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>I'd like to see the same speed measurements done for mobile.

While not exactly what you are looking for I can understand the sentiment. SQLCipher provides a project to time the performance of queries when run against standard SQLite vs. SQLCipher on iOS.

https://github.com/sqlcipher/SQLCipherSpeed
amazing concept, and the fact that data is generating this music resulting in a mesmerizing effect gives me chills; maybe one day indeed we would listen to bots composing an entire piece on its own!
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MemSQL does use MySQL protocol to talk to clients.
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Pro tip: create a chrome extension with permissions on all http:// and https:// sites, or run it through Node-Webkit/nw.io, then you can use the generic DOMParser and querySelectorAll with a pretty fluent interface on any site you can imagine.

example here:
https://github.com/SchizoDuckie/DuckieTV/blob/angular/js/uti...
Using Chrome on Windows I often find notice my computer fans spinning up when I visit javascript heavy sites - Soundcloud and Google Maps are particularly guilty of this, as are those new media-heavy news stories which embed giant videos right through them. I've sat on some websites (with nothing else open) and watched my battery life fall from ~6 hours to ~2 hours.

Most of these websites gain little from requiring so much processing power. I suspect it's mostly developer laziness.

Chrome has made much of their desire for high performance in recent years, but perhaps they should think about resource utilisation as well! They need to throttle greedy websites.
Actually, I wouldn't be surprised at all, given that it seems to be the canonical on-disk data store for both Android and iOS. Whether you want to measure total uses by developers, the developers themselves, the users using it, the apps using it, the size data stored, I imagine mobile use probably swamps everything else.

For example, I probably have 20-30 sqlite using apps on my phone, if not more. And I wiped it clean when I got a new phone a few months back and have been fairly hesitant to add apps I haven't found proven use for.
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I'm an Android user and I didn't really get bias from the article, save a bias against ads and a compliment to Apple for allowing Adblocking.
One of the great things about SQLite is its incredibly comprehensive automated test suite. That allows aggressive optimization without fear you're breaking something.
By that time, I think I saw more music videos during Beavis and Butt-head than other times of the day.
Power usage is interesting. I wonder if there's a case where an ad script consumes more $ in electricity per view than it generates in $ for the advertiser.
Slow, Fast, and “Backwards” Light: Fundamentals and Applications [pdf]
He violated the Zimbabwean anti-poaching laws by killing a protected animal. Extradite him and let him rot in one of their prisons.
SQL web interface for your own data?
I'm writing a SQL tutorial for a bunch of marketing friends. I'd like for them to code as they go.

They've told me that I'll lose them if I ask them to set up SQLite, MySQL, etc. on their laptops. So, I’d like to use a web-based interactive console like that on W3schools (http://www.w3schools.com/sql/trysql.asp?filename=trysql_select_all) with my own data. Basically load up some tables and point the users to the interface. Is anyone aware of this functionality or how to roll our own?

Thank you.
I've found decaf made with the Aeropress is actually surprisingly good. I usually only have a single cup of caffeinated and then follow up with a few cups of decaf.
That's why I always respond with "Terrible!" or "Awful!" or, a personal favorite, "Worst day of my life!" combined with a big smile. Really throws people off and is an easy segue into more meaningful conversation. But it's mostly just to disrupt the monotony of "fine, thanks, and you?" Oddly enough, if I really am having a bad day, then I'll answer with the normal "fine, thanks, how are you?"
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Quite a strange idea. The source IP spoofing problem mentioned in the draft has a known "solution" - making ISPs check source addresses before routing. I get it ain't very easy, but stopping using UDP wouldn't be easier anyway.

The proposal is especially strange when you consider that almost nobody uses UDP, TCP (ok, let's be honest: HTTP) is the "default" protocol for everything. Those who do use UDP, usually have quite a good grasp of what it is and when it should be used (VoIP, video broadcasting, DNS, uTP).
I imagine it's showing in benchmarks that approximate mobile usage might actually influence that timeline slightly.
The main problem here is the fact that states can regulate banking instead of having one license you need 52.

But that would require a huge reform of the USA's political system which is never going to happen.
Hah that is pretty terrible. In fact, I don't think Python is a very good language to code on paper due to the indentation side of things. Maybe graph paper would help?
Any particular resources you recommend to learn it?
Forget ethical questions, then, and let's talk economics.

If you're not generating revenue for them, why should anybody who hopes to make money off of content choose to show you anything? What value do you represent to them? Why should they believe you?
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I have had a very similar experience with my learning 'disabilities.' They are only disabilities within the incredibly narrow system of teaching techniques that are commonly used during childhood education because they work 100% of the time for 60% of the students (think whole reading method). It turns out that outside childhood education there are a huge number of other ways to teach and learn and the brains that learn differently seem to have enormous advantages when it comes to finding underlying similarities between apparently different things.
It's mostly a function of how the transistors are made. If a transistor is on by default, they're called "depletion-mode" transistors--this means that the channel between the two sides of the transistors normally conducts, and via the control voltage, you deplete that channel of carriers. This is set up by the "doping" of the channel, which is one of the first steps in the fab process.

