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Blindly installing windows executables and giving them admin privileges is at least as stupid. This being common practice is probably the primary reason botnets are easily able to exist. This being common practice is why windows sysadmins disable users from having admin privileges. Because apparently you're too dumb to be trusted with them.
This is an awesome hiring approach.

If the only reason people join is because they want to ride your rising stock, they're probably a brutal hire.

In some sales technique philosophies, sales people try to give prospects reasons to NOT buy, or ask them things along the lines of "why would you want to join this, given that I'm revealing $shitty_fact_x and $shitty_fact_y?"

You might lose some good people, but candidates who are willing to see that really want it, feel like its a great fit, and probably think of those problems as challenges where they can really make a difference.
There were no other posts.. this was the first and only post on that site.

I had the tab open, posted the text in a comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6170145
How to make a simple NoSQL database:

(1) Install MySQL.

(2) Create a database called "nosql".

(3) In the "nosql" database, create a single InnoDB table called "data" with 2 columns: a BLOB primary key "mykey" and a BLOB column called "myval".

(4) Write a thin wrapper over your favorite mysql client library implementing "get" and "set" operations (which are translated to SELECT and UPDATE statements).

(5) Enjoy your ludicrous speed.
A Map of Every Person Counted by the Census
:) sometimes I don't know what to believe on the internet
There should be a corporate death penalty that actually gets used. There it will be less likely that any individual would feel "incented" to do shit like this.
"More expensive per Calorie" is not necessarily "more expensive" for the target audience. The classic "2000 Calories per day" assumes some level of physical activity. If you don't have any physical activity, you're better off consuming fewer Calories per day, as long as you get all the other nutrients you need.
For any API of any size, I think this kind of documentation is essential. As a developer, I know I've written useful code that I would have skipped just because the company had interactive docs and I saw how easy some of the things were.
Profound dude
Much of this has to do with the systemic aging of our elected officials.

Look at the federal level, where the average age of a Rep is 59 and Sen is 63. These are folks who not only don't empathize with modern technology, they've got established connections to big industries that are threatened by innovation.

I'm not meaning to come off like a ideologue, it's just economics and incentives. Until younger folks get more involved, it likely won't improve much. (like SOPA/PIPA, but more consistent in advocacy and running for office).

Clinton ran for congress in his 20's, lost, but was elected Governor in his early 30's. Joe Biden was a U.S. Senator at the age of 30. People in their late 20's and early 30's just aren't positioned to run for office in our generation. Debt, schooling, careers, etc prevent many from being able to do it, even if they wanted to.
I've been playing with webGL particles and I'm surprised that texture upload is chosen over normal attribute arrays. I'll have to try it out and see if its faster.

I've found it best to not update anything if you can help it, so use procedurally generated particle effects.

For example, to follow the mouse, I'd be passing in a smoothed curve the mouse has recently travelled down as uniforms. This doesn't work the same way, and won't give as exact results, but does look nice.

One of my blog posts, related: http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/43800948133/effic...

More recently I've been doing effects using Perlin Noise at an extra dimension - time - and that works great for stuff like plasma effects that don't have to react with the environment. http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/57181055984/perli...
NoSQL is only a stepping stone to NoQuery, it's going to be awesome
From my experience, companies in the Valley & SF don't value the same types of engineers that are valued in every other part of the US.

What kind of super-humans are they looking for?

These companies are looking for what you may consider a needle in the haystack; someone with an extremely narrow tech focus. You may think that this person doesn't exist and the company is crazy, but they actually aren't. They will eventually find someone who matches the job description to a T, even if they have to pay for that individual's relocation.

Bay Area companies also do not generally value engineers with business skills, communication, or even social skills. I used to think code monkey was just a fun description of an engineer. But, I've found in the Bay Area, companies really want what I would consider to be a very 1-dimensional employee.

In my college years I was told by a CS professor that if I didn't have experience with many programming languages and operating systems, then I had no business calling myself a computer scientist. Yet, at a recent meetup in SF for a specific programming language, the speaker asked for a show of hands for those individuals with experience in another, relatively popular language. Only about 1% of the room raised their hands. I was pretty shocked and wondered where those people would be, career-wise, in a few years.
Nope, I'm not trying to replace nginx. I love nginx too ;) The "challenge" was to build a very lightweight server that was faster than nginx - which I did. Then I've used it as a base for a various of projects (see my other comments).
Does anyone pick up on how fundamentally insane this whole deal is? Why exactly do we have to submit to this nonsense?

A world where it's possible for people to ambiguously decide whether or not it's okay to simply organize taxi rides, or share a room you own and operate, because some government-sanctioned oligopoly doesn't like it… How did we get here?

