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> this guy was a former nazi, AND his home country of germany was a soviet satellite state, he seemed to escape suspicion. so this guy was a nazi and a communist, but he was all good. no problems here! gee. i wonder why.

Maybe you should reread your comment. He was 'a nazi and a communist'? That's quite a trick.

(von Braun and the other Nazis were trusted precisely because they were so virulently anti-Communist and there was, after all, western Germany, which I see you omit when you describe his 'home country' as being 'a soviet satellite state'...)
That seems more like a plea for LINQ than anything else ;-)

One of LINQ's main visions is to unify querying regardless of the data source - and it does so quite well. At the time the author of that article conceived LINQ, he intended to unify querying RDBMS, XML, and objects. "NoSQL" (whatever that is) is a type of data store that was not part of LINQ's original master plan. Thus, LINQ has to be retrofitted / enhanced to accommodate new requirements. It would be all too nice if things were as easy as a simple duality, specifically given the fact that the author of that article has now also created a company called Applied Duality Inc.

But history will teach us where these things go. I currently don't see a second E.F. Codd to solve the complexity introduced with the new abundance of NoSQL data stores - yet.

(As always, when Erik Meijer writes something: Very interesting read, nonetheless)
Here's a brilliant idea—help a person by framing their issues as personal and moral failures. That's sure to be a positive catalyst for change.

EDIT: For some reason I can't respond to the comment below.

My point was, it's easy to frame problems with terms like "weak", "irresponsible", and "lazy". It's hard to actually attempt to communicate, identify a problem in a way that you can talk about the same thing, and find a solution.
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While I applaud applications of the Scientific Method, you write as though you have some doubt that the effects are real.

I took Vyvanse for a couple of months to try to help my concentration... holy cow. When it took effect 40 minutes after taking it, I felt like a jackhammer. It was no slight effect that you could dismiss as placebo, my blood pressure went up and I was on task for ten hours of the day, no problem. All the cobwebs that happen after that big pasta lunch? Gone. My mind was sharp, focused, and my friends all noticed that I was noticeably more aggressive in conversation.

The down side was that sleeping became very difficult. I'd wake up over and over during the night with way-too-vivid dreams. Worse, my heart started feeling like it was fluttering and my blood pressure machine, which told me that it was a bit higher, also indicated that I had an irregular heartbeat.
I had absolutely no idea what a Byzantine fault was and to be honest I probably still have a very peripheral grasp of what the author is trying to make fun of. What I love about this is that you can sense the buildup of frustration that the author felt which then got released in the form of this paper, hilariously entertaining.
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BigDogs with streetview camera systems. Oh my.
> Here's a brilliant idea—help a person by framing their issues as personal and moral failures. That's sure to be a positive catalyst for change.

You're being sarcastic, but it actually IS. We live in a culture where everything is a disorder. How convenient, that all of your failures can be blamed on something you don't control.

Here's an idea.

Everything you don't take responsibility for. Everything you don't see as your own failing ... you have no control over and are destined to suffer under its yoke for the rest of your life. And no drug or doctor will fix it for you.
Should you move your emails to Outlook.com?
> weak-willed

Can you provide a definition for this? I'm fucking sick of people going through this process:

1. Struggle to understand someone's problem.

2. Give up.

3. Blame the victim.

If you see a problem, fix it. But nothing in your comment was at all helpful for the same people you were criticizing. This may come as a shock to you, but people struggle from different problems than you do. Some of them may seem easier to you because you don't experience the same thing.
Right. Because a single rover on the moon is more "active" than the 5 active space programs, including 2 active rovers, that NASA has on Mars.
But diseases are something you control. With drugs.
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I didn't really discuss the Rainbow Gravity Theory. But I referred to the Scientific American article here<br>
http://hashsign.co.uk/contemporary/by/thoughts/pop-pop-bang-...
My statement is: The difference between singularity and the world is differentiation. Differentiation is a kind of 'stretching'. The methods of stretching are called time and dimensions in space.<br>
It's nothing else than a crutch for thinking. 'All at once' is for thinking equal to nothing (singularity).
Light sail is a super cool technology! I actually wrote a paper about CAES and emailed your contact email about it.

Best of luck with the new technology!
> Companies without bug bounties don't deserve responsible disclosure?

That seems to be homakov's view, yes, and I can't say I don't understand his view.
these are the clowns who say we should trust them with our private data?
I was referring to the Special Forces veterans who consult for games:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6904336

Special Forces is a high bar already, and the "Tier 1"/Special Mission Unit subset of that is pretty much knocking on the door of peak of peak human capability.

