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Yeah, great question and good points.

1. GUN is embedded. Meaning there is no "database server/process" to run, it gets included into your app server as a library. This means less configuration and maintenance.

2. GUN is a graph database. Meaning you can have both relational and document structured data. I'm not sure if CouchDB has added this yet, last time I checked (several years ago) it was only NoSQL.

3. GUN is not stable/production ready yet, and it is javascript only currently. Which is pretty limiting as of now, but that will change later.

CouchDB, Riak, Cassandra all try to be master-master, which is good. Unfortunately, in my personal experience, they have also been much more complicated to start using. I'm hoping gun will be easier to roll with. If you're already using CouchDB and happy, you probably shouldn't switch.

Any other questions?
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I always wanted a copy of this when it was recommended on my Comp Sys Engineering B.Eng but never could afford it at the time.

I'm tempted to buy a copy now even though the closest I get to electronics these days is configuring my router.

//edit//$120! It was £20 when it was recommended on my course in 1990 (IIRC).
Well if I can get the JSX compiler to give me a hook every time it finds an "html" block, and to let me replace it with my own content, then that would work fine I guess. Then it'd be a matter of getting JSX to recognise haml syntax as html.
Michael Arrington was going on about making a similar product, the Crunchpad for a couple of years before. Still it was Apple that actually built a decent product.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JooJoo#Crunchpad
While that sounds like a reasonable hiring approach most of the contractors I know (in the UK and Ireland) wouldn't take permanency because contractors earn significantly more. Maybe it's a bit different in the US though.
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No, it's not. It's not even in the top ten.
Another Thinkpad (X230) owner here. Mine has an SSD and works really well, and I get a replaceable battery which I wouldn't with an Air. However -- my wife wouldn't consider buying one because of the quality of the display.

I suspect Macbook Airs sell well because they're designed with a wide swathe of people in mind.
I'm a startup founder and while this had been our initial approach to evaluating new engineers, our payroll company, PayChex, has specifically advised us to NOT do this. Why? Because it sends a red flag to the IRS to come after us for taxes for the period when they were a contractor.

Crazily enough PayChex has told us that the real solution here is for us to "sign" the person over to a contracting company so we can hire them thru the contracting company for the evaluation period. Yes we'll pay more for them since we have to pay that company's markup but we won't get gone after by the IRS. And, yes, it adds another layer of BS / paperwork. End result? We've hired no one because of this - its too hard to vet engineers without seeing their work. Sigh.
Huh. Google maps on iOS focuses on a totally different location. Thanks.
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The thing I find is that ever time the HTML5 window changes size is that it appears to drop all data and start loading again.

So my old tactic of open 5 tabs, maximise and watch one by one is completely nerfed
One thing I've wondered is why companies hire people one at a time.

Barely anyone works alone on anything, yet to decide whether to hire someone, you invite people individually through a funnel process and expect them to be able to work together. The best teams are not necessarily the ones with the most Ivy Leaguers on them.

Why don't more companies let the applicants self-organise, and then hire the best teams?
Ask HN: Is a degree in computer science necessary? and how useful?
Hi HN,

I'm an Italian student attending last year of high school and I'm in the middle of choosing the university.

Right now the degrees I'm considering are: applied math, informatics (the most similar to computer science we have in Italy) and informatics engineering.

I've been doing development for a number of years (mostly javascript, both server and client side) and lately I've started doing some freelancing in my free time.

I'm a bit confused and would like to know from people that have already been through this a few opinions:

1-) I've learned everything by myself reading on the internet and I feel like what I miss mostly is not learning a new language but more math, algorithms and project solving. To get this sort of knowledge is a degree in computer science necessary or I can get it easily through other degrees like "applied math" which I think is very interesting?

2-) I like what I do right now and ideally I would like to keep doing this as a work. When searching for a development job is a degree in computer science a requirement or experience/projects are valued more

Thanks!
I gave my original to my dad--who loves it and this is someone who could never really use a computer. Given that I'm tech support, best present (for me) that I ever gave :-) If I hadn't given it away I suspect I'd still be using it and just thinking about upgrading.

I do still buy magazines--but very selectively. Partly because, oddly, I can get some paper magazines cheaper than I can get digital subscriptions. I also just prefer flipping through some magazines than sitting down to read them digitally.
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It still blows my mind they're pushing for stuff like this when it's been admitted already that the Paris terrorists, Lee Rigby's killer and other such perpetrators were already under surveillance by intelligence agencies. They already had all the data they needed, they just didn't leverage it correctly.

