skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to give you an idea of how you would do that in Delphi (even in 1996):

1) Drop an instance of your database-specific query class (or a generic database API query class, such as ODBC, ADO, etc.) on a form or data module.

2) Click on the property editor button next to the SQL property for the class instance in the object inspector.

3) Input your SQL in the provided window (or load/save to/from a file, whatever the property editor allows for).

4) Compile your application.

That's it. The SQL is now automatically included as a resource in your executable and is available to you at runtime as if it were assigned at application startup. And this isn't just limited to SQL - you can do this with any text or binary file. It's all only limited by the imagination of the developer of the component(s) that you're using in the IDE.

Visual Studio has always been a bit more obtuse in how it handles datasets/databases, so it's probably more of an example of how not to do something like this in an IDE.

The point is that a beginner can do the above, whereas I'm not sure that a beginner would even know where to begin when it comes to implementing what you've done (which is very well done, putting all of this aside).
That ability to use outside canonical sources is really interesting. Are there some existing examples of schema languages with that feature?
JSON still doesn’t support comments though, they need to work on that.
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Does this have any mathematical foundation like the relational algebra for SQL? Or more generally, does a mathematical framework exist to treat this or similar constructs and that goes beyond what relational algebra provides and that, for example, also handles aggregate functions?

The reason I am asking is that I am currently trying to build a tool to analyze a kind of time series data, think log file entries, in order to look for anomalies and visualize them. I could of course just build all the transformations I am interested in in an ad hoc fashion but it would be nice to have a mathematical framework in order to start out with a small set of basic operations and then compose those while having some guarantees about the expressiveness of that the basic operations and ideally also a rigorous foundation for transforming them, for example for performance optimizations.

But so far I was unable to find something that seems fitting, everything I am aware of is either to limited like relational algebra or way to general like general functions. It feels like what I am looking for should exist but I am unable to find it.
HyTech doesn't solve the main problem with hydrogen - that there isn't any available as fuel, and it takes more energy to extract the hydrogen than you get back from burning it or even using it in a fuel cell.

The idea of injecting small amounts of hydrogen into a combustion engine to improve fuel economy is not new, but congrats if they can bring that concept to market. That would be a win, but is not the same as hydrogen as a primary fuel.
That's how it works (worked) with It's All Text! extension for Firefox: you
set an editor (`gvim -f' in my case) and on a keybinding it's started with
a file as its argument. Text area gets updated on write to the file.

Normally you don't need to see or worry about the intermediate files, but in
case anything goes awry, you still have the option.
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That was a low blow ;) With cable, my downloads are good enough, but the issue of 100x slower uploads does sting. We've got FTTC in final phases now with the pit work being done just outside, however I'm not excited about it as there's still that last bit of crap copper.

The whole handling / political point scoring of the NBN is sad and I'm trying not to think about it.
The difference is that this "appropriate size" (= cost of materials) is smaller for circles than it is for any other shape.
You mean few small (relatively) communities did this for themselves, because it was obvious no one will think about them and in most cases ordinary user doesn't care much about their input. I am talking about an average map user, globally. If you want global coverage and relying on people to input data, then good luck. I do really like the idea and I wish with all my heart that people would be that generous with their time and effort but we have to face the truth - people don't care, people want a working and complete service. Unless there is some automation in place and free data exchange OSM will never be first choice for general public. Idea is beautiful, execution... Well, Tokyo city, population goes in millions, buildings and addresses not available farther than few blocks away from the train stations. You can see roads but roads in Japan have no meaning. And yes, I could input my house (just 10 minutes from station, blank point on map) but sad truth is, I am unable to input all of them and as you can see - people don't care. They just use Google Maps.
Ask HN: Which hype you bought which backfired?
Many times we buy into something because of hype, it could be a flavor of the month programming language or javascript framework. Any professional would probably have made many of such mistakes, in hindsight we deem stupid. Please tell us about your hype-driven blunders which backfired.
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What about sendin an automated massage to the landlord like "top floor with nice view?". What about not giving a fuck about such unimportant things and spending your time more wisely? I mean if I want to live every month in a different accommodation I can not expect having the same comfort than in my dream flat. It's like expecting that the food at a restaurant tastes like being cooked by my mother.
I guess they are expecting x20 basing it on the 20B paid to Whatsapp
In my view the use of emergency rooms was a red herring -- blaming the poor for being wasteful. I've been to the ER a couple times for relatively non emergency care. When you walk in the door, you go to a window, and if you don't have a real critical emergency, they direct you down a hallway into a facility on site that looks and operates exactly like a regular "urgent" or "primary" care facility. It seems no less efficient to provide primary care in the same building as an emergency room, as to provide it in a separate building down the street.

