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You are correct, a comparison with CD/SA is an incorrect comparison that doesn't take into consideration the default premium and liquidity premium included in Lenders' return. CD/SA is as close to risk free return (with FDIC insurance) as you can get while Lending Club loans are unsecured loans (highest risk fixed-income investment).
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Have a citation? My data is directly from AWS docs and speaking with AWS staff.
There is not.
Internally Red Hat gives every employee a laptop running RHEL 7 (it was RHEL 6 until quite recently). Also RHEL 7 version numbers don't necessarily reflect the upstream version of the software, since Red Hat actively backports major features and fixes.
Yeah definitely. It's why I added that 'edit'. You're the type of customer that Groupon needs to be selling on to businesses. They need to identify people like you somehow and offer you coupons, while denying coupons in some way to people just looking quick discount hopping and ultimately making groupon a negative instead of a positive.

I think retails focusing on bringing people into the store is different for an important reason - when you're inside the store and buying something, it's almost guaranteed that you want a few other things too. You could jump between 10 stores all with different specials to get all of them cheaper but that's incredibly time consuming.

Groupon however is trying to get return customers. It's not about someone doing Scuba diving picking up a few extra scuba diving lessons while he's there - he has to actually come back later. It's no longer an impulse 'easiest path' purchase that retail focuses on by getting you in their store and not the store down the road.
This is incorrect on almost all points.

All AWS AZs are physically separated facilities with redundancy on all their infrastructure, although they're obviously in the same general area.

us-east-1 is not geo-redundant. It is entirely on the east-coast, as the name suggests. Although S3 does have geo-redundancy in all regions.

You may have been thinking of "US Standard", but it is the same as "us-east-1".

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html#s3_r...
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Finally some more reasonable prices in this space.

Eventually it could make sense for Backblaze to partner with someone like DigitalOcean or Linode and offer low cost bulk storage and low cost virtualization colocated in the same datacenter: these services seem to be a perfect complement for each other.
Multiple facilities != "one datacenter"
MS also has china access via Azure China
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Now with B2 we immediately support Linux and provide a client for it out of the box (written in python). Granted, it is only a command line interface so give us a little time to polish it up and add some features.
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Like I asked below, do you have a citation?
Experience has taught that on the topic of nuclear power, HN is the wrong forum for that, for me. I tend to get wound up. 13years' original observation that radiation release should be compared on overall rather than "nominal" performance hasn't been contradicted in this thread, and my response to that is agreement. Others may prefer to discuss tone and comportment.

I hesitate to add anything else, but the following proposition doesn't seem to generate much discussion so perhaps it's safe. Consider the fact that regular power plants are regularly built by mostly private investment, while nuclear power plants are only built by the state. This suggests that nuclear power is not profitable in a strictly economic sense.
You are correct. Biotech start-ups live off of VC funding and maybe some NIH funding if they are lucky. Most of them never bring a product to market, instead they are acquired by a big pharma/biotech who has the capital to bring the molecule through FDA approval.

The last number I saw was $6B invested in 2014.[1]

[1]https://www.pwc.com/us/en/technology/assets/pwc-life-science...
> This is a feature for EU and US-West. US Standard is bi-coastal and doesn’t have read-after-write consistency.

Quote from Jeff Barr @ AWS: http://shlomoswidler.com/2009/12/read-after-write-consistenc....
I like to compare it to the research done on olympics and their economic impact. Big investment in hopes of a strong injection in the economy.

The opposite happens, once the event is done, the facilities/stadiums/everything goes unused -- novelty and interest lost.

Same thing happens to these business when they worked with Groupon: make some money (oftentimes they don't even break even) during their promotions/deals, but as soon as it was over hardly any bothered to return.
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A lot of what Google is doing in life sciences has to do with pursuing earlier, more data-driven diagnostics (eg, http://www.wsj.com/articles/google-designing-nanoparticles-t...).

I'm sure future humans will be horrified to learn that we walked around with barely no meaningful monitoring on our body stats for our whole lives... Only seeking out help when problems got big enough to be visible to the naked eye or bad enough to impair us.
If you're looking to replace $resource (a poor abstraction layer), you should create your own client-side model layer, or look into a library like js-data (http://www.js-data.io/docs/js-data-angular/)
Git is also a very nice zero-conf tool to store arbitrary objects and retrieve them by hash :)
Any time one of those "Quickly set up an OS X dev machine!" setup scripts makes the rounds, you can practically guarantee that the script disables Gatekeeper and the file download quarantine because the author "found it annoying/useless/pointless/mai freedums". You end up with one guy intentionally shooting himself in the foot, and 100s of others running his "helpful" script and shooting themselves in the feet without even realizing it.

