skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In addition to losing ACID guarantees, you lose single-query joins. They're performed in memory, sequentially, with all the incurred costs of a waterfall series of requests and whatever network communication is involved.
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> because usernames aren't meant to be resistant to brute force

Any particular reason for saying this? User/account/email enumeration usually involve brute force AFAIK, so lack of resistance would leave a system vulnerable to such attacks.
(Much like the default behavior of some ORMs I work with...)
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/227950/a-word-to-... actually I just found this. Also saw the term "nagging feeling" a few times and they mention "hyper vigilance"

Also, it seems like it is some form of dissonance - I'm going to try to nail it down lol
PA was PPC, not ARM.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.A._Semi
Here's a wiki link[0] for anyone else that didn't know what they were looking at.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DONKEY.BAS
Thanks a lot :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah_1HDf_tSU
Imho we should all agree on what services (NickServ, ChanServ, MemoServ, etc) a next generation IRC server should offer, and what their syntaxes should be.

All the other stuff is pretty much fine.

Maybe we could try and define some networking trick in order to have mobile clients work better?
I will argue _against_ MongoDB all day, but there is most certainly a time and place for it. If you have a real firehose of data, don't care too much about the accurateness, and really need good speed... MongoDB is not an awful choice.
My understanding, which is admittedly minimal, is that MongoDB provides some conveniences around partitioning and distributing your dataset that Postgres does not without additional work. Simply supporting JSON accommodates MongoDB's approach to schemas (not having them; er, pushing constraints to application code), but doesn't address the distribution concern.

How well does MongoDB support this need, and how hard is it to achieve equivalent results with Postgres? What are the drawbacks?
P2P encryption is already available using OTR. Check out the OTR plugin for xchat/hexchat (or was it pidgin?)
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Two things: if you weren't measuring the output voltage under load, then you weren't measuring anything terribly useful.

Second: LED's are typically constant current devices. If they don't receive a _minimum_ voltage, they just won't light up at all, but if they do, and the current is regulated properly, then the exact voltage doesn't matter (or rather, is a function of the LED's demand, not the supply).
I am not so sure, mainly because a lot of Intel's advantage comes from its process technology. The ARM instruction set might well take over, but you still need someone to make them.

Even at the current 14/16nm nodes, Intel's process is significantly smaller than TSMC or Samsung's [1]. I suspect we will see consolidation (a la GloFo/Samsung) and Intel branching out into being a foundry, but with building 10nm++ fabs running into the billions of dollars, I don't see Intel going anywhere any time soon.

[1]: http://newstechnow.com/plans-launch-14nm-finfet-technology-c...
Playable here:
http://www.pcjs.org/devices/pcx86/machine/5150/cga/64kb/donk...

"The above simulation is configured for a clock speed of 4.77Mhz, with 64Kb of RAM and a CGA display, using the original IBM PC Model 5150 ROM BIOS and CGA font ROM. This configuration also includes a predefined state, with PC-DOS 1.0 already booted and DONKEY.BAS ready to run.

And now that PCx86 automatically saves all your changes (subject to the limits of your browser’s local storage), you can even close the browser in the middle of a game of DONKEY, and the next time you load this page, your progress (and the donkey) will be perfectly restored."
How well does it stand up against other "NoSQL" solutions that compete in the same space? My impression has been that it tends compete poorly with a number of other solutions for data integrity, and my intuition is that its appeal is correlated to the proliferation of JavaScript and the convenience of interoperating with it.
In that case, all literals would be interpreted as Double.
Wouldn't it be great if those facilities for version control provided something akin to event logging as a first-class API out of the box?
The problem with working on the "perfect" product is that unless you're making the right product, it can become a colossal waste of time. You see this sometimes with craftsmen in the tech space, who come up with a half-baked idea for a business, and then develop the perfect product for that. It then fails after significant development time.

For litmus tests, the MVP approach of make it, launch it, fix it is perfectly justified. Once you have zeroed in on something interesting with proof it is both technically and economically feasible, you can worry about perfection. In a sense, it's the business equivalent of measure once, cut twice.
Both lock-free and wait-free algorithms/implementations offer the same advantage, as a corollary of their definition: latency guarantees. These are central to real-time systems.

PS. The difference is that lock-free algorithms improve throughput _at the expense of single-thread latency_, and thus are more useful for satisfying system-wide throughput requirements, e.g. for a DBMS. Wait-freedom additionally guarantees freedom from starvation.
P.A. Semi's PWRficient processors were Power based, not ARM. They learned to adapt :-)
Grandpa, I heard you were an activist back in the before-time, what did you do when they were burning the earth?

Oh, I was mostly worried about how an advertising company was using my interests to decide whether to show me an ad for batteries or hair cream.
> currently no major threat to humans

Id say global nuclear war is a very real and very tangible threat to humans and many other species around.
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I recently stopped regularly visiting Slashdot, and started regularly visiting HN.

