skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I can't help but feel that the Wolfram Language is less of a programming language and more of a DSL for querying a very precisely defined set of data.

If what you're thinking about is Entity and EntityValue, you can't be more wrong: the built-in data is so slow it's impossible to use, even Wolfram employee steer away from it when giving presentations. You clearly can't give a demo where returning a bunch of missing data takes several seconds.

If by 'data' you mean a certain library of algorithmic content, then you might be onto something.
Note that there is a more recent statement from Samsung on the subject than the one this URL points to

https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-urges-galaxy-note7-u...
> The other major killer feature that I'm aware of in Office is the track changes feature.

This is by far the worst "feature", it's a plague that management enforces on its employees mainly not knowing any better or just being plain ignorant. As you said this comes down to unwillingness to change and learn something new. In most cases using plain text format like asciidoc/asciidoctor with some version control system would be enormous improvement.
> Mathematical thinking is about formulating things so that one can handle them mathematically, when that’s possible. Computational thinking is a much bigger and broader story, because there are just a lot more things that can be handled computationally.

This is a completely lopsided statement. Computation(via some automaton) is a small subset of what mathematics deals with.

It is possible to deal with concepts and objects mathematically a lot more often than computationally.
I seem to be the exact target market for this sort of thing, thank you! The SQL implementation seems reasonably modern, and while the GIS features are a little rudimentary there's at least something to work with.

My worry about column stores is that I can't guarantee my workload is optimised for that paradigm either - imagine a window function with multiple partition criteria etc etc, but I suppose it's worth testing.
Purchases you make with cash you got from an ATM become traceable to your bank account.
Still using header files in the 22nd century?
If look at it the other way around: burning the reaction mass is the only source of energy you use to accelerate the reaction mass — it doesn't sound obviously optimal.

Nuclear thermal, and nuclear/solar electric (aka ion) rockets achieve better specific impulse despite carrying separate weight for power.
Some nuclear designs (e.g. Orion as johncolanduoni said) do have overlap between reaction mass and energy source mass.
Solar sails, ground lasers, and gravity assists avoid some of the need for carrying reaction mass.
All these are perfectly newtonian.

Chemical does win among currently working designs at accelerating quickly, which is critical for human exploration, and to some degree for getting to orbit. There is no inherent physical reason alternatives can't achieve that.

I must recommend the extremely fun Project Rho site though I'm just started reading it:
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/enginelist.php
It's not always clear where existing science ends and Sci-Fi begins, but that's generally on technology barriers (e.g. we haven't yet managed break-even contained fusion), not mythical "entirely new understanding of physics".
And the amount of actual science — detailed papers, prototypes etc — on diverse and bizzare drive designs is way more than I expected!
Holy run-on sentences, Batman!
>something like Stonehenge could be assembled in a matter of minutes with modern machinery //

I'd visit that, has anyone done it? Would be great to have some of the burial mounds created so you could walk through and see them from the inside too.

You could have a "moving of the stones" festival where people could come and camp and have the opportunity to take part in moving and placing some megaliths. That'd be fun! (Kinda like a Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) project.)
"it's just often not in the curriculum in high school"

I'm pretty sure that most high school science students have at least seen it before though.
And what about the sauces and condiments this produce is cooked and served with? That seems like a particularly ripe target for this sort of thing.
> it has never ceased to amaze me how few city-folk know any fundamental outdoor skills.

In our local area we have several drownings a year, tourists who don't understand the power of the ocean. That and people falling off cliffs. Our education system (UK) is very out of touch with nature. Very few students get to swim in the ocean, climb a cliff, light a fire or camp out in the woods.
And the state could just buy this information from Facebook and Google.

Modern!
Show HN: Postgraas-a super simple PostgreSQL-as-a-service using python and docker
HTSQL forms the basis of RexDB ( https://rexdb.org https://bitbucket.org/rexdb/ https://dist.rexdb.org/packages/ ), which is a very active project. That said, HTSQL is not being commercially supported apart from Prometheus Research's RexDB installations. HTSQL itself is actively maintained but will not see any significant new features. Even so, HTSQL is quite productive to use, will be supported for quite some time for our products and clients, and it's used extensively internally here at Prometheus Research.

