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> Go, which is much older than Swift, Rust, D, etc.

Go is definitely newer than D, which came out in December 2001, though D2, which is significantly different, came out in June 2007, while Go came out in November 2009. And, in the grand scheme of things, Go isn't too much older than Rust, which came out in January 2012.

Additionally, from the point of view of "no UI libs," basically every natively compiled language is at a significant disadvantage on Android, even the originally intended native language, C++ (1983).
I'm not convinced that ease of access to illicit opiates is a major driver for addiction. I'm sure there's a bunch of good dope that's cheap and easily found.

I'm curious on the differing levels of use/abuse. My gut tells me that Bangladesh opiate consumption OD rates are lower than Appalachian.
> Swift is fast

Not really. Apple's propaganda is fast, Swift can sometimes be almost kinda fast if the stars align just right, but in general it is quite slow. For example, last I checked, Kitura's HTTP parser is written in C. And has to be.

Another one: the various JSON "parsers" that wrap the built-in NSJSONSerialization API add about an order of magnitude overhead. That is after all the actual parsing and conversion to a property list, which isn't exactly the most efficient representation in the first place.

The Big Nerd Ranch guys realized that the only way to get a "high performance" JSON parser is to do it 100% in Swift. They did that and the result is significantly faster than the wrappers. And only 4x slower than NSJSONSerialization, which again isn't exactly a very efficient parsing model (think XML DOM parser).

https://github.com/bignerdranch/Freddy/wiki/JSONParser

I do a more in-depth analysis in my book, "iOS and macOS Performance Tuning"

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321842847/ref=as_li_tl?ie...

EDIT: I forgot the link to Freddy
It does call it out in the guide.

>Border agents cannot deny a U.S. citizen admission to the country. However, if a foreign visitor declines, an agent may deny them entry. If a lawful permanent resident declines, agents may raise complicated questions about their continued status as a resident.
Here's the court filing [1] describing the circumstances that led up to the bankruptcy.

[1] https://pdf.inforuptcy.com/pacer/debke/167122/dockets/2/1-A0...
Realize that by pushing someone into a hobby you're going to disrupt their ability to discover or experience it for themselves. Give them a computer, not CS problems.

I would probably hate CS if my parents told me to get into it or started leaving breadcrumbs for me to pick up.
No, I don't want to share models between the client and the server. I want an API dependency between them, a code dependency is actually worse.

Why should the frontend change when the backend changes it´s abstractions? I want to change them independently, because they have different constraints and dependencies.

If you are implementering your database schema in the frontend, you´re doing it wrong.

An API is a view against a domain, which in turn is an abstraction above the database. However the client is not aware of the entire domain and shouldn´t be.

Only thing that is a good idea to share is the domain language and the API interface, but can be solved easily by other means than share code base.

And as soon you throw in another client with an other programming platform, all the benefits is lost anyway.
Relatively speaking, eating healthy is much easier than eating less. Anybody with enough will can eat healthy -it's quite sustainable. However, Over long periods of time, Eating fewer calories is a much larger challenge, that's why satiety research is of such enormous importance. For overweight people, There are many biological forces that force people to eat more than they need.
How does a maven repository work?
Reviews are a problem, but not for novels.

Perception of books and concepts covered within are entirely subjective.

However, when it comes to service or product quality, you can be almost entirely objective in its value judgment.
What if the opposition is literally hysterical though?
So maybe solution is in changing optics for such events - Demo Days are primary for PR stage play helping humanizing startups and their creators and not for helping entrepreneurs raise money and meet investors?
Huh, pulling it out the unit tests is a pretty good idea actually - if the test coverage is good enough it might be worth a bit of investigation.

Especially since it'd be an optional build step you'd only want to run infrequently.
1 - You can see our pricing page at https://firebase.google.com/pricing/

2 - The timeout is configurable in the Google Cloud console with a maximum timeout of 9m

3 - The official tooling is what the "for Firebase" part is all about. We've designed an SDK for Firebase users and integrated it tightly with our CLI. We'll be giving an overview of these features at https://cloudnext.withgoogle.com/schedule#target=google-clou...
It's oddly ominous reading about America's rise on the back of textile patents taken from England and Europe, then poaching of German physics talent and scientific talent from across the world. Germany was, by far, the pre-eminent power in theoretical physics at the turn of the 20th century, with Einstein, Heisenberg, Planck & Born about to be at the peak of their powers. Then the country decided to turn on intellectuals, immigrants, and minorities and turned its scientific prowess to war rather than peace.

There's an old saying out there that history is merely a set of cycles. I suppose we'll see if that is true in the upcoming years.

