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Well, in theory, US companies could still leak user data out, but the consequences are dire if Canada (or whoever) finds out. On the other hand, if Canadian user data is stored in AWS US East for example, then Canada can do absolutely nothing from a legal standpoint.
We replaced the link, but we also had to mark the story as a dupe (cf. comboy upthread).
This comment should be the top-voted comment, so that next time I land on this story I'll remember why it had so many upvotes.
Going by usernames we should probably be friends Mr Winstanley
Table partitions are for managing data that would ideally belong in the same table that for management reasons you'd like to split into multiple tables. One application is for managing time series data where you only want to keep the most recent data. For example, you want to save the most recent three months. For implementation reasons, running

DELETE FROM big_table
WHERE some_timestamp < '2016-09-01'

is going to be painful. If you partition big_table by month, you can instead issue 'DROP big_table_201609' when you're done with it. Much cleaner and faster.

You could do this in previous versions, through convention and scripts. Having it built into PostgreSQL should make this a lot easier.

Schemas are something else entirely.
You know things are bad when this is the type of news that boosts your stock price by 5%.
You're right, this has been added recently and there's also now a community effort around 3rd party modules. [1]

Though it looks like it didn't become active until after at least 03/2016 [2].

I mention this only because TypeScript has been active in this area since 10/2012 [3], which is in-line with the original intent of my comment - that Flow is over 2 years (closer to 3.5 years) behind in building this out.

[1] https://github.com/flowtype/flow-typed

[2] https://github.com/flowtype/flow-typed/graphs/contributors

[3] https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped/graphs/co...
Is it intended to automate things? It looks like it's meant to save typing with interactive things.
My perspective is that for most of the applications people tell me about in AR the more impression part to me is the computer vision necessary to get them to work than what I consider the AR functionality. For example overlaying a box over something is very easy but figuring out what part is malfunctioning via video is hard so do you consider both of those functionalities to be part of AR? In my mind they are separate things so that might be why I'm less hyped about AR. Hopefully I don't come across as sarcastic or antagonistic because I'm just trying to understand the hype.
As someone who's gone through the inverse of this question, i.e. partnering with a non-technical person, I think the answer would be the same for both sides of the coin. The #1 thing I wish I knew back then was how important it is to determine early on if someone is all talk and no action. There are certain toxic people out there who will promise you the world, fail to execute, then bring you down with them. Do your due diligence. Trust but verify.
I don't think oracle can do this exactly but the query planner does understand time based partitions so if you do something like:

SELECT * FROM partitioned_table WHERE partition_date_key > SYSDATE - 1;

The query planner will only use the most recent partition. Combine this with Oracle's ability to merge partitions and you get "daily" partitions that become "weekly" partitions when the new week starts. Alternately you could wait a month and combine all the days of last month into a single partition and then even combine months into years.

The partition intervals are based on specific dates/times, not on the relative time from query execution.

Oracle also supports row movement which is the biggest missing feature here I believe.
> Most people don't realize earthquakes themselves are not very likely to kill you, it's the gas leaks and fires that usually follow that cause the most loss of life and property damage.

That's probably little consolation to the people who have died as a result of an earthquake.

It's kinda like saying "it's not the 20-story fall that kills you, it's the sudden stop at the end".
The model of trying to land smart people with perks like kitchens, foosball tables, Aeron chairs and all the rest and hope that they come up with something that makes lots of money was what many companies tried in the first Dot Com boom.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble#Free_spending

Offhand examples are the list of failed companies on that page.
This is an incredible historical account. Thanks for posting the link.
Yes. They add Australian, Japanese, and UK tax to services run in those regions. Canada will be in the same boat.
I kinda forgot they were still in business. What does Sears offer that no one else does?
Well said. Critics rarely consider the potential personal benefit of SS in the future. Now, it's not a perfect system, but it has its upsides.
I think it's more of anticipation for the future. If a company cuts overhead for something big, say, a corporate holiday party from $100k to $80k, some may be frustrated, but it's probably because they recognize the waste in hosting at the Ritz instead of the Hilton. It doens't necessarily mean salaries, benefits, or other, smaller, things will be cut, but it's sending a message that the firm cares about fiscally sustainable operations.

If a company cuts costs of the little things, all of a sudden everything is put on the table. Stock options, salary, benefits, perks, headcount. It sends the message that the company cares about operating today more efficiently than it cares about growing (because no company would stop investing in employees if it could still grow, because good employees make good products).

