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I'm not sure I buy the articles hypothesis "that strength was in Michael Jackson and his Achilles tendon"

as firstly all the backing dancers did it too and secondly as a skier, leaning forward like that in ski boots is fairly easy - your weight is supported by the front of the boot pushing up on your shin, not by the tendon. I imagine that is what is going on here too - stiff boots.
I don't understand why transit agencies seem to reinvent the wheel when it comes to signalling, Caltrain spent $250M+ on a custom CBOSS PTC signalling system.... which I think they recently abandoned in favor of a standard signaling system.
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I think di0x74 is saying you should include these value props somewhere a new user might see it to encourage them to create an account and try your service :)
I like the way you think, do you write anywhere else?

I'm only in my first year of designing and writing code professionally, much of what you point out about this being 1. difficult, and 2. a social/human endeavor rings true.
> and a new programming language to the stack.

This was actually one of the interesting directions Drizzle SQL was exploring back in the day. It was a fork of MySQL that focused on removing old cruft, including lots of older platform support, modernizing the source, and adding modularity in a lot more places, including the use of different languages for SQL programming. Other languages like Perl, Python, Ruby, etc.
There's lesson to be learned everywhere, including Tokyo. But it's hardly a perfect system. The main trains and stations are absurdly busy (to a degree where it won't work in the US). Signage is awful, and many station are confusing.

It's hard to make the case that an absurdly busy transit system is the sign of a transit system that needs improvement. The stations can be confusing at first (especially to a foreigner), but part of that is that the stations are huge... though after a few trips it's much more navigable.

The thing that I like best about the Tokyo transit system (and Japanese transit in general) is that it's so punctual and reliable. In the USA (SF Bay Area) I need to take a train scheduled to reach my destination at least 30 minutes before I need to be there to account for inevitable delays. And in the off hours, trains may only run every 30 or 60 minutes, meaning that I might be padding my schedule up to 90 minutes to make sure I get there on time. While in Tokyo, trains arrive almost to the second of their scheduled time.
Gouraud shading and rasterization are not mutually exclusive. Rasterization is a technique for getting from polygons to pixels, gouraud shading is a technique for assigning colours to those pixels. Even flat shading is usually done with rasterization.
I take it that you don't drive a car that folds its mirrors when you put it in Park, which is now a common feature.
I think there was a joke I read once about the Oracle database that it will do anything in a roughly constant amount of time, but it's a large constant.
> Say what but not when and you can't be "wrong"

MO of Elon Musk and the likes...
Truly effective education involves teaching people how to do their research in a way that stresses objectivity and apply a high degree of scrutiny to any argument. It gives people a toolkit for critical thinking, and how to assess the quality of one argument against another. We don't just need education, we education that places a renewed emphasis on critical thinking skills.

This is an interesting article on this topic:

http://www.apa.org/ed/precollege/ptn/2017/05/fake-news.aspx
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I briefly dipped into D about two years ago. In terms of features, it is similarly big as C++, but a lot more sanity-oriented in terms syntax and semantics. The library ecosystem could be better, but IIRC, it is possible to use C (maybe even C++) libraries from D.

The community is awesome, super friendly and super helpful even in the face of the most stupid newbie-questions I could come up with. ;-)

In the end, I backed out, because the language was too big and complex for my taste and needs. But if you kind-of-like C++, you are likely to fall in love with D.
Oracle DB supports Java stored procedures. I wrote a couple back in the day. I'm not sure we want to go there :P
He was asked a question he couldn't answer in open session. Not sure what you expect him to do, to be honest. Revealing a program like that would have violated far more serious laws.

This is not a defense of his actions, just the reality he was presented with.
A glass of water contains quantum information, too, doesn't mean it obviates that information other than by being just a glass of water.
For years (since the demise of Google Reader) I’ve been using feedly.com (which is free) as the source for my RSS feeds but I never actually use the web client. I use native clients that integrate with Feedly.

For iOS I use Reeder (https://reederapp.com) but for Mac (which Reeder also supports) I use the excellent ReadKit (https://readkitapp.com/).

Most blogs still appear to support RSS but you do get the odd one now and again that doesn’t, but that’s their loss as far as I’m concerned.
Sounds like my experience in Melbourne. It was the plaid that really hit the spot.
Flyway repeatable migrations make this trivial. Keep your stored procs under version control and Flyway will only recreate the ones that changed. See https://flywaydb.org/documentation/migrations#repeatable-mig...
> because http://dozenal.org

FTFY
I think you're right, and there's definitely a balance to be had here.

