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Not that much controversy over that. HHS said most of the same this morning...I (and many folks) disagree with the premise that MarkLogic had anything to do with it. If the exact same processes and analysis were applied to a LAMP stack or an Oracle Exa-stack, the results would have likely been the same. I think the public news about the firewall sizing (4G instead of 50G) supports my claim.

So far, there have been two contractors that have been changed out - QSSI took over from CGI to lead rebuild and, recently, Terramark to be replaced by HP. Maybe this has absolutely nothing to do with not being familiar with MarkLogic.

http://kellblog.com/2013/12/01/the-pillorying-of-marklogic-w...

There was a healthcare exchange built 100% on Oracle in Oregon (Oracle team, Oracle packaged software including Siebel, Peoplesoft, IDM, Oracle integration SW + people,Oracle infrastructure, Oracle hosting). It's not going particularly well.

I don't think familiarity of technology has one thing to do with it.

I do think that MarkLogic's ability to be agile - programming (EasyApp), infrastructure (speed of transition) and performance - have a great deal to do with the speed of the team being able to deal with the software bugs above MarkLogic and the weak infrastructure around us.

(For those joining this conversation in progress, I'm a product manager at MarkLogic - I'm in charge of infrastructure like storage, performance monitoring and cloud platforms.)
Agree. I also prefer high level operations that are ought to be optimized by the runtime. Python list comprehensions let you do things that are closer to the "mathematical sum notation" without you having to specify the implementation details. I am not sure how optimized it really is though :)
Universities I've attended have had similar rules for undergraduates, even though those cam hardly be considered "employees" with the fees they pay for courses...
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Thanks to you and gambiting for providing what I guessed may be the benefits, I'm still confused about the feasibility. Can you prove something doesn't exist?
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I genuinely enjoy driving cars and bikes. I blow through 40-50K miles a year driving country roads and highways, for no other reason than enjoyment.

I am completely on-board with having my commute automated. If public transportation was an option, I'd take it. This is the next best thing.
He makes the "elephant in the corner of the room" point that disruption is really, how much money can we make if we just ignore these laws? That doesn't scale.
Denmark and all other industrialized nations on this planet are capitalist. They may have some socialist leanings such as providing myriad welfare services, but their governments allow private entities to own property and to control the means of production, therefore they are capitalist.
Am I the only one who thinks it kinda uncouth to try to unmark this guy? He wants to be anonymous, this seems pretty stalker-y to me.

EDIT: not to mention potentially damaging peoples reputations by incorrectly accusing them.
We were also able to find jobs for those who no longer worked in ag. It appears there is concern (quite a bit, actually) that we may no longer be able to find jobs for those displaced by software and robotics (automation).

If you continue to automate jobs, there will eventually be very few jobs left. How the result of this is handled will be interesting to say the least.
Ok, follow that line of reasoning for a bit.

In order to destroy a Moon base, you have to get to it to destroy it. That takes time, up to several days if you don't have a favorable launch window from your launch pad.

Next you need a pre-text. I'm going to assert that it is a reasonable assumption that the Moon base is presenting as either entirely docile (scientific research etc) or entirely hostile (sending rocks at the planet). If its the latter taking out the handful of launch facilities is pretty straight forward which prevents any future attack from that vector. If its the former, well your attacking country needs to come up with a reason why they are flying what is no doubt a nuclear warhead, in the guise of a satellite toward the Moon.

Then there is terminal control (targeting at the site). So you may know in general what facilities are on the Moon from an initial landing point, but if the base has existed there for any length of time all bets are off. Also making the initial establishment on the dark side would force an adversary to first orbit the moon trying to identify your base, and then de-orbit into an attack orbit.

During its orbit your attack device will be vulnerable to orbiting defensive satellites which probably also play the role of communications relay which justifies them in lunar orbit in the first place.

My point is that mounting an attack on the Moon from the Earth is much more difficult and expensive than mounting an attack on the Earth from the Moon. Because the moon has a much shallower gravity well and the Earth has a much wider variety of targets which are more easily threatened.

