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CVS not only feels cheap, it is cheap by comparison to the other drug stores. So I'm happy to go there.
I like it. Thanks for sharing, and wish I had access to that setup. I spent years trawling through used bookstores accumulating tons of books. Starting to divest them now, though. Electronic is just so much more compact and easier...
This level abstraction seems unnecessary. We need to just let-go of the concept of physical or virtual hosts. A machine should boot and join a cluster, advertising its capabilities (ssd drives, gpu's, enhanced networking, it's availability zone or region, etc...) and you should never need to think about that stuff, period.

I don't care how many devices/segments/nodes/slices/dynos/widgets are in my cluster. I care that I have X GB of total memory and Y cpu's. I want to check a box to make an app or service highly available (on more than one node, and in more than one zone) and Ronco™ set it and forget it.

Everything else is just noise.

I love the ideas behind Kubernetes and Fleet/CoreOS (and this) but everyone is SO excited about these low level technologies that have yet to be composed into beautiful experiences.

A tweet from Kelsey Hightower sums it up perfectly:

It's going to be nearly impossible for people
to evaluate and chose a container management platform
during the gold rush.

https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/65918202241030553...
Knowing these two companies, the transaction is going to be printed on a receipt with one line per share and a few hundred feet of legal disclaimers
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by distributed systems."
>In some states, it's even legal for a candidate to simply redirect whatever is in his campaign fund directly into his own bank account after the election

This doesn't sound right. Any sources?
Career jewelry thief for 62 years
I felt sick hearing that a book has been tossed away.
One of my problems with this is how there is such a huge lack of alternatives for some people. I dropped having a cell for almost a year, and it was wonderful, in that I felt more secure about my privacy, but It also greatly affected my interaction, observation, and awareness of my surroundings. After meeting someone and getting a job that required on call though, it's now hard for me to imagine how I could go back to that again. To me, it's one more way that technology is evolving faster than people are keeping up with, but the kicker is that it's ripe for abuse by negarious entities. As Thomas Drake says, the Stasi's would have wet dreams about this tech today, and although you may not thing the $currentpower is so bad, what happens when the next guy uses the prescedent, forces the telcos to share, and dissapears anyone who disagrees about $policy? Oh, and now he has enough data to walk the cat back a few years and ex post facto you to $blacksite?
> I agree, Amazon reviews used to be useful, but are now largely useless.

If you're buying tech stuff, I find that the following approach works well:

* Find the thing you want on Newegg.

* Read a few of the five-star reviews.

* Read a few of the one-star reviews.

* Read most of the four and three-star reviews. You can use these reviews to get a sense for the actual faults with the product, and to see if the inevitable DOA complaints in the one-star reviews are a real problem, or just bad luck.

* If the product checks out, buy it from wherever you like.
Nicely done tutorial. I was wondering how you got the display onto the mirror and then I scrolled down and saw the monitor on the back of the silvered surface (doh-doi!)

A couple of suggestions:
(1) Externalize the mic - either have it hook into your phone to listen to your voice or through some other mechanism - it will boost recognition accuracy significantly and allow you to do complex tasks
(2) Better demo. I'd sure you could take this into school / work and film in a better lit location. If screen brightness is an issue, you could sand down the silvering right in front of the screen
(3) If commercialization is your plan, look into Samsung's new OLED tech that's super skinny.
(4) Android speech interfaces are easier and more flexible to program. And dead-simple to use
(5) Find someone who can build a nice interface for you and design that interface in the highest contrast possible (bright fonts, black backgrounds)

While I was building my NLP product, I went looking for companies that were building smart mirrors and came up empty for ones that were on Google but still in business. I suspect that was the situation because of the prohibitive price but garbage speech recognition. As of today, however, the tech's available to let you do things with SR you'd never thought possible even 2 years ago
excellent analysis
TLS absolutely does tax the CPU. Netflix published a paper [1] about the work they did to scale TLS in their cache appliances; after their work, they were able to get 10Gbps of https traffic out of a system that was previously limited by its network interfaces to serving 40Gbps of http traffic.

That certainly doesn't apply to everyone, a lot of people are using more CPU to generate their content than to serve it; in that case, maybe adding some extra CPU to encrypt isn't going to have a big effect.

Extra round trips can also affect the ability to scale: you'll need to be able to handle more connections open at a time, since each one will take longer to get the request to you. This is probably minor, unless you're on the edge of the number of connections your system can handle.

[1] https://people.freebsd.org/~rrs/asiabsd_2015_tls.pdf
What a great story. Quite heartening to find out about Zotterelli's accomplishments, after all, he started working on Voyager when he was 42. Goes to show, "senior" engineers are very capable of making noteworthy contributions. (In reflection of a recent HN thread about ageism in software industry.)