The first time I came across the notion that there might be a downside to keeping everything 'hypothetical' was in reading William James (I think it was in his Pragmatism lectures). He points out the opposition between 'thought' and 'action'. There is a tradeoff in continuing to think about certain subjects in that your ability to act on things related to the subject is impaired. If there is nothing left to question in relation to some domain in which you'd like to act, then the actions you take will carry force and generally be more effective.

A more concrete example: let's say you're a tennis player and working on improving yourself. You can keep on questioning whether a certain technique for swinging is the best one or not, and if you keep questioning for a longer time, you have a better chance of finding the best technique. But, you're ability to execute that technique is another thing entirely, and if you're still questioning it while playing a game, you will perform worse than if you acted with conviction.

In life, perhaps unfortunately, we don't get the clear distinction between when it's a 'game' vs. 'practice', and force of habit is a thing, so how to handle this for optimal results is not such an easy problem.
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While only tangential to the article, the short story from which Eudora gets its name is fascinating in both its depth and simplicity: http://art-bin.com/art/or_weltypostoff.html
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Thank you Ben. Yes, I get that. There's a subset (maybe 10-20%) of data that I can't (in some cases because of legislation)/don't want to put in the cloud, while the majority would be just fine. So, yes, I'd have to accept the compromise.

Thank you again, I have now acquired a subscription and version 7 looks very nice indeed.
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The thing I don't like about PL/SQL is mainly the lack of orthogonality to its features. It feels like it was assembled by different groups of people, in different silos, at different times - without an overall vision or even someone who understands it in its entirety.
Does education = learning, and does education result in knowledge, does education = benefit to society?

The reason I ask is: we did an exercise recently where we had to go through the various assumptions for a product. The assumptions we made were

1: education = better outcomes

2: more education = better

3: formal higher education is necessary for getting a job

4: people actually need to get jobs

I am not convinced these are true.
Unfortunately these are largely the same thing if you're stuck with Java <= 8
This doesn't sound correct to me. The acceleration due to gravity is the same on both balls. However, since the lead ball weighs more than the wood ball, the force of gravity on the lead ball is stronger than the force on the wood ball (F_g = mg).

The effect of air resistance can be modeled by a different force. It is typically modeled as a linear function of velocity rather than mass, and it models the behaviour that the faster an object is traveling the more it is affected by air resistance which acts in the opposite direction as the direction the object is traveling in (F_a = -kv). By adding the two forces together, you get a second-order differential equation that describes how the object behaves (F_g + F_a = F_net = ma).

[1] https://oregonstate.edu/instruct/mth252h/Bogley/w02/resist.h...
Has there been any recent discussion on this? I suspect earlier reasons might have included D not being packaged for Debian?

It can be though to shake "early license impressions" - D (dmd specifically) is one example, Ada (FSF GNAT vs AdaCore's GNAT Pro and Ada-gnat - GPL w/o runtime exception) is another.

[ed: if others are interested in "make your own measurements and host it yourself", relevant page with link to code etc appear to be:

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

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I've read only 3 1/2 of his books: Operation Shylock, Plot against America, Portnoys complaint: and part of American Pastoral -- which I had trouble getting through. I wonder if others found it too dense?

Otherwise, the above 3 books are really great!
Free market economy does not mean everyone has the same money, connections, skills, and ability to produce the economic output.
To be fair, raytracing a sphere is easier than raytracing triangles.

Even a single triangle is harder than a sphere, but with a triangle mesh you can't avoid thinking about acceleration structures and having a watertight intersection test, which includes worrying about floating point precision issues.

So what you're saying may be less about raytracing vs. rasterization and more about spheres vs. triangles.
Chrome also has an official extension (by Google) to do the same:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rss-subscription-e...

It can be configured to send the selected feed URL to your (online) aggregator of choice.
A properly written trigger shouldn't throw away data silently.

It should raise an exception, which indeed would cause the query to fail, and roll back the whole transaction (so no side effect is committed at all).

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/plpgsql-error...
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Thank you for all your hard work, your products formed the center on my early career, and most of what i know i learned using your tools.

Note I particularly loved "Zed" the text editor that came with the early toolchain.

Regards Tim Hawkins, a grateful hacker.
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So basically, things were different for you decades ago, therefore the article headline is misleading?

You may want to rethink that.
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Agreed. I like thinking of the database as a dumb data store, optimised for data integrity, fast reads and writes, and nothing more.
Megan McArdle is a hardened libertarian sophist that blames poor people that die in fires for their own victimhood.

https://theoutline.com/post/2303/megan-mcardle-has-a-lot-of-...

However, to answer some of these points:

1) With respect to healthcare, investopedia has different numbers than the ones she cites: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/08061...

