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Wyden Pushes for Stronger Security in Collection of Personal Information
Show HN: Data Commandr – As Easy as a Spreadsheet, as Powerful as SQL
There are some Linux distros, like AVLinux[1], which do all the heavy lifting for you.

Just boot in to them and you've got Ardour, JACK, Hydrogen, and a whole ton of other music apps all ready to use.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVLinux
Tor Browser 7.0a4 is released
Starcraft was originally a Warhammer 40k game. They lost the license but published it anyway after changing the names.
Integrating Git in Atom
Right, now give me 6 apps with the same mail icon and help me find the one I like. The one that supports my mail provider and has my contacts in it. Not the other ones.

The bird is distinct. I know it's thunderbird because that's the icon thunderbird uses. I can upgrade windows and still find it. If you are making things easier for new users but ALSO worse for existing users, you're not doing anyone any good.
This is interesting, but these robots move slowly - or at least not as fast as a car.

I don't see food from outside a mile or 2 km range being deliverable in any reasonable amount of time.

Is this the food-delivery equivalent of the last mile (kilometer) problem? Because with delivery the rest of the miles are also important...
The virtual world exists in nature, made from natural elements - where else would it be?

The whole notion of a virtual / reality divide is a farce
Data Commandr: http://conceptoriented.com (Version 0.6.0, 2017-05-14)

Data Commandr (DC) is a web application for working with tables. Its goal is to make complex operations with data tables as easy as working with classical spreadsheets (but it is not a spreadsheet application) for producing reports, data integration, data migration and other data wrangling tasks. Its main distinguishing feature is that it does not use traditional (set-oriented) queries but rather relies on column formulas to derive new data.

I would like to get your option about Data Commandr from three points of view:

- [As developers] How do you like the current UI and general design? How it can be improved?

- [As users] Can such a tool be useful for working with tables?

- [As investors] What other tasks can be solved by using this approach? For example, I want to pivot in the direction of stream analytics. Or it could be applied to tasks where Spark is normally used (DC might have much higher performance and much simpler data processing language.) Other applications: data dictionary and data catalogs.

Thank you in advance for testing the app and your feedback.

COMPARISON:

- [Spreadsheets] In spreadsheets, a cell is defined as a function of other cells so we get a functional model where the result of each cell (one value) is computed by evaluating other cell formulas. In contrast, DC uses columns instead of cells so that a model is a number of column formulas.

- [Set-oriented approaches] In set-oriented approaches (RM, Hadoop, Spark etc.), new data is derived by applying an operation to input sets and producing an output set. Data transformations are represented as a graph of set operations. In contrast, data transformations in DC are represented as a graph of function operations.

- [Research] Formally, Data Commandr relies on the concept-oriented model of data [2]. In particular, DC does not rely on such difficult to use and understand operations like join and group-by. Instead, it uses link columns [4] and accumulate functions [1], respectively.

- [Competitors] When I started this project [5] I knew only one similar product which is Power BI and its DAX language. Now there exist such relatively new products like airtable, fieldbook and rowshare.

[1] A. Savinov. From Group-By to Accumulation: Data Aggregation Revisited. Proc. IoTBDS 2017, 370-379, 2017. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316551218_From_Grou...

[2] A. Savinov. Concept-Oriented Model: the Functional View. arXiv:1606.02237 [cs.DB] 2016. https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.02237

[3] A. Savinov. DataCommandr: Column-Oriented Data Integration, Transformation and Analysis. Proc. IoTBD 2016, 339-347. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301764506_DataComma...

[4] A. Savinov. Joins vs. Links or Relational Join Considered Harmful. Proc. IoTBD 2016, 362-368. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301764816_Joins_vs_...

[5] A. Savinov. ConceptMix: Self-Service Analytical Data Integration Based on the Concept-Oriented Model, Proc. DATA 2014, 78-84 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265301356_ConceptMi...
Yes, I am certain of that. I've seen it in production environments and verified it by looking at heap dumps.
How do you determine FRAND?

My opinion is that since apple is making 40b a year on iPhone sales, 50% of Qualcomms market cap a year, then Qualcomm is charging Apple a fair and reasonable price. If qualcomm chose not to be part of the LTE standard, those patents would still be enforceable, and they could charge whatever they want, like they did with wcdma.

I think legally FRAND is defined ambiguous enough that many kinds of pricing schemes are acceptable, so there is nothing illegal with qualcomm charging a percentage of device cost.

My point on bringing up MediaTek was that if Apple wants a discount, they can cross license with Qualcomm, like other companies have. Intel can offer Qualcomm it's fabs, or x86, or server patents. Qualcomms pricing has not been so unfair or prohibitive as to prevent small or large players from making a mountain of profits from the cellular device market.