I'd love it if people would venture to refute me on this rather than simply downvoting my posts.
We also write Patriot Act not PATRIOT Act.
Do I feel that there are good arguments for them, but "we all need X" is not a good argument for them? Sure I do. Don't you?

That said, note the difference between, say, housing projects or food stamps and a traditional vision of socialized healthcare: it is not expected that 90%+ of the population get most or all of their food from food stamps.
Thanks, I think you're taking the right approach here for large business customers. The quoted email is more suited to mom-and-pop idea-wielding people who get work done and never pay.
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Winklevoss brothers owns $18.7 x 2 million  at Facebook
Ask HN: Effective organization of settings in UX design
Quick question about UX Design, pertaining to Settings management in applications --

Is it preferable to keep settings with the things they are related to? Or aggregate them in one "settings" panel? Or, is a hybrid the best approach (keep all the settings with their related areas, but also keep an aggregation of the settings somewhere as a "master" settings list)

An example to illustrate -- Let's say I'm building a RSS feed reader app (I'm not, promise) -- and I want people to be able to let's say, subscribe to some RSS feeds. Now, I have a menu item on the top navigation bar that deals with Feeds (essentially, containing all the actions you can do that are related to "feeds"), so I can put an option like "manage subscriptions" there, and it will make sense.

HOWEVER, I also have a settings button on the top navigation bar -- Which arguably should also be able to manage subscriptions (as the things you are subscribed to could be considered settings)... So should I duplicate those other settings there?

If I lean in the direction of keeping the settings in their respective contexts, it seems to increase complexity. However, if I keep the settings in a big settings list, then it's just overwhelming/tiresome. And even if I duplicate the information, UX Fragmentation is something I don't want to do (at least on the surface, increasing the places to which UX changes must propogate seems like a terrible idea).

I'm probably asking in the wrong place, but if anyone's got some thoughts, I'd like to hear it -- I'm currently leaning towards context-based settings (the downside of which is the user has to go to the context area for whatever they're trying to do to access settings)
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I too don't like that term. It papers over the basic economic motivations of self interested agents. My GF did a documentary on couchsurfing and she's always "sharing economy this.. sharing economy that". It's a useful simplification for non technical people who don't want to delve into the economics of the situation, but it also limits the level of discourse we have as a society.
Actually, startups have worse incentives. Startups have the idea that they can be bought out be someone. At which point any legal liabilities(form say inaccurate advertising as a meal replacement/health claims/long term health consequences/ death) are the buyers problem.

Say what you will about "big food," but they will be around to be sued in 20 - 50 years. It means they have incentives to actually careful about what they to do people.
I'd tend to expect that as this becomes more popular, they'll get some nutritionists on board. That doesn't mean it's completely insane for people to try it before that point.

Personally, I don't want to be an early adopter of this (I don't like to mix "bleeding edge" and health), but I'm quite interested. And to answer your last question: the hope is that this is a healthy and balanced diet.
That would be very interesting. Does any country do that? A pool of lawyers randomly chosen might be an interesting variant.

I do wish the $ were closer, but your idea would basically fix that.
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I hope that they keep the possibility of running it stand-alone and not force Visual Studio down their users's throats.
In what sense is this new? No-management companies have been around for hundreds of years, and we talk about how Steam has been doing this for ten years on a fairly regular basis.
Put another way, people like Zuckerberg, Chesky, Houston, etc. are having an amazing impact in business, but there isn't anyone close in the political world.

Sadly, even if "veterans" like Dorsey, Page, Brin were to run for federal office, they would be amongst the youngest to serve.
> you can't expect to stumble on Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, or Evan Williams by joining a random YC company. There are probably less then a dozen people of this quality in the entire world

Adding nitpicking over nitpicking, this sentence do not mean anything. There is only one guy with the same quality as Jeff Bezos in the world, it's him. And you can say the same for anyone else. If you were talking about capability, then I assure you there are hundred of thousands Bezos (or Jobs) in the world. The old lady picking empty bottles in my street (Beijing), she might have gone through much harder time, have shown much more resilience, and have all the courage and strength of hundreds of Bezos. Given another life who can say right now she would not have been very capable of running a successful multinational?

Since I read Kahneman I reject this exceptionalism which is good for aiport books. A big boss has at most 30pc influence on the trajectory of the company.
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That's how it works in the military. There was recently some interesting discussion about the merits of this idea amongst some defense attorneys (including some PDs and a lawyer with military justice experience) in the comments section here:

http://web.archive.org/web/20130523171557/http://blog.simple...

Bottom line, there are advantages but also downsides to this approach.

