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You've just described the business model of a Roman character called Crassus.

He invented the fire brigade.

He also invented a fire brigade protection racket: if your house was burning he'd offer to buy it at a knock-down once-in-a-lifetime price before putting the fire out.

It was a solution of sorts. But maybe not the best of all possible solutions.
microsoft azure has added the same amount of new features during the past year as well (600+ features). the new services like machine learning, data factory, data lakes, sql data warehouse, and powerbi are amazingly powerful. the only problem is people seem to ignore them in the conversation of cloud computing.
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> Don't do what I did.

I try. I don't think going from a GUI editor to Emacs was a complete waste of my time and I still like it a lot BUT whenever you make that kind of switch you gotta stay out of the "this is the best thing ever" mentality. Instead of seeing $EDITOR as the Holy Grail that cannot be eclipsed by anything (which is false) I see it as my favorite tool in a toolbox. I like it but I also recognize it's just one of many tools and it's not always the one I should use and getting frustrated at the differences is pointless.

That last bit took a while for me to realize. I think what helped was seeing other people code without my favorite editor with an IDE or something. Watching Notch coding an FPS using an IDE caused quite a few of us in the HN thread that followed to just kinda take a step back.

I'm still relatively new to programming so hey thanks for the advice.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3734303 (March 2012)
This is awesome I just showed it to a friend of mine who was still using a flicker blog to host then a blogger blog to grab the images and compile them then a wordpress blog to display them........................
To say the least this has been awesome.
Putin’s Great Crime: He Defends His Allies and Attacks His Enemies
Facebook takes advantage of 3D Touch on Apple's iPhone 6s
VAT is a tax paid by end consumers, its just collected by retailers.
For example, when the global atmospheric CO2 level reaches 930 gigatons, Boston will be due for about 9 feet of sea level rise. That’s enough water to cover 25 percent of the city during high tide.

I know that is not insignificant, but these fears of sea level rise always sound to me like people expect entire states to go under water or something. This map actually suggests to me that a lot of this can be coped with.

But I mostly walk everywhere, so I don't have a guilty conscience. I gave up my car years ago.
And it also doesn't seem to recognize that for some (many?) that tech can be an end by itself. If your goal is business or to ship an app, this might not be true. But there should be no shame, no regret, in only being interested in tech for its intrinsic merits, independent of "results".
No, it does not and you're completely right nerd_stuff. With all the feminism going on these days, accepting women as equals does not seem to be enough anymore.
See the last section (Afterword: removing the hat):

First, in case this is not obvious to the reader, we do
not actually endorse the attacker's perspective. Our goal
in analyzing the security of systems is to prevent attacks.
I'm in Spanish Fork, UT. We live on 3 acres. We have our own well with water rights for the home and livestock. We used to have more, for field irrigation, but we did not use those water shares, and in Utah you either use your rights or lose them, so we sold them to the city. Water rights often come with property - they are part of the real estate purchase. They can also be bought and sold like real estate, and if you watch public announcements, there are occasional auctions. Their cost depends on the source of water - it varies greatly.

We mostly have focused on getting the property fixed up, and getting animals running over the past 2.5 years. Many people bite off more than they can chew, but I have a rule that we take on one new kind of animal or food procution at a time, and learn it well before adding more. It slows down the process, but I have seen too many people crash and burn by trying to do everything all at once. So for now, we have a flock of chickens that gives us more eggs than we know what to do with. We have bees for honey, and goats, which give us all the dairy we need, as well as some meat and fiber. We have fruit trees. This winter we are getting drop irrigation installed through a few dozen raised garden beds, so our veggie and produce production should be up to speed next year, hopefully. And we may start up a 2nd chicken flock for meat. I expect we have 2 more years of building out our property before we are truly self-sufficient.

I work full-time for a single company. We are a SaaS companies that has no office, and everyone works from home. Finding the job was a lucky break, but once I had the job, they could care less where I live, so I found a place I like and moved there. The job has its ups and downs, like any job does, but it is hard to argue with working from home, wherever and whenever you want. That being said, one of the main reasons I am not farther from Provo and SLC is that it is a nice safety net to know that I could get a job and go back to the commuting life if I ever needed to.

I go into Provo regularly - it is the closest Home Depot, as well as the closest place for lots of retails shopping and ethnic food. And it is only 15 minutes away, so coming from a larger city, it doesn't even feel like much of a trip. But we also do a lot in town - it is not that tiny, over 30K people. There is a movie theatre in town, groceries, ranch stores, some restaurants, etc. We head to Provo probably once a week for other things, up to Orem for a pet store and art supply stores maybe once a month. And Salt Lake? I really thought I would go to Salt Lake more than I do, but I have not been there in a long time. Maybe once a year for an IKEA run, or for a fancy date night with my wife.

