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OK, I'm no fan of invasive government snooping on this scale. Read my HN comment history. But invoking 'crimes against humanity' in that way shows a distinct lack of perspective.

It's their job to spy on people. It's what they are for. If the legal regime they operate under is faulty, it needs to be fixed. If they have overstepped, they need to be reined in. Lumping them in the same category as race militias butchering women and children with machetes is not helpful.
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It was widely reported that OBL had removed all forms of communication from his compound well before the leaks as he was fairly certain that they were all being monitored anyway. A serious terrorist wouldn't be using an unencrypted communication method to start with anyway.

And if op's were at risk they'd have made arrests immediately or D Noticed the Guardian immediately. As they haven't, it's probably a load of shit.
Check the feed further up.

PS your latest comment is [dead]...
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> The company said the fire was the result of an accident and was not a spontaneous event.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/07/autos-tesla-fire-i...
Every time we take our dog to the vet, every single vet is white, but every single vet TECH is a minority.

Your thinking is the same kind of logic that says 'well women just aren't interested in STEM'.
"you deserve to lose it"

Your opinion is irrelevant. People will not put money where they need to run some robots just not to lose their funds if they have a better alternative. Freicoin thus will never have any value and therefore no one would use it as a currency.

Terracoin is essentially the same as Bitcoin, but is compatible with Bitcoin ASICs and thus prone to attacks from their part. Litecoin, on the other hand, has incompatible hashing scheme, but no one would invest in mining Litecoin if you can invest in mining Bitcoin. In other words, people want one, most marketable, most popular, most liquid money. If Bitcoin was leaking savings, people would choose Bitcoin 2 which wouldn't and stick with it.
> Terrorism is not a great threat to either the US or the UK - a tiny number of people have been killed by it, and yet it is painted as an existential threat which must be fought at all costs

"Americans Are as Likely to Be Killed by Their Own Furniture as by Terrorism"

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/06/ame...
But note it's at the expense of a very large index file - 800MB (vs Mongo's 100MB). Although Pg's index covers the entire JSON structure, whereas Mongo's index only covers the leafs being searched, so it will optimize a larger variety of queries.
Gas cars catch on fire all the time during accidents.

The car saved his life by not collapsing onto him during an accident.
Some might say "suspicious". (I mean, that would be a pretty sweet black hat move by Nissan.)

Edit: I was joking, you silly people.
It's not clear to me that Felten's response you've linked to identifies a fatal flaw in the ES attack, because the ES attackers aren't limited to following just the bitcoin protocol. The ES attackers could follow a protocol under which coalition members are required to prove to each other that they are working on the ES chain and not "fair weather mining". For example, coalition members could log cyptographic proof that they were working on certain chains, and then keep a certain number of bitcoins in virtual escrow that will be forfeit if fair weather mining is discovered.
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Comedians have, throughout history been the acceptable dissidents of society. This can be seen from ancient Greece, through Shakespeare and through to people like Bill Hicks and George Carlin.

They have the unique position of being able to say what they think, and then let the audience decide if it was satirical or serious.

I think "the state of a society when only comedians can tell the truth" is known as "normal". I've never seen any evidence of some fabulous bygone age where the people in charge were cool with political dissidents who didn't frame things in terms of comedy.
Can I index fields within a JSON document in PostreSQL? Can I query them?

I.e. can I do something like SELECT json_field FROM data WHERE json_field.age > 15 ?
Oh dear.

The fact that certain communication methods are not secure or are hard to secure has been know to people in IT for some time. The Snowden revelations would've only helped those with no idea about IT. Are these people now going to be immediately tech-savy enough not to choose another insecure communication method? Or will they just give up?

Blaming the Snowden leaks for informing all the criminals about how not to get caught is like blaming Google for enforcing HTTPS.
Yes I can, but if I do then the site will only get worse. http://lesswrong.com/lw/c1/wellkept_gardens_die_by_pacifism/
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...that's irrelevant to what he was saying.
Edit: Totally agree with parent: just in case there was any confusion

Don't mind if I do:

Gas = 132MJ/Gal = 36.7 KWh/gal
X 20 gallons in your average grocery getter = 734 KWh

Tesla battery = 60KWh : 12.2 TeslaBattery = 1 Tank gas

None of that matters. When the gas burns, all of its energy becomes heat. The energy released when a battery burns is only tangentially related to how much electric power it makes when doing its designed chemical reaction.

The battery is a fire risk because it "contains too much energy" is nonsense.
Doesn't your segregation hypothesis actually argue in favor of an EMT distribution closer to 81%?
The interesting thing is seeing how vague they are about the actors, there's a lot of 'oh South Asia, around that region' but they very rarely go into actual detail about where there's a threat. There was also an excellent moment where this was said:

"Sawers says it is not like it was in the cold war, states trying to destroy our government and way of life, but there are very diverse threats: the biggest is terrorism. Then there are states that want to harm us, he says."