Transistors that are off by default are called "enhancement-mode". GaN transistors also come in enhancement-mode flavor, so I'm a little surprised by the article. You can buy them, even as a hobbyist, from EPC. [0]

[0] http://epc-co.com/epc/Products/eGaNFETs/EPC2023.aspx

[1] http://www.digikey.com/product-search/en?WT.z_cid=sp_917_011...
Pretty much everything I've built that is standalone uses exactly this model. It's a wonderful bit of tech!
Isn't visual quality a part of "quality"? You can't assume that everyone is like you, and it's a very important factor for a lot of people. Slack didn't invent anything new, but their chat somehow crossed the line to being polished enough for "normal people". As for beats, all I'm going to say is that people don't buy Chanel handbags for their carrying capacity.
Going back to a statement I made in another comment: I DON'T WANT YOUR SHIT.

My argument is that ads are a waste of your bandwidth and my time. I've literally never been motivated to buy something by a banner ad.
The post you're replying to doesn't mention iOS, just mobile (though it may have been edited). Anyway SQLite is heavily used in Android and well, and other mobile platforms going back to all but the early versions of Symbian even. It's been the standard for address book, calendar, settings, to-do apps, etc for over a decade. A typical smartphone probably contains around half a dozen SQLite DBs right out of the box, which means the building I'm in probably houses several thousand of them. The total number of DBs in the world must be in the tens of billions, just from mobile devices.
Yep. iOS users tend to spend more, in general. Think of this in the context of the specific application, though.

This is a proximity-based messaging. Without people nearby with the app, you have no one to talk to. At that point, ads or renting of information are meaningless... because it won't be used.

For a proximity-based application like this, purposely excluding the majority of smartphone users seems like it will be a limiting factor in its adoption.

But, who knows, maybe this is all intentional. I'll optimistically assume they are beta testing with iOS users until the kinks at worked out and can release to Android.
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You do if you have a client that won't stop pestering you whilst you work. One way to phrase it is to have "tiers" or "levels" of escalation by turnaround time and charge/charge more for faster turnaround.
Thanks, the network graph is completely inaccessible. Members tab is accessible though so gets me what I need.
Currently netzpolitik.org doesn't seem to be able to cope with the traffic. The text of the page can also be read here: http://pastebin.com/kwUyafqi
A Python wrapper (written in C) for using the high-precision QD library
Any word he wants to use is OK. He's on TV, he's an artist, it's his art. You don't get to decide which strokes he can make or which brushes he can use or which words he can paint an idea with.

If you don't like a car show with a racist guy, make a better car show and don't be a racist.

But understand, if you want to convince people of a position, you can only do so by being an example to them and hoping to change their mind; you cannot censor, ban, fine, imprison, commit violence against those you disagree with, and then expect people to convert to your opinion.

For the record, I care not an iota about a show about cars made by a comedian. I do appreciate Clarkson when he is on Quite Interesting.

Honestly, what do you think you are accomplishing by sitting and criticizing someone that is out in the world doing something? Either do it better or shut up.
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Can anyone give me karma just to confirm my Keybase.io HN account?

thanks!
6.2.5.
There is nothing magic about Safari. People have been complaining for years, the only reason for Chrome to use that much more CPU is that they clearly don't care. Whether they're not telling OS X when they're idle and can sleep or they're using inefficient older APIs or what, Google needs to fix it.
Whoops, my bad. :s
these fraudulent debts would be those UK pensioners and UK local government who had savings with the Icelandic banks.
A wrapper for the old and famous high-precision library written by D.H. Bailey. See: http://crd-legacy.lbl.gov/~dhbailey/mpdist/
See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2VvvOWWquo using dlib and opencv.
Google Rejects French Request for Broader 'Right to Be Forgotten' Rules
You can't be secure with one thing (what's the point of a secure password if they give their CB info on a shady website ?). Yes you can start with one thing but it will not be enough.

For my mom I opted for :

- Linux computer

- NO email

- ad blocker on her web browser

- all online payment is done with me

I'm not saying you should do this, it's just an example of "more than one thing needed".
You can't write your code in any language you want on a supercomputer.

Also, there is a wide range of literature about communication patterns for supercomputer apps; my argument is that often times, to solve the problem that matters, you may not actually need to run the simulation you think you do. It's more that people are just used to running that way.

