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So far Sqitch has been an absolute nightmare for production deployments, particularly if you have to change something in history before a tag occurs. Not to mention merging, which invariably always generates a conflict in the plan file.
And it is those operations that are actually challenging and in need of optimisation. Questions like "what country is the point in?" can be horribly slow if all you have is one big geometry with millions of points. Bounding box operations can be made fast by just using a normal index.
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As chief scientist at a start up company in the 90's I had to occasionally attend standardization meetings to protect our products. This included some of the very early CORBA meetings. Without participating, we risked being non-compiant with evolving standards in our space and so I had to attend and keep up with the directions things were going.

Companies like DEC, HP, and IBM might send five or six people to the important meetings and consequently it was easier for them to influence the direction of standards in a way that favored the architectures of their products. While I met a few, very bright, systems architects actually interested in coming up with a design that would provide the benefits of industry-wide standards, many of the participants couldn't grasp good design or simply acted in a partisan way for the sole good of their own company. What struck me was that there were mostly "goers" not "doers" attending these meetings. The organizations real developers and architects were busy working on real products, too busy to attend the excruciating standards meetings. The goers on the other hand might be from the "planning" organizations in these large companies. These planners often had very little background as developers and little insight into realistic requirements.

At the CORBA meetings, powerful members couldn't agree on the lowest levels of the protocol. Would it run over UDP? or TCP? what about IP vs Token Ring vs OSI networking architectures. At a slightly higher level some companies had their own, completely incompatible, RPC, data marshaling, and security efforts well under way and they simply wouldn't sign off on any standardization below the Application or Presentation layers of the protocol. This was crazy; CORBA was burdened with an architecture requiring standardization at the application layer between products that couldn't actually communicate with each other.

Hopelessly deadlocked at the most fundamental communication levels, the key people involved in CORBA needed progress to keep CORBA alive, so CORBA moved forward on standardization of things like nested distributed transactions--trying to run before they could walk.
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I used to work on the algo-trading desk of a big brokerage firm (so writing trading algorithms that execute other people's orders for them), and I have to say almost always if someone sends a market order, it would be safer for them if they sent the same thing as an aggressive IOC ("Immediate or Cancel") limit order. The IOC flag gives similar semantics to a market order (in that no portion of your order is going to stay on the book if it's unfilled), but you are guaranteed to execute no worse than the limit you have set. This is clearly way better in situations where the market has big dislocations.
Thanks, I have to dig in and see how much of an issue missing library integration in my case would cause.
They do, but they make it easy to circumvent.
Having visited San Francisco for a good stretch, I can affirm there are some parallels. The weather in Austin is a bit more to my liking though. San Fran does have the plus of being within driving distance of ocean beaches though, and I can't claim Texas or Austin has anything equivalent.
tldr;

While all of us could list hundreds of unique reasons
why we do virtually anything, our research shows most of
them can be neatly grouped into six fundamental motives:

Play
Purpose
Potential
Emotional pressure
Economic pressure
Inertia

The first three boost performance, the latter destroy it.
> If only I'd had the vision.

And the ability to execute, and the confidence to risk your livelihood.
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Do you have the thesis or publications of their findings. I'd be interested to see what they discovered after two years.
I used it for about the same period on the Commodore 64. On a 64K 1Mhz machine, it compiled faster than any tool I use today does on a 3Ghz machine. The resulting code was compact enough to make 64K seem like a lot of memory and drastically faster than using the built-in BASIC.
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I've been on the science side of a number of FDA clinical trials for a few years now.

The FDA is too conservative with many metrics, and too aggressive with others. The clinical trial pipeline is tortuously slow for everyone involved-- the EU equivalent agency has done a lot to accelerate the process fruitfully. Eclipsing these FDA malregulations is the problem of transparency; if the FDA forced clinical trials to publish 100% of their data rather than only the positive results, we'd have a better medicine producing industry.
Sure. Dawkins himself has addressed it, so I'll just let him speak for himself: http://www.skeptics.com.au/resources/articles/the-informatio...

I found this by Googling for, "dawkins give an example of a genetic mutation or an evolutionary process which can be seen to increase the information in the genome". It was the top result.

