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Our measures for angles and for time descend from the base 60 Babylonian system, whereas base 10 descends from the ancient Egyptian system.

For dealing with heterogeneous bases, as with measuring in imperial units, take a look at the fraction notation in Fibonacci’s book. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liber_Abaci#Fibonacci.27s_nota...
It's clear in the email thread that the "spec" world just be codifying exactly what that version of SQLite did. It's not likely they'd pick an existing SQL dialect that's compatible with SQLite, or they'd be essentially limited to that version of SQLite. Result is that you'd end up with the same problem and things would not really be compatible.

Even in that article, the a dev says he's queried the SQLite version in order to detect which exact FT options are available.

The argument for it is basically "eh but it's handy", ignoring the idea of the Web.
Because that would centralize too much power into FB's hands.
Any stock option worth anything will take 5-10 years to return. You'll know early on if it fails, but any acquisition within the first couple years won't return much to the rank and file.
Is 10 minutes reading an article and contemplating an unjustice really that big a burden on your life? No one is asking you to start self-flagellating...
What a false and whiny post. Mozilla is collecting the user's browsing history and sells it. All they care for is their own benefit. They are no different than Apple, Google, FB, Amazon and of course Microsoft. But they are false. Like Google telling us "don't be evil" ... ha, ha, ha

They all want to make the world a better place. Yes, sure. And Facebook is building large drones to bring the internet to Africa for education. Oh, what a noble act.
Sadly, I have discovered that Mozilla and I have very different ideas of what "long term" means.

The irony of my previous post is that both Microsoft and Mozilla seem to be playing the same game now, right down to sub-year "long term" support. You can't really choose whether to have those updates any more, only to defer them for a short while. Anything more than that, and you just have to give up on updating altogether, security updates included, and for a new OS that is even more dangerous than it is for a browser.
Ursula K. Le Guin Is Breathing Fire to Save American Literature
Stripping periods is probably beneficial more often than not. Also commas and closing parentheses, I imagine. Ideally the script would test url before modifying.
Statmuse.com has a really nice implementation of this in their natural-language sport statistics engine. You can see an image here http://i.imgur.com/ukganMx.png

...or if you're in the beta, here: https://www.statmuse.com/nba/search?q=michael%20jordan%20sho...
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700 for a a tiny room in a house. Were talking about minimum wage style living... I could spend up to ~1900 on a apartment. Just haven't been able to find one. It's real competitive to get a place. Day to day expenses don't seem any different to me then when I lived in NY. Except wine, bottles can be as low as $4.
I didn't feel the need; it just brings the discussion back to my earlier comment upthread.

If you don't want to just use Sqlite (understandable), and you don't want to write something that is as good as Sqlite (also understandable), then you're going to have a crap database implementation. There's just not a lot of other options there. Jonas' comment just reiterates the lack of choices.

But given the three bad choices, the question does arise: Was IndexedDB really the best of a bad lot? In 2009, a lot of very optimistic things were said about IndexedDB performance, adoption, usage on mobile, developer acceptance. It's been 6 years, and I think it's safe to say that IndexedDB hasn't lived up to anyone's hopes.
It's a sound premise, but young(er) people will never see the kind of boom that their parents experienced.

Younger generation is permanently hosed.

What this article fails to mention is all the privatization and regulations that have caused capital misallocation and favored certain classes of people.
Interesting point. Exascale is a lot more than that though: many stakeholders. And, even if none, it's still going to get funded as another international pissing contest (see Top 500). ;)
Possible downside to 10/20/30/40: does this make employees less mobile? From the company perspective, if we all start imposing this schedule, it might harm the recruiting pipeline. While startups all want committed employees, to what degree are they depending on the fact that, in the case of success, they can poach heavily from employees that have 1-2 years of tenure at their existing jobs?

Side effects are always important to consider. The "law of unintended consequences" is powerful.
I can relate to this - The older generation owns all the land and use hard-working young people to pay the rent so that they don't have to lift a finger. In the western world, older generations tend to not be very generous with their children (interestingly, as I found out, this is often not the case in ex-communist countries like Russia where well-off parents tend to spoil their children rotten - Note that this is a gross generalisation though).

In the west, we have a situation which is just like we had in the middle ages when peasants had to pay their lords commission to work on their own farms (because the land technically belonged to the barons, knights, dukes, kings...).
Except in the middle ages, work was based on manual labour and that didn't help any of the peasants to 'grow' intellectually - In fact, only high-society had the time to cultivate their intellect.

In today's society - Now that a lot of jobs are highly specialised and increasingly technical - By working, today's peasant class is accumulating highly specialised intellect.
For the first time in history, we have a case where the lower class 'the scum' of society is becoming more intelligent than the high class of society (though not necessarily wiser - In that case, I would suggest the opposite).

