skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your questions prompted a bit of curious research on what you're pursuing.

Your post history is very rewarding to pour over, and I'm glad I did. You definitely should publish a book and set the record straight once and for all. I think it would bring you a lot of closure. And you should make more noise about the mathematical models you've developed so you get more recognition.

I really hope this search/probability venture of yours pans out, and I'm quite interested to learn more about it. In fact, I'd feel very privileged if I could hitchhike along for a while as a curious passerby - not directly involved, more just observing and learning.

I did a little digging, but I can't be certain since you're rather good at the anonymity thing - is this your current email address? Obfuscated for privacy:

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I think the best thing that would answer your questions would be direct testing, both for the experience of trying out a bunch of different hardware, and also to work out how to get the best bang for your buck with the workload you're using. Throwing your existing code on various different S3 configurations would probably be your best bet to start with.

On hardware, though, Xeon processors incorporate extra instructions appropriate to high-performance computing, whereas desktop/consumer-class CPUs include hardware acceleration and chipset support for theft prevention, basic media acceleration, wireless projector connectivity, etc.

In a server environment, workloads tend to need scalability more than processor power - it's generally significantly faster to run 100 tasks in parallel on slow hardware than in sequence on fast hardware. A desktop context is usually the opposite though - running a small number of applications, each of which generally needs to run as quickly as possible so the system feels snappy.

It also generally boils down to manufacturing. You don't get 24-core desktop-oriented i7 chips yet, because you can't yet pack 24 4GHz+ cores into a CPU die.

Oh, and that datacenter you mentioned, with dual 10GbE - is that $30k a month, or more?
They don't use semver, and their versioning scheme precedes semver.
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That seems to be the point of modern propaganda. It's no longer about trying to convince people of what to believe in. Instead, the idea is to throw out multiple competing ideas no matter how far fetched to breed cynicism and conspiracy theories.

I tend to read RT.com from time to time when Russia is featuring in the news to see what the Russian media is saying. And I have to confess the barrage of conflicting information (vis a vis western media) is extremely disorienting and difficult to methodically process. I'm not surprised that some people feel the way that you do.

What I would also add is it's interesting to note how the story is pretty consistent from western media (that rebels shot down the plane by mistake). From what I've seen, the Russian media perspective is highly fluid; i.e. prone to change and multi-pronged.
Maybe... Anyway, it's an interesting question to be answered. If hardening technics could be improved significantly, it'd mean we could use incredible faster and cheaper hardware.
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Well, you shouldn't really trust any information without considering cui bono, etc. The media sell eyeballs. And so on.

In the present case -- there seems to be a theme in comments from security experts in the democratic countries. They claim that muddying the waters, so no one is trusted, is the real target of Russia's alternate history.

If all cats are grey and everyone lies -- then military invasions and stealing areas wasn't as bad, relatively. It is all just a matter of opinion.

So give the modern propaganda engine a hat tip for evil competence.

Edit: What "reqres" wrote, in the same minute. It was interesting about the propanda. I would like to add to his comment that I've seldom seen so many sources in democratic countries be so consistent as about the Ukraine war, in so many countries and from so many viewpoints.
Probably depends on who needs it. With almost no revenues, then it makes monetization only possible through enriching some platform. Maybe other major distro vendors will look at Chef, Puppet and Salt now and find them more expensive.

Here is the financial disclosure from RedHat. NOTICE THE FIRST SENTENCE.

The acquisition is expected to have no material impact to Red Hat's revenue for the third and fourth quarters of its fiscal year ending Feb. 29, 2016 (“fiscal 2016”). Management expects that non-GAAP operating expenses for fiscal 2016 will increase by approximately $2.0 million, or ($0.01) per share, in the third quarter and approximately $4.0 million, or ($0.02) per share, in the fourth quarter as a result of the transaction. Red Hat calculates non-GAAP operating expense by subtracting from GAAP operating expense the estimated impact of non-cash share-based compensation expense, which for fiscal 2016 is expected to increase by approximately $1 million for each of the third and fourth quarters, and amortization of intangible assets, which for fiscal 2016 is expected to increase by approximately $1 million for each of the third and fourth quarters, in addition to transaction costs related to business combinations, which are expected to increase by approximately $1 million in the third quarter. Management expects GAAP operating expense to increase for fiscal 2016 by approximately $5 million, or ($0.02) per share, in the third quarter and approximately $6 million, or ($0.02) per share, in the fourth quarter as a result of the transaction. Excluding the operating expense impact as noted above to GAAP and non-GAAP operating margin and GAAP and non-GAAP earnings per share, Red Hat is otherwise re-affirming its fiscal 2016 third quarter and full year guidance provided in its Sept. 21, 2015, earnings press release.
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It is official now https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-acqui...
Hollywood has known what to do when they're selling shit for years: crank up the marketing to get as many people buying tickets as possible before word gets out that the film sucks.