(non-Wayback Machine link, where unfortunately the comments are no longer threaded: http://blog.simplejustice.us/2013/01/23/response-to-radleyba...)
Not going to disagree with the intent, but that would make it very worth the effort to get as many children who shouldn't be in prison incarcerated since they likely wouldn't be prone to going back. In fact, it might lead to no prison time for hard cases since that would affect he prison's profits.
MathCortex: nice online calculator for linear algebra
At the risk of hijacking what seems like a linkbait article, I'll ask folks here a question:

Does anyone have good experiences/recommendations for storing a "reasonable" amount of unstructured logs/pcap files. By "reasonable", I mean, not petabytes (maybe a couple terabytes, over time).

I ask, because I keep thinking something like HBase is overkill (although one of my alternate solutions is to run an internal Openstack Swift cluster, which seems like pretty much the same amount of hardware/engineering).

If I could, I'd just send it to the cloud (to the cloud!), but I need it to be local and internally controlled (however, the developer niceness of S3 or Azure blob storage is what got me thinking about just making my own Swift object store).
I agree with the author in all points he made. But his advices sound to me like he is "preaching to the converted". I don't see a judge or a regulator reading this and considering it a new point of view that may change his analysis of future cases.

I imagine that these regulators already have "the focus on customers". And if they don't, it is not because they don't know they should have. Give the "benefit of the doubt" to innovation? Why? "Keep an open mind"? "Use the service"? I don't see any of these arguments as particularly relevant to anyone in power to regulate these markets.

I think we (those who stand with innovation) should pay more attention and think harder on our arguments in order to win those battelgrounds.
If you're comparing this to your riak, redis, tokyo cabinet, ... database than most likely.

With HBase, one of it's bread and butter operations is the start and stop row scan (otherwise known as a range scan). The only thing equivalent I know of in MySQL is using windowing functions, and even then I don't think that's an appropriate comparison.

I hear you though, most people equate NoSQL to some sort of KeyValue store and that's it.
I suppose it depends on how you look at it, or perhaps on whether you're interested in how a bike works versus why a bike works. How is relatively easily answered; as the bike tilts it steers into the tilt, moving its base back under its center of gravity, in a way which damps itself thus getting back to upright without oscillating repeatedly or falling over.

Why it works is the open question. We know that it's some combination of gyroscopic effects, rake, trail, and the different centers of gravity of the frame and fork, but we don't know the precise relationship between them that allows it to work.
There is no world in which someone who first started a web company in the late 1990s is a "veteran", though, not even in tech. JWZ is more of a veteran than Sergey Brin is.

Even if you arbitrarily want to restrict your scope to Googlers: Peter Norvig, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson are decent examples of veteran technologists who've seen a few changes of both technical and business environments, and have some basis for comparison. Brin, Zuckerberg, and Page don't really have that kind of experience.
GNOME 2 is much better.
So essentially the "New Innovation Battlegrounds" can also be described as "Lobbying."

Which sounds more like the last gasping death throes of innovation. None of these businesses involve any kind of technological breakthrough that could really disrupt anything, they're basically my business model is better than your business model. Which leads to the obvious question - better for who?
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Well, that's a decision each dev has to make I suppose. Personally, I have absolutely nothing against offensive jokes; I think anything can be joked about.
Sometimes you get glimpses into the inner sanctums of Google that make it seem like it's a culture of robots.

Their first responses to outrage over the Google Maps cars they'd sent out to hoover people's wi-fi information were similarly obtuse about the mysterious ways of the non-machines: It's all information that was freely available to anyone who happened to have a fleet of packet-sniffing vehicles anyway, so what's the big deal?

With Google Glass they seem clueless on both sides of the equation: Never mind the role that facial symmetry plays in beauty or the billion-dollars industries that have sprung up to relieve people of their despised eyeglasses, more data is always better, affirmative? And why would even silly water-machines mind being always photographed everywhere? In many senses they already are! Jeepers can extermination day not come quickly enough.

And now this, here. Yes a given all-knowing cyborg entity could steal a "novice's" passwords with or without Chrome's help. But the easier you make it, the more it will happen. Meanwhile Google doesn't help its case with the clearly deceptive wording within the menus that make this possible. But mainly, our being from Google here seems genuinely baffled as to why this skeeves humans out so much. It just. Does. Not. Compute!

It is their seeming contempt for their customers coupled with a bizarre tin-eared bafflement about aspects of human nature the rest of the world seemingly grasps intuitively that often make for... well, entertainment at any rate; this story is presently top-of-fold on Techmeme. But it also is a window into a massive blind spot that could hobble the company.
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Sounds like you want AOLServer.

http://www.aolserver.com/docs/devel/c/c-overview.html
It's not convincing at all. That opinion states that the States enjoy immunity because it had been a long-standing practice going back to before they joined the union. It's a long-standing practice of many civilized nations that the nation itself does not enjoy immunity from prosecution. If what Judge Kennedy wrote (Alden vs Maine happened in 1999!) isn't a no-argument I wouldn't know what is.

