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I continue to be impressed by the pushback by the corn industry on HFC.

Quick, someone prove fruits and vegetables are poison!

I'm not saying that there isn't something to what they're saying, but the timing is... shall we say... convenient.
Sheeple makes it into Merriam-Webster.  Uses apple users as an example
I'm just about as suspicious of Big Hippy as I am of traditional food companies. As in why does this organic hippy bread taste like bready cake? Oh right the processed malt and honey. Worse used to be I ate rye bread before it was 'healthy'. Now most rye bread appears to be rye flavored bread with added sugars.
I rented some time on a vultr server recently and chose a prepackaged build which included a MySql install. Coming from a MS SQL background it felt positively medieval. I haven't migrated yet but from my research Postgres seems the closest competitor in the relational db space.

I considered MS SQL for Linux but the server alone required 3GB RAM...
Far too brief.

I would appreciate a really long text that would in a convincing manner explain why Postgres Is so awesome.

I work in the industry, and all I see are Oracle and Sybase everywhere. The experts are zealots also, not even having heard of Postgres. Not willing to believe a word I'm saying about Postgres.

I am already convinced of course, but the industry is not. Not finance, not trading, not telecom.
I am aware of the noted time period.
Or even bigger oranges? Size vary wildly by variety.
We could continue to coast on a new negative proposition, but it turns out that doing so without considering how people might actually use said infrastructure results in perverse incentives.

As in cities, where poor districts often subsidize rich district services.
I understand where you're coming from. To me, "liberated" implies that the software wasn't free in the past. I think that's one of the reasons for the use of "libre" in some circles.

Now I've got images of a commando raid on a data center running through my head. They're throwing open the doors to the cages and racks. Jerry Bruckheimer, call me. Let's talk.
JavaScript: From Workers to Shared Memory
Sundar Pichai received nearly $199.7M in compensation
Also postgres was picked up as an option on AWS.
> you don't need speculative optimisations to make something like Objective C fast.

There is a difference between "make X fast" and "write fast code in X", a distinction that is hugely important in practice.

So no, I don't need speculative optimization to write fast code in Objectice-C, but I would need speculative optimization to make Objective-C code fast [without touching the Objective-C source code].

> But you say to do that you don't use the dynamic features where you need performance

No, I did not say that at all. I said I mix dynamic features and non-dynamic features where necessary, and that I need both to make things fast. And (more importantly), that the most important optimizations have nothing to do with either (which counters the assertion that inlining is "the mother of all optimizations").

> So yes you don't need speculative optimisations... as long as you apply similar optimisations manually in the source code yourself.

The point being that (a) those optimizations are such a small part of the overall optimization process, which in turn is applied to such a tiny part of the overall code-base, that automation is not needed. Which invalidates the assertion that these optimizations are "necessary". Nice to have? Yes. Necessary? No.

The other point (b) is that optimizations by the compiler/JIT aren't as good as those applied manually for many reasons, one being that the compiler/JIT has to make the transformations indistinguishable at a fairly low-level, whereas the author has a higher-level overview and can adjust the semantics to fit. So doing it manually is also worth it.

The third point is that I cannot rely on the compiler/JIT making those optimizations, there is no guarantee that they will be applied. And with today's performance landscape being what it is, reliability is paramount, meaning that being able to guarantee even a slightly higher bound is more important than meeting a lower bound some of the time or even on average.

> I'm not convinced therefore :)

As long as I am capable of applying those optimizations manually, I have made my original point which is that having these optimizations done automatically is not necessary for performance, but at best "nice to have". Which doesn't mean that more compiler support wouldn't be nice, the process in Objective-C is too ad-hoc.
Via corollary with Greenspun's tenth law, or not at all.
Proprietary software, there. Happy?

> Free" and "commercial" are not mutually exclusive.

Red-Hat earns money in enterprise consulting and support, they withdrew from the desktop market because in what concerns the desktop, games and mobile markets, they are indeed mutually exclusive.

Which happen to be the markets I care about.
Problem is, that unlike glucose, consuming fructose does not make us feel full, so it is very easy to consume a lot of it.
Who would sign up just to watch the fifth season? If someone was swayed by the marketing he'd probably want to watch from season one.

We are left with a minority that has watched the first four seasons but left Netflix sometime in the last year and were planning to come before season 5 but with the leak would decide to pirate it instead.
A person can still be guilty of "breaking and entering" if a house is unlocked. But breaking/picking a lock definitely is a stronger case.
It uses OCR then compares what it find with everything in the database. It doesn’t “learn” anything from what it finds; in fact you can’t even train it because it uses a static database.
Scrum: Share your side project status with the community
And you can create constraints to ensure only unique ranges in a table!
Because LLVM wasn't a thing, nor the ongoing replacement of GPL stack like what Google is trying with Fuchsia.

