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Well, first of all I never claimed to be a top-0.0001% programmer. Possibly plain-old top-1% if we interpret programmer literally.

If a flat, open-allocation model really is the best way to run a startup, you might be on to something huge here.

Actually, that's a misconception. Startups tend to need a constrained open allocation: yes, everyone can work on anything important to the company, but the latter must be defined conservatively to ensure focus. As firms get larger, the open/closed allocation decision becomes more formalized and there's a clear right vs. wrong way to make that call.

I am certainly considering, for the long term, that I'll probably be starting a company at some point. It might not happen now, it may not even happen this decade, but I probably will reach a point where that's the best next step.
If they go through with it, then how are they going to prevent politics from killing this acquisition.
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1. RethinkDB is a document orientated database, you store data very similarly to how you would in MongoDB / CouchDB.

2. Relational == Meh? Please elaborate, we're all waiting.
It might be an interesting satellite project. One that doesn't require maintainer consent; start with statistics and highlighting, mention which projects have changed their descriptions and readmes, show contributor lists.

(github network graphs would be helpful for this if their performance was remotely acceptable)
Python is a vast language. It's very hard to know upfront what sort of patterns people use - if you don't talk to us, don't post stuff on the bug tracker, don't do anything - it's your own fault. PyPy is known to speed up real world code to various degrees - sometimes 10x sometimes not at all, but it all really depends. We would be happy to help you with your problem, but if the only thing you do is to complain on hackernews, well, too bad, we can't help you.
Buddy, if it ever comes to pass that fully 1/3 of the population rises up in armed rebellion against the government, equipped with the kind of military-grade weaponry and foreign backing that sustained the Afghan/Iraqi insurgencies, then the USA has become a dystopian warlord state and freedom and democracy are dead letters for the next dozen generations.

Get real. These kinds of justifications are just completely absurd fantasies, for people who want to picture themselves as the heroes of another "Red Dawn" remake.
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Anyone considering doing a raspberry pi project may want to look at the new beaglebone black. It is marginally more expensive, has better performance, is completely open and has a fairly good software support community.

http://beagleboard.org/Products/BeagleBone%20Black
Could the self-driving tech be the automotive version of Android? Even if Google stripped out personally identifiable data the sheer amount of data they could get for their maps would have to be worth a lot of money. Whether it’s enough to partially subsidize the required research and development as well as weather the automotive industry would be willing to enter an agreement with them are questions I don’t have the answer to.
So right off the bat, explicit linkbait: This isn't a controversy 'per se', except perhaps in the feverish depths of my brain.

Of course the intention was to get attention, though if you're going to post something here with a blatant grab for clicks, shouldn't you at least include some content? Not only do you state right up front that it's unlikely anyone but you will find this controversial, you present a point made to you showing that the approach you're discussing is fundamentally flawed.

Summary: "This is what I did. It saved me about three lines of code. Then someone pointed out that I was actually mishandling requests by ignoring the framework's explicitly-available standard identifier provided to me for exactly this purpose. Not only that, it causes inconsistent misbehavior in different versions of the framework."

I'm certainly guilty of looking for ways to cut corners like this -- I think we all are -- but being up front about "this was a bad idea" and changing the tone of the article to reflect a lesson learned instead of what's very clearly a suggestion you later discovered you shouldn't have been making would've made it a much more useful and succinct read.
>Sorry are you saying you know me better than me, when you have not even met me!

It has nothing to do with you, it has to do with physics. If anything you said was even remotely close to true, we would have already read about you in a medical journal, as you would be a first in history discovery of something completely new and amazing.
I don't think that the videos you posted support your claims, at least not the first one.

In the suggested diet, almost 2/3 of the carbohydrates don't come from sugar. From the foods listed, most of these carbohydrates should come from the oats and the rice. In these foods, the carbohydrates come almost exclusively from starch, which the body splits into glucose. And glucose is the ideal power source for your body, as Lustig shows at 44:52 in the first of the youtube videos you linked.

Now, about the suggars, at 1:13:55 in the same video, he states that we "should eat our carbohydrates with fibers, and thats why fruits are ok". The diet in the article contains plenty of fibres, so that should be ok.
I think you meant Microsoft Exchange, not Outlook.
You're relying very heavily on this "well it's physically possible, that means if someone doesn't do it they don't really want to" trope.

It's pretty lazy, I've got to say. Stop using it like a sledgehammer. No, don't say "I can't help but use it like a sledgehammer": try to make a new, novel suggestion beyond "just try harder!"

Evidence that it's pretty damn lazy: you can use it anywhere. A Roman slave, upset about being worked really hard? "Well, other slaves have worked hard enough to buy their own freedom. Why don't you?" A poor person in rural India? "Well, at least one multibillionaire started out in the same position as you, and that was a couple decades ago in worse conditions. Try harder!"