If you're having a heart attack, then you get the real thing: Eight attendants, machine that goes "ping" and so forth.

Now, of course the billing process may be different. With free health care, there would be no billing process.
You had to install Visual Studio then the Windows SDK then probably other libraries. Then spend an afternoon to set environment variables and project settings until it can compile anything.

Dev C++ and code blocks had a an easier start, although they were bugged to death and only used for hello world projects.

Borland is paid software. There was a free edition was very challenging to obtain. That certainly contributed to the death of the company.

If we talk about two decades strictly. There was no internet so you couldn't find any tutorial or help page. Books were selling for $50 each and you couldn't Ctrl+F them.

On Linux a newbie can "gcc -o helloworld.c" to compile his first C file. Then there is a massive gap until he will be able to compile multiple files with make, auto tools, manage external libraries and package anything to run on another computer. Now it's 2018 and Linux still doesn't have a C++ debugger.
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Wine is an absolutely amazing piece of software that’s easy to take for granted. There is a large library of software exclusive to Windows so there are enough people motivated to build it. There isn’t a whole lot of software exclusive to Mac OS X so it’s much more difficult to get enough people together to run such a project.
> It's not so much as unbelievable as in the burden of proof is not met for causation.

I agree that the burden of proof has not been met. From the studies cited on this Wikipedia page[0] it appears some studies have found this effect but it's not an accepted conclusion.

> Forgive me if I'm wrong, but aren't you also the HN user that tried to argue for taking away reproductive rights from poor people?

Link? I don't recall posting that and I do not support reproductive coercion of any kind. Although I do believe that poor people having children are setting themselves and their children up for suffering and maybe I said they shouldn't do so?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variability_hypothesis
And yet the chances of having a stable home (owned or rented) and being healthy are much much lower for those born to poor parents vs those born to rich parents; it is prima facie evident that 'opportunity' is not equally available even taking into account skill and tenacity, the parent lottery is a much larger factor.
It's not really that hard, though. Almost everything you see in an IDE is just a pretty version of something in a text file somewhere. IDE's don't get rid of project files, source files, object files, etc. They just simply manage the complexity in a way that keeps what you need at your fingertips.
this isn't supposed to be snide. apologies if it comes across that way.

try switching the words (and relevant phrases) "hacker" and "business people" to see if it still works.

as a hacker, i'm not overly optimistic that a marketer (ie. business person) would work on my idea for "reputation" or "experience", but perhaps i'm wrong. there are certainly hackers that work on open source, but that's probably for different reasons.
It's not very much less verbose, really. You still need a key and a value. The only thing you lose, really, is the end tag. For a complex text document in say TEI or Docbook, I don't see how this is much of an advantage.
The author, in my opinion,does not do enough to talk about one of things that most Americans can control:nutrition & exercise.

The author also fails to mention that American medical system lives for treating rather than curing because treating makes the health industry makes more money.

>Preventive Care Saves Money? Sorry, It’s Too Good to Be True

Why is it that I can find this?

>A new study from researchers at Indiana and Cornell Universities looked at the effects of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) Medicaid expansion on a specific group: low-income, non-elderly, non-disabled childless adults–folks who wouldn’t normally be eligible for coverage without the ACA. This group is now 17% more likely to have health insurance, 7% more likely to have a personal doctor, and 11% “less likely to report that cost was a barrier to their health care,” according to a statement from the Indiana University Newsroom.

(https://www.fastcompany.com/3067684/one-big-lesson-from-obam...)

Definition of Preventative Healthcare.

>Preventive healthcare (alternately preventive medicine or prophylaxis) consists of measures taken for disease prevention, as opposed to disease treatment.(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preventive_healthcare)[1]

I cannot speak of this for the EU, but in the U.S. does anyone pause and wonder why their is not more education on nutrition?

Does that ultimately have a huge effect on what diseases we may get?

> Over the past century, essential nutrient deficiencies have dramatically decreased, many infectious diseases have been conquered, and the majority of the U.S. population can now anticipate a long and productive life.

> However, as infectious disease rates have dropped, the rates of noncommunicable diseases—specifically, chronic diet-related diseases—have risen, due in part to changes in lifestyle behaviors.

> A history of poor eating and physical activity patterns have a cumulative effect and have contributed to significant nutrition- and physical activity-related health challenges that now face the U.S. population.

> About half of all American adults—117 million individuals—have one or more preventable chronic diseases, many of which are related_ to poor quality eating patterns and physical inactivity_.

(https://health.gov/dietaryguidelines/2015/guidelines/introdu...

