skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>a) If the time and complexity to deploy 3,10,100 microservices as opposed to 1 monolith is significant then your build pipeline is flawed. Simple as that.

Hardly.

The actual issue is that, since the 3,10,100 microservices are all needed for the core offering, then having 3,10,100 microservices is not any different than 1 well designed monolith.

With the exception that you've replaced method calls with REST and what have you, and have all the BS that comes with a distributed system, for few of the benefits.
somewhat offtopic.. back to the future: part II marty travels to October 21, 2015. It's pretty hilarious to see the scenery they depict:

* hoverboards
* flying cars
* flying advertisements
* hologram advertisements
* autolacing shoes
* autofitting/drying jackets
* robot bartenders

You know, for a 30 year guess (produced in 1985), they weren't far off.. we have

* Robot cars
* all sorts of automated beverage stations
* VR making a comeback (just wait for FB to sell some VR ads)

I'm sure the other stuff is just around the corner :)
Yeah, Richard Feldman's Strange Loop talk[1] touched upon Tasks and they do indeed look exactly like what I'm looking for.

Elm does look very nice. Not sure if I'd get the team on board with that kind of change ;)

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV0DXNB94NE
> so blocking it will be very hard without also blocking regular HTTP TLS traffic.

Many large or data-sensitive companies do SSL MiTM at their firewall so unfortunately that's not hard at all.
It's more than that, take a look at the other comments in this thread, like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10329236 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10329221

One interesting thing is you can have totally end-to-end encrypted applications, encrypt the application code and all the generated data.

Also, remember that the HTTP Web itself was a reimplementation of decades-old hypertext systems. Hypertext hails all the way back to Xanadu (60-80s!).
I always find that comparison disingenuous as flight has nothing to do with rocketry. I think it might be less exciting but more instructive to talk about time between first submarines (keeping humans alive in a hostile environment) to spacecraft.
> And time spent stirring a pot or slicing vegetables is hardly quality family time.

Invite your kids into the kitchen. Teach them how to cook. Cooking can be some of the best quality family time if you make it a priority.
> time spent stirring a pot or slicing vegetables is hardly quality family time

Teaching one's offspring what is and is not good to eat is perhaps the oldest and most fundamental task associated with raising young. It predates humanity by millions of years. If that is not "quality family time", I can't fathom what is.
> The price a consumer pays for a product is entirely divorced from the cost to manufacture said product.

So what? Never mind that any viable company has to charge more than the 'cost to manufacture', unless there is coercion or fraud involved, an agreed to price by the buyer and seller is automatically a legitimate price for that buyer and seller, otherwise they wouldn't have come to an agreement.

Obviously a different buyer might think differently, but that doesn't change the legitimacy of someone else's transaction.
That is ridiculous. When is attraction ever so myopic?

Do you like skinny girls? Then why aren't you attracted to rail thin frail old women?
Besides altruism or avoiding repercussions, why would anybody choose to tune for emissions?

At least for petrol engines, ultra-high emissions usually means low fuel economy and performance, as optimum combustion means negligible CO and NOx (and unburned hydrocarbons). In other words, turning for those will decrease emissions to a low point, although maybe not to the point where the environmentalists are satisfied. The three points are quite close together.

With diesels the situation is somewhat different, since there's no throttle plate and the only thing that can be adjusted is the amount of fuel injected, and increasing that both increases power and emissions while decreasing fuel economy.
Oh they'll get you speeding on photo radar alright. The question is if the fine will actually get to you before 3 months because the system is so poor. And then you ask for the photo evidence and they'll tell you that you have to pay for it (this happened to me once).

Fines for running red lights are an instant very serious offense and two of these will suspend your license. Speeding depends on how much you went over the limit but it's a bit more flexible.

4-way stop signs are the stupidest idea when there is very little traffic or when there is a lot of traffic in a given intersection. In fact, they only work well in a moderately trafficked intersection; vehicles are supposed to stop once and then go through the light.

Roundabouts solve this entirely because for low, medium and even high congestion areas they are very effective at clearing out traffic. Sure they are definitely harder to tackle but as long as you're not in Braga (go around the outside or you'll crash into someone) you will have little to no issue doing them as most people are civil enough to tackle them properly. The issue is placing them because they require significantly more space and not all locations are suited to having them; if you notice most new planned roads all include roundabouts.
Isn't this whole thing just another case of the upper middle class sneering at the lower middle class for not being as educated, sophisticated and clever as we are? This time through the lens of dinner?
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Not only is the US dollar the reserve currency but oil is also sold exclusively for US dollars by OPEC. This forces most countries to hold vast reserves of US dollars. The US benefits because they are able to print a ton of dollars which get absorbed by other countries instead of causing inflation.

