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There's a specific reason why length was deprecated, and the error, which gives alternatives, may give some insight:

# perl6 -e 'my $string = "foo"; say length $string;'
===SORRY!=== Error while compiling -e
Undeclared routine:
length used at line 1. Did you mean 'elems', 'chars', 'graphs', 'codes'?

Perl 6 tries to get unicode right. In doing so, it makes a distinction between characters, elements, codepoints and graphemes. At certain points, you may want one or the other of these.

When asking for the length of a string, what are you really asking for? The number of characters? Visible characters, or unicode combining characters? What if it's really the number of bytes in the string you need? Perl 6 makes it easy to determine all of these things in a clear manner. In doing so, it becomes obvious that "length" is ambiguous due to both its common specific role in other languages, and it's meaning when viewed in the context of these different needs.

If you want individual characters, you split the string, if you want access to the underlying data, you call .encode to get the encoding you expect, or you stick it into a Buf or Blob type if you don't actually need string semantics.

(Corrections welcome, I could be wrong at any number of points above).
I've never configured my cache in Firefox. Just looked at the settings, and, as far as I get what's written (it's not very clear), there's no limit at all on my cache size.

It's currently using 350MB.
Very true - especially when some of the people graduating with bachelor's degrees are practically illiterate (I know, they have worked for me). Soon it will require a master's degree to demand a middle-class salary - it's about at that point now (outside of tech at least).
I haven't had a chance to look at the code yet, but riddle me this: Are they eschewing salts entirely?
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But we are not talking about sociopaths or narcisists. We are talking about something completely different, the inability to process emotions. Mdma helped me personaly to connect to my emotional state. It was like i had no clue whatso ever where to look within myself for emotion. Mdma was like a kilowatt light source shining in the distance. I was like fuck, thats what it is. Shit, its right under my nose. Never looked back, have been busy integrating affective state into my thought processes. Interestingly my memory is much improved after this, I am able to consciously decide if something is salient.
The the more people that go to college, the less rigorous the material is.
I could not find any entry in the FAQ about how this new way of delivering web pages will negatively affect users who have made the conscious choice to reduce their privacy exposure through the express blocking of undesirable 3rd parties.

For example, if I block network requests to Facebook everywhere by default, I feel confident that my IP address does not show up in the logs of Facebook's servers. Blocking those 3rd parties on web pages is what actually contributes best to make web pages load much faster.

I loaded the URL of the AMP-based web page posted somewhere here[1], and it does look like the ability to clearly distinguish and filter network requests based on whether they are 3rd-party is removed.

I would like more details about this, because so far my understanding is that 3rd parties are becoming obfuscated with this new method of delivering web pages. I find having one entity (ampproject.org) to serve pages from various sites is quite worrisome privacy-wise.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10345795
This looks like a $300 feature-phone.
Hmmmm, I certainly hope dang or another admin consolidate all these stories into a single "Amazon" thread. Can't have multiple stories from a single company eating up space on the front page.
> if they want anybody to pay attention they should announce it on perl6.org or at least a more professional looking page.

Right. I think that's the intent -- this christmas.

But Larry can't stop someone posting an article that incorrectly suggests that 6.0.0 has been launched and then someone else posting an HN article/thread that you and lots of others (me too) decide to participate in.
Excellent, will look forward to testing it out when it's available in eu-west-1. We'd like to use some of the new features in postgres 9.4 but our production DBs on RDS are stuck on 9.3 at the moment.
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I'm running Mint 17.2 which switched to following Ubuntu LTS releases only. So, I haven't tried a newer Ubuntu, but the wifi is terrible in Win8 too. The "Panda Ultra 150Mbps Wireless N USB Adapter" http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00762YNMG was my solution for a massive range/reliability increase.

Related: This screen protector makes the glossy display usable outside: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HDTVJKQ

I'm really happy to see the Librem 13 nearing existence, but it's not ideal for me: i5 only, no back-lit keyboard. Up to 16GB and the matte screen is awesome though. The X1 Carbon 1st/3rd Gens are great, but Lenovo is being so bad recently.
1. One of the core concepts is 'Everyone is a bank'. The system has built in loan pooling complete with a marketplace. http://catallax.info/everyone-is-a-bank/ Instead of being paid interest, you receive a dividend over time based on how well the person who placed your loan does.

2. A trusted public ledger is necessary. A bunch of tech exists to build it on the blockchain right now, but you are right, it isn't a long term solution. As long as the ledger is public and verifiable you'd be ok.
I think the difference in price between what it costs to get it shipped and the market price of the components (even if you just strip out the hard drives) is what makes it fraud-prone.

