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> > I've never met a company that uses oracle features that aren't available in Postgres

> I'm sure you'r in the majority here on HN, but that's merely selection bias. Also, it's true today, but was it true 17 years ago, circa Oracle 9i?

As somebody working on PostgreSQL full time, I very much agree on that. Neither today nor back in the 9i days has PostgreSQL implemented everything Oracle provides. Nor the reverse, for that matter. And I'm not just talking about features nobody uses.

> > It also impractical to maintain without a dedicated DBA.

> That's simply false, as the Oracle DBA I know routinely contraced out to companies as a temporary, non-dedicated DBA.

I do think it's easier to operate several databases, including PG, without a dedicated DBA in comparison to Oracle. Obviously it's entirely possible for both.
Small towns can be built with walkability in mind

This is true. Look at the bedroom communities surrounding Chicago. There are plenty of them where people take commuter rail into the city, then get around their home towns largely by foot. Cars are only used to go to the outlying malls and neighboring small towns.

Chicago is also doing something interesting with the whole notion of "streets."

Essentially, the notion is that since streets are public property, why are we allowing people to store their private property in them? Specifically, cars.

Parking spaces are being turned into miniature parks, or the parking lanes eliminated entirely in what are called "traffic calming" schemes to make streets more pedestrian-friendly.

Unfortunately, the backbone of the project -- Making it harder to park on the street to encourage people to park their private property in private parking garages -- got derailed when the mayor leased the city's parking meters to a private company for 99 years.

Now every time a parking space is removed from use (whether for a parade or a street festival or turned into a pocket park), the city has to pay the private company for that space. The payments are in the order of $30 million/year.

So, it'll be a good project in 94 years or so, when the parking spaces become public property again.
Boostrapping, so I pay corporate expenses out of a personal account on months when the corporate account is low: is this card right for me?
How the Great Recession changed the job market forever for college grads
Just google "marginal tax rate history" and "us gdp history".
Christopher Alexander wrote about this problem.

The trick is to make it possible for cars to come in the surroundings of a city center without interacting with people.

This post is too short to explain the details but when you have a walking area in front of shops you can have a parking area at the back side of the shops.
Cars are not the only solution here. Transporting a single disabled person does not require a 100+ horsepower 2-ton vehicle.
I've recently recovered data from a pair of 15GB and 20GB drives I last used in 2001 (and were stored in an ordinary closet of a house that experienced inside temperatures ranging from 5C to 30C over that time, and great humidity/dryness flactuations over those 17 years). There were 16 bad 512-byte sectors on one of the drives, but otherwise all worked.

Modern higher density drives are probably less resilient, and who knows how flash drives will fair after 17 years in the closet - but my experience so far is that HDDs trump backup tapes on every measure including costs except at extreme sizes (at this point in time, into the petabytes).
One thing google et all are missing from a typical super computer is infiniband style interconnects. They provide integrations with parallel data libraries like mpi and offer “3d” networking that will take into account physical distance between nodes and can do single rack mesh networking to avoid the overhead of switching. Despite google having lots of compute power they probably can’t leverage it in the way that the LINPACK benchmarks need.
Big Data Security Analytics for Protecting Virtualized Cloud Infrastructures
It works for existing customers! But it needs to be the first aws credits you’ve ever got. If you got AWS credits from someone else before, it wouldn’t be applicable.
SD cards could soon hold 128TB of storage
U.S. charges 601 for healthcare fraud in Opioid crackdown
Update: You can now change the background opacity to 0% to get transparent background :D
That doesn't sound dramatically different from being able to diagnose things from a blood sample.
Colorado Lawmakers Seek to Make Flying Drones Over Wildfires a Felony
Rebasing is fundamental to a proficient local workflow. Interactive rebasing with git rebase -p lets you craft and recraft your commits easily until they are readable and tell a story. The sooner a person can rebase, the sooner they can use Git. It’s not really possibly to proficiently or pleasantly use Git without rebasing.
I guess because of a moderator updating the post. As you can see it was posted 17 hours ago https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=johnramsden
Let's see.. How do i get started with "mail order fulfilment houses", I don't know. Is there a web site? Do they send fliers?

With amazon it's convenience, and scale. PEople go to amazon.com when they want to buy something (be it vitamins, or electronics, doesn't matter).

This just makes their hands stronger.
PillPack sounds like the name of a black market drug company.... interesting name.
"takes over a year and thousands of dollars to create a new entity in the US" This is a very misleading statement. 4 years ago I setup a 501(c)3 non profit and was able to get state and federal recognition, as well as all licensing necessary handled in a 4 month period from start to finish for under $400. What it does take is persistence and patience.
How do they know who's friends with whom?
In many cases, insurance mandates that you use their contracted mail-order pharmacy when possible. In other cases, they recommend but don't require it since the fees are lower for everyone that way. This is in the USA.
The fact that you feared ORMs probably pushed you to use raw database, and such experience really helps you understand how ORMs work.