This allows the US to import goods for 'free' (in exchange for printed money). This is especially true for institutions which are close to the printing presses (the gov., big gov. contractors). This is what allows the US to have such an extravagant military spending.
Hoverboard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSheVhmcYLA
You missed the one they got really right, because it looks so natural: flat-screen tv.
With everyone dependent on a recurring income for food and shelter, you'll always see conflicts of interest develop between the public good, the employee, and the employer.

The only way for this to change is to level the playing field between the employee and the employer. Basic income is one way to do this as the employee could walk if the employer becomes ethically challenged and decides to implement something which breaks the law.

Not everyone has kilobucks of "F.U." money in the bank, in fact, most Americans have no savings at all which is part of the thing driving this. The whole economy in America has no margin of safety. The employee lives paycheck-to-paycheck, the small business owner is constantly worrying about making payroll, the large corporations are draining away the opportunities by offshoring, and the banks and Private Equity are conjuring up ways to rip the small business owner and common folk off.

This will continue to happen, just at other companies. All things I discussed above need to be fixed before this type of problem goes away.
Yes. For such a high priced item, this should be easily economical. Some medicines already do this. It seems kind of obvious.
Walter Isaacson is a well respected biographer asked specifically by jobs to write the book. I dont have time or the access to corroborate it, but it felt accurate reading it and was in line with other things i've read. Also, some objective facts like screwing over early employees and disowning his daughter make it easier to believe he was capable of pretty bad actions. Bill Gates also grew up a lot and devoted the latter half of his life to helping people, which helped. What parts were wrong?
As someone who has built homemade firearms, I'm amused by your example.

It seems like municipalities with emissions testing requirements could easily catch these "socially offensive hackers" if they use the older hook-it-up-to-the-tailpipe testing technology. Then we wouldn't have to get permission from our betters to alter our own property.
"Instead of the oft-discussed political and sociological solutions, how can we as engineers use technology to minimize the damage of mass murders or prevent their occurrence, in a way that respects individual freedoms?"

Well, there are several problems with handguns that lead to people being reluctant to carry them:

- weight

- size

- expense

- safety (esp. accidental discharges, collateral damage, over-penetration)

- lethality (as separate from stopping power; imagine the ideal as a fictional gun that always stops an attacker but almost never kills him or her, like a Star Trek phaser set to stun)

I'm not sure how many of those are amenable to fixing. But if you could come up with something akin to a phaser, at a good price, that could be safely carried by a large subset of the population I think you'd be on to a winner.

"What does your startup do?"

"We're the Tesla of handguns"

:)
There are certainly novel designs and fancy welding, but bike frames are essentially tubes of carbon fiber / steel formed or welded together with the manufacturers brand sticker slapped on top. Seems like this could be ideal for a Warby Parker like entrant.
> At home one night after my meal with Ochs, as I labored to make pasta sauce from scratch while a child wailed at my feet

Everyone knows you start the gravy (aka sauce) in a big pot on Saturday morning, make the kids stir it all day long, then heat it up for quick dinners throughout the week.
For some reason the links in the Neocities blog on IPFS don't work. Is there a working version of the Neocities blog on IPFS?

[Edit: this seems to be a problem with the route names on the Neocities blog, not IPFS itself]
This is meditative and not scientific, but still a thought experiment: To consider, who am I between two thoughts?
China actually has export controls to protect the rest of the world from its bad products. Like you say, it must have a Chinese brand otherwise it's either a fake or illegally obtained (out the back door of the factory).
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I haven't benchmarked but I suspect the stencil buffer would be better. But the time is so small that for static meshes (as in this demo) it is negligible.

Unfortunately you lose MSAA with the stencil buffer approach.
Know your animal targets really well comes to mind for a full months worth of meals and/or viable shelter materials could disappear instantly due to a bad throw or lousy trap.
Right on red is OK. What is crazy is the lack of roundabouts.
I just saw The Martian. I really loved the film, but even more awesome is that NASA and JPL cooperated together consulting on the film in the hopes that it would increase interest in further space exploration.

The PR department at NASA is really cranking up the juice... Which is great!
at some stage all of the implicit knowledge is or will be actually sitting over in taiwan/china. many high end frames are performing in similar peformance buckets, despite the stickers on them. And the number of facilities is much smaller than the number of brands.

