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>but still many people don't want sexual/life partners. However, everyone needs to eat and have some sort of shelter and access to health services.

First, only eating is really required, and it requires far less than a healthy diet. The rest of that you can find people who forgo. Also, there are some who choose to not eat and a subset of them do hold this choice until they die (which tends to be soon after and caused by not eating). Consider some monks who mummified themselves through strict control of their diet as one extreme example.

So what do we consider a need? If you'll live 40 years on gruel but 50 years on a balanced diet, is the balanced diet a need? What if the difference is 5 years and 15 years respectively? What if it is 3 months and 10 years and 3 months respectively?

>your worth as a person isn't -- shouldn't be! -- how much money you make or even whether you have a job

Then what should be? And what ever criteria you do choose to determine your worth to others, what of people who lack that criteria through no fault of their own?
SQL Server ships with almost it's own OS implementation, aptly named SQLOS. If I had to guess, the interface between SQLOS and Windows is relatively thin (and just IO, Threads, and Memory Management).

There are a lot of other bits, such as Integrated Security Security, Windows Perf Counters, Windows Event Log, that are probably stripped out.

But I also suspect that that the Linux implementation is based on the implementation that they use for Azure SQL Databases.
Great piece; I think we can all relate to Gmail moments.

Worth noting that what delights users initially will likely be taken for granted over time (see the Kano model, for example). An exciting challenge for Product Managers is to constantly dig out these unknown needs you mention.
SQL Server was a port of Sybase initially. Think of it as the RDBMS going full circle back to its POSIX roots
the difference is that roads are public. You want to take them, you have to obey public safety rules.

Same way alcohol is legal but you shoudn't be drunk in the streets.
Addicts can and do quit their addictions. In my experience, and there is starting to be some evidence to back this up [1], addiction is usually a symptom of a larger problem. People choose drugs or gambling or obsessively playing video games to escape from something else.

[1] http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2012/01/02/14443179...
So your patent only matters if you can afford to sue someone stealing your patent? Isn't that swinging too hard the other way?
I've always had this question and this looks like my chance to ask it. If you are developing new software today why on earth would you use SQL server? Is the price tag justified over the many free and open source alternatives?
Yes, when I first entered the US on a TN visa I had not completed my degree yet.

I was able to obtain TN status at the time through the Sci/Tech category. It was a little bit different then the traditional Analyst category but it worked.
> No. See CentOS.

I'd argue otherwise[1].

Also, as of ~2 years ago, CentOS is just another Red Hat supported project.

[1]: https://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=RHT
Why would it have to look the same everywhere? Browser windows come in varied shapes and sizes. No two OSes and browser combos render text the same way. Do you also use a fixed width div holding everything? One no wider than a VGA screen?

I tell my browser what font to use. I want it to render correctly. I know what does. You probably choose something that doesn't.
That part made me laugh. Thankfully their supervisor probably didn't have some obsession with uptime or that would have been tough to explain.
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I don't think that's really gaming the license. If a fast two core system fits your needs then you only need the two core license. MS is happy to sell those to you all day long. If you have a serious load and SQL Server is key to your business you're likely to have better things to do than try to micromanage your server architecture to save a few dollars. If you're in a position where SQL Server, Oracle, or any other specialized commercial DB is a major cost and you're not seeing a positive ROI, messing with core counts v.s. clock speed is probably a poorer use of time than switching to Postgres or MySQL.
The thing is, you can always argue with evidence, you just need newer evidence.

There is only a few special case exceptions where this presents a problem, which are mostly thought experiments in astronomy where the evidence will be lost in the future.
Which are super awesome!

but stuff like "Does not compile with PostgreSQL >= 9.2!", "A patched, but completely untested version", and "The current version does not yet support WHERE clause push-down, column push-down, JOIN push-down, or write operations."[0] are riskier (and a harder sell to management) than having the functionality backed in the core engine and admin interfaces.

[0] - https://github.com/GeoffMontee/tds_fdw
Other gentleman is correct. The tier list is pretty simple.

MySQL < MSSQL < Oracle < PostgreSQL.

Basically PostgreSQL is king of relational databases right now.
This is huge and I wonder if this now means that they'll also bring other products to Linux such as Microsoft Power BI. It would definitely make sense in light of this announcement.
Nicely done site!
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That's my concern though. When you look at other enterprise-sized RDBMS you find tight integration at the "machine" level. Oracle's storage, for instance, uses "Blocks" which are sized based on the block size of the disk they are writing to. This tight integration at such a low level is part of what makes these RDBMS's fast. I would imagine that instead of running on an abstract layer that can be commonly built across many OS's that an RDBMS like Sql Server would be more tightly integrated with the machine they are running on in order to maximize performance and disk space. If so, I would really love to dig through what that means for SQL server.
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I really like this, and agree that the diffs need to be clearer since it's not easy to get a Wikipedia-like overview of how a page has changed between the earliest and latest editions. AFAICT, you have to step through a version at a time and it can be tricky to see the overall, cumulative effect of all the edits (please tell me if I'm wrong).