The article also points out the extreme importance of documentation, because we never know what systems will still be running, or programs still in use 40 years in the future. It's truly terribly wrong to "take secrets to the grave", knowledge should be shared, we all have a stake in it.

I fervently wish Voyager's secrets are recorded while there's still a chance, it's too important to just let it die.
My kids are typical "overscheduled" teenagers. There's music lessons, orchestra, sports, choir, etc. There's going outside before it gets dark.

This is going to sound weird, but we deliberately put some of those things at a higher priority than homework. First of all, the scheduled activities happen when they happen. Second, some activities take more mental focus, it works best for those things to be done first. Third, activities such as music come before homework in terms of their value -- they represent gaps in the school curriculum, that we are filling in ourselves.

So, homework can come last for good reasons. Also, some activities require awake parents. ;-)

Now, about the 1am thing, that only happens roughly once a semester due to an exponential distribution of homework assignments. Each teacher assigns homework, apparently at random, and they don't organize or coordinate it, so the late nights are usually due to a confluence of multiple teachers each giving out multiple assignments at once.

The island of stability in that sea of chaos is math. The math lessons come home at a steady, predictable rate, and none of the work involves a computer, so it gets an early time slot.
I have to disagree.

Those core execute the codes from their local SRAM which can only be written to under very specific conditions. You can't arbitrarily write to their SRAMs.

An SOC has various bus arbitrators that are built into hardware which control the dataflow. It is part of the chip's backbone. I've never seen an architecture in which you could easily write to the aux core's SRAM. This is partially because those cores are often responsible for DRM therefore access to them is very restricted, but also because it is expensive (in terms of gates) and unnecessary to hang them off the main bus.

It is a very unlikely "DMA hacking" vector.

The peripheral can just as easily DMA to main memory and overwrite kernel code if the memory apertures are set wide open to allow peripheral to DMA anything into the host. Additionally unless you have PCIe or a similar bus with mastering capability a peripheral can't DMA.
Thanks, that makes a lot of sense. We have those types of queries, too, which is where ES definitely breaks down. We wouldn't mind switching those parts (the "BI") of the analytics into something with higher latency.
AFAIK this is how Heroku works. Your app is running via lxc on a host next to a billion other ones.
Apple calls 2015 'most successful year ever' after making reported $234bn
>It appears as if this isn't the first time Theranos has butted heads with FDA inspectors: "This document was provided as a follow-up to the failures in your design validation conducted in 2014," the FDA report says.

$10 billion valuation, and this is the best they can do?

It seems like silly season is going to end soon. This time there are a lot of solid businesses in the valley with solid revenue and solving real problems. Then there are the dilettantes and the scammers. All will be revealed as it becomes more difficult to raise money.
Weird thought -- did you look into flying to GSO? It's ABSURD, but last time I looked, flights from GSO and RDU through CLT were way less than from CLT itself.
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That would be because antitrust and antimonopoly policies are all but forgotten and discarded. I don't have a paper to share, but my off the cuff analysis is that markets and industries acroos the board are in merger and aquisition mode, with a side of sellout and bankruptcy. Media is one of the best examples of this in my opinion.

Also, who would be responsible for such antitrust moves? DOJ? The legislative? Both are corrupt to the core, and don't think I'm not counting SCOTUS in that.
While current interest rates are below zero effectively - the raising money will be as easy.
"Finding people who can do that are few and far between"

I always wonder what will happen with the next generations of programmers coming out of school - most of them get started with Python, Ruby or Java. And low level systems programming is mostly an after thought or an annoying class for most students.

How will the industry deal with people who can't hack/program at a low level?
I'm in my early 50s, and I had remarkably little homework in school.
I don't think K-8 needs to teach more than writing, reading, and math. Not even science--kids don't really get it and the dumbed-down version you learn at that level probably makes it harder rather than easier to learn "real science" later on.

Misbehaving kids should get an education--they should just get it in a class with other misbehaving kids.
"Finding people who can do that are few and far between"

When I was growing up, we had to learn assembly to do anything meaning full on a C64. And 64k is all we had, and for the most part all we were ever going to get. How will the industry deal with people who can't hack/program at a low level?

Its kind of scary when you have people with that much knowledge and experience leaving the industry. Especially one as young as ours.

I always wonder what will happen with the next generations of programmers coming out of school - most of them get started with Python, Ruby or Java. And low level systems programming is mostly an after thought or an annoying class for most students.

