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The target is moving. Your question: "Have any vendors moved beyond SQL-92?" The answer is a clear yes. The question was not, "Do all major RDBMSs support the same subset of the SQL standard?"

The implied concern with the new question is portability of code across databases. This is a red herring based only on some snippets of SQL syntax and features.[0]

Even if the SQL were identical, no major RDBMS has as its selling point that it only supports the SQL standard. Additionally, even with identical SQL, the implementations in each RDBMS are different enough that logically equivalent code would still need to be rewritten.

One example: There is nothing in the SQL standard about optimization of queries. One place this shines through is in Postgres CTEs vs MS SQL Server CTEs (I cannot speak to other implementations). In Postgres, a CTE is an optimization boundary - predicates from the query utilizing a CTE will not be pushed down into the CTE. The entire CTE is executed each time it is referenced. This is in contrast to the behavior of sub-queries, which do support predicates being pushed down into them. In SQL Server, CTEs are just an in-line view definition and do support predicates being pushed into the CTE from the outer query. Any codebase converting from MS SQL Server to Postgres would need to have every instance of CTE use evaluated for performance.

[0] The previously linked deck highlights only some advanced excerpts of the SQL standard. The venn diagram of supported SQL constructs is much more overlap than exclusive.
I've known people to at work later if they want time to themselves.
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More like 40 times (3.8 million square miles compared to 94,000 square miles). The UK is smaller than Oregon.
> Monsters that can only move when you look away (or blink)

This could be so cool, reminds me (probably you might have been inspired by it!) to this enemies from Dr. Who, the weeping angels. I'd recommend anyone curious to look at the episode "Blink" (it seems that it is on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vahAzc2l9w)
Can you link to information about this? I can't find anything.
Because when you're A16Z and take a 3% management fee, regardless of profits, you don't need venture capital to be strictly speaking profitable.

You need your particular brand of venture capital to be perceived to be profitable. If you have $4.2 billion under management during a year, you took $126 million in non-performance based fees that year. A16Z could make a ton of risky investments, collect fees, and die out in 7 years (2009 + 7 = 2016)—it really doesn't matter to its partners. They banked their fees.

Mutual funds aren't necessarily more performant than buying index funds. Many forms of investment aren't. You're not appreciating how a smart manager can use time and a fee structure to enrich himself handsomely without actually delivering results for investors.

Venture capital wouldn't exist if it wasn't profitable, sure, but Sandhill Road? That's an artifact of how venture capital is done and taken advantage of by real human beings, not of how profitable it is.
Thing is if say for example you phone in sick and tell your boss you are ill with something or other and the real reason is you are simply just hung over and then you post about it and your boss sees that, it can land you in hot water, same with people that talk about smoking weed - fine if you wanna do drugs that is your decision and on your own time but why make it public knowledge? Posting your new phone number up? That is just asking for trouble, I noticed not every post has a phone number on it but even still there are a number that do come up with someones phone number.
I think we used to have these in old cereal box surprises or kids books for secret decoder games. There would be a message visually encrypted in a book and the book came with a transparent cellophane key sheet you'd place on top of the image to decode the secret message.
I believe the OP was referring to specific Christians who they converse with when the visit their family in the Midwest.

I think OP is right that there is a real phenomenon of people accepting a surveillance state without interrogating the notion. John Oliver's "dick pic" interview is an example of this. When he asked people on the streets if they were uncomfortable with bulk collection, due to (what I believe is) ignorance and physiological entrenchment, people parroted a response about national security. When forced to really confront the issues as they relate to their own lives, they changed their minds on the spot.

It isn't that their values shifted. They had a version of the narrative in their heads which was convincing, but shallow; it persists only because it is largely undisturbed. Good on OP for shaking things up.

There are other people who will genuinely disagree, and I imagine tell OP something like (disclaimer: I haven't read the story and am guessing), "David was facing a tyrannical monarch, we live in a free democracy; Snowden would receive a fair trial, so he should return to the States."
I worked on Capitol Hill and routinely worked 75-80 hour weeks. I did it because I was expected to, and I was expected to because it's Capitol Hill. The pay was laughable and I couldn't do it today, but looking back, sometimes working 80 hours is worth. In my humble opinion, most cases, it's not.
The last few years I was in Italy I stopped reading the news: the bullshit around Berlusconi and his entourage, the sad state of the politics there, the obsession with kidnapping or raping or murder or disasters. I was happy being ignorant, I stopped caring about things one should but can't really do anything about it. I felt a little out of the loop when somebody asked me "hey did you hear about the disaster in XXX?" and I had to play catch up.

