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This is in no way related to this comment but I just wanted to say keep up the good work. I read Paul Graham's summary of you and my comment came across as mean and stupid. Anyway to say the least, moderating comments can't be easy and you take every one of them seriously. Thank you.
Man sacrifices Tesla to aid unconscious driver; Elon Musk foots the bill
> An ORM can handle the 90% use case for these things, freeing the programmer to focus on the 10% where the business value actually lives.

I'd say focus on the 10% that hibernate sucks at, which will be independent of the business value.
I'm not sure where you got that impression.

You propose to degrade people's lives by eroding their access to something they depend on.

I propose to erode the reasons people depend on it, so that demand falls naturally and an eventual lack of access will not hurt.

Are you going to bury your head in the sand on the problems of crowded housing markets?
But what about the three-word sentence "I communicate well"?

More seriously, the most that reading "I'm a good communicator" tells me is that the writer can form sentences reasonably.

Succinct? Sure, but it's still so broad. When I'm working with someone, I would appreciate a troubleshooting message of "The Flob server is saying clients don't have the right Gruffin anymore." instead of "Flob isn't working."

Obviously this depends on context, but choosing where to be succinct is key. My project manager would much rather hear "Flob is down for half the users - we'll have a patch tested and deployed by tomorrow afternoon" than "Flob broke, and we're fixing it".

"I have a proven history of writing clear and efficient end-user documentation" and "I'm someone people enjoy bouncing ideas off of" give me more confidence in someone's communication skills than "I'm a good communicator".
That's the problem. How does a small Midwestern city take 40 minutes to drive halfway across, except for utterly horrible planning and land use? Why is a single city 40 miles wide?

It got this way through 60 years of low density sprawl. Sprawling further and asking people to drive longer and longer distances is not a viable solution - socially, environmentally or fiscally.

We need to remove the barriers and even encourage mid-scale density on all levels of government. We need to be thinking of creative transit, design and tech solutions to retrofit our cities for something besides single passenger cars because our cities are choking on them.
They're walking and then standing. It's good exercise combated to sitting on a moving couch.
"Learning to be sensitive" is a bit of a cure all. Your best bet is to move somewhere else and pretend to be poor.

I know we like to put poor people up on a pedestal, and if we just act the right way, they'll accept you as one of there own, but a millionaire will never be accepted as intimately into a group as a person with similar financial status as them.
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Most people are at least subtly intimidated by those of very apparently higher economic or social standing.

... and people commonly make assumptions about what that person might be like, how they might think about things - assumptions which get projected onto a person which may in fact have no relevance at all.

It's very common that people with a great deal of wealth have trouble getting along with those that don't. Issues run both ways.
> The "how much did you make" question is super annoying

Do you live in the Bay Area by any chance?
On the Qantas domestic aircraft without seat-back screens they hand out iPads that can access the aircraft's entertainment streaming, and there's a strap thing to hook the tablet onto the seat in front - so the overall experience isn't all that different.

With the exception that you can also download their IFE app onto your own devices if you want.
I posted above but my experience with United and those sitting around me on my two international flights was horrible. Nobody could connect, or some could and then would get disconnected 10 minutes into the movie. I'd rather have a crappy screen on the back of the seat that works.
For our API, I've rewritten probably 2/3 of the public endpoints to use raw SQL. I'd like to rewrite the other apps as well. The non-ORM app has no issues whatsoever. I estimate probably an eighth to a quarter of the time I've spent in the last three years has been dealing with completely avoidable ORM issues. Yeah, I can relate. At least it wasn't my choice to use them. It's a minor consolation.
I'm sorry about your Loonie friends, but I can't help but think that having a real commercially viable deployment could be anything but a good thing for Loon.

The tech is sort of meaningless if it can't be cost competitive with other options.
AWS needs something like this.

The missing piece for the AWS serverless story is a database that is suitable for writing real world applications. DynamoDB is far from suitable for that task, which leaves AWS serverless with no good database.
> ORMs make porting queries to another project that needs to use the same database difficult.

Wouldn't you have written a shared library through which both projects access the same database?

I know SQL pretty well (20+ years experience), but still use ORMs with nary a reason to hand-code any SQL any more. As a small-business-focused consultant using Microsoft technologies I do realise this puts me in a different bracket than others using larger-scale datasets and so forth, however for me using an ORM makes my life easier, makes me more productive, and with a little attention to detail doesn't result in performance issues for clients.
Chevy Bolt EV is basis for 'huge range of electric cars': GM CEO
Yah, I mean, the Clintons are interesting. Bill is a Rhodes Scholar, Hillary is Wellesley & Yale. Nothing to brush off for sure. Chelsea and a PhD, again, no small feat.

