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Haha, making real money is indeed a good point :)

But, can't it be argued that in fact if Twitter disappeared overnight, it would have some tangible effects on the earnings of many businesses that use the platform for advertising/brand presence?
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I pitched an idea to the rest of the company. They loved it so much they asked me to implement it. We've officially launched today! I'd love feedback from the HN community.
TIL: a lot of sections in HN.
Thanks for feedback, adding role data today. Here's GP for example: http://www.whocares.io/search_results?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search=...
I didn't read it either, but I can honestly state the one communality I've seen in all successful Entrepreneurs, and it's never pointed out in these cute stories.

It is this; having a wealthy father. We are force feed these stories about what it takes to become wealthy, or become entrepreneurs, but when I dig deep, there's always a wealthy family member who helped at just the right time. Usually that family member helped out in ways other ways, on top of free money. They offered things--like really good advice, family lawyer, family accountant, family friends/connections, free place to start a business, etc.

If you happen to be that modern day Horatio alger, I tip my hat to you. The rest of us used credit card money, and usually had just one shot to make it big.
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Hi,

I work on an embedded database engine for Java. One of the things it provides are Java collections outside heap, not limited by Garbage Collector.

One of my projects is using Hazelcast. But Hazelcast is limited by GC to about 4GB of data per node. So I patched Hazelcast to use off-heap Map from my database engine. Now it handles 25GB per node without a hiccup.

It is about 3x slower, but fits 2x more data into same memory. Also it does not have GC overhead, so from about 8GB it becomes faster.

It is completely free under Apache 2 license, it is sponsored by my consulting. I would like to know your ideas what to do with this project in future. And perhaps there is similar project which could use similar optimization.

https://github.com/jankotek/mapdb-hz-offheap
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Reminds me of the guy who owns DoNotReply.com:

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/03/they_to...
Clickable link: https://github.com/jankotek/mapdb-hz-offheap
The feared impact is a systemic Asian downturn crashing industrial export towards the area, which in turn would reduce demand for services. Germany in particular is currently being watched, since their industry relies on export towards Asia quite heavily these days (since European demand is overall low). If German giants start feeling the pinch, the startup world in Berlin will inevitably get hit.

From a US perspective I honestly don't know. Chinese investments are mostly one-way anyway (it's hard to take money out of China) so they shouldn't significantly impact any honest balance sheet; however, if Japan and Singapore start going under as well, things might turn ugly all around.
> Well, we've solved that.

If you really did, you've got much, much more than merely optimising a memory access. Consequences for the static analysis can be enormous. Looking forward to seeing your publication.
I think there's a distinction to made in this discussion between mainframe application programmers (ie cobol, anyone taking intro courses at an IBM sponsored school) and system programmers ie the guys setting up and writing site integration stuff ie the guys these books are ttargeted toward. Similar to php vs people writing drivers in your example.

Unfortunately this distinction is rarely delinated in these threads.
Intel announced back in June that they were acquiring Altera for $54 a share, while the stock is currently at $48.17
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I guess it has to do with mobile carriers wanting more control over your connection. The same way that you can't change your DNS when on a mobile data connection, you can't specify a proxy server (except through a VPN profile).
With a title of "The people who care in the NHS" I was expecting to read some amazing stories written about individuals who went out of their way to demonstrate passion for their profession and caring for patients. A "Chicken Soup for the NHS Soul" if you will. Instead, this appears to be "Professions in the NHS" and only describes what the profession does rather than highlighting individual people. Or is it supposed to be both, and is only lacking stories about the people themselves?
"Racing driver and race engineer Mark Donohue..."

A bit off topic, but it was nice to read this name, a fellow who was the topic of some great articles in Sports Car (not cars) Illustrated back in the late 80s. If you ever get a chance to read them they were great fun.
In most countries, this is (rightfully) illegal. You have a right to privacy, even in public places, and this includes not getting filmed arguing with your girlfriend by a stranger who then publicizes the video.
Or they don't want to risk finding they've installed something with a wonderful new undisclosed Zero Day exploit throughout their shop.

Updating in a corporate environment is very different from what you do at home or a small business. Some sectors require extensive testing before rolling out any change whatsoever.

In that case, they don't want things happening before they have tested any proposed changes.

When a package is blown down to the network with it's configuration locked (and set to not update), they don't expect a package to spontaneously start updating itself.

Google might let their browser ignore "no auto updates," but may find their browser losing market share in the corporate world. If they get booted, chances are 50/50 if the app ever make it back in the mix.

It doesn't take much.

