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I see nothing wrong with using stored procs or non-ANSI features. You just need to know what you're getting into. The same goes for any database. Being database agnostic is great but so is actually finishing what you're working on and having it run efficiently. If DB specific features get you there and you're willing to accept the terms of being locked in then it's a sound decision.

For our product we use Postgres as the app's database and happen to use some Postgres specific features like stored procs and hstore[1]. The latter in particular is not ANSI at all. There is no equivalent at all in other databases and migrating usage of it to another DB would be a real pain. I know we're tied to Postgres and we're ok with that as it's a joy to use and let's us spend our time elsewhere.

You use database specific features because they're useful, not because you're forced to. Of course I'll concede the point that it's a bit apples and oranges to compare being "stuck" on Posgtres vs a commercial closed source stack.

[1]: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/hstore.html
Sadly, when it comes to app reviews from tech blogs and publications, the cognitive load placed on the user is rarely ever noticed or highlighted, unless it's so high that it's unbearable. Instead, apps often get bonus points for eye candy and gratuitous, but cool-looking animation. Nobody ever writes "wow, I got a bunch of things done and I didn't even notice the interface details."

This is particularly bad in the geek community, as we are used to high cognitive load (configuring X anyone?), and so we brush off any complaints about it as "stupid" or "computer illiterate."

One early app example is all the gas mileage tracking apps. Damn near every one of them in the early iPhone days had the spinning odometer control and the spinning gas number controls (where you spin each number up and down, like a key combo). I recall being infuriated by those designs, because all I really wanted to do was to quickly enter the odometer or the gallons and dealing with spinning those damn digits was NOT at all quick. Compared to the effortless/mindless act of typing into a digit keypad, spinner controls required much more cognitive load (did I spin too fast, will it go too far? Let me catch it at the right digit. Which digit do I need to push up or down to make it match what's on my real odo?).
If you're wondering what medicine would become without skin in the game, look no further that chiropractors and the "medical arts clinic"s popping up in every corner.
Online.net a challenger:

Ran a middle (non entry/exit) Tor node on one of their servers, received an automated "Abuse message"...

Wrote a support ticket regarding some network architecture question, got a one-liner "not possible".
Please don't die, someone somewhere needs you, she hasn't had anyone she enjoys talking to as much in 2 years. She nearly lost her mind when she saw your facebook status, couldn't sleep, couldn't eat, couldn't focus on work, ditched the dinner plan that she had. Tried to phone you every half an hour but you wouldn't pick up.You never knew it was the most fun game jam and hiking she's been to, and how much she enjoys failing at badminton with you. And how sad she is about going back to college because she won't see you as much anymore. And how she's crying her eyes out reading this. Just don't die, please, i beg you.
Why don't we just charge a meagre tax, perhaps $0.10, per DMCA request? This would reduce spamming significantly, while any genuine requests would be more than worth that sum.
Which would be awesome.
Your examples are indirect methods. For the claim "increased cognitive load lowers willpower" to be falsifiable you actually need to have meters with numbers on them that let you measure these things directly from the brain. How do we know the brain even has a willpower construct?

I think you could probably substitute brain activity for cognitive load and measure it with MRI or something.

edit: I realize that if all you are interested in is the phenomena that you've decided are proxies for our concepts of cognitive load and willpower, that this claim is falsifiable; the experiment did demonstrate causation there. But it's not falsifiable if you're saying that cognitive load in the brain causes willpower in the brain to go down. My primary concern is that the new hypothesis that is presented as the conclusion of the study is too far extrapolated from the experimental results, and untestable.
Knowing I've made something of quality. For me, that's more important than people using/paying for my stuff.
I'm re-watching The Wire at the moment, which I'm enjoying greatly, and one of the best things about it is watching the lengths that the characters go to in order to avoid being personally linked with criminal operations under their control. They benefit when the organization benefits, but aim to avoid the downsides when their staff's activities are exposed.

As long as there are areas with very high reward (investment banking, drug dealing, human trafficking, startups), and enterprising individuals with the connections to organize them (either through experience and leadership progression, or by using opportunities to undermine former leaders / acquire resources), people will rise to these opportunities.

Once an operation reaches a certain size however, many leaders become disconnected - intentionally or otherwise - from the day-to-day business of their organization.

Given the typical attitudes on HN, I'd expect that most founders here would be genuinely mortified to find out if their software had caused real-life problems - most would take a lot of care to ensure good user experience and correct results; these make good business sense too. However I think many would eventually aim to become distanced from the business too - the dream of reliable passive income.

Meanwhile, we imagine - and it's not hard to imagine - that many bank executives, criminal leaders, and others - actively enjoy their life in distance and immunity while feeling little remorse for the damage they do, and certainly not taking any intrinsic risk for it.

