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I am so excited about Prisma, I have been lucky enough to follow Graphcool for almost a year. I am sure with all the experience Graphcool team had hosting a Graphcool BaaS, prisma is a take on the harder problems in GraphQL ecosystem. From an initial look at the docs, I can see that prisma is language and database agnostic (with the help of connectors) and it has built in support for subscriptions (and more). I have a few questions about the service though:

1. GraphQL specification does not have the spec for subscriptions yet, moreover, even when added I am sure where and how to manage the state of subscription will be an implementation detail. How close is the Prisma implementation to what can end up in the spec? What does the subscription implementation detail look like, how is the state stored? I noticed from docs “Because Prisma is a standalone process, it can be scaled independently from your application layer and provide scalable subscriptions infrastructure.” Can we elaborate on where prisma sits in the stack?

2. Is prisma language agnostic? How easy it is to add new languages?

3. Is prisma DB agnostic. Can it be connected to an existing database or REST service.

I think questions 2,3 boil down to “How is prisma different from a GraphQL application server like graphql-yoga with GraphQL binding”

Awesome to see Graphcool team coming up with solutions to build a flexible and scalable GraphQL infrastructure.
They can have the land, we will just keep the water...
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Not involved with Leap at all, but I've always felt like this sort of thing depends on how much discrimination your group is subjected to. Self-segregation like this provides a forum for constructive discussion, particularly if your group is still subject to discrimination (e.g. being undermined by the dominant group, intentionally targeted by trolls, threatened or cajoled).

I don't know if it's a useful analogy, but I consider it akin to global warming being discussed by climate scientists in a totally public forum. The volume of anti-global warming sentiment and media coverage (both for and against) would completely disrupt such attempts.
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Great! Look forward to having you join!
Something is off here. Why is all of this "dirt" coming out in a nanny employment situation? Plus how in the world did she even know what all these conversations meant and why even remember them all?

I do think Lewandowski is guilty but this seems weird.
Actually, they get done by 50 men watching 3 men and a giant machine, because of unions afraid of automation causing unemployment.

And I say that as someone who is generally pro-union.
Anyone with an interest in the story of Lojban and a dozen other fascinating conlangs (constructed languages) should read "In the Land of Invented Languages". It's a terrific collection of tales of bizarre ego, hubris, and profound misunderstandings of how human ("natural") languages actually function in reality.
Aren't you worried that someday women will be expected to do ALL the work? Both have kids, AND write the software that supports the world's economy?
Your response here bothered me, and it took me a while to figure out why. Ultimately, I think it's the false equivalency ("both 'sides' did terrible things, so they're both equally at fault") and the lack of regret for your mistake.

If you don't see the problem here, I don't think I can convince you otherwise, but I couldn't let this stand unchallenged. It is not okay to blow off a deliberate, well-planned, devastating attack against women and minorities. You spread misinformation that benefited the attackers. That was an understandable mistake. But then you doubled down on that mistake. The original mistake is understandable. The doubling down is not.

People suffered real harm as a result of this. We all have a responsibility as caring humans to do our part to prevent it from happening again. I'm not asking you to go out and volunteer, or send money, or anything hard. Just don't spread misinformation, and don't engage in false equivalencies that benefit aggressors.
Not at all. In fact, it's already happened in this same lawsuit - https://www.recode.net/2017/12/15/16782534/alphabet-waymo-ub...

Uber employee writes a letter making all sorts of damaging claims. He then settles for $4.5M. When made to testify, he "walked back some of the allegations in the letter".
> In what world is this ethical?

How many people would be willing to let someone else do their job for them when the cost is adding a little extra bias, something that isn't even a big deal in a single case (but which adds up over time)? It feels like ethics will quickly take a back seat for some small boon.
While I understand this perspective, I also know that being a women in tech can feel incredibly lonely. Growing up, I was always comfortable being the only girl in a big group of guys. In fact, I still consider myself to be quite the tomboy. However, being the only woman in a room of 100 men at a meet-up can feel pretty isolating. (Especially when a dozen of them assume that I'm a recruiter. I'm not. I'm a web developer.) Many of my peers are the only woman on their >10-person engineering team. In my mind, Leap is a valuable resource for a not-large-enough group of people, and will hopefully contribute to growing the numbers of that group.

Ps. There has already been discussion on Leap about inviting men to the community, and I'm sure it'll continue to be discussed! I don't think anyone wants to draw lines in the sand or create a "Us vs. Them" mentality. I do think everyone wants to have at least one person, one ally, in their corner though.
This is a side-topic, but I recently attended a Yehuda Katz talk about glimmer. It sounds great. I'm personally really fond of ClojureScript. Glimmer seems to be very much tied to its own tooling and ecosystem. Do you think it would be possible to target glimmer from a functional programming language like ClojureScript or Reason without jumping through a ton of hoops?
> So you're digging 55% of a hole.

