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Having dealt with PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL, DB/2, Sybase, and Oracle - I say level of effort.

Yes, Oracle can often be considered a performance leader (but the margin is debatable), but of that list I have always found it more difficult to deal with. Just the installation process alone on Linux with Oracle was more time consuming than DB/2, where I just wanted it to simply run.

Now I am not a qualified DBA on Oracle or DB/2, but having spent a _lot_ of time with various RDBMS platforms, I don't have the patience to expend too much effort on a simple, vanilla install with the defaults.

Compared to PostgreSQL, MSSQL, and MySQL - which I have installed, configured, and admin'd numerous times, I might surmise that in a startup its important to get down to business, in this case the business of dealing with the data. If I have to muck about just getting my DB platforms to run, I am wasting time.

So in a "time is money" context, Oracle loses - unless you have Oracle specialists on staff, which may be uncommon in startups.
The whole point of the article is that women DO own the dating game in their 20s. Just not in the 30s. So the answer is yes.
I don't see many "I quit!" or "don't go!" essays from science, but you do see scientists expressing concerns about continuing to accept so many PhD students who won't have a clear career path.

This seems especially true in biotech, though part of their concerns seem to be about how the new students will compete with them for grant dollars... see http://scientopia.org/blogs/drugmonkey/2013/01/28/shut-off-t... for an example.
I'm am/was big Angular fan, myself....

However, I came to a team that couldn't GROK the scope of Angular, and Knockout.JS was so much, easier for them to approach. They are now into the whole reactive UI thing, have their code organized into view models. Now, over time, I can start sprinkling in Q library, and other Angular-esqe libraries and they'll be a lot happier. Another nice thing about Knockout.JS that I've come to appreciate is that it's about 10x easier to make custom binding handlers than it is to create Angular directives. And we had to write a custom service layer anyway, so it's not like we needed that from the Angular library.
REST APIs and restaurants
Certainly some of them, but not all. Some are just gamers who are upset with Windows and want to move to better systems (for example those who care about DRM free gaming and so on). In general PC gamers are more willing to experiment with new things than the regular crowd it seems.
Weka is one that I ran into personally a few weeks ago.
> On the other hand, we miss a lot of the churn caused by people chasing after the latest js library, which also seems to be a big preoccupation of the FOSS community. If you're building software that has to last for years then stability of the underlying platform and having fewer ways to do something can be an advantage.

Don't make me figure out how many database access approaches there are in stock .NET. :-)

More seriously, JS devs seem to have a thing for reinventing each others wheels - not just once, but tens of times (hyberbole). I really don't see that behavior in other communities by and large. The worst I've seen elsewhere is 3 similar Python libs

I dig appreciate the stability argument though. Which is why I'm a Common Lisp fan; its a standardized and mostly extensible language.
Through history, about twice as many women as men have successfully reproduced. So women have in some sense done better than men through history.

However I'm sure that stat includes a lot of single moms.

See http://lesswrong.com/lw/h4e/differential_reproduction_for_me... for more.
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

I think a story about the way an important aspect of human existence turns into a market response to the collected needs of individuals would gratify one's intellectual curiosity.
Two things:

1. There is more money in being an engineering professor

2. Lots of PhD students in engineering never bother being professors of any kind (even non-tenure track) and just find an industry position with a big salary.
1.4 to 1.5 is the biggest change.

I think the way to upgrade is to do it piecewise, one release at a time.

Here's what we do:

1) upgrade 3rd party packages to latest. I wrote a little script to apply each new package one-by-one, rerun tests, and revert any that fail. Resolve any failures.

2) turn deprecations into errors, run tests again, and resolve any deprecation notices.

3) Read release notes from 1.2 to 1.3 so you have a sense of what's changing.

4) upgrade django from 1.2 to 1.3, then rerun tests.

5) Repeat steps 2-4 with each django release (1.3->1.4, 1.4->1.5).

This way, if / when things break during the upgrade process, you have some isolation as to what changed.

I'm not sure you can get all the way from 1.2 to 1.5 in a day, but if you spend half a day you can get a sense of how far you get, and what issues you have to resolve to finish.

You definitely want to get to at least 1.4, since that's the oldest version that has security patches.

