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I have some actual experience with KDB and MongoDB so I'm going to have to call bullshit.

How does KDB handle replication and failover? Or even high insert/update rates to datasets that exceed the size of memory? How do you shard KDB?

KDB doesn't support unicode text. Do you plan to only have English speaking users?

Yes, KDB excels at its relatively well defined niche of transforming and aggregating "smallish" (say 10 TB or less) numerical time series data. It would be a horrible choice for the backing store of a high throughput CRUD application...

What is it with KDB zealots thinking that KDB is the best database for every task? I swear, KDB is the Scientology of databases.
Exactly. Show me the command line to get that graph.
What programming languages are used most on weekends?
I'm in the process of registering a semi-satirical political party and "down with this sort of thing" was the first official slogan I listed - it's so ingrained in the culture here now
It's long form writing, in this case taking the form of a narrative. It gives texture and context, which some people certainly appreciate. Having said that, it's also nice to have a summary version like the one you've offered, though I tend to go straight to Wikipedia if that's the mood I'm in.
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"We don’t expect this to become the actual API that ends up in the standard, and maybe not even the one that the Community Group decides to start with, but we think there is a lot of value in working code. Other browser engines have made their own similar prototypes. It will be exciting to collaborate with the community and come up with a great new technology for graphics."

Also, Metal was announced June 2014, released September 2014. Vulkan was announced March 2015, released Feb 2016.

I don't see any reason for favoring Vulkan specifically for Web when compared to Metal I can read: "Metal still does a lot of hand holding and behind-the-scenes management for you, while with Vulkan you are responsible for — literally — everything. And man they were NOT kidding when they said that the API is explicit. Its actually quite ridiculous how difficult and detailed the API is." (1)

1) https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/38469
There are two that i like.

Odoo (once openerp) has a lot of modules for all kinds of hardware/manufacturing/ stock management etc. Overall not a bad system.

https://www.odoo.com/

ERPNext is the other one, with a cool mobile app as well, so easy to manage on the road. Its pretty light weight and easy to extend if needed.

https://erpnext.com/
"Cats in cubes"? Any sensible cat will demand a full office.
One can dislike advertisements without being offended by them.
I don't mean this insensitively; why would I choose rackspace over aws/goog?
> http://blog.kraken.com/post/153209105847/security-advisory-m...

A 40-step instruction "how to make your google account secure" as a proof of the sad state of internet security. No way my parents can do it.
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As a former linux&bsd localhost admin and a seasoned programmer, I cannot understand all the fuss about systemd and init procedure in general. Is it really that hard to start and/or stop programs with arguments, given their dependency graph declared somewhere? Why do we need sqlite built in there? Why all that hardcore coding process involving furious coders? Seems like I'm doing things like that around every two months while solving yet another graph-related business problem.

Why such drama, anyone?
Why would you go through the rigamorole of encrypting something if it can be undone with a text message?

If you want to store Bitcoin, use (in order of preference) a reasonably secure computer (not an obviously poorly secured windows machine), a secure cell phone (not a $50 backdoored Chinese android phone), or a hardware wallet. Don't use cloud services, web wallets, or anything else that very obviously sucks from a security perspective.

I would be more than willing to trust, say, $50,000 in Bitcoin to an iPhone with a good passcode, running an SPV wallet. Above that and you probably ought to put in the modest investment for a hardware solution.
No, they keep up pretty well with the C++ spec.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/01/22/vs-2015-u...

You may be thinking of the lack of full C99 support.
This is interesting to me, as I live in an area with no mobile reception.

So (for me) it's a real PITA when places require a mobile phone number and there's no way to skip it. Obviously, can't use those services.

Does anyone know if Google Authenticator would run on a wifi iPad? As a potential workaround for the "no mobile network" situation.
> If I could buy health insurance separately from my company I'd look into it.

You can. It's probably not in your best interest, because the individual market plans are more expensive, but there's nothing stopping you.

> I know my company pays at least as much as I do for my insurance, but if I go off the company plan I can't get that money to use for insurance I like.

That's your employer's choice. They could provide a cafeteria plan, which would give you the choice (but again, since individual plans are always going to be more expensive for the same level of coverage[0], they'd have to pay more money overall to provide the same tier of benefits).

[0] simply due to basic actuarial math
Nice, maybe our deep nets can finally make real art after being trained on by the masters.
Worth re-watching with the directors commentary also.

Linehan and Matthews are two very smart guys!
We don't need more new standards.

We need concise, clear and coherent code.
I find these criticisms quite unfair, especially given that he admits in the article that (a) he is new to trading, (b) his results cover a short period of time in a bull market and could easily be 100% luck at this point, and (c) he's had to manually step in to avoid ruin. You're excoriating Sebastian for not hedging claims that he has repeatedly hedged.

