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> Funny thing was that our local cable network showed the "extended version" (with the sentry turrets, scenes with Newt's parents, etc) and for years I thought I'd imagined some of those scenes because the extended version wasn't available on video until much later.

Wow. So there WERE sentry guns. For years (pre-Google years) I used to argue that there was a scene with sentry guns, though I don't think that's what I had called them. Those guns were awesome and they had made a huge impression on me. Problem was, no one else could remember seeing them. My family and friends swore I was crazy. So I asked for the uncut version of Aliens for Christmas one year (probably around 91 or 92) and I was so disappointed. No sentry guns. So I just figured everyone else was right. I must have imagined it or was mixing up my films. A few years later I purchased a "special edition extended version" on VHS which, sadly, also had no sentry guns. So that was that. I was wrong, there were no sentry guns, and that was the last I thought of it until now. I knew I saw those damn guns!
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What kind of Javascript framework/libraries are you currently using? What language is your backend primarily in? Looks like an interesting gig.
The analysis is based on this compilation of 101 startup failure post-mortems

https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/startup-failure-post-mortem/
I was in this exact situation two weeks ago. Because Mongo databases tend to have an implicit schema, I used variety.js (https://github.com/variety/variety) to first uncover it for a given collection. I then hand-created a SQL table that corresponds to said collection, using variety.js's output as a guide for what types to use.
I prefer solutions that are local rather than global. For instance - a killfile to let users ignore other users or a keyword filter to block comments they might not want to see, rather than global bans or the fade effect HN has for downvoting.

Unfortunately, some people want open discussion, while other people want bubbles. I would rather people censor themselves than censor other people, and create their own bubbles.
I think that is way too simplistic. Their could be many causes of CFS with one being undiagnosed depression. I my self was on the verge of being diagnosed with CFS after 1 year of being crook and would have been only I lucked out and got tested for a Ricketsia which came back positive. That test is reasonably rare to have done here so I think that's just an example of where people really do have problems but because the symptoms are so common they have not been tested for these rarer things or in the case of the really rare infections are just not known at all medically. On another note I can confirm having had it said to me several times by professionals that it is in your head, how devastating that is to the person being told and careful consideration should before going down that path.
Editors know that a python line ending in a colon must be indented and so indent it automatically. It wouldn't be hard to use the same method to reindent it.
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Crowd Cast is a Tokyo based FinTech startup. Our quest is to build applications that simplify and take the pain out of business processes. Staple, our focus product, is an expense management application that makes it easy for users to enter, manage, and track expenses anywhere on any device (https://staple.jp/).

We are looking for a talented and accomplished iOS developer to join our global engineering team to build on and expand our existing applications to the next level. You should have a strong portfolio of built iOS apps and be confident in working in a small hands on development team.

Our ideal candidate will be comfortable in a startup environment and will bring an energetic, fun and creative approach to their work. Our priority is to hire the best talent and team players, regardless of location, but we prefer those within Asia.

Skills & Requirements

- BS/MS in Computer Science or similar fields

- Previous experience at software company (preferably a startup)

- Proficient in iOS development with examples of apps in the App Store where you were the sole developer

- Hands on experience working with external backend APIs (JSON based)

- Hands on experience with Agile software development process and usage of Github, JIRA, Heroku or similar tools

- Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals, algorithms, and data structures

- Comfortable with B2B systems like Accounting, POS, CRM (QuickBooks API, Square API, Salesforce API) systems

- Comfortable in a small, intense and high growth start-up environment

- Proficiency in Android development too is a plus

Please email: hiring@crowdcast.jp (and put “HN” in the subject)
the difference is that json gets long term adoption/acceptance compared to xml.
Well, you probably can't survive off playing video games, but you could certainly restructure your life around them. You simply stop and ask yourself before any life decision, "How does this maximize my gaming?" Your day-job, your social calendar, your home, your diet -- everything can be optimized to give you the most time and the highest-quality gaming.

Now, maybe games aren't your thing, but this ultimately applies to anything, hedonistic or industrial or altruistic. Whatever is most important to you -- gaming or family or mountain climbing or mathematics or civil rights -- you can restructure you life to maximize the amount of time or impact you have on that one thing. It doesn't really matter if it pays the bills.
The Abyss and Avatar were both made after Aliens. How can Cameron reusing themes from Aliens in those movies be a criticism of Aliens?
Yep, and even in scaling out [1].