If I wanted a closed ecosystem, I'd have chosen Apple. Google is becoming less and less appealing with every new decision they announce.
I personally hate nand. I do embedded stuff all day long, and you spend more time dealing with NAND issues than anything else in the dev of a product.

It not only ship to you with bad blocks, but will fail if you write to it, it will also fail /by itself/ if left alone, so even a read-only filesystem is not safe, until you implement really paranoid duplication of pretty much everything. You can't JUST rely on ECC, you need to have duplication to allow the system to continue working; ECC will just tell you 'He's dead, Jim' and that doesn't help if you're a production device.

Also, from my experience, newer NAND seems to nuke erase blocks by /bunches/ not just by units, so if you lose one, more often than not you love 8+ in a row.
Also, the size of the erase blocks are getting bigger, so you lose a hell of a lot more every time you lose a block.

Add the bloated file systems in linux (JFFS2 scan at mount time can be 30s easily!), and you end up wondering if it's really worth the trouble.

These days I always propose using a micro-sd card (of quality) for any large storage need as it's a lot easier to replace, and a SPI NOR flash for the system if at all possible (it's horrendously slow to erase/write, but at least it's stable)
Some people don't consider introversion to be shyness, but rather whether you gain or lose energy from being in social situations with others
There is nothing in the article the article that says anything about "having social skills but its more effort to use them".
What do you base this on? There are also tens of thousands of layed cobol programmers who are unemployed or working in other fields (in the US), the legacy of offshoring and cost reduction of the past 15 years.

I am one. I started mainframe cobol in 2003, grew the skills you listed for 5 years. It's a miserable existence for anyone really interested in developement. The company I worked for had just started their off shoring program when I switched to JEE (I took a pay cut, but am way ahead now). That same company subsequently laid off most of their onshore developers.

This is mainframe applications programming today, there maybe jobs, but not in the US.
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I think their database-foo is somewhat lacking...
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I'm guessing that it's an environmentally stable lipophilic chemical. There are a lot of them.
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You can change your GP at any time. You do not need to give a reason.

You might hear other surgeries say "We have a rota for when we take new patients. This is so the load is shared equally among practices in this building." Or "Were you registered with a practice in this building? We don't take patients from other practices in this building." They are not allowed to do that.
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Is there some study with correlations etc?

I think until recently introverts needed extroverts to run the business, raise money etc. But today cost to run business is pretty low and it is no longer case. All we need today to start decent business is a laptop and bit of savings.

Today Tesla could probably stay at home (or tropical island), run his business from Austria, manufacture parts in China and find customers all around the world. No need for Edison.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10053691
At least you live in a country with significant internal production, so overall things shouldn't get too bad for you even after devaluation (as long as you stay in the country and buy Chinese).

I grew up in Italy during the last few devaluation waves and then the Euro switchover (when prices basically doubled overnight) -- prices of everything except food and shoes skyrocketed, it was really ugly for us little people.
Oooh and the GT86 comes in a convertible^! Nice; thanks for sharing. My first sports car was actually a 1990 Toyota Supra Turbo Targa, so the GT86 has a bit of a sentimental bonus for me too. To be clear, as much fun as it is 'building' brand new 911s and F-Types, if I were to ever buy one it would probably be a few years old. At the moment I'm quite happy with my 2003 Z4 3.0i.

^Edit: looks like the convertible is actually just a concept at this stage. Still, perhaps soon!
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Just to add a bit more feedback here, the part that withings fails me on is not exposing Fat and LBM in weight terms. If my goal is to maintain LBM and see Fat % go down over several weeks it makes it difficult to determine if that last 2% of bf% drop was too fast (read: too much LBM loss) without actually exporting the data and calculating things by hand. They used to make these variables available in their old web ui, but they aren't available in the app. It feels a bit dumbed down.

They also allow you to set a weight goal, but not a bf% goal, which is so confusing when their marquee product includes a body fat analyzer. For a lot of people who buy these scales to help gauge recomposition efforts the goal over time is to keep their weight the same but see the bf% go down.
So the smart investment is in U-Haul right now?
The search function seemed to miss most roles I tried - maybe focus people through the 'explore by profession' until you have a larger index?

'We couldn't find any NHS roles containing "radiologist".'
We couldn't find any NHS roles containing "vascular surgeon".

It would be cool to have a short profile of an actual person in the role, could help make a human connection.

I wonder if a wiki-style page might be easier for people to contribute to and moderate? The suggestion form feels a bit foreign and makes me wonder if I submit something, will it actually get looked at or included? I'm less inclined to contribute if I'm not sure you'll even use my suggestion.

