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Seems like it's stating the obvious, then it says "One other thing that can be used in negotiations is neuro-linguistic programming..."

ISTM the comments here have more value than the article (thanks, commenters).

There are degrees of wrongness.

Exactly this. I'm fine with people posting their own stuff but I want to know.

Is this within HN rules to post sales pitches, esp. by HN members, at least without being very clear about it?

Brit here: I think it is in the US interests, depending (and trump thinks in very simple ways). If the UK splits hard from the EU, it can (supposedly) be persuaded to accept US standards of food etc. Europe is also weakened by losing a major member so it can be pulled apart over time and 'embraced'.

I can see how the US, this pres especially, might see brexit as an opportunity and benefit.

(edit: clarification)

Is it in any sense a useful order though? You can assign any order to any set of objects, but you'd want it to be useful. A hash - the more hash-ey it is, the less the order means AFAICS.

Disk.

Though btrees are friendly to cpu caches too, but really it's about minimising disk accesses.

> There is no evidence that its effectiveness has increased however

If you're right, those who commission ads are idiots because they aren't doing the most basic cost/benefit analysis.

And this in an area where doing so is very easy (don't run the ad then do run the ad, then see the immediate and longer-term difference).

Also, from the same wiki link I gave

"The EU limitations restrict targeting by online advertisers; researchers have estimated online advertising effectiveness decreases on average by around 65% in Europe relative to the rest of the world."

Further, by "There is no evidence that its effectiveness has increased" are you saying no studies have been done, or studies have been done but show no such evidence? In the latter case please post a few links, thanks.

Let's rephrase that

> I fail to understand the fuss about cookie based targeting

...because he...

> worked in ad tech for half a decade,

To continue

> It's not like cookie based targeting is very effective either

Then why's it being done? Because it doesn't work, or because it does?

> Instead most companies do the bare minimum and try to make a guess that is slightly better than a coin flip

Uh huh. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_advertising

"In 2016, Internet advertising revenues in the United States surpassed those of cable television and broadcast television. In 2017, Internet advertising revenues in the United States totaled $83.0 billion, a 14% increase over the $72.50 billion in revenues in 2016"

That's the bare minimum. Right.

Agreed. The giggling-schoolboy attitude whenever sex is mentioned just has to die.

My mistake. The OP had the story you refer to. I was referring to the main story, which did have the phrase "shooting up in every city in the United States" which is unfortunately close. Apologies.

Edit: deleted due to crossed wires on my part.

"I use ad data to try to save their lives" whether they ask for it or not. That's not noble, that's more like controlling behaviour.

Assuming this story is true, anyway.

Consider my attention drawn - thanks! (also @Nerada too)

"The hardback is a mark of quality"

I disagree. A major mark of quality (other than the writing) is the paper it's printed on, and the publishers often pick the poor, yellowing, easy-tearing newsprint paper, almost newsprint quality.

Then they stick a hardback cover on it and sell it for £££.

Come on publishers, if I pay decent dosh for a book, hardback or soft, don't skimp on this.

Beats the shortest one I've ever 'read', though this is pretty sad too

https://theoatmeal.com/static/oracle.html

I agree there's a problem with pirates in some parts of the world. Source: I used to work in this area.

I recall a shipping lane chart that showed large carriers making a wide swing around and away from somalia.

Ships can be obscenely ill-regulated at sea. Also the crew is, due to greedy owners, a skeleton thereof and paid like dirt (and not necessarily treated much better). Anyone pushing for nukes on large ships needs to work in the industry first before opining.

Agreed! There's a lot of moaning about how things should be better.

Be the change you want to see. Do it. I'm always amazed at how people will complain but then let themselves be pushed around. I wonder how many people reading this article will change their or their browser's behaviour afterwards. Very few I guess.

In MS's dialect of jscript you could get the function body as a string. That would have been useful in a few cases I'd worked on.

> is not realising it uses string comparison by default

Hell, really?? That's gross.

As for the parent's comment about a dev "not realising array.sort() was unstable", the dev should know his tools. I can't see anyway why a stable sort is better, I've never sorted on x then sorted on x, you just sort on x & y.

Much obliged, thank you.

I suppose the key to this is in the last line - you're implying something that doesn't wait is better. That'd be actors; your creation, yes? :)

But out of interest, the syncing that you apparently dislike but which actors sidestep by having a receiving queue, said syncing allows for messages to be processed when the receiver is ready (obviously). That's a time overhead. If actors have unbounded queues then there's a memory overhead (and one which may grow infinitely on a finite machine if someone isn't processing their messages fast enough).

How do actors handle that? If I'm talking rubbish some reading matter is welcome.

I'm rather surprised at the claim that "but it might easily execute 7 billion instructions per second on a single core". I'd even question it except the author's an expert.

If you can keep it fed then ok but one cache miss to main mem, either instruction or data, will allow the instruction buffers to completely empty and stay empty for quite a long time. I don't think you can control placement to reasonably assure cache hits always for anything but the most trivial code, am I missing something?

Also if you could keep a consistent throughput like this I wonder if thermal throttling might have to kick in. I mean you're doing a lot of work...

Worth responding to blatant troll to point out it's not about performance but performance by price for 99% of uses.

> No one wants the overhead on current hardware

Well it depends. That overhead may be quite acceptable in many places. Certainly not 'no one'. However you've not quantified what that might be, IIRC some guy turned on int overflow/underflow checking and it only cost 3% extra time. Guess that's down to speculation & branch prediction.

I don't like any overhead in time or hardware either, but measure first.

"programmers go home"? I'm guessing.

> where people are writing raw SQL queries because the libraries haven't caught up yet

SQL is a pretty good way of representing queries, I don't see how a library could be constructed that could do better. But then as an SQL guy I have a hammer so Omens Clavusum Est.

Edit: plural, so clavusuma? clavusa?

"Copyright (c) 2013 Aaron Miller. All rights reverſed. ſhare and Enjoy!" Heh!

I'm not sure bulking up melpa is worth it for the infinitesimal number of people who would find it useful.

Tangentially I really wish letters eth and thorn had not disappeared. They were certainly better than what we've got now, the 'th' digraph for both.

Could you provide a link?

Your 2nd link mentioned velocity raptor, which I've just watched on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6yWXppfsAo

Interesting.... Not that relativity makes a whit of sense anyway, but that's an intriguing video (edit: wouldn't want to play it though)

"a drink that spoke more unfathomably to the deeps of the British soul than to that of other races"

Quite fathomable, we're a bunch of alcoholics (only partly joking).

#6 in this list of 33 countries (2015)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_alcohol_c...

#25 in this list of 191 (2010 figures)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_alcohol_c...

Nothing against booze (certainly not allergic to a G&T either) but we can go a bit OTT with it.