From my day job, I know this is an issue for mobile operators
As Devin said, we're using Mesos, Marathon, and Chronos, but we're pretty excited about Kubernetes too. The networking layer, in particular, seems very innovative.
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We moved from MySQL on RDS to MariaDB and back and didn't run into any real issues.
What a terrible example to support a very valid point.

What those union workers have done was unacceptable, and made me sick to my stomach. Also, I felt greatly ashamed - like many other french citizens - by the french government's weak response to this public humiliation.

Nobody deserves to be treated this way, and more importantly Unions should never take the place of the rule of the law. This is not 1793 anymore, France is a modern democracy and allowing Unions to grow unchecked was a histoical mistake.

There are a balance to strike between workers' rights and corporations' prerogatives. France is the very situation you want to avoid, one where an actor has such tremendous power that any attack to the status quo is impossible regardless of its benefit for society as a whole.
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There's a lot, really. X-ray vision, frost breath, controlling metal objects, mind control...
You lose your house if you walk away from it, including all the money you've paid into it. The equivalent of this for student loans would be if you gave back your degree and related experience when you defaulted on student loans.
The practical answer to this is that the movie ends with the iMac introduction in May 1998, and Google was not founded as a company until September 1998, so the movie is not likely to cover the illegal "anti-poaching" deal between Apple and Google.

edit: intro'd in May, not August
Just by the way you explained it, it appears you like pittsburgh better. Plus, you mention "good chemistry with mgr" - that is HUGE. good luck!
Yep. Any exec or manager looking to buy this service as a solution to their reporting needs should sit down and have a serious talk with their analysts or teams who build their reports first.

Innumeracy is why the mantra of asking "Why?" instead of "How?" also applies to BI reporting. A flashy new tool or report isn't going to help as much as having a builder with industry knowledge or experience.
This looks like an AWS version of Apache Flume and Kinesis looks like an AWS version of Apache Storm. Does AWS have a Kafka equivalent i.e. a pub/sub message queue?
I really like http://www.manifestinsights.com/ for visualizing data.
Say I wanted to do something similar, but move data around locally between two NAS appliances, but not incur a double disk charge - (i've got a pack of ~ 20 disks in NAS brand a, but i want to move to NAS brand b. The disks work in both, but need reformatting).

Does anyone know of a service where I could rent a 20TB device like snowball but not push it to S3?
>> SLIGHTLY higher price than the 2nd place

It's cool that you liked your agent but in our experience submitting hundreds of offers in SF and LA, 100% of the time we've come in with the highest price at comparable terms (waived inspections in SF) our buyer has won. In our case, we take a smaller cut because we do less upfront shopping/client prospecting work, not because we provide less service in the offer/close process. But at the end of the day, it's really your money doing most of the work, not the dude presenting it.
Apparently this doesn't include the version that comes with data at rest encryption (10.1.3):

https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/data-at-rest-encryption/
Yes. The same [password,name,host] tuple should produce the same keypair.
A picture of the E-ink shipping label can be seen here (I was curious): http://www.geekwire.com/2015/amazon-unveils-snowball-shippab...
Presumably they want a little more control over how data is written and stored on the device than they would get with a simple eSATA connected drive.

If they use a simple eSATA drive, they have to worry about formatting, layout, etc., whereas an ethernet connected drive with a bespoke client can hide/control all of that for Amazon.

It also gives them easier options for multi-drive, SSD caching, RAID, etc - things they may or may not use today but could without any impact on the end user.

* Also, it's 10Gb ethernet. And how many desktops do you have laying around that will recognize a 50Tb eSATA drive?
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mooreds answer is spot on. I'd add that experienced agents also know how to spot potential issues when touring houses, what work you should and shouldn't do to prepare your house for sale, and can provide a network of providers to help you close your purchase/sale (lenders, contractors, landscapers, etc.).

I thought I'd also mention the company I work for, HomeLight (www.homelight.com). We're trying to provide transparency into real estate agent performance to help people select agents that will actually provide value to them during a property purchase or sale.

There are over 2 million licensed real estate agents in the US. The average number of transactions per agent per year is under 2. Good agents can provide tremendous value, but finding those gems is really tough, especially when agents, until recently, tried very hard to hide their past performance. Also, a lot of markets don't really require a lot of work from agents. In SF for instance, you can list almost any property and get above asking price for it after one weekend of open houses, but that doesn't hold for other markets, which can make the 5%-7% commission feel like you're being cheated.

When my wife and I were looking for houses in the East Bay (Oakland and Berkeley mostly) our agent was average. She would send us property dumps for the entire city of oakland (we had no interest in east oakland, but she kept sending us properties there) and she didn't respect the way I wanted to communicate with her (email...she called me all the time), and she didn't provide great guidance on what we should offer on properties we were interested in. But, she did a good job showing us properties and pointing out issues, figuring out all the open house times, communicating with other agents, introducing us to a great loan officer, etc. I /could/ have contacted all the listing agents for the 10 properties we wanted to see a week myself, but she did that for us, which saved a ton of time.

