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Either way, you have to bootstrap secret material onto your instances somehow, so you've got to trust Amazon somewhere.

Not to diminish your point -- the how/where/when really does matter. Locking your house key in your car is still better than leaving it on your front step, but also not as good as in your pocket.
What excites me most about the selection of John is that he's interested in bringing modern IDE features to Emacs without transforming it into Eclipse or Visual Studio. I think that he'll show us just what an excellent tool Emacs can be even in the 21st century!
Love the new features. I was hoping to see the ability to programmatically create File Requests. Looks like it might still be a while before it gets implemented.
I like that the java-ee people are least polarized and have the least number of dislike tags.
Moderator's quiet "nudge" either way works magic too.
I don't think that's why it's a detriment, but I think twitter took a step back in terms of diversity by losing this guy, which I think is a detriment.
You'll pretty much need to dig into the source, IRC is unlikely to be helpful. Documentation is basically nonexistent as well. With that said...it is what you're looking for and nearly every substantial bit of code built around Steam has been created using that library or the Node variant.
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I've been in the Idina closed beta for a couple of weeks. The #1 thing I like about this is the power of "rate and refresh". The low latency feedback loop is really impressive. Maybe I don't use enough news sites, but I haven't seen anything like that before.

The breadth of content is pretty good. I was surprised I was able to build a good gaming topic that's not just AAA titles or some niche category.

I'm a little worried about rating my way into an echo chamber. Having used Idina for a few weeks, that seems like a risk. For example, 4 of top 6 stories in my gaming topic are from the same site. I really like those stories and that site, but I wonder if I'm missing stuff from sites I've never seen before.
I agree with you. This approach is just a hand-wringing attempt to weasel out of the blame.
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>but it has to be 100% reliable, every time, all the time, no downtime, for 70+ years.

this is why it looks kind of yesterday to me (like many things in the other highly regulated industry - aviation - too) - why 100% requirement for one device? How about "horizontal scaling" - have 2 of them or 3 smaller and less reliable ones. Once one failed - that is a signal to promptly go in for the "service".

Replicating biology is a start, yet machinery has different advantages and disadvantages, so mechanical heart doesn't have to be a mechanical copy of the biological one. For example one can imagine having smaller helper pumps installed on all the big arteries, like near the groin for legs and near armpits for arms - that would improve the circulation and decrease the physical load on central arteries and overall energy consumption compare to the original biological schema of one central pump.
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The government puts a specific dollar figure on human life all the time. It's not afraid to do that.

I disagree with that, at least with regards to the USA. Does Congress pass a resolution every year that dictates what a human life is worth? Something that is applied across the board for all legislation, rather than buried deep in the implications of whatever law they're talking about now?
When you say "all internally", do you mean that they are not a gene synthesis provider?
>One way to do that is to force you to defend yourself in court against a lie accusation

This is pretty easy to defend as the burden of proof is entirely on the FBI.

>At which point, the FBI wouldn't pull this shit anyway.

Exactly. However, everyone here seems to be quite worked up over these synthetic hypotheticals.
Can vs Should. While PHP is turing complete, there are much better toolkits for the jobs you described.
Well I mean of course you have to say that, kinda ruins the joke if you keep elbowing people and going "pretty clever of us eh?"
Your clicks probably got discounted as fake, perhaps if you spent enough time on pages showing each review first they wouldn't? I don't truly know how careful Amazon are to filter anomalous upvotes however.
> If we detect sites serving dodgy links then they're instantly shut down until the customer can prove they've secured the site.

We have a similar approach to this actually. The exception being that we clean the malware ourselves, sadly. I tried to say is a bad idea multiple times, but no luck. What makes things worse, we have a few "spoiled" clients that keep getting their websites hacked (there's 3 such WordPress and Joomla development resellers) and they started expecting us to clean their websites. Sigh

Also, I tried to argue a few times that we do the scan-and-warn thing, but I got turned down with the counter argument that it would generate more backscatter on our support department than it would be worth it.
> In general, we try to only create new names when the old names are for a sufficiently different concept.

You renamed the godforsaken PUNCTUATION, man. What exactly is the different concept behind an equals sign in Urbit that you have to call it tis? Or the colon, what conceptually did you change about the colon that it's got to be a col or the comma that it's a com?
Annoyingly in places it looks like data they have and turns out but to be. I once bought a desk lamp which below it included the "people buy these together" box, which showed the llano and a bulb.

