season is bumped forward a bit for BBC America. I'm not saying this isn't weird, just pointing out that this happens for everywhere, not just Australia.
Ah, I stand corrected, indeed it does. Why in God's name would ANY Lulsec memeber EVER travel to the US after they attacked a big corporation is beyond me...
Also:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/
70 years later we're still paying the costs for WWII. Interesting that the best option was to detonate it in place, with all the damage that caused.
Except for the green tinge that's pretty much what my setup looks like. Borderless terminals in a tiling window manager with vim and assorted CLI programs. Except of course for iceweasel. Because there's only so far w3m will take you (not very).
I had one of these on my desk in 1984. It was very usable.
As for having more than one on a desk, you had better have a really well built one. As I recall, it weighed about 75lbs.
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Checked - really cool set of features implemented with simple, usable and elegant workflow in mind [though not a Perl fan]!
Upstart leaves you with “exhausting the PID namespace” or rebooting the machine
I seriously regret having switched from sysvinit (!) now.

You have no idea how happy I am right now that I have a machine that managed to get itself into the state where the only real option is a reboot. I feel like thrown back to glorious Windows 98 days.

Especially the amount of debugging information you get out of this service is so wonderful, it was a pleasure to debug.
SQL Injection is so old, it should count as an open door. That is, you keep your possessions in a room with the door open and nobody guarding it.
Isn't KISMET (http://www.unrealengine.com/features/kismet/) an example that there is a real need for that? Game scripts are definitely non-trivial, but they are not that complex either. Also, in the case of KISMET, the programming involved is flow-oriented, where visual representations might definitely give you more clarity.
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When I hear "visual programming" I tend to think of Microsoft IDEs or GUI drag-and-drop tools, but this article cites a really interesting project posted previously to HN (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3951255). It's kind of mind-bending from a UI standpoint. See:

http://recursivedrawing.com/draw.html

Not so sure that it will really "democratize programming"
Dunno about the US, but in Canada (http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-52/page-1.html#h-5), a truckload of coins on their own would not be considered legal tender. For nickels, the most you can give is $5.
Not really competitors. The VT220 terminal (the target for every "terminal emulator") came out in '83.
Sounds like they were having a blast.
"Source: Internet"

I found this the only funny part of the article.
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I generally just buy something on ThemeForest for ~$2 and then increase the font size. (What is it with designers and 11pt fonts, anyhow?)
> Most of banks use linux boxes for downstream systems (reporting and so on)

I don't know - for regular client-server computing, I've seen a mix at the 6 banks I've worked at - some Linux, some Windows Server, some Solaris. Most banks have a mix of all three, but have one that they "major" in.

Also, mainframes tend to be more of a Retail banking thing, for the core banking platform.Some Investment Banks use mainframes for back office stuff, but not many (in my experience).

Where I am working now, I have seen plaques in recognition for using a particular mainframe program from VISA for 20+ years. Also, the recently-retired core-banking platform from an acquired retail bank ran on mainframes, but was written in assembler.
Wow, it is really clear that you have not been poor and/or lived in a scenario where you don't have access to work. How exactly are you going to get the energy and ideas to start protesting when you can't even eat? Or that the work you can find, if any, consumes almost all of your time for little pay? You talk about securing your food for next 6 months, but these people can barely secure their food for the next day or week let alone month. The situation is complicated and will require action and change from more than just the most screwed over people in society, so let's not pretend that the poor can just pull themselves up by their bootstraps, which is what you are advocating.
Ha ha! very true
We cannot boost agricultural productivity with the current mono/dual crop culture, in a country like India. That's because there's very little 'new' land available for agriculture.

So you have to boost the yield in the existing land and even that doesn't scale really well.

To solve the food problem, we should start eating animals that reproduce really fast, pigs and rodents :), no matter how disgusting it is, to even think about.
Again, the food isn't free. It's drastically subsidized.

The PDS system creates a floor price for agricultural produce, ensuring against the vagaries of the market. At th same time it distorts market prices.

