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Just a minor correction: SQL Server Management Studio is free-free. You don't need to own any Microsoft products to use it. (Not even SQL Server, go figure.) Microsoft changed the licensing a few months back.

You can get it here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt238290.aspx

In addition to that, SQL Server Developer Edition is also free-free now. (You do have to log in to get it, though.) Link here: https://myprodscussu1.app.vssubscriptions.visualstudio.com/D...
According to Wikipedia 800 or so were produced, so they're rare but not unheard-of. Mine was a much-desired Christmas present in 1997 when I was 16.

I also had a dual PIII-450 machine (alias “Mad Cow”) that dual-booted Windows NT/2K and BeOS R5 (but sadly only displayed B&W 800x600 due to lack of display-adapter driver support) and consequentially was nigh unusable.
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It had GPIO? I remember the videos that showed the CPU indicator LEDs on the front panel.
> Not necessarily in cash alone, but yes I'm suggesting it's in the interest of black market traders to create scarcity in the local economy.

No, this is just not true. As gus_massa pointed out, with hyperinflation, no one hoards cash, you try to own things that will retain value. The value of money declines upwards of 50% a month in Venezuela and when you get something that loses value 50% a month, you try not to hold on to it for very long. Black Market traders probably hold on to their cash for less than a day and try to convert over to Columbian pesos or US dollars as quickly as they can.
Absolutely.

You see it with old timer SEs from companies like IBM and HP and even Apple... these are folks that love solving problems and are adept at it. They are also always fighting management who is completely clueless.

One guy from one of those companies figured out a huge problem and probably generated $30M of sales. They laid him off in a random culling of the herd.

The only place you see those types of folks getting developed now are in cloud services where some of the cast off junior SEs from the big companies are doing similar things there.
I wish I had known about the this DB BC card earlier this year. I didn't see any mention of this at the DB office I went into.

Can I ask what you pay per year for the BC 50 card? Is it only available to German citizens?
> they force it out of circulation by giving a deadline that requires people to deposit it in a bank.

Do you know what circulation means in this context? If the money is in a bank, it's still in circulation, you can use your ATM card to pay for stuff with it. You just don't have the bill on you, but the money is still floating around.
I am a big fan of iPads, the large Pro in particular, which I use every day. But I don't think it is quite ready for being the only computer, except in a few select use cases.
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I'd like to see a good definition of "useful arts" then. Would a film based off of "She Kills Monstors" or another similar play fall under your definition of "useful arts"? What about video games?
They are shaved down on a lathe at the end, then tested for conformance. The end product looked very 'high tech'.
I don't know if the method has any significant effect on internal defects relative to the safer method though.
Are you saying it doesn't get machined down on all surfaces? I can imagine there being less waste and higher yield on the more controlled process, but could you explain how the final product is any different?
> I can't really go into details because of NDAs

This does not instill confidence of seriousness about documentation.
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Re-read my post.
Although I disagree and would argue a movie like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is very much useful art, I'm also in favor of rolling back the last thirty years of Disney and MPAA-sponsored legislation and restoring copying duration to something reasonable like 30 years and throwing out the DMCA entirely.
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When you have free parameters, you are actually opening the door to a whole family of predictions. You're saying that of this entire family of models, you'll choose the one that best fits the data. Without free parameters, you have to come in with a fully specified model to begin with.

Loosely speaking, with an incorrect family of models, there's a lot of wiggle room to find one that still looks quite a lot like your data, while that freedom is not there when making a single specific prediction. There are semi-rigorous ways to take that into account while comparing models https://methodology.psu.edu/node/504
But now a review of actually using an Ubuntu tablet? Is this an option tot a cheap but secure kids tablet?
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For web or app development.
It's unreasonable to have a configuration dictionary?

..Whatever. I love how both of you focused on the one example and completely ignored the two others. Have another one - Mako syntax highlighting in Pycharm has been broken for over a year now. https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/PY-17932
You can get a USB mouse, can't you?
Did you mount it when using as a TV? That could be a good solution for me.
Study math now! With reverse ageing in the future you could potentially become one of the best in the field. There is time.
The argument is more app innovation is happening on mobile apps than PCs these days, and the simpler paradigm allows for more concise workflows and you can do a good deal more of your stuff just carrying around a iPad or even from your phone than you can when living in a MacOS world.

