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I find it very understandable for people to be wary of radiating materials being brought into a sacred place, not trusting the promises of safety, if the reason was a radiation accident in the first place.
Is there actually that much difference between MongoDB and e.g. Cassandra? The tone of the Call Me Maybe posts about both is quite different, but the bottom line seems to be the same: use CRDTs for everything or you will lose data.
US firm buying my foreign startup, what are the relocation options?
They're a big, public company, we're a 5 person team. Deal is single digits. We all want our team to be transferred in full to US.
Are there any provisions for such as case? H1B takes too long, L1 won't work because they'll need to maintain local presence at the foreign country for this to qualify, I believe (they want everyone back in their HQ).

What are the options?
It'd be awful if this deal was shot down over not being able to do so legally.
currently (just saying)
The problem I have with "the hum" is that it is framed as if there is one hum, where I see no reason to presume there couldn't be thousands of different causes for thousands of different low frequency hums.

The only constant I would expect to find is that some people are more sensitive to low-frequency noises than others.
This is an interesting comment, thank you for the perspective.

I think you mean 'facade' where you wrote 'fasard'? I don't want to assume, though -- it might be a word I don't recognize, or transliteration -- honestly asking.
1. s/specialized/separate/
2. Use SASL, or another authentication protocol to talk to your auth DB.
3. Profit!

If you're trying to solve a fundamental problem like authentication, odds are someone else has already spent a lot of time thinking up a good solution.

Re: LDAP

This may not be as good as a specialized solution, but it's probably a step up from throwing all your data into the same MySQL DB. ;-)

It's not particularly hard, either, just different from what you may be used to.
As a Singaporean, I'm pretty proud of the direction of my government, and I'm pretty surprised by the Haskell/LYAHFGG & C++ namedrops. How did Minister Balakrishnan even find the time to dabble with hardware and programming? These top civil servants are very, very busy!

Great quote about Singapore citizens trusting the government to do their taxes:

"...we introduced electronic tax-filing back in 1998, since ages ago, before anyone else did it, and today, 97% of tax payers file their taxes online. Because we have kept our tax code simple, you do not need to buy Quicken, Intuit or any of such things. Also, because we have automate the collection of information and populate the table for you, you do not need to work quite so hard – it is a little harder to cheat and so 3 in 5 taxpayers do not even bother about filing taxes. They just take in on trust that our Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore has done their sums right. So e-Government works in Singapore."

That said, the 3 verticals of the whole Smart Nation programme (the elderly, transport & data) seem somewhat orthogonal to much of the SV-style explosive-growth consumer apps. Yet those consumer-app areas are where many SV-style fortunes are made and where young tech entrepreneurs want to go - so there's a disconnect between the two directions.

For example, I don't see massive adoption of a new app/device by the elderly happening very easily - they largely (1) don't know English, (2) aren't used to relying on tech so heavily, and (3) won't be able or willing to pay much for it. It tends to be younger people who try new things - and in fact Singaporeans are relatively less adventurous than Americans or other Asian cultures in adopting new apps/services. Things might be different if Singapore were as big as the US, but it isn't. So I wonder how the Smart Nation thing will play out - maybe the biggest customer will be the Singapore government instead of end-users.

(Tangentially, it's personally been a bit frustrating that the VCs that draw on government money seem to prefer e-commerce/B2C apps instead of industry-specific B2B software. The government puts its money where its mouth is, but still relies on VCs to make the picks...and those guys go for hot, mainline trends. So fundraising has been difficult.)
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From 2009 to 2012 I had a distributed database startup that competed with MongoDB. We used Paxos for replication and built the database with on-disk consistency guarantees --- like the ones this article looks for and rightly obsesses over --- in mind.

https://github.com/scalien/scaliendb

Outcome: you've never heard of ScalienDB; MongoDB brilliantly won by winning the hearts and minds of hackers and coders who don't care about such issues, but were able to get started quickly with Mongo (and got cool free cups at meetups). It turns out that's most engineers out there, definitely the initial critical mass to target for a database startup like Mongo.

Btw. the story behind Oracle is similar: early versions were basically write-only; read Ellison's book 'Softwar'. Of course there are other ways to get started: for example DBs coming out of academic research like Vertica seem to avoid this problem; in that case initial funding is basically provided by the gov't and when they create the company to commercialize they're already shooting for Enterprise contracts, skipping the opensource/community building phase of Mongo.
position:fixed is the problem here, not the zoom. It looks neat, I know ...
Politically, humanity's physical environment is considered exterior and stable, but the social environment is almost infinitely plastic and easily influenced by persuasion and rhetoric.