Same is true with any abstraction – if you want to learn to use it right, first learn to make do without it.
Have you seen how bulky otter cases are?
> if the unemployment rate was as low as is advertised we would be seeing wage growth

Median usual weekly real earnings for Americans 16 and over were 5% higher in Q1 2018 then they were Q4 of 2007 [1]. From Q1 2014 to Q1 2018, we've seen that statistic grow at about 1% per year (CAGR).

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q
By some measures, Clinton campaigned (slightly) to the right of Trump in the run-up to the general election: https://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2016

For the primaries, using similar measures at least, the Republicans all more or less clumped together to the right of Clinton.
Yes.

Since it's basically OCaml, it has objects, but it's mostly a FP language.
Reminds me of the iLikeTrains track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei-YcXjlglI
You're right, my mistake. Insider trading can be charged criminally. To be precisely correct on this case, we'd need to read the plea filing. The defendant's name is also public record, so while a criminal record search may not ding him, a regular search engine query sure will. :)
Maybe it's indicative of which sort of conversations I choose to participate in, but I rarely see comment sections go beyond the page fold.

Supposing we take your argument seriously though, comments past the page fold which also have their contrast lowered to the point of illegibility are certainly censored even moreso.
I've been compiling Scratch books and here are my (and my kids') favorites:

- Coding for beginners using Scratch (Usborne)

- Code Your Own Games!: 20 Games to Create with Scratch by Max Wainewright

- Super Scratch Programming Adventure! by The LEAD Project

- Coding Projects in Scratch by Jon Woodcock

- Scratch Programming Playground by Al Sweigart

The list above is roughly in order of difficulty. The first two books have spiral binding so they sit flat on the table. I found this to be immensely helpful when my kids first started to use the computer / do Scratch. They could focus on using the mouse and tap-tap-tap typing on the keyboard without losing the page.

(edited for formatting)
Computer Science Unplugged https://csunplugged.org/en/
This is a common idiom in US speech, like saying "choose your battles."
I do a lot of traveling for business and staying in a city like Dallas, St. Louis, or some suburbia part of the bay area is absolutely my least ideal place to stay almost always. I love that uber exists, but my favorite part about traveling is walking around and doing photography so that I'm not just sitting in a depressing hotel. If everything interesting is at least 2 miles apart, it's hard to enjoy a city. And especially in Texas cities, many times there are no sidewalks so that walking even short distances is a big pain
Google invests $22M in KaiOS (Firefox OS fork)
> Monetary policy may have prevented a worst case depression

I vehemently disagree with this claim. The central banks of the world have merely masked a massive default on debt by inflating it away in a coordinated manner. The owners of that debt made out like bandits while the rest of us paid for it through the devaluation of our savings and wages.
Nametests.com publicly exposed your data for years
Imagine having this debate in 1818. People would be complaining about horses crapping everywhere, how hitching posts waste land, how roads designed for getting ox-carts full of goods to market aren't pedestrian friendly, etc. etc.
This isn't an actual problem Amazon has, and Amazon has enough problems that we don't need to make up new ones to discuss. Used items are tracked and sold individually (with their unique condition described and viewable by the purchaser), unlike new items. They're not just binned together by condition, when you buy used you're buying a specific item out of inventory. A "new item missing packaging" would not be sold as a new item. "New" items that are returned to Amazon are re-sold as used under the Amazon Warehouse Deals brand, even if the packaging looks factory sealed, for example.
So we'll probably manage (hide) our social networks well, and make some good offline-only friends. I do know SEC can put burden of proof to the person they suspect, but that can be prepared beforehand.
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> Websites like Zillow and Apartments.com offer calculations for commute length and walkability to everyday destinations like grocery stores

If I'm walking to the store, do I (a) try to carry 20+ grocery bags home for my family of five or (b) make a grocery trip twice a week? I don't love either of those.

And that's only groceries, not shopping in general. My wife got a 50lb bag of fertilizer from Tractor Supply yesterday morning. How close does that store need to be for walking to make sense? At the end of my driveway?

Basically....if you have a crowded city of apartments, sure, don't do much for cars. If you have a city of single-family residences (and three quarters of Americans do live in single-family residences), it's really hard to not build for cars.
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> The ECB should just do more QE

To be fair, the ECB has been saying as much. Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece have needed to make structural changes to their labor markets, pension benefits, and tax and regulatory systems for years. Unfortunately, their voters prefer things like screaming at Macedonia about what it calls itself [1].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/17/macedonia-gree...
I think people may be missing that the parent comment is sarcastic.
The one they were responding to wasn't that civil itself.
Delta attendant kicks passengers off plane over airplane mode dispute
"Tired of confusing international finance complexity? Just Brex It!"