Also, for very large corporations, a low-to-mid level executive position isn't all that lofty.
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One thing to note with many, if not all (?), SSRIs (unsure about other classifications of brain-chemistry altering drugs) lead to a higher rate of suicide than placebo. I won't go into more depth than that. There are lots of assumptions as to why that occurs, though it sounds like a better for more individuals if you do it without medication and create an environment that fosters recovery and healing over time. Unfortunately our societal structures, and pressures they put on families, etc. doesn't generally allow for this. Not yet, anyway.
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> No, they couldn't prove them to judicial satisfaction. That they were not shown to be guilty does not prove they were innocent.

True, but you still can't count them as people who "turn out" to be passing secrets to the PRC.

> When you're considering rare events, yes, the 1980s are still relevant. Why would you exclude them? Did the Singularity happen in 1989 or are we on Mars or something?

If, as you contend, so many Chinese-Americans turn out to be passing secrets to the PRC, surely you can come up with more than 1 confirmed case within the past 30 years?

> Does anyone seriously think that Chinese-Americans are all 100% loyal and are not a good recruiting ground for Chinese intelligence?

Does anyone seriously think all Americans (even excluding Chinese-Americans) are all 100% loyal? I don't know why we would hold Chinese-Americans to a higher standard than the rest of the citizenry. I don't think Chinese-Americans are more likely to be spies in a statistically significant way.

And I actually don't think Chinese-Americans are a good recruiting ground for the PRC. As I mentioned, most Chinese-Americans I know (and I know a lot) were either born here, from Taiwan, or who worked hard to flee the PRC. They are generally apathetic or harbor resentment towards the PRC.

I think the PRC is far more likely to be trying to send people here than trying to recruit people that are already here.
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wow this is awesome. and would it be the first African entrepreneurs ib YC?
>Time, as a unit, is simply the "time" it takes for light to travel a certain distance.

I believe that time is currently defined in terms of the period of a Cesium isotope.
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Slack is great. I run a few teams of freelancers who are in various timezones; we have a room per team.
> It's like having "authentic" weapons and "authentic" unit names in a Rambo movie. At the end of the day, it's more fetishism than anything else.

Precisely.
autossh (sometimes you need a tunnel), ssh (to connect), x11vnc (when I have a running X session remotely), xvncserver (when I haven't), and vinagre (to show the desktop remotely).
Oh please, stop with the bullshit. Not everyone has the same exact physiology and the same past personal experiences. Both of these will affect how each and everyone us reacts to daily life. Just because you're lazy and bored doesn't mean that he is (or I am or anyone else on this forum is). Or do you assume everyone here wears the same 10.5 shoe size as well?
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That's correct. Food is the only suitable thing to eat in the long term.
They should wait for Windows 9 ;)
Interesting, but above all else it would require enough testing technology to be able to say you have stabilized back to your regular levels (or stabilized at all) before trying out the next new thing. Otherwise you are simply wildly screwing around with your chemistry and hormones to an extent that you may not be able to accurately measure the effects of any one specific drug on its own, because the effects are fluctuating and your body is constantly trying to adapt.
This is in line with a long laundry list of horribleness about user experience as related to DMs in my opinion. They don't work as expected, and quite honestly to me it feels like Twitter is running a campaign to destroy peoples' love of the DM in search of a Solution, maybe in preparation for a dm 2.0 or something.

Some of the experience elements of DM have been fixed on the iPhone, but last I checked, the problems on web desktop made me so annoyed that I stopped using DMs altogether.
1. why does your title say 'Finally'? It says nothing about the article, I have no idea what to expect on that page before I click on it, and it doesn't match the article title.

2. what is the news? We've known for years when the EOL for XP is.
I was originally excited for this because I thought it would help with the IE problems. Then I learned that some of our corporate customers are now running Windows 7 and their IT had them downgrade to IE 8. Ack.
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This is wonderful. Last time I looked at this type of problem, the best I could find is tablesorter. This is a much more complete solution.
So you could cure schizophrenia without drugs or doctors just by seeing it as you're own failure?
Cryonics and life extension research are not the same as an actual cure that works.
Agreed. Furthermore this statement:

> Robinhood is venture-funded by Google, Andreessen Horowitz and many others, which affords us the freedom to focus on building a wonderful brokerage experience rather than short-term profits.