As a result the costs of films go way up to the degree that we're pretty much stuck with Oscar bait tragic dramas or the same lukewarm franchises we've had shoved down our throats before we were old enough to chew.
Is this the same missile that was launched from a mobile carrier that arrived from across the Russian border and then days later was driven back across the border?

Putin is extremely manipulative and dangerous. Like a Kim Jong-un without anyone like China to tell him "no".

I'm surprised no-one points out he is basically on the third term of what should be a two term limit. That alone removes all legitimacy from his rule.
> worldview that it was women's "essential role in life to do laundry.

Of course that view would be wrong. But that doesn't negate the fact that laundray was usually done by women, was an important job to do, and was hugely time consuming. There is nothing intrinsically wrong with spending your life doing house work, it is just bad that women were denied other oppurunities.

Modern tech means that you can live alone and have a clean house, clean clothes, and regular meals without needing a servant.
In your example MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH they actually only increased PATCH, Apache 2.4.0 was released in early 2012.
a great example of this is the 'hoverboard', the segway without a handle. These were designed and built by chinese factories and right now are being pumped out by a variety of factories with no clear owner or license holder and nobody cares, they are bought, re-branded and re-sold all over the world and due to the nature of the ownership issue retail price is dropping all the time.
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That particular drone, the Watchkeeper, has a not-so-illustrious background:

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2015/10/02/boxed-up-ba...
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Blade Runner is one of my favorite movies, but it has some serious problems, almost all of which are due to it being based on a Philip K. Dick novel.
I spent a few years with a major player in the diagnostics business. I worked directly on their automated ELISA machines.

When I was there in the 1990s, they already had spent a decade or so of R&D on microfluidic technology. They saw it as a hockey stick, but the technical hurdles were (and continued to be) very large.

The idea that one very talented scientist could find a novel solution that this company, with dozens of dedicated biochemists, could not find is plausible. But I believe the reality is somewhat different.
Could you perhaps elaborate a little on this?

Because from the article:

> Mr Justice Ouseley declared that taximeters do not operate in the same way as the app as they do not depend on GPS signals or include the app's other new-tech characteristics to calculate fares.

How is this a sensible remark? The app functions in exactly the same way as a taximeter, only the implementation is different.
This law is a disgrace for the german government, especially for those politicians that were caught reversing their stance on this.

Once again, the constitutional court is the only hope.

However, even without data retention laws in place, mobile carriers were already keeping records for months (violating data protection laws that call for minimal data retention) for "accounting purposes" even for customers that pay a flat fee.

The german "Datenschutzbeauftragte" have some work to do.
There are quite a few people on reddit doing direct business
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Well, one killed intentionally from 150k up to 600k people [0], the other one (if it was "him" and if it was intentionally) some 300.

So not really the same category...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War

To be more specific: I don't see any of the features prcolaimed by the West (honest government, no interference in other country's business, avoid civilian kills) upheld by themselves.

Also to note, I don't think Putin does it either.
If you read wikipedia etc, there seems to be a consensus that the Bush administration really believed that Saddam Hussein's Iraq still had the weapon programs going.

Personally, I think that with all the leaks it would be known if Bush lied. For instance, some Russian source published death and maiming data for the Ukrainian war by mistake [regarding costs for pensions etc].

No one is saying that politicians don't lie. But there are levels in Hell. There is, in these two cases, a big difference between the incompetence of the Bush administration and systematic disinformation.

But I suspect you know this already...

Edit: It is also a bit much to make the US responsible for civilians killed by people also trying to kill American soldiers. To start with, you need to subtract all the people the Hussein regime would have murdered over the years, if it hadn't been kicked out.