The next generation this effort is called Rabbit (MIT licensed) and we will announce it sometime this year or early next year. The RexDB API for Rabbit will be called rex.query (https://bitbucket.org/rexdb/rex.query) and, till Rabbit is fully developed enough to replace HTSQL, rex.query be targeting the HTSQL/PostgreSQL backend.
Operating systems are huge pile of technical debt
https://bitbucket.org/prometheus/htsql/ and sure, we could make it Apache licensed if someone outside Prometheus Research wishes to use it.

That said, this code base has reached peak complexity (given the features it has) and would require some significant rework to incorporate even more features. We're moving on to a next generation query language we now call Rabbit.
The Case for Wooden Skyscrapers
Yes they did, didn't take minutes though! There's a Stonehenge replica in the wairarapa in New Zealand.
You might want to read your own link.
A note is clearly a proof-of-work currency concept. As stated, it takes months of work on expensive hardware. Anyone with better/more equipment can beat them but it requires an investment in a field where they have a huge headstart.
> The aromatics in truffles (excluding 2,4-dithiapentane) are water-soluble, not fat-soluble.

Source, please. What you say goes against what I personally sniffed at my friend's house, which was the home-made truffle oil as per above.
Be careful with this kind of advice. I'm an experienced camper/backpacker. The wilderness can be a dangerous place for beginners, even if they are just "car camping." For example, the Mohave (where I backpacked/camped/rock-climbed for seven years) has 18 species of rattlesnakes, and one of those is the Mohave rattlesnake, which carries one of the most lethal rattlesnake venoms in the world.

Food, water and shelter aren't enough for camping. You also need: flashlight with spare batteries, a map of the surrounding region, a compass, extra clothing, sun protection and a first-aid kit. It's also a good idea to know where the nearest ranger station is so that you can haul ass there in case of an emergency.
The Defining Moment of the New Millennium
The mail merge functionality is constantly being enhanced. In 5.1 mail merge embedding was released - see here:
https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/event/libreoffice_m...

You can track changes in LO also - starting in 4.4 it has been progressively getting better - see here:

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Track_changes

Curious about the font issue... I've never tried to use Asian and Roman glyphs on one line before. But multilayout is a bit of a mess and is constantly being worked on.
I was more thinking of spatial stuff when I talked about paths, and PostGIS is a pretty productive platform for me so far. Example calculations would be taking the geodesic distance moved over a series of events over the total length of the path to calculate a score for 'directness'. PostGIS has aggregates to create lines from points, measure the total length etc.
Wow! What was going on over there? It must have gotten pretty big. Of course, the mainstream news barely mentions it.

Anyway, some Good news, for a change.
The lucrative thing about Google Nearby is that it works across iOS and Android and since it has an option to fallback using sound (ultrasound?) it can work on any device which has a speaker and mic[1]. Are there any open solutions which lets me simply pass messages between 2 devices without any sort of configuration? BT LE is ruled out (for now) because I can't rule out pre-Lollipop devices[2]. I wish there was a more universal and open protocol which was fast, reliable and worked on most mobile devices to simply exchange small packets of data.

[1]: Of course it doesn't have support for Windows 10 Mobile, but not due to practical limitations.

[2]: BT LE in 4.3,4.4 has lot of issues and limitations

Edit: added caveat about not supporting Windows 10 Mobile
You can only check for overflows if you err in favour of larger architectures and declare all integers as "long int", and then check for overflows. Even the 8-bit compilers I have seen will allocate 32-bits for long int. And doing that will let the code remain compatible on smaller architectures, but it will hammer your CPU and memory usage. It's not a pleasant situation when you're struggling to save bytes.
What is said here holds true in 1995. Post 2000, interoperability was pretty evident. Microsoft is simply scared that if they made a simple enough format they would lose the hold they have on the Office software.

Computers are faster and robust to handle I/O much better now. If they were by any means a little ethical, they would have created a simpler format and built on top of it instead of changing the entire spec every iteration of their software.

Software does not evolve by retaining irrelevant code.
Open CSV files correctly with Excel on both Mac and Windows? (2011)
I live in RWC and while the city is active on Nextdoor the reality is between work and family I have no time to get involved in local politics.