So human politics is far more obviously powerful than science.

It's been a good-enough approximation for most of history, even though in practice it's completely wrong.

Politics is badly in need of a Copernican revolution which puts the physical world at the centre of politics, not the periphery.
I've been hearing it, at varying volumes from time to time. I also describe it as someone leaving a car running a few houses way. Going outside with the sound of the wind, and faraway cars makes it harder to detect. Once I walked a miles radius at 5am in the summer trying to find where it is from.

I assumed it was an all night nightclub. The hum was beat like, like the bass line from some fast dance music. But I've also heard it during the afternoon at home. Sometimes I thought I could hear higher pitched drum beat instead of a hum. I've heard this in two locations. Usually indoors is where it seems the loudest. I like the idea about sea waves, but I think it could be more mechanical in nature. Perhaps radio waves interacting with quartz crystals in bricks, cement or (around here) limestone blocks.

Note, I think this "hum" could be different or the same as the Hummadruz which has been recorded for centuries and is like bees humming. See http://www.northernearth.co.uk/permhum.htm for some more info.

"In 1878 R.E.Bibby, a local musician and composer, recalled from his 1820s childhood a low drone or humming noise heard in suburbs to the south and east of Manchester, especially Gorton, Rusholme and Longsight. It was heard on calm, clear days, usually in the early morning or at dusk. "
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There was no "yet" with Chernobyl. People died within weeks.
Merkel wrote Fortran code for her PhD thesis. [1]

Afaik she approximated the Schrödinger equation to compute the rate of decay of molecules with up to 6 atoms.

This [2] is the last physics paper of her (from 1990). After the wall fell, her interests changed quite a bit... Only political papers from then on.

[1] http://www.file-upload.net/download-9106454/AM-Diss.pdf.html

[2] http://dx.doi.org/10.1002%2Fqua.560380214
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Something.js strikes again!

http://www.developingandstuff.com/2015/03/somethingjs.html
Life expectancy is a tricky statistic to use correctly, because it is significantly dragged lower due to the high rate of death in birth / infancy ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy ). Once that hurdle is gotten over, your life expectancy increases dramatically, so it's not sure as to whether or not Curie actually lived a long life compared to contemporary adults.

Considering that we know that Curie's death was caused by longterm exposure to radiation ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie#Death ), you could reasonably expect her to have lived a much longer life without such exposure.
This bothers me as well. Even tasks as simple as adding a repository are now being "improved" with a curl | sudo bash style setup[1].

However, installing from source with make was (and remains) a mess. It may work if you're dedicated to maintaining one application and (part of) its stack. But even then it usually leads to out of date software and tracking versions by hand.

Many people have this weird aversion to doing basic sysadmin stuff with Linux. What makes it weird is that it's really simple. Often easier than figuring out another deploy system.

(The neckbeard in me blames the popularity of OSX on dev machines.)

[1] https://nodesource.com/blog/nodejs-v012-iojs-and-the-nodesou...
The general advice should be: use PostgreSQL in case you are uncertain what to use. Watch some Youtube video's with Michael Stonebreaker (2014 Turing Award winner) and start getting disillusioned by the NoSQL hype.

Then, try to understand the mess Edgar Codd tried to fix in the '60s and '70s.
If good material can be discovered more efficiently, there will be more opportunities for recursive inspiration. In that case, there would be systemic benefit from ease of discovery, which may require making it easy to create content that guides discovery.
Give me the command line and I'll build anything!
There is some truth in this, yes. On the other hand, maven (mentioned by the author) clearly was very successful at abstracting from the tools we use. I can remember how much time I wasted with build scripts and dependency management and all that before. (And I still do on some other platforms.) The problems only arise if the abstraction is not working well enough. This might indeed be true for containers - there is maybe too much complexity in there that currently can't be properly encapsulated.
The odds are pretty good today that you will go out slowly with a whimper, due to a stroke, heart attack, cancer.

In fact looking at causes of death:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm

Heart disease: 611,105
Cancer: 584,881
Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 149,205
Accidents (unintentional injuries): 130,557
Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 128,978
Alzheimer's disease: 84,767
Diabetes: 75,578
Influenza and Pneumonia: 56,979
Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 47,112
Intentional self-harm (suicide): 41,149

Most of the causes can last a long time.

Even a heart attack might not kill you immediately these days you might linger on for a bit due to timely medical care.

So you better be ready for some suffering just like Ivan Ilyitch.
I find the key is either using a purely online system that relies on the UID* or seperately encrypting the content stored on the card.

