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Oh, it can often be worse. People sometimes try to do tricky things like running totals by relying on implicit order in SQL queries. Often they are trying to squeeze as much performance out of the database server as possible (usually SQL Server) by avoiding cursors.

My favourite ever SQL Server hack was one done by a guy called Jeff Moden, who came up with a running total update that relied on a specific quirk of SQL Server clustered indexes. The amount of effort he put into it is quite remarkable! [1]

1. (Create a temp account to check it out, they're not spammers) http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/T-SQL/68467/
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So with that mindset, why are you arguing against WikiLeaks on Hacker News? There are FAR worse example of breaking your set of rules where you should probably focus.
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Way to go !
It might be more accurate to state - The move towards complete availability of all digital information for commercial gain seems to be a force of history.

Perhaps individuals are just the low-hanging fruit and these are just the early stages of the process. However it strikes me that all the forces pushing for open-ness stand to profit from it and the relationship is rather one sided at this point. Facebook, to pick the obvious example, does not seem too forthcoming with information on who has access to the data you so freely and readily provide to them and what is done with it.

Perhaps once people connect the dots and realise that the reason their life insurance premuims are going up is because they are posting too many photos of themselves drinking at parties then the pendulum will swing the other way.
The reverse engineering of ESRI FileGDB format
Starting halfway through the article:

"To the SDOs [standards development organizations], the system works rather well. They take on the burden of developing standards, an obligation that in many other countries falls on government. They convene experts and build systems for collating and distributing these standards. They even offer limited free access... [Malamud] argues, the effect of these standards is felt on the ground each and every day, as well as in the pocketbooks of local governments. In a video posted by Malamud, the head building inspector for Sonoma County, Calif. testifies that the country spends about $30,000 during a code cycle buying copies of building code for staff."

Everything the government uses as a standard should be freely available to the public in a machine readable format. By selling standards to the government I assert the SDO's should be required to forfeit their copyright. But that will never happen; it's the same bullshit as with PACER and court documents, some asshole has found a way to rent-seek on publicly owned IP and the system allows it because few people care out loud.
I don't think this deserved to be down-voted - the website is relevant to the discussion and we've put countless hours into trying to make a useful tool and we've already taken the concept further than anyone else that I'm aware of. My comment is making fun at what we're doing, but what we're doing is not a joke. I would sharing what we've done as one of my more useful comments, yet it is the only one to be downvoted.
And the dreadfully named Pen Island:-

http://www.penisland.net/
How many alien worlds exist?
Traction control sounds on youtube are very similar.
Ok what do you do after that secret court? Is there another higher secret court or would the next step be the supreme court?
I don't think Chesterton was under-appreciated. When my father attended university in the 40's, he belonged to something called the Belloc-Chesterton club, and apparently those authors were all the rage at the time, right up there with George Bernard Shaw. However, unlike Shaw, Belloc and Chesterton were overtly religious, so they were discarded as religion itself went out of fashion.
Unjust Discrimination either way.
http://weusethat.com/ looks promising, but it hasn't had a pull request merged in almost a year: https://github.com/weusethat/we-use-that
Article is over a year old... At one point it mentions that the company isn't profitable but expects to be by mid-2013. I wonder how the company is doing now?

Edit: Looked up their website, found them at http://generalblood.com. Looks like they are now working with Delta to deliver their blood, and Delta had an internal news article about General Blood: http://www.generalblood.com/img/0912_5min_28.pdf
There is considerable more value in running a world premier service then the amount of money it brings in as well.
Assume this is going to disappear once they wake up in the US...
The best free demo I've ever played.
The article won't load w/ cookies disabled. What a load of rubbish.
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Falls under my opinion on personal freedoms, if your not hurting anyone else, do whatever the hell you want.
Would it be fair to fine the team if they were in fact using the "assisted KERS suspension"? Technically it is not traction control.
> The floppy disk icon is outdated.

I don't get this sentiment. Just because we think its outdated doesn't negate it's utility. If ain't broken, don't fix it.
My Nexus 4 reboots unexpectedly maybe once or twice a month. This has been my experience with all my Android phones the last few years. Something tells me that Apple will resolve this new bug, while Android will have more trouble fixing an issue that has been around for several years.
I was at the Formula 1 in Melbourne this year, back in March, and definitely noticed the unusual engine notes of the RBR cars as they accelerated out if corners.

But it was definitely both cars making the sound, so both Webber and Vettel had the system, if it did in fact exist.
I would call it simple and powerful tool for developers
> There are pathetically few documents on WL from governments with truly atrocious human rights records.

