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It started in the early days of Unqualified Reservations. He used to write relatively short posts, about 1500-2000 words; the comments sections promptly filled with people calling him out on his bad reasoning, lack of knowledge and misuse of terms. He then pivoted to his better-known style, where he first spends 1000 words redefining basic terms so that he can make striking statements (most famously, "America is a communist country") without being called on them immediately.
I already had 2FA - they force it IIRC. They also refused to delete any of my documents. It was related to connecting with my bank account. (Which they removed, as my Canadian passport somehow means I am not allowed to use banks in the US as a permanent resident.)
Studios sign different distribution deals in different regions. These include box office release and "DVD" (web) release schedules. These regional licensing contracts are often in the range of 5-7 years.

As a result, studios cannot simply offer a film or TV series online at the same time for everybody. As the regional contracts expire and the studios restructure them, I expect to see more direct distribution via online channels.
Of course there is a system, and it's sophisticated. Averages are taken in case of inputs on both, and there's a priority button to take precedence (so that the other is ignored). There's more to it than that, but of course there's a system and a lot of thought has gone into it.

In the AF 447 case, the left pilot did take priority, but the dude on the right took it back. Had the left one taken it and held it (by keeping the button pressed), the accident might have been avoided. So the system is hardly foolproof, and one can argue about the particular implementation of the interface and the merits vis-a-vis hardware-linked yokes, but any notion that Airbus haven't thought carefully about it is complete bogus.

http://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/3455/why-is-the-...
The "::filter" convention is filters. We also have parameters (for some time now, although only in v0.11 added UI for them). With parameters you can do:

SELECT country_code AS "cc::filter", COUNT(1) as num_users FROM mytable WHERE lifetime_spend > {{minimum_lifetime_spend}} GROUP BY country_code

And minimum_lifetime_spend will render as an input box. Currently we only support input boxes (of different types - number/string/date), but there is a plan to add support for dropdowns there as well.

Allowing self serving without knowing SQL is the goal, but I believe it will take time to do it right. We focus on delivering a great product for people who know SQL, and allow them to give more interactive result sets to other users using things like parameters.

So not sure if our goal is less ambitious, but we just take a different path. And that's good I guess, it would've been not interesting if everyone built the same thing, the same way :-)
Can someone comment on what is the business model of those who set up streaming servers for Kodi etc. ? Bandwidth is expensive , why would you pay for it just to give it away for free ?
That blacks are ideally suited to being slaves. His advocacy of this is exceedingly well documented.

(You might argue that this isn't technically violence in itself, but it's hard to argue it's not an explicit endorsement of a system of violence.)
"Before you even start considering the pros and cons of Vulkan or WebVulkan, there's a very blatant case of cui bono to examine behind this."

Not really. Because yes, it is well known that Apple closes down their system and wants full controll over it and locks other partys out. One of the Reasons for me, to not buy them.

But what does this have to do, when they propose a new Web API?
If Apple chooses to go a different way with metal (and a way apparently quite some devs like), than I don't see much point in trying to force them to go another way. Maybe metal is even superior - I can't judge that, but I am not going to say vulkan is superior, just because it is open(even though I would like it to be superior just for that fact). ButI don't see much point in dragging Web-Technologys into these discussion in the first place.

Especially since apparently it is possible to implement the proposed WebGPU on top of metal, vulkan or Direct3D !!

And even though "Cross-compilation efforts will invariably be made easier with a more consistent API between (web and native) platforms." is true , it is not gonna happen at the moment, since simply not everybody wants vulkan at the moment, but 2 major players stick with something else. And I am not sure it is only for power reasons, but maybe also for technical reasons, as I read from quite some devs, that working with vulcan is huge pain(and they prefer metal, if it would be open) .... as it is not made for working with it directly, but rather to be worked through a higher level API. So ... is there a different proposal for that higher level API than WebGPU to be discussed right now?
Swiss Air 777 engine repair at Iqaluit airport (Canadian Arctic)
Not the OP, but to provide an idea how it used to be.

I learned OOP with Turbo Pascal 5.5, for MS-DOS, around 1990. Started using Turbo Vision with Turbo Pascal 6.0.

Eventually also started coding with Object Windows Library in Turbo Pascal and Turbo C++.

Borland manuals were my introduction to OOP, followed by books like "Designing Object-Oriented C++ Applications using the Booch Method.".

Only later I got to learn about the multiple ways of doing OOP (CLOS, Beta, SELF, ...).
> Google can monetize your information much easier than an ISP.

More to the point: Google is a more central actor, who gets to see the data of far more users, than your ISP ever will.

