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>Everyone speaks about InnoDB and how performant and reliable it is

What? Everyone speaks about how unreliable it is and how many major data corruption problems it has.

>I have never heard much about storage engines in Postgres, why could this be so?

Because they didn't take the approach of having multiple storage engines, they just made one that works and is not easily removed from the database.

MustardTigeron Evidence That Computer Science Grades Are Not Bimodal [pdf]

>Did Patitsas et al. make an error in citing their sources?

An error if you are very generous. It appears to be deliberately lying about what the source says to match it to the pre-selected explanation they are pushing.

MustardTigeron Evidence That Computer Science Grades Are Not Bimodal [pdf]

I have two questions about your challenge. How many times am I allowed to give you people that you can't teach pointers to? And how rich are you?

MustardTigeron Evidence That Computer Science Grades Are Not Bimodal [pdf]

>The earlier classes are exactly the place where things like prior experience and level of interest can possibly explain bimodality

Ok? This is claiming bimodality doesn't exist, not trying to explain it.

MustardTigeron Major features of PostgreSQL 9.6 [pdf]

>So WAL backup is not well known or documented in my opinion

What? It is the standard backup method clearly explained in the docs.

MustardTigeron What It Costs to Run Let's Encrypt

Ok, but how little you value your life and how little you know about secure coding isn't useful to the rest of us.

MustardTigeron What It Costs to Run Let's Encrypt

"Being in SF" is a silly excuse. There is no reason for them to be in SF.

MustardTigeron What It Costs to Run Let's Encrypt

>people who seriously know how to code mission critical X.590 root CA PKI infrastructure are not cheap

And they also aren't working at letsencrypt.

MustardTigeron What It Costs to Run Let's Encrypt

No, it is absurdly high. They should be paying half that.

MustardTigeron Ask HN: Is web programming a series of hacks on hacks?

You are responding to a strawman. I said nothing about the trend, much less dismissed it. I addressed the reasoning I've seen people use exclusively to push for it.

MustardTigeron Ask HN: Is web programming a series of hacks on hacks?

>This is usually about a mix of scalability, responsiveness, and partition resilience; with the level of importance of those being dependent on the application.

I have never seen anyone make those arguments. I've seen people vaguely reference them in a hand wavey "I don't understand this but google facebook I am right" way. But that's as close as it gets. It is usually about following trends.

MustardTigeron DNA analysis reveals there are four distinct giraffe species, not one

So all those posts were just to say nothing?

MustardTigeron DNA analysis reveals there are four distinct giraffe species, not one

Yes, upon further research I see that you are correct. Thanks for the info.

MustardTigeron DNA analysis reveals there are four distinct giraffe species, not one

>I'm not sure how this supports your point

Why not? What subspecies has more than 10% of the species wide variation? I can't find any. This is what I meant. Just to report facts you have to try to couch it in politically correct disinfo. "This will make it sound like races aren't real, even though the data clearly shows they are". Just like "we're 99.8% the same DNA!". Yeah, but most of that DNA is also the same as a banana's. What matters is the differences, not the basic requirements for life.

>What species are separated by a pi value of 1 in 10000 or less?

I said subspecies. I won't be able to continue this conversation unfortunately, "you are submitting too fast". HN doesn't seem to approve of discussion.

MustardTigeron DNA analysis reveals there are four distinct giraffe species, not one

>Yes, my complaint is that you are highjacking an article on species differentiation in giraffes to talk about purported human subspecies.

I did nothing of the sort.

>No, we emphatically do not have that high of a genetic difference

Yes, we do. The genetic distance between Nigerians and Australian aboriginals is .176. This is greater than the distance between almost any subspecies ever tested.

>DNA doesn't lie. Humans lie, or are mistaken

Yes they do. And they will even deliberately misrepresent facts to present things the way they want them to be. Like looking at isolated segments of DNA and drawing conclusions based on that (your link).

MustardTigeron DNA analysis reveals there are four distinct giraffe species, not one

http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/full/ng1435.html

You can barely even discuss the facts much less publish them because of histrionic accusations of racism and eugenics. Also, it hasn't been a few thousands years, it has been tens of thousands of years at the low end.

MustardTigeron DNA analysis reveals there are four distinct giraffe species, not one

>People also talk about Europe and Asia as separate despite being a contiguous landmass on the same plate

That analogy is not useful at all. Continents are not biological organisms.

>Genetically brown and polar bears can and in reality often do interbreed producing viable offspring and exchanging genetic information between populations

And yet they are separate species. Just like the 4 separate species of giraffe the article is about, which can and do all interbreed. The concept of species is in no way reliant on an inability to produce fertile offspring.

MustardTigeron DNA analysis reveals there are four distinct giraffe species, not one

>The long term definition was more or less 'A group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding.'

No, that was one long discredited idea of species. It has not been used in decades. Why are you so insistent on pushing this false claim that brown bears and polar bears are the same species? Look it up, they are not. One is Ursus arctos and the other is Ursus maritimus. There is no ambiguity or dispute.

