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There is little clear thought about the range of options in major expenses. Most feel intuitively the range of "not enough" vs. "not necessary" without giving it the contemplation it deserves.
For example, we wanted features in rental living space commonly only found in condos or more expensive rental property.

We prioritized and ended up cutting almost 40% off our rental costs and got every feature we needed and wanted most (e.g. on a park, in-home washer/dryer, corner unit, two-story floor plan, super-close parking, neighborhood living near freeway, etc., etc.)

We gave up a lot of square footage (but met all storage space needs). Lower rent was a predicting factor that maintenance would be poor (but it's not terrible), neighbor likeability varyies more than we would prefer, etc. But it really feels like a complete win.

Managing smart auto maintenance in part by using mechanics on JustAnswer has allowed similar savings for our vehicles.
I know this is a nitpick, but I think it's really silly when articles have headlines like "What China Wants", as though everyone in China is thinking what the government is thinking. It's that kind of lumping-together that makes it easier for people to get wound up into "Us vs. Them" sentiments.
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I don't think so, but I do expect them to monetize the hell out of it (e.g paid support).

It's the Oracle for orgs that can't afford Oracle.
What about Cassandra? I believe it efficiently stores multiple time values for each (row, column) value as it changes. Google's BigTable design does this, and I believe you can use BigTable through Appengine.
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>> "document.querySelectorAll" must be called on the document object, and reassigning it to a variable like this will make it be called with "this" assigned to the global object, or "undefined" if you're using "use strict"

fixed.
Java EE, who uses ALL of this?
You made me think of a different sort of device that could be pretty cool.

First, you'd need to come up with some way to automatically judge whether a picture is "good" or "interesting" with some sort of reliability. That's probably hard, but maybe doable now. If possible, take a large picture and crop it down to something interesting.

Then, just leave a camera running continuously. Put it on your hat or hang it from your neck or something. Automatically save all the "interesting" shots. Then you have your pictures, but have been able to pay attention to what's going on around you rather than to the camera.
My personal pet conspiracy theory is that Oracle needs to continue to propagate MySQL as the "first one's free", not-quite-good-enough database, so they can provide an easy migration from MySQL to Oracle when your app outgrows MySQL.

I'm guessing there is a sizable slice of applications that would find PostgreSQL to be "good enough", and not need to buy Oracle subsequently.

Perhaps that's just paranoid, and Oracle is running MySQL out of the goodness of its corporate heart?
IIRC jQuery started out using string parsing to achieve this but its widespread use prompted browser vendors to add the document.querySelector and document.querySelectorAll methods to their browsers.

Probably in older browsers it still uses the old method but for modern browsers it just passes [selctor] in $("[selector]") through document.querySelectorAll; no string parsing necessary.
And Smalltalk, Mesa/Cedar, Oberon, ...

Yet the majority of younger generations never experienced such environments.

To move on from Lisp live feedback, I would say we need to reach again, before going elsewhere.
About 25 years ago, I read about a sheriff simply rounding up an elevator full of persons at a county building when the jury pool was low. That is an exceptional case, but I believe that jurisdictions vary in how hard they chase no-shows.
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Have you looked at Datomic? It seems to fit your problem description well.
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That's just... ew. No. That's just wrong. The average person's living conditions shouldn't be so poor in the first place that he feels the need to step into an Oculus to get a nice sofa.
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Linode also turned their billing system hourly basis. Just find this at their blog page.
A stranger here, i stumbled on this thread as i've been mulling over Diaspora's reaction to ISIS's sudden and dreadful arrival. It's heartening to read these threads and consider your reasoned and civilized exchanges.

My own perspective is largely reflected in the early post of logfromblammo, which puts me in the extremist free (i.e., decentralized/uncensorable) speech camp, i guess. logfromblammo's observation that early adopters rarely come from (anywhere near) the mainstream seems an especially salient aspect of the good-with-the-bad argument in this case.

The only thing i'd add, as an old school free speecher, is that the traditional anti-censorship answer to bad speech is more good speech. ...still thinking about how that model plays out on a distributed social network (social networking being an activity i personally mostly avoid).

Anyway...GRATITUDE for the cogent, respectful conversation i've had the pleasure of eavesdropping on.
The infrastructure for censorship/surveillance is the infrastructure that gives you ad revenue. This train can't be stopped.
I always just assumed it was my as in mine, all mine, my very own SQL database. Back when your other choices were proprietary and expensive, it gave me a warm feeling inside.
Sui, Tang, Qin, and Zhou fit that pattern.

Can't forget the Jin, Liao, Xia, and Yuan.

