matteuan

Not necessary true! There is a huge disparity between the cost of these services to the companies and the price for the users. This means that there is still space for regulation.

Unfortunately, there is still one important limitation: we will keep the fees for the traffic from our home countries.

This reminds me of some bandits in my region that used to aim Saffron shipments and storages. Saffron usually costs more than 30/gram in a shop.

Read this please: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It would be interesting to see at least the full article. Anyway, even if this information is true, the 'study' is useless if not compared with other countries.

Spark SQL does the same thing, slower than Impala (does not even have join reordering) but probably more popular.

In a shop in Italy if you are a member you can take at the entrance a scanner with you and then just pay in the automatic checkouts. Periodically (there is a statistical model behind I guess) you can be asked to be checked if the stuff you scanned are the same you have. So if you do mistakes, you will be checked more often. It seems to work pretty well, even with the old ladies.

From what I understood, Hollywood is complaining about positive competition. The prices are higher because there are few actors and scarcity of good staff, and this is a normal supply and demand reaction. So basically, they are complaining that there is a business model that works better than theirs.

To be called Engineer in Italy, you need the specific degree and a special diploma afterwards. People from CS are an exception and they can access to the same title of the Computer Engineers. If you apply for a job with a CV that says you are an Engineer but you are not officially registered, you can be reported for fraud.

> The problem is that those laws are not modifiable because you need the unanimity of all the countries in the EU. Which is extremely difficult because, again, all the 28 countries have different interests in all areas of the treaty. It's basically stuck.

This is inaccurate. Most of the laws are produced in an ordinary way. The unanimity (of the Council) is required only in some cases. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_in_the_Council_of_the_E...

> As far as you saying that every member state can have its own set of rules, no. We had this issue multiple times and found ourselves having to pay insane amount of penalties because we were not, for example, accepting to grow GMO in France. If the EU says "You guys should do this and that in that matter", we can't have a rule that goes against that. That is the real problem, I think that the people of each individual country do not decide anymore, and the people in charge have no power, since they cannot take their own decisions.

That 'problem' is the same for every modern democracy. We continuously have to accept decisions that are made democratically, but they are just stupid (e.g. Brexit).

I agree with you, another problem is that 'how EU works' is still changing and evolving a lot. The Treaty of Lisbon is 'only' 10 years old

European laws exist mostly for matters that concern everybody. Every member state can have its own set of rules.

>Not to mention that countries who are not in the EU, but are in Europe, are doing way better on a lot of aspects

This does not mean that being part of EU has something to do with it. For example, if you want to say Norway, you should compare it with Sweden or Finland, not with Portugal or Bulgaria.

First "un-elected and un-accountable bureaucracy" is wrong. The parliament is elected directly and the decision-making is not less democratic than any other member state. Some problems and an example do not make the EU a failure. The economical and social advantages of EU have been already significant. If you were not the 'sophisticate' troll that I think you are, I would have spend more time trying to explaining you this.

Nice, now let's do it with the Strassen's algorithm

True, but you can have more nodes with modern 'traditional' databases, replicate your data and add redundancy. Hadoop and other big data tools should be used because we have a huge amount of data, not to add redundancy or resiliency. The characteristic you listed were well know way before 'big data' became a thing.

100GB can be handled without problems by mysql or postgre on a single node (yeah maybe not a laptop). You need to tune your database and take the right design decisions, but it's still less work than setting up a distributed system.

I would say moderate oligarchies. 'Oligarchy' sounds negative, but it is not always bad.

Probably the guy knew about the vulnerability before, and this should not surprise anyone, but saying that Joomla was 'Deliberately Sabotaged' has a completely different meaning. I don't see the connection or where the autor is pointing at.

I think it also highlights how a lot of programmers have learned everything only from one point of view. Concepts like interfaces, structures and types are general and abstract, they should not be explained in terms of OOP, instead they should be used as tools to explain OOP.

The title is slightly misleading but the article is very interesting. It does not blame algorithms and big data themselves, but it points out how the misuse of these technologies can yield unfair results.

"she shows how the algorithms [...] are based on exactly the sort of shallow and volatile type of data sets that informed those faulty mortgage models in the run up to 2008" so the fault is of the technology, right?

typical article of someone really smart and educated that want to talk about something he doesn't really understand, but he doesn't know that.

Fantastic. That's all what I have dreamed when I studied Computer Architecture.

I have the impression that the real shortage is of people that have REAL skills. The number of graduates is certainly correlated but somehow we fail in identifying the talents.

"Ingesting MySQL data at scale - Part 1"

interesting, maybe by studying these animals we will discover new tricks to live longer

Internet trolls are sometimes way more sophisticated than this