*one note I would add is that with recent policy uncertainty (i.e healthcare) the advantages of hiring around the world have come into starker relief. That's even more dangerous. Sure, the United States may become less competitive in the war for talent because of walls and tighter borders -- but it'll become less competitive, period, for companies relying on high-skill workers who by definition will be close to or at the peak of their physical and/or mental health.
صور+فراشات
No native python, java support like aws lambda. Are AWS 128MB instances constrained to 200MHz cpus ?
The pricing is listed here:
https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/postgres/pricing#pg-pricin...

Sample monthly pricing:

db-f1-micro instance : $7.56 for compute;

10GB HDD : $0.9 for storage;

No network cost if the database instance is talking to a GCE VM in the same region;

Disclaimer: I work on Google Cloud SQL
What about citext? It's not on there.
What you are imagining are templates. They are already widespread(see LegalZoom) and almost everyone using contracts uses them for certain things.

Smart contracts are programmatically verifiable. That is why they are flawed for almost everything. They also don't allow discretion, intent, or anything that almost everyone wants to be considered in a contract.

They also wouldn't do away with lawyers fees they would just replace them with lawyers who are also programmers fees since you don't want a novice to code a smart contract since they are locked in so if its not in the contact it doesn't matter.

Smart contract proponents(well a lot of them) believe they will literally replace the whole legal system.
There are more than a billion Chinese, and only a tiny number of them came to US for college. From such a large population pool, you can find people with all kinds of options. Even if all of those who came to US are aligned with western ideology, it really doesn't mean much.

On top of that, from what I see most of the Chinese that came to US nowadays are becoming more patriotic, and more tolerant about Chinese government before they came.
This looks interesting, giving it a try now. Thanks!

edit: As an aside, i long for this type of thing for politics. There is obviously a lot of complicated issues, but i feel woefully uneducated in politics and it's made far worse in a climate where News is untrustworthy and politicians lie and slander without fear.
Unicode is fucked. All these bullshit emojis remind me of the 1980s when ASCII was 7 bits but every computer manufacturer (Atari, Commodore, Apple, IBM, TI, etc...) made their own set of characters for the 128 values of a byte beyond ASCII. Of course Unicode is a global standard so your pile-of-poop emoji will still be a pile-of-poop on every device even if the amount of steam is different for some people.

It's beyond me why this is happening. Who decides which bullshit symbols get into the standard anyway?
New version of Google App Engine supports all programming languages
Kind of but not really, Jinja let's you do a lot more. {{(x or y)|filter(z)}} for example, or even just {{function(a, b, c)}}.

Django is far more restrictive in what you can put between the braces. I think one of the design goals of it was that designers with little programming knowledge could write the templates, which is a noble idea but leads to frustration as anyone who has maintained a large django app will tell you.
In my ignorance, I assumed those words meant the same thing they mean in everyday English language conversation. If one had to guess, the "old" RNC might have been the one that never imagined Trump would kick their asses to the curb, while the "current" one might be the one that Trump hired after he did that? Which would be more likely to have dirt on Trump?

As I said above, however, we're really in the dark when we're reading tea leaves of nuance in testimony about an open investigation, by an effectively independent civil servant who has given directly-misleading testimony within the last year.
I was prepared to skeptical--investors of course will dislike situations which set up competitive bidding scenarios.

But the writer has some good points, including demo days favor men more than women, as well as extroverts:

For entrepreneurs who don’t pitch well — or who don’t fit investors’ mental image of a successful entrepreneur — Demo Days may hurt more than they help. The preparation teaches entrepreneurs to focus on transactions more than relationships (when, in reality, an in-depth conversation after the pitch matters a lot more than the pitch itself).

The Demo Day format is not ideal for investors, either. If you’re picking who pitches best, not who runs the best business, you’re not getting the best results.

What I have seen happening at accelerators, universities, and startup events in the Boston area is this intense focus on pitching. It's all about showing off the team, presenting a problem, sharing market or usage stats, prepping a slick video, and getting the deck just right. This approach emphasizes superficial qualities over the product or service being built. Product demos are almost an afterthought, and information about build progress or actual discussions with customers are turned into a couple of bullets on slides 4 and 5.

So yeah, by all means, ditch the demo days. But don't assume that focusing on "building relationships" will solve the problems of investors favoring certain types of people, or glossing over product and customer discussions. Extroverted founders and talented salespeople can project empathy, ask the right questions, and send other signals that are more likely to suggest a "good relationship" to investors. These qualities/skills will not determine who runs the best business.
I must be the only person to think it's weird that intelligence leaks are never from China or Russia.

It's probably just a coincidence.
Google Drive has a ton of new updates
If you're a profitable private company, aren't you legit?
I agree, but only with the 'breaks' part.
They've always seen support and revulsion on both sides of the aisle. Your partisan retcon is dishonest and shameful.
Mnemonic Training Reshapes Brain Networks to Support Superior Memory
Its funding criteria is very unusual - http://vilcap.com/method/

Did they ever have demo days in the first place ?

