skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SQL in fact deviates from true relational theory, in which the "cells" of a table could themselves have additional structure rather than just being "a string" or "a number". Cells could also be truly absent. SQL's NULL, while something you can make your peace with, could use some tweaking with 21st century experience. SQL's syntax has acquired a lot of cruft over the years to deal with new features... in fact in that sense it reminds me of the evolution of OpenGL and the way it acquired extension after extension until finally it needed to be broken apart into Vulkan and CUDA pieces (to brutally summarize the situation to the point of inaccuracy; please try to see what I mean rather than pick nits with that).

More controversially, I question the entire intent of making the core query language something that is putatively declarative, but then in practice often requires extensive engine-specific annotations to tell the engine how to actually do the query. (More on that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3506345#3507281 ). I think RethinkDB's query language was much more imperative, because of the level of development resources they had, and I bet it actually worked out OK. However, even if I could not sell the development world on making SQL++/SQL-replacement non-declarative, we certainly could do a better job this time around of separating query strategy from query contents in some deliberate manner, rather than hacking crap up.

Imagine if, for instance, you could feed the query optimizer a query, get back a query plan that was actually manipulable and executable, tweak that to your tastes, and then send it back to the DB, rather than working via hints and circumlocutions and hopes and dreams.

It would also be nice if SQL were more composible. The serialized version of SQL is not practical to use string manipulations to combine two queries into a larger query. Many languages have libraries that permit this, but they're always second-class citizens. If I were redesigning SQL I'd want something that handled this more cleanly. I'd seriously consider something RethinkDB-esque in the sense that it didn't have an "english" serialization, but was purely symbolic, leaving it to language authors to figure out how to best represent it in the local language.

Also, bear in mind that most if not all features I describe in this post exist in databases already. (Not sure about that last one.) What I'm saying is that SQL integrates poorly with all that, not that the features don't exist. Recursive queries and common table expressions also seem ripe for some serious rethinking. Plus I think for a long time SQL really kinda limited the sort of DBs that would be produced because if a feature integrated poorly with SQL, it was a lot less likely to come out. (In particular, structured cells took IMHO forever to come out. Possibly the massive market failure of "object databases" also scared DB developers off from that feature too, though. They aren't the same thing but may be closely enough related.)
>Only the US would use a $10B aircraft carrier to launch a $100M aircraft to drop a $100K bomb on a kid hiding in a hole with a $100 AK-47.

and this is why US lose so few servicemen lives while killing tens of thousands of those "kids". Sending in troops with M-16, Vietnam style, without support of those $100M aircraft launched from those $10B carriers would result in comparable, on the scale of thousands, losses of those troops. Speaking pure economically, morals/politics aside, a cost of 1 life used for various calculations in US by government, insurance, etc. is about $7M, thus 1 thousand lives comes to $7B - very well comparable with the cost of campaign where $100K/100M/10B military tech is used instead of wasting servicemen lives. Wasting money instead of human lives - not a bad choice. For example, in Russia (where i'm originally from) they usually do it the other way and it isn't a good thing.
I've tried tmux resurrect. Wasn't for me. With a predefined script I can close and open many windows with abandon. Also, creating the initial script is simple enough. I guess different strokes for different folks :)
America and the Abyss
And the boson that mediates "charge" is....?
No, you should pay taxes and make government accountable to it.
Not even remotely the case, although I'd be fascinated to see where you got this notion from.
I started writing a terminal multiplexer in Rust, partially because I wanted to fix clearing ANSI escape codes to EOL, but also because I wanted to try and come up with a multiplexer that had very similar shortcuts and commands to Vim.
I've played them all with emulators (and on my original NES when I was a kid), but I'm still irrationally excited about this.
Did they have even have a choice under Britain control? Nowadays at least you hear the voice
Great points. Yeh, I was more of an RPG enthusiast. Dragonball, Pokemon etc. when I did play action games, I didn't notice too much but I'm sure you're right, there probably was delay.
I didn't have controllers back then anyway. I always just used the keyboard...
That is a concise, interesting read topped off by some Gibson quotes. Thanks.
There is no evidence that the NYT colluded with the Clinton campaign against Sanders

I'm not a Sanders supporter but you don't need "evidence of collusion" to make that assertion. You just need to take a look at the NYT's own online archive. They waited until the last possible minute before they even began talking about Sanders -- or anyone else -- as a serious primary contender. Meanwhile, coverage of Clinton was almost a daily affair.

