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This is a super exciting release and I'm really excited to see the community go in this direction, specifically the ability to add more sophisticated, custom capabilities to the server. GraphQL is a client-server dance that needs server-side capabilities, not just CRUD semantics.

It is also surreal to see GraphQL go from the first prototype system I wrote five years ago to where it is today. I'm so impressed with the players in the community and its humbling to see so many people take the ecosystem to new heights.

Congratulations to the whole Graphcool team on this awesome milestone!
Never a noob, were you? Never considered that the source code primacy to convey the programmer's intent and that a modified lump of sand can do something with it is a nice side effect?
It's so expensive and such a huge distraction, and you can't even offer it to most employees? How is that worth it?
>>Having a 1 acre garden as a hobby, is huge ecological violence

Can you explain how this hobby is so violent? I don't think I am following the line of thought.

The typical one acre hobby garden is farmed with far fewer chemicals than the typical commercial farm. There is far more diversity and a better balance of minerals. Compost is often used and waste is effectively recycled.
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* Why Honeycrisp apples are so expensive - YouTube || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4eQX2vZ_Zg

* The Story Behind Honeycrisps, America's First Brand-Name Apple || http://www.esquire.com/food-drink/food/a20018/honeycrisp-pri...

And look, hope for better apples on the horizon!

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"I am a huge Alien fan, but I can't understand the fascination with Aliens, it always seemed like a cheap action movie when compared with the true psychological horror of the first one."

Having seen both movies during their original release, I originally liked Aliens more; probably a side-effect of being in my teens and liking guns and explosions. As I've gotten older, as much as I've come to further appreciate the suspense and design of the original, Cameron's film is still one of my favorite movies and IMO is a rare example of a worthy sequel.

In Alien, Ellen Ripley is a victim of circumstance. She's the smarter-than-average crewmember whose advice is largely ignored and despite doing the best she can barely survives an ordeal that should be guaranteed to leave her with a lifetime of PTSD.

In Aliens, we quickly find out that Ripley is once again a victim of circumstance: her lifeboat drifted off course while she was in stasis, resulting in her returning home after decades. Nobody believes her about the Xenomorph, and she's considered a responsible party for the destruction of the ship in the first movie. Deleted scenes (restored in the director's cut, I believe?) revealed that her daughter died of old age before Ripley returned.

She's in rough shape. Traumatized by what happened and relegated to menial work due to her perceived unreliability, she's given a path for redemption: go back to where it all started and help the military (which is revealed to be largely incompetent and impotent when things go south).

Alien is a great horror movie, to be sure. But Aliens is, IMO, a redemption movie when you look past the swagger and gunfire. A smart character who should be in good shape (after being victorious in the first movie) is shown to be a fractured, vulnerable person who still summons the strength to face her fears, rescue another victim of circumstance (Newt), overcome her bias (against Bishop), presumably prevent the problem from ever happening again, and definitively prove that she was right all along.

And all, IMO, without cheapening the first movie and by revisiting one of the strongest female characters to appear in a movie franchise. It nukes the Bechdel test from orbit.

This is also why I hate Alien 3, as it was released, with a burning passion. It completely invalidates Ripley's character arc in Aliens with the lazy reverse deus ex machina of killing Newt, Bishop and Hicks in the first act. I'm not a huge fan of Gibson's screenplay, but it would have been much better than the dreck that was ultimately released.
I have two, but I'm not taking them to my employers childcare. I took them to a good childcare that I picked out competitively. And now they are in school. Company perks shouldn't be enjoyable by only a tiny minority of the company at any one time.
It's very simple - for keeping them under control and keep them from thinking of themselves as human/equal or even having any independent thought at all. Neither your dog nor your wrench have to be taught their place in the world. You want your slave to internalize their existence as a slave. It's also to prevent yourself from seeing your slave as anything other than a slave.

It also has to do with what's the socially acceptable and normal way of behaving in a given society.

What exactly makes you think the average master/slave relationship is "not normal" for a master/slave relationship? I would think the average story would be, by definition, normal.
GitLab is considering GraphQL.

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/22753

It won't have much of an impact on a fork currently. It looks like the API is barely being used.
Oh man, this would be a great idea at my work. I don't even show up anymore, except for meetings, so that I don't get distracted every other hour by people talking about inane topics.
This is such a tired trope in the realm of mental health that it's become cliche.

CHOOSE to be happy and you will!!! Embrace change!!

What a load of crap, you shouldn't be commenting on things you aren't familiar with.

Go stay up for 6 days in a row and then tell me how well you function, how well you can make sound decisions and control your thoughts.

