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> "NASA has become a constituency-driven project rather than mission-driven."

NASA manned spaceflight has, which is distinguished from unmanned spaceflight, which doesn't have the same problem.

This is because the propulsive force of the Apollo program was primarily LBJ, who was a master politician. He made the Apollo program a constituency-driven project by wheeling and dealing in congress, to great effect. But those deals outlived the Apollo program and LBJ as well. They twisted NASA manned spaceflight and resulted in the mis-step of the Shuttle program and the diminished capabilities and high costs of the post Apollo era.
visa is your main concern. I am Brazilian as well and you can't work in Ireland (legally) without a VISA sponsorship from a company.
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It's called Amazon. Other cloud services and bare metal hosts are not called Amazon.
This isn't even bare metal. This is just pinning or affinity. (Pinning, or affinity, depending on host failure mode - do they failover to a new host, and do they all get to be on the same host again?)

Sure, your jobs aren't fighting another customer's jobs for CPU; now you're fighting your own jobs for CPU.
Thank you. You mentioned that you plan on adding a re-ranker. Is that a re-ranker that encourages diversity? Just like what is done in this paper: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1510.03055.pdf
We're just not going to agree on this. I hear you saying "I can roll my own for less", and in my head I'm seeing all the snowflake PaaSes I've seen in the past few years while working for Labs.

It looks good now.

Then you move on and someone else is stranded with a completely custom environment that only does the things you thought of at first.

Cloud Foundry isn't complex for a developer. That's the point. Deployment involves typing `cf push` and waiting a minute or two.

But the essential complexity of managing very large herds of heterogenous applications and services doesn't vanish simply because you aren't using them right now. It's always latent. We and other companies working on Cloud Foundry have already fixed problems you have never thought of.
The zoning laws are real but in places like Denver there are a lot of mixed residential/commercial spaces. I tried to get a loan to redevelop an older motel once into a combined living/working space, where adjoined rooms would be Office on one side and living accommodation on the other. Sunnyvale was a bit dubious but willing to give it a try, but at the time I couldn't swing the whole loan weight (challenges of being a "new" development company as opposed to an established one, I could of course partner with one but they all wanted 33% off the top which made it a really expensive proposition.)

As someone who occasionally does work from home the biggest challenge was getting the rest of the family to treat you as being "at the office" even though you were in the office over the garage.
How is the demise of DEC and demise-of-IBM-as-a-micro-and-minicomputer-maker not an example of an interesting case of disruption by Apple, Compaq, and others?
JSON isn't ugly in languages that aren't JavaScript. It's ugly in languages which aren't dynamically typed and have poor type systems.
Maybe Apportable will eventually have Swift support.
Solving poverty is a much harder problem than going to Mars. It's not that we don't have the resources - by most estimates everyone in the world could have a comfortable working-class lifestyle if wealth was evenly distributed. The difficulty is political. Nobody, not even the superpowers, has enough power to make changes like that. Even if they did, they would have to trample on the rights of hundreds of millions of people to exercise it, and that would inevitably turn violent. Changes like that have to be slow and according to the will of the people. No amount of money can help. But the governments of individual countries can work towards it in small steps, and most liberal-leaning countries actually are. Relatively uncontroversial socialist policies like progressive taxation, social security, universal healthcare, welfare payouts, and public works projects reduce inequality within countries over time. More controversial policies like free immigration and free (really free, not TPP) trade reduce inequality between countries. Continuing advances in worker productivity and growing support for things like universal basic income mean the situation will only get better with time.

On the other hand, going to Mars is just an engineering problem. A whole 10-year campaign of Mars missions could cost less than what the US spends on its meager socialist policies in a single year. Progress down here and progress up there aren't mutually exclusive.
If you have software that costs that much, you will want to run it on hardware optimized for that software. (Does it want lots of GPU cores? I/O? Raw computrons? Does it prefer more cores or more GHz/core?) Unless Amazon happens to have exactly what you want available, you'll be better off putting it in a lab or datacenter.
A number of years ago, my team hired an experienced individual who was quite invaluable to our team despite the fact that their experience was in a different problem domain and a different technology stack. The reason they were still useful was because they had a good understanding of what we might call "systems management software". That is, if you need to write software to manage a set of heterogeneous systems distributed across a networked environment, this person had a lot to offer.

(Unfortunately management did not recognize this person's value to the rest of the team until they had already accepted a better job at another company, but that is a different story.)

It seems that there are three different ways one can "specialize": problem domain (e.g. business accounting), solution domain (e.g. "systems management software", "data science"), or tool-set (e.g. J2EE). Each form of specialization has its trade-offs, but it strikes me that tool-set specialization is particularly likely to get one stuck working on frustratingly complex legacy systems.