There's just no legitimate reason to increase surveillance powers even more. This is a weak, weak argument.
> The only thing I can think of is that it's hard to synchronize the discount of an entire industry, and nobody wants to go first. Having a local currency and printing more money allows you to do that across the board.

Not only that, but if you want to "lower the prices in Greece" (i.e. deflation), you would have to lower the wages of everyone at the same time. That is politically very hard to do.
EDIT: did anyone persuade you to run Linux by using words like "Micro$haft"? Did anyone persuade you that some Apple functionality was sub-optimal by calling you a "fanboi"? /EDIT

There are broadly speaking three groups of people.

i) those who get vaccinations

ii) those who are unsure

iii) those who are anti vaccination

People sometimes assume that the people in group ii and in group iii and are deluded idiots who ignore all the evidence. Let's look at a real example of mass non-vaccination -- the MMR Autism hoax.

This involved a real but corrupt scientist who wrote a scientific paper but used faked data and published that paper in a respected medical journal, although they later withdrew it. That's not people believing in Unicorns! That's people thinking there's some scientific reason not to get that vaccination. Newspapers with their terrible reporting of science fed that fear. When the paper was retracted by the journal people don't know if that's because it's true but there's a technicality, or if it's false. At the point people were not aware of Andrew Wakefield's criminal corrupt behaviour.

Now try putting yourself in their position. Remember that Wakefield is still a scientist at that point; that although the paper is retracted you didn't know about the faked data. You have a bunch of your friends worried about whether they should get that vaccine or not, or whether they should get single vaccines instead of MMR. There are starting to be conflicting stories in the newspapers. And then, a group starts a website and members of that group start calling you a fucking idiot for even considering not vaccinating your child. They compare you to flat earthers and Yeti-watchers and alien abduction kooks. You know you're not like that, so already you've started to reject what they're saying. Some of your friends are sympathetic to you, reinforcing your doubts with phrases like "maybe there's nothing to it, but look at Bob - he was fine, he got the vaccine, and now he's Autistic" or "maybe there isn't anything to it but measles isn't that bad and do you really want to risk Autism" (and remember weak anecdotal evidence is rife on HN; and at least on HN user has suggested that measles isn't that serious).

I believe that mockery here pushes people away from information about vaccination and towards misinformation.

This example is tricky because of "hindsight bias". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindsight_bias

This is the best document about the crook Andrew Wakefield -
http://tallguywrites.livejournal.com/148012.html

You might say that if you focus the mocking on group iii that people in group ii would want to avoid them. I think that people in group ii would feel themselves to be the target.

Also don't forget that people are not rational even when they claim to be. There are a bunch of areas where the science is very much clearer than in the early days of MMR (climate change) and you still have denialists who trot out arguments created by shills paid by a few large companies - the same shills that were used by the tobacco industry using the same tactics that delayed smoking controls for so long.
Oh yes, LVM is abhorrent, along with mdadm.

Thats why I'm not so happy about the direction the tools are going with BTRFS. If ZFS isn't around, LVM is your only real option.

However, RHEL usually sets up LVM, so you might as well use it.
I'm a little unclear what "success" is. Does the quote just mean within 18 months 50% of employees have left the company? Surely it doesn't mean that 50% of employees are getting fired after 18 months. A median employment length of 18 months seems low but ultimately within a reasonable range to me.
In reality though it's a good recommendation (for your friend, not you), it just seems odd if you have a particular mental model of what a recommendation should be like, which this violates.

As you say the demographic that watches SVU is likely to have kids that watch Barney and may not be aware that it's on Netflix, so this is a good recomendation for parents even if they won't watch it immediately after some late night SVU binge but rather the next day with their kids.
> I've been wearing glasses since I was 9. By now they're a part of my face and I literally look weird without them.

Try rimless glasses ;)
Looks like this was an April Fool's post from 2013[0], but it made me smile.

[0] - http://blogs.atlassian.com/2013/03/jira-jr/
In my opinion these are not higher-order Venn diagrams, but just Venn diagrams with a higher number of sets than 3.

What I image a higher-order Venn diagrams are about is Venn diagrams whose elements are lower-order Venn diagrams as elements instead of sets (just as higher-order homotopies or higher-order categories).
A baffling parable. People who don't vaccinate are not social excluded - they tend to huddle in hotspots of unvaccination. By ostrasizing them you just make their views stronger - you cut them off from facts and let them stew in made up nonsense.
- Leave something in better condition than you found it

- Take a little extra time to be thorough

- Nullius In Verba (On the word of no-one) i.e. See for yourself
Check out my dev environment setup scripts here:

https://github.com/duncan-bayne/mint-setup

Nothing fancy (no Chef or similar, just a few shell scripts) but may give you some ideas. I most recently used them a few days ago to provision an old MacBook Pro as a spare dev machine at work.

