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It's frustrating how the docs constantly refer to MySQL, but make no mention of version number. This page includes a version, seemingly on accident, but because it's part of an example of using the MySQL connector I have no idea if it reflects the version currently in use or just the one that was in use when this page was written:

https://developers.google.com/cloud-sql/docs/mysql-client

It's showing 5.5 -- 5.6 went General Availability over a year ago, and it's not even a recent build of 5.5 at that, so you're seemingly missing out on nearly a year's worth of bugfixes and security patches. I know Google is applying a lot of custom patches to MySQL here, but I would really worry that the work they're doing to customize MySQL is causing them to lag behind the official version in terms of features and fixes.
It would be prudent to automatically declassify anything published by any newspaper, though. I think the reason why they don't is because that would be an admission that the documents leaked were actually true copies of real classified materials.

But then they as much as admit that the leak is real by pulling crap like this. It would be far more effective these days to simply claim that the leak was all honeypot disinformation, deny that it has any relation to real classified data, and imply that the leaker was flagged as an insider threat from the beginning.

When you arrest a journalist at the airport and hold him for hours, people might start to think said journalist is on to something.

The smart thing to do would be to arrest him, make a show of searching him, and quickly send him on his way without seizing anything, and then tell anyone who asks: "After a thorough search of the documents in his possession, no actual state secrets were found. Materials purporting to be classified as Top Secret were found, upon further investigation, to be decoys used by the US government to reveal its insider threats. Mister Snowden stole a lot of documents and gave them to the press, but if any of them were the real thing, we haven't seen them yet."

Between this, and destroying hard drives with angle grinders, they just look like Keystone Kops.
Square fights AIDS with a (RED) Reader
Square and (RED) released a red reader that lets local sellers and their customers help fight AIDS with every swipe.

Press release: https://squareup.com/news/releases/2014/square-red
I can't emphasize enough the severity of pain that ZenPayroll is solving. While running a startup in 2012 with multiple W-2 employees and contractors, the industry standard small business payroll solution was QuickBooks Online Payroll. Although it certainly abstracted many local and federal legal & tax complexities into something a first-timer could work with, I still spent at least 10 hours a month running payroll, a process of manual steps that software could easily automate.

The interface was confusing, web-unfriendly, and left me questioning how much money I needed to budget for quarterly taxes (both state and federal) and why we were sending so much money to the IRS for such a small startup. At the end of the day, I always felt captive to QuickBooks. Software should be empowering, not shackling.
This doesn't work in practice. Transactions using Bitcoin "addresses" are just one (out of many) transaction types. As far as I understand the protocol it's possible that you receive those coins via a transaction type that doesn't have an associated Bitcoin sender address.
You are not doing cancer research, you are not saving lives as a doctor, you are not building hospitals in Africa. If you want to make a meaningful impact on the world, quit your job as a full-stack engineer and go do something more hands-on. Retain your skills and interest in this area on your 'downtime'. Then come back, hungrier than ever, more humble and more experienced of the world than ever. Life doesn't happen in front of a computer screen, it doesn't happen in printed books or on discussion threads.

I did something similar to you. But before I did the change I was burnt out and very depressed (I was at an extremely low point of my life). I don't regret it.

Believe me. Do some creative destruction. And come back in two-three years time.
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> And the space elevator is not something that would be developed by interplanetary travelers but by people who just want to get into Earth orbit.

That's not true at all. The vast majority of the energy cost of going to another planet is incurred just getting into earth orbit. A space elevator radically improves the economics of interplanetary travel.

In fact, you can get certain transfer orbits "for free" by just extending your tether a bit beyond geosynchronous orbit and using it to fling bulk payloads to Mars, etc.
The 500GB bit is listed under "Storage Size", the column in the table is the amount of storage you get without needing to pay.

This is a bit confusing, I'll file a bug to get it cleaned up. Thanks for the spot.
Very good article. This hinges on being able to screen for both technical ability (easy) and the intangible combination of initiative and drive (hard). It also requires that developers keep in synch with each other. I think it works well up to a certain size organization.
It's odd to see utility status classified as a punishment for industry. Shouldn't it refer to the technology (water delivery, electricity, possibly internet) and its role in the customers' lives?
>Does Mysql lend itself innately to scalability at Amazon/Google scale that is hard to do with Postgres ?

No, quite the opposite actually. Mysql scales poorly with high concurrency, and replication suffers from "oops I stopped working and you have to manually intervene now" syndrome.