Some of the savings we posit from healthcare can be used to pay for other programs.

2) Eliminate Imperialism - Save > $1T dollars by not fighting wars based on lies. The Pentagon's budget was recently raised by about the amount a version of free college education would cost.

3) Tax the (Natural Person) Rich - Take their giant chunk of change and use it to buy more stuff, like infrastructure

4) Eliminate the Rentier Class - Housing is suddenly cheap and ordinary people have much more pocket change. Who will be incentivized to build housing then? Well, your representatives of course.

5) Tax the Tax Evaders - Apple, Google, and all the rest that use tricks to hide billions overseas (or have it parked here after the tax bill).

There's lots of money to find, just look under the couch.
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Mobile, can't link now, but the Obamacare expansion required covering rehab centers, and the industry exploded, and tons of bad actors are doing literally this. There are even cases of centers next to drug dens with staff acting as suppliers/runners

I apologise for no link, but quick googling will find the stories.
Just a note: paperwork is usually just data on disk now. Maybe a database or 10, or just a bunch of logs. But generally not as bureaucratically onerous as one envisions a ton of actual paperwork.

A virtual paper trail isn't a bad thing when you've got to (a) manage risks based on decisions made by these processes and (b) make sure you're obeying the law.
I'm always bothered by the sense of entitlement. A warrant just says they're allowed to infringe someone's 4A rights in order to look for and seize evidence. It's not a promise that they'll find and be able to use whatever it is they're looking for.

And I don't think the FBI has ever stated that they dropped or lost a case due to crypto.
IIRC it is a fairly precise model. They know which antennas, and the directed reflection. The width ground track is not all that wide, but if you're right in the middle of it they're very bright. Years ago I drove to be in the center of the path and could easily see the flare in broad daylight.
>>Don't assume that everyone is happy with whatever level of mediocrity _you_ think is acceptable.

So large library size == mediocre?

Jesus christ, HN is full of extremists.
Why has this become so complicated? I use Newsboat https://newsboat.org/ to read RSS, and follow about 100 very interesting authors that way.

I just put the RSS urls into a text file and the self-contained 1.7mb program does the rest. Somehow it gets by without using a combination of Electron, Mongo, Algolia, Redis, machine learning (!), and Sendgrid.

Maybe the comparison with a text-based RSS reader isn't fair and Winds does some crazy cool stuff, but it's hard to see what that is exactly.
>The wealthy only care when the pitchforks come out.
I can't find the link right now, but there was a TedX talk by a multi-millionaire arguing that he wants to be taxed more.

This?
https://www.ted.com/talks/nick_hanauer_beware_fellow_plutocr...
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They definitely won't because EU competition law doesn't care about whether there was harm to consumers or not. It's based on different principles to American law, arguably worse ones (harm to competitors, which is sort of the point of competition to begin with).
It is also very debatable if it was a real demo.
A related read:

Andy Byford, who made a name for himself running transport systems in London, Sydney and Toronto, is now in charge of turning around New York's Subway.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43561378
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It was both. It was a Trump campaign promise and some Democrats voted for it.
They do it well, but none quick as slickly and crisply as Jackson did (especially the performers on the left side, for some strange reason). One of the guys on the right really nails it though, well done to him.
> Parents do not want to antagonise the school and/or put their child at some kind of disadvantage, so they sign. Is that still "freely given"?

That's a good point, and there might be a court case about that. I agree that the parent probably doesn't have enough free choice. If the law was to say "That isn't freely given", then the school doesn't have consent, so they can't use the images!. That's the beauty of it. It's a different legal viewpoint than "signed contract uber alles". DPA should look at if you had real consent.

> it is clear that this would be viewed as being antagonistic towards the school and its interests.

Good? The whole point of the GDPR & EU data protection law is to push the pendulum the other way, because it's gone too far. If someone can come up and force them to reprint everything, and then someone else force them to reprint everything, well maybe they should collect less personal data? If they didn't collect personal data, they wouldn't have this risk. EU law is trying to discourage massive data collection.
Abstract Early? That's kind of Anti-KISS . It's better to start simple and abstract when desired.

It wastes a lot of time when I try to abstract early. You can't solve a problem without all the variables.
I'm not depending on global corporations to solve local community issues. I'm suggesting that the billionaire investors and owners of local corporations to solve issues in the communities where they are based. The big tech companies actively employ tax strategies to avoid paying as much of their taxes as possible.

Yes, it's mostly a state, local, and federal, and international tax policy issue, but that doesn't change my point that it would be awfully nice if they tried to mitigate their impacts on their local communities.
Because perjury is a little more nuanced than just saying something that is false. Now get over it, move on.
Could it be just an intentional focus effect?
> It's like the music business - you don't have to be the Beatles to have a very good career.