Clinton was anointed by the press from the get-go, just as Trump was anointed with billions of dollars' worth of free publicity by the same media outlets. Their preferences were so obvious, in both cases, that the burden of proof belongs to those who claim otherwise.
I went through a period of a few years where my medication was definitely helping a lot with the depression, but at the same time I no motivation or desire to do anything (I remember a few times wishing I had the desire to sit down and watch a TV show; I couldn't even bring myself to sit on the couch and stare at the TV) and I really couldn't feel emotions other than sadness and anger. The medication wasn't at fault because if I wasn't taking it, life was just non-stop intense sadness and still no desire to do anything.

My doctors sucked ass, but at least when I told them about my lack of desire they tried a bunch of different things to try and help. Lithium actually seemed to work quite well for me the first time I was on it (the second time, it didn't seem to have an effect and I can't remember why I stopped taking it the first time). It was me that eventually suggested trying anti-psychotics and I eventually suggested the one that has worked wonders for my depression and complete apathy, but they generally were willing to try anything I thought might work better than my current treatments.

It really felt like the doctors (the clinic I was at went through so many doctors. I think I had 6 in about 4 years) were just prescription writing machines and I was the one in charge of my well-being. It was up to me to do research and find things that might help me out and it kind of makes sense because how much do you think your doctor thinks about you in a month? They probably only think about your situation for the duration of your appointment and maybe a few minutes before the appointment, so maybe 45 minutes each month (if you see the doctor monthly). On the other hand, I'm thinking about my situation almost non-stop. I'm desperate for relief so I was spending multiple hours a day, maybe hundreds of hours each month, researching how I can get better. So it's no wonder that it was me that eventually figured out what medication to try that eventually made me mostly better.
I called my local Game Stop and they said they will have stock. First come, first serve.
haha..I was definitely excited..I still am.
> Yes, the right answer for every question in “I don’t know”.

Do you think you know the English language?
Walgreens said to have filed a $140M lawsuit against Theranos in Delaware
How much luck and who you know plays in determining the success of a business.
The Passport: A Tool for Better Metrics
The idle time will not change by much anytime soon. Everyone commutes in the same hours and at night all cars stand still. Yes, society becomes more flexible and diverse but this is a very slow process.
That's a perfect example of how knowing some assembly code helps with learning C.
I didn't want to take it away from announcement. I see others are saying it might not be as important.

I believe it to be main attraction of functional languages. We don't want to be stuck on single processor forever and immutability is allowing us to spread wings and utilize processors better.

So that is why I think it is imperative ( :) ) to have this as a feature of functional languages.
OK, "too late" sounds maybe a bit too dramatic.

Not really. Our software is essentially a set of quite advance image/data processing pipelines. Companies who produce it are looking for people with (very) advanced math/C skills as it's not as simple as "import cv2".

Thanks for support though.
Business newbie here. How relevant is that to B2C? If my saas-like product is simple and relatively cheap, is it worth spending so much effort into sales instead of, say, marketing? Got any interesting resources?

I can't get my head around how sales could work efficiently with B2Cs in general.
Actually dumping into real estate, gold etc. is not bad because your govt will get taxes out of the transaction at the least. Problem with black money is not that some body hoarded it. Problem is some body hoarded it with out paying taxes.
I'm genuinely not sure this is a Windows problem. They might get infected on pretty much any OS if they navigate anywhere without precautions (as most parents do, including mine).

I'd like to see if a something like DeepFreeze could help here (there are probably alternatives here, DeepFreeze just came first in my mind).
You replied to a fictitious argument. What I said is that security is not that simple, it matters on your threat model, and things like resilience and platform diversity matter too. Crypto is not the weak link for Signal (nor is it likely to be for comparable products).

What claudius said was that in essence was that a trusted application should not depend on giving remote root to Google, likely referring to not be able to compile and distribute the software in a useful way. That is worth a more meaningful answer. Distribution and the run time environment are central to any realistic threat model and reducing that to open source zealotry kind of misses the point.
Samsung Galaxy mod for GTAV
This is false. Please provide supporting information for your assertion that In-Q-Tel invested in The Facebook.
Every vendor had a different way to measure how much octets went through an interface on IPv6 using SNMP.

And the standard MIB (management information base) for SNMP only gave you IPv4 traffic.

So, if you wanted to measure the traffic you interchange with a third party on IPv6 you had to be tied to a specific way of doing in (some had private or experimental MIBs for that, in other cases you had to move the data through a tunnel and measure traffic inside the tunnel minus overhead.).

Very easy to make mistakes specially if there is a problem with the traffic late at night and somebody forgets to put you in the loop.
There is a bit more code in tmux but it's split in many more files than in screen, and there are significantly more blank lines and comments. tmux seems better in my opinion, but it's certainly difficult to tell without looking at the actual code.
It's been around a long time- I'm 30 and my friends and I spent time trying to figure out ways around it in high school. (My little brother and his friends eventually did- they acquired the admin password).
if they released this with the entire NES library on it I would pay more.
Is this an offshoot of this previous work, or a separate project?: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11411054
You can also go the fields route like Feynman would:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/collective-electrodynamics
The Wii came with a composite cable for maximum compatibility and component video for high quality. In 2006, many people still had CRTs with no HDMI and there's not a whole lot of visible difference between component and hdmi.