The biggest drawback is social - living in a small town makes it hard to build up a large group of friends. It is easier on me because I am married with kids, and don't need much more than that. You also have less diversity around here. It takes a conscious awareness to try to expose my children to more that the world has to offer.
3D touch is like a right-mouse button that provides a drop-down list of choices on a touchscreen. A light touch on a notification or icon lets the user peek at content and, with a little longer press, it pops open to an expanded view. Lifting the finger lets the view collapse back to the original view. A light touch on a link contained in a message will open it at the top of the screen in Safari.
Defining Churn Rate
S'up?

Polite	Would you know if s'up?

Polite	May I ask if s'up?

Polite	May I know if s'up?

Polite	I was wondering if s'up?

Polite	Could you say if s'up?

Polite	Could I know if s'up?

Polite	I was thinking if s'up?

Polite	Could I ask if s'up?
also you can get hold of us in app using the intercom speech bubble in the bottom right of the app. That way we can track back to your user account and see what's up.
I remember having this exact same problem when I was 17 (in the USA). Phrased slightly differently, but the main difference was that we weren't given the formula. We were given the land speed and the water speed. Find the fastest route. I don't remember anyone crying over it.
> "I'm quite surprised objective-c doesn't warn by default if you try to a potentially lossy conversion without an explicit cast."

Implicit casts that are precision-lossy (say, int32 to int16) are definitely warnings in Obj-C, the issue is that most(?) Obj-C devs sail right past said warnings, and most projects are not configured to flag these as errors instead.

One of the other issues with implicit casts is that it's often non-obvious if what you're doing is lossy - there are a lot of aliased or conditional types (for example: a CGFloat is a float on 32-bit systems, and double on 64-bit)

Also things like time measurement - a NSTimeInterval is a double, so casting it down to a float is lossy, but not obviously so because for the most part we don't think about what's the actual object backing a lot of system types.
Looks like the URL was updated: https://github.com/bloomberg/bde/wiki/BDE-3.0---Open-Source-...
Amazon has by far the best dev leads. Some of them are guys who worked on the Common Lisp standards in the 80s, some are 22 yo Bring Your Own JS framework hippies. But the management manages to select for lead roles the very best devs internally and mighty capable ppl externally.
I was able to try some topics, but now the flashcards gone and I just see the random fact page. Anyway, I like it!
Yup, see @pauljz's comment above - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10375297
Not that I am prepared to share in a public forum like this. We do keep a blog to share our lives with family and friends, but we don't really write it up for the general public.

I'm about to sign off for the day, but I'll try to drop you a line later tonight so you can get in touch. We do like connecting with kindred spirits.
That's still not the right usage. You could say university executives peddled influence, but you can't say the Koch brothers or their money peddled influence because they're the buyers.
What about uranium?
Why GPG subkeys must die
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8631898
I wouldn't question the usefulness of vertical integration of chip design for phones, but I do for cars.

Cell phones have power and size constraints that cars don't.
That's basically a distinction without meaning.

The whole reason for taxes is that it helps the collective -- sometimes at the expense of the individual.
Looks great, but man... this seems like websites for the top 10% of the world with great internet speed. This sites are really not good with slow(er) internet. Also look at amount of traffic needed for full example of http://jack.ventures even do not want to spend my mobile traffic on that example (although LTE is fast enough).
One possible solution is making corporate lobbying illegal, with severe penalties, i.e. long prison sentences for those involved. Corporate lobbying corrupts democracy, so why should it be allowed to exist?

Then, simplify the tax system. The more complex a system is, the easier it is to game. If necessary, tax revenue instead of profits: if a widget is sold here, the company which sold it should be taxed here.
Hilarious, after some iterations I got: Would you know if I might wonder if I may know what the heck you are looking at?
Ditching Django REST Framework Serializers for Serpy
instead, it's a particular runtime that will increasingly differentiate itself from POSIX Linux

Ah, correct.

I believe that that friction will eventually cause developers to want to create an init daemon with branded zones to supercede systemd, where emulating systemd-as-it-stands (for apps built to expect it) would be one of that multi-runtime system's goals. With the POSIX people and the bigcorp Linux providers pulling in opposite directions, a multi-runtime Linux would be the only Nash equilibrium. (Though it'd need someone like FreeDesktop to suggest it and start a working group for it, because neither "side" would care about it on their own.)

It's a hypothesis, then. Plausible, certainly. I assume you're presenting this as a probable way out of the portability concerns from GNU/Linux becoming more of a closed environment to the point of instigating a massive developer schism? This still raises the question of why it would need to reside in the init daemon, but I suppose crass architectural decisions are not a stranger to Linux developers.

