News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

yonks

Re:Amazon's German Workers Strike on Monday December 16, 2013 @05:28PM (#6918292)
> people that have no skills to offer to society

If you sincerely believe this I think you are morally bankrupt. Since this is HN also have a think about the value of human labour and the current wealth of nations.

Re:Our Most Important Technology Project Yet on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @05:05PM (#6728956)
Reads like a fever dream. A programming system that curates algorithms and data. What could possibly go wrong?
Re:Presto: Interacting with petabytes of data at Facebook on Wednesday November 06, 2013 @04:04PM (#6685493)
Maybe with SQL but compiling a DML to byte code isn’t a new idea;

http://xml.coverpages.org/saxon42Ann.html