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If you're using Java, use H2 (h2database.com)

Edit: full disclosure, I am a maintainer :-)
Adacore is not the only compiler vendor in town.

https://www.ghs.com/products/ada_optimizing_compilers.html

https://www.ptc.com/en/products/developer-tools/objectada

https://www.ptc.com/en/products/developer-tools/apexada

Ada it is pretty live in European universities, a constant presence at FOSDEM during the last decades, and high integrity computing conferences.

Also, if you want the industry to care about any C or C++ feature, you have to buy your seat at the ANSI/ISO table.
China is not what many people make it our to be. Comparing to just a couple of decase ago, it now has a huge educated middle class.

I don't think China is a free country, but if you dig a little, you'll see that many people openly speak up and protest. Big labor protests that don't make it into western media are quite regular.
That sounds extremely interesting. I had not noticed that feature before. Do you happen to have some example input at hand that triggers such an adjustment?
I don't see how blockchain is relevant to that solution. Couldn't they do the same thing with any database-backed web app tracking account balances?
Personification is an antifeature to me. I find the named Siri and Alexa to be juvenile and mildly embarrassing.
Location: Brussels, Belgium
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I'm completing a PhD in CS (my thesis is on parsing) by September and I'm looking for new opportunities after that.
The only stuff I ever wanted from them as a kid were super nintendo games, so yeah.
Toys R Us was an awesome place in the 80s when it was the only place to get things like video games. It was also kind of like the Xmas sears catalog, a nice place to browse and dream. Now it’s kind of obvious how we don’t need it.

Losing Babies R Us, however, is going to be inconvenient.
Having better apps and a stronger ecosystem makes the platform better for everybody.

As an indie dev* making a living from Apple Watch, I concur with the difficulty of having to debug these things.

For example, some arbitrary resource limit may have transparently been applied, leading to some unexpected behaviour in your app.

Now, make a minor change to code to diagnose this issue and deploy to device - could take 2-3 minutes to copy to device, and another 30 seconds to run the binary.

Series 3 still has its issues but it is 1000x better than the original.

* https://outcastapp.com, plus various others
What instead of the "Latte Factor", they said...

- buy a house that is well below your means or even move some place where your cost of living compared to your money earning potential is favorable.

-Get a degree in something that can make money instead of a BS in Ancient Chinese Art History.

-Don't go into debt getting a degree from a prestigious college to be a high school teacher. Go to a cheap state school.

-Buy a car and keep it for longer.

My family spends money on a lot of little things that some people would think was frivolous but we also bought a house in the burbs that had a mortgage that was less than 20% of our monthly net income, we don't drive expensive cars, or try to keep up with the Joneses. My wife still brags about how much money she saves shopping at the thrift store and I'm always looking for a bargain because I don't care about the brand of clothes.

On the other hand, I'm very aggressive about my salary and told my (step) kids to pursue careers (or trades) that had income potential.

In other words, it's not the little decisions you make that make a difference it's the big ones.

You can only by definition, cut spending by so much, but you can make choices to make more money.

After we got married about six years ago, my wife and I by working together have increased our income by 33% by her taking a job that has good benefits but low pay (that she enjoys) that gave me the flexibility of aggressively changing jobs for higher salaries without worrying about benefits.
>Examples of the sorts of questions asked
>
>1. If you bought four packs of tea: chamomile ($4.60), green ($4.15), black ($3.35) and lemon ($1.80) with a $20 note, how much change would you get?

Put yourself in the mind of somebody taking this questionnaire. Do you actually care if the answer is correct? Will you lose money if you get the answer wrong? Are you in a hurry to finish the questionnaire and go and do something else?

Now put yourself in the mind of a lobbyist who represents utilities companies, financial services companies and HMOs. Your customers have all come under fire because they have needlessly complicated pricing structures designed to confuse people. This is a very profitable practice so they want to continue doing it, but they'd like to draw attention away from it. Regulators sometimes come under political pressure to do something about it (among others, Elizabeth Warren has put this kind of pressure on, and they hate her for it).

If, as a lobbyist, if you get others to reframe the issue as one of "lack of financial literacy" it helps take the heat off your customers. However, It's all very well saying "people just need to become more financially literate!" but that wouldn't sound very convincing coming from a lobbyist representing a company that has a financial stake in everybody believing it.

Therefore, it's better to be able to get your media contacts and politician friends say "studies say people need to become more financially literate". There is, as such, a demand for studies like this.

And, Aditi Bhutoria, John Jerrim and Anna Vignoles happily (although possibly unknowingly) filled this demand by giving a bunch of random, disinterested people a math quiz where it didn't matter if they got the answers wrong and calling it "science".
So you'll be boycotting USA-invented/financed drugs?
Something that should shed some light on the mystery - eyewitness testimony is often incredibly inaccurate, especially when the people questioning them allow their assumptions to slip into their questions.