So what? I seriously don't understand your position. I don't really care that there's nothing about North Korea on Wikileaks simply because:

1. Everyone knows North Korea has an appalling government. "North Korean Government Official Caught Accepting Bribes" would quite possibly be the stupidest news story ever.

2. I don't live in North Korea. I care about what the UK government is doing, because that's where I live!

I take it you're from the USA. Wikileaks are telling you what your government is doing, and instead of thanking them, you're annoyed that you can't ignore what's going on? You're more concerned about some weird "embarrassment"? Seriously, WTF?
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I like it! Very simple and easy to use.

Since I don't have any expenses I have to track for accounting purposes, I'm looking at this as a tool to track my own expenditure so as to help improve my spending habits. I realise the focus might be different so my suggestion may be useless to you!

What would be really useful to me would be reminders and notifications. With developing habits like this, I have a very hard time unless I'm constantly reminded. Like I take my lunch on weekdays at 12pm, so a reminder at half 12 or 1 would have me enter my lunch expenses. This could be further enhanced if you had a mobile app that used push notifications. This would be essential for me to develop the habit of doing it.
> But I think we're limited to only a handful of icons that are universally (??) recognisable.

Wouldn't you argue that the floppy disk is a universally recognizable icon for saving? It's hardly misconstrued for something else, and with the exception of youth, it does make sense (without using it before) to a majority of the population.
I find the justification presented for only Vettel having the technology a little strange.

It's common to test new systems on one car before rolling them out across the team. If the technology works and is reliable, Webber will have it before the end of the season.
Ah thanks for the suggestions. That's something I've been thinking about a bit, I think it's a pain to enter expenses all the time. How do you feel about an email reminder in place of a push notification?
Using Trello for Webdev? You need Bug Screenshots.
I'm really interested why D doesn't get much love from C/C++ devs.
"crashing once a day or more" ?

It's a kernel driver so triple the fun.

They should just follow Intel and switch effort to the free drivers, fglrx has been in this rotten state for years and years and it's clearly not getting fixed.
Between D, Nimrod and Julia it looks like there's a resurgence of fun in (JIT) compiled languages.
In an environment where innovation has been strictly regulated against (better engine management software? NOPE. better foil design? NOPE), the fine art of sticking to the letter of the law but totally bending the spirit of it is naturally where the bleeding edge of F1 design is going to lie.
Hacker News Amsterdam meetup?
Do we have enough Amsterdam hackers to have a meetup in a month or so?

If I get enough response I can organize it.

Edit: seems to be some interest, 19:00 the 6th of november?
Article at nature website:
http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2013/131008/ncomms3554/full/nco...

Scroll through the figures here:
http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2013/131008/ncomms3554/fig_tab/...

I could not find the raw data at a glance or the elevation over time which would have been useful to see if there were any likely points where it could have landed and taken off again between data points.
This is pure speculation, I am sure Red Bull are doing some things with there car but it's not as big of a deal as everyone makes out and I don't think it's one thing.

It's worth noting, that Rosberg's engineer said that the rubber caught in his front wing for that race was costing him 1.7 seconds a lap. That's where the biggest difference came, Vettel wasn't that much faster in Korea.
Link to Racecar Engineering web article: http://www.racecar-engineering.com/news/red-bulls-traction-s...
This is a very nice magazine to read/subscribe even if you are not a race fan. Lots of technical discussions.
http://hg.mozilla.org/labs/raindrop/file/42b1a25c3061/LICENS...
If the secret is the automated use of KERS, you'd see it in the on-screen graphics (the HUD-esque display shows when a driver is deploying KERS).

Also the article makes the comparison in noise - but surely that noise is caused by the engine being limited/throttled, something which they could not get away with in this season since the ECUs are all the same. A KERS-based traction control wouldn't make the same noise because it doesn't work in the same way.
The claim was it doesn't have IMAP access. It does.
Well I can tell you what I didn't like from the moment I saw the web page: I can't see or use the app in any way before I even register. As some random visitor coming to your site, why would I bother doing that, when I have no idea what to expect from signing-up (other than a bunch of words on a page, which I just skipped looking for the app screenshots/demo).
Identity crisis for Windows
Is there any way to see what I'm signing up for without actually signing up for it?
>> "It's common to test new systems on one car before rolling them out across the team."

Every weekend Red Bull claims the two cars are the same and Vettel is not given any advantage. Usually they test on one car in the practice sessions to gauge the advantage it gives over the current car but in quali/race the cars are usually (if we are to believe Red Bull) identical. I find the justification in the article regarding money unlikely though.
so the GC isn't optional in D?
Looks nice! Have you thought about adding screenshots on the landing page (maybe one each for "Log Expenses", "Tag Expenses" and "Analyse Expenses")?