I dunno, on one hand I really respect that level of commitment to learning, especially at an entire immediate family level.

What sorta boggles my mind is Hillary's complete fuck up of the election. And maybe this is because either:
A. She's still a novice compared to how far the right wing will go to bury her (I guess they hate her more than no other - a driven woman)
B. Her hubris is bigger than Trump's (doubtful)

My wife was really bummed she lost. She even took pics with my 3yr old daughter on a 'historic' day.

We'll see a woman president soon I think and hopefully she's more in touch than Hillary was. Who knows, maybe Chelsea (altho I think the Clinton name is prob done in the whitehouse).
How about you lead that effort ;)
I've asked this before on similar articles, but I just can't wrap my head around why suburbs are intrinsically cheaper than cities. My gut still thinks that density should be cheaper

One reasonable argument I've seen is that once you factor in car+gas, the difference narrows. There's also an element of the suburban "ponzi" scheme.
There is some truth in this, but determining what you need to know is the hard part. Learning something enjoyable (learning to surf, for example) is another category where I don't think it can be called a waste of time.
Does Anyone know if the retail units can be used for (indie) development at this point?
They encrypt using a Dovecot plugin named Trees that comes from Riseup Labs:

How it works:

1. On IMAP log in, the user's cleartext password is passed to the plugin.

2. The plugin creates an argon2 digest from the password.

3. This password digest is used as a symmetric secret to decrypt a libsodium secretbox.

4. Inside the secretbox is stored a Curve25519 private key.

5. The Curve25519 private key is used to decrypt each individual message, using lidsodium sealed boxes.

6. New mail is encrypted as it arrives using the Curve25519 public key.

https://0xacab.org/riseuplabs/trees

If someone would briefly describe argon2 and libsodium to the non-crypto geeks, it would be appreciated.
If eager loading seems sub optimal then I'd guess that the have some kind of data access or repository layer on top of nhibernate. Say there are 10 places requesting customer but only 1 that needs orders, using includes would be sub optimal. Of course, it's really their architecture that's sub optimal, not hibernate.
You should look at the current state of Amiga, while emulation is possible there are only two Amiga like OSes (AmigaOS & MorphOS) and both are closed source/proprietary.

What am I saying is that having an open source OS for Windows, is a huge deal if you are interested in hardware preservation for the future.

Therefore in reply to the original post about the current endeavor being "sad" I would say that it is quite the opposite.

Wine is very important as well, but it is a completely different piece of software in my opinion.
Stuffy and smell does correlate to disease spread. How many people die from the flu or other disease as a result of being pressed upon during their commute?
If food needs to be more subsidized, then it should be subsidized more directly, rather than with broad transportation subsidies that create perverse incentives for unrelated activities.
> Cockroach was a terrible branding decision.

This sentence is true, but whoever is in charge of picking a database for the engineering team shouldn't base his decision on such a criteria.
Thanks! Your comment didn't seem mean or stupid because you were defending something positive. But it's great for the community, and one of my favorite things on HN, when someone takes a second look and a more nuanced response arises. So your responses here (both of them) are a gift.
So sleaze bags get more wealth...

What's more important, wealth or your reputation?
Buying my first house gave me a high similar to some pain killers. Well, not literally, but it was so awesome having more space, more privacy, generally better neighbors and the ability to play music as loud as I want. I can also customize the interior any way I see fit. The thought of moving back into an apartment or condo is very depressing indeed.

In the end, people will keep trying to sell others on their own preferences, which is very much a nurture thing. If you grew up in the city, you're going to prefer the city. If you didn't, you probably won't enjoy living in the middle of downtown without a car. In fact, that prospect is extremely depressing and I'd honestly rather be dead myself than not have a car.
Thanks for the clarification. I suppose I should have mentioned my experience with DHL is with packages sent from the EU (but not Germany) to the US. I guess the EU ex-Germany's DHL is more like US' DHL.
> WTF. No concept of using transactions.

This isn't uncommon. Where I'm working now we're actually busy implementing our own transactions to solve performance issues :(

Even rarer, almost no one is aware of implicit transactions. Developers: Always use a transaction, if you aren't then you are using many more implicit transactions.
My goto website for this is : eatbydate.com
> One reasonable argument I've seen is that once you factor in car+gas, the difference narrows. There's also an element of the suburban "ponzi" scheme.

There are very few cities in the US in which owning a car is optional. Only one (New York City) has an outright majority of people who don't own a car. The next two, D.C and Boston, are the only others that have more than a third of households without a car[0].

The reason is that most cities just don't have the infrastructure necessary to facilitate car non-ownership. It's not that everyone wants to own a car; it's that you have to own a car anyway, at least some of the time, and once you already own a car, the impetus to live in higher-density, more expensive areas drops dramatically.