But it's fascinating and very worthwhile to see how the articles change over time. I've often wondered in broadcast media how editors make their decisions about which parts of the story to (de)emphasize as it develops during the day, with earlier versions often seeming to have a completely different spin from the later ones. I suppose partly they've had time to think about it, more information has become available, and I also suspect lobbyists and other interested parties have been on the phone.

Thanks :)
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The question seems to be then...who the hell is for breathing polluted air, and who would be stupid enough to want to deny others that right?
Yes they do, and I hope to live to the day when people behind these laws are violated in return, at least the memory of them.
We havent seen the sources yet but with some luck we will be able to get it in ports without the need for linux kernel emulation ;)
Why not? It's the best enterprise db available
There is already a mechanism in use for letting CAs be transparent about what they've issued.

https://www.certificate-transparency.org/

Sorry I didn't mention it explicitly -- I was trying to draw an analogy to show why blockchain-esque mechanisms are relevant here, and I thought readers would already be aware of this system.
Well, it would have to be a better alternative than what we have now. Though I think the massive inequality globally and nationally is enough to say it needs to happen.

I'm not sure what you mean by modern takes on democratic socialism. Sanders is most certainly not a socialist, if that's what you mean, despite being for a progressive welfare state. If one upholds private property rights, they are not a socialist. Democratic socialism simply is socialism where socialist economic structure is ushered in by means of the bourgeois democratic system as opposed to (or at least in unison with) revolutionary movements.
A lot of people think that situation (public API) is even more true with the filesystem API than the graphics driver API. It's pretty hard to call ZFS a 'derived work' of Linux when it was originally developed for a completely different operating system.
and... I went to the site and poked around before I posted that, just to make sure it wasn't already there. If it's there, it's super non-obvious, as in, I didn't see it, and I was looking for it.
I recall David Byttow mentioning that secret cost about this much to run on GCP so I'm not surprised at all.
I think it does too, but it shifts responsibility/breach from the repo maintainer to the end user.
> The code in Apple's case is the release build key.

No, the "code" [0] in Apple's case is the yet-to-be-written version of iOS that can both be loaded at boot time to bypass the PIN retry count and retry delay functions and -to a sufficiently high degree of certainty- only be run on the intended iPhone.

Ergo, your analogy is -as I said- not quite right.

[0] And it's not a "code", but a bypass procedure.
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As long as I don't hurt or harm anyone else...

Does your definition of "harm" include the costs that society is forced to bear for any treatment you might require? (And, no, "I have health insurance" isn't an adequate response to that question. When your health coverage pays for rehab or whatever, my premiums go up, too.)

I maintain that "externalized costs" can be a violation of the Non-Aggression Principle. Under a strict interpretation of that ethos, you shouldn't get to unilaterally impose upon me any costs that I wouldn't otherwise have been obligated to bear, had you not engaged in $behavior.
I'm not sure what you mean by interactive data visualizations. But there are a bunch of companies and open source projects that have charts and you can interact with them:

* chartio (https://chartio.com) - commerical
* looker (https://looker.com) - commerical
* metabase (http://www.metabase.com/) - open source
* http://fnordmetric.io/ - open source

There's a ton more that I haven't listed.
So stop paying welfare; switch to basic income.
Little note about pixpit:

My fiancé recently showed me a picture on her Instagram feed. It was a Chihuahua behind a pizza with the caption “Yes I’m into fitness, fitness whole pizza in my mouth.”

She had recently discovered 9GAG on Instagram and was loving it. As for me, I tend to lurk around /r/funny for my daily fix of dank memes and funny cats, so I’m usually a few days ahead of what shows up on 9GAG. I tried to introduce her to reddit but she thought it was too much work and decided to stay with 9GAG on Instagram.

I thought to myself, how much work would it be to clone 9GAG. To create a feed that automatically updates off reddit and shows it on a platform that's very much like Instagram. Turns out, not much work at all. The good folks at reddit allow you to grab a JSON format of everything on the site. All you have to do is end your requesting url with “.json”. It’s awesome. This made the hardest part, aggregating data from reddit, rather trivial.

The result is Pixpit.com. An auto updating feed of /r/funny that's fast, mobile friendly and ad-free. Redditor seem to like it as well
https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/46c2v5/90_of_my_mobi...

Pixpit also creates 20 image albums at the end of the night so whenever you're done with the main feed, the shuffle button up top throws you into a random album from the past.