I think that's why this idea of 'disruption' is so critical - Disruption is a mechanism which allows the younger generation to acquire wealth from older generations. Older generations have a collective monopoly (lock-in) on the world's wealth, disruption is about pulling the rug from under them one industry at a time.
And MS made it hard to change operating systems. On linux, you get live oses, and easy multi-os with a boot menu. With msft making it hard/impossible to change oses with secureboot, it's just not possible to suspend disbelief that your interests have any reasonable parity with msft's own interests.
Not to take away from this at all, but if you're interested in Bloom filters you might also be interested in Cuckoo filters: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dga/papers/cuckoo-conext2014.pdf, previously on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8489971
Not exactly. id=9969637 is actually a duplicate of this post, but a glitch in the system didn't catch it, since the links were submitted within a few minutes of each other. Not that it really matters.
You could easily live in Berkeley/Oakland in a nice 1 bedroom for 1700/mo and have a <20 minute commute. No roommates, nice neighborhood, probably even a washer/dryer if you're a little lucky.

If you work near a BART station, it's a faster commute than many parts of SF.

It's clear that the downsides are minimal to you, and the upsides worth it. I understand that. But you're freaking crazy thinking you have to live 2 hours away to find more reasonable prices. There are hardly even 2 hour lines on BART. Ditto on the safety issue; just know what parts of Oakland to avoid and you're all set.
How did they conclude these are going to be the first to live to the age of 150 ? God knows, humans might have lived well past 150 in the past.

I sometimes feel, we tend to overestimate our abilities in understanding history and predicting future.
Those places are pretty far from SF though. Not unbearable, but you're probably looking at >1hr door to door.
Stolen water is conceptually distinct from wasted water.

People who use hydrants without paying for them are technically stealing that water, but they are not "wasting" it in any sense that actually matters to New York. Unlike in California, there is no risk of one day turning on your tap and having nothing come out. They, unlike California, are not running out of water.

> "Hopefully, the water sprayed from the hydrant is treated before being released. Most groundwater in LA is treated"

1) NYC does not use groundwater. The vast majority of their water comes from an extensive system of reservoirs, tunnels and aqueducts, gravity fed straight into the city.

2) Because their water comes reservoirs located in wilderness regions of New York, their water is naturally filtered and is pure enough to drink with next to no treatment. They only add chlorine to that water.

3) The water you get from a legally tapped fire hydrant is no different from the water you get from an illegally tapped fire hydrant.
People aren't even considering that once it becomes a solved problem, the next company that wants to do it gets the knowledge for free. Figuring out the engineering also has value.

Other uses for autonomous solar airplanes? Delivering medicine and supplies to remote areas?
I think it very much depends on the use case. My Dad wanted to get a new PC. Since my parents are both semi retired I was very curious why he thought he needed a new PC. It turns out he just wanted something he could casually surf the web on and my mother could use to check her email.

I had an old laptop sitting at home, which had Ubuntu on it. I gave it to him as an experiment and told him if he didn't like it to go ahead and buy a new pc. He has been using it for about 18 months now. I'm about due to buy myself a new laptop so I'll probably shunt my current one over to them then.

My mother is a teacher and she uses Macs in her classroom so she was already receptive to non Windows options which probably helped. I'd say Linux is certainly a viable option if you're like my parents i.e. In the 60+ age bracket and don't need to play games, don't need to run applications but do want something you can use to email grandchildren and surf net on. The most complex apps my parents use are Firefox and LibreOffice.
In a word - "ownership". It's what makes sure you always close your files, free your memory, and avoid data races.
Hyperion Hoop: Customizable LED hula hoops
Business customers still retain all the capabilities of managing the deployment and activation of Windows features, settings, and updates.
Former National-Security Officials Now See the Peril of Weakening Encryption
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Did you mean the main University group (s) that defined and implemented the ISA? If so, I agree they've done well. I especially loved that they open-sourced a 1+GHz 48nm core. Awesome stuff.

I posted a link to Schneiers Squid thread today on a bunch of asynchronous chip work. One was a 180nm FPGA w/ several times Xilinx's performance and one a 40nm microcontroller. I imagine a combination of RISC-V with that async flow would produce one drool-worthy processor in price, performance, and NRE cost.
I think hashed addressing is a lot easier now mobile has increased the appeal of less typing. A user doesn't care whether a QR code contains a URL or a hash.
The site is basically a collected crosspost of everything from /r/rational.

Don't ask why I know that.
Windows 8 suddenly turns out to be the best OS Microsoft ever made.
We Should Not Ban ‘Killer Robots,’ and Here’s Why
Rust is safer than most languages (I'd argue it's even safer than Java/JS/Python/Ruby) but as fast and low-level-capable as C++. If that's not a big deal I dunno what is. (Also it has a really cool concurrency/parallelism story IMHO)

I'm not sure you can argue that Rust is far more complex if you actually understand C++ sufficiently to write correct and performant programs.

