skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's entirely possible back in those days that you had a tiny LPAR (VM) for your CVS data on a big pSeries box that was shared with a bunch of other resources.

On top of that, it wasn't uncommon to connect those tiny LPARs to shared storage RAID arrays with hundreds of machines on the same array, and allocate them a tiny chunk of two or three disks, and deal with all the contention there.

During that time period, I worked for a hot second at EMC, and was always fascinated to see these types of configurations - where it was very clear you could get MUCH better price/performance by buying Linux pizza boxes and connecting them to local storage - but back in those days it was not acceptable at big companies to do that.

On the flip side, those pSeries and high-end Sun boxes screamed when they were optimized for high I/O and high performance workloads. 15 years ago, and you'd see clusters of these pSeries boxes processing 400k-500k writes/second and up on Oracle and DB2. Truly impressive stuff for 2000 & 2001.
You can pick 2 items if they're small, put one back to attempt to appear like you didn't take anything; works with clothing too. Suspicious behaviour looks suspicious.
Dutch roundabouts are the best. Lots of videos here:

https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/tag/roundabout/
What on earth are you talking about? Your post is highly sexist.

As a man I want to take care of my own reproductive function. Women can already take care of theirs and a male pill-equivalent product won't change that.
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my city has a few normal roundabouts, and then one insane version where the cars in the roundabout have to yield to people entering. its pretty bad...
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For true insanity you need to go to Washington DC which has roundabouts with divided lanes, pedestrian crossings, traffic lights, stop signs, and turning lanes.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Washington,+DC/@38.9092507...

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Washington,+DC/@38.9020455...
That's fine, I don't use any of those so I'm not an expert. There were 3 heroin ODs in my rural county a month ago, which is new. Previously the non-alcohol-substance-related deaths were all meth. Also visually I can't really separate meth users from heroine users. They have the same vacant stare and horrible skin. I guess you could say their teeth are fucked up in different ways. The coke users I've known have been completely functional, with no obvious drug-related health issues.

Regardless, it seems a bit reductive to theorize about a path-dependent phenomenon like addiction solely from the perspective of blood chemistry. Saying "substitute" implies that meth-heads are switching to heroin, which I already denied to be the case. They aren't switching to heroin, but their younger siblings, cousins, aunts, and uncles are using heroin rather than meth.
Not that I know of. Interesting though. I have to look into column stores more though.
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I do something similar but with named pipes. I use it to dispatch commands from vim to another tmux pane (or screen, for that matter).

https://gist.github.com/manuel-colmenero/94c53afbb3a167c6e76...

recieve:

./vimfifo pipe

send:

echo 'ls' > pipe

(note that the command is runned in the "recieving end", so that vim doesn't block)
Not a traffic engineer, but it is what I was told by Kiwis when driving in NZ, and it matched my experience. Driving a particular roundabout was a breeze at lunch (much better typically than a light), but took a very long time just to get into it during the 5pm rush.

Traffic lights have other trade-offs that can be tweaked such as timing length, it is hard to say what is best without knowing more.
> North America, please stop abusing using "stop" signs. No one stops anyway, just make them "Yield" signs unless its a seriously bad intersection.

Maybe outside of cities. In cities, they are the best thing ever for pedestrians.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9647253
There are actually a lot of good cases for roundabout over intersection with traffic lights, but I think that's really something that needs to be decided on a per intersection basis.
To me the best replacement for a 4-way stop is really giving one street the right of way and using a yield sign for the less important street. However, that seems to be unheard of in the US.
People need incomes, they don't need the jobs.
Sorry how is paying 18 years of child support for a child you could easily have no rights to even see not really very expensive?
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Very nice! I looked at them from several perspectives, and saw some neat things. I like that you have curated commentary on each item, and included (I think) referrer links to Amazon. I was pleasantly surprised to be asked if I wanted to be reminded about something -- not sure what triggered that, but it was cool. I'm going to try using this for my amazon wishlist-creation. ;)

It looks very nice. Would you be willing to write about the tech stack you used for this?
Competition in this space is sorely needed in LA. There is westsiderentals.com and they're the only reliable place for rental listings (Craigslist is very miss with a little hit).
Correcting grammar and spelling errors—especially in public—is always a tough call: upon judging that an error is systematic and not a simple typo, do you help the writer avoid the error in perpetuity—even if it embarrasses them a little, and even if you'll probably get downvoted for being pedantic or offtopic? In this case, I've determined the downsides are worth the possibility of sparing the author a lifetime of error. So, without further ado:

s/it's hosting/its hosting/g
There are a lot of 2-way stops in that area.
Blargh. Another OSS project that doesn't expose any kind of version control (7zip is the worst offender). I know, gift horse etc etc but it does make it hard to track the history / future of the project.

