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> several people told me that SQLite has ways of improving on fsync and I was interested to find that isn't the case.

The way you're talking about this is simplistic. To have a reliable datastore you need to know not just fsync exists, but a lot of specific details in exactly how you use it, and what you can and cannot count on. There's a lot for you to learn here if you care to look a bit deeper than "oh, just uses fsync, boring".
Thanks! I started the video series thinking nobody at all would care, so it's nice to see that it's worth to continue.
Is there an interface for trading these?
Wearing my SaaS product manager hat I’d say shoot them an email describing your expectations and suggesting your price point. I’ve rejigged product packaging myself in response to high quality/specific presales feedback and reached additional market segments as a result.

And conversely, I have an unmarketed plan with <well known IaaS provider> despite being a tiny customer with no leverage - the point being that the packages marketed aren’t always the complete range available. But you have to ask.
The Geometry of Pasta
I think the point they're trying to convey is that no two codes resolve to overlapping rectangles.

In my town there are two zip codes, but both of these are handled by the same post office, so it doesn't really matter which one you use. This can cause confusion though. Ensuring that multiple codes don't resolve to the same place (i.e. rectangle) means that there isn't this confusion.
The way Google has been sculpting it's products is consistent with their statement of "organizing information". Now it's almost like web is just becoming a fall back for when Google didn't happen to have the answers to a particular question on hand. But like other commenters are saying, the users love it!

SEO should just addapt there business to not being about gaming the search engines but instead consulting site owners to deliver quality content on well optimize d sites. Let's be honest here though, SEO as it was in the past is a dying discipline in light of the growing safistication of these "knowledge engines"
Crowdfunding Scientific Research [pdf]
I'm not strongly in one side or the other btw ;-) Just happened to start with vim feeling very well with it, and continued for years. From time to time tried Emacs back in the days (20 years ago, like), and was nice but could not found a reason to switch, very different paradigm.
The beauty of Emacs lies in how configurable it is. I use Emacs in two modes, when editing a program I use native key bindings (Cntrl-c, Cntrl-v, Cntrl-a, Cntrl-z etc.) and to execute commands I use vim key bindings. I absolutely love this setup but many people here might absolutely hate it, but what matters is that Emacs doesn't care and can be used by people with diverse muscle memories :)
Has anything been done to improve speed? I tried running it on my Surface Pro (dual-core i7 with 16GB of RAM), and it was unusably slow, ate up a lot of RAM.

I like Atom's interface, but it's such a resource hog. So I will continue to stick with Sublime.
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Alternative viewpoint: traditionally taxation was done by the monarchs/oligarchs because they had the power to do so and in order to secure their position even further. This simply continued into the modern age. The evidence seems to suggest that consolidation and reallocation of resources through taxation is extremely inefficient.

I consider it unreasonable to claim it is unreasonable to consider taxation theft. It happening for a long time isn't a strong enough argument.
If you don't have an organization that can break it down to a smaller projects then there is a question if doing it as one large project has a higher or lower chance of failure.
> a non-zero number of PIA's IPs are blocked on many sites

The Swiss and Norwegian servers are blocked on almost no sites.
India and France Pledge Billions of Dollars on Solar Energy
I sometimes wonder, wether paranoid dictatorships could not be fooled, by automatically creating fake users in fake relationships, sending each other conspiring comments and information. That way all those secret service snoops could be kept busy chasing wild gooses, leaving the normal people they usually harass into oppossition, to go on about there lives.
Interesting article. I hope the author has a chance to take a look at the Pony language, which he's described the core of. Now all it needs is a capability system to statically ensure that the data in sent messages is safe without copying. (And to move those runtime checks into the type system.)
>You're talking about the cost of future tx thruput and comparing it to today's storage prices. How can you not see what's wrong with that?

There is nothing on the horizon that suggests a 4TB/month growth rate will be serviceable by anything less than data-center grade hardware at any point in the next 10 years. Beyond then, it's a crapshoot.

I'd /like/ to see bitcoin operate at Visa scales before then, so I must look for a solution that can work with a reasonable extrapolation of the state of storage today.

Never the less, I sense that you have an agenda and that you will not be dissuaded from it. Continue to preach as you see fit. Before I head off, I'll say the following: I'm lightly invested in bitcoin, litecoin and vertcoin, with perhaps $150USD spread across the three. I have no investment in bitcoin cash.

Care to share your crypto investment portfolio with our fellow comment-readers?
Please concentrate on the arguments. I deliberately mentioned only brief details about them originally precisely to avoid this sort of distraction, and I see no value in continuing down this path. If people want to assume that rather than simply relaying a brief personal anecdote that was relevant to the conversation I was instead making up a whole back story behind fictitious people just to make my own position look more authoritative, that's up to them but I doubt anything interesting or productive will come of it.
Good (and improving steadily) compiler feedback, centralized package manager, thoughtful approach to language versioning, a syntax that I like (very subjective), and the flexibility to write unsafe code blocks if for some reason you need to. Those are some of my reasons for liking it.
Dunno. I once built websites for an e-commerce company where the products started at around $2k, and went up to as much as $30k with all the add-ons.

