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> Also, SQL Server is awful at importing/exporting data directly. Almost all forms are broken in various ways and are a source of endless grief. The only reliable built-in way is to use SSIS which is like using a 200-ton tank for a paperweight.

So much this. BCP is inferior to 5 lines of C# code, the tools for importing and exporting data in SSMS are buggy and cumbersome, SSIS is a gigantic monster. Simple "Export the results of my query into an INSERT statement" is a moronically obvious workflow and is non-existent.

I've read that the tools division of MSSQL was running on a skeleton crew for a long time, and it shows.
"One wonders if and when that pile may collapse. One also wonders what a distributed-first OS might look like. LASP might be the first step towards a whole new computing architecture."

What about Tannenbaum et al's Amoeba OS and Globe toolkit? Or the grid computing platforms that have been around a long time? There's been steady work in this area with some of it used in production in both CompSci and industry.
Not only did you completely miss the point (a systems language has a very nice thing very well built-in - yay!), but you also built a strawman (as if praising a language means is the same as telling everyone to rewrite all code in that language) and then beat it up using a poor example (why package those images into the binary?).

Congratulations! You just won the internet!
In my case, it was definitely a problem of resource limits during compilation only, since the same logic would work fine if not a macro and run at runtime, so not a general case of the JVM not setup to handle the work, but specifically macros not able to handle the work.

C++ obviously has a limit on template depths as well, but they are so high that rarely does anyone get close to the defaults. Clojure probably has very limited defaults (assuming that defaults are the cause).
Apple is very hostile about this, especially when it comes to iMessage.
What I want to know is - How can I buy the information marketers have collected about me?
My friend told me to buy $1000 worth of it when it was around 60 cents a coin. I thought he sounded crazy.

$1000 => $2.8M

:'(
am I the only guy in this thread worried about hackers and what they would do with such a trove of data? I simply would be more comfortable considering this product if I had a good report detailing how secure the system is first.
buy a little bit automatically every week. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_cost_averaging
Vanguard automatic investment in S&P500 index fund. Make it every week to get 52 investments per year. Increase the amount of weekly investment each time your income goes up.
The polish issue I see is mainly the visible seams between Apple Music, iTunes Store and your library. It's ugly that the search makes you choose a context. There should just be one simple profile for an artist. Show your favorited/"added" albums up top and everything else from them down below. Whether it's full tracks or just previews should just depend on whether you and/or they participate in Apple Music.

I also feel the UI could be simplified further by burying the concept of "downloading" somewhat akin to how iCloud Photo Library does it. It should just aim to handle 95% of cases via intelligent caching, like cache all your latest stuff and anything you recently put into a playlist. I know we on HN tend to be advanced users who love manual control but we could still do it via playlists. Get those download buttons out of the way for most folks.

I find discovery to be pretty good! The "My New Music Mix" is surprisingly decent for me. That is entirely track-based and it's probably my main way of discovering completely new music. I used to hate For You because it felt like browsing the 99 cent rental section of Blockbuster.. lots of old stuff that was maybe good, but I'm mainly interested in new music. But the New Music mix has changed my feeling.
It could be that, for some genres, they start with the greatest hits and then have to scrape further and further towards the bottom of the barrel
That argument against it was that it was like taking blood from a diseased patient and trying to inject that into an already sick patient. Big mergers are tough when the companies are healthy. Are there cases where this has ever been successful?
Yes. Somewhere I read an excellent writup about how their CEO dismissed e-commerce entirely at the time, saying no one would want to buy anything online... and that if they had gone they way, Amazon wouldn't have been able to move beyond books (remember when they were once just a bookstore!?). Instead, they doubled down, paving the way for Amazon to break in.
There are a lot of smart TVs already integrating with internet... I would imagine most would be like that in the future. It didn't make sense to me why they integrated a screen (other than to get people to use it in every room/ some sort of Amazon strategy that usually works for an unforeseen outcome).

What I haven't seen is something like the electronic-paper Kindle... a calm display. Most of the time I have my laptop and tv on quick shut-down because the ambient light feels grating (maybe it's the feeling of losing energy? not sure why it annoys me). A calendar or XKCD board would be awesome.... have the echo just populate a poster with stuff that's slightly irritating to lookup... this leads into an idea of having 'settings' for the environment/ room...hmm
No slow down here, (US South East)
FUD

Coinbase isn't perfect but 99% of the problems people have with them are due to KYC/AML. That, or they're shocked (indignant!) that they have to pay taxes on capital gains.
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Sun.misc.Unsafe is still available and equivalent _safe_ functionality is being introduced before it is removed.and, most reflection stuff can be done public ancestors with a little care.