The main problem of MongoDB is that they tried to make a general purpose NoSQL database. The thing is that this is the area that RDBMS are trying to solve from the beginning. There are decades of research and solving problems. When you're using MongoDB you're essentially going back in evolution to 60-70s when hierarchical databases were used[2] and you're running into problems that were already addressed in RDBMS decades ago (for example locking vs MVCC[3]).

The original NoSQL was created to solve very specific type of data storage (originally in terabytes+ range, that you can process using highly parallelizeable map&reduce operations) and of course you're trading something in return (most of the time database consistency). There's no silver bullet solution.

The worst reason for picking MongoDB database though is because of storing data as JSON. Many companies that do that (including mine) believe DBAs just are slowing them down, so by picking a schema-less database they can release new features faster. They don't realize that they will need to still enforce schema in their applications and that is actually much harder and can become very ugly. Otherwise the data will resemble a pig sty.

Personally I'm not too enthusiastic about JSON in PostgreSQL, but I guess it gives flexibility as of what data schema should be enforced and what not. And there's always an option to migrate to use schema.

[1] http://www.datastax.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/WP-Benchm...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_database_model

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiversion_concurrency_contr...
Wow, I didn't realize that was in the shorter version - I haven't watched that version in a long time. You're right: what an odd choice.

The other cuts make sense. They're great scenes that make the movie better but they're not strictly necessary.
For what it's worth, that's not actually Churchill, though it's frequently attributed to him[0].

Nevertheless, it's an appropriate remark.

[0] https://richardlangworth.com/democracy
>> Why do bars have parking lots?

>Because it's apparently not banned, and even if it was, someone would stand to make money by providing said lot next to a bar.

Not only isn't it banned, it's required. American cities require enough parking for all commercial uses to match the absolute largest amount of car drivers that might want to visit simultaneously on the busiest day of the year if parking is assumed to be absolutely free. [0] The Institute for Transportation Engineers publishes a manual of uses with maximum imaginable parking 'generation' and most cities follow it closely.

Since parking is a pure private good, it's an obvious thing to leave to free markets to decide how much to provide, but the Soviet mentality of city planners is firm. Of all the bad rules and plans Americans impose on their cities, minimum parking requirements are the single most destructive. Parking socialism is the biggest reason among many why American cities are the ugliest with the worst quality of life among all first world cities.

Bizarrely even bars are required to make driving alone the best way to access their establishments. And that requirement is firm in the law.

[0] http://www.uctc.net/papers/351.pdf
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Collective Digital Studio -- San Francisco (REMOTE could be an option)

We have a Node.js and ReactJS application sitting in front of a Clojure API and we need another great Javascript developer to help on the middleware and front end. Collective Digital Studio is an online video network that represents talent like RocketJump and Epic Meal Time and the tech team gets to pour over crazy amount of data from YouTube / Facebook / Vine / etc... and make products like dashboards and apps that help our team and talent do their jobs better. Online video is a growing and exciting industry and we'd love to hear from you!

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But it's not, the Output is Self not Self + 'static
That is a great counterpoint to this comment I saw recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9126237
The sentry rifle purchase is impressive! Next time you have disposable income, you could always get one of the sentry gun computers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_Compass

There's one in the Smithsonian Air & Space museum in Washington DC if you're in the area and prefer to window-shop without buying. :)
I've got an electric kettle (glass) that will boil 1.7L in about 4 minutes. It even shuts off it self off when the water boils. Works very well, not bulky at all. It is this one: http://www.amazon.com/Hamilton-Beach-40865-Electric-1-7-Lite...
Ah yes, the failure of white boards to catch on.
By "work against an instance", do you mean that you instantiate the instance in the class-level methods? So at most, the class-level methods are just wrappers around the instance methods, emulating a singleton?
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"I don't know where you got your information, but it wasn't from any experience with military."

I spent 15 months of conscription in one of those "small team, heavy backpack, green beret"-type units.

A sniper operates as part of a self-sustaining team to take down high value targets, often trough infiltration. It's self explanatory why a real sniper wouldn't ask for permission nor why no one would ever, despite what the movies tell you, tell them to "take the shot". Like in any high risk activity you are the one who is going to have to deal with the consequences of your actions and should therefor operate, as much as possible, at your own discretion.

