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You are probably right. And yes, I am passionate about this stuff. When I was younger all I cared about was tech. I was utterly ignorant about everything else. Without knowing it I let media and tribal behavior dictate what I thought and who I voted for. As I got older and started to run into government at every corner as an entrepreneur I started to ask questions. I didn't like the answers.

Now I feel we are at an inflection point. There's a need to have some passion because our government has gone insane and seems to be on a mission to destroy us from the inside. No, this isn't some grand plan. They are too stupid for that. This is simply a natural side effect of what the political "species" does for survival. This is like bacteria "concerned" about maximizing their local results yet, if without resistance, will easily consume and kill the entire organism. The bacteria don't plan on killing the entire organism, it just happens. That's what our government is doing. If people would only pull back far enough to see it...
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Language Theory is a subset of automata theory that covers both. So at least in some sense, they are comparable. We can place them in Chomsky's Hierarchy and compare the constructs that are meaningful in both.
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I don't know Softlayer too well, but Postgres is better every day.

1. Install Postgres 9.3, the version after the replication fix.

2. Tune Postgres until it reaches a reasonable speed (lots of tutorials available, primarily just assigning it more RAM)

3. Create a second instance, do a backup, restore backup on second instance

4. Turn on streaming replication, ensure WALs are being received by second instance

5. If you're paranoid, use synchronous replication, which won't finish a transaction until it's been committed on the primary and a streaming secondary.

I'm not our DBA, but I believe this covers the primary setup. You will have to test whether Postgres correctly moves into a new history chain on migration as support for this via WALSender is pretty new I believe.
What happens if you miss the deadlines? Sometimes, the answer is "really bad things". Sometimes, it's "absolutely nothing". You have to learn how to judge that.

To engineers, missing deadlines sounds like this catastrophic error. This is amplified by our experience in an academic system where deadlines are well-tested and 95+ percent of students can meet them. The truth, however, is that most "deadlines" in business are flexible and more tied to some uninformed speculation on how long something "should" take, not how long it actually will take.

Some deadlines are hard. In law or government, 12:00 means 12:00 and 12:01 can mean missing a contract or losing a job. Governments are often legally forbidden (in the U.S.) from awarding a contract if the proposal comes in one minute after deadline (anti-corruption laws). Others (most, in software) only threaten mild embarrassment. Sometimes, you can tell ahead of time that the deadline will be missed no matter what happens and your job is to deflect blame.

If there's a career benefit (as in a promotion, a raise, or some other hard currency that will advance your reputation) in working 70 hours per week to meet a deadline, then do it. If there isn't, then just stay out of the critical path of blame.
Anything's lawful, when corrupt politicians write the law. Ethical and moral? not so much.

I wonder how much dirt/money is paid to the judge by NSA proponents/backers/leaders to side on their side, when the vast majority of Americans are against it.

In fact aren't laws supposed to take the side of the majority? When the majority is against a law, shouldn't it fail to be a law? American's are fastly losing faith in our lawmakers, and like currency a law w/ no faith backing it isn't worth the paper it's written on.

I'm going to start manufacturing toilet paper w/ the Constitution on, and sell it to politicians, they already wipe their asses on the Constitution, might as well do it literally.
By the way, you might be interested in this:

http://www.penzba.co.uk/images/LO_n_CW.png
Don't you mean colorless green ideas?
Several things are fixed in PowerShell actually - including resize, although I agree that it's still a travesty of a terminal compared to either Terminal.app, Gnome Terminal or Konsole. I'm not implying they are the benchmark, just that they are the delivered console on other platforms.

For windows terminals, I'm intending to look into http://bliker.github.io/cmder/.
New York Judge Rules NSA Phone Surveillance Lawful
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> "Judge Pauley said that protections under the Fourth Amendment do not apply to records held by third parties, like phone companies."

Kafka would be proud.
The idea is that you can backup the Google binary blobs from your stock OS, install CyanogenMod, and then restore your own binary blobs. In practice most people just download GApps from illegal sites because Titanium Backup has such an awful UI. But if Google ever went after the download sites you'd still be able to use the backup method. Which is probably why Google doesn't bother with the download sites.
So unique experience may trump skill requirements, just need to make it clear how it can benifit them, thanks
Paul Allen's Living Computer Museum ( http://www.livingcomputermuseum.org/ ) currently lists job openings for a "Vintage Hardware Restoration Engineer" and a "Vintage System Software Developer and Administrator."