Check it out and let me know what you think :)
Wouldn't Docker for Windows (in preview for many months now) count as the first step?
And somehow simultaneously occupies the "I wouldn't use it if it was free" position.
> Keep in mind that SQL Server basically runs on top of it's own conception of an operation system even when installed on Windows.

What is the reason for this?
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He probably got reprimanded for interrupting some general's solitaire game.
But what's pollution-free? Taken to the extreme, this implies nobody can drive, or light a camp fire for that matter.

It's all about quantity, and balancing the conflicting freedoms of individuals. Your right to breathe perfectly clean air goes against my right to produce energy and heat myself or go places.

Likewise, there's a general consensus that the state can detain you temporarily. It's an affront to the freedom of the person detained, but most individuals agree that it's necessary to preserve their freedom to go about safely and without fear of violence.

There's a process around it, to try and balance the rights on both sides. It's all in the details and the implementation.
OK, but then what cigarettes, which are more highly addictive than even cocaine, or alcohol, addiction to which is quite damaging to the economy and public safety, and leads to domestic violence? And what about foods containing refined sugar, which regarding consent demonstrates all the relevant features of addiction? What about microtransaction-based games and stuff like daily fantasy, which take advantage of the depressed?

When an addict is buying drugs while sober, they are giving consent. Just because they don't have a choice of not buying the drugs doesn't mean they can't consent to the transaction. I can't choose to not buy food. I can't choose to not pay rent.
> They forced the model TO ALL the stores

So far nothing has explained to me how Apple forced the pricing model upstream to Amazon - has anyone read this and determined that?
Reverse your thinking. It's not about enabling people to move to Linux while keeping not ms sql. It's about making sure the people who are moving to Linux either way don't also move away from ms sql
Every post on HN is, at most, six degrees of separation from a emacs vs. vim debate. In this case, it was a mere two.
I generally turn off IPv4 support because things still run smoother without it. I think the main problem is synchronous queries for DNS -- IPv6 first then IPv4. When something didn't have an IPv6 address it went to IPv4 meaning added delay. If you get an address, but can't get an IPv6 connection to the server -- added delay.

IPv6 gets shut down on everything I admin and will continue to do so. I will keep trying IPv6 on 6/6 until everything runs as smoothly and as quickly as IPv4.

The first time I have a good experience on IPv6 day with low latency and confirmed functionality across the board I will consider adding more routers and machines.

Until then, no IPv6 for me.
Does MS-SQL have anything like PostGres' Bidirectional replication?

Yes.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms151196.aspx

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms151855.aspx
More important than knowing how to do the above is knowing when, and not doing so needlessly.
Coming from mostly a Linux/MySQL background, I've had reason to use MSSQL for the last few years. It's really solid, and seems to optimize queries well, which is good, because there's a few things that I still find really annoying, such as no GROUP_CONCAT. There is a more general method to do the same thing, but wow is that method cumbersome in comparison (although undoubtedly more powerful).
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I'm not sufficiently white to qualify for a Medium account to tell everyone how I quit my 6-figure paying job at McKinsey, after graduating at Wharton, and my college roommate who graduated in finance gave me $5MM in seed money to start my new photo sharing app, so you can do it too'
That's true. For me, the Flash Fill feature keeps me going back to a Windows VM just to use Excel.
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What harm has been demonstrated by this supposed conspiracy to set prices? Do you pay one penny more for your e-books? I don't. The whole thing seems like a technicality, a violation of a 110-year-old law that was never intended to cover this type of complex digital transaction.
People say things like that right up until it comes time to pull the trigger on a hiring decision. Then it is "you don't have the kind of background we're looking for. Best of luck in your job search."
I've saved a couple of potential clients months of development time and probably tens of thousand of dollars just by convincing them not to use a blockchain.

So we have this great world changing idea which will transform, reinvent and disrupt ... and it uses a blockchain to keep track of ....

Why the blockchain ?
Because ... distributed ... anonymous ...

But you have user accounts on your servers.. your project is centralized by design.
Why not save yourself the trouble and use a mysql database ?

People like being involved in things which sound cool and they try to bend reality so that they can find a use for a cool sounding technology.
Very interesting! I had the (mistaken, then, I guess) impression that sqlserver was super win32 specific, using "fibers" for threads and every peculiarity in the book. But this is just a vague impression from old articles I don't really remember
A more appropriate fine would be the loss of some of their public spectrum licenses.
The optimistic side of all this is that what we are seeing is the advancement of science. It certainly didn't happen in one experiment- not even in 100- but taking something that is considered "accepted" and throwing it out on further evidence is a good thing and says ultimately positive things about the field.

Experiments in areas with huge numbers of degrees of freedom are difficult to sort out.

