skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you host your own servers or even PaaS wherever, and you don't have an API and automation framework then yes - you will see benefits from having those things provided to you. If you already have these things and you're not spending a lot of time to make sure they continue to exist then you have a lot more freedom than locking into the tools that your 'cloud' provider has given you.
There is no guarantee this device will remove debris from the airway.

That's somewhat of a "duh!" but I guess it's there just for legal reasons.
One of the core contributors here. I don't have any numbers, but I can reasonably guess it'll only beat the most naive JITs (i.e., JITs that only copy predefined templates that implement each instruction). Avian's JIT does no optimizations beyond a simple linear-time register allocator and a very basic instruction selector. Avian can run a simple Hello World somewhat faster than HotSpot, but that's about all. In any real-world scenarios, HotSpot and Dalvik/ART will kick the pants off it.

However, that's not what Avian is designed for. We (ReadyTalk) don't have the resources to compete in that sort of market, as fun as that might be. We designed Avian to run a relatively light-weight client application, so we can deploy the same code across all our platforms. We're not running a game or a server, so we don't care a lot frame rate or requests per second.
I use this. Works very well. It is simple enough I'd encourage building it in to the site though.
If you're supporting your retired parents that's a strong signal of a big failure at a societal level.
If I could live and not have a job, I wouldn't have a job. I could do my art and enjoy my life and the economy would crumble while everyone else watches Netflix.
can't it just live on the sender's device until the receiver is online? think about sending an iMessage on the subway... "undelivered" doesn't mean that your message is sitting on Apple servers somewhere. it means it's still on your phone and you can try sending it again when you have a better uplink.
If you're just replacing hardware, yeah, cost isn't an advantage. Because you still have your datacenter (or not enough hardware to have ever required one), you still have your IT department (or not enough systems to have ever required one), you still have to have your devops team (or not enough software/instances to have ever require one), etc.

The advantage of a lot of these is that you don't need any of that. You can have just a dev team, nothing else, and be up and running at any scale. At that point cost comparisons may come out in favor of a cloud solution (or at any rate are so close that the tradeoffs become acceptable, hence their popularity)
Well, they'd better hire the right people to be below them!
The instruction diagram is great:

https://lifevac.net/wp-content/uploads/easy-as-place-push-pu...

...just like unclogging a toilet with a plunger!
I disagree. That's why you have children.
I really would not want my children to have to plan to support me.
Will have to keep this in mind as our company contemplates BigQuery.
What seems "stupid" is to underestimate the impact that pulling the right emotional triggers -- as this article purports Madame Walker did -- has on building a successful business.
So candy and booze, sounds like a wild ride. ;-)
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Stuff that matters: Family, health.

Everything else pales in comparison to that and if you are 'working on stuff that matters' don't forget those two, they really should come first.
This is interesting, but there are so many things that can be at work that I'm not sure how much you can draw from this. For one, boards may elect CEOs that are good for what they need at that moment - when a company needs to handle a large merger, they may choose someone with experience in doing that for that industry and their talents may never be fully utilized after that. And a CEOs performance isn't likely to be homogeneous over time either - they may get better or worse over time. I guess your basic problem is that CEOs aren't selected by a random process. So if a board of directors always did a good job choosing the right CEO, why would you expect there to be big, statistical differences anyway?

I'm not also terribly clear on what sort of strength of effect the authors are looking for. A lot of people work for a company, are they trying to attribute all of a company's earnings to a single person? Or are they looking for a difference that is not very proportionate to what CEOs actually do.

I should also point out that "could be due to chance" isn't in itself very interesting. That means that with the methods and data the authors happened to use, they didn't happen to find a statistically significant effect, and while that could be because they don't have an effect it could also be that the tools used to look for one were simply not up to par.

That said, it's my understanding (and some experience) that the upper echelons of a lot of companies can be... a bit incestuous, cliquey, who-you-happen-to-know.
One unique thing about Google Cloud is that most managed services like Load Balancer, PubSub, Datastore, BigQuery etc do not charge you for variability and high-availability. AWS and Azure WILL charge you 10x to scale up and another 3x for redundancy. Because Google's managed services are often based on Google's internal stack, they just scale. Good luck scaling Kafka to millions of messages per second - with PubSub you get it out of the box. PubSub, BigQuery, and others are geographically high-available out of the box. These things are difficult to replace on EC2, and nearly impossible on players like Digital Ocean.

