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Fight religious extremism in all its forms. Let it be known that, as a civilized people, we will not tolerate the barbaric intrusions of emotionally and intellectually stunted children who can be whipped into a murderous frenzy by some priest or imam prattling on about God. Their "culture", such as it is, is simply incompatible with ours, and ours must win.

This is why the isolationists and non-interventionists are so gravely mistaken, and why the homicidal infants have a leg up in this fight: the latter understand that this is a war of cultures, and that only one will survive. They've already infiltrated Europe and demanded their right to Sharia law, their right to blow up embassies because of cartoons or, as in this case, movies, their right to bomb subways.

If we are to preserve the Enlightenment values that have raised humanity out of the dark ages and so improved our lot in life, if we are to continue to progress as a species, then we must be willing to fight for what we believe. We will not win this battle with diplomacy; our enemy has no desire for it. We must stamp out the medieval death cults that threaten us, and this will require force.

We didn't start this fight, and let no liberal or pacifist tell you that the suicide bombings and attacks on liberty are the result of our foreign policy; they are not. They are the result of the inherent incompatibility of freedom and fundamentalism. Freedom isn't free, and if we aren't willing to fight to preserve our liberty, then we will deservedly lose it.
I don't think they're saving money by making an HTML5 version. A slow app means less engaged users who are less likely to see or click on ads. At facebook's scale, that's potentially tens to hundreds of millions of dollars lost on the iPhone per year while it probably only costs a couple million to fund 5 engineers to make a decent native iOS app.
This a very cool project that can be very useful in certain specific use cases. One example would be when you are working with medium size time-series business data.

When data set is small - RDBMS or Mongo is fine. When data set is big - the general advice is to go Cassandra, Hadoop, HBase and friends, or similar NoSQL route, which is a bit of pain to deal with.

Where I think this tool fits nicely is when you don't want/have to invest time in big NoSQL cannons, but your data/data processing is of NoSQL like nature and big enough to be painful using existing solutions.

It would be really cool to have support for the following features [please keep in mind that I am a finance person, not a developer ;-)]:

1. Ability to query data in batch [in addition to live] mode. Mode shall be transparently managed by application code. Example: my dataset is too big, I am fine with delays, I run data processing [aggregation, etc] as a scheduled task during nightly maintenance window.

2. Ability to define aggregation schema that can be saved as schema in the database. This is very useful for the following use case: I know my typical aggregation pattern, so I define it in the database schema, I schedule a batch processing task, which aggregates data according to the already defined db schema and saves the results into the database. When I need to query data later on, I can use already pre-computed data instead of live query each time. This feature is very important from ease of use perspective, the ease of use is coming from db handling this instead of application.

3. Transparent easy way to manage availability - master-slave | master-master and automatic failover.

4. Sharding data automatically and/or easily across available nodes.

5. Some way to ensure that data is never lost.

I really hope that this project will get rolling and expand.

P.S.: shoot me a note if you need me to elaborate...
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Sounds like someone made a decimal place error (5% vs 0.5%)
RIP Vile Rat. I didn't know him, but as an Eve player I've felt the impact of his influences there.

Didn't expect to see this on HN. Interesting the differences in comments between here and /r/eve.
please be gentle, it's my first blog post post on HN
and please excuse my English, not a native language
IRC is still alive and well.
It's thoughtful, useful and minimal. Why isn't this popular yet?
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RIP Vile Rat. I didn't know him personally but I feel like I did, through being an SA forums member and playing Eve Online in Goonfleet for many years. He was a moderator on SA and well known for being a great, helpful guy. Truly a sad day.
Religion is not the root, it is just a tool that is used to create the usual "us-they" opposition, and in its absence there are plenty of other ways to create the same opposition, like "patriotism" and so on. In fact you yourself just created such an opposition, "it's all because of those religious people" and it is already the top comment, showing how eager people are to blame some "they" for all the evil.

That is not to say that particular religious beliefs can not be harmful, but there are plenty of religions and in most of them hatred is not part of the doctrine or ritual unless abuse is made by people in power who would otherwise use any other set of outlooks for the same purpose. There are in fact religions that do not involve "imaginary friends" and interfere little with modern scientific outlook. It could be good to think a bit why religion appeared naturally in different places of the world independently, what psychical needs it fulfills and is there any other way those can be fulfilled. It is a complex and interesting topic, Dawkins-style atheism leads to a "there is no evidence for god so we can just forget about religion" type of stance which makes most "rational" people nowadays not understand the first thing about religion and its role.
Promote free exchange of culture.

