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>This individual case is just the result of terminating Solaris 12 development. Part of the old Sun software, operating system, picked up when Oracle bought Sun. Not a big deal.

So so canning the special operating system for your special hardware which is purpose built for your flagship product in 'not a big deal'?

This week I told the rep from Netsuite that there is no way we are buying Oracle products, if we can help it, and he seemed actually shocked. How long before Salesforce comes in house and is ruined too? I would spend a lot of labour on Postgres to avoid Oracle again.
I understand what you're getting at, but as someone else commented the new profile could be the real user, and the pre-existing profile a fake.

Perhaps machine learning would be able to identify fake accounts with a higher degree of certainty than the 'matching name/picture' check, and only fakes with a high certainty rate are deleted.

From a different angle though, if no one has reported a fake account - does Facebook care about the existence of a fake account? Some friends a while ago created a fake account of a meme amongst our group. Funny, and not harming anyone. If Facebook blocked this account it would seem a little domineering/controlling. I'm not sure that's the impression Facebook wants to leave on people who make these sorts of accounts for a laugh.
If amp were not an aggregator the URL would not point at amp.google.com.

I'm well aware of amp's purpose, function, intent, implementation, and effect. I strongly prefer not to have third parties mediating and obfuscating my browsing.

So please use direct urls rather than 3rd
Party aggregators. Thanks.
Perl does those things if you don't "use strict;"

$ perl -e '++$i && print $i;$foo[2]=99;$foo[1]=88;for (@foo) {print}'
18899
Adding to the sibling comment, Gogs is not a Gitea fork. Gitea is a Gogs fork, because of the single-maintainer model of Gogs.

See this other thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13452025
They're useful for adding continuation and some other features. However, they're also a huge target for malware: potential to tamper with the binaries, discovery of traffic patterns, etc. And they are absolutely clunky as a third-party app launched from the browser.

I use a Chrome extension, though, Chrono. It's been very good.
> Implying that most experts have agendas that supersede the truth is outrageous and frankly dangerous.

I think that "experts with agendas that supersede the truth" claim is true if you consider the pool of pundits that regularly appear in mainstream media. Unfortunately they are not representative of scientists like yourself.
Social media presence isn't a useful indicator of growth rate for the majority of companies. In many cases it's a waste of marketing budget.
They bought Dyn 2 months ago or so, and at least on HN there were reports & discussions about it.
NexDock transforms Intel Compute Card into 14-inch notebook
This is an extremely lucid answer, thank you. Can you please now rewrite all the Haskell documentation in the same way?
explained:

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/awk-one-liners-explained-part-o...
they obviously used the time to delete anything damning.

you're all idiots.
Supporting failing businesses sucks government resources away from spending on beneficial projects like infrastructure, health care and education.

Writing off bad loans can allow reform of the failed business, selling assets, redeploying labour, allowing it to be restructured or supplanted by successful competitors, rather than allowed no it to limp on as if nothing was wrong. Ongoing inefficient businesses propped up by bad loans are also an abstacle to innovation and improvement in efficiency and services.

Yes writing off the loans incurs a cost, but if the economy and tax base grows faster than the interest on th debts this isn't a long term problem. Eventually growth and inflation erode the problem away. But not recognising the bad loans means continuing to financially support the failing business which is an increasing ongoing cost.
Is there still any reason to learn AWK?
Easily done by including the component server side, either in the master page (for common things that are used everywhere) or the page itself. SPA's do literally nothing to componentize sites/apps that we couldn't do before.
Everything you wrote would make sense if we had a good alternative to statistics and expertise. The only alternative is ignorance.

> there is an increasing body of evidence that experts

Is this "body of evidence" non-statistical?
> I would spend a lot of labour on Postgres to avoid Oracle again.

The best time to start was years ago. The second best time to start is today.
Check the schema - maybe some tables have foreign indexes already. Then try to link up obvious names - do you have a table users and columns named user_id somewhere else?

Then if you still have disconnected tables, take a few sample rows and see what looks like identifiers / keys. You can join that column with another one in the database and see if they match up completely, or if one has IDs that the other one didn't.

As you're doing this, write down comments about what the tables contain, so you can do sanity checks (do users really reference foos? does that make sense?)

I'm assuming your question means you don't have access to the application for this database, or can't run it and sniff the queries from the network.
Chances are he is either insane or is accessing a lot of very important information
Expand Your Horizons: Change How You Think about Conferences
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation

> MWI is one of many multiverse hypotheses in physics and philosophy.
I answer what I deem unethical/ unfair lines of questioning with any answer I feel necessary to advantage myself in negotiating. Others should do so as well.
How does Haskell fare with large projects that use APIs that are inherently stateful, like OpenGL? Don't things get messy and ugly as the pure world of Haskell is being tainted?

