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What I have learned is that Indians severely lack "social intelligence". I am not talking about the kind which makes you good with people. I am talking about, how much a person thinks that What is good for people surrounding you is also good for you. I think average indian's such intelligence is perhaps is in negative.

I have seen people throw trash on the streets without any regard for others. Same goes for every other resources and issues. Each indian lives in a bubble of their own home, which is perfectly clean but total disregard anything outside the walls.

There are some socially enlightened groups like Ugly Indians (https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Ugly-Indian/1234597910466...) doing great work, which I hope extend to the entire country.
just a quick question.

With crouton you still get the large developer mode warning right?

and it requires either a keystroke or a 30 second to pass correct?

and do you have the arm one or another?
I thought it was a JPEG from 2005.
In some ways, it kind of is a sham. I think it is perpetuated by the blog/youtube style programming knowledge transference paradigm. Those mediums are fine but there seems to be a rallying cry against actually learning anything about computing in anything other than bite size pieces and thus get a lot of fad driven movements and an over population of redundant frameworks and libraries.
I was thinking the same. Perhaps if the setup procedure included a limited-access account that could only run useradd/userdel, I'd consider trying it, but definitely not while root.
Greenplum's mean-spiritedness makes this more a review of himself than the book, which is too bad because he manages a few golden nuggets here and there among all the brown ones.
Interestingly the reverse is not true.

If you took all the Bitcoin mining machines and made them work on science and engineering tasks they would produce hardly any meaningful output compared to the Top500 systems. The main reason is that Bitcoin mining is embarrassingly parallell while most technical computing algorithms require large amounts of communication. The difference between a Top500 system and a standard cluster is the interconnect.
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Based on the "tech setup efforts" it sounds like the same product but with a freemium flavor.

Product 2: free
Product 1: Fee and/or Subscription

I'd start with launching your Product 2 and pre-sale your Product 1 with enough lead-time to build it after your first sale/upgrade.
Hello guys. Founder of https://commando.io. Commando.io is a web based interface to execute commands on remote servers over SSH. You can write commands in bash, perl, python, ruby, or even node.js. We seem to share some of the same ideas and vision. When you generate a public key in bastio.com do you also add a password to the key as well? I.E. if somebody were to compromise your server, they would need the SSH key password to SSH into other users servers?
As with many things, I find the sweet spot changes depending on my knowledge and familiarity with the concept.
I use Go actively, and I come back every few months to D. In short, use Go if you want a simple, structure development environment, but use D if you want a better C++. I like Go because it's well designed, but I like D because everytime I review the docs, I learn something new. Here's some very basic analysis:

Go is fantastinc for writing servers. The concurrency model is awesome and the standard library is surprisingly extensive given its age. It does work for non-server things, but it was developed for making concurrency as used in servers easier. There is no manual memory management, unless you use a C extension.

Pain points:

* no inheritence: it's fine for 90% of problems, but really annoying for the last 10%

* super-strict type system: byte isn't implicitly convertable to int, for example

* opinionated: code style, build system, etc.; everything can be worked around, but it's a recurring theme

* no manual memory management: the GC is getting better, but it'll never be good enough for writing intense games

D is awesome for writing more general software. The general feel is what C++ would have been if it was designed better. It has a stronger connection to C, so manual memory management is an option with free/malloc. However, most of the time you'd rely on the GC, but it's nice when you absolutely have to control things, e.g. for a game.

Pain points:

* not enough documentation: the website is awesome, but when you try to do something complicated (like write a game), it's uncharted territory

* Annoying bugs, especially in CTFE: most normal operations work fine, so this isn't really an issue

* no package manager: well, there is DSSS and Orbit, but I haven't found one that I like

* no standard http lib: terrible if you want to do web-stuff

I actually recommend them both. They're very different languages built for very different things, but you can't go wrong with either. Go 1.1 is about to be released (the "final" release candidate was released last week), and it has some cool new features (I like method values a lot). Then again, D has awesome metaprogramming support (templates are magic =D).
No, you must not have read/looked at the article. They are terrible at photoshop, the touch up jobs were badly done and pretty obvious to even a casual observer.
If the taxes will be raised to cover current level of educational expenses, how you estimate the expenses would behave, based on observable historical trends? Is there any limit to how much money would be spent of highest quality education available to everyone and on prices taxpayers would pay to make it happen?
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>>Growth in IT outsourcing is no more. Foreign investments are down big. There are better countries for companies to invest in that have better infrastructure and speaks better english.