Developers as a group are at least as stupid about security as everyone else.
But you could easily build the plant on naturally or artificially higher ground.
$70/barrel is just the figure for natural gas, I couldn't find a figure for coal. In any case, it sounds like $150/barrel is a pretty solid ceiling.
It's being worked on. There are some packages that provide postgres support (https://atmospherejs.com/?q=postgres) but not in core just yet.
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I mean, yes, but that has nothing to do with the comment to which you're replying and doesn't come close to answering the actual question posed.
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Try to match these rules with the linux kernel project... you'll be surprised...
I'm familiar with CRR.

I asked for sources about your "one datacenter" claim. Just because several facilities are in the same geographic region does not mean they are the same datacenter.

Just because something is bicoastal does not mean your data is replicated on both coasts. It could also mean that your data is stored on either the west or the east coast.

I would have trouble believing they store twice the data as their other regions but charge the same (actually a bit less!).
Wicked! Time to start writing all those gulp-backblaze upload scripts!
Its common in many european countries. After the probation period ends, employee protection laws kick in, e.g. you cannot simply fire an employee after that period.

IMO it's a good way to learn about each other without the negative consquences for both parties. (Not only the employer has a disincentive to fire after the probation period: Leaving as an employee in Germany means you're blocked from the higher variant of unemployment benefits.)
> http://nextbigfuture.com/2008/03/deaths-per-twh-for-all-ener...

"The World Health Organization study in 2005 indicated that 50 people died to that point as a direct result of Chernobyl. 4000 people may eventually die earlier as a result of Chernobyl, but those deaths would be more than 20 years after the fact and the cause and effect becomes more tenuous."

So he uses 50 deaths for his calculations.

"1/6th of the 9 million roofing job accidents would be about 50 deaths from installing 1.5 million roofs if other countries had similar to US safety. The amount of roof installations is increasing as a percentage. 4 TWh from roofs PV. So 12.5 deaths per TWh from solar roof installations. Assuming 15 years as the average functional life or time until major maintenance or upgrade is required. The average yearly deaths from rooftop solar is 0.83/TWh."

How did I miss that! Incredible.
I'm excited to see they've made big stride over the past several years.

I'm really curious about how people compare this with native dev especially right now most startups chose native approach.
It will fail if the signature is invalid.

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Yup, my MIT professor Eugene Fitzgerald's book, "Inside Real Innovation". Enjoy the read!
With this announcement coming shortly after the OrderUp acquisition I wonder if this is signaling a larger shift at Groupon.
Arq has a Windows version now and they support many different storages targets: https://www.arqbackup.com/

I hope they add B2 support at some point.
I haven't tried using Angular with Meteor, but I know both pretty well. I would recommend trying Meteor with just Blaze (its rendering engine) before adding Angular. Maybe it's enough and you don't need Angular's added complexity.
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RISC-V, this is the RV32I set of instructions, is relatively simple, e.g. there is no hardware support for integer math errors, overflow, etc. besides divide by zero (http://riscv.org/spec/riscv-spec-v2.0.pdf):

We did not include special instruction set support for overflow checks on integer arithmetic
operations. Most popular programming languages do not support checks for integer overflow,
partly because most architectures impose a significant runtime penalty to check for overflow on
integer arithmetic and partly because modulo arithmetic is sometimes the desired behavior.

At this level, there's no multiply, let along division instructions (which can be OK, the original Lisp Machine didn't have any hardware support for that, the three major "upgrade" features of the LMI LAMBDA processor were speed (Fairchild FAST logic, i.e. 74Fxx parts), an extra bit of address space, and adding a TRW 16 bit multiply chip).

To a noob like me at this sort of thing, their story of how their instruction formats are particularly easy to implement sounded good.
It is just a badly ran business. The Chinese version of Groupon is ran by the very competent Xing WANG, who was a physics graduate student. And last time I looked at it Meituan was worth $15B.
Their documentation is really inconsistent on this...
Saying "you don't have what it takes to be a founder" is a lot like saying "you don't have what it takes to win at slots". Winning is (almost) purely random, but the more resources you have (in terms of wealth, social capital, and temerity) the more chances you get to take.

The (implicit) meme in HN posts that success is mostly a function of skill rather than mostly a function of luck is not merely misleading but actively dangerous. We need to be fully aware that business (particularly business in the middle of a bubble, or business where stocks are involved, or business where you're borrowing money from investors) is essentially a form of gambling, and can have very similar consequences for anyone who isn't exceedingly lucky. We need to stop paying attention to success stories (with a big enough pool, a series of miracles is inevitable) and pay attention to the average case (which is to say, miserable failure).
What's the pricing look like?