MustardTigeron DNA analysis reveals there are four distinct giraffe species, not one

Physical difference has nothing to do with the discussion. That is a complete red herring you just pulled out from no where. The empirical fact is that humans are genetically quite different. The genetic distance between human races is greater than many species, and virtually all subspecies distinctions made in the animal kingdom. Stop denying science because of a false belief that lying will somehow get rid of racism.

MustardTigeron DNA analysis reveals there are four distinct giraffe species, not one

What you quoted supports his rebuttal, not your claim. You are completely backwards, the trend is away from that. The myth that interbreeding makes them the same species was never accurate, but it is completely unused in modern times. For example, the very article that started this discussion saying that giraffes are 4 species not one. We classify them as such based on DNA evidence. The fact that all 4 species can produce fertile offspring when cross breeding is not relevant at all.

MustardTigeron DNA analysis reveals there are four distinct giraffe species, not one

People have been separated far longer than just since the ice age. And no, some people think brown bears and polar bears should be reclassified, others do not. As it stands, they are separate species. Take the 2 seconds to google basic information before posting incorrect things that are so easy to verify. Even if you reclassify them, it still supports my point: humans consist of several subspecies.

MustardTigeron DNA analysis reveals there are four distinct giraffe species, not one

>Humans have not really had enough time as independent populations to diverge much

There is no scientific basis for that claim. Many other animals have diverged less, in less time and are still separate subspecies.

>African > Eurasia had regular exchanges as they where within relatively short walking distances.

Interbreeding does not mean subspecies don't exist. Coyotes and wolves are totally separate species and they interbreed. This does not make them the same species, much less the same subspecies. Or the very example given in the article: polar bears and brown bears. Separate species, overlapping geographical regions, crossbreeding occurs in the overlap. Or again from the article example: giraffes.

Also note they talk about the genetic distance, but the genetic distance between a west african and an australian aboriginal is greater than the difference between wolves and dogs, which are subspecies. Again, by all measures we use for wild animals, humans consist of several subspecies at least.

MustardTigeron The Pill, the Condom, and the American Dream

You linked to the rhythm method, not fertility awareness. Fertility awareness means actually measuring the physiological changes resulting from the hormonal changes that precede ovulation (temperature, saliva, cervical mucous). This is much more reliable than guessing based on the date, which is obviously going to fail relatively often as ovulation isn't reliably regular even in the most "regular" cycles.

MustardTigeron The Pill, the Condom, and the American Dream

>The CDC doesn't agree.

That is because they are dishonestly presenting the data on the rhythm method and fertility awareness combined as fertility awareness. That is obviously silly, as one method is significantly more reliable than the other.

>Condoms are also pretty crappy in typical use

Typical use matters for population control, not for a responsible individual's personal use. I know if I am putting a condom on or not. The large percentage of people who do not put one on despite relying on them as their sole contraceptive does not lower the failure rate for me, it merely brings down the average failure rate across the population. Other people's failures do not cause me to fail.

MustardTigeron The Pill, the Condom, and the American Dream

>I'm not the slightest bit interested in perfect use failure rates, because humans are rarely perfect

But what other people do is of no interest or consequence to me. I know what I do, thus I am interested in perfect use rates. Which are better than condoms.

MustardTigeron The Pill, the Condom, and the American Dream

"Whoops!" is meaningless. And you can still have sex when pregnancy is possible, simply use an alternative entrance, or use a short term contraceptive option like a condom.

According to actual studies rather than people trying to push an agenda, failure rate is comparable to condoms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_birth_control_me...

MustardTigeron The Pill, the Condom, and the American Dream

The effectiveness is fine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_birth_control_me...

You don't need to have regular periods, I am not talking about the rhythm method, I am talking about fertility awareness. You accurately detect the hormonal changes which precede ovulation. It does not matter if you ovulate early or late, because you are detecting the changes that precede it, not guessing when it will happen based on days passed.

And there is absolutely no doctor who will refuse to sterilize a woman whose life would be at risk from pregnancy.

MustardTigeron The Pill, the Condom, and the American Dream

You are thinking of the rhythm method, that has nothing to do with fertility awareness, which is finding out for sure when ovulation is occurring, not guessing based on dates. Fertility awareness is more reliable than condoms, but nobody goes around acting like condoms are not a reasonable option: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_birth_control_me...

MustardTigeron The Pill, the Condom, and the American Dream

You are thinking of the rhythm method, that has nothing to do with fertility awareness, which is finding out for sure when ovulation is occurring, not guessing based on dates.

MustardTigeron The Pill, the Condom, and the American Dream

I don't get why people with reasonable intelligence don't just use fertility awareness. It is free, it has no side effects, and any time you decide you want to have kids you can use the same method to increase your chances. I get that dumb people often think you can always get pregnant. But people capable of passing high school biology should grasp the concept of ovulation.