The fact that all the eyewitness testimony is contradictory is due to this.
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Id agree it would be more useful to understand your jurisdictions tax system and basic things about the stock market works ie what is a p/e ratio - how the bond yield curve works etc.
Also returning things and knowing, that they deliver on time (mostly).

At a random online shop: are they trustworthy? do they really deliver on time? Are those reviews legit? etc. etc.
Before I deal with that, I just order from Amazon.
Convinience.

And yes, once you are in prime, you are even more bound and inclined to it.
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That's not going to work with imperial units :-)
Unfortunately, they tend to look at their pocketbooks and kickback offers.
Does ToysRUs sell bad quality toys? My mom always bought us name brand toys and they were all excellent, we got Ghost Busters, Jurassic Park, Power Rangers, Action Man. All got years and years of play from both me and my little brother. Don't they also sell Lego, Playmobil and Barbie? I hardly think toy quality has to do with their problems. I think the answer is just 'Amazon', as it is to most of the world's retail industry.

I don't think wood is a very suitable material to make children's toys with, but to each his own.
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My company had to switch from Microsoft to IPhones. I hear Siri every day. Usually followed by swearing.

When I got mine, I was trapped in some Siri -> Lock Screen -> Siri combination. "Siri go away" and "Siri show me the home screen" didn't help either. I just wanted to get on the home screen but since there is no Back-Button...well it's disabled now.
Did anyone else find it ironic that The Washington Post announced Amazon killed Toys R Us?
It's completely baffling to me that you could be so… short-sighted, I guess?

Capitalism revolves around the concept of private ownership, which in itself requires the rule of law to be effective – definitionally a "coercive human-elaborated system". Moreover, in order to be effective, capitalism requires efficient, well-informed, competitive, free markets. We can directly observe that competition requires state intervention too. Your mooted "wise capitalist" will be forced out of the market by the "disaster capitalist" who isn't interested in compassion for the weak, because their fate isn't tied to each other.

In reality, any of these arguments about Socialism or Capitalism or Mercantilism or Communism or Liberalism or any other purist capitalised word are bunkum. There is not a simplistic answer to the question of "how do we structure a global economy such that people are fairly rewarded for their contributions to the human condition while ensuring that people are not taken advantage of or mistreated because of systemic power or wealth imbalances". There is almost always a mix of principle and practicality required. Competing interests abound. Successful economies, by most metrics, embrace a mixture of free trade with state regulation, acknowledging that while the free market is an astonishing engine for growth and prosperity it can easily destroy itself if unchecked.
> Especially when you consider that most supermarket labels will also include the "price per unit weight" or "price per unit volume"

My local grocery does this.

Whenever it stocks multiple items, though, they are never in the same units of measurement. So, you get one brand of any given priced in $/ounce, and another priced in $/pound, or heaven help me, $/serving.

I have no doubt that they pull this bullshit on purpose, to make comparing prices more difficult.
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My local Walmart probably has two full aisles for crafting stuff... probably about 200 linear feet. The next aisle is ball jars and canning.

Target probably has about 40 feet of that stuff, mostly scrapbooking and similar stuff. No yarn, no knitting needles, etc.

Fishing in my local Target in a single 4-ft section, next to 12ft of water bottle and Thermos jars. Walmart is probably two half aisles of stuff.
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I've been told that the geometry of the womb influences this in humans, I don't know how true that is.
There are sundials out there that have been working for hundreds of years. Honestly, if you can't leave a timepiece out in all weather for centuries without any maintenance or winding, what's the point?
STEM qualifications aren't considered very highly in the UK
I hate these "it wouldn't help" arguments regarding most things in this world, including this one. Case in point here, even a siren blasting 0 seconds beforehand would be useful to reduce the inevitable delay between when you feel something shaking and when you realize it's really an earthquake. I'm not sure where you're getting the idea that it wouldn't be useful, because as far as I know, the reason we don't have it is lack of funding, not lack of usefulness.
Right now Google Analytics is loaded but there is no tracking code configured! Not the biggest fan of trackers but definitely would want that configured if my post would be on the HN front page.
I find these types of "match human performance" claims to be ridiculous, especially when it comes to Chinese -> English translations. Translation is both an art and a science, requiring nuanced understanding of the languages, cultures, and context. It also demands quite a bit of creativity. No translation tool I've tried has come even close to matching human performance of a good human translator, including microsoft's tools. AI will need to reach the point where its understanding of language, culture, context, and creative ability matches that of humans to truly be capable of "human performance" in translation.
And is it caused by the process or is it something that continues. I mean if I reuse the bottle and cap do I continue to get more and more particles or does it happen only in the bottling plant. It would be interesting to know because I reuse plastic bottles for brewing over and over again. They are the kind that used to be used here in Norway that were actually reusable. The bottlers have abandoned them now in favour of very lightweight LDPE that can be crushed in the recycling machine in the supermarket which means that we now get new bottles for every purchase instead of a reused bottle.
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What use is this really if bot creators can incorporate this tool, and adjust their tweets until they pass the test?
Are you confusing immutable with tamper-resistant or something along those lines?
I live in Massachusetts. My experience is that the selection is smaller and more expensive but the goods are not of a higher quality (especially if you have a Walmart Super Center). But I think the "especially when the benefit checks come in" aside illustrates exactly what I am talking about.
This. I feel a big problem the industry has is that they started to care more about ads and just grabbing attention than act

