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Yeah, I participated in one of the earliest rounds of when Amazon opened up for submissions. Very clunky system. Lots of waiting, little feedback.

What happened?

They optioned 4-6 concepts and made pilots based on material from industry players.

That stung quite a bit. I felt the whole setup was more of a publicity generator than genuine avenue for discovery. Might be different this time around, but I'm skeptical.
If someone makes repeated bad code contributions aren't they then actually hurting Linux rather than helping it by tying up a talented dev from being able to do actual useful work.

Everyone has this idea that all patches are beautiful snowflakes and everyone's effort is just as good as everyone else's and such. But there's no reason to suspect that there aren't some un-talented people that want to work on the kernel and that they could waste a bunch of time by demanding that everyone explain why they're wrong, politely, and at length.

Sometimes for volunteer projects to succeed, not everyone gets to participate. I think it's interesting that people who say "lived experience is the ultimate truth, full stop" then armchair quarterback another person's lived experience, without having lived it.
TFA seems to be fingering carbs and sugar as the key issue, rather than total calories.
Only difference between UK coal phaseout and 'business as usual' is that a couple of old plants might shut a couple of years early. Source: https://twitter.com/countcarbon/status/667467474280062976
I believe you completely. Seriously.

I think you're actually describing the other side of the same coin. If somebody has experience at one of these failing companies, they may not have gotten much of a shot at actually doing anything.

I shudder to think how anyone could clearly demonstrate a real lack of preparedness in two weeks. Again, I totally believe you but that's just incredible.

It's like we all live on asteroids that are drifting father and farther from each other.
Created a new account and that seemed to have solved my problem
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People use sunscreen in the sun, take anti-ageing medicine, go bush walking with walking sticks, too.
"We are looking for hardcore software engineers." -Elon Musk
Sorry for the stupid question: how do in-memory DBs deal with power failures? e.g. someone walking in the server room and trip power cable.

I can understand for read-only in-memory, but what about writes?
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I'm guessing they used Shodan to locate the models they knew were affected (i.e. by model numbers), not to try the backdoor on unsuspecting devices (which would be illegal).
Obligatory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry_...

Particularly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sluggish_schizophrenia

...which allowed people who weren't crazy, but showed subtle signs (like, say, questioning Communism) that they might become crazy, to be locked up "for their own protection".
They are all off in the exact way the author describes. Those are in no way counter examples.
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1) Please, please, please...
2) There goes TV.

"May Cause Death." That's some good advertisin' right there.

Of course, it's interleaved with the ads from law firms trolling for the victims of the stuff advertised from five years ago...
I could probably save for a down payment, and I even have a kid now, but I have so many reasons why buying a house doesn't matter to me right now.

Most of my savings goes to retirement, which is now in the realm of being a down payment for a nicer house. Assuming my portfolio does the same as the worst 25 years of the S&P 500, it will still beat buying a house. When I'm older, and I'm not trying to play catch up on my retirement account, like so many 40 and 50 year olds end up doing, more of my income can go to other things, maybe even a house.

I'm super focused on my career and family right now. Why would I want to buy what amounts to a giant time sink?

Bottom line, by focusing my time and money on personal growth. I'll be in a much better position than if I bought a home.

When you just do the game theory on the American Dream, it makes no sense at all. Taking compound interest into account, buying a house when your young amounts to flushing hundreds of thousands of dollars down the toilet.
That one doesn't seem distributed. But I just glanced at the readme.
Thanks for making me appreciate (at least for a second) the ~50MB/s connection I regularly complain about.
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I totally get why they are using structs rather than positional arguments, and pointers instead of literals.

Go doesn't have function overloading, so if they used positional arguments, they could never change the signatures in a backwards-compatible way. With structs, they can add new fields.

And the reason for the pointers is that Go doesn't have optionals or sum/union types. My own experience is that the lack of optionals, or some similar construct, is extremely annoying when writing clients and servers for APIs where parts of the requests and responses are optional. You have no choice but to dick around with pointers.

goamz is more idiomatic Go, but it's going to have a problem with backwards compatibility when Amazon changes their APIs. I'm with Amazon here, myself. goamz has a bunch of functions that take 4+ arguments, and given the lack of named argument support, that's when you really want to refactor your arguments into structs.
I don't understand the chief's position at all. I'd trust this guy more after seeing him singing at a death metal show. I think he should be praised for fostering good community relations, not fired. WTF?
My comment was in no way intended as a dismissal of this work.
The US is building several LNG terminals for the export of LNG via tankers.
Pretty much all antipsychotics, including the newer "atypicals," cause tardive diskinesia in about 30 percent of patients who are treated for more than 5ish years. The other side effects can be nastier, but TD is arguably the worst because it's permanent.
Politeness is also culture dependent. What is polite in a culture might be impolite in another one.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10447734
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This is patents, you are referencing copyright.
How'd you arrive at that number? To my understanding, you get hit up twice -- paying for data leaving S3 and data entering GCS. The other thing to keep in mind is that if lots of your customers are also using AWS, their S3 traffic from you is free.
That I could switch from Vim and still have access to nearly all the vim keybindings and motions that I use in real Vim.