How are you enjoying the PS 4 features that were added to FreeBSD and LLVM?

Already updated it with your set of changes?
Yes, I know it's a hard problem. Tesseract (the OCR library that is used in this project) is in development since 1985, but even google doesn't dare to call it an AI algorithm.
OCR is of course a part that is required to build an artificial intelligence, but the term "AI" is just to overused nowadays and calling every single algorithm capable of recognizing something in some data is poison to the field itself. Solving AI is a huuge and daring problem and we should use the term appropriately.
Of the options available, Chromebooks are a lot less draconian about their DRM and lockdown than most Windows and Apple products.

Trying to get kids to Crouton on a Linux distro isn't necessarily practical, but the hardware is so cheap they can often get their own to tinker with at home. Apple and Microsoft products work to get you dependent and then strangle money out of you for as long as possible.
It’s not a joke, but it’s not AI either.
I suppose so, but I don't see that as a disadvantage of the term, in fact it opens up an interesting aspect of it: all software is, in a sense, imprisoned by default. The author must explicitly "liberate" it for it to be considered free.
This is why I've always preferred FOSS, Free and Open Source Software. It's a bit more specific, alas however, FOSS seems to also be some sort of science program in the US, so it's ambiguous.
"Much free software is also commercial."

Almost all commercial software is proprietary. So much that free is barely a blip on the radar. It's reasonable default much like a person can say they ate a lobster without specifying it was red rather than the ultra-rare blue or gold varieties. Everyone will assume the default of red unless specified otherwise.
Your tools are bad so postgres is bad? Use a ORM that handles migrations and queries.
"14g raw almonds"

You probably already know this, but others reading may not:

Almonds have a glycemic index of zero.

They are a great addition to a fruit smoothie since, in addition to the fiber of the whole fruit, you knock down the (already low) glycemic index of the entire (liquid) meal.

I wonder if you've considered almond butter ? Most almond butters on store shelves contain sugar, which would disqualify them, but many grocery stores (including whole foods) allow you to grind your own in-store ... I find it much more convenient to add almond butter to smoothies rather than almonds themselves ...
To be honest, I think email accounts (especially the main ones) have always been a huge target to thieves, since many services still use it as the primary password reset/two-factor authentication method. In that sense, not much has changed.
Availability bias.

Most software people see is mass-distributed software: browser, OS, office suite, games… And it is much easier to extract money mass-distributed software when it is proprietary.

In reality, most software that is actually made is custom software. Software that only a handful of people see, because it has only 1 customer, if any. Making that software free makes it easier to extract money from (at least in the short term), because source code availability is often sold for a price (the understanding being, giving the source code also means giving up on exclusivity for later maintenance).
My kids' school system starts students on Google Docs in 3rd grade (running on OS X/macOS), and almost all of the other classes that require special applications use browser-based apps. We got my daughter a $300 Acer Chromebook when she reached 8th grade and one of the best things about it is I almost never have to provide technical support.

The exception is setting up printing -- Google Cloud Print, printer companies, and wifi router manufacturers leave a lot to be desired when it comes to setting up wireless printing.
I imagined a Principle Skinner writing this article "Are we out of touch with the wants and needs of the American people? No, it's the children (voters) who are wrong..."
Yeah, it's what Rails is doing. However, if you are doing an app like this, you are building logic around the db mainly. If you are that DB centric, why not having Postgres itself serve web requests? There is no consistency with the double approach of having a logic rich app and a logic rich db.
Yeah, it's what Rails is doing. However, if you are doing an app like this, you are building logic around the db centric. If you are that DB centric, why not having Postgres itself serve web requests? There is no consistency with the double approach of having a logic rich app and a logic rich db.
Mike Duncan is funny.
Agree, this should not be available to people unless they have 2FA enabled on the account.
The gold is long gone. There's nothing there.

Of course they had to work out a 'deal' otherwise both/all banking systems come down.
That was my first thought as well
What?

As terms, none is "better" than the other, those are different things. A simple google search will reveal the definitions.
What Open Source achieved is that we can now build businesses and consimer products quickly by sharing innovation with few strings attached.

Free software has limited overlap with that particular benefit of Open Source.

At this point in time I think of the two things as widely different so the question does not even come up what's the better term.
Completely over my head but still interesting.
I agree it is a spectrum and that we may have different perceptions of each other's positions on the spectrum. That can alter how we describe them.

"Late stage capitalism", to me, implies that someone feels that capitalism is about to, or should, collapse. Plus, he mentioned "buying into the dollar". I really don't know how you're supposed to avoid that. If you're born into some country, you use their money. Even "buying into bitcoin" benefits early adopters more than the later ones. There really is no escaping "working your way up". Even being born to a wealthy family doesn't guarantee happiness or success.