For example, with MD, you can run 1 sim parallelized over 100 machines using tightly coupled communication (doesn't necessarily mean the forces and positions of every particle have to be shared between node decompositions) or run 100 sims over 100 machines, with no communication except for input and output files. The latter can often answer the same question far more cheaply.
You're right. I didn't know that.

http://docs.memsql.com/latest/faq/#is-memsql-a-storage-engin...

I haven't personally tried it with memsql.
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> What's the point of the competition when a good portion of the top athletes are doping? It's not a pure contest of man, willpower, carbon-fiber, and asphalt.

I'm a transhumanist, so I just want to see the most impressive things the human body can pull off, and that includes the use of chemical enhancement..
Your argument seems to be "everyone else is doing it, so it's fine". I'm not having a go at you, but that doesn't seem like a very strong argument.
deprecated-but-supported-for-now feature in browsers might be adequate? http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webdatabase/todo/
I like the idea. but, it turns out that the author is kind of "epic fail" because he exactly copying the landing page of rooms like other HNers described in the comment.

I don't know the landing page of rooms.me before. after reading the comments on this thread, i feel disappointed to the author of this app.
Released two days ago, and discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9959579
We have a nice road with those in NL, it's 5 lanes (where before we had 2) per side, the speed? 100 Km/h. The old 2 laner had a maximum speed of 120 Km/h.

Goldmine for the government though, just about anybody that drives there the first time thinks they must be the only ones who don't realize that 100 Km/h is a bit slow for a road like that.

http://auto.blog.nl/column/2012/11/16/trajectcontrole-a2-gou...

13 million Euros in the first couple of months. For sure common sense had nothing to do with this.
I noted that even when a submission doesn't get any comments on HN or any upvotes - I still get 6 to 10 referral hits on a story I published on my blog. Of course I would hope that people might become engaged enough to comment or upvote on HN but I am at least moderately pleased that I got some kind of visit out of posting on HN.
Personally, I don't see any reason to be bothered by doping; it's just another form of performance technology. To me, it isn't any different from eating a high-protein diet. Or having a genetic anomaly that makes your muscles slightly more efficient.

They chase money and evidence around precisely because people like you will stop caring if they can't prevent doping. You draw a (very arbitrary) line between 'natural' and 'unnatural' athletes, and you create a market for goon squads to hunt down the unnaturals to preserve the purity of the culture.

It never was a pure contest of man, willpower, carbon-fiber, and asphalt. It's also a contest of means, luck, money, food, biology, and genetics. Even without the doping.
Right but you can make your on resistance arbitrarily small by speccing a bigger transistor. It might cost more, but there's plenty of ability to reduce the on resistance.

My guess is that this is a breakthrough because it has lower resistance per unit of gate capacitance. It takes a certain amount of energy to switch the transistor on, and when you want to turn it off you generally connect it to ground so that the switch turns off very quickly. That energy is lost.

I've emailed a very experienced electronics engineer friend of mine who has built more switching power supplies than anyone I know. He hasn't gotten back to me yet.

It really has to be something more than the "on" resistance though. It's possible to get arbitrarily large MOSFETs and get micro-ohm resistance, where as the GaN transistor has milli-ohm resistance.

http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/TPHR9003NL,L1Q/TPHR...

http://www.gantechnology.com/products.html
Now all Amazon needs to do is make Aurora HIPAA compliant/offer to sign a BAA and the dump trucks full of money will be backing up in no time. Can I dream?
I gave it a spin. Seems pretty useful. Is there a way to view the last result again without re-running the query?

Also the keybindings are missing from the docs. For example on http://mycli.net/multi-line it says "You can enable multi-line mode by pressing key" but doesn't say which key to press. And on http://mycli.net/history it says "So press and then start typing your search term to see the queries", again doesn't say what to press.
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"Or maybe this will finally incentivize people to build their websites to attract and keep customers instead of clickbaiting and carpet-bombing with unwanted ads."

This is it. We're suffering from the effects the "Content is king" mantra. Instead of sites having highly focused content, the drive is to constantly have fresh content. It's easy for a monthly magazine to have focused content due to the schedule. When a site has to have new content every single day, or worse, multiple pieces of content every day, of course that's going to lead to excessive fluff of all sorts. The sites with the best content I visit seem less concerned with frequency and more focused on quality. We're in a quantity > quality phase of the web.
I think this is somewhat incomplete information, and I say this as a SQLite lover. It depends on your type of data, but both HDF5 and SQLite are more than adequate formats for data, and you should be using one of them.

I think HDF5 is actually a better format for long term data management, but I think SQLite is a easier to use in everyday life. There's also Parquet and Avro for these as well.