If you don't have good tests? Start by writing tests until you have decent coverage. The django testing page has good info on coverage tool integration.
I like the way Angular manages nested $scopes a lot better than the ko.ApplyBinding paradigm. We are constantly have to add wrapper DIVs and clobbering each others ViewScope in Knockout.JS. It's not the end of the world, by any means.
"YC investment results in an average of 6% ownership, 6% of $13.7B is $822,000,000." - this statement is not actually correct.
YC ownership averages 6% at the time when YC enters but that doesn't mean that YC gets 6% of $13.7B. Companies contributing most of these $13.7B have probably gone through additional financing rounds diluting YC's stake. But even if YC is diluted 10x, it's still remarkable ROI.
Thanks for the advices! you're right my page is not explaining enough the purpose of the app. I'll try to improve it.
I think this is a smart way to ensure the setup scales and it's robust. This would be very effective for small startups as it's reliable and give the tech admins peace of mind.
I do find packer.io to be very intuitive and user friendly. Do you guys think that packer.io is the best for the deployment flows?
It sounds something like those "design contests" -- with an entry fee -- sponsored by companies who would otherwise select and hire a designer or design firm. The company is actually buying a vast pool of ideas, only one of which they have to "buy" -- usually for substantially less than what a real engagement would cost. But in this case, the $1M prize is big enough to add a lottery-like element.
In Europe there are many cars for less than 500 euros. Even new ones are something around 6k euros. Those of course aren't sedans like but they're still cars.

In Barcelona we're suffering a process of making the whole city available for bikes and its one of the most wonderful things you can see. Almost everyone uses bikes to go work. It's healthy, it's confortable, and you don't need to pay taxes or insurance. I think it's a brainless option.

BTW: I forgot to mention my city runs a public bycicle program since 8 years and it's a total success. For 40€/year you get full access to a bicycle to move around the city without restrictions. I think it was the smartest move the city did.
But you can have a bike and a car, like you can have a computer and pens. Sometimes you can use a car, sometimes a bike.

The article doesn't address these statistics. Or kid bikes. Also not seeing motorbikes, which seem quite popular in Europe.

I'm surprised that bike sales are that far off from car sales anyway. Expected most people that grow old enough to ride to buy one.

Very informative otherwise.
There are two kinds of people who quit academia: those who want to produce research and those who don't. To the latter, I say, oh well, it perhaps was not the place for you. Good luck and best fortune.

To the former, I lament their opportunities outside of academia. Basic research, the research that built the foundation that makes this comment appear before your eyes and zips packets of data around to make this economy function, has been on the decline for near a decade now. And the decline in corporate, non-university basic research has been even more profound.

People who read Hacker News are probably in a better state than most when it comes to this, there are many choices of research lab to work at in computer science. For basic mathematical research, your choices outside of a university setting are a little more slim; and nearly nonexistent, if you, like most of the readers here, have ethical problems with producing classified research or working with 3 and 4 letter agencies of recent disrepute.

But to my peers in other academic programs - I wonder how much the world will lose because ethicists, geologists, and even people who are pursuing the art of pedagogy in advanced educational degrees are leaving academia.

Postscript: I don't mean any of the above to be exhaustive lists of academic fields affected or not affected. It's not just computer science that has ample opportunity for postgraduate research outside of a university, and it's not only the philosophers, geologists, and educators who are finding difficulty. To wit, I don't even know if that's the case for geologists, but I have heard of the woes of finding even graduate study programs in philosophy and education.

Post-postscript: I forgot to cite sources, and one summary, though five years dated, is here: http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsb0803/start.htm?CFID=1237996... - there the NSF documents declining basic research from industry and declining funding from government.
A professional, educated guy will marry the receptionist if she's funny and hot. But a professional, educated woman will rarely marry the maintenance guy. Brutal but that's how it is.
Good marketing gimmick for security....the things enterprise solutions are made of
Videos from linuxcon europe 2013 : systemd
Makes me pat myself on the back for trying to resist non-essential packages if I can roll my own, as much as possible :)
your servers are just as unavailable either way

Right, but having local disks reduces the sources of failure, reduces contention, reduces latency, reduces the complexity of failures, and is thus much nicer to work with. Computers and networks would be easier for us to debug if they had a binary works well/doesn't work at all, but we all know they don't. Especially networks.

The simplest and sanest architecture is keeping dumb disks local to where computation is running (and yes, that may also include duplicating data across several servers). Anything else is asking for more crazy classes of failure. Been there, bled there, not going back there.
How many of them come with training wheels and ribbons?
> most single women I know in NYC are pretty successful career-wise, and seem to prefer a man who's at least their equal or higher

That is, from what I can tell, rayiner's point. As the world goes from one in which there were many college-educated men for every college-educated woman to an oversupply of college-educated women per college-educated man, that preference will become a self-inflicted (due to preference) disadvantage when it comes to dating. That seems to be rayiner's premise, and it seems to be true, unless preferences and habits evolve as the landscape evolves (which I think will be true).
Man, I love the style of this image. Anybody know a collection of these kind of images?
I think you're missing the value prop of the BigStorageCos like EMC and NetApp.