Frustratingly it wasn't the right bulb, but I just fed a further data point into Amazon's model, and reinforced their belief that its useful to list those two items as a pair.
Is this the sort of technology that could theoretically enable reasonably good, automated conversion between programming languages?
It wasn't so bad initially, which is why I said "a bit" and briefly mentioned one example or two (depends how you count). That was mostly ok. But as I expected, my example was quickly interrogated and scrutinised, and I did not feel like proceeding down that path.
Hey, now it's goin pretty good!
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I really like the idea of a binary tree memory model, especially an acyclic one. It appeals to the mind in the same way Lisp s-exprs do, and possibly even more: everything is either [head tail] or a number! How stupid!

As far as I know, a lot of this stuff is fairly novel as well. Imagine you could simply mmap() bytes into your process from the network, verify that it nests inside your type definition (including recursive members!), and not have to worry about following evil pointers while still allowing arbitrary-sized members. This actually happens in urbit: all network messages to apps, including those sent from a web browser to your personal planet, are just ++jam nouns with something like an executable mime type plus autogenerated type verification function

Of course, I'm pretty biased about Urbit, so your enthusiasm may vary.
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> Sub resources sure but I'm not talking about sub resources because sub resources are dead easy. This is more of a "oh we should also display resource X, Y and Z in these different spots".

The profile page is the resource (or a representation of the resource) identified by the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) used to access the profile page. This is true, pretty much by definition.

Whatever is designed as part of that page, and is also a resource, is a subresource.

> If you want to be really "RESTful", TYPICALLY (and I say typically because I think every developer has a different definition of REST, lol), your URLs only align to resources so joining resources means multiple calls.

URLs align to resources in that the fact that a URL is used to access something defines it as a resource. There is nothing in REST which defines resources as only the orthogonal entities in a data mode (e.g., the loose equivalent of entities in the base tables of a relational DB model.)

You certainly in many cases, for maximum flexibility, want your resources to include those kinds of things, but there is no reason -- at least none that has anything to do with REST -- for them to be limited to them.
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I have a feeling there's some kind of reward system in place for reviewing products and answering questions. There's so many answers to fairly simple questions that are along the lines of

> will this HDMI cable connect my laptop to my tv?

> i don't know but it sends a good signal from my xbox to tv

They help nobody and just clutter up the actual helpful answers
I also struggled with the star rating, especially in my first few days. But at some point I just got over it. After a couple of weeks using it I'm just rating stuff without too much care and it seems pretty reasonable.

I think of the Netflix scale:
1 == terrible, never show me stuff like this in this topic (I think this is actually their threshold for exclusion from a topic)
2 == on topic, but but I don't like it
3 == this is OK, but I'd rather have something else
4 == good, solid content I'd be happy reading just this stuff
5 == wow, this is great, if it comes up it better be #1

@idina_news @_b can you confirm that ratings are _only_ applied in topic? (they don't leak to other topics)
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Some old GNU ideas are popping again. Guile as a system language in GuixSD. Hurd too. Funny times.
The service was built by my friends of friends, the mix is by me. Comments more than welcome. I'm not associated with DeepArt.io, but I'll forward the thread to them.
We're up for that task :) https://keepersecurity.com/enterprise.html Would love to hear your thoughts if you haven't already checked us out.
Most people are pretty good at determining when someone is just plain being a dick.

Within their own narrow experience and culture, perhaps. As soon as you start having to work with people from significantly different backgrounds, it's a whole different story.
It goes against the current narrative.
Now correct me if I'm wrong, but about the profit angle. This is her job, right? Doing research on stuff and writing an article about it. Given the other arguments in the article, I think it would be fair to say the pay for the article should also factor into the profit/less equation :)
> Your personal views are just that, personal

As is yours, so why bicker?

C#/.NET is also my favourite, but it's not the be-all and end-all of web development. It might be the best for all of your projects, but not for everyone else.

It has it's flaws, like everything else, and I'm happy for you that you haven't used it (or anything else) for long enough to discover them.
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Since you seem knowledgeable about this area, do you know a good algorithm for generating isomorphic forms of a given weighted acyclic directional graph? I would be looking to reduce nesting level and/or total edge count.
You need to run it from a web server. Open a shell on the root directory and run `python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8888` on it. Browse to `localhost` on 8888.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10509995
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This is true and is an exception. Even though punctuation is punctutation, we speak it so much more than most other people, so we've found it convenient to give it convenient, one-syllable names. Using the new names is, of course, completely optional. End-users will never even see them.
Can confirm; ratings are per-topic.
> Do you assign an ETag that represents the current state of all those resources, so you can tell me if any have changed behind my back?