Also looks like it hasn't been updated since 2011.
We normally recommend at least 1GB (and tell users to run swap on smaller instances). It's really just dependent upon your app's memory usage, and you can use docker options to limit app resources quite easily :)
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If you cannot make a point without resorting to semantics I'm not interested in hearing it. Either you knew exactly what I meant and are grasping at straws to continue arguing because you have an axe to grind with Amazon, or you thought I was actually referencing a report indicating 1/4 of their staff was weeping at their desks every other day and that somehow that company is still in business. Both possibilities are equally uninteresting.
Well... in principle the device is supposed to be able to provide an authenticated public key that gets signed by some upstream bank/authority, right? It's the same principle as TLS -- you can trust the site because they have a signed cert.

And this part apparently was unbroken, because the attackers left the initial chip in place and just proxied the PIN response.

So... if you have that, why on earth didn't the protocol specify a two-way kind of thing that allows the already-authenticated card device to sign and return a "I validated that PIN" message, which wouldn't be MitMable?

I'm just stunned that somehow they went through the trouble of putting a !@#!?! computer into every credit card capable of elaborate crypto and then blew this really obvious hole in the middle of it...
I thought the point was to demonstrate you're not being violently aggressive [with your voice at least] and to get the person to have to pay closer attention, ie move in, at which point they risk escalating too much if they continue being very loud.

This to me is a defusing technique rather than an attempt to increase the other persons anger and to humiliate them.

Guess it depends on what you want to get out of the situation: you could adopt a quiet voice and non-threatening demeanour but be highly offensive with your language and probably achieve the ends you mention quite well.
I get the feeling in my extended family that words would be spoken to the sibling to indicate that the future sister-in-law was either "too big for her breeches" or the sibling might want to reconsider the whole thing. No disrespect intended to either the future sister-in-law or Miss Manners, but family is first names or nicknames.
Oh right, because women don't enjoy sex.
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"...This is completely standard practice at _every_ precinct in America..."

Wow.

You shouldn't brag about that man. That's not something to be proud of.
> I tried to move beyond archaic Java with managed VMs when they were first announced.

Please keep in mind that Managed VMs is still in beta, however, there are other parts of Google Cloud Platform that are in GA, including Compute Engine (IaaS), and Container Engine (somewhere between PaaS and IaaS). In fact, depending on how much control you want, Container Engine can be a better fit than App Engine.
Interesting, they're still using MinGW. I wonder if they'll ever get it to build under MSVC?
> For instance, I'd not touch the B2B business in Spain, given the way people choose vendors.

Can you elaborate a bit on that, please?
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I see what he's saying, but I wonder. There has to be a point of diminishing returns. Maybe we've already discovered the easy ones, and yet more mass screening won't turn up much.
what about the three finger move gesture?
Because his post was extremely sexist.
It's not going to work with the Ivies, in the US, because the whole process will surely become scattered. Each remotely capable school will find a way to game the system and get qualified. You're really screwed if you go to a school that cannot qualify, which would likely include most of the students who need this help the most. The system is still money chasing money.

The only way this works is through public education, where the K-12 system is tightly coupled with an elite public university system, and public policy can drive both into a tight partnership. There's a system somewhat like this in California called TAG; any student who signs up and makes grades in community college can usually get guaranteed entry into a UC. It only works because the California community colleges are required to teach all "transfer courses" at the UC level in terms of content, etc. It might be possible to extend this kind of guaranteed enrollment down to K-12.
I wonder if it's possible to for the ObjC runtime to randomly obfuscate a processes' "private" selectors on startup, and rewrite ObjC invocations within system frameworks dynamically, to make private API usage harder.

Like what ASLR does for memory addresses, but for selectors.
Agreed. And besides which stop signs may get treated as yield but yield signs are treated even worse.

The only thing better than stop signs for pedestrians (and I'd say they're better than traffic lights with dedicated pedestrian signals in most cases) is probably total chaos (as per some cities in switzerland) where there's seven way intersections with trams and no clear boundary between sidewalk and road, and motorists just need to stop and figure it out.
I tried Scribe and was quite enthused about it but there are trivial bugs that never got fixed, been a year since I filed this issue[1]:

Basically, http://jsfiddle.net/L59kL1rf/ -- you cannot delete the first paragraph and always end up with <p><br /></p> and if you try to delete that it just starts acting strange. This issue has been open since 2014 and it seems it's a bug in the core.

There were other similar issues I ran into around the same and decided I would revisit later but it's been a nearly a year since.