If all they provided was a disk shelf and loose cluster coupling, nobody would buy that.

The big win (for those companies which consider it a win) is in data management and namespacing. Storage virtualization, if you will. I can have a hundred disks spinning behind a storage controller which lumps them together into three storage volumes. I can serve file data off two of them (say, NFS on one and CIFS on the other) and stick some LUNs on the third and serve blocks (iSCSI). I can dedupe, snapshot, and migrate these data at will.

FWIW. Not belittling the Seagate announcement. Just clarifying why the article is correct in suggesting that EMC and NetApp aren't particularly worried about the announcement.
Percona Server 5.6.14 with TokuDB 7.1 experimental build
They are turning their product lines into ipad/iphone like, they are not upgradable. Even a broken iPhone 5 front glass screen requires a whole new panel.

I am horrified to think what will happen if I get a new rMBP and a year later something breaks. I dont buy apple care, so will I be stuck paying 1,000 for a whole new logic board because all the pieces are soldered on?
Rubinius X seeks to modernize, not bury, the Ruby language
Definitively HTML5 or web-based mobile apps are absolutely fine and applicable.
A star older than the universe
According to some sources, gun crime went up after the ban:

http://www.politics.co.uk/reference/gun-crime

"Despite the handguns ban imposed under the 1997 Firearms Amendment, research carried out following the implementation of the Act saw a 40 per cent increase in the number of gun crime incidents in the UK."
I feel we are taking our eyes off the ball.

Domestic spying violates constitutional rights. More to the point, I don't want to support an institution with programs that violate my privacy, no matter what benefits such programs provide.

But isn't international spying is different? Honestly, I don't mind supporting an institution with an external espionage programs. Isn't in my best interest? Does it harm me? What are the concrete repercussions of spying on foreign officials? Are these officials really going to renege on international alliances because they have a chip on their shoulder? If they have anything to hide, it's by definition counter to US interests; if our allies are making plans behind our backs, I want our government to find out. (And to be totally honest, if our government is making secret plans behind our allies backs, I would want our allies to find out, as well.)

I'll repeat this, because it is a real question, and the answer could have a real effect on my opinion: What are the concrete repercussions of spying on foreign officials?
WordPress and Digital Ocean: A Great Combination
Since when has the British press ever worried about letting stilted language get between them and a poor gag.
Scientist here: I am tempted to write one, I haven't yet, I'm just doing it. Incidentally, my former postdoctoral boss is one of these academes who quit... One year after getting tenure. Interestingly, her decision to quit and abandon her project, in turn, enabled me to quit my "semi-academic" track (I've worked predominantly at "academic" nonprofit research institutes that are not generally colleges) - by trying to resurrect the project that she abandoned. Details in my bio, if you're curious.
Then both helped move human knowledge exponentially further.
Maybe I'm just starting to get old, but the "we take backwards compatibility very seriously" line has become a lot more attractive to me in recent years.
Here's the problem in the States: The automobile lobbyists dominate all transportation legislation.

So what kind of laws does that get us? In most cities electric bikes are illegal. Sidewalks and bike lanes, more often then not, only cover partial lengths of road. It's actually illegal to ride a bike on the sidewalk, but the bike lanes in the States are so unbelievably dangerous that no one in their right mind would choose the bike lane over the sidewalk. You can't ride a bike along an interstate highway --that's illegal too. Oh, some rich cities have nice new bike paths, but they go almost no where useful and it is illegal to ride on those at night.

And to top it all off there's a cultural stigma that if you ride a bike for more than exercise or a leisurely peddle around the block then you are a worthless bum.
Worth noting, there's also a pat-like interface in Gorilla too: http://www.gorillatoolkit.org/pkg/pat
I had the same idea. It's a great way for new celebrities to raise money for whatever they want to do.
Isn't that the point of DDs plastic gun project? To point out gun control can't work in a world with DIY mad easy?
I read the article and think that he/she makes a good point. The point this person is trying to hit is: does this imply that more people do not like the style of older bicycles or that people are making lifestyle changes to ride bikes instead of driving cars or that the economy is not the greatest and people are getting bikes because of it? The article compares 2 markets (bikes and cars) where it doesn't fully reflect the market (only shows new cars/bikes). The full market is probably quite a bit harder to get data for (and that's probably why they don't show it) but it would really give a much better indication of what is happening.

I almost feel like this article is misleading because bicycle production is much higher than automotive production. See the following link under "Bicycle vs. car production"

http://www.worldometers.info/bicycles/
I don't think they rewrote everything, though, did they? I read it that they were building up new stuff in this manner and they they were trying to move over to a SOA-style architecture, which it sounded like they didn't have with some old stuff.