That would be logical, yes.

> Do your storages even give you the option of updating them all together atomically?

Depends on your backend implementation. There's no reason a composite resource needs to support PUT at all, though (that's one of the reasons that you are likely to want the representation of the composite to include URLs for each component.)
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So... how is the discussion going? Productive? :)
The point of mentioning the women's line is that most tech conferences are not inviting enough to women for there to be enough women to form a queue. The actual proportion of female participants can be easily found online, I think.
"If anyone feels this strongly about a certain group (like Elia), they will find "devil's advocate" (for a lack of better expression) reasons to disagree with them simply because they don't like them, or otherwise try to diminish the person in various forms to deter them from contributing."

why on earth do you feel that you're an authority on how people _will_ behave? don't judge everyone else by your awfully low standards of professionalism, almost everyone i've ever worked with has been capable of working with people with which they have disagreements, without their differences of opinions causing issues.

grow up.
The best response to this article is a quote from the movie True Romance:

"Now, what we got here is a little game of show and tell. You don't wanna show me nothing but you're telling me everything."
so can you buy in Dollars and sell in Euros at a profit?
I should think that emulating biology does the best job of cutting back on extra difficulties introduced by trying to outsmart biology.
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No, I'm just saying that removing the EU layer you lose another chance of fighting against the current (and/or future) wave of power-crazy national elites.
Really, this is at the top of HN? Must be a slow news day.
kinds and typeclasses are rather different, are they not?
The show Community has a good bit about this when a character names a pencil then breaks it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z906aLyP5fg
Yes. Out of band signaling is required. Like saying in the email "I've changed the contract, here are the new terms."
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It wouldn't be different than trucking companies competing on public roads. But a "trucking on rails" company would be very different from a railroad, for the same reason that a trucking company is different from a toll road.

(I know, the analogy isn't perfect. Still, I would guess that 90% of a railroad's capital is tied up in track, right of way, signaling, and similar stuff, and only 10% in engines and cars. Saying "let's nationalize the infrasturcture" means nationalizing almost all of the railroad company. Hence my comment that "there's not much left". Your distinction between nationalizing all the company and nationalizing "just the infrastructure" is not much of a difference.)
Reevoo is quite good IMO.

Example USB-2 cable: http://reevoo.com/p/startech-com-usb-2-0-active-extension-ca....

I've used ebuyer (UK computer retailer) quite a bit and they moved away from their own review system to use Reevoo (the ebuyer one was better IMO however). Still Reevoo seems to have useful reviews in the computer/tech space.
I just lost a relative. I would be much more hurt if they were still alive and stealing from me, working as a prostitute, or murdering strangers for a fix. A ruined life is worse than a lost life. Yes, purity is a problem, but it is far from the most impactful potential effects of heroin use.
>As a beneficiary of privilege, it makes me uncomfortable when people point out that racism and sexism exist.

Such as the privilege of being the majority race in the local neighborhood even if you are a minority at the national level or the privilege off being the majority of the voting population.

What bothers me the most about conversations dealing with privilege is that the louder someone talks about others, the greater their denial and downplay of their own.
Am I correct in assuming this is some kind of enterprise managed provisioning? I am surprised that they both ship it that way, and that it can't be removed. I guess Apple doesn't care about killing resale value (in the case of it being unremovable), but you'd think these kind of screw-ups would be a reason not to ship it this way. Do the restrictions extend deep into the hardware, or are they just saving the enterprise customer like 3 minutes per device pushing a profile over USB?
Now you know why apply made their own plugs and cables. You can't trust third part manufacturers. Google probably gets lots of complains about devices not charging properly, when it is the cable at fault.
Sorry for the late reply.

I still don't understand why special syntax is needed for it, though. As far as I understood your arguments, they keep pointing out flaws in my implementation (which is far from optimised). You could mimic its behaviour through C. Could you elaborate more clearly, if I'm misunderstanding something (I do want to understand).
Steuard answered a very similar question the last time around: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9473914
It's not time-sensitive at all. After the course has ended, you can still enter the course and do everything; you just won't get the certificate (which doesn't matter).
Can Amazon compete with Wal-Mart though? Everything I see at Wal-Mart tends to be a good bit cheaper than the Amazon equivalent.
Amazing. GMO tech is probably the only methodology with any hope of combating the impact of that single new killer pathogen when it arises. Your grandfather must know about fungal pathogen Ug99 devastating the world wheat crop and that only about 10 percent of other wheat varieties are resistant. Question is: why isn't a mixed variety regimen a general rule? Given that it takes a long time to introduce pathogen-resistant genes into a single plant variety, dependence on single or a mostly clone stock (a general rule based on economics) could prove fatal at some point.