Also, another geographic factor I forgot to mention was the fact that much of China's land is just unsuitable for the kind of modern farming technology that was developed in the west. (Try running a harvesting combine over this: http://www.jacobsexposure.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/MJP... or, for another matter, this: http://i.imwx.com/web/multimedia/images/content/China_drough... )

South China is too hilly and has too much water, meanwhile North China has never had enough water.

The relatively poor rice/grain farming productivity in China was a pretty major obstacle to technological progress. Too much of the population had to rely on subsistence farming, and famine was a constant threat from time immemorial up until about the 1980s.
I have done it a lot. However, I optimized the slow parts in C++ with Boost Python, not C. It is not hard and it works great and is well documented.
Doesn't this tie into the idea of falsifiability? All these "theories" cannot really be disproven, only re-modeled. They're so focused on tying everything to human-caused climate change that they're leaving behind scientific rigor. As you said, bring on the accurate models and data!
Definitely pedantic, but it is still an interesting point. sqlite often gets forgotten about when we talk about relational databases, but it's at the heart of a lot more software than I think most people realise. I think the first time I really came to notice it was about 4 years ago in XBMC.
I don't do anything quite so tedious in my Go-based webserver projects. For functions that can return errors that I don't have a way to recover from (db calls, for example), I use a simple rapper function that automatically logs errors and panics. That doesn't seem to me like much of a source of difficulty or complexity.
Given how simple it is to drop in MariaDB/Percona Server without changes, this wouldn't be a terribly sound strategy.

A better strategy is the one they currently use - selling support tools (like Enterprise Support, Enterprise Monitor, and Enterprise Backup) to support the development. It never ceases to amaze me how much people will pay for these tools and services to support a OSS product.
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I guessed I missed that part. How does modeling oceanic current become partisan? Which measurements are falsified if any?
Yep. Damn auto correct.
Why do you think its terrible?
Yes, that's all true. But I've also never heard a plausible argument against the simple observation that if I kick a football it will accelerate away from me. F=ma and all that... Unless I'm standing at the bottom of a hill, in which case it will roll straight back to my feet. See, the wider system may be more complex, and have negative feedbacks that overwhelm any perturbation you introduce. The onus is on the climate scientists to show that the system as a whole will behave as they've predicted, which is a great deal trickier than your simple observation... since it's just about the most complex system imaginable. I model for a living, and I'd dead-set rather model the human brain than the climate of our entire planet. At least you've got 6 billion of those to gather data on. Or experiment on. They've got one.
>maybe you should make a prediction of their values.

4 years is a really tiny meaningless sample in terms of climate. However, here is what you asked for up to 1998, with a continuation of the linear trend in red, and a 'pause' in blue (I only have a 'before' graph for HADCRUT4 rather than GISS, but there isn't much difference - GISS and other temp records can be seen at the link).

http://tamino.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/hadcrut4_98.jpg

Maybe you would like to make a prediction?

Here is what happened: http://tamino.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/hadcrut4.jpg

Some 'pause' eh.

Source: http://tamino.wordpress.com/2014/01/30/global-temperature-th...
I fully endorse your point. However, if we're going to go back to a time before governments, then I think we have to go back to before agriculture, when humans were hunter-gatherers that lived in tribes of around 60 or so. Within such tribes, I imagine that "property" was a relatively fluid concept, much as it is in families now.

However, based on my understanding, the situation between tribes was such that there's no point in even using a concept like "property." Encountering a person from another tribe was a life-threatening event, let alone property.

This, however, is in support of your point: government is how large groups of humans are able to live together and cooperate. The things provided through government and the rule-of-law do not come free, nor are they the default state.
This is definitely true for me: the last time (last year) we'd had a meeting regarding our insurances I specifically asked about mental health coverage and was given the information I'd mentioned above.

I'll accept the downvotes for my ignorance, but I feel like underlying message is still true: there's undoubtedly a lot of people without coverage still and those people need to seek help elsewhere.
Absolutely yes. I have been waiting for this feature for long. It makes conversations followable.
MySQL is already owned by Oracle though, right? How much worse can it get?
This extension (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...) shows you which comments you haven't read yet.
hahaha, the box is priceless :DDD
You're not allowed to use any external resources to answer the questions - books, internet, friends, etc. You can use a pencil and paper for the math questions but that's it.
Unlike real science, where a scientist would say, "you know what, we thought our model of X showed promise, but we couldn't reproduce our results in reality, so we moved on", climate scientists seems to say "hmmm, reality isn't following our model, where did reality go wrong?"
Indeed, architects have definitely been using the Unreal Engine for quite awhile, even before it started looking this good. Here's an article from 2007:

http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2007-12-21/unreal-archit...
Amusing... but to be fair, this is also an operator precedence issue where C is letting you drop several pairs.
I believe, and my point of view is jaded, that PostgreSQL is mostly only popular with developers; most DBAs I know of much prefer MySQL (or the paycheck associated with Oracle), for a number of reasons.
> Pregnancy predicts sexual activity just as sexual activity predicts pregnancy (actually, better).