Other papers and articles that disagree with the author.

(https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1377/hlthaff.2008.0... Use Of Preventive Services In U.S. Health Care Could Save Lives At Little Or No Cost
Michael V. Maciosek1, Ashley B. Coffield2, Thomas J. Flottemesch3, ... See all authors
AFFILIATIONS
PUBLISHED:SEPTEMBER 2010Free Access]

My point is that the answer is quite complicated and to state something as simple as the author does is, disingenuous.
Oh, I see. My teams have solved the same issue by having cloud desktops and using RDP/VNC to mirror the screen on their Chromebook/iPad/whatever. It's surprising how well it works on not-very-fast connections, and you get a very powerful machine on the back-end with a full, native IDE.
How does that compare to using batteries? Batteries are re-usable of course, but also degrade over time and need to be replaced.
SQLite will happily store whatever you throw at it and scales perfectly to my Web Site ;)
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I chose "until" specifically because finding a good use case does not justify any of the shenanigans that happened before that discovery. The word "when" doesn't carry that connotation, and "unless" doesn't either - though I'm guessing you chose it because it implies we may never find one?
Having lived on a number of different continents and having gone to school with people from all over the world, my feeling is that the US is far more concerned with individual freedoms rather than societal freedoms. So sometimes you get some really strange and/or unintended emergent behaviour because of less concern for the effects as a whole.
"btrfs isn’t there yet, but will be awesome when it is."

So awesome that Red Hat Linux even deprecated it.

"Its laptop support leaves something to be desired. I installed it on a few-years-old Thinkpad — basically the best possible platform for working suspend in a Free OS. It has worked perfectly out of the box in Debian for years."

Perfect as in "everything except certain common features and expected annoyances" like suspend/resume et al. But this year is the year you know...

Does anyone even fall for these Linux rants ?
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We don't have billing yet, but we have gift codes. If you want to try larger instances or run out of allotted time, let me know.
> If we really want to know whether prevention saves money, maybe we should take a wider perspective. Does spending on prevention save the country money over all? A recent report from the Congressional Budget Office in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests the answer is no. The budget office modeled how a policy to reduce smoking through higher cigarette taxes might affect federal spending... In the long run, all of those people living longer would lead to increases in spending in many programs, including health care. The more people who quit smoking, the higher the deficit from health care — barely offset by the revenue from taxing cigarettes.

What about those peoples' economic productivity as they work for another decade? What about the other jobs they help maintain by spending the money they make from their productivity? What about the care they provide to their grandkids?

This article takes an incredibly myopic view. If we're sticking to pure economics, the metric shouldn't be to decrease lifetime health care costs... the metric should be to decrease the ratio of lifetime health care costs to lifetime economic productivity, broadly measured.
> People were buying tulips because it was a sign of wealth and taste and a beautiful rare object to display, just like art. People were speculating on those, just like art. But when people do so with Art and pay millions, nobody bats an eye.

There have actually been a lot of articles about various art bubbles. Here's one from 2016 about a possible contemporary American art bubble[1]; here's one from 2012 about a Chinese art bubble[2].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/jan/17/art-mar...

[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/the-chinese-art-bubble-is-pop...
You should take a look at QubesOS : https://www.qubes-os.org. Each application starts in a VM in order to isolate them from each other.

The only issue is that QubesOS rely on paravirtualization (it's a Xen hypervisor underneath) for process isolation.

(By the way Windows is taking the same path with ApplicationGuard)
I am a big fan of Solarized (http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized) which I also use for Atom.
Not shitty modern SPAs that load content dynamically and modify the DOM to save bandwidth, but load 30MB of js libs first on every visit to make all this crap possible in the first place.
- Frameworks. Not any particular framework, just Rails-style, monolithic frameworks with lots of magic. Every language got a Rails-like framework at one point, and many were/are popular.

- Native mobile apps. They're not a good replacement for the vast majority of circumstances, and users are extremely reluctant to use (and keep using) them.

- MySQL. I still have no idea why anyone would choose it over Postgres, and no one has been able to give me an answer. I chose it because it was the database of LAMP stacks, and then I got locked in because I knew it already.
My comment is on the difference between the top and bottom. Definitely not implying the poor in the US have less freedom/opportunity than the poor in all places. They used to say the sky's the limit. Obviously the sky is not even the limit anymore, as long as you have money.
>Furthermore, all large countries, like Britain, France and Germany, engage in this kind of espionage against "friendly" countries

That may well be, but without having any inside knowledge I'm pretty sure that the extent to which such incidents damage relations depends on more than a yes/no question. How was this done and why? Were any non-public inter-agency agreements or silent understandings breached? Was the UK acting alone on this or with the US?