Edit 2: 3princip: The WMD thing was probably an excuse for Bush, sure. But I answered the claim that this WMD excuse was a LIE -- which seems to not be true. So it is you that miss the point. (And this is a serious place so give serious references, not some generic youtube video.)
Actually, I kind of liked that idea, that they did march through the nightclub, etc. I mean, the rest of the movie was rather trite (though not the worst I've encountered), trying to imagine life on the train was one of the best parts for me.
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I'm looking for a javascript library that can do operations on bezier curves. For instance: path intersection, path union, path grow/shrink, path rounding, applying calligraphic pens to paths, etc. (basically all the operations found in vector graphics tools).
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I've seen them last week, didn't get a chance to try out yet though. Looks scary without the handle, but the less rational half of me wants to buy one on the spot.
Separate process are monads! They just might not call them that. ;)
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Just being able to have your tool know the list of servers, and their roles makes it worth it.

I did a fair bit of work based on the OpenStack tripleO project, which suffered from the OpenStack NIH syndrome. They could not agree on a CM tool, and wrote it in bash. Never, ever, ever again. Trying to cluster RabbitMQ / Percona across 3 different machines, via bash is an abomination, whereas in Ansible / Salt etc. it is pretty easy :)
Goodbye personal computer, hello social computer? No, thank you.
You're not cynical, you're being realistic...
Most shell commands are actually "declarative" in a sense.

If you run "apt-get -y install foo" that means that you want "foo" to be installed. If it's already installed, it just does nothing.

In Ansible, you'd use "apt: name=foo state=present" which does exactly the same thing as the apt-get command, but requires a web search to figure out how to write (assuming you know normal Linux system usage but haven't memorized Ansible).

The only differences seem to be that Ansible tells you whether the command made a change or not, and that you can parse the Ansible configuration with an external tool (assuming there are no loops/variable/etc.), but both of these things don't really seem that useful in practice.
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I think the best way to learn about what is good or not is through the opinions of people you respect or agree with enough to take their word for it.

Centralized example: Yahtzee Croshaw of the Zero Punctuation video game reviews eschews any semblance of a ratings system because it's a little absurd to boil down a complex opinion into a number. Watch a review and get a sense of whether you'd like the game or not.

Decentralized example: plug.dj (before it went down. Dubtract.fm kinda sucks) let users get in line to play one song for a room. Some rooms can have you waiting 3 hours to play one song so if you're gonna wait that long you're gonna play a banger.

Yeah it's more effort than a numeric ratings system but you get what you pay for with your time.
A better title would probably be: with OPTIONAL http2 support.
doing a gravity assist at jupiter means you either have radiation hardening or you're cooked.
If you look at those appliances, they all basically take one relatively narrow and labor-intensive household task and either automate it or reduce the amount of labor involved.

I'd argue that one area of invention that has continued is essentially outsourcing home tasks in areas like food prep rather than creating new appliances to do them in the house.

More broadly though, if you think about where time is now spent on housework, it's a lot of generalized cleaning, straightening up, and putting things away that don't lend themselves well to the types of simple, repeated tasks that machines are good at handling.

Arguably automated vacuuming is the closest thing which is handled to some degree--depending on the environment--with Roomba's etc. But it's hard to imagine the automation that takes clothes from a basket, washes and dries them, and then folds and hangs them even if one assumes that the workflow can be adjusted to better fit with automation.
Did you actually have a need for those products before hearing about them?

I find myself very often in the situation were I hear/learn about a new cool thing, and I want it absolutely right now (The last example was a colleague bringing an Oculus to work, I almost ordered one the spot)

However, I try to wait a bit before actually buying anything big (like one/two weeks), and I find that most of the time I don't actually need/care about the product I was so hyped about.

This is one of the part that annoy me the most about advertising, especially if it is well targeted : It creates a new need and offers (sells) its solution, more than it helps me to fulfill a real need.
Its fascinating that Holmes has made a successful career after dropping out less than two years at Stanford, while there's a glut of biomedical researchers, and people with actual (graduate) degrees (from much less prestigious institutions than Stanford) have trouble getting jobs in the field.
I love the table in the hardware section.
What damage do you think would've happened? I am honestly confused as to why people are so afraid of a fork.