That is an inspired quote. I shall steal that and use it whenever anyone argues "why x when y already exists".
I started reading Roth a couple months ago as part of a project to learn how to write better fiction (I also chose Philip K. Dick at the same time for some reason...). I partly chose Roth after seeing by how much he outnumbered any other writer in terms of entries for best 100 novels of the 20th century (I don't remember who published the list, but it was something pretty credible, and he had 6 entries on there IIRC).

I started with Portnoy's Complaint and enjoyed it, but I wasn't blown away or anything. More recently I've been reading a novelette + 5 short stories in a single volume (named after the novelette) titled, "Goodbye, Columbus"—and I've been seriously impressed. I finished the novelette and 2.5 of the short stories; both short stories were astounding (IMO), and the novelette was damn good.

My understanding is that the themes of being Jewish in the U.S. and male sexuality are solidly mainstays in his writing, which at first seemed like would limit the material's interest to me, since I'm not Jewish at all—but if you read descriptions of his novels across the years you'll find a very interesting (bordering on bizarre at times) range. I'm looking forward to reading more.
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A paradox? Or Irony?

Every boom is the same, but every boom they say 'this boom is different,' therefore every boom must say 'this boom is different' to be the same.
How does the final example solve the daily slowdowns?
I think the first part of your argument is debatable, especially in modern times. In recent eras advancing industrialisation has meant telecoms, the internet, computers. All technologies that allow people to live and work anywhere. Working from home or working remotely is now becoming commonplace for the first time since the pre-industrial era.

Industrialization might have correlated with population movements from rural areas to the cities in the past. It's not so clear it still means that now. And as for falling fertility rates, that's surely more related to improvements in healthcare. You can say those improvements wouldn't have happened without industrialization, but that's just redefining industrialization as progress in general. In which case "cosmopolitanism is caused by progress" becomes the argument: an opinion, surely.

These cities are far more interconnected, both internally and externally, than the countryside.

You're talking about interconnectedness, the first thing the article's authors specified, but I was talking about internationalism, the second. The term "interconnectedness" is too vague to discuss; if it means people depending on each other, well, I've seen many claim over the years that cities are isolating and true communities where neighbours rely on each other are a suburban and rural phenomenon. I have no data either way. It seems easier to reason about internationalism, and that claim is dubious.

Also, I hate it when someone claims they have an alternative explanation, but don't present it so that we can examine it critically.

I didn't pick any specific explanation because there are so many to pick from.

For instance, if we drill into the definition of "populism", whereby it sets "ordinary people" against "elites", the most direct and simple explanation is that maybe in recent times there have been transfers of power away from ordinary people towards elites, and "populism" is simply politicians reacting to the concerns that this has caused. Obviously power being held by elites is a feature of many eras in history, has never been popular with the common man, and has nothing in particular to do with population growth or decline.
If you would have said you were a high school dropout and poor communicator this would have made a point but PhD + charm is phenotypically similar to an attractive ivy grad so you’re kind of proving the point.
I took it as a poker reference. "When to raise..."
> In a windowless bunker here, a wall of monitors tracked incoming attacks — 267,322 in the last 24 hours, according to one hovering dial, or about three every second — as a dozen analysts stared at screens filled with snippets of computer code.

> Cybercrime is one of the world’s fastest-growing and most lucrative industries. At least $445 billion was lost last year, up around 30 percent from just three years earlier, a global economic study found, and the Treasury Department recently designated cyberattacks as one of the greatest risks to the American financial sector.

Is this type of monitoring possible (necessary, even) with blockchains?
Blockchains generally silently disregard bad/invalid transactions. Where could discarded/disregarded transactions and forks be reported to in a decentralized blockchain system? Who would pay for log storage? How redundantly replicated should which data be?

How DDOS resistant are centralized and decentralized blockchains?

Exchanges have risk. In terms of credit fraud: some crypto asset exchanges do allow margin trading, many credit card companies either refuse transactions with known exchanges or charge cash advance interest rates, and all transactions are final.

Exchanges hold private keys for customers' accounts, move a lot to offline cold storage, and maybe don't do a great job of explaining that YOU SHOULD NOT LEAVE MONEY ON AN EXCHANGE. One should transfer funds to a different account; such as a hardware or paper wallet or a custody service.

Do/can crypto asset exchanges participate in these exercises? To what extent do/can blockchains help solve for aspects of our unfortunately growing cybercrime losses?

Premined blockchains could reportedly handle card/chip/PIN transaction volumes today.