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They are leveraging the Cross-Account access feature of the AWS Management console, which has been released early this year: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-cross-account-access-in...

> If you switch to ops-admin @ stage for example, and then go to the S3 page in the console,

> will you get a listing of all buckets in the stage AWS account even though your login

> session as calvin "belongs" to an other AWS account (segment)?

It should work like that, yes.
Your privileges will be "scoped" to the role you are assuming in the "stage" account.

> I can see how having separate AWS accounts for dev/stage/prod makes things easier.

It's also a good way of maintaining agility when you have multiple teams working in parallel on different projects (ex: 1 team = 1 AWS account).
Zalando has recently published a bunch of tools leveraging IAM to help manage multiple AWS accounts (ex: federated SSH access) : https://stups.io/
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I suspect Windows/Microsoft is capable of self-destruction, too. Remember Windows Mobile? It used to be the dominant OS on smartphones before the iPhone and Android came along.
>What annoys me is how Google is selling this project. At least Facebook is honest about their Instant Articles.
This isn't an "open standard" guys, and it's not about performance! It's about the single piece of js that's allowed on AMP pages and the amp-tags such as <amp-ad> and <amp-pixel> that only Google controls.

This is not a Google project.
I took part in the pilot program. We worked with the Sterile Processing Department and OR teams to develop small modifications to the medical device reprocessing process to reduce OR contamination events in a major trauma centre.
The program is only in its 4th year at the moment but traction and support is growing exponentially.
I pay for private treatment in the UK and recently had a new amalgam in a non-viewable area because I was told it was far better for the situation and would last longer. Otherwise I always have composites.

When I was a teenager, I accidentally swallowed a damaged mercury filling. Luckily I still seem to be alright :-)
Authored by Google, how surprising.

Also, I'm not familiar with the W3C process, but since this is a working draft, I'd assume they're invalid until the draft is finalized.
As far as I've read, all keyboards have full access, so they send all info and keystrokes back to their servers
Great post. It's interesting how "emotional attachment" can often create problems in any field of creativity and not just coding.

For Example, getting emotionally attached to a design, startup idea, ...

The most dangerous one is probably the startup idea. If you are too attached and unwilling to yield, you end up going nowhere.
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> they ran a new sewer pipe out to the municipal line as well. This part was pretty cool. Rather than digging up the whole yard, they just ran a 1/2" steel cable through the old masonry pipe, hooked it to a solid steel cone, and pulled the cone through with a hydraulic winch, trailing some pvc behind it. As it went, it busted apart the old pipe and put a new one its place.

A month ago near Paris I have seen that method used to replace water mains along a whole street - very impressive !
This kind of thing does leave renewables open to attack based on the "subsidy bad" line of thinking. The whole point of the incentives is to pay a fair price for a superior product that does not cause pollution and health damage. It is unreasonable to require a superior source of energy to actually be cheaper. In that sense nuclear/solar/wind are worth purseing even if they cost more than coal. The fact that renewables are so competitive is more a testament to how inefficient large fossil fuel power stations are.
It appears the article is referring to tholins[1], which are actually molecules containing nitrogen rather than atomic (or even diatomic) nitrogen.

Nitrogen atoms themselves are essentially always the same size, except when either a) more neutrons have been added to the core, creating a different isotope of nitrogen (in this case the atom is still very much the same size, just heavier) or b) electrons have been added/removed from the outer shells, creating a chemically differently-behaving ion.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tholin
This is so wrong it hurts. The cost of the "house" is the land. Building houses has never been cheaper. Just like everything else has never been cheaper.
It's interesting to see how simplistic these are at the moment
The license on the IOS GUI:
http://facebook.github.io/design/license.html

You can't use any of this in an actual application. So, I make a mock up and show it to someone and then my finished work has to be different from the mock up to avoid copyright infringement? In that situation, I would say I have intentionally defrauded my customer(/employer) and they should refuse to pay (or fire me) and win.

(More likely still, I use them anyway since a graphic artist has made the mock-up and I presume they created or correctly sourced the graphics.)
Ask HN: Best Nginx server log analyzer
Can anyone recommend something better than awstats and goaccess?
Perhaps also interesting: [1]

[1] http://www.ted.com/talks/aaron_o_connell_making_sense_of_a_v...
Again this is totally the wrong end of the stick. We have loose credit, that's what rentiers love. Credit is a claim on your labour and they can issue it with zero effort.

