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Ruby is an actual programming language that runs on most platforms, what's the problem? Do you have a specific flavor of Real Programming that you prefer?
This is what I call a click bait title.
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I am not against someone deciding to ditch some software in any means they believe fit. But thinking any company should go on development according to other party's demands and otherwise asking third parties to ditch the software is nonsense.
Eschewing justice in favor of giving "a big Texas flying finger to Silicon Valley types with their skinny jeans, silly beards, and smugnaciousness" pretty much makes them stupid hicks, sorry.
Hah! Awesome!
I have to think that it's always been this way in civilization. Some people figure out how to position themselves at the top where all the money and control is, a bunch of others can't figure out how to squeeze up there, but do figure out how to service the people at the top for scraps, and then there are the hoards who don't even know how to get into the game at all. I think of it as just mechanical positioning. It's exactly the same as if you sent a crowd of people running to touch a magic pillar. There'd be room for a few to reach the pillar, then a bunch who could see the pillar and imagine what it would like to be one of the ones touching it, then a mass of people on the outside, barely able to see it at all. The only difference in real life is that the crowd is structured by the flow of money, goods, and services, where the flow is wider at the middle.
Why I dislike Macs.
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It certainly didn't work for Miami now did it? http://quickbase.intuit.com/blog/2013/11/12/why-a-teams-cult...
so it would be better to plug in this setup to a CentOS server that I have running all the time anyway which has a faster internet, 32gb ram, etc, etc
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Their use case didn't seem especially Mongo-centric, I wonder why they chose to go down the road.
We used MongoDB TokuMX to improve performance:
http://www.tokutek.com/resources/benchmark-results/tokumx-be...
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No, it's really not. It's tacky and takes too long to get all of the relevant details...and they're not even all in one place. Everything a resume should do, this does not. This being included in a sampling of workpieces is a different story.

Not to mention it's a repost.
I planned on shopping at Newegg this week anyway, but now maybe a bit more than normal.
You should try playing Losing Chess then: http://www.chessvariants.org/diffobjective.dir/giveaway.html
I couldn't reply to your deeper comment so I'm going to do it here. You can use the Dockerfile to copy files from you local system onto the image and then run various commands on the image. You have access to a full linux environment inside the docker image so you can do anything on the image that you can do in your normal development environment.
NGINX syslog-ing without breaking the bank or patching the code
US planes challenge China air zone
You guys are awesome, just awesome!

I was pretty sure that the requirement for AUFS would stick for a long time -- I was resigned to use a special kernel. But again, you folks surprise me!

You guys just rock!
I've always found this interesting. If you're a developer, it should be your number one priority to make sure the code you write for your own site be top notch. God knows how much we all complain about other people's code, you should know however cool it is, developers are going to crack the hood and see how good the code is.

Great idea and quite original. I still give him rube cred for having such a nice concept despite the flaws in his code.
Could npm use torrent somehow? Reducing the load from the main servers? This would require users to opt-in and become a peer...
just a random thought.
True, this is even better in terms of complexity. I'd be curious to know if constantly changing the pointer causes certain cpus to execute this slower than doing a DWORD PTR [EAX + EDX] where EDX is the counter and EAX is the start of the str.
Instead of using ad hoc scoring rules like that, HN could use a machine-learning based system. This can also help solve another issue -- automatically determining the initial score of the new stories.
I disagree, I think that opening an issue on github is a good way to start a discussion about a feature. Many projects accept feature requests this way and if anyone did the same for one of my projects, this would be the way I would prefer them to handle it.
Sure. The problem is that I'm getting _requests_ from people I don't know based on _information_ I don't have, and I don't like that _they_ have information about myself that I don't have. And since _they_ have the information, then there's absolutely no reason why _I_ can't have the same information at the same time.
+1 for a site that feels nice and clean. Did you design it yourself?
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pay lip service to the FDA, and steadfastly refuse to respond

Seems to me that they've been going back and forth with the FDA for some time.

My interpretation is that the FDA wants a strict legal interpretation that the AMA would be happy with. Probably the AMA would only be happy if doctors could get a cut of every genetic "test" being performed by 23AM.

Only by very careful wording, and even then only subjectively so

Subjectively, any interpretation is possible of even short sentences. I've learned that from years of arguing the inerrancy of the Bible and the Koran with fundamentalists for decades.

The takeaway for me is that you admit that they've carefully worded their claims so as to not give the overt impression that they provide tools for clinical medical diagnoses.

All the claims you quoted are well within the realm of possibility based upon the tagging of genetic markers.

