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It's not worthless terminology. It's a term that was chosen along time ago to distinguish this kind of storage architecture from filesystems and block devices: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_storage.

This is a common issue in computer science and software development. Whenever new concepts are discovered or developed, they often need new names. You need to pick something that will distinguish this new concept from existing technologies. For laughs (kind of), look at configuration management software (Chef, Puppet, Cfengine, Ansible). They all quickly discovered that there were a whole bunch of new concepts that needed names, and while in some cases this hints that maybe these tools a bit over-engineered, it's hard to deny they've been popular and useful. Regardless, they all encountered these new concepts around the same time and they all made up their own names for them. So in chef you have cookbooks, where ansible has roles. Chef has roles where ansible has playbooks. Ansible has modules where puppet has providers and resource types. Ansible has tasks which are basically components of what chef would call a recipe and puppet would call a manifest.

All in all, I think "object storage" is a pretty fair term for the concept of a data store that neither heirarchical or sequential.
Show HN is for stuff people can use, this is just a blank blog.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Very cool DIY project.

Without details of price or advantage over existing tech I don't see it as a fundable/kickstartable effort... but good luck.
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>Doing the math, it's pretty easy to guess that all that midwestern land is probably owned by "rich people", too.

Now do that math with land values in Detroit.

I think its well accepted that land values are generally quite higher on both coasts than the midwest. Agricultural land values are not very useful for estimating the cost of residential land

Edit:removed some snark
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Show HN is explicitly for stuff people can use:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Yeah, Delphi needs to die. I used it for a long time, and it was an excellent product for developing Windows applications when compared to the main alternatives, i.e. Visual C++ with MFC (the horror!) or VB6.

It was fast, efficient, easy to use, with a great community, good tooling and the picky type system tended to find a lot of potential bugs at compile time (once you got used to it).

Now there are a lot of alternatives and to be honest, I can't really think of a reason you'd choose it any more - even if you /did/ want to create Windows native apps.
What if he did? You have no idea if he did or didn't, you can't assume that the first action he took was to send a DCMA notice.
All the previous whiteboards force you to buy a projector or invest in smart pens. This costs ~150USD to make vs. 1500USD+ for the kind of smart boards that existed in the past.
This doesn't really answer my question. I'm not asking "how can you turn PG into a distributed database", I'm asking "what do I get with that that I don't get with, eg, Cassandra"?
Random numbers are already available on CLI.
This is neat, but what is the use case for this?
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I might also ask why only go for a 1% number? It seems like it'd be pretty doable to get a 0.1% approximation as that's only a 30dB SNR versus a 20dB SNR. Maybe I'm super naive but it doesn't seem like it should be tremendously difficult even if it does cut your core count by 20-50%.

Part of the reason I argue for this is that there are tons of sensors which are 0.1% sensors and if you can offer the rest of the computational pipeline at 0.1% then (so long as your errors don't accumulate)_you don't lose any accuracy processing your information this way.

It also seems like this would be pretty great for graphics cards, no? I mean it'd take a lot of work to make OpenGL run on it, but once you did you could have either very inexpensive cards, very powerful cards, or both.
> reducing the amount of rampant ugly in their applications

The fact that you are talking about "ugly" is the entire problem.
Pretty excited about this. We're really looking into giving this a try to support some of our open source efforts. Will be interesting to see how it goes.
Yes, as much as any industry in the history of mankind, save perhaps prostitution.
That's correct. I first used it on a Z-80 CP/M machine.
I've been working on a voice-controlled one of these. I just got my Raspberry Pi, but am still working on the software side quite a bit. I'm not really having great success with CMU Sphinx's hotword detection.
Ongoing, by the look of the founder's LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/pub/joseph-bates/2/853/aa3

And his company's patents,

http://patents.justia.com/assignee/singular-computing-llc

Ah, I get the name now. "The Singularity Is Near" came out in 2005 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singularity_Is_Near
"she" (or "they" if you're not certain) - the author is a woman.
Ah, this is a key piece of information, and indeed sounds like quite a big deal.

You should mention it in your presentation!
It is a common pricing tactic to have a premium product that no one buys because it makes the mid-range product seem more reasonable vs settling for the low-end.

This could be same thing in reverse. By having a low-end that is so low, it sets the expectation floor so low that the others seem like reasonable upgrades even though they are actually low/mid-range implementations at mid/high-end prices.
That was an option that he gave (towards the bottom). I have no idea if GH passes these on to the repo owner or not. GH may have just removed the repos.

But, the original author did give that option.
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Oh, man, I have never wished so much that I could upvote a submission more than once. I wish this article could be pinned at the top of every discussion site used by web and app designers for the next... forever.

