skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GraphQL/Falcor seem like a very elegant abstraction for "fetching" data. But I see a performance problem arising - all data queries are not created equal, and so it may turn out that there is a significant speed difference between requesting {Object: [field1]} and {Object: [field1, field2]} as a consequence of some particular implementation detail at the persistence layer (SQL joins perhaps). A well designed BFF would abstract away this problem by providing a set of individually optimized endpoints, presumably crafted in a way that reflects the underlying persistence layer (like any good REST API) as well as gathering data together for a particular client's needs, so that the front-end designer can decide which calls to make, and whether requesting [field2] is worth the cost.

The alternative in a GraphQL world would be to have a set of best-practices which annotate the data model. So a backend engineer would write a piece of documentation saying : "Warning: consider avoiding [field2] for significant performance gains".
Because it allows you to externalize corporate problems to the detriment of employees and creditors rather than to actually deal with them.
Google accused of tracking school kids after it promised not to
Indeed, the GA release date is tomorrow: https://wiki.php.net/todo/php70#timetable
It just seems like a contentious area to test this on. America would be better considering many people are monolingual.
A major Indian city has been underwater for almost a month now
Google Sidewiki the biggest I can remember
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Interview with Simon Williams, Founder of Stories From
I used to be a gunner on an M1A1, and although we had laser range finders, we also practiced with the old style optical sights that were installed alongside the main gun. How range finding works with optical sites is you usually have a series of marks in the viewfinder that you use to physically measure what you're aiming at, so if the tank/plane/whatever is between particular two pips (or whatever; edit iirc the M1 had two curved lines you would placer over the target) you know that it's about x meters away. The pips are calculated knowing the average length of the object, so this is, in practice, close enough.

The procedure is; measure the target, then use cross marks on the cross hairs to raise the gun tube to the appropriate level, manually guess lead and defilade, fire, on the way. It obviously takes practice to get good at. I found it curious that the US Army continued to teach/train/use this method, as well as land navigation with compass/mapp instead of gps. The idea is to not rely on technology entirely.

Edit: turns out I am describing stadiametric rangefinding:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadiametric_rangefinding
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You're not only wrong, you're extremely rude. How many professional PHP developers do you estimate are in the world currently? "no place" indeed.

If you've truly taken the time to understand modern PHP and want to discuss its weaknesses, by all means proceed. Otherwise bashing the professional work of your peers is simply rude.
Don't be nice to startups
I've also been watching Tinderbox for years, it's a very interesting software, but never used it because it's non-FLOSS and single-platform.
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ThenBy is a JavaScript micro library that helps sorting arrays on multiple keys
They are asking to lease 10 acres and use it all for solar field development. I'm not sure what portion of that, if any, would be used for access roads etc.

Apologies if that was unclear.

Edit
The line in their proposal that's concerning is "Exclusive right to property to construct and operate the solar farm"

I don't know if that extends beyond the 10 acres they want to lease or not.
None of that is ok, and I don't know anybody who feels any of that is (openly enough for me to know about it) ok.
In WWII we saw the introduction of practical optical coincidence rangefinding, starting with naval guns and quickly moving to direct-fire artillery, tank guns, and AA applications. One gunner, but binocular vision with the aiming mechanism using angle of incidence from each eye input to calculate current range.
We will be going live with v7 as soon as I test it on the dev servers, so probably this week. Not everyone is so slow.
In fairness, I should point out that the really slow version was also written by me :)
Keep control of the PDFs and other documents
Again, PHP made it better and easier but you aren't going to convince me that my direct experience didn't exist simply by repeating the same assertion.

Before PHP became widespread in the very late 90s there were many options for dynamic apps. I worked with ISPs which offered CGI or SSI even on cheap / free plans. Sure, it was ugly but a ton of people got what they needed done by going over to Matt's Script Archive and finding something they could hammer into shape. Before antique PHP apps, the security cliché was formmail.pl & a slew of long-forgotten guestbook / forum scripts.

