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Yay, another cheap mini computer I could buy to eventually put it in the drawer to the others!

More seriously, it's amazing to see Linux running on such small devices. I wonder what its niche is, though. What can you solve with this PocketBeagle where an Arduino would not suffice, while causing less support overhead later? Keeping a Linux distribution/installation up-to-date and free of security holes requires regular maintenance, while a standalone microcontroller program has the minimal attack surface.
The familiar double bubble in ℝ² uniquely minimizes the perimeter
While your statement can certainly be correct for a sufficiently stringent definition of "advanced" (and replacing "instructions" with "code patterns", etc.), in my experience in using both clang for C++, Julia (a language largely reliant on the LLVM optimizer) and LDC (a D language compiler on top of the LLVM) vectorization support is competitive (and sometimes superior) to GCC. Comparisons with ICC are somewhat more complicated, ICC is unparalleled for specific patterns and often fails horribly in other things, the variance there is quite huge.

Disclaimer: by "vectorization" I'm referring to SSE4, AVX and AVX2, I haven't had a chance to try out AVX512 yet.
>When I saw this I thought the UK press in general is really into panicking about the internet. Didn't they prompt the Youtube "Adpocalypse"?

No, that was primarily the Wall Street Journal that started that.
You’re not wrong.
With the right speed and latency, I don't see any problem with mobile broadband substituting for fixed. Number of providers is more important for choice than if those providers fit in the “mobile” of “fixed” broadband buckets (except you need mobile whether or not you have fixed; why you need fixed if you have quality and choice in mobile, though, is less clear.)
Sleep is typically defined by the brain waves activities, delta waves, theta waves, etc., each corresponding to a specific sleep stage. These are physiological markers of sleep. There are also states of "quiet wakefulness" that share behavioral characteristics of sleep, like immobility, for example, but are not sleep per se.

Many "simple animals" like a fly, or a caterpillar or a bee have periods of inactivity that could be an example of rest. But sleep and rest are not the same. If we put brain waves aside, we are left with the behavioral definition of sleep: it is a state of reduced awareness of the surroundings, there will be some latency in arousal, it is reversable, and it is associated either with immobility or at least reduced activity. This study obviously used this definition, so it is not exactly being "tired".
Didn't bother reading the article, did we?

> Acid attacks in the U.K. actually date back to before Victorian times.

> Most of the attacks in the U.K. are random

> The man who attacked him, 29-year-old Michael McPherson

Damn those liberal immigration policies for enabling a white man with a Scottish surname to carry out an acid attack.
1. It is not known whether or not pelagic fish sleep. They do not show any of the external signs that are used to infer sleep in other species.

Many scientists believe that to solidify and organize memory and learning the brain needs a period with little or no environmental distractions, and that the purpose of sleep is to provide such a period.

Pelagic fish live in an environment with such a sparse environment that their brains may be able to do that processing without disconnecting and so do not need to sleep.

This means it is plausible that there are animals with brains whose brains do not sleep. If such an animal is shown to exist, it will be the first such case, and so a headline saying that the first animal with a brain where the brain does not sleep is a plausible headline.

2. There are a variety of externally observable behaviors of animals that indicate that the sleeping (especially when "externally observable" includes "observable when hooked up to a variety of instruments").

Not all of these are associated with functions that require a brain. Hence, it is plausible that there is a brainless animal that exhibits some of these sleep-associated behaviors, perhaps even enough of them that it would make sense to say they sleep, even though they have no brain.

Hence, a headline saying the first animal that does not have a brain yet sleeps has been found is plausible.

If we have to decide that one of these interpretations is the one people would expect by "common sense", I would argue that it is the first one. Yes, I realize that most people will not know about our uncertainty over the sleep or lack of sleep in pelagic fish, so would not come to the first interpretation by that route.

However, most people's experience with sleep is based on their first hand knowledge from doing it themselves almost every day, and from talking to other people who do it, and from observing it in fairly intelligent animals such as dogs and cats. They are going to think of sleep as a cognitive thing, something that only animals with brains can do. Since they will have dismissed sleep without a brain as not even possible, they would go for the other interpretation--a brain that does not sleep.

So even if we conclude that the submitted title really only has one "common sense" reading, that reading is the wrong one, so the headline is still a bad headline and should be changed.
From what I've read Rohingya is an invented term used to describe Muslim Bangladeshi migrants, and was deliberately invented as part of a propaganda effort to accompany insurgency. I also note there seemed to be little coverage in the MSM when it was Islamic violence in play, but now the tables are turned it's wall to wall. Why the sudden concern now?
I'd say it's only beneficial if it leads to improving yourself (in the case where you are comparing yourself to someone who is "better" - for whatever metric) - or if it leads to improving the life of someone else (in the case where you are comparing yourself to someone who is "worse" - again, for whatever metric).

