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Thanks Joel (I assume you are Joel at Trustly) for helping to get work started on fixing this source of deadlocks. I believe your company also helped fund some of the work on the fix. I have been bit by a race condition caused by this myself.

EDIT: And even more thanks to Álvaro and the other developers working on it,
Pi has a pretty poor, noisy DAC. For anyone that cares enough to set something like this up, they'll probably spring for an outboard DAC.
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> That said, the basis of the proof does seem to be that 'if god exists, then he must exist', which is not really groundbreaking.

Actually, its "if god must exist, he exists".
This is an exercise in high-level logic performed by philosophy/mathematics professors, not a simpleminded /r/atheism debate about religion.
How does that model work with AWS, where many people are creating and destroying VMs in scaling groups?
I wouldn't worry, Gödel himself was only trying to prove that mathematics could be used to determine if God existed and he himself did not publish it until he was near death because people would think he believed in God. If anything it was a more formal approach to the Ontological Argument put forward by Anselm of Canterbury, and he was trying to show how modal logic can be used as language in proof theory, and "the study of what can and cannot be proved in mathematical systems of deduction. Issues of completeness of mathematical systems, the independence of axioms from other axioms, and issue of the consistency of formal mathematical systems are all part of proof theory."

http://sas.uwaterloo.ca/~cgsmall/ontology.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anselm_of_Canterbury
For those unfamiliar with the issue, you can see it in action on my blog post written from the perspective of an app developer: http://mina.naguib.ca/blog/2010/11/22/postgresql-foreign-key...
Maybe the new logo compresses better and Google are tightening it's belts.
They use this one in print materials.

http://deployment.googleapps.com/Home/user-resources/google-...

But if they're using it in Android apps it may point to more flattenification in KitKat/future releases. However, that doesn't seem to be the case:

http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/9/4710634/redesigned-google-l...

> Update: A person familiar with Google's branding tells The Verge that this is not a replacement for the company's traditional logo. Instead, the flatter design is used in instances where the beveled logo may not display well — such as on printed banners or other corporate use cases. The logo in question has been pulled from where it first appeared previously in Chrome for Android, signaling that the company quickly realized its mistake. Suffice it to say, the Google logo you know and love isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

Case closed.
That's why I'm using both in my project :)
How cool.

Made me think of a Uni course on Thomas Aquinas from eons ago. I'll have to go back and check but I think:

"An essence of an individual is a property possessed by it and necessarily implying any of its properties"

could have come from Aquinas' "Being and Essence".

And - forgive me it has been eons - didn't Wittgenstein deal with this time of formulation showing you could in parallel construct its opposite.
I was scared of the title.

Thankfully, I make my own smoothies, with no sugar.
I think you handicap yourself by not having "decent" equipment. I don't run expensive gear, it's at the right price/performance point to do the job. I guarantee you that I spend less than most folk realize.

As for spinning up Amazon clusters, that's fine when you don't have to care about company/clients data security. We live in the post NSA revelation world and if you connect from overseas, your security is null and void.
> the latter has much more opportunity to give himself breathing room to focus

At first this just seemed like a kind of self-congratulatory post: 'Yes, sure, cognitive bandwidth is a finite limit that affects kings and beggars alike, but at least I'm accomplishing something with my life.' But then you pulled out this whopper.

Do you honestly think that someone who is concerned about feeding their children or paying their rent has more free time and bandwidth? Working professionals have their own, imagined stresses associated with pumping up their own importance, but these are much higher up Maslow's heirarchy than basic physical needs.
Here in HN we can elevate ourselves above these looped fashion styles.

A way to do that is to find something that is old but not old-fashioned, or something that is new but not modernist.

Examples abund in the domains of cars, music, book and I'd prefer not to drop names. But I can't seem to be able to find one single not-old-nor-new design in the domain of websites. Maybe HN is (or it is an old-baby)? Google could have been that: a specific flavor that is not outdated or trendy, but with this flat thing the last thread of hope has gone.

Oh, one thing that is old-fashioned and very modern at the same time: the Terminal! Lovely friend, you was designed for 1bit/s teletypes, and you still the fastest and most reliable friend in all what I do to my computer. Hope you never dies.

Shameless hook: I consider douban.com, where I work (beware: Chinese), to be somewhat not modernist nor old-fashioned, in a way.
> He does not extensively discuss what positive properties are, but instead he states a few reasonable (but debatable) axioms that they should satisfy. Various slightly diﬀerent versions of axioms and deﬁnitions have been considered by Godel and by several philosophers who commented on his proof.