No, you're subsidizinng agricultural production to preserve your production capacity or else when the next war breaks out your country is unable to feed itself once your safe imports from south america and africa aren't safe anymore.
Recon aircraft still exist. The USAF for example still operates U2 planes. Satellites lack the critical ability to stay in place and cannot necessarily move to a designated spot at short notice. While spy satellites are certainly more maneuverable than regular satellites, they still must obey orbital physics, a plane is not bound to those restrictions.
If you compare minimum wage hikes to inflation you can see they're very closely linked – to the point that a minimum wage hike only ever results in very short buying power increases.
Prisma is a great layer of abstraction for GraphQL! I started using Graphcool Console, then switched over to the Framework when it was announced. I've loved the experience so far!

I do wonder... Why does Prisma only support SQL? What's holding Prisma back from supporting NoSQL databases as well? I'd be very interested to hear why!
Esperanto is really better-is-better: most of the world today either knows some English or speaks a romance language. Also, the language has a very natural structure to it, an a lexicon that seemingly (I'm not a speaker, but I have some familiarity) could've formed under a rather natural process of elite dominance---the hyphothesised means to Latinification of northern Mediterranean, and Turkification of the region that constitutes modern Turkey and thereabouts, for example; see "Before Babel", Renfrew, 1991---in central or eastern Europe. Thus, knowledge of many prominent world languages is transferible to Esperanto, and the knowledge of Esperanto can be transferred to other prominent languages. That is very valuable.

WRT English, there's nothing inherent to it that makes it the lingua franca of the world, it's just that it's the language of the dominating socio-economic powers since the British Empire. How quickly Mandarin is becoming popular around the world is a modern evidence to how economics play a role in determining the cultural appreciation of a particular country.
20 years on, open source hasn’t changed the world as promised
For a while I have been thinking about a startup idea, a Stripe Atlas for tax free cryptocoin trading if you will. There are tax free vehicles, but so few people actually understand the initial tax implication of buying and selling coins like yourself, I don’t think the market would be there.

Curious, what might you be will to pay for such a service?
It's not going to be hypersonic 100m from the earth's surface, or it'll burn up. So it wont be because of speed i'tll just be too far away.
Do you use the Facebook link to verify that the person is female? I'm trans and out as a woman in a lot of places, including at the tech company where I work, but not on Facebook.
Huygens–Fresnel principle applies to waves in general.
Fermat's principle follows mathematically from Huygens' principle at the limit of small wavelength.
The vision impaired and small children should not be driving anyway. And depending on the "handicap" and the age-related abilities they may also be detrimental to safe piloting of a vehicle. The solution is public transport. (Or tandem bicycles).
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Lawrence Solomon is a known anti-cyclist. This article is garbage clickbait, and a waste of time.
I think the article spells out the problem very well. Entities can craft fake news that appeal to very specific audiences and target them so directly that the majority doesn't even know about the fake news. The message can be tweaked slightly for different audiences to push or pull them from one view to another. This is a huge problem. There is no mechanism that can verify the messages are true. It was widely reported that this is exactly what the Kushner organization did during the Trump campaign. I'm not saying Kushner created fake news, but his organization did in fact push highly targeted messages that influenced people in ways that one might consider dishonest.

It is a problem, the article lays it out. It could do better (as could I) to convince, but I find it hard to believe that someone like yourself can't convince yourself with the data available. Fake news is real, but it's not what Trump says it is.

(Fake news is real, lol)
I hope the vision impaired and small children aren't driving cars. And all of these groups would be helped much much more by not designing cities around cars, in the 95% of hours in the day where they are not in cars and need to navigate every day life.

A $60k retrofitted transporter van isn't exactly the definition of "independence".
There's not a single study referenced in at least the first half of the article, when I stopped reading.

The closest thing that came to evidence was a "many Londoners believe bikes increase congestion!" (From memory, not the actual quote, but it gets the gist.)
Interesting concept.

What are the options for self hosting?
>I predict that 10 years from now normal relational databases have infrastructure for shared, authenticated and verified rows

I'm not sure I understand what you're predicting exactly. The big breakthrough of bitcoin is having a globally shared ledger without requiring any trust. In my experience most relational databases have a relatively straightforward trust model (i.e. the DB belongs to the organization using it and is fully trusted). In these situation the blockchain is completely overkill and unnecessary as far as I can tell.

There are cases where one might want to distribute the database for redundancy or archival (like the contents of Wikipedia for instance) but in this case you trust the original issuer and you only need to be able to validate the authenticity and integrity of a copy which can be easily achieved by having Wikimedia signing a hash (or merkle tree) of the dump. All these technologies are involved in the blockchain but they're not innovations. Basically you have bitcoin minus the mining, so just a fancy linked list of SH256 hashes.