Companies cut small costs because they believe that their product/market fit has reached the final destination and the only way to grow profits is by cutting. The best firms (and by extension, employees) realize that the best way to grow is always up.
This is something I've wanted for a few years now (even before the Edge). But the more I think about it, the less sense it makes. To explain, let's examine a couple variations.

First, you have your phone which connects to a dock, which lets your keyboard and monitor connect to the phone. Now, replace the dock with a full computer, but uses the phone for storage. If you had these two systems side-by-side, could you tell which one you were using?

I guess that there is something to having your state be saved, so you can take your phone off the cradle, connect it to another device, and resume all your open apps. But the same could be done if the cradle is a full computer, and undocking the phone does a suspend-to-disk (remember the phone is the storage device). You'd just have to have that action integrated into the undock button. But overall, I think I would be better served by having the phone be the storage device for my desktop computing environment, instead of also being the CPU, GPU, storage, RAM, network, usb, and everything else.
It's not the frozen tundra but you can't compare climates with latitude alone. Montreal still gets a lot colder than Washington State or Vancouver.

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We really should leave Earth more often...
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20/20 hindsight and all. Amazon still has practically no retail footprint. Sears' big business was bricks-and-mortar retailing, not catalog retailing. The catalog was shrinking and dying. Under the circumstances it was perfectly reasonable for Sears to shut down the catalog and focus on stores.

Also, Amazon did not start out being anything like what it is today. For years it was just books. I remember as they added departments, they would tack an extra tab onto the homepage--"CDs", "Video", etc. So what was Sears going to do? Instantly transport the entirety of a dying catalog business to a non-existing consumer Internet? That wouldn't parallel Amazon at all. Not to mention that Sears did not have access to a bunch of giddy investors who were willing to pump in money despite no sign of profitability.

Only under a superficial analysis could Sears have been what Amazon is today.
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Writing test is like investing. You have to pick the tests that return the most reward. Simply firing shots is wasteful.
Not sure about this. "magic" in the sense of file type recognition has no cryptographic/security ambitions. On the other hand, when implementing a network protocol, I'd say one needs to be really careful and expect the unexpected at any point (not just in the "magic" phase). What does it buy you (in terms of robustness) to have a fakeable magic number at the start of the stream?
Criticism of Amazon the company is good, I'm fine with that. What bothers me is the insults toward the engineers who work there.
The Buffett Curse: Any comparisons to Warren Buffett will immediately result in disastrous investment performance.

In this case, hedge fund manager Eddie Lampert took control of Sears about 10 years ago, merged it with K-Mart, and 3 years ago installed himself as chairman and CEO. He's been selling off assets left and right to keep it afloat (real estate, Lands End, etc.)

Prior to this he had been compared to and called "the new Buffett" due to similar investment styles (if you squint real hard). Since then Sears has lost over 90% of its market value. Yikes.

For another example, see Bill Ackman, who has been absolutely slaughtered, and seems to be asking for more. It started almost immediately after Fortune put him on the cover with the slug line "Baby Buffett".
Best advice in the thread. Take it, OP.

Pick one of those jobs, perhaps one close to where you live, and crush it.

Use the role to learn and the extra time from being on top of your game in work (and close to home) to scope out a better job.

Discipline is a like a muscle. With so much potential ahead of you, do not let it atrophy.
Editing binaries: easier than it sounds (2014)
googles car also costs twice as much to make due to the expensive sensors
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They aren't really winning anywhere. The RX480 and GTX 1060 are fairly closely matched in terms of price and performance. AMD have basically nothing to compete with the 1070 and above.

AMD APUs are a good value option at the very bottom of the market, but the margins on a $25 Sempron can't be good.
This https://www.searchenginejournal.com/august-2016-search-marke... says Google is 80% on desktop, higher if you count mobile too (for which it is 95%).

Oh, if you mean US only then these other people https://www.statista.com/statistics/267161/market-share-of-s... say Google is 64%, yeah.
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Maybe Craftsman hand tools, but that's it. Those are well made, and the socket wrenches are lifetime warrantied (they will fail, but they will just give you a new one). Craftsman power tools are garbage; might as well get them at Harbor Freight.

We always bought appliances from sears, but recently the refrigerator was from Lowes, and the microwave and oven from Amazon.

They don't stock appliances (very long waits for refrigerators) and the sales people can be horrible. The fridge we bought recently sight unseen, online.

The checkout process at Sears is fully fucked up. A convoluted connection of iPads, credit card swipers, and ancient IBM registers.

Best Buy also sucks, so it's not like they have much local competition.