Of course, in the latter case, you should consult with the person to make sure whether they want their life improved or not (maybe they are content with where they are at, or they want to achieve better results on their own without someone's help)...

It would only be detrimental if the outcome of the comparison was doing nothing but complaining, without taking any action or research to understand or figure out how to better oneself (or to merely sit around and congratulate oneself on how much better you are than others - conceit or arrogance isn't all that great for a person to indulge in, but that is merely my opinion).

As for why we do this - well, this has already been answered by others, I think.
Volcanic eruption energy is partitioned between thermal and mechanical energy. The mechanical energy is distributed between translation (ejecta) and vibrational (tremors). These proportions vary significantly between volcanoes and eruptions. So, perhaps little of the energy is imparted to bring cooling aerosols and particles into the high atmosphere.

A limited nuclear exchange between RF/USA could extend to all large munitions stores, rocket stores, and petrochemical stores. All stores of nuclear launchers, warheads, and supplies intended for strategic war could be targeted.

Imagine all significant above-ground petroleum storage in RF/USA - large petroleum producers - is ignited. All counterforce sorties against targets near wooded areas will result in large forest fires.
That's about 1/250th of our working set size. :)

Of course, that's in a Spark cluster running massively parallel queries and not on a single (however large) node.
Could people conceivably keep a package of baking soda or calcium carbonate with them? would that be an effective on-the-spot antidote? Hmm or maybe get to the nearest kiosk and get some alka seltzer...
I just announced notary chain.
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I might be wrong about this, but I think thermite is used more often as a simple welding method. Railroad workers doing track maintainence routinely use thermite to repair damaged sections.

https://youtu.be/5uxsFglz2ig
> Now, they are seen as the crazy right

Crazy right makes them sound very far to the right.

I'd consider them more kooky right, but in such a way that the result of their policies would be extremely far right. If everyone was a libertarian then maybe it would work better.
There is a better way. Look up the work of farmer Joe Salatin and ecologist Alan Savory.
This is true of a lot of languages, go, haskell (even more once shake becomes the build system for it) etc...

It makes porting things... interesting.
This fallout remained in the atmosphere at such significant concentrations that it intermittently interfered with terrestrial radiological contamination measurement for decades after above-ground testing was banned.
When I read it I was thinking, "Yes, along with many others, because that is basically the story of many, many public companies."
Wireless charging on a level not seen yet. The idea might be for a wireless charging network similar to what we already have for cell phones, so each tower has a 3 mile or so radius. You’ll never be without power in a sense that you’re not, most of the time, without cell coverage.

This would help a lot with the limits we are approaching with batteries, as well as the environmental effects associated with their production.

Long term, people are proposing the collection of solar energy in space, and the resulting energy beamed down in microwaves to the “cell towers” so described above.
At work we have recently started using Go. When I told one of my developer friends that I was doing some Go projects, he was confused and thought I meant "Pokemon Go". So yeah, you might have a point, sadly.
[using a throwaway so I can say this]

It always bugs me when I hear someone who I know knows better use a line like: "Just do it legally, for Pete's sake! Go to the SEC" -- as though this was a matter of dropping a postcard in the mail. I'm confident that these writers know better.

The real situation -- as you can see in any of the stories about Blue Bottle's non-IPO, Hedosophia, etc -- is that "just do it legally" is rapidly approaching the regulatory singularity of "just get the NRC to license your new nuclear reactor design." Even for multibillion-dollar companies, "just do it legally" is becoming prohibitively costly. Compare to the 1990s, when sub-100M IPOs were not that weird.

This has enabled VCs to earn enormous monopoly fees, originally as gatekeepers to the IPO process, now as gatekeepers to a gigantic secondary market in "unicorns." Lambos all around.

As in taxi medallions, this bottleneck creates immense profits. Naturally, the spectacle of Uber versus the taxi mafia, or ICOs versus the VC mafia, creates a lot of passions. Especially among those with axes to grind.

There is one big difference: Uber provides a consistently excellent transportation experience. Whereas most ICOs are straight-out terrible. Let's hope that the sheep get separated from the goats, as fast as possible.

[/end imprudently-frank throwaway]
> They should not have been in charge of the response

Then who should have?

> we should remember this chain of events and somehow all do better. (And not have another repeat of this shit show, if possible... but who am I kidding, it will repeat.)

100% agreement here.
There are a few weird incompatibilities around things that have been moved to modules that are disabled by default. This just bit me with the javax.annotation package (moved to a JAX-WS module and turned off by default; this can jack with containers that work with the PreDestroy/PostDestruct annotations but don't pull in the JSR250 dependency from Maven).
Shouldn't this animal die by low levels of over stimulus?
If anyone wonders why, it is because the UK over here has a little legal loophole where carrying acid in any reasonable (non-truckload) amount is not in any way a criminal or incriminating act, where-as guns, knives, and loads of other things are.

