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> Second - documentation as compared to other database vendors. No, this is not flamebait - by itself, it is very good and adequate. But for people used to MySQL, SQL Server - it feels...scary.

What is scary about it? Genuinely curious since I started out with MySQL and then when I started using PostgreSQL thought the PostgreSQL documentation was the best ever. It probably is a matter of preference, but I am curios what is scary.

EDIT: As for your two links the MySQL page is way scarier.. So many options, so many links.
If people want to help Aaron, I'd recommend a political strategy as well as a legal one. I'm not a lawyer and certainly no expert on this case, but my sense is that there is something political going on or one of the prosecutors sees this as a big career boost. For someone without a criminal background like Aaron it would seem very much out of the norm to continue escalating the charges as they've done, rather than move toward a plea bargain.

These prosecutors work for the Obama Administration, and ultimately the President. The President has certainly courted the tech/internet vote, and I think some internet activism in this case is worth a shot. But it would need to be done basically right now (i.e. before the election). Are the prosecutors going to drop the charges? No. But some political pressure could improve whatever the terms of a plea deal are.

Disclosure: Aaron and I briefly worked at the same non-profit organization many years ago. But we were essentially in different departments, so while we met once or twice I wouldn't say I know him personally.
here's one: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/theaftermath

i remember another one too, something about depression and it didn't matter who paid for dinner anymore, but i can't find that one.
People seem astonished that you can grow a new organ, and yet they grew them originally so you have an existence proof :-) The challenge is understanding literally everything that is going on during that growth and what its role is. That is an analysis problem which is well suited to the techniques available to doctors.

Like a program, the rapidity of the improvement gets faster the more you know. Using stem cells as a proxy for how much we 'know' we went from 'harvesting' stem cells to 'making' stem cells. Lately I've read a number of interesting (if opaque :-) papers about various scaffolds for holding cells as they develop into tissue. The third piece of this puzzle will be the triggers (or you can think of it as the minimum scaffold) to evoke the organ you're looking for. This is simply analysis, ongoing, checking the boxes, we have working systems to compare against. Sure it needs the insights to 'connect the dots' but if you look at the puzzle long enough you figure it out.

So step back for a minute and think about what that will mean for health care costs. If we can replace organs at will for people, that is a much more cost effective treatment of heart disease, or diabetes, or gout. The trick will be insuring that those cost savings return to you and me and not to someone else.
The ability to engage deeper on certain channels vs others is pretty powerful.
I generally agree with this, but there are some things that are useful to have in your local cache for easy lookup.
"Unreliable narrator" stories can be "wrong" in the way you describe. cf. American Psycho.

There are plenty of stories where unrealistic things happen, eg. JP Donleavy's scene transitions where people melt from one place to another (which are stylistic devices, not sci-fi).

This is a whole rabbit-hole (pun intended ...)
I much prefer that if someone posts a dupe story that people go and comment on the original submission.

I appreciate it when people provide links to such previous submissions.

Better that than the trend of people posting duplicate content.
Hey guys - I'm one of the FB engineers at Penn. This app has a great looking design but definitely goes against the spirit of the platform as well as our TOS.

With that said, next time please seek us out at the hack (I have a hard time believing anyone OK'd this) and we can work with you to ensure that your app can be funny but still benefit users in a meaningful way.
So you’ve created an app; now why hasn’t anyone discovered it?
The sweet spot is somewhere between $300 and $800. Thanks for the brilliant insight, Steve.

I'm hoping for a decent product from Microsoft, cause the tablet market has basically sucked outside of Apple (and to a lesser extent, Amazon). Whenever Ballmer opens his mouth, though, a wave of pessimism sweeps over me.
Charles Moore on Keep It Simple
Smashing Node.JS book is out.
You have to be pretty dumb to believe that the owners and users of a legal defense Kickstarter could face indefinite detention.

The myriad of utterly retarded message board arguments you could hide behind to make this claim are so obviously numerous and complicated that I'm not touching this thread with a ten foot pole. Just chiming in to say, "no".
Good plan. Because surely a Republican-controlled DoJ would be much more lenient about the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act.
It's people taking actions on behalf of themselves.
>The standardized tests I took (here in the US) were laughably easy and not always connected to actually learning anything.

Standardized tests are measured relatively. If you score in the top percentile the test was easy for you, but so long as there is enough variation in scores to classify students into percentiles, the test is hard enough, i.e, if 50% of students answer everything correctly it's too easy, if only 0.1% do then it's hard enough.

>But from what I've heard, their tests are more focused on demonstrating learning.

Chinese schools are notorious for their emphasis on rote learning, so I'm not sure where you're getting your information on their standardized tests.
> We have no problem with "elitism" in sports -- we fall all over ourselves to identify and develop the most talented kids.