Besides regularly finding more appealing content, I have found that typically HN comments are less hateful, disparaging and isolating.

One (minor) version of this distinction is the constant debate on Slashdot about what should be published, and what should not. There, an assumed standard is expected for something to be considered "news for nerds" or whatever. For the most part I haven't seen that here. I've appreciated that fact.

Because fuck me, if you can't just pass by a link among thirty or so, give up and stop using the web. It's full of shit you don't think belongs there. Just stop shitting on things I want to read just because you don't want to read it too.

[Edited because upon re-reading, I really wished it had line breaks.]
Full Account -> Classifications -> Uses:

Food - human

Local : check

Sport hunting/specimen collecting

Local : check

D:
A very well written post on Simulated Annealing, and a fun puzzle to solve (even if it is old!)
Keywords there are controversial and revisionist...
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The idea of the program certainly is, that the rocket can be flown several times without requiring extensive checking/maintenance. However, as there are no experience with reusing the Falcon 9, it is the proper scientific/engineer approach to extremely carefully inspect the whole rocket to document its conditions to analyze possible failure reasons. The engines have been endurance tested on the ground, but not after reentry. So one has to learn about this. Ideally, all those inspections show that the rocket is just fine, but one can know only doing the proper science. With those experiences gained, it is possible determine the service intervals for standard use.
I never played or even saw Donkey. Too young.

But I learned to program by playing and modifying Microsoft Nibbles -- which is still my favourite snake game. And possibly my favourite Microsoft product.

And QBasic is still the only IDE that I ever really liked. Although there are some newer ones that I respect.
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The video coverage is much better this time, with a distant camera on the landing and a camera on the booster. Then, after the landing, they bring up spotlights on the booster. The barge doesn't have all that, but it probably will in time.
Upper middle class, if anything.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_middle_class

$150k is a lower-estimate for this family, they probably beat the $165k to qualify for top 5% household incomes in the country.

High amount of autonomy in their work, advanced degrees (beyond college: masters degree plus continuing education), significantly higher wages than everyone else... yeah, upper-middle class.
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There was another one: "made in Hong Kong".

I remember seeing that in various things, ever since my father pointed it out. It was common enough to exist in daily lingo.

Most of the time it was a synonym for cheap knock-offs.
That is exactly the kind of advice I would have liked to read in the article.
Also Iridium browser.
Any idea what specifically they are referring to?

There is at least some "communication with Google" that could be considered innocuous. For example - accessing their Safe Browsing API (also used by Safari and Firefox).
Looked like a perfectly nominal launch. SpaceX has some good hardware, hopefully they can pump out some more of it.

I liked the Pokemon Go meme at the end of the webcast, even if the host crew's acting was fairly poor.
I think you are conflating your own personal troubles with current political affairs into this discussion. Neither the article, parents post or mine had anything to do with the current police shootings in the U.S.A, so why bring it into the discussion.

And the point of my reference was to show that Africa was not this idyllic utopia before Europeans came. So I oppose your viewpoint that colonialism have been any more disastrous than the normal state of affairs in Africa would have been.
> What is the difference between a small business and a home?

The difference between consumption and investment?

I want a nice shelter, not a 3 bedroom house I don't need or want on the off chance I'll sell at a profit some day. I'm not interested in that.

> Lets flip this around...if two people came to Palo Alto in 2009 with a $2 million fund, one doing a starup and the other buying a home...the one doing a startup would have a 90% chance of failure with a 0.1% chance of tripling their money...the other who purchased a home would have had a 99% chance of at least doubling their money, and a 100% chance of making at least a 25% gain. Who is the smart one?

I could give a similar example of literally any class of assets.

Investing is not arithmetic. These things aren't baked in like Newton's Laws of Thermodynamics. Corelations can look solid for decades and then totally disappear.

I can tell you for free though, that my generation and the ones behind it cannot afford your houses.
It's the other side of the same 'openness' coin. You can chose to set up your own mail server. You can chose not to deliver email from other mail servers if you want.
I'm disappointed that my iPhone can't drive the car because Apple didn't put directional keys on the onscreen keyboard.
Meanwhile, Firefox Sync encrypts your data with a password-derived key so that Mozilla can't even see your browsing history.

Consider your choices.
Meanwhile in San Francisco, house prices have increased an average of 6.6% for the past 60 years.

https://experimental-geography.blogspot.com/2016/05/employme...

If he's taking the national average, which will include plenty of low-demand areas around America, then his comments are not very enlightening for most of the readers of the NY Times who tend to live in high-demand.