I highly doubt they're just throwing all their products away.
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I disagree, but it depends on what type of warrant we're talking about. I'm speaking of a search warrant. A search warrant is used to find and collect evidence that already exists. If authorities need you to change how your business runs to collect new evidence that doesn't yet exist then that runs into a whole different set of laws. A search warrant doesn't allow, or at least it shouldn't, authorities to walk in and take over your business for their own purposes. Search warrants shouldn't have that level of power because they are so easy to obtain, police just ask a judge to sign a piece of paper. It's easy to obtain because all it should be is a piece of paper that allows law enforcement to enter your property without permission, which would normally be a crime, so that they can search for particular evidence. Search warrants can even be very, very specific as to what exactly law enforcement is really looking for within the property if the judge doesn't want to be overly broad.

What you are describing does happen, but I fail to see how it would happen under a search warrant.

As for your destroying data being against the law if it is requested by the courts. You are correct, except that if your business model is to destroy data in a timely manner then you cannot be held in contempt for destroying data before it was requested. At that point it becomes something different as they have to request you no longer destroy that data so that they can collect it. I don't see how that request falls under a search warrant. I suppose it could happen if a judge likes being overly broad in search warrants (which could cause problems in the criminal case), but it seems unlikely that's how a typical search warrant would be executed.
Urban planning is an issue, but not the size of the country.
It might gain.

If you spend much time with the literature it's pretty obvious that U.S. agencies regularly blackball particular research areas.

For instance, the tap got turned off suddenly on work on quasicrystals, MPI-style parallel computing, and on work related to the semantic web.

In the meantime, huge amounts of research money goes down the drain in areas such as internet QoS.
I totally agree with you, 100%. I can't lie, it made me sad when I saw the team starting to turn against Knockout, as the benefits it brings in the points I made above (as well as consistency and maintainability, as you brought up) are real - and often frontend projects suffer greatly for want of these very benefits.

I've never been good at convincing people of things, however, so it's been an uphill battle - one that I lost a lot of ground on early, and I feel like a lot of our frontend codebase suffered as a result. I do feel like they're slowly starting to warm up to the benefits of it now that they've had some maintenance problems with the current approach, but that's similar to sending an innocent man to prison for several years before discovering he's innocent - it'll take a while to undo what's been done, if it can be undone.

Now, none of this is to say that they're bad developers. They make amazing UIs that I couldn't even conceptualize (me being a backend jockey who is terrible at making things look good). It's hard for someone to hear about an entirely new approach to what they've been doing for 5-10 years and to accept it off the bat, so I don't blame them at all. I do still hope that they'll come over entirely to the concept. We'll see what happens. :)
Correct. In Barcelona, Spain, when there's risk of snow they use salt. I think the ice isn't the problem, it's the lack of lines who is it. But people is finding that in the end, there's many at least, in Barcelona, to use and they stop using their cars in favor of bikes.
>Oh, I've not even heard of Durandal, I'll have to check that out! (Strangely enough, the word "Durandal" has an historic importance at our company, so it'll be humorous to present this to them if it turns out to be useful for us. ;) )

Yes, it is worth the effort to check out. While you can mash several things like sammy and other frameworks to make your own SPA type solution, Durandal already has done it for you (built on require.js, sammy, and knockout)
The fact that 10x as many people train to be scientists as those who become scientists only shows how attractive academia careers are. I like to compare this to sports. Only three people in the world get an Olympic medal once every four years in each discipline, while everyone else spends most of their childhood and youth in arduous training with nothing to show for it.
Ha, I worked a lot with ASP.NET MVC 2 & 3! By old-school, I was referring more to the lockin of the MSFT stack than the specificity of a particular library.

(When we moved over to a Python-based solution, we ported from MVC 3/SqlLinq/MS SQL Sever stack)

EDIT: Oh, and were had a lot of good stuff going on using ServiceStack....loved that set of libraries.
Holy negativity. Why is the overall sentiment of the comment pool so cranky and skeptical?

1) YC startups have a combined valuation of $13.7B. Fact - groups of investors have valued YC startups individually, and in aggregate the current known valuation of the collective is $13.7B.

Does that number mean that much by itself? Perhaps not. Let's see what else we know.

2) That valuation has grown by $2B since June. Also fact. And pretty incredible, that's a 17% growth on valuation in 4-5 months.

Without making any comments on whether or not YC's success rate is higher/lower than average and whether or not YC is a benefit to the entrepreneurs it invests in (there's no data presented here to make that assessment, but I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to do), what YC has done in a short amount of time in helping build a tremendous amount of value in its companies is noteworthy - and that's what I take away from this article.
Depression : treatment effectiveness-vs-popularity