Also, no Windows support on an "Enterprise" product?
The docs you quoted specifically call out "multiple facilities".
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If people were more respectful, PC would never have been invented. It is the fault of bigots, the disrespectful, and the discourteous who have created a world that for tens of thousands of years was dominated by such attitudes, and is now only starting to become more egalitarian in policy and culture. Has PC gone overboard at times? Of course. But it's only been half a century since the '60s, give people time to tone it down. And stop being so damned disrespectful.
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The price is being heralded as the thing to get excited about, but I'm also very concerned about the security and availability of my data. I suppose those details are somewhere, but they're not in this article which is quite lengthy.

I would like to know more of the implementation of this and more information on policies to protect access to my data. And I would like to know where the data is stored. I suppose I got read the manual, but maybe some info tidbits could be included in the announcement.
Tarsnap seems to rely pretty heavily on Amazon's infrastructure, so I'm guessing it won't support this? Which is a shame because I'd really like to use it, but can't afford to right now as an individual.

Arq seems really good at supporting a broad variety of cloud providers though, so hopefully they'll add this too. I'm hesitant to use cloud backups generally; I've never seen an audit of how secure Arq's backup scheme is, for example (though it seems pretty simple - https://www.arqbackup.com/s3_data_format.txt). I've used CrashPlan a lot and basically take it on faith that it's secure. It's probably good enough for my use, given that I'm not storing state secrets or anything, but it's still a little unsettling to 'lose control' of one's data.

From Backblaze's point of view, I guess this is either smart (diversifying themselves–people can use other backup software if they like, and Backblaze still profits) or less smart (turning themselves into a commodity), but it seems like their software is still first rate, so I guess it'll work for them.
Brian from Backblaze here. Yeah, our B2 storage may not be a good solution for an application that has to do a lot of analysis on the data over and over again. In Amazon S3 you don't pay for transfers between EC2 and S3, so computing on your data is only as expensive as buying the EC2 time. Since Backblaze doesn't yet offer the EC2 functionality you would need to download your data to analyze it.

What I'd really like is a deal with Amazon where we put a "virtual cross connect" from the Backblaze datacenter into Amazon's EC2 so you could use EC2 instances on B2 data without incurring a download charge (or not exposing that charge to our customers). But I don't know if Amazon is open to that kind of thing.
Will definitely try that with a new project. Sounds like you wouldn't recommend trying to hack Meteor into an existing Angular project?
Looks like they are!

>Eventually, Meteor wants to transition to ES2015 modules for everything

https://github.com/meteor/meteor/blob/303052be68128ce9026bc2...
My question is the reverse:

"What's the worst culture you have been part of at a company and were you able to change it"
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> The phrase "starting Monday" places the job in a specific time. It's clear that we're not talking about a position you will one day aspire to, nor are we talking about a dream job that can't actually exist.

Wait, what? Because it starts Monday, it can't be a fantasy dream job? That's a non-sequitur.
As the author states in the article, there is a limitation of "you start on Monday". This rules out the billionaire philanthropist, POTUS, and batman.

What is your dream job given your skills, your resources and ability, that you could operate at within a week.
My TLDR: There may be unknown unknowns in the medical system.

It doesn't say how many, it doesn't say the consequences, it just says "most". And since people die, there's probably something we don't know.

That said, I'm not sure this problem as described is one that is even conceivably fixable at this scale. As in, I'm literally not sure that a machine that perfectly diagnoses all the health conditions of a person going forward is logically consistent.
It's usual for the management of a franchise to organize these groupoun promotions. The owners of the stores is whom suffer.
Nuclear can do load following pretty well (as does coal) as long as there plant supports it - reasonably recent ones are required to by regulations. It is used in that mode commonly eg in France and Germany. The economics are another thing of course, you don't save much in operating costs by throttling output.

Stopping to 0% is not needed in normal load variation, thanks to toaster usage patterns.
I think if you yourself use mailing lists, you understand when and why mailing lists can't be replaced by slack/gitter and by extension you understand my point ;)

Eat your own dog food, as they say. :)
The story about Jack Powers is scary, is anyone capable of defending themselves against the Aryan Brotherhood?
My favorite interview question is different but it has served me well over the years when hiring software devs:

Tell me about any software project that was 100% done by you (code, regression tests, docs, web site if there is one, mailing list if there is one, etc) that has been used by at least 10 people, none of whom contacted you for any help (thank you emails aren't help). The software doesn't have to be a big deal, years ago I wrote some regexp enabled wrappers for cp/mv such that you could do

move '*.c' '*.c++'

and posted it to usenet. Something like that counts.