...just smells of lock-in. Is "free trades" for perpetuity?
Implementation's good, but the concept and idea is completely useless at least for Objective-C/Cocoa. All the symbol names of the Cocoa are strictly designed to be used with auto-completing IDE support, not bare editor. That's why they're fine to go such long names. The IDE is a required part for development just like Smalltalk.

And a lot of other language/libraries/frameworks are also silently presume auto-completion support. Even on C/C++. I highly doubt usefulness of this even on other languages.

Maybe it would be more important to be familiar with specific auto-completion IDE behavior rather than training yourself to type faster.
I view paying dollars as a hassle; I'd probably pay ~30% more in GBP to avoid having to pay dollars.
ssh and a vpn client seem glaringly absent from that list.

Photoshop for remote working? I fail to see how it relates.
Probably http://pmg.csail.mit.edu/papers/osdi99.pdf
> that's why F# has two generics systems in the same language.

For real? Do you have any reading I can do on this? It sounds... interesting
GMail, Google Hangouts

tmux, vim

git, Bitbucket, Github
AFAIK RavenDB, which describes itself as a "2nd generation document database", does exactly what you describe. Whenever you run a query that's missing an index, it will automatically create a temporary "dynamic index" to service it. If it finds that this index is used a lot, it will automatically promote it to a permanent index. I haven't tried it yet however so can't comment on how well it works.

But yes, generally speaking, I'm also surprised to see that in 2013 we're creating our indexes manually. While there are of course applications where you really want to ensure that all the right indexes are created ahead of time, for most applications having indexes created automatically based on query patterns would seem like a much better solution.
We're not a start up but we use

* JIRA - issue tracking and feature management

* Agile - scrum management

* Confluence - documentation, mockups, feedback

* Bitbucket/Git - code repository

* Facetime or Google Hangout for video chat

* Salesforce chatter for IM though Hipchat is a better solution. We're a small company so we need to be able to answer questions from marketing, sales, operations throughout the day
There's a difference between hectoring and constructively engaging in discussion.

But your comments aren't correct. SAD and ADHD are real. Medication can assist people to lead a better life.
I've been a customer for 10 years, awesome service. They had two factor auth back in the day, a card with a simple cipher.

Specifically for options trading, they have incredibly low commissions, and instant execution. I was always impressed by their SDK and tools they exposed. I used the Java toolkit, I never made anything substantial in it though. They are extremely security focused as well.
There are a lot of companies using IE-only web apps (if you can call them that) that only work with older versions of Internet Explorer. It's pretty unfortunate.
Thanks, man. Will check it out. :)
The client side of the VPN is pretty straightforward. It's a closed source program that basically creates a `tun` device. So I run it in a VM so it can't harm my home machine, and just use iptables to route work traffic to it. No idea what is needed on the infrastructure side.

No idea how much the video costs either, but my employer is a Fortune 500 company.
It doesn't get any more arrogant than that! "Finally" - really?! While some people in their golden high income cage might be happy about planned obsolescence, many businesses in less well-off places in Latin America and Africa are basically still relying on XP because it works and there's only little budget power.
whats the Zuckerberg model startup?
There are really a lot of potential legitimate reasons for wanting one partner on your board rather than another; particularly Doerr at KPCB vs Ray Lane, now emeritus.

Like I said, politics. I don't know the scoop.
Too soon. There are third party components still struggling to update to 1.2.
I hope you're being sarcastic!
wow that gervais principle was a good read!

you could previously have just been immature. Now you are doing the self-discovery and learning about yourself properly, and seeing the benefits of knowing your own limitations and strengths. Being a class genius at high school makes you think everything will be easy, when infact it's not. Now you know its not easy (left uni), so you now put in the hours. Good luck on your path to success, you still have the smart brain so it will find its role eventually.
Just use a CSS restyler.
Of course you understand it, but do you agree with it?

If you seek out bugs in a company's code with the expectation that you'll be rewarded for it, and then the company fails to reward you, I can see that it might be perceived as unfair, especially if the company indicated that such an expectation was reasonable.

If you happen across a bug in a company's code, and then publicize it because they aren't going to pay you money for it, that seems a little more like "blackmail." People really shouldn't orient their moral systems around money.
Are you kidding me? This is pretty fucking arrogant. My $DAYJOB is FreeBSD kernel hacking.

Reusable piped programs are great for some things, especially a productive shell language. No, composing processes is not great for all things, and certainly not where performance is required. This is why FreeBSD is a monolithic kernel instead of a microkernel with processes, for example.

