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I should have been clearer: every country in the EU has a welfare state, and since the more fiscally responsible countries bankroll the less responsible, they're indirectly supporting welfare recipients in those countries. Plus direct support via the EU's many handout programmes (CAP, etc).

In absolute terms, the amounts involved aren't huge right now, but this is a problem that will grow worse with time as a) most European countries have aging populations and face a pensions timebomb and b ) cutting welfare spending is politically very difficult.

Some voices in the EU have been pushing for a welfare and pensions union. It's impossible to predict if this will actually happen, but it shows that many people want to head in that direction.

The EU is indeed more pro-market than many member nations. This is where the left/right axis just confuses the debate. 'Market-friendly social democracy' is the most accurate term for the system promoted by the EU (and the linked NYT article, and most educated elites): a system with 1) free enterprise 2) state regulation of industry 3) state management of the economy and currency and 4) a welfare state.

It's a compromise system which appears capitalistic (and is denounced as neoliberal) but the underlying theory is socialist (a descendant of the gradualist theories promoted by most anti-communist socialists of past generations). History will tell whether it's sustainable.
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This is some cool video of the landing, split screen. One perspective is from the rocket itself. I think it's DAMN cool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKCU6WfLtjk&feature=youtu.be...

Watch the video from the beginning to see the deceleration burn, which is visually pretty interesting.
From a usability standpoint, Windows 10 is nice.

Do check compatibility before upgrading. My middle-aged Dell Precision laptop with Windows 7 sticker does not officially support Windows 10 according to Dell.

It runs Windows 10 OK but I do get the occasional blue-screen panic from the wireless network interface driver.
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They have been pretty constant for the last few launches (just swapping out which John is doing the 'technical updates').
Updated here: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-opera-software-m-a-china-i...
Ironically the Chronicle for Higher Ed had the average pay for a Gender Studies professor at around $100k. Given the kind of debt kids with bachelors are leaving school with and their job prospects, it looks like gender studies is one of the worst parts of predatory higher education.
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For me the reason is that things change. They find new and innovative ways to use that data. Ways that I may not agree with. Ways that I may not be asked about.

But what doesn't change is they have the data. So my preference is they don't have it in the first place. Then I don't have to be concerned about the changes.
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Turkey's president says all he wants is same powers as Hitler
Amiga word processors? Why and which ones?

Given that the Amiga never got a strong hold in media outlets unless it was video related, the statement "especially amongst journalists" needs some backing.

Back in the day, even Amiga magazine weren't done on the Amiga. AFAIK, most used what the industry used (that is, Macs).
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This absolutely isn't true.

If you batch operations it is extremely fast at updates across multiple documents.
OK, looks like since the Pound tanked against the Yen last month ARM's share price has risen to more than counteract that. Thanks.
I remember there being a STEP command to set the increment value. However, when I tested it (on the PCJS sim from the top of the thread) just now, its throwing a Syntax Error!! I am nearly sure that was what the command was, but I don't know what gives right now.
Most authors I've met, once they get on a roll in writing they stick with whatever is working with them from manual typewriter, Commodore 64, or DOS box - if its making em selling books - why risk change.
While colonialism certainly didn't help, the Middle East has been a sliced, diced, merged region of perpetual war since the beginning of recorded history, and undoubtedly before.
I've been doing this weekly for a long time. You think I don't know that? My own grandparents have come very close to falling for credit card scams numerous times and they would have had it not been for my instruction.

I don't just hand them the internet, I teach them everything I learned. And it's never a one time deal either. I've hit the setbacks you describe several times already too, and I still come back to help them. Often it's not about learning permanently but about helping them accomplish specific tasks. A lot of old people don't want to use the internet constantly like we do, they just want to FaceTime their grandkids once a week or look at sports scores and such.

I appreciate your concern that I know these things, but again, this is my life. I've been working on it several times a week for the past four years.
Appelbaum and the board are out. So now I'm curious. What about recent events have transpired in a way that he has to cut ties?

Does the organization still housecleaning to do? The Tor leadership jumped on the grenade, presumably clearing the area for everyone else. Is there an entirely different angle that I'm missing? Because that vague of a post only implies one.
I love the register. (I'm not kidding. I think they are awesome.)

The only thing that makes this not click bait is that their writing is often the funniest in the tech industry. They are acerbic about everything and everyone. I like that.