Did you guys sell this idea to the UK government?
> Code is basically the poop that results after you digest the problem. The best code is as little code as possible

This is, perhaps, one of the best metaphors I've read for explaining this concept.

As someone who does one of the "lower" jobs, I rankled at his "hierarchy" of roles notion. Never mind that I probably could write application code if so inclined (and do routinely write "infrastructure" code and sometimes have had to fix those developers' code in production).

I occasionally like to point out to "engineering" or "technology" [1] managers that not all problems can be (or are best) solved with software/code. Some of use, when we digest a problem, can poop out zero or even negative code.

[1] In quotes because they're nearly always actually only software engineering or technology managers.
Paul Leroux called, he wants his ebiz back! ;)
"A closure is an object that supports exactly one method: 'apply'."

-- Guy Steele
you can see the buried comments on reddit. They are at the bottom of the thread. You can even sort by controversial or worst.
Is this related to AWS Activate ? Can we still get the credit if we are already part of the Activate program ?
I don't think Jason Fried co-invented Rails, I think that was all DHH.
Probably not... most of the applications that are approved have some sort of 3rd party person/institution financing them. If you do end up raising money, then it’ll be right! Over time we hope to improve our credit model to support more bootstrapping startups
As someone unfamiliar with Italy, would you mind to explain a bit?
> The fact that wages are not rising is evidence that the unemployment numbers are fudged. The fact that Trump was elected is evidence that the majority of people are unhappy with the “recovery”.

Two things:
1. Unemployment is calculated in a pretty standard way over time, and it's highly unlikely the numbers are being fudged. From what I've read, economists are actually kind of stumped as to why wage growth is stagnant, since it does not fit prevailing theories.

2. Plenty of people voted for Trump because they are racists and bigots responding to his xenophobic rhetoric. In fact it's very likely that Trump's economic policies will have a negative effect on the lower class, yet they support him anyway.
Nobody actually builds stuff that way, except for prototypes. But people do build things from T-slotted aluminum extrusions.[1]

Their heating appliance designs are not too good. The one that heats a water vessel has liquids above a non-sealed box with electrical wiring. The toaster uses parts from another toaster, plus CNC milled plates and 3D printed parts. More expensive than a standard toaster, and looks iffy on electrical safety.

[1] https://www.walmart.com/ip/80-20-1010-72-T-Slotted-Extrusion...
Looks like a loophole if you place it in small font: "Its not ferrero, its ferroro"
Thanks... ?

Having dates on the pages would probably help avoid some of this in the first place.

People point to a lot of the PHP comments in their docs as "bad" (and many are) but they're also dated, and you can use a comment date of 2009 when trying to give weight to how relevant/useful something may be.

"blank=..." anything is, imo, more confusing than "required=", regardless of what version/age of the docs though.
"In a parallel proceeding, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia filed criminal charges against Bonthu" [1].

[1] this press release
I think you are underestimating the importance of fixing glaring security bugs ASAP when they become public knowledge instead of denying or ignoring them for years.

Also, a DNS leak is potentially much more dangerous for a minority of people than any locally exploitable bug.
The problem is that if you build the graph as-you-go, dataflow graph optimizations cannot be done efficiently (some high level optimizations such as data layout optimization, automatic data / model parallelism etc.). Swift can do all these because the compiler can extract the graph out ahead of time.
Of all the people to end in jail, this minor guy is the one? He clearly is not some major criminal but small opportunist.
You are right, the protocol is broken. But that is only because it was accepted with a flaw that should be fixable.

While re-starting routers it was possible for an attacker to re-use nuonces (number used once). Because of a "SHOULD" clause in the RFC, the fix was optional and made it vulnerable.

Had that been a "MUST" (required) We would not be hearing even the a trace of WPA3.

An excerpt from the same website you sourced :

"When the victim reinstalls the key, associated parameters such as the incremental transmit packet number (i.e. nonce) and receive packet number (i.e. replay counter) are reset to their initial value. Essentially, to guarantee security, a key should only be installed and used once. Unfortunately, we found this is not guaranteed by the WPA2 protocol."
That's provably false; see the NFL players protesting before games for a pretty good example.
it's worse.
in germany the dsvgo (german gdpr) will be regulated by the states of germany, i.e. every state has his own regulation administration.
which means that there will be even more room for interpretation.

in the end the gdpr is more about opening new jobs.

also sites like:
http://www.spiegel.de/
or
https://www.bild.de/
do not care about the gdpr/dsvgo... so it won't happen that there will be many groundbreaking changes on how the governments will see privacy issues. at the end they just wanted to scare of the silicion valley.
The north is industrial. The south is mafia.
> Furthermore, perhaps before releasing a new version of the software for a broader usage, these companies should ensure it is bug-free by pre-testing it and thus guaranteeing the correctness of the produced estimations.