Y'know, we live in an age of unprecedented access to information. It really is remarkable. At no time in human history has more information been more available to more people for less effort. Why, in this age, would you want to remain willfully ignorant?
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First part of the tutorial : http://sonnylab.com/anchor/blog/posts/tomato-timer-app-react...
I imagine museum amber was not originally collected scientifically. The most beautiful examples were preserved - those with large insects in them. Any cloudy or obscured specimens got discarded as unworthy. That would be, any with unrecognized feathers, dismissed as flaws.
For what it's worth, part of the reason I find this question hard to answer is not because I find it complicated, but because I find it very simple; it's as if you asked "why is 1 > 0?". To which the answer is "because that's how we define 1 and 0". Why is life better than death? Because life is, and death isn't. But if you found that answer convincing, you'd already be convinced; there's a difference in fundamental value systems here.

You do a very good job of making me see that it's coming down to a difference in axiomatic statements of belief; there's not much deeper to go in splitting the atom. Once we get to that point, I guess there's not much else to say except make your choice and live with it.

You're part of humanity. What are you, personally, doing to solve the problem? Blaming "political will" is one thing, but large-scale apathy is at least as big a roadblock to solving issues on that scale.

The first step to solving a problem is to decide it needs solving. And deciding that it can't be solved makes it harder to solve.

I don't agree that I have this perspective. However, the method I have in solving these problems are very integrated with my faith. I've personally concluded that we live in a broken and fallen world and are incapable of fixing it, but a higher power exists who can fix us. However, I won't try to have that discussion here. Certainly, I do things within my power to make things better. While I'm not a gamechanger like Elon Musk, I personally volunteer however I can in areas of poverty around the world, broken families, etc.

But thank you for the discussion. It was enlightening.
This is literally for small children, to attract them with bright colours and dancing ballerinas and so on. The most important thing at this point being to catch their interest in becoming a wizard like us.

And as I note, it actually seems to work, which is you'll admit a bit of a plus point.

Per the article, Key Stage 3 (11yo and up) teaches them at least one "textual language" https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-curricul... It doesn't clarify what that is, but I strongly suspect it would be Python.
Further, when dealing with psychological or (many) sociological/biological subjects where you can not do a double blind test for moral reasons and all data is anecdotal (ie. self-reported), don't researchers overlook this bit of conventional wisdom?

In fact, from my experience (haha), it seems that people use anecdotal evidence whenever it helps them or supports a popular opinion, but then demand stronger evidence when it goes against their current belief.
But it's just a theory.
Also discussed on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1sjyop/the_mue...
The regulations aren't "weird" and they aren't based on etfs. There are well documented trading halt conditions regulated at the country level that restrict all the equities exchanges that want to be public venues.
Black Swans and Blockchains
Look for recordings using the terms "period instruments", "historically informed performance" (HIP), or "early music". There are several ensembles, both orchestral and choral, that perform music in a historically informed way. Check out one list here: http://musicmoz.org/Styles/Classical/Occidental/Periods/Earl...
Some of these issues can be resolved using Ruby Install https://github.com/postmodern/ruby-install
A lot of people think of stop orders as a risk mitigation method but I think in today's markets, stop orders are a bad idea. The only "normal" investors I know who have been hurt by flash crashes are people who use stops.
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> What in your background makes you qualified to make this assertion vs decades of peer reviewed science?

I think you've misinterpreted my post.

I'm specifically avoiding revealing my background here for several reasons, but my basis begins with DSM-V and ICD-10 criteria as well as a large body of research on the underlying biology of the disorder.

If you want external confirmation, please search for the term "Hyperfocus" in PubMed, or through psychiatry textbooks, or any other well-vetted source of information. It's not there. However, you will find the term heavily used on internet forums as well as in seminars and books from a handful of doctors/authors who see ADHD everywhere, but the problem is that they're usually trying to sell you something (seminars, books, products, etc.).

You seem to have taken offense at my comment, but I please realize that I was defending the concept of ADHD as an actual diagnosis. The parent comment was the one insisting that ADHD was not a real diagnosis. I personally have relatively severe ADHD as a result of a traumatic brain injury, so I'm perhaps uniquely qualified having personally experienced both sides of the diagnosis.
Atom has a very similar UI to Sublime so this might interest you:

http://usevim.com/2014/11/26/neovim-msgpack/
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If you have any details on this I would be most interested! dgerard at gmail
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Introducing recipy: effortless provenance tracking with Python
I have no evidence, but that figure of 500/year can't possibly be correct. Maybe 500 of their largest, concert hall-size grand pianos, but not their entire line.
Hmm. Some interesting data, but it doesn't really cover anything like the full "pipeline", which goes past the PhD to postdocs and then to faculty positions. And of course, that's only covering academic exits, while going into industry is another avenue, and there has been no analysis of whether the pipeline from bachelors to industry has been leaky in STEM fields.