Sub-prime hurt the poor, since 2008 with QE we've seen the gap widen as more banker credit is created and flows into land prices.
From the point of view of providing preventive medicine and lowering overall healthcare costs, this is the right way. From the point of view of this info being used by insurance companies, not so good.
"India and China produced just about everything locally that the West could export"

Before I begin, let me say that "the West" is a very political term of the actual times and we were talking about the ancient times. Let's try to keep our heads lucid by avoiding sensitive topics, by avoiding blame casting (related to opium), and other such things. Now, pretty much every community in the ancient times "produced just about everything locally", at least everything they needed. Trade usually happens because of cultural differences (even when these differences are induced by other natural factors, like climate), and it just happened that the cultures in question (Roman, Indian, and Chinese) were different enough. Who were the usual consumers of the imported goods? Not the average Joes, mind you! They were the ones that: first - were open to appreciate foreign things for any reason (exotic tastes, cosmopolitan nature, etc.), and second - could afford to! You may assume here that for various reasons the Indian and Chinese high class could have been more closed and not so interested in foreign products, preferring only the good ol' local produced things, but I don't. I don't want to think that their nature was somehow lesser in this regard (because I like to consider human to be equals about that), and I prefer to assume that even if they wanted to, their collective potential that formed the market depth was not deep enough. India accepted the Roman gold. That's because Rome happened to have it (from its conquests, mostly), whereas India did not so much! A steep difference of their historical evolution that ultimately shaped their cultures and trade, you see? Another kind of cultural difference between Roman Empire and China shaped the trade between them. Who were the consumers of luxury goods in Roman Empire? Women, mostly! Did women in China have the same leeway in shopping spree? No! That's because unlike the women in the Roman Empire, which enjoyed equal social status with men, and many other things, women in ancient China bared a lower social status in comparison! So, another big cultural difference that heavily shaped the nature of commerce between Roman Empire and China. I'm glad to enlighten, thank you!
Swiftkey is great except it does not work at my iPhone. Before neural network enhancements, they should work on the basics.

https://www.google.com/search?q=swiftkey+iphone+issues

https://support.swiftkey.com/hc/en-us/articles/201310402-Why...
Does this mean that Monsanto's patents are also invalid?
The Weibuo quote in the article sums it up. Would you rather have your child go to Tsinghua or MIT? The fact is, MIT remains the most prestigious scientific and engineering school in the world, and number of published articles be damned.

Another metric not considered by USNWR is academic freedom. Can students and faculty at Tsinghua use Google? I don't think so. No Google Scholar, no Google Books, not even Search. How ridiculous. Without equal access to the Internet, a fair comparison is not possible. And what if a student published an article complaining about lack of access to some internet resources? End of career.

That said, this evaluation should be a wake up call to American educators that our formerly great academy has deteriorated, brought down by decades of decaying performance in K-12 and lack of energy and commitment in the universities, where many or most of the science and engineering graduate students are foreign born.
Yeah you get it. Worrying how bad HN is at economics.
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Works fine on Firefox/Linux (Xubuntu specifically)
I'm a chinese. I think most of what you said is right. The gov achieved a lot of success. At the same time, they made lots of mistakes and commited lots of crimes.
This is a simple implementation of Variant Symlinks similar to the ones found on FreeBSD. It uses an environment variable, in this case PQ_CURRENT_CHASSIS, to resolve the symlink.

This allows for a single global symlink, that will resolve differently depending on the value of the environment variable set when the process starts.

At the moment the environment variable has been hard coded, as its for another project, but I do intend to update the code later to support custom environment variables in the symlink.

I would be glad to receive any feed back, anything at all. Thanks :)
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I wonder what sort of input Vox, as a publishing partner, has had on the development of AMP.

Loading the article in your validator reference shows me 80 some requests returning from 48(!) unique sources.
I tried Facebook's 'Like' replacement and it stressed me out
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>Those who are not willing to make the sacrifice probably don't really believe in the vision and thus probably aren't the right people to help you get out of the rut.

Sorry, but this is a bit ridiculous. You could make the same counter-argument from the employees perspective as well.

"If my company isn't willing to sacrifice to pay my current market worth, then they don't really believe in me as an employee"

Is this company going to pay an extra 20% when things start going well again to make up the difference lost?

When you sign on for a job/salary you shouldn't feel bad for leaving if the company can't hold up their end of the bargain. If you only worked at 75% of the capacity they thought you were going to, you'll most likely be fired.
Though the logics are similar, the human effort is more in the developing of the tools to sequence DNA, the DNA itself has always existed. With software, the problem might always have existed but a solution needs to be developed independently.
The underlying problem is that insurance companies are allowed to segment their customer base by risk. For low risk customers this is great because they get a cheap rate. For the companies it's great because they get to advertise a cheap rate and attract customers (and run really lean administratively... don't need a lot of claims handlers etc).

