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I've been friends with antirez a lot longer than Redis has been around, and have a lot of faith in his abilities as a programmer. It irritates me to see the snark directed at him on Twitter.

But for most of what I do - smallish bootstrapped things - I want to build on Postgres, because I know I can take it a lot of different directions, as needs be. Unless I'm 100% sure that it's a bad fit for SQL and a great fit for Redis or something else, I'm going to consider Redis as a later optimization, not something to build on from the start.

Like you write though, I mostly view Postgres and Redis as Apples and Oranges that could probably work together quite well in the right circumstances. Most of my ire is directed towards Mysql :-)
hmm, interesting. I think it depends on context.

The opinions are there to guide people's decisions. "Incorrect" is a better word to gauge the truthfulness of the opinions. "less well-informed" whilst also accurate is more forgiving and does not really help a voter choose between opinions.
Very hard to compare two worlds (mobile and 'immobile' computers) without taking into account that the one is brand new and people seem to want one (and there is a very large push to own the latest and greatest) and the other is simply mature technology that works until the hardware dies. It's obvious you're going to sell more of things that sit in peoples pockets that replaced their previous phone, something they were doing with some regularity before smartphones appeared.

Smartphones and tablets are interesting, they may enable new applications, they take over some of the functionality of desktops and laptops but it's more of a continuum than a very strong difference, you go from small and on your person to phablets (what a word), tablets, laptops, touch screen all-in-one PCs, regular PCs all the way to servers.

So mobile simply completed the spectrum and as long as there is a fashion element to it they'll be sold in very large numbers (the fact that the batteries die is another push to upgrade them, ditto laptops).

In the longer term it will slow down a bit but mobile phones will always be sold in larger numbers than desktop computers because of these reasons.

There is one way in which 'mobile is eating the world', which is in terms of resources consumption, and that is going to be a real problem without better and more structured ways of thinking about disposing phones during the design phase as well as some kind of rebate program.
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I have worked with some NBA teams and they are already using software to track ball, players, referee, training, sleep, Heart Rate etc.. there is really nothing revolutionary in this article
I don't accept that 'effectively impossible' means 'can happen, but probably doesn't happen very often'.

Rust has many other unsafe code paths than ffi; low level optimisations, dynamic libraries, etc.

Unless you go out of your way or are doing low level work, your code will not contain such bugs, and if you used no dependencies that do anything meaningful, what you said is plausibly true.

...but what are we trying to argue here?

That you can build a contrived rust program that doesn't crash?

Or that if you build an arbitrary program in rust, using arbitrary dependencies to do meaningful work (that will invoke a c library at some point, and talk to device drivers), that it wont crash?

In my view 'effectively impossible' is faaaaaar over stepping the bounds of reality.
There are discussions here about legal and technical issues and also about how the service could operate financially. We could discuss UI and how the service was built too.

Why is a discussion about the morality of the service implicitly not allowed ? Where is it carved in stone that the morality of our actions or services must not be discussed on Hackernews ?

Who are you to proclaim this, and in such a harsh manner ?

In discussing a service that is designed to allow users to conduct piracy, a discussion of the morality of that act is entirely permissible.

If I wanted to criticize hyperbovine's comment I would say that it didn't have any in depth thoughts or insight. But that isn't what you did, and the content of your reply is loaded with a lot of pre-recorded attacks.

But your response to him was quite hostile, far out of proportion to the parent comment. I find your aggression towards the topic to be very negative

"morality complex" ? Do you mean to imply that morals are some kind of defect that reasonable people should not be burdened with ?
Thank you YC. I hope to be in the batch one of these days.Congrats to the successful applicants. For those who were rejected, reflect, revaluate and reapply.
The mapping between natural features and human population/agriculture is generally near a local optimum. If a random grassland would be swapped with a random desert of the same size, from a natural viewpoint it would be nearly the same, but it would have horrible consequences for the people living there.

Any significant changes to the natural features in random direction should be expected to be harmful for us - we can be rather sure that moving 10 steps in direction A is expected to be worse than moving 1 step in direction B even if we don't know anything about the actual changes caused by those directions.

We should prefer small random changes to big changes, unless we're really, really sure that the big changes are actually beneficial.
Enjoyed watching it. Thanks. :-)
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It's based around Cortex A9. Admittedly the modules presented with bay trail had a few features the ARM solution didn't, so it wasn't apples-to-apples.
Because truly capitalist people aren't happy with just enough money, they want all the money.