No and I thing you've got it wrong.

We are soon hitting a stage where we don't have to depend of foreign investments. Its happening, software is but just one aspect of foreign investments. There is real estate, retail sectors, education, manufacturing, automobile etc. That list can go endless.

Nearly every global company today understands if they don't come to India now, the local companies are going to eat their lunch big time and leaving all doors of making a entry later permanently shut.

Every time I see somebody good leave India I feel bad for them. They have no clue what they will miss over the next decades. With hardly any competition in a country where demands are rising so rapidly, almost anything you make people want will sell. Even if you make it badly.

Consider this with settling down in US, something like next half of your life will simply go in 'getting somewhere'. You will simply going there for your kids. And consider yourself lucky if they value your sacrifices and do something big out of it. Else there will be a situation where post 30 years your kids might want to come to India to settle there kids.
Well, we talked to server admins (mostly at companies that run servers on behalf of web design or web services clients) and heard that they didn't want us to impose the requirement of adding another package to their deploy scripts. They'd have to keep the version up to date, make sure it's installed on their machines, etc. That's feedback was really the only reason why chose to impose this requirement for the beta.

I'd love to hear more about your use case and if you'd feel more comfortable having a daemon run on your servers (so that our service wouldn't have root login ability).
Your timeline of bicycle manufacturing in Taiwan is off by at least fifteen years. (In other words, it has already been a good thirty years that you have been able to count on good bicycle manufacturing there, after an era when one would think of Japan, but not Taiwan, when thinking about a place in Asia where good bicycles are made.)

What's the ownership and history of Giant, by the way?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Bicycles
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Is this article really News for Hackers? To me, it just seems like a feel good piece to bash an organization that most people oppose.
Yeah, they're bad at Photoshop. But why is this worthy of Hacker News? Are we just trying to pretend this is the front page of reddit now?
I don't think so, especially given these sentences:

"C marks virtually always denote unsatisfactory work in American graduate education. Law schools are the primary exception to this convention."

So it sounds like there are some law schools where the curve is simply that the bottom N% get C's or below. The author claims that in most graduate programs, C's are reserved for "unsatisfactory work." Being in the bottom N% doesn't necessarily mean that you're unsatisfactory; it may just mean that you're mostly learning the material, but you're doing a bit worse than your classmates.

It sounds like the author basically wants C's to turn into a soft F. If everyone is making decent progress in a class, there is no reason to fail anyone, even the very bottom student. It sounds like this author is arguing that there's no need to give C's as a matter of course, but only if someone is borderline-failing.

It sounds like the biggest issue is that C's being reserved for unsatisfactory work has been implemented at some law schools but not all. Since most employers aren't that savvy and can't know everything about every school, students at schools that routinely give out C's are hurt by the lower GPA that says more about their school than what they learned.

Ultimately, the author seems to be calling for a grading scale that is more similar between schools. But it's easier to convince schools to do that through inflation of the harder-grading schools ("Help your students!") than deflation of the easier-grading schools ("We promise this won't hurt your students ... if everyone else follows along")
Yes, they have their own fab, but I looked up what I could a while back on that fab ( http://www.gwern.net/Slowing%20Moore%27s%20Law#fn23 ), and everything indicates the NSA chipfab is outdated, using very large-size features, and essentially meant for legacy system support - making old hard to replace chips, perhaps. If they're doing anything fancy, it'll be at partner chip fabs... but so many chip fabs have already left the USA that one wonders.
Taiwan didn't clean up its pollution until it became a democracy. (I lived there for extended periods both before and after that transition.) Generalizing a bit more, dictatorship was not strictly necessary for Taiwan's progress, as we know from two lines of evidence:

1) Some countries in other parts of the world developed AS democracies, even earlier than Taiwan.

2) Taiwan has continued to develop and improve most aspects of its living standards since it became a democracy.

Dictatorships miss out on the valuable reality-checks on public policy provided by free and fair election campaigns.
Believe it or not, there's a world outside silicon valley where not every company can hire a large team of engineers to create and maintain their data infrastructure to process sales, do crm, keep track of manufacturing, etc. That's why companies like Oracle exist (and are very successful)

Edit: I noticed you meant small businesses. However, Oracle does this mainly for the large companies that don't excel at technology.
But the poster in question didn't say "X" and "Y" did they...this feels like an exercise in pedantry now, but he really did say "exactly" and "google".
You missed the biggest thing IMO -- there isn't much nationalism or national unity. I don't see Indians being particularly proud of India.