I think a lot of people would like to see what the app might look like before giving away their email address.
" It doesn't really matter what the user base of Chrome or Android are. What they do is raise the bar. Competitors and alternatives need to be at least that good."

Yes it does matter, at least some. No one even knows what the bar is if no one is using it.

Someone could put together a wickedly fast browser with fantastic privacy controls, release it tomorrow, but if no one used it, it wouldn't have any effect on major browser makers.

JS performance went up in other browsers due to Chrome only because Chrome was gaining users (even if the base was small at first), mostly because they were able to push Chrome from Google.com itself.
Hm yeah, good point. I'll do that!
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Fair call. What would you like to be able to see on the landing page? Screenshots?
Email reminders could also work well.

My thinking with mobile push notifications would be you tap the notification and it takes you straight to a simple UI where you punch in the values.

It might be harder to reduce the friction as low as this with email notifications but it could work just as well. A simple link could work, or one step further is having a feature where you can specify expenditure and tags in the reply to an email in a certain format that's parsed by your app e.g:

$8, work, commuting
$4.50, lunch

(Values in example may seem low because I'm British but dollar/pound symbol is neither here nor there in this case!)
The claim was Yahoo had "no" IMAP access. That's incorrect.

And, for the record, if you want it in Windows, just configure it. That it's not "supported" doesn't mean you can't use it.
Oh, also, don't forget that we have a few "minor" companies represented in France, such as Mozilla, Microsoft R&D, Apple R&D, Google R&D, IBM R&D, Intel R&D, etc. all of them involved in some extent in the French startup ecosystem.

For instance, Mozilla (where I work) hosts events with startups, has its own accelerator for startups, and provides some mentorship. Of course, that's for startups that aim for open source, open web, open government, privacy, or any other form of greater good.
It could very well be that just in this race the technology was not working on Webbers car (as would be no surprise with new techology). Just wondering because of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6532428
Really interested to know what other compile-to-native-code languages that they evaluated and why they chose D over other alternatives. Anyone knows if such comparison is available?
Wget has already been ported to Windows, and because it's free software, you can try port it to any other OS. Opera, on the other hand, hasn't been ported to nearly as many OSen, and you don't get the source to help with the effort (plus it's much larger than a CLI file downloading utility). Your idea of cross-platform is weird.
I think that they are saying that Scala is the proverbial bread being offered to you, and your concerns about productivity are akin to insisting that your bread be soaked so that it's easy to eat.

If that is what they're saying, I disagree with them.
ICANN: Resolution for Addressing the Consequences of Name Collisions
So he got out a notepad and pen, then wrote the word "FAT"... whilst on a plane. Awesome!
Interesting to know, thanks. My example was probably a bit too hastily made-up.

So I guess in summary, it's not so much about investor time and attention but mostly about managing the risks of the different sectors.

Consumer startups are inherently less predictable and therefore you invest only when a company appears to have found its market and be at least partly on the way to success. Whether that be A round or later is irrelevant.

Whereas the enterprise startups are more predictable, in that if you find a great founding team with a good idea, they are more likely to make a success of it in that sector. Therefore you can cast a wider net, earlier in the lifetimes of the companies, than you would for consumer startups.

Or to summarise the summary: A good, predictable bet is better than an unpredictable one. Or maybe, never look a gift horse in the mouth?
I'm surprised that this hasn't popped up on HN before, AFAIK.

This is very telling:

"During the public comment period for the proposal to manage name collision risks, 75 comments were received4: 35 in favor of moving forward with the new gTLD delegation in the current projected timeframe in one way or another, 31 against rolling out new gTLDs in the current projected timeframe without first doing additional studies, and 9 making neutral proposals."
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Every new technology introduced to racing allows teams to develop a secret advantage. Rules are adjusted over time to balance things out. But you can be sure that by then another new technology will have been introduced. The KERS system is already producing lots of results that are trickling down to consumers. I can imagine how using the torque and resistance of the electric motor as a means to increase grip is something that may be used in standard cars. Rather than using the braking system, this could be a smoother option.
They already do the hardware polling, and if they're already supporting this variety of GPUs on Windows, I can't see the Linux situation being that much worse:

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
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Too bad. It looked like a fantastic magazine but I would really like to read it in its physical form. Do you know any other game development magazines?
Curiously enough, the FileGDB format contains the (in)famous 0xDEADBEEF constant: http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/FGDBSpecification#Rowssectio...
Making history short: because the first time it took off it ended having two incompatible "standard" libraries that were so competitive that even bad blood happened.
I was mostly not interested by it because the reference implementation is not open source.

