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The publication doesn't even have to be taken into account. The movie stars bit of the title makes one think California, and the 'what happens' gives a slight negative implication when combined with movie stars (at least that was my initial perception). Thus the title appeared to be casting California in a negative light. Being California leans liberal, a negative article reviewing the state would likely have a conservative lean to it. Thus the description can lead to the assumption without even needing to see the source of the article.
Thanks! My pleasure, and I'm already receiving tons of help from the community.
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Thanks :-) I understand what you mean I think, since speaking Italian I've also a strong Sicilian accent... but I tried hard to preserve it, after all it's my origin.
> The STS was doing all these things and more.

Ok but if Buran failed didn't STS fail too, just took more money and killed more people? No current space vehicles are based on it. It was too big. Too expensive. Too failure prone (it killed a lot more astronauts than Soyuz even though Soyuz is older). Once the concept was proven, after a few space walks, maybe fixing Hubble, it was time to realize it was a bad idea scrape it. Which eventually happened.

Otherwise if you say, "Ok" it was for research, well so was Buran it was research and jobs program. They showed they could build a space plane just like Americans. Cold War was full of such "we can do it too" feats. Some advanced science and engineering some didn't.

> poster-boy in mismanaging a spacecraft project and what essentially became a Soviet "make work" jobs program

Yes but by that token they can still laugh at us for mismanaging it longer and making it into an even more glorified jobs program.

> I find it interesting that these things haven't been turned into scrap yet.

It is not that surprising. Not sure how much nostalgia plays into but it is probably too expensive and cumbersome to go and start tearing the building and the spacecraft apart.
Pied Piper Raising Their Round B Using Invisu.me
What about clothes? chairs? umbrellas?

Soon we won't be able to take photographs of anything...
The Logic of Surveillance Capitalism
I got so many nos. I can't believe that "Remarkably, 77 percent of people who have played this game so far have guessed the answer without first hearing a single no." That's crazy.
There's a good article on progressive enhancement (which is, alongside / in addition to graceful degredation, what's usually referred to when one talks about JS/non-JS hybrid flows) that addresses the cited pain points and "myths". [0] The claim that PE is "twice the effort" is directly addressed; basically, it's not twice the effort at all if one actually designs one's app to support PE/GD from the start (or otherwise starts with bare server-generated HTML and adds on layers of interactivity from there).

[0]: http://www.sitepoint.com/javascript-dependency-backlash-myth...
You're probably going to have problems getting enough people to sign up though - they'd need a good incentive. (Speaking from experience here :-( )
I think you mean falling back to "FQL," the old SQL-like syntax, since Flux is more of a client architecture thing (paired with GraphQL).

FQL has some holdouts in legacy code, but the vast majority of the iOS app is using GraphQL. There are a bunch of tools built around using it, and it's the "right way" these days. Maybe a year or more ago ago, the notifications tab was using FQL. It makes sense to convert things since the risk in switching is outweighed by a reduction in server CPU, network bytes transferred, and ability of tools to understand the code. When we built Paper, we did notifications on GraphQL because there wasn't the risk of breaking something.

You can almost certainly handle all of your 'data needs' with GraphQL... :D
even at gigabit speeds, unless the implementation is really, really bad, checksumming will absolutely not be the issue here as far as my experience goes.

Benchmarks should be consulted before preformance issues are debated.
Who owns the machines in that system? The government?
Can you sue a racist AI?
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Same with trigraphs - as much fun as it is to joke about the ??!??! operator[0]

[0] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7825055/what-does-the-c-o...
That's my point, the photograph, video, painting, etc. is not a replacement for any physical item.
I didn't put much thought into identifying the third axis. It may well be a linear combination of Euroscepticism and something else. The artefacts you see may be due to former transfers or to MPs who voted for part of the term only.
I don't know about internally or disk formats. The vertical tab turns up when copying and pasting to a text editor though.
That's a bit hard for me to fathom, because the overwhelming vast majority of users don't have multiple Internet connections, and serverside applications can make use of multiple Internet connections without protocol-level multihoming.
>So race is strictly a social construction?

>Yes

Alright, so race is a matter of social identity, whereas sex (biologically "set in stone") is less important than a person's "gender identity"?

I'm sure I'll be criticized for expressing a political viewpoint here, but our now-popular social norms seem to have these two ideas reversed. I guess popular opinion and what a person feels is (and always will be) more important than what science says.

