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[disclosure: I'm the CTO at NuoDB, one of the NewSQL systems discussed in [4] above]

Totally agree with your comment. While the "NewSQL" category is pretty broad and hard to define cleanly, one common theme is understanding the trade-offs that matter to your applications & operators as you distribute & scale SQL services.

For instance, with NuoDB we've decided that standard ANSI SQL with complete DML/DDL support is a must-have for migrating existing applications. As you distribute the database, the ACID contract you expect with those tools also has to be maintained, and we do that. As others have noted in this thread, however, there are many variants of "consistency." I believe if you're trying to exploit distributed scale, and low-latency through locality of reference, then you're probably willing to trade-off serializability. Using MVCC, logical timestamps (not globally coordinated clocks) and a few other well-understood techniques we provide a scale-out solution that maintains standard levels of isolation and consistency. In practice our customers are traditional enterprises using these capabilities to migrate legacy, high-value systems into modern architectures.

What Google has done is something very few other organizations can do: exploit their massive scale and hardware capabilities to offer something unique. From that perspective, they've also chosen to make trade-offs around syntax, indexing, transaction models etc. There's good commentary from my peer at Cockroach about this already on this thread, but the point is that Google picked a view of the database that makes sense for some applications and not others. Personally, I'm excited that Google has opened up this service and I'm sure it will lead to a lot of good introspection on what we need from modern data management services.

For those who haven't read it yet, I'd highly recommend the Quizlet blog referenced elsewhere on this thread. It's a really good discussion about some trade-offs that Cloud Spanner has made, and why they would or wouldn't map well a given application.

Bottom-line: both Cloud Spanner and NuoDB are examples of the modern, distributed, scale-out systems we're moving towards that focus on consistency, fault-tolerance and modernizing traditional SQL applications.
I'm not a high volume shipper, but I do a fair amount of buying and selling online, and I have never once had an issue with USPS. I understand the last mile service quality varies widely across the country, though.
How Plate Tectonics Is Connected with Life on the Planet
Microsoft calls for 'digital Geneva Convention'
I do have Blendle here in the States, very good option for plenty of newspapers and content. Do enjoy the pay-per-article type.
Amazon Chime: Amazon Takes on Skype, WebEx with Video Conferencing Tool
Been there, and can confirm. Six months of a restricted diet for $probably_similar_reasons does some interesting things to you. The body aches were definitely some of the worst parts, but for me, the worst part was the mental garbage that rides alongside. Maslow's hierarchy can be a huge kick in the teeth.
You can easily abuse non-serverless solutions as well... when signing the S3 request you could have internal logic and prevent this kind of behaviour, by just not signing the request.
Why the fuck would you want to do that? Being old sucks.
You're probably right, but that would be tragic.
The biggest problem with a lot of classic literature isn't the literature itself, but that teachers treat it as some high and exalted work and never offer any of the native context that would make the ardent mess and bother of it really sink in.

A classic example is Romeo and Juliet, which, if you're actually taught the language being used on a level beyond "old funny-sounding English I guess", is stuffed to the gills with teenage angst, jokes about teenagers being stupid, sexual insults, jokes about adults being stupid, bawdy flirting, jokes about sex, etc etc.
Apparently I have to give them my email before they'll tell me how much it costs, or give me enough information to estimate my particular cost.
Yeah it's one of the first things they tell you about in factory training. And they definitely emphasize pulling the cord (or pressing the button, depending on the line you're on) if in doubt at all.
Amazon provides a testing methodology here: https://d0.awsstatic.com/product-marketing/Aurora/RDS_Aurora... which might be useful to explore when benchmarking the two services against each other.
What is SecDevOps?
My internet connection is more stable than my computer.
Large newspapers still do a lot of valuable journalism that no-one else is doing. For example, the recent controversy over General Flynn was driven heavily by dogged Washington Post reporting, backed up by details fleshed out by the New York Times. You can't really do this kind of journalism without it being your full time job, and few organisations can afford to pay the number of full time journalists needed.