The only thing in the design world that I find more infuriating than the current trends, and the accompanying blandness and usability issues, is when people try to justify those trends as being somehow superior to what we had before using the worst kind of retro-fitted mumbo jumbo. At least let's be honest that most places have adopted flat design because it's cheap, easy, and quick.

At the bottom end of the market, making UIs a commodity is in itself no bad thing. For web applications, you can implement flat design in pure CSS, cutting down the bandwidth required for images. More generally, typical flat design elements are nicely scalable and Retina-ready, because everything is all done with such trivial vector graphics that no real effort or creativity is needed. You can adapt the simple layouts more easily to small screens as well. In fact, why develop anything original or even hire anyone with design skills at all, when you can just slap Bootstrap on it and charge the client an extra 200% for making the site responsive?

Unfortunately, for anything above the bottom end of the market, and particularly for promoting UIs that offer better usability and/or more distinctive styles, the current trends are awful for all the reasons this article sets out.
Great source. I find it fascinating that they envision adding LTE modems. I think these things will be impressively powerful in a few years.
And the erasers were circular, so that their rotation wasn't significant and didn't need to be known by the software.
Yea but people can try out the robot (albeit in person).
While that's a possible interpretation, it clashes with reality, and as a realist if not a cynic, I doubt Frost would have had such a innocuous view of people and the choices they make.

Do you yourself really think that many people "take the road less travelled"?
The second option under "remedy the infringement" is to add the license back to the projects, but a DMCA request is not the right way to ask for that.
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For what type of service though?

Netflix spends millions on AWS -- but it would never make sense for them to do it themselves.

My average was ~$140K per month -- and it would NOT have made sense to do self DC.

Right now, im deploying from DC to AWS and dropping my cost and increasing my performance...
Not that you asked, but here are some ways I think you could go about releasing this to the public and make some money off of it (only one method uses Kickstarter):

1. You could do a Kickstarter where you sold a kit that you sourced with hardware from Alibaba and code you wrote yourself. This would be a lot of effort, but could be fairly profitable if the KS succeeds.

2. You could release some how to instructions on how people can make their own panel, and charge for software. You don't even need KS for this, just a PayPal (or other money transfer company) account.

3. You could release your code on GitHub for free and let people pay you out of the kindness of their hearts, either through PayPal, Patreon, or Gratipay.
That used a lot of words to say very little.
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The Maps app has been a miserable experience as well. Fortunately it seems a bit improved in iOS9, but it's taken 3 years! It wouldn't be so bad if there was a way to set an alternate app as the default handler for maps/directions.
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What strikes me is the overbearing sense of nativism and ethnonationalism that the Hispanic student embodies. Hispanic is instantly equated with non-white and thus all aspects of Hispanic culture, including the Spanish language and minutiae like how sports are played, are considered sacred aspects of heritage being infringed by the white "hordes".

With a little reductio ad absurdum, it's easy to make her words indistinguishable from a sympathizer to an organization like the Ku Klux Klan.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10203871
Agreed. I gulped on seeing the progress bar sticking at "Infinity%" (that's a while, whatever the units) but overall it took about 2 minutes on my MBP 2014.

These games-as-HTML5-pages really have to cushion the how 'loading..' resources issue somehow. We should bring back loading screens perhaps?

Note: That's not a knock on this proof of concept, it looks great.
You say that, but now that this is out it's only a matter of time before the bad guys realize they can stop using their nukes for leveling cities and repurpose them for disrupting HBO.
For England, James?
And again - you haven't proven one thing wrong with Henry Makow by simply stating his views and saying that you don't like them. Sorry, but you don't win arguments by saying your opinion over and over. You can think so, but you'd be wrong...again.

So the answer is basically: Mu. I don't need to point out errors in RatWiki. I already pointed out your own error - that you're not bringing anything to the table here other than your poorly formulated opinion.
Many GPUs used to have a tiny, fast and very imprecise SFU - it's ok for GLES but useless for anything else.
Sad thing is, it really shouldn't be that hard for them to compete with Uber. It's a customer service issue.

* Don't make me wait huge amounts of time, especially without telling me.
* Any driver who whines about taking a damn credit card should be fired immediately. Ugh.
* Start treating customers well. Uber is hit or miss with this.