I've a similar thing (more of a work in progress than the above Mint stuff) for FreeBSD:

https://github.com/duncan-bayne/freebsd-setup/
I don't know if I'm convinced "making contract work the default" is the right solution. But I do agree the lines should be blurred in terms of how companies approach their "hiring process". Companies won't change unless they perceive the change as bringing benefits to the company (ie. saving or making money). I think there will need to be some major success stories before we see widespread adoption of dramatically new hiring policies.
There's a mixin proposal in the react-future repo:

https://github.com/reactjs/react-future/blob/master/01%20-%2...
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> That said, I've been wearing glasses since I was 9. By now they're a part of my face and I literally look weird without them.

I know the feeling. I got my first glasses with 5, then had a pause between 6 and 8 and have worn them since then all the time. If my eyesight would have been in your range ("can exist without glasses") I'm not sure if I would have done the surgery, but being blind without glasses convinced me that looking weird is a far lesser evil.

> What was the surgery like? The idea of something going in my eyes always terrified me.

I had the same thoughts, but the surgery was completely harmless. The "real" surgery took something like 20 seconds. The doctor said "now we insert the lens", then it got a bit bright, then dark and then he said "finished" and did the same thing with the other eye. The preparations were far longer. I had to take eye drops for a few days, then on the day of the surgery they have to lay an IV (for safety purposes - the surgery was done in local anesthesia, but there was the option of falling back to general anesthesia if they had to), then they have to attach all the monitoring equipment and so on .. so, the whole surgery was maybe an hour, but the part you would call surgery was very short.

Probably interesting: I didn't do LASIK, but this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implantable_collamer_lens - you cannot get LASIK if you are above -8 diopter on one eye (or at least my doctors said they wouldn't do it, too risky)
Looks more like the camera was rotated with the keyboard, too, not the mouse.
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Because often you are not hiring a team, you only have so much work/budget. And if you do, odds are you will need to break up the team a short while afterwards for some other needs. And you want to merge them into existing teams anyways, to not lose institutional knowledge.

I think almost all "hire a team" hirings happen as aquihires - if the team has proven that they can deliver something over time - great, buy their company.

I dont see how ability to organise as a team could be done in a short enough time that you could evaluate them on anything other than "is someone in the group good at organising a team". At which point I'd probably just want to hire that guy anyways, because I know I can split them off and have him organise another team too.
I remember at one point Real Player had a redesign, it was sleek, well integrated and could stream all kinds of content very appropriately.
I didn't want to call OP out, I was just surprised that he was himself surprised by the dichotomy between Zuckerberg public stance and Facebook actions.

And yes I'm glad this kind of behavior is exposed but I also don't expect companies to be freedom warriors.
Yeay, another opportunity to rehash the tired discussion on SE's policies. I'm sure it won't be filled with the same arguments as all the other threads /s
> But IMO iTunes is actually one of the less-bad recent Apple software screw-ups

I would argue the peak in bug severity was 11.0, which randomly deleted podcasts: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5324634?tstart=0

For me that meant 30 GB of podcasts gone, most of which I can't download again (publisher went broke, original download required payments etc.) Sigh. I used to be a big fan of iTunes as well.
Know more about EU set up but the reality is that there is a lot of infrastructure costs and some fraud as well (~4.04bsp @$101 average). So costs for ~$2000 in fees can be up to ~$400.
Signature cards are not secure whereas EMV cards hit a 0.42bsp fraud rate ($148 average).

Of course still room for profit but the above numbers show why merchants are interested in EU fees and security.
France has a lot of troops in africa, protecting civilians whenever a civil war erupts ( like in operation licorne in cote d'ivoire) , or more recently in mali, to fight against djihadist groups spreading chaos.

This article reads like propaganda to me. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that france still has unjustified commercial priviledges,espeically in the oil business, but the monetary things reads like a complete misunderstanding of central bank monetary stability policies ( franc cfa is exceptionnaly stable compared to the poor politicial stability of the area).
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I can't recall which article mentioned that this industry was very welcoming to new opportunities and features (one example was having seekable thumbnails).
I no longer just believe what I'm presented with - I have to debug, dig deeper, look beneath the covers and find out what is causing the phenomenon. My wife often complains, but once I get that debugger fired up and start .. slowly .. stepping things through, it all comes out in the end.
Relatedly, I still have my copy of this:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61TlqCEt%2BBL._SX300_....
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> "And unless one’s situation is particularly dire, no one really has to wear glasses anymore; alternatives like contacts and LASIK are there for the choosing"

As a long time glasses wearer, I don't agree with this. For me contacts were a pain, literally and figuratively. I always found them slightly uncomfortable, with the constant threat of potentially devastating eye infection. As far as laser surgery, like all surgery, can have side effects or complications ranging from minor to life changing. Besides, the idea of melting my eyeballs never much appealed! The long term effects were not well understood either, although that is probably not true anymore.
If losing France would mean an EU embargo - which is a bit doubtful IMO - that would be more significant. But I don't think it's feasible to say that France could prevent a former colony from selling oil when we see that the so-called Islamic State in Syria and Iraq - way beyond pariah - makes significant profits in oil sales.