I'm all for supporting alternative means of journalism, but there will be a huge, huge vacuum if these large newspapers fail.
I think Hangouts is absolutely a viable product as it is. It just seems like it got released and then everyone moved on instead of making it better.
You considered using a less inflammatory, more accurate version of your title, but decided to go the other way.
My experience so far moving from angular 1 to vuejs.

I was coming from using gulp to build angular 1 projects. I understand gulp. Might be a bit verbose, but I get it.

Vue seems more tailored toward webpack as a module loader/build tool. It took me awhile to wrap my head around this and using webpack in general.

Truly yak shaving.

So I came up with a good build script with babel, code splitting, vue component loader, cache bust, minify, etc. All good. The vue-cli looked helpful, but it didn't really do much but download one of a few templates, which I felt did too much.

Finally I can start coding . . . so far so good. Do know, batteries are not included. With angular it's basically all there ready to use. With vue, npm install, import and use it or roll your own.

Managing the data is different. If you come from a background writing modular code, it'll be easier to $digest. If you relied on angular constructs like service, controller, 2-way binding and didn't think about it too deeply then it'll take some getting used to. I'm still getting used to vuex.

There's more . . . maybe after I finish a project with vue.
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Happy to answer any questions :)
http://scienceblogs.com/mixingmemory/2006/10/21/if-i-dont-re...

Amnesiacs who ate a big lunch could eat another large lunch after they forgot the first one.

Not perfect, but it helps indicate a leaning towards hunger, satiety, and the mind.
BlackBerry Suing Nokia Over Network Related Patent Infringements
Anatomically speaking, it has the right parts, but Dürer imagined all sorts of things that aren't real:

He depicts an animal with hard plates that cover its body like sheets of armour, with a gorget at the throat, a solid-looking breastplate, and rivets along the seams. He places a small twisted horn on its back, and gives it scaly legs and saw-like rear quarters. None of these features are present in a real rhinoceros,although the Indian rhinoceros does have deep folds in its skin that can look like armor from a distance. (Wikipedia)

Also worth mentioning is the very wrong horn, the fuzzy ears, and the entire anatomy of its rodent-like jaw/facial area. To me, it's the distinctly ratty appearance that's hilarious.
Michael Flynn, Trump's national security adviser, resigns
I think it's a lot more honorable and selfless than trying to blow it up with a huge round of VC funding and turn it into the next ad-funded unicorn. Why found a company just to turn into the same exact companies you tried to get away from?

But I also completely agree that's subjective, and there really is no morality here. It's simple personal preference.
India has banned disposable plastic in Delhi
> (To make a fictional analogy, consider the current civilization in Georgia and then consider the civilization depicted on the Walking Dead. Mann's hypothesis is that most of what we know about American Indians consists of observing the Walking Dead and then drawing conclusions about their pre-apocalyptic civilization.)

Which is oddly fitting given the history of siphylis, which was likely carried over from the Americas and sometimes hypothesised to be the inspiration for zombies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_syphilis
I also think there's lots of confounding variables at play here. TFA says their diet differs from the mainland in several important ways: more vegetables and fish, less white rice and meat, and lower average calorie intake. Both of the first factors are extremely well-documented and uncontroversial dietary improvements, basically in the recommendations of every public health organisation in existence. We also know that being overweight is bad for your health, so as you say, if they're just less overweight than average, nothing much to see there.
The actual professors have already got theirs, so screw everyone else. And the adjuncts don't have any power and are easily replaced.

Also everybody knows that if the university administrators actually got replaced by sensible rational people then the English department might not exist any more anyway so they're all living on borrowed time.
Similarly, Kijiji actually found success in Canada, and has quite a bit more traffic than Craigslist for most cities here.
In French "trompette" (trumpet) is a diminutive form of "trompe" (trunk, but it also has other meanings: [0] and trompe d'Eustache, trompe de Fallope (Eustachian and Fallopian tubes)...).