For example: imagine that systemd decides to integrate deeply with GNOME, to the point that you now have an integrated "systemd+glib+GNOME platform" with a unified API

Such a decision might just backfire quite tremendously and prove to be systemd's overturning, though it does sound like a similar integration is very much in the spirit of the project. Then, yes, radical surgery would occur, but it may not be quite as dramatic as branded zones and simply an abandonment of systemd and related Freedesktop-ware.

RedHat and Debian to agree

Debian aren't really that large of a player, more of a passive target platform. Being a non-affiliated foundation, they're generally steered into things by whoever is on the committee and seldom ever lead themselves. So, no agreement strictly necessary.
Hi, I just wanted to tell you that I'm learning TXR right now (https://klibert.pl/output/this_week_on_polyglot.html) and I like it very much. My current goal is to write a tutorial for it: the docs are good and pretty detailed, but they aren't exactly friendly to new users. I hope I'll manage to finish this, I think TXR deserves much wider recognition.

Anyway, thanks for your work on TXR and thanks for making it available. Great job!
So what is a good "SQL RAM CLUSTER" implementation I can try out?
Perfect timing for my cubital tunnels to start to kick in.
+1. Judicious use of sales technique definitely helps pitch the content better, but one can easily go overboard. IMHO, the analogy actually goes in the other direction, where one aspect of sales is trying to convey some information in an effective manner. Beyond that, sales is (often) partial in a manner antithetical to teaching (such as inducing a particular decision), whereas good teaching aims to induce enough engagement to make listeners think for themselves, and then help them along the way.

When teaching (as in sales), there is definitely such a thing as overselling.
> The only thing I can think of is that in this day and age of everything being simplified to a few mouse clicks or screen taps, everything else becomes a monumental chore by comparison.

Or that now you know what the tradeoffs are and that there is a whole set of things you don't know you don't know! My teen self would have rather built the raised garden bed than used it, so he wouldn't have planned for long term effects (will this weather all seasons well? will these railroad ties leech into the soil and kill me via my veggies? etc)
> Uber still uses the same governmental resources

No, it doesn't, at least not in the US. It uses fewer government resources, although I don't have the data to say how significant of a difference it is.
Did you preface the teaching of St Augustine with the arguments you just made for it? (fun minutiae , deep meditation, example of great rhetoric), or did you just go "here, read this, it'll be on the exam"?

In my experience, outside my core curriculum, lecturers never told me why I needed to know something. To me, the social sciences were about as fun to study as getting teeth-pulled, it was horrendous. To this day, I can't remember a single thing I read in college outside of science/math/engineering.

Instead, it was just "here, read this, it'll be on the test". No build up, no explanation on how it's going to make my life better, just "your'e required to know this for the exam". Thanks, but no thanks.

We are literally bombarded with new information constantly, if you really want me to learn it, please explain why it's important.
Likely you don't care because you have no intention of pursuing mathematics in a research capacity at any point. However part of the experience for those who care more about math than an easy "A" is ensuring you have access to amazing role models early on. People who take an interest in you, and spend some of their incredibly valuable time shepherding you through a unique, beautiful field.

Where is your sense of wonder, or your desire to know these exceptional people while observing how they think? How myopic. If you're at Berkeley, you're wasting your time being bitter and hopefully you'll transfer. That isn't a personal criticism, so much as recognizing that a top research university isn't for everyone, and the unique resources and access it provides should be given great weight or you shouldn't be using them.

Professor Ogus cared, as did almost all of my professors. I was amazed I could take classes and spend time with people who are shaping our understanding of mathematics. It's the same shock you have when you go to the SFMoMA and realize that some of the greatest post-Impressionist works in the world are sitting entirely unprotected in front of you. It impacted me, it impacted the way I think, and I will always value what they did for me. An adjunct simply can't provide that experience, and if you're just looking to pass Math 1A go to a community college for those credits. If you want to make a mark and know some of the brightest minds of our age, go to Berkeley.
Argon is also a password hash function: https://www.cryptolux.org/index.php/Argon
In this one context, this one micro-optimization applies but for 99% of other cases, they don't (and shouldn't).

Note the 'benchmark' in OP is run 500 million times to see the performance difference. This is definitely not a common scenario.
There will be a Logistics As A Service company or an upstart competitor will integrate with them.
I'd generally limit wider to apply to the same, uh, type classes (there's probably a proper word) int8 to int16, float to double and so on.