[0] You can inflate those numbers a bit by counting Jersey City and Newark as separate cities from the New York City metro area, but no matter how you slice and dice it, it doesn't change the numbers much.
It's an immense amount of time that's no longer available for actual good exercise such as lifting and running, meal prep, etc.

Some will not "exercise" unless forced, sure. For others, the best way to promote exercise is to promote free time.
Every example provided in the article is model and training data specific, it only tells one thing, your data is not telling the truth, so why not getting better data.
What kind of people is Riseup supposed to help?

For anything serious it seem inadequate unless I'm missing something.

How is it even better that something like proton mal?
40% efficient, so let's just generate 2.5x as much electricity! (Oh, and remove all of that extra heat with more air conditioning, too!)

Even at 95%, I wouldn't want a 1900W cool near my body for fear of burns. (Compare 100W light bulb)

Finally, what do other electronics do within this field? It's not like there aren't already lots of coils (inductors) that would now have to worry about significant RF back power!
I meant like, set a max/min of calories you want to eat per day - and the meal plan would change accordingly.
And this is exactly what I'm trying to avoid. Terraform should know about most of the stuff.
This is only true for certain programs.

I've already run into many issues trying to run older software from Windows 98/XP days. For example certain older tools for Quake1 modding don't work properly on anything past Windows XP.

Even something like Photoshop CS2 has certain bugs running under Windows 7.
You forgot the most important stuff: it scales well with various technology nodes and processes, requires much less mask layers than flash and it is much more cost effective.

Edit:also , they mentioned an ncfet transistor for general use.since this transistor remember his state, you may not have to power it in sleep mode(whole circuit or partial), and thus could get zero leakage current!
What would make sense would be to tax the 20% cut that Uber (the company that makes >$75,000/year in revenue) is taking from the rides (see any discussion of what exactly is GMV).

Then, if an individual driver does make more than the threshold, he'd also lose his GST exemption. This would be a fair and correct application of the existing legislation that takes into account that drivers are self-employed and that Uber is a large company.

I like that Australia is attempting to maintain the rule of law, but Uber has a point: if they are to be treated like taxis they ought to have all the privileges of taxis, including street pickups.

This particular solution sounds more like the government wants a certain outcome and is bending the rules to achieve it, which is in the long term damaging to the rule of law.

If the issue is one of implementation (such as the government being technically incapable or legally barred from doing a simple SQL query to determine revenue per driver in a financial year) then they should outright say so.
There are a few packages I always install directly from source, to avoid lagging. Golang is one of them.

If you're using Debian, or some similar system, chances are your package manager will never deploy something beneath /opt. So in my case I configure golang to install in /opt/golang/

On this particular host I have only three packages here:

$ ls /opt/
arduino-1.8.0
calibre
go-1.8
If you can explain your fears perhaps we would understand, because I still don't know why using Azure is a privacy trade? Does Microsoft "steal" the data?
This does not require exceptions. A very simple implementation could involve appending the additional error to the messsage from the lower error level. As far as I understand, exceptions were invented so that error handling code will not clutter up the "happy path". They allow "exceptional condition handling" to be seggregated. But in real world applications you may need to, say, recover from an error. For example, if connection using https fails, fallback to http. This makes code using exceptions look wonky. So might as well use error codes always
DynamoDB would be pretty close if it just allowed null values.
My favorite "hibernate is slow" story, actually nHibernate in this case, was at a company that was storing the second level cache in session variables. Half the database was being deserialized then resirialized into the session storage on every request. It also completely destroyed any consistency the second level cache would have provided, because session variables are per user.
> DynamoDB is far from suitable for that task

why?
I think you misunderstand what I meant by "it". I added a few notes to my earlier comments; you're assuming that the new satellites don't have higher power or tighter beams? Not to mention that low-end WiFi equipment now has shaped beams, so it's not exactly rocket science to have that in an Iridium receiver. As a former radio astronomer who did some VLBI, solid state phased arrays are easy to understand, I'm mostly glad that I don't have to be the person making them affordable in a few-hundred-$ ground station!
Actually I guess the query language and indexing is pretty limiting too.
The suggestion from the OP, as I understand it wasn't incentivizing alternatives to driving but rather punishing car driving with extra taxation. I'm ok with the carrot, but not with the stick. The problem with taxation on things such as that is it's typically regressive, which is rarely good tax policy. Not only are you regressively taxing, you are regressively taxing people trying their best to keep their heads above water.

If we really want to make a difference, electric cars should be heavily subsidized in the ballpark of 30-50%. Also have the government build out a charging infrastructure as part of the highway system. That would be a lot more bang for the buck against climate change than taxing waiters, clerks or everyday people trying to earn a living.