That said, be careful what you wish for. We seem to be getting a lot of big buildings approved without the necessary additional parking. Also, downtown is basically all restaurants or random business offices. There are very few shops and boutique that cause people to walk around and create a vibrant downtown scene like MV, PA, Burlingame or San Carlos. The city also doesn't seem to have much in the way of budget beautification or schools so it still looks quite rundown and property prices are depressed comparatively, even in the nice parts of RWC due to the school ratings.
This was actually the original intention of the Tuesday voting day - if farmers were at church on Sunday, and at market on Wednesday, they could only reliably get to their polling place on Tuesday. This reasoning, clearly, does not translate well to a modern urban economy.

The US is in many ways strangely traditional.

EDIT: Replaced folk origin with actual researched origin.
There is a non-trivial portion of the population that feels rifles only exist to kill other people. How would you convince them to take such a course?
Funny, I've always considered Excel (and all the others) equally bad at scaling because none of them can cope with csv files over 1 million rows. 50k or 1 million isn't a big difference. Where's the vi of spreedsheets for handling those 300 million row db dumps with a load error on line 253,452,624?
Inside politics this is a whole professional field.

The effect of changing voting age, voter registration rules, how new parties are registered, whether voting is compulsory, how voting is combined with voting on other issues and so on can be calculated and predicted quite precisely.

And you will see that all major political parties are working for the changes that will benifit themselves the most.
"This approach is also error prone. If you later happen to access some other service with the same private IP, on some other local network (for example, 192.168.1.1:80), that service can steal the cookies stored by the first service. The services have to be careful about using caching because you might get the cached page for the first service when you visit the second service."
I really enjoy programming and applying various technologies to solve problems.

However, I don't always enjoy my work. If I'm stuck o the same thing for prolonged amounts of time or if things keep not working out (eg fixing a bug only to find another and another and...). My work also requires that sometimes I do stuff that I don't enjoy. I've yet to come across a job where I enjoy 100% of the tasks that come my way.

I've also noticed that there's a difference in enjoyment between tasks that I do because I have to and tasks that I choose to do because I feel like it. Both tasks could actually be the same thing, only one I decided I wanted to do and the other external factors decided that I should do the task.

For example, one day I was feeling frustrated and burnt out by work and after work I did a little programming that was more-or-less the same kind of work that I do in my job, but I did it for myself for fun. And I felt refreshed.
> In terms of data layout, 32-bit vs. 64-bit architecture only really affects pointer size. But Cap'n Proto does not encode native pointers (that obviously wouldn't work), so this turns out not to matter.

Unless you're programming in C or C++ (or using a library from them), where size of int, long, etc. may change depending on architecture and compiler.
> It specifically does not violate the treaty for the United States or Morocco to wage war against each other

That's like saying "anyone is welcome in our nightclub (port), as long as they can get past the bouncers (pirates)".

In any case, the treaty you link says that passengers and goods shall be released unmolested and allowed to pass on a vessel belonging to that party (article 3). Morocco taking a US prize runs directly counter to this.

Thanks for finding the link, by the way. I forgot to look for the treaty itself.
Too little? That wasn't even an attempt, that's just shitty coding from someone having very bad habits in the language.

That's a blimp, a shitty blimp.

So it's not even touching on the subject of the competition with Rust.
BTW, one of the coolest modern model checking techniques is "counterexample guided abstraction refinement" (CEGAR) which automatically soundly reduces (abstract) the state space, tries to prove the property, and if it fails it refines the abstraction (enlarging the state space) and tries again.
Maybe the answer to the question posed by the article's title is given in this line found near its conclusion?

> By 1492, American Indians had created a giant park whose beauty and riches inspired thousands and thousands of Europeans to cross a continent.

The park, not the ruins of buildings, is what North America’s ancient inhabitants left us. People continue to conserve, visit, and learn about our natural lands today (even if we've only recently begun to understand how to care for them as past civilizations did). Not to minimize the value of archeological sites, both ruins and hieroglyphics across the United States are fascinating to visit!
I (from UK) didn't think you elected a president, I thought you elected people who you think will vote for the president you want.

It's such a convoluted system; it seems so, uh, undemocratic(?).
I guess it's harder to implement on IoT devices.
Yeah, I once had to write an Android / Desktop C++ implementation of such an API that was squirting iOS datastructures over socket. The API was built by a programmer who didn't know what endianess (or size of the structs) was.

That was a special kind of hell :/
> a group of Amish tourists

I never imagined Amish could travel like tourists around. What a funny idea.
Have a look at Leslie Lamport's structured proofs, which have a very similar approach to yours!