But the really great thing about Rust is that you don't actually have to understand the language to write correct and performant programs. The compiler will stop you in your tracks every time you screw up. Also there's way less performance foot-guns by default. Everything is moved instead of deep-copied by default, and you can take random
pointers into things without having to worry about it.

But it's true, complicated things are complicated to express, which seems... natural to me? I dunno what people expect. But simple things are actually really simple.

For instance, here's an early version of a library I'm working on for decoding gifs: https://github.com/Gankro/gif-rs/blob/master/src/lib.rs

There isn't a single lifetime in sight. It's also really nice and readable (being able to ergonomically talk about bit and byte patterns was a big boon). Granted the library is fairly naive (it's a pull parser, but it later became clear I wanted a push parser for Servo). But I think it's a great argument for simple things are simple.

Rust gets crazy when you demand on writing extremely generic code like Hyper, because Rust leans heavily on static verification. But generic code is just always going to be cray-cray (See: Haskell lenses, C++ Boost, Scala collections).
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Great app! Just what I needed! Would be nice to have an option to edit my nuggets and save to Evernote.
Depending on how you look at it, Rust is _far_ less complex. C++ has a _lot_ of edge cases, Rust is much more orthogonal. This is mostly due to backwards compatibility.

I was taking with someone just today about getting discriminated unions (similar to Rust's enums) into C++17 and there are just _so many_ details.
What about user interface and user experience? That's a key area that all the successful companies you've listed do very well, and something that decentralized approaches traditionally don't do well.

The typical user doesn't care how it works under the hood--they just want their room/driver/goods and services quickly and with a minimum of fuss. Being good at this will remain difficult and expensive even in a world where Ethereum dominates. Perhaps it competes better on the infrastructural level, against the likes of credit card companies, banks, and cloud services than against polished b2c applications?
You know what's cool? A billion planes.

Sorry. I had to. But really, I think everyone's a little sad that this kind of impressive technical achievement is in pursuit of a questionable final objective.

We're so advanced now with so many smart people, we're not really limited by what we CAN build but what we DO build. There are so many things that are theoretically possible but what we spend our time and money on is often so mundane.

I think it would be cool if there were thousands of these planes flying around providing free internet to everyone. What we'll probably get is hundreds flying around giving free facebook to some people.

But I shouldn't complain. At least research is getting implemented. That is cool.
Think about this... If more things forced auto-updates, we might not have been forced to support ie6 for so damn long. It's a trade off. Instant security patches, instant support for new standards, etc, all without having to worry about all of those users who just will not press that "update" button. Sounds like a pretty decent plan to me.

I would be fairly surprised if Microsoft didn't re-display TOS after each update, so feel free to keep an eye out. If you really really care about this kind of thing, then I might suggest avoiding products that are tightly integrated with private entities as a general rule.
I tend to find these stories (such as the much-lauded HPMOR) annoying and honestly kind of tiresome.

Some of the examples from this very page:

Rationalist stories make a deliberate effort to reward reader's thinking, and teach him to get better at it.

Because presumably women are incapable of rational thought, amirite?

Characters are gaming the system, they understand and exploit the rules of the world, they cheat and manipulate it into the desired outcome. Hero's brain is his main "superpower" and his primary advantage over others.

The story is built around beep-boop sociopaths, and naturally this is lauded--not hard work, not soft skills, not being friendly, but calling out people on their bullshit and tricking them into getting what the character wants.

They use:
- Rationality and logic
- Intelligence and cunning
- Knowledge of science and technology
- Creativity and inventiveness
- Psychological manipulation and Social Engineering
- Complex Machiavellian plots

So, in the future, it'll be even more awesome to be a scumbag rich kid who has read The Prince a few times. Swell.

Characters act as real humans would. No one is just evil for the hell of it, conflicts are driven by differences in values, and the villains(to the extent there even are villains) have a real and honest point to their actions.

Story's plot and characters aren't propelled forward by a lack of communication or by idiocy.

Nobody important is stupid. None of the main heroes or main villains hold the IdiotBall.

The thing that's missing here? Most real humans are irrational, they are petty, they do things for the lulz. Conflicts often arise despite having the same values. Cruel and dickish people are often cruel and dickish out of spite or laziness.

~

The thing I dislike about so much of this rationalist stuff is that, honestly, it breaks apart like so much driftwood when confronted with the jagged incongruities of how real people work.