They use mysql because it is what most customers want.
And if there's a security system or intercom next to the door, it's probably going to be on the right side.
This is pretty cool. First I was wondering what for, but its great for their use case (embedded devices). Why not use a language for the web interface the developer is familiar with.

Unfortunately, they're a bit late. Nowadays it would probably be cooler to use JS, if language popularity is the focus. Or maybe python.

(Aside: I learned web development in the good old LAMP times. My silly gut feeling is still that PHP is pretty fast and flexible compared to Python which seems slow (on the server), and JS which is way too slow and fragile. I know it's completely backwards nowadays, but funny how what you've learned sticks. When I hear "JS on a Arduino" I always think "yeah sure....", but it's actually a clever idea, just like this.)
I'm not sure what your point is. Upon seizure they'd presumably sweep the coins to their own account.

Multi-sig transactions can prevent any one person from running off with the funds, and will likely become common in the next year or so.
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http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/18/house-o...
Thank you for replying, but it seems weird that are competing for that segment against... well, Dreamhost.

In fact, I would say that you would have a large segment of people/startups interested in leveraging postgresql on the cloud without the headache of managing replication,etc.
Let us make a distinction, shall we?

Determination is not an issue. Any non-deterministic Turing machine has an equivalent deterministic Turing machine.

Consciousness is an issue. Indeed, if consciousness is pure computation, then its self-referencing character make it vulnerable to Gödel's incompletude theorem. However, maybe consciousness is more than mere computation — maybe it cannot be reduced to an axiomatic system. Anyway, as far as neuroscience goes, I think consciousness mostly remains a philosophical debate.

* * *

You misinterpreted my sentence. What I meant is: "universal computation is not, in itself, a proof that a computer can understand itself". This relates to my above remark: maybe consciousness is not pure computation.

Also, a system monitoring its own status is not necessarily understanding itself.
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This isn't really any more of an issue with bitcoin than with Caymans accounts. It already leads to some messiness, but it doesn't stop them from throwing people in jail.
> You end up with secretaries doing the equivalent of a simple SQL "JOIN" by hand.

Before Excel, they wouldn't be doing it all. Baby steps.

Spreadsheets as a paradigm is HUGELY successful at allowing normal people to do number crunching—number crunching that pre-spreadsheets would have required a programmer, and most likely, would never have been done at all. I think that's a win, even though we can (and hopefully will) go beyond that over time.
I agree - well written. Perhaps the only quibble is that my intuition was that it would be much shorter. 60,000 years (or even 5,000) is a long time to react.
Intel CPUs got hardware AES instructions in 2010 or so. Even before that software AES went at a good clip, a 200+ MB/s.

On top of that, the fragmented (seek dominated) nature of typical database IO, and the fact this only happens only on cache misses...
Not the case, actually. It's safe to assume that the FBI is very big on backups, probably paper backups, to prevent people doing just that. But stealing the bitcoin from the FBI wouldn't require deleting anything, just access to the private key.

Now admittedly, the FBI also has a lot of experience keeping short bits of data secret (for instance, the real identities of moles and protected witnesses). But they don't exactly have a perfect record on that count.
It is no odder than Unix conflating your shell with a process, really. You connect, run some commands within a context that's "yours", then it's all cleaned up when you go.
You both own(1) the widget and do not own(2) the widget.

This is English. Multiple definitions for a word are common. Cases where only some definitions apply and not others are common. They happen in almost every sentence. Try to avoid letting that pollute your thought. (It is a challenge. No sarcasm.)
An unfortunate title -- the method doesn't rely on hardware, on "machines", it uses hardware already in place but calculates, then generates, a unique signal for each device. The method depends on the calculation, the mathematical theory, not machines.

Calling this a machine is like calling the first car a horseless carriage.
Here is one: http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/12/27/rim.thought.ap...
yes I am aware of that - PG came after SQL Server and Oracle added to RDS first.

I dont know why the situation is so bad. Rackspace, for all its much-vaunted "fanatical support", refuses to touch Postgres.
Absurd. No one demands that you give cash back if it turns out to have been used in a crime. Imagine if your employer was accused of a crime, or sold something to a criminal, etc.
A rich daddy's "nerdy hehe" girl manifesto on how she goes out with male models and doesn't feel inferior to them? This is just wrong on so many levels. As someone who has developed social anxiety because of spending most of my life in poverty and the stigma that you have to bear with it, especially as a child, I'm rather offended by this.