[0] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trompe_de_chasse
>From that Wiki: "Their meals were composed of foods that were expected to typify the diets of people in Europe during the latter stages of the war: potatoes, rutabagas, turnips, bread and macaroni."

What an interesting study. Seems they had that limited selection of foods though so it's not just about the calories in that case. I've seen a few documentaries of people doing CRON (Calorie Restriction Optimal Nutrition) and they focus on very nutrient dense foods. I think mostly fruit and veg. Eat, Fast & Live Longer is the documentary I saw most recently. Luigi Fontana, M.D., Ph.D. talks about it and they visit someone doing the CRON diet and run tests. Doc said he was very healthy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRON-diet

http://optimal.org/voss/cron_overview.html
No, I didn't at that time. An app like one you mention would have to observe you first and see which foods give you what amount of energy, as your body is cherry-picking compatible food to some extent and burning rate is highly individual, probably even depending on your gut bacteria and how they pre-process your food. What works for one person won't for another :(
> pro muslim

What a bizarre phrase to see here. That is not a thing; it exists in the minds of people who believe they're in a religious war—and presumably want to be, since that's the only reason to think it. No one is welcome to conduct religious war on HN.

We've banned this account for repeatedly violating the HN guidelines and ignoring our requests to use the site as intended. If you change your mind, you're welcome to let us know at hn@ycombinator.com.
I think the implication is that you age slower if you consume fewer calories. So if you adopt CR then you might feel at age 50 how someone on a normal diet feels at age 40, and at 100 you might feel as they do at 80.
3.4.5+by+Frederic+Thomas+-
Tools might rot, but in general you'd expect to at least find middens, skeletal remains, teeth, scorched layers indicating a hearth of some sort, etc. There's non-tool markers for communities that will survive even in the rain forest.
The startup that’s flippin’ dopamine
Dubai to introduce EHang autonomous one-person taxi drones by July 2017
Sue them over what? DHL didn't lose the package.
Where can I harvest energy in my home to power my wireless sensors?
Have a look at Eve

http://witheve.com
The page wouldn't even load for me on mobile. When I tried on my desktop, I turned all JS off and it finally started working.
When I first started out, I treated my database as just a dumb datastore. Thankfully my database was Postgres (a decision made by the team I got a job with, who obviously were much smarter than me). I think most programmers start out this way, probably because they learn a procedural language (PHP, Python, Perl) before SQL. So it's easier to write their application rules there.

Regardless, even when I was using Postgres as a dumb store, I was still using it to enforce uniqueness --- which is otherwise very hard to do anywhere else. Later I started to add foreign-key constraints (I know!). Slowly I found out that other things, like eligibility checking, complex calculations, and other processing, were always much shorter in SQL than in my procedural language (which had to pull the data from the database anyway to work on it). And all other things being equal, my criterion for how to do something is, "Which way is shorter?" That's usually also the fastest to run and the easiest to maintain (though I'm not talking about using one-letter names for variables and functions --- at least not always ;).

Now I'm slowly moving toward my middle language (PHP) being little more than a templating language. I think I heard that Oracle had even moved HTML formatting to the database in one of their products, but that's going a little too far.
> If you want to send something to another country and aren't willing to lose it? Buy a plane ticket.

And how often do airlines lose luggage? More often than packages go missing.
But that responsibility shouldn't fall on Craigslist who is a simple service provider.

Im sure that you can ask people on craigslist for a phone number, meet in a public place, etc.
What Does a Good REST API Look Like? – Use of Standard HTTP Methods
I'd really like to know how to deal with users input, forms and other stuff without JS. Every tutorial we see today is like "throw tons of JS to this problem and it shall work".
It's not "artificial" any more than the retail price was artifically low. It's a ticket, any price is artificial.
Is India's Citizen Biometric Central Database a Privacy Nightmare?
Who handles the liability when someone's leg is cut off by a propeller?
Where did you get that figure? The package was insured for 1000 Euros. It did not cost 1000 Euros to insure the package.
My experience was that the prime criteria for deletion was that the Wikipedia editors be unfamiliar with the material.