I checked, to get the facts straight: DMD is the reference implementation. The frontend is under GPL but the backend (optimizer and codegen) is not. The source code is available but you are not allowed to redistribute it.

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/blob/master/sr...

(I wonder if you are allowed to fork it on GitHub.)
Ultimately I would love to do a mobile app and it really wouldn't be that difficult to build, I guess I just wanted to gauge interest before dedicating more time. That's a really interesting suggestion about the email reply, I'm going to think about that a bit more!
One issue might be that InnoDB by default uses a single idb file where all tables are stored. Further, this file also never shrinks even if you delete rows or drop indecies. So basically if page n contains your data page n + 1 might be useless to you, so InnoDB looks at pages by pk instead to only read pages it needs. (All this is my wild speculation.)
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The smeary tone of this article is really quite obvious and unpleasant, and I don't think qualifying it as a "conspiracy theory" makes up for that.

For example the claim that "Christian Horner isn’t saying much", when in fact he's flatly denied any kind of rule breaking.
The biggest suggestion I could offer would be to give your potential customers a reason to use it - ask them a question on the conversion page that qualifies them as a customer - i.e. "Want to spend your money more effectively?" or "Want to cut down on the amount of time you spend tracking corporate expenses?" or something similar. As is, the site kinda assumes that everyone has the problem you are trying to solve, which has the affect of making it appeal to "no one". Be more explicit about the problem you'd like to solve in your copy and it will boost user confidence immensely and get many more of them to the point where they will want to try your service.
Is there any way to preview it? At the very least some screenshots that show the user what the web app can do would be very helpful. :)
I love that this is really a cutthroat battle of engineering. Behind every driver there's a team of really bright individuals who are brainstorming, modeling, designing, tweaking, and refitting, to figure out just how Red Bull's doing it.
not as far as I know. while having garbage collection was an asset when java was created, currently with ubiquitous RAII usage in c++ it's just a hindrance.
It is, but the standard library uses it so you have to avoid them if you want no GC.
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We need to stop making "open source" icons which aren't actually open source. Illustrator files are not open enough so that many people can contribute or edit it to their liking. Look at the FontAwesome github issue page and see how many open issues there are vs how many pull requests have been sent. Not many, since few people have Illustrator.

What we need is a DSL (some already exist) and a framework which defines shapes and forms and which can easily plug things together. Ie. we have _only_ code for all the icons and with a simple "make" run we get our customized sizes, colors, formats etc..

I've actually worked with Asymptote [1] a lot and it would be very easy (and elegant) to define them in that framework. Another candidate would be Scala who can define DSL's elegantly and could use many existing libraries to put out th EPS. It's sad that people invest $50k on something that is again flawed: Not editable, not open (truly) sourced, not line-based versioned (git).

I've been wanting to start something along this way ever since I saw fontawesome but I don't think I have the time to invest. Maybe some day...

[1] http://asymptote.sourceforge.net/
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When one guy leads by 30+ seconds, while everyone else fights for fractions of a second, either there's a major breakthrough or somebody is cheating.
Make sure to also add a demo that I can use without registering.
A couple of older posts about what they're doing:

How Khan Academy is using Machine Learning to Assess Student Mastery

http://david-hu.com/2011/11/02/how-khan-academy-is-using-mac...

Khan Academy: Machine Learning → Measurable Learning

http://derandomized.com/post/51729670543/khan-academy-machin...

I think the latest Dashboard design that they've just (soft-?) launched is based on this work. When you first start it asks you about 10 questions and based on your performance on that short "Maths pre-test" guesses what you know and what you don't across the whole of Maths.
There is no secret court involved in this case. The initial case was overseen by the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia and is currently in appeals at the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals [1]. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has no part in this decision.

[1] http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/10/lavabit_unsealed/
Couldn't it be some sort of new notification system for the driver which gives him instinctive feedback and lets him drive the engine the same way traction control would?
Well Mark Webber did end up retiring from the race so something was not right with his car...
Or somebody like ROS had problems in his front wing and they didn't had the pace, and not counting that VET was on clean air.

No cheating involved
So innocent people should be sent to prison because it's cheaper?
I encourage you to read what is right now the top comment on this page.
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screenshots at least, and preferably a demo that doesn't require registration
Andrei is a well-known member of both the C++ and D communities; he's probably #2 after the language's creator, Walter Bright.

So I'd imagine it has something to do with said expertise.
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