I also disagree that there aren't any valuable or inspiring lessons for indie hackers here. In fact, I enumerated some of them as asides in the interview itself, none of which would apply to your hypothetical trip to Vegas.

You and others are hyper-focused on the irrelevant question of whether or not Sebastian's attempt to build an unparalleled money-making machine has succeeded (answer: obviously not), and ignoring the actual point of the interview. It's the equivalent of the guy who read the SubmitHub interview a few months back, ignored all the lessons within, and instead attempted to create an exact clone of the SubmitHub product.
New jobs will only be created if people can consume (and afford to consume) more. We're getting pretty close to consumption limits.
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I found calendly super helpful when doing an international job search
I know Amazon AWS has most of their core engineering talent in Austin. The scene is small but strong, this doesn't really reflect on the hiring climate in ATX.

As a true Austinite, I never really considered San Antonio a "tech hub" or indicator of anything in tech.
They got scooped and pushed to publish the interns project.
Hedge funds need other people's money to make money. So I assume everything they make public is PR and marketing.
Your argument is that PHP is better than Perl for web development because PHP is a better suited for use directly as a templating language? That may be true, but I don't think it's particularly relevant given the long existence of templating engines for both. The PHP developers I know don't use PHP as their templating language anymore. They use Twig, Smarty, Blade, etc...
It was mostly filmed in London. They filmed the outdoor stuff in Co. Clare.
> proposal stops a little short of true universality: for his sums to add up, take-up must be limited to just 75% of Indians. That means either a return to flawed means-testing, or a hope that the better-off will voluntarily opt out.

That's easy: just wrap it in social stigma.

I'm sure there's plenty of (socially) lower-middle class Britons who are eligible for one or other benefit scheme that they either don't realise, or couldn't bare to enrol in.
It should require no connectivity at all, so yes.
Harder but certainly not impossible.

IMO you and others choosing to patronize overpriced and pointless smart systems is why it is becoming harder to find.

If even the people who care don't care, then sure, they'll surcharge $100+ on every model happily.

For what it's worth, my dumb Vizio was found in a stack of 20+ at a local Target during Black Friday. They were literally stacked at the entrance to the store. I couldn't miss it. It wasn't that hard to find.
Puns are the highest form of comedy, surely.
Let me tell you about the time I caught the "finance bug" after watching Wall Street film in 2007.

I had a near 99% accurate scalping system. I could not believe it. Every trade I was making was profitable. How could this be?

The system worked without a stop loss. Meaning 1% of the time the prices turned, it wiped out all the profits (limited reward) accumulated.

I published all of these details on my university homepage which has since been deleted as they won't let alumni's keep one. But I was very careful that while 99% system accuracy is achievable, it's the downside risk that makes the system pretty fucking useless.

Of course you can put a stop loss but the system ran on "limited rewards unlimited risk". There's just no holy grail out there. Even if you read Hull's options book, no matter how complex your option strategy gets, you always have to be right at the end of the day. It's pure speculation and we all know how casino's work.

So knowing this, if it sounds too good to be true, there's a very strong reason for it. Retail trading is a zero sum game. Even more suspicious when the downsides are conveniently left to "if I gave it away system won't work". I was fully transparent about the downsides when I published my trading system.

The last thing I wanted was to people without the financial literacy to naively believe that a holy grail trading system existed. They don't exist. History is filled with funds that blew up because they believed alpha generation would be a constant thing.

Even quant trades I question their success. In the long run, all trades are speculative and carry risks (except arbitrages which are automated to oblivion). No matter how sophisticated you get the risks are always unknown.
Modern graphics APIs help you reduce the CPU bottleneck for CPU-bound graphics code. Parallelism, command buffers and generally thinner drivers all help reduce the CPU overhead.
If you use coinbase, you don't own your bitcoins. Coinbase does, and they pinkie promise to give them back when you ask.

Get a mobile wallet like Mycelium. It's very simple, and you back up your wallet forever with a short string of words. You also retain control of your private keys.
And up next, AI containers and AI container orchestration ran by an AI
A few that I missed when they removed them:

* Ignite poison against poisonous monsters

* Twisted Resurrection, Simulacrum on chunks, Sublimation of blood on chunks/blood

* Fulsome Distillation + Evaporate

* Old Nemelex deck-granting system (sacrifice different stuff for specific decks)

* Mountain Dwarves

* The beehive
> In fact, to a large extent I'd say it's been quite deliberately designed.