Edit to add: my point isn't so much about either of these issues individually as it is about (a lack of) consistency in popular views. If gender is just about identity, then why isn't race? Recently, I've been hearing the same people argue for one and against the other. Similarly confusing is the notion that sexual orientation is not an issue of identity (it's somehow deeper than that), even though there's no concrete scientific evidence to suggest it's not a matter of identity or preference as well.
People were persecuted and killed because of Lysenkoism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Vavilov

Your false equivalences trivializes that persecution.
oh man i remember loving ddd
Shaxpir should follow the rules and post in the appropriate thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9812245
The root of the word is indeed solitudo, "ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant", but the dictionary (that is, the one on-line and in reach) supports "desert" or "wilderness": http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...
Agreed, it would make more sense to use the EU apparatus. The change org was promoted through German pirate party (according to link I followed from here https://juliareda.eu/2015/06/who-is-behind-the-attack-on-fre... )
I failed it again... Every time I take a test like this I ended being fooled by the confirmation bias.
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Redistribution results in one thing: equal levels of misery. Re: Cuba, Venenzuela, pre-Deng Xiaoping China, the Warsaw Pact countries, Vietnam. Standards of living are higher in capitalist countries, that's a fact. Aside from the insane, nobody in 1987 said, "Citizenship in the USSR would be so much I nicer than here in the U.S." Also interesting: the lines around US consulates to get immigrant visas-- they often extend around the block. Every single day. The line outside the Cuban embassy? None. If a redistributive economy is best, why aren't Latin Americans sneaking into Cuba instead of into the United States? Why aren't the Hondurans making the trip to Venenzuela instead of risking the danger of crossing through Mexico to get to the United States? I would offer that the poorest people in the world all want to go to the U.S. Not because of redistributive policies, but because of opportunity. You can't become rich in Cuba. You can't even start a business of any consequence there. You can't get capital loans. what's the incentive to innovate and work hard if the government is just going to steal your efforts. The government should have a regressive tax;bathe current tax system actually penalizes success and rewards failure.
Not off the top of my head; my only reaction when encountering such "apps" is to immediately close the tab. Why should I keep those in memory? To have myself an argument with some other HN reader? Please.

I'd say that a hefty chunk (if not a majority) of "Show HNs" involving Javascript-heavy anything are riddled with bugs, among said bugs being elements moving around as others load. It's just like web pages in the 90's; for every excellent and well-known app, there tend to be several mangled ones.

EDIT: come to think of it, DuckDuckGo (which I otherwise absolutely love) is a good example of what's being referred to; some elements (particularly for instant answers and "sponsored" results) take longer to load than the search results, and I've found myself frequently clicking the wrong link because of my intended link shifting down without warning. This was especially prevalent prior to the recent redesign (nowadays it seems to be less of a problem).

While maybe this doesn't fit your definition of "web app", it's still relatively JS-heavy by default (though DDG is also an excellent example of progressive enhancement / graceful degradation) and is a decent demonstration of web-app-like concepts (and, in my belief, fits the actual definition of "interactive web app" quite well).
That may be true, but dantheman was simply correcting jokoon's implicit claim that paying people money is good in itself ("since it's injecting money that increase consumption, which in turn also increase business and growth.")

I think there are good arguments for basic income, but they get obscured by the fact that it has become a political campaign, so people like you argue for their own side rather than correcting people who support basic income but for the wrong reason.

You are correct that there are reasons why basic income be more efficient than other redistribution measures. But this doesn't contradict the fact that the money has to come from somewhere, and it isn't relevant to this particular thread of discussion.
'Do Not Make Success Inconsequential’
No! Not in a different case! In the case he was convicted for! Read the actual indictment. It's staggering to me how people can be so firmly convicted of things about this case that are refuted by even a casual reading of the primary sources. Come on. You not only repeated a meme that is contradicted by the most basic filing in the whole case, but constructed a whole narrative about specific prosecutorial misconduct based on that meme.
You rated your own app with 5 stars? I imagine the other 5 star customer rating is staged too since you just released it 10 minutes ago...
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Ask HN: Does anyone else feel stupid reading Hacker News?
Reading other peoples comments and their knowledge on subjects, some I didn't even know existed makes me feel very unwise. I am saying this as a university student majoring in computer engineering with senior standing.
They do and don't. They use a user-space implementation based on UDP.
This is the first topic I've seen were the HN's usual Libertarian bias disappears

Not even close.
Eh. It may have worked correctly in this particular case, but it also would have been a poor lesson in grokking big unfamiliar codebases. In my experience, hail-mary grepping for words of interest is a pretty poor strategy: if it turns up anything at all, it is usually something totally unrelated, while the code you wanted to find uses some synonym you didn't think of. Even when you are lucky enough to hit the code you're looking for, you don't have enough context to understand it.

