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Comments which tries to appeal to emotion without any supporting facts should get downvoted. If one where to replace "porn" with "Microsoft" in midnightmonster comment, it would be a common microsoft bash comment. If you replaced it with Apple, it would become an Apple bash comment. As it stand, it is now just a porn bashing comment.

To examplify:
"Microsoft platform is evil in concept and in practice. Building your business through it is considerably worse than, e.g., using huge email spam networks. It beggars belief that--in a community that can at least entertain the idea that it might be wrong to create a business by exploiting people's lizard brains with notifications, gamification, and misleading social ads--ninety-eight percent of comments on using Microsoft platform to promote your business either avoid considering morality at all or go out of the way to indicate that everything's a-ok here."

Comments that has that attribute should not reside on hacker news. It brings nothing to the table, and only tries manipulating the other readers with emotions, rather than with valid logic, to win an argument.[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_emotion
No, with Mongo you get a bunch hacks you need to do to maybe get indexed reads. I had to write a query optimiser that does lots of crazy things and simply rejects some entirely reasonably-looking queries because Mongo can't do them efficiently.

Not to mention the complete lack of durability. Even Redis is more durable.

Postgres is trivial to use. Is something slow (which will happen much later than with Mongo)? Add an index, done. I'm not a DBA, you don't need one.
Growing up in a remote Australia desert beach, I spent a lot of time playing with creatures like this (among many others) and I have come to love them with a great deal of passion.

If you're ever in a situation where you want to play with an octopus, but are having a hard time getting its attention, remember this trick: take a gold coin out of your pocket, shine it in the sun, and use it to the lure the octopus into your domain. I've yet to meet an octopus I can't convince to play with me for a while, for the cost of an Australian gold coin or two.

Another thing that I love about these creatures is that they are intensely playful. I once watched an octopus playing with the sandfish around his hole .. he dangled an old crayfish head, long since hollowed out, at the end of a long string-like tentacle, luring the stupid little fish into his lair .. I watched him for hours, just lazily casting it out, bringing it back .. it didn't seem like he was fishing (although he'd have been quite capable of it) but more like just entertaining himself by watching the stupid little fish fall for the trick, over and over again ..

Lovely creatures. Be nice to them, you might make a reef friend. (Watch out for the blue-rings, though, you don't want to play with them too much, heh heh..)
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I think you may have missed the point.
Note for those who try on Linux: I've had to add a local user "pi".
There's Postgres-XC [1], but it's a fork and I don't know how actively developed.

1. http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/postgres-xc/index.php?...
The Chinese, bless their hard-working hearts, know exactly how to handle patent trolls: by taking away their power.

Unfortunately the US patent system involves so much lobbying money that the chances of it being reformed is exactly zero.
This is how I feel today http://cdn.meme.li/i/mditt.jpg
I wish they would also have starttls support. I also don't wan't smtp or imap support at all. I want only smtps and imaps support. By not supporting insecure protocols at all, you can avoid huge possibility of insecure misconfiguration.
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ethanol has a high caloric content but almost none of those calories can be absorbed by the body. It is a fundamental flaw in the way food calories are measured. To measure the calories of food you put the food in a sealed container under a vial of water and burn it, the food has 1 calorie for ever degree centigrade it made a liter of water rise. ethanol obviously burns extremely well so by this test it has high caloric content but that does not mean your body can convert ethanol to fat, sugar, ATP or anything else useful to the body. The vast majority of it is processed by the liver and expelled by the kidneys
I get the same thing from geeks on Reddit regarding Windows 8.

Yeah, some people seem to be so blinded by hate towards Microsoft (yes, they behaved notoriously bad), that they can only judge whatever comes out of Microsoft based on that.

I like what they are doing with Windows Phone, Skydrive, Outlook.com, and web-based Office (and I am a UNIX user). But any such comment is usually with by vile reactions.

Yes, you may not like Microsoft and object to using their product because of their moral behavior (ironically, they seem to be one of the least walled-garden-ish company these days). But can we at least judge their products by their technical merit?
care, nope. if nicely asked.. :P

basically you can have an ECDSA or RSA key pair and store the private key locally, either in a PGP smartcard (which can really be just a USB stick), or more conveniently into a piece of clothing that use some sort of NFC to transmit the data.

again, the yubikey neo does that (using NFC) but with OTPs for example.
I'm going to leave Android and back to Ios if the next naming is kitkat http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcxIksJFMs4, that simple.
I'm not sure where I read this, but one theory is that as long as two of the three "work pillars" are satisfied, you're ok in your current position. The three pillars are colleagues, salary and working tasks.
Did you read the article? It was an Alpha jet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dassault/Dornier_Alpha_Jet) that was used for NASA flights, not a Gulfstream or a 767. It's basically a fighter jet, it wouldn't be used for Googlers going wherever they're going. Most likely that jet was bought specifically for NASA missions to maintain their agreement.
I love what you did! Of course it is set up, as you say, by waiting until someone asked the question. But it's refreshing compared to corporate-speak announcements that we tend to get bombarded with ;).
Brush up on your tax loopholes! Did you know even the NFL (US National Football League) is technically a non-profit (501c6)?
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"added some fluff, made things simpler, and marketed the idea"

Well what on earth do you need a pre-assembled computer for? You just take some circuit boards and a soldering iron, then assemble everything over the weekend and you have a perfectly good computer. I don't understand why this Apple I thing is so popular, it's nothing special.