[1]: https://github.com/guardian/scribe/issues/300
Games writing is currently a race to the bottom in terms of seeing who can render the most meandering, self-important quasi-review of game X. My personal theory is that the phenomenon of absurdly self-important critics accompanies the legitimization of any new art form; I can't think of any other reason for the explosion of facile garbage in games journalism.
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Anyone attended the Collision Conference 2015 in Vegas as Startup or attendee?
How was it? Did you get value out of it?
Right, for sure! I'm not suggesting that my analysis is correct, it's just something I've noticed in a big city with a lot of traffic lights. Red-running is endemic during rush hour, but I see much better behavior at the roundabouts.

One of the bummers of traffic lights is that they tend to be more efficient with longer light cycles since you amortize the 'start up cost' of getting vehicles moving through the intersection over a longer period of vehicles moving at full speed. But the downside is that this increases the perceived unfairness because a one car length difference now means an even longer arbitrary delay.

I'm not a traffic engineer either but living in a city with horrible traffic it is something I think about.
If your argument was correct, we'd see authors make their best work later in their career, when they can ignore editors and publishers, because their name alone will carry their work.

I haven't done a big study in this, but it seems to me that early works are, on average, better than works made after artists have become famous. If anything, they become complacent. It's not just GRR Martin: Look at the Harry Potter series, for instance. In general, the commmercial success makes things worse.
Bluntly, that's a very white person response. Do you know about Compton? Anything that's not selling drugs or gang related to get out is fine. What's right or wrong has a lot to do with the circumstances you're in.
Cars still would still have to stop for pedestrians at the yield sign. Works very well in other countries. If there are too many pedestrians, just put a traffic light up to regulate traffic between pedestrians and cars. Key here though is that the light isn't on a timer but actually adjusts to someone pressing the button or a car rolling over a sensor in the ground.
I for one think it's a good thing Heroku is not joining the herd in a race to the bottom.

$7 dollars a month to run a little app? That's less than I spend on coffee each day and I'm glad that money is going towards differentiated and valuable service.

I have a couple of toy apps, a personal blog and a "not such a toy" app on Heroku and I have used their services for free for AGES - more than fair enough that they make some money.
I didn't downvote you, but are you sure you meant to go as far as calling those things sacred topics? I've seen plenty of comments disagreeing with several of the propositions in your list.
Offline authentication was included for reasons you state but banks and terminals are supposed to limit it to small transactions, i.e buying a cup of coffee. For larger ones you wait and retry for online transaction before you let the customer walk out with that shiny new 2K MBP.
Yup, excellent correction. Thanks.
Per the other response, this isn't delaying the cd, it's completing the cd and then delaying the loading of ancillary information to display asynchronously.

More specifically put, this is a solution to a problem you don't have. Some people want their prompt to display more ancillary information about their environment. Those people want a quick, responsive prompt as much as you, and one of the strategies for having both processing this extra display info and having a fast prompt is async.
I've been using your software for years now and had no idea about the "new" format. And I don't care about Windows. Please improve how you inform your customers and give me a way to migrate.

And beware - trust is hard to earn, but easy to lose.
The overuse of roundabouts is US is in Bend OR. For some reason, I have seen at least half-a-dozen roundabouts there. Most cities, I visited in US have at most a couple of them. Bend OR is roundabout-ville.
> 4-way Stop - a ridiculous type of intersection that ought not to exist.

Ought not to exist in places like Europe, perhaps.

The four-way stop has the virtue that it is easy for Americans and Canadians to understand.

1. Everyone arriving at the four-way pretends to stop by slowing down to around 20 mph.

2. Regardless of who arrived first, if two or more vehicles take conflicting paths, the biggest asshole goes first. (The algorithm for determining this party takes into account factors such as vehicle size, general socio-economic background, minimum velocity achieved during four-way stop approach, and their apparent perception of where the white stop line is.)

3. When two vehicles take nonconflicting paths (e.g. two directly facing vehicles both go right) they need not acknowledge each others' existence.

4. Only left turns must be indicated. If someone fails to indicate while approaching, they are assumed to be going straight or turning right. Should that be incorrect, the situation is resolved by a fair division of rights: right of way is given to the non-indicating left turner($), whereas the inconvenienced/threatened party is given the right to several prolonged honks of the horn.

5. Where visibility over the other converging roads is not obstructed by building, bush or otherwise, the four-way stop may be completely ignored when not approached by another vehicle with an estimated arrival time that is within a second, either way, of one's own arrival time. (Pedestrians and cyclists may optionally be counted as vehicles at the driver's discretion.)

Who needs roundabouts?