Congratulations to Mr. Zottarelli and a great and important career. And hopefully he will write a book about his work to help us along.
Hi Dang, and thanks for your appreciation of our work. I'm a little bit confused though, as far as I know we didn't employ such "Astroturfed/sockpuppet votes" methods, and I'm sure there is a reasonable explanation of this.
How does this compare to Joyent Triton?
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Note that NSA HQ is literally a windowless black cube.
When I write for the Onion I will do an article, "Comcast acquires itself, raises rates"

There is always more monopoly where that came from.
This might have been mentioned on John Oliver - the episode about oil in North Dakota
Didn't anyone (really) check before putting money at a $10 Billion valuation??
Why do you think that? I'd wager impulsiveness and attention span are normally distributed, and there are gains to be had tracking those say more than 1 SD below the mean into classes specially equipped to handle them.
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"kill UEFI"

Sounds good to me.
I see UEFI as an added, redundant, poor quality OS.
I'm a connoisseur of bootloaders and live in a TTY so UEFI is another command line that I do not need.
You said it best: its features are "rarely used"; it just provides unwanted third parties with another "layer to hide in".
Document numbers? Release dates? This seems more like red tape and nitpicking rather than a substantive challenge to a technology. It's stories like these that guarantee I would never try to start a company in biotech or recommend a friend join one.
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Thanks shill dude.
I wonder why royal flush is a distinct hand from a straight flush. Isn't it simply the highest ranked straight flush?
I think private accessibility to space is key to driving public interest in space exploration. It used to be that only very large corporations and government bodies had access to space. Advanced technology and out-of-the-box thinking is making it possible for even hobbyists to be involved. It is very exciting.
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better, smarter, well-paid, un-stressed, empathetic teachers

Totally, but a teacher in charge of usually 30 children, for probably 8 hours a day, still isn't going work miracles.

Divide your attention across thirty energetic people in 8 hours. You'll still feel spread thin.

When elementary school gives way to high school, this ratio of time per teacher, per student becomes even more distributed. Possibly up to 8 classes of 30 students per teacher, each class lasting an maybe an hour. If you were to parcel out direct attention, such that each teacher spent an equal amount of time with each student, across the entire day, every student would get 2 minutes from each of their 8 teachers, in such a scenario. Maybe that's a 2 minute chess game, or 2 minutes in the confessional.

Obviously lectures don't actually work that way, but you see the point I'm driving at.

Parents with 4 kids feel stressed out by their own kids. 4 kids is a large family. Teachers probably feel the least stressed when there are no kids, or perhaps when only their well-behaved favorite students are present.
Woah. I wonder if you can notify github about such behavior and if something would be done about that. Because that's really not pretty.
Better use the free WIFI next time (1hour in Zurich airport)
That people whine about kids spending time doing some thing instead of the one they're supposed to do, while the kids are just choosing the thing that is not total bullshit and is actually useful for something.
RSS still exists because Twitter and Facebook aren't open standards. I suppose neither are most RSS readers, but most of them will let you take your feeds with you if you don't like them. It also makes for better archiving than Twitter and Facebook, and I can have a lot of feeds in a central place, (without having to go visit a whole bunch of sites to catch up on what they're posting.)
Gushing press, create-a-celebrity CEO, A-list "1%-er" investors... Then, questionable product/technology? Time to grab the popcorn, this should be fun!
I had an ex-electrical engineering girlfriend who studied assembly as a core part of her degree. I think the low-level is covered more than you think, not in software engineering but in electrical engineering where the focus is on building platforms (transistors, CPU, Ram, hardware and assembly) to enable software to be written.
I actually completely agree, and that's where I want to head with Carina. That user experience is the end-game.
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That's AB InBev and SABMiller. Rumor is if it goes through many of the American brands in SABMiller will be spun off as this is more a purchase for the global presence of SABMiller.
This feels akin to saying a subway or hospital or giant computing entity can easily upgrade its mission critical systems. Does not feel realistic. These things tend to move slowly once stable. A client is usually easier to upgrade than a server, if all the brains live on the server and the system achieves stability it would rarely be touched; now it's responsible for life and death.

Furthermore it seems that the paradigm of automatically updating each car independently at night ( like modern computers/etc ) would be less prone to major failure. Updates can be rolled out automatically when the vehicle is not use and can be done in stages, not all in one big shot.

Lastly what about bugs and fault. With the cars and systems still being private we get to reuse and evolve from the legal structure we have now, especially including 'fault'. In this utopia idea proposed we have a big official system keeping us all safe. Would imagine the first big failure to be expensive with a lot of finger pointing and a broke city that won't want to pay for all the injuries and damages, or would need a bailout to do so.

This idea is not fault tolerant or distributed enough to to live with our current amount of chaos. Getting to utopia is harder than it sounds.

I don't want to live in a vehicular system with a single point of failure even if that single point of failure is an organization such as a government and this is seen as a utility.