Tracing a related input from ingestion to the point of interest is a very good strategy: it's reliable, and you pick up important context on the way.
The Internet has not erased the distinction that one region gets snow and therefore tends to plan ahead.
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Ask HN: What's the best way to store time series data in a relational database?
We are currently having a write heavy load with about a half a million records being added every day. This could grow in future , so having one record for every minute with an index would slow down the writes.

Is it ok to have one record per hour with sixty columns for each minute ?

Or is it better to use a non relational database ?
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Did you try floating point numbers? I didn't see anything in the text that said integers only.
Veritasium covered this classic puzzle / bias test nicely, last year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKA4w2O61Xo
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"The mistake that most VCs and entrepreneurs do, is that they eliminate risk so much, that in the process, they reduce the ‘impact’ of the project"

How do they "eliminate risk so much"?
I worked for General Dynamics on the A-12 Avenger II program[1] that was cancelled by Dick Cheney. Even when the Navy threatened to cancel the project, a lot of people thought they would never do it because so much money had been spent on it. However, the end of the Cold War, some technical problems, and the need to rebuild political capital after the Gulf War all contributed to it being cancelled.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_A-12_Avenger...
"Agile" is a transition point.

A better idea would be for the entire team to be motivated, for them to be aware of the customer, to be able to drop something half-way and pick up a priority as a customer scenario unfolds.

In nearly every effective team, I've been part of, the most important detail was that anyone of us could be swapped out for someone else - it's not that we were fungible, but that the UI guy could write backend, the backend guy could write the deploy code. All coming to one point - the specialist could do it faster and neater, except they could do a hack-job in someone else's module anytime.

And if you can get yourself five people who are like that, manage some conflict then you can get a lot more done than any other method I've seen.

Take away the pride, the motivation, point them at misdirected goals, then you end up with nearly nothing.

Agile is the middle ground here - you're demotivated? Go pick something off the burn down chart. You need to leave early? Tell us at the standup. Can I borrow two developers for a week? No, the sprint plan has them accounted for, can I drop features?

Not as a bad as that, but it's not a substitute for a tiny cross-functional team which isn't pulled about by external forces.
SCTP should have been promoted and is actually pretty nice on paper. Every time I see someone re-implement multi-plexing and datagram/message parsing out of a TCP stream I think of SCTP. Every time I see custom 'reliable delivery on top of UDP' I think of SCTP. We might not have had QUIC or HTTP/2 in the current form if SCTP was ubiquitous.
2nd that /\
Regarding testing, I think that static functional tests that verify permutations of a specific set of inputs are still essential, in the same way that unit tests are needed even when you have comprehensive integration test coverage.

Like the old axiom, the earlier you find a bug, the cheaper it is to fix. The Search Chaos Monkey tests run against the current state of the repository, are not very precise and are relatively expensive and time-consuming to run. I only know when a test has failed because we start getting notifications that the service is unavailable, or has degraded performance. I still need to go dig up logs to see how the fault actually impacted the system, then go file a bug against code that's already been committed. If I spend 15 minutes digging through logs only to find that an error was caused by a bug in Azure Search code that could have been caught at a lower level of testing before that code was checked in, I won't be very happy.

The monkey is there to test how our code works as the underlying cluster changes states and experiences failures. Before any code gets passed to the monkey, we should be fairly confident through rigorous functional tests that it performs correctly in most circumstances.
Counsyl is an established healthtech startup that is looking for killer frontend JavaScript folks to:

- Take on full ownership of entire features or product initiatives from conception to release and beyond

- Use the best JS tools in the industry (Angular, React, CoffeeScript, Ember, etc.) to craft, test, and implement beautiful, intuitive presentation layers

- Develop responsive experiences optimized for web, mobile, tablet, etc.

- Make a meaningful impact alongside the best and brightest in the world

Links:

https://www.counsyl.com/careers/frontend-engineer-javascript...

http://www.technologyreview.com/lists/companies/2015/

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Agree about the cost. However, I would think that a wider adoption would eventually bring the cost down and perhaps even spawn a bunch of related open-source projects.