I have a great idea, we should mandate 100% remote work whenever possible, and the savings companies get from paying less rents should go directly to the employees (minus a 20% management fee of course) who are now supplying their own work environment. If only ..
Linq is compiled once. The database will continually monitor performance of the query and recompile the execution plan as needed. Linq runs on the client machine. The query planner runs on the database machine. Many clients will connect to the same database server, and they may not even know beforehand what exactly the RDBMS is capable of, what indexes are available, what hardware the database server is running on, etc. Therefore LINQ can't compile an optimal execution plan before sending the request off to the database server.

In short - LINQ runs on the client machine, the execution plan happens on the database server.

Think of it this way: Lets say you have a database of clients and contacts. Lots of systems in your company connects to this database to access this data. Each of those systems will submit SQL in the form of 'select clientname from clients where id = 123' or whatever. Now lets say the client list grows and the old execution plan is not optimal any more. Our smart RDBMS can just dynamically fix the execution plan and performance goes up for every system accessing the database. If the RDBMS instead received a rigid execution plan, EVERY client system will need to recalculate the execution plan.

Also: lets say your client app connects to several different database servers. What's a good exection plan on one server it not going to be a good execution plan on another server, so LINQ would need to keep a list of database servers with table statistics, indexes, etc etc and continually monitor all of those for changes. It's massive duplication of work. It's much more efficient to have each database server look after its own execution plans.
Belated thanks—a moderator saw your suggestion and fixed the title earlier today.
Just coat them with ITO!
I can see that templates can get complex pretty fast, but so far we manage it. Big benefit we have - a fresh start with infra about a year ago.
From the uBeam discussions, I thought this was impossible
I'll reserve real judgment until I can see one in person, but it's nice to at least see indications that the UI won't be slow as molasses like it is on the 3DS.
Delta definitely has them, even on trans Pacific flights. So does Aeroflot, but you can fast forward through them and anyways I can't Russian. I believe AirChina had them when I last flew them also.
Why does theFailingNYTimes.com redirect to nytimes.com?
For the people that don't like the black bar. It can easily be reverted using the stylish addon.
This addon is available for Firefox and Chrome and allows you to add custom styling to any website.

Made a Gist with the styling that will revert the black bar to it's original light grey header.

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And the Stylish addons can be found here:
FF:
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Chrome:
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That's only true for a handful of cities.

Most american cities and towns remain very affordable. These cities have tons of vacant lots close to the downtown office areas and are degraded by all the car infrastructure that serves the wealthier suburbanites. In those places, a lot of people of low means actually live very centrally. There's room to contract there and provide ample living space for households of all incomes.

It is really a failure of the imagination. Most Americans cannot imagine a luxurious or aspirational life without a car. It has nothing to do with not having the means for it.

And, fwiw, it really does require somewhat of an imaginative leap.

When someone says that cars have bad consequences and there should be less driving, most objections are really reflexive. People imagine their current way of life, but without a car. A few examples:

- How will I take my kids to school? You won't, they'll walk, because you live close to school, and since there are fewer cars, it will be safe for them to do so.

- You expect me to lug all my costco bags on foot? No, you still can drive there, but you'll drive out as a special occasion once a week anyway. Or you pick up groceries in small batches from the grocery next to your office.

- You want me to wait for the bus that only comes once an hour? No, you'll live closer to your office and walk or bike there. Or you'll take a streetcar that stops one block from your house every 10 minutes.

- You want me to give up my huge front yard? Yes, but you won't need it, because you won't live next to a noisy and dangerous road. Instead, you'll have a small courtyard and it will look sick, with a lemon tree and a koi pond. And with all the money you save on gas, you can buy a little cabin out in the country and enjoy real nature there a few weekends a year.

The imaginative leap requires you to imagine, basically, town life, and most Americans no longer can because they have never experienced it. Some americans in some city neighborhoods or tourist traps enjoy it. It's usually expensive, but only because supply is constrained, not because it's innately costly. People who have lived abroad may have experienced it. Often they return to the US, and are offended by the sheer ugliness of it all. Many college students experience it, it's kind of nice huh, small college towns. Well, to americans that's not "the real world", just a holding pen for young people to squander their youth. But why couldn't it be "the real world"?

Make town living aspirational again, and half the battle is won. But that will only happen if people can imagine it. And that won't happen as long as people imagine `their` life `without` a car. They should imagine `somebody else's` life `with` a car.

And again, the rents in the coastal cities are an exception. Most cities and towns do not have any significant pressure on land prices. Town life is right there in front of us, for the cost of used tire lot and a White Castle, and people cannot see it. Because they'll object that there won't be any room for the drive-thru lane.