You should expect that keep data is being tracked the same way gmail and calendar data is. With this your health will also be in the data package.
WhatsApp preparing web platform
Well, the idea behind mu is to use searches to filter your email
instead of using imap folders. Indexing does feel a little slow
sometimes, but it is far better than writing procmail rules to filter
email.
What would your ideal Publishing Platform look like?
Hackers Are Using Gmail Drafts to Update Their Malware and Steal Data
Adding a second image for Prestashop categories – NemoPS
Do you have a positive experience with CoApp? Mine has been overwhelmingly negative: it does not appear to work, does not appear to be maintained and does not appear to be supported.

I've been trying to get somebody to provide even a little bit of support for Native Nuget packages via CoApp for months: http://stackoverflow.com/q/24331880/729881
Windows Phone Shrinks in Android-Dominated Europe,As New iPhones Boost iOS Share
I'm migrating to HHVM across my whole stack. Massive performance gains, only issues have been with some plugins that I was able to pretty easily work around.

Good stuff! Uncached, HHVM outperforms my cached php-fpm sites.
I don't think I would have understood that, since the tweets in the middle look like "< this >" which is used for a bunch of different purposes (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracket#Uses_of_.22.3C.22_and_....).
>Who is we?

The sensible people, who can clearly see that there's less a God than there is an Auditor of Reality, an anal, obsessive-compulsive cosmic bureaucrat who doesn't give half a damn what happens to people as long as every atom reports its spin and the paperwork is filed on every chemical reaction.
Just the other day I saw a demo of (unaltered) WordPress running with HHVM and PHP7(!)
The more visible you are, the higher your standing, the likelier it is that people try to catch you in a mistake to improve their own visibility and standing. They are not aware that this is the motivation for their behavior.
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PHP 5.5.18 (cli) (built: Oct 16 2014 12:09:38)
Copyright (c) 1997-2014 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.5.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2014 Zend Technologies
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Huh. Why would anyone think that was a good idea.
If we combine BSD and Linux, it's actually not so bad.

* Globally, Android pretty much owns the mobile market. Android is a Linux.

* Most servers run some flavour of Linux or BSD.

* Although Windows still dominates the desktop market, a healthy share of the laptop market belongs to OS X, which is (partially) based on BSD.

This isn't exactly how the Open Source crowd envisioned "Linux on the desktop", but if the goal was to marginalize Windows in flavour of open source based *nixen, much of that goal has been accomplished.

Of course neither Android nor OS X are Free (as in freedom) and OS X is only partially a BSD, but you can't have everything.
Any idea when its available for download for consumers?
I'm curious: what kind of computational challenge are we talking about? Does image recognition take 1 second on a smartphone, or 2 hours on a supercomputer?
I would agree with you, but the majority seems to be against us. Personally I find the usability on smartphones, and iPads, frustratingly poor. Even something like browsing the web is pretty much impossible, navigation is awkward, keyboard is rubbish and the speed is terrible. That being said I think there's only a few of us that forgo smart phones and tables for a laptop or even desktop PC.

Office workers however are most likely not going to swap out their PC in the foreseeable future, in terms of speed and usability their are still way ahead of any mobile device (laptops excluded of cause).

Yes, mobile is just as important, if not more, that PCs in some industries. If you do online commerce, entertainment and consumer facing services ignoring mobile would be foolish. For other industries you can safely ignore mobile for now.
Moreover, I can't remember a single time PostgreSQL folks have been unfair... PostgreSQL is definitely good both as a product and as developers culture.
> Not really, but you take my point...

I was simplifying; I don't use QWERTY either. Most operating systems provide two ways to identify key presses, let's call them "key codes" and "char codes". So the char codes on a French layout are QDSZ instead of WASD but the key codes are the same, and the keys are in the same physical location so it doesn't matter. The only difficult part is figuring out how to present key codes back to the user.
my version is more student/teacher friendly with improved editor for Q/A posting, whiteboard, responsiveness etc.
The study from which this video has been produced: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/10/23/1408439111
Where does the "less than $100" figure come from?
I've been waiting for something like this to happen, as the old design just looks old and doesn't encourage me to use it.

But.. I'm sure haters gonna hate.
This is practically unusable in Safari on my MacBook Pro. It's a shame because once it actually loads it looks quite nice!
Well beta means feature complete and considered ready to ship excepting as yet unspotted last minute bugs from testers ... so it's way too late to have input to the new direction, the new direction is at beta stage set in stone unless the update is scrapped.
Hiring Front End and Mobile to help us solve work email. (YC S11)
Streak.com (YC S11) is hiring full time engineers. We’re a small and nimble company working on email for businesses. We're looking for someone who likes building product and pushing code. Everyday. We're two technical cofounders growing a small team, and we:

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INNOVATE ON GMAIL (not just maintain it)
- Ever wished you could make email better? You can, without being on the Gmail team. We’re cooking up some really exciting things in our Gmail lab.

FEEL MORE CONNECTED
- Your work will have a direct impact on making the lives of our users better. And you'll hear about it.