Such is the world of philosophy. Remember that some of the greatest scientists and mathematicians lived when all of it was just philosophy. Philosophy is a training exercise to think imaginatively and some of our best science stems from an imaginative spark. It's like saying that people professional athletes running around a field (philosophy) is pointless because they are not running in a race for gold (science) at that specific point in time.

This is by all means not scientific, precisely because you can't address that specific subject matter scientifically:

1. God exists if he makes himself/herself visibly and measurably known and is observed and measured by a human being and the observations are confirmed by peers within the scientific community.
2. God does not exist if a human is present to see the end of the universe (or variant there-of) and he has not been yet observed (assuming he/she is tied to the existence of the universe) and the lack of observation is confirmed by peers within the scientific community.

We simply don't know until either (1) or (2) is satisfied, therefore this is exactly the type of stuff philosophy is good at. It's not saying "can we prove it" it's saying "let's think about creative ways to prove it if we can get a little lax about the scientific method." Were "getting lax about the scientific method" means that "proof" can be derived from either common sense or logical arguments.
"Not to mention the intuition that a plane crash would certainly result in death"

That intuition is somewhat wrong, depending on how you define 'crash'. http://www.ntsb.gov/doclib/safetystudies/SR0101.pdf table 2, shows 53,487 passengers involved in accidents, with 2,280 fatalities. Table 3 limits that to more serious accidents. There, of 2,739 passengers, 1,215 died, over half due to impact wounds.

Yes, a jet nosediving into hard rock will kill everybody on board, but one making a very rough 'landing' near first aid units? Not something to volunteer for, but not certain death, either.
If you need anyone to help be your test-dummy for multiroom support, I'd be happy to help. Up until last week I was just going to buy 4 20w-amps & 4 Pis to power my 4 rooms, but I recently got ambitious and want to see if I can have just 1 Pi rule them all...
Paradoxical gears both rotate in the same direction.(e.g. both clock-wise)

Normally gears rotate in opposite directions, meaning the gear on the left rotates counterclockwise and the gear on the right rotates clockwise(or vice-versa). It just so happens that any paradoxical gear has to be "3D"(no 2D solution), there are "normal" gears that are 3D though.
It's very common to see doctors or professors who are very accomplished and intelligent but their car looks like something you'd see on Hoarders. They can be very, very eccentric and their personal habits can appear very strenge.
If there were a God and he was all powerful, and he wanted you to believe before you knew He existed, it makes sense that you would be unable to prove or disprove His existence.
Only in the Northeast. For most of America it is easier to get around by plane than by train.
But it's simple. God does exist. She is a cultural phenomena and his effects can be felt in all our lives very obviously. If nothing else, then because our ancestors used it as an excuse to "civilise" the rest of the world so we can all live now as one big dysfunctional civilisation.

But if you can experience the effects of something it is very likely that it does in fact exist.
I’d love your comments so please share your experiences!
"...marvel at the poor decisions of the poor" - I've always wondered if rich marvel at the bad decisions of the middle class in the same way. And what they see as the big mistakes keeping them from being rich. E.g. the problem with the middle class is they just don't understand the importance of entrepreneurship / capital gains / ???
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Cars used to be death traps. Now even the lowest cost cars have decent survivability.
I do not understand why B has to follow A. You are also assuming he is in a unfortunate situation somehow, But knowing him (as a fellow Rubyist) I think he will have at least 10-15 offers sitting in his Inbox right now.

I don't know why you find points he has laid out as "strange" as well,But I think it is a disservice to yourself as a programmer if you are going to settle for anything else. For example:

1. Can't relocate -> fair enough, it is hard to relocate if you have families. I have one of our smartest programmer working with us remotely.

2.My next job will not be a contract -> It should be self-evident. Contract workers are second class citizens.

3.My next job will stretch me -> Can you argue with this one? Daniel Pink in his book "Drive" argue the very same points.

I can go on, but will stop. And oh good luck Ernie (Your contributions to Rails are much appreciated).
+1 for checking trailing white space.

Whenever I'm working on an OS project and I happen to open a file with white space or unnecessary blank lines, I delete them and send them the changes with my PR. Highly suggest it.
Probably the difference being whether the information taken is considered newsworthy or not. There's a difference between publicly showing documents that suggest illegal activities by the government and credit card numbers.

If the information can be considered newsworthy then there are several legal protections that kick in that make getting convictions difficult and the government isn't likely to bother. Especially if it would hurt the mutually beneficial relationship between government and the news media.