1000 pages on Pokemon? Great!

2 pages on obscure technical subjects, of interest to tens of thousands of IT admins world-wide? Nah... get rid of it.

I stopped contributing to Wikipedia when my edits were nuked as often as they were made. When spammers and people making negative contributions had their changes last longer than people making positive changes... well... Wikipedia is no longer of interest.
Yeah, I like the idea of services like Blendle that will give you a mix of content providers for $0.25/article, but that's just too steep for me. If they could get that down to the subpenny level I might go for it.

I could probably afford it too, but I guess the reality is I just won't pay for journalism. The value proposition is just too low given how easy it is to find this stuff around already.

Google News might be my solution here. Maybe that means I read Telegraph for one thing and NPR for the next, but that's not a big deal - they're decent enough to do the job and you can pretty much get any PoV you want using reddit comments these days.
Dear Technical Recruiter
I usually choose not to evade the question of my current compensation. You asked, I told you.

Then you proceed to parrot my exact figure back to me, as the top end salary of your 'great opportunity'?

And then you ask me to sign an 'exclusive right to represent' before you will tell me your client's name, or even their business domain?

You, sir, are an idiot!

HNers, feel free to pile on.

Thanks.
How can they prove he is in contempt of the court? Someone who forgot the password would very well be found in contempt of the court, despite not doing anything wrong. How can you jail someone for being in contempt of the court when there is no proof that he has the password?

In fact, it seems dangerous for the judge to be able to jail anyone without a jury verdict. It seems to bypass legal protections.
Depending on where you get your news, you might read that Coca-Cola does, in fact, save many corn farmers.
Long-term members must make a killing reselling their tickets!
Sorry if you think I made the wrong presumption, but I've seen the "pencil myth" trotted out many times as a "definitive" example of precisely the dichotomy that you have spelled out. (A low gravity ballpoint pen is high capability that requires finesse and fine tolerances; a pencil is ugly but strong and typically exhibits longevity... and so forth.)

It is an interesting analogy this dichotomy you see in the design philosophies (both between the space programs and the mega-corporations), but perhaps my point, if I were attempting a point, is to beware of false dichotomies.
U.S. Panel Gives Yellow Light to Human Embryo Editing
I would like to get good answers on this question: What are the U.S. Government data retention policies and rules?

> As I understand it, the most applicable overarching law is the Federal Records Act. More information can be found on the Record Management FAQ. Additionally, I've found the NARA Management Guide. ...

Question posted at: http://opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/10446/cross-cutt...
So long as you avoid the opinion articles like the plague, WSJ is my personal pick for closest-to-neutral. Their event coverage tends to be more neutral than NYT and WaPo (or the guardian, but i can't remember why I didn't look at BBC). Supplement WSJ with al jazeera for an alternate viewpoint on international events.
Sometimes. This can also happen before customs so that the company does not have to deal with it. It's amazing the abuse that other carriers do to USPS because they have a constitutional responsibility.
Who has the connections, the bureaus, the manpower, and the money to provide quality journalism across a wide array of fields and cover it but depth besides mega newspapers?

I'm all for supporting local news but if I want quality journalism on a nationwide / global topic I'm not heading to my local paper.
You will be extremely hard pressed to find anything without some sort of slant, though the AP is probably the closest thing to it.

