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Comments on HN normally provide both sides to the story, so I am hoping someone with deep/vast server knowledge and the VPS market will provide a critique of why this is "not so good".

Also, France? Same country that is trying to push privacy-unfriendly laws? Probably not a good idea to use this service for VPN then.

It would probably suffice as a test-box or cheap-static hosting I guess.
What would it the the new style of doing things, for the non-academic rest of us ?
How should Microsoft go about asking a court to search their own servers?

Also, you implied you were fine with the new policy and that it was a significant change; claiming your point was the opposite at this point means you were very unclear. How should I have figured out what you meant from your words above?
Is the storage attached directly to the box or is it a SAN? I'd like to use one of these for a personal email server, but don't want to bother if a fried disk or disk controller would result in significant downtime for my email.
It's shit like this that made Steinbeck call America a nation of temporary embarrassed millionaires.
of course we don't deploy a network accounting for every machine at 200mb/s flat 24/24, this would just be throwing money away. The reality is that most users won't be using these 200mb/s constantly, every customer have different traffic pattern usages.
We (online.net) have a long history in dedicated servers (yes we have a >1tb/s global network footprint), we known how to scale the network the proper way. It is carefully monitored, when upgrades are needed, we do upgrade (for example you can check on status.online.net network section, you will see that we upgrade when it is needed, we have quite a few ongoing)
the same applies to scaleway, we can upgrade network uplinks if needed and we do monitor that closely
Note that only uplinks to the backbone are "shared", each 1gb/s port of the servers really are dedicated
Hope this clarifies the design :)
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This article, while interesting, is like reading a weather forecast that says "there might be a big storm at the end of the week, but there might not". The idea that the population can't keep on growing exponentially and using ever more resources has been around since ancient Greece at least.

I'm sure that if we were able to look at long term economic stats for the last 2 millennia, there would be graphs that looked very similar to those in this article.

Of course, one day the population and our use of resources has to stop growing, but I doubt we'll see it coming 100 years in advance.
The first statement is false, and the second mischaracterizes what I said. To me at least, clubbing, skinning and leaving a carcass on the ice is worse than clubbing, bleeding and then using all of the carcass; dead is dead.

The personal attack doesn't help your cause unless you're just trying to aggravate people you disagree with.
Nice to see a modern usage of trap streets.
Ask HN: Does a brilliant engineer like Tony Stark exist in real life?
This is quite childish,I know. But, while wondering about the character, I constantly think about a real life model. The person doesn't have to be a prodigy but with a mind set and skill set like "Stark".And what sort of engineering skills are essential to such engineers, if they exist in real life?
Thanks MattieTK - Someone beat you to it, but much appreciated either way.
It's a SAN, mounted as a NBD.
I see your point now, thanks for the explanation. I mostly do scientific calculations, so effectively manipulations of array of doubles, and I currently mostly use C#. I was under the impression that the performance is similar to C++ (GPU aside), for that the comparison with Java had got my attention.
Intel uses the letters to indicate the type of connection between the CPU and motherboard. So LGA = Land Grid Array [1]. The number is the number of pins/contacts connecting the CPU to the motherboard. So LGA1155 is a Land Grid Array Socket with 1,155 pins.

It's definitely not random, at least not with Intel. ARM is confusing as hell though. Part of the issue is that there is the ARM Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) that has different versions, and then there are different ARM CPU architectures, but those two don't necessarily need to correspond.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_grid_array
If OpenBSD delivers the blob as part of their OS, they take moral responsibility for it (which, for good reasons, they don't want to take). On the other hand, you don't have to deliver a blob to support, say, a hard disk.
> Also, France? Same country that is trying to push privacy-unfriendly laws? Probably not a good idea to use this service for VPN then.

As opposed to all those famously Switzerland-based companies such as AWS, Heroku, DigitalOcean...
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Every recession in history has generated this same category of article - every generation feels that their recession is special because "things have changed now!"

Maybe this one is different - that's a possibility. But I wouldn't bet my money on it.
What colour is it?
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Walking is a great way to clear your mind and come up with other ways of doing things. Plus, the health benefits are vastly underappreciated.
This was announced directly from Scaleway and was a pretty popular thread here on HN, why is an article about it on here again and just as popular?
I don't know if there is an engineer who is able to invent a new form of energy and a complete weapon while captured by the taliban, so no I do not think there is an exact analogue.

However, the film makers have claimed to use Elon Musk as inspiration for Tony Stark in the new Iron Man movies (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10544247/Meet-tec...)
To add another one: Lucene uses a finite state transducer to represent a part of its term index: http://blog.mikemccandless.com/2010/12/using-finite-state-tr... --- It's essentially a dictionary as you say, but instead of a direct NLP use case, it might map a word to some numerical value (like a file offset where the term's postings list resides).