In the 80s, weekdays were full of 30 minute toy commercials masquerading as cartoons - Superfriends, GI Joe, Transformers, etc.

The 80s Transformers movie killed off all of their characters and introduced new ones to sell more toys.
> or with poor reception.

Call me oldfashioned but I find it neither smart nor acceptable to require reception for should-be-simple things like time telling, reminders or math/calculations.

The last one always irks me in browsers too, when I try to calculate or convert something in the adressbar and it doesn't do anything because my wifi dropped.
Just FYI, I've worked with this "security" company a year ago and they suggested in one of their pentest reports that a password field not explicitly disallowing autofill (built-in browser password management and iCloud Keychain) is a security risk, against all advice that password managers are a good thing and their use should be encouraged.
Yes: "As seen on TV".

When I was a kid I loved toy stores for discovering new stuff like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micronauts (ugh! it was in the 70s/80s!). Nowadays you cannot discover by going to some store and everything is overclassified (toy stores or comic toys). BTW Japan used to have better quality toys.
Personal story: I once remember seeing a spider in my childhood, as huge as an elephant, with its web spanning two large trees. I am sure I saw it, without a doubt. But my conscience says that it's simply impossible.

I kept on telling my dad this story when I was a kid and he didn't believe it. But when I told it a long time later on, he too thinks he might have seen it.

Maybe he formed those memories from my story.
Does it? I feel like it would actually have to cause interference before the FCC's position was actually justified. That seems unlikely considering how pervasive and interference tolerant 2.4GHz devices are.
> if I admit that, not only am I not confident, but I see the world as so complex that I can't be possibly confident about it, how can I decide what to do?

You get input from others with knowledge, consider things as much as you can, and recommend a course of action / make a decision based on what you know, understanding that it might not end up being the right one.

I've seen it happen often in small businesses and startups I've worked with, and I've seen people make what in hindsight were the wrong decision. But that's just the way things are for everyone, really.

You can't see the future but have to make a decision anyway at some point.
This particular hardware may be limited to those frequencies but I believe the Mediatek combo chips that do WiFi+BT+GPS+GLONASS+Beidou+FM as well as GSM are capable of a much wider range. WiFi and BT are at 2.4GHz but GSM/UMTS/LTE reach up to 2.6GHz and down to 800-900MHz, and the various navigation systems use frequencies in the 1.x GHz range. From what I've read, only the FM hardware is different due to its vastly different frequency (76-108MHz, although the hardware could probably go beyond those ranges slightly) but everything else is based on the same SDR.
TL;DR:

"Web 3.0 is all about a new set of apps and services. It will bring about a new way of doing things, and is the future. These apps will be what everyone is using."

...

"Join us and discuss this utopian future over at ${centralized_platform}!"

"I'm also using ${centralized_platform} and ${centralized_platform}, just like everyone else in the real world, and you can reach me over there too."

How do I interpret this?

This person's actions call into question whether they even believe in the shovelware they're hawking.

If you're going to make a whole post like this, at least have the decency to be that crazy about it.
She's an adult. Instead of asking a bunch of strangers, ask her what interests her enough that she thinks she'll stick with it. Then choose your technologies based on that.
To those saying Toys R Us was doomed because of toys going digital or anything like that: not so fast.

> A year later the company was taken private by KKR, Bain Capital and real estate firm Vornado. The $6.6 billion purchase left it with $5.3 billion in debt secured by its assets and it never really recovered.

http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/15/news/companies/toys-r-us-clo...

Maybe the physicial toys business is totally screwed, but this isn't evidence of that. It's evidence of a company being loaded down with debt and drowning under it.
> Ada is in practice almost completely maintained by one single (consulting) company, Adacore

One would think this is a reason not to inform people of the existence of Ada – but I actually see it the other way around.