We expect that the rule of law will deal with these problems when they occur - that's what optimistic films and positive fiction tell us - but the reality is that a good-enough combination of wealth, influence, leverage over others, and wits can let people stay at arms-length from (but in control of) nefarious affairs even if they are aware that they are causing harm.

In some ways I think this expresses itself even in the trend for honest businesses to avoid liability where possible -- if we take liability for what we do, we also have to do the best we can and take genuine care of our customers.

Somehow a fear of litigation, genuine exploitation of litigation (c.f. ambulance-chasers), and fear of decreased business efficiency have reached the level where companies do prefer to distance themselves. Often it is via lacklustre or even laughable attempts, such as using oft-ignored in-store signage, disclaimers, or automated customer interactions.

Retreating from each other for fear of risk isn't healthy as a general trend, and neither is our inability to reach and re-integrate those who expressly intend to maintain their distance to avoid risk to themselves.
As the article states, the number of DMCA requests has increased almost 1500% over the past year.
My thing is that Lisps feel... Wrong, I suppose, for doing web development. They don't seem to match my way of thinking when architecture web apps. I say this as someone who wrote a routing framework for Pharen, a Lisp dialect that compiles to PHP, so it's less pure than other dialects and has the "power" of PHP underneath it. Still didn't fit.

Perhaps I need to change the way I think. For solving maths problems and crunching numbers (I have most of a BSci in Mathematics) its brilliant (Clojure in particular). Fits perfectly.
The author follows this rule: only recommend a strategy that is currently used.

If the advice goes badly, the author also suffers. Such recommendations are more reliable than those from authors without 'skin in the game'.
Domain available?
Firefox can't find the server at www.asswip.es.
my bet is that the next important guy in this field - Musk - will build Hyperloop v2.0 as a launch system (the Hyperloop 1.0 supposedly being a supersonic electromagnetically driven mini-Concorde in a tunnel seems like a nice prototype)
I have a few Ubuntu instance and didn't receive any notification.
Email team@hackmit.org and we'll help you out :)
> whois jrock.us

Yep, that's... a whole lot more info, actually.
calling me stupid for not finding the signup button shows that you don't understand the issue. it isn't about intelligence, it's about user experience. when i want to sign up for a website, i don't try to do things that i can't do without signing up so i can then get redirected to a signup form. i look for the signup form.

the signup form should be accessible in one click from the front page. common sense.
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Try asking at https://www.facebook.com/events/1374512966106958/ – someone else might be in your situation.
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Being concerned about that is premature optimization (which is the root of all evil). It does not matter in any significant way vast majority of the time. If you have a really hot loop, OK, you can try removing value copies to see if that has an effect. But unless you've identified the hot code, do not prematurely optimize by avoiding parameters.

Also all the expensive values are objects, and only references to them are copied, not the objects themselves.
Ubiquitous_computing
To foil spammers. But we have other, better methods now. So maybe we can bring back a signup link.
I believe it also states, in more words, "but not enough to continue offering them our time and service, sorry!" so I don't believe complaining would do anything. I'm sure they are already aware people will be upset.
Yeah, I have to agree. My github account is pretty barren, mostly because the lion share of my work is done professionally on private repos simply sitting on a server behind a firewall. In fact, you'd be amazed at how much code in the wild simply sits in backed up files in someone's ~/src folder. Lots of engineers, especially older ones, never learned that kind of practice.

A big chunk of my code is C, C++, VHDL, Verilog, miscellaneous PLC/PAC dialects, etc... in other words, industrial stuff that doesn't get a lot of attention from the 'fun' startup sector. Github's numbers are most likely misrepresenting (not representing?) a HUGE section of 'hard' engineering. Add to that what you've mentioned, i.e. the copious amounts of legacy and domain specific stuff still lying around, and it means you've got a hugely biased sampling.
I do. And I'm sorry for my sarcasm. It was inappropriate. Hence the earlier edit to my comment calling it unnecessary and apologizing for it.

It was a knee-jerk comment, and it was indeed a pretty dick thing to say.
There should be some way to specify the type of a field, for example if someone wants to input the string "false" or "true". Also a phone number such as "+00334561111789" would be converted to an integer "334561111789".
It bothered me a bit too.

What also bothered me was that I'm not sure if the conclusion of the research is correct. At least, from the fact that people who were asked to memorize more, we can't deduce that willpower and cognitive processing draw from the same pool of resources. The conclusion could be correct (and I confess that I haven't read the paper), but there is one other obvious reason that may be possible.

If I do physical exercise, I have an easier time allowing myself to eat some chocolate. If I work a long day, I have an easier time allowing myself to sit down and watch TV for a while. If I solve a difficult puzzle, I have an easier time allowing myself to do something fun.