Unfortunately now my morning routine consists in reading HN and The Guardian, I spend a lot of time reading about stuff that just feels like wasted time. In one hour of news reading there's probably a minute or two of stuff that interests me. I really want to stop that.

Aside: sometimes I catch up on news from Italian newspapers and it's incredible how depressing the tone of the articles are compared to e.g. The Guardian. The topic may be the same, but the British site has a much rosier approach to events. I'm positive that the modern news has the same effect of living with a slightly depressed housemate: he seems OK at first glance but slowly brings you down with his unhappiness and gray view of the world.
> Again, libel is a crime in the US.

There is no criminal defamation in the U.S. at a federal level, and only a minority of states have such an offense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_defamation_law#C...

According to the Wikipedia page said laws are rarely used, though I cannot speak to that myself.
A16Z isn't doing $500k checks in the next Facebook. They're waiting for the "15 important companies" to emerge every year and trying to snatch them up on the basis of their superior brand and checkbook. Exactly what the old guard of VCs used to do.

They used to claim their partners were all successful founders. They gave that up a long time ago. Now they hire pedigreed market analysts to be partners. Their primary job seems to be to judge startups and tweet wisdom about them, even though they've never done it themselves.

They passed on investing in Oculus because they thought Microsoft would crush them. Probably because they underestimated the creator of Oculus, Palmer Luckey, because he didn't go to any of the fancy schools.

Then, later, when they realized what millions of Carmack fans had already realized (Carmack was involved long before any investor) they bought their way in to a later round and flipped the company to their friends at Facebook for a cool $2 billion.

And of course, when it came to funding RapGenius.com, they had tens of millions to spare. They weren't worried Microsoft would beat them at the lyrics SEO game.

The ultimate test of a Silicon Valley investor is whether they help bring about great new stuff that would otherwise not exist. Most VCs do not pass this test with a very high grade.
Can't they? Corporations can own property and can also be run anonymously..
Living near land doesn't give you any more right to destroy it.
I disagree. I tend to think that brain has limit to the amount of information that can be perceived thoroughly. After going past this limit you are basically overloading your brain with information, which leads to decreased performance and such.

I'm not sure if there are any studies in this area (although I won't be surprised if there are) so I can only tell that from my personal experience (so this might be very subjective obviously).
Try it but it is only for prolonged overtime (I have just edited to link to the actual report)
Ditto, I worked in Westminster Parliament for a bit and I can say, it was one of the few jobs where I actually relished going it at 6am and coming out at 10pm.
I think Toyota is very well positioned with their new €14K hybrid
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And was posted here ~6 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9755742
I think we have different definitions of "plausible", then.
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It's idiotic how companies always want people who are "insanely passionatiate" about their mission. It makes (slightly) more sense when you have 1-2 employees, but good luck finding 20+ people who have the skills you need AND are insanely passionate about empowering X to do Y through [buzzwords].

Actually it's not idiotic, it's dishonest. The reason they do it is so they can later frame everything in moral terms around the mission. Only working 60 hours? Not happy making 50% of market with .35% equity? You must not really believe in the mission!
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> "ChucK is probably one of the easiest ways to get started programming synths"

i have to disagree. if you compare to SC, maybe. but because time is a first class citizen of ChucK, it actually complicates the process of programming sound. in that sense, i think something like Overtone is actually much simpler.

there are higher level methods for programming synths... the highest level, of course, being an actual (hardware or software) synth with an interface. which is certainly the easiest way to start programming sounds.
In this particular case, they have used TALEN, but we have two additional gene editing techniques that show promise. Namely,

- ZFN [2]

- CRISPR [3]

I have great hopes in all of them and in fact, my genetic condition [4] has already been fixed in-vitro using both mitoTALENs [5] and ZFN [6].

Exciting times for medicine. Too bad that we have a long, desperate bureaucratic burden ahead.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcription_activator-like_e...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinc_finger_nuclease

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRISPR

[4] http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/mitochondrial_myopathy/mi...

[5] http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v19/n9/full/nm.3261.html

[6] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3992073/
Really doesn't. Apple has never actively released who works for them except their leadership team, they never put up fake web pages, they never prerelease products.

This would be a complete 180 in terms of their style and behaviour.
"I bet you'd be surprised to hear that in some countries people actually prefer to live in apartments to houses."

One sniff test for the credibility of this is to look at what rich people do.