Things go off the rails though for customers perceived as high risk. Grouping all these folks together means a higher rate, possibly quite a bit higher.

The use of prior claim history as a risk measurement seems like a very cheap way to do underwriting. This feeds into being able to offer the cheapest offering... no need for experienced and qualified underwriters... which means a cheaper product.

The original goal of insurance, shared risked, has been somewhat eroded by this.
And now imagine somebody steals all this juicy, centralized, enormously-sized biometric database.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/10/stealing_fing...
I didn't say that.

This is one of the cases where you're screwed and need to remediate. Typical household hazmat issues are stuff like lead paint, asbestos, etc. All of which can be stabilized (for example, you can encapsulate lead paint and personally dispose of asbestos in municipal trash) without shelling out money you don't have on remediation services that are often ineffective, and also make it clear that you were aware of the issue.

In this case for example, every neighbor saw the clean harbors guys in spacesuits at his house. When he sells the house a decade from now and the new owner finding more Mercury somewhere, the old lady across the street will tell the new owners, and this person may be sued, even though he nearly bankrupted himself on cleanup. So whenever you can maintain ignorance, you should.
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It is only natural that the place with the most engineering jobs (China), the most engineering schools (China), ultimately produces a world class elite engineering school.

But why does news like this make China a "house of cards"?

You seem to have had some experience there. I wish you would tell your full story.
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if you run a whois on ampproject.org, the results clearly indicate it's owned by google.

Registrant ID:mmr-87489

Registrant Name:DNS Admin

Registrant Organization:Google Inc.

Registrant Street: 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway

Registrant City:Mountain View

Registrant State/Province:CA

Registrant Postal Code:94043

Registrant Country:US

Registrant Phone:+1.6502530000

Registrant Phone Ext:

Registrant Fax: +1.6502530001

Registrant Fax Ext:

Registrant Email:dns-admin@google.com

The tech lead of the project is Malte Ubl who by their twitter page : @cramforce indicates that "I make www internet web pages for Google. "

Unless it's a 20% off time project (or a side project of some kind), I can't understand why you say it's not a Google project if it's being funded by google and made by a google employee.
Looks like it is https://googleblog.blogspot.dk/2015/10/introducing-accelerat...
My main gripe with this is they didn't include the two main reactions I have to Facebook posts: cringe and gulag.
xdg-open chainloads a desktop-environment specific loader if available, and only if not, uses a heuristic to determine what program to load. Currently it supports three different loaders for various KDE versions, two Gnome loaders (one of which is shared with Mate, which also has its own loader supported), and one for each Xfce, LXDE and Enlightenment.

If none of those are found, xdg-mime will be used. Relying on xdg-open to work sanely across desktops, much less across distributions, is… optimistic at best.
Different people are vulnerable to different things. There are different kinds of scams, targeting (among other things) desperation, greed, loneliness, insecurity, and even altruism. No one is 100% rational 100% of the time.
> These protections apply not only to your devices, but to online services that store your data.

I assume this is referring to giving a warrant to the company holding my data for me. I would like this to go a step beyond that and require law enforcement to sign a warrant that it presents to me, since it's my data.
It's a pop culture joke among those who are regular internet users. There are a whole bunch of people who use the internet infrequently and don't hear or know about these scams.
The fakest of them all: Casino de Monte-Carlo (Monaco)
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Pop culture joke? Among the young, maybe. Perhaps not among the elderly.
In one study by the US Small Business Administration, they looked at 2007-2009 (to understand economic activity during the height of the Great Recession) and noted 42% of companies that file 15 or more patents over the two-year period had 500 employees or less (which is, to them, a small to medium business).

https://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/rs411tot.pdf
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"To live is to war with trolls."
I have only experienced it once in my life, so I consider people who feel it regularly to be pretty lucky. I would love to have more motivation and reward in exercise. As it stands exercise is a tedious chore for me.
Homeowners insurance is supposed to cover general risk. But over the years they have become increasingly aggressive at lobbying state insurance commissions to accept more and more exclusions to standard policies. This behavior correlates with a shift from mutually owned companies to corporate entities.

They are scum because they happily collect their premium, and actively undercut the costs of the policies to maintain profitability in the short term. They also screw with people for claims they owe. In a case I'm aware of near my home, the insurance company low balled a fire claim by 30% for quick settlement, forcing the homeowner to roll the dice in arbitration.
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Being rich does not guarantee that you will have a good life anywhere. There are numerous other things you have to consider.
Yes a rich man can buy a big land for himself and build a wall to keep the beggars outside. He can even move to the countryside and never go out or use a private jets / helicopters.