As far as readability is concerned, q(KDB+) is far more readable than k(KDB). Also, nobody stops you from adopting a coding style that is more readable. That is what I personally do.
I've been a software developer for nearly 11 years. That feeling is why I keep coming back to HN. And only lately did I realize that thankfully that feeling will never end.
Thank you! I forgot the name of the game, and it is totally unsearchable.
Less bombs, more bread.
This is a wonderful analysis. For context, a little bit about the four major parties:

PO, Citizen's Platform, the center-right liberal (in the European economic sense) ruling party. Very pro-European, pro-German.

PiS, Law and Justice, mainstream right wing nationalist party, very Catholic, pro-Europe economically but fighting culture wars over in vitro, gay marriage and so on.

PSL, Polish People's Party, agrarian party with roots stretching back to before WWII. Represents rural interests.

SLD, Democratic Leftist Union, the post-Communist left that discredited itself horribly when last in power ten years ago (through corruption scandals) and is still in the political wilderness. Pro-EU, very much a modern European left party in terms of platform but dominated by faces from the bad old days.
There is one subtle difference between basic income and welfare systems, which is that welfare systems (even if you remove the requirement to look for work) place a higher effective marginal tax rate on the lower end of the income scale. This might seem like a bad idea, since it reduces the incentive to work for those people. E.g. in Australia, at some levels of income, you lose $5 of welfare for every $10 you earn, making the effective marginal tax rate 50%. However, every redistribution system reduces the incentive to work for some people. Basic income (plus progressive income tax) would make this disincentive gradually increase with wealth. Welfare systems have a high marginal tax rate up to the point where people no longer receive welfare, then the marginal tax rate drops sharply, and gradually increases with progressive income tax.

When viewed in this holistic way, it's not clear which system is better. Some might say that it's not worth "wasting" incentive to work on people who might, for all number of reasons, not be willing or able to work anyway. This is the argument for the welfare state. On the other hand, basic income advocates might argue that poor people are just as willing to work as anyone, and that creating very high effective marginal tax rates for them results in welfare dependence.
I'm so exited to see these talks!

But the video is currently set to private. When can we expect to see the talks online?
Some Intel NICs (at least the 10G ones, but some Googling suggests some 1G as well) support SCTP checksum offload. Also, the checksum is a CRC32C and the SSE4.2 CRC32 instruction can calculate these really fast.
but it doesn't show any login, it just says "facebook login" page but blank.
Also, keep in mind that most big websites aren't just a single box you can query. A plan for fetching data across >>1000s of boxes works a bit differently than within MySQL or whatever.

Usually you end up making layers of abstraction / cacheing / parallelization atop them that don't have an easy SQL interface for the frontend to query. FQL was heavily sanitized and abstracted anyway, not directly SQL onto the boxes--imagine that security shitshow!
People here tend to limit their comments to areas where they have relatively more knowledge or experience. What you see on HN is tiny slices of thousands of people. Tech is a big place and it's growing fast, there's always more to learn.
The delivery aspect is interesting. For long distances, there's uShip, but what about local/neighborhood large-object delivery?

A year or so ago, when our big pickup truck was in the shop, I asked a local farm-supply store if they could deliver something that wouldn't fit in my car. The store didn't have that service but the manager said he had a few employees that would be happy to do it off the clock.

I started thinking of a service that would link up customers with local "shippers" but concluded it wouldn't work in my rural area because it's usually easy to find a friend with large vehicles/trailers that they will lend out. However, in an urban environment where many people don't have cars, or if they do, they may be too small for the occasional time you need a big purchase delivered (e.g., a friend is giving away a couch), it might be worth doing.
...because you'll be waiting around the corner to criticize it...
I like this... it served well to get my feet wet about what is out there. It would be nice having a chart comparing the pro and cons of those OSs. Maybe in the future?

Thanks! :)
Remember that ability to write about things isn't the same as knowledge or understanding.
I'd put this persecution more in the hands of Stalin and his cronies. He hardly needed an excuse to persecute and kill anyone, after all.
Ezra Klein wrote, "men need to feel a cold spike of fear when they begin a sexual encounter."

As a person who spent years with the kind of anxiety problems that gave me a spike of fear doing mundane everyday actions, I can assure you this is a healthy reaction to sexual encounters.
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Alpine seems like a glaring omission.
So basically our competitors can sue us now for browsing their websites?