I know you guys like to upvote pretty much anything done by a girl because of some twisted gender equality quota, but why is this here exactly?
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Did you just suggest Congress would actually pass laws to protect consumers? lol

Actually, lol at just passing laws, Congress didn't do anything but name post offices the past year.

The only regulation we are going to get in the next decade is anything that can do an end-run around congress.
Right - at least with glibc, ld.so unsets most LD_* variables and more for both setuid and setgid programs. Grep for UNSECURE_ENVVARS in glibc source to get the whole list and see how it's used. I'd be very surprised if any other libc implementation didn't do the same.
Ask HN: Is TDD part of your startup's code culture?
We are really confused as of how seriously we should follow TDD based practices in our startup.
Do you practice TDD?

Yes. Why?

No. Why not?
Hey Irem, I'm doing a presentation on how to make a "mesh network" for a group of primarily web developers. I do a bunch of js robotics so I'm leveraging talking over a serialport, and am doing an xbee proof of concept project. I'd love to know more about existing hardware and systems that I could tap. Would you mind talking to me for a few? (contact info on my profile)
I don't think it's fair to say that as a generality. The stability and latency of the network very much depends on the routing protocol used as well as the strength of the connection between the nodes (assuming it's a wireless mesh). There are many routing protocols that are more robust. Some protocols are tolerant of devices moving, some are not. Some are self-healing, some are not. Some have to map out the full route to a device before sending data, some are only aware of the next hop.

There are a lot of options, each with their advantages in different situations. It's not so clear cut. It can be fast or it can be slow. It can be stable or not. It very much depends on the particular network protocol and setup.
> and I have heard people at work claim "it is dead".

Then people at your work are clueless I'm afraid
"Every wallet that receives funds from a tainted wallet becomes tainted" doesn't (in any way I see) conflict with the notion that there are transactions without a sender.
http://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/1y5v15/if_no_human_can...
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"An Economic Analysis of the Financial Records of al-Qa'ida in Iraq"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing

Basically it's a play on "grass roots" movements. Powerful groups attempt to mimic grass roots, populist movements by hiring a bunch of employees to pose and regular people and write comments on forums, etc. And as you know, astroturf is fake grass.
All very true. This is why I find that companies tend to do best buying from companies of relatively similar size. GM and GE struggle with buying from startups for these reasons. The pace of change is too much. But they will buy from the startup after IBM has bought them. Startups are better off finding more nimble initial customers. Crossing the Chasm [1] is the best resource I've found on describing the challenges of startups servicing large companies.

The exception to this is parts of the company that are either specifically geared towards hunting new technologies, or subsidiaries/departments with lots of autonomy and shorter timeframes. Basically folks who are tasked with experimenting and moving on. Even then, it's a better fit with services (boutique ad agencies and investment banks supporting large firms) than products with lock-in.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_Chasm
More accurately, you have to refute the evidence that's already been produced that you do possess something.

For example, if someone says "I paid tlrobinson 2 bitcoins for mowing my lawn on Sunday," you could produce evidence that you were on a business trip on Sunday and therefore couldn't be the same tlrobinson referenced in the previous statement. Or argue that the person making that statement is a liar. Or point out that 2 bitcoins is an absurd amount to pay for mowing a lawn. Etc.
That would be a disaster. People would immediately dump all the worthless "flagged" coins on markets and services that haven't had time to respond to the new protocol. Those people would go bankrupt overnight, possibly before they even have time to realize it's happening and shut down.
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It's a good thing that some parts of design/development are being automated. We can now spin off new products increasingly faster and for a substantially lower cost.

That said, at a certain level of competency automation stops. While you can buy a design template to try something out, it won't give you the same tailored experience as something that was created by a professional. While you can download a jQuery plug and strap it to a html page, that won't give you the same power as code written by the best engineers...etc.

Instead of thinking of a different industry to join, think of ways that you could elevate yourself from the masses. If you're currently coding in PHP, learn Node and try Meteor - then go work with people who find these new methods attractive. If you currently design t-shirts and logos, understand iOS, learn Android, explore Google Glass, and then go work for projects that are in demand.

All said and done, commoditization of labor will weed out the under-performers, but it will give even greater power to those creatives that can go above and beyond.
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A lot of the problem with "positive thinking" is that it's also wishful thinking, rather than the design of resilient systems that make success a natural byproduct of practicing the system.