Casting between integers and floating point is pretty risky unless you're absolutely sure about your ranges and precision. Anything that does that silently gives me The Fear.
Yes, I second (or third) this book. I used the method to chain Japanese kanji onyomi (the Chinese reading) together. Even went so far as to build out the location in minecraft so I could walk around and "study"
Took a while to build and stopped after 20 groups, but still an amazing way to leverage your memory skills.
Not really, cache takes large chunk of space on the chip die size and also is power hungry, it's simply not scalable when you can have GB/TB memories that is slightly slower but totally expandable, cache is unable to cope with the increasingly large data set and will not be the solution for sql or nosql, memory with SSD is.
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Show HN: A Unix style command line watchface for the pebble
Its about the more naturalistic interface between the computer and the user and the way they're making thoughts. You can much more easily correct words for non-fully-formed thoughts via typing and text than through speech - the "backspace" key of speech requires a lot more slowing down and then going back. In writing these sentences I've stared at a few of them, made some edits and decided they're better that way. You spend more time with your thoughts than with speech.

Maybe that's fine of course, but for such a fundamental change it will take a while for those who are used to text-based stream of consciousness to ever consider changing.
U.S. probes allegations AB InBev seeking to curb craft beer distribution
> Never said real due diligence, just most of the due diligence that is actually done

Which in a lot of cases is zip, zilch, nada by professional standards. A few lunch conversations and "social proof" don't constitute due diligence, but that passes for a lot of angels in Silicon Valley.

> However, if one is investing in 1,000 startups then due diligence is actually of less importance as you approximate a normal distribution of returns..

The problem is that the "normal distribution of returns" could easily turn out to be very different from what you expected. Markets aren't static. A lot of fund managers who rushed to buy boatloads of subprime MBS without doing their own due diligence learned this the hard way. They simply relied on the credit rating agencies and assumed everything would work out.

Here, you don't even have credit rating agencies. You have a hodgepodge of individuals ("syndicate leaders") who are black boxes. Just look at this[1]. According to https://angel.co/syndicates, he has the fifth largest syndicate on AngelList.

Pure madness.

When it comes to investing, ignore these words of wisdom at your own peril: do your due diligence or eventually your due diligence will do you.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10036321
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>To the contrary, off-the-grid requires devotion to the act of surviving from basics, and integrating technology therein takes additional effort/patience/tolerance.

This kind of off-the-grid described in the article isn't far from standard everyday life amenities 4-6 decades ago...
Ethically your responsibility is to the shareholders who have given you their money to invest, not to some random government.

The governments of the world aren't doing a good enough job with the money I'm already giving them for me to start thinking about donating more.
Did you perhaps mean "monetise" and not "refiy"?

Incidentally, you've just created a market for rape, and persuaded rich people that rape is just fine because they can afford pay off most victims.

For very rich people, that means practically all possible victims.

For poor people, that means practically all possible victims because they can't afford to pay anyone anyway.

Is this really a workable view of criminality and justice?
Why does profanity produce "contentious" rather than "impolite"? (That doesn't make it universally inappropriate, but it's certainly less polite.)
Makes me think of the book 'Avogadro Corp'
I was thinking of the workstation/server market, though HP did have their Vectras back in the 1990s.
On the contrary. It's when you need to use the tools when you most have to get into the community/culture.

If you just wanna learn something as a hobby, have fun, etc, then you don't have to do anything.

But knowing about the product, its community and its release roadmap is essential for anything you want to use to put something in production.

Actually it's essential for even considering to use this technology over another. And I wont even get into security and stability issues that a closer look at the project will make you aware of sooner.
Software development is all about solving problems and developers think they are good at it ... so much so that we try to problem solve the solutions (recursive framework hell). I think what this parable is trying to illustrate is that developers ought to focus on problems "with a human face," ones that don't revolve around solving problems that are caused by software development.

JS has a very particular ecosystem and it certainly doesn't describe every other ecosystem in existence today. Basically what I'm saying is if you love solving human problems, software development is an intellectually stimulating and satisfying fields to get into.
> "You are not the greatest instrumentality in the scaffolds."
> "He's a bit of a spare barrel."

Idiomatic expressions are also perturbed in a quite pleasant manner. :)
Who need this? Prople writing really really performant code like parsers. Who write parsers? 1% of ppl? Sad this get so much exposure. Stop losing time with micro optimization, this is a bug that's it.
Any twin blade plug made in China will probably have pins of the same size. The reason is North America is the only one using the twin blade polarized plugs, all bets are off in the rest of the world. Also, the pins may be the same size so you won't run into problems when you travel internationally.

Sparking will happen regardless of the way you insert the plug into the socket. This is probably due to a lack of inrush current limiting in the notebook power supply. When you plug it in, the discharged capacitors appear as a short across the AC line momentarily as they charge up. This is what causes the sparking.
Yes we don't take kindly but said resources are almost entirely subject to conspiracy in one way or another either to suppress or inflate rates. Living space is like any other resource, scarce but sometimes alternatives exist, ie. move to a different location for better access to resources on more favorable terms.