Moreover, this moves from giving a third party your data, to giving them your metadata, and while people consistently underestimate the value of metadata, there is still an incremental improvement there.
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To be really pedantic, it was in San Antonio. Windcrest purchased some surrounding property and annexed it.
They can target based on "Behaviours", so, maybe?
https://www.facebook.com/business/a/online-sales/ad-targetin...

EDIT: The "Behaviour" targets can even drill down to specific types of alcohol beverages (beer, wine, other). Not sure that means specifically having visited a bar.
The entertainment industry isn't stupid. They are doing their best to maximize revenues from their products given the current landscape of cable networks, streaming providers, on-demand, etc.

The ability to make bolder strategy choices is also hampered by the need to enter into distribution contracts with the above-mentioned providers.

If you do the math, I'd guess revenues would be higher doing what the entertainment industry currently does than what you propose. While this will lead many people into pirating, it's still likely a pretty small percentage.

Netflix did $8.8 billion in revenue last year. U.S. domestic box office receipts were around $11.3 billion and were around $30 billion globally.

In the US alone, given Netflix' current subscriber base of 49 million, it would cost each subscriber would have to pay a little over $19 per month extra just to make up for domestic box office revenues. When you factor in that Netflix needs to make some money on top of that, as well as whatever scaling is necessary, that number needs to go up even further. And then you need to makeup all the additional money that comes from rentals and distribution deals outside of Netflix. There is a reason why Netflix only gets a small portion of quality movies -- because companies can make more signing deals with companies other than Netflix.

Would most people be willing to pay over $100 per month for an all-you-can-eat movie service? I doubt it, considering that doesn't even account for all the television programming, which takes up a much larger portion of people's screen time than movies do. First-run television content earns a lot of revenue, as do live shows, particularly sports. ESPN alone costs cable companies $7 per subscriber and that's with lots of ad-supported content. Without ad support, that number would be closer to $12 and that doesn't account for the additional production costs to make up for all the additional airtime that needs filled.

I think to truly create an all-you-can-eat, comprehensive entertainment streaming service, you'd be look at several hundred dollars per month in subscription fees. And you'd still have to figure out some sort of way to incentivize content producers to continue producing the same level of content they currently do and support competition so there is a continued push towards higher quality.
Thin and very cold air.

The altitude was 33000 feet (FL330). Assuming a ground temperature of 15 celsius and a drop in temperature of 2 degrees per 1000 feet gives an OAT of -51 celsius. My flight computer converts 358KIAS @ 33000feet @ -51celsius to 620KTAS, which is Mach 0.94.

FL = flight level (hundreds of feet)

KIAS = knots indicated air speed

KTAS = knots true air speed

OAT = outside air temperature
Is there any reason to expect this distribution to vary much from "top selling" ?
> for example the minimum wage was set back in 1989

1998, under the American Competitiveness and Workforce Improvement Act[1]. $60,000 in 1998 would be about $89,000 today, after adjusting for inflation. Trump's initiative is around $40K above that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Competitiveness_and_W...
But lots of C++ books. C++ and Python are my primary languages, and I own far more C++ books than Python. For C++ I've got all Scott Meyers stuff, Alexandrescu, Stroustrups C++ language. For Python I've got Beazley, and that's it. My guess is that Python, and probably Ruby too, are so much easier to learn than C++, so fewer books are read and sold.
That was fantastic, thank you for the morning laugh :-)
There are vendors for these things in malls in Canada even. There are Kodi addons that make it super simple, just push a button and stream movies off file lockers kind of thing.

It's pretty much dead simple and "just works" - with the exception of what happens when the services they use dies. Then you're in trouble. The quality is also often abysmal.

That's why I'd rather use the Usenet setup (Sonarr/CouchPotato/Sabnzbd/Plex/Emby) and pay $10/mo to a sketchy IPTV service, I know they at least try to maintain their streams and if you hunt around you can find decent quality.
Aren't they torrents?
10GHz is the clock frequency, not the light frequency ;)
I don't think that's fair. The driving point of that book was that developers needed a higher level language to talk about these patterns than simply at the code level, and showed people how to put together a vocabulary. Yes, it came with a library of sample patterns useful for Java developers, but they weren't egregious examples, nor were they the main point of the book. They were just taken to an extreme by people who skipped over the first part of the book and just skimmed the library. It was a "how to think about your craft" book that people misread as a "how to achieve a programming task" book.
What has this to do with hackernews?
The Lost Children of ‘Runaway Train’
I run a web server who's number one job is to add negative overhead to most requests (CDN). As an example of how much I care about overhread: a while back one of the biggest bottlenecks preventing us from saturating a 10 gigabit NIC when serving from cache was that our cache get allocated rather than providing a view into the bytes.