Instead of naive positive thinking, psychological research in habit forming suggests that creating a robust system and habit (or set of habits) is much more powerful. Assuming and accepting infrequent shocks (e.g. on a diet, but ate 3000 calories at a wedding banquet) and building the system to handle these, is much more likely to create success than fantasy thinking.
I had a rough experience as a one-man-show founder of a failed startup. At the time I had two young ones aged 2 and 5.

It's not just a matter of finding the hours to put into the two roles. Fatherhood is spiritually and emotionally demanding. It doesn't come naturally to all of us. I don't think Superman could work full-throttle at a challenging startup and then have much left to give when he gets home.
It is in a way a punishment. What makes a company profitable? Creating things people want and need. What makes them really profitable? Creating things people really want and need. But if you build something people really need, you get classified as a utility, which limits your ability to profit from what you're building and also drives out most of the spark from the industry. Our water pipes are mostly 100+ years old, our electric grid is ancient, most of our power is provided by plants that are decades old, etc. Chicago decommissioned a 110 year old coal plant in 2012. Our utilities are not exactly places bustling with innovation, new ideas, new technologies. Regulation has effectively killed the once promising nuclear industry, for example.
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It's a pretty bright future for WebGL. Lots of companies are doing 3D visualization on the web, including the one I work for. Our product includes an embedded web based architectural model 3D viewer (written by myself and one other dev).

So there are definitely companies making serious use of it.
AFAIK cell phones are "mesh" in a bit different meaning of that word. Remote BTS-es have high connectivity provided over radio, which creates a mesh. But it is still centrally administered. It is way closer to switches of your ISP having STP turned on than to the openlibernet.

Speaking of which, a nice incentive. I see FAQ expresses everything that should be told, in an honest way. Good read for someone who wants to know about mesh networks.

I would also love something like it to become commonplace. But as it is not a viable alternative to the Internet and does not add anything while the system has not went mad... I don't see it happening any soon.
They were smart enough to transfer the seized Silk Road coins to an address under their control immediately upon seizing them.
If it's not broken, don't fix it.
I meant the "until you send it back part". If "every wallet becomes tainted" and "you can't send it back" this would make it trivial for an attacker to taint a large number of wallets in the Bitcoin network.
One definition: "online comment threads and forums are being hijacked by people who aren't what they seem." [1]

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2011/fe...
Too bad they're still not available in every state.
Speaking for myself and not for the company (I only joined Cloud SQL in October), given limited time/people/money, I'd have made the same choice. Everything on the web can run on MySQL, or has a connector to do so. Postgres, even a year or two ago, was a lot more difficult. Things are different now with the popularity of Postgres, but that's how we got from there to here.

The goal of Cloud is to provide the building blocks so people can make great products. The quickest way to making good stuff is to use the same tools that everyone is already familiar with, and I think that's why Cloud SQL exists. If you want more "touch" on the database for more power, there's Cloud Datastore [1]. But we support companies like Costco on Cloud SQL, so it's good for a lot of folks.

https://cloud.google.com/products/cloud-datastore/
The "incoming" in the title suggests a trajectory aimed at grabbing eyeballs and clickthroughs. :-)
Banks keep records of bills that are destroyed and replaced with new bills.
Some of the interfacing with the sphere is a little off, like if you drag it in and out of the water rapidly it does nothing. And if you slowly drag it out, the water clings to it a little too long.

But besides that it is very nice.
With regards to 1 and 2, if I'm in charge of buying a SaaS app to run a small but important part of my big company's operations, I really don't want to deal with the risk you might change your mind if Tom, Dick and Harry turn you down, still less have to contemplate acqui-hiring your developers at $1m per head in future to ensure you actually honour the three year contract and SLA I asked for....
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Just like I negotiate with my hospital for medical care payment.
Some startups are so early in their field and creating a new industry that design isn't important.

Others are later to the game and can use design to differentiate from those early in the game who didn't get around to it.

And finally some need to think long and hard about their design because it's become a hygiene factor.

That pretty much sums up my take on things.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but is this not beamforming?
whats your alternative to that?
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While that tweet may be market manipulation, it's worth noting that Tweets about Anne Hathaway have been shown to move Berkshire Hathaway stock. [1] This is in part due to Berkshire's relative illiquidity.

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/03/does-a...