So it's not like the cold war with specific states, but there are specific states that want to harm us. A bit of a weird flip-flop.
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Yes, this is what index scan performance metrics is about — PostgreSQL outperforms MongoDB here.
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From Land of Lisp by Conrad Barski:

A fair number of large companies do use Lisp for some serious work. A long list of Industrial Lisp projects can be found at http://pchristensen.com/blog/lisp-companies/
Software has bugs. They need to be fixed and some people may lose money. This story only proves that incentives are correctly working in favour of everyone: miners voluntarily chose to lose rewards and stay compatible with the older network to not shake confidence in it.

The point is not to have a perfect system (which is impossible), but to have proper motivations for everyone to play along instead of cheating and stealing.
You would need to short an insane amount of stock for that to be profitable.
Also I think the fact that you had to put a question mark after "Queens (?)" suggests that you might be speaking from a position of shelter.
But that seems to be based on this:

"It's possible that it ran over a piece of metal in the roadway and it got up in the engine compartment," police dispatcher Kathy Bryant said.

Apparently speculation by a police dispatcher now counts as confirmed facts.
People can find out about your coins the same way as they find out how much gold you have.
This is how you do it in 9.2 using PLV8.

http://people.planetpostgresql.org/andrew/index.php?/archive...

For 9.3, see more info at http://michael.otacoo.com/postgresql-2/postgres-9-3-feature-...
I wasn't advocating one choice or another. It's just the person I replied to just said "JVM ugh", which isn't necessarily reasonable.
Options. Also there's potentially SEC stuff which happens to you if you do this, although it's less clear if you're not a professional or licensed, and don't solicit others.
yes. See the operators at:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/functions-json.htm...
We actually use both of them in our system.

I really wish PostgreSQL wasn't such an enormous challenge to scale horizontally.
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"your firm is promoting to the public online dating services under the name ManyFish"

This looks like a boilerplate response, and that phrasing appears to cast your app as a competing service.

Like the others said, you probably either have to try to reach an actual human being at POF, or let the lawyerbots do their dirty, mechanical business.
Reuters wire service reporting just in: "Tesla Motor Inc's Model S electric car has suffered its third fire in six weeks, sending its shares down about 7 percent in early Thursday trading."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/07/autos-tesla-fire-i...
And if you mix both every language that relies on indentation (Python e.g.) throws you a nice warning or even an error.
"Spend five hours on the HackerNews front page and get a few thousand uniques from the most cynical, judgmental visitors you can imagine."

That's me!
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If they had that many developers I am not sure why they invented such a complex alternative to a private npm repo with the full replication. I mean it only took half a day to set up and then two days to load. Heh.

But I glad they did it. I really feel like someone should take some code like the core if Kappa and integrate it into npm so you don't have to wait two days or whatever to replicate a giant database just so you can have private modules. I know that will make a few peoples business model go away but I hope that's not what is stopping it from happening.
The section on forkIO vs forkOS is interesting because the author does not mention implementing green threads atop the JVM. It would be feasible for Frege and its core libraries to use an implementation of "green threads" based on Promises or CPS under the covers in order to implement a concurrency model indistinguishable from Haskell's.

While it is true that the vast majority of JVM code you interact with is blocking and expects to own whatever OS thread it is running on, that could be treated as a concern of FFI, where untrusted/blocking code in Java land gets dedicated OS threads (similar to FuturePools/execution-contexts for scala Futures, or how you would manually isolate blocking code for Erlang or Go FFI.)

Additionally, the comment dismissing STM seems like an afterthought, because there are at least three JVM implementations (Clojure's, Scala's, and Multiverse)

But the main comment I was referring to was:

To do serious concurrent work in an JVM environment is
different and it will thus require different knowledge

... which suggests that the author isn't interested in supporting Haskell's idiomatic concurrency model atop the JVM, and is instead fine with the status quo of blocking code.
One mans machete is another mans remote controlled drone. If you think the UK is innocent of war crimes, you haven't been paying attention.
What is challenging about it? If you make the same sacrifices you make to use mongo, it should be pretty straight forward.
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That article was amazing and thanks for this line:

"If I had given up one day earlier I would have thought that no one cared, but really there was no one to care. There's a difference."

Most inspirational thing I've read after getting the 'we are sorry' mail from YC.
I'm really loving the new Promises/A+ support in Ember—lots of weird corner cases just got a lot cleaner, and it's much easier to bypass Ember-Data when the need arises. See this section of the original post for an example:

http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2013/11/07/an-in-depth-in...