This merely says that the use of "predicts" in this context is meaningless, since in common usage "predicts" implies a one-way relationship.

I see from your second link that a definition has been crafted that undermines the word's common meaning. So it goes in language, an art, not a science, and one in which words mean whatever people think they mean, as with the sad case of "literally", which often means "figuratively".

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally
Does anyone know of resources (books, tutorials, gotchas, blog posts) for switching an application (with no orm) from MySQL to Postgres?
I guess the drastic reshaping of our planet has some people worried. Maybe its unscientific to blame it on human activity. But that at least has the possibility that we can fix what's clearly, pervasively broken in our weather.

How do you explain folks who pick at the science but ignore the melting of every ice pack on the planet in a few dozen years? What principle are they exhibiting, to ignore overwhelming data for the sake of scoring some points on a web blog?
Part of the value of photos are about attachment to a time and a place and as a tool to the photographer to remind them of that time. This mitigates that.

If this is satire, it's great. If not...
A year ago in Vancouver, I was paying $28 a month for cell, $30 for wired broadband internet, and $81 for a transit pass ($91 now).

But if you want to spend a lot of money, cars and Canadian telecoms definitely make it easy.
For people on MySQL, none. For people who chose MariaDB for philosophical reasons, much, much worse.
Sounds good, we could work together on the Web & mobile version and open source them. I just sent you an email. :)
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The book mentioned in this article, 'Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art', actually goes into a lot of depth about this. For example, what is statistically likely to happen if you only use single point estimates when they are aggregated together, and how to correctly handle range estimates.
I'm guessing people don't mean that if you used jQuery you are a bad developer. Just that, if you are a good developer, you don't rely on it and can write the vanilla version if needed.

EDIT: In this case, I'm wrong, the author seems to think you should write vanilla when given the option which is wrong for a lot of reasons.
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You may want to explain why you feel that clicking on the "threads" link in the menubar is insufficient. If you're logged in, it will take you to

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=wuliwong
I use one of the above and it's a blessing and a curse. A blessing to know when you've got a reply, a curse because you may not wish to get email notifications. I'm sure many of us here already close distractions like email when they're on the grind.

I believe this feature would be a great addition to HN itself, however, as nobody has the time to manually track multiple threads for responses. The best solution IMO would be a notifications badge with unread count in the topbar which toggles a page or dropdown with quicklinks to the replies. It could go right next to the "threads" link even. It removes the need to watch that page.
Interesting. I'm surprised that NAND flash chips don't have some kind of hardware assist for this (e.g., really small pages for handling the much smaller checkpoint writes). But I guess at the level of utterly fungible consumer hardware it's about cost rather than reliability, since the latter doesn't have any absolute metrics.
Lately I've been testing a new way to read comments: starting from the bottom working my way up.
Nice. I wrote a similar tool for Rails / ActiveRecord models: https://github.com/bronson/table_differ

It takes snapshots and computes diffs between snapshots or the live database. It lets me drop and re-import some of my app's tables, then compute the minimum set of changes between the previous import and the new import. I wouldn't call it "git for ActiveRecord models" but it appears to be similar to this project.

Comments welcome! The docs, as always, could use some help.
IBM still does cool things that are completely beyond Microsoft's grasp. The breadth of their research is still very impressive - from basic physics all the way to some of the most functional AI around. When was last time Microsoft did a product that could beat a human on Jeopardy?

If they want to be the next IBM, they have a lot of work ahead of them.
One problem with all of these approaches is they require more then one subject. Unfortunately we only have one earth, so there is no way to have a natural control without CO2 rising, or an earth where the CO2 rose at a different time.
I have quite a few friends using this, and am befuddled as to why people are willing to trust their deepest, darkest, to god-knows-who.
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@MarkMC - Any idea if your browser whiteboard will with the TouchPico (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/touchpico-turn-any-surfac...) which is an inexpensive touchscreen projector. (I'm just thinking these would be a great combination of technologies.)
I second the recommendation of http://hnnotify.com/.