Defacto it's a crutch to shift responsibility away from the social structures we live in.
I am confused. How is it any different than we have today ? Free channels are always part of the base fee and where the cable companies get you is the so called "Premium" Channels which they offer in their "bundles".
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Very nice update! Pity they didn't add any Chinese social network icons this time (Weibo, Renren, Tencent, QQ) Has anybody seen any of these icons as a web font?
where you go for undergraduate engineering isn't that big of a deal, right?

In my case I said no to a top 10 engineering undergraduate school offering some scholarship and yes to the University of Alabama which was my grandad/dad's alma mater and thus our football team, an in-state school with cheaper tuition offering a lot of scholarship, and not Auburn University which had a slightly better engineering program rank but were UofA rivals. Had a _great_ uni experience and would make the same choice every time.

Had no trouble getting a job in a large company as a kernel developer straight from uni. Sure maybe doing MIT or Stanford I could have been a HVT for ~Google or I would have been in an impromptu startup by junior year.. but those student ticket prices!!!

Roll Tide. Still fly back a few times per season to go to games.
>>>> But you'll still stop _most instances_ of would-be piracy

Really? Is it how it is working out? Last time I looked all those DRM-ed things were still available easily - together with cracks.

>>> But you can lower the appeal by increasing penalties

Really? Is it how it is working out? I remember we have increased penalties for drug offenses, which completely eradicated drugs from the market. Oh wait, it didn't, it is actually worse than ever and increased penalties mostly hurt innocent people with no criminal intent or criminal past, routing them into the vast prison industry.

>>> but this is one among countless potential potential disasters we almost never see in practice.

As opposed to mass shootings with a 3d-printed plastic guns, which we see in practice every day, right? It is fascinating how common sense can be compartmentalized so neatly - here you can distinguish imaginary threat from real one, and here you completely can't.

>>> It is worth considering why such things happen as rarely as they do.

But it's much more worth considering why some things that never happen is OK but some things that never happen require immediate government action and give exception from all the Constitution.
"14,000 deaths is also considerably more than "a handful"."

It is also considerably less than the number of automobile deaths per year -- less than half, in fact.

"Gun deaths in UK in 2007 totalled 51. So yes, I do feel less scared in the UK than I do in USA."

The murder rate is lower in the UK for all weapons, so you are right to feel safer there.
Obviously that's going to be an analysis that has to be done for every stadium. Certainly in many cases it works out -- the average age of an NCAA stadium or arena is much higher than a professional venue. These are not the billion-dollar megaplexes you're probably imagining.

But really, I think the issue here is that you're arguing at cross purposes. There's a strong argument to be made that the whole idea of the state running a profit-making sports team through its universities is flawed and borderline immoral. And I tend to agree.

But that says nothing about the economics of the situation, or the "fairness" of paying the coaching staff a market wage, or even the fact that these absurd salaries are, in fact, driven by a very liquid and efficient market.
Slowly, that's how. Even when I revisit the page after just checking my email, it still shows the progress bar and I have to wait.
Just because the bee is in Africa doesn't make it a 'killer' bee.
"bundling or other microeconmic techniques to increase revenue" -- GOOD

"abusing their monopoly " -- BAD

No one is saying cable companies are evil. But having such strong monopoly is hampering innovation. Hence, we need to try and change how cable companies operate.
I have to completely agree... in many cases a classic SQL RDBMS is probably best. In some (such as single records having very dynamically shaped data, where most instances can be brought forward based on a key alone, and searches are on a few keys), NoSQL is better. In some, having data replicated from one to the other works well, one for primary records, one for search/display. I've even contemplated scenarios where ElasticSearch could be a source record. It really just depends on what you want/need from your data and searching.
I sort of prefer \V, but same difference

I dunno, I haven't used it in the past, because...

1) "It is recommended to always keep the 'magic' option at the default setting, which is 'magic'. This avoids portability problems."

2) Nor do I want to type two extra characters in every damn regex!

So, it only occurs to me right now, the right thing to do for me is this: the first instant I'm confused about whether \( means grouping or literal paren, I should immediately start my pattern with \v or \V. No unportability of plugins, no marginal cost on regexes that don't care, marginal benefit when it does matter.
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Please don't conflate MongoDB and NoSQL. NoSQL is about the right tool for the job. For instance many of our Couchbase customers are very technical and risk averse. They choose Couchbase because other solutions (often MySQL or Oracle) have become the wrong tool for the job, as requirements change.

Mongo is a little different bc they actively position themselves as a MySQL replacement for your average Rails app.
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Neither is everything about safety or land use efficiency.
One trick some people used was moving to several positions and "stamping".
Sorry but you do not know what you are talking about - please troll elsewere.