No matter where you go, the wealthy tend to have large country estates. Sure, they may have a luxury apartment in town as well, but where do they spend their leisure time? Bingo.
Contrarywise, I usually just hit the comments without reading the article. It's super fast for bootstrapping yourself into an issue. Does rely on the people on HN not being full of crap, though.
The entire concept of 12 hour days working in front of a computer screen is a joke - the vast majority of people are going to spend 40-50% of that not working, and the remainder are going to be so unproductive from fatigue that they may as well have only worked 6 hours
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Well, to be fair, Andreessen's first company was crushed by Microsoft.
Is your philosophy that any law that hurts the interests of a subset of the population for the good of the whole is a bad law?
It is a polarising design but it's been quite popular.

The reason for its popularity is a combination of two markets: (a) families where the wife wants wants a SUV but the husband wants something more sporty/aggressive and (b) inner city workers who just want more ride height.
Yes, they mostly invest in later stages than the seed round. They do some seed but it's not their bread and butter. Does that make them a shitty VC? They're still making big bets and hoping for a few winners to return the fund. That's what VC has always been and will always be.
In what sense, I am honestly curious. I have only glanced over Supercollider and dabbled in ChucK. I imagine there are higher-level constructs in SC?
It's one of only 2 or 3 techs mentioned in Snowden leaks as capable of blocking NSA. GPG specifically. That's enough reason to build on and around it until we have a usable solution just as strong.
Over saturation of news can be depressing for me. I've had to take a couple of deliberate breaks and shield myself from it (mostly due to politics). I consider it a very real threat to my mental health and I now limit the sources of information I let in early on when I see warning signs that it's happening again. One thing that works for me is to focus primarily on issues were I believe I can make a difference by staying informed and not those where I genuinely feel powerless to affect change. It's imperfect, but I'm a lot more capable of dealing with it this way.
That study that the news article links to is pretty weak: there is no control and they only did a single baseline assessment of yoghurt consumption.
Whereas some of the articles on outcomes referenced in the article are review articles.

But my main takeaway from this was not so much about outcomes (I would need to look into those studies more closely as you suggest). Rather it is that studies show that fermented foods are capable of surviving digestion and altering gut flora.

Overall I am really happy to see an article based on research citations rather than that it was published in NYT.
It's even more advanced than 200 years ago when there weren't any public schools. The comparison isn't sensible.
"They used to claim their partners were all real founders. They gave that up a long time ago."

no all the general partners are still founders who seem to have an overwhelming stake in who they actually fund, granted they hide who the general partners are on their site, they use the term partner loosely as another word for associate
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The good thing is that most kids will reject a career path placed on them. My older but young child does not have my love of software development but loves mechanical and electrical design. He 'hates' programming.
My other slightly younger child loves writing stories, although he is gifted (as per WISC) with mathematical reasoning (if I recall the term correctly). He has shown a natural understanding of programming, but no interest. I consider his thinking much broader.

I love my kids different interests. I think the 'learn programming in school' is highly overrated, unless it's a component of something bigger eg. Logic, technology).
But A16Z isn't doing that.

The people who started A16Z have had multiple billion dollar exits, and are investing their management fee in services for their founders. They only make money from carry (if the fund is successful).
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It will be dangerous if Taiwan attempts to put its plan of independence into action, even though in reality it effectively has one.

Once CCP still controls mainland China, Taiwan has no chance to get this working without military response from the other side. It is for the best interests of both sides to just keep things as it is.
I agree with this. Instead of focusing so much on sports, arts, math, coding, etc., we should be focusing more on critical thinking skills. Rather now we just encourage everybody to join the rat race by picking whichever field will be most profitable for the next 20 years. It happens to be programming now.
Worse for some people and better for other. My mother (58) and my grand mother (82) love how easily is to do what they usually do contrasted to the windows 8 experience.

I don't know if that is a common case or not, but at least it's not a definitive "worse" or "good". And for me, it's great as I never got a call to ask me where is something anymore.
No one is an associate anymore in VC, because founders learned that if you're an associate you're just a gatekeeper. So now everyone is a "partner."
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Google has some popping up in their index. See: https://www.google.com/search?q=inurl:%22README_FOR_DECRYPT....
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It's also a very strange anecdote since the NYT articles primary point is that A16Z are pushing up valuations so deals like the one Peter Thiel made are no longer possible.

Quoted in this blog post from the NYT article: "It’s easier to triple or quadruple your money when you’ve invested $10 million in a $100 million company than when you’ve invested nearly $100 million in a $1 billion company [...]"