Yes, this will cause some issues initially but I have hunk it's a good move for Java in the long term.
Hi Maurice here, I built this webapp.

The idea is that instead of searching for hours via LinkedIn, Facebook or IRL to find a suitable mentor, this app makes it easier to connect with a potential mentor in just a few clicks.

Would love to hear what you think :)
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Fair point, however I believe the OP made the game work for many different OSes, and I don't think xxd or Makefiles are the best when you have to deal with Windows (whereas Rust's include_bytes! provides a platform-independent solution).

I had never heard of xxd until your comment though, so thank you very much!
The public insurers are not private organizations. The reason they are called "gesetzlich" is exactly that: they exist by law. You are right in that they are not run by the government (be it state or federal) but are their own entity. They are however self-governed and currently hold elections for their board that undergo the same scrutiny as any other public election. They are public entities in full right. Not paying your fees has the same consequences as not paying taxes and they have more far-reaching powers than a private organization ever could.
My fiance who was a professional musician (she had record deals) always keeps a Tascam recorder. When she comes up with a melody or lyrics she puts them on that until we can get in the studio and record.

She hates music theory and trying to use her left brain for art. I'll say oh that is in F and she gets mad so, easier to just let her record it than try to notate it down.
No worries - I'm not arguing with you :)
Sentinel II images are great and provide many wavelengths. The resolution is a bit low for tracing though I think.
We'll see what happens to the demand if the Winkelvoss ETF gets approved. It's under review right now, should hear on or before May 15. [1] There's an Etherium ETF under review as well. If institutional and retail flows start causing crypto purchases through ETF creation unit mechanics, it's going to blow sky high. There are similar efforts going on in other countries. Crypto as an asset class is going to be a theme. Japan also legalized Bitcoin as a payment method [2], so there's been lots of buying there. I'm sitting on some BTC (not nearly as much as I used to though, :'( ).

[1] http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/26/bitcoin-price-sec-winklevoss-...
[2] http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/12/bitcoin-price-rises-japan-rus...
among the great answers that was already written here, i can suggest famous Plank tutorial: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~plank/plank/papers/CS-96-332.html

i (FastECC author) learned everything from this great text. It contains anything required to understand RS coding from standard programmer knowledge base (i.e no Galois Fields or matrix arithmetic). it's longer than most other texts referenced here but it contains enough info to even make your own implementation if you want

note that it doesn't include info regarding my fast O(N*logN) implementation. If you need to learn that - read docs in my repository, although i'm not as good teacher as professor Plank

also note that there are several different approaches to RS implementation. While they all are called RS codes, they are pretty different. Plank describes the scheme that is easier to understand (and implement) than any other one
It is not only Facebook and Google. Case in point the recent revelations about Unroll.me, which was used by even a lot of HN regulars without even knowing the way their email and data are used.
Actually, food and shelter are both primary needs. And I'm going to tip the scales in favor of food being "slightly" more important than shelter for it's sheer necessity for survival, ie you can survive by having food without shelter but not vice versa. And while no fan of Micky D's, I do understand the caloric value of the Dollar Menu.

"There but for the grace of ____ go I."
>> It's too much to think about when you should be focused on taking care of your health issue.

This is one of my biggest pet peeves. The biggest bill I've ever had get processed wrong is the only one where lawyers ended up getting involved, and what the other side's lawyers sent was a form my wife signed while in labor (was at an 8 when we got there) while I was out of the room agreeing to pay the bill however the hospital decided to bill it. They said that excused their mistake, and now that it was too late to bill insurance (had been over a year) we were on the hook.
Anyone know a creative way I could go short bitcoin over a long time period? eg. >5yrs
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One way to read this is that every year that goes by without the discovery of a major, world-ending flaw in the Bitcoin protocol should increase your confidence that there won't be one soon, so you should expect growth even if all else is equal. It's not just time either, as the "bounty" on such a discovery is proportional to the market cap of Bitcoin.
They're commenting on the link in the GP about "Rust's recent inclusion in a AAA title" (some rust code is used as text in a generic 'computer code' image)
People are not gods and nobody is perfect. Your spouse, unless autistic, knows you are not ok even if you are not lashing out directly. If changing job is an option, there is nothing wron with doing it. More then excuses, (young) people I see insist on assuming they can handle everything and proceed ignoring reality.

Or to tell it honestly and directly, I prefer my husband to trust me and be happy at the job then seeing him unhappy every day and assuming I care more about salary then quality of time with me and children. I like to work too and I want to be useful to familly too.

What you advocate is effectively putting all your mental strength on employer.