Far as I can tell, every successful piece of tech out there can be reduced to "Added some fluff, simplicity, and marketing to an already existing technology"
I had the impression that financial sector was taking a while to catch up with the times. Is the work interesting?
I disagreed with this when it was posted as a response to one of my comments last night [1], but didn't say anything because it was sitting below that comment, which had already addressed it.

But since it's standing on its own here, I'll pipe in again and remind folks that all that responsibility is entirely optional. You can design your business such that it can grow arbitrarily successful without ever requiring your full attention.

I can understand why the author feels that success and workload go hand in hand, because, well, that's what happened to him. If, on the other hand, you design your venture from day one to ensure that it won't ever drag you away from the beach, it's certainly possible to achieve that. Because, well, that's what happened to me.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6374125
This seems like something a competent editor would have removed from the post before it went up:

"We could simply dismiss this Nestle boycott as the wibblings of a bunch of hypersensitive hippies. Which is pretty much how I view it myself for whatever little my personal opinion is worth."
Every time you see something ugly, do you change your mind?
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Woah. This is terrible on a variety of levels, not least of which is that they spelled repository incorrectly.
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Programmers' Day lands on Friday the 13th hmmmm...
Works perfectly fine for me (London - O2 Broadband) and perfect on my mobile (London - EE 4G)
True, but we are also very playful!
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I don't think pure freedom. As in a fully funded party for life would be ever possible without secure routine monthly income, taking care of you while you do whatever you feel like.

Until then its just a trade off. A few days back I read a article: http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/07/perl-startups-lacun...

From the last paragraph: "Do not quit your day job. When you're starting your business, you need to make decisions from a position of strength. If you're making decisions because you're strapped for cash, you're almost certainly going to make the wrong decision. ..... if you haven't created new revenue streams by the time the previous ones dry up, you'll be right back at the problem of #1: making decisions based upon financial hardship rather than what's best for the business."

This thing explains the true deal about freedom in our lives. Once you have all the money in the world to take care of you, you will have the freedom to experiment and fail without dying along the way.

The key is financial freedom.
up to I looked at the draft for $5082, I did not believe ...that...my friend was like actualey earning money in their spare time on their laptop.. there moms best frend has been doing this for less than eight months and as of now cleared the loans on their villa and purchased a new GMC. look at more info big57.CoM
Nice! I'll check back on Maluuba in November.
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> But, a keyboard-based interface is still more efficient ...

This has been proven false any number of times. It's false when comparing mouse use against a modern keyboard with control and function keys, and it is certainly false for the limited keyboards for which vi/vim was designed, those keyboards that result in vi/vim not being able to exploit control characters.

Source: http://www.asktog.com/TOI/toi06KeyboardVMouse1.html

Quote: "We’ve done a cool $50 million of R & D on the Apple Human Interface. We discovered, among other things, two pertinent facts:

* Test subjects consistently report that keyboarding is faster than mousing.

* The stopwatch consistently proves mousing is faster than keyboarding.

This contradiction between user-experience and reality apparently forms the basis for many user/developers’ belief that the keyboard is faster."

The above quote comes from a study performed a while ago and repeated ad infinitum since then.
Would love to hear peoples views on this topic and the 'black hat' tactic being used!

Is it moral? Is it legal? Do you do it?

What are your thoughts on sites that employ these tactics?
Finally my dream will come true! The car I own will be a purely recreational vehicle, set up for rallying or some such. And I can use one of those automated thingamabobs for boring commuting to and fro.

Now just to wait and see if this can become a reality within my lifetime.
Jacques, back in 1986, you were looking for more freedom... but 27 years is a long time. Have you not changed since then? Do you still have that desire for freedom, or do you rather like the increase in responsibility?
On the meme of concision, I took it upon myself to conduct a whirlwhind survey of death glyphs.

死 < Chinese character for death.

http://www.mikons.com/mikon/21531_200.gif < Mayan character for death.

http://hieroglyphs.net/0301/images/d/108.gif < Apparently the most popular of at least three Egyptian renditions

Interestingly from a semantic perspective, according to http://www.jimloy.com/hiero/dict4.htm there exists an alternative rendering in Egyptian which consists of two perpendicularly contrasted pairs of parallel lines, explained as "deceased (true of voice)".
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Yeah, really makes you wonder why car dealerships offer trade-ins...
Read the guardian article.