Spawning a program is incredibly slow, even ignoring disk read times, compared to 3 levels of low-branch-factor search in any language.
Presumably, from your tone, you mean for something other than the egregious violations of the public trust that they were willing participants in?
At Heroku, we are quite distributed and typically use the following. Some teams might have a slightly divergent set of tools or workflow, but engineering-wide this is more or less the baseline:

* HipChat (sync and async chat with a variety of ChatOps functionality)

* Documentation: Google Drive for non-technical documentaton that might need feedback and some dynamic spreadsheets backed with dataclips: https://postgres.heroku.com/blog/past/2012/1/31/simple_data_...

* Video conferencing: Every single meeting has a corresponding Google Hangout. For some meetings we might use Fuze

* DCVS: git. Our repos are hosted on Github and we use all the usual stuff there: Pull Requests, Issues, in-line commenting, etc

* Project/task management: Trello trello trello - If it's not in Trello, it doesn't exist. This works great when you're widely distributed across geography and timezones. With the right workflow, we can at-a-glance know the status of all of our work-in-progress.

* Mailing lists! Every team has its mailing list and nearly every other thing of interest has its own mailing list. Interested in an upcoming project? There's a mailing list for that. Are you remote or based out of the SF bay area? There's a mailing list for that. Are you into Golang, functional programming, or want to chat about Linux? We have those covered too. Are you into biking or photography? Mailing lists!

P.S. - If you're interested in remote work, we're hiring! http://jobs.heroku.com/
If the documentation is so bad. Are there any books available that would help?
[Edit: Parent previously claimed that we need to develop an EMP or similar device to disable robots as a last resort]

I guess the problem is a portable EMP or similar will be used as a weapon too. In fact it's probably worse, there's not a consumer market there - they're just military weapons.
Check out Quantopian, where you can do just that in Python. Backtesting / paper simulation is free.

(disclaimer, I work there)
No it doesn't. And those are important problems, but another very important problem that needs solving is getting everyone to put all of their content into WinFS and make all of their services available from WinFS. Using an existing system bypasses a huge part of that.
What are your parent's professions, if I may ask?
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And expensive, and very easy to lose. I like how this kind of storage almost seems disposable.
I did, when talking with my american friends. Most of them are saying that Snowden is not a "whistleblower" because he fled the country to Russia. And after all, government spying has always been there, and everybody does it, and it serves the US best interest and so on... And this comes from people that are educated and usually critical on governments.

I find it worrying. I don't follow closely what happens in the US, but my overall feeling is that on many important issues, there is very little opposition or at least questioning to what the US government is doing. People seem more concerned with taxes and immigration reform.

It also struck me during the presidential debates. Both candidates pretty much agreed that the "bad guys" should be caught, but it didn't really go much deeper than that! It seems voters have basically not the slightest control on what their leaders are doing. Depressing...
While America is wasting billions on waging wars and funding failures like Obamacare, other nations are advancing their science! China's next destination is Mars! I'm sure they will get there well before Mars One, which keeps pushing their dates further in the future!
I could have written this comment about myself verbatim. The way I see it, there is so much variation in brains and personalities. You can find in the distribution people who exhibit what look like discipline and constancy. There's also everyone else.
At least 4 US citizens have been killed by US drones. Anwar al-Awlaki is the only one who was specifically targeted. His son Abdulrahman, also a US citizen, was killed two weeks later by drone, but was not specifically targeted, according to the US.

The US lawyers argued "Mr. Awlaki was a lawful target because he was participating in the war with Al Qaeda and also because he was a specific threat to the country... And while the Constitution generally requires judicial process before the government may kill an American, the Supreme Court has held that in some contexts — like when the police, in order to protect innocent bystanders, ram a car to stop a high-speed chase — no prior permission from a judge is necessary; the lawyers concluded that the wartime threat posed by Mr. Awlaki qualified as such a context, and so his constitutional rights did not bar the government from killing him without a trial. ... it is not unlawful “murder” when the government kills an enemy leader in war or national self-defense [so] the foreign-killing statute would not impede a strike" [NYT, March 9, 2013].

greenyoda wrote: "He's dealing with a government that has killed U.S. citizens with drone-fired missiles without due process."

It therefore comes down to what you mean by "due process." I hold with greenyoda that the circumstances around Awlaki's deliberate killing were insufficient as to allow the exception to the judicial process, and that he therefore did not receive due process owed him by birthright.

You may think otherwise, but even in that case the situation as described is very close to to what greenyoda wrote. Why do you think it's "not at all" as described?