I actually haven't been able to find anyone else using transducers for this purpose (sans OpenSextant, I think), but I'd be curious to hear about it if others knew. It seems like a really awesome way to represent nearly arbitrary maps/sets of billions of strings.
Look at the front side. It's written there in blue.
No, neoclassical economics would have us believe that wages would go down until a clearing price was hit and everybody was employed.

This is, indeed, exactly the type of mind numbing idiocy that Varoufakis was talking about.
If your concerned with privacy friendly VPS then you really can't purchase virtual servers in any western country.

I suggest you look into eastern europe where you can purchase server time in BTC.
zsh and (possibly) Bash can be configured that way as well.
Parts of them are open to visitors. Well worth a visit.

http://www.williamsontunnels.co.uk/
Nice post, Jacques. Luckily, I'm only 47.5. I've got a long time before I have your concerns of being 50.

I've found that the hardest part of getting older is the work you have to put into your mind and body just to slow the decline of age. You go from being in your 20's and eating all the donuts and burgers you wanted to.... to being in your 30's where you start having to watch what you eat and limit some portions... to being in your 40's where now I'm pretty strict with what I eat and how much. I hardly ever eat sugar or bread, much less the holy combination of the two in a donut.

One of the most disappointing aspects of getting older is my disillusionment with medical developments related to aging. When I was in my 20's, I thought that a lot of problems with aging would be solved within my lifetime. Surely, I figured, by the time I was 50, they'd have eradicated cancer, cured baldness, and developed other general techniques for rejuvenating the mind and body. No such luck, I guess. The older I get and view medicine through the lense of how it can help me with various aging problems, the more I realize that medicine is really still in its infancy. Medicine is fumbling around like the blind men feeling the elephant who don't know what they're touching. At the rate things have been progressing, fundamental medical miracles aren't years or decades away - they're perhaps centuries away... but I hope to be proven wrong.

That said, there are things I enjoy about getting older, like watching my kids turn into young adults. I hear that having grand-kids is fulfilling, although I hope to avoid that pleasure for at least another 10 years.
Sorry, but there is no algorithm of growth.
Also worth pointing out that in languages which do divide the words, they often divide the words too much, such that the individual words have little to no relation to the meaning of the longer phrase. E.g. new york, arm and a leg, kick the bucket.

This, over-dividing problem, along with the under-dividing problem you mentioned, are both huge hurdles for machine textual understanding and machine translation systems.

On the information-extraction system I'm working on now, roughly 80% of the entities we're trying to extract are multi-word expressions. Very difficult.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiword_expression

[2] http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=Multiword_Expressi...

[3] http://lingo.stanford.edu/pubs/WP-2001-03.pdf
Another thing not mentioned in the article is the fact that a lot of small jails in the US have instituted a 23-hour lockdown policy, similar to super max prisons. So now socializing and free time out of your cell is rare, and lockup is the norm. I don't think they truly care too much about rehabilitation, so much as they care about control. Just my humble opinion.
Probably not the best place to run a seedbox either.
Why not? I mean, what's the value of knowing you typed 'ls -l' or 'ps -augx' on December 12th, 2012?
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I hope it's not another recession. We've not even recovered from the last one yet.
Low cost hoster Hetzner also launched an ARM based dedicated server a few days ago:
https://www.hetzner.de/us/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-p...
Boxes like these are extremely popular as BitTorrent seedboxes. Online.net, for example, is huge, and not just in Europe; people run FTP servers on these things and copy stuff over to their home servers. I would say that $3.40/mo is pretty competitive.
Doing this on my own bash_history is what prompted me to create autojump.
And some would also alias "ls -la" to ll. Just never the computer I'm using at the time.
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I think it's better to simply learn the commands than to have a tremendous amount of history logged. If you have to type a lot of command parameters a lot you can always automate that with aliases anyway.
I wondered the same (also a non-native speaker), but I figured if I can use the word correctly (to my knowledge) in a sentence, it means I know what it means. Even if I can't succinctly describe its meaning in English or Dutch. That's a job for dictionary-editors :-)

The problem with "rife" is that it's mainly used in the context of "rife with", where it means something like "full of". Then it gets confusing because it's not really correct to say "rife" means "full". Or, "rife means full changing with to of", which is just word salad.
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React is Angular Directives done well IMO. But it lacks features of a full-fledged MVC framework.

That said, you can absolutely have a multi-page SPA built with React. Check out React-router.

The code that communicates with the backend should be in your Flux Actions.

