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so sad most of you don't understand german. i could show you one years-old (2002) documentary featuring dr. pflugbeil who went into reactor 4 and to the infamous elephant's foot.

while birds and rainwater went in and out of the defective roof he concluded that that more than 90% of the radioactive material exploded into the atmosphere and unless you're living in chernobyl, there's no danger for the rest of the world anymore. in fact, ppl are living in the zone...

the elephant's foot is no radioactive material. it is just molten material from the building.

if it is that dangerous, why is there no military protecting it from terrorists?

meanwhile, money is to be made from the spectacle that is the fud being spread about chernobyl.

https://youtu.be/DM6uDZsyX1E

in another film, ranga yogeshwar demonstrated how european companies sold and built decommission facilities on-site, multimillion euro projects, and handed them over w/o instructions. it is left up to the ukrain to use the tools but they don't know how.

scroll to timestamp 35:00
https://youtu.be/eFt1SezekaE

the new sarcophagus is a testament to the political corruption and bankruptcy of the eu. nothing more.
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That has the most math notation of anything I've seen written about anarchy in some time!
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Author here: Hello 60654, I fully understand the difference between cracking a run length encoding problem and finding weaknesses in DES. There are many tools at the disposal of a security analyst. Another would be CSP and FDR: https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http.... However, that article, like mine, goes to show how logic programming can very well be used to mount cryptanalytic attacks. It differs from quantitative statistical methods as these exploit different weaknesses. Qualitative vs quantitative. Most of the people with skills in the latter work in quantitative trading and hedge funds - including yours truly.
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Furthermore, given a team of experts working for half a decade on the rewrite, do we really believe it would yield safer code than if we spent the same amount of work on improving postgresql security?

I get the appeal of Rust for a new project though, especially if your team doesn't consist of seasoned C programmers.
Add to that that you basically need to learn everything about C too when you learn Rust. C (without macros) is pretty much a subset of Rust, and there's a lot to learn on top of that subset. The advantage of Rust is not that it's easier, it is that you will more likely get a compiler error than a (possibly hidden) runtime bug if you don't have fully understood something.
I'm getting sick of that Hype Driven Development.
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If you are search from any place (toolbar, addressbar) other than google.com, your search query would be passed in as a query string.

But once you are already on google.com search page, the entire page need not be reloaded. So google would fetch the search results for the new search string via a XHR and update the page.

In fact if you search for https://www.google.com/search?q=wonderland#q=alice, the webpage would first load the search results for 'wonderland' and once the page is loaded, there would be another XHR for 'alice' and the DOM would be updated again with the new results.
>>2. Salaries in Canada are vastly lower than San Francisco / Silicon Valley salaries.

This, so much this.
As a Canadian (living in Edmonton, AB moving to CA in a few days) the difference in pay is simply staggering. Since a lot of our prices are CAD/USD exchange adjusted (essentially buying, for example, a GTX 1080 is the same in USD, but costs "300" dollars more in here) the difference is compounded even further. Its not unheard of making 2-3x in the Valley compared to what you make up North. So then the tax situation becomes moot, because we're talking about the amount of cash that you take home which after all the taxes, and even the living expenses, is still significantly higher.
Also known as tax fraud.
If you wanted to write a drop-in SQLite replacement in Rust, using the original project's (incredible) test suite would be on the mandatory side, wouldn't it?
Somewhat related, I feel that mechanical engineers who design cars should have some experience servicing vehicles.

Sometimes engineers will not leave enough space, use weird fasteners, etc. that make a simple job much more complex.
Typically this happens on food stamps and subsidized housing. Which is a route -- but it's a little harder for a tech worker though than someone working retail, because the income documentation is less and higher variance.
In the slides where this talks about the SVG way and the CSS way - I don't know enough about either to verify if its true, but are these approaches inherent in these choices? That seems awfully suspicious/disingenuous to me but perhaps it really is a fair portrayal?
The design spec for the Ford EEC IV, circa 1985, was 30 years. I still have a working Ford Bronco with one, still using the original electronics. The program was on the IC chip itself, a custom Intel 8061 with mask-programmed ROM. The program was fixed for the life of the device.
Activities that could be done occasionally is basically a single player game - go play skyrim or fallout 4 - you don't need MMO for that.

MMORPG should be left for the kids with enough spare time to raid 4+ hours a day. Many would disagree, but from my experience it is friends that keep you coming back every day and you can't make them this days with all this casual queues and playing few hours a week.
I think the author is making a good point but possibly couching it in the wrong terms: C shifts a lot of the inherent complexity of systems programming and manual memory management onto the programmer, with the language offering little to no assistance. If you squint hard enough around the reems of specification and piles of undefined/implementation-defined behaviour in innocuous places, the language itself might indeed be something you could call simple, but actually writing correct code in it is not.