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/perspective/analysis/2014/08...
I did not know that! That explains a lot of the memory performance problems I was having (structs being moved to the heap...icky); lambdas are sneaky little turds.

I solved the problem by avoiding lambdas altogether in code where performance is a concern, using delegates instead and ensuring all arguments are passed in rather than closed on (so structs would remain structs, GC pressure is avoided).
Same here! Lancaster Estates
You could also move iOS device sync out of iTunes. It doesn't even make sense that we use iTunes to sync content that comes from iPhoto.app, it might just as well be a core OS feature. After all, we have Handoff etc. built into OS X now...
This actually makes sense; the porn industry has much higher earnings per user and hence a much greater loss due to lower conversion for those who don't have Flash installed. So for them, it's a "my hair is on fire" kind of thing. Whereas for Youtube et al., it's a nice-to-have.
IANAA && IANAL but maybe you shouldn't take your payroll company's word for this. I would guess if you meet your tax obligations and employment law obligations you should be ok. Maybe get a second (and third) opinion??
95% of what's socially valuable is feeling like an equal -- that means edX videos, Khan Academy, Coursera, YouTube, live streaming, backup software, immersive games, etc.
> In 2012, for example, consulting firm Leadership IQ announced it had tracked 20,000 new hires over time and discovered that 46% of them had failed within 18 months. In other words, most recruiting practices are about as effective as a coin toss.

This does not take into account amount of candidates that have been rejected.
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Undoubtedly[1].

[1] http://www.space.com/21983-black-hole-rips-and-whips-galacti...
> * 39.9% gross margins

In this day and age that's really unbelievable.
I remember Netflix recommending a whole bunch of random cartons and The Sons of Anarchy for my 4 year old daughter on her profile.
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Hah, the player is the least of my issues with the service. And I hope this means they won't get rid of the Flash option altogether.
I was looking for such a thing for ages and never came even near that list.
I really wouldn't not hire because of the chance of being audited, that seems like a pretty disproportionate response. May add complications, but if you're that worried, you can always hire people full time on an explicit trial basis.
That's not what I'm saying at all. Don't mistake me for an atheist.

I'm saying that without the ability to even vaguely define what a "God" is the question "does God exist?" is a non-question.

Sure you can define God as the 'metaphysically ultimate being' but that's a cop-out definition that means nothing. 'Ultimate' just means there isn't another one after that... ranked assumedly by some magical badassery rating.

I might as well ask you "is there a Fnooob?" on the basis that Fnooob is the metaphysically penultimate being. You have no basis on which to answer the question because the question is nonsense.

We're all familiar with stories about various gods because we've been fed them since childhood, and that familiarity makes us think we know what they are, but we really don't.
I found the email of the contact info the the end of the report very annoying.

>paxton1@apple.com
>hoover1@apple.com

Does Apple forcing everyone to use name only (prohibit use of dash and underscore? ) and keep addning number if the username is used?
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"They would have to get all their pieces from you"

If you're suggesting that it's only copyright violation if you download a complete work from somebody, you're flat out wrong.
> painful to watch

How so?
thanks, I didn't mean to fault the author, I was just trying to be helpful to the casual readers.
This lack of full chess rules implementation really grates on me.

As someone said on proggit, this claim is similar to claiming to be the fastest 100m runner, except you ran 70 yards.

There should be an ongoing challenge to implement a full chess rule spec in as small a program as possible.

FIDE rulebook(warts and all) is one place to start: http://www.fide.com/component/handbook/?id=124&view=article
You are correct, the program does not follow all the rules of Chess, but I think we can celebrate a small technical achievement without getting too bogged down in defining what exactly a Chess program is.
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For development, Linux for sure. OS X just annoys the hell out of me. The MBP hardware is good, but for the last few years there are some very good high-end Linux laptops as well.

I personally use the Dell XPS 15: http://amzn.to/1EOPJtB
I did chuckle, then I looked at the source. It's not quite the same as the pot calling the kettle black, but you may want to strip out all that unused bloat before ripping on someone else's work.