I'm not saying that PHP didn't help considerably, only that it was very far from first. I remember having to make the case for using PHP 2 or 3 instead of many of those alternatives and it was based on cost and convenience, not the ability to do anything new.
I just attended an interesting talk/livedemo by a security researcher[1] on WJAX2015 who used sqlmap to exploit a web application and extract and manipulate its content. So folks are using sqlmap.

[1] https://twitter.com/cschneider4711
True, but the markets prices assets at "Net Present Value" and often has long time horizons for their calculations. Think about an insurance company's portfolio. It will need assets to balance against liabilities which include human life insurance policies. Some business insurance policies can be for even longer time frames, think nuclear power plants. To balanced against those liabilities part of what you need is an investment with a similar time horizon. Now, the gold or whatever ore these companies mine may not have that horizon, but their company stock and some of their company debt certainly will. And since both their stock and debt valuations will be tied to the ore they mine and return, some of that correlation will find its way back to the price of gold, platinum, etc. But the price of gold will be impacted even more directly than that. A large percentage of precious metals are held for their store of value rather than their value in industrial uses. If, as an investor, I know that over then next 30 years the price of my investment will drop 20% or more, I plug those numbers into the NPV equation, and I get the hell out of that position untill the price comes down and is in line with what I'd pay for the metal almost at the cost of an industrial commodity. That's of course a simplified version of how it'd all play out, but the broad strokes are there.

How long would you hold onto your home mortgage if you knew that at some point, you're not exactly sure when, but at some point you're home's value will plummet?
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Love to read someone analyze the feasibility of satellite based attacks on this rng
Link all your stores and outlets, across the country or around the world
I had no idea they made so little money based upon their (apparently) very unique tile rendering graphics technology.

Their CEO and sales guys clearly aren't doing as good a job as their engineering department!
Even a lone bomber plane would not have been that much of a threat at this point. Bomb the weapon factories, the war is over. If they had known what was coming they would have deployed a lot more and evacuated the civilians.

We all know what happened instead.
You might want to check about why you have muscle aches and pains so bad that it wakes you up multiple times a night.

That is definitely not "waking up naturally"
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How does increasing the network speed solve the problem? Doesn't it just reduce the number of edit conflicts? No matter how low the round trip time, you could still have two simultaneous conflicting changes. I don't see how you could eliminate that entirely without going to a locking model.
First time submitting here. Really admire the community and find it very welcoming.

Trying to get better at python, wrote this simple readability index calculator. Right now it calculates four different readability scores.

Very interested in feedback of any kind so I can get better.

All my best,
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From the headline, I thought this was going to be a piece about who runs @StartupLJackson
Don't apologize because of such nonsense, it only encourages the behavior.
I agree with the main point you're trying to make, but the suggested examples you provide don't always hold true.

I'm pretty dedicated to Debian on the server, a good part of my business is providing infrastructure support and setup, and I work from a MacBook Pro.
What makes this different than, say, Terraform?
I did read it, I know that the conclusion is that reaching out to Mort should be attempted. But most Morts don't work in software companies. And I doubt that reaching them is easy or cheap.

And it's not elitism, it's a fact that many developers are Mort in all situations. Yes, we're all Mort from time to time, but some people are just Mort :)
I didn't insinuate it was "new usage". I've seen it go from rarely & uncomfortably used to, as I said, "now common".
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Are you talking about Facebook? They're transitioning over to Hack.

http://hacklang.org/

As far as I understand, most/all new development is done in Hack.

Granted, a lot of Hack features are starting to make their way into PHP (much like how exciting new TypeScript features are making their way into ES6 and above), but focus has been shifted to Hack.
I don't know about these estimates specifically, but in a general sense, traditional miners discovering a new vein have the same problem. One can to some degree simulate the market and deduce if such plans are worthwhile. Once the legislation and insurance has figured itself out, the only difference in space is higher initial costs.
Also, different compilers:

Each PFC channel contains three dissimilar processor lanes, and software from Ada source code using three different Ada compilers to provide triple dissimilarity.
This sounds to me like a huge disadvantage.