For comparison, I'm an EMS provider. We are taught all through school that we don't diagnose

Yeah, but that's actually not because you couldn't be of a huge help with early diagnoses. It's because you have strict liability concerns thanks to a tort system that consistently reinforces suboptimal emergency medical outcomes in the name of risk reduction. I hardly think that your industry's lowest-common-denominator liability concerns are a good basis for how we treat cutting edge genetic tagging and correlation services.

At the end of the day, I didn't pay 23andMe to become a member so that I could learn of the handful of markers and correlations that could pass muster with bureaucrats at the FDA. And if I weren't willing to pay for that handful of markers for $99, I certainly wouldn't want to pay a lot more for a service that couldn't achieve economies of scale at $99 because they had to CYA to such a high degree.

I'm an adult who consents to 23andMe to have my saliva, pull out markers and do their best to show me correlations that might interest me. Why is the desire to have that liberty so difficult to understand?
> If a large proportion of MongoDB users are using it incorrectly, then I'd argue that it is a MongoDB problem

Hey, that sounds a lot like the logic of Java haters!

Kidding aside, I'm afraid I'm not sure your logic is convincing, but that's for another debate.
I'm optimist because:

1. Bittorrent is not shut down. And in average, people are getting freer with new tech, not more controlled. Some vocal revolutionaries are still easy to find and catch, just like in Jesus times. But average guy who is not specifically targeted, he's quite free.

2. Government is always a parasite on productive society. If it gets too heavy, it breaks the economy and dissolves without something to eat. If productive people start working with Bitcoin, that's where the value will be and govt will have to adjust and feed from that. BTC can be confiscated and monitored, but not outright banned. Gold was not destroyed when fractional reserve system was bootstrapping. It was relocated from weak hands to armed ones and then used to trade between other well-armed hands. Gold still maintained value, and very big one.
Isn't that a feature of the USB enclosure? (i.e., not an issue once a drive has been "shucked")
I can relate to the energy theory.

If I spend a day with people outside my close friends and family, I definitely need some "quiet time" to recover. For instance, on work trips to another office you invariably get invited out for dinner/drinks after the working day, and I'd much rather sit in my hotel room eating roomservice.
I heard about a private school that backed up its fee database (MS Access) to a USB stick every night - in fact what the accountant was doing was backing up the desktop shortcut to the database.

In the event of the failure that revealed the problem, they lost about 7 months worth of data (which was the time since the computer had last been connected to the network, and had synced via Active Directory, or whatever they call it.)
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1936 was pre-Kristallnacht and Poland wasn't getting invaded yet, though conscription in Germany began in 1936. The Night of the Long Knives had already established Hitler and the Nazis as rather unpleasant people.
This particular town was exposed as being well, corrupt, when it comes to patent suits. This American Life: they did a great job on this topic.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/t...
That's some other model it is up to the owner to choose their business model. You may not like it but encouraging others to ditch software on this decision is not healthy IMHO.
Computer does not need tons of gold. Tons of gold are working as a decentralized ledger of wealth, just like Bitcoin. They are being stored in vaults, not used in producing things. Computers and other things are getting a small fraction of all gold.
> checking at that point whether the content actually changed shouldn't be an expensive operation

This is only true if you have very little "content".
Weird, then all these big companies who use PHP are wrong? And the fact that PHP dominates the web is wrong? Hmmm... I think you're wrong.
We know this isn't designed to convey work experience, skillset in an efficient and clear way, it's just attention-grabbing hit bait so he can make some claim of "going viral" on his real CV.
They can at the scale of the NPM registry, but I don't imagine some of the lower-end CDNs would be that much more expensive than scaling up the backend to meet demand.
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2 of the five finalists now require disqualification. people are looking into the other 3. how thorough could that process really have been?
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For a heavy fee and long weight times.
And, of course, the first US metadata surveillance cases were litigated in the 1800s. I believe that fact pretty much kills this part of the thread.
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Repost, really? Are we reddit now?
Thanks for paying it forward :)
FWICT, storage limits are still not directly supported.
You can however create a user per container and limit that user's quota.
This is the relevant user comment (but the full discussion is insightful): https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/issues/471#issuecomment-2...
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

I don't see the word citizen in there at all. While the courts generally agree that it only applies to citizens, it is definitely not obvious.
Bitcoin is even better. You own it completely privately without even "direct registration" with any one third party, even the government registry like in case of stocks. Paper USD that you own is "direct registration" and it still does not belong to you. Government takes a bite from it when it wants by printing more paper dollars like yours. You can only own physical stuff like paper of the dollar itself (but not the value), and Bitcoin. Everything else is promises, not ownership.

http://blog.oleganza.com/post/67362431718/you-can-own-bitcoi...
Although it is true that MongoDB uses a lot of disk compared to your average RDMS there are reasons for that.