There's a reason many, many person-years have been devoted to tooling: offloading as much of the "simplicity" as we can onto computers is the best way we know how to write correct C at scale.

(That said, PostgreSQL clearly works well enough and has a system for writing new code that works well enough, so proposing a wholesale rewrite into a different language seems... unproductive, even moreso than usual.)
So you didn't watch the video, then.
If their business plan is to partner with car companies, Detroit is where the car companies live.
With the rise of devops (docker, puppet, ansible, etc...) , and cloud VMs, how often are sysadmins different from software devs?
I agree that taking their advice is fatal. Or, for that matter any advice. We must account for the external market factors as well.
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A port to a way more strict type and memory safe language would be great, but as Craig Ringer from 2ndquadrant replies: the postgres project is pretty conservative & this could only happen in an incremental way.
Kaiser is good, but it isn't cheaper. Silver Blue Cross $462, Silver Kaiser $465. Bronze Blue Cross $319. Bronze Kaiser $337. Might be better value to go with Kaiser, but you won't save on your premiums.
FWIW if somebody were to port a DBMS like PostgreSQL to Rust, or any other programming language, it would only be feasibly to do it component by component. Much like Mozilla now plans to use Servo for CSS rendering first, and maybe for more tasks later.
On Desktop monitors you can still see the difference. I have an 28" UHD screen. It's really nice, and text looks a lot better than on the old FHD screen it replaced. However it still looks a little bit worse than my MacBook Pro Retina screen. Which also makes sense when you compare 155dpi to 230dpi. Whether 8k now is necessary or 6k would be totally sufficient - don't know. But I guess it's easier to sell the double resolution.
This has been tried by many regimes and has proven to be disastrous - especially for the children involved.

Take a look at this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensborn
This has been touted, but has there been a non-trivial project that shows this? Something like a media manipulation library where there are lots of places for optimization. It's been stable for a few years now, so I imagine someone's seen performance benefits if it's happened.
Author here again: and thank you Tom for your feedback. I'm not the author of Screamer so am not going to defend it's runtime properties. These were not of interest to me and yes I could recode much of what I did in C++ which I am more familiar with than Prolog. I work in low latency trading, so I am happy to take any challenge from Prolog in C++. Bummer would be that I could not publish my solution. The reason Screamer is in there is to allow the problem to be expressed declaratively in terms of universal quantification. See also

https://chriskohlhepp.wordpress.com/reasoning-systems/specif...
Please fuck off. Software developers should have this, should have that.. meanwhile, you can eat burgers, get fat, blame H1B and contribute to PC culture.
Current employee with Amazon.

I have worked with other big names, small and mid size startups.

Amazon in itself is a sub-culture in software and technology. I would recommend anyone getting an opportunity to work here to go for it. Even if you leave after a year or two, I am sure you will learn things that will shape your career in a positive manner.
That question doesn't make any sense at all. That's exactly the same as saying: with the rise of do it yourself home repair, how often are plumbers different from carpenters?
Many original mid-80s units are still in use. What kills them is leaking capacitors that damage the board.

The design spec was final well before 1985. 1985 would have been considered "support and maintenance". Cars started getting EEC-IV in '81 IIRC and the form factor was revised soon after.

The system would have continued to have been used on new vehicles well past 1996 but it didn't have enough I/O pins to deal with all the things required for OBD2 compliance, thanks Commiefornia.
Correct. The only service which can provide you with google queries is google analytics.

So if you want the data, you are forced to help spread the google drag net across the internet.
He clarified in a later email [0]:

I'm just asking possibly stupid questions and having possibly
stupid theories, trying to understand why such a project would
be possible or not.

[0]: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAASwCXfn1TJwru0ZHGMth...
That's why I said potential. One reason would be the potential for much more asynchronous code than is easy to achieve in C, another would be Dev time. But the point is, rust is competing for speed with C, JS never was.
Honestly for hardcore gaming I don't much care about refresh rate beyond 60 Hz, so the it boils down to input lag for me. But this depends on your game of choice. I don't really play shooters.
Anyone have a recommendation for a low input lag 4k monitor? Possibly with gsync?
That's pretty neat. Didn't know that. Thanks!
>You'd be insane to design critical infrastructure under the assumption that a single machine is going to stay up nonstop for 60 years.

With a definition of machine that's slightly more broad than "single desktop box or server" then I think 60yr is a pretty reasonable uptime goal. Something with redundancy and hot swap capabilities should have no problem getting several decade uptime. These are embedded devices, it's not like a nuclear reactor needs to reboot frequently.
That is a function of design requirements, not lack of foresight. If your manager tells you the cab needs to be 20% roomier without changing the outside dimensions, or they change the engine going into the thing without changing the structural integrity of the car, there goes your maintenance space.
I've been using Firefox on Android for pretty much exactly this reason. I have just one extension installed (uBlock Origin) which makes most sites perfectly readable. Once I got over the minor UI differences, I haven't missed Chrome since.