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$. The governing principle here is consistency -- with rule (2).
My town put in a few roundabouts last year and I already noticed memorial flowers at one of them, not sure if for pedestrian, bicycle or car.
The "review" barely mentions the game. This is not a review, it's attention seeking.
I used to be in the "eff college do bootcamp" side of things. I think that's wrong now. Young people need some of what college gives you and also what bootcamps provide -- if they want a coding career.
Here is a particularly terrifying roundabout: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5628134,-1.7714704,177m/da...
I just quit my job. Serious
Raise an issue and ask?
You're conflating personal and professional. In your private life, you're free to be a prima donna and demand whatever your family and friends will put up with. At work, you're not, and unlike Ms Manners, I'm neither your friend nor a family member that has to humor you. Demanding that people play status games is going to get you a fiat no-hire from me, in part because you will find many of the tasks beneath you. And such a person would be unlikely to tolerate calling his or her managers Mr. / Ms. X. As should be obvious, if being called doctor is a deal breaker for you, there are lots of other employers. I think you're unlikely to find many in the valley that will tolerate such nonsense, but it's a free country -- anyone can keep looking until he or she finds a company that tolerates it.
>The use of the word "disappeared" is completely inappropriate.

I agree. Name like Enhanced Secret Displacement Technique is more appropriate.
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That can make it really hard for the less important street to actually get across, if there are cars coming frequently enough on the more important street. Perhaps more importantly, a yield only works if the yielding street has adequate visibility, and it's primarily only used when merging into a lane (as opposed to crossing an intersection) because trying to keep track of oncoming traffic in both directions and determining when it's safe to cross can be quite hazardous.

In general, the 4-way stop is something that should be rarely used, but is appropriate in some cases. There's a 4-way stop near where I live that I think is very appropriate; the busier road isn't so busy that a stop sign causes traffic to pile up, but is busy enough that if it were given unimpeded flow, the cross street would have difficulty crossing. But installing a traffic light would likely cause longer delays on average for cars, and would also be a bit of a problem as the intersection is at the top of a hill and a traffic light would cause traffic on the main street to back up down the hill (and you don't want people to stop on an uphill if they don't have to).

FWIW, if topography allowed, this would make for a good roundabout spot. But it would take up a bit more space than the (admittedly large) intersection, and the topography of the hill would cause a problem. I suspect that something similar could be said of all appropriate 4-way stop signs, that they'd be better as roundabouts if space and/or topography wasn't a concern.
The problem with roundabouts is starvation.

I grew up in France, which has more than 50% of the world's roundabouts. They are everywhere.

Where I am from, there is a roundabout at the intersection of a major road and a small road with little traffic. During rush hour, it is impossible to enter the roundabout coming from the small road because there is a continuous flow of cars coming from the major road. It is truly an uninterrupted flow of cars because the cars come from another roundabout...

Before the roundabout, there was no problem because there was a light that would be always be green for the main road expect when a car was detected on the small road. It was optimal.
It's fucking ridiculous, especially since this was already commonplace with mobile phone SIM cards when they said it, but it allowed UK banks to force their customers to accept potentially-fraudulent payments by claiming that their PIN must have been used. (Otherwise they'd have had to eat the loss and no bank wants to do that.)
It depends on the use case... C# is a wonderful language, since the addition of generics and lambdas, it's downright beautiful to work with. But this does come with a cost... Even a simple hello world console app has a pretty significant spin up time compared to go, or anything that is truly compiled.

In some cases, if you have long-lived services, then Java and .Net make sense... You can get farther with the code in place. If you are running one-off executable handlers, that need to start and finish quickly, then you probably would favor go.

It's entirely possible for different options to be part of a larger solution.. and while I agree, the lack of generics is truly painful... I remember C# before, and feel that Java's generics are a horrible implementation... I'd rather wait for a nice implementation just the same.
Traffic lights with magnetic sensors to detect cars and amount of cars waiting work pretty well here in California. Unless you're riding a motorcycle...
Followed you briefly (news-wise). Fun fact: I once received a call about some credit card information being leaked, and was brought on to figure it out. I'm pretty sure you had something to do with it.

Small, fun little world we live in. I was amazed to learn that you were so young. Hope you stay out of trouble and put your curious brain to good use. :) Don't forget your SOCKS.
Except it's $14, because I can't remember the last time I built even a trivial app that didn't incorporate background processes somehow (the extra $7).

Then it's an extra $20/mo if you want SSL. Which you will most likely want.

That $7/mo just became $34/mo.

Bye, bye Heroku.
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The main aim is to be useful. Someone who wants to lookup Whois is better served by giving them something that will achieve that task.

If you have other suggestions though, send a pull request. The project has already gotten a bunch from the SmartOS and FreeBSD communities.
O hai. Welcome to Massachusetts, where the roundabouts have traffic lights, and getting from the Tufts campus to downtown Somerville becomes a game of multidimensional live-action Frogger. And that's if you HAVE a walk signal.
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