In 2016, HDMI is a much better choice. Leaving it out would be strange, and saving the cost of outputting analog is worth it.
How about the fact that only 1% Indians pay Income tax? https://www.thequint.com/hot-wire/2016/05/01/only-1-per-cent...

The official number of millionnaires in India are ridiculously low. This is not due to tax exemptions, but due to income not being declared in the first place.
$45 w/1 year maintenance https://store2.esellerate.net/store/checkout/CustomLayout.as...
I've an odd question for you: How did you wind up sticking with meditation? What made you notice that it helped and how long did that take?

I generally quit after 2-3 months. At first it is kind of nice, but as time goes, I become a bit frustrated and bored. I don't notice a difference in myself, and I always wonder if it isn't just that I don't know what I should be looking for.

I'm mostly asking to get your personal perspective on it, in the hopes that I might identify with it.
Maybe cars sit idle 90-95% of the time, but isn't it the same 90-95% of the time? I would imagine the peak utilization is much higher. Furthermore, if self-driving cars become a reality, then I imagine utilization would dramatically increase. Now that I can just send my car to pick up the grocery, I'm much more likely to send it on random errands.
I've never heard of tmux. Where should I look? Little hint?
Too late if they have already lodged that in everyone's mind - they should have gotten a new brand if the brand proposition was going to be radically different.
Most people are only interested in Bitcoin insofar as it's convertible to a local currency. So if it's difficult to do that, it's difficult to use Bitcoin for most transactions.
Look around in the EDA field.
We run Deepfreeze in our library and its cut out all of the problems we were having. Very solid product, but a little spendy. We will probably deploy it a bit more widely when we go to Windows 10.
I tried marijuana legally (Colorado) twice (each time was a couple of months) in a desperate bid to help out my anxiety. I had read good things about it treating PTSD and people in general use marijuana to relax right? So, I thought it had a chance of helping.

For me I found it didn't really help with anxiety and I didn't like the feeling of a slight loss of control. I gave it a good go and then even tried it a second time thinking maybe I just hadn't used the right strains, but it just isn't for me.
I would've thought the first question was a big red flag but I guess in Windows and x86 linux int is 32 bit even with 64-bit processors. Not the case in MIPS64 (under IRIX) or on DEC Alpha.

I had my formative C experience in the DOS era with 16-bit compilers and then SGIs with 64-bit compilers (and I had the "fun" of porting grad student written code from SGI to Linux) so you get burned with expectations about int length. Packing makes it even worse as many RISC machines (like MIPS) are word addressed and non-aligned loads require a bunch of bit fiddling or you get a Bus Error (SIGBUS).
to google for "chrome" on internet explorer

Is google being used as a generic verb here, in relation to Internet Explorer's default search engine?
> ">ELECTRIC ENERGY is a wave that travels via a column of charge."

I'm not an expert when it comes to electricity, so someone correct me if I'm wrong, but one thing that has made sense to me when it comes to trying to understand electricity is that not all electrons have equal potential for work.

When studying electricity, you're often told the charge of an electron as a fixed quantity. However, if I've understood correctly, the work that an electron can do in conducting electric energy is not wholly described by the charge of the electron, it's also important to know the relationship that the electron has with the nucleus of the atom it orbits (i.e. the 'shelf' it's on).

To explain in another way, this analogy may be 'wrong' but I think it helps to think of electrons as capable of more work when they are less tightly coupled from the nucleus of an atom. The electrons that can do the most work are those in the outermost orbit of an atom. Whilst it may be wrong to say outer electrons are more charged than inner electrons, I think it might help in terms of visualisation. Again, correct me if I'm wrong.
> Only real bummer is no Contra (they have the sequel)

I wish they would have put Contra instead of Super C, and Life Force (simultaneous two-player) instead of Gradius :(
Great post. My father is similar to yours, but is also incredibly vehement about his privacy. A few years ago he fell victim to a fake microsoft support scam (foreign accent, cc details over the phone, etc.) and gave them full root access over whatever screen share software they used. He paid a few hundred bucks for them to fix fake problems on the PC, and I could never convince him that it was in fact a scam.

I've since given up completely on locking down the computer or protecting them from themselves in that regard. I occasionally get talked into basic tech support, but thats it.

