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> galera

Unfortunately, with Galera, you're not even a hardware failure away from losing / corrupting email.

https://aphyr.com/posts/327-jepsen-mariadb-galera-cluster

> Unfortunately, even in totally healthy clusters, with no node failures or network failures, Galera Cluster does not satisfy its claims of Snapshot Isolation.
Let’s Debate Female Viking Warriors Yet Again
Those wear marks and fine textures probably are photos, kind of. It turns out one of the ways photorealism is achieved is by mapping textures onto 3d objects, and those textures usually originate from photos.
Sure!

I tend to buy top of the line devices given a price range.

Mi5 was the flagship phone for Xiaomi when I bought it

I also was a owner of previous Xiaomi products and I wanted to test the new one

My point is that iPhone is a very limited platform

And its value for money is very low
Another good reason to use Blender is video editing. You can edit the videos, and even create 2D graphics to lay over the video.
I agree about the utility of being able to see notifications, but there are many much much cheaper ways of doing this. The Martian Notifier, Pebbles being sold on clearance etc.
Tech Talk – Digital Switch Off
Being allowed to have my own email address that I bought that relates to my domain would make iCloud a lot better. But it's not all that difficult to stumble across brittle edges unfortunately, so adding more isn't going to be helpful.
People stop breeding when they're prosperous enough to be comfortable and educated enough to defer gratification.

The correlation is well-known and widely documented. Native - i.e. non-immigrant - populations in the US and Europe are both shrinking now, sometimes dramatically.
>that territory tends to be picked clean, precisely because those insights are so valuable

People often think that a field has been 'picked clean' and conclude that either no further progress is possible or that further discoveries are going to be rare and incremental.

e.g. "the future truths of physical science are to be looked for in the sixth place of decimals" -- Michelson, 1894

But there are always deep problems and this implies that unlimited progress is possible. The really big discoveries can happen at any time and are of an unpredictable nature, not least because they affect multiple fields. They leave behind plenty of smaller problems for everyone to pick up.
I think your pros read as pros against TypeScript, when many of them apply both tools.
https://www.blender.org/foundation/history/

Ton Roosendaal has been the utter backbone of this project since before it was a thing. I wonder if having an opinionated and mildly grumpy leader is mandatory for an Open Source project to survive and thrive as Blender clearly has?
Beyond the Great (FIRE) WALL OF CHINA
The center of world population is close to Almaty, Kazakhstan
I dont think food aids were responsible for the massive growth in Nigeria's population though improved healthcare definitely played a role in that.
I think the biggest contributor to population growth has been the consistent susidizing of the local economy from oil income.
Also, Nigeria was able to handle the ebola epidemic that got to its shores with little to no outside assistance.
The amount of development, testing, and customer support this would require likely outweighs any profit increase by a couple of orders of magnitude. It'll never happen.
I remember being in my early 20's and hosteling around and doing pub crawls and the like and thinking "man, everyone must stop having fun when they hit 30". I imagine you're less likely to do the pub crawl/random hookups/wandering around a new city at 4 AM thing in your 50's than in your 20's (though now that I say that I know some people in their 50's who definitely keep up just fine...) Now that I'm a good way in to my thirties I definitely do less stuff like that, but then, life hasn't proved to be too dull.

Then again, I still remember fondly a couple in their 70's I met in a hostel in Prague who were finally doing their round the world trip. They were the exception though.

Regardless, though, I think that life is generally different at 40+ than at 25 and that will be manifested in travels. Even if you're the same, the folks around you won't be (people will definitely treat someone who looks 45 in a hostel differently to someone who looks 25). It's not worse (and in some ways it's much better; I like not being broke), but the experience is definitely different.
And side of me that studied history thinks that a society with control over (certain) information is one which is more vulnerable to control by bad actors...
I have a Pebble Time Round, basically just for notifications. Most of the Apps are disabled for notifying on the watch. Text messages, BBC News Alerts, Find My Friend geofencing alerts and Podcast available are the only ones I have on.