Been using it for years.
React is also elemental, but in a different sort of way. Your elements effectively become substitutions:

// When I say

<IconButton
link-to = "home"
src = "home.svg
/>

// give me

<a
class = "IconButton"
href = "/"
>
<img src = "home.svg" />
</a>

It doesn't show up as custom elements in the DOM (hence you have to manually specify the class name in your substitution). It's also idempotent, so no fancy data binding. Otherwise, same idea.
Yes, you end up with a tiny DSL for specifying transformations to make to a child process: they key difference is that the kernel can execute this DSL much more efficiently than it can code written in the host language: fork closes over the entire world, and posix_spawn doesn't have to do that.
You didn't ask a question. You suggested that the author's effort was misguided for an application you didn't even use.
ASP.NET developers using TransactionScope can use http://amnesia.codeplex.com/ to manage distributed transactions for automated UI testing.
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Measures are not falsified. Hypothesis are (or should be). When you have a hypothesis, or a theory, that can't be deemed false by new data or new experiments, you don't have science.

And this is the problem with those "a posteriori" explanations of the hiatus. They are saying that the models that predict a global warming catastrophe can't be wrong, instead of recognizing that the models lack predictive power and they must be adjusted. But if the models can't be wrong they are not science.
25 years is also a really tiny meaningless sample in terms of climate. Are we forgetting that we have a solar cycle of 22 years? We can't tell shit from such small periods.
Can you give a code example in Go?
Sounds like a case where Event-sourcing & CQRS might've been handy. (Not reality something you can easily bolt-on afterwards, though.]
For the nth time, no.
That costs money and time and effort. Sometimes it's just nice to get something off your chest and move on.
Actually, what would be really useful is to print a count of replies next to the threads link. So I could at a glance find out if there are new messages in the threads I care about. It could be as simple as:

new | threads (12) | comments | show | ask | jobs | submit

I'll leave it to the implementer to decide whether the count gets reset every time I click on threads, or not.
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I reed the previous version of this URL. IIRC it has the same graphs, but the text was much shorter, and didn't explain that. Replace 850 with 950 in my comment. The article now says that 950nm was not visible, but they don't link to the graph.
I don't see why you'd want history support in your infinite scrolling or carousels.

That seems like irritating behaviour to me.
That's not what mobile first means.
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> I wonder, could you create a closed form of the final solution by allowing only a portion of the nonrenewable resources to be consumed?

You may not be surprised to hear that that was my original, much desired goal, but after much thought and experiment I realized that the abrupt discontinuity caused by the exhaustion of the nonrenewables is real, for the reason that, in practice, the rate of nonrenewable use increase as their exhaustion approaches, creating an abrupt knee that resists conversion to a closed form.

> At least, this should remove the sudden discontinuity in the slope of the nonrenewable resources function.

But that abrupt end to nonrenewables is real -- it reflects the fact that the growing colony becomes increasingly reliant on them as their exhaustion approaches. So the knee can't be removed without changing the meaning of the equation.

Oh, well -- as it turns out, there are many very common differential equations that resist conversion to closed form. Orbital systems with more than two bodies are a classic example. Another one is the integral to the common exponential function that gives us the normal distribution -- very commonly used in statistics and elsewhere, but no closed form. All applications of the normal distribution use a numerical algorithm called the "error function" to produce results -- all of them approximate, and having the drawback that they cannot be symbolically differentiated or integrated.

Maybe a much more skilled mathematician that I am could find a way around this obstacle, but I doubt it.
I think you're really reaching to find that meaning in Byttow's words.
Did anyone notice in those graphs that the temperature anomaly for the southern latitudes/ hemisphere seemed lower than for the northern latitudes/ hemisphere? Anyone know why that would be?
To elaborate, I like how my HN account is quiet. I can come here to think and relax without jumping at the little red number or envelope icon.

Facebook/reddit are a constant stream of notifications that makes it difficult to concentrate on anything.
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Sue if they want that sort of commitment, they can pay me for it. At the moment they are getting a good deal with the crappy salary I am getting.
Even if it's technically impossible now doesn't mean that it won't be technically impossible in the future.

It's plausible that future iterations of smart phones will make progress on this "feature", should it become a more stringent requirement for shipping in Brazil.
Exactly. Especially for those of us who have been slow-banned, clicking on the Threads link takes a long time to load. I definitely want to see if there are replies first before clicking it.
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You comment hits the core of the "problem". Traditionally What "China" wants has been 100% decided by its rulers.. While the people were TOLD what they wanted. Even now China's rulers think about what's useful for their minions to manufacture for outsiders with near contempt that their own people may want something.

A good microcosm of this is iPhone. It took four years for the government to bless iPhone for Chinese people to use... Even though it is nearly 100% made by Chinese people in China. That rigid disparity between what people of a country WANT and what they MAKE doesn't exist like it does in China anywhere else. That's what makes China such a tough nut to crack.. The near absolute control of what the people are "allowed" to like and buy.
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