Far too often I call for a cab and stand around waiting for 40 minutes, then get someone who drives like a maniac and is incredibly rude, and then when I say I need to pay be credit card they whine and cry and outright lie to try to get cash instead.
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Solid point. Maybe just a cheap wide angle lens from ebay and use easy off the shelf background subtraction from opencv at a low frequency as an easy of motion detection. I'm trying to think of ways to avoid integrating external peripherals that aren't part of the phone.
We can get used to almost anything with time :) :\

The favicon looks totally crap to me though. It looks as if it was from a playground website or some toy store. I can't stand it...
> As a sibling to your post pointed out, Postgres is often being compared to MySQL, which leads to highlighting the differences between these two, ignoring the features of DB2, MS SQL Server, and Oracle.

License issues (and not just licensing costs, though that's often a factor) often mean that DB2, MS SQL, and Oracle are excluded options for non-technical reasons when MySQL and/or Postgres are under considerations.
That download is costing people money, and if there is any justice left in the US, it will result in a class action lawsuit.

People in Redmond or Silicon Valley with good internet connections need to remember that a lot of people don't have that luxury. Extremely low bandwidth connections are still very common in the US, and metered connections are an unfortunate reality for many people around the world.
Have there been any serious attempts at an alternate string library interface for C, perhaps even an total redo of the standard C library with decades of hindsight?
> since we're just talking about a large download

Even just that can be a problem, since it is quite common these days for people to have a small SSD boot drive, and put everything else in a secondary hard drive.

The download could use all remaining space on the SSD, which could cause a variety of problems unless/until the user figured out the problem and deleted the 6 GB download.
To really "go for the gold" you can add in other abstraction libraries for talking to clouds like http://www.dasein.org/ and https://jclouds.apache.org/
I agree. Reading is so much faster, and control-f is my best friend, I might feel differently if videos were more easily searchable but probably not.
Have you seen what these fires do?! Your metal exterior surface will become a puddle of metal, and your masonry fence will be a pile of rubble.
I like #2 & #3 options better than doing a KS. Going to think about this. Thanks, appreciate this.
Public companies are not a closed loop. The iPhone pushed cellphone UI rather far compared what academics did over the last 20 years.
The Intel Galileo has one host port and one device port and runs Linux. In my project I was able to relay enough USB packets to support USB keyboards and mice successfully. It isn't too expensive either.
That is true in a sense. But I think this is very from from how the average user sees things, and the way the average user sees things is crucial here since we are talking about user consent. In the mind of the average user, there is a very large difference between KB 1498028 and Windows 10.

This also glosses over the rather enormous difference in sheer size between this "update" and others, which is, as far as I understand it, the focus of people's concern here.
The kind of copies one does to be safe in the case the original repo disappears for some reason. Ironic.
This - "We guide entrepreneurs how to get customers.
We fix these 2 problems in the 40 days". Those 2 problems cannot be fix in 40 days in my opinion. So you consider all ideas no matter how crazy it is and work with it by developing and mapping out a strategy?
> Either way, my point is the "object" metaphor isn't really all that specific

I still don't see how Plan9 is built on "objects".

> functional operating systems

I doubt functional metaphors are of any use in this domain.

My point is that the abstraction continuum is far more diverse and deep than something as stupid as communicating objects or reducing lambda terms. My bet is on a linguistic abstraction, which covers interface unification as well as many other things.
These salaries are supposedly tied to the cost of labor in various markets, and we're a large enough company that they do a lot of surveys of economic conditions, what competitors are paying, etc. to set salary bands. But the cost of the sort of technical labor we're talking about here might vary more between SF and other markets than the general cost of labor.
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Always reminds me of this Rodney Dangerfield movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jow5aO8mp3E
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Structured Query Language ... that's the biggest thing you get. Also database resolved relational data.

It also allows you to present said information from other stores through a well defined interface, such as via stored proceedures that can be locked down via login/identity/application and other features typically in SQL, while being able to act as a gateway for more optimized data stores for specific types of data. Not to mention that JSON data in pgsql has gotten pretty good... I think with plv8 it gets event better. Where I think pg falls is in terms of replica sets, hot failover and automated recovery options which many nosql servers give you in the box. With PG you pretty much have to pay for a decent HA solution.

That said, I honestly really like document stores, and RethinkDB as an example offers some of the relational features of a typical SQL database while being mainly available as a document store.
Thanks for posting the images side by side. It was tremendously refreshing to see the previous interface. To me the affordance on that is way way higher than the new flat trend.
> solving problems is easy, it's understanding what the problem is that's hard.

