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To have a look at what's new in 9.6 see: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Newin96 Quick list of major features: Parallel sequential scans, joins and aggregates Elimination of repet…

http://serverfault.com/questions/769357/recovering-from-a-rm... "luckily we recovered almost all data!"

average is skewed towards distribution outliers, the more asymmetric the distribution the more pronounced will be such effect. On the other hand median just gives you the value tha…

https://www.gnu.org/software/apl/

Bringing down a government does not belong to the same group of consequences the precautionary principle is applied to. PP is used when a system, in this case the humanity, is at r…

Strange nobody mentioned Nassim Taleb and his work on that matter: The Precautionary Principle - www.fooledbyrandomness.com/pp2.pdf Quoting the first paragraph of the paper: The pr…

Untraceable money is an oxymoron, the whole point of money is that the whole network of people using it, can trust it is not forged out of someones ass, and is instead what its cla…

Dave Pell is really influential among people who read hn imho, so yes NextDraft network effect could have played a role here. That said I think jurnos really like this kind of narr…

This is the third time in a week that this article is posted on hn See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9371854 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9375978 It seems to be a r…

Already posted and discussed here a few hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9371854

I don't know about "web" scale, but it will definitely scale horizontally without using any external tools/extensions. There's still a somewhat annoying limitation that is related …

They should change name from correctional facilities to something else then. Joking aside, I think that using prisons just for isolation is a waste of tax payer money. Just think a…

The main function of prisons is to keep the criminals away from law-abiding society Really? I thought it was about correcting/reforming.

Yes you're right when talking about the steady dicrease in terms of full nodes. I think that introducing economic incentives for stimulate full node operators are badly needed. I'v…

Users could use SPV clients in case of resource constraints, on the other hand there are incentives in place, that till now, have kept miners from shutting down their nodes. Bitcoi…

I stand corrected, you're right. I'm supposed to know better.

from the article: He admits the models will never be perfect, but thinks that even a model that’s only right about 50 percent of the time could help investors and entrepreneurs avo…

Ok now I got what you meant. thanks for the explanation. Having said that your consideration about "on line nature" applies also to my mastercard in almost all the shops I usually …

You sure really do know a lot about cryptocurrencies. I'm particularly interested in their "intrinsic on line nature", care to elaborate a little bit further?

50$ of transaction fee? At current price that means 0.075 btc per tx. I can assure you that you can mv btc from one address to another for a lot less. Even without paying any fee a…

other useful resources on using PostgresSQL on a Linux server with a ZFS filesystem: - http://adpgtech.blogspot.it/2013/04/linuxzfs-is-great.html - http://wiki.postgresql.org/image…