They have acquired a CDC 6500 and are in the process of restoring it to operational condition.
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I wanted to read it, and considered paying since it claimed to be a mere $1, then realized my main interest in reading it was simply that it confirmed my prejudices about the (non-)educational system. Kind of silly to pay for an op-ed just to reinforce stuff you already think to be true, as opposed to paying for new information or debunking your false beliefs, so I think I'll save that dollar. Plus there's the google cache link below.
Yeah, the system's fucked up on many facets. Government handing out no-strings-attached-until-it-matters monies by the bucketfuls, your average high school counselor drilling into student's heads to "Apply, apply, apply! You better be applying to colleges and working on those college essays!", colleges more bloated than your uncle after Thanksgiving with bureaucratic puss, disillusioned professors whose wages stagnate while the football and basketball programs get new buckets of cash...

We can go on and on with the external reasons. They're all valid. But could we spare some blame for lazy-as-fuck kids who go to class drunk (if at all) and waste their time playing the new Call of Duty? What about their listless parents who barely ever stuck their nose in their kids' high school lives? You know how at every college orientation they rattle off to you everything that goes on there and all the different clubs, all that shit they shove in kid's faces? They want them to become engaged and take advantage of what the school has to offer. Networking. I despise that word but the more connections one gets and the more they get involved in is how the job's are going to be landed. It's not about what one knows anymore.

That, and being prudent about your program choice helps too. We know art history is cool...but cmon.
> "Judge Pauley said that protections under the Fourth Amendment do not apply to records held by third parties, like phone companies."

The thing I don't get is why the NSA is considered a third party here. It's not the phone companies keeping the records, it's the NSA, so I honestly do not understand this ruling.
What kind of statement, and question? Thanks for your experience on the matter.
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How a failed Supreme Court bid is still causing headaches for Hulu and Netflix
I just did a quick grep through the code, and apparently students are expected to understand this.
But the onus is on the institution to only grant degrees to those who deserve it. The worthlessness comes when you start giving bachelor's degrees to people who chose to waste their tuition on partying, and this is what's happening.
Shortly after the first Internet bubble broke, I quit my horrible job and went to film school. IT was no longer fulfilling, or was at least a headache, and I needed to do something different.

After film school, I needed money to pay for film school... so I tried to get back into IT. San Francisco was still in the doldrums, so it was stressful trying to find a job and I kept fouling up interviews. I eventually made my way down to LA and lucked into a good contract job there. But I found myself really beating myself into the ground - development was taking so much out of me, I couldn't manage to work on anything else, like screenplays... I was going through burnout but couldn't see it at the time. The compulsion to do a good job was taking over and having a great client didn't help.

Fast forward a decade to now, and I am getting completely out of IT now. I've spent the last 4 years being professionally raped by a full blown sociopath and the reason I couldn't see it was because I was having to put all my chi / focus / energy / whatever into doing the work - it was now a serious compulsion instead of the enjoyable 'get paid for my hobby' thing my career started out as. And being manipulated didn't help... This process I now see had started 10 years ago but I, like always, pushed myself to keep on the same track instead of forcing myself to go through the stress of change. So I've lost a decade of my life here...

I may be projecting, but "work, gym, sleep" sounds like you are starting to do what I did. Don't! It's a slippery slope. I wish to heck I'd reached out to HN like I see all these other people doing and asked for advice... If you still like web development, great, keep up to date at least out of pure interest, but it does sound like you need to do something different, if only for awhile. Changing gears will only help if you are getting habitual in your work life.

Pick something interesting in web development, just one or two things, and become an expert at it - at some point you'll be able to get paid to do it no matter if you have a degree or not, just as long as you are prominent in some fashion in that particular ecosystem. Being a generalist like me is only good if you like working for small companies and doing everything only "good enough" versus being the "expert" in one thing for a company. Most companies only want square pegs they can hammer when they get past a certain size....