The Times is still among the most trusted sources for in-depth coverage; their perceived slant might be due to the topics they choose to put more focus on.
What if the adjunct professors are making something rather closer to the market rate than the high-paying jobs they're eyeing? There's an oversupply in a lot of these fields. The universities pay these terrible wages precisely because they can. Yeah, it's mind-blowingly hypocritical of the Universities to pay market rates when it suits them (but don't you dare do it; the University administrators have only the most educated rationalization skills unlike the rest of you hoi polloi), but it still suggests that the market rate probably is that low. If that's the case, starting your own learning program, even ignoring the question of how to get people to use it, may not actually provide a living wage without a lot more clever work. You're probably not going to be able to do it just by setting up competing classrooms, you're probably looking at something that looks a lot more like an edutech startup than a university. Which is great if you can pull it off, but an adjunct professor of the humanities is statistically missing almost every skill necessary to do that.
> now that Google seems to have officially closed the book on ever supporting postgresql.

I would be hesitant to say that this is a fact.
Lawsuit alleges Magic Leap workplace is 'misogynistic,' 'dysfunctional'
Hey, thanks for the tip on Termite. I've been using it since reading your comment and it's awesome. Cut and paste and URL opening both work flawlessly!
Welcome to the third world.
You're allowed to set up a new University or place of learning/teaching. You aren't allowed (to a first approximation) to set up a different fully-sovereign government.
I assume he's referring to carrying it on, where you can maintain physical proximity to it, rather than checking it.
Some people are libertarian, some are not. They argue. It's not complicated, it's the free market of ideas.
Obligatory link: Dan Abramov's article on "You Might Not Need Redux", discussing the tradeoffs involved in Redux: https://medium.com/@dan_abramov/you-might-not-need-redux-be4... .

Also, Dan has pointed out that the Redux docs were written in a deliberately verbose style to illustrate what's going on, and people sorta followed that. There's plenty of ways to reduce the boilerplate, and you're welcome to do that as much as you want.
"I imagine that people who manage to achieve both peak physical fitness and peak mental ability are rare outliers."

I know quite a few people here in SF that do both. I used to be a state-competitive athlete in Pennsylvania, but I can't even keep up in SF with the times that a lot of my fellow nerds here throw down in Strava (still have a few though, running up the hill on Misson St, one lap around Bernal Heights Park, and running through Almaden Quicksilver Trail San Jose!).

High school athletics is a good way to get into a good college, when you already have academics on par with the majority of applicants (otherwise, it's a crapshoot to get into Ivy League schools with <10% acceptance rate and >90% of the applicants have near-perfect SAT scores).
>I'd be a bigger advocate of intermittent fasting.

It's just another method of caloric restriction: forcing your meals into a 6 or 8 hour window, or not eating for a day a week. You're just eating less.
Termite: a keyboard-centric terminal for tiling window managers
Of note, Geroscience is a new popular science of aging online magazine supported by the Apollo Ventures investment fund, devoted to longevity science startups. You should absolutely take a look at their site to see the sort of sea change that has occurred for the perception of aging research in the funding community:

http://apollo.vc

They take a very Hallmarks of Aging view of the causes of aging, which I can quibble with around the edges, but it is good to seem more people putting their money into the game of building ways to treat the causes of aging.

The principals at Apollo became involved in this space and raised a fund both because they are enthused by the field of therapeutics to treat aging and want to see it succeed, but also because they recognize the tremendous potential for profit here. The size of the market for enhancement biotechnologies such as rejuvenation treatments is half the human race, every adult individual.

Publishing a magazine on aging research is a way to help broaden their reach within the community, find more prospective investments, talk up their positions, and raise the profile of the field as a whole, all of which aligns fairly well with the broader goals of advocacy for longevity science. Many hands make light work, and we could certainly use more help to speed up the growth of this field of research and development.
Do you have any evidence for your claim of what the article mentions?
You can. You have the right to withdraw the border crossing submission which is what you effectively do when you try to cross the border. I once was denied entry to the US and the CBP officer offered me to make it as I'm withdrawing my border crossing application in order to make the consequences less severe.
Which hosting plan are you using for Plex?
Disney and YouTube Drops Contracts with PewDiePie Over Anti-Semitic Videos
That offering is just normal managed MySQL, the new thing is a custom built database for huge scalability, much more expensive of course.