On the other hand if you have a use case where you want to arbiter a database across untrusted people then you must make mining rewarding enough that you reach a critical mass that makes attacks impractical. I can't imagine how you could do that without the "coin" part. People mine cryptocurrencies not because they want to protect it but rather because they want to make a profit out of it. Remove the mining rewards out of Bitcoin and watch as the mining power collapses to a tiny fraction of its current value. If you want to protect your distributed Wikipedia article history and there's no direct monetary reward for it I doubt you'll reach a very high hash rate which will make it relatively easy for a dedicated attacker to rewrite history.

The "coin" moniker is not just a lack of imagination by people working with this technology, it's an integral part of why it works in the first place.
Thank you! It's always just been a passing annoyance so I never bothered to look into it, but TIL.
Heh you make a good point.
It’s almost so bad (even for gov work) that one wonders if it wasn’t designed like this recently as an excuse to run this “false alarm” exercise.

This is the kind of thing we would want the gov to do and lie to us about because most people can’t handle the truth.

“Put the links really close to tether so we can use that as an excuse.”
Show me where Google is selling each row update operation for $13k a pop.
On some days in a dry, warm climate (e.g. California) it's actually a good deal cooler than walking due to the air flow.
I’m not trolling.

The whole idea of viewing individuals primarily as members of an arbitrary group is repugnant and has no place in the tech industry.

I hope this project fails.
He's got another set of courses on Coursera for deep learning, but that ML course still forms the foundation.
Prisma (used to be Graphcool) has completely revolutionized the way we approach product development at MarketMuse. We are still trying to calculate the actual velocity difference, but I can't recommend Prisma enough.
There’s nothing great about war, war is misery, death and suffering. Anyone who didn’t have to take part in one is lucky.
Great. Can we have multiple lines per mail in the mail column or is that still not possible ? /rant
I'm XY and won't be able to contribute to the community, which I have no problem with. However, I do like to read fruitful conversation (via hackernews, reddit, online comment platforms, etc.). I suppose readership would also be private and limited to women? I definitely understand why that'd be the case, but it does seem to make it more difficult for me to get a balanced perspective from platforms that are majority men.
China is already working on hypersonic weapons. They aren’t waiting for anyone.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a14512512/c...
Great points! I use high-entropy random secrets as passwords in the Basic Authorization header, with their hashes stored in a database. I also use cookies to make the browser experience pleasant and secure. The cookies are based on a HMAC hash that uses a single server-side secret, a string representing the principal, and a timestamp. So the cookies work without needing server sessions.

HTTPS is mandatory of course, and caching successful authorizations help performance.
Thank you for doing this.

I've definitely noticed a dynamic at play in male-dominated soft eng spaces online that silences women. It has to do with men's behaviour and shitty comments in those spaces. Not all men, of course, but enough men - and almost exclusively men. It's why I'm no longer on r/programming. I'm tired of having to put up with that and I'm glad you created this space.

I look forward to checking it out.
Are you trying to get at the fact that while this is supposed to be empowering to women, it necessarily implies that there are material differences between men and women in how they interact socially? Following this line do we conclude that it is morally inconsistent (with modern "totally equal" egalitarianism) or that it espouses a less popular "equal worth, but not equal treatment" ethic? Or maybe this is just a way to bootstrap communities with less maleness baked-in but that can eventually accept men once their cultural norms are established?
This can work, but you want to keep what you send with every request very small. It's also hard to do a mass expiration or revoke a single session. If you have the tokens on the server you can run a query and easily do both. Checking signatures and decrypting on every request can also be a performance issue.
I don't understand the whole "cyclists not paying their fair share" argument. I imagine it's the whole congestion fee thing, but most first-world governments spend huge amount of public money to build and maintain roadways primarily for cars and trucks. And while everyone receives a measure of utility from trucks (delivering goods etc), the same cannot be said for cars.
There is also 1 LUN = 30$ in that account.

https://etherscan.io/token/Lunyr?a=0x6c2ecd6388c550e8d99ada3...
I love this! Can we fix the ipynb extension, plz?
this response confused me more than the initial statement. I don't understand how anybody can be prevented from making false statements.
>Unless you can tell at a glance that a firearm is not in a ready-to-fire state

Chance you are actually able to say that vs. chance you made a mistake in reasoning that conclusion? Still not a bet worth taking.
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The wikipedia article on the foundation he represents and founded is pretty enlightening. For a half sentence -

EPRF argues that "the science behind competing theories of global warming is not yet settled"[2], stating that "global cooling" is on the rise[3], that climate change is surrounded by "clouds of conspiracy"[4], and that climate science is "corrupt" and the "greatest scientific fraud of the century"[5]. EPRF also argues that fossil fuels, especially gasoline, shale oil, natural gas, and coal, are clean and environmentally beneficial choices,[6][7][8]
This article makes no sense. Larger bike lanes cause more pollution because cars have to fit into smaller roads, thus causing jams? The entire point of a larger bike lane is that you'll take the bike instead of the car!