This is very similar.

My comment judging myself and about my childhood is in retrospect after now having spent a year in therapy. It's really brought these things to light and now that I am aware I can attempt to fix them.

And I can assure you fixing them is a lot more fucking work than making some trivial declaration that I choose to be X or choose not to be Y.

What a fucking a joke to hear people talk about this when they have no clue.
I don't think so, I'm sure they imagined the internet in some abstract way, and smartphones really are quite a step backward if you want to quote that. Search is also quite imaginable.

We have had hundreds of thousands of software engineers working in advertising companies or making hardware that gets used to sell products and keep the attention of the youth perpetually captured, hindering their growth as humans. I say we've regressed in a big way and they would think the same.

Check out Alan Kay's talks from this week if you still feel good about today's software industry.
Nice for Redis.
I live in Berkeley in one of the areas that they're testing these and there's 20+ restaurants that do take-out within a mile of me, so that part isn't a big issue. Even a mile could be a 30 minute round trip though, as they run on sidewalks and so inherently can't really go much faster than walking speed, and that's not very many deliveries per hour per robot.
Microsoft CAL Licensing simplified
Try CockroachDB, the OSS clone of Spanner
Global+Cytokines+Market+2021+–+Business+Development+Forecasts+and+Analysis
How about moving any (all) calls to /usr/bin/ssh to run a script on a remote
server? Like running deployment, upgrades, or creating home directories and
mail folders for a new user? http://harpcaller.jarowit.net/
(https://github.com/dozzie/harpcaller)
See this sub-discussion re:performance (+serialization/marshalling) in today's React Native discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14349426
shouldn't an optimization like this be performed by compilers?
Well, that's how Spanner's consistency works. CockroachDB uses a hybrid vclock/wall clock solution that's possibly going to be tuneable to just clocks. https://jepsen.io/analyses/cockroachdb-beta-20160829
I simply refuse to use Bluetooth headphones. Problem solved.
Knowing Berkeley this seems like a pretty awful idea. People are going to steal these things immediately.
Is this 'learning' or just 'copying'?
Which image are you talking about? It's a cage without natural light, I don't understand how a glass door makes it better. Actually it's even worse, because it's a depressive as a cubicle, but without "privacy".

> Why don't you post a picture of that, instead of spamming this one?

Sorry, image urls buried deep inside, I had to use dev tools to extract them.

> Or do you promote open work plans in your day job?

Promoting a weird idea that every human being (even if he/she is a developer) deserves a window, fresh air and natural light, is my little personal war.

And there's no "open space" vs "gray cages" dichotomy. Our team works in a quiet room with big windows, for example.
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>The only warfare that matters today is asymmetrical warfare against relatively low-tech guerrillas and third-tier states.

No, that's not correct, and is emblematic of the insistence to "always train for the last war." The reality of what future war might look like is much more nuanced than "either MAD or more COIN." General Milley talked about this last summer, and I tend to agree with his assessment. Incidentally his critique is inline with the posted article about mindless obedience.

http://breakingdefense.com/2016/10/miserable-disobedient-vic...
Why would eldery users prefer smaller size screens?
And imagine if it did scale. What an eyesore that would be. Would we count them in the census?
/r/programming's virtue has definitely faded, but you can almost make up for it by subscribing to the dominant subreddit for all your languages of interest. Reddit's big enough that most of those are pretty active on a day-by-day basis, or hour-by-hour in the biggest cases.
Thats what you think.
That is the assuming part because article tries to make it extremely impressive. Well, according to the link provided by pjmlp they most likely use 256 GB dimms https://youtu.be/S--Kgseuy0Q?t=450
Massive lock in.
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It absolutely does not have an open floor plan. The pods are 1-2 person offices with sliding glass doors so you can work quietly.
It's not relevant at all. People just hate PHP because it's the trend.
Apparently Microsoft Stockpiled the Windows XP/8 Fix for the WannaCry Ransomware
Slack finally integrates Screen Hero

FTFY
Japan, for one: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/08/the....

Washington State also makes some zoning decisions and targets some growth targets at the state level (see http://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?a..., although I can't find a better piece off the top of my head), which helps matters.

The only actual solution is the long-term dual-pronged approach: parking structures in the interim, while improving public transit coverage overall.

The actual solution is people paying for what they use, i.e. markets: If people want parking structures, they'll pay for them. I'd really suggest that you look at the link in the comment I posted above.
Money is not the only measure of success. Yet it seems to far too often be the only one cited, whether on HN or elsewhere in the world.