To check if you're authenticated before rendering a view, intercept the router transitions.
Probably not the way you want to sink your laptop :-)
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I like the idea of the product a lot - but the question I have is how these servers stack up in an 'apples to apples' comparison (that is to say, with a DO small / medium / large instance - or an AWS small / medium / large instance) - which would allow for me to work out if it's worthwhile investing..
Possibly drug fuelled..
I am just looking at the many tabs I have open right now.

I would say it is a 50 / 50 % mix. Gmail, Stack overflow, HN are all dynamic. There are a few blogs posts, and tutorials, which are probably mainly static, but get updated on n a regular basis. Newspaper sites, some I am signed into, some I am not.
"California will end indefinite solitary sentences. In all, the reforms are expected to reduce the state’s solitary population, which is now over 2,800, by more than half."

So they only ended indefinite solitary sentences. The definite sentences will stay. The main issue this opinion column raises is that it took several hundreds of inmates to form a class action for the change to take effective. The settlement will mean that the issue isn't being ruled as 'cruel or unusual punishment' so there's very little change that is making through the court system in the country.
Thanks for taking time to do this.
To be fair, the world is constantly changing. I don't know if that means each recession is special so much as unique.

Just looking at the last major recession in the 70s, things did change quite a bit from there. Manufacturing and distribution of goods started to form into the global supply chain we have today, that was certainly a unique development in our world based on changing technologies. It's not that much of a stretch to expect similar unique changes to the global economy today due to changing technology and consumer habits.
The spoken word would simply become subject to the same channel constraint that the written word already faces today. A huge amount of conflict and misunderstanding in online discussion stems directly from the fact that sarcasm is very difficult to convey reliably through plain text. (A sarcasm tag would work, of course, but half the point of sarcasm is that the listener/reader "gets it". Indicating that you are about to say/write something sarcastic destroys the in-group feeling that comes from being able to recognize and pick up on it.)
Hi, can you please run the following two fio tests:

#Random write
fio --randrepeat=1 --ioengine=libaio --direct=1 --gtod_reduce=1 --name=test --filename=test --bs=4k --iodepth=128 --size=4G --readwrite=randwrite

#Random Read
fio --randrepeat=1 --ioengine=libaio --direct=1 --gtod_reduce=1 --name=test --filename=test --bs=4k --iodepth=128 --size=4G --readwrite=randread
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> Also, France? Same country that is trying to push privacy-unfriendly laws? Probably not a good idea to use this service for VPN then.

They are explicitly advertising VPNs, but even though I live in France I'm not sure whether the situation there is secure enough. France is collecting internet logs, and a server has its own IP, is a VPN then even useful?

> It would probably suffice as a test-box or cheap-static hosting I guess.

More than static. I installed serendipity (a blogging engine, think wordpress) there and it worked good enough for me to assume that it would work fine with medium traffic as well.

Got a pretty good impression otherwise. The thing that bothered me most was that the free test month was not a full month, but till the next accounting period – 14 days for me. Cut my time short to test it. But you can imagine that if that is my sole complain, it was fine otherwise for me. A solid site and their scripts to build images worked fine.
thanks for the nice suggestion. Will analyse this type of common mistake too.
What I'd give to be 30 again...
I do something like this in PowerShell too. Forgetting handy one-liners by not realizing they were important, or losing them when Windows restarted were the impetuses for me to start.
> When the suit was filed in 2012, 500 of these inmates had been held for more than 10 years in tiny, windowless cells with virtually no human contact

That is just... horrifying... evil even.

10 years in solitary confinement... it's just unthinkable what that would do to someone
I maintain almost all my bash history and I often use it to reconstruct a sequence of events in the past when I feel like maybe a mistake had been made.
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Yes, I find it really frustrating that the article doesn't contrast at all with the previous state of the art. I seem to remember that the Yamaha pianos you mention already had significantly better than MIDI reproduction capabilities way back when. Getting all excited about the new system without mentioning how much of an improvement it is makes this sound like a press release rather than a well-researched article.
configured using bash alias ?
> "Google used it to identify me before I had even applied anywhere else"

Add another item to the list of anti-trust charges Google is facing around the world.

> "they respected my privacy"

No they didn't. Not even close. But if Google is full of people with these notions I understand the major disconnect Google has with privacy regulators outside the US.
Looking for a small knowledge management tool
This is for a small team. Here are some basic requirements :

> storage of links with archiving of the linked page
> storage of files (PDF, DOC, ODT, TXT, jpeg, ...)
> free tagging of documents
> categories
> advanced search tool
> comments and notes taking associated to each document
> multi-user with sharing
> integrated into firefox (single click to archive a web page)
> integrated into destop computer (right click to add a document)
> web site for access everywhere
> mobile applications for integration into mobile devices with offline mode
> can manage and share a "to be read" list of document
> notifications when metadata of a document are modified

Any hint ?

