skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
as already mentioned there's no in core multi master replication, but other then the already listed solutions,
you can have look at :

http://postgres-xc.sourceforge.net/

the project is sponsored by Enterprisedb and NTT

a quote from the home page:

"Postgres-XC is an open source project to provide a
write-scalable, synchronous multi-master, transparent
PostgreSQL cluster solution. It is a collection if
tightly coupled database components which can be
installed in more than one hardware or virtual machines."

[edit: sorry for the noise I did't notice that jeff davis
already comment about postgres-xc]
Apple does have a design patent in China?
Their ethos is trust. From their site:

> Our most valuable asset is your trust.

That's always been my issue with app.net. I don't think they're positioning themselves to deliver on their own brand promise. It's an entirely separate issue than if they'll be successful and how much value their users derive.

But that really has me wonder...what the hell?
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I was under the impression that Google has their own places product, so I suspect they combine several sources.
And Bing? Also Nokia Maps - not sure what they use on the new Windows 8 phones? For a while Nokia Maps at least were available offline for free, but perhaps that advantage has gone now that there is map caching on Android.
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I want to find somewhere to browse people's programming problems and solve them by providing fixed code and/or advice. I'd like to be paid for this or have some sort of compensation. Are there any places like this? I'd be better if it was live chat, the quicker turn around the better.
If you dress like an engineer, you are an engineer :)
To constructor or to property dependency?
Ask HN: AirBnB for spouses - viable?
Say I need my house cleaning supervised but my wife is away, why can't I rent a well reviewed wife on an SpouseBnB type of site?

Do you think this will work?

If I start this off as a weekend project, what legal aspects do I need to worry about?
"mixed results" boy, you're being kind.

They released way too early on that model - new model, new factory, first consumer SUV for the brand.

You might have been lucky but they did have a lot of problems.

Ironically now they make an excellent used buy - like evolution, all of the buggy ones have been crushed, and the ones that remain are the solid examples. But their terrible reputation means they don't cost much at all.

Incidentally, my boss at the time bought one as well, and weirdly enough he let me drive it on the first day he owned it. There is no freaking way I'd let an employee drive my brand new car, but he seemed to think it was cool. Still weirded out by that to this day.
Yes, for example:

https://alpha.app.net/global/

I don't think you can read the posts programmatically (including metadata) unless you pay for developer access to the api.
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I think most sites would lose far more sign-ups to a required activation email (going unnoticed in a spam folder or sent to a typo address and assumed delayed and forgotten) than to the occasional rejection of a legitimate email with peculiar formatting.

Oddball email addresses probably don't last long anyway as their owners quickly realize they can't use them to sign up for things and then switch to something more conventional.
Interesting, it's not a symbol according to EDN.
If they imported it into the US or manufactured it there. And if it did Apple might be able to get an injunction by 2014 based on the speed of the Samsung case.

It may be that Chinese law offers some protection but it won't be the same as US law.
Except this is the Chinese patent system, not the American one. Both systems are broken, but in entirely different (and opposite) ways.
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Thats sweet. Not just a tool for enterprise
Pretty cool.

So you can check that the robot's brain is set correctly before turning it on?
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Most of the new language features have been in the form of simple, predictable mechanical transforms that can be replaced with hand-written code in cases where you don't like them: enumerator functions, linq, and now async.

What don't you like about that? It's the perfect compromise: People who want syntactic sugar get it, but people who don't want the sugar are still free to utilize features that are designed for the sugar and interoperate with code that uses the features.
I posted too early! The #1 Most creative person under 30 explains the "creative spark" behind this legendary superbowl add!

"the concept was born from one of the creative's studies of the three pillars of meme culture, cats, Star Wars, and Porn"

http://www.businessinsider.com/30-under-30-most-creative-peo...
For re-inventing the smartphone back in 2007 and for not wanting others to clone the best features?
Email validation is a problem created out of nowhere. Sending an email, if anything, is so cheap that it's utterly idiotic for every website to validate the addresses instead of just sending the email to whatever the user happened to type in the box. Either the email will be delivered or it'll bounce at some of the hops. Think how just using exceptions instead of explicitly validating array indexes is Pythonic.
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I'm interested that you and others on here so badly want this to be about the patent system you know and hate that you completely miss that it's China's patent system. It has far more of a problem with both laxity and corruption than over-enforcement.
But that could end up being quite deep couldn't it? Is it not like stacking up an unknown number of correlated queries? Could you even screw it up and have an infinite joining condition?
> not wanting others to clone the best features?

Yes. It hinders progress.