I'm guessing you are late 20s, early 30s? It is about now then that people start asking themselves "what do I want to really do when I'm 40ish?" I didn't listen to myself unfortunately - procrastination. So if so, you still have the time to make a mistake without too much consequence - one's life is like the software design cycle (sort of). If you think your life is like the waterfall model... every mistake in your 20s will haunt you forever (i.e. the women who have a checklist for Prince Charming). But life really is more like evolutionary design or maybe agile... try to view things like that.
How did your friend get the job? I have some fabrication and machining experience that I would love to use, but it seems like most shop jobs are pretty low-paying and uncreative. Working for Hollywood sounds like an interesting alternative.
Yeah I don't get the comparison!?

The app he links to just plays audio in sync on two or more smartphones!
I eliminated a lot of stress when I stopped trying to fix things and make my job, company and projects align with some perfect ideal I had in my head from reading too much "Signal v Noise" and HN.
N.Y. judge rules NSA phone surveillance legal
How is this an innovation over things like the Da Vinci surgical robot system? http://www.intuitivesurgical.com/products/davinci_surgical_s...
That cuts both ways. As an US citizen, I have no reason to believe my data is safe, say, in Germany, and certainly not in France who have been caught using their spy agencies to spy on US companies before. What enforceable mechanism has the EU provided US citizens regarding data safety? How can I, as a US Citizen, audit what access an EU government has had to my data?

So, yes, Balkanization is the only likely outcome, without a one-world-government and one-world-policing.
There's also a port of V7 Unix to x86, by http://www.nordier.com/v7x86/

I only wish that there was an add-on tcp/ip stack for that version, then one could really have fun with it. Yes, I know, the ip stack add on is called BSD.
Lawful ≠ Constitutional.

The patriot act made all these "legal" - but aren't we waiting for a supreme court decision that states that the entire collection is "unconstitutional"?
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What does a broken record sound like? Read the first line of the ruling: http://i.imgur.com/y8LZQUM.png
If you look at the wikipedia page for that ship, you'll see that is isn't even built from aluminium! Really, that link is a bunch of crap. When was the last time you heard of a plane's aluminium skin catching fire (apart from when there is a bunch of avgas or jet-a on fire?)
That's why I included "When the penalty is taken care of" in my statement.
this is why patents have become a complete joke.. really a patent on which the angle of a camera records something inside a square room? REALLY!? wow.. lol
As there are more trial court decisions on the NSA programs, it appears that there will be a split in results of those decisions among various trial courts. Those decisions can be appealed to the federal circuit appellate courts, where there may again be a split among the decisions. A circuit split[1] on an important issue of federal law, especially constitutional law, is one of the most reliable ways to prompt consideration of an issue by the United States Supreme Court. That court will have the last word[2] on this issue.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_split

[2] "We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final." A saying by Justice H. Jackson.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H._Jackson
I enjoy their helpful suggestions of "other" ways to film your yoga classes... at awkward angles, or outside!
> "Judge Pauley said that protections under the Fourth Amendment do not apply to records held by third parties, like phone companies."

Okay, so then when I download an MP3 it's not theft because I didn't actually deprive the artist of their source files.
Aerospace engineer here, weighing in...

I have two areas of expertise on this matter. First, I was on UW-Madison's competition-winning FutureTruck team about 10 years ago. We were, IIRC, the only team of about 15 other universities that replaced our competition car's (a Ford Excursion) entire frame with aluminum. In addition to replacing many other steel parts/assemblies with aluminum equivalents, we managed to bring the newly parallel hybrid SUV under stock weight... despite adding a large battery pack and motor. The thing I learned from this experience was: even though aluminum has about 1/3 the density of steel, your parts end up being about 50–55% of the steel weight because you need to add more aluminum to maintain equivalent strength. Basically, given the same tensile strength properties of a part, an aluminum one will be about half as heavy.

Second, I worked as a payload mechanical engineer for a number of spaceflight systems. Suffice to say, our base material for consideration was aluminum. Sure, we deferred to steel for certain applications (e.g., ball bearings, rat cage bars, fasteners, etc) and to myriad materials in others, aluminum was the standard. It has a tremendous strength/weight ratio, can be alloyed in many different ways to get different characteristics, is non-magnetic, is relatively cheap, and can have a number of interesting surface coatings applied. About the only major systemic problem aluminum has is that it is difficult to weld. Not impossible, as my FutureTruck experience tells me, but difficult. It didn't matter to us, though, since NASA generally frowns upon welded joints anyway. Too much strength variation due to heat stress and potential for FOD if not ground properly.