My desktop is the opposite, but that's because my desktop has Chrome extensions.
On top of the 20 years of experience we already require of junior developers?
> the X was the last straw

As someone who played WoW reasonably consistently from launch to a few months after the expansion that gave level 70, people declaring they left because X was so bad... they were there from day 1 (admittedly, early WoW was quite buggy). WoW has always had people saying "well now, THIS is the last straw!".

But yes, you can only do the same thing for so long before moving on. Most courses have a far greater 'intro' level and a much narrower set of ongoing students who stick with it, for example. It's a problem MMOs have, because they're predicated on people sticking around, and content is consumed much, much faster than it can be created.
But couldn't they just have a "Here's why we won't rank you higher" check instead?
See also https://chriskohlhepp.wordpress.com/reasoning-systems/specif...
I agree. I think that's the same one I have, and I love it. Wide enough that I can fit three windows side by side, and tall enough to be useful. I'd actually like higher PPI (like you I've noticed it's not quite retina, even at 4K), and I'd like it to be even wider. Four windows side by side would be amazing. But still, for now it's a huge leap forward for my productivity and happiness. I'm hoping to see more ultra widescreen monitors and higher PPIs on them in the future.
> the default assumption of almost everyone around me seems to be that regulation is the way to deal with almost anything we don't like.

Well, in my experience, people are very polarized about this: either they want to go to the gulch, or they want a very protective state that deals with everything. Both population seems comparable, number-wise; YMMV.
As I say, "High-level scripting languages handle all of these just fine".

Back to the article. dd is not a disk writing tool. Everything on UNIX is a disk writing tool. dd has one job, and does it right.

Again, I propose a single-purpose text delimiter cutting program. It doesn't need to be a whole scripting language, e.g. awk, perl, python, etc. Just get the text between two strings, and have sensible syntax.
Aren't all Google search pages now in HTTPS? I'd they are, then they drop the query in the referrer.
The article describes a weight initially hanging from two strong springs (blue) and two weak springs (yellow). The subsequent addition of the strong red spring in the indicated position will, according to the article's calculations, make the weight hang lower overall. I also find that pretty counterintuitive!

Edit: the explanation given is that the red spring redistributes forces so that more force is applied to the weak springs and less force to the strong springs, causing an overall greater total extension.
How about on the basis that comparable plans cost about 1/3rd that before the ACA?
probably the ability of people to supply a meaning and agree on that meaning amongst themselves with relative ease might differentiate that comment from a randomly generated markov chain.
Totally unrelated, but when is gawker going to disappear? Didn't they declare bankruptcy? Who is paying the server bills?
I used to play bare bones EverQuest and World of Warcraft for a few years. I dabble with Guild Wars 2 these days. Questing and exploration is fun. When it comes to raiding and forming groups, that is where the pain starts. The time investment required is high. All games become a grind one way or another as players are able to consume content faster than developers can produce it. At least with living world, Guild Wars 2 is able to keep kindling the interest of the player base every now and then in between expansion packs.
I can get past the somewhat clunky UI and extremely dated graphics, but what always throws me when I try to get back into EQ is the controls. After years of playing EQ2, Guild Wars 2, FFXIV, etc. I've become so accustomed to controls 'just working' out of the box including the ever-present RMB camera controls that going back to the jank that is EQ drives me nuts.

It really stinks, because no modern MMO gives me the thrill I had playing EQ as a teen. Maybe to an extent it's the rose-tinted glasses, but I really miss having a real penalty for dying (and as much as I love this in EVE every time I resub I quickly lose interest due to the time sink of refitting ships, flying to a dozen different systems to pick up parts, etc.) and I think that was the key. Oh, and not having NPC's just throw up a wall of text or a cutscene to introduce a quest (SWTOR handles this well, and as much as I love FFXIV's great cinematics I really wish they had any interactivity) - having a conversation with an NPC to discover a new quest instead of having a marker over their head made discovering new content actually feel like that, a discovery.
Procedural generation has proven to be something considerably less than a silver bullet. Some games implement it well, and many do not. Spore was another big launch that promised the world on the back of procedural generation... and failed quite remarkably to deliver.
Well, the genesis of his paragraph is that he played a game, which he wasn't interested in enough to buy, for a weekend.

Why this piece got so far up I can't say, but I suppose interesting headlines count the same as interesting writing.
from Google results, yes. That's only one specific (but for many admittedly important) situation, and sounds more like "AMP because that's the hoop Google has you jump through to get preloading", not "AMP because it makes the site faster".
stupid and pointless... shoot it behind a shed.
From what I've observed, there's no conspiracy going on here. The mods are very open about the actions they take, and in the case of YC-related topics, have removed automatically applied weights and user-flagged actions to ensure they are discussed, even while flame wars rage on.