I'm curious whether you actually read the article and have any thoughts on the menu within. Seemed horrible to me as an outside observer.
Not only dumb phones, but all regular Android users in China. They don't have the Play store app on their phones and can't sideload it because it's not a simple apk file. Even if they managed to hack that, it's blocked through the great firewall anyway. Whatever Android 2FA app an email service used would probably only be available via the Play store and thus cut off all Chinese users, and even people from China who moved to another country and brought their old phone with them.
> 1. Trolling always means the user is, in some way, not sincere or not honest in their interactions.

Unintentional trolling would contradict that.
This is another in a series of layoffs over the last year or two. They've tried to keep them relatively quiet.

They've reimagined the company as providing support on third-party platforms, namely AWS and Azure, instead of focusing on building, selling and supporting their own offerings. That model requires significantly fewer employees. That change, coupled with the buyout, means that there's no surprise in seeing layoffs at Rackspace, and there are likely more to come.

I'm a former Racker.
> "There's a third possibility, which is that people are rationally aware..."

I agree that this possibility exists but I also think it's a tiny minority of people online. There's enough info out there to demonstrate that people aren't rationally aware of many things (although they may believe they are).

In the current example, I'd bet that most folks don't even understand how much info they reveal online and what can be inferred about them. The very reason the house analogy exists is because it's tangible and 'real-world' but it's not really a fair comparison. If people had the option to live in a fortress, that still had windows and easy access for approved people, and didn't look too different, they'd likely take it. Such options either don't exist or are too expensive.
You can either itemize or claim the standard deduction. If you're itemized deductions are higher then it's better to itemize.

Mortgage interest is an itemized deduction and can be quite high, thousands of dollars of saved taxes a year, so there's incentive to owning a home and paying the mortgage.

Under he proposed plan it will be much harder to beat the standard deduction, so they'll be less incentive to have mortgage interest since you likely won't be itemizing your taxes.
Apple knows they aren't going to push something closed like Metal itself onto the web, so they want to make the web API easy to use with Metal as a backend instead.

The end goal is to maintain Metal as a proprietary bit of tech for native apps, in order to make it more burdensome for people to port native apps away from the Apple platform and as a result give Apple more exclusive apps and more artificial barriers to entry for competitors. Why should the web standards people be bending backwards to support that goal?
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Capitalism is supposed to serve humanity, not the other way around. When this stops happening, if we don't have an alternative system...well, I shudder to think.
Are you sure about this? 20 years ago I was running a then-novel Linux machine with my own email etc. etc. but eventually I stopped because on the whole it wasn't worth all the effort.

I know perfectly well, from experience, that I could vastly increase my privacy (or reduce the huge volume of information that I choose or passively accept liability for sharing, eg by having a FB account and not logging out of it every time I go to another tab etc. etc.). But how much of my time do I want to spend on opsec?

I don't want to be in a defensive posture for the rest of my life, hiding from bad actors and constantly worrying about some overlooked chink in my digital armor. Frankly, if the future is endless low-grade cyberwarfare I'd rather be on the offensive and steal other people's data for my own advantage than be endlessly upgrading my door locks.
Why is DirectX support needed? Isn't Vulkan supported on the same platforms as DirectX anyway?
Very effective ... about 6 weeks ago I started a "Bitch Files" notebook. I made myself the promise that when I was finished with it I would ceremonially burn it. It was great to dump all the disappointments, frustrations, fears into it. I wrote most mornings and nights. After about a month I ran out of negative stuff. Started writing positive, optimistic stuff. So I started a nice clean new journal for those. I still keep the BF notebook around, but I haven't had anything to add for a couple of weeks now. One day soon, I'll go ahead and burn it and set all that negativity free.

I have tried writing on computer in the past. That works as well, but writing by hand seems to provide greater relief. Besides, I wouldn't exactly want to burn my computer. Doesn't matter if your handwriting is lousy. It's not like anybody is going to read it. But I do find it fun to flick through the pages and scribble over them. It is tactile and thus more engaging.
For another example: Falconhoof https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKD5pKzzXvU&list=PLc8-P2ITJE...

It's from Limmy, and it's an excellent example of how dark UK humour can be.
You are strongly defending him.

What proof do you have of his claims?

If this turns out to be a dodgy submission for self promotion it is mildly embarrassing for IndieHackers if they admit error in this instance.

If it turns out you have seen no solid proof for these claims and amidst the heavy skepticism express by multiple people in this thread you do not investigate and demand proof, than that calls into question the rest of IndieHackers
That's one of the benefits of designing an API for the web from the get-go, instead of just literally copying an API that's meant to be used from C. It makes for a cleaner and nicer API, even though some lower-level details are exposed.
Death and Life of Great American Cities is a book that everyone should relocate to the top of their reading lists, of they've not already tackled it. It's still perfectly applicable to every US town or city I've ever visited or lived in. The mistakes she laments are still being made. She mentions that what she writes about cities may not be applicable to smaller towns, but it mostly is (I believe she was just pointing out the limits of her own experiences.)