It's really a relationship problem if anything (IMO).
As someone trying to inspect dots, it's very annoying to me that the detail windows pop up and can block other dots. I'm not sure how you'd stop this but I found this very clunky to use. I'm also not sure if it offers anything useful...
This article is amazing. It helped me to understand things that I were confused about years ago.
Whole website is filled (!) with these kind of articles http://amasci.com/ele-edu.html !
vertx looks very slow compare to other java frameworks. And the fact that you can use them and you will the same speed asta java...

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r12&hw=...
Meta Programming in JavaScript: The Truth Behind Properties
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn1oyZidX8Q
Careful, he's going to flagkill your comment for raising the same concerns I did
What countries defined "psychopathy" as a specific medical oandition?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy

says: no psychiatric or psychological organization has sanctioned a diagnosis titled "psychopathy"

The words "psychopath" and "sociopath" are very general terms for mental illness.
Oh. And I was wondering what nick do you have here :)
Sounds like you'd be much happier at a place like Bloomberg, where there's just a big open room and a lot of noise and zero privacy and lots of talking and "teamwork".

There's no shortage of workplaces like this. Go apply for new jobs and look for ones that use "Agile" and have "open-plan offices".

I'd love to have a programming job where I have little human interaction and have to concentrate for hours. Those jobs are very rare these days thanks to the open-plan office.
I prefer opening tabs in my terminal window instead of this or other similar tools. It's not an exact replacement but I try to avoid learning and remembering new sets of keystrokes, and there are some other small UI wins in my opinion.
Unfortunately he's got the ear of the management. He's a good guy, and actually a good programmer. He's one of those folks that can churn out 1000 lines of (mostly) functioning code in a day. It's not well-written, but it does the job and that's what management wants to see (bad management, but hard to fight). But he's lousy about not learning new things and being stuck in his ways.

Once an idea enters his head it's hard to dislodge it. He learned programming from a mediocre CS school (despite the expensive price tag, which they deserve for their medical and law schools, not their engineering disciplines). And when something works, it's hard to convince him that it's wrong (that is, correct by coincidence) or unstable (in this case, sizeof(int) and related issues). He isn't technically (one of his favorite words) wrong in many instances, but problems will arise when we change OS, compiler, or CPU.

I'm slowly converting him to seeing things my way. My main contribution has been to mentor the junior developers. Things will change as their contributions worm their way into our projects.
I think your tone is overly aggressive and accusatory.

European countries have a large trade deficit with China (€170B)[1]. The U.S. had about double the amount of trade deficit ($336B), mostly due to its greater value of imports [2].

This doesn't prove that China restricts access to its markets by European companies, but it provides evidence that the situation may not be as simple as you suggest.

1. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/2995521/7553974/6-120...

2. https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/china-mongolia-taiwan/peo...
By your definition, probably every Chinese is refugee. So how about opening your country's door? If you cannot do that, stop standing moral high ground.
Cash, money-laundering, sketchy real estate transactions (Benami- transactions under fake names), informal banking (hawala), the same as in most places in the world. Think early mafiosi in the US. The most significant legislative actions for curbing these are: Benami and Hawala legislations, computerization of land records in the late 90s and early 2000s, PAN numbers in the 90s and Aadhar in the last few years (a bit like SSN in the US), and the OP.
> You would have to go back to James Clerk Maxwell's original 20 equations to see what it's all about. Okey, quaternions are kind of hard, I'll admit to that, but all in all it makes much more sense.

Not ... really. The problem is that we teach electromagnetics using a 19th century pedagogy that assumes the existence of the Ether.

This works well for some things and makes them nicely closed form and simple. Of course, it breaks down for other things (motors are one of the big ones) where you really want a field description.

Of course, a field description makes nothing simple and closed form. So, it isn't good for making exams out of.

If you can deal with 4-vectors, "Collective Electrodynamics" is a really good book.
What did you discover that was shocking?
Very "funny", but that kind of crashes happened more than you imagine.. in telcos.

Usually the problem is memory. A machine with full routing enabled needs much more memory for IPv6 than for IPv4 and when routers run out of memory they just crash, reboot, and start again...
For the record, I disagree with this. You only need to check the implementation if you're straying from the standard or the compiler is. Neither should be... standard.
No. It's in impulse buy territory, Just Works, is legal, and doesn't require an investment of my time doing something that's, frankly, just paint-by-numbers (in that it's not a particularly interesting project).
Balloon Fight was likely included because it was programmed by the late Nintendo CEO, Satoru Iwata.
Thanks for writing that out! Very interesting.

I guess it all comes down to the fact that a magnetic field does not exist without an electric current. One way of thinking about it sees it as charges moving, and the other way of thinking about it sees it as a static magnetic field.

I guess that's why the terms are archaic!