I have what I thought of a terrible sleep hygiene too but after several years of watching collegues adapting "new ways to sleep", I realized it's not that bad at all.

So me (and my girlfriend) usually stay up long. Midnight to 1am is normal for a weekday. 1-2am is the time when we say: we should have been in bed already but it happens more often then I thought. We get up at 7:30 on 3 of 5 days and 6:30 on the others.

Obviously this shouldn't be enough sleep and it isn't. We both get tired sometimes somewhere around 6-7pm where we sometimes take a nap (usually on the 6:30-days) of max 1h. Sometimes we break it up early.

On Friday we stay up as long as we can and sleep as long as we can and want on Saturday. Same goes for Sunday where we stay up to ~2am until the late NFL game is finished.

It works pretty good I must say. I don't drink coffee or take any pills, energy drinks, whatever. I can sleep pretty good on the train or plane for some bonus hours and fall asleep instantly when I get into bed. I can even go to sleep early or sleep through a whole day if I'm sick and I think there is nothing better to do (but being sick is very rare for me. I was sick one day some weeks ago. Slept through it almost completely. Got up just to eat and pee).

I would never want to miss the flexibility even if it's unhealthy or whatever.
Sadly, it's not that cut and dry. Even what seems to be a simple CRUD retrieve operation to an inexperienced developer could be a very costly thing to do due to relationships between entities.
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You can also ask your sister, mother, aunt, grandmother or older child to look after the kid while you go gather food.

Before agriculture, it wasn't hard to find someone with free time willing to look after the children.
I used white noise to great effect in a similar situation. It takes some getting used to, but you'll quickly get used to it and it will drown out any interrupting noise. Specifically, https://simplynoise.com/ worked well.
Vs just buying opengear console servers and something like conserver to get the actual text via serial like most large Unix environments (every job I've worked at) do. Then you can just scrape the text.
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What if the service has potential to drive LTV, but intentionally refuses to monetize in order to increase audience satisfaction and growth?
Not really. We're all relying on things we know to be working.

How often do you check 100% of the APIs you use for every kind of thing you develop (including shell scripts) for deprecation warnings or bad practice warnings?

I, for one, know that I don't. Except for NASA software, I don't think it's feasible.
Using Scala, I've found the ability to pass around first class functions, and the default immutability of variables, enables me to make profound algorithmic optimizations I wouldn't undertake in C++ et al. Then, if the computation generates too much garbage or goes slowly in a loop, I can then take shortcuts, like using mutable local variables, to make that section go faster.
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I find myself scrolling just to see if I can get at the horribly placed links and text at the bottom of the page, before the next batch loads in.
> And your competitor can build one that's a little bit smaller, a little bit lighter, a little bit more beautiful

People keep saying this because it's the excuse given by companies who do it (and who may have ulterior motives). But is there any technical reason why it should be true? How much "thickness" does a modular battery connector really add?

More to the point, it assumes that all customers want exactly the same thing, which is pure bunkum. If all your competitors are solely selling tiny shiny delicate objects that lose 100% of their value upon battery ageing or collision with the ground then there will be some large minority of the market that will stand in line to get something which is 12% heavier because it's more modular and durable than that, and you would be able to claim that entire market segment by providing it.
The 1967 Outer Space Treaty mentioned in the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty
Mutual funds can hold private assets. Fidelity holds SpaceX assets in several funds.
http://blog.sfgate.com/pender/2015/03/25/see-which-fidelity-...

That said, I don't think you can get your hands on Planetary Resources stock.
I would have to assume that any deal currently held by Yahoo would have to be upheld or compensated for if they sold to a third party. That's a contract and those just don't go away quietly.