I'll probably still be upgrading. go1.8 has some nice performance improvements overall. Specifically the codegen improvements help in HTML parsing and image resizing.

If I'm still upgrading, I have to wonder how many people out there are pushing Go's net/http harder than I am?
Flipboard Releases World's First Smart Magazines
I'm on mac too with a win7 vm, I hit upon the idea of tagging them along as far as I could when they asked me to press the windows key and I'm looking at a mac keyboard.

The different shops that have called me all follow a similar set of attacks

1) windows key
2) run command to msconfig
3) browser to download payload.

I had a 'supervisor' on the line once and when they asked me to connect to the internet I'm pretty sure I heard them curse at me with incredulity as I played the 56K dialup sound.

I once got them down a conversation cul-de-sac when I asked them which they preferred - Minesweeper or Solitaire.
The immigration-related policies I've heard of were:

* H1B wage increase: I heard a rumor somewhere that they were thinking about raising the minimum wage for either H1B visas or NAFTA jobs to $130k. That shouldn't affect the Googles and Apples of the world at all; if anything, it benefits them because it frees the slots the cheap H1B outsourcing firms are taking up, or removes competition from low-paying startups.

* Increased enforcement against illegal immigration, particularly from Mexico. The "best of the best" that the article claims the tech industry wants should be able to get employees under NAFTA; I know people from Canada who do this already. So any policies targeted at illegal immigration shouldn't be relevant.

* Muslim ban: The green card/visa issues have other arguments against them. One could plausibly say that not honoring those legal documents makes hiring foreigners riskier. As for the actual people themselves though, 6 of those 7 countries we're currently at war with. Maybe not officially or directly, but we've been dropping bombs on those countries for years so they seem a special case. Is the article claiming that Google is expecting top-of-the-line MIT-quality software people from war-torn Syria? I know Israel has some pretty high-quality people; are there other places in the Middle-East(maybe Dubai)?

Is there any specific policy that people are worried will hurt hiring at tech companies, or is it just a general uneasiness about anti-immigration sentiment?
I believe most people don't assume that US (or other country, for that matter) is "truly altruistic" in your definition. However, the US is the first world power to make positive-sum policies the basis of its foreign relations (starting from the Marshall Plan onwards). You are right that this is not "selflessness", but positive-sum is even better as it is a sustainable approach.
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Good one.

I was going to elaborate on how we should close down classes about rocket science or anything particle physics related. You know, just in case someone manages to learn how to control fission and miniaturize it into bombs.

Dangerous stuff.
Why do you want desktop-like experience on a browser?
At 50km where the temperature and pressure are nearly Earthlike you've got about 25 ppm of water. Which is rather dry but not so much that it would be unprecedented on Earth. The concentration of sulfuric acid is around half that so it makes more sense to extract the water directly like so:

http://selenianboondocks.com/2013/12/venus-isru-condenseable...
"Patterns" are to the art of good programming what organized religion is to the art of good living. Everyone loves the ideas, everyone hates the implementations.
I'm not sure I see what's wrong with this. The author obviously invested work in this and provided a resource others may find useful. You're free not to buy books through their affiliate links.
The State of the Headless CMS Market
Nope. It is not just thermals but also memory latency. If you have four cores and each has two register files you can get 8x the bandwidth at the same latency.

That 10GHz talk was a lie on the part of Intel to intimidate people away from AMD, not only would a 10GHZ P4 melt down, but it would be stalled all the time from memory latency. So many things did not work that it was not an honest mistake.

Today there is talk of a big clock rate bump (to 200 GHZ or so) if they go to a different semiconductor, but at that point you probably need a fiber optic or terahertz wave link to memory to keep the pipeline full.
You created an account just to say that? I wonder who is really trying to manipulate who.
I'm well aware of trumps desire to crackdown on ILLEGAL immigrants but fail to understand how that's going to affect the normal immigrants that make up Silicon Valley like the Russian and Indian used as examples in the article.

The travel ban was the first thing I've heard from him that was abhorrent and the near universal smack down it's received from every direction gives me hope that Trump will be kept in his place by our established checks and balances.
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>some could probably be called altruistic, but many could be called selfish

This is a zero-sum mentality in a sense. There are deals that benefit both sides, so there is no sense in selfish/altruistic dichotomy. One can be both "selfish" and "good" by pursuing positive-sum deals.
When you paid for winrar ?