Now, hitting a cap on the percentage of people entering the "pipeline" does mean that there's only so much effect that the "leaky pipeline" could have. The self-selection that happens even upon entering a bachelor's program is a pretty large factor, which needs to be studied; is it due to differences at the high school level? Difference in perceived job prospects, perhaps due to problems further down the pipeline like postdoc and tenure positions? Even if the pipeline is only getting a small percentage of women up front, it's possible that feedback from further down the line is what is causing that disparity.

Anyhow, it is good to have some concrete numbers on at least this portion of the pipeline, to inform where efforts should be spent. It sounds like the bachelors to PhD portion was fairly leaky in the past, so efforts to improve that have helped, but now effort would be better spent on looking at other aspects of the system.
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Are we sure causing those halts was unintentional?
You scientists! You're so excited that you could do this, you don't stop to think whether you should!
Let them in and let them earn
Couldn't recognize emotions because they wouldn't stop talking long enough?
If, for example, someone repackaged a public domain font without attributing source, I wouldn't call that plagiarism either.

In my definition of plagiarism it implies unauthorized use (i.e. not complying with the license) but I guess that's open to interpretation.

So it'd still be uninteresting, unimaginative, not original work... but not plagiarism.
Yeah I know SoCo pretty well, and I did spent quite a bit of time bopping around into small shops or meeting up for food and stuff. It's definitely a different vibe than North of the river, I agree. I think a lot has to do with the dated architecture, as in, there's not much new around there and people are happy to keep it that way.

One thing that I didn't mention but thought important (at the time) was Austin was one of the first places in Texas to institute a smoking ban. In restaurants, I thought that made sense - both as a former waiter and cig smoker - but when the ban started applying to bars and live music venues, I thought it was stupid. Oh, so I can kill myself with this poison water, but off to hell with the stinky, heavily sin taxed tobacco? Pffffft. That right there clued me in that Austin couldn't be the live music capitol anymore, because musicians like to drink and smoke, and the ones that don't can play coffee shops or church camps, of which there are plenty of in Texas.

And while I do have fondness for Alamo Drafthouse, it was kind of a one-off thing. Rudy's isn't remotely close to the best BBQ in the area (Franklin's) and Chuy's is, well, tongue-in-cheek referred to as 'white-people TexMex with extra grease' because it's just kind of middle-of-the road. This is kind of the overall issue with Austin, in that it's got this image and reputation of being unique and clever, but really, the things it's known for aren't actually top flight. Austinites pretend they are, but long time Texas residents know better.
Paul's definition of a startup is centered on hyperlinear growth rate. Since his area of expertise is startups, he limited his hypothesis to this group. "Maybe" in other situations niceness doesn't work.

A conversation I had with an institutional investor makes me think niceness works elsewhere too.
But did anyone at any point doubt it?
The problem with the IOC order is that you have execution risk. I.e. quite possibly your order isn't filled. Then if your favorite stock were to go down and stay down, you would still be holding it.

In short there is no perfect "stop loss" order. There is either price risk or execution risk - pick your poison.

That said, unlimited price risk and zero execution risk is probably NOT the optimal point to be at.
The earth is flat! WTF?
But driving under the influence of five Whoppers and fries is not as dangerous.
I don't know about conflicting branches, but sqitch didn't like out of order migrations, even if they have nothing to do with each other. The authors response is for the developer with the issue to revert back to a sane point and then redeploy, which is not suitable if you've spent a hour filling that table with data!
I'd be interested in seeing a citation for that "next button" work, too. In general HCI is a serious (and useful) field.

And while I agree that there's high variability in quality of work, both between and within disciplines, I would argue that there have been mountains of really fundamentally useful things that have come out of CS academia (and EE / computer engineering academia to support it), both historically and recently. Everything from programming language theory and optimizing compilers, to modern computer architecture, to all of the fundamental algorithms and data structures, to the basis for modern machine learning and distributed systems and ... I could go on. Industry applies and polishes it, but (in my experience at least) there's simply no way that most of industry would tolerate the multi-year risky projects that lead to useful breakthroughs.
It isn't meant to be a literal comparison. It's a comparison of the way Chinese consumers and Korean consumers view manuka honey and ginseng, respectively.
Is "pavement cycling" (cycling on the sidewalk) a really big problem in the UK? It's come up a few times in this thread. It's illegal in Boston, as well, but basically a non-issue. I occasionally see people doing it, but it's usually children or someone making a quick detour.
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SSD SAN with most bang-for-the-buck?
Are there any HN readers who have experience of different SSD SAN solutions and might enlighten me about their performance/cost/issues/stability etc?