Microsoft will meet the billion device mark, but it will take longer now that they have given up on mobile...for the time being. I doubt seriously that they have given up on mobile completely and forever. Times and tech change. They may still find a niche to play in. There are so many internet enabled devices these days that they could find a niche and still hit a billion devices running windows if you count xbox and PC's.
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George R. R. Martin said he still uses it and one of the reasons he cited was that he types all his novels on a computer not connected to the Internet so he doesn't have to worry about hackers leaking his material and also because of all the names, places, etc. in the book being made up, it doesn't have spell check to keep interfering with his writing.(0)

(0) http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/05/14/george_r_...
At first I was all "tee hee, Japanese commercials are so goofy" and then Tommy Lee Jones showed up. What.
> battery drained in ~6 hours

So, parity with Android then? (I kid, I kid....kinda.)
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There have however been quite a few high profile cases of whether you are considered a resident of Denmark or not, after leaving Denmark -- something that has hit a golf player, a model and apparently 100 others whose cases were handled internally by the tax authorities.

In a blink of an eye, you can become a tax evader and essentially lose everything you've earned plus be sentenced to years in prison... unless you're the husband of the prime minister (who worked in Switzerland, paid no tax in Denmark yet essentially lived here).

So if you're leaving Denmark for Silicon Valley to run your startup, get legal help to ensure you won't suddenly get taxed for all your US-earned income because your left your wife/girlfriend in Denmark, visited her and say, answered a few emails or spent some money.
>primary benefit is not needing a migration or ORM framework

You don't need an ORM, but they are handy. I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be an issue to load rows from a RDBMS, using a language like Python, as a dictionary, and just decorate the snot out of that dictionary, to make it look like an object.

Anyway, regarding migrations, I sort of agree. Migrations can be terrifying and slow things, but at least you're allow to make certain assumptions about your data afterwards. Assumptions like "this field will always be there".

With MongoDB, and any other NoSQL database I've used, you need to handle your "migrations" in the application code. So now you have block of code that checks if a given attribute exists in your JSON document.

It's not necessarily a problem, but it is something you need to consider. Personally I much prefer RDBMS, because I actually like SQL and the ability to make ad hoc queries easily. If JavaScript is advertised as the query language for a database I'm not terribly interested, unless the pay off is extremely high.
Here's an old submission about "How QuarkXpress became a mere afterthought in publishing" which is pretty interesting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7360076
> Most modern democracies have not had any version of capitalism for a long time.

You seem to have an unconventional definition of the word. Again, I am using the common definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism

That said, I'm actually fine with a higher bar for patents.

> MIPS investors could have settled for getting back much less money for their investment but instead they chose the greedy approach and we collectively ended up worse off.

Could you show your math here? I can't find any evidence that MIPS in this incarnation actually returned money to investors. When SGI spun it out, it looks like its market cap was somewhere north of $300m. Eventually it was bought for $100m. I can't find any record of a dividend in between.

I also am not sure you understand how venture capital works. As an asset class, VC doesn't do much better than other investments. The absurdly great hits (e.g., Google) pay for the 80% of companies that don't make it. Without taking the very big payouts on the few successes, it's not clear to me who would put money into VC funds. A lot of their money comes from pension funds, school endowments and the like; those people have long-term obligations to meet. So how do you propose to maintain significant levels of venture funding if it returns "much less money" than it does now?
Ah, yes, the "BOOOOSH WANTED TO STEAL THEIR OIL" theory.

So, exactly how much of their oil did the U.S. actually "steal"? You have a barrel figure for that? A rough estimate will do.
The PC was much more used as a replacement for things previously done by minicomputers, at least in my field of vision. Just the differential in cost made for quite a business model.
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Could you please articulate? I am totally ignorant about it, and after the release of this document, I am getting more curious.
You might want to learn a bit about "big data".

Almost every major organisation will have a big data analytics program doing feature extraction, modelling, machine learning etc. Usually this starts with Hadoop/Spark with data in HDFS but then a point comes when you want this in a database.

PostgreSQL is awful at this which is why almost no uses it in this space. Apart from the lack of native drivers it is simply too difficult to do basic clustering. And the fact that it isn't built into the product doesn't give you a lot of confidence that it is (a) going to work and (b) is going to be supported.

And yes for those that scale out NoSQL is a magic solution. That's why they are so popular. I can deploy a 40 node Cassandra cluster in 30 mins and guarantee it works. Likewise MongoDB replica sets are ridiculously easy.
TIL that there are venture-backed bloggers in China.
For a GTO mission the Falcon 9 can have a single engine out and still complete the primary mission.
It looks like that although the GBP has declined against the Yen over the last year (and dramatically since the EU vote) [1], ARM's share price has increased to more than counteract this (again dramatically since the EU vote) [2].

[1]: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business/market_data/currency/11/1...