Your inability to see that your point is about money and classism while using net worth as THE measure of success worth noting is both frustrating and all too common.
"You have to use your hands? That's like a baby's toy!"
You left out the training system details for the neural network.
Exactly for those reasons. With a pet or tool there is no existential question whether the master could in another universe be the slave instead.

Thus a worldview of superiority is cultivated to prevent the illusion from fading that slaves could be non-slaves or even the masters.
Weight of device and easier to handle
Well the Parent talked about specifics thats what I was referring to.

Of course they imagined abstracts just like we do.

Yeah I saw it great videos.
No, it isn't. These kinds of devices cover a very small but very vocal component of the computer user population, mostly bloggers, writers, i.e. people who's computers don't need shit in terms of power or storage. We hear from them constantly about how tablets are ending computers, laptops are ending desktops, phones are ending computers and it's all now and previously been nonsense.

For as many tasks that newer phones could likely take on, you are not drafting graphical work on an iPad Pro, you are not building 3D models for print or media on a frickin Samsung Galaxy and you are not simulating weather patterns and doing storm calculations on a goddamn Windows Phone. The desktop PC is not going anywhere and I don't mean to sound so angry but this constant narrative that is produced by tech media AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN that somehow these little, for lack of a better word, toys are going to replace the actual machinery behind the products so many consume is demonstrably false and irritating to read over and over.
> Maru Mobile is built on the latest Android Marshmallow.

Should we tell them?
I definitely recommend uBlock Origin - https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
I'm concerned about driver support in Debian.

It's Android devices after all...
I think it's a neat idea, but computing is cheap nowadays. When you have a nice screen, battery, and enclosure, throwing in some compute isn't a huge deal.

As you mentioned, I think this makes it redundant with the cloud when you can make thin-ish clients for everything, like Chromebooks, or Apple and Microsoft's initiatives to seamlessly transfer your workflow from one device to another.
Other than the video camera that's presumably recording everything around them and the real-time location reporting? If you just want to damage it you can chuck a brick at it from its blind spot, but that's true of everything.
Really excited about this launch, Graphcool has been an awesome part of the GraphQL community, organizing the upcoming GraphQL Europe conference, and creating some great content. I work on Apollo, a set of tools for GraphQL including some client libraries, and if you're looking to get started building a full-stack app with GraphQL, Graphcool, and Apollo, there are some really great options!

1. Learn Apollo, build a simple Pokedex app: https://www.learnapollo.com/

2. Freecom, an intercom clone: https://www.graph.cool/freecom/

Getting started only takes a few minutes, and you can get a taste of the awesome experience you can get as a frontend developer building on GraphQL.
CD-R, and especially CD-RW variants, are not robust, and not a good archival form. CDs themselves are pretty good.

Vinyl, with some care for environment, is really good for archival.
I agree with this, and I appreciate the sentiment you're espousing. But there have been a lot of very costly "This will REVITALIZE the city projects" that haven't panned out. And much of what happens in the city's core -- like the new Illitch stadium -- is funded via questionable means and produces dubious economic returns. I don't want to sound like a negative person or a bear on the city. I am generally positive, and am excited about its growth. I don't think asking tough questions about how we're trying to build Detroit should diminish our enthusiasm for the task, but we should ask them.
Holy shit, that's literally the funniest thing I saw on the Internet this month.

I can imagine how such an idea could occur to someone completely non-technical, but presumably authors of the site are somewhat knowledgeable about the Internet...
It's too expensive.
do you really have to ask. like really
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If you conveniently ignore all the negative side effects of cars and sprawl that accomodates them, and start not from first principles but with the clusterfuck we currently inhabit, then I guess over-reliance on cars enhances individual liberty for a privileged few. With less cars you can take the bus, the train, a bike, or you can walk. You can do it whether you're rich or poor, or too old or too young to drive. With cars, you get to drive or else fuck you, and fuck your grandchildren too. Nothing about that fits into my model for individual liberty, quite the opposite.
The most interesting part to me is the integration of RDFa -- not just adding semantic marks, but using them in data binding etc.

Is there any plan to support microdata?

Also, how does it interact with existing JS libraries / code? IMO it will accelerate its growth if it can be used with current technology.
Pretty interesting. I suppose the point here though is that the machine learned the movement through general observation, opposed to someone writing in a very specific complex algorithm by hand.
I lived in Midtown for ~5 years in 2010. I've heard it described by disillusioned longtime residents as "two cities" at once--there's the flashy Greater Downtown developments that suburban outsiders and young transplants take advantage of--the million and one microbreweries, the great dive bars and concerts, the locally grown organic handmade (artisan shop|bakery|barbershop|restaurants), the low (if rising) rents, the incredible art museums, etc. There's brands like Shinola that completely base their marketing off the image of an "authentic", scrappy city fighting back, even.