Some of the smartest people I know are from India and Pakistan. Most of the folks I know came from modest backgrounds, and none of them look back at all.
I had come here to say exactly this. This article feels very much like armchair theorizing. Is there any evidentiary suport for it? I couldn't find much.
> Essentially a business that pays regular people $X to register as a compute unit and charges businesses to use that compute infrastructure for massive map-reduce type jobs.

It's been done. That you've never heard of the company doing this indicates how successful it's been.
But if google has only existed for 15 years how can the business model of "get money out of people trying to help them do a google me-too" have existed for 30?
I can largely do all this with Ansible and it's flexible enough that I could probably get pretty close to being as easy as a good web UI. They devs behind Ansible are also working on Ansible Commander which will provide a UI. The UI will likely be the difference maker, so you should include screenshots so that I don't have to create a new account for yet another service I may never again log into.

The pricing probably doesn't reflect how people would use this. The free plan is basically just a way to see how it works as you wouldn't need something like this for just one server. Maybe you should increase the free plan to a few servers so that I could see how useful it might be.
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Do I assume correctly that there are already persons for hire that create false records for databases similar to this, just like counterfeit IDs?

If not, this might be a possible quick growth opportunity...

One of my cats has a number of customer service records floating around out in the interwebs...
Oh I'm much more efficient on the MBP, but not because it lacks a touchscreen. Simply because Android is not meant to do work, but to consume medias.

The touchscreen is useful because it's right next to your fingers, and you don't have to think about a pointers to click on something, you just unconsciously reach for it.

If you get your hands on a device with a good touchscreen and a mouse, try it. You'll find yourself going back to a regular laptop and reaching for the screen.
From the Berkeley paper on Facebook:

Nonetheless, large jobs are important too. Over 80% of the IO and over 90% of cluster cycles are consumed by
less than 10% of the largest jobs (7% of the largest jobs in the Facebook cluster). These large jobs, in the clusters we considered, are typically revenue-generating critical production jobs feeding front-end applications.

So MR job characteristics might follow a power law distribution, and @mims is focusing on one end of the tail. Sure, that's cool!

But then @mims also selectively quotes the TC article, which ends with an excellent point that contradicts his thesis:

The big data fallacy may sound disappointing, but it is actually a strong argument for why we need even bigger data. Because the amount of valuable insights we can derive from big data is so very tiny, we need to collect even more data and use more powerful analytics to increase our chance of finding them.

I think @mims over-pursues the stupid Forbes/BI straw man here. As one would expect with data, the story is complicated. Mom and pop stores don't need to worry about Cloudera's latest offering, but companies working on the cutting edge of analysis still absolutely need tools like Hadoop, Impala, and Redshift.
That's ancient VxWorks (sadly still shipping in some places, however).

More recent VxWorks - i.e. anything 6.x, since 2004 - has memory protection.
So someone made one, cool!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5051047
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Good point (see, for example, chicken) but that's an evolutionary blink of an eye.
Thanks for the feedback. For the one-time server enrollment process, would you be more comfortable having us set up a limited account using a script we provide? We were thinking that there's not necessarily a whole lot of difference between a user who has useradd permissions and a user with root permissions.

Also, we set up Bastio so that we don't have unattended access to your servers. We keep everything encrypted until the moment when we need the keys for account provisioning or keypair deployment.
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I'm not going to comment on the security of giving somebody an ssh key to your root account... But it's a good idea to look at something like puppet to do this.

Example: https://github.com/credativ/puppet-ssh-hiera
You appeal to vague authority.
Inflation is looked at by smart people, but many of the smart people whose job it is to define inflation computation are appointed, paid and appreciated according to the perception of inflation.

Bernanke is destroying the USD. It might even be the right thing to do, but he is definitely not frank about what and why he is doing it. Similarly, there might be good reasons to overinflate and underreport - but the official explanation and methodology around things like owner-equivalent-rent and hedonistic correction are ad-hoc, not verifiable or repeatable, aquifer random and somehow mostly reduce reported inflation.
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> Other well known languages in the ML family include OCaml, F#, and Visual Basic.