What is sad is it's taking so long for policians to wake up and realise that some non-scientist carrying a huge jug of acid in a backpack is kinda obviously incriminating...
Reliability-wise, it sucks. Maybe it's gotten better recently, but I still probably wouldn't trust it.

But is there a document store out there that's faster than MongoDB?
My point wasn't that Samsung-Android would be Google equivalent but that AOSP was far ahead of Tizen and Windows Phone.
Aaron Hernandez Had CTE and His Family Is Suing the NFL
There seems to be some high level execs that just left. I wonder why they left before the IPO - maybe their options were forced to expire? Matt Kroll was their head of sales and he just went to google - how is Mongo going to grow without a good sales team?
Wasn't that a third-party going public about MongoDB, though? I don't think that counts.
We live in a democracy is a completely and fully accurate statement. Being pedantic that it's not a direct democracy may be accurate but doesn't invalidate the statement. A representational democracy or a republic is a democracy.

Additionally, many states have several elements of direct democracy. For instance many states have direct referendums.

As to your second point, I will concede the first person did not claim to be morally superior, but they are included in the second category included in the sentence. The individual, like many others I've met, spoken with, and who broadcast their opinions loudly, claim to lead better lives by ignoring politics nearly completely.

Voting is a fundamental responsibility of living in a democracy. Like paying taxes, serving jury duty, etc. Yes, I consider it a moral imperative to fulfill your obligations as a citizen. And part of your obligations of voting should be for the voter to try to be informed on the matters they are voting on.

I don't need people to be policy wonks, but I do need people to know what the person they are voting for plans to do. Instead we have a situation where a sizable percentage of people are confused about whether Obamacare and the ACA are the same thing. (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/07/upshot/one-third-dont-kno...)

How can I blame people for just wanting to live their lives? Easy. When they either vote for something abhorrent without knowing or don't show up to vote against something abhorrent because they're just wanting to live their lives. Especially when either group then complains about the something abhorrent.

My problem isn't with people who are ignorant, it's with those who put a high value on ignorance. Yes, we have limited time. Yes, we have limited attention. But reading a few headlines and articles once a week isn't going break anyone. Oh, and if someone has new bit of information about something you don't know and wants to talk about, don't claim they should avoid reading news.

Since this is hackernews, I think we can move the discussion from politics to something like programming. I don't expect a programmer to know everything about all of the latest frameworks, but I do expect them to be familiar with current trends in programming and have spent at least a little time evaluating the impact of those trends and events to their work. Imagine hiring a full-stack developer who doesn't even know about React nor that it has some potentially troubling patent-litigation language in the license?
For one, as kazinator said in the sibling comment, even in the best democracies this is only true of a small percentage of government jobs - there are many powerful agencies and influential staff positions that are not elected and therefore not subject to the oversight of the people over whom that power is exercised.

Two, yes, many of the highest profile, and most powerful, positions are elected. And in practice, over time, this means that these positions have selected for people who are 'electable' - which has itself over time come to mean people who can raise huge amounts of campaign money. This is a deeply corruptible situation, if indeed it is not already deeply corrupted.

I agree with the idea that open public oversight is a powerful corrective, and is a major difference between private organizations and public ones with effective means for perceiving and removing corrupt officials. I think it is highly questionable to what degree the latter describes our current situation in much even of the democratized West.
> I still don't understand why they wanted to make a completely separate site with that stupid name.

Probably because they still weren't sure that their existing systems were secure. So instead of securing them, or unplugging them, they ... built a new system, both hastily and shoddily!

Then they sent out an e-mail to everyone, telling them to put a little bit more of their SSNs than we're all used to providing at the drop of a hat, ... put them into the bucket. Isn't that about the size of it?
Just to warn folks, if they for whatever reason do something that makes want to get your money out, like not supporting a fork, the withdrawal delay on vaults can hinder your ability to get your funds out in time. Make sure if you do this that you stay on top of any future time-sensitive announcements they make so you can withdraw in time.
> My credit history is still in the hands of Equifax

Your credit history is in the hands of all the CRAs, just like it has been since the first time you entered into any sort of credit agreement, or opened a bank account, or applied for a car loan, or rented an apartment, got student loans, or did anything where your "credit worthiness" comes into play.
How the hell does this company spend $188M a year?!

Seriously I'm flabbergasted.
MemSQL would be the on-premise alternative to BigQuery, RedShift, Snowflake and the others.