1) MongoDB (and various other NoSQL solution) are schemaless and thus have to store document fields along with the values for each document. This alone usually results in roughly twice as much actual disk space being used compared to an RDBMS.

2) MongoDB preallocates fairly large chunks of disk for their mmap based storage (2Gb per database files by default). This means there will be up to 2Gb * N where N is the number of logical databases in "wasted" (more accurately, unused) space. This can be addressed somewhat through the --smallfiles option.

3) The biggest issue that I actually consider an design flaw is the ineffective reuse of disk space previously occupied by deleted or, more commonly, moved documents. MongoDB reserves a bit of padding for each document but since a lot of documents can grow over time these documents will be moved around on disk leaving holes in the data files. These holes are not adequately re-used and a compaction is required to make that space available again. Compaction is NOT a background process at the moment and blocks writes. The "usePowerOf2Sizes" option will help with this issue at the expense of always using a power of 2 size in bytes per document.

The above are factual reasons why MongoDB uses a lot of disk space. It's certainly a relatively young database and some issues do need to be addressed but this whole polarizing "it's terrible booo!" nonsense has to stop. Inform yourself, choose the tech appropriate for your project and post mortem aftwards.

Small note on the mmap thing; a lot of people consider the mmap based storage engine a big issue (I tend to agree). Tokutek offers what seems to be a better storage engine but does lag behind a bit on releases. I'm not affiliated with them but if you're interested you can check out http://www.tokutek.com/products/tokumx-for-mongodb/
Seems like more of an argument for rethinking the immigration policy rather than stifle the internet throughout your entire country.
Living in the Silicon Valley after reading this article might sound awesome; but it's far from the truth.

I grew up there. I feel like I was deprived of a childhood. I moved away a couple of years ago and am never going back. You have nothing but sprawled out office parks, rich internet tycoons, a police force with nothing to do, helicopter parents, and soccer moms. The thing that topped it all off was the super competitive vibe amongst the peers and parents. I would not recommend living there under any circumstances.
Cutest? Sure.

Creative? Absolutely.

Best? No.

I think this would work well as a supplementary portfolio but you still need a more to-the-point condensation of relevant information.
>That's not an argument. rayiner has this exactly right

I actually disagree...common sense is in fact an argument...in fact it is a 4th Amendment legal argument. When a Court hears whether a search and seizure was reasonable common sense arguments often prevail. For example, you have reasonable expectations of privacy if you were in an old school public phone booth, but not on your cell phone in public...you have a reasonable expectation of privacy in your trash, that is until it hits the curb then the government can seize it (without a warrant) and use it against you in trial.

As interesting as Rayiner's points are, even if he is citing case law/legal precedent it does not make him right. At the end of the day it only matters what 9 people think, and guess what more often than not those 9 people are at odds with one another, and often to the tune of 5-4 - nevertheless what the majority/plurality of those 9 opine becomes the law of the land, still that does not make any of them right either.

One of the more interesting 4th Amendment issues is that it only applies to the Government, so the Government can not simply have a private citizen seize evidence without a warrant and use it as evidence, but they can use unlawfully obtained evidence so long as they did not direct the individual who originally obtained it...think how the Government used the photos hacked by Anonymous in the Stubenville Rape case. Ironically I think this could be one of the strongest arguments is that telecoms are actually working on behalf of the Government to obtain evidence they could otherwise not get without a warrant - in fact I would go so far as to say the Government is paying telecom companies to do this on their behalf.
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That's what the reasonable expectation of privacy test has always meant

Obviously I disagree with you and rayiner over how ambiguous that phrase is, but that doesn't really matter. This entire HN discussion is about a call to change the situation, in particular, the current behaviour of the US government and the laws that the US government argues permit such behaviour. Arguing that something is OK because it's what the law currently says doesn't seem to advance that debate in any useful way.
Aria with apt-fast .. its heaven for package management in ubuntu
You clearly have no clue about the state of GNU/Linux. So sick of seeing this stuff reiterated so many times.
I'm in my late 30's and have been teaching myself how to play the piano for the past year and a half. I started off by buying an electric piano (a Yamaha P-155) and some Super Mario Bros. sheet music. My reasoning was I know all of the songs and Konji Kondo's work got more complex when he was composing for progressively more capable consoles.