If you interpret "late stage capitalism" and the other comments differently, I'm happy to hear your perspective. Perhaps I have the wrong idea.

I still consider France to operate in a capitalist nature along with most of the rest of the world, it just has more elements of socialism baked in. I absolutely don't think of France as communist, lol, but I'm sure some Americans do.

Perhaps capitalism is a bad word in France. I don't know. It's simply a matter-of-fact, to me, that many humans require a monetary incentive to do the kinds of work we do today, and that this is best achieved by having voting rights and the freedom to profit from new businesses.
Barrett Brown Taken Back into Custody Before PBS Interview
There's always GOMAD! https://stronglifts.com/gomad-milk-squats-gallon-gain-weight...
sci-hub can give me title search for free and you cant? come on man
> On the team we all agree that we want to keep building premium features in order to make the platform sustainable.

Is there any concern that paywalling features will reduce the number of users on the site?
As someone who worked for a company for a few years on a vast Tcl codebase, a company in which almost every engineer lamented the fact that they were working in an unused and unknown language, it warms my heart to see that it was used for this.
The default for Rails is sqlite and has been for quite a while now.
If you are using something like Mongoid, you are declaring the schema only once directly in your rails app. How having your schema burried in migrations - however clean they are - is superior?
Yes, I found the name misleading also.
Nokia's cap was 300G at one time, it was bigger than Apple when the iPhone came out and it was the leader on the booming smartphone market. They lost a lot of value, fired a lot of people, lost their biggest market - which is not "doing rather well" for a publicly traded business ...
checkerboard background?
I think it would be a little easier to accept (and probably easy to implement) if, in addition to title search, authors and keywords were also searchable. A search for my PhD advisor's last name results in 0 papers, though I uploaded a few papers that he and I coauthored.
Why?

I'm not usually an authoritarian but the article seemed to provide a reasonable explanation why, and was written by three doctors working at a diabetes clinic, so "I don't think so" by anonymous internet dude is incredibly unconvincing.

Although you provided absolutely no reason why, I could provide a reason that seems perfectly reasonable to a normie, in that its well known to normies that relatively minor arithmetic mistakes by diabetics can result in a under or overdose coma related to insulin intake. Therefore if being a serving off for a diabetic can result in passing out, it seems very reasonable that junk food like juice products could be the difference between insulin and no insulin required for someone near the border. If force feeding a serving of stuff (in this case juice, but it could just as well be candy bars) would make my diabetic coworker really sick, it seems extremely reasonable that cutting out that serving from someone almost as sick, would make their doctor happier.

"Unless the patient was downing a gallon of juice every day"

A gallon of OJ contains about 2K calories. Two large 16 oz glasses per day, perhaps one with breakfast and one as a snack, adds up to a quart or 500 calories per day. If you multiply that out, that kind of intake is a gain or loss of fifty or so pounds per year, no laughing matter. A gallon of juice per day would be insane, gain a couple pounds per week.
Shouldn't the web app itself enforce constraints? I don't think it's reasonable to enforce password strenght for example on the DB level.
My thoughts exactly. I get what they're trying to do with the free software term but they're ignoring the psychology of the masses. Once a definition has taken hold, it's best to use it the way it was solidified or create a new one for a new concept. Bringing up "free," correcting the user that it's about political freedom, politicizing software, and so on will bring up many tangents like how people will get paid or should they.

Open-source w/ its differentiators focuses right on the benefits to the user. I follow-up with real-world examples with things such as car development or repair to help them see necessity of the benefits. Also explain how copyright and patent monopolies reinforce the problems with simplest examples I can get. This approach has worked well where people usually agree with most of it regardless of political spectrum. The next thing they ask is about quality of stuff nobody was paid to write. Replies to that seem to boil down to whether they trust me to assess and tell them the truth. Very impacted by their own beliefs on work ethic and markets.
> Fukushima has shown us, how severely things can go wrong.

It should be emphasized, though, that this had nothing to do with the reactor; it was bad siting of the backup generators and switchgear for decay heat cooling. Other reactors in the same complex that did not suffer from this problem had no issues.

Also, newer reactor designs do not need a backup generator for decay heat cooling, so they are not vulnerable to this failure mode at all.
That's not how buy it now works.

The main use if it is for fixed price listings. The auction game is not worth the hassle. Want $100 for something? List it for $100 eith buy it now and payment required.

Listing stays up till money is sent. Easy cheesey.

Using auctions for things with fairly well known values is a waste. Days to collect bids then hope winner paid.