These guys aren't snipers, they are sharpshooters on guard duty. They might as well be outsourced to some guy with a playstation controller in the future.

"Virtually everything the US military teaches is contrary to what you've stated."

I doubt that. On the other hand the US military isn't exactly known for being competent.
Also anecdotally: as a young teenager I'd remember scenes from movies like Aliens in order to psyche myself up for doing things that were scary. Like: "Okay, self. You can go into that dark basement. It's scary, but not as scary as a bunch of marines going into an alien-infested death trap."

Don't get me wrong: Aliens was really freaking scary to me. Probably the most a movie has ever scared me. As soon as they encounter the first xenomorph it's pretty much sheer terror for the next hour.
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Were they Black, Asian or White?

Asian and white.

Were they Black, Asian or White?

All of the above.
Actually we have no idea whether it helped or not. It may have helped a lot, just that there were too many other forces fighting against it. I'd imagine a video like this could serve as something to get the employees talking (even if they bash it).
Yes, that has always been the promise of technology, to deliver people from tedium. The unanswered question, if people aren't really needed to do 'work' (giving them the free time) where or how do people earn a living?

Moreover, as machines/automation/computers make us more efficient, this hasn't translated into free time individually but rather made people previously employable, unemployable. So the free time that we might think is due us does't come to us, but is diverted to other people up to a point those other people aren't employed and the people who remain employed work just as long as before.

So, i guess the hope is that as people become redundant at work, that there will be a mechanism to compensate people for their lost earning power. Keep in mind, it's not like the world would switch over on a Monday --it would be gradual and that means lots of people falling through the cracks, _if_ a solution was found.
Ah .. it was the rain tapping the window? That makes more sense now.

I think I did get the part where he's repressing his emotions, etc. Not even properly "crying" over his ended marriage.

Still the setting and the narration hit me as pretty dark. If this was made into a short anime film, I can't help but imagine it would be one of those dark silent films.
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Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8908463
I'm asking whether the popularity of a policy morally justifies it. I guess you think Jim Crow was morally justified.

Or to take a contemporary example, for reasons I don't understand Indians really seem to dislike Africans. I guess if we get Jim Krishna laws with popular support, you'll favor them also?

Better than the capitalism, which has no morals at all outside what society enforces upon it.

Yet capitalists view Indians and Africans as having "equal rights and are people too", unlike the protectionists.
Perhaps you'd care to elaborate on exactly what the cliches were? Cameron intended to make the early parts with the colonial marines feel like a Vietnam movie, where you worry that the soldiers' lack of discipline and seriousness is going to lead to tears. I'm not sure I'd call that a cliche. Honestly, I think the sound the pulse rifles make is sufficient to earn Aliens a place in cinema history.
Sure, I'll change it around to have the option to use instantiated PSpace.

As for relying on probabilities, check out Naive Bayes. Hidden Markov Models also rely on probabilities, rather than raw counts.

Thanks for the feedback!
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> And yet, maybe those men were actually farmers, producing an irrigation ditch to produce the food they need to feed their families

I doubt that farmers in Afghanistan are idiots.

They will know that because farmers almost never work in the middle of the night digging right next to the road, and that bomber planters almost always work in the middle of the night digging right next to the road, that it is very very very dangerous to dig by the side of the road in the middle of the night.

Farmers who, for some bizarre reason, have decided that they want to dig an irrigation ditch right next to the road in the middle of the night are going to make sure that the Marines in the area know the farmers will be out at that location at that time.

The war has been a major part of the farmers' lives for many years. They know how it works.
It does go beyond what Prolly offers. I've not heard of that Prob Distr being modeled as monads. I'll have to look into it. Thanks!
So you watch no tv shows that show people in private places?
Ever notice how companies like General Motors & Microsoft like to make "concept" stuff like this, while companies like Apple and Tesla don't bother?

Who's actually delivering on great stuff? Companies that talk about it, or those who just clam up and get to work?
"A poor-middle class guy gets a ticket, and it can affect their ability to pay rent."