Also this: the State of Pennsylvania has committed grave injustice against thousands of its citizens. If they cannot get justice done through the courts what are they supposed to do instead? Take recourse to Direct Action? That's not desirable in civilized society. You can't be your own judge and executioner.
This is an important consideration. The target audience of Soylent likely has some wild variation in desired caloric intake, perhaps 4-6x between people who want to drop some pounds and people who lift as a hobby.
I think michaelochurch has advocated open allocation.
And quite possible that none of those statements were untrue, either?
Yeah. The creator of Soylent makes a point of saying that it should be tuned for the person using it. Hopefully in the long-term they'll offer versions with varying calorie content. Alternatively, they could offer a two-component system with nutrients and minimal calories in one and pure calories in the other, to make it easy to tune that one variable for your target calorie consumption.
>128 gigabit (Gb) [per chip]

This is the first I think I've seen size measured in gigabits, rather than gigabytes, of which there'd be 16, which is still impressive, but on amazon I can buy a 32GB sdcard for $20.
I haven't heard much about TypeScript since its original announce. Are any big projects using it? Does anybody have some commentary on their experience using it and where they think the project is going?
And huge lag on updates - not fussy. I'm thinking about wirelessly controlled A-frames outside businesses advertising specials that are updated by phone.

Or a wall-mounted household calendar, understandable at a glance. Or black and white business metrics.
Both nutrition and pecuniary economics are far more complex then Soylent and Bitcoin allow for -- additionally, the history of both of these fields is seeded with innumerable failures to couch each of their fundamentals in terms of simple concepts (for nutrition: protien/fats/carbs, vitamins, micronutrents, and so on -- for economics, Smith, Marx, Keynes, Laffer, et cetera). The idea that either, as a phenomenological consequence of human interaction, has a simple solution is technically possible but foolhardy.

I don't deny that there may be a food that is easy to make but perfect for humans; or that there may be such a currency as well. But for any rational actor to believe it would require not only extraordinary evidence, but specific refutations of the previous failed attempts (rather, the theory would provide those refutations). Such a failure to both acknowledge and rebut historical failures in the same vein is strong evidence of crankism/crankitude/crankosity/I Can't Believe They're Not A Crank.

Somewhat ironically, the foodstuff I might be most inclined to believe would satisfy this requirement is exactly what "soylent" should be -- complete raw human. Om nom nom.
Thanks very much.
I understand the generic method now. Base64 with 192 bits is just a special case where both 192 and 64 are powers of 2, which allows simple encoding by grouping the bits.
This site is impressively non-functional (at least for me)
I recall an insightful comment here on Valve's flat management style -

When there is no official hierarchy, an unofficial one emerges.
re: 4. Deflation is bad for the asset rich, but good for the asset poor. Inflation is good for the rich and bad for the poor. Those who usually spout the 'inflation is better than deflation' argument are the rich.

The argument that inflationary expectation is better than deflationary expectation because during period of deflation purchasing stops because 'it will be cheaper tomorrow' is flawed because such periods of deflation are short lived, and the market returns to a price where people are willing to re-enter the market and purchase to gain utility from the goods and services.

Just be careful believing people who "know anything about money" without thinking it through.

For more: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-post-if-you-want-help-po...
None of those sound like reasons to find someone guilty who is not.

To do that without any personal gain requires hate.
Where does this statement even come from? The primary download listed for TypeScript on it's site is an npm module.
Disclaimer: I work at Cloudera as a Tools Developer

What do you mean by unstructured? Do you mean the data has yet to be parsed into a format which could be logically grouped into columns? Or do you mean that it's deeply nested?

Since log data doesn't really change, it might be overkill to use something like HBase (or any database for that matter). On the tools team at Cloudera, we've found that writing the data into HDFS and using Impala to analyze it works pretty well.

We typically analyze chunks of log data and then ingest it into HDFS (due to the use case), but if you're looking to ingest data in "real-time", you'll want to use something like Apache Flume.

With the data separated into partitions, we're able to run queries that analyze GBs of data in under a second (15 nodes). This is log data (LOG4J) that has been extrapolated into columns, and then loaded into a columnar storage format (RCFile, soon to be Parquet).

Let me know if you have any questions, glad to help.
Its 2013. Why the fuck do you care what other people use? I'm suprised you didn't break out the 'Micro$haft Winblows!!', or are you saving that for later?

Sent from OS/2
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I think a rape joke has a special kind of humor to it when it's generated by a computer. It's just all the more unexpected.