This is like generic drugs at some stage, all the US prices are high subsidizing low cost elsewehere. grey market importation is basically a sensible solution. the incumbents will rely on brand name and safety scare tactics to limit the arbitrage. but its probably worth seeing thru this.

carbon reinforce plastic is ultimately just fancy plastic. there is also no need for an 800g frameset, most punters are better served by 1100g of more durable and longer-lasting design. That is, those people buying retail. If your stuff is free or grey market or pro-deal its another story...amortization of capital expense is entirely diffent math in that case.
"That said, I think it’s a fine movie, brilliantly written and performed and full of humor and feeling. It deviates from reality everywhere — almost nothing in it is like it really happened "
Andy Hertzfeld, member of the mac team. He was consulted for the movie.

http://recode.net/2015/10/02/original-mac-team-member-andy-h...
Yep.

If you use a bike for exercise, then you want it to be hard work.

If you use it for moving around, then add a motor and battery.

Lightweight frames are only for artificial competitions. Then what are you competing at? Who can afford the most expensive equipment?
If the new technology can help an emerging industry/market to make things cheaper, easier, or with higher performance then the technology will become commoditized to be adopted in large scale. The time it takes to be commodotized depends on competition, and stage of industry life cycle.
And weirdly they tried to swing back forcefully because not long after the web started to become a thing, Gates touted .Net everywhere, even though it was long before .Net actually shipped. IIRC, longhorn, even Xp was supposed to be fully based on networked object components, like Java RMI.

And.. win95 plus (or was it 98?) had an html/javascript based active desktop that is conceptually similar to current web paradigms and UX.

The world DNA evolves weirdly.
Why do people say it only takes 10 more minutes to make the food? They never factor in the time it takes to mentally prepare what you are going to make, go out and get ingredients, prep the food, then clean up afterwards. It is never just 10 more minutes.
It's impossible to use web workers across domains or while using non aliased cdns. Which can start to feel really restrictive.
I don't see any comments from the Jobs' camp about inaccuracies, falsehoods, etc. that came about with Zuck. They seem to just not like that his lesser known (to the greater public at least) side is being publicized.
That has been on my to-read list since watching "The Wire" earlier this year. The minimal research I did into it before deciding I would (eventually) read it was definitely that Simon was (from accounts) given a lot of freedom.

I'm glad to see it here - reminds me I should get around to actually reading it here sometime soon.
Yes examples are about to be made of them unless they act soon. The real question is whether they can all find new jobs before they are "fired for cause" and can't collect unemployment.
I am not necessarily asking for thoughtcrime, if that's what you mean. Technology is ripe for benefits and abuse. It's all about the manner in which it is used. For example, can we use sensors and networking on mobile devices to create a distributed system to reliably detect traces of bomb chemicals in the air?
Totally agreed, but the fish sticks come out because dinner has to happen every single day, no matter what else has come up.

As an example, I take my kids camping a few times a year. I show them all kinds of things, like how to stake a tent, how to make a fire safely, etc.

If we had to do these things every single day just to cook and go to sleep, I suspect it would quickly devolve into running through the chores as quickly as possible while they stand to the side and poke at ant mounds with sticks.

We do make healthy quality meals and involve the kids with what we're doing, but this is certainly not an every night thing. Often, it's much easier to simply find a way to solve the problem and move on.
How do people feel about journalists (and others) using hacked information?
I am a Spaniard who lived in UK and I feel that this is the most sick aspect of British society. For them, every single man is a monster that will molest children if he has the opportunity.

Things like sitting on a bench to read next to the children's playground, or crossing a park next to them, can put you in trouble.
None of this seems to apply if you don't have children. I've never had this kind of stressful meal (on a recurring basis) with friends, housemates, colleagues, conference friends, customers or other work people, or significant others. Sure, maybe one-off unpleasant conversation or something ("we need to discuss the production outage which affected our site last week"), but not on a repeated basis.

Whether you cook from scratch, make some kind of prepared food or leftovers, have take-out/delivery, or go out to eat seems irrelevant by comparison.
I wasn't insinuating that everyone should make their own form handler; I was just agreeing that formspree is pretty good for what it is, and I haven't really felt the need to utilize another service (or reinvent the service and shove it to HN).

> I thought programmers -- especially when doing side-projects like this -- liked creating new things, thinking about newer ways of solving problems, or solving new problems.

I half-jokingly / half-seriously blame TodoMVC for a lot of this stuff; I don't really think a form-to-email redirector is the next TodoMVC-- but I would suggest that newish devs' first experiences are cookie-cutter assignments / tutorials for inventing the same damn thing over and over again.

I haven't seen a person solving a "new" or "interesting" problem at my local hackerspace in over a year; they're still arguing about what the best way to make a Todo app is.
paywall getaround link - https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
> Lift?