I own stock in both Qualcomm and Apple, so I feel like they are both wasting money on lawyers instaead of engineers :).
I've had many of my american friends tell me they've observed the bias and the details in upbringing, particularly stressing confidence as being more important than being correct, and "fake it till you make it".

And i think you're right about archeology. Most of the notable people mentioned in the history section of wikipedia are english.
Reddit is basically NNTP with a special client that offers a "here's top-rated stuff from everything" option. Which for anyone who used NNTP, should be self-evidentally a thing to be avoided. But like NNTP, some of the groups are fantastic.
Fraunhofer is, conveniently, one of the AAC patient holders.
Sure it will be written about that way in the future. That doesn't make the mud wrestling of the moment good for intellectually curious discussion.

Nobody here thinks silly things like "tech can exist in isolation". If you think of this issue in those terms you're likely to miss the important things about HN. This place is an experiment in escaping the life cycle of internet forums. One way for that to fail is for the experimenters to lose focus and forget what they were trying for.
I was wondering what Biz was up to; really dont understand the negativity here. This is probably a morale boost internally; Biz always struck me as the most passionate user-centric one of the founders. He brings a philosophy of horesing around and trying new shit without taking everything so bloody seriously.

I don't know the guy; but his interviews and writing don't paint a negative picture for me; don't get all the hate
101-Year-Old D-Day Veteran Claims New Record for Oldest Skydiver
So, with the recent discussion about banning laptops on flights form Europe into the US, I was wondering about something like this. A way to still have a computer but in something the size of your phone. Not just a phone OS, but a full desktop OS. Obviously the small screen size is an issue, but I wonder how that could be handled. Possibly from the airlines with some form of display input for a screen on the back of the seat? Not sure, really. Either way, interesting stuff.
This looks like it's going to be neat! But why does it come bundled by default [1], instead of an optional package?

[1] https://atom.io/packages/github
> Intermittent Downtime for a period of less than five minutes will not be counted towards any Downtime Periods.

That's unfortunate. The most frustrating part about cloud services are exactly these kinds intermittent performance and responsiveness issues.
Yeah it doesn't make sense makes it even more suspect. It's 2017 everyone knows this is a lawsuit waiting to happen and for a company to open themselves up to a lawsuit that they would HAVE to know is going to be coming seems suspect.

I don't know enough to have an opinion one way or the other but if any company behaves like this the deserve to be sued out of business and should be fined for stupidity.
I laughed more than I should at this line.
It's hard to say about the timeline (1st iPhone was introduced just 10 years ago), but we could see the trend with existing and upcoming technologies. Everyone probably remember what happen to film camera, CD, etc.
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Negative externalities of car use are the issue. Cars take up so much space on the road that they congest the roads and slow down other traffic.

Cupertino and Apple are doing nothing to change this status quo. With the status quo maintained, car use is mandatory for Apple workers in Cupertino and traffic will continue to increase.

Bay area taxpayers can look forward to paying more for new road expansion projects to attempt (and fail) to alleviate congestion.
You are over-exaggerating quite a lot to say the least. Microsoft Continuum currently works on Windows 10 Mobile with passive cooling just fine.
Samsung DeX has active cooling in the dock though, to be able to handle even heavier loads with SoCs as close to thermal limits as possible, without headroom.
You see the trick here, that's 99.95% outside of their regularly scheduled maintenance!
PHP is coming: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/google-cloud-php/pull...
I don't understand the American obsession with living in shoeboxes surrounded by other people in similar shoeboxes?
>Every conference I've been to about the auto industry the experts say that, especially for low-income individuals, the monthly payment is what customers tend to be the most concerned about. In fact, many prefer to pay more total money over a longer term if it means a lower monthly payment.

I'm price sensitive about this - but for things I can't purchase as a one-off purchase I don't mind paying more money if it means I can pay a smaller amount monthly. To a point.

I imagine people who are more strapped for cash than I have less concern for just how much more they will be willing to pay over time if it means they have less worry from paycheck to paycheck. e.g. The difference between $250/mo and $375/mo could be their entire food budget for a month. So they could literally starve for 2 years and pay $375/mo payments or they could actually eat food and pay $250/mo for 4 years. Even if, without interest, they will be paying $3,000 more. ($12,000 vs $9,000).

This is one of the struggles of being poor: you can't afford to save money.
Awesome. Maybe you can change the part of the culture that thinks it's good to censor troublesome (read: conservative) viewpoints.
Lambda University–the CS degree of the future (?)
I always thought this was going to be the direction of the original iPod. Any day now...
Because Atom was created by Github I persume.
Inputs and outputs of the digital world live in nature too.
Just look at the IBM Somers Campus... Not trying to be cynical, but history repeats itself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Somers_Office_Complex
Many of these features already exist as an optional package.
> Lurking encourages user participation in the long run.