Today we’re focused on business processes (sales, hiring, fundraising, customer support, bug tracking, product dev, etc) but we’re on track to build the system that solves email for PG and many others.

Benefits:

- Real ownership (equity)

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- We’ll make your life easier with our benefits package

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Our requirements:

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Tell us why you'd be a great fit:

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Given that my possessions fit in one checked bag and one carryon, and are mostly minimally advertised (I can't recall ever seeing a Lenovo or Raymonds of India ad), I feel fairly confident saying I'm not significantly influenced by advertising.

But I'm sure you are right, everyone else lacks free will and the ability to make choices.
Unmanned NASA-contracted rocket explodes over eastern Virginia
NSA: "We want to track everything on Internet to keep you safe from terrorism."

Haters: "No thanks, way to intrusive. I don't want you tracking me.
That re-post of a re-post of an Guardian article about a study seems to have mutated to a point of becoming untrue.

The study claims, among other things, that the freighters create a lot of sulphur emisions, and that the EU has currently cleaned up car requirements so that they don't emit much sulphur in exhaust - thus, 15 largest freighters emit as much SOx as all the cars. It assumes that world's cars fit EU emission standards, which is false, and posting in this context seems to assume that the sulphur oxides cause global problems, which is also false - the bad effects of SOx pollution are rather localized, and if we can replace 1 unit of SOx in the middle of a city with 2 units of SOx in the middle of an ocean, then I'd treat that as good thing.

A more appropriate citation (from the same original article, actually) is the following - it still shows some space for improvement, but is significantly diffferent than the untrue alarmist claim in the parent post.

"Shipping is responsible for 18-30% of all the world's nitrogen oxide (NOx) pollution and 9% of the global sulphur oxide (SOx) pollution."
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Distros have curated repos.

Launchpad and such are not curated.
Yosemite Uploads Unsaved Documents and Recent Addresses to iCloud
Earlier reddit search was used to update the malware, whats next!!!
What about Ubuntu and Firefox? Those are uncrippled, I hope.
Using webmail to control malware
https://location.services.mozilla.com/downloads
I think my iPad ran out of battery three months ago, I haven't looked at it since. If you don't use it for entertainment, it's pretty much useless. Touchscreens and the fullscreen apps just doesn't work for me.
It's a psychological thing, not a technical problem.
Just the call on getImageData to extract texture and read all pixels from an image can take 15s if CORS is in the play...
You are not wedded to an SQL vendor. You actually can migrate your data, as long as your code is farily vendor-agnostic. I write Django apps and use the ORM for everything. That frees my customers from any sort of raw sql specific to one DB server.
It's a shame. As far as I can tell, the only proven multi-language JIT for FOSS platforms is still the JVM? (and Mono maybe?)

Despite a lot of that's gone in to Parrot, PyPy, v8, etc, none of these VMs seem to have really taken off beyond the language they were intended for. Somewhat more sad is that pretty much all de-facto default runtimes for popular dynamic languages (except Javascript) are still interpreters... the cost of being portable.
Great! With opcache enabled right?
You can already auto-update from within MozStumbler itself.
lets see as time passes we will be able to see more advanced ways of controlling the malware
>Windows which claims to be the default desktop OS copies a basic feature from the Linux "non-desktops" which is a command line package manager :-) //

There's nothing contradictory about that. Good features can come from the worst of software or the best. It's actually a positive change IMO that Microsoft would adopt a good feature in the facing of crowing like "they stole that from linux".

Of course the devil's in the detail; usually when I see something MS are doing and appreciate it they manage to royally confound it - here letting Oracle, and their ilk, install the crapware they currently trick inexperienced users in to having is probably going to be part of that.
Aliases are the biggest enemy of consistency.
I wholeheartedly agree. Interfaces like that can be nice for initial browsing but I am a user who knows what she wants and I want efficiency and lots of metadata.
It is a fascinating case of uneven technological development.

The Soviet Union went so far with staged combustion engines in the sixties that that level of technology has not yet been reached elsewhere.

USA, Europe and Japan went with hydrogen staged combustion but that's quite different.

The ULA/Blue Origin decision about new indigenous US first stage engine development gets a huge boost from this problem.

It's just what can be reached when you put resources into it. Coming from the IT world it might seem strange that the investment has not lost its value, but it has not. It might be quite a lot easier to duplicate nowadays, but not child's play at all.