In other words you are not me and as I said in the original post - EVERYBODY IS DIFFERENT, we come in all shapes and sizes and all have different metabolistic rates and ways of burning calories.

I just said how it was and with that you came along used your perspective based upon yoruself and saw something outside that template and assumed it was wrong and went into troll mode.

Though looking at your past comments you are keen towards doing that, hence you have sibmitted nothing!

With that I was there you was not, so this is not even a debate or argument or discussion, it is clear and outright trolling on your part, simple as.
What's the polite way to tell them "there's not a chance I, or any other reasonable person, would consider this request" and keep the door open to future work? Or is it not worth keeping that door open?
I think he means channels the cable company has to pay for. Some channels don't charge the cable cable, but get all of their money from advertising. Other channels do charge the cable company and may or may not also have advertising.

Example: http://www.sportsgrid.com/media/espn-cable-subscriber-fees/

List of a bunch of channels' costs: http://allthingsd.com/20100308/hate-paying-for-cable-heres-t...
I've indirectly read (I doubt those kind of memories) about people saying the current setup favours sport. What else does it favour, probably natural history? I wouldn't want to see the US backers of Attenborough become massively defunded.
Are you familiar with the concept known as an insurance policy?
In all of these discussions about MongoDb on HN, I always wonder why aren't people talking about the 1 % use cases for which it's good for. Maybe it is too obvious for most folks , but anyway I will just regurgitate the use cases Mongodb folks have documented officially. Here: http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/use-cases/. They have literally like three major use cases.
What will be fascinating is to watch what happens with youth sports once they start paying college athletes. It will no longer be about little Johnny getting a college scholarship to play for Note Dame, it will be about real money. Can't wait to see what the sidelines sound like at your local youth sporting event.
This is nice despite being extremely subjective ("know" is not something I'd apply to most of these things; "believe" is strong enough and correct), but some of them are questionable, and -- assuming the author didn't actually follow them in his younger years -- could've resulted in things being worse.

Prime example: If given the opportunity, people will surprise you. Leaving yourself open to these surprises is a kind of risk. Taking that risk is how you believe in people.

Yes, they certainly will, and yes, it's most definitely a risk. Unfortunately, that surprise, when it does come, is rarely good. Also, taking that risk too often can lead you to believe in people if you're lucky in your acquaintances; it can just as easily (if not more so) lead to the exact opposite if you're unlucky.
I wouldn't consider full ride scholarships, personal tutors and assistants, as well as what ever kick backs they can get under the table from boosters and alums "nothing at all".
I've dealt with depression as long as I can remember, even when I was a little kid. I feel like I have only gotten pretty good at dealing with it as an adult. Here's my approach which may or may not work for anyone else:

1) I recognize that depression, self pity and all that are a waste of time and ultimately stupid. It's not hard to keep in mind that rationally I have it really good. This alone doesn't fix anything but for me it's important to not fall into the romanticism of depression as if it's deep and meaningful or "more real" than being happy. It isn't. It's bullshit.

2) I realize that these feelings are just a phase, and that I will get through them and the best thing for me is to "ride them out." I look at them like the emotional equivalent of spraining my ankle or something like that. A non-fatal injury which will heal and get better. The best thing to do is to let it heal and do what I can to aid that process.

3) I help myself get through the depression by focusing on things I enjoy. I try to make arrangements to hang out with friends or family who I enjoy being around. I listen to music that helps me when I'm feeling shitty (in my case this is usually metal or industrial music.) I seek out other entertainment I enjoy; comedy, video games, etc.

4) Foremost in my mind I keep the fact that there is no afterlife. If I do something stupid like suicide, there's just nothing. But if I stick through whatever I'm going through, I can experience more things that make me happy. I can see my nieces and nephew grow up. I can have some cookies. etc.

Best of luck to anyone else who has this issue. Find what works for you and do it. Stick around. Life can be great and there's nothing else.
Why is science behind a paywall?
> Yet this article chooses to worry about the cars?

The article doesn't really focus on your car phoning home and telling Google where you are.

Instead, it talks about restrictions on how fast you can drive, driving style, and loss of autonomy by having an AI drive for you. Almost all of the benefits being touted as advantages of driver-less cars only become reality if everyone uses the AI. In theory, in some dystopian future, everyone would be forced to rely on the AI to drive.

I don't want to be forced into a situation where I cannot drive my car.