75% of the visitors were 55+ on iPads.
I've invested in private equity funds across the entire spectrum. I mainly focused on the small to medium end of the market...

The bankruptcies of the large LBO deals skew the public's perception of the industry. Sure it has faults but the reality is much more nuanced than some of the views outlined above.

Yes there are large private equity firms that will acquire companies and overload them with debt, cut costs and sell prize assets. Yes there are many other firms who operate very differently. In the smaller end of the market, debt loads are much more conservative and returns are generated through moving into new geographies (i.e. opening a new store in MA), moving into adjacent markets (i.e. we sell tables. Let's move into the chair market), let's hire more sales people, acquire complimentary products to cross-sell etc. The list goes on. There are many positive qualities to private equity but the industry is tarred because of the large amounts of money. People on the whole don't like large amounts of wealth.

So why does a company sell to an LBO? Could be any number of reasons. The founder might want to retire. Maybe the kids inherited the business and no longer want to run it. Maybe the business is in dire straits and the current owner lacks the skill or the patience to turn it around. Maybe a company wants to sell a non-core division. Maybe a parent company is financial trouble and will sell assets. Maybe the price is right.
>"non-statistics researchers incorrectly calculating statistical values"

Actually another point is that this is not the issue. The calculations are fine, they are just calculating something other than they think: p(Data | Hypothesis) when they want p(Hypothesis | Data).

That is very similar to what the OP claimed about calculating a model that assumes a sphere to describe a disc (no idea if they are correct on that).
The sequence of letters which make up a certain book is "an innate fact about the universe". A detailed description of a picture (or sequence of pictures, i.e. a video), or an audio waveform, is no different. Information remains information even if the subject is copyrighted. Copyright enforcement in practice consists almost entirely in controlling the distribution of factual information about copyrighted works.
> a fundamental misunderstanding of the problem

No kidding! There is one right here:

> Yes, in some cases the compiler can prove UB, and uses it to write optimiation

Compilers do not prove UB , on the contrary they postulate no-UB and then use this axiom to prove other properties of the code.
Also a large majority of them will be on the public suffix list, which LE uses in their rate limiting checks.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Suffix_List
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Google hasn't been primarily a web search company for ages — it's an advertising company. Either way, their ultimate goal is to make more money and evidently they think this helps that.

If you don't like their search service, you can use an alternative. The network effect fortunately doesn't apply to search engines.

I hope (but doubt) that Google will make their search service sufficiently awful that they will erode their own monopoly.
So has someone solved the halting problem then? How can you filter code without knowing what it does?
Good point but most states have disaster relief infrastructure already in place for events like this? If this was scrounged up the day of it would make sense.
‘Instant’ bridge aims to make dangerous crossing safer for thousands of students
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AmiTCP is what got me into being a sysadmin. I was a teenager using slurp and amitcp to get my amiga online the Internet. Learning about TCP and configuration files got me into setting up servers. I started working at an ISP setting up BSD servers for web/ftp/mail/ppp/radius. I've been online on my c64/128D with 300/1200 then finally a 2400 baud modem, then went Amiga 500 and got that Amiga on my local ISP.

But after I started working at an ISP, it was AMD 486/DX100 and was PC since then . with tons of Amiga Emulators and linux boxes

I still sit in an Amiga IRC channel till this day, and still idle on efnet.

Amusing story, an old buddy and co-worker I met on IRC, I got him a job at my work, known him for years, he moved to Finland years ago so he could go to all the demo scenes, and now he is a judge on many of them. Shout out to Sir Garbage Truck and Accession!
Given that it's named Private Internet Access, I would think many of their customers are also concerned about privacy.

If a Raspberry Pi self-hosted VPN gets you what you need, great, but it doesn't do the same things as a large VPN service where your traffic is mixed in with all the other users exiting from the same server.
It's not fully misleading; it is blocked within the borders of Turkey. But granted, it could be improved.
China’s Economy Is Not Normal. It Doesn’t Have to Be
Aren't you actually agreeing?