Anyway, I've been waiting for the auto industry to catch up to a bunch of college students for 10 years now. Nice to see one of the Big Four finally getting it. And cheers to the smaller car companies that have been doing it for years.
Cutts has said before their goal is to "break the black hatters spirit" (http://searchengineland.com/googles-matt-cutts-on-search-spa...). I assume that's what they're trying to do here.
Those of you who want a political answer to this surveillance problem should pay attention when these things happen. This is your system, in a nutshell. The legislators, judges, law enforcement officials, etc, are all in on this. Don't wait for the president or prime minister to change things. That won't happen. You'll have to take your security into your own hands to the greatest extent possible. This will including learning to adapt once your government inevitably outlaws your favourite means of protecting your security and privacy.
At one point in time I wanted to farm as well. I read this book by Joel Salatin (he was in Food Inc.): http://www.amazon.com/You-Can-Farm-Entrepreneurs-Enterprise/...

It is a great book on farming but I find it to be one of the best business books I've ever read as well. Just wanted to recommend it to you.
The GSM Security Map compares the protection capabilities of mobile networks.
The reason I use Mou is for the LaTeX integration. Haven't found another editor that does that.
Same here, I have tried various approaches, but couldn't settle on any. I loved the idea of bullet journaling. I am doing something similar, glad to put name to its face :)
I use Dvorak simplified with a couple modifications for coding and typing on a regular basis. This is the actual autohotkey script that I use on my Windows laptop currently. http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=JNf6N9wf

I have kept []-="/ in the same location as qwerty because I have found keeping these keys in the same locations keeps my mind from getting to confused when I do switch back to qwerty for temporary usage(also they are easier to type in the qwerty location IMO).

If you look at the Dvorak keyboard here[1] leaving []-="/ in the same locations moves the z key off the keyboard. I then put the z key next to the left shift and the ; key next to tab.

> Was it a challenge to use?

If you read my Q&A here http://superuser.com/q/598405 it demonstrates that switching to other keyboard layouts aren't difficult, but can be quit different depending on OS/system. Linux has the most variations of switching between different keyboard layouts.

> Once accustomed was there any added advantage to using it?

Yes everything feels a lot smoothier IMO. I could type around 40-50wpm in qwerty on a good day. Using Dvorak, I can consistently hit 90wpm with a few mistakes. I can surpass 100wpm with some concentration.

> Would you ever recommend others to use it?

If you type on your own laptop/desktop mainly then I would recommend it. Dvorak is pre-installed on all modern OSs, so it very easy to enable.

If you use Windows(like me) using an autohotkey script that you can use to enable/disable Dvorak makes it easy enough for you to use other computers and for others to use your own computer.

[1]: http://roostersrail.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/dvorak-simpl...
Google has about $1,000,000 of revenue per employee [1].

Assuming their support employees worked a typical number of hours and billed every hour they worked to a customer, to keep the revenue per employee at the same level they'd need to charge $480 to $550 per hour for support. And fixing complex bugs in complex software can take a lot of hours.

How many hours of developer time would you want spent on your issue?

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=google+revenue+per+employee
I am glad the USPTO granted this patent. It shows how ridiculously idiotic the patent system is in America at the moment.
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I'd say both, I bought a business 3 months ago, it was making £18k a year, i've got it running at about £40k a year now through basic cost cutting and automation using technology. I plan to bring it up to £60k a year without growth and then grow it to £150k in the next 2-3 years, after which i'll likely sell it for ideally £300k and move onto the next thing.

I'm not here to swing for the fences, i've not taken any investment, i'm not going to run anything unprofitably. I'm here to make a real impact on businesses using my skillset and have fun and make money doing it.

Its really hard work but I'm enjoying the hell out of it.
I just put the text of this comment in the thread under The Guardian's reporting on this same breaking news story of today. As there are more trial court decisions on the NSA programs, it appears that there will be a split in results of those decisions among various trial courts. Those decisions can be appealed to the federal circuit appellate courts, where there may again be a split among the decisions. A circuit split[1] on an important issue of federal law, especially constitutional law, is one of the most reliable ways to prompt consideration of an issue by the United States Supreme Court. That court will have the last word[2] on this issue.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_split

[2] "We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final." A saying by Justice H. Jackson.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H._Jackson
They're moderating the negative responses.
Sounds like the judge is saying that what third parties can have, the NSA can have.