High-Energy physics also has the "code is the documentation" clusterfuck known as ROOT files.
No matter how many cores are in your phone, web browsing will always be able to use only a single thread. JS is inherently multi-threaded, the only thing that could use multiple threads is the IndexedDB bullcrap (which ain't properly supported by iOS anyway), and background loading of async resources (which is network constrained on mobile, so MT doesn't help).
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Devs are never excited about issue tracking, they just wanna work on things and don't care about what others are doing most of the time. It's project management that benefits from higher-level views that things like Jira provide.
My new Win10 will shutdown properly, but hangs on reboot. Dunno quite what to do about it. The upgrade process seemed to go fine.

I also had trouble installing Office 2010 after it was upgraded. Had to de-select all the components & install just Excel first, then do a 'Program Change' to add the rest of the components of the suite. Otherwise even in 'Win7' compatibility mode it would fail to find the .msi's it extracted to the temp folder.

I really don't like the transparent taskbar, as the lettering's hard to read. I wish I could just turn off the 'Themes' service to get it back to Win98-style.
> People who read a lot of blogs so know the lingo, but never code

I think this is where my definition of "talk like a professional" may be more strict. I'm interested in understanding, in opinions, in the actual engineering.

> People who get the theory but can't actually implement something that works without bugs

Having spent most of my career working with PhDs trying to design and implement signal processing and NLP algorithms, I have experienced a lot of that. Given the proper attitude, it is fairly easy to correct coding deficiencies if someone really understands what they are supposed to be doing.

> People that over-engineer simple things

The greater offenders are fairly easy to detect in a directed technical discussion. The lesser offenders are fairly easy to correct in code review, again given the proper attitude, as they are unlikely to be doing things that require major refactoring.

In short, I think I place much more emphasis on engineering as opposed to coding. My experience has been that any coding issues people with good engineering skills and an attitude worth hiring have are quickly and easily corrected. You cannot really understand the engineering of a system without being able to code it. You might not be as efficient as someone else, but you are capable.
A big problem on all the adblocking is that it will result in more "sponsored content" - that can't be what we're looking for.
Well, the title literally says "world's fastest computer."
I'm not dyslexic, but I still have a hellish time with left and right. I finally had to "logic out" that when I look in the rear-view mirror, left is left and right is right (when seeing the turn signals of the person behind me). Still can't solve 3-D puzzles ("which of these diagrams is the same as this one") worth a damn.
We use it in production, but are migrating away from it for some projects since that data is better suited for a relational DB. Some developers were too quick to jump onto the NoSQL bandwagon a few years ago.

For certain uses it's great, once you've wrapped your head around writing map/reduce views. It really shines when you need to provide a read-heavy JSON backend.

I've never written views in Erlang (actually, I've opted for higher abstraction and used Coffeescript), but now that I have a little functional programming experience with Haskell, I'd like to try it out.
> The interesting thing about Armstrong wasn't the testing that got him - it was Floyd Landis.

Which reminds me: Mr. Landis still owes me $35 for that book of his that I bought. [0] His book did highlight what an unprofessional ass Dick Pound (head of WADA at the time) is, and how loosy-goosy some of the testing was. But in the end, Floyd doped just like the rest of them and deserved to be stripped of his TdF title. Once Landis' story broke, I can say that's the point at which I just gave up on pro cycling. That's when it all became clear that cheating also includes lots of lying, and regrets only come when they're caught. I gave the whole lot the benefit of the doubt, and now feel foolish for doing so. I'm a former Cat 2 racer, USAC race official, paid loads of money for pay-per-view races, loads of money on gear; now I don't do any of it, and if I watch sports on TV it's MotoGP. Sports participation is now trail running, where the most insidious drug I see evidence of is the cloud of pot smoke rolling out of some dude's car right before the start.

If Armstrong had just left well enough alone, as you mention, he would have walked away a hero. But I'm guessing his cockiness caught up with him, and he just didn't know when to leave well enough alone, convinced that if he hadn't been caught before he'd continue to not get caught. Which seems to be the downfall of many criminals that get caught.

And as unprofessional as Dick Pound's behavior might have been, it turns out he was right. That's where I'm conflicted. Not "innocent until proven guilty", but "I'm convinced you're guilty, and whether you're guilty or not I'm going to dig until I find dirt". But he was right, at least this time.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positively_False
I've done a lot of work in both Go and Python recently - using httprouter and flask, respectively. Python libraries are a lot more mature. But in bigger projects, debugging in Python can be incredibly painful. I think it comes down to the fact that Python is a really complex language. On the other hand, Go is so simple. (And you may hate it for this, at some points.) Sometimes, I find it more helpful to think of Go as a higher-level C rather than a Python competitor. The syntax is easy and familiar when you get started, but I think you will miss a lot of the Go beauty if you are looking for a "faster Python".

tldr; Go is not Python, but it is still beautiful.
Yes, advances in nutrition are why you see world records continue to be broken.

It's especially visible in running, where sprinting world records never last long thanks to new knowledge of nutrition.
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