Also for all this patent mess with Samsung, et al.
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Why are developers allergic to job opportunities?
People defending GooPhone and making stupid comments about Apple? I agree Patent system's kinda broken. But if this is real, is real stupidity and height of IP theft.
It's extensible in the same way that XML (Extensible Markup Language) is extensible.
As far as I know, design can't be patented. It can only be a matter of authorship and thus copyright. Apparently there seemed to be some confusion about this in the Apple vs Samsung case. Maybe it is only the media that is making such type of confusions.

The problem with China is that its legal system is told to have a strong bias in favor of Chinese companies/people.

I expect such situations might incline countries to retaliate in the same way and on similar basis instead of fixing the patent system.
i think, Goophone plans to use patent at design for legal action. And Chinese judiciary acting on behalf of Chinese companys. On this based apple may lose in China again
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Sorry for going off in a tangent but PG, would you consider doing an AMA on reddit. I've seen two posts in last week with the sole purpose of asking you a question. Seems like the community wants an interaction with you. If you've already done it, I couldn't find it.
Oh yes, there's a few differences. For example, Clojure also has a radix notation for integers (as in 16rFF = 255) that doesn't seem to be a part of EDN. I had assumed that Clojure would cast the deciding vote in these sorts of things, but now that I think about it, maybe not.
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Oh no, not another thread about whether patents should exist or not or for how many years.

The fact is that they exist, iPhone was REVOLUTIONARY when announced and soon after others started cloning it. Go and look at Samsung and Android pre-iPhone and let's talk. Just because something is copied a lot doesn't mean that Apple should roll over. Nokia, for example, came up with a great phone that doesn't seem to clone the iPhone.

By the way, E=Mc2 is pretty obvious to me too--now.
It's common practice to allow unqualified emails addresses (ie. without the @domain.tld) from local sources since it's trivial to look up against your own user list. Depending on the MTA, the domain may or may not be appended, but often the local organisation's default domain is implied. However, this shouldn't work when routing mail via external MTAs that have no knowledge of your organisational structure.
Apple is too big for that, at some point comrades from the Politburo start getting involved, as it hurts business.
Nice :)

I didn't understand the reference until I saw this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemalan_quetzal

"The quetzal is the currency of Guatemala. It is named after the national bird of Guatemala ..."
Its a reasonable book from memory, although there are problems with all the methods.
> You should use the "this page in other versions" mechanism at the top of the page you linked to so you can see more recent documentation: most of what PostgreSQL has with regards to replication is from versions more recent than 8.4 (the version you were reading).

I wonder if there's a way the Postgres guys could fix that with some Google-bot directives or something. Usually, the linked page when searching is for an older version, and you have to go click 9.X yourself if you're interested in the latest and greatest.
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Are we getting PHP 5.4 too? I want me some [] and php -S.
It wasn't revolutionary. It was evolutionary. There's a big difference.
Thanks, I think you've corrected me on this before and I haven't learned! My Plan 9 comes from before this switch.
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Using the fingerprint reader as the 'enter' key after typing your real password would be rather secure.
"AirBnB for spouses" sounds like wife-swapping at best, prostitution at worst.
Xiaomi has cult followers in China, fyi. Its like the Apple for Android phones in China. And Mi Two is running Android 4.1.
Are there any other cool non-enterprisy areas that you're looking to expand into?

Mission critical stuff like aircraft and SCADA systems could surely benefit from an automated testing process.
What do the -H and the -l options do? I've read the docs, but I still don't understand what/when they would be used for.
Not every innovation deserves a patent
I was expecting a glib reply such as your own and I'm saddened that I'm not disappointed.
But you are a real engineer only if you are an Mechanical, Chemical, Civil or Industrial, otherwise you are probably digital / unreal ?
Oh so wellies (steel toe caped of course) and jeans and a white labcoat then.

Accesorised with a RPN (The one true way ) HP Calculator and a slide rule in the top pocket :-)
There definitely are. You just have to look at the right companies.
They aren't evaluated in Clojure, they are read by the reader.
You'd need to worry about the bit where 80% of your customers will be looking for hookers, and the other 20% of your customers will be hookers.

That said, a hooker-slash-cleaning service....
I just do it by entering the name of my town rather than my full address, on the basis that I already know how to get out of my own town, and only really need detailed directions once I get to the other end of the journey.
Apple is a mass-market cult, Xiaomi is Peter-jackson-before-he-was-famous cult-movie cult.

Everyone I have ever asked in China about Xiaomi and Meizu phones brushed them off as "shānzhài iPhone..."
I'm so tired of these stupid phone patent wars. Is there a realistic solution to this or will it just phase out and be replaced by the next rebecca black-esque tech-reporter-BS?
Hi there, Thanks for the comment!
SCADA is a rarer use case but one that we are working towards.
Great idea, but I'm already waiting for Google AdX Brand Protection Team to knock and sue the crap out of them... =P
live by the sword, die by the sword ?
There is a category of patents called "design patents".