It would be cool to map 'who works with who' or what part/ division of the hospital/GP/etc people work in.

Cool start, keep at it!
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Something of a tangent to what you said, but I see other parallels between current events and 1999 - this is what happens when unsophisticated investors gain sharemarket access for the first time.

It happened in the late 90s in the states (remember those "trading poolside" etrade ads?); it's happening now in China. Only recently you've been able to actively trade and view your portfolio on smartphone apps; it became a kind of game and more and more people piled in. I know people there who were up tens of thousands in paper gains even a month ago and could not be convinced they were basically gambling. Well, they're convinced now :-P

I suppose this is the way people learn...
That's not what that post says. It says SQL integration will probably come after 1.2
My thought as well I have another £4k to go into my ISA (a type of tax free account) so debating hold back to buy on the drop.
I picked one up and de-chromed it, upgraded the m2 sata, and installed ubuntu. Makes a decent and cheap dev machine.
MBAs, Lawyers, and plenty of money to buy lesgilation?
I recently decided to hold on to my stock (Netflix, Adobe and Philips) for a while, since advice was still mostly positive. I guess I should check how that's going.

Edit: I did. Fuck.

Though in all honesty, I don't see why a correction in China would seriously hurt the profits of Netflix. Maybe I should buy more.
And by new investors borrowing money to invest - latest bad idea to use pension funds to prop up the stock market.
Hey Nilesh! I originally included that when I wanted to release it and sell it as an app. However I'm no longer working on it actively, but you're more than welcome to use some or all of it! I changed the license to GPLv3.
I used to work for a top 5 Civil engineers and the Boss of the Bridges dept was a world renowned engineer and very shy.
Windows RT was supposed to be the "lean locked down Windows" experience for mobile devices - and it sucked performance wise on "tablet hardware" (which is what most cheap Chromebooks have anyway, whether it's ARM or Atom...sorry, I mean "New Celerons™").
I am using react-bootstrap but I wish I hadn't - it's quite large (113kb minified, without including anything from bootstrap itself) and doesn't do very much above and beyond using standard bootstrap classes and standard HTML tags.

It also means you'll probably end up having to include jquery for things which adds another very large amount of code...

I'm pretty happy with bootstrap as a quick good looking (with a theme) win, but I think one day I'd like to get rid of it and write some simpler problem specific CSS and use React proper for any Javascript interactions.
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I'm unsure how you can think this, really: according to Wikipedia[1], Opera was first released in 1995 (whilst Google was founded in '98, Chrome released in '08).

I wondered if maybe you meant that it had forked the Chromium webkit stuff, but it seems that Opera is using proprietary engines.

Source your claims, please?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_(web_browser)
You use SQlite instead of Neo4J? May I ask what's your use case? I don't see these overlapping in any scenario...
I'm curious if you could buy Bitcoin on one of the Chinese exchanges transfer it to an exchange out of the country and sell it for Euros or US Dollars?
There are basically two approaches to multiresidence buildings in Japan. There are "mansions": large, modern and built to last, normally all concrete and having a single common entrance, and then there are "apaato": usually 2-3 stories, separate entrances, typically wooden, and ramshackle after 10-15 years. Both styles are common; sounds to me like you guys are comparing opposite ends of the spectrum.
And what do you do when the machine goes down? How do you test that all services come back up again? Your infrastructure should be resilient against servers and services going down. But you can't test that if they never go down. See Netflix chaos monkey, or CoreOS automatically restarting after updates (which are rather frequent, every couple weeks).
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If you want to hear a good interview with the developer:

http://podcastinit.podbean.com/e/episode-15-damien-george-ta...
In northern virginia, fairfaxunderground website, was nice enough to parse only information pertinent to this area. Now, everybody and their friends have searched through it looking for people they know. My wife actually found a good friend's dad listed twice...and he's still married. So, now all those facebook connection have this awkward knowledge and no one will tell the friend.
>There is nothing in the article the article that says anything about "having social skills but its more effort to use them".

I disagree. If you're looking for an exact 1-to-1 mapping of that phrase to the wiki article, you won't find it. However, you have to read multiple sentences and if you interpret them together, it does say that[1]:

++ Some popular psychologists have characterized introverts as people whose energy tends to expand through reflection and dwindle during interaction.

++ , though he or she may enjoy interactions with close friends.

++ Introverts prefer solitary to social activities, but do not necessarily fear social encounters like shy people do.

I think the wiki article on "introversion" describes me quite well. I would characterize myself as extremely introverted. However I'm not shy at all and I have given presentations at Las Vegas conferences. I have no problem making eye contact with the audience and deliver the talks without stuttering. However, I get more stimulation from seeing a news flash about a gcc compiler beta release or reading a book rather than the typical banter at social situations.