Except we don't necessarily even do that. Youth sports programs in the US usually emphasize teamwork and winning over developing individual talent, while the approach in European youth academies for, say, soccer is the exact opposite.
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#1 (thinking elsewhere, especially while taking a walk) is definitely true for me, but it does require being in a setting where you're allowed to leave the office for a few hours in the middle of the day to go for a walk in a nearby park. In academia or at your own startup, probably not a problem, but many companies aren't very accommodating of people leaving the office for hours at a time.
Visualizing Startups & the Space Program:  What's your DOD?
Which hackerspace? I've had a hard time finding one.
I disagree about the socializing part, in part because so much of our socializing is driven through the same mechanism we might otherwise do work at. Perhaps Justin might have two desks, one that is the communication/socializing desk and one that is the execution/work desk.

Of course a number of people would love to do that where the TV ends up the display for your socializing function.
Do you run your Windows box without virus protection?
Stork, An Example Programming Language, Lesson 1: Tokenization
>"The prosecution's charge is that Aaron deliberately set out to harm an organization because they were incompatible with his own ideology."

Sort of like how Rosa Parks decided to harm an organization because it didn't agree with her ideology. I mean, we're a nation of laws, she should have just sat where the bus driver told her to, am I right? Do we even have to debate the idea that sometimes laws are dictated to the people, not by the people?

Thankfully there are people who are actually willing to take action, rather than shilling for the powers that be. Academic research by public institutions should be free, in both senses of the word.

>"the prosecution's vantage point seems to show that Aaron did this with the intention of destroying the commercial value of the information"

Of course they will claim that, what else would they argue?
> What if someone went around the entire country and put every book into a huge safe.

Assuming "every book" includes books I own, then that constitutes theft.
When these show up on Earth they're often called "moqui marbles." Lots of them are found in Utah and other parts of the American southwest:

http://blog.regehr.org/archives/703

In the top pictures you can see them embedded in the canyon walls. In the pics lower down they've eroded out and are just sitting around.

Correction: moqui marbles are analogous to "blueberries." It doesn't seem clear yet what these new concretions are.
People just happen to be using it innapropriately.
agreed. i've forced myself to eat lunche outside every day even if there is no one to go with. I get lunch and eat it somewhere on a bench while catching up on hacker news (things i used to do at my workstation) etc. i find that just having a HN tab open in my browser is distracting enough so i totally eliminated it.
From the homepage: "BuddyHack: Did a friend leave Facebook open? Mess with it now."

It's an app designed to be authorized on someone else's account. You make that pretty clear.
Has anyone else switched to a standing desk setup? Do you like it?
Ad procrastinating: I remember someone (Paul Graham?) reporting that he configured a separate machine for procrastination-inducing activities so as to avoid the "just quickly check my feed while this is compiling" syndrome.
A prosecutor's job is to seek justice, not convictions.

No, a prosecutor's job is not to seek justice, their job in adversarial legal system is to prosecute a case in the guidelines of the law. Its pretty clear that the prosecutor has a case against Aaron and its not their job to decide on whether the law is "just" or "right" their job is to prosecute that case to the fullest extent of the law. The last thing we need are prosecutors choosing what laws should and should not be enforced.

Its the judge and jury's job to decide what and what is not just.
From my point of view, that's not really tex to html. That's tex markup to html. I am talking about using the latex software, whose purpose is to do typesetting. The amazing thing about this converter is that it takes the latex OUTPUT and produces html.
This is exactly my question. These techniques seem great for memorising (with effort) certain pieces of structured data that you know you'll need to recall later.

However, what about the things you don't realise you'll need to recall, or for things that you don't actively trying to memorise.

Basically - does it improve your 'base' memory, or are they just tricks you can use in certain cases.
yes - it crashes as described with any pdf file.
> That said, the data suggests that "strong accountability systems that accurately measure student performance; local autonomy that allows schools to make appropriate educational choices; and choice and competition in schools so that parents can enter into determining the incentives that schools face" have been shown to have a significant positive effect on the economically relevant metrics of cognitive skill.

That's interesting because that is almost the opposite of what many of the comments here are suggesting we change.

Mainly that we nationalize the education system.
How would you "quickly undo" an action that defriends everybody?
Even worse...

Daniel L. Schacter, in "The Seven Sins Of Memory" quotes Tatiana Cooley, US Memory Champion, as saying "I'm incredibly absent minded, I live by Post-its".

So the thing is ... trained recall doesn't necessarily help your "prospective memory", your "remembering to do things".