He is using Windows.
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This is not a tyrannical environment. A tyrannical environment is one that makes you clock off to go to the bathroom.
The problems you describe are a sign that you still haven't learned LaTeX. I never claimed there isn't a steep learning curve. But these problems haven't to do with the appearance of your document.

Also you seem to miss the point of LaTeX. Of course you care how your documents look, this is one of the main reasons to use it. But you are smart enough to know that there are two parts in creating a document. The first is the content, this is your part, this is where your expertise lies. So you write and give some general instructions about the structure of your writings.
The second part is the typesetting and this is LaTeX's work.

A common pitfall is trying to use LaTeX as MS Word.
Close, mine's got an "o" on the end of it. ;) It's a fairly common Italian surname meaning "Greek".
I'm boycotting Nestlé.
Ask HN:  Who would hire someone with a misdemeanor hacking conviction?
Without going into details, I recently got off probation after being charged with a federal misdemeanor for accessing a computer and obtaining information. The damages were minimal at best, but I ended up getting a $25,000+ restitution order. I have no other marks on my record, not even a parking ticket.

I am wondering what effect this will have on my career opportunities. I have an AAS in Computer Forensics, and have had a fairly spotty job history due to the probation's prohibition on working with computers. I am in my early 20s and have had one systems administration job before.

When answering, it would be cool to see who has personal experience with this, who is in charge of hiring for their company, or who just has some thoughts.
Someone upstream said that 4096 is the largest number of bits you're allowed to have for an RSA key right now.
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Google really didn't think this one through. I don't see how any possible marketing 'synergies' can overcome the vague confusion that some people will have when confronted with the word KitKat and its associated Nestle registered trademark and the very real opinions that Nestle does not behave ethically as a company.

Maybe they couldn't think of anything else sweet that started with K but don't I think they've come to the best solution. (The best solution would be to skip K)
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MBA 'customisation' isn't really. It's just another one of the four variants (small/big memory/ssd) that they will have on the shelf. They'll just run through one shelf faster with the 'common' setup.
Why? It's an opinion piece. Thus, it expresses the opinions of the author. You can see more, in a similar style, on their blog:
http://timworstall.com/
It varies country by country, but I'm pretty sure you'll find various aspects of humanity being celebrated on specific days (women, father/mother, workers, and so on), sometimes even at the UN level (i.e. theoretically worldwide). The point is to get mainstream attention to the achievements and problems of specific and necessary roles which would otherwise be mostly overlooked.

In some cases the celebration is named after the activity (e.g. fighting cancer), but meaning is exactly the same -- would calling it "Programming Day" suit you better?
I use iPhone 4 with iOS 6 and apart from the app store (which I guess is slow everywhere, looking like being implemented in HTML 5 and stressing servers) nothing is slower than before iOS 6.
Of course Postgres is also relational. Have you tried using a document oriented store like MongoDB? I have. For some problems it just plain rocks.

That doesn't mean I would want to store financial transactions for a bank in a MongoDB, but it has its place and that place is clearly huge (judging by the number of people using it).

I love it because it is:
- simple to use
- fast enough (with safe writes, thank you!)
- simple to use
- simple to use

Did I mention it was simple to use, which allows me to focus on app instead of wrestling with DB?
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Hackers we made this for you guys. Please tell us what you think and how we can make it more useful.

Hope you enjoy our idea and of course it saves you lots of time :)

Thanks.
No, it isn't. He/She is trying to be funny.
A big Roomba with valet service everywhere.
I try to avoid Nestle products, for lots of reasons, visible on their Wikipedia page. They are a truly scummy company. Like most people I'm not perfect, but I make a point of avoiding products (you can get a lot of mileage out of not eating junk!).

I was very disappointed to see the tie-in. It won't alter my purchasing decisions though. I believe what I read about no money changing hands, so I won't be financially supporting the company. I won't see the KitKat logo anywhere on my tablet/phone (I hope!). In fact I have two Android products and I couldn't tell you the version-name of either of them.

This episode might have two effects. First, it might raise the profile of the Nestle boycott. Second it might make more people aware that Google is a commercial entity not some fuzzy benevolent organisation. Perversely, this might end up being a good thing.
This is a good example for how far Google has drifted away from having "Don't be evil" as a core tenet. No PR or marketing person with those words in mind would go near a company like Nestle. Dealing with a company whose CEO views the human right to access to clean water as "extreme" is not something Sergei or Brin would have done ten years ago.