I've been using vim + evil (and prior iterations of evil) for probably ~5 years now, and it really is the best of both worlds for me.
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> stream videos, or is file download required

And what, exactly, is the difference for a server?

The myth that there is something called "streaming" that is in any way different from a "download" needs to die.
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Please do, I'll be happy to give you feedback. I'm also gathering my beliefs on this topic myself.

I find myself repeating so often, and being asked the same questions so often, that I decided to write down and maintain a description of my current beliefs on most frequent topics - to serve both as a FAQ for someone asking and as a collection of points and citations to quote.

I'm in the process of writing stuff down, but I still haven't figured out what would be the best way to publicize it. I'd like something that would show the current state of article, but would also allow to easily view the changes over time (as my beliefs get updated based on evidence). Sort of like more streamlined Wiki, or Wiki meets Github meets Etherpad or sth.
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>Nobody works well in that environment.

Linux exists, so that can't be entirely true.
They are partnering with China to get more nuclear power plants built.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/22/business/international/hin...
The crappy design of this library screams after thought. The google cloud go sdk is far better.
Apparently the web site is having some issues?

Google cache:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
Clathrate gun hypothesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis
Hehe, could be, or the recent reduction of carry-on luggage sizes for some airlines, sponsored by Samsonite and other luggage manufacturers, who knows...
15-inch Macbook Pros use (or used, maybe it's changed now?) 85W chargers, which you could tap out and fully draw on.
SystemTap (or any other dynamic tracing tool) is very powerful; I suggest to everyone who does system-level or performance-oriented work that you learn how to use it. It's not as difficult as it first looks. If you understand what a syscall is, it's useful. If you understand more about the kernel insides, e.g. the various vfs functions, scheduling, memory mapping and allocation, it gets so much more powerful. It basically lets you run arbitrary code anywhere inside a kernel (or userspace). That is, at any line of code, you can break and jump to your own code and return again. Your code can do pretty much anything - there is a way to embed C in a SystemTap script. Usually, you're just keeping counters, timers, and backtraces; there is a nice little scripting language that SystemTap compiles to C for those cases.

I have done a very similar analysis recently. I had an HTTP service with latency spikes. I used SystemTap to discover occasional long-running syscalls; the contents of the syscalls pointed out the exact problem. Once those latency spikes were clear, I still had a few very occasional spikes (as in this article). I created a SystemTap script that collected backtraces anytime our process was rescheduled after being asleep for longer than some time (using [1][2] to start/stop a timer). I then used that to plot a flamegraph. After that, the problem was pretty clear and I was able to intelligently mess with some kernel tuning parameters and eventually discover that it wasn't enough - I just need to deal with the problem on my side, from there the fix was pretty easy.

[1] https://sourceware.org/systemtap/tapsets/API-scheduler-cpu-o...
[2] https://sourceware.org/systemtap/tapsets/API-scheduler-cpu-o...
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Oh yeah, in terms of variety, totally true. I tend to just spin up a compute instance if I need any one of those though.
Gas is a smokescreen. What establishment lobbies really want is a big expansion of nuclear, which has partially been approved but is still facing strong resistance on the ground. By removing alternatives (they also slashed subsidies for wind and solar), the government is basically leaving the country no choice but to build new nuclear plants.
Great article, but the following line irked me a bit.

> played by Vancouver’s Lions Gate Bridge, the only non-iconic bridge on this list.

Vancouvers still the 3rd largest city in Canada and I think most Canadians would consider Lions Gate to be ionic in its own right. It's certainly a stunning location spanning across the Burrard Inlet into Stanley Park.

Anyways, it's not important enough to worry too much about.
Charging your laptop can do that. MBP charger is 85W.
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>I've never understood the logic behind prescription drug ads.