These positions are not overpaid - the company pays that much because people don't want to stick around. Mostly because they are self aware and not stupid. If you are one of those who are unaffected, more power to you. However if you are, then you have to decide about prioritis - staying is about proving something to your self. It is not about family,so don't frame it as such. (It might still be ok if you realy really need to prove that thing - familly should be two way acceptance)

Also, badly managed companies don't value good workers. If you stick, they will not reward it. It is not that easy to change those companies. Again, it is ok to leave bad employer in exchange for less money. Unless you think your wife is some kid of gold digger uninterested in you.

If knowing accurate economic possibilities makes you unhappy, nothing will help you. Leaving is an option, really, and a bit less money in exchange of bit more good conditions are better for both you and other people around you.
> Everything else basically just boils down to "they get to show you better ads" which honestly seems like a win-win to me.

Seems like a win for them and a mixed blessing for me. Is there a chance that I'll learn of some new product or service that will improve my life enough to be worth the cost of privacy+cash? Yes. Does it make me more likely to buy something that won't be worth the cost? Yes.

I'd rather reduce my costs by giving them less information and have a higher proportion of clearly-irrelevant ads that take less effort to evaluate and decide to ignore.
Perfect! Good thinking (intentional or not).
aka micromanaged subjects
It's due gambling.

The first blockchain currency that corrects the unreasonable value gained simply because of demand (via redistribution?), will be the blockchain that wins the whole market.
I think there's a difference between "I'm available if you need me" (but I'm actually busy doing something right now) and "I'm relaxing and actively interested in chatting". I think that difference does not map well to status modes I've seen in Skype and the like.
There absolutely is.

Until the phone companies decided to get out of the business of supplying landlines, there was a competitive market for both dialup and DSL service in the US. In my area, I used to buy EarthLink cable service because they offered higher upload speeds.

In the UK, many people can choose one of a dozen ISPs.

That's the real reasoning behind Ajit Pai and his pals in the industry hatred of the Title II regulatory classification of internet access. They want to head off local loop unbundling (which requires companies to share local infrastructure at non-discriminatory rates) and ultimately re-create the old Bell Telephone monopoly.

Companies like Verizon and Comcast are incredibly inefficient and poorly administered organizations. If meaningful competition were possible, they would be slaughtered in the marketplace.
I posted about this on an old forum when Bitcoins were super cheap.

The mods didn't like it and deleted my thread saying that the whole Bitcoin thing sounded a bit scammy :D
I mined 50BTC back in college. My harddrive died and I discarded it, thinking nothing of the ~$0.03 I was throwing away.
> Playlists are ok, but heavily recommending entire albums is bizarre. Its like trying new foods by going to Costco. It would make more sense to select top picks from an artist.

Strongly disagree. It’s probably a generational thing but I listen to music in albums, not in popular hits. This was by far the main reason I used to use Rdio instead of Spotify.
Probably not. But the article doesn't seem to be about them.
There are a couple of differences:

1. Scanning a QR tag and going to the URL requires the user to open a QR reading app at minimum. NFC scanning runs in the background.

2. QR codes are visible to humans, whereas you can put an NFC tag in anything, and can spoof it from at least centimeters away.

3. The contact info vulnerability, which isn't just opening a URL, seems really bad, as it adds stuff to your contacts without asking.
> But has all of this made us safer?

This is the key takeaway from the article. Most of the expense isn't making anyone safer, and the advantage is held by the aggressor who only has to be successful once to inflict unpalatable physical, economic and political damage to defending developed nations.

> The question is whether that funding truly advances the cause of the European citizen, or only that of the industry.

The parallels to the drug industry are striking, where often the most expensive drug is the least effective and billions are spent on duplicative competitive approaches.

> Let brilliant scientists get down to work, and leave them alone for five years

It is interesting the advances smaller, less well funded countries, have made in defense spending. Swedish Gotland subs, Israeli Iron Dome missile defense, Norwegian anti-air missles, reputed North Korean advances in EMP weapons, and reputed Iranian advances in fast torpedos, etc.

Sometimes less means more.
I started with tab and learned to read music 15 years later. I was amazed at the vast amount of information in sheet music.

Tab is great for messing around, beginners or simple songs. I can't even imagine trying to learn to play complex jazz or classical music using tab. Sheet music also guides you right into learning scales and intervals.

Tab is great for playing guitar hero but, even on a real guitar, it's like pressing buttons. It doesn't help you learn much at all. I'll never go back to using tab even though I can visualize it easily in my head.
This is probably not a popular opinion here in HN but why does it matter what language you use to make your game in? You can use virtually any language to make a game. From my point of view the best language for a game is that which makes you the most productive for cranking out that code. And we all have our own personal preferences about which language is best, which I think is fine, you should code with the one that you feel most productive with. At the end of the day users will not be able to tell the difference. All that matters is whether your game is fun or not.
If anyone is charging you $10k+ to issue new shares, that's crazy!
I meant my comment about unlimited spending as an philosphical argument, not as a literal data point.