I bet most folks started to use HN after they lurked for a while. I think it's not uncommon to lurk for weeks or months first before one decides to join.
If only there were a platform with a word count limit... where he could post the small snippet of information without all the filler...
Maru == (Windows Continuum || Google Fuchsia)
Honestly yes. His investors have put money into the company as much because they believe in him as because they believe in the idea but at this point all the evidence is pointing to the idea being sustainable but Travis not being. They're hemorrhaging money fighting a losing war with regulators, Lyft, and the taxi monopoly but if they get self driving cars working (which is no guarantee) they are poised to be something incredible. Given all this it can easily be argued that Kalanick is doing more to harm Uber than to help it. If I'm an investor, or on the board, while I might not be ready to throw him out on his ear quite yet, it's absolutely a conversation I'm having.
In other words, please don't call your service "Serverless" if it runs on a freaking server!

:-D

Based on the title, I also was expecting something that was designed to run client-side.
That is really cool! Do you have any pics or design mockups of what you sent to apple? If you can share
Hi primitivesuave! Thank you so much for your kind words!

I'm very happy you're highlighting all these points. It's indeed something we've tried to put a lot of effort into, to make the first getting started experience as nice as possible.

What I'm most excited about is the flexibility and extensibility compared to previous BaaS solutions. This is where GraphQL & serverless functions provide the perfect building blocks without resulting in vendor lock-in.
I guess the difference is that a bribe would go to an individual. As in - an individual would then be doing something that is in conflict with what the organization he's working for would otherwise do.

If you just "bribe" the organization, there's no conflict of interest. "We want to build this" "we dont want you to" "heres some money" "ok".

Its a bit like negotiating with the CEO vs. bribing a lone DBA about getting access to proprietary data.
Cassandra is a NoSQL database, so you get horizontal scalability but need to deal with eventual consistency and there is no SQL support. It is similar to Google Bigtable [0].

Spanner is a database that merges the horizontal scalability of a NoSQL database with the strong consistency and SQL semantics of a relational database, basically the best of both worlds. People like to call this type of database "NewSQL."

Cassandra is also open source, Spanner is not. CockroachDB is the OSS clone of Spanner, but there are some differences and tradeoffs to be made as with all things.

(I work at Google Cloud)

[0] https://cloud.google.com/bigtable/
I hate to be negative; so I won't. I can't see this being scaleable, profitable or useful at a meaningfully higher level than people.
It's got a huge glass wall, how is that claustrophobic? It's far superior to an open floor plan.

I've built out office space for my 40 person engineering group before with individual one person offices. They had doors to shut and most had windows (but not all, all offices have interior space, and space being expensive need to be used), but all had some amount of glass to their hallways. And they all loved them. Apple's Pods are even better than what I was able to get.

You don't seem to understand how hard it is to get any company, even a tech company, to understand the value of one person offices for software development. Most of these decisions are made by operations, essentially the CFO. I was lucky enough to have a CFO who understood lowest cost options weren't always best, that productivity mattered far more.

But even when I convinced him, the building owner pushed back. They give you a certain budget for build-out, but they don't want you building out in a manner that can't be easily sublet if you leave. The building owner felt that larger offices and open space was far more flexible, new tenants would only have to buy cubes!

Apple's Pods seem to be at the forefront of maximizing individual productivity and work satisfaction. I'll bet you can't name any other large company that's made such a large commitment to personal work space.

Note that Louise Mozingo, the urban design professor at UC Berkeley has criticized Apple for the pods, because she thinks that the modern workspace should be an enormous shared space where people can "collaborate" by shouting at each other over their co-workers heads. That's the kind of design advice workspace planners are giving out today.
The central problem with this idea is noise and creepiness. Nobody wants a noisy robot, and roboticists tend to produce creepy ones. Both problems might be solvable, but I think robotics tends to focus on the technical problems at the exclusion of the aesthetics. It's definitely a startup idea.
Excited to have Biz's energy and heart back at Twitter #BizIsBack
$2500 for 3 months at 5% interest per month
Reed's spending 5-10 minutes in that one episode defending his actions was not very convincing to me - where he said he had to guess what the subject would think.
vs simulation, it lets you get trajectories from the way people actually move without having to make insanely complicated models. vs. precollected training data, maybe the recording apparatus is less expensive/complex?
This is really cool, but I feel some skepticism. I grew up in metro Detroit, live nearby in A2, and commute to Detroit proper weekly for meetings. A lot of the people moving to Detroit are like me -- young, unmarried, working in creative, marketing or tech. We are able to have a lot of fun living there. But relatively few of us stay as we age and get married and build families, for fairly sound reasons, like poor quality of schools and poor quality of emergency services. I worry that we are building a place to be partied but not really lived in.
Unifying callbacks, promises, observables
Chrome Extension Provides a Layer of Protection from Online Phishing Scams
Agreed. See this video "Bruce Bugbee, Utah State University Department of Plants, Soils and Climate, has studied plant growth in controlled environments for most of his career. Here he presents the results of his analysis of the environmental effects of Vertical Farming/Indoor Agriculture (September 2015)"