HN is probably the wrong audience because windows and filesystems are uniquely well suited abstractions for developers who have umpteen workflows and use cases of significant complexity. However observing how huge an improvement an iPad is for my joe-sixpack relatives, I think it's worth exploring the idea of how far can iOS can be taken by power users. I certainly think it could feasibly meet the needs of specific creative professionals like writers, designers or video editors.
About a decade ago, I made a tiny little executable in Delphi so I could browse the hard drive contents on school computers, which otherwise hide it from Windows Explorer using group policy. Mischievous and definitely against school rules, but harmless.

The school antivirus had a false-positive and decided it was some particular virus. God knows how.
Why won't biologists say that animals might be conscious?
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I've been learning Russian for two years, and I can only agree with you. Learning to read and write Cyrillic script was the easiest part of this adventure.

And I think learning all sorts of nuances of the language would be more complicated using Latin script. Latin script also hides the fact that, even though the letters are similar, they really are different sounds. I feel like it would only hinder pronunciation.
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I got shown a graph recently, when arguing for renationalisation of passenger train services in Scotland, that passenger use of the rail network started climbing significantly higher when the current franchise system came into play.

Though the franchise system isn't "liberalisation" - it's just granting near-monopolies over certain routes in most cases. As a result, we have Virgin/Stagecoach providing the only reasonable routes from Scotland to London.

And, of course, the network in England only ever seems to receive investment where it affects Londoners. But we tried to privatise the rail network itself once, and that went very, very badly.
Author here.

Thanks for the feedback.

I might disagree with your characterization that the problem I'm addressing here as a non-problem as writing systems are there for a reason and so is mine.

Eskéndereyya doesn't tackle the problem of Arabic letters memorization as this is a very simple problem to crack. It instead addresses pronunciation and reading and to a lesser degree writing as you may know that the common way to write and serve text in Arabic is without diacritics, and for this reason, it becomes hard for beginners to practice and improve their skills without aid and this is where I envisioned Eskéndereyya to fill the gap.

I'm not sure what you're trying to convey with the part of accents in your comment. Are you referring to Arabic regional dialects/languages?

Re complexity, doing nothing will always be less costly that doing something in terms of energy and effort but this point of view overlooks the gains or return expected on the energy expended, and if the return turns out to greater than the costs, the endeavor is determined to be profitable and vice versa.

So, you may think that this layer of complexity is unnecessary but I will take your word "sa7" as an example to prove how I think otherwise.

"sa7" is "صح" in colloquial Arabic but it's still ambiguous and confusing as the letter "s" in Arabizi can mean both "س" or "ص" depending on context but when the word is transliterated as "šaħ", the ambiguity disappears with no room to error.

You might counter and say that there's no "سح" in Arabic but there actually is but it's less common since it's slang but featured in a well-known old Egyptian folk song titled "essaħ eddaħ embú السح الدح امبو"

To summarize, there's always a trade-off and it's up to you to decide which you to go.
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Linux threads are impressively optimized for what they do. The way to beat them is to not do as much. Specifically, to not do a kernel transition. Many coroutine switch implementations are not much more expensive than function calls. For example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13199581
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Python 2 to Python 3 is a semantic change, which is why it has been so slow going for some codebases.
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Small technical correction:

> For instance, SU(5) groups quarks and antiquarks together with leptons and antileptons into “fiveplets,” which are like the indistinguishable sides of a regular pentagon.

The idea is to put the 5 particles in 5 places that are undistinguishable.

For that you need to use the vertex corners of an hyper-tetraedrum ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-cell ). Don't get confused by the bad drawings, if you have one of them in 4 dimensions, you can put each point at the same distance of all the other points.

If you use a regular pentagon, then you must select an order for each of the particles/vertex. If you select one, some are more close than the others.

(An alternative is to use a pentagon, but consider not only the rotations and flip, but also the operations that mix the vertex/particles in any order. But then the nice identification with the symmetry of the geometric figure is gone. You can use a square with the central point.)
I have Haiku running on an old Pentium 4 laptop. It's definitely worth a look! Just a few notes after booting it up just now:

* Connected to my site via TLSv1.2/ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
* Played a Youtube video just fine
* Was able to git and build libsodium, via the installed gcc 2.95.3
* wget'd an h.264 mp4 file and watched it via MediaPlayer
* OpenSSH 7.1 (newer Haiku ISOs may include a more recent release)

Haiku isn't my daily driver, and I think the security model is increasingly out of touch, but it's worth a look and I wish the project well. Check it out.
These companies all use MySQL as either their primary database layer, or at least as an essential storage system for a major property or system: Facebook, Google (doubleclick, cloudsql), Twitter, LinkedIn, DropBox, Alibaba, YouTube, WordPress.com, Wikipedia, GitHub, Yahoo, Yelp, Pinterest, Etsy, Tumblr, Flickr, Uber, Box, Booking.com, Instagram (migrating afaik), Lyft (migrating), Amazon (mysql backs DynamoDB)

re: "these days" meaning would these companies still choose MySQL if founded today? Impossible to say for certain, but some of them migrated to MySQL recently. Most have the resources to change databases if there was a compelling reason to do so.