My attitude about specialization vs. generalization (that I think resonates with the OP) is not whether we should specialize, but when. To my mind, specialization is a necessity, and it does increase one's income, but it also incurs the risk that the specialization will become obsolete before you are ready to retire. When you look at risk-adjusted lifetime earnings[1], it seems to me that the most reasonable strategy is to delay specialization as long as possible.

[1]Warning: statement made without real numbers.
"Ruined life" can and should refer to an event that negatively affects other major areas of one's life that are not directly connected to that event. Being able to buy a house has nothing to do with a random company getting hacked, unless that hack involved getting your personal information into the hands of criminals, who then use that to commit criminal activity which leads to false accusations against you regarding your creditworthiness, leading to lenders not trusting you with a house loan.
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of the main reasons I still run Opera 12: Instant global JS on/off switch built right into the browser.
Maybe we could distribute the computing on these dedicated hosts, to have like, virtual dedicated hosts. And then run them from Minecraft... It's the future.
Sounds like WordFence. Email notifications are configurable. Turning off most of them is advisable. I've had trouble with users with nominally static IP addresses changing with sufficient frequency to be too much of an annoyance to stay with IP whitelist. Limiting the failed login attempts and maxing out the lockout period cuts down on a lot of the bot activity.
That's not really how economics works. If you raise the wages of unskilled laborers, then indeed the effect you describe happens. However, the marketplace still demands engineers, and so any drop in the supply will lead to an increase in wages until some equilibrium point is reached.
You should check out http://flutter.io/ which is a Dart environment that works on Android and iOS. It's probably closer to web development (without a document or CSS), than traditional Android development.
Are your open source contributions small or are they large, like contributions to a well known database or a well known web framework?
The target may or may not be tax delinquent expats.

It will be used on other targets, however. It's a great way of limiting your freedom of movement, citizen. It puts a whole new meaning on "You're not finished until the gorilla says you're finished."

Disclaimer: I am an international tax lawyer who does a LOT of expatriation projects.
Unqualified labor is still quite cheap in Poland.
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With VMs the customer can share a physical host with others and not have security concerns. This cohosting lets aws pack customers more efficiently and have much better margins for the same quality service.

With containers on bare metal, they could not cohost customers.
Really interesting to see you had a similar use-case...

[ you explain the approach much better than OP :]
There is a bug in your code:

var o = new F(i, i, i, i, i, i, i, i, i, i, z)
z = o
// ... skipped
o.z = z

This makes o.z = o, so only the last object survives. When you use constructor you actually link all of them together - which means there is more garbage around - GCs are more expensive.

If you fix this bug, e.g. by doing

var o = new F(i, i, i, i, i, i, i, i, i, i, z)
o.z = z
z = o

you actually OOM in prop-benchmark-a.js case because object there is less compact than one created by constructor. Just as the post predicts.
To think of it another way, smaller companies might save money by buying bare metal and renting colo space. But larger companies would spend more just managing the separate bill for the colo, not to mention the logistics of another datacenter.
Are there any good, dependable, modern alternatives if you don't want to deal with the hardware, and also don't need "scale on demand"? The only name I know is SoftLayer, which is certainly not cheap.
If regular gas cars are so great, why do they need government subsidies?

Hell, if gas is so great, why does it need government subsidies?

Do your research. Subsidies for traditional cars and for oil are massive and dwarf anything Tesla has ever gotten.
> Free banking for all is a recent development.

Even just plain banking for all is a not-yet-achieved state (much less free banking for all.) [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unbanked
No mention of TSMC in the article?
You might be referring to Flutter, which is a project of Chrome, started independently from Dart, and who's purpose is to make the core of Chrome better for app development, not find a purpose for Dart.

Flutter started with JS as the scripting language. The Dart team is certainly lending a lot of support to Flutter, because of the promise of a compelling mobile story for Dart.
A completely contrary case can be made where static typing is doomed because hardware is getting more and more powerful, JIT and tracing is getting better and dynamic typing is convenient to the programmer while static typing is very convenient to the compiler and the processor.

It's nonsense, both ways. Both static and dynamic type systems have their uses and, unless we substantially change the way we use computers (which is plausible) I don't see either side wiping out the other.
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no. I wrote a great explanation of how valuations work with comparable companies, EBITDA, and DCFs and then hit the back button.

Rest assured, that regardless of how much financial wizardry you perform using models, a back of the napkin approach is probably as accurate at this stage anyway.