Not having to pull out my phone while cooking, or cycling (my daughter alway seems to text me when cycling home from work) is very handy.
That's close to the day phone/night phone thing so causes instant revulsion for me.
> Literally every single person in the world with an iPhone and young children wants this feature.

Neither of my sisters, with multiple kids, want this feature. In fact, of all the people I know with iPhones and kids, only one has ever mentioned this.

And he believes coloured TTYs are an abomination.
I'm at Hetzner and I'm using it for some bandwidth-hungry stuff. Hetzner includes 2 TB egress traffic per month which alone would cost me about $60 on AWS. It's easy to forget about the data transfer when looking at AWS/GCP/Azure prices.
Yeah, it has a bit of a vaguebooking feel!
No one has managed to create a real AI (as in strong AI). Machine learning, deep learning is smoke and mirrors too.
Or it's just an illusion. https://xkcd.com/1227/

The only "valid" (imo) complaint in this comic is in 1905:

>"The profession of letters is so little understood"

I wish the humanities played a larger role in our engineered society. I see a lot of technical people who've never read Popper (which is relevant to technical fields) or any other philosopher (which are always good reading, or at least interesting).
Beautifully put.

I think we are headed in the right direction though. The rate of growth plateaus in very developed nations, so we might just survive the current craziness.
Outsourcing – does remotely mean worse?
No, but replacing "programming-in-configuration-files" (whether those configuration files are XML or JSON or something else) with programming in an actual programming language (see eg Maven -> Gradle) is, IMO.
"Everything starts with a hello world. It says your toolchain is at least working well enough to do some work."

Of course it starts with hello world - but it shouldn't take a manual of byzantine scripts and dependencies to do it. This reeks of 'constant problems' in the platform - and this is before having to deal with Swift, which is a cool but fairly complex language - all before you can even focus on the problem one is trying to solve!

I think sometimes we nerds lose sight of the fact that we're trying to build stuff. Sometimes I think we equate complexity with intelligence, or see some noble value in doing hard things. When I think we should consider ourselves more like carpenters, building things. It's not science, it's just building decks - we want tools that work.

Anyhow, it's no slag on the author, it's pretty cool for him or her to have done this. My beef is with the nature of the complexity.
I'm wondering if radiation isn't one of the reasons. Hibernation means powered-down circuits, meaning there's no voltage on thin insulator barriers to degrade them faster. MOS gates come to mind. But I'm no expert on microelectronics. Power management does nothing for deep space probes because their RTGs work whether you want them or not.
I was like "wow how did that person read this in this comment ? did I miss anything ?".

But no, you just went and dig some comments from that user just to try to make a point ? What is this childish and grudgeful behavior, seriously ? I know, you answered since but you're just digging deeper, and still can't answer properly in a productive way why what they want matters more anyways.

Way to elevate the debate.
It sounds like a clip from some kind of a speech. There's some missing context. or, there's hardly any content.

Like, I'm not sure what he's trying to get at.
Interface Hall of Shame (2000)
Now this is approaching slapstick.
Instrumenting CPython with DTrace and SystemTap
It is more in line with American foreign policy and their interior civil service (anti-extremism globally and pushing against the new right at home)
I'm not convinced it's necessarily better than nothing. Introducing this whole new layer of complexity, potential breakage and maintainance issues is a trade-off. It could go either way depending on many factors.

Another option is to use a proper statically typed language where that is feasible.

Choosing between TypeScript and Flow I would keep an eye on how each of these ecosystems deals with the issue of third party type declarations and versioning.

And if one of these languages gains support by library authors so that we don't need third party types, that would be a strong argument in favor of that language for me.
My 3 yo borrows my iPhone when we ride home from kindergarden and I don't want that he fells asleep. So he watches an episode of Fireman Sam on Amazon Prime or plays a game. He unlocks the phone with his "magic finger" and after 20 min I get my phone back.