Working class people in NYC can't afford cars whether they violate the law and pay fines or not. I don't know how it works in places that require everyone to own a car because there are no alternatives, but NYC has good walking and transit.
> just as we tend to overestimate how "adult" our children really are.

...who does this? Who, anywhere, does this?
Totally agree. Our products target market consists of experts in the relevant domain. Without having someone that can talk shop and show efficiency gains for real scenarios, I feel like we would be shown the door.
Haha great minds think alike! We've got a bookmarklet already: http://genius.com/bookmarklet (you can only see the page if you're a beta tester) and a chrome extension coming that will tell you when you browse to a page that's already been annotated and let you switch to the annotated version. It's pretty cool stuff!
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My whole family uses Ubuntu. There really very little hand holding, it just works. I actually spent more time hand holding with my partner had a Mac. When that machine died, we decided to go back to Ubuntu and a Lenovo thinkpad. It was a good choice.
Anyone that has kids doesn't has time-choice compared with those who don't. I'd guess 3+ hours a day average, less weekdays and more on weekends.

Combine that with poor and there really isn't much time available outside sleep.
Yes, I know what reproducible builds are. Debian, and FreeBSD have them for default configurations, and OpenBSD is working towards that direction. However, FreeBSD and OpenBSD also make it easy for a user to customize their builds through well-documented commands. The two goals are not mutually exclusive, but the decisions made by your software make that hard.

Your argument about packages being Scheme objects completely misses the point. How are the configuration options maintained between versions? With systems like FreeBSD, the package build configurations are saved elsewhere. This means that when I do update, my configuration options are saved, without me needing to patch the build recipe every time a new version's released.

Yes, I know I don't need a package server if I'm just pulling packages other people wrote, and all that software plays nicely together. There are a lot of cases, though, that require that different machines have mutually incompatible configurations. For example, your webservers could all be nginx, except for the two servers in the corner that are serving up an old mod_perl app. Having a server that can serve packages and dependency chains for these two cases can be invaluable. For that, I'm going to need a server that my machines can poll to figure out what packages are indeed available. From everything you've stated, guix doesn't have that capability.

Transactional maintenance is definitely interesting, and something I'd love to see other OSes do. Per-user package installation, on the other hand, is something a lot of other packaging systems have. NetBSD's pkgsrc, Gentoo's build system, etc, all support it without any problem. Your system, requires what should be metadata -- package build instructions -- to be intermingled with code -- the package manager program. Additionally, its querying capabilities seem lacking; there doesn't seem, for example, to be any option to figure out what package installed a particular file. Additionally, there is no way for a systems administrator to easily audit those packages installed by users; if a user is running an insecure, out of date program because they haven't done an update in six months, this could lead to some pretty big problems.

I know that the package list is a collection of scheme modules. At the same time, those modules almost certainly are not interwoven into the base guix system. Additionally, there are many packages, like daemons, suid software, etc, that will need to be updated by the root user. Furthermore, as vulnerabilities like heartbleed and shellshock have shown, there are times when one can't wait for scheduled releases to push patch updates. Intermeshing the software from the data is just going to lead to problems.
Good for the founders. BTW, although I used to really enjoy Prismatic, I stopped using it because I did not like the Twitter permissions it required on signup (ability to post using your account, etc.). I have been systematically reviewing mobile apps and web apps I use and dropping those that require privileges that don't seem reasonable to me.
Nice, that was like clockwork!
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Oleg's Hansei is also very worth checking out

http://okmij.org/ftp/kakuritu/
I want to ask Timothy Kudo if there was anything else he knew about the men digging by the side of the road that indicated to him that they were planting a bomb. Because if not, he's just a murderer. By the description in that article, he did not have nearly enough information to decide that those men should die.

America was founded on the principle of "innocent until proven guilty". Timothy Kudo was acting as judge and jury for these men and found them guilty with almost no evidence. There are numerous reasons why someone might be digging next to the road at night.

It's only by chance that he happened to be right. He uses the phrase "good shoot, bad result", but if that is the standard he's using for "good shoot", I wonder how many of his kills were "bad shoot, good result".

And it's ridiculous to isolate the responsibility for this kind of action to the soldiers. This is on everyone who accept this as okay--the voters who vote for warmongering politicians, the politicians who start wars and create decision policies that say a shot like this is okay, the officers who give the orders, and the troops on the ground that follow them.