Not to mention, Postmates is pretty easy to predict because it will never be worth anything in the public market and therefore doesn't matter. It will be acquired by someone like Uber or Amazon in a best case scenario but will likely just run out of cash and die.
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I wasn't being 100% sarcastic. It's sometimes actually nice to use saas downtime as an excuse to take the day off without being the guy who has to fix it.
Its pretty much just theming of various google sites. The subtlty of some it is cool. Like the volume control on the Youtube videos plays the light saber sounds whenever you try to change volume.
Dupe, you may want to upvote the other one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10618292
I have talking SETI. It should be like the Contact movie TempleOS being the alien device.

If that doesn't happen, the next best thing is to talk to my SETI all day and say fuck you niggers. The third option is ridiculous -- get buttfuck and totured by the CIA in a Job? Talking to my SETI all day is incomparibly better. Ya think!!
Playing that game as the Ottoman Empire was hugely enlightening. Surrounded on all sides by potential enemies, a barely coherent population, not enough resources, and a million miles from industrialization. Whee!
Well duh.. The point is that its cool to a star wars fan.
Because it breaks most mobilizers/"reading mode" browser plugins which means they can show you more ads.
As if everybody has that option.
> "he doesn't work too hard"

This is desirable.

It's not surprising that this person is a "Founder/CEO" and her definition of "A+" is "working hard". But she'll give you some worthless stock options!
hands down one of the best software engineering articles I've read in a long time.
It's a mainstay for adding new contacts in Line and to some degree Facebook.

Just the other day I saw a full poster add in the subway that was just a QR code.

I still don't understand why QR readers don't come out-of-the-box on smartphones.
> Here's an interesting factoid about contemporary policing

Pedantic correction: Properly speaking, a "factoid" is something which is NOT a fact fact, but resembles one. Similarly to how an android is not a man.

I realize people are starting to use it like "small fact", but, uh, get off my lawn.
.htaccess are a huge drag for performances. I think it might contribute to the slow label.
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And, of course, mixed retail and residential has a long history. Retail really benefits from being at street level and that's often even undesirable for residential. But the common thread is that these sort of things apply to areas that are already zoned at least partially commercial as opposed to putting them in purely residential areas.
You can implement the HTTP parse logic in Minecraft using redstone. Deploy nginx or Apache Traffic Server in front of your Minecraft and you are good.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10615918
http://www.spacex.com/about "Profitable and cash-flow positive, the company has nearly 50 launches on its manifest, representing close to $5 billion in contracts."
They're for a (somewhat) niche iOS project, so not terribly well-known.
Would you mind explaining a little about how bare metal is different from this? Isn't a dedicated host a real physical machine?
Uhh, even with containers you really can't cohost in a multi-tenant system. Containerization doesn't securely segregate arbitrary code in the same way traditional virtualization does, and there are still security issues with that.

I'm sure AWS is improving on this, as they need to with Lambda and its underlying containerization architecture. But everyone else? Its going to be a while before you can call it "secure".
Has the State Department issued a Worldwide alert like this before?
I shopped in a WinCo the last time I was in Kent, Washington. It has truly amazingly low prices, and was quite a pleasant shopping experience. The company's formula would indeed find willing customers in other parts of the country if the company can figure out a way to expand some more.
It's worth keeping in mind that a lunar landing was considered technically feasible in a relatively short timespan by NASA planners _before_ the Kennedy speech. All they needed was the cash, otherwise the timescale would stretch as cheaper lift vehicles and techniques were invented (perhaps into the 1980s, I've read). Kennedy acknowledges this reality in the speech: "accelerating the existing space program".

Compare that to a Mars landing today. Here in 2015 we have many more unsolved problems than the lunar landing planners did in 1957. How do you cope with radiation? What about long-term nutrition? Gradual loss of vision due to microgravity and loss of skeletal mass? Psychological issues? I sincerely doubt that these problems are "comparatively less difficult than the challenge that Apollo faced".

Apollo's key areas of advancement were in manufacturing and spaceflight control. Life-support was disposable and mission durations were short enough to make solar flares unlikely and skeletal degradation very slight. While it's true that we have far greater manufacturing and control technology than we did in the 60s that's only a small subset of the total technology we're going to have to invent to get more than corpses to Mars.
In terms of the distances from 'civilization', I'm reminded of this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Fur_Company

Of course, there were plenty of people already there, so it's only one aspect of many. Still though, those guys were a long way from home.
Probably because it's not worthwhile yet considering the laboring costs.
I think those who consciously abstain from voting are the ones who have the biggest right to complain about a system that by design can no longer be changed. But the stupidity of the idea you mention, that you're not allowed to participate or complain if you don't vote, permeates US culture. It assumes that voting itself is some sort of great good, in and of itself, and ignores the fact that especially in the US, most votes simply don't count. It ignores the fact that even with the votes that do count, the representatives do not carry out the will of the people. It simply ignores the fact that a republic cannot represent the will of the people, that it devolves into a high school popularity contest, and that people are frustrated exactly because of this state, the absolute failure of the idea of a representative democracy (at least in the US).