Many thanks by advance.
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> The hysteria over synthetic drugs in general is unwarranted, reactionary nonsense.

It sounds like you have some knowledge and evidence of their safety. Knowledge that neither I nor the rest of the world has. Why don't you share it then?

From what I've read and seen of the medical issues associated with these untested substances the reactions seem entirely appropriate.
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What paper are you refering to?

edit:
Leon A. Gatys, Alexander S. Ecker, Matthias Bethge, A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style
From above, the green pixels will obscure the brown ones, so the best you could say is "there are 3 forests in this area". If you are under the canopy itself, you have much larger problems. The colours are very similar, so distinguishing between one tree trunk and another is not the same as distinguishing between a white licence plate and a blue car. The shapes are very similar, so distinguishing between one tree and another is not the same as distinguishing between a car and a house.

Some trees will be obscured by others so you will need a number of different cameras to create a 3D map. You would also need to measure the distance between the cameras to determine what area they cover.

A 10 minute analysis revealing a list of complexities as long as my arm is not a good start. It will probably be easier (let alone more accurate) to just count the trees.
I wonder if I am an outlier in that I have a massive paranoia about being thrown into jail randomly because of being in the wrong place at the wrong time or cops executing a warrant on the wrong house.

Maybe it's because I am mixed race and grew up in a poor minority neighborhood but it seems like the system is just eager and waiting to put everyone in it. Kind of like a low grade terror all the time.
I have been used this protocol for with my 6LowPan. it adds reliability to UDP without a lot of the overhead of TCP, this becomes incredibly important in constrained devices.
In addition, the fact that google appears to be using it in THREAD could give its utilization a boost.
yes, from time to time, I used to perform 'll' too. I guess some distro comes with that alias by default.
Ha, quite fitting that Wolfram would be doing this.
It is, and eventually, we will probably run into a real game-changer.. but I'm mostly concerned for all the people that are saving money in index funds. Every recession, the news and the discourse are about how this one is special, and how the causes of this recession run so deep.

People are not good at remembering that we had those same conversations last time and the time before - they get a gut feeling that 'this is the big one', and they pull their money out of the market during the recession and put it back in after everything's ok, essentially tossing a major fraction of their life savings overboard.

What people seem to never consider is that when we actually move out of an expansionist economy, the effects will be much broader than "our stock returns are not so good anymore"; their inability to retire at 65 would be the least of their concerns.
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Why am I hearing different stories? Some feel like prisoners are being treated too well, some feel like they are being mistreated... and isn't the fact being in a prison with all your freedom being taken away is cruel and all too usual, too? I'm so confused about this discussion.
Sure - I'll get back to you in a couple of hours - I'm working right now, I'm afraid.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_of_the_Greek_Clas... : "This work of translation ... constituted one of the greatest transmissions of ideas in history".
>Of course, one day the population and our use of resources has to stop growing, but I doubt we'll see it coming 100 years in advance.

I can't speak to resource usage, but I think you'll find population models have the global population plateauing within the next 50-100 years. We aren't talking about what's going to happen in 2000 years here, that no one can be certain of. Your argument is like saying it's rained and stormed for 2000 years why even try to predict the weather for the rest of the week? I hope you don't mind, but I think I'll still pay attention to the weather forecast even if it isn't always 100% accurate.
And just regular not-regulators people that are starting to get scared about this.

Honestly, this video is supposed to be an ad for Google:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olFEpeMwgHk

But when I watch it, it feels more like a trailer for Terminator 16 to me.
I was under the impression that direct detection of cosmic neutrinos would be a lot more informative than this indirect method. Anyone know more?
Solitary confinement is a form of torture. But of course there is no torture in the US. If the US does it, it can't be torture.
As far as I'm concerned this has already happened.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9525340

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9492551
Great to hear you find per-directory-history useful! (I wrote it)

On the topic of the article I have per directory history going back to ~2013 when I wrote the script.
Just started reading about autojump on github,interesting project.
Yeah, it makes it sound like current systems (diskclavier, etc) don't use any dynamics per note, which just is not true.
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Yes, there is no exact model of Tony. But I am not asking for one. Yes, Elon Musk is quite the real-life iron man, except inventing a ground-breaking energy technology, and a hi-tech death machine. Plus, he is more of a science guy turned entrepreneur.
I only ask about the engineering mind set and skills that a person needs to tinker and invent at a sophisticated level.