Edit: BigQuery, for example, allows you to rent 10,000 cores for 5 seconds at a time. This type of stuff is impossible to do with VMs at all.
The next country? I'd bet good money against that proposition.
You can see dead things on HN if you turn on "showdead" in your account settings.
> when you could really live on half that.

Or even substantially less than half of that.
Then why is the CEO the highest paid person ?
Agreed. Also from personal observation, they prefer young, tender saplings, though they do seem to do some sort of tradeoff calculus based on size of tree/distance to water (i.e., they'll take a bigger tree if it's right by the water, so they don't have to drag it as far).

Given their choice, they appear to prefer two or three inch saplings, but I've seen them take six inchers if they happen to be right on the shore.

The OP is right, though, that beavers do serve an important function in the ecological succession between from stream->pond->bog->meadow->forest.
surprise ratio: 0%

its very RARE that CEOs make the company succeed or fail. some do, either way, from time to time, of course.

most are just here gathering money and 'n attempting to figure out what their job is all about.
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I am very thankful for the Cloud2Butt extension when stories like this appear.
If you start doing this, think long and hard about your architecture choices.
If I read it correctly, in all of the case studies referenced in the article, the basic income provided was exogenous. That is, the basic income going to the villagers, was not coming from the villagers. So it's not surprising that everyone got chummy when the money flowed in. However a complete picture would show how the people paying felt about it.
My mother choked on a piece of steak in a restaurant when I was a child. I didn't know what was going on. She was completely silent.

Someone gave her the Heimlich maneuver and it worked. Good thing to learn.
In the studies mentioned, were immigrants able to move into the areas receiving UBI and avail themselves of those funds? It doesn't appear so. What difference might that have made? And wouldn't that have made them more realistic experiments? (Were the experiments specifically designed to produce positive outcomes?) Can the experiments even be considered to have been about UBI? What does giving money to a small group and finding it makes them happy have to do with the likely outcome of a state-level wealth distribution scheme? Doesn't receiving money for nothing make everyone happier and more trusting?
What lock-in? I'm deploying standards-based applications to standards-compliant platforms. Cloud services are simply saving us heaps of time & money. There's no loss of freedom, far from it; the disposability of cloud infrastructure provides enormous opportunity for adaptation and change.

In 100% of my experience to date, "cloud lock-in" is a myth trotted out by server huggers and hardware salesmen. Some SaaS providers may be data prisons, sure, but that's a different conversation.

If the economics of establishing and operating off-cloud resources ever made sense for us, we'd go for it, but it looks increasingly unlikely.
Totally agree. Is there any other good writing on this topic. Most of what I find is usually about how to pitch, but there is typically very little about how to select investors.
Solid, Thanks for the share
A very cool paper, esp how they are able to improve other algorithms. Each of those could have been a paper by themselves.
At the risk of sounding glib, they're paid the most because they're the best at convincing people who control money to pay them. Also, in no small part, because in most cases the people who control the money have little or no incentive to care what happens to it, and therefore are subject to every kind of conflict of interest and cognitive bias known to man.
Where does that "do not initiate force" thing comes from? I'm all fine with it if you can show me a system that would work without it. "Do not initiate force" means "do not punish defectors", "do not enforce coordination", means cancer. Seriously. Every human and animal society has members "initiating force" against people who defect, and that's what keeps those groups together. Even cells in your body often initiate force against ones that grow at the expense of everyone else, or intruders who risk destabilizing the system. We have a specialized branch of cells, called "immune system", that could be considered the police arm of the "government" of your brain.

It seems to me like you believe governments are aliens from outer space that land their alien militaries and alien parliment buildings on our planet and start doing the governing. Governments are actors created within the system; if they're extempt from anything, they're extempt from it by our own design. Like, you know, instead of everyone keeping everyone else under MAD stalemate, some time ago people agreed they'll let one group monopolize the violence, and it worked out for the better for everyone, and that group is by definition extempt from "no violence" rule.

> I am not against a formalized set of rules and governance, I am for it. You are the one who seems to be against it since you are for an actor that does not abide by those rules and governance, namely the government.

I honestly feel like you're trolling me at this point.
That is probably my favorite feature of reddit.
Why can it not be the story of individual failure? It is not for no reason the fable of the Ant & the Grasshopper is a staple of western civilization. When corporations are bailed out for their poor decisions, it is reviled as moral hazard and considered to set a precedent of rewarding reckless behavior. Why not apply the same standards to individuals?
I work on BigQuery. I am a little biased, but "canceled product" is FUD, especially for paid services at Google. Especially for BigQuery, which has no equal.