Agents that are "bad" are ones that won't return your calls, don't listen to your needs, try to show you properties you aren't interested in, don't know the area you are interested in well, can't identify when a roof probably needs to be replaced or if someone just painted over the black mold in the basement corner, hooks you up with crappy loan officers, etc. And unfortunately, there's a TON of those agents out there.
I found an image here: http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/07/amazon-launches-snowball-a-...
I used to not have a bachelor's and thought I was doing fine in my career. Then the Internet came along and every job required filling out an online profile, where people were screened out if they didn't have a degree. So I felt I had to go back. Perhaps some fields are different and a degree doesn't matter, but not mine, and not applying at large corporations.
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I kind of like the design for design sake, but definitely think it could use a diet. I would excuse the thickness and weight if this was a cheap phone. I would by this in a heartbeat for $100 USD but at almost $300 forget it.
Perl 6 developer here.

Perl 6 is not an automatic upgrade path from Perl 5. We don't expect anybody to rewrite huge amounts of Perl 5 code in Perl 6. Perl 5 is going to be maintained separately.

We do provide tools to augment Perl 5 code with Perl 6 code, and the other way around. There's Inline::Perl5 for Perl 6, and Inline::Perl6 for Perl 5.
What can we do to these Chinese hackers as this is getting common from them these days?
Wasn't that Steve's building in the first place to do anything he wanted with?

If he didn't take the last available such space or actually cut off some handicapped Apple employee wanting to park there, then it's more about "playing by the rules" than actually hurting anyone...
Thanks!

We experienced that exact same pain. Whether it's pip or Bundler, I can't tell you how many times I've installed and reinstalled requirements.

Sharing data volumes is kind of a hack to make it really easy to keep part of a container around when you delete and recreate a container. I would love to see persistent data volumes become first class citizens so you don't have to create a separate container for them.

For now, though, it's saved us from having to put everything directly into the image in development.
Is the consumption of horse meat forbidden by law or are they using the regulatory power of the USDA to prevent the commercial slaughter of horses?
It is actually - NotateMe

Located here: http://www.neuratron.com/notateme.html
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Well, I made a pretty grand statement there, which means it will be demonstrably wrong in at least some cases.

I don't have time to find supporting sources right now, but I'll just say a couple of things, regarding Perl6 and string manipulation.

Less concretely, Perl6 is still Perl. What does 'Perl' mean? "manipulexity and whipuptitude" :) To me, those things are about being highly pragmatic in as many real-life situations as possible.

More concretely, even though Perl6 has an amazing type system, it's almost all optional. Use it incrementally, as it becomes more useful.

Also, the tight and powerful integration between language and regex still exists.

So, again, regarding string processing, these elements, to me, show that Perl6 is a 'strict supserset' of Perl5.

And, without any citations, I feel like that 'strict superset' is mostly true for things other than string processing!
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I say: Bezos is the #1 CEO in Tech right now.

Amazon takes risks, and ships innovative products and services every month. Their risk taking is relentless and they take failure in their stride. They "get" how to do push.

No other tech company comes close to their pace. And the key to that is the juicy under the radar micro manager that is Jeff Bezos. If there was an award for best tech CEO. 2015, i'd nominate him in a flash.
There was also a lot of hassle in ensuring that you included the correct power adapter for each external drive, something that got complicated if you were shipping a lot of different models.
print "1" + 1 ; # 2

This isn't new, is it? '+' is for addition, '.' is for concatenation.
The difference is that with bankruptcy, the majority of your assets are seized. The equivalent would be if the degree and related experience was seized as well.

Also, in bankruptcy the creditors are the ones who assume the losses. When defaulting on government loans, the taxpayers would foot the bill. Totally different scenario.
I can't agree more.

Are there any great examples of IRC being used for the backend of a games chat system?

How would you envision using IRC in this case?

Would have been great to see RiotGames write their own custom framework to interface between their game and an IRC backend, open source it for other companies to contribute to and prevent further reinventing of the wheel.
The mods are drunk with power!

: )

I commented because I didn't want the top comment to devolve into a Perl v. Python argument because I love both.

Looking at my comment now, it doesn't read as on topic.

Thank you for moderating. HN is my favorite place to read the news!
How much traffic does the Tor hidden service for your search engine get? Would you characterize the usage as significant, or is it mainly kept up as a public service for a small number of people who use it?
I know Dell has glorified portable harddrive arrays in pelican styles cases for moving data between their SAN systems. Unfortunately I don't recall the name and I don't know if they are available for rental. If you have a Dell VAR, have them ask the Dell storage group.