[2]: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business/market_data/shares/3/8729...
I don't think nuclear war poses any risk to human continuity. The only threats to human existence that I can see are an asteroid impact and advanced AGI.
Apple/Mac doesn't belong to the list.
Not everyone is as lucky as you.
I've used simulated annealing to make constraint solvers more efficient. The nice thing about constraint solvers and simulated annealing as demonstrated is that it's fairly straight forward to adapt the algorithm to your specific problem and data in order to get the best performance.
Value of ARM should stay the same when GBP goes down (as viewed in yen or USD) since it's selling to the global market. Or maybe go up since ARM's UK expenses are now lower. It's the pound that's depreciating, not ARM.
Yes, it will fail TO hit it's own metric (1 billion devices by mid 2018) and thus is a "failure" on that metric. However, saying (as this headline does) that Windows is a failure "by Microsoft's own metric" implies it has failed in the marketplace. Nope--it's reasonably popular (no doubt helped by the free upgrade).

Windows 7 is still king by a long shot, but Apple, for example, would love if MacOS/OSX's market share (all versions!) totalled as many computers as just Windows 10--it would be an approximately 50% increase in Apple's laptop/desktop market share. (Source is https://netmarketshare.com/. No direct link available. Click on "Operating Systems" / "Desktop Share by Version" for details.)
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In real dollars, the cost of Macs are extremely low. $1 in 2000 is about $1.40 now. So the cost of a $1000 13" Mac Air which is a very respectable laptop is about $700 in 2000 dollars.

Even IBM has gone to using Macs today.
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2998315/apple-mac/every...

So the machines are very cheap, even to IBM they are easier to use and require less tech support. For those that want to do some software development with open source, very useful.

While Office 2016 Mac is not as good as Office 2016 Windows, it works fairly well.

And if you really need the Windows 10 OS, you can invest in a Parallels virtual machine.

Besides, for many of us, Apple has stores where we can take the computer into a Genius Bar to get problems fixed.

In NYC, we even have a 24 hour/367 store (Fifth Avenue). There will be a seventh store in Manhattan soon. There is one in Queens, Statin Island, and one in Brooklyn soon.

Other cities have access as well of course.

So, except in certain important cases like gaming and certain specific applications, or cases where the stylus and touch is really important and the Microsoft Surface would be a best choice, a Mac is a better investment for most.
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I suspect they were not using the right terminology; non-technical people don't know what the word "automatic" means, and some confuse "automatic rifle" for "assault rifle". You don't need an automatic rifle to inflict mass casualties (Orlando, Dallas) and even Western soldiers, I gather, rarely use full auto fire mode in battle. It's usually tactically unnecessary and empties the magazine in a few seconds.
i'm old, and i still feel that way and unconsciously hesitate to take multiple shots. Along those lines I get a brief flash of worry when someone calls me on the phone, 'long distance', because its so expense.
In a project focused on privacy, vague unclear statements of this sort convey a certain implication. There is, of course, no way to be sure what is intended, and that is rather the point.
The study EnigmaticLion linked is as bad as you might expect.

They have a chart showing CO2 per calories for different foods which goes from 11 to 1431.

But when they do the final result for a bicycle using some kind of global average food consumption they use the number .144!

Unless I've really messed up my math, the number for a bicycle should be around 200 to 1000 times higher than what they show.

Next they take car emissions, do some "magic math" and change them from 42 g/km to 229g/km.

Using their own numbers, but fixing their math shows a bicycle emitting more than a car.
That must depend. If house prices are falling more than the amount you are paying in rent, then renting seems like a no brainier.
Publishing a single function as a package... Isn't it the reason why npm modules all have so many fucking dependencies?
just because something is open source doesn't mean it would be allowed to be used on the "commons"
> but I can't think of any use cases where Mongo wins over other NoSQL solutions

For small deployments, and when you don't have to worry about (many) relations between tables it should be ok to use Mongo

Maybe Cassandra is better in some cases, or PostgreSQL with JSON

And of course Redis in a lot of different situations

I don't know what you mean by "inventing locking with Redis" but it doesn't seem like anything I would advise doing either with Mongo or Redis
Not by a long shot, Emacs Lisp is the most widely used Lisp dialect, by far. Clojure isn't even close.
Poor guy doesn't know about "Add to Dictionary"...
Time series data is actually a great fit for MongoDB.

You create a collection for each measurement, JSON document for each day and then preallocate the fields for each hour/minute/second. With batching you can update 100K documents a second pretty easily off one node. For example:
https://blog.serverdensity.com/using-mongodb-as-a-time-serie...
People forget that the intention of some programming demos is to explain some concepts simply. The intended audience of that code wasn't some expert programmer - it was for those who wanted to see how things worked so that they could see how the game sucked and once they learned enough they could improve upon it.