What I'm trying to tease out is how much of the dev process can this person handle. And I'm trying to see if they tinker on their own. It's a bit of red flag for me if the person doesn't have any examples of this sort of thing.
Hey HN — so, after finding a 15-30min block at the end of each day over the span of about a a month, this little side project is about done. I had a blast working on this with my kids acting as PMs :) I haven't tested it on non-OSX, and I imagine that the unicode/emoji support will be broken. I considered just including the OTF for those, but that's on order of ~40MB. Ideas welcome!
Before anything else, we need our main networked devices to survive being placed on the same network as some malign device. The current situation is a joke, and much before one even thinks about IoT.

Having a compromised device at home should mean at most that it's tracking you with its sensors. Not that it can compromise anything you have around, and get any data you have, or that it can use your network to get anybody else.
because we don't care that much about Russia. This isn't the 80's.

OPEC got greedy, that created room for shale, and Russia got hurt.
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"No one data center serves two availability zones" :

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/04/16/aws_data_centre_arch...
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There was a discussion before that this was a probable outcome. One of the links in the story is to this story : http://gizmodo.com/why-is-my-smart-home-so-fucking-dumb-1684... which talks about Wink and how poorly it performed for the author.

It struck me that once again things had reached an imbalance between design and engineering. When that happens either something is reliable as a tank and impossible to use (too much engineering, not enough design) or beautiful to look at and massively unreliable (too much design, not enough engineering). It takes both.
S3 compatible API is the only reason preventing us from migrating to your cheaper option right now.
I'm sure a lot of people do that, but the appropriate etiquette when using a coupon at a restaurant is to tip on the full price. Most adults who frequent restaurants should know that.
Eh, I see the relation but it's not exactly it.

> The Streisand effect is the phenomenon whereby an attempt to hide, remove, or censor a piece of information has the unintended consequence of publicizing the information more widely, usually facilitated by the Internet [wiki]

The streisand effect is about censorship, not about propaganda. If the current coverage is negative, it's a smear campaign at best. Censorship would be refusing to publish any articles on ad blocking entirely and somehow trying to get the apps taken down from the app store.
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My dream job would be to have enough money in the bank to live off of a 100k salary for the rest of my life without working.
Brian from Backblaze here: We're really transparent about our redundancy and pretty much everything we do. We use 17+3 Reed Solomon across 20 computers in 20 different locations in our datacenter. You can read about it here: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/vault-cloud-storage-architect... You can also read about our "Backblaze Storage Pods" (the things filled with drives) here: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/storage-pod/

Also, we are the only company we know of that releases our drive failure rates. We release them quarterly, here is the most recent failure analysis: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-stats-...
Sure. Basically, we go through the first half or so of Stevens' Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment fairly sequentially. My first take was to group the example code by topic, but I've realized that it might make more sense to group it by book chapter. So that's my current reorganization plan. The thought is, with lots of topics, it will help orient people better if they have an explicit cue for what chapter to review if they are confused.

That's pretty specific to the more or less sequential approach with the book, though. It's a good book, so it can support that kind of thing.

I think it will also help with presenting the supplemental material that is linked with each chapter/section. Again, that might be specific since in the Stevens book, there is always a manpage or Single UNIX Specification reference to give for almost any section.
I think businesses hope that these discount customers will enter cheaply ... but linger to enjoy more of the services and eventually convert into long-term, loyal customers willing to pay full price.

That just doesn't happen. People show up for one quick, cheap engagement, and then they're gone. Once front-line sales people realize this, the desire to welcome Groupon customers evaporates.

There are two culprits in this. One is the Groupon field sales force, for over-promising the business value of getting a flurry of cheap visitors. The other is the target company's senior management, for agreeing to a dumb deal and not working better with the front-line sales/service folks to make a better go of things.
How well does living in a cabin in the woods, chopping wood, and hunting and gardening for food pay?

Edit: To clarify, a lot of people in the professional world just take it as a given that everyone wants to be in the professional world for the rest of their lives. I'm trying to make the point that a lot of us are only here because it's the best option out of a number of crappy alternatives.

To even ask "What would your ideal position be?" implies that the interviewee wants to work professional jobs for the rest of their lives. On the contrary, most of us don't. If we had an out that allowed us to leave the office for the last time we would take it in a heartbeat. That doesn't make us bad workers, but it's worth considering the fundamental assumptions behind your interview questions before you ask them.

A lot of people have professional lives that are an endless series of compromises where they have to choose the least-worst option repeatedly. You rapidly lose your enthusiasm for a life like that.
Maybe you don't need to do some of those things for assignments? They are all intended as aids in maintaining a long-running software project with many contributors, which is a very different use case than personal homework.