Your average technical person probably can recall a massive amount of stuff, based on association, about things that interest them. Trained memory works similarly and similarly has the problem that memories don't pop-up when you need them but rather when you make an effort.
Indeed, and I hope it stays out of scope forever. The idea of reflow is anathema to the idea of typesetting, as far as I can see.
This is a horribly naive theory (I have no idea what I'm talking about) but if you have foreign keys you need to get those indexed anyway (otherwise inserts or updates will need to do a sequential scan), and with index-only scans, if the referenced key exists in the index, the tuple won't have to be visited, hence inserts and updates getting faster in tables with foreign keys?
It was Paul Graham. He later noted that it didn't really work.
> Sort of like how Rosa Parks decided to harm an organization

You may as well shortcut the argument and go straight to mentioning Hitler.
Property and knowledge are two very different things. Can knowledge have an "owner"?

Without vigilantism, what solution would you propose to market abusers? Wait for someone in power to enforce the antitrust law?

When time or resources for enforcement are short, vigilantism can be a net positive for society.
Clarification: FB representatives here only ok'ed the use of our flavors concept, not the spirit of our app.

While setting a facebook flavor alone isn't against the Facebook TOS, we realize that directly encouraging people to jump on their friends' Facebooks is clearly against the spirit of the platform.
> When you're reading a book, you don't sit there and say, "Well, what does that word mean? What does that word mean?" After many sightings of the words in your vocabulary, your recall is immediate and very, very good.

But there's still ‘inner speech’, which appears to slow down meaning recall. It seems to be a habit of many people, although I don't have hard data to support this. I've heard that unlearning sub-vocal reading in favor of visual reading helps increase reading speed and remember the information. Haven't had much success with this myself so far, it needs some patience.

(I suppose phonetic writing system also adds to the problem. How cool it would be if you could read the meaning from symbols, instead of doing letter combination matching.)
Huh? Rosa Parks didn't set out to harm the Montgomery Bus Line. She just took the "wrong" seat.

It's funny that people can play the Anti-Godwin without even really knowing who Rosa Parks was; at least you can assume the people who invoke Hitler actually know why Hitler was evil.
There is a chance, especially if he isn't able to hire expensive legal counsel.
The choice we make as startup founders
I think that's it, and I probably heard the term "fuck you money" in the discussion following.
Usual things in rails is really simple but doing unusual things requires going down a rabbit hole of google searching, rdoc, blogs, etc due to the modularity (I had this issue with thor) of rails.
Which sort of graphical notifications are you looking for with IRC? XChat, for instance, has default options for system tray notifications when your name is mentioned, when you get a private message, when there's a new message in the channel, etc.
Innovation is never the primary factor to obtain a good education for oneself. One only learns of innovation once one has a good education.

The conclusions of this article are atrocious and frankly, appalling. When just about all of the problems in the US and US policy abroad come because of an uneducated populous how can one claim that this is not important?

A lot of immigrants don't really want to come here anymore and many are leaving or planning to leave because of the conditions caused by the horrific education in the US. It's ironic that this is one of the problems that we have it in our power to fix, yet one of the things that keeps the status quo thus removed from politicians' agendas.
This article has a few problems.

* "All of the above does the same job...". Not true at all; the four examples do three very different things. Try them with a more interesting string argument, say '012.78':

parseInt('012.78') // 10 (number interpreted as octal integer)
Number('012.78') // 12.78
+'012.78' // 12.78
~~(1*'012.78') // 12

* "...and n1==n2==n3==n4" Using == instead of === here makes the statement meaningless. After all, this is also true:

'12' == 12

* The "wicked" method, ~~( 1 * '12' ), smacks of cargo cult programming. No mention of the fact that it uses two operators instead of one? Why not test the two separately:

1*'012.78' // 12.78
~~'012.78' // 12

Complaints aside, the results for the "wicked" method certainly are interesting. Why is it (along with the two variations above) so extremely fast in Firefox?

Here's an updated jsperf with those additional test cases:

http://jsperf.com/parsenumber/5
It means you aren't beholden at all to Google to be an "Android compatible" device, you just need to pass the freely available compatibility test.

Ask the Apache Harmony guys if that's only slightly less unreasonable than Sun/Oracle.
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Except for n2 and n3, all of these have different semantics.

Performance doesn't help if your code is wrong.
Even if he argued the whole case pro se, he still probably wouldn't get prison time. Again: people far dumber and more malignant than Swartz have avoided prison time in CFAA cases.

The DoJ definitely wants to make an example of Swartz, they don't hate him more than carders.
This looks like the High-Replicaiton datastore which is now the default in App Engine - Paxos replication, a choice between strong and eventual consistency and tablet sharding. Interesting that they've already built it and it's available for everyone to use.
This exactly describes my experience with Rails. It was so easy to do very normal things, and finding and extending gems was so much easier than doing the same with apps for Django, because in Django I basically had to rewrite every app I wanted to use (plugabiltiy was really bad, at least back in 2009-ish).

But with rails as soon as I wanted to do something less than extremely typical I was in a world of terror an ambiguity. It was so hard to figure out the "right" way to accomplish a lot of tasks.
I can't tell if you are being sarcastic or not.