He's saying they'll use tunneling to get around the block so they can carry on using it.
My favourite TeX tutorial, which will turn you from beginner to expert and make you fall in love with TeX (maybe), is the book A Beginner's Book of TeX by Seroul and Levy. It comes highly recommended by Hans Hagen in the ConTeXt manual. (It's not free—published by Springer—but you can find it in the usual places you find books: libraries, whatever.)
Because I'd hate for a bug in my code to result in an accidental infinite loop at 2 AM and then wake up to a $1,000 bill. I'd rather pre-pay and have my task get killed if I run out of credit.
Once there was picloud doing the exact thing just for python. I'd always dreamed of a .net port. Well done!
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Getting an "The AudioContext was not allowed to start. It must be resume (or created) after a user gesture on the page." error on Chrome 67.0.3368.1 and no sound is heard. Works great on Firefox - great job.
I was under the vague, easily mind-changeable impression that we as modern humans would not be able to build the largest pyramids* in any reasonable amount of time (or even at all) using modern technology. This article makes it sound like cake. Just take a few guys with a big crane and in a couple years bam there you go.

Can anyone explain the dissonance?

*or maybe it was some other monolithic stone structure.

EDIT: Found some legitimate-sounding estimates here (first answer): https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=1006042514514
But would you not agree that if available, the most safe space is an open field? That's all I'm saying here. People seem to be missing that I'm not suggesting going outside if things can fall on you outside.
FBI makes it official: Russia is attacking US energy, water, critical systems
You are describing the problem of all currencies, ie also dollar. If no one accepts your dollar you are screwed.
My calculations are based on the numbers from the article I linked to. I'm guessing they might have changed the difficulty since that blog post was written?

Regardless though, I can precompute the PoW for each transaction, so I could preprocess for a month to get a higher tps.
It's a big deal if you run "webmarketingschool.com" and make an entire business out of trying to get people from Google to your client's sleazy, useless web pages. For the rest of us, it's great.
Yep. Just pointing this out because some in BTC want to change the PoW to make mining more decentralized.
I used to know Rust, but I got tired of the churn and went back to Go.
And reliability is also top priority. And minimizing cost is also top priority. [/sarcasm]
We use it at work for project management.

It's an app that sits somewhere between a database and a spreadsheet, bringing the best features of both, that is easily "programmed" by non-programmers, and with a nice looking interface to boot.
Yep, this is how it is now. This is who runs things.
"Once it’s finished in early 2019"

"The innovative installation method significantly reduced risks to workers, pedestrians and motorists and minimized traffic disruptions, FIU said. The architecturally distinctive, cable-supported bridge is the product of a collaboration between MCM Construction and FIGG Bridge Design"

"In August, FIU undergraduate Alexis Dale was hit and killed by a motorist while crossing the intersection."

"The $14.2 million bridge, funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation, also includes new sidewalks and a plaza. The project will also boast benches, tables, shade and even Wi-Fi. It’s all part of a broader FIU-led “prosperity” project that aims to curb traffic congestion in the area and help Sweetwater improve its downtown, which sits just north of the bridge."
> it's not blocked in Turkey, but by one provider - Vodafone Turkey

Source?
They recommend ProtonVPN. Does anyone know the legal ramifications of using a vpn with shared exit nodes? EG: A 'crack' squad of computer crime investigators in Jackson Mississippi track illegally uploaded content to a forum originating from ip address [39.21.2.32] (which is a VPN exit node). Unbeknownst to you that is YOUR exit node now.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/09/digital-equivalent-rum...
This is actually less insane than it sounds. Most VPN providers rent space at traditional datacenter providers like Equanix. Search for "dedicated server hosting" and "colocation providers" for the exact same list of vendors that the VPN companies consider.
I would say it is pretty standard.

There is usually some degree of uniformity in streaming apps :

- all the services tend to get the same deals from the majors. Let's say service x gets terms A, service y will push to have the same A.

- they all solve the same problem .

Personally, I am not a big fan of spotify's UI :

- I despise Blur, it is the autotune of design and Spotify uses it a lot.

- As much as I like an app that is easier on my eyes without all these white areas everywhere, spotify is way too dark for my taste .

- it is surprisingly unpolished for such a big mobile team. To be fair a lot of the complexity is self imposed and comes from the fact that the UI is rendered based on the configuration sent by the server (display 3 columns of artists, etc)

Spotify does shine on the playback tech though. ogg vorbis, loudness equalization, etc they are on top of their game here.
See the Show HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

> "To post one, simply submit a story whose title begins with "Show HN"."
You're trusting Github with your Github credentials. As long as it's secure locally, I don't see the issue.
Is 1.25 the number of TB of RAM you need to run it?

I'm afraid my workstation only has room for one Electron-based monster(Slack).

Hopefully the Rust re-write improves things.
> Now when I tried to use Fieldbook for a somewhat complex bunch of data that gets currently added, 5 tables with references between them it has quickly bloated and become slow to the point of not being usable anymore.