Pull marketing.
The only major difference between buybacks and dividends is how they are taxed. Many companies will allocate capital shareholders and decide on special dividends vs buybacks on the basis of liquidity and valuation.
Parent's just meeting people where they're at, no? ;)
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Yes, but does it play Doom?
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Yeah, based on pilot interviews I've watched where they discuss the ejection decision process, this situation was a pretty clear-cut case of "definitely eject immediately". What really impressed me was how quickly he was able to realize there was a mismatch between the HUD data and the ambient sound in the cockpit, consult a second set of instruments, realize what was going on, and make the decision.
Why is the shape of the cable a parabola and not a catenary? I've always been taught that the shape a cable makes hanging between two supports is a catenary. Isn't a suspension bridge the same thing?
It's pretty cool, but it's a little disappointing that they handwave away the possibility that block writes might not happen atomically. Formal verification is only as good as the assumptions you start from.
I cycle through light and dark variants of https://github.com/chriskempson/base16
That's one caveated headline. The United Kingdom's coal plants will be phased out within ten years provided:

1. the plants do not "install carbon capture and storage (CCS)";

2. gas-fuelled power can be found to "fill the void created by closing [the] coal-powered stations"; and

3. this proposal passes.
I suspect that renters magnify the difficulty of getting a property, which psychologically prevents them from seizing the opportunity. You need less money down than you think. The income is the important thing.
Wikipedia says [0] it's "due to the weight of the roadway being much greater than that of the cable".

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catenary#Suspension_bridge_cur...
For some reason I don't see them on Hulu. Once I do, it's goodbye Hulu.
Correct Link: http://readtext.org/science/relativity-faster-than-light-tra...
I believe that if a formal proof system had knowledge of fixed width integers, it could detect the potential overflow in your googleresearch link.
You can't buy prescription drugs without a doctor's authorization, so basically the ads are asking people to go beg their doctors for medicine they may, or may not, need.

Same logic as for advertisements for children's toys, games and movies.
Sort of.

Yes, you can get away with a 3% down payment with an FHA loan. But 3% is still $6K on a $200K property, even more if you're trying for a $250K or $300K property. That doesn't include closing costs, nor an emergency fund you need for homeowner expenses that traditionally come up.

Sure, you can afford the house at closing. Are you financially well off enough to afford it for the next 15/30 years (depending on loan term) so as to not lose your equity?

Probably not, and that's not going to get fixed until incomes start rising.
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Totally depends on where you live. Some areas rent is much more than a mortgage and vice versa.
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And I've learned something about Linus: he values that feeling (of power?) he gets from "verbally" abusing people, and is smart enough to get himself a job where he gets to do it whenever he wants.
other :) https://osmlab.github.io/show-me-the-way/
ha...youre probably right...but actually i was referencing a bad joke / metaphor...think mickey might be a trademark though

EDIT : eh...stupid question anyway

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You could get a place that isn't a "fixer upper". If there is grass, let it grow three feet high.

> Taking compound interest into account, buying a house when your young amounts to flushing hundreds of thousands of dollars down the toilet.

It really depends. Rent is also money down the toilet.

If you're "old" now, and you bought a house when you were "young", and properties have gone up in your area, then if you still have the mortgage, the remaining payments are probably very low compared to what people are paying in rent.

Rents don't have compound interest but they rise up and up over the years and decades. And every single dollar is wasted.

Of course, the specific reasoning depends on the area, especially over shorter terms.
That is an uncontrolled trial. However I did some more searches, and there do appear to be some trials showing improvement with vitamin D supplementation compared to placebo. However vitamin D wouldn't explain how a light box improves depression (as it won't affect vitamin D).

Probably the best option is to get out into the sunlight and get the sun on your skin, if the sun is high enough.
Yeah, catenary is the shape a cable makes when under its own weight, and with only its own tension holding it up.

If you hang a single 1lb weight in the middle of a clothes line, it forms very nearly a perfect V. That's because the 1lb totally dominates the 1/2 oz that the rest of the line weighs.
I had the opposite experience - I never really had the desire to own a home until I had children. Once I had them, I really wanted one. Although I have to admit, paying a mortgage does make me feel slightly like a sucker.
In contrast to others, this is a comment that reflects truth.

The only points I would contest are 1. that "a bunch" is effectively the "same thing" as large software. A "bunch" can vary in number and quality. My userland is a single "multi-call" binary and quite small. The sum total of source code is not so large that I cannot manage it. It's keeping tabs on the kernel code that presents the challenge; and 2. that "nobody cares".

If "nobody" cared, then you would not be seeing a comment such as mine because there would be nobody to author it.

Moreover there would be no reasonably small kernel source that users like me could use. Some people care enough to maintain that kernel and to keep it relatively small.