If there is a fork, it just means that people have to decide which branch they believe in. They might even get different names. If you have coins on both forks, you can spend both coins.

In practice, the total market cap of the two forks should approximate the market cap of the original, which means your coins didn't lose any value. And in practice, whichever fork has more mindshare will probably win, not because of any technical reason, but because that's the one people are paying attention to so that's the one that seems safer to mine on.

Heck, if there really were a long-lived fork, people could just require people who want to spend pre-fork coins to send the coins on both forks before they consider the bill "paid".

How bad exactly do you think it could've gotten, in the worst case scenario? To me, the beauty of Bitcoin is that the worst case scenario just isn't that bad.
I did some training at our last Mozilla workweek that covered the major areas of Servo and had some simple exercises to get you started in each of them:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9-EBhw4XiWEOWFfc0NiUkk5Tjg...

Servo has polyrepo style (many separate source repositories), as opposed to the monorepo style of other browsers. So, it's not just the `components` directory, but many of the ~140 other Cargo crates (https://crates.io/) and raw GitHub packages that come together to form Servo. I have a "deliverable" for Q4 to improve our documentation situation and explain how it all is put together, though this gist is an awesome start!
In the setup described here, all the roads have infinite throughput. There's no level of traffic at which they stop working altogether; you can push as many cars per unit time through either network, and that many cars per unit time will come out the other side. But, as with many kinds of system, you may pay a heavy price in latency if you insist on getting lots of bandwidth.

But there's something right in what you say. When you add the extra road you make travel time worse at low usage and better at high usage.

Suppose your network has an upper path with cost for x cars 1 on the left and x on the right, and a lower path with cost x on the left and 1 on the right, and the optional vertical road is free at any capacity. Then, if I've done the calculations right, average travel time with t cars is 1+t/2 without the extra road, and min(2,2t) with. So at t=1, which is the case usually used to demonstrate the paradox, the extra road increases the travel time from 1.5 to 2, but beyond that point increased traffic is free for the enlarged network but not for the original one. So, e.g., if t=10 then the extra road makes things 3x faster. The crossover point is at t=2, where both networks have average travel time 2.

So the extra road is a win if you expect t >= 2, and a loss if you expect t <= 2.

(If we measure throughput as "max traffic with such-and-such a limit to average travel time", then if the limit is <= 2 then both have finite throughput and the one with the extra road is worse, but if the limit is >= 2 then the network with the extra road has infinite bandwidth.)
> The problem with the movie industry is that they are so self absorbed that they think people owe them a decent living. But in reality they're a luxury.

Another way to look at that, is that when I afford myself a luxury, I want to be treated well. Today, when I go to the cinema, I am treated like a potential criminal - I am spoonfed threats about being prosecuted for piracy if I take a photo of the cinema screen with my mobile phone camera and I am spoonfed 20-30 minutes of advertising before the movie I paid to see. None of that gives me a sense of "luxury", but rather a pretty seedy feeling of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
So the next Friday, I light a scented candle, pour a cognac, put some brillat savarin on the table and turn on Netflix's latest series.
Now, that's luxury.
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Filed issues related to crypto: https://github.com/RoxasShadow/EDB/issues/created_by/dchest
That study has many flaws especially in self selection:

http://othersociologist.com/2015/04/16/myth-about-women-in-s...
Adam Curtis, a documentary film-maker and journalist, has a brilliant aptitude at analysis in this area. His work in general, at the intersection of reporting and politics, is pretty excellent.

It is some malice, more than you might expect; with with a great dollop of ineptitude, far more than you might expect; that allows this climate of total disorientation to exist.

Take some of his thoughts:

> "Politicians used to have the confidence to tell us stories that made sense of the chaos of world events.

> "But now there are no big stories and politicians react randomly to every new crisis - leaving us bewildered and disorientated.

> "And journalism - that used to tell a grand, unfurling narrative - now also just relays disjointed and often wildly contradictory fragments of information.

> "Events come and go like waves of a fever. We - and the journalists - live in a state of continual delirium, constantly waiting for the next news event to loom out of the fog - and then disappear again, unexplained."

The rest of that article is here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/ae14be85-3104-...

And the documentary-film that he's referring to in that post, Bitter Lake, is available on iPlayer (for British viewers...or people on a VPN...), here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p02gyz6b/adam-curtis-bi...