At the end of each program, the entrepreneurs assess each other in an open and transparent process. The two highest-ranked ventures receive seed capital from VilCap Investments and co-investors. In 2013, this peer-selected investment model won the Harvard Business Review/McKinsey M-Prize for innovation.

Is a survivor-style fundraising mechanism better than a demo day in front of investors, who are probably well experienced to look beyond stagefright?
The Gettier problem
Bir Tawil probably doesn't require a Visa. You might find the fiber optic infrastructure a bit lacking though.

( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bir_Tawil )
I see that, but it still doesn't fundamentally address what you should do.

1) comply - possibly incriminating yourself, endangering your security and anyone you have contact with

or

2) refuse, get arrested, harassed, deported and probably placed on some kind of watch list as a known troublemaker

Which should you choose?
It's about the cloud provider monitoring your data. Plex by definition has to see the data to serve it.
Have no fear. Immigrating to China is basically mission impossible for people with no existing ties.
I've read this is why soldiers like combat deployments. I always figured war was something you were drafted into and were terrified most of the time. There is a subset of the population who enjoy soldiering and this is part of why
Their business operations are cash flow positive (such as we see with Amazon) but they want to raise more money for capital investments such as to expand.
Really, never heard that before. In my circles even part of Germany is secretly considered Eastern Europe. Maybe it's more political than geographical. Don't know.
Cloud Functions for Firebase is not a dupe of Cloud Functions. It is an extended offering with additional features. It's also prob of more interest to HN users.
While it's not as easy as android it's not exactly complicated to distribute an app internally

https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/ID...

Most of this is talking about getting up and running the first time too so it has length but it's not complicated.
Meet the shadowy overlords who approve emojis[0]

[0] http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-emoji-q-...
I think it's more about hiding college credentials than hiding the portfolio.

It would be great to allow programmers to show their portfolios, but that would likely enable interviewers to google them, giving away their backgrounds.

I have a few interesting projects in my portfolio that I am proud of, a reasonably high CS GRE score (a test which is unfortunately not administered any more), and a moderately good topcoder history. However, after being told by an HR person that they would not hire me because of the college I went to (a for-profit college) I started to view the relation between hiring and credentials as illegitimate. So for that reason I hope TripleByte catches on.
I know next to nothing about LDAP, but would this handle installation as well? Eg, i'd like to use a home-hosted LDAP solution for Sandstorm.io, but i don't want to manage complicated LDAP junk.

Or does this only manage an existing LDAP deployment?
There's a per-cpu cost and per-GB memory cost (or specific costs for the shared cpu instances), and then storage and egress pricing.

https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/postgres/pricing

Perhaps the difficulty of working this out is from a lack of clarity on what those values would be? Or have I missed something bigger?
> This was an interviewer working for Triplebyte?

Yes, it was.

> I thought their interviews were standardized.

I don't know if you can standardize peoples personalities... The real issue here (in my opinion) was the guy was not a good interviewer.

> Can you tell us more about the experience, and what they asked?

I honestly don't remember, they asked about active record (as I do some web dev), but also stuff related to describe on the spot some SQL queries and why one would be faster than the other. All of that appeared fine, the real issue was our debate related to computer vision (where my research was done). Sorry, I can't really dive more in, but it was probably a year ago.
What are the most interesting meetups you have attended?
So, those are not (unfortunately!) the primary way that we match engineers with companies. It comes down to questions about how important it is that engineers are strong in academic CS (some organizations think very, others think it's useless fluff), how important programming speed is (some companies think very, others want to see careful testing and think speed is sign of shallowness), or whether it's important that engineers are strong in http / web systems (some think this is the core of what most engineers do, others want problem solving and intelligence and think web programming is teachable). Some companies want the best engineers, regardless of english level. Others value communication over engineers. It's simple stuff. But getting the data is HARD (companies themselves don't know how much they differ), and matching engineers on these criteria significantly boosts pass rates.
Google's giant 4K digital whiteboard, Jamboard, will cost $4,999
Google Drive business account with one person in it has unlimited storage for a very reasonable price. There's a lot of information about that on https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/5kamuv/google_...
Write real IP address in errorLog with Varnish 4 and Apache 2.4 in Ubuntu 16
Language is inherently complex, there's no way to solve this in any "cleaner" way than what we already came up with. Unfortunately the best way forward is to build up what we already have and cover all the warts with wrapper functions/libraries.
FB and GOOG are both large, stable surveillance/ad-tech companies with various money-losing side-bets. Their compensation is structured differently than what you would find at MSFT, IBM, etc. (more workplace perks), but it seems strange to relate that compensation structure to a "startup." People who work there get fat salaries, reliable employment, and perks, not a high-risk bet on a new idea.
Explaining physics with 1930s-style short animations
True, but the parent was speaking specifically to taxes alone, while your reply is referring to a different claim, about taxes plus healthcare costs.
Hehe, I'm quite sure though, that none of my Shanghai friends would consider themselves Central European, at least.
See how your tag line "Now you can finally be in front of the camera, and not behind it" sounds now with respect to your comment
Both. From what I gather, some European countries have a decent track record, but the U.S. and many other countries have a pretty sucktastic situation for women.
Appeals court throws out six Intellectual Ventures “do it on a computer” patents
There is a difference between politics and policy.
Laziness isn’t why people are poor. And iPhones aren’t why they lack health care
Grid Inspection
For friendly Canada all you need is an Electronic Travel Authorization document, whereas the fascist US demands an Electronic System for Travel Authorization document.
Did they reconsider declaring a special dividend on the common stock as part of the $112M Series B funding round?
Hey, thanks for giving it a spin! Looking forward to your feedback!