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

In Apple v. Samsung, Samsung was found to infringe some of these, see e.g. http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/08/ban-this-apple-lists-8-...
You beat me to it! Reading the title that's what I initially thought, that a 'real' engineer is limited to said fields above?
ThingsInFive.com Probably i will develop some kind of e commerce store on it
Innovation and inspiration, patented by Braun [1], errr, I mean Apple.

[1] http://visual.ly/braun-or-apple
By your logic, Google should sue Apple over the new maps in iOS6 because it's pretty much a copy of the Google Maps app.
These guys are pretty well known for running a very polished custom ROM as well, MIUI.

Ran it on my devices until 4.x was (kind of, not really, in a crappy way) available. If you have an older android handset which won't receive any future upgrades: Might be worth checking out these guys.
Don't forget gensim (and its tutorials): http://radimrehurek.com/gensim

Plus it's the only one on that list that will scale beyond the "My Data Set" size.
Apple Shifts some of its orders for RAM for new iPhone away from Samsung
You're wrong, very wrong

GV or other capital firms do this all the time, they can probably put a valuation exact to the cents in your startup (I'm exaggerating, still)

Everyone that is on a long lasting business (or better, those who last in business) knows that what comes around goes around
How do you steal IP? Has someone broken into the patent office and rifled through the filing cabinets?
Nice use of a one-time-use account.
> you can buy them to your name, and then after a few transfers/transactions it would take the collaboration of an army of disparate users worldwide to determine where did the coins come from

Sounds exactly like money laundering to me, even if there isn't malicious intent. I'm genuinely surprised the government hasn't done much to try killing off bitcoin, even with it being (relatively speaking) a tiny fringe movement.
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So they did an apple on apple itself? :)
[Yes I know its extreme but Apple is a company that sued MOTOROLA inventor of cellphones with cellphone patent]
It's more that if I sign up and don't receive the email, you've lost a user/customer.
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Damn i feel so stupid, so stupid, so stupid. Sure, everybody in the modern world knows what DNC means.
Is there a proper, PC term for it? We all know the dividing line which is meant- roughly approximated by a PE license- but is there a term for it? "Licensed Engineer"?
I bet they have plenty of time to make a sh*t load of money before Apple goes after them. Then, they will probably move to another floor of the factory, open under a new company name (when your selling fakes, your brand name doesn't matter much) and start again. Seems like a viable business plan in China.
If the "new maps in iOS6 because [are] pretty much a copy of the Google Maps app" then Google should be able and should sue Apple.

Regarding design protection: Ford can't copy Jaguar or Ferrari, can it?
Please take some time to read the documentation and see the examples. The omega() (there is no alpha() mixin btw) mixin doesn’t compile to CSS, so debating whether it's semantic or not is beside the point.
If, after having a closer look, still think that Neat would not be solving any of your current problems, then you are more than welcome to stick to your guns. No tool is perfect for everyone.
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1977 was the latest design unless I didn't read it correctly. Any patent protection would have expired already.
I've got it tied to a separate bank account that I transfer funds into whenever I want to buy something. I wouldn't ever connect it to my savings.
R does have some weirdness (it took me ages to understand the index and slice notations), but it is very expressive.

I'm not a mathematician, and I've been programming Python for 15 years, but I'd always pick R for its stated problem domain given a choice.

I highly recommend "The Art Of R Programming" for learning R as a programming language. The statistical side of things are then easier to layer on top of that.
I plugged my 12.04 laptop into a projector the other day for the first time, and dual monitors worked just fine, without doing anything.
Technical Debt: Making the Case
http://thewebivore.com/why-you-shouldnt-invite-yehuda-katz-t...

How ironic is it for this person to call out Yehuda and say don't correct people, when that is exactly what she is doing, she is correcting Yehuda.

If she followed her own advice she would have wrote the blog post about a "un named" person and maybe waited a few weeks. Instead she is doing exactly what she is advocating against: Publicly telling some one they are wrong...
In most countries there is some bias. The legal system might be unbiased, but the legislative system is not.
The article is talking about Christmas 2011.
I'm a manager of a user group (not Ruby or Rails, but ColdFusion) but when we have celebs in audience, I always default to them. Members have purchased their books, and read their blogs; they respect them more than they respect me or the speaker (usually me, managers commonly speak at smaller communities). Should they be pricks? No. But that's a question for the universe to deal with; as for our group, we like the celebs. (Ruby world's Katz's are CF's Camdens, Nadels, and Fortas - same difference...)