I absolutely sucked donkeys at first. Even the 8-bit Super Mario theme song is pretty difficult when you're trying to read sheet music for the first time. It was pretty embarrassing, but I've stuck with it and try to play for at least 20-30 minutes a day. I also try to play on any piano I can find, and also try to play for anyone who will listen, just so that I get practice playing in front of people. That was actually remarkably difficult at first; my hands were literally shaking as I tried to plonk out a song. But, it's like anything. If you keep doing it you get better and better.

Here's the link to the sheet music:
http://www.amazon.com/Super-Mario-Series-Piano-Easy/dp/07390...
Agreed that the code is not very good, the idea of the animated resume was great, despite some technical issues it may have.

My first impression would be that he is a very creative professional with good designing skills. Regarding the programming I totally agree that it have a lot of flaws and lack of basic testing capabilities.
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Because sometimes the toxic jerk really is brilliant, or, more often, they can buy a clue and will turn into a good fit.
It is basic an ops-friendly mongo fork with _obviously_ better engineering decisions. I hope mongodb will support pluggable storage engines soon.
The code is quite cool to look at. Love seeing the extensive use of matrices and mathematics to create such a beautiful and mesmerizing display.

If anyone is interested in playing around with it, I threw it up at JSFiddle here: http://jsfiddle.net/zyAzg/

Excellent demo.
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You could create a new poll that include him and Obama (also, you can change the polling question)
Correct. This is what I meant.
so here's the thing. when you lure people into such a large development period with this statement:

But it’s not going to be easy—$1 million is going to bring out the best of the best. So don’t wait until Dreamforce, you’re going to want to get started now.

and you only have 150 entries, you owe everyone a run. video review becomes inexcusable. people flew in with weeks of work and teams of people. and you reviewed their video? was this supposed reward video craftsmanship? the last thing on many people's minds when you intentionally led them to believe it was the work that counted?
Very nice and fully custom code too! The UI is really clean and fits nicely with the WebGL via CSS transforms I believe. Props to you.

BTW geistner waves reference here: http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GPUGems/gpugems_ch01.html
Did I say there was no difference? I'm pretty sure I didn't.

What I did say was that I don't think it makes a huge difference to the relevance of the story.

Clearly there is some level of difference between "it will happen" and "it's already happened", but as far as whether the plan to filter/block is something we should care about or not, the difference doesn't seem massively significant - at least not to me.

Maybe you'd enjoy Hacker News comments more if you actually read what they said rather than adding your own interpretation...
And look at all the people who use LaTeX!

(This is pretty much a textbook example of the New Jersey worse-is-better style...fitting, since it involves Unix directly.)
Very cool and creative. People need to stop getting butthurt on this site.
The biggest thing that makes me doubt my position is the fact that the gold window was closed and the US hasn't collapsed in 40 years. Even if there's a slow debasement, that's not what I expect to happen to Bitcoin, [edit to clarify] I expect it to collapse very quickly. I know there's the "you need dollars to pay taxes" argument. But that doesn't sit right with me. It's not a fixed amount of dollars, it's a percentage of your salary. Exchange rates of the dollar can go down, people's real salaries go down, and the real amount of taxes they pay go down. There's no negative feedback loop.
I'm no MongoDB expert, but recently started to look into this db. Can anyone tell me (from experience, not from promo materials) - for which use cases MongoDB is good fit and for which ones it's not? It's clear that it can't fit for everyone. That's why it would be good to know in advance, for what it most likely to find and for what it's most likely not to fit.
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It's one of the things the US does correctly, at least more so than most countries.

How many countries in the world would tolerate the WBC, for example?
Funny, I'm of the opposite opinion. I don't really feel it's worth it (yet) due to battery drain. I'm running my nexus 5 in 3g mode to extend battery life and it makes a huge difference. Things might take a second longer to load but for most of the day I'm on Wi-Fi anyway that the extra battery life is well worth it for me.
plus, he doesn't like fuel cells
echo shell_exec('touch /mc/hammer');

Can't touch this?
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Sorry if this is a dumb question, but how hard would it be to add a boat that realistically bobs up and down with the water?
How many reads do you do on that server? 192GB + 8 SSDs is a pretty serious setup. Just the disks themselves should be able to push 500K+ random IOPS.
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This was a huge point of contention with my last employer regarding Wikipedia edits of the company's listing in the site.
Marketing & publicity plays a huge role. Google doesn't push Nexus brands that well outside US. Not sure how they'll handle Moto. At the price point, it simply blows away phones that cost upto $500.

But, Google/Motorola needs to do a better job in educating people that they are getting almost everything (especially in markets that lack 4G service). There's little reason to look at other brands even if you are willing to spend twice as much.