EBay is still alive and well. It's just not really an auction site anymore. Most people only use buy it now.
Isn't type 2 diabetes among skinny people with "good" diets rare?
Get a Garmin etrex and put OSM maps on it.
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/google-deceptively-tracks...
You can survive sure, but I'd be really hard and expensive to start a company. How am I suppose to read german law and fill government forms? Have a lawyer to everything for me? Thanks no thanks.
I've been kicking around a business plan idea for about seven years: A software marketplace for items under a GNU license. The key: I neglect to put that fact in the marketing.

The full license is posted with the software download, via a pop up EULA-style window before the download proceeds complete with an "I Agree" nuisance button.

The market starts with a price discovery model where I suggest a price and allow the person pay whatever they want. After some data gathering, I simply obfuscate the "pick-your-price" mechanism.

Yes, this is a bit of cherry-picking, where I employ some dark patterns. My reason for this thought experiment is the crux of this article and discussion: How do you explain software in the English language for which the rights of the end user are enshrined while leaving a profit-path open for the creator? My reply is: You don't. You focus, instead, on making the process of obtaining the software as friendly and service-oriented as possible.

I wonder how spectacularly this idea will fail?
>AAL's wealth transfer of nearly $1 billion to its labor groups

That right there is pretty much the coldest way to say "American Airlines raising salaries by a total of $1 billion"
You mean like https://www.reddit.com/r/Cyberpunk/
Every single time I feel smarter, Hacker News manages to show me something I can't fathom.
How close does it come to document databases when it comes to changing the JSON? Is it easy to increment a field, for example? Or add a property to an object?
You're quite right. It's so long since I've used Rails with anything other than Postgres I knew that it couldn't be the default because of having to specify the configuration flag, but it escaped me that it would be SQLite. Thanks for the correction.
In my experience actually most people still use MySQL and not MariaDB.
> Am Eastern-European, my mother tongue is a Romance language, I speak and read English, read and understand Italian, French and Spanish. German has proved too much of a hurdle for me.

Of course if you speak some Romance language natively, other Romance languages will be a lot easier than a Germanic language as German. Here you should rather compare German with a language from a different language family, such as some Slavic language.

I (native German speaker) think that at least for English speakers French and German are about equally hard. The main difference is that French has a "smoother" learning curve, while German's grammar is really grueling at the beginning (but this is also said of the Russian grammar).

What in my opinion many people don't get is learning German means learning the unpleasant grammar (IMHO best by rote drill) inside out. Concentrating on the vocabulary and getting the grammar later might work for other languages that are less grammar-centric than German, but I can imagine German is very confusing for non-native speakers, if they are not rather certain in the grammar.

As soon as one is sufficiently certain in German's grammar (i.e. you don't have to think about conjugation and declination anymore), the learning experience will become much more pleasant, since in my opinion how words are "built up from parts" (in German in particular prominently by juxtaposition) is "in some sense much more logical and memorable" than how words are built in English or Romance language. A rather funny take on this for German animal names can be found under https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/funny-animal-names-in-ger...
Most people just think they get it without paying for it. That's the universal definition of free at least in the U.S.. Attempts to redefine it are foolish. When they talk about freedom, they literally say freedom. I'd have gone with Freedom-Respecting Software if I was, say, trying to tie in freedom with software for a U.S. audience. I have no idea what would appeal to people in other countries.
I love caltopo. I use it for all of my backcountry adventures. It also has historical maps in its database which make for a good time finding ghost towns and possible ruins.
Interesting article. AFAIK reverse-engineering mixed-signal or analog ICs is far less common and more difficult than digital ones, since the transistor sizes and shapes are more critical in analog parts as are the resistors and other passives; there isn't much in the way of standard cells (which can be easily reverse-engineered using something like http://www.degate.org/ ) and the layout is more critical so it is often done with less automation assistance.
North American food is surprisingly diverse, too. That isn't to take anything from Chinese food, which is amazingly diverse. However, compare the food of Tucson, San Francisco, Santa Fe, San Antonio, New Orleans, Atlanta, New York City, Boston, Chicago, Toronto, and Vancouver. (I'm not even comparing to other North American countries such as Mexico, Cuba, and Panama, each with microregions of their own.)

Off topic, I wish there was more Uighur food around the US - that stuff is fantastic.
Thanks - the Venturi effect, I am guessing.
http://www.brightball.com/articles/why-should-you-learn-post...
Thanks, didn't knew about that.
You can do an experiment, if you eat those ingredients whole do you feel more full than when you blend them up into a smoothie?
Not to hyperbolize like the other commentor, but I was told harmless little lies like that as a child myself. You eventually learn otherwise, but not before embarrassing yourself in front of your peers and feeling betrayed.

Different children will react differently, of course.
These are consequences, but the disagreement here seems to be whether a search feature is necessary at all. The user you responded to seems to find it useful enough if I can be directed to a paper by some contact, & then be free to look up the references of the paper
Thanks for that. I wonder how many of us in this readership have "flop affinity", given often very particular tastes and goals?