At least the people who choose not to vote can stand up and be proud that they didn't partake in the rigged theatre that passes for a republic's elections. They can be proud that they didn't waste time, resources, and money trying to vote and encourage people to vote for someone who would not carry out the will of the people, time, resources, and money that could have been better spent on actual solutions rather than promoting the illusion of a people's will. Pretending that elections matter and that by electing the right person, the people's will will be done is mere fantasy and wasting time promoting it is indeed a drain to society. So, yes, for the weak-minded idiots, if you don't vote, you're not allowed to complain. For the people that can think, not voting is the only act of power one has left in this high school popularity contest named politics (at least in the US).
... Meanwhile, any American traveler is more at risk of being ran over by a bus on their way to the airport, than of being targeted by "conventional or unconventional weapons."
This completely goes against the point the article is making. The premise that building more roads creates more congestion. Road diets enable modal shift.

Oslo and Berlin are planning to ban the car from the city centre. It is about recognising that the car is a very bad form of transport for cities. It also has severe negative health effects on the population.

Your argument feels like a smoker trying to justify why they should be allowed to smoke wherever they like.
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What's "non-sense" about it?
Best I could find:

> The last time the State Department issued a similar worldwide alert was Dec. 2014.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/11/23/state-departme...
What you say is true, but it needs better wording perhaps.

Like 'closure' I see how it is a toxic saying that harms people.

Did telling people their life is ruined (and having that attitude) just because they had an affair publicised, contribute to the suicides, perhaps. Self fulfilling.
Yes.

>The most recent worldwide travel alert was issued in December 2014, and prior to that in August 2013, September 2011, and May 2011.

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/23/politics/state-worldwide-trave...
As rare as this may seem, the State Dept. has issued four previous worldwide travel alerts [May - Aug 2011, Sep 2011 - Dec 2012, Aug 2013, Dec 2014 - Mar 2015]. This amounts to about 20% of the past five years.
I never get this line of argument. Yes the probability of getting killed by a vehicle is perhaps higher based on Stats but this does not mean that we should not pay a bit extra attention to these travel advisories, right ? Why does it have to be a zero sum thing ?
Not to nitpick, but, innocent until proven guilty? To accuse someone of tax fraud is morally repugnant, when both the facts and courts say otherwise. This isn't really a scandal, more of a personal matter (for him).
Yeah, and if you try to add restrictions to the software license itself you'll also end up with GPL incompatible code
The heart of the case was whether OEMs could install Netscape and/or remove IE. One direct result was that Microsoft could not insist on its preferred installation of Windows.

Microsoft was also prevented from charging the major OEMs different prices, which was its main way of rewarding OEMs for doing installations the way Microsoft wanted.
Most of the issues at the zoning level are about people not following the rules and ending up in an enforcement situation.

I've been through this a few times. You familiarize yourself with the rules and file for a variance before you start working, assuming your town has zoning rules about this.

In my case, they were most interested in vehicular traffic and business visitors. My one neighbor made a big deal about an issue, and the zoning board ultimately decided in my favor.

I don't think an Uber or AirBnb flouting the rules in the interest of disruption is called for at all.
IBM got "disrupted" by Apple in what sense? It responded with the insanely successful IBM PC and in fact was disrupted not so much by innovation as poor business decisions (e.g. signing a contract with Microsoft that allowed Microsoft to undermine it).

Now, in 1985 you might have written a story about how Commodore (say) had disrupted Apple. But that didn't go too well.

DEC certainly grabbed a lot of market from IBM in the 70s but, um, look who's still in business (selling mainframes no less)? DEC had its lunch eaten by Compaq et al, but who absorbed both of them? HP, a powerhouse from the 1970s. Oh yeah, and then IBM and DEC got "disrupted" by Sun.

It actually looks a lot like the hard disk story -- small innovators come out with a new thing and quickly gain success but ultimately can't sustain it and fall by the wayside or get acquired by a big established player -- with the far more recent exception of Apple which came and ate the lunches of a whole bunch of companies some of whom had "disrupted" it a decade or so earlier.

And Christensen's theories are absolutely useless for explaining anything Apple or Steve Jobs did.
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I am also curious about this.