Brown has done things that put him outside of mainstream news media, many of these actions were quite illegal. He's not in trouble for sharing leaked documents. He's in trouble for sharing credit card numbers and information that can be used for identity theft. I'm pretty sure that type of information is not newsworthy and not for sharing.

If he had scrubbed that information then I would imagine there wouldn't be an issue. That and stop threatening FBI agents.
How can every citizen of the country not have standing to sue the government about this spying, national-security-letter gags, and so on?

At the very least, shareholders of companies like Yahoo! are seeing lower shareholder value. That's a loss. They're harmed. There's a lot greater harm than that, but at least it's a starting point.

EDIT: come to think of it, I don't know why I wrote citizen of the country. Citizens aren't the only ones hurt. I'm no lawyer. Can non-citizens sue too?
Ignosticism: The position that people beliefs about are god are not even wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignostic
I cheated and still got it wrong -- it's too hard to click on their map (I doubt I was any more accurate at clicking on Arlington, VA where I live).

The Linux users doing so well against Mac users thing was interesting. I wonder if it has to do with how it displays in browsers. Also -- did the measure the delay in responses (e.g. how many people went and googled it before clicking?)
Very interesting. How exactly does the retry-later logic work? Does it just push the message on to a 'deferred' queue, that you manually process at your convenience?

Totally agree with your last paragraph, introducing a message queue has solved a lot of problems for us.
It'd be cool to see this adjusted for "vote inflation" -- the HN population was much smaller 2 years ago than it is now.
>> Does an omnipotent being exist in a heaven above? Not literally, no.

Can you prove that an omnipotent being doesn't exist? You make a statement of fact without any backup evidence.

I wouldn't be surprised if it is impossible to prove or disprove, using the material world we're a member of, the existence of an omnipotent being who lives outside of this material world.
I think that unless you have a specific reason for restricting them, you simply shouldn't restrict them, since any restrictions on the character set makes all passwords weaker. Personally, I expect all printable ASCII characters to be acceptable as part of a password and get irritated when some of them aren't accepted.
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Manning never faced the death penalty. Not for a single day.

This goes back to what I was saying about advocates being near to dishonesty, by the way. You probably read at some point Manning was facing the death penalty, and despite having years and years to correct your initial misperception, you continue to not only remember that incorrectly, but to parrot it as truth.

> Once information is out in the clear, it makes absolutely zero sense to try and claim some sort of retroactive "special inherent legal protection."

When Barrett pasted that link, was that information already publically available? I don't mean "a URL one could theoretically have wardialed"... did all the others in that IRC chat room already have that data, or did they not?

If that data were already out in public and he was simply referencing it I'd probably agree with your interpretation in this case. But if that data were 'news' to the rest of the chat room then it seems that 'hacking and pilfering' would apply, except that no hacking was needed in this case.

But either way involvement in criminal enterprises has always been itself a crime, to avoid diversion of responsibility in the way you would allow.

E.g. a bank robbery, the guy driving the getaway car gets in trouble too even though driving a car isn't illegal, otherwise you could split up your criminal ring in a kind of 'process separation' scheme and have only a few take the risk of the actual crime while the rest aid as much as they can with normally-legal activity.
I'm really sorry that is your takeaway:

Re: money -- I tried very hard to avoid coming off that way. I am very discriminating in the kinds of jobs I take, and as I've regularly spoken about, it's not about the money. The money description is drawing on past experience. FWIW: I never think I am worth what I'm paid. I'm a classic case of impostor syndrome.

As for the main takeaway, it is that being unemployed will give me, for the first time ever, a clear look at how employable (or not) I am. That is a valuable thing, to me.
They can for a short time. Pitching is a bit of a game, and if and if you are a compelling technical person, you can probably get money a few times from non-savvy investors. The problem is that most founders have this feeling of relief when they take VC money. Really, though, the fuse has been lit and the real pressure has just started. At the same time, it is sometimes easier to sell to VCs than it is to hear from a customer that your idea isn't compelling. They both have money, it is easy to ignore that fundraising over and over isn't sustainable. TechCrunch doesn't write about your first 10k per month in recurring revenue, but you get a heck of a publicity bump when you raise your first round from Andreessen. If raising VC money is the Silicon Valley dream (many people see it that way), selling to customers can feel like a necessary evil.

So to answer your question directly: is it a sustainable model? No. Do people try to do it and start and crater companies on the way? Yes.
> A big reason why mysql took off is the same reason that PHP took off -- it is very quick and easy to take the first steps.