Postgres has many appealing qualities, but so does MySQL (as well as SQL Server). Use the right tool for the task.
> I don't think macos or linux kernels expose battery info as kernel state.

Bummer.

> Also, thanks for using ag. :)

Thank you for making it ;)
> Why do you care about types when teaching programming?

Because programmers are always aware of types. You may not annotate that the function's `licensePlate` parameter is a string, but if you are thinking of taking a substring or string-appending it, of course you're aware of the type.

If a beginner is only vaguely/intuitively thinking that the licensePlate is a string (sometimes confusedly thinking it's a number), then there'll be problems. So allowing a beginner to mention a type is important.

So the question is more: when learning to program, do you require every name to be annotated with a type? Some people feel this is overkill, and others think it helps, for CS1. And languages with implicit conversion-rules can confuse some beginners, while converting explicitly can annoy others.

Once somebody has internalized the rules, then yes of course you want the language to make "obvious" conversions and/or declarations for you (e.g. true-ish expressions, and (for Java) auto-boxing and auto-toSTring'ing). But just because experienced programmers find it indispensable doesn't mean it's appropriate for beginners.

(Btw, in addition to learner-vs-competent programmer, there is a separate issue, about the strength of the students: some people pick up programming-way-of-thinking easily, and others need MUCH more guidance before they become competent. Different language-choices might be appropriate for those two audiences, as well.)
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Well if they do machine it then they're going to take off the hardened surface put on by forging. Maybe that doesn't matter for a pipe flange.

But that would also take a gigantic lathe, given the backyard nature of their forging setup I'd be interested to see how they do that.
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Hi. Dan Abramov, the author of Redux, wrote a short, simple explanation of what Redux is ([0]).

Another way that I like to describe it: Redux is a small wrapper for storing a single variable (usually an object). You provide a function with all the logic for updating that value, and Redux will call your function with the old value and some info on what just happened (also from your own code). Redux saves the new result, and acts like a simple change event emitter, letting any interested code know that something just changed.

The term "reducer" is because the function you provide to Redux acts like the callback you would pass to `Array.reduce()`, which takes in the old value and current item as arguments, and returns a new value.

Got a few more links for you. First, I keep a big list of links to high-quality tutorials on React, Redux, and related topics, at [1]. Specifically intended to be a great starting point for anyone trying to learn the ecosystem.

Second, Dan Abramov has a couple video tutorial series that walk you through the basic ideas of Redux step by step ([2]). You should definitely watch through those.

Third, I have a list of some selected real applications that have been built with Redux ([3]). One of the categories in my React/Redux links list has a bunch of "best practices / lessons learned" articles ([4]), which are also based on the experience of real companies that have used Redux to build real products. To name a few random examples: Mozilla is using Redux in Firefox's Developer Tools; Wordpress is using it in their new admin UI; Twitter uses it in their mobile site; and many more.

Hopefully that helps!

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/reactjs/comments/4npzq5/confused_re...

[1] https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links

[2] https://egghead.io/series/getting-started-with-redux

[3] https://github.com/markerikson/redux-ecosystem-links/blob/ma...

[4] https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links/blob/master...
Why not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIN_31635 or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_233?
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The comparison of Arabic with Russian is not sound as Arabic is written with diacritics which in and of itself is a big plus if you're a native speaker or an experienced one but not so for inexperienced or novice speakers while Russian to my understanding is more explicit about that part.
Not just: http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/Init
It's a mix of geography, demographics, and history. But I say it definitivly because it's not just something I've made up or decided... it's a pretty well known designation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Canada
Look at the statistics on fatherless homes and you'll see it even across race or culture as a future prediction of trouble.
>The RBI certainly hates us :(

Not sure it is partly that or just that. Note: I'm not speaking to defend them as a knee-jerk reaction. There was and still is tons of unaccounted transactions in India (hence the recent cash demonetization, though it has caused lots of issues), and there is also the socialist background and mentality from Nehruvian days of gov't (from soon after independence for many decades, till the 90s), distrust of capitalism (both within and without the country, with a lot of justifications, considering colonialism and hoarding traders later). So there is some (sort of) logical background for all that. I remember reading and hearing (in person) stories from the previous two generations to me, about people going abroad for studies or work, about going to the States with 5 dollars in their pocket (likely exaggerated for effect, but may be a measly 100 or so), camping outside the RBI offices to ask for small amounts of foreign exchange, all sorts of stories. (Rich people taking ill-gotten and unaccounted money outside the country was also a reason for all those rules - so it makes some sort of sense, whether it worked very well or not.) Thing have improved some since them - but not perfect by a long chalk.