I swore I'd never buy a large appliance from Amazon, but the in-wall oven was just fine, and I installed it no problem. If you can do your own appliance installations, I suppose online is the way to go.
exact tests on implementation at the "db was updated properly" category are usually classified as integration tests. theres nothing wrong with those. but one shouldnt test specificity of internal method code for small units.
The difficult thing is convincing people that something could go wrong with all the trust they're investing in the government and large corporations. The thing which I think has been most frustrating is that when demonstrable situations come up [1], people seem eager to dismiss them as "just a few bad actors" and not as evidence that it's a bad idea to continue investing trust. Watching people in interviews like those in the "Inside the Creepy Russian Internet" video [2], feels to me like they're resigned to the fate of having social networks know everything about them, not that they want them to know everything about them.

What I want people to consider, frequently, is whether or not we should fight these anti-privacy measures not because anything is wrong now, but because of who might eventually be given access to that information. We should fight to make sure that tools to oppress and enforce terrible regimes aren't freely available, even if we find the current leaders trustworthy. The current administration in the Whitehouse is trying desperately to dismantle the sweeping powers to exercise drone strikes without oversight [3], because the next administration doesn't feel as trustworthy to them.

I don't know that there is any downside to having the NSA know everything about you now. I don't know that it will be a bad idea within the next administration. But I know that it's a bad idea to let any random person have that trust, and I don't know that the election system has enough safeguards to prevent abuse by the next person elected. Or the next. Or the next.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/08/24...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13102972

[3] https://theintercept.com/2016/12/06/after-8-years-of-expandi...
> People here are criticizing the management, not the engineers.

They are though. I have seen Amazon engineers referred to as "desperate", "morons", and "idiots" in multiple threads here on HN. I'm fine with criticizing management. I encourage it. But criticizing the engineers simply for working here is an unfair generalization.
If you're paying an engineer $100k to add 150k worth of value to your product, the true value of their work is $300k: $150k worth of value to you, and $150k worth of value that isn't added to your next closest competitor.

That model seems to assume:

- every employee who leaves will go to close competitors

- their work for that close competitor will be perfectly zero-sum to their work for your company

- the next best replacement employee your competitor would otherwise hire would be worth 0 to them
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quiet reminder that writing to file descriptors is blocking.

STDERR and STDOUT are file descriptors.
Testers are like McDonalds cashiers. They will eventually assimilate with the self checkout. Now, they may be able to get a job servicing the soda machine if they count their blessings.
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People like John Glenn are the reason why I became infatuated with the space program and STEM. He showed the heights humanity could reach by using science and knowledge to become masters of our own destiny instead of victims of nature and fate. Before personal computers, before the Internet, before cellphones, humans landed on the moon & live streamed it to 600 million people. EDIT: I feel the same way for artists like H.R. Giger, William Gibson, James Cameron, and Neal Stephenson. It's become fashionable for many to deride the value of a non-STEM education. But if it weren't for them and their creation of the cyberpunk ethos/genre and tech-noir, I'd most likely be working at a bank or a hedge fund in a decidely non-technical role.

I also highly commend and greatly respect him for his efforts in nuclear non-proliferation. I imagine when you've seen earth from the view he had, you can't help seeing how small our differences actually are. That said, he wasn't perfect. His testimony in favor of excluding women from the astronaut program kept them from going on a mission until the 80's. To his credit, by the 1970's he had changed his mind and began supporting a female astronaut (Judith Resnick...interestingly she was recruited into the program by none than Lt. Uhura/Nichelle Nichols ) in her endeavors to join the astronaut program. Ultimately and unfortunately, she was a member of the ill-fated Challenger crew. Glenn gave a touching and inspirational speech at her memorial service that is worth reading: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/about/memorial.html

Off topic rant: As I hear this news, I'm reminded of the whole Buzz Aldrin dustup. While I'm no advocate of violence, I was inspired when he decked that looney conspiracy theorist who claimed the moon landings were faked. Despite the fact that you can literally shine lasers on the pieces of spacecraft left on the Moon and see the reflections, there are still those forces of ignorance who refuse to accept reality even as it stares them right in the eye. Most people in his position and especially at his age would simply try to avoid that confrontation and be content to let charlatans spread their destructive, nonsensical fictions. John Glenn was not that man. For some reason, that incident is what truly sticks out in my mind about him and I always associate him with this image: http://www.themarysue.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/3779149...
It's probably because I associate him with being the last of a dying breed, a modern hero in an increasingly cynical, post-modern society.
So this won't help when you have something like a deleted flag and need to join on data that could be in either partition?
> This is because Google/YouTube is pushing VP9 streams when they detect that you're using Chrome. It saves them few megs on bandwidth (over H.264) but you suffer for it because VP9 is not hardware accelerated

VP9 can be hardware accelerated, and AFAIK current Chrome supports hardware acceleration for VP9 with hardware that supports it.
+1

I also don't want to bother with switching languages just to color a border or center align some text. Or have static styles in one place/language and dynamic styles elsewhere despite both setting up the exact same component. And when working as a designer I like seeing the style code literally right there along with the component nesting code, data handling logic, etc. (In my personal opinion, the real benefit of this comes when designing using an inline workflow similar to jsx-style, but that's an argument for among converts!)