The first rule of Ember.js happiness is "Don't fight with Ember Data." When Ember Data does what you want, it's amazing. When you want to do something that it doesn't support, just fall back to jQuery and promises at the model layer, as shown above.
Given the large numbers of coins held and the comparatively smaller depths of the BTC markets, selling off a lot of coins would create a massive crash in their market value. If you wanted to have the ability to destabilize it in the future, this is a good tactic.
It's not relevant to the price, but they had Patrick Stewart open the market with them. Well, having Captain Picard open the market shouldn't be relevant to the price anyway.
I remember reading, quite a while ago, some 19th or 18th Century piece of fiction in which a Caucasian lad with black hair was referred to as a "little black boy".
I would imagine main objective would be not taking risks because you already earned your big time money. Redesigning GUI and switching technology are risks.
Anything that replaces the horribly overengineered and bastardized Scala travesty is welcome.
Bingo. In other words, HN readers, serious electronics hobbyists, anyone with even a little hardware savvy: these are not the target market. Intel is betting that they can steal/grow some significant piece of this market share based on their brand alone, and they are probably right.
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Biggest thing to remember is that this is an exit, the end for the early investors. As far as I'm concerned, that's all it is. To me, in a lot of ways, this is the "end" of Twitter (not as a company, necessarily) in the sense that everything changes now. All of the details of their financials are going to be exposed from here on out, for better or worse. It's no longer about just user acquisition, it's about making money to satisfy the many more shareholders that they are about to get. It'll be interesting to watch!
You never know how it's going to develop. I once sold Apple stock after getting 40% profit in a few months. Should I have known that it would continue to climb for a few more years? Usually, getting out while you're ahead is a good idea. It's often better to sell to early than too late.
I personally have never seen it before and am glad that it was posted here.
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If you're going to do Blender stuff, my vote would be to focus on interoperability with other applications. In particular, Blender needs a working Alembic import/export function, IMO.
Space is cheap. Time is expensive.
The internals are so very slim... so I like this guy's advice for a Mongo replacement that's almost as slim: http://nyeggen.com/blog/2013/10/18/the-genius-and-folly-of-m...

"ZFS has a heckuva caching strategy, and you know when it accepts a write."

:P
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A couple hours ago someone said the police report was it ran over a tow hitch.
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This is great :).
On another note, I'm surprised that they're not using git or another dvcs.
And then there is the whole thing where if you are trying to manipulate the stock you maybe don't care who the car belongs to.
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Here's one example. Googling for something like "cartel kills social media activist" will probably yield more.

http://techland.time.com/2011/11/10/fourth-blogger-reportedl...
Yes, I agree. Reread my comment. Also note that mine is a sibling to yours, not in response to yours. ;-)
StreamScience (http://streamscience.co) is pure Clojure
That query would be this:

SELECT json_field FROM data WHERE json_field->'age' > 15

Part of the performance increase for hstore is improvements for GIN indexes, and according to the author can be applied to json. So yes you can use indexes on your hstore or json documents.
That's really great. I'm glad to hear of another company that has benefited from an all-in approach to remote workers. I think reading the book would be time well spent. You can knock it out in a single day.
Not to take away from a valid point, but the McCarthyism of the 1950s was probably equally bad if not worse. And going back further, racial and gender inequality was institutionalized throughout American society. Ask a black man who lived in the 1930s-40s how arbitrarily authoritarian the government was toward him and his neighbors--it was pretty grim. And going back a few decades further, we had slavery, indentured servitude, lynchings, duels and honor killings, etc.

Freedom and equality in America has always been a work in progress, in my estimation.
That's why your index should fit in RAM
Someone like Winston Wolfe [1] would be a good choice for #1. "I solve problems"

Alan Mulally of Ford would be a good choice for type 2. He's a strategic thinker, works within the system, and has done a great job at Ford getting them to build good cars again. He had the luxury of time to make his changes work, something that Microsoft, with it's cash hoard, does as well.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANPsHKpti48
See varjag's comment.
The BBB is a pretty rockin' little board. Really between the Arduino's ability to have applications extremely cost reduced and the full OS power of the BBB, the RPi has been squeezed out of my stable of solutions for small/embedded system applications.
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Are you counting the energy that can be released from the batteries by reacting the lithium with oxygen in a fire? As I recall, the electrical energy storage of a lithium battery is only about 10% of the energy that gets released if you burn it.
It was interesting for a few seconds, but then my eyes skipped to the bottom of the page.