The US and Soviets understood this although the technology to implement it was so expensive neither could afford to carry through. The cost of the technology has come way way down and once again there is another country putting its hat in the ring as 'superpower.' In a weird way, that means someone is going to the Moon, to create a permanent installation. My thought is that the US is like the hare in the story of the tortoise an the hare, confident in its ability to make that happen if it becomes necessary.
Beautifully done, may I ask what was the context for developing this game?
> Yet this is exactly how Bitcoin works: you are rewarded with new coins once your computer has consumed a certain amount of electricity (measured by the complexity of computing hashes of data, which takes time). Worse yet, the amount of electricity required to be wasted to earn a reward predictably increases, which means that the more Bitcoins one wants, the more one has to waste.

Couldn't the same be said of gold? Mining and extraction are resource (energy) intensive and yield a result (gold) that is less than it's practical intrinsic value (eg. for industrial purposes).
Tupper’s self-referential formula
And you think that if you know the true name of Satoshi, you will have a chance of knowing what they might do? How exactly does that work? Will they suddenly put up their hand and say "Yup, it's me. From now on, I'm going to give advance notice of everything I will do that is bitcoin related" ? That makes no sense.

So, there's a wallet with a large number of bitcoins in it. Does it matter who owns it? Is it likely that the owner (named or otherwise unknown) is going to give you a heads-up before they sell any?
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Huh, tangible like what? I can exchange bitcoin for EUR just fine. Or for dinner. Or bullion.
To the future online druglords: If you want to hide your identity, it might be a good idea to use a web technology which is used internationally and the usage of which does not immediately reveal your nationality.
>Imagine having your car drive off and park itself somewhere. You don't even need to know where.

Sounds like a car thief's dream.
> I agree with your principle, but tgere is no free lunch.

Ah, but of course it is assumed that such free research will make its way to businesses which profit and so pay more taxes.
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...and funny you ask because a commenter just posted on my blog that Sheep Market Place was scammed out of $40 million in BTC which is a possible cause of all the selling:

http://www.techienews.co.uk/973470/silk-road-like-sheep-mark...
No, but the comment above made it sound like the situation he described applies to everyone. I am not crazy wealthy, but by being smart with my money and forgoing some things I can live within my means comfortably. I am sure there are many people in my situation, contrary to the statement I was responding to.
Bitcoin Wisdom[1] is a great chart to watch for those interested. Very detailed.

(I am not affiliated with BW in any way.)

1: http://bitcoinwisdom.com/
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The Ubiquity EdgeRouter stuff is (mostly) open source, as its a fork of Vyatta. Under the hood, its Debian with Vyatta's open source CLI and Ubnt's web UI.

Anyway their hardware is excellent...
FYI, you don't actually need to categorize everything you ever read into "liberal/conservative" and then cheer or boo depending on which side you've declared allegiance to.

In fact, you'll be happier if you don't.
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Sure, but he needs to be able to do this without interfering with the rest of the business, very little of which has to do with ebooks or even content deals. If he can't do that, he is the wrong person for the job.
Meaning & origin of "jack sh*t"
Ask HN: What happens when all bitcoins are mined?
Rather than higher taxes I would prefer simply to reallocate the budget. Rather than giving a billion dollars to the NSA to build a data center in Utah, give it to Universities to do research and publish it for free.
Wow, this is fantastic! I will definitely spread the word.
Here in Europe rail is mostly used for commuting and shorter distances in general. Especially in smaller countries. That part of rail is not competing with flying in any way.
The TP-LINK TL-WDR3600 is the same price, but supports 5GHz as well.
I am guessing someone who is deaf could win at the challenge.

I have spent time in Anechoic chambers for doing noise level and vibration testing on equipment. They are disconcerting for sure, but I have to imagine someone who never hears anything would not be disoriented.