It would be so fantastic if he could just start HIS apps and would access a restricted Prime account. My 6 yo is the same and since he was 2 1/2 I switched by iPhone twice. So I don't see the case that it's not important as they will get their own ones when they are 8 or so - that's 5 generations of iPhones.
Are you using the Verbatim search mode under Search tools, which replaces "All Results"? Makes a huge difference in getting rid of those suggestions etc.
At the very least - police officer and soldier.
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Theoretical entities called "black holes" cannot exist in finite universe (no matter the perspective changes that are applied). The result (if I understand it correctly) applies to a universe in which there is a single massive body and universe is eternal.

Hence, if time dilation exists (under increasing levels of gravity) "black hole" cannot form in any finite time. Since there are many massive bodies in our universe, solution to problem is not applicable.

So, in that context, "black holes" ARE GOSSIP!!!!

Let the "GOSSIP" wars commence.

Other than that, I think you make some very salient points, especially about the approximations that we make and the validity of those approximations to the specific applications/situations being studied.
Stronger RTGs, maybe?
Pre-hutton BBC was good and Al Jazeera still is. It's not all Goebbels, especially when that state media has a charter that asserts its independence and commitment to objective reporting.
Truth.

And remember, the Kardashians became celebrities at the OJ Simpson trial :)
Good call. I hadn't thought of that. I am not a rocket surgeon.
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Thrift. Facebook handed it over to the Apache Foundation, and then released a new fork on GitHub a few years later that with a tonne of new dependencies. It'll likely never be merged.
Do you find much broken on Linux distros. My impression with Ubuntu is it only breaks when I mess around with it - which I do a lot. I imagine LTS installs are pretty stable and don't require "tinkering"?

FWIW my family all use Win10 and I'm called to fix that pretty often (latest: an update wiped out ability to view any JPEGs by associating TWINUI, on a desktop, with loads of filetypes).

I do prefer an OS that doesn't have the bonnet welded shut.
Bad ssl
I believe they are positioning it as a replacement for mainframe batch workloads written in JCL, along with rewriting the associated COBOL code in Java. Run WebSphere for z/OS on the same machine as your existing JCL/COBOL batch workload and then slowly rewrite the COBOL into Java and the JCL into JSR-352 JSL, and IBM has Java APIs for VSAM/IMS/etc so you can still access your existing mainframe data from the new Java code. Even if XML is no longer the hotness it was in the early 2000s it is still an improvement on JCL, and it is easier to rewrite batch-oriented COBOL into batch-oriented Java than to change its batch-oriented nature into something more real time.
It's part of why I think it should be considered a breach of social etiquette to use your phone to pay on public transport.
At the Apple Keynote, Selling Us a Better Vision of Ourselves
I read that to my 5yo last night... I think I'll remember the words until my last day. :-)
FaceTime audio, FaceTime video and iMessage don't suffer that problem and I preferentially use those. The cloud storage of biometric data is a problem though.
Why was it so easy to weaponize copyright against PewDiePie?
when you cannot control the message through politics and laws you get ask your friends in important industries to step in for you. if not that then you have the very rich and powerful deciding what they think is good for society and abusing their position to make it so.

it all depends on how much freedom you can stand, me, I want everyone to have freedom to express their views regardless how abhorrent I find them (not saying anything about the person in the article) and no politician or large business should have the ability to stop it. if anything we have a safer society because people have an outlet and also the more dangerous self identify.
You don't lose it. You use type checking like a linter, to highlight issues as you type.

If you also want to use it as an enforcer, you set it up as a pre-commit hook or a CI step or whatever you want.

The idea is not to be forced to typecheck on every little incremental build during development. Sometimes I _know_ what needs to be done to get typechecking to pass (I can see the type errors highlighted in my editor after all) but I don't want to have to fix it before running my code to see how it behaves, because maybe I'm just playing around with an idea.