Maybe that group of people is like the software: small. Suits me just fine.
The Washington Post quoting the Voice of America. Who will save us all from these Drug crazed cyber terrorists :)

I though the war was caused by a decision taken in Washington to arm the 'rebels' in order to overthrow Assad.
I think it's more work to reason about partial block writes.

The paper does have a paragraph on this:

> The `disk_write` specification states that blocks are written atomically; that is, after a crash, a block must contain either the last-written value or one of the previous values, and partial block writes are not allowed. This is a common assumption made by file systems, as long as each block is exactly one sector, and we believe it matches the behavior of many disks in practice (modern disks often have 4 KB sectors). Using CHL, we could capture the notion of partial sector writes by specifying a more complicated crash condition, but the specification shown here matches the common assumption about atomic sector writes. We leave to future work the question of how to build a certified file system without that assumption.
One has to stay in a house 5 years to break even on buying it. I am not sure the current employment landscape is conducive to that sort of commitment.
> It really depends. Rent is also money down the toilet.

Rent = mortgage payment + premium to be able to walk away.
Interesting. I guess it comes down to personal preference. Would you rather work with somebody exceptional but abrasive, as opposed to somebody average but nice? I think many people would choose the former.

I think the reason exceptional people are abrasive is that they are primarily harsh to themselves, and that's the reason of their success. Being harsh to others is merely a side effect.

And there are people like that in every profession, for example in modern magic Dai Vernon (one of the most respected magicians that ever lived), who was also infamous for being very critical to bad magicians.
This is a really well done piece.

Totally unrelated, but I've always been fascinated by suspension bridges. When I was 12 I built one out of Lego blocks with a road deck 5 feet long, using fishing line for the cabling. I couldn't get past a few feet at first, my towers would break in half. I glued the blocks. It helped, for a bit. Finally I realized that the cables shouldn't be affixed to the towers, that they should be draped over them and anchored at the ends.

Then I got my first knex set and learned how cantilevers work.
https://github.com/minio/minio-go is a nice S3 Client library in Go
Here's a selection starting from Page 75 of the above-linked Master's Thesis, along with her citations for the statements.

P.76: "Homeownership has numerous positive effects on children" -> Dietz and Haurin 2003

P.77: "homeowners can borrow against their equity at favorable interest rates in order to make investment opportunities that require substantial amounts of money, such as home improvements, education, business ventures, or additional properties, all investments that might provide considerable future returns." -> Zhu Xiao Di, "The Role of Housing as a Component of Household Wealth"

"[life cycle wealth accumulation] is also largely determined by parental net worth, which has been shown to be the most important predictor of wealth in young adults, even over income, savings or investments" -> Conley 1999, p. 50

P.78: Mean lifetime inheritance for white baby-boomers: $125,000. Mean lifetime inheritance for black baby-boomers: $16,000. (according to the value of the dollar in 2000)

P.79: "Transformative assets are those gifts provided by parents to adult children that allow them to maintain a class status that might otherwise be out of reach. These include the payment of private school and college tuition, tutoring and extracurricular lessons for grandchildren, gifts of big-ticket items like appliances and furniture." -> Shapiro 2004, P. 10

Naturally, not all veterans' families share the same story. However, I think it is hard to argue against the immense advantage of being a homeowner on accumulating and protecting wealth, and that this opportunity was unfortunately denied to a large number of black veterans.
Counterpoint: the question you're asking has to be asked about renting also!

Are you financially well off enough to afford what the rent is going to be over the next 15-30 years?

If you aren't well off enough for the mortgage or the rent, then you're fucked either way.

Now suppose we equate mortgage with rent, and declare that the payments you're making aren't contributing to equity---they are just pure rent. Then the equity you have in that $200K property is the $6K you put in. That is what is at risk relative to renting.

(Of course we are ignoring the effects of location. Relative mortgages versus rents and the longer term picture in a given area and such.)
Not to mention the less you put down the more you're going to pay in interest over the long haul.
That is for one supplement or for "a balanced diet"? Because the way I read that it seems I could eat whatever and take the fish oil supplement.
Light and Vitamin D could have independent mechanisms of action.
That's one....

I admit my statement is a bit hyperbolic, but those who actually change their minds make up a frighteningly small minority.
> since there are no intermediate layers between the Node.js binary and the Linux kernel making Node.js applications to run almost on the metal,

I'd love to see some benchmarks! This sounds really cool.
I can appreciate the need for gut checks, and have asked people for feedback so I can get a better idea of how I'm being perceived. But the burden of knowing when you're full of shit should really fall on the individual. So to that end I think we should all strive to be conscious of how our words and actions affect those around us and the task at hand, instead of relying on someone else to rein us in.