You asked if I've ever owned a residence. This sounded an awful lot to me like the classic trolly put-down "do you even lift?". See http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/do-you-even-lift. I don't care if you lift weights or if you've ever owned a residence; I just think your response to my comment was pointless and obnoxious. Try addressing the points in my argument instead of my (dubious?) credentials.
I'm not a computer programmer or scientist, but I work with a group of them. The argument I've heard them say - and I may well be misrepresenting it here - is that microservices are often used as a way to avoid getting better at parallel processing/programming. They're working on a huge amount of data processing using Go if that provides any context. I'd be curious what others think of this idea.
> You can’t really stand out because most of what you’re doing does not require original thinking. So the only way you can distinguish yourself is by sheer endurance.

Several years ago, when I was weighing junior roles in trading and banking, a private equity manager with whom I consulted advised: "nobody became a millionaire by being a grunt".

Hard work is important, but it shouldn't be your chief differentiator. On a broader level, I've always found firms that rely on over-working their junior staff to (a) have rotten pathways for internal advancement and (b) a sore bias towards throwing grunts, versus technology, at process problems.
You stated Java was #1 according to TIOBE a decade before Android was released. Android was released in 2008. Looking at the data it's clear your statement is incorrect. Furthermore, according to the TIOBE long term index, Java was #2 in 2005 and #3 in 2000.
Woz' and Isaacson are pretty damn credible. If someone attacked Bill Gates for being a "bully' or a "jerk" it really wouldn't wash for his humanitarian achievements from education, farming, immunizations, on ad infinitum would blow away any character criticisms.

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Who-We-Are/General-Informatio...

Steve Jobs' defenders on the other hand aren't bringing up many stellar character examples. This is a problem for a company that needs "demigod personality" as the face of their brand. Your milage may vary.

(Edit typos and grammar corrected)
That infographic at the end reeks of bullshit. I'm not completely certain, but I think it's similar to how comparisons of whatever new project methodology to the "waterfall model" reek.

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I thought the optimal state for learning was supposed to be "flow", where things are interesting and a bit challenging but not so hard that you're banging your head against the wall?

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I am not a people person. This doesn't mean I can't interact with people, or get better at interacting with people, but it does mean that it takes significantly more effort vs things I'm naturally better at / more interested in. This also doesn't mean I'm not good at interacting with people.

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The article makes it sound like she completely skipped publishing in a journal, and went straight to her popular-audience book. This can't be accurate, this series of posts[1] starts by arguing that her paper doesn't show what it claims to show.

[1] http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/05/07/growth-mindset-4-growth...
Why should we care how the science was applied?

'"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down
That's not my department," - says Wernher von Braun' - Tom Lehrer
Doesn't everyone in the tech and media sphere already know that the Social Network was heavily fraudulent? What point would there be for the Jobs' camp to point those out again, after they were pointed out for years?
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The provider of the content must knowingly give up control over their content in exchange for the client's attention. They can make suggestions as to how the content is presented, and in some cases, requirements, but overall, the client is in control.

Put another way, content may be king, but the client is the emperor.
I'm always kind of surprised when I encounter people that go purchase ingredients for nearly every meal. Then again, where I grew up, unless it was something like bread, milk, or eggs, going to the store meant driving half an hour. We had a chest freezer full of beef and broccoli and a a basement room full of jars of green beans and tomatoes. Not really a realistic option living in an apartment or a suburb with postage-stamp yards, I suppose

Lots of family time planting, weeding, picking and processing all those damned vegetables, though...
Sure it does. They're both complicated feats of engineering.
Where do you get that from? I don't really see that in the article. (And I bet many "upper middle class" families aren't exactly great about proper dinner together as well.)
Blue Apron has been a revelation for us in this regard. We went from rarely eating lousy food together to frequently eating great food together. Even when I try to recreate the meals on my own it's a hassle.

Also, something like this can really help:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/christinebyrne/clean-eating-2015
Thanks! That was good :)
whoops, thought context was important.
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Agreed; I'd also argue that web fonts shouldn't be blocked by default unless retrieval of them presents a privacy or tracking concern (unique source url, etc.).

In short, I don't disagree with what you've said at all. However, content providers must keep in mind that ultimately, they don't control how their content is presented or what part of it is displayed.
Have you lived in China ? It ain't as bad as all the articles make it out to be. I would not want to live there forever, but if I have to choose between the US and China for example, I'd choose China as a first destination anytime.
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There was a time in the 19th century where thin, spindly fonts where in vogue for printed books. They were later criticized by typographers and general readers for making books harder to read [1].

The web is experiencing a similar scenario where thin typefaces are being used for body type as it looks modern even though it's making body text less easy on the eyes. In small paragraphs I personally don't mind it, but many sites are now using it for long articles where it's not ideal.

[1] Daniel Updike's 'Printing Types, Their History, Forms, And Use; A Study In Survivals' is a great read.

Volume 1: https://archive.org/details/printingtypesthe01updi
Volume 2: https://archive.org/details/printingtypesthe02updi