A copy of the slides can be downloaded here (the link shown on the youtube page is dead. correct link https://cpl.usu.edu/htm/research/publication=15787)
I think the distinction between "this value is a reference that can be derefenced to get another value that is stored somewhere else" and "this value is an address into some contiguous storage where another value may be stored" is a useful one. Personally I like "reference" and "pointer" to make that distinction, where a pointer is a specific implementation of a reference.

However, that terminology is by no means universal. While, from what I can tell, "reference" as defined above is favoured in the Java and C# community, "pointer" is still used plenty. For example, the Java spec says "The reference values (often just references) are pointers to these objects"

All that being said, I do agree with what I think is the spirit of your comment, which is that when your language doesn't allow pointer manipulation it is less useful to ask whether two values point to/reference the same value.
Samsung is a grown up, they signed a contract for a mutually beneficial reason. If they want a steeper discount, I am sure they can offer Qualcomm more fab capacity for their chipsets.

In my view, if qualcomm was being unreasonable in their pricing, Apple wouldn't have made 40b a year in profits. 50% of Qualcomms market cap. If anything, Qualcomm should charge them more.

FRAND doesn't specify that the price offered had to be the same to everyone.

I own stock in both, so I feel it's dumb of them to spend money on lawyers instead of engineers ;).
2500 movies a year? Who has time for that? Are there seriously people out there trying to download and store every movie released in 2017? I don't think I'd even approach watching 1% of the movies released in a year. I'm often playing catch up, watching ones from a few years back that I haven't gotten around to yet.

I often think our resource usage as a species is insane. In an age when you can download anything in minutes at any time of the day we (well, some of us) fill terabytes of hard drive space with endless duplicates of movies and tv shows we'll probably never watch, albums we'll never listen to and more recently books we'll never read. And that's just digital, don't get me started on raw materials
This should be the only answer with 10k upvotes.
Can someone downvote this for me? Gosh dude were you thinking putting this crap together?
I feel like the window of opportunity for a Neuromancer film has closed... so many of the tropes that it invented have now become clichés that at this point the film would just feel stale. That's what happened with the Ghost in the Shell movie and Neuromancer would have it even worse.
I have seen signs that the influx is starting, but no hard data yet.
Also: http://hooli.xyz
That depends on the parameter being changed; not all parameter changes are compatible with block level replication. Such as the MySQL InnoDB log file size, something that needs to be changed on every instance.
Why? I'm confused as to why using PHP would be relevant to how much it costs.
@cocktailpeanuts Graphcool is using Auth0 Extend behind the scenes (https://auth0.com/extend/developers) to handle the custom code execution. Extend is a Serverless extensibility platform i.e. there are servers but you don't have to manage them. I also agree with you that the term does get overused ;-)
I'm curious to see what the real-world implications of this iteration of Spanner are against Calvin-based designs, like FaunaDB. Obviously Calvin is better for low-latency workloads, but I'm curious about the comparison with a mix of workloads, where latency is important but not mission-critical.
Have you ever tasted wild herbs? There's just no way this will ever replicate wild herbs.

I recently ate an out of season "heirloom tomato" grown in Mexico and shipped to my local coop in Minnesota. It was "organic", and it looked like an heirloom tomato. But it had no taste. It was clearly grown in depleted soil. I've grown heirloom tomatoes, as well as beefsteak and other more conventional varieties. Food grown in a garden tastes better. There are more nutrients available to them. Plants are chemical-mineral-sun beings. They grow abundantly in diverse ecosystems and offer their fruits with no violence.

Why is this artificial shit necessary? It's not.

People don't appreciate the profound and beautiful foundations of "old" technologies. Paper. Knots. Gardening. Cooking. Woodworking. Compost. Herbal medicine. Music. Many of these artforms (sciences, really) are miles ahead of the fancy capitalist stuff in terms of their nuance, their simplicity, their integration with human wellbeing.

And they're free.
That isn't what the study I linked to says. Did you read it?
This Entrepreneur Built a $360M SaaS Business, Entirely Self-Funded
Coordinated European Data Protection Authorities vs. Facebook
Stripe CEO: Your data is probably safer with Facebook than with your hospital