I think all of this could influence the mood in the negotiations now taking place over the future security collaboration between the EU and the UK.

This incident will certainly not be the most important consideration by far. That would be just crazy. But it could add to the potential distrust of a UK now desperately dependent on getting into the good graces of the US, which isn't exactly seen as a staunch defender of the rule of law outside US territory.
Good point about "if you can do it in Java"... There's a "reprint" of Pratt's paper (of unclear copyright status) at <https://tdop.github.io/>. Classic examples are his CGOL syntax for Lisp <https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~fateman/cgol/cgol.1> and Carrette's alternative reader for SIOD as a simpleer example <https://github.com/gjcarrette/siod/tree/master/winsiod>.

I used a variant long ago to implement a command line syntax for Scheme as an extension language. You can modify the dispatch so that juxtaposition acts as application (a pseudo operator with very low precedence) rather than raising an error. That allows mixfix or fully parenthesized forms interchangeably -- possibly with caveats I don't remember -- e.g.

foo 2*bar*i; baz

probably used at the REPL, reading as the form

(begin (foo (* 2 bar i)) (baz))

you'd probably use in scripts.
There are countries with lower taxes and fewer government services than the US (Somalia, say?).
Even taxpayer funded healthcare places the US in the top 10 on a per-capita level.
Trying to defend the US healthcare system on the basis of “you don’t want the government to take away your money” is basically a slogan invented by dishonest politicians in the pockets of the health insurance industry.
Show HN: news.ycombinator.com wrapped in an Android app
You can find it here:

play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appenguin.hackernews

For some reason, I couldn't post the link directly...
In contrast to your anecdote, my brother went outside far more often than I did growing up, and his nearsightedness is both much worse and getting worse more quickly than mine (mine has changed between .25 and .5 over the last 10 years, his has changed by something like 2 in the last 5).
Cutting sugar, not being wholly sedentary, and having life long friends is 90% of preventative care.
The main problem of BSD OSes (including FreeBSD and macOS) is that they include different (not 100% compatible) versions of the basic command line tools and the GNU versions usually are better.
I have found that rebasing often creates more issues than it is worth it. Only when there are only a couple of commits I might try but you are still rewriting history: something that is destructive and needs force-pushing which I almost always disallow.

Merging does create a merge commit which is sometimes annoying (when you are merging a single-line commit, for example). It does however preserve full history.
What temperature water are you using? (Do you see where I’m going with this?)
Or not. You won’t need to park overnight and sleep. Sleep while on the road.
I imagine it does for dentistry
Who here uses FreeBSD in production, and what use-cases do they find it better than Linux for?
I think the software designers of the Commodore 8-bit personal computers deserve more recognition than they have. The hardware independent jump table is something not often seen in the 70's with severely constrained memory machines.

Of course, IBM had the 360 and CP/M had a similar idea at its core but, still, this is pretty sophisticated for those early years.
Well the main thrust of his post (as I understood it), was contained within the first sentence:

> I couldn't easily find a credible patent lawyer who has written publicly about this

Since DannyBee is quite possibly a "credible patent lawyer", then the above poster is getting what he asked for.
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And libVLC for that matter. I had to embed some media viewers in a Qt app and libVLC made it a breeze.
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I use Debian on desktop and laptop all day every day and have not had a problem with suspend and resume in at least the last 5 years. At this point, it seems to work at least as well as Windows and Mac (perhaps better - I've seen a few Windows users having suspend problems).
Even if they did take economic activity into accounting that seems besides the point. The same argument would make it a really good idea to introduce the death penalty for reaching retirement age! If you optimize for something stupid you get stupid results.
I think President Trump proved people are lying to pollsters more than ever. Also Americans lie about guns quite a bit. I've even meet some who don't consider handguns as real guns or call them baby guns.
Hm. One reason why I prefer Json to XML (and I actually like XML) is, that JSON is simpler. The fact that XML has schema definitions out of the box, and that these schema definitions can reference other definitions would lead to more complex parsers that can contain more bugs and vulnerabilities.
In other words, there are ways to 'fool' the dependency tree. My first thought was that this might be a contrived situation. Then I realized I have exactly that in a project I'm presently working on. It does a lot of file system operations and I use shell scripts invoked from test code to set up files for testing. I'll have to investigate how to force tests to run if I change test scripts. I suppose changing the `go` test case to result in a test failure and then modifying the script to produce correct results (or a valid failure ;) ) would do the trick.

I guess changing the scripts would be detected by `go` so perhaps I don't have a problem. At present none of my scripts invoke other scripts.