Of course, the problem here isn't the presence of some AI, but laws requiring me to use one. Having the choice to drive with an AI is certainly better than not having the choice, but choice is key.
Forced by who? Whoever is doing the forcing is the stupid...
Very cool, but when using Firefox 20.0 and navigating to

http://css.benjaminbenben.com/v1?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com

I get these in my console and nothing happens

[19:21:25.816] not well-formed @ http://css.benjaminbenben.com/data?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.c...
[19:21:26.020] SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character @ http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7/jquery.min.j...
Yes, I remember the hype around "killer" bees coming to the US. Then the hype went away, even though the bees didn't. I think the threat is vastly overstated.
doesn't work. Edit wars and arbitrative administrativia are a major social problem on Wikipedia, and it has a problem retaining contributors.
From TFA, above the photo of Ms. King standing next to a hive fence, "The farmers leave wide pathways between their crops so elephants can move past the fences along their migratory routes."
You have to get a specialized "foreign traveler" credit card. My coworker got one from BoA since we work for a Montreal based company and travel up a few times a year.
It wasn't intentional.

I've been asked to post this on my blog for years. At the same time, I've had a number of people I respect state that it's not a good idea. I wasn't sure how to handle things, so I wrote this in one big chunk.

However, I think you may have a point about the tone. Let me think on it.
I'm going to be seriously conflicted if McCain does something I like.
Eh, if you are not a common criminal or associate with common criminals, then the chances that you will be shot by anyone but yourself are not really worth considering, even with the dramatically higher gun death rate in the US.

While I would be safer in the UK I wouldn't say that I would feel more safe because that would imply that I could feel more safe about my prospects of being killed by a gun than I do right now. That meter is already pegged to zero.
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Do you know what happens when you break your leg but keep walking on it without going to a doctor? It keeps causing damage, until that damage is irreparable and there's a bone hanging out of your useless leg. That's pretty easy to visualize, yeah? It's harder to imagine the same thing going on but mentally. It's hard to see the true damage that repeated exposure to stressful situations causes to your mind and psyche. Sure, sugar bombs do damage. So does working until you're in fact passing out on the floor.

Your rah-rah attitude might work for you, and I'm glad for that. But before you go all motivational speaker on everyone else, maybe consider that other people aren't as mentally strong as you seem to be. Some people can't carry a 50lb weight 24x7 for days on end. Likewise some people can't carry the mental weight of two jobs, a family, and bills still being unpaid plus the thought of working for hours when they get home to make a meal.
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All I can say is this: if the saying "Always plan to throw away your MVP" is true, then I can't see any other storage solution other than MongoDB (or a similar schema-less document storage DB) for MVPs. The speed of development and flexibility are simply worth it. Yes, it is hard to refactor a live product and move it from MongoDB to MySQL / Postgre but was done before and you only do that if you get traction, so its a good problem to have.

I would start with MongoDB, get a grip on what on earth the product is doing, finalize the schema on the fly based on A/B tests, customer feedback and analytics, only once the schema is finalized move it to a SQL database if needed.

If you are not using a good ORM + DB migration system, then MongoDB will make perfect sense when you are quickly iterating through ideas and trying to find a product / market match. You really have no clue how your data schema is going to look like in the end, why confine it at the start? the vast majority of startups sadly won't get even near the phase where they really reach scale related performance issues, so choosing MongoDB for prototyping your business absolutely makes sense to me.
they probably has an about page with their email addresses on it.
This is (was?) one of the reasons I don't use Datomic.

The other is that it's closed-source, which sadly has not changed. I certainly wouldn't mind paying for commercial usage/support. I can't justify relying on something I have no control over whatsoever when there are so many open source alternatives, however clean and nice I find Datomic's design to be :(
> giving out the blueprints for anybody to use and abuse was perhaps akin to writing expliot code and releaseing into the wild for any script kiddy to use and abuse with there click-run mentality.

I am no expert, but from what I understand, 3D printing is still far from being a 'click-and-run' type of experience.
The interesting thing is that the foundation of the TV system is built on the increasingly obsolete concept of broadcast TV. If you could get rid of that, and force all content providers to compete evenly via the internet, we'd have much more interesting environment. You'd free up the airwaves for more valuable use, you wouldn't need the FCC regulating content, and you'd break up the abc/cbs/nbc/fox semi-monopoly must carry position.

Think how wasteful it is to use all that television frequency bandwidth largely to transmit tv signals from networks to cable companies. According to NAB, only 17.8% of US homes rely only on OTA.

https://www.nab.org/documents/newsroom/pressRelease.asp?id=2...
Cable providers are government-sanctioned monopolies in their service areas. While I would rather there was a separation between physical infrastructure and content providers, I think that positive regulation of natural monopolies is a net win.
I gave up cable TV three years ago and honestly don't miss it. I still have Internet (Netflix, Amazon Prime, NoWhere TV) and the options for providers in my area are limited... but it worth it just to pay less to Comcast. This bill, if it even passes, will not sway me to change.
I wonder if they could use Unicode icons in place of some normal icons.

I like the spread of Unicode icons and I like font awesome.

Unicode with font awesome fallback would be ideal.
Holy God. Life really is an RPG!