Is the "Pinterest layout" being copied because there is something inherently good about it? It does not seem good to me. My eyes don't fix on anything. Nothing lines up.
Android doesn't run JVM.
If it's the tone, fine (kinda doubt it). But his reaction to propagandistic bullshit like that is understandable and justified.
I thought they where profitable?
This is missing step one: use Pillow instead of PIL
I'm using Github Pages. http://erjjones.github.io/blog/How-I-built-my-blog-in-one-da...
Never been profitable maybe, but it has certainly made money
I know lots of people are against twitter because they're not yet making any money.

The thing about market prices on any market is that the price doesn't reflect what they're doing now. This isn't something thats 'different', it applies to everyone. It reflects what we all perceive they're capable of a couple of years from now.

I think twitter has a lot of potential because its something so simple and you would find an older audience more engaged in it. Quite simply put, people love it.
If true, that would be disconcerting to current and potential owners of the model s. If all it takes to turn your $100k car into a paperweight is a little more than a well placed piece of scrap metal on the highway people might be hesitant to buy this generation of their cars.
One thing I've found is that the effectiveness of remote work depends somehow on the type of work being done. I'm a currently a grad student, and my advisor is not in town very often. We have frequent skype meetings, but I don't get as much out of it as I do from real meetings. On the other end, I also work on startup projects on the week-ends, with people in different countries and I don't feel the same miscommunication problems in this context.

It is possible that remote working in an academic context is indeed possible, but that the highly technical type of communication required to make it work effectively is beyond my current skill. But my point remains that some types of work are harder to carry out remotely.
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According to the roadmap page, 9.4 is due out in the 3rd quarter of 2014.
It takes a non-0 amount of time to load large indices into memory (upwards of 5 seconds, depending on your choice of disks and arrays), and to iterate through large indices once they are in memory.

Such large indices also limit how many of them can be stored in memory at the same time - making transactions against those indexes slower over time if the indices have to be loaded and unloaded from memory frequently.

You should always choose indexes with care, because indexes not only cost space, they cost time. And as you said, Time is expensive.
True, but it's easy to email the people involved to suggest lines of questioning for future public (and private) sessions.
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Well, now we are running away from "strictly followed" and "very strictly specified".

I guess I would be happy if you always posted a disclaimer with such claims, something like "But of course all software has bugs and who knows how severely a given bug in the bitcoin software will impact the network".
This is wonderful work, and it is the foundation for yet more wonderful work in the future. However, as much as i am a huge PostgreSQL fanboy and a dedicated MongoDB peanut-thrower, i worry that the caption applied to this post is misleading.

Once this work is released, PostgreSQL will be faster than current versions of MongoDB at carrying out queries for documents which look for a given value at a given path (or perhaps more generally, values satisfying a given predicate at paths satisfying a given predicate).

But that has never been one of MongoDB's important strengths, has it? The operations for which MongoDB is optimised are inserting documents, retrieving document by ID, and conducting map-reduces across the whole database. Yes, it has the ability to query by values in leaves, and it can use indices to make that faster, but that's a bit of a second-tier, bag-on-the-side feature, isn't it? If that was the main thing you needed to do, you wouldn't have chosen MongoDB, right?
This is post 9/11, right?
I guess it was inevitable that the debate would devolve to pedophelia. This must be the political arena's equivalent to Godwin's Law. Over any given period of time, "think of the children" will be in invoked to support a political position.

Sigh. At what point do journalists start showing us that they have had the Gullible Module surgically removed? This rote recitation of governmental PR is not news. It is propaganda.
An article posted 7th Nov 2013 should not be recommending use of PIL (a dead project) over Pillow, imo. The only reference to Pillow in the article is a link at the bottom to the Pillow tutorial.
Yeah that just seems crazy to me. Someone's going to make money, though...

EDIT: Wow! Who are the people buying this at $49 a share?!
Why is this one accident getting so much attention. In 2011 there were 500 vehicle fires every single day! http://www.nfpa.org/research/fire-statistics/the-us-fire-pro... tesla has 3 fires in 6 weeks. I'd say thats pretty damn good!

Leading cause of highway vehicle fires, "mechanical failure" http://www.usfa.fema.gov/statistics/reports/vehicles.shtm
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The problem is that the macbook really is the best piece of laptop hardware on the market. The only other product that comes close in terms of build-quality and design is the Chromebook Pixel, and that one is a very niche device.

For a long time the laptop makers ceded the high-quality market to Apple and kept making cheap plastic crap. Even their high-end products were still plastic crap, just plastic crap containing better electronics.

After years and years, we're seeing makers like Asus and Dell take quality design seriously in their top end. But it's very late for that and Apple has a very strong hold on that market, and plus these companies sabotage their brand by making low-quality crap as well.

I mean, look at something like an HP Elitebook - a solidly built piece of hardware, but ugly as sin and plus every time HP tries to sell something high-end they're having to overcome the customer's bad memories of some horrible Pavilion.