Although, a real problem with the current GMO tech is the diminished nutritional value of the foodstock produced relative to historic produce. But that, of course, is due in part to depleted soil.
Yes that is right. I can’t really talk about what our customers are doing (other than saying it is legitimate), but they are handling everything internally for internal projects.
Yeah, I can agree on the ad hominem part.

But for the rest, the complaining about misrepresentations felt like rationalization to support the tone argument (much like making it a question rather than a statement). It's a very common pattern. My bluntness was a vent of frustration with that style of argument. If he'd wanted to make a substantial criticism, he'd have pointed to specific examples of misleading or incorrect statistics. He did not.

More to the point, quibbling about the numbers doesn't change the fundamental truths of the original article - first, that black engineers are badly underrepresented at Twitter, and second, that Twitter's attempts to address the issue have been misguided and ineffective. If the core point doesn't change, then why the quibble?

Which brings us back to tone. Which in turn brings us back to privilege.
I think it actually requires comparing relative prices to save a life which only puts a floor on the value of a human life.
A whole lot of truck drivers nowadays.
I'm going to put this as delicately as possible, but if you don't want your points to be "interrogated and scrutinized", something that happens in any environment of healthy discussion, then you shouldn't be putting them out there in public on a discussion board.

The truth has absolutely nothing to fear from questioning.
Please correct me if I am wrong, but I think there is no secure way to store stuff in an virtual environment.

I wish I am wrong - cause my heart always bleeds if I see db passwords in configuration files! But As long as there is a hypervisor you do not control access to - you must trust the owner of the bare metal to (1) honor your privacy (2) be competent to secure his system. Trust is nice, but it is not security.

granted - Confidant and KMS seem better solution than most. Will look into it at more detail. thx for open sourcing it and moving the solution forward.
... which says nothing about the state of Robo Advisors, and a lot of the state of the business of running a Robo Advisor.
It isn't pitting any race at another. It is a real concern with quotas. One only needs to look at what an Asian needs to score on the SAT compared to what a Caucasian (no need to bring up other races) to see how it can become a problem.
As a more dramatic example of companies changing the product without changing the SKU/whatever, the faulty GM ignition switches were changed mid-production (from the bad design) without an update to the product serial number. Confused some of the engineers investigating it at first.
Sure, but PHP abstracts a load of stuff when you're doing cross-platform stuff - and what's more important, it allows you to keep one language (thus reusing codebase) when you're also doing stuff with web interfaces.

Neither Java, Ruby, Python nor anything else are as simple to setup and resource-friendly to run as a PHP-FCGI+nginx setup.
If you are still doing sanger sequencing then you should check out our software (see my profile for details). The customer I mentioned in my other post is using it to significantly reduce the amount of sanger sequencing they have to do to check all their constructs.
Seems like it could be, given proper controls to ensure relatively regular pumping action (gearbox?). Pneumatic systems could probably be operated with a bellows of sorts.
The "navigate to top" links in the upper left kept appearing and disappearing as I moved my mouse and scrolled around, and it's extraordinarily distracting to me.
There are a couple of problems with that approach.

One is that if you're going to have three-way redundancy, then each one has to be one-third the size to still fit, which adds to the engineering challenge and may well make reliability worse.

Another is that not all failures can be fixed with redundancy. If one of your redundant hearts stops pumping, that's fine. But if it fails by, say, dumping all your blood into your chest cavity, then adding redundant hearts increases your chance of death, rather than decreasing it.

Since you mentioned airplanes, making sure redundancy reduces rather than increasing risk is a big issue. For example, single-engine airplanes are prone to crashes due to engine failure. The solution is to add a second engine and you're much safer, right? Except that twin-engine planes can be very challenging to fly with a dead engine, and if you're not very careful with design and training, you'll end up with an airplane with two engines that crashes if either engine fails, greatly increasing the probability of a failure rather than decreasing it.
I think they mean Ubuntu was the default before Amazon Linux was even a thing. As I recall, that's correct, but I don't know where to find a citation on that. Amazon Linux only rolled out to production in 11/2011, so less than half of EC2's life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Machine_Image#Amazon_Li.... It's
From OP:

One obstacle to learning Hoon is that it has two quite distinct concepts that might equally be called a "type." Worse, most other typed functional languages are mathy and share a basically mathematical concept of "type." Hoon does not have this concept at all.

It'd be useful to hear what's unclear about this.