It also takes "more effort" on my part to lubricate social interaction with pleasantries (e.g. "how are you?", "how's the weather?", "how are the kids?", etc) rather than to sit quietly and study two web frameworks to determine which one is better. (Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/602/)

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraversion_and_introversion#...
It's an interesting concept, but makes that assumption that first, all the clerks are capable of throwing a ball, and second, that they can actually hit something they throw at.

Without wanting to be sexist, many girls who haven't been involved in sports tend to throw a ball as if they have one foot stuck in a bucket and could only be certain of the ball eventually hitting the ground.

IMHO, a better system would have a fixed sprayer at the door activated by a two stage trigger that first requires the clerk to press switch and then sprays when the door is opened.
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Everyone has social skills, it doesn't need to be said. On the other hand, nothing in the Wiki article says introverts have worse social skills than extroverts. All the article says is that introverts prefer solitary activities and that their "energy tends to expand through reflection and dwindle during interaction", ie., it takes them more effort (=energy) to interact with people (=use social skills).
Thanks! We're porting their grid system manually at the moment, the foundations don't really change much and we're quite selective about what's being ported.

We're actually experimenting with deprecating access to classes (i.e exposing components rather than class names as the public API) - will be interesting to see how popular that approach is.

2. LESS has been our favourite pre-processor for a white but we're finding it doesn't play well with packaging modular components on npm. Some real limitations around the @import logic, and the core team refuse to make it to work with node-style require path resolution which is disappointing.

From here I think it's more likely we go with the "styles in components" approach (via Radium or similar) and make variables / themeing available via context. Much easier to package & use "out of the box". Might keep a "base" css include though, or possibly use the Bootstrap 4 "Reboot". The distinction between, and best way to package, component styles and page styles is something we're putting a lot of thought into!
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It's a bit of a matter of taste, but many people coming from languages like Matlab prefer the more terse coding style of for example

A\X'

over the more verbose

np.linalg.solve(A,np.transpose(X))
It just means they pushed their idea to your brains just to make money on you. Rate should not depend on your location, everything else is manipulation to negotiate your rate.
Those tweaked images are wonderful. Great package.
Teaching hospitals tend to be excellent - but GPs are as a rule useless - failed specialists. My last one threw a mop at me because I was bleeding out on his surgery floor - don't remember the incident, but my mum was there. Oh, and the one who asked me if I was having homosexual intercourse, aged six.
I hope you are a millionaire already, because you are sitting on some with that domain name. Kudos to you for keeping it this long.
Frankly I've no idea what any of that had to do with my post. Japan is not America; in a country that's (considered) 98-99% monoracial the sorts of issues you're talking about basically don't come up.

More broadly, Japan doesn't really concern itself with "race" at all - rather it sees race, culture, ethnicity and nationality as one big indivisible clump. When someone experiences bias or discrimination here, in most cases it'll be all those things at once - i.e. a matter of "not being Japanese", rather than race per se. That's what my friend was commenting on.
because demping allows you to find clients faster and without additional conversations - some people feel very scared about money-related conversations. I think this behavior is stupid and destructive for whole market.
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I typically use `foo@example.com` [1] and `07700 900000` for mobile [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example.com

[2] http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/telecoms/numbering/guidance...
Exciting times indeed, every new generation run rings around the previous! I feel bad that I'm still running an i7 2600k (@ 4.6ghz) from late 2010, but there hasn't been much need to upgrade. Maybe Skylake-E in about a years time..

I guess CPU's have reached the same point as the car industry, while they're been able to make cars that can do 200mph+ for decades. The mass market wants fual efficient cars.
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Elemental UI is a competitor, sort of, I guess. But it's not a zero-sum game, and we've learned (and borrowed) a lot from Bootstrap.

More specifically, we're not porting Bootstrap to React but building React-specific components from scratch to fill the same gaps.

Something in particular we're focusing on is building a modular IU toolkit - so you could use all of Elemental, or just our select component / buttons / date picker / etc; all of which would be available as standalone packages on npm, but can leverage a consistent thumbing system and play nicely together.

(And yes - we'll fix that modal issue soon with a pure css approach; a community member wanted to implement it with JavaScript but it hasn't worked out well)
You're in a very tough spot (you already knew that, I hope). One way you might get it out a bit quicker is to offer someone who has cash abroad already a percentage, but it's going to be very hard to find takers.
Can we please just let Flash die already?
Which part of Spain did you live in? Was it Catalonia/Barcelona?