My underlying assumption is that Obama is more than likely going to win re-election. FiveThirtyEight has him at 75% likelihood to win, and intrade bettors have him at 66%. But even if he wins, he'll have much less reason to pay attention to the views of the reddit demographic after the election than he will before. So Aaron's supporters should start working this right away.

Same goes with Congress by the way, if a member of Congress could be enlisted to help (what's the Congressional districts for Aaron's hometown and current residence?)
Has somebody already built it for Windows and could upload the binary?
That's not true. The prosecution definitely does have discretion in which cases to bring and they are expected to use it in the service of justice.

Prosecutorial discretion doesn't enter into this case; this is a prosecution-driven case. They are bringing this case very deliberately.
Any way to get ahold of you guys and ask questions about ideas etc to help understand what is legal before building it?
Outlawing unions is a pretty outrageous proposition. it's a basic workers right.
For a good portion of the video, I was thinking the same exact thing. I can't see the average person either needing or even /wanting/ most of those features. From a work perspective, I want to turn my lights on. And I want to turn them off. That's it.

I think the part of the video that really demonstrated where money will be made was when he spent 5 seconds saying "Lifx has commercial applications as well." Now there I can see all these features being useful. (But I suppose tailoring a Kickstarter video towards restaurant/club/bar owners wouldn't net as much capital. :P)
No, the pursuit of happiness produces happiness itself. It's self-reinforcing.
Developer here, all feedback appreciated, i'll do my best to fix any bugs found and answer questions.
I found that explaining concepts that I think I understand well to other people in a way that is easy for them to understand makes me either realize I don't understand it as well as I thought I did or I figure out something new in the process. Couple that with the fact that you're spreading knowledge that might be new to others and/or possibly stimulating some kind of intellectual conversation with others who already know the subject matter and it's a win-win. So don't let the fear of looking dumb next to an expert in some field demotivate you from contributing.
Also, colloquially, for an idiot.
Of course they will claim that, what else would they argue?

Aaron's been pretty clear on his stated goals I'm not sure he can even argue that sentiment. Take a look at his "Guerilla Open Access Manifesto"

http://pastebin.com/cefxMVAy
There are also various use-cases for doing this as part of a larger product. Say you need to take a customer's crappy PDFs & reformat them for display within a web app, on a public display or to send as an HTML email. You could use this tool, convert to HTML, then drop in your own CSS stylesheet to reformat it. If your customer had many of said crappy PDFs you could no-doubt automate the whole process.

Needless to say I had to do something pretty similar recently, though I ended up having to ask the customer to provide better source data than the PDFs they initially sent. This tool could have been very useful at the time, hope to give it a spin soon.
Exclusive emails from ex-Anonymous activist Barrett Brown prior to FBI raid
Because you're inducing them to do so. I think your app is funny, but the language makes it clear that the intent is at odds with FB's platform rules.
I've always been a bit weary of purchasing technical books for the Kindle: the few I've done that way are largely unreadable. What's the case here?

As for the content itself, I'm pretty good with JavaScript, both for the web and for node. Does this add anything new?
It varies. Check your competition.
I find that too - much of my best thinking in the past has come to me during the walk to the office or back home again. I once took to carrying a dictation machine so I could capture these thoughts because I used to find that the process of arriving at the office, making a coffee, booting up and logging on used to distract me and I'd forget what I'd thought of while walking.

My theory about thinking and walking is that it gets the blood flowing round the brain more than just sitting at a desk does. I think that was the thinking behind having table tennis tables in offices as well, to get the blood moving around. There's also something about the action of walking that seems to let the mind wander off as well though...
Launched! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4529963 Upvotes appreciated.
I feel similarly.

I find that every time I want to share the knowledge in my head, someone else has done it "better"

The trick with that is:

1) It doesn't matter to your readers. In other words, the "better" version only matters to someone who comes across your page if they've already seen it.

2) If someone else's work is truly better, then it's fine to quote directly from it. For example I will never surpass the quality of Feynman's lectures, but there are still plenty of people who haven't been exposed to his work. The solution is to organize and cross-reference his explanations in ways that are more accessible for those who want to understand more on those topics. It's more important to explain something well than to come up with an original explanation.

I think ultimately it comes down to us worrying too much about being wrong, or somehow inadequate/ineloquent, or simply feeling like what we care about doesn't really matter to most people. But there are seven billion of us now. Even if what we say is irrelevant to the people in our environment, it may be a gem for someone else.

I'm going to try "writing to my younger self" or "writing to people of the future". It seems like a good method of boiling away passing fads and other irrelevancies.
Jobs grew up in Silicon Valley, and had connections to people in the industry that helped in the beginning.
It's a culture of anti-intellectualism. Not just in schools, but in general.