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I work at Cloudera (although not on Impala). I work on HDFS. Impala was about creating a low-latency SQL engine for Hadoop, so that queries could be done interactively by a human a…

Let's try wikipedia: The three-strikes law significantly increases the prison sentences of persons convicted of a felony who have been previously convicted of two or more violent c…

Three-strikes laws are dumb, but so are you. Take your anti-US agenda somewhere else. I suggest North Korea, China, Venezuela, Iran, Russia, or any of the other countries not allie…

why not just kill them right away? Because evidence might come up later that proves them innocent. Because killing someone deprives them of all of the rest of their life, whereas l…

Most languages that have "traditionally" shipped with a REPL don't feature compilation at all. So yeah-- I guess that's fast? (Before you start, I'm not interested in pedantic argu…

Maybe I missed it, but I didn't find anything on http://golang.org/doc/code.html#PackagePaths that seems to forbid what you're doing. In fact, it says "in practice you can choose a…

You don't really need a REPL when compiles take literally only a second or two. It's only the fact that C++ had a static type system where programs took (literally) hours to compil…

The ChromeBook has been explicitly designed and marketed as a low-cost alternative for people who just want to access the web. Most ChromeBooks are around $100-300. Windows RT mach…

Speaking as someone who lived through that period of time, I think anyone using Win9x would scream.

Yeah. One thing that some people seem to miss is that you can have multiple man pages for a topic-- perhaps one that lays out the general outlines, and one for more specific inform…

In the future, Man in Business Suit Levitating will be the only form of communication.

I have had good luck with OpenSUSE. They package the latest stuff (I am on kernel 3.7.10 now). They're also very community-focused.

I work at Cloudera. We work on Hadoop, HDFS, and other open source technologies full-time.

An internet search will give me many different choices of documentation of unknown provenance, authorship, official status, datedness, accuracy, and comprehensibility. True. But th…

There are lots of ways to bribe, and most of them are legal.

Cupertino already is fairly high-density, at least downtown. And I don't think anyone suggested bulldozing anything, just allowing people to build what they want, which they curren…

If I want an introduction to complex topic, I usually won't use man pages. I will open up a web browser and search. That will give me web pages that have pictures, diagrams, and po…

If corporations are banned from trying to persuade people (i.e., advertising), they'll turn to bribing politicians (i.e. hiring lobbyists). Which is worse? I think that's clear. I …

"They see your mail." Ooh, scary. Email is effectively a postcard. It gets sent in cleartext all over the internet. If you think that email is even slightly private, you are misinf…

Pretty much everywhere in the San Francisco bay area is sunny year round, except San Francisco itself. So if you have seasonal affective disorder, you could always just live in the…

Based on everything I've read, LinkedIn didn't develop this technology. They bought it when they acquired Rapportive (which, by the way, was a Y Combinator startup). Can someone ex…

For some reason, a few people at HN seem to have a hard-on for criticizing LinkedIn. I never hear the same criticism of Facebook or Twitter here, even though their privacy policies…

Yeah! We should artificially push the price of rentals down, so that there will be no incentive to increase supply, ever. I can't see any problems with this plan.

It's Google Island! www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/05/on-google-island/‎

News flash: most technology companies don't really pay dividends. Probably, the main reason is because dividends are taxed at a pretty high rate. It's easier just to keep the money…