Having listened to Yahuda on various podcasts and whatnot, I get that he doesn't keep his mouth shut. Sometime's he's a douche, othertime's he's the smartest dude in the room and should be listened to. If you are a UGM and didn't expect this, maybe you should decline Yahuda's chance to speak.. his personality isn't exactly a secret, just saying.

tl;dr pricks will be pricks; experts ditto. Take the good with the bad, and research celebs.
The trouble with that is if like me you live on the edge of a city, the route you end up taking out of the city is very, very different than if you start in the centre where google will place you, and the time estimate etc. can vary by as much as 30 minutes.
In some states, using the word "engineer" for a non-licensed position or person is against the law. In other words, in some states the term is simply "engineer".
Well if by anything you mean Strings, that is very limited.

2.2. Objects

An object structure is represented as a pair of curly brackets
surrounding zero or more name/value pairs (or members). A name is a
string. A single colon comes after each name, separating the name
from the value. A single comma separates a value from a following
name. The names within an object SHOULD be unique.

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627.txt
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$69 only in US, others still have to pay the full $89 price.
I assumed when OP said "real engineer" they meant "drives a train". They must come from "Real America".

There are tons of mechanical, electrical, and other non-software engineering positions open in the US and abroad. Are you good at what you do? Better than most? Able to not come off as a tool in interviews and writing (you failed this one here, btw)?

And yes, HN is probably the wrong place to look for a civil engineering job. You should probably, I dunno, check civic job boards? Asce.org?

Every engineering profession has at least one significant "society" or non-profit group. Join it, they have a job board.
Are these two concepts exclusive?
Note the last "drama" was not to do with yehuda. the page isnt very clear but it is https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/0dd24728a088fcb4ae616b...

(the "Last Drama" link, not the RSS links below)
Ask them to use a solding iron its the only way to separate the women and men from the boys and girls (and COBOL programmers)
Yes, one means slow change, the other means fast change.
I'm amazed that we're still having this discussion. It's not that hard:

1. Use regexes for client-side validation to catch typos and warn the user against potential problems without having to round-trip to the server

2. Check DNS records on the server side and send a confirmation mail

The client-side regular expression can be as simple as /@/, but something more complex like

/^("(\\"|[^"])*"|[^@\s]+)@([A-Za-z0-9-]+\.)*[A-Za-z0-9-]+$/

is fine - even if you mess up the regex, that's not a big deal as long as you allow the user to send the form anyway, probably after asking if he really knows what he's doing...
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completely out of topic, but i'm really curious: the moment i saw those isolated cabins, all sorts of things that can go wrong popped up in my mind, especially safety issues. like, you can have armed fugitive stopped by and do nasty things to you. or, do they have like hidden sensor/perimeter or stuff?
Those two cars (Ford vs Jaguar) seem no more dissimilar to me than a Samsung Galaxy S2 and an iPhone: http://www.carautoportal.com/car-images/ford/ford-gt/ford-gt... http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/autopia/2011/05/Jaguar-C-X...
TL;DR:

Initially raised some money and then reality set in as we didn't have a product. Whoops! This made me learn a handful of lessons about humility and not claiming that you're a big fucking deal. Don't boast about funding; it's disgusting and only startup fuckers do that.

We raised a $68 million round C! Check out our linked press release! Not just that, but we scored the best VC firms in the industry: Andreessen Horowitz and KPCB. They add on top of our existing funders Norwest & RRE. And we have amazing people joining our board.

We're proud that this investment is going to let us follow our vision and execute on our plans. In humility, of course. We're not startup fuckers who boast about a round of financing.
The reason it is considered prudent (by some) in finance to not invest in the latest success story is that you want to buy low and sell high. Once a fund is a success, it is hard to do that.
I guess I'm lucky - I'd never looked before, but I checked, and I live in a very small town, about 50 feet from where Google Maps places my town name.

I get your point - if you live in North London, then getting directions from "London" is probably not the way to go. Postcodes seem to be the quickest way, for me.
Well, they already managed to survive this:
http://ejroundtheworld.blogspot.co.uk/
HN Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2811080
Thanks! It reminds me of Twitter a lot, somehow :-)
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If you have internet access, Canonical have always provided a minimal CD installer (about 30Mb) that grabs packages over the internet. See :
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD
12.04 is on there, and I haven't seen any announcement indicating 12.10 won't be.
Not idea for every application (e.g. where you're installing onto multiple machines, will use a lot of bandwidth), but for 1 or 2 machines certainly an option.
So once the patent expires it's then morally fine to claim the "inspiration" for a certain design?
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It doesn't hurt to validate the domain part, and make sure it has at least one MX or A record. With a bit of AJAX you can usually validate that before the user even submits the form. Not forgetting to take punycode into account.
Go and look at the LG Prada prior to the iPhone. Appletard.
It looks like there may be two separate grounds, impersonation and infringement. Removing instagram references may help with the impersonation claim but not necessarily with the infringement claim...
I would rather say that one (revolution) means turning the thing on its head and (often) starting from scratch. The other (evolution) means building incrementally on whats come before.