This is f-king ridiculous. This will never happen. There will always be bugs. Bug free.

If you don't want bugs, write the code yourself, or read all of the code yourself. After you do that, try to figure out whether your mind can still parse information 'correctly' relative to your respective science.
This is the first time I have heard this perspective from a European resident.
AV1 isn't just for 4K, though. Netflix recently showed a demo of 720p AV1 at only 200kbps. It should massively improve the low end - in fact, maybe the low end first because lower resolution streams are the fastest to encode.
> How do they know who's friends with whom?

After any corporate action, the SEC (and various other agencies) trace back through trade records to look for suspicious trades. Family members are a matter of public record. And friends are now announced on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, et cetera.
Thanks, I remember Hettinger's video making the rounds last year but never got around to watching it. Guess it's about time to make time for it.

edit: Ah, I remember. His talk uses slides that were created in sphinx/readthedocs, but IIRC, the link to those docs never worked for me: https://twitter.com/raymondh/status/867021035719110656
not only when, but where : a fairly common pattern is to have computations done in one thread, then once the computation is done and the thread starts another, the shared_ptrs (or any other kind of memory owners) are swapped in another thread and cleared there.
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We're already carrying microphones around in our pockets. Do the speaker microphones really make the situation worse? When it is almost guaranteed that there is already multiple microphones present.
AT&T removed HBO from an unlimited data plan after buying Time Warner
“Validation defined on the model is only enforced on the form” hasn't been true since 2010 when Django 1.2 was released. Most of the database-related discussion shares that pattern of either being factually incorrect (“queries can't use computed columns”), blaming Django for MySQL's many problems or failing to fix problems caused by other code failing to do things like input validation.

There's a real discussion about how to handle such issues on large, complex codebase but hiding it behind a clickbait title is not a good way to have that end up anywhere productive.
>That benefits THEM...how does it benefit the world?

You may be surprised to learn that these companies do not at all care what benefits the world.
I caught that, but it makes for a terrible post and so I’m downvoting it
Why not have one device that acts as a TV hub(roku), Wifi router, and speaker. Sell it for like $9. So you take the time to actually use it.
Thanks, this is interesting. It would be somehow satisfying if their LINPACK benchmarks would actually not be beaten by Google et al. (And their real workloads too.)

But how tightly can you really connect 27000 GPUs? Would be curious if anyone has a more technical article handy about what's different.
Which is different from other civil law in what ways? Anyone can sue you over any civil law. Then teh courts decides. GDPR is not magically different. This is a straw man.

The flurry of activities is only driven by companies who keep data about their users. Of course "legitimate" will be defined by the courts. That's the price you have to pay now for all the abuses that have been going on for the past two or three decades. History has shown that to define "legitimate" the text of the law is to open the doors to avoidance. Sorry mate, we can't trust you to be honest. It's too late now.
"The content of the icon is irrelevant to the question"

It absolutely, most certainly is not. The content is quite vital to the decision.
Hope this is not redundant, but I believe that this deal gives Amazon a license to sell drugs in all 50 states.
With a few exceptions, paper prescriptions have been outlawed in New York State. Everything is electronic now.
Facebook, for one.

While the SEC can undertake the tedious process of clearing all individuals with knowledge of the breach, a more effective tactic would be to look at suspicious trades and investigate potential insider knowledge. In that method, SEC looks at unusual volume/patterns in options contracts and security sales. The SEC will comb through each suspicious security sale that occurred prior to the breach announcement and cross reference the account owner's information with their list of insiders. If they have reasonable suspicion that a crime occurred, investigators obtain a warrant and complete the picture with phone records, email accounts, Facebook info (if not already obtained via parallel construction), etc.
>Parking spaces are being turned into miniature parks, or the parking lanes eliminated entirely in what are called "traffic calming" schemes to make streets more pedestrian-friendly.

What? Why? It seems like it would be better to add additional lanes (shared left turn lane + 2 bike lanes or some similar configuration) to increase overall efficiency and throughput. When you have raised sidewalks traffic speeds don't really doesn't affect walk-ability as long as there's crossings at lights (regardless of traffic speed you won't find an opportunity to cross anywhere else if traffic is reasonably constant)
By that logic I think you would want to squeeze the top right? I mean if you remove the middle then people will have to fill the middle before the even attempting at the top (and the top is saturated under current conditions) ;)

Beyond such myopic reasoning I think there is a great deal of economic theory around the collective economic benefits of having a strong middle class. You could try to argue against this but I think its at least a popular mainstream theory.
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You cannot keep claiming that the content is irrelevant just because that's the only way your argument makes sense.