There are pros and cons to typechecking and not typechecking, which is why both kinds of language exist. Annotation-
stripping lets you get the best of both worlds.
Sure, but our environment might not.
Did you check the video in that article, the S8 scanner can be easily fooled.
Quick Way to Read NFC Tags Using CoreNFC
Like the people who wait till they're at the gate before delving into their bottomless-bag-of-carrying for their oyster
Toshiba Is Set to Sell Its Memory Chip Unit for $18.3B
UTF-8 history
"The utility as a currency is at best secondary, or even tertiary. It's only a matter of time until those bubbles burst."

The value as a currency is what would give them existential staying power.

The USD is not hugely valuable because it's backed by US treasuries - it's valuable because it's extremely liquid and can be used ubiquitously.

BTC etc. bubbles may not 'pop' like tulips, because there are a) institutional holders of major blocks that can do things to keep the price up, b) speculative holders have no need to liquidate and I think will want to 'hold' so as to avoid losses and c) there is a small 'actual' area wherein BTC is a currency, which is the black market. There is, globally enough of a 'general black market' to create some demand for BTC as a currency.

I think those 3 things combined means that it's possible BTC can hold it's 'paper value' for quite a long time.

Two other existential factors:

1) The BTC mania has yet to truly hit mainstream, and it's making it's way globally.

2) The press is still piling on the hyper. A lot of bloggers have positions in BTC they do not disclose.

But it's all ridiculous and fake speculation.

Jaimie Dimon is technically correct, this BTC 'makes no sense' - but if enough people believe in it enough, then it will exist.
Thanks for posting this.

I was considering an ad buy on Reddit next month to promote a niche product - I'll probably still do it, but I'll be a lot more ready to pause if the ROI isn't backing out, because now I know why.

(/u/bored_panda - please consider reinstating the tight subreddit targeting option of the past!)
You'll be pleased to know he's still lecturing Foundations of Computer Science (aside from a sabbatical this year). It hasn't changed much at all, but the beauty of that course is that it doesn't have to.
Let's give some love to MakeHuman now that we are on this topic. I was astonished to find this gem when I was trying to model characters. It exports human 3D models to blender with rigging etc.

and of course it is open-source and free

http://www.makehuman.org
I don't understand why having the fingerprint sensor in the back of the phone (Nexus, Pixel and some other android devices) never took off that much. Ever since I got it on my Nexus 5x I absolutely loved it (Pixel now, same thing). It's incredibly intuitive, works both right and left handed, doesn't take up screen space, and they've just added a "scrolling" feature to open your notifications by swiping it. Seems like a no-brainer, I can't see any fault in it, and yet very few phones have it.
The 'main reason' BTC is deflationary is because it's not used as a currency, and as prices rise, people want to 'hold' thereby creating less liquidity etc.

It's a funny thing to watch.
3DCoat is a specialized voxel sculpting application, quite unlike Blender - it's a waste to use it for mere texturing!

Once you get the hang of it, voxel modeling (3DCoat's version) is really intuitive and provides certain results much more efficiently than NURBS (non-uniform rational b-splines), SDS (subdivision surfaces) or SCG (solid constructive geometry).

I'm not putting down Blender at all - these two packages greatly complement each other!
Why add Touch ID to the laptop range which already had cameras when you're going to remove it from your next phone.

Could have just made the laptop camera up to scratch for this like Surface books are.

I feel we're being sold a compromise and until they failed to get a Touch ID sensor below that screen this was plan B.
Because people will pay for it.

Okay, if you want hand-waving reasons: because it takes time to go to a bookstore to buy it, or because people don't want to carry a book, or because it's easier to search.

Or from the economics side, because there's less competition for e-Books, or because people want to pay more for things that are intangible to make it feel worthwhile, or because there's a different sort of marketing system and expectations for online stores than regular bookstores.

But in this case I think it's because you're looking at Amazon.

At the publisher's web site, http://www.informit.com/store/framework-design-guidelines-co... , " Book / Your Price: $51.99 / List Price: $64.99" and "eBook (Watermarked) / Your Price: $41.59 / List Price: $51.99".

At Amazon, "eTextBook $51.34" and "Hardcover from $4.08 / 8 New from $36.52". The 8 new are all from third-party sellers. The highest 'new' price is $87.46 + $3.99 shipping.