The pure world of Haskell does not get tainted. Monads help manage the inherent messiness better. As for your question, perhaps this glut example I quickly found and skimmed will help:

http://www.arcadianvisions.com/blog/2011/modern-opengl-with-...

- How do I optimise Haskell code without having studied the language for decades?

Optimizing is where I've been having trouble with lately. You need to understand laziness, inlining, and reading basic core imo.

For understanding laziness, read a few tutorials. Then use the ghci debugger as described in the ghc manual. Play around by adding BangPatterns based on educated guesses from any intuition you formed on how laziness works.

For understanding basic optimization (Space and time):

http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/profiling-and-optimiza...

For understanding core, read/watch in this order:

http://www.haskellforall.com/2012/10/hello-core.html

http://blog.ezyang.com/2011/04/tracing-the-compilation-of-he...

https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/6495-keynote-from-simon... (go back over after watching above)

http://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/ghc_03.html

Try generating core for some Haskell code you want to know about. Tie what you've learned to core generated from Haskell code that solves one of your real world problems.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6121146/reading-ghc-core
there is no question that old-school broadcast media is 1-to-many. it's physically impossible to send a signal upstream in those models (doesn't stop me from yelling at the TV, but I do know it's futile). we can quibble about how much the internet is 1:1 vs 1:N vs N:M, but the fact that we even ask these questions makes the internet a qualitatively different kind of media.

as an aside, what are we doing right here, right now? HN uses the internet as a print medium. As a blog it is 1:N, and as a discussion forum is N:M. So yeah, it's complex :)
grpc clients are disgustingly fat. For that reason I am using v2 API on v3.

It's a pity but I need etcd access from many projects and grpc often dwarfs the rest of the project , explodes the binary size.
I use this parser in particular at work designing a closed-domain chatbot.
> Yea, he built an amazing track record well before he started to buying businesses outright

He himself has said that the easy days are long over. The actual stock market continues to form a closer and closer approximation of weak EMH.

> But despite his very infrequent mistakes, he's beat the market by well over 10% a year during his investment career, and there is almost no luck in that.

He beat the stock market, by and large, by not participating in it.

Owning insurance companies and buying companies outright is not a strategy I can pursue with my 401(k).

I like Warren Buffett. I've read the first 50 Berkshire Hathaway letters. I think both he and EMH proponents are "correct", but largely they talk past each other. Where they agree is that what works for Warren Buffett only really works for Warren Buffett. His literal advice to regular investors is to buy index funds.
I thought you were going to switch to coal missiles?
I'm not sure I follow. A basic Pareto distribution could easily lead to this setup.

Now, are we seeing that the powers that be are finding ways to keep their wealth? Almost certainly. But, consider that the same fact for "top 8 have as much as bottom half" was probably true in the Rockefeller years. Difference is that, in American until recently, we had schemes to prevent a landed gentry, or class based society.

But to claim that this is somehow new or unheralded in history seems to ignore a lot of history.
The first successful commercial electronic computer was the UNIVAC I. About 18 were delivered to customer sites and operated for years. Earlier machines (ENIAC, SSEC, LEO, Ferranti Mark I) were one-off prototypes. (Two in the case of the Ferranti Mark I.)
It is sensitive data so I can't share the payload for a (possibly unfounded) fear of brute-forcing the correct key used. I can tell you that the key is not an ASCII string (it is a random sequence of bits). The jwt.io debugger verified the signature when I gave it the proper key and failed to verify with the key "e" that this tool reported.
Another example is Renaissance Technologies. Their Medallion Fund has averaged 80% returns.

If you put $1,000 in the fund in 1988, it would've become $13.8 million by 2016.

See: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-21/how-renai...
> A critical feature of Composite Builds is the ability to integrate with IntelliJ IDEA

Does that mean Composite Builds uses IDEA-compatible Kotlin to specify its build scripts, or is the aging Apache Groovy still used, with its 80% approach to triggering IDEA's type hints?

> We recently open sourced support for Python with Gradle—try it out and enjoy Gradle’s amazing dependency management in the Python world!