But the actual longterm residents, especially the ones living in the vast majority of the city that falls outside of the Greater Downtown area, still have to deal with trying to commute with DDOT, the abysmal public infrastructure, and the horrifically underfunded public school system, etc, and those multifaceted and crippling issues don't see the same kind of widespread attention/praise/improvements because there's no sexiness there and no short term money to be made off of it. And no easy answers, either, it's not as simple trying to fix public transportation in the city as it is opening a coffee house on Palmer. There's attempts being made, but at least anecdotally they don't seem to generate the same press or have the same kind of investment behind them.

I don't think it's as simple as whether or not the city is coming "back"--there's a lot of layers to that. "Back" by what definition, and for who?
Also important to note that it's a NewSQL system, not a full blown RDBMS. You can't lift and shift your MySQL application and expect full blown horizontal scalability and such.
OT: Do the video calls work on mobile?
Putting Contexts in Context
CockroachDB is inspired by Spanner and available now. Github page says "CockroachDB is production-ready"

https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach
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+ Databases hack
+ Sales of Dumps cards of all kinds
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+ Individual computers hack
+ Websites hack
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+ Any social media account hack
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+ Text message interception hack
+ Twitters hack
+ Skype hack
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+ We can drop money into bank accounts.
+ credit score hack
+ blank credit card sale
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+ Monitor any phone and email address
+ Tap into anybody's call and monitor their
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It would perhaps need an accompanying software service that could handle integration between music services you use. Almost like a music librarian.
I hate to be so negative but this looks terrible. I remember seeing that other food delivery within San Francisco that uses a robot but at least it looks like there was real engineering put into it.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/12/marble-and-yelp-eat24-star...

This is just a glorified rc car with a basket on top being controlled by outsourced workers. Not even a MVP prototype imo.
I'm pretty sure the reason your fruits and veggies don't taste right is because they have to be shipped unripened to prevent spoilage. It's why fruit from the farmers market tastes better, it was grown until ripe and shipped locally.

Technologies, like the ones mentioned in this article, change the entire supply chain; fruits and vegetables become "in-season" all year round. They will no longer have to be shipped unripened, and should have a better flavour.
> The problem is the contrast ratios. The contrast between 0% black and 100% white on a good screen is so high, it physically causes pain, even migraines.

Maybe that means you need to turn down your screen's brightness.
Send the offending designers to http://contrastrebellion.com/
What I've seldomly seen discussed so far is how exactly access and participation would be handled in a jobless world. Currently work (ideally) offers you the chance to influence the world, gain expert knowledge, access to areas closed off for the broad public.

The article briefly touches or by mentioning work "builds character" but doesn't discuss the consequences if those things are not available anymore or how we could keep them available.

I have a sort of fear that a world where everything is automated could start off as a paradise - but over time more and more areas could become "off-limits" for 99% of the population, since they are not needed and would just disturb operation - until in the end they have lots of leisure time (hooray) but few things to actually do except meaningless hobbies.
For me, this immediately discounts it:

> $0.90 per node per hr

That's $648/mo in pure overhead.

I'm not saying there should be no overhead but it shouldn't be that high.

They also optimistically encourage you to try it with a "free" trial. The "free" trial, assuming you haven't used GCP before, gives you $300 credit, which is enough for less than 2 weeks of a single Spanner node.

Plus according to https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/instance-configuration, they recommend a minimum of 3 nodes, or $1800/mo.

I know this is targeted at businesses but it'd be nice if we could get smaller "nodes" or something to lower the barrier to entry. You shouldn't have to go straight from nothing to 10k QPS.
It's worth noting that Boeing's satellite division already did a special design of an all-electric-propulsion GEO satellite, which can launch 2 at a time on Falcon 9 and reduce launch costs even further. They've sold and launched 2 pairs so far.
> uncovering more of his private life through the testimony of others could be against his wishes

I don't see why this is relevant. As long as the journalist reports from within the ethical and legal boundaries of the profession, I don't think we can fault him/her if the subject doesn't like the end product. Very few journalists will give retroactive veto power to an interview subject, nor will they allow the subject to dictate who else may say what about the story. In the general case, in the absence of submitting the story for review before publishing, it is impossible to ensure that the subject will be happy with it. I don't think there's anything wrong with any of this.
I think Yelp/Eat24 is also testing the Marble (https://www.marble.io/) robots downtown.