As for one less search engine, true it might be an issue. But I'd rather they went with DuckDuckGo than Bing. Seems more in line with their stated philosophies.
On the other hand, dumping sufficient quantities may radically reshape the market. If gold was as cheap as copper, we'd be able to use if for things we currently can't. You may not any more make precious-metal profits, but you may not care if you're raking it in making modern-electronics profits.
"I'm tired of these motherfcking startups on this motherfcking bay"?
If you factor in the cost for the environment, absolutely!
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> How it represents rows as objects.

A row is the DBMS's model of an entity in the domain.
An object is an object-oriented programming language's model of an entity in the domain.

Representing domain entities as objects in the PL that are backed by rows in a database relation (view or table), which is what the Active Record pattern does, is reasonable.

> How it conflates modelling the domain with database structure.

Modelling the domain should drive both application and database structure; the Active Record pattern doesn't promote anything bad I can see there.

There are particular choices in database design that are encouraged by the path of least resistance in some Active Record implementations and related tooling that are, perhaps, not so great.
Hack is derived from PHP, they've only tuned the engine for their own usecase, and not to mention anyone in the PHP community can use Hack.

Hack is basically the TypeScript of PHP. Regular PHP works fine on Hack, but you can start incorporating Hack things into your PHP.

If you want to go that route, then my site is actually powered by Babel and not JavaScript.
You'd still have to return the final products. And with something like platinum, which is used in tiny traces, stuffing half a ton in bars into a Soyuz and sending it back would probably be more profitable than, say, building whole exhaust catalysts in space and returning those.
I believe there was also the prospect that if the B-29 hadn't been available the atomic bombs would have to been dropped from the British Lancaster - which was the only other bomber capable of carrying them at the time.
All the existing math functions are global. If you add a new one, it's only fitting that it is global too. Having one and only one math function namespaced would be inconsistent.
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Do you have a contingency plan if your script/domains start getting blocked by the very AdBlockers they're trying to track? For example, Google Analytics is already blocked by a number of plugins (Ghostery, uBlock, Disconnect, etc.)
I stand partly corrected. I only knew for certain servlet spec 2 was out in 99, and had not known anyone doing Java web serving stuff. I had colleagues doing java, and I worked in a commercial web house with those same colleagues, but none seemed to consider java web stuff (server side) usable (again memory's a bit hazy). I do know by 2000 some jumped in to servlets big time, but not many before that.

I think my first was perl/cgi in Jan 96 - not a full "web app" but I could read and write data via web forms to a database (msql IIRC). Feb 96 I know I was doing some PHP/FI, though still did a lot of Perl for years, mostly because that's what most hosts supported. For my own stuff, it was generally PHP even then when I had a choice.
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It's not uncommon for released to be re-tagged, too.
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English site for the less linguistically talented: http://www.inria.fr/en/
Mutual funds invest in private equity and venture capital funds and even directly into startups, such as Fidelity:
http://recode.net/2015/11/10/one-of-snapchats-latest-investo...
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The tag could change.
So if there are really only 140 copies, how long until the book is put online?
I read through that too, and immediately thought about the OpenBSD approach: Don't create hacks and workarounds in your own code for what bugs and shortcomings which should be fixed upstream. Send a patch to fix it upstream, and you've fixed your project too.

Clearly OpenSSL and BoringSSL (but not LibreSSL) lack a defined way to properly and deterministically identify themselves as projects, in a stable fashion. He should try submitting a patches to get each project to expose a unique property which can be detected in consumer-code.

That way (like OpenBSD does) he haven't just solved the problem for himself, but for other projects too.

If more people had that attitude towards code quality which the OpenBSD team has, we might not be in such a buggy universe as we are now.
Space mining concept: an in-vacuum absolutely enormous mass spectrometer as a way to naturally sort plasma-ified asteroid matter into buckets of 100% pure elements. Which can then be pushed with small ion engines onto slow orbits that will eventually deliver them to Earth.
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Why not useful? In my experience setups involving IP ACLs for TCP services are pretty common in the wild. As well as risk-assesments talking about the relative rarity of on-path attackers, predicated on TCP security against off-path attackers.