The shape of the walls messes with me I think more than the sound. We aren't used to not having flat surfaces to judge distance against and not having anything that is only "one" distance away definitely works the part of the brain that does depth perception.
Oh, I have no doubt that driving your own car will be more expensive than taking a self-driving car. My point was that it wouldn't be more expensive than it currently is to have insurance (when everyone is driving their own car)
I just put a sell order in for a percentage of my bitcoins because I think that there will be a pull back, but with that in mind I have the following response:

Some of us don't want the help of a government. The revolutionary thing about Bitcoin is that it is a (nearly) zero trust method of transacting. The value is in the fact that there is no central bank to be afraid of. Most of the wealth my parents have lost in their savings was due to inflation and debt backed asset bubbles. Both of which are symptoms of a debt-prone central banking system. There might be arguments that these central banks stabilize the economy for the betterment of everyone, but that is irrelevant when it comes time to choose a currency. Do you want inflation, meddling, and regulation? Serious question. The uninformed should say "yes" and the informed might want to say "no".

As for whether or not people are right about Bitcoin being a bubble, I think that bitcoin has a highger likelihood of 20 year success than Twitter and a lower market capitalization. It's a bubble when the baby boomers get involved with their dumb money. When there are ETFs that get traded on the exchanges that are backed on Bitcoin. Then it can be a bubble. Right now, its just an inelastic supply curve and a couple million dollars.
It's interesting that the name "Request for Comments" invokes "Oh, this is a club that I can play in too," as this is the impression I've gotten as I've read increasingly more of them lately and learn how they come to exist at all.
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That could easily be accomplished by bitcoin using the "colored coins" proposal. All it needs is for an electric utility to issue colored coins that it's willing to redeem for watts.
I decided to buy some as it fell. In the fifteen seconds it took to press F5, enter bid (of $25 below prevailing price) and click OK, the price had fallen by $70. So I think for the first time ever I ended up paying less than my offer.

It ended up at $690, about 15-20 minutes ago I think. Now? It's $840 again. (My investment in bitcoin is turning out quite well, but I'm actually quite glad I didn't spend all that much in the first place.)
Hm. There is a thing currently where it's socially unacceptable not to cross at a crosswalk, and also to stop in the middle of the road. Some people are still jerks, but they're rare.

I could easily see a bunch of kids deciding they'll go challenge the AI by dancing in the middle of a crowded street. Admittedly a millionth chance occurrence though. "Computer, take a picture, get me facial recognition, and report them to their parents."
The headlines are not written by the people on Hacker News: they are written by people on websites other than Hacker News, and then posted verbatim here. If 100% of people on Hacker News read these comments and would never write an article with a question as the title, it would not change the fact that articles with questions as the title would occasionally get posted to Hacker News.
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Although this is true, gold's total value is much higher than could be supported by those uses alone.
Is buying contraceptives in a Muslim country a legitimate transaction?

What does it matter what your government says is legal or no. The currency will take off even if it is just used for illegal transactions its entire life.
I wanted to buy right when it hit $850 a few days ago. I redeemed my $11k mutual fund, but the wire transfer took until Friday to go trough. By the time I was able to buy bitcoins, they were $1111 on coinbase. Bought anyway. Got 9.89BTC.

Just lost $2k of that investment, according to the markets. Though it seems to be recovering somewhat. Ow.

Anyway, I'm long on bitcoin. Maybe it will crash and I'll lose everything. Twice it's crashed, then the recovery has eclipsed the previous peak by several X. So I don't know.

I do know that if banks hasn't been so slow, then I would currently be telling the story of "I was able to grow $11k into $13k." One problem BTC solves is moving money around instantly. It doesn't close for Thanksgiving holiday.

Mtgox needs to become wiser as well. There's currently no trade fees, because they wanted to participate in BTC Black Friday. That kind of thing encourages people who are holding onto $15k coins to sell all of them if they think the market will go down. An extra 0.4% on that much money is significant. Mtgox really shouldn't be so willy nilly.
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This is one of the biggest problems with so many publications, they focus on a single aspect of bitcoin. I've started to think of many discussions about bitcoin as equivalent to "But email is worse than a letter, it will fail", "Email can never replace parcels", "But is email a letter or a postcard?", etc.

It's just absurd, bitcoin is something completely new, and nobody knows yet how we will use it, and what it can replace.
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Given the choice I think they will not have a problem in picking gold instead of bitcoins. Gold has some history behind it, and compared to bitcoins is more liquid and less volatile.

(volatile for about 3000 years - do you mean available?)