Given the inefficiency in the system, and it's lack of gearage which can transmit efficiency benefits to the bottom of the pyramid, the PDS system is an interim measure to help pull the bottom out of poverty.
> However to do anything even remotely large or complex with it you're still stuck with the same old problems of software development that the general public sucks at.

Except that bad LabView code takes spaghetti code to a whole new level: http://img.thedailywtf.com/images/201104/labview.jpg
I am the same. I often consider setting up a UNIX system similar to this, without the web browser, to increase my productivity.
Even worse, they are GNU. :)
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I have used Mongodb a bit, but only for applications that mostly need to read a lot. What issues might I run into if I need to do lot of writing as well?
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If you are a skeptic on this, I really urge you to listen to Bret Victor. I have generally been skeptical of these kinds of things in the past, but just in the last week Bret Victor's talk (http://youtu.be/PUv66718DII) combined with his excellent 2006 paper that digs into related concepts (http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/) has made me re-think that position.

One of the key points in his talk that made me think about this more is that there are whole avenues of exploration that are completely inaccessible when the feedback loop is as long as it is with current programming techniques.

I think it depends highly on the kind of programming you do. The more closely related your programming is to math (e.g. engineering simulations or stats), the less likely you are to see an issue because you're directly manipulating the "stuff" you're working on. But if you write software that operates more in the human space (e.g. something like an email client), then you're acutely aware of how far removed the code is from the user and what the program does. You basically have to keep a giant mental model in your head as you code. That is a huge cognitive load that all of us take for granted as part of "programming" but why must this be so?
First, this isn't a flaw.

Second, this is well known and has been discussed here previously a number of times.

There are already numerous browser extensions that allow users to customize these settings. for eg. FBSecure:

http://www.addictivetips.com/internet-tips/fbsecure-customiz...

and

https://github.com/chadselph/OOptOut-Chrome-Extension

previously discussed on HN here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3287272

and a bunch of other threads that I can't find right now.
Really loved it !

I'm really intrigued as to how you got the sounds together ? Did you record them yourself ?
It might "feel" like a bad solution not granular enough but if you actually test the implementation then locking is no longer a real concern. There are still improvements to be made and this is the first step towards that. Changing from a global to database lock required huge amounts of work which sets the foundations for the next releases with collection and document level locking.

In my experience replication has been extremely stable and reliable for several point releases so I'm not sure what problems you had.
Have had a great experience with MongoDB
I don't know very much about this, but do you think that part of your success has just been the benefit you get from going from dynamic ram to static ram? Seems that alone would give you a baseline performance improvement?
I think the best thing is the capacity plan for, say, unexpected trading volumes is as simple as "Ring IBM and get more capacity unlocked."
You have no idea how happy I am right now that I have a machine that managed to get itself into the state where the only real option is a reboot. I feel like thrown back to glorious Windows 98 days.

Especially the amount of debugging information you get out of this service is so wonderful, it was a pleasure to debug.
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Addressed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4448351
You'll probably have to use a lot of !important if you're using not-very specific selectors.
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86.64 million nickels were produced in 2009[1]. This stunt would take 230.84 years of nickel production to pull off. http://visualeconomics.creditloan.com/the-value-of-united-st...
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Completely agree with you on Matt Smith. I hated him at first, but I think I just wanted more Tennant. After clearing my head and going back in, he’s now my Doctor.

(Although I disagree with you on last season. It didn't feel like traditional Doctor Who, but I really liked the direction, and although Season 5 was much better end-to-end, Season 6 had some of my favorite episodes.)
This is interesting research but I winced at the off the cuff analysis at the end.

Cory Doctorow wrote 0wnz0red back in 2002 (http://www.salon.com/2002/08/28/0wnz0red/ ) which revolves around literally hacking biology (and is a great read).

Falling in line with Doctorow's piece of fiction, the author of this article seems to be under the impression that once you integrate circuits with cells, you can treat biological systems as if they were software or hardware systems.