* Perhaps even using the UID combined with some encrypted data on card, as the UID can be changed on questionable mifare cards.
So, asking the obvious question: what's the solution to that?
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I think it's fairly patronising to blame poor education for mistrust of government safety assurances with respect to radiation?

I'm not saying that the coffin was insufficient protection, but I know I don't know enough to be sure. So the question is not "am I well informed enough to judge the risk" (and in a country with good education standards and having studied physics to 18 I probably have a relatively decent education) but rather "do i believe that the person who made that judgement was".
haha you're my new hero

YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE MAN! trust the (maven) system
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Have you seen the code written by physicists? Go look up the source code to CERN's ROOT package and browse it's change-log. Some of it quirks can be forgiven for it being incredibly old, but still...
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Would anyone like to adopt the old Wesabe (Yodlee/Mint competitor) open-source code?

http://readwrite.com/2011/02/25/crawl-your-bank-account-with...

https://github.com/wesabe
It could also easily be interpreted to cover that kid accused of making too many connections to the Canadian tax agency's servers back when the heartbleed vulnerability was new.

Computer monkeying could suddenly be tarred as terrorism, in addition to criminal nonsense; it was already hyperbole - I don't even know where to begin on C-51.
"Maven, ivy and sbt are the go-to tools for having your system download unsigned binary data from the internet and run it on your computer."
You should setup a maven repository (Nexus, Artifactory) for your organisation if you want to have more control on binaries.
Seems that artifactory can host docker files: https://www.jfrog.com/confluence/display/RTF/Docker+Reposito...
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make is the least-auditable build tool imaginable. You don't have to obfuscate a Makefile, they come pre-obfuscated; you could put the "own me" commands right there in "plain" Make. Not to mention that it's often easier to tell whether a Java .class file is doing anything nefarious than whether a .c file is. How many sysadmins read the entire source of everything they install anyway?

Maven, on the contrary, is the biggest single source of signed packages around. Every package in maven central has a GPG signature - the exact same gold standard that Debian follows. The problems Debian faces with packaging Hadoop are largely of their own making; Debian was happy to integrate Perl/CPAN into apt, but somehow refuses to do the same with any other language.

> Instead of writing clean, modular architecture, everything these days morphs into a huge mess of interlocked dependencies. Last I checked, the Hadoop classpath was already over 100 jars. I bet it is now 150

That's exactly what clean modular architecture means. Small jars that do one thing well. They're all signed.

Bigtop is indeed terrible for security, but its target audience is people who want a one-stop build solution - not the kind of people who want to build everything themselves and carefully audit it. If you are someone who cares about security, the hadoop jars are right there with pgp signatures in the maven central repository, and the source is there if you want to build it.
Being an Indian (ie: coming from the largest democracy in the world), I have formed the opinion that democracy is a form of government where in theory everybody is happy most of the time but unfortunately what it instead does is keeps everybody equally unhappy, all the time.

Now, whether this is necessarily a bad thing considering the alternatives is debatable but coming to your point, yeah, something like Singapore just cannot happen in a democracy although it is not due to the short-sightedness of the 'large group of people'.

In a proper democracy the minority opinion (note, I said minority opinion, not minorities' opinion) no matter how flawed and unreasonable would still have to be considered. Again, this is not necessarily a bad thing, it just slows things down (in either direction !)
Ask HN: US firm is interested in my foreign startup
They're a big, public company, we're a 5 person bootstrapped team.
Deal is single digits. We all want our team to be transferred in full to US.
Are there any provisions for visas in such as case? H1B takes too long, L1 won't work because they'll need to maintain local presence at the foreign country for this to qualify, I believe (they want everyone back in their HQ).

What are the options? It'd be awful if this deal was shot down over not being able to do so legally.
> Many people have this weird aversion to doing basic sysadmin stuff with Linux. What makes it weird is that it's really simple. Often easier than figuring out another deploy system.

While I agree with the articles main points - the GNU build system is far from simple. Basically an arcane syntax limited to unix-based systems and 5 or 6 100+ page manuals to cover.

It doesn't excuse it - but I think it's easy to see why people turn to curl | sudo bash as the author puts it.
I read this as "NSA data API" and it took me a full 5 seconds of staring, eyebrows raised, at the astronaut to realise my mistake.
Sorry for the late reply. I will take more time to play with Pharo. I read some of your stuff on Reddit and it seems compelling to use for proto-typing. I started reading about Seaside-REST, Teapot, and Amber after following your name to Reddit comments about the Smalltalk Renaissance.