For expert BASIC code see Nibbles.BAS:

http://stanislavs.org/OldPages/stanislavs/src/nibbles.bas
Unfortunately, Lumia's are not durable. The screen of my Lumia 620 broke after just a few months of use.

Nokia's legendary durability died with the feature phone.
On the other hand you could use static typing to avoid writing a lot of tests. Maybe it's a bit of preference thing, I don't mind either approach personally.
In redis couldn't your key be something like "someIdentifier_items_3" and your value be 123?

Then if you wanted to make it 456 you would only be updating "someIdentifier_items_3".
Prices of that nature usually include 10-20 year service contracts and onsite maintainers, to include hardware. Not that the prices are not still inflated, but the reality of running a contractually 99.99% uptime, multi decade, and completely backwards compatible platform is not trivial, or anything south of multi millions of dollars at the federal scale especially.
One danger is people will interfere with the initial vision for the product if a solid character/foundation is not developed yet.

If you take the time to set the tone for the project you have more room to resist change requests that are in conflict with the vision.
>Why isn't PERL more windows friendly?

Really? I've had tons of fun with Perl+OLE automating the processing of Excel and Word files.
If you enjoy this sort of exploration and comparison of databases and want more, I can't recommend the book Seven Databases in Seven Weeks enough.

https://pragprog.com/book/rwdata/seven-databases-in-seven-we...
Or a minivan with runflat tires. They'll still get you where you're going, but a bit slower and not quite as efficiently.
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May eldest daughter has a wheat allergy so we ride the gluten-free train frequently. Over here the gluten-free fare generally uses rice flour, some tapoica starch or potato starch, and your standard stabilizers and thickeners. Gluten-free tortilla on the sites is also a fail, but in one case I found a gluten-free wrap that was a tortilla-like thing made from the same ingredients as the standard gluten-free baking mix. As I suggested in my previous comment, for most people in the UK a "corn tortilla" is actually a corn and wheat blend (usually less than 1/3 corn.)

As an example of the sort of corn tortilla that I try to find, here is the place I order from in London when I do not have time to pull out the press and make my own: http://www.coolchile.co.uk/mexican-shop/corn-tortillas
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Ditto, I really recommend this book. Made me understand 80's software world a lot more, and especially not see Microsoft as being as evil as I liked to believe it was; merely the one who survived among a lot of companies doing really shady stuff.
Sad, they put out some very good material.
Why don't I have self determination? Why can't I get together with a few like minded friends and secede from our country?
That's the good part. The bad part is that bunker oil is the opposite of a petroleum distillate. It's what's left over. So it has all the sulfur and other contaminants you want to get rid of for other refinery products. The difference is enormous: hundreds of times the sulfur vs refined fuels, etc.
> the advantage of being fully cross-platform

I would scratch the fully, it's not on iOS or macOS
There's definitely a lot of throwing the baby out with the bath water. ACID is hard on a distributed system. Let me rephrase that. Performant ACID is hard on a distributed system.

ACID and schemas are not actually coupled. You can have strict schemas without ACID and vice versa.

Relational stores without ACID are very hard to reason about. Any associations that are created with the primary entry may or may not be there at lookup. This is solved via documents.

I agree with your prediction that e will have document schemas enforced in the DB.
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Good to know!

I thought that OpenWatcom was the only one remaining to support DOS (and it appears to have been stagnant for a couple of years)...

(Not that I've done much with DOS - I did write a ~10-20 line program in C to set the serial port to specific settings, but that was all I've done on DOS.)
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The third phase already exists. It's SQL engines e.g.
Hive, Presto, SparkSQL, SAP Vora etc. on top of NoSQL and something almost every big company is using today.

SparkSQL in particular can "run all 99 TPC-DS queries, which require many of the SQL:2003 features".
Be warned, e10s is still very green and it's easy to run into bugs. If all your tabs turn black for no apparent reason disable it.
A decade or so ago, ARM was offering graduates about £25K. I believe they still offer the inflation-adjusted equivalent of that: ~£32K.

Does this mean that Microsoft Cambridge are offering graduates ~£50K? It's interesting that I consider that to be very high for a graduate salary yet, at USD 66K equivalent, it is significantly less than would be available in an area of the USA with a comparable cost of living...
I wouldn't have said "good". They are very relevant to what you watched recently. But watch one random shit once and your side bar is now defaced with thumbnails you can't throw away. I really wish I could opt out altogether from this one.
Previous submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12110244
In the interests of conserving biodiversity, should it not also list the different subspecies/ethnic groups, and report on their threatened status in their native habitats?