So most likely a bookseller is trying to get rid of unsold stock, while there is no unsold stock for e-books.
OPs position seems to be that primitive societies are more resilient against any event that disrupts technological capabilities. I agree with that.

Your position seems to be that primitive societies are a horrible place to live and if it's a choice between the two, no sane person would argue for a return to primativism. I agree with that too.

There's a 'third way' that seems to be gaining some ground among luddites, preppers, off-gridders and primitivists. The idea is to take full advantage of modern technologies but also devote a portion of resources and time to maintaining the capability to do things 'the old way'. So, be 'on the grid' but combine it with on-premise solar/wind/hydro/genny. Use all the appliances in your modern kitchen but go into the woods a few times a year and test your ability to make fire from sticks. Buy goods from the supermarket but still grow a portion of your food at home.

This third way is far from flawless. It's still a gamble, not unlike Pascal's Wager: You are investing time and money into maintaining primitive capabilities that are far inferior to the technology-enabled capabilities available to you in the modern world, and you're double-spending to maintain both in parallel. But if you can approach it as a hobbyist, it can be a pretty fun and challenging pastime to get invested in.
Yes it did an infra-red dot map of the face.

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-iris-scanner-lumia-950-an...

Amazing, -4 for mentioning this isn't a new feature. This is exactly how the kinect works, how windows hello enabled webcams work.
Tests and Code Coverage on Node.js Using TypeScript with Mocha and Istanbul
Ask HN: What is the most amazing python script you ever wrote to save your time?
I am researching about the scripts that save time. If you did something amazing it's time to tell the HN.
No need for condolences; I run Solaris 10 because the damn thing is unbreakable; all the other machines keep busting but this thing runs and runs and runs, and it's fast and low power. SBCL goes straight into some sort of a LISP debugger and is unusable. I guess quality control is not a term in Steel Bank's dictionary.
The comment tools in Scoop (the Kuro5hin CMS) were pretty slick. You could select flat, nested, or minimal, and the display would automatically cycle through those as the number of comments grew.

I'm trying to remember if it had the ability to filter comments below a threshold, though I'm thinking it did.
I sure hope I can create my name but on fire with smoke effects, it'll look great at the start of all my youtube videos.
Configuring Visual Studio Code for Debugging Node.js and Transpiling TypeScript
Not everything that is a platitude is necessarily bad. Reinforcing, clarifying or rediscovering knowledge certainly has value.

If Paul Graham writes an essay then that is relevant to Hacker News so it should be upvoted regardless of whether it is shit.
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"No because $1000" is a valid answer in my house.
Fear not the ocean of destiny when you can climb great mountains
If you are writing C# and using Windows there is no point in not using VS.
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"the more general the ideas you're talking about, the less you should worry about repeating yourself"

A rule-of-thumb I've generally followed when brainstorming is "never write down the ideas". And if at all possible, try to forget them, good or bad. It inevitably forces me to re-think the ideas "from scratch". I've never been worried that an idea would escape me or that I would forget it, as I think the exercise of re-thinking ideas from scratch has helped me build a relatively solid mental model of the world. I feel that, with practice, this method of brainstorming has started bringing me to the solid / useful (general / surprising) ideas faster.

It has likely, over the years, added weeks or possibly months worth of time that I've spent brainstorming the same (general) ideas over and over.
I think louthy means something that works more like an agent observing it's environment,learning, strategy etc,

Most entities in games are more like a wall following robot.
Three-word app addresses, Mercedes, and postal-free Mongolia
Basic Difference Between Best Mobile App Developers (Employees) and Entrepreneurs
An entrepreneur is really a challenging position as it is not just about having a comfortable space at your office.
Concurrent Tries
Also a big fan of Liquibase here, on SQL Server. I've used Redgate in the past, which is even graphical etc, so simpler to use for slightly less technical DBAs.
Also have to give the passcode on boot to enable the biometric shortcuts.