And yes, the biggest problem in the US is unneccessary tests, procedures, drug consumption, etc., and the cause of that problem is a system which is built around maximizing revenue instead of maximizing public health.
Speaking as a classical pianist, I think the conventional musical notation system is actually pretty good. My only issue is having to memorize Italian, French, and German phrases to be able to read music properly. IMHO, music notation should be localized.
Because there is less space and more people per square meter. There is more money to avoid downtime.
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Yeah, I actually recall a discussion with one of their very senior IT guys and being rebuffed that the web was a fad, and it'd go the way of Prodigy. If Sears had come in around 1996, they'd be the biggest retailer globally today by a large margin... they already had most of the infrastructure ready. I remember hearing on the news when they shut down their catalog dept, and thinking to myself, "dumbass."
> What about Tannenbaum et al's Amoeba OS?

Unlike the contemporary Sprite, Amoeba does not support process migration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoeba_(operating_system)

> Globe toolkit

Got a link to this one?

> Or the grid computing platforms that have been around a long time? There's been steady work in this area with some of it used in production in both CompSci and industry.

Curious if any of these grid computing platforms support process migration (aka "don't make me think about machine boundaries"), and whether any of the more recent ones have been informed by CAP / designed to withstand unreliable networks. LASP is interesting because it has been. As I understand it, process state is a CRDT, so computations should survive network partitions and state should reconverge afterwards.

The biggest questions for me are around the performance characteristics of this approach.
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Well, maintenance is what you do to avoid (negative) change. Changing requirements or improvements are not maintenance.
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+1 for SE. Also there is an amazing set of Motown tracks split into instrumentals and acapellas out there. I'm not sure if it can be legally obtained easily, but it's a great master class.
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And that's what swings me to single-payer, despite my other political leanings. The incentives system is just so screwed up. Consolidating is would make solving the remaining problems so much simpler.
Spotify does suggest albums (and singles, it makes no distinction, ugh). But yeah I use the Spotify Premium subscription to almost exclusively play albums.

EDIT: Discovery is terrible, the only sites that had excellent discovery was last.fm (butchered by CBS) and what.cd (nuked by law enforcement)
The obvious question is "Why are those houses empty?" Because they are in places that people have felt the need to leave en masse.

People need to be near each other. Near family, support networks, schools, social services, and jobs. It's not enough to have surplus housing "in the US." We need it in the specific cities and neighborhoods with affordability crises.

Your solution is for people to move thousands of miles to dead end towns with no economic opportunities
or social support networks? I think you have mistaken yourself for their advocate.

Here's a litmus test: when you win, who benefits? People trying to collect wages? Or people trying to collect rent checks?

How does your communist solution decide who gets to live in California and who has to live in North Dakota?
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"The final and best means of strengthening demand among consumers and business is to reduce the burden on private income and the deterrents to private initiative which are imposed by our present tax system -- and this administration pledged itself last summer to an across-the-board, top-to-bottom cut in personal and corporate income taxes to be enacted and become effective in 1963."

(Note, however, that tax rates were higher then than now.)
But they do have government drug price controls, and tightly regulate health insurers...

And they do have single payer in a sense. The consumer pays the doctor and is reimbursed by a health insurer. Something that pretty much seems like it might not work well in the US, without very tight reins on the insurer reimbursement timeline and approval.
Write your own call options.

The challenge will be finding a counterparty. But look at The Big Short; they're out there.
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The language he chose doesn't matter except to him, but writing about his experience using it does matter to anyone interested in choosing a similar path.
The issue you describe isn't technical. It's mostly social. Your colleagues don't question the sense of updating the frameworks for no reason.

It's not that CSS/HTML will stop rendering. So you can just stay with 5 year old framework if you want. e.g.: old Twitter Bootstraps and old Angulars will still work, so if you've written code in that, don't touch it. But people get excited about updating, because they like to get features they won't be using.

The long-lived software is hard, and make sure you don't leverage yourself on the other end. Writing stuff to survive many years can be stressful. And you'll see 10-year old hacks and workarounds in the code as well. Just look at some Linux/FreeBSD kernel code. You can also read what Raymond Chen is writing about Windows kernel hacks to make customers happy.

But yeah: embedded, and everything infrastructure related should be long-lived. Even mobile: when writing www.sensorama.org I've mostly used ObjC stuff even though Swift existed for 3+ years now I believe. And all libraries and proprietary apps are and will be ObjC for many, many years. There's just not enough reasons to upgrade.