I mean, if we just take just the chocolate cookie experiment, and assume that we can replicate that particular experiment. We run 100 versions of that experiment and find that students will attempt the impossible for about twice as long as those who had to eat radishes.

What is the most general thing that we can conclude?

How about if we find the same result with candy vs celery? Twinkies vs nothing?

What can we possibly be sure we learned from such experiments?
Try OpenBSD. OpenBSD has the best laptop support of the BSDs. Dragonfly BSD offers nothing that Free- or OpenBSD doesn't IMHO. OpenBSD supports tons of chipsets, suspend, sound, wireless, you name it. Costs you nothing to try. I was sold after trying it all those years ago. It's better than ever now, and gets better every iteration. OpenBSD arguably also has the best man pages in the industry. Theo de Raadt and his devs really do care about the software they put out. Their code audits are legendary and it shows in the build quality of their OS and other products.
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> The situation with the nvidia driver relies on the part of the API that the Linux devs have claimed is not GPL.

You are referring to symbols marked EXPORT_SYMBOL that the kernel will use when linking non-GPL code as part of the module load. ZFSOnLinux uses only these symbols. The kernel will not make symbols marked EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL available to it and there are no hacks to access them through the presently GPL licensed compatibility layer. Code that bypasses this when built as a standalone module will not be accepted by the project.
Thanks. And what about the current ones? The linked materials are from 2013. Based on what was the 2013 ruling confirmed now? Or on previous appeals?

I'm reading the 2013 material and I can't find the "meat." OK, they establish that Apple did propose the "agency model" which was not available to the publishers by Amazon, that Apple did say it was ready to sell books for more than 9.99 that was an Amazon's fixed price. But how was that "making conspiracy"?

Amazon held the market, the publishers effectively had no choice before Apple introduced their store. Apple offered something different. The publishers were able to make new deals with Amazon. And? What was actually wrong to do? To even mention that they were willing to sell the books for the price that publishers liked more, even if it's higher than 9.99? Why? That is in the document claimed as the "start of conspiracy." How is that? To design the iBook store to have an "agency model"? Why is that not allowed? To even meet the publishers about all that? How should it be otherwise done? What was Apple supposed to do? Just offer what Amazon offers? Isn't that the opposite of the any reasonable principles?

Does it mean nobody is allowed to disrupt the current model of the effective store monopolist? That he can't sell in his store at higher prices? That he cant have another model in his store? That he can't discuss his own model? What?
> So, the only question is what people agree that it means

The details make this more complicated, so we're never going to agree.

Just like most people agreeing that alcohol okay, but heroin isn't, we'd have to decide what's "free from pollution"? Exactly how many lead atoms/day is okay? And are smokers violating your human rights?

Endless arguments :-/
Good feedback. Not intending to be disingenuous. I'll talk to my partner about how we can make that clearer. It's intending to explain that our software (iOS, Windows, Cloud) never logs or saves any of the text.
This is more about people who have the skills to build the cloud. Just being a user of those systems is much different, and should actually be fairly accessible to most developers. Just go start up a free personal account on AWS and set up a simple website. Voila you're using the cloud!
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Agreed on GROUP_CONCAT. MSSQL has been missing that for a long time and it is a very reasonable and handy function to have.

It sounds like you are talking about the XML conversion method for concatenating groups. There is one other way around it using custom .NET CLR functions, but it is definitely cumbersome as well.
You have a degree. I guess you need to convince the US that any BA is fine for development (because it is -- if you can do the work).

Probably you should engage a US immigration lawyer with expertise in this visa to help you out. They would know how to assemble the best application for your situation.

Perhaps one way to help yourself is to find articles written by prominent US software leaders saying that any BA is fine (I bet you can find Steve Jobs saying something like that).
Living the life described in this article makes me WISH I had gone into science. lol I don't want to work 16 hrs/day 6 days/week but, I'd rather be in science. I'm almost 30 though and own a house and 2 cars and have a wife and stuff so it's probably a little late for a full out career change... :-/
Excellent video, such a pleasure to watch. Even with all the equipment and setup problems, labs are such a good memory...

(Just a minor thing but I thought that the video suggested that the Gibbs phenomenon was a result of the finite decomposition instead of, unless my memory is misleading me, being a sort of fundamental feature of the piecewise smooth square wave function)
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Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft originally (Or Apple instead of MS depends on who you ask) but this usually also included companies that are very competitive and pay a huge salary package, e.g. Apple, LinkedIn, Netflix, even Twitter although it is far from the same market cap as the others in the list. So I mean "top tech companies", sorry for the confusion!
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Microsoft's HA and replication user experience is light years ahead of PostgreSQL's from an operations perspective last time I checked.