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/l...

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/p...
Supporting remote, small towns is difficult to do without emitting a lot of carbon. I actually like the idea from a cultural and aesthetic viewpoint, but the city dweller generally has a smaller carbon footprint than the person in a small town (adjusting for income).
Rifle shooting doesn't seem to be an important component.

As a non-american scout my experience includes all the same things, except the shooting.
It's more like, Europe is where the historians come from.
Dr. Geo 16.10 release: interactive geometry and programming software
SAP can do that, but the idea is to have standard support.

And that means that any program reading or writing CSV should support all possible standard-compliant CSV files.

You might get a CSV file from someone who created it with German Excel and want to read it into French Excel (it won’t work).
Except, of course, if malicious files are supplied or they are corrupted somehow.
To Save California, Read “Dune” (2015)
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Remember when you're writing applications like this, which accept an URL, you need to filter out `file://` URIs.

Otherwise you disclose arbitrary files, like this site does.
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"... there's literally nothing Mexican about them other than maybe the skintone..."

But the skintone is all a person needs to be treated differently from someone who is presumed to be of European descent. The experiences of a dark, medium, or light skinned person in the US are not likely to be the same.
Who exactly?
They could certainly opt out of any shooting education, it wasn't compulsory when I was a Boy Scout. Though I think the fact that they'd be shooting at paper targets would be a pretty immediate rebuttal of their beliefs.
box.com as well. We have free accounts, hipaa/gov grade encryption and security, and lots of collaboration options. :)
Tim Cook Says Apple Is 'Very Committed' to the Mac and to 'Stay Tuned'
I think that's the idea behind STEAM, but the reality is the A there is meaningless until people following the A can reasonably hope to make a halfway decent living.
The patch releases can be found in RexDB's public package server, https://dist.rexdb.org/packages/

The issue tracker is unfortunately private, we fix bugs or implement minor features that materially affect RexDB paying customer's usage of HTSQL.
In HN titles, not rarely.
As far as I know there is no Office 2012 (either 2010 or 2013) and the html table trick works on both.
However, conses can be used for other types of structures as well.
Show HN: Managing your devices in the cloud using Apple’s own MDM solution
what game server do you use ?
This is simply not true.
Beside Webstorm is a very good IDE, its much more precise with Typescript.
Curious to hear your thoughts, especially with regards to step 3 - this is not my home soil at all. Thanks!
If you want Python without crippled lambdas just use Hy (http://hylang.org). Hy also liberates you from signigicant whitespace.
except you have to move the rest of the data when you edit the document or you can fragment the data but the old data will still be on memory / memory mapped file / file.
The funny thing is that Venice, I mean the original one in Italy, seems also totally uninterested in this problem. After decades of discussion they have finally built these mobile barriers between the sea and the lagoon, which are supposed to protect the city from the periodic high tides ("acqua alta"). But apparently no one is thinking what will happen when the sea level will rise.
Well the problem, of course, is that they would test drive the cars in the dealership and then buy online.
> I suppose if you are not a practicing scientist

I am. I'm reviewing 2 papers this moment.

> Good journals have an effective peer review process that requires editors who will curate articles, match them with expert reviewers and subsequently provide their own meta review on the paper and the process. All of this is a valuable contribution that goes way beyond simply hosting a PDF. Even good work is genuinely improved by going through this process.

How much are these editors paid? They are paid ad honorarium. I know editors who are paid a grand sum of 500$ a year. You are significantly over estimating the costs.
My millennial job search PART I: The Millennial itch
Did you have a hackerrank test?
You don't think Google execs know for sure that Google links to copyright infringements. There's zero chance of that IMO. Criminal law only requires "beyond reasonably doubt", civil law (torts liked copyright infringement) only needs a "balance of probabilities".

Those people have the same way of knowing what's unlawful or illegal or tortuous as the rest of us; actually they're more likely to be able determine it IMO.

Google link to iTunes, iTunes provides a means (CD ripping, yes, for real) to circumvent UK copyright law ... go on tell me Google's lawyers don't know this essential basic of UK copyright nor that you can find iTunes (designed for copyright infringement!) on Google.co.uk.

It's not like any of this is being done to serve the public interest, it's solely focused on narrow commercial interests.