With a large enough community, the influence of Adacore would diminish and we would see more independent contributions. Ada has all the right things in place to create a great FOSS community, with an open, published standard, democratic contribution model, GNU support and so on. It's just missing the people to make it truly free.
Nice. I assumed NGF interactions with other developmental signalers like SHH, BMP, etc was the mechanism of action in this anyways.

It's been a while since I was in a devo lab, but I've watched a few presentations regarding wound healing and denervation such as seen in paraplegics with sacral ulcers. The hypothesis was that the nerves were gone and therefore NGF and other trophic factors were gone leading to impaired healing. I'm assuming healing and development are nearly synonymous in some tissues. Like you said, it's not the electrical signals that necessarily matter that much, it's the chemicals produced by the nerves.
The harms deriving from the possibility of doing bad must be balanced against the harms deriving from unwillingness to do good. Allowing toxic ads should strike fear as well, that browsing online is an unsafe "back alley" full of scams.
is that you Frodo?
30 seconds? you must be joking. I live in Japan and get such alerts on a regular basis. usually you get the alert about 3 to 5 seconds before the shake hits you depending on how far you are from the epicenter. If you get something 10 seconds before it hits then you dont even have to worry because it means you are very far.
Touch bar (or rather, lack of physical function keys). Dongles. No 32GB option.
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Anything that is not plastic. Plastic bottles should be banned. You can deliver water in aluminum, glass, cardboard, paper...plastic is just the cheapest and easiest thing to do and the massive externalities of the widespread use of plastic are harming us, the oceans and the environment at large.

As a side note, I often wonder why people defend the immoral actions of corporations. Corporations will defer the cost of absolutely anything when they are legally able to. “Oh we can make more money at the cost of the environment? Excellent, let’s do that”. Until someone comes along and says actually no, you can’t do that. And then the corporation is forced to make very slightly fewer billions upon billions of dollars.

Also, don’t use the word retarded.
Maybe read the article, because the reason for the ban was “repeatedly posted content designed to incite animosity and hatred against minority groups”.

Also currently most of the regulators around the world is pushing facebook to ban hate speech.
Tell that to every maths teacher. "Show your work" was a nightmare.
> “The experience here can’t be replicated elsewhere, unless you have a major land invasion,”

Parkland, Columbine, Newtown, . . .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_th...
Taking exceptional anecdotes under consideration is hardly useful to save lives. In reality such people should always assume that an earthquake can hit if they are in such areas at risk and use appropriate equipment.
> Even through the compiler will read a `volatile` variable from memory every time, that memory may still have a stale value in the CPU cache, which `volatile` will do nothing to prevent

FWIW, it doesn't even do this, it's just a compiler-level annotation:

volatile int x = 0;
int foo() {
// read
int ret = x;
(void)x;

// write
x = 0;
x = 1;

return ret;
}

The 'volatile' ensures that that code results in two reads and two writes. Removing it allows the compiler to optimise down to the equivalent of 'int ret = x; x = 1; return ret;', but both with and without use the exact same read/write instructions (i.e. have the same interaction with the cache): mov on x86 and ldr/str on ARM.
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Hey everyone, Me and two other friends have started working on a startup and we are now looking into funding and accelerators. One thing we will have to do is give away equity and being first-timers, we would like to get as much help and information as possible about how to approach this correctly.

Although new, we are not unprepared and have documented ourselves extensively via both reading up practically every famous startup book, Y Combinator posts and we attend local entrepreneurs meetups. However, we feel like we still need some more advice and other entrepreneurs' stories to weigh how to approach this.

Hence we would really like to hear your stories, opinions, and advice on how first-time entrepreneurs should approach investors and how much equity to give them. Thanks in advance.
My rant was more against the whole cheap plastic toy industry. The big chains definitively sell more cheap stuff (daresay shit) than my eco-self would like. But you're right: Legos, Playmobil and indeed Barbies (my girl is a few weeks old, so yet to start on that avenue) are all very durable plastic toys and a large staple of what Toys R Us and other big toy stores sell. I agree with the other commenters that Amazon and Alibaba online and local discounters locally only serve to enhance the get-plastics-for-nearly-free market in toys.

An example: The metal miniature cars of the 80s still survive to this day. The plastic miniature cars, even those with metal tops, of the 10s get ruined by my boys in 24-48 hours. I don't even think they play like little monsters. A few good falls and it's gone. Then I get to toss it away and I really cringe. I blame toy stores for that, but that's totally naive.
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Git’s direct predecessor, bitkeeper, wasn’t free.
That he came up with AWS tells us a lot about his acumen. Google reportedly has failed to build a viable rival although they had kubernetes in their internal system for a long time.
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I'm a fan of ReStructuredText. It's not unlike Markdown, but among other things its heading markup is better at conveying hierarchy.