mthomas
Re:Kenyan engineer modernizes vintage cars with a custom ECU and EFI u...
on Sunday February 08, 2026 @04:35PM (#46938738)
Kenyan engineer modernizes vintage cars with a custom ECU and EFI upgrades
One Formula That Demystifies 3D Graphics
Crypto Has Bought the 2024 Election
See Thru Jet Engine
Corporate Memphis, a.k.a. “Alegria”, a.k.a. the big tech art style
Programming Language Designers Unite
Re:Seven Lessons from Ten Outages
on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @12:06AM (#27600675)
#3 has a, b and c parts.
Re:Hy – A Lisp-flavored Python
on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @09:17PM (#14916199)
I don't see any clever way to make that more readable. I would have to break it into two subexpressions and then take the difference. i.e.
(setv e0 (-> (+ 1 3 88) (/ 2)))
(setv e1 (-> (+ 3 2) (* 8)))
(setv result (- e0 e1))
Re:Hy – A Lisp-flavored Python
on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @04:44PM (#14914448)
I find that both are equally (un)readable.
However, for expressions that are that long, I'm inclined to write:
(setv result (-> (+ 1 3 88)
(/ 2)
(- 8)))How Macron just changed cyber security forever
Why Functional Programming doesn't matter
Millions of Ordinary Americans Support Donald Trump. Here's Why
Why You Need to Curb Your Obsession with Big Data
A textbook case
Re:Thyssenkrupp presents Multi, the first magnet drive elevator rope-free
on Saturday November 29, 2014 @10:14AM (#8673905)
I wonder what the backup is for when the power fails while several cars are in one shaft.
Re:Ask HN: Is there a go-to JDBC command line client?
on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @07:58AM (#8068437)
HSQLDB comes with a command line tool called SqlTool
http://hsqldb.org/doc/2.0/util-guide/sqltool-chapt.html
You will have to setup the classpath manually and specify the jdbc driver. It is pretty basic.
Re:Julia 0.3 Release Candidate 1
on Monday July 14, 2014 @07:06AM (#8030355)
Release notes here: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/v0.3.0-rc1/NEWS.md
Re:Verizon to Buy Vodafone - Now the Largest Carrier in the World
on Monday September 02, 2013 @12:10AM (#6313413)
The title is misleading. Verizon is buying out Vodafone's part of Verizon Wireless. Verizon Wireless is owned 55/45 by Verizon and Vodafone.
Re:Braces are the future Hear, hear you Rubyists & Coffeeists
on Friday June 28, 2013 @08:14AM (#5957509)
SyntaxError: not a chance
Re:Nitrous.IO is now in public beta
on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @01:42PM (#5947588)
It would be nice if they put a link to the main site from the blog for those who don't know what this is.
Re:Spark: Open Source Superstar Rewrites Future of Big Data
on Wednesday June 19, 2013 @02:34PM (#5907344)
My understanding of hadoop and hdfs is that both input and ourput are to/from disk. Your MR jobs are spun up and pointed to hdfs urls to read input from and they write to hdfs when done. This means that when there is an error, the intermediate computations don't necessarily have to be redone. However there is a trade off.
Additionally, I believe that HDFS keeps 3 copies of the data around on 3 different nodes for redundancy. So there is the overhead of that network traffic.
Re:Ask HN: High-pitched noise when lots of colored text shows in termi...
on Friday June 14, 2013 @08:56AM (#5879602)
http://www.silentpcreview.com/stop_lcd_whine What happens if you increase the brightness
Re:Remote Execution Flaws a Risk to Spring Framework Applications
on Thursday January 17, 2013 @10:12AM (#5073008)
There is no information in that article except generic language about injection.
I believe this is the actual advisory: http://www.mindedsecurity.com/fileshare/ExpressionLanguageIn...
It appears that spring double evaluates the expressions, so you can send a request param that is an EL expression that references values present in the server environment.
Re:Rails in Realtime - How LayerVault updates every page in a second
on Wednesday September 05, 2012 @04:16PM (#4481245)
Can I ask that all product blogs provide a link to the actual site? Not everyone knows what layervault is and it would be nice to browse to the site without having to manipulate the address bar.
Re:On{X} let's you hack your android instantly via JavaScript
on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @02:00PM (#4069858)
It is annoying that facebook login is required.
Re:Ask HN: Most affordable method to host a lot of files
on Friday March 02, 2012 @09:39PM (#3659191)
Why not use S3 with cloudfront.
Re:VMWare opensources Affinity, a graph and document database
on Wednesday February 29, 2012 @11:15AM (#3648342)
How opensource is it if you have to agree to a TOS and give them your email to view any documentation about it.
Re:Ask HN: How does Upromise track my credit card use?
on Wednesday January 18, 2012 @06:41PM (#3482456)
If I recall correctly, we sent a daily feed to Upromise. I don't know how often or when they updated their totals.
Re:Ask HN: How does Upromise track my credit card use?
on Wednesday January 18, 2012 @06:10PM (#3482334)
That's more or less correct. But, the customer who is tracking their percentages earned would know that their purchases were not accounted for.