Edit: Correction, it doesn't appear to be an array, just single device so 1.5-2TB max. Also basically targeted at this SAN solution only.
You should declare the version of your code. 'use v6;' for Perl 6 code (more specific versions will come up soon), and "use 5.014" for Perl 5.14, for example.

This will give good error messages when trying to run your code with the wrong compiler.
What's interesting is that they don't mention this on the marketing page for snowball. As in "also if you want you can mail your own harddrive, see this page for details". While most would think "why rain on the parade of this new service by mentioning the old service" with Amazon it's more than that. It's this entire idea of weaning people off of legacy ways of doing things (with new names and new processes) so it's harder for any competitor to offer the same type of service, unique way of doing things or handholding. After all anyone can accept (in theory) a mailed in hard drive. Much harder to offer a solution like this with hardware and so on. So to me this is obviously deliberate and consistent with Amazon wanting to raise an entire generation on a new paradigm of getting things done.

Edit: And yes this way it's easier for them as well and removes "missing power supplies" (big deal actually by I get the point..)
Isn't that the whole point of AWS and their competitors? The savings of passing the problem off to domain experts to work out all the details often outweighs the benefits of having a solution that is 100% customized for your business.
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Ethernet is most ubiquitous. You don't need physical access to a server with data, just network access. Most environments outside of datacenters don't have 10GbE switches or NICs yet.

EDIT: It appears it supports 10GbE natively. I assume it'll also support lower Ethernet speeds.
If people don't have any other food, they will eat people who die as well.
There are people who can't be vaccinated, and instead depend on everybody near them being vaccinated so the disease can't spread to them, so leaving yourself unvaccinated is not a risk only to yourself. I, for example, have a family history that means I can't take the usual meningitis vaccine. I am depending on the people around me getting vaccinated, and if they don't, they push to me a risk of becoming infected, exactly like someone who doesn't wash their hands after using the restroom won't make themselves any sicker but can infect me. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudenc...
Except that herd immunity is a thing.
I found it rather dull, and the entire notion of using pheromones to control multicopters really absurd.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a truck full of harddisks...!
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If the device gets bricked while updated through a breach, then go back to the manufacturer telling them what you think of their device.
Ha, what happens when one is 'trouted'??

It's been a number of years, and I can't check right now, but I believe that the amount of code in Perl6 is actually less than in Perl5. The amazing power that is Perl6 naturally falls out of a whole lot of experience and fantastic design decisions. Not to mention several great implementations.

I'm a big fan of 'less is more' as well. In this case, you're literally correct: Perl6 delivers a LOT MORE than Perl5 even though there's 'less to it'!
This has been a standard way of shipping large amounts of enterprise data between locations since forever. It's nice to see it commercialized so the option is accessible at "consumer" prices.
Why is this downvoted? I am not a stickler for 100% compliance here, but look at the MDN[0] attribute list. They are all logical and semantic things and they are converted into objects. This comment is correct. They are additional values for configuring elenents. Html.getAttribute([emoji bolt]) is rediculous.

Html.getAttribute()

I included the attribute above, it is not there however. While that is a HN feature, I am wondering what the response to the rebuttal to the above comment is? Do we want to start doing brand logos in markdown?

<div [facebook icon]>friend me</div>

Edit: before anyone says it, I know amp is accepted as well. I guess the only thing reading that attr is googlebot, but I just find it really offputting.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Attributes
>Nobody deserves to be treated this way, and more importantly Unions should never take the place of the rule of the law. This is not 1793 anymore

It's still an era of neo-liberalism and employees return workplaces to medieval work practices (down to child labor and 14 hour workday) whenever they can get away with it.
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Well, that's a step up from their (1-star reviewed) $300 cordless phone http://www.amazon.com/Punkt-Cordless-Telephone-Jasper-Morris...
Are you suggesting that not wanted someone to call for you to be "retroactively aborted" is a slippery slope that leads to ass-kissing, passive-aggressiveness and politically motivated culture rather than results motivated culture?

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/7/80
No, because handicap laws are for the benefit of society. Rich men shouldn't get to skip out on them because they're rich.
Yeah, I need to move 20TB in one go - so i can repurpose the disks.
Russia doesn't have all that. Russia has half the US population, its territory is largely frozen taiga. That's one of the reason Russia works so hard to maintain dominance over countries like Ukraine, Latvia, Belarus, etc.. They are much more fertile.

The US doesn't have to do anything like that. We don't even need foreign oil as much as most countries do.
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Is this product much different from Google's BigQuery?
This is basically kafka + https://github.com/linkedin/camus which is pretty cool.