The thing is that China is a home for a lot of people and is too polluted and crowded because of wealth distribution. If people do not care about the environment, intellectual property and a countless of other things then being rich and filthy rich are too different things.

A wealthy man can walk the streets of european/american cities without worrying too much about its health or not having a space for himself without guards. Do not forget that european / us cities are dwarves compared to Asia in general.

The movie Elysium is a good picture (maybe too exaggerated but hey) of people being wealthy in China.

Yes you can have a good life in a golden cage but it's still a cage.
I admire your optimism :-) but I'm not 100% sure that is true. If there wasn't a political drive behind this, wouldn't it have been easier to burn coal for the next 100 years?
Ok but that still shows how much Google cares about open standards.

And did you just say "few tens of millions" of users is insignificant? How many users are we here on Hacker News again?
You should start by reading the stuff that xe has already written:

* http://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2015/09/05/0/

* http://uselessd.darknedgy.net/ProSystemdAntiSystemd/

Another persons writings to read, for similar reasons, is Ian Sutton, who is the bloke who did SystemBSD:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10176275
Isn't that because according to some in the Senate the Internet is just a series of pipes? Wish I was saying this mode in jest.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes
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Not sure whether you're just using the term incorrectly, but I see this claim repeated a lot so forgive me for explaining: you do not need baseline power.

Baseline power is the observation that if we have less than ideal power plants that need to run 24/7 to be economical (usually because of high capital costs, e.g. nuclear plants), we can still deploy them if we then also invest in other plants for filling in the peaks.

See, the important part here is that you always need to meet demand (maybe you can shift demand around a bit, but after shifting it the observation still holds).

If you have baseline plants, your supply curve is a flat line so the peaks in the demand are the holes you need to fill in somehow.

With a renewable source like wind or solar, you may actually be able to meet the peak demand, but then have a hole in the supply at some other point (say at night, or when there's no wind). So you need to fill in these somehow (as you say).
That most people just print ready-made trinkets from Thingiverse that they don't really need is hardly an issue with the machines. Most useful things around us made of plastic can be done on a 500 USD FDM 3d-printer (which is a lot of stuff).

I've fixed our commercial (China quality) lasercutter using parts made on a cheap FDM 3d-printer. Fixed powertools like drills and drill-presses. Replaced parts on my bicycle. Made functional scissors, and a haircomb that I needed when no shop was open.

The issues are that for commodity items, in the first world, it is quicker to just buy them (if we don't have them already). They will also be prettier.
Or if it is a custom item, one has to actually design&test, which is something that requires CAD skills and some hours of work. Teaching this will take some time.

Most people just watch kitten-videos and play Farmville using their Internet-enabled devices. Does not mean the devices are low-quality and cannot be used for useful things.
I'd imagine so - space filling curves are good for indexing multidimensional data like geospatial information, so the name is pretty telling.
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There's a weird bug - when I click it to go fullscreen it does for a second, but then it reverts to just the left side of the screen.

[EDIT] - screenshot of bug: http://imgur.com/kXoMtvM [/EDIT]
Why do people fall for the "work for a startup and get rich" scam?
Thanks for commenting. I hope you did not get from my comment above that I have a negative opinion about chinese people in general.

It's quiet the opposite in fact. People of China have achieved a lot but I am afraid too many of chinese people had to and still have to suffer and distribution of wealth in China is worse than in the other parts of the earth.
For nuclear:

> A new 3,260 MW Hinkley Point C nuclear power station was given planning consent on 19 March 2013.[10] A guaranteed "strike price" of £92.50 per megawatt-hour (to be indexed for inflation over 45 years) was announced on 21 October 2013. The new power station would see Hinkley's contribution to the country's power supply rise to 7%.[9] At the time of the planning consent, the price for electric energy on the wholesale market was around £45 per megawatt-hour while the new power plant was expected to need earnings of £90 per megawatt-hour in order to break even.[11]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinkley_Point_B_Nuclear_Power_...
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Interesting that a lot of data was stolen by call centre workers. Shows one of the perils of outsourcing abroad to incredibly impoverished countries.
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You can check out his website, it has crazy detailed info about his earnings. I kinda feel like a creeper just looking at it. :/
Here's a screenshot of the interview from the German paper.

http://i.imgur.com/5tvoJUg.png

https://global.handelsblatt.com/edition/271/ressort/companie...
Lawyer or no, I would be surprised to find that an HOA couldn't force an owner to re-caulk a bathroom. What's the purpose of all those damn inspections if not to discover and fix this sort of problem?
That's a really awesome website. I hope you don't mind me looking around. The fact that you guys donate nearly 50% of your income (at that income level) is amazing to me and really awe inspiring.