I like to believe that this is not the result of my lacking willpower after cognitive processing or physical exercise, but of a moral justification that it related to the quid pro quo principle: if I do something good, I have deserved the right to do something bad.
So if someone is looking for optimal food inputs with respect to longevity, I think it's relevant to point out that how you eat may be almost as important as what you eat. That's all, really.
What exactly is unconstitutional that he is whistleblowing about here?

I don't know if it's unconstitutional for the State Department to pressure the German government to not pursue the 13 CIA agents who were responsible for the kidnapping and torture of an innocent German citizen,[1] but I think it's disgusting and I'm glad Manning leaked this info.

That said, I don't think he should have leaked as much as he did.

[1] http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/the-cia-s-el-mas...
"...so is actually finishing what you're working on and having it run efficiently."

A "finished" product is usually a dead one and efficiency is relative. You've seen that incremental improvements to the entire stack can have far greater impact than fiddling with just the storage end alone after all.

A product never actually stops evolving if it's going to stay competitive and make money. But I'd say staying with Postgres is one of the best decisions you've made. Besides being a joy, as you say, you can be fairly confident that it won't suddenly become broken, become proprietary and best of all, become an order of magnitude more expensive for the same capability.
What exactly is unconstitutional that he is whistleblowing about here?

I said "poke at the garments covering the underbelly of power". Nothing more, nothing less. Debate or accept that, not strawmen.
If the host always opens the left-most door not picked by the contestant, the host would open the door on the prize one out of every three times.
Well, yeah but... no. Cognitive load is not really about speed or animation taking up time.
Equipment to purchase, contractors to hire, subcontractors to hire, ...
News report from 1981 about Compuserve
+1 for the xkcd ref ;)
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thanks for the feedback! I'll see if I can make this work. It would be difficult to preserve that value if someone clicks "Add new element" for example but I'll see if I can think of a preference for it.
As I said, the point of comparison matters. I offered one, you brought up another; both of that kinda beats just saying "they're different" without also mentioning on what they're being compared on, which is what the post I replied to did. Or why they even have to be compared, for that matter.
Many years ago, when I used to drink (far too heavily on this occasion) my last memory of an evening was ringing up my Godmother to see how she was; powered by a kind of drunken momentum to say hello to someone I love.

I didn't remember anything about the conversation, only that I got up from bed with a pounding headache and thought no more of it. A few days later my godmother phoned me up:

"Do you remember what you did a few days ago?"

"I think I phoned you up?"

It turns out that while she was talking at length I had passed out from the booze. She had spoken for some time and then I hadn't replied. After some time, finding the call strange, she hung up and picked up, only to find the sound of silence; my room in which I had passed out. This was unfortunate as she had quite a few phone calls to make and she was effectively blocked from doing so. Presumably at some point I came back to some kind of consciousness that was capable of putting the receiver down and staggering to bed, but not capable of remembering. Thankfully I was forgiven and suffered only the punishment of wry disapproval.

So yes - as a young man I accidentally DoS'ed my Godmother because of stupidity and Stella Artois.
Things you need to be doing if you use Apple's iCloud.
Agreed! I'd prefer ":" but when I was testing it out it was difficult to pick it out between the input fields. Hence I went with the Ruby convention.

You can change it via the `separator` option in the options menu.
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You registered an account just to say that?
Hi saraid216,
That's not possible at the moment - the current implementation tries to match like with like.

One of my worries with this project is that JSON is so configurable, if you offered every option at every point you have way too many buttons and it becomes an unusable mess. Still though you should be able to add a button for a dictionary where all the values are lists. I'll add an issue for this in Github.
that's a non-sequitur. "Republic" isn't the average of oligarchy and mob rule, or anywhere in between those. It's orthogonal to them. You certainly can have a system with strong elements of both that is a republic (as demonstrated by the essentially prototypical republic, that of Rome.)

You seem, again, to be conflating what you like with what a Republic is.
Actually the the app doesn't make you fat.
The resource that is burned is sugar. To replenish it you need one piece of candy. After which you'll be as able to make decisions as you ever was.
(But Burger king won't tell you, since they don't make money from candy.)
I've had all sorts of issues with them, though. Two times apps have out-and-out disappeared from my control panel and from the web, only to mysteriously return later. Both times the apps involved were hosted on their HP infrastructure, so that might be the source of the problem--apps in the AWS infrastructure didn't go through the same issue.

Their logging could also use some work. Since setting up some monitoring I've discovered that a few of my apps hosted there will sometimes die and/or restart after running for a while. Unfortunately, the "crash log" feature doesn't seem to work properly--the logs are always blanked out--and as such I'm unable to get to the root of the issue. Availability can be dodgy; right now I have a watcher process that monitors for app failures and restarts any it sees down.