We may get to that point some day, but biology is complicated, and cells signal each other in so many interesting chemical ways that it's going to be a long time and a lot of work between us and being able to do anything resembling the sorts of I/O we do with computers.

So please, when you read articles like this, think sensor networks, not programmable biology.
As I understood they tried to mitigate the explosion by putting sandbags and straw bales around the bomb. The burning straw is what I guess you see at the top of the explosion/fire. The straw also caused surrounding roofs to catch fire. Not sure why they didn't think of this and used fire proof stuff.
controversial, but just a lot of common sense...
"Unix compilers are slow. So to entertain myself while I'm waiting, I can play asteroids! You see? Compiler errors print out even while asteroids is running!" (2:05)

This was pretty revolutionary at the time, but for some reason those lines made me crack up. Also:

"Is graphics good for anything other than playing games?" (2:19)

The question sounded sort of facetious then as it does now, but for different reasons.
Agreed, but this is due to MVCC databases not saving the snapshots of committed transactions. If you have an active transaction in PostgreSQL you can start a new transaction using the same snapshot from another process. (This feature is exposed in SQL in version 9.2, and was motivated by the plan to implement parallel pg_dump.)

EDIT: You can find documentation of this at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/sql-set-transactio...

If you in PostgreSQL would save all historical snapshots and disable vacuum you could communicate any point in time simply with a snapshot number. Now this probably wont be very efficient since PostgreSQL is not optimized for this kind of use.
The facts about nickels in this thread are even more interesting the the hoax itself.
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>First, this isn't a flaw.

I didn't really call it a flaw. Just UX stupidity or whatever

>Second, this is well known and has been discussed here previously a number of times.

well known? :) is it mainstream to call smth 'well known' if you know something?

> There are already numerous browser extensions that allow users to customize these settings. for eg. FBSecure:

extensions are useless because actions are really routine. but it's nice to have them, anyway.
So Samsung looked down the back of the sofa and found 20 billion nickels! Ha

Just how much would 20 billion nickels weight?
Still no support for Solaris on SPARC! :(
I can guess from where this sort of, seeing the market as a moralistic play, comes from. Macroeconomics can, via some stretching of the perfect-markets hypothesis, be transformed into this almost-Calvinist cosmology, where the virtuous labourers will be blessed with an eventual retirement, and the sinful free-loaders will be punished with the sin of contentment. I guess you worked hard all your life, too. It's the classic "I think I made it without help so fuck everyone else", plus some missionary fervour, Saint Theresa style: "don't give them free stuff! They must earn it or else they won't see the light!".

First, nobody can pull ten million jobs from their ass. Like, what the fuck do you propose they work on? Should we hire ten or twenty Indians to make us sandwiches that we won't eat? To farm more food that nobody will eat? There's simply not enough demand for labour today. If those people that were starving today were instead fairly rich, and could buy something, yeah, sure, there would be more demand for that labour that could create that something.

Second, we are talking about, like, giving them food. It's not like the developed world sat and decided to give each beggar a Mercedes. Apparently you think barely feeding them for a while will turn them into lazy asses without no ambitions such as, I don't know, an apartment, a car, a 40" TV screen and two or three kids. Maybe so. I don't see how it follows.
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Love the way everyone answers in terms of an intel cpu with its well developed infrastructure...
SO can be... Idiotic.
Thanks! Glad you loved it and,yes, recorderd right from Crossrider HQ with my iphone ;)
Season 6 just really felt like they said "Lets try and target our demographics." There was a lot less science, it was much more earth-centric, and the level of hand-waving was obscene.
Lipitor wasn't an idea, it was the result of research followed by intensive development. Synthesis of an organic salt tends to be non-trivial. FDA approval is left as an exercise for the reader.

Atorvastatin was first synthesized in 1985 by Bruce Roth of Parke-Davis Warner-Lambert Company (now Pfizer). The best selling drug in pharmaceutical history, sales of Lipitor since it was approved in 1996

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