Aren't Kotlin and Apache Groovy the only languages supported for writing Gradle's build scripts? Does that mean the Python support in Gradle must be controlled by build scripts written in yet another language?
I didn't actually propose that any new statistics be published, I just said the current ones are lacking.
To say that "It's not appropriate to use a single monthly figure" is not the same as saying "We should publish a number of figures broken down by age, location, and other factors". I honestly don't know what the right approach is.
Those two books sound like an excellent strategy.
Serious question: why is choosing isolation "worst of all"?
If true, the instability bodes poorly for the South China Sea situation and starting / becoming involved in a "small" conflict there.
Turkey Blocks' research and terminal capture suggest each failed attempt causes about 100 broken Tor connections, explaining the spike in metrics where one would really expect a drop.
Dart is just another junk food programming language in the same vein as Java (with some of the same people involved). If you really want to learn what a "strong mode" is, learn OCaml. Good job Bloomberg for Bucklescript.
It's not just from bad things it's from all things the amount of bacteria in most foods is enormous.
But his #1 bottleneck was a poorly indexed tags table. I would imagine most people don't setup auto-scaling distributed databases for relatively simple site like this. His bottlenecks weren't application logic or static content servers that I imagine are more trivially to autoscale with a cloud service.
The problem with jquery is that the state is stored in html elements. It makes it hard to debug, maintain and learn bigger applications. Things like accessing a hidden variable become DOM traversals rather than property accessors.
Yes, and just once you get big using good luck like Amazon or Facebook, you invest your profits to hire the best people to make sure that no one else can threaten your empire in the foreseeable future.
Our current Oracle DB is regarded by us as being phased out. We bought hopefully our last SPARC 18 months ago.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13446478
Gates, slim, Ellison, the Kochs, and the Waltons were all in the top eight from a quick search I did. None of those gained the majority of their wealth through investing.
If you aren't planning on submitting that to those docs I will. In fact I'm sure many would find you adding examples along those lines to the most popular but math inspired Haskell libraries.
>Kalman filters are most often applied in small/embedded system control environments where latency matters more

For example, missile guidance.
It's not as if any bursting of the bubble in China would regress them back to the 1980s, any more than the financial crisis here undid all the previous decades of growth. It would be painful and destabilising and many people would suffer, but China would remain a much more powerful and successful country than its ever been. Take Japan, its suffered from decades of low stagnation but is still a major economy.
Manual Control Flow Guard in C
Don't firms like Renaissance and Virtu destroy this notion?
Hound Content Management System
It was soon after Dyn took a beating by Mirai wasn't it? Maybe they chose not to make a big noise because of that?
Thanks for pointing that out! I haven't used perl yet, it should probably be on my list of things to learn though :)
At some point, I had considered the idea that after the invention of the atomic bomb, the cabal of scientists surrounding its discovery were asked to obfuscate further advancements, and seclude practical findings behind classified restrictions.

Conspiracy theory: in the early days after the H-bomb, there was research into finding some way to make an H-bomb without needing an atomic bomb just to get the energy to start the thermonuclear reaction. This would have resulted in a "clean" H-bomb, and also the ability to make smaller ones. This research was unsuccessful.

Maybe it was really a success. Too much of a success, What if it became too easy to do? Perhaps progress in fusion is deliberately held up because there's a way to make an H-bomb that doesn't require an A-bomb.
Polish Złoty Symbol Design
Tangentially, has anyone tried using etcd as a database for content?

etcd was obviously designed for consensus, coordination and discovery, but there seems to be nothing to prevent it from being perfectly adequate as a data store for other things. From what I can tell, it's pretty fast, strongly consistent, replicating, and has the building blocks to perform atomic transactions across multiple keys. It might work really well as the primary store of truth with something like Elasticsearch on top.
An important detail: Comcast, backed by the local Chamber of Commerce, has threatened to sue the city over this law. On what basis? The corporation's Constitutional First Amendment free speech right to ask the question:

http://www.investopedia.com/news/comcast-threatens-sue-city-...

Are these the same free speech rights the Supreme Court recently bestowed on the corporations? I remember that at the time legal analysts said it would make it hard to regulate corporations. How can you regulate, for example, what goes in a prospectus issued to shareholders if the corporate has free speech rights?
Reposting my message to evincarofautumn to you as well:

If you aren't planning on submitting that to those docs I will. In fact I'm sure many would find you adding examples along those lines to the most popular but math inspired Haskell libraries.
Even the polls were cooked. E.g. to improve the odds of polls fitting the narrative, democratic leaning pollsters would disproportionately sample minorities known to vote predominantly democratic. The patron saint of pollsters, Nate Silver, was consistently wrong about everything all the way through the campaign. Now, if his main goal wasn't to peddle a particular narrative, one would expect him to make corrections to his models after getting things wrong, but no, he sacrificed his professional integrity instead.

I'm sure this is not the first time this happened, but this year it was particularly obvious, and I don't really trust the polls at all anymore except when it comes to completely non-political topics.
That's not a royalty - it's a retail or reseller margin. And if you think 30% is expensive then go take a look at margins in other industries.
As usual I think that Woit's blog post is unnecessarily polarizing. If you decide to read his post then I would recommend you also read the excellent comment by Marty Tysanner on the same page.

Also, sigh. If you dig deep into the dark corners of the internets then I am sure that you can find fake anything. Focus on the beauty and the truth, people. For example:

[1] LIGO continues to work beautifully, as evidenced by its second detection of gravitational waves back in June: http://news.mit.edu/2016/second-time-ligo-detects-gravitatio...