There are many, many social issues worth reading about right now. This book is important not because its issue is more pressing, per se, but because its issues are so foundational to many others we struggle with in our cities and in the whole country.
I'm running uBlock Origin, but the ad popped up. Which ad-blocker are you using?
It does. Furthermore, he's "simplified" APL in K to require less infrastructure, with fewer primitives, and the like. Combined with some clever, and some would argue, devious programming practices, he's able to keep things pretty small. I don't know if the interpreter is still that small, though. If someone reminds me, maybe I can talk about scrolling. :-)

Since I believe Whitney wrote the J incunabulum, I suspect that it looks very similar. The code is actually quite simple and straightforward if you take the time to read it.
Why would you want to trust the phone company? This is a solved problem, use IP and SSL. Of course you can't implement the really dumb "half factor" SMS authentication this way (because it's shown for what it is.)
Any word from Carmack on this?
> Working on top of all the major APIs is the right thing for the web.

No, the right thing for the broader ecosystem is working only on Vulkan, and forcing Apple to adopt Vulkan, so that one API is usable natively on every OS, device (even Nintendo will support Vulkan on its consoles!) and browser.

If Apple wants to go their own way, sure, but they’ll be cut off from the rest of the world, and quickly realize where they went wrong.
Suppression of median wages is possible if the tech is particularly complimentary to workers at the top of the earning distribution.
You can assume the role of devil's advocate in good faith, with the aim of moving a discussion forward.
> “We were very intent on preserving as many Racker positions as possible in our customer-facing roles, and we’re confident we are not going to affect fanatical support for our customers,” the spokesperson said.

What a bizarre comment! 'Fanatical'?
No disrespect intended. You've undoubtedly got a much better grasp of these APIs than I do! However...

> Working on top of all the major APIs is the right thing for the web.

A standard is the right thing for the web. Whether that's an abstraction or agreement upon an existing implementation remains to be seen.
Econ 101 says you're assuming zero friction in the labor marketplace and exactly equal negotiating strength between employers and labor with zero collusion between employers, zero collusion between workers.

Now look at the S&P500 level over that time. Could that frankly stunning increase, GFC and all, have been less if there was a bidding war to get the best talent in labor hiring? Is all labor completely fungible?

Then we compare the salaries of senior management of S&P500 companies, who are also labor. No shortage of labor supply there at those salary levels - you, me everyone would have a go for a year at a salary of $X million. CEO salaries have not stagnated. Compare to demand for really awesome programmers which has outstripped supply by massive amounts and all the big companies desperately want to import people to meet some of that supply from overseas. But we don't see the bidding war with salaries going up to even $500k there.

Econ 101 is notice what your assumptions are in your model and think through all of them when applying that model. The assumptions of perfect competition in the labor market are obviously bogus and we need to think harder about what is going on, why and what a good outcome is (about which I'm saying nothing at all here) and how to get to that good outcome than: "The model says X so by definition there's no problem."
Ask HN: What was something you predicted in tech before it's time?
Mine:

* 1996-7: talking to Kent, a friend who designed MIPS procs- "* why can't we have a rack that we just can universally slot machines on rails with a consolidated backplane so we don't have to plug in any cables? (Blade servers)

* 1997-8, working at intel: "why can't we stack multiple processors on top of each other?

1998, "apple will switch to intel processors" them: never!

* 2004, on a hike with my intel chip designers, talking about their 56-core experimental chips... "just wait until google starts hosting systems in their own datacenters" - them: never gunna happen...

Not claiming anything other than questioning why we couldn't have made these moves earlier rather than later...

I have a bunch more, as I am sure you did too... what are some of your "holy crap I thought of that ten years before it happened" on which you like to reminisce?
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Speaking as a Rackspace customer, if any of these guys are Linux techs, and you're looking, hire them. With signing bonuses.

Anecdote: A couple years ago, I had one explain to me (in a way that made sense) how the battery on the raid array was probably the cause of some problems with https. And _he was right_.

Maybe not everyone there is a certified genius, but that really blew my mind. They really know hardware. I haven't talked to one who couldn't save my tail in a pinch. Rackspace might seem a bit on the expensive side, but their support is absurdly good.
Apples handling of Vulcan / Metal should be a colossal embarrassment.
I imagine the C-like syntax is part of it. Tcl can be very easy on the eyes (though it can also be very hard on the eyes -- I'm looking at you, expr). It's an extremely down-to-earth language overall.

Objectively speaking, though, it seems like you're right -- historically, people have chosen Lisp-like languages over Tcl-like languages, as the latter are now mostly relegated to toy language projects like this one.