Intelligence is resented, systems are illogical kludges, people are unpredictable...this sort of thing is just popcorn reading for folks that are more comfortable reading pandering fiction than facing the harsh and chaotic and unforgiving world outside their computer.
You would describe your mother's aptitude as "obviously minimal?"
Can you link to or write more about what other kinds of things need to be fixed? What is wrong with the sign of an electron's charge?
Are we sure older fathers didn’t want to be active parents? In the past there was a lot of social pressure on men to be a breadwinner which effectively locked out fathers who wanted to be more involved in their children’s upbringing.

We are all only a few generations from being peasants. Being a peasant is not the greatest job in the world, but peasant fathers are actively involved in their children’s upbring as they are working alongside them from sunrise to sunset.
I would like to now why 3 months. Do they need to change batteries?
...because you've made at least one poor decision in life? :P
What's to stop one of the participating websites to offer a web proxy, so people could browse any website? If they ban proxies, it will be like the Great firewall of China
There's been many attempts over the past 5 years and IronAHK got the closest, but yeah both languages rely 100% on Windows specific APIs. I hope later on to write an AHK to JavaScript compiler/interpreter. This would make the language more portable.
> Absolutely no one wanted it. No one asked for it.

How so? Billions of people choose to pay for services/software with their privacy these days. Microsoft isn't to blame for that. If anything they were really late to the party
I wish you'd talk to the owners of a company I worked for. After 4 years in business, they continued to interview people for positions at a "startup", requiring candidates to agree to stay late or work on weekends to make the business succeed.

4 years in, no profit. After 5 years, they became "profitable before marketing costs", which was the largest business expense (in the millions).

Huh. I should dig and find out if they still call themselves a startup from 2009.
> But when it comes to preventing the worst effects of climate change, the investments I make will matter much less than the choices that governments make.

How can he stay out of politics, in that case?

The Republican Party aggressively opposes any climate change policy, from research to reduction to mitigation. They aggressively support the fossil fuel industry. The Koch brothers, whose combined wealth is on Gates' scale, spend billions to advocate similar positions. The Fox media network, from Fox News to the Wall Street Journal, push propaganda supporting these positions. (These statements are not partisan simply because one party looks bad. Much of it is factual -- clearly that's the GOP's position -- and if you accept the science of climate change, I think their claims clearly fall within the realm of propaganda.)

There is no media outlet that pushes back or calls any of the above on their propaganda, except those too small to matter, and the Democrats are passive.

The best investments Gates could make for climate change might be a political organization and/or a media network. I can guess why he doesn't, but I'd be interested to know. I wonder if he hoped, like many geeks, that he could avoid it and just do good things.
After I stopped using Windows I've revisited my definition of "works well".
Not trying to troll or bash Microsoft here and perhaps you have strong reasons to stay on it, but sometimes people try to treat symptom not the problem.
"Then, in the Spring of 1971, US military officials gave the order to round up all of the pet dogs on the island and have them killed. About 1,000 pet dogs were taken – some straight from screaming children – and gassed with exhaust fumes from American military vehicles. The Chagossians were told that if they didn’t comply, the same would be done to them."

http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/09/18/the-story-of-the-chag...
Thanks, your analysis is spot-on. I'll work on the 'to do' items you suggested, particularly the last one.
Yes! More this, less bombs. We have so many resources at our disposal and science, technology, and education receive so little of it.
Oh you are right, Facebook plus a bunch of friends right?
But thats the "internet" right?

Facebook just added some sites, so people couldnt say "but its just Facebook"
guess what.. people are not stupid, it is just facebook,
and something else so we can think that is not "just facebook"

But if you think is right to train people that are not used to the internet that the internet is facebook, just for the facebook´s sake, and that this is a good thing?!

If this project were really serious they would give full access to people in need, so they can have plenty of access to knowledge to improve their own lives...or what the ads will do to them?

And not to be just a facebook catle, so they can show more ads to more people, and increase their market value in the stock market and pleased wall street with more people using facebook.. if that is not plain evil, i dont know what is.

Release the full internet to people, or just dump this whole project in the trash where it belongs.
Yeah AutoHotkey is amazing. I've written many successful apps in AHK. Like this one:

https://github.com/octalmage/mDesktop

With RobotJS and nw.js I've been able to port many of my apps to JavaScript, and ultimately make them cross platform.
Man shoots down drone and is now arrested
Guido on Python
AngularJS: Advanced Topics
AngularJS : Advanced Topics

A project aimed to help the user master AngularJS advanced topics. Each unit contains a tutorial with concepts, examples and best practices.

Topics:

- Routing and ($routeProvider and $routeParams)
- Directives ($scope and Scope)
- Directives (Require and Link attributes)
- Services (Factory Pattern and $resource)
- Provider Service Pattern
Another way to do it would be a startup specializing in office space. Oh, wait? 42floors?

See also: http://kyle.marek-spartz.org/posts/2014-04-30-startup-servic...
Back in the day, I think many people equated AOL with "The Internet".