Add to that, you still have to pay to live somewhere.
Deal of the century: SoftBank to buy ARM
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/
Great shot. I hadn't watched a night landing before, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. Shoot, when I sat down and saw the 43 minute video time, I didn't think I would make it. Time flew ;D
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I don't know about that. I got excellent results over ten years ago from a digital camera, at night, of fireworks. My favorite shots: http://boston.conman.org/2003/07/04/p100048.jpg http://boston.conman.org/2003/07/04/p100049.jpg (this one, the launch of the mortar failed and it exploded at ground level) http://boston.conman.org/2003/07/04/p100059.jpg http://boston.conman.org/2003/07/04/p100066.jpg

I will grant you that I might have trouble getting the shot of the racing car with my current crop of digital cameras. But the other two ... I guess I'm not just seeing the difference.
> "We were surprised to see that the comments at the top of the game proudly proclaimed the authors: Bill Gates and Neil Konzen."

This is odd that these comments aren't in the github source code, is it missing something? Why does it starts at line 940?

940 REM The IBM Personal Computer Donkey
950 REM Version 1.10 (C)Copyright IBM Corp 1981, 1982
960 REM Licensed Material - Program Property of IBM
That assumes someone would buy them as an ongoing business. Apple could have bought them specifically in order bring the ARM designers in to Apple and force their rivals to switch - an acquihire on a massive scale. Using an ARM designed chip is an advantage, and taking that advantage away from your competition could be a very good thing for your business.

I'm glad that didn't happen though.
Wrong audience. You need to talk to your corporate legal eagle.
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Maybe she thinks touch screens are heat-sensitive.
Friendly warning to others: Do not blindly click on the link above without first reading what it does. Relevant thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11880008 TL;DR It may put some undesirable things in your search history and/or temporarily block you from Google.
Also runaway climate change, super bugs, super viruses, grey goo, AI, GRBs, supervolcanoes…
I think TheOtherHobbes' statement about iPhones giving old SLRs a run for its money is quite insightful -- not as a pure technical comparison, but more about what consumers value from cameras.

The Nikon D1h, Canon 1D, etc... definitely has better bokeh, dynamic range, perspective control, etc than even the best smartphone camera on the market the today, but consumers just don't care that much about actual photographic quality. They see a DSLR today and think "bulky", "another set of batteries I need to charge", and "how do I share photos to Snapchat with that thing?"

Most smartphone cameras are more than good enough for daylight shots, selfies or Instagram, and if you are not into photography, that's good enough.
A good point, but already answered in the article:

> I recently noticed that it’s still an issue in VC++ 2015 Update 3
Context here (Jeff Atwood's blog post dated 2007): https://blog.codinghorror.com/bill-gates-and-donkey-bas/
A legendary Metafilter comment re: Sears' shortsightedness: https://www.metafilter.com/62394/The-Record-Industrys-Declin...
> There are currently no major threats to humans, although some subpopulations may be experiencing localized declines as a result of disease, drought, war, natural disasters, and other factors.
spacebar works (it's the only key needed).
> The first version of DONKEY.BAS was released in 1981, followed by version 1.10 in 1982

This is the improved 1982 version.
The actual article has substance (no pun intended).
Yes the most legible font is the one you're used to, but do we want to condition the next generation into thinking low dpi bitmapped fonts are the best? The thing is, we need to set the software defaults to be most pleasing to a population who has never had any prior experience. And IMHO, the print industry has figured that out centuries ago.
This was incredibly moving. I don't come across content like this in HN that often. Kudos, he was brave.
Strange, where I live they built an entire city around the car factory (VW).
The line numbers in BASIC were arbitrary. People often started at higher numbers and jumped by 10 in case they had to put code or comments before or between lines.
Relevant to the mention of 4 AM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORYKKNoRcDc
Have a fun Quizambo night with family?
These days everyone is doing their own thing and there is no time for family but this is all about to change thanks to Quizambo which is the latest and best interactive movie trivia app. Everyone remembers the fun they had watching films with parents and siblings and now there is a very fun and lucrative opportunity to have fun and also make some money on the side.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12111725
A minimum viable product in this space would be a home office. With the unit in the open position, there's a home office with shelves and cabinets on both sides. Roll it into the closed position, and there's a living room with a deep shelving unit.
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> I mean different types of regulations many of which do not even exist in the US/UK but only in the EU.

Occupational licensing is actually more prevalent in the US than in EU.

> This regulatory practice is known as “occupational licensing,” and it has spread to cover around 30 percent of the U.S. workforce, up from just 5 percent in the 1950s.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/up-front/posts/2015/01/26-tim...

There is an explicit comparison made in the full report:

> Occupational licensing is not unique to the United States. Based on information gathered in 2012 from the then twentyseven nations in the European Union (EU), between 9 and 24 percent of European workers are subject to occupational licensing, which translates to between 19 million and 51 million individuals. These estimates of the share of the workforce that is licensed, even at the higher end, are still lower than the estimated share in the United States, which is slightly under 30 percent (Koumenta et al. 2014).