The RBI is actually staffed by some pretty well-educated people who tend to act in India's longer term interest - speaking purely as a layman here of course.
Hell, the Linux kernel isn't very unix-ish. It's a kernel.
Always got a chuckle when Canadian tourists would take pictures of Tim Hortons written in Arabic: http://cdn.torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/tim-ho...
There's the geographic centre, and there's the region known as Central Canada. Two different things.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Canada
Aren't all trains crowdfunded? Isn't that what tax is?
This is a repost. Look at the old discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13198960

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13196431

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13200842

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13193309
SAP Business One is available with SQL server or HANNA. In fact resellers I have been talking to seem to have been instructed to sell HANNA first. I was told with the trade-off of more expensive hardware (HANNA) against more expensive licensing (SQL Server) it would come in about the same cost, but with the advantages of an in-memory database (especially when it comes to analytics) going to HANNA.
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Yes, most people are that comfortable with unencrypted storage. But I expect the most interesting push back will not come from a tiny fraction of the population who care about such things, but from strict rules in governments and large organizations that prohibit storing classified or confidential data in unencrypted cloud storage. Either we'll get encryption as a normal feature, or private clouds.

(also sp. caveats, warrantless)
Note that this wiki page is old and somewhat out of date. The current Webpack docs on HMR are at https://webpack.js.org/concepts/hot-module-replacement/ and https://webpack.js.org/guides/hmr-react/ .
> You can use Xorg as you always did, Wayland is fully optional.

For now...
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Okay, that is of course true :)

So replace "it is an inherently hard problem" by "it is most likely an inherently hard problem".
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13195587
Excuse me? Proposing that Donald Trump + Elon Musk would be a great team to take us to Mars is a perfectly fine contribution. Ironically, you have shown here that you are the one with nothing constructive to offer. If you disagree that Donald Trump would be a good choice, please share why you think so, instead of telling people that their contributions are invalid.
absolutely not. I made pro-feminist stances in this thread and recommended you to help deconstruct his sexist notions.
I am addressing your point. When you have a non-competitive market - e.g. yellow cabs prior to Uber, employment under current union rules - you often need extra regulation to protect people.

If we want to create a competitive market - one where unions have no special legal powers, and employers can stop doing business with them if they choose - then eliminating these worker and employer protections might make sense.
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My design will already have to use a heliostat to collect sunshine for daylighting, so it makes sense to use a cold mirror to take advantage of the infrared too while I'm at it, it's not much more of an investment.
Aside from that, Spanish, Catalan, and Occitan have historically been written using both the Arabic and Hebrew alphabets, by their respective user communities. Same for Yiddish, linguistically a Germanic language, which was often written using Hebrew script. Turkish seems to flip from Arabic to Latin and vice-versa every few decades.

English written in Arabic script looks surprisingly natural to me.
Err. All operating systems suffer from that problem.
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You can try asking State Bank of India and some of the large private sector Indian banks like HDFC and ICICI Bank. Googling will easily get you their sites and some links or emails via which to contact them.

I recently checked with my bank about paying vendors outside India via online methods, but that was for personal use, like buying small consumer items, not as a company. They did say it was possible. But if your clients in India are companies, you will have to check - the rules (and available methods of payment) are likely to be different for companies than for individuals.
i believe he said "far right". this could be interpreted as anything from tea party to neo nazis and fascists depending on what "far" means. However i wouldn't take it to be directed to all "Conservatives".
They show the machining in stills at the end of the video. The also show that it meets the specs with high precision.
the true genius isn't shown in this video

the true genius occurred when a manager and some workers first figured out how to take that hunk of metal, a forklift, some guys with metal sticks and that towering smashee-thingee out back and produce those lovely flanges for about five dollars and ninety cents worth of labor
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> a woman would have to be foolish to create such a ruckus about "just sexism".

I disagree, and that's not what I intended with my use of the word "just". It seemed to me like the poster was saying "look, no sexism here in this sub-incident" and I meant that your post wasn't just about sexism, it was about harassment.
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