Joke aside: Working in a library I guess ?
I don't know what nature has to do with anything- is it any different for
people in Africa, than in the UK, where I live? Over here men are expected to
help with all the house chores - dishes, cleaning up, washing, you name it.
And that includes taking care of the children. For instance, it's very common
to see lone dads out with their toddlers in a pram, or a sling around their
neck.

>> The split of roles is mostly a necessary evil in our part of the world.

Yeah, sorry but I don't believe that. If you want to say that there's a great
deal of social reform that's needed before women and men have the same
opportunitites in life, and there's no reason to "split roles" so that women
stay at home and do the washing and men go to work, then fine. But that it's
"necessary" anywhere, I don't accept that. It's no more necessary in Ghana,
than it is in the UK.

And btw, I'm an immigrant to the UK. I'm originally from Greece which is a
very traditional country, so I'm very familiar with the alleged social
necessity of keeping women home with their washing machines. It doesn't make
sense in Greece, it doesn't make sense in the UK, and I'm pretty sure it's
just an excuse in Ghana also.
Too bad that's a straw man since the comment you replied to didn't say anything about not using pointers and resursion. It said real programmers don't ask that many questions about them.

Also too bad for your high horse answer that all the best real world programmers acknowledge that pointers & recursion are places where bugs hide disproportionately. Many real world programmers suggest that pointers & recursion are things to avoid. NASA's safety code guidelines are well known around here because it says explicitly to avoid both recursion and pointers.

Rule #1: "Restrict all code to very simple control flow constructs – do not use goto statements, setjmp or longjmp constructs, and direct or indirect recursion."

Rule #9: "The use of pointers should be restricted. Specifically, no more than one level of dereferencing is allowed. Pointer dereference operations may not be hidden in macro definitions or inside typedef declarations. Function pointers are not permitted."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_10:_Rules_for_D...
> queue parallel queries to the same data source

That's definitely possible. You might need to tune the number of workers you have to run queries (and maybe adjust your database settings, if it has limits on concurrency).

If you need help with this, you're welcome to the forum[1], Gitter[2] or Slack[3].

[1] https://discuss.redash.io
[2] https://gitter.im/getredash/redash
[3] https://slack.redash.io
It's not hard, it's just not maximized profit. There's a lot of brain power invested in how much they can charge and how much advertising they can cram into content, finding the most profitable balance between acquiring, retaining and losing viewers.
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Fearmongering! I am happy if the anti-vaxxers win.

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I don't see the problem here. The Copenhagen interpretation of ethics comes to mind. https://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-eth...
I tried Redash some time ago while I was looking for a very simple "BI" like tool that our non-technical or low-technical colleagues could use (people in Client Satisfaction team).

I settled for Metabase (http://www.metabase.com/ , https://github.com/metabase/metabase ), mainly for the ease of use and installation (a simple java -jar metabase.jar does the trick).

Redash was a close second (one advantage at that time was the ability to have users that could only read queries), but after fighting with it for a while in order to install it, I tested Metabase and haven't looked back since.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZadCj8O1-0
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I'm surprised that Peopleware (DeMarco and Lister) isn't in there somewhere.
This is basically Eric S Raymond's modus operandi. Instead of bikeshedding over Go vs Rust he could have had an MVP up by now
There's are many shady streaming sites that are designed to be accessed through a web browser where they serve up ads and malware. There are also quite a few file locker services where people put streaming media, same idea. Then there are aggregators that index all this content. The Kodi plugins basically scrape both the aggregators and the file hosts and bypass all of their ads.
What happened when Swedes tried six-hour days?
Avoiding the Classroom Chaos with AWS
I don't think the acerbic swipe at HN here was merited; as threads about programming environments go, this one seems pretty high-signal, with less flamage than any of the recent large threads about Go or Rust.

If your expectation about threads for Urbit is that they center on its real-world applications or potential, the project itself has done you no favors. It doesn't so much beg as howl madly for the kind of meta discussion that dominates this thread.
One could argue that the US has put a great deal of time, effort and R&D into saving civilian lives, through the drone program itself. The alternative to the drone program is a traditional military occupation, which would presumably have a much greater death toll, I don't have access to the research.

Or, of course, simply not fighting the war at all. But it doesn't seem like that option is available.
China's HPC development in the next 5 years [pdf]
Careful what you wish for :

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-07/swedish-cop-posts-e...

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/764433/They-grabbed-me-e...
Show HN: Parseur - Automated email parser with some machine learning inside
How MooTools was built, 10 years ago
if any of your friends liked the wine or visited a site and the vendor had a look-a-like audience selected.

or maybe it uses voice recognition to target users "interests"
What's Momo?