Feel free to ping me if you want more info :)
I wouldn't go so far as to say the fear of being downvoted leads to groupthink.

I mean, why would you care if someone disagrees with your comment? That really wouldn't lead you to self-censor.

Unless you had something important at stake, like reputation, which would only happen if your handle on here was linked to your real life name.
I've worked for many companies large and small, and many CEOs in that time. There's not a single one of them I respected, at the time or upon reflection. Would you mind sharing a few names for the rest of us to study?
That philosophy is directly responsible for overpopulation. If you need to have children to keep from starving to death when you're old, you'll want to have a lot of them.

Note that the areas where this is true are precisely the ones with catastrophically high birth rates, and the areas where there are pensions, social programs, etc. are precisely the ones where population is stable, or even falling.
Awesome product... This is really awesome!
Alas, Russians really do drink themselves to death. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_consumption_in_Russia
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That's what you call being flippered.
Well their paper that I'm reading is about solving systems of equations (Ax=b) where the matrix has a special form (diagonally dominant), which is also a huge contribution.

It also uses a similar idea to the convex optimization paper (to find the "dual" problem and try to solve it) so I would guess it has similar issues:

- Very very VERY complex to code, compared to e.g. PCG
- Although it is asymptotically faster, the constant terms that you have to amortize might be very large. For instance, imagine you can sort on O(n) instead of on O(n log n) but the constant on the first case is a thousand times larger than on the second.

All in all, I am very interested about it, but you will need some valiant efforts in order to implement it efficiently.
Not really related to your bigger point, which I have no opinion on, but Kafka & PubSub have different delivery contracts, Kafka's are generally more strict. Therefore comparing the scalability of the 2 is somewhat problematic.
Survival bias. Most founder CEOs go down with the ship before they get on your radar
Relevant quote: "All this only as background to the stories, though languages and names are for me inextricable from the stories. They are and were so to speak an attempt to give a background or a world in which my expressions of linguistic taste could have a function. The stories were comparatively late in coming." From letter 163.
One example of that I've seen have spent significant time on tools like cloudformation can only (as far as I know) be used on AWS. Another would be where when you need decent storage performance - we have several cases where we use 20-40K IOP/s quite easily and doing that kind of work on the current cloud offerings is very expensive and usually involves significantly increase complexity if say you need this in your database layer as you suddenly have the need to scale horizontally while maintaining consistency and durability which is difficult. We can provision 6TB of networked 1M 4K random read IOP/s storage in a highly redundant, load balanced form that's easy to upgrade and scale for less than $500/month and it has little to no management overhead. Now while this may not be what your average startup requires it opens up a world of opportunity to how and what you do with your data.

Edit: I should note that we do, where appropriate use 'cloud' services including Rackspace, AWS and Azure where appropriate. Azure has had significant performance issues and has a lot of provable downtime especially due to internal network routing and DNS problems that they fail to acknowledge and we've found their support to be a joke if you know what you need / are doing, even their own O365 service has weekly outages that can take several minutes to resolve. Rackspace's support has been good but they do have a lot of small outages again often network related. AWS' has been alright be very costly unless you're doing either very small deployments or at the other end of the scale massive, horizontally scalable deployments, however their storage performance is woeful. For our mission critical or high performance deployments using our internally hosted platform is significantly fast and almost always cheaper. Our uptime across the platform is fantastic and it generally 'just works' while we watch our cloud hosted services suffer from inconsistent performance and service 'blips'.
I think it's especially telling that even in a 3rd world country where one might expect profound poverty to be the norm, a basic income still provided a cushion against the social friction that comes with poverty.

God damn lets just do this already.
So, if technology is progressing in parallel, why do we need to support it by enforcing monopolies with patents?
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Obviously wrong.
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Just like communism.
Yes, more so than Microsoft. And please let go of this Google Reader meme you like to perpetuate. I doubt you even used it.
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If I could live and not have a job I would have a job because I love awesome cars and people would pay me what I deserve to be paid because people who didn't want to work wouldn't be overcrowding the market. I want more than the basics and it requires money. You just want to practice your art. I'm happy to pay for you to do nothing so long as you're happy with me having far far more than you materially.
> Note that the areas where this is true are precisely the ones with catastrophically high birth rates, and the areas where there are pensions, social programs, etc. are precisely the ones where population is stable, or even falling.