From my perspective anyway, generating CSS from JS is just to get these benefits and more without various performance problems. It's a practical compromise given the reality of how browsers work in 2016 and our current tooling. It's treating CSS as something like a compilation target (because it's a standard which happens to already exist) rather than writing the "assembly code" by hand. If browsers provided other ways of interacting with their internal style structs or whatever like setting default styles through json or a special js file then a different solution might make sense---perhaps even one which gives whole new powers!
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Somebody has to make those leasing agencies. That will create some jobs, but it is easy to see how 1 person can easily handle 3 fully automated trucks even without the typical logistics that big companies bring to the table. If this cost reduction causes 3x as much stuff to be shipped it won't be a short term problem, but I find that unlikely.
> I explained that the Expect/Tcl script was going to be used to grade their project, and I provided the code.

If it's deterministic, is there a risk of someone just writing a second Expect script (instead of a solution to the programming exercise) that interacts with yours and gives the replies that you want?
1. How do you handle assets (in particular IP) transferred into the corporation at formation time - if, for example, the founders have been working on it as a project beforehand?

2. How difficult is it to add a co-founder after formation but before investment? Does this require a lawyer, or are there standard forms that can be filled out? How does founder stock get re-apportioned, or must new stock be re-issued?

3. How about swapping stock plans? The chapter of the handbook suggests it's possible - is it a "talk to a lawyer, and they will file some paperwork" situation? If, for example, a startup wished to adopt progressive equity [1] but hadn't thought about it until they were ready to hire employees, would it be complicated and expensive?

4. What are the day-to-day responsibilities of a founder regarding the corporation after it's been formed? I've heard of (at a minimum) paying taxes, conducting board meetings, and ensuring that company expenses and personal expenses are separate? Others? Are there particular records that startup founders must keep, and particular duties they must perform over the course of the year, once they've incorporated?

[1] https://medium.com/detour-dot-com/introducing-progressive-eq...
I wonder about the first RST with zeros in the sequence and acknowledge fields. Probably just bad software but if it is always the first RST it could be a sort of canary such that people in the "know" could note the malformed reset and pre-program a 'ignore RST this session' bit.
In situations like this the FDA should be permitted to grant a temporary monopoly so it becomes worth the investment.
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Wasn't this also a case of pretty spectacular mismanagement on CEO's part? I remember reading stuff like this: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-07-11/at-sears-..., it was rather fascinating. It seems from that that it wasn't just a case of overly rosy expectations.
Amazon, among several other infamous reasons to not work for them, does not provide free soda or snacks.
That the NSA is able to spy on you is an existence proof that criminals can also spy on you.

The downside of becoming known to the NSA is that you can get caught up as an "associate" in someone's drug, criminal or terrorism investigation, and you had no idea that the person was doing anything like that. You might even have no idea that the person exists, since the NSA is "allowed" to go out some number of degrees of freedom from the supposed suspect.

The downside of becoming known to criminals is that you can fall victim to criminal schemes. You don't even have to be known by name or association, your device just has to be discovered; owning it is the all too easy next step. You can be known by installing malware (see the articles on phone downloaded apps), or by criminals seeing your communication on the open internet and becoming aware of you.

That's what I'd tell my friends, if any of them were still listening.
Then why would you spend any time developing for Assistant?
That road is knackered too - is that a commmon state for roads around there?
Lived out of my car for a while when I was your age. Wished I was in your position. At least you have free health care...
I enthusiastically started using windows mail when I switched to win8, and then discovered that file attachments were severely broken. They disappear from emails over time, and rather than fix the problem, it was suggested that we move a message from one IMAP folder to another to make them reappear. I wonder if they seriously thought anyone would put themselves through that.

That said, I am still a windows phone user. Yeah, there are no apps (even less these days, amazon and ebay actually pulled theirs from the store) but the UI is so neat, and i like to think having fewer apps makes me more productive.
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