Their free plan is unbeatable, though. Up to 2GB RAM with 10 bound services (redis, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, etc). So, my experience has been mixed. I really, really want to love them, but unfortunately I keep running into problems.
You're right, it's probably in the eye of the beholder. To me something like a Clojure Ring app makes perfect sense. You get a request map, pipe it through a bajillion functions until you hit the DB, then you take the results of your DB operations and pipe them back through a bajillion functions all the way back to HTTP.
The beginning of the end of ‘network neutrality’ in India?
I thought this was common sense. I even have done that with the police: They called and started to ask question, I asked for their name, and called back on a well known number.

This though, is where this scam is cunning, they use the fact that people feel safe calling a well-known number. I'd like to think I'd have offered the bank to cut off my cc rather than send it, but who knows...
When Google Reader announced it will be shut down, I - like many others - started to look around for a replacement. I was looking for a reader that has a nice mobile web UI with aggregated list of all articles (unread or not).

Turned out that there aren't many readers that support mobile browsers, most want you to install some app. The Old Reader and FeedBin were the only ones that came even close to what I was looking for. So I created account for both of those.

After some time I just got frustrated for both and set up feed2imap and now I don't have to worry if and when my RSS reader is going to shut its doors.
Wow thank you for that, I just found out about her old blog and it looks very interesting!

For clueless people like me, if the images used in her posts look familiar it's because she is the co-creator of the Head First book series: http://www.headfirstlabs.com/kathy.php
No one who uses the project name "Karma" has any right to use the adjective "spectacular" to describe the project. They lost that privilege when the melodramatics forced the name change.
Would the claim "I didn't order this, someone wanted to frame me" hold up in court if this guy hadn't discovered this scheme?
quantifying relevance is difficult at best, so building test data is at least as difficult.

If there is art in defining the score in the test data, a fuzzy algorithm is a necessity.
IOS 7 beta 4 contains reference to fingerprint sensor
Indeed, you're right. It still feels quite strange to me to use the fact that a function (used as behaviour and not data) is, from the language features, technically a variable to call that kind of construct a closure. But thanks for the effort and occasion to think about it.
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Actually, both parties have the right to jury trial in civil cases in the US (at least, those in which either party has that right.)

The defense does not have the right to demand a bench trial if the plaintiff prefers to exercise their right to a jury trial.
Did you trademark your logo in any way? If not, your claim has no legal ground.
They should be using cloud-init or virt-sysprep[1] on new instances. In particular, it is vital that you give your new instances a unique random seed (which virt-sysprep can do). Also that you provide the virtio-rng to guests that support it.

[1] http://libguestfs.org/virt-sysprep.1.html
Why 99.997% Of Entrepreneurs May Want To Postpone Or Avoid VC
I shouldn't have mentioned mugging because that wasn't really my point - and I usually know better than to provide ammunition for arguing a tangential point!

Anyway, I was trying to muse that spying and following somebody to their home is a lot of work and carries the risk of being noticed and/or caught on camera, getting attacked by their dog, or at the very least consuming your entire evening. Who knows if the victim is going to drive 10 miles out of town or stay at the bar until 4am. Maybe they'll go to their girlfriends place instead leaving you with a bogus address. Maybe they'll notice you from the bar and wonder what the fuck you're doing following them..? It just seems impractical just to get your address.

Whereas getting info from a receipt could be safe & easy and you don't have to get physically close to a victim until you have them on the hook. You could pre filter. You probably don't even need to be at any particular location. Just go through a pile of receipts in the comfort of your own home.

But then again what do I know? Maybe it's ridiculously easy to find a mark and then follow them home.
In consideration to anyone who actually tries to read all this, I was wrong. Scala really does have continuations. You won't learn about this by reading Martin Odersky's book on the language (even though the book is for Scala 2.8, the version in which delimited continuations were introduced), but googling around for delimited continuations, shift, and reset will result in a fair mix of useful notes and completely inscrutable notes.

This whole sort of back and forth exchange of escalating condescension is not rare on the internet, but I was surprised that dino wouldn't actually tell anyone why we were wrong. Generally I've found this quote http://bash.org/?152037 to be more or less true; asserting that a system is incapable of things it is capable of is met with people pointing out how to make it do those things. In this particular instance the response from dino involved much more effort than a simple lmgtfy link while accomplishing dramatically less in the promotion of his faith, or even the promotion of any sort of knowledge at all.

This feature is a little obscure, and one could easily spend a great deal of time writing Scala professionally without ever passing "-P:continuations:enable" to anything. I believe that one would be missing out.
All tables in sqlserver will be memory resident if there is available ram. But it happens dynamically, or is non-deterministic if you like. I assume the in memory feature allows you to force a table into ram and force it to stay there.