When we eliminate the feeling of "us vs them", believer vs non-believer, west vs east, I believe most kind of nation wide violence disappear. The easiest way to do so is to allow music, video and communities to be shared.

I think we can be rather sure that few if any of the religious lunatics that participated in the attack was part of the EVE community. Had one been in it, its likely he would had thought "Wait I know who works in that building, he is good person. lets go somewhere else.".
Related to yesterday's claim of proof of the ABC conjecture[1]. I found this while looking through Mochizuki's wonderful and whimsical website[3] for any hints about how to understand his approach.

In his words..

“IUTeich” lies in the image of a sequence of nested universes. The theta function corresponds to the gaze of the little girl into the “small house”

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4476367

[2] http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~motizuki/top-english.html
Whatever anyone may personally think of the situation, this man believed in the power of diplomacy enough to risk his life to use it to make a better world.

He knew where he was going when he accepted assignment to Benghazi, which is not among the more stable locations in the world. But he went there to try to make it so. He quite literally put his life on the line for it.

So could we please take a moment and remember him for that? And honor his life and what he was trying to do with it.
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for what use? e.g. a desktop one? or an online control?
if it's the latter, CKEditor seems like a trending one, and WYSIHTML5 seems the most starred on GH. but not sure I understood your question.
It kind of already is http://store.apple.com/us/product/H6334VC/A/lark-un-alarm-cl...
I have one of these, which is more practical and a real product: http://www.lark.com/
These suggestions seem very tailored to the B2B software sector, rather than consumer web startups. Getting paying customers before building a product is not always a viable strategy, depending on what you're trying to build.
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Well you opened a Pandora's box. Expect many apologists would appear below, at best.

I'd go further and say all systems based on cult are the root of all evil.
What is not seen is that for this homo sapiens to be writing this book his ancestors had to cheat themselves for him to be here. Killing off the Neanderthals and whoever/whatever stood in the way is how humankind got here. I think his observations are correct but the conclusion wrong. Cheating is the way to go but unfortunately this cannot be said out loud. Homo Hypocritus(hat tip to Robin Hanson) at work here.
I think there is a principle of conservation of computation in the universe that would not allow this.

Just like a system that takes some energy in cannot output more energy than what it took in, I think a simulation that takes some computational power in cannot output more computation than the original system is capable of.

If we had a simulation of the relevant aspects of the universe, of the mind, of computers, etc. that was capable of running another simulation inside it, in order to run the other simulation while still running itself it would have to double its computer power (or half its simulation speed), it would have to share computational power with any simulation running inside it, whether directly or nested inside another one. Without creating more computer power out of nothing it would soon come to the physical limits (or the computational limits) and would not be able to go further.
I am a little lost. So tailgate is installed on each of the servers or one central nodejs server which tails the logs from all the servers and sends it out via socket.io?
No, because "fun place to work" means your #1 focus on building new features and getting them out to users as quickly as possible. Building quality products means the tedium of writing test suites larger than the rest of the code base, fixing them when they fail, and a sometimes-lengthy review process before pushing things to prod.

Not saying the stuff associated with quality is bad -- quite the opposite -- but (at least to me) that part isn't particularly fun.
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I actually agree with you.

I thought my post would be downvoted anyway, so I didn't care about being a bit hyperbole.

I really didn't want such a huge discussion here, I'd rather have people talk about Vile Rat, the State Dept Rep who got killed for nothing. He deserves all the attention, not the quibbles of people disagreeing here.
Well congratz to you sir!
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Yup: IRC is still very active. Maybe not the mid-to-late nineties craziness, but certainly still around.

I spend most of my time these days on private networks, but I'm also in #startups on Freenode. Lots of good conversation in there, and a lot of HN regulars.

No better way to find out than to give it a shot!
I don't often meta-comment around here, but the above post is textbook trolling (successfully). If you want to argue big-picture political issues, go right ahead. Just don't stand on a man's coffin while doing so.
"We're having computer problems onsite."
ElasticSearch does everything (including config) in /usr/local/share/elasticsearch in the vanilla (not distribution specific) install.

Reference:

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>Let it be known that, as a civilized people, we will not tolerate the barbaric intrusions of emotionally and intellectually stunted children who can be whipped into a murderous frenzy by some priest or imam prattling on about God.

A profoundly poor sentence.

You're ravings are better suited somewhere else, soon you'll be talking about the gates of Vienna and protection of enlightened Christian Europe.