Human psychology being what it is, we pay attention to what happens to topics that interest us, in particular if it's negative. This gives us a biased view. I think if you were to do a study of submissions on HN, it wouldn't likely support a view that the mods or the HN algorithms are doing anything untoward. (I'd personally be interested in seeing such a report regardless of the results.)

I think I may have been unclear when I mentioned the number of comments with respect to triggering the overheated discussion detector: I think its based on comment rate rather than absolute number. (The exact rules of the site aren't open.) Yesterday a post was sitting at number 1, with a comparable number of votes to the one in the number 2 slot. As the number of comments skyrocketed (over a hundred in a couple of hours), it plummeted in rank even as it continued to be upvoted. And the topic had nothing to do with YC or even business, for that matter.

There is one other behavior that may be at play. User flags will affect ranking even prior to the '[flagged]' tag appearing. This could also be the case for either of these submissions.

Also, please be aware that flagging is nearly always a result user flags, not interference by the mods. Likewise, the algorithmic actions are automatic, not reviewed and applied by mods on a case by case basis. I've seen reference to the mods adding weight to a post, but this I believe is few and far between. I haven't seen this mention in months. And from a practical standpoint, the mods are just two guys. They do their best in tending to the forums, but they're not watching the site 24/7. They're not reviewing every submission.
But they were one of the few winners amongst a lot of losers that could never get critical mass.
Fine, until the next row doesn't have <b></b> tags. So the $5 no longer matches where it should.

I'm just suggesting easier syntax, and a custom tool. Like dd is for disk copying, instead of cp/gzip/etc. A simple tool that will just work.

This is the syntax I'm going for:
textBetween("<td>", "</td>") | replace ("<b>", "") | replace ("</b>", "")

Maybe with some magic strings,

e.g. textBetween(":", "end")
That's it, we've reached peak circlejerk. Sorry steveklabnik, Manishearth, any rustacean, we're gonna have to shut it down.
With the rain, the shit piles are now leaking around into pools.

Walking my dog anywhere near these things now requires me to exercise 3-foot radius avoidance practices.
Personally, I don't really want such a high DPI monitor either, since I use pixel fonts like xterm 6x13 a lot, especially for coding, and they become either unreadably small or blurrily scaled. All antialiasing looks blurry to me, and much of what made me upgrade to an LCD from a CRT many years ago was because they were so sharp you could actually see the corners on the pixels.
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Sysadmin knowledge definitely helps, but so does an MBA, knowledge of writing, public speaking, design, user experience, networking. Oh, and the domain of the problem itself.

The skills I require of my developers depend on the rest of the team and the project.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13328549 (108 pts, 78 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13335537 (22 pts, 12 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13335911 (63 pts, 9 comments)
Apart from the cited situations mentioned in the article, you mean, like:

> In Seoul, South Korea, a speeding up in traffic around the city was seen when a motorway was removed as part of the Cheonggyecheon restoration project.

It also mentions Stuttgart, New York City, Boston, and London.
I think Ubisoft's "The Division" meets and melds some of the concepts you're talking about in the direction MMO's seem to be going. You start out grabbing a few solo missions, and the game procedurally teaches you elements of the game by making you...well...go out there and kill bad guys. Periodically in early game you'll be on a mission, pinned down when a bullet whizzes by from out of nowhere, oh look another player walking by decided to come join.

That's when you learn about forming parties. So on and so forth. It's not a perfect experience by any means (especially on PS4 which seems to both fall behind in updates and seem to be the buggiest port), and it does get a bit "grindy" at times, but for me it's been quite a unique experience. You can very well solo some of the missions, but you will be punished for it.

My main critique is that end game (the "Dark Zone") is essentially one giant arena built for "let's see how far I can push the gear envelope today".
Couldn't that be rectified with a Parts of Speech tagger? Or am I overlooking something?
It could be a deliberate form of obfuscation/discouraging of repair, or just the common trend of making things more complex than they really need to be.
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Well physical quantities like length, time can be measured. Also fungible goods like wheat, oil. But knowledge is differentiated, non-homogenous and subject-specific. So it isn't measurable. Memorised facts like spellings, historical dates and common types of exam questions can be counted but these aren't useful in themselves. Knowledge is information that can do things.
Which is why I said "try talking to some ex-Uber drivers."
wow, that's a really great idea. I'm surprised that other languages or even frameworks haven't picked that up.

Maybe it can be pitched to Rust.
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What is the story on accessibility for SVG? Can blind people use it? That's a pretty small market, but one that you are required by law to support. A MUCH MUCH larger market is people with parkinsons like diseases who have trouble clicking on things and need to be able to tab through the elements with a keyboard... How does that work here. What is the tab order? Even if it is supported, is the tab order sane or insane?