Please share your thoughts about different brands and solutions.
Your question is a touch confused. Are you asking about an alternative to stop orders or to market orders?

Stops are overused as a hedging strategy but there aren't really many alternative order types (stop limits are generally less vulnerable but not by much). If you are using stops it should because you've evaluated all your other hedging choices (options, futures, etc) and know they are right even in the face of flashes.

As for market orders the generally better choice is a fill or kill order that crosses the book.
Posted in light of BMC acquiring Boundary: http://venturebeat.com/2015/08/18/bmc-has-apparently-acquire...
Oh. Well, if that's so, I'm not sure why they've chosen to use photovoltaics at all, because solar thermal should give you a much better cost-performance ratio, and still give you plenty waste heat to use as heat.
That's not a DDOS – it's called “actually delivering the service your customers paid for”. If you've underprovisioned your network, that might be a problem but it's not an attack.

It's also something of a best-case scenario because the only party affected is the same party which has the ability to fix the problem: since it's on your network, you can add additional capacity or institute some sort of fair-queuing without the need to negotiate with outside companies.
I cannot prove it, but I suspect chess improves the capabilities to remember words in foreign languages.
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Most positions aren't advertised. Full time or otherwise. If you want to find a specific job you might have better results networking (asking old contacts, going to meetups/conferences, etc).
Are you seriously suggesting that psychology is not a pseudoscience, or that "gender studies" is something at all?
Are you suggesting a market actor was manipulating the market so that no one could trade? Can you come up with a scenario where someone could make money doing that?
A good open mail client with imap offline capabilities (right now mutt-kz (mutt with integrated notmuch) + mbsync).

Other than that a bunch more features for postgres.
TLDR: Having kids will develop skills (time management) that will help you achieve your other career goals, in the long run

I don't have specific advice, but can perhaps offer some hope to give you a long-term view on this.

Our first child is now 17 months old. I know everyone says that children will change your life, but you don't realize now how much and it is the magnitude of change that you can't fully prepare yourself for. It is difficult, wonderful, exhausting, and the best thing you'll ever do all-in-one.

Undoubtedly, you will find yourself with less free time. Especially early on. What I found, however, is that my natural adaptation to this was to become more efficient, so that I still had some time to hack or spend on me. Less procrastination and better time management. I'm not perfect, by any means, but I'm a lot better than I was as a non-parent. I believe that with (if I am so lucky) more kids, I will become even more efficient.

This efficiency buys me some time. However, I am hopeful that when the kids are older and a bit more self-sufficient, this efficiency will really start paying off. This is a very long-term view. I'm talking about a decade from now. However that will also be entering the prime of your career. I also think that parents of older children are laughing at me as they read this (and probably rightly so).
This looks very interesting, but be warned that in this project's case SQL == MySQL and nothing more.
> An early Facebook photos engineer mentioned he had seen remarkable performance and quality coming out of the Apple Core Graphics stack .

What does the Apple stack have, which can't be done on a Linux box with a high-end GPU like a K20 or a Tesla?
I've seen religious freaks all over the net promoting this. But seriously? Once who have ever say in a plane have seen that the horizon isn't flat. It's curved. And if the earth were to be flat, how would the satellites stay up? Wouldn't possible to orbit something that's shaped in that way. But then I guess space travel is just bogus according to the religious freaks as well.
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You did a fairly decent job of discrediting your "the same thing will 'work' for everybody" statement.

"top limit on energy to be absorbed" is one of those interesting statements that sounds like an answer and proof of something, but actually isn't relevant and is a dodge of the question I actually asked. Of course there's an upper limit to what calories can be absorbed from food, you can't consume that which literally isn't there - the question is, is is the caloric content that is actually extracted the same for all people (which is a subset of the question does the same thing work for everybody).
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Don't manage configuration unless you have to
It's missing quite a few of mine. Also this kind of reverse lookup has been around for a long time. Nothing new here.
What the hell is going on with Star Citizen?