The premise of this article is an unspoken "given that nobody prefers bicycles over cars", which is laughably untrue, making the article almost deliberately misleading.
Satellites can be re-oriented into different orbital inclinations but that requires fuel and in the absence of a Shuttle fleet they cannot be refuelled. So despite movie depictions they don't go swerving hither and thither to follow a camel up a mountain track.

Such limited manoeuvring also requires planning and 90 minutes between passes. Lots of opportunity for bad guys to push their missile back into a hangar.

An atmospheric aircraft can follow an arbitrary course to take in as many targets as required, can be rerouted on a moment's notice and can approach from unexpected vectors to catch the target out in the open.
Did kde sandbox the file preview thing yet?
>I am a bit triggered.

This is tangential to your point, but I'm pretty sure what you're referring to isn't being "triggered." It's, I don't know, disagreeing? It has a specific and important definition, and it seems to be getting thrown around in other scenarios, to the detriment of those with PTSD.

https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/what-are-ptsd-triggers
>which can go over [highways] away from pedestrians or even underground

This is also a point for automobiles.
Has anyone done this who would share their experience? Thanks!
1. How big a fleet does one need for a useful 1st strike capability? Perhaps not so many.

2. Higher resolution imaging could still be quite useful. For example, if we could possibly find all of the Chinese DF-21B anti-ship ballistic missile launchers, this erodes the deterrent effect of that weapon, which then increases the value of the US aircraft carrier groups.
Really? That strikes me as very odd. “Once is an accident, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action/a pattern.” To paraphrase a family of quotes.
> Fake news is real, but it's not what Trump says it is.

It's also not what this Wired author says it is.

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Originally, the term "Fake News" was created by mainstream news organizations (aka old media) to denigrate all competition (legitimate or not) from social media. It was a branding campaign meant to poison the well against outside sources. Trump just turned the language against them, since he benefited from new media.

The reality is that the only thing that will work is for individuals to apply critical reading skills and evaluate the content for what it is. Big news brands don't want that, though. They want people to think "real news is us, fake news is them"
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I can't imagine why a group wouldn't want you in their project.
Yes, RPKI. Not that widely deployed, <20% of ASs, last time I looked.
I'm not saying they've actually built it. But "digitally print that engine" sounds to me like they're talking about additively manufacturing the engine.

"Digitally print" is used as a synonym for "3D print" or "additively manufacture."
How maneuverable are you at 6000 mph? You’ll flyover the US in 30 minutes.
That is ridiculous. While it may be done out of dissatisfaction, it is most definitely made for the purpose of "placing the person in fear of imminent serious bodily injury."
No I can't. I tried. Did you not read my comment?
It’s cyclists’ fault that cars ruin cities, because the road space for cars is slightly reduced to make cycling less dangerous?

Also, cycling is not more dangerous than driving to begin with, even with the toxic car culture in most developed countries.
Oh I knew that before I spent it, it was more for the novelty of making a Bitcoin purchase.
Why would a propulsion system like this not be put on missiles first? Seems like there are many more tactical applications.
That has to be the most nakedly and cynically dual-use tech I’ve ever heard of.
I'd say it's quite unethical to remain an employee simply to gain leverage for a lawsuit down the road.
People are going to goof at a certain rate. We need to design systems to withstand at least some rate of goofing. We wouldn't get rid of seat belts and just tell people to not goof. Sometimes the goofing is criminally negligent, sometimes it isn't. In this case, I'd say it wasn't.
No citations, just thinly-veiled attacks, and the source seems to be somebody with quite an interesting angle on several topics:

- Why the ‘e’ in e-car actually stands for evil

- Singing the praises of coal — the virtuous stone that liberated humanity

- How Tesla’s Elon Musk became the master of fake business

A solid skip of a read.
>Wouldn't Leap be unfair in the same way?

This assumption completely disregards the measurable advantage men have in the tech community. If you have identical programs, one for a historically disenfranchised group, and one for the group that's been in power for decades, only one of those programs is shitty.

edit: "Advantage" was a poor choice of words, but since it's been quoted in replies I'll leave it. I meant something more like "given the gender disparities in the tech community."
Sounds awesome! I'm pretty happy with Thunderbird as is, but a modern interface potentially means more users... and hopefully as a result, a longer life.

Here's a quick link to the survey: https://thunderbird-design.typeform.com/to/f7wiiq?utm_referr...
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As a man, I cannot access your site, but I am still curious which community model you're using - reddit, old school forum, feed (FB, insta)...?

Do you have anything you're doing that you find particularly interesting, beyond the self-selection?