> Similar to U.S. states, the extent of occupational licensing varies widely across countries in the EU: Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, France, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, the Netherlands, Romania, and Sweden all have less than 15 percent of their workers covered by occupational licensing (Koumenta et al. 2014). Regulation is much more prevalent in other countries, however: at least 25 percent of the workforce in Denmark and Germany, for example, is regulated, and rates are also high in Italy and Spain.

http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/papers/2015/...
I see. I thought they'd have kept the authors name, unless the code was completely rewritten.
I don't think that qualifies as 'many', if you want to be pedantic. My Belgian ID card (not even a passport!) gives me visaless and pasportless access to 50 countries..

But I agree, it would be a very near passport to have, and I wish there really was such a thing as a 'citizen of earth'-passport.
They didn't, flag it and move on. It's late, mods may be asleep.
Fantastic article, but I still don't quite understand what kind of real-world tasks on typical projects become easier with AST manipulation. After all, how often do you write a debugger?
Explicitly defaulting the constructor behaves the same as an empty constructor: all members are default-initialized. The problem is usually that 'default-initializing' doesn't zero out primitive (POD) types, but leaves them uninitialized.
Softbank to buy ARM Holdings for £24bn
On the first stage every last little bit of weight counts since it only weighs the rocket down. They already lower their payload to orbit by about 30–40 % when they land the first stage. That stage has to fight most of Earth's gravity and atmosphere so accelerating at all takes a lot of effort. So adding weight to the part that is only needed for accelerating the rocket through the atmosphere lowers the total payload considerably. It's bad on the second stage too, but not that much (but even then, they shed the payload fairings or the Dragon nose cone when they're no longer needed).

Adding another (different) engine also complicates things. Currently they only have a single engine type for the whole rocket (plus thrusters), the one on the second stage having a different nozzle. This greatly reduces complexity and thus cost and risk.
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My impression is that many software engineers stay at a company for 1.5-3 years and then go elsewhere. It's usually at least financially motivated. I also read about people looking for new engineering challenges and responsibilities--specifically not management.

It seems like Google and Facebook have this solved. Are there any small or medium sized companies that typically retain engineers for more than 3 years? What do they do to make this happen?
SoftBank Agrees to Buy ARM Holdings for More Than $32B
I had one a couple of years ago and it was a warm-cream colour. Biggest rip off ever though - don't lose you passport while abroad!
Hi there, thanks for the info about resubmissions. I didn't know it was discouraged. My karma keeps increasing when I resubmit this, so I took that to mean that I should keep doing it.

My last submission was with a new title based on feedback in that discussion thread (that CTO was misleading).

Also, can you clarify how you got to 6? Two of those links are the same, and one of them does not seem to work.

Also, it seems from the comments that github pages (where this is hosted) was down while this was on newest, which seems like pretty bad luck. At least now I know that it may get a second chance without me having to do anything, thanks!
Grammatically you're right but due to the Baltic trade, the Swedish occupation and various other historical reasons there is a lot of Germanic vocabulary in Finnish etymology, though many words of Germanic origin are no longer recognizable. Estonian, a very closely related language, has kept some of those in an earlier form where they are more recognizably Germanic.
As are Sony.
Like all profit-making businesses, they try to balance the interests of both in the short term to maximise shareholder value in the long run.

A few Hacker News users being opposed to this doesn't make Google evil. A lot of people don't care, and I've met some who think it's a good idea.
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Uhh, what did they just introduce?
They also don't have tax obligations for income earned abroad.
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It's hosted on github pages, so I guess you will have to wait for github pages to go down again!
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I'm not sure how it is for non citizens, but for citizens its incredibly easy. Scan your passport, go to the facial recognition gate and you are through. If you have nothing to declare you can pick up your bags from the carousel and head on through.

The first time I went through the facial recognition it had issues recognising me and I had to queue for 10-15 minutes, but when I went through 2 years later (having been in a motorcycle accident 24 hours earlier with a smashed up face, beard and not having showered in 36 hours) it worked flawlessly.
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You're more likely to end up as a source of cheap meat and hides.
An interesting case for #3, is that something similar exists in the Ruby world(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hfMUP5iTq8), but I don't think it's gaining wide adoption, there're certainly people using it but they really aren't the majority.

More extreme case lies in the Lua/OpenResty world, they used to have some interactive debugger but since really so few people are using it, the debugger just got abandoned. Everyone is just accustomed to print-based debugging.

BTW: I actually agree that #3 can be quite useful, I'm using pry quite extensively when I'm working on Ruby projects. But I guess different communities might just have different preferences.
Then you might need std::vector::reserve() instead.