I wonder how many Google employees today would know the meaning of "Don't be evil".
As I recently had to debug a nasty issue that only occurred in release builds in VS2010 I would definitely have liked to know about this earlier. Almost all the variables that were important in that case were inaccessible in the debugger which made finding out the root of the issue quite difficult.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=586441

> The Witcher 3 to be most expensive Polish game; $15M dev. budget + $25M ad. budget

So over 60% of the budget is marketing.
I deal with it a lot better than back then. 27 years indeed is a long time and there were plenty of opportunities to learn life's lessons.
Regarding your first footnote:

Is there an explanation why 'in production' is actively discouraged? Is that a limitation of the underlying lxc stuff?

I ask, because the interesting parts of docker _for me_ seem to be focused on the setup, deployment - and not the runtime. So if I create a working image and want to use that in production, wouldn't docker become passive as soon as I run that thing?

What's the danger here?
I feel sometimes as if I'm alone for liking my Surface RT.

8.1 for outlook was the real clincher. Before I hadn't really liked any tablets I'd used.

But now this thing really does go everywhere. Office is rather integral to my workflow, every alternative I've tried hasn't cut the mustard. Now when I'm away, I've got my laptop and my 'office slab'. The touch cover actually works rather well, I won't mind typing out a good long email on it without wanting to slam the device into the wall (which my Nexus 7 makes me want to do).

It is also remarkably adept at just working with anything I slam on the USB. I can use it to backup my SD cards to a USB HDD when travelling (having lost an SD card last year half way through my holiday I'm paranoid!) or I just plug in my USB headset for Skype. It can browse the web including pages that have bad touch events (ie menu comes down on mouse over, not mouse down).

And it does flash.

I've only got an iPad 2 to compare against for speed, and yes whilst I'd like it faster, it isn't problematic.

I can't really see a lot of the hate on the Surface, as a product it isn't really there yet. But neither is my iPad or my Nexus.
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>you can get a lot of mileage out of not eating junk!

It's true, but the body also seems to build something of a tolerance. I eat a very healthy diet, and I've found that when I occasionally eat junk food, the result is damned near debilitating.

But as long as I stick to my uncooked oats, peanut butter and soy milk, I'm generally fine. Sounds boring, but whatever. I've almost always viewed food as fuel, and more of an annoyance than anything.
Calories is not the metric important for me here (every alcoholic beverage has plenty of it, so standard caution applies), it's carbohydrate count - too much and you're out of ketosis for good.
There's an interesting recent paper [1] by Stuart Armstrong and Anders Sandberg about the feasibility of colonizing the entire visible universe. Among other things, they conclude that as long as you can reliably expect technology to keep progressing, it pays to wait and keep investing in R&D instead of launching too early.

(Oh, and they show that colonizing the universe would be surprisingly easy. This has obvious implications re: the Fermi paradox.)

[1] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576513...
One of the staples of aesthetic beauty in typography is coherency. Markdown allows to reach that easily.

This is also why so many Word products look so amateurish, or downright tiring to read: differences in spacing, font, color, all these make for an awful end result which is also annoying to maintain[1].

All in all this is akin to provisioning instead of scripting: you declare _what you want_ (a pull-out quote) instead of _how to do it_, letting the compiler take care of the rest.

The downside of markdown is that it is a two phase compose/preview system, which has been resolved with dual panes up to now. But it is not a showstopper, especially considering that professional copywriters already compose stories separate from presentation[2].

[1]: Yes, I know that Word has _styles_. Which are kind of similar in intent to markdown's #, >, *, even though they are not always semantically significant, and they also include presentation.

[2]: InDesign's story editor: http://indesignsecrets.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/story-...
I'm not sure how sensitive modern electronics are to high humidity, but with a decent exhaust system this would work quite well.
I want to like Mongo, I'm all about "cutting my teeth on the bleeding edge", but I don't know what to think about MongoDB. Most conversations about it seem to go like this:

Lover: MongoDB is so much faster and easier than old school SQL!
Hater: It's fast and easy because it doesn't check if it's written data correctly, which leads to corrupt data.
Lover: Well you could always turn on the write lock.
Hater: If you turn on the write lock, it becomes slower than normal SQL databases.
Lover: Well you're just trying to use it the same way you use SQL. MongoDB is great for some problems and not so great for other problems.
Hater: What problems is MongoDB better at solving?

And then that's the end. I've never heard a convincing use case for this thing. If you can change that for me and give me one, I'd be delighted to listen.
I just spent 30 seconds trying to figure out what 'pg up' meant. Signs you read too much Hacker News:

- You read "pg up" as "Paul Graham up"
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Given that Nesté still survives somehow despite the boycott I guess the impact on Android device purchases would be quite low. For what it's worth, I guess most people don't even know the code name of their Android version, let alone which version they use.