Sometimes it's chilling to think what kind of still secret projects were funded by the huge US defense budgets during the cold war. There are some public sides and declassified parts on things like very good glide ratio hypersonic vehicles, but officially they never went far and the space shuttle was the thing.
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You're saying:

* Android is a desktop OS

* Android has a market share way larger than Windows

* Therefore Android has overthrown Windows as a desktop OS

Which is completely false. Because on desktop Windows still has a ~90% market share.
Twitter introduces new app platform and more mobile marketing news
I imagine the pro-nazi sentiment was a lot more hysterical than the anti-nazi sentiment. But, of course, I say this with no evidence.
I've been using Chocolatey for a good while now, and it's great! Just updated my install of mysql workbench using "choco update mysql.workbench" - easy!

I think 'apt-get' for windows is a better description than an alternative to Windows Store.

Backed!
George Carlin said it best: 'And it doesn't take you very long to spot one of them does it? Take you about eight seconds. You'll be listening to some guy... you say... "this guy is fucking stupid!" Then... then there are some people, they're not stupid... they're full of shit. Huh? That doesn't take very long to spot either, does it? Take you about the same amount of time. You'll be listening to some guy... and saying, "well, he's fairly intelligent... ahh, he's full of shit!"'
Wondering why Shopify redirected my request on that post URL to http://www.shopify.co.id . Ngghhh, i can't read those sweat post :(
Show HN: Poliana – visualize political influence
Oh, wow, had you not mentioned it I would have guessed that there was a part below the fold.
I have a LTE Nexus 7, with no SIM, so it is basically a WiFi only, and yes, it works. I couldn't install it from F-Droid and I had to use an apk from github, but it worked like a charm and it auto-updates.
Reading the Book of Life in Prehistoric Dung (2013)
I guess you have a better suggestion, and am curious to hear about it.
Hmm... Anyone seen the show "Continuum"?
You should. It's on Netflix. And would instantly raise some red flags for this.
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Can you install Android on a desktop? Then it's not a desktop OS.
It's quite simple.
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Yeah but the DELETE blocking affects any customers on this ISP as well. I am now working on moving to SSL asap.
it would be great if there was a resurgence in the usenet
There used to be a mode to geo-fence data collection, i.e. harvest only outside of a certain area, but I don't see it anymore.
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I think the math is quite favorable to taking YC investment as a +EV decision until quite a late stage in a successful startup's development.

pg wrote about this pretty convincingly here: http://paulgraham.com/equity.html

Unless you are comparing YC against an actual term sheet in your hand with at least 2X better terms, that YC is overwhelmingly likely a good deal. There might be good reasons not to enter YC for some companies, but the 6% equity is rarely the determining one, even for companies with revenue and sustainable Ramen profits.
Um, what? I'm pretty sure text message limits were the design constraint there.
"This is trivially incorrect. If the problem is the creation of a magnum opus, then the solution is creating a magnum opus."

I would say you just proved the point. If the problem is the creation of a magnus opus then it is the wrong problem. Creation of a magnus opus with no further use is pointless and a waste of everyone's time, so don't solve that problem.
twitter is less RSS for humans and more IRC for casual users, with no moderation.
HTTP Origin-Bound Authentication
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So, if I have a keyboard on my tablet that is running Android?

I think the point here is that "desktop" as a location has no real meaning - it's the use case that defines it rely. By desktop system one really means a day-to-day used system that is used for word-processing, web browsing and other standard domestic/work uses (photo editing, spreadsheets, games and such). That's the stuff a desktop system has always done and now you can do that on a phone, phablet, tablet, laptop, desktop or whatever. The hardware form is just about convenience it [no longer] describes a logical difference or significant processing ability [eg my phone has about as much processing power as my desktop (ignoring the GPU), some phones definitely have more]

If you're using your phablet paired with a keyboard for the same uses as others use their [traditionally defined] desktop for then what use is the distinction?

Android can be used on the desktop, but IMO it's not tailored for that and so shouldn't be described as a desktop OS.

The whole "year of Linux on the desktop" thing is about market-share as much as anything; as other have said many people have been using it as a desktop OS for plenty of years.
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Is it possible to import data/interface with Google's My Tracks?
Define "desktop" and we'll tell you. You can run Android on a base system that is connected to a standard desktop monitor, printer, mouse and keyboard.
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The reason (yes, "the" reason, hah!) is because the interpreted languages could be more rapidly developed and, because they were dynamically typed, were able to expand their feature set into something practical and flexible that statically typed languages are still catching up on. It's just much harder to design a good statically typed language without sacrificing features or convenience or hacks that you can get from free-wheeling interpreted languages

Before LLVM, statically typed, compiled languages got bogged down in a lot of stuff that wasn't language design. They still do though.
I would sign up, but your landing page screams spammy marketer.
There's not just that, we just don't use installers in 99% of apps either, which makes installing toolbars tricky.
Great! And although that post was made June 2012 I note it has been maintained and has recent updates.
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Not to mention involves adding a GPG-backed repository, something that this Windows plae imitation can't do.
it's been nerfed so that it doesn't.