[2] A fun but highly speculative 'bump' in the LHC data, which will probably go away but is fun to think about: https://profmattstrassler.com/2016/10/21/hiding-from-a-night...

[3] New precision results from a nice little experiment done 'on the side' at CERN: https://press.cern/press-releases/2017/01/cern-experiment-re...

[4] Or just a very accessible overview of particle physics in 2016: http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/2016-year-in-particl...
I see your point, but Wikipedia isn't super reliable on the more unsettled parts of theoretical physics. For example, a cursory search gives me https://www.technologyreview.com/s/424073/multiverse-many-wo..., but while I can't judge https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.3796 on my own, it does appear the idea is new, and for something as new, and as vaguely defined as the multiverse (MWI itself is quite old), I probably should ask for more than a Wikipedia summary. I mean, it's fine by me if there's some kind of disagreement within physics, but to assume they are the same thing would require more, no?
This attitude of not trusting experts and not trusting statistics unfortunately permeates from the political arena into science.

The belief that all statistics are not to be trusted is a clear danger to our society. Not trusting climate scientists. Not even trusting simple statistics on vaccinations. As another poster noted, the only alternative is ignorance.
I wonder why they try to support both OLTP and OLAP workloads. Supporting both of these workloads requires too much work (both row and columnar storage types, different algorithms for both storage and querying etc) and they didn't even prove that autonomous systems (which is the main point of the project) can replace the existing databases.
The first commit was:

commit 35823950d500314811212282bd68c101e34b9a06
Author: jarulraj <jarulraj@cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Thu Dec 18 16:41:48 2014 -0500

Take a look at the different graphs on GitHub, like code frequency, to get a better idea: https://github.com/cmu-db/peloton/graphs/code-frequency
Most people don't Immediately go to learning foundations like that without having an idea of what they'll get out of it first, is the problem.

For example, the poster you replied to can only see the advantage being that his question is answered. The tangible benefit for taking time out of the day to go and read those foundations needs to be made more clear I think.
You also have to add into that the fact that almost everything is in fact more expensive in SV. Not 9x more, but groceries are nearly double what they would be in the midwest. Restaurants are more than double for similar quality. So the other living expenses being the same would not be the case I think.
For me it was confusing the first time I read it because I didn't know that "buffalo" can mean "to bully". Without that information it doesn't make sense at all.

So I never thought there's something inherently difficulty in the syntax of the sentence- I thought it's just that unexpected third use of "buffalo" that makes it so strange.

Of course, now that I think of it, what you say makes sense also. For an NL parser, the variant use of "buffalo" shouldn't be an issue. You could even say that lacking the context of what a "buffalo" really is, a parser should even find it easier to parse the sentence than a human, who must pause to try and understand what it means.

Maybe it's not such a bad sentence to test parsers after all.
No and you can simply turn off.

Soap operas were filmed on usually on cheaper cameras that were designed for live capture like studio camera which operate at a higher frame rate.

All TVs these days have some sort of "smooth motion" mode it used to be for sports but now it's tacked on everything and makes things annoying.

A 240hz or w/e screen doesn't do anything to video a player with motion interpolation does.

Basically we're used to much slower motion in films when you get full 30 or even 60fps video it looks weird but you get used to it.

Soon most things will come at 60fps and old video will start looking weird.
A nitpick: Berkshire Hathaway don't publicise any stock purchases or sales and they don't comment on them. Specifically because they don't want to give out information that will drive up the price quickly.

I imagine that's grown harder and harder as time goes on, given the ability of HFT algorithms to spot big purchases in progress. But Buffett has always preferred outright purchases or special one-off deals (eg. the Bank of America deal or individually-negotiated insurance contracts).
There's something big about hiring that I never realized until I started doing it: most hiring managers never get trained in hiring and don't put much thought into it. Job descriptions often go through several layers, with a line manager, a director/VP/CTO, and HR all making modifications. By the end it's often a franken-document that doesn't reflect what any one person is looking for.

My advice is to understand what the company actually uses and values when deciding if it's a good fit. For example, let's say you're a Java programmer who sees an awesome job description that asks for both Java + Scala, but you know the team/company primarily uses Java. What you can do is spend a few hours studying up on Scala and playing around with it. Then, on your resume, put down "proficient in Java, some experience with Scala". That last part gets you past the HR screen. If you're asked about Scala you can say something like "oh yeah I've been playing around with it, I'm really looking forward to getting more into it!" You'll get grilled on Java and get a free pass on Scala. Also, very important: it's not a lie (please don't lie on your resume, it's the easiest way to get rejected when you're actually a good fit).
I knew I stayed with Firefox for a reason. Privacy isn't even the real issue for me: this should take a big bite out of CSRF attacks.
Literally writing a small awk script, took a break to check Hacker News. Nice.
That's demonstrably false. How would you explain quants? All the financial firms that exist solely because of how good they are at buying and selling securities?