Peter Thiel invested $500,000 for 10.2% i.e. in a $5 million company.

Unless there's something I'm missing here?
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It seems very similar to experiences I've heard about from friends running businesses in Russia and, to a lesser degree, in Mexico (where your business partners are more reliable but the government is horribly corrupt and obstructionist). One rule of thumb I was told regarding the early days in post-Soviet Russia was that you were either going to pay the mobsters a quarter of your revenue or the FSK a third, and that was before Americans started getting killed. (Whatever I think of Putin and the deep-state security cabal running things over there, it is still less chaotic than the Yeltisn days.)

In general, I think anywhere the rule of law lays lightly, this is the norm. Employees are at the mercy of powerful employers, so they learn to take advantage of the system. When foreigners (or idealistic locals) go into business, they find themselves contending with behaviors meant to deal with abusive employers in the absence of an impartial judiciary (this is the same China that lets the wealthy hire people to serve prison time for them, after all). In general, it's just not worth the effort until Beijing's reforms start producing real effects.
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Unfortunately IPv6 in cloud deployments is still very much lacking. OpenStack is one of those where IPv6 has only recently become something that is being built into OpenStack.
Footnotes have their uses [1].

[1] Particularly when you have to say something which is almost, but not quite right, and because you're writing an academic paper, you're both worried that a reviewer will dock you for being so naive, and as an academic it pains you to say something which is not technically correct, but you have this pesky 10 page limit, so you stuff the pedantry in scriptsize font on the bottom of the page.
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Most people are not suited to it. I'd be surprised if more than 1% of people are. And even for those few, it's a mistake to start too young. If a startup succeeds, it takes over your life in a way that cuts off lots of other opportunities. It's a mistake to do that sort of pruning before you understand what you're losing by it.

I wouldn't advise people to try to start startups before about 23. Before that you should be exploring.
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Can we talk for a bit about how much money is being spent to do the same thing three times?
The point is that A16Z is paying high prices (and you correctly note that everyone is). Tan's point is that there are still power laws at play, and that choosing one random investment to disprove portfolio theory is incongruent.
That's a silly comparison. Avatar was made by James Cameron, someone as established as it's possible to be in Hollywood. If Mark Zuckerberg or Larry Page or Jeff Bezos started a new company, then that company would be a good analogue because you aren't going to get the terms that you'd get out of a long-shot like Facebook. A better comparison would be something like Paranormal Activity (12,893x ROI) or the Blair Witch Project (11,111x ROI). Avatar is a good proxy for how much revenue-generation Hollywood is capable of, not its profitability measured by ROI.
Burning coal for electricity is rendering the whole planet uninhabitable, coal mining is one of the most dangerous possible occupations, and the toxic byproducts from coal mining poison the local population and local wildlife.

West Virginia’s economy is a slightly tough case, because they’re in the mountains and are relatively isolated away from the coast or big rivers, without much productive farmland, and their economy is dominated by chemical production and coal mining (and more recently also shale gas production). Otherwise there’s not too much going on, and WV is the second poorest state (by median household income) in the US and has the second lowest life expectancy, both after Mississippi, and has the lowest proportion of college graduates of any state.

As a matter of national policy, I’m not sure what the best way is to help West Virginia. Better federal support for their healthcare, education, and anti-poverty programs would be a start, but what they really need is a more diversified economy. It’s a hard problem. Coal mining is on its way out one way or another, with continuing low gas prices, dropping solar/wind prices, and increasing national and international concern about CO2 emissions.
I don't think that is what rsync is talking about at all. I read it to mean that instead of using a specific hyperlink, that you could use a collection of English words that would allow some hypothetical computer system to locate the same resource. Reading rsync's linked article,

>> Consider also that it would be trivial for a programmer of a web
browser to alter the behavior of the browser such that a normal text
link that points to a file determined to be a picture would result
in the actual picture being displayed - exactly as it would have been
if an inline link were being used.
Further, it would also be trivial to rewrite the browser to display the
picture in question given an english sentence on the web page that
described the address of the picture, thus prompting this (as yet)
imaginary web browser to, once again, display the picture.

>> The important point is that the behavior of any given web browser
as relates to the use of links (inline or otherwise) is in fact
completely arbitrary. Therefore the prohibition of one kind of
linking over another not only demonstrates a failure to grasp how
the underlying technology works (and could be made to work) but also
represents a legal precedent that would require constant maintenance
and revision to remain relevant.
It doesn't necessarily apply to IPFS, but the increasing amount of "mobile only" users significantly limits what sort of input people can provide.
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