I feel like this went over my head... is this a .NET joke? Is there more to it than just that just that Visual Basic is the antithesis of ML?
>> because it's amazing how much the people of this country have achieved through individual hard work in the face of so many poor institutions.

Well we don't have any other options. We need to work, or we will be wiped out. You have no clue, what a person can do- or how hard he can work when he is faced with a such a situation in life. I've personally been there, and I can tell you throughout my teens I've had situations where it was doing good in the next exams or going back to poverty.

When you go through that, you don't complain of lack of sleep or rest, you don't complain you just have a pair or clothes, or that your home is just a room where the whole family sleep packed and you get one small little corner where you need to your studies under a dim bulb to compete with a million people.

You just realize you have no other option, you work, work and work until success becomes inevitable- indifferent to the circumstances. That is something like a small glimpse of what I and some of friends went through to get where we are today.

Not sure if teens in US go through the same thing. But sometimes when I hear about the pain US citizens talk of when IT outsourcing is mentioned, those are not easy chances we are getting. For many of us, those have come after going through toughest situations you can probably can't even imagine.
Just about anything would be better than 100% root access and "employed measures to make sure that we never have unattended access to your servers", and there's no reason you can't offer two solutions.
God is perfectly just. It helps if you do not consider money directly or lifespan. Then, it looks totally just. Consider Paul McCartney. He has a lot of blah days, never coming near his former glory. Hope gives joy even if never fulfilled.

The Jews probably delighted in thinking God was going to rescue them all the way up until He didn't.

God says...

they shall be changed:

102:27 But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.

102:28 The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed
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holy name.

103:2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:

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Friend of mine is deaf and hates going to the movies but loves watching them at home with CC. This is awesome!
They're not computing numbers for the sake of computing numbers.

Imagine a future where Bitcoin dominates the markets. Then you'll have this whole planet dedicated to the computation of hashes for no other sake than computing hashes. Picture yourself an alien civilization, coming to meet us and seeing we spend most of the energy we produce computing numbers and giving them an arbitrary value.

While I think there's a lot of arbitrary stuff going on in the financial world, it's still less arbitrary than computing numbers for the sake of computing numbers.
I've been thinking the same thing as the premise of the article for a while now. More often, I think people just write horrible code / poorly designed systems that perform sluggishly, and underwhelm...and then someone queues mr. big data as the silver bullet.
Telling people to just collect the "important data" is like telling someone who has lost his keys just to go back to where he left them.

He doesn't tell anyone to collect the "important data," and he doesn't insist FB or Yahoo are not web scale.

His concluding paragraph is relatively weak, but the main thesis -- most businesses can ignore the Forbes/BI crap and analyze their data sufficiently using normal tools -- is true and sound.
why on earth do you need remote shell access to the machine?!

it seems to me that a self-hosted solution (one-time fee or recurring license fee would be fine with me) would be ideal, otherwise i'd have to worry about security of not only my machines, but also yours. plus, i don't even allow root logins.

perhaps an agent model would provide good middle ground: provide a daemon that runs on the server and waits for account creation requests pushed from your service. these wouldn't be executable commands, but rather JSON or some DSL specifying account username, group, password, initial SSH key, skel, etc. a compromise of your machines wouldn't allow remote commands to be executed on your customers' machines (provided the daemon isn't exploitable).
Thank you for your advice. +1. I put my personal contact information in my profile for the entirety of the internet to see. I wonder who the heck is going to call me? Well, there it is.
When I try to add my first server, I am getting: `Please upgrade to add more servers.` So far not a good experience.
I was a faithful reader of the law school scam blog before he furlowed it, a lot of his pieces were almost tragi-comic on a scale of Aeschylus and Euripides and those guys e.g.

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Very nice!

Related: I wonder if one could build a speech-to-text Google Glass app that's usable as a hearing aid in all sorts of situations, not just watching movies.
Yeah, I got that there is a SSH chrome extension, though the author opted for the boot option with a "real" ssh (his words, not mine).
I believe it came with the Note 2 release (though possibly not with some specific models, like the US ones). I got my (international) Note 2 a few weeks after it came out and, IIRC, I had a least a couple of multi-window Google apps (maybe Chrome and Maps but not Gmail and YouTube?) from day one.

From what I remember, the Note 10.1 (which came out a few months earlier) was much more limited on that front - only some Samsung apps supported multi-window, but that seemed to help pave the way for the Note 2 (and improved support on the 10.1, of course).