Citus is more focused on scalable OLTP rather than OLAP scenarios, giving you essentially an automatically sharding postgres database. Heap does use it for analytics but that's more so because of the JSON support and indexing in postgres itself.
Personally, alcohol makes me a happier person and just overly excited, which is a bit difficult to contain on an airplane.

I do think for some people who can use alcohol to be more relaxed it could be a good thing. Though I'd be cautious about drinking if I were already anxious about flying, since the cognitive effects of alcohol + low oxygen might not be what'd be expected... not to mention the turbulence, babies, and smelly feet I'd already have to deal with.
it is interesting how this topic intersects with gun control and society at large. the solution to this acid attack problem is the same as the solution to a gun violence or knife violence problem: somehow reduce the number of violent nothing-to-lose people that are on the streets. and the number one way to do that is to structure society in a way that gives children a safe and productive environment, and in a way that makes good behaviour much more profitable than bad behaviour. with current public schools and current job prospects, it is no surprise that their society has come to the point of considering a ban on domestic drain cleaner. if you have a well structured society, then eventually it will be filled with good people. and a society full of good people has no need for bans on guns or draino. i think that we could come closer to that vision simply by reaching out to a child in your area and teaching them something.
I like MongoDB! It's web-scale:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
> Obama was the poster child for overnight political success using more or less the same mechanics that social media is built on today.

Barack Obama had been in electoral politics, as first a state and then US senator, for just over a decade before being elected President, and had been widely hailed as an up and coming star in the party and likely future Presidential candidate after his national convention speech when running for the US Senate.

He was not at all an “overnight political success”.
With modern forensics knife wounds can be analyzed to give leads on which type of knife used.

If the attackers are caught and or the knife is found it can contain dna/fingerprints from either party to link the crime to the suspect.

Acid however by it's nature is "clean" in this regard.
They could do both!
Though I pay attention to politics like you and unlike the OP I have become skeptical in journalism to truly inform anyone.

I've migrated to books primarily for my information and this was before Trump was a serious political contender.
Glassdoor for Indian IBM software developer:

https://www.glassdoor.ca/Salary/IBM-Software-Engineer-India-...

739,759 INR = $14K CAD/year = $6.7 CAD / hr.

Pretty close for a rough guess I would argue. But I was a little low.
The mid-80's were actually the peak of cold war TNW preparation.

NATO's provocation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83

Soviet response:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RYAN
Well criminal acts that result in punishment are by definition matters of public record and familial data is pretty easy to figure out even if you can't figure it out in 2 seconds via google.

Since you can't keep the former secret it seems hard to imagine successfully keeping the latter secret.

Also the stigma attaches here to the victimizer who rather deserves it. Nobody is going to deny him employment or decline to date him based on being abused.
In Europe, if I understand EU data privacy laws, all three of those CRAs would need my permission to retain my personal information. Maybe not explicitly granted by me directly and personally, but absolutely revokable by me, both directly and personally. In the USA, ... it is what it is. I can't revoke those grants, individually or summarily.
Potentially, but the neutralization of sulfuric acid releases a ton of heat (sometimes enough to crack glassware). By neutralizing the sulfuric acid without giving the heat anywhere to dissipate, you might just end up making things worse.

Also, as a small unrelated note, I doubt calcium carbonate would work well for neutralizing sulfuric acid-- the calcium sulfate formed is for the most part insoluble and stops the reaction.
Recent trend is to try and brand certain types of conservatism as "classical liberalism".

Don't really know why, but it's what they seem to want to do.
I recall a high school chemistry demonstration where they made flour "explode". (From _vague_ 35 year old memories, a coffee tin with a spark plug and an assembly that blew compressed air in through the flour to distribute it in a mist...)

I'd stop short of claiming that flour "detonates" or that flour purchases are terrorist indicators...
so carrying a shopping bag with domestic drain cleaner inside is obviously incriminating? and carrying a shopping bag with a new knife set is incriminating?
CTF Team as a Training Resource
This is a great video, and accurately sums up MongoDB and NoSQL. I can't imagine why they need to raise money, why they spend so much money as it is, and why they think there's a big growth business in NoSQL.
It's an index - a '\n'-delimited list of strings indicating the locations of filings. The size of those filings has nothing to do with the size of the index.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15307014
>> It's not the managers or capital owners that have been driving these productivity gains either

> I'm under the impression most of the productivity gains since the early 1990s were due to large capital improvements, which aren't paid for by employees.

Expanding here, the improvement in information and communication technology (one aspect of capital investment) has dramatically increased the effectiveness of intelligent management at the top. They have vastly more signals, and vastly higher granularity, with which to make decisions.

I don't have data one way or another, but I could believe that managers' productivity-per-unit-talent has improved more than line-workers' productivity-per-unit-talent.