Guys like you make me love HN. You took the time to advocate. So I will take the time to take another look.
:-)

I managed to get haddoop running on a small cluster from scratch Michael Nolls turtorial is a good starting point.

Full stack should mean you can and have used a soldering iron in anger and also have at least a CCNA level of networking.
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I wish we were lucky enough to have a leader with a degree. The current Swedish prime minister worked as a welder and dropped out half way to his degree in social work.
You're right. Written in haste and not proof read.
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This seems like a good application for clojure - accounting with it "never delete or modify information, just add new entries" should map nicely to persistent data structures and immutability as a core philosophy.

Also for fun, probably.
A reading of the literature on in-vivo and in-vitro studies of the effects of flavonoids (the colored components of many fruits and vegetables) on mamamalian biochemistry does suggest that they may have a significant role in maintaining health. I'd like to put it more strongly than that but it's as well to be cautious.
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> As far as I know, it's also still standard practice in
> most companies to either read the source code of open-
> source stuff before deploying it to production (binary
> or build) or get a support contract from someone else
> who has

I'm afraid I have no better, more cogent response for this than 'lol'.
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It works similar here in the Netherlands, although they only seem to do the polling during night, so you can use it during the day. The next day you need a new card.
A logical process that no doubt is a result of being well educated
His brother is Lee Hsien Yang, so his father probably calls him Loong to distinguish him from the brother.
Too bad about the complex template formatting getting in the way of parsing. It sounds like a hard problem to solve from the raw XML too, forcing one to take steps like rendering the documents and extracting the rendered output, solving the template issue since it's now all rendered, but then instead losing the logical structure and instead getting a display-oriented structure.

I also think this is counterintuitive from a project that is about opening the world's information to the masses. You'd think a problem with heavy use of templates -- possibly and ironically making especially the most popular and requested articles harder to parse -- would have been solved by a cleaner version in the dump besides this XML-with-a-Turing-complete-template-language. It sounds like it makes Wikipedia data interchange really tricky, raising the question "who are they dumping for?"
Kind of what I was going to say... The article seems to blame the tools, but there are more secure ways of using these same tools.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9190955
And what happens if you "only" irradiate your hand? Presumably some of the alpha/beta particles can go into your blood and then to the rest of your body?

what damage is being done by holding that grain?
Bash has more "gotchas" to remember, and tends to be less readable.
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This does answer my question in a very satisfactory way.

Since you mention Ferguson, the theory I currently hold is that tensions between the police and the policed are, in practice, inevitable if the two differ in race, ethnicity, language or religion. Through their sheer visibility these differences have more weight than any difference that otherwise exists between the government and those it governs. The only plausible way to resolve this tension that I see is by ensuring the police force of a community is recruited from that community and represents its ethnic and cultural makeup.
Except that Docker explicitly allows and encourages signing of core infrastructure containers.
There is a "not yet" with Fukushima.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disas...

As usual with long-term exposure, cause of death becomes a statistical and actuarial question.

Incidentally, Chernobyl almost sterilised large areas of Europe and Russia. One of the official documentaries explains what would have happened if the initial suicide squad efforts had failed - it would have been far worse than anything in history.
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> How did Minister Balakrishnan even find the time to dabble with hardware and programming? These top civil servants are very, very busy!

He blogs quite a bit about it here: http://vivian.balakrishnan.sg/
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His son Li Hongyi was a product manager at Google:

https://www.linkedin.com/pub/hongyi-li/30/832/161
> What's not to like ?

Program startup times and JVM stacktraces, for one.

Nevertheless I am just getting started with Clojure and really like what I am seeing so far.
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2.5 hours is extremely lucky, in my experience. Normally at least 4 hours and often more like 6 - 8. One of my friends has been without electricity for the past 5 days!

Totally agree that there is a big market here for the Tesla home batteries, depending on the cost vs capacity. I am definitely in the market.
My bad. Sadly or luckily it's close to being exactly on other side of the world from me and while I do use maps to help me place things, this time I didn't or if I have in the past, I've forgotten (it happens).
He also puts a lot of effort into the photos he posts on Facebook, which are remarkably well-composed:

https://www.facebook.com/leehsienloong
it's also still standard practice in most companies to either read the source code of open-source stuff before deploying it to production

Eh, no.
You don't even have to watch the video, it's right there in the article.
At the risk of my karma I'll have to maintain that for companies who are subject to regulation (publicly-traded companies, banks, etc.) what I said is still standard. Unless you have any specific instances to the contrary you're willing to offer?