Possibly this day will come, but the idea is way ahead of its time. Good luck!
With Band 12 LTE, this is changing rapidly on TMO.
I'm surprised and a bit disappointed that this new platform still exposes users to the idea of a container host. In Carina lingo, you have to create a "cluster" and choose the number of "segments" in it.

Joyent's Triton avoids this completely: Their whole data centre is a Docker "host", and you never have to care about it. The way it should be.

(I'm not paid by Joyent, nor am I a customer -- I just like what they've done to push the model forward.)
Ask HN: Do you think it is a good idea to invest in an Apple Computer?
I'm only interested in taking a look at the Swift programming language. And there is some articles saying that it will become Open Source later in this year. So I don't know if it is a good investment, Apple computers are expensive for my pocket.
Programming this thing should be an unique thing. Voyager 1 and 2 (and earlier Vikings) were not microprocessor-based. It was designed with custom-made radiation-hardened RCA CD4000, coupled with standard TTL ICs.
I'm a software engineer working on internal business tools.

My current side project is evaluating academically published demosaic algorithms for camera sensors by implementing them with Halide (halide-lang.org) and running them against my personal photos.

I'm mainly aiming to learn about how camera sensors actually work and what the image processing pipeline looks like between a bunch of RGGB pixels and a JPEG. I'm hoping to build my own pipeline but I may also contribute my implementations to RawTherapee, if the papers' authors permit.

Learning Halide is also fun. It's amazing how fast a computer runs when you use optimised code.
Yes. If you've ever tried to use a broker for benefits or another system for onboarding or another system for payroll... Night and day difference. Much easier to use. Much better to have it all in one place. Love the Zenefits + Zenpayroll combo.
TBH the FDA is the least of the various hurdles to get a great biotech going. The FDA has (surprise) largely been spot on. Theranos is just a fraud. If you are not risk tolerant that's fine, it's a reasonable position. But, there are plenty of people who are willing to actually get outside the anonymous video chat / messaging whatever echo chamber and make real inventions happen in the world that make a real difference to real people.
And Duane Reade is Walgreens nowadays
Carrier don't have data that specific, cell phone triangulation isn't that precise.
This is honestly fantastic feedback and spot-on for the level of abstraction I want (and will) aim for. This is an early Beta, so things like this are top of mind.
Great work! This looks like it addresses my issues with image uploads, specifically the backgrounding. Thanks for open sourcing this. I'll throw it in my stack and give some feedback.
>Because we personally tutor our kids, I'm sure we will resent an increased homework burden as they get older, especially as we are able to tutor to a relatively high level for most subjects.

Yep, just wait a few more years and you're tutoring will consist more of helping your kids figure out the instructions for ridiculous homework assignments than actually teaching subject matter.
Astonishingly simple in the states to get a SIM without an ID; a random exception.
The most surprising thing about this whole saga is the way two VCs openly spoke out against Theranos. Bill Maris from GVentures and Moritz from Sequoia. I can't remember the last time I saw a VC trash someone else's investment in public. So why now?

I'll speculate that there's something so distasteful about Theranos --the wild mismatch between valuation, amount raised, and deliverables-- that these two investors felt that it threatened the ecosystem itself. Like they needed to distance Sand Hill Rd from this stinker before it taints the other (still unproven) unicorns.

Or maybe it was something else, dunno. Anyone else notice it?
Hadn't really thought about that, but I felt like I had tons of homework (in the 1990s). Part of it was not that I had tons of homework, but that my parents instilled in me a desire to not just to the minimum. So stuff took longer because I put more work into it. Even with math, I probably always did a bit more questions than the teacher had assigned. I spent countless hours perfecting essays, writing research reports. Now that I've thought about it, I'd have a tough time believing that kids nowadays get more homework than I did.

So... what I'm saying is, there is the amount assigned, and then there is the amount that kids are actually doing, which are somewhat independent. So it's possible that the assigned amount has increased? or not. It's also possible parents are "better" now (this is true, I think parenting overall has evolved little by little for the better) and are keeping better tabs on their kids, making their kids do more homework, more than just the minimum.

Another data point, I was tutoring some kids in high school math around 2005 or so. There was very little math homework assigned, it was a complete joke, and these kids were going to private school. I remember thinking "what the hell is going on here, what has happened to education!" There was actually some Supreme Court ruling in the province of British Columbia that said that teachers couldn't give homework unless they were going to mark it. Or that they couldn't give "participation marks" for homework, it had to be marked on its merits or not at all. So a lot of teacher's scaled back the assigned homework I think. That's what I heard, I can't find a reference to the court case.
I'm working on rolling out fuckedunicorns.com (a nod to pud's fuckedcompany.com).

As someone who lived through the first boom bust, very interested to watch things play out again.
They get cell-tower-level accurate location information.
"I did not vote for CISA"
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