I think most people struggle with setting up postgres auth. Personally, I find postgres' auth well designed.
Belief in god certainly exists.
I'm a sophisticated user who has loads of trouble using the new Google Maps app. It's a usability car crash.
The companies providing the service could argue that they are improving people's lives. Fast food give adequate calories fast. Payday loans give needed money fast. Of course both are not beneficial long term and have huge side effects, but you can't blame them. Except for lotteries. Lotteries you can blame the providers.

Which is the government.
But an $8 jar of almond butter makes perfect sense
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If you had a self-driving EV such that a drive cost you duration of sitting in a comfortable chair with high-speed internet, a refrigerator full of drinks, and maybe $50, how far upward would you revise this?

I'd probably seriously consider commuting weekly or biweekly from central WA to SFBA, even if it took 20h. 10h would be nothing, as I could just sleep.
Explain to him that his late payment is causing you difficulty. Make this very clear.

Then, refuse to start new work until the previous job is paid up (or... insist on payment in advance).

This will result in you either getting paid on time (or early), or the client going elsewhere.

Either way... the problem client is solved.
When you are comparing to other offerings, postgres's auth is complex than them. But other than that, what about postgres is complex?
It sounds like to be save one should only use <div> and <span> tags, style them with CSS and forget about semantics?

It is obvious to me that this is the wrong approach. And I have never said he should use <figcaption> I said he should use appropriate HTML5 tags. If something is obviously a header, use <header> if not, don't. But building everything out of <div>s like it was in his first example code is just making it more difficult to read, there is no gain in just using <div> for everything.
For what it's worth, Node's ORM packages seemed fairly immature, either lacking support for migrations, relations, just being awkward to work with, or lacking some other functionality I had grown accustomed to.

Bookshelf (http://bookshelfjs.org/) seemed quite nice though, but by the time I got around to it I decided my project wasn't very interesting anyways ;)
It also is in absolute number of fatalities, since 2002, except for 2005.
A Lot of these libraries, are old and aren't maintained. Nice idea horrible curation.
As others have pointed out, it uses the same core as Safari, so the performance should be nearly identical. So feel free to give it a shot!
VC money should be for scaling, not initial build. This is where the lean startup is a great philosophy (I have other issues with it) but making sure that people want -- and are willing to pay for -- what you are making is the way to build a company.
I am also a woman in tech, and I have been writing code for a living in the last 15-20 years. I didn't find titstare presentation offensive or demeaning. In fact I laughed quite a bit when they presented it.
Even if women are not included in the brogrammers club, I don't find much discrimination in the work environment either. If you are great at what you do, you have the same chance as anybody else. My 2 cents.
To really properly balance this you'd have to compare with a world where the TSA does not exist. But we don't actually have the possibility to compare the two. Chances are (not saying this is the case) that the combined haul of what the TSA found during the last decade would have led to more deaths. Controlled experiments on this scale are unfortunately not possible so in the end it all boils down to what you wish to believe most or what seems to be most reasonable.
any other how-many-angels-can-dance-on-the-head-of-a-pin question

As a software engineer, I've concluded my job is to answer those questions, and then proceed to choreograph said angels ... insofar as CPUs fit on pinheads now, and software constitutes non-corporeal entities which nonetheless have intelligent organized effect on physical objects.
Aaron is a dick and after meeting him I immediately wondered why anyone would view him as a good CEO/invest that much money in his empire of greed.
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> Why are cars today more beveled and sharper-edged than cars of the 90s?

I wonder if trends are indicative of our collective mood.
"Yahoo filed suit in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) this morning demanding the right to publicly disclose the number of user data requests that we receive from the U.S. Government under national security statutes."

This is either a first step or a smokescreen, depending on how one looks at it. It's good to know "the number" in order to determine the scope of the problem. It would be better if service providers could actually stop governments from using overly-broad requests to go after user data of indeterminate intelligence-fighting value.
You wrote a canned reply that misses the forest for the tree.

Had your username been green, the comment would now be [dead].
> The problem is that max sentences are often abused as tool of intimidation to get plea bargains.

I get why people are concerned with plea bargains, but I don't understand why people think that defense attorneys are not familiar with the concept of federal sentencing guidelines. Even a public defender (especially a public defender?) should be able to explain the basics of sentencing to their client when their client is considering a plea.
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This is awesome! If you want some help, perhaps you should open up some issues?
Yes, it's interesting that they haven't mentioned removing the need to configure SysV shared memory. In my experience, a good number of developers initially miss out on this config / kernel setting, and wonder about their performance issues.

This feature will notably increase usability for people who are just getting started on Postgres. Now, I just wish they up the default config value from 32MB to something that's more in line with today's systems.
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