I've had the same experience, glad it's not just me. It was a few months ago so I don't remember the exact details, but I could not model the complex relationships I wanted in Fieldbook (which I've used before) or Airtable (my first time). I didn't gel with the Airtable UI either.
Would it be possible to write the check so that the null test overlaps with the rest of the instructions? If the test is anyways assumed to pass, you should only get a 1-instruction overhead, right?

(That'll only work for null.)
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VSC has been on the case lately too though FWIW: https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_21#_folding
Funny fact, there is a VPN provider accepting Nano, there are hosting providers accepting Nano, there is even a sport socket shop accepting Nano (sadly no Alpaca from what I know)
In regards to premine, yes it was premined, but because 95% were distributed by the captcha faucet, 5% went to the dev fund. Since the nano protocol does not need miners it was in my eyes a pretty good idea to get even non crypto people on board.
This is a perfect summation of what has happened.

Turns out after you remote play Rhianna, Bieber, and Katy Perry on loop for 15 years, (with a 60/40, commercial to music ratio) people stop paying attention.
I'm sorry you're getting negative votes for saying the truth...
I don't have a comparison that you are looking for, but I will say that I recently did an experiment.

I timed (by hand using an app on my phone) the total time I spent "waiting" for Atom to launch over a full work week. It came to about 80 seconds.

80 seconds in chunks of like 10 seconds or so mostly at the start of my day. I have a shitload of plugins and my Atom instance loads significantly slower than my coworkers, but even so 80 seconds a week is nothing compared to the time savings that atom brings me.

Yes, it could be faster, but it won't materially improve my experience.
Using Excel spreadsheets multi user database instead of as a spreadsheet calculator is one of my pet peeves. Unfortunately it's also exactly what happens when organisations are lacking in processes and tools and less technical people have to try to make their own. So, I welcome any app that actually give people the multi user database that they actually need instead of e-mailing excel files to each other and losing track of versions.
If it helps, milkweed is also known as "swan plant" due to the shape and colour of the flowers. Can help convince some gardeners to invest, if the word "milkweed" puts them off as it sounds unpleasant.
awesome. Use it every day. I live in Germany, so you kinda have to.
> most people still don't make decent, living wages.
> the market fails most workers.

Neither of those assertions is either in the article, or supported by fact. The vast majority of workforce members are employed and live well above the poverty line.

I truly don't understand why there seems to be a belief that every single job that exists should provide a 'living wage'. There is such as thing as a starter job, and there types of jobs that don't provide 25-50K/yr in value to either the employer or market. It's just not reasonable to presume (or enforce a policy such ) that any amount or type of work a business owner needs done should automatically result in the employee being completely taken care of.
Here's a list of around a hundred of them: http://jarhq.com/blog/100-productized-services-examples/
My mom used to raise Monarch caterpillars for her elementary school class. I remember that it was always difficult to find milkweed even back then. We had to walk a certain hiking trail to find some and then search the plants for a few caterpillars. I don't ever remember seeing large patches of milkweed, only a few scattered plants with perhaps a dozen or so plants over a roughly one mile hike.
The beauty of archery in Saskatchewan is that you get to go hunting way earlier in the season than you do with a shotgun or rifle. That means that hunting season doesn't interfere with curling season :)
Users can submit stories from their own companies or blog posts they've written themselves.
Except that would be your problem to pay off, but here they get out of it and the seller(!) ends up responsible.
But where will people go to listen to 21 Pilots!?!? Won't someone think of the children for once.
Some great suggestions here. One thing I've found is that developers commonly don't take the time to set themselves tooling-wise. Even simple things like linting built into your editor can provide a big lift by helping catch certain classes of bugs. That's especially true in a dynamic language. But in my experience many people don't want to take the time for that sort of thing.

> Whenever you find something in the code you do not understand - it is too complex.

+100 to this. The general measure of whether code is good should be something like the median understanding of all the people working on the project. Something that makes a lot of sense to only one developer ultimately does not serve the group. I think people forget this quite a bit.
Who-would-pay-for-roads is as dumb a meme as taxation-is-theft. I complain about taxes all the time, but I wouldn't complain as much if the publicly funded roads I drive on most weren't absolutely shitty and if the snow removal that's part of my local government budget was actually done anywhere near where I live. I wouldn't complain as much if my state wasn't going into debt for the next 70 years to do upgrades and talking about charging tolls for other upgrades. I wouldn't complain as much if any significant percentage of my taxes were actually going to roads, and not political agendas, pet projects, wars on drugs and unauthorized wars on brown people who don't like our foreign policy. And I wouldn't complain as much if I didn't have to spend days and hire professionals to figure out how much I owe the road makers. Fuck the roads.
I used Atom for a long time till I encountered VS Code - haven't looked back since. The startup time and integrated terminal just make VS Code awesome
"cable-supported bridge"

Unfortunately, it didn't actually have the central tower with the cables supporting the bridge at installation time.