>We didn't start this fight, and let no liberal or pacifist tell you that the suicide bombings and attacks on liberty are the result of our foreign policy; they are not. They are the result of the inherent incompatibility of freedom and fundamentalism. Freedom isn't free, and if we aren't willing to fight to preserve our liberty, then we will deservedly lose it.

I never imagined I would see something like this written in HN. Yes, the even is sad. The death and circumstances around it are terrible, but to take such a narrow one minded view only fuels the fire. These people have legitimate grievances which people in the west continue to fuel because they believe their moral values are more 'enlightened'.

Tell me, do you really think your post sounds like something coming from a 'civilized' person?
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"Hello, I'm the target server; definitely not a MITM attacker, no way, not at all." Without identification, this is as good as sending the data in plaintext - for all you know, you may be communicating with a hostile proxy.
Use all 8 directions (4 walls and 4 corners). Number them from 0 to 7 or 1 to 8. Pull out one hair with the root. Use that root as an arrow. Throw the hair and watch till it lands on the ground. Use the number that the root is pointing to. Repeat.
For a better effect try to blow at the hair while in air so it spins more.
I guess the whole point for the government is to make more jobs for locals. So i doubt they will easily allow bringing more people than the founders, and of course floor of funding will be required. Don't forget the government has its own interests, in addition to founders and VCs.

Government should be very careful to not create a loophole for de facto illegal immigration, so limiting funding to some set of established VCs is natural (or people will start providing fictional funding to themselves on paper, never spending it, their 'startups' will go nowhere, and they will bring in whole villages of 'early employees' to work on gas stations and clean floors). You can't imagine how tricky the desperate people who want to escape their unfortunate countries are, and they have a lot of time to figure out the paperwork, and the government knows it, so expect a lot of red tape, and expect limitations that will seem stupid.

Also most likely, after N years (2..4) the visa will automatically expire and they will have to apply under the already existing entrepreneural category, meaning startup will have to take off by then, having certain turnover and N+ full time jobs in existence, or leave.

To me, this is natural and positive. Good countries are like good clubs, they are good only as long as they are hard to get into. Lift the barriers and there will be no place in the world you'd wish to go on a vacation.

Own experience: i have immigrated to several countries, and i can tell a strong positive link between difficulty of getting through paperwork and quality of living.
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I'm still looking for one that gives me some kind of access to the raw data. I don't suppose this does?
Unfortunately, I don't think for a company that is not a fresh startup it is possible not to use recruiters. Somebody has to screen resumes, organize the process, etc. And it takes a lot of time, but somebody has to do it. So recruiters do it. In order to make them do it well, there are incentives. As often happens, incentives are linked to something measurable - people called, people interviewed, people hired. Then Goodhart's law comes in and measured quantity starts to detach from the goal - hiring best people possible - and here we are.
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I really like Go, but it just doesn't quite reach the point where I want to use it for everything I do - mainly because it lacks generics.

The philosophy of Go is to keep things simple I know, and generics would inevitably add some degree of complexity to the language, but I feel that addition of complexity would be worth it.

Without generics it just feels like you're writing in Java <= 1.4 again
Great to see more startups evolving in the space of aggregating cloud apps. Lots of the things that Dispatch is doing sound very familiar to what we at Hojoki.com are doing for quite some time now. You might want to check it out, especially as we already got 22 integrations up and running (including Box, GitHub, Lighthouse, Chatter, Yammer, Evernote and many more..).
To provide some context, the above is a quote from a post written by the decedent.

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=311...
I have no experience with your target market so by all means take my feedback with a grain of salt.

* I don't like the site. Visually it's far too basic and dated.

* Your USP isn't immediately obvious. You need to be screaming from the rooftops about what benefits you and your company/site offer that's different to anything else that currently exists.

* What lead you to believe this would be a success? You've obviously invested time and effort into the concept so somewhere along the line you must have had a realistic idea of how to attract the right number of people within the right demographic. Was that based exclusively on an email marketing campaign?

* Never underestimate Twitter. Twitter drives infinitely more traffic to our site than facebook. I'm sure this varies dependent on your market but more often than not, twitter is the most effective way of reaching out.