I completely agree. These days, I work as a sysadmin/helpdesk monkey, and I am having this experience pretty much all the time - once I understand what is wrong, the solution becomes pretty obvious. Finding out what is wrong, though, can be really tricky. (More so on Windows - troubleshooting on Windows often enough ends in "Let's just reboot and hope it works next time")
Amazon NoEC2 is a hilarious name for lambda
I don't know about Linux's simple_strtoul(), but the C library's strtoul(3) will return ULONG_MAX and set the string pointer to a valid location. So the old code COULD cause an issue if "io_tlb_nslabs" being equal to ULONG_MAX isn't accounted for later on, but adding -1 (0xffffffffffffffff) to a pointer (as the new code does) is far worse.
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Meanwhile, back in the 'I'm not superior to everybody else' mere mortal's world…

Discarding flat design as 'abomination' by 'idiots' is rather missing some of the wider design context.

Take a look back as Swiss design from the 50s, for example. Lots of use of minimalism, bold colour, simple typography (Helvetica, even!). It's remarkably similar in some senses; one of the reasons it became popular was because of the perception that design had become fussy and overburdened by ornamental detail.

I think we saw the same process of design evolution with modern flat designs. There was certainly a perception among some designers that it was difficult to build modern interfaces in part due to the cruft which had been accumulated over the years. Look at an iOS 6 device, for example; even though it's been only a few year, it looks utterly baroque to my eyes now. Needless lines, textures, gradients and shadows that obviously served a functional purpose at one point, but with that purpose gradually diluted as the functionality and interaction patterns of software evolved. Building to modern requirements – with things like touch-oriented interfaces and responsive applications – can become much more complex with these constraints.

The thing is, design approaches will evolve over time. Designers, developers and UX folk will continue to tweak and adjust designs to offer a better experience. It's not always going to be right, or even visually appealing, but it's also a field that experiences constant change. Look at Google's Material, for example – it's not simply flat, but involves the use of animation, subtle gradients and shadows.
They seem to be focusing on specific applications where arithmetic might be (or so they hypothesize) a bottleneck. His LinkedIn says, "we recently showed a 6400x improvement in speed/power ratio tracking objects in video for the U.S. Navy".
Strangely, I agree with the original author who sent the DMCA.

Imagine that you're working on some project and you find one of those forks with no GPLv3 attached (or worse, some other license that is more permissive). You integrate it, publish, and then find out that your project is in copyright violation.

I'd rather see a takedown induce an easily remediated repo change, than a big legal PITA down the road.
It's not like he took his repo down, nor any of the forks that kept the license. He just DMCA'd the ones that stripped the license files.
Does a service like wit.ai help you out at all?
In Georgia _most_ school districts are at the county level. But in some cases a city has a school district independent of the surrounding county - often if not always this is the county seat. In the Atlanta area, at least, Atlanta, Decatur, and Marietta have separate schools from the surrounding counties. (In the case of Decatur, this fact explains a lot of the higher property values there compared to adjacent unincorporated areas of DeKalb County.)
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seems like an unnecessary personal attack
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Have been using this repo for a long time now, and now deploys are broken :( going to have to re-write some code i guess...
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github is pretty accommodating to DMCA notifications [1]. They give the infringing repo 24 hours to comply with the terms of the notice.

1. https://help.github.com/articles/dmca-takedown-policy/
Go might have a few Oberon influences, and it was what made me look at it in first place.

However, even Turbo Pascal was more expressive than Go in terms of language features (not taking the GC into account). Delphi even more so, specially if one takes into consideration the VCL and IDE.

But, it would be nice to see someone come up with a System 3 Gadgets library for Go, or an environment like BlackBox Component Builder.
I think the article mentions Uber just gave CMI $5.5 million. Maybe that's User's way of compensating them. Certainly it makes sense to maintain a good relationship with the talent pipeline.
I wonder why this was downvoted? I'm stating what should be obvious to everyone. As the human habitation moves deeper into the woods, there is an increase in the political motivation to engage in "assiduous firefighting".
A lot of conferences are only distributing their symposium notes this way now. So, if you want to read the notes, you need to use the USB key.
I'm trying to relate this back to computer systems if its even possible, say comparing it to scheduling block requests from multiple processes to a block device, if the LIFO discipline maximizes welfare, I assume welfare in such system would be average response time, where response time here = queue time + service time of the block requests. When the block device is saturated and starts queuing, I guess one benefit would be that the block requests with the smallest waiting time would be served first, and improve responsiveness, but unless some kind of deadline is added you might have long tail where certain block requests don't get to be serviced.

But since the paper assume there's an opening time, perhaps then is not applicable for the block device example I gave above, maybe a more comparable example would be a traffic spike to a web application after some announcement, and how an http framework/library might 'choose' http requests to service. My understanding is that most framework/libraries just implicitly delegate to the OS process scheduler.