And then those countries with pensions and falling population are mentioned as ones who need to import immigrants in order to keep their pension pyramid scheme working...
Can you elaborate on that? PubSub is a fully-managed service, which means that Google SREs are on call making sure things are up. In addition, Pubsub has "guaranteed at-least-once message delivery". In a sense, Google's SREs guarantee delivery.

PubSub is also a GLOBAL service. Not only are you protected from zone downtime, you are protected from regional downtime. Is there an equivalent to this level of service anywhere in the world?

I'm not too familiar with Kafka's fully managed service, but Kafka-on-VM is a whole other ball game. YOU manage the service. YOU guarantee delivery, not Kafka.
Well, personally, I wouldn't happy living on the bare minimum. I'd still want nice things and would work for them.
Well, let's just take a closer look at Google News, shall we?

Google News has a handy feature: when you search for a topic, under the first result is an option to explore in depth, and it shows you the number of additional articles you'll find on said topic. There may be more besides, but let's take this as a reasonable proxy of media interest.

Let's assume that, for any given an event, the height of news coverage occurs the day after the event.

The march was on Oct. 10th, so we would expect "peak news" to be on Oct. 11th. I adjusted your search to focus only on Oct. 11th, and Google News's Explore in depth showed me there were 1,076 more articles about the topic. It's true: not altogether absent.

To the Ferguson riots. Wikipedia pins the start date on 8/9/14, so let's take peak news date as 8/10/14. (However, given this was a multi-day narrative, we know that news coverage did not end after 8/10/14, but continued.)

How many Explore In Depth articles does Google News tell me were available for search term Ferguson riots on 8/10/14? 13,445.

The evidence is overwhelming: the media is far more interested in the riot narrative than in the peaceful march narrative.
I was surprised they neglected to mention Soft Layer. I consider it one of the major players in cloud services and IBM is expanding at a crazy rate.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champerty_and_maintenance

Still illegal in canada[0]:

Although the type of conduct that might constitute champerty and maintenance has evolved over time, the essential thrust of the two concepts has remained the same for at least two centuries. Maintenance is directed against those who, for an improper motive, often described as wanton or officious intermeddling, become involved with disputes (litigation) of others in which the maintainer has no interest whatsoever and where the assistance he or she renders to one or the other parties is without justification or excuse. Champerty is an egregious form of maintenance in which there is the added element that the maintainer shares in the profits of the litigation. Importantly, without maintenance there can be no champerty.

0. http://www.canlii.org/en/on/onsc/doc/2012/2012onsc5053/2012o...
Looks like a neat idea, but it's almost unusable on Mac Chrome with a Magic Mouse -- the scrolling zooms me either out to the moon or in to a single pixel. Is there any information about the site available that isn't in the Ideaome format?
$31 million dollars and all of the hype in the world and this is the outcome?

I saw Steve Newcomb speak at a JS conf in SF a few years back. It was so ridiculous it was almost surreal. he played Unreal Touranement-esque music the whole time like he was some kind of space god.
It's the norm in China, and it seems to have benefits, especially if you have children of your own.
Apologies for being fully off topic and not related to this submission/thread...

@dang

Much respect for your moderation and even keeled interactions. I can learn a lot by it.

(this won't be a recurring theme or anything, just giving you props and fading back into the crowd)
My parents would be fine without my support, but I'm supporting them anyway.

How does that signal anything negative at all?

ps. gfsn54nsf never said they needed his help, nor did he say that he's somehow forced to support them.
Yup, then someone would implement in C. Then in a few months you'll have it in every popular language and many libraries.

People underestimate how much a reference implementation contributes to the real world proliferation of an algorithm.
You missed the analogy so I'll summarize it again. Crime is infectious disease. The law is an immune system. Injustice is leukemia. Revolution is chemo.
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You are happy to say that because you don't currently have far, far more than everyone else, and so in your mind, "I get a lot more money, but I have to pay some of it back" sounds like a nice bargain.

However, the people who already have far, far more wealth than everyone else have nothing to gain from that way of thinking, as they already have most of the wealth without having to pay UBI. So why would they allow it?
In the US service industry jobs have surpassed manufacturing so I would argue this is happening already to some degree.
The lack of a system to the coding is crazy. You find all sorts of nonsense next to each other. Unfortunately, there is a hell of a lot of politics in medicine - infrastructural change is extraordinarily difficult.
As an economic entity China has a ton of submerged problems and I don't think their 'solutions' to any problem will easily transplant to the rest of the world without accepting a bunch of their other problems into the package as well.
How do you approach the documentation, you read it.