* Be patient. A slow start doesn't preclude you from success. Work hard, remain patient and most importantly, remain passionate. If it can work and you believe in it, you'll find a way to make it work. Starting a business isn't easy.
Hey guys, I'm a journalist for a smaller news organization. If anyone has info or wants to comment, I'm trying to do a story on this. My e-mail is rulesofwriting@yahoo.com. I've seen 4chan in the news before, and I actually go on there for images since I do photography and film for fun.
In any case, hit me up.
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I think its too early to judge yourself in low esteem. You should hold some road shows and also go to events where artists hang out and demo your product to them..That should help..apart from that I guess you should keep on going for at least a year so get some traction. Don`t assume to have thousands or millions signing up in few weeks and months... First few weeks and months are slow
I can't wait to get my hands on one! Waiting eagerly for the announcement today!
Does this statement add to the discussion? Or does it add to a flamewar in a thread where someone who died to runaway emotions is being mourned?
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You can use the same techniques used in Linear Regression (with multiple features) to do Polynomial Regression. For example suppose you have two features x1 and x2, you can add higher order features like x1x2 or x1^2 or x2^2 or a combination of these. While doing linear regression you treat these terms as individual features so x1x2 is a feature say x3. This way you can fit non-linear data with a non-linear curve. However there is a problem of overfitting, i.e your curve may try to be too greedy and fit the data perfectly, but that's not what you want. So Regularization is used to lower the contributions of the higher order terms.

Wikipedia has an article on Polynomial Regression: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynomial_regression

P.S I'm doing this course https://www.coursera.org/course/ml so my knowledge may not be entirely correct so take everything I've said with a pinch of salt. :)
Baroque is characterised by the ornamentation of every detail. Which is why I suggest the term "ornamentation".
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Vitamin D helped me too, it seemed to increase my energy.

It makes sense to add this to your diet if you're working behind a desk indoors most of the day.
Ahh, good point. I wasn't clear.

By not requiring ID, I meant Company name, state, city, etc.

I'm realizing that what I'm wanting is to split the SSL cert into 2 aspects. One provides security and endpoint verification. The other verifies the actual person/company and potentially insures that any losses will be covered. It seems like this is pretty much the idea of an EV cert (more verbose entity ownership) but that costs a ton.

I don't know about you, but I don't use the SSL cert to verify the legitimacy of a company. I do ensure it's there when sending sensitive information though.
Do you really believe that anyone who is not exactly like you or do not believe exactly like you do should be killed?

I guess this follow the "anyone who isn't us are them" attitude. Them, the wrong people, and us, the right people.
The right people who is white, christian, catholic, no wait Protestant, capitalist, West, Aryan and rich. The wrong people who is black, red, non-christian, Protestant, no wait catholic, communist, east, non-Aryan or poor.

This is not a war of cultures. Neither would such a war preserve Enlightenment values. Enlightenment require us to use reason rather than tradition or faith to handle the situation. It is unreasonable to act intolerant. It is unreasonable to react with violence where diplomacy and peaceful actions can resolve issues. It is unreasonable to react to culture with walls, bared doors, and hostile attitude.
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The latest iCal stepped back the ugly. I think they have an okay idea what they're doing.
huh. man. if there was a way to hook that to my pager, I'd seriously consider buying an i-device just for that.
Sadly golang isn't typically used in common-speak, so stackoverflow/google groups postings rarely turn up in search results when you search for "golang + keyword". I've had to use a combination of "go" and "struct" (and other go keywords) to find what I needed. It would save programmer headache if a more distinct name were chosen.
Absolutely fantastic idea.

I assume people have been doing this on a somewhat grey market up until now, so it's great that is now an approved system.
>A profoundly poor sentence. You're[sic] ravings are better suited somewhere else, soon you'll be talking about the gates of Vienna and protection of enlightened Christian Europe.

If you'd like to make a point, I'd be happy to respond to it.

>These people have legitimate grievances which people in the west continue to fuel

Really? These people just bombed an embassy because a movie offended them. These people earlier bombed embassies because cartoons offended them. These people, earlier still, sentenced an author to death because they were offended by a segment in one of his novels, in which a paranoid schizophrenic hallucinates that he is the archangel Gibreel.

These people are barbaric, violent, and emotionally stunted. These people react to people saying things they don't like by blowing them up, and these people think it their right to force their beliefs on the world at the point of a sword or muzzle of an AK-47.

>they believe their moral values are more 'enlightened'

Our values are more enlightened, in case you hadn't noticed. Your attempts to draw false equivalences between a culture which enshrines freedom and equality in law, and one which attacks same at every turn, is both laughable and deplorable.
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I am using chromium browser with these specs https://aboutmybrowser.com/1606053646

I found that most of the blogs with domain name .wordpress.com dont seem to work on chromium , mozilla seems fine .confused as wordpress is down or some other bug?
not really sure what your specific needs are but we built http://etchjs.com in the absence of finding a wysiwyg we liked.