We've heard this from a number of people now regarding politics. I definitely think it's an important topic to educate people on, but I still believe that the foundation for most things lies in having a basic and solid understanding of natural sciences.
I would, however, not rule out that we add politics in the future.
TripleByte only gets paid when their candidates go through technical engineering screens, so it's not surprising that they select for that to the exclusion of other factors. If you can't talk your way out of a paper bag, you spend TripleByte's time and reputation for no good gain.

Plus, people with a good body of work need less help getting interviews. TripleByte has less value add in that case.
Discussion of Cloud Functions for Firebase announcement is on the blog post link here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13831721
This is despicable, but the conditions at the average prison are despicable too. Just watch almost any cop show to see how the expectation of prison rape has become normalised in American society.
I actually wish they would add support for HDFS- it's not a bad way to combine lots of somewhat-small (< 2TB) disks into a sizable amount of (seemingly) homogenous storage (without having to be super clever with mount points and hard links and BTRFS and junk like that).
Ah and in my circles Russia, despite maybe even publicly being considered European (is it?) is considered Asian. There even the political distinctions are completely ignored it seems.
Nope.

I compare direct coal deaths (for example the coal mine explosion in China, >1000) with direct nuclear deaths (Chernobyl, 56) and indirect coal deaths with indirect nuclear deaths (that's where the 100K vs. 90 or 0.01 figure comes from).

But it is true that you have said enough. More than enough, in fact, because it has all been devoid of any facts.
I'm not sure there's a third choice currently.
Plex the software running on your own hardware playing files on your own storage is a MiTM funneling your data through their servers to publicly accessible third-party APIs. Plex the company does not need to do that to play or catalog your videos.

Plex the cloud software (aka Plex the software on a VM) keeps them out of your private network but will still superfluously send your data from the VM to Plex the company.
The company's irrevocably ingrained customer support culture will ensure they'll never be a serious AWS competitor, not with all the engineering and money in the world
How does secondary market transaction work, in these cases? Is it only when a round is raised that shareholders can take money off the table, or does it ever happen between rounds as well?
VideoLAN press release about the Vault7 leak
Are they dynamically linked?
tl;dr: "Don't even try to protect you personal data".
it seem that the performance gain of not having all update go to a single log could be also achieved by having one log per bucket. My understanding is that with Bizur all update for the same bucket also need to proceed sequentially.

Also with most system like Raft a failed machine trying to rejoin the cluster does not need to download the complete transaction log but can instead download a snapshot of the state machines then load log entry created after this snapshot.

Another aspect is that if the bucket contain a large number of key. From the Bizure paper it seem that the complete set of "key->value" need to be sent to replica each time the bucket is updated instead of only the entry that changed.
This would produce much larger network traffic compared to Raft or Zab when all replica are mostly in sync
The only difference is the time-frame. Almost anything in history short of massive asteroid impacts has been less destructive than humanity.
Then my first guess is you're expats in Berlin? ;-)
We already have direct cause: the religious based travel ban. to my knowledge there is no exception for a founders visa application if you are from this list of countries.
Well, for one thing you'll need to learn to speak Chinese, and that'd be much harder than learning English. Also, it's close to impossible to immigrate to China at the moment.
A day late, but I'll join in.

Company I worked at hired a woman to join our team of almost all men at a small consultancy. People who had worked with her before all said she was an excellent developer, and she was. I worked very closely with her for the next three years. She had a different perspective than the rest of the team. More formal. More thoughtful than just crank out some code and move on to the next task. She taught me things I never knew I didn't know.