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Providing open-source clients does not make AWS an open ecosystem. If anything, my sense is that the overall direction of the AWS platform has been to get more and more proprietary and closed with initiatives like Lambda and Redshift that can't exist at all outside AWS. Rather than being some indication of the openness of the platform, I'd say that having open-source clients and sdks simply makes good business sense.

Once you're up and running on the AWS platform with any significant infrastructure setup, you're basically locked in for life. I hope there are counter-examples, but I'm unaware of any significant migrations off of AWS in the last few years. Some of that is due to their overall pretty high service level, but it's also incredibly hard to replicate the AWS infrastructure on your own because the tooling either doesn't exist or is immature.

I think there's a really under-served niche of startups with AWS spends of greater than $200K/year that would love to move some or most of their infra off of AWS to achieve greater cost saving or unlock different product possibilities that can come with running in a datacenter or across different cloud providers. And would be willing to pay for services and tools to fill that need. I'm finding myself in that situation now, and even though we've been careful to not get tied in to most of the managed AWS services, we're still facing lock-in due to heavy integration with cloudformation. Without a good open-source or managed service alternative to just cloudformation, we're basically faced with needing to completely re-architect our systems if we move off of AWS. And full re-architecture initiatives tend to stay near the bottom of the Devops backlog if things are working.
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For clients of that size it's most likely a variant of a pledged asset line http://www.schwab.com/public/schwab/banking_lending/pledged_... at some subsidized rate in order to win their wealth management and private banking business. I mean, if you have significant holdings and if you're okay with borrowing on a floating rate, and if you think you can survive a margin call, Interactive Brokers will lend to you at 0.86% if you park $1m+ of securities with them. https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/?f=interest You'd be hard-pressed to find a mortgage on similar terms.

It's a mortgage in layman's terms as there's some principal and interest, but in reality the financial institution won't send an appraiser, there's no mortgage deed issued to the bank, the balance and interest payments are not sliced and diced into securities to be resold.

With that said, mortgages for LLCs are the preferred financing instruments for real estate investors, so they're actually a significant line of business for some banks and yes, they're very doable.
>The real truth the crisis underscored is that the ratings agencies are useless at actually scrutinizing the risks on the things they rate.

Enron was rated investment grade by the rating agencies four days before its bankruptcy. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice...
And despite all those hoops, they still manage to move quite a lot of their money overseas. I'm glad they're not able to move more money faster because I don't think my local real estate market can handle any more incoming foreign capital.
Heck the tech company I worked for was buying houses and appartments as way to stash value and invest.

So besides selling software they jumped in on the post 2008 crash and started sweeping up real estate. In retrospect it was a good investment I suspect. The value didn't double but probably went up by 30-40% since then.
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> The man thinks that those concerned with income inequality want communist style income equality.

pg's essay did not say that. I think you've misunderstood what he said, and are attributing views to him that are quite far away from reality. My best guess is that you've read his words with emotion and projected false beliefs onto his writing.

If you genuinely care about this issue, then I advise you to go back and read the essay again with a critical, logical mind. Read the words he wrote, and consider simply those words, not what you imagine or extrapolate might be the views of the person who wrote them. Consider the actual words. PG's words do not characterize the opposition argument in this debate as being in favor of communism and "100% social equality", whatever that means.

If you were to read the essay again, and attempt to connect the views you're claiming PG holds with actual words in the essay, you'd fail. PG does not characterize the opposition view as anything like how you describe.

If he characterizes the opposition, it's simply as people who argue that "social inequality is bad" without stopping to think about it in more detail, and without realizing that some inequality is fair because some people are more productive than others. The other observation in his essay is that technology amplifies this difference in productivity.
American real estate is a "safe" place to park money. Both as an investment and to get it out of your home country.

The implication is that the cash offers are dirty money. The amount of money coming from China is absurd. They have a major issue with corruption right now. They're even trying to crack down on it. If you were in China and had dirty money you'd want to get it out of the country and somewhere safe. New York, Miami, And also London. Plus lesser cities such as Vancouver and Seattle. The amount of Chinese money flooding Seattle, where I live, is absolutely absurd. It's a major talking point in local discussion.
If extremely wealthy venture capitalists don’t want to have their motives questioned when they write essays full of unsupported and self-serving arguments and demonstrating a severe lack of empathy/social understanding, then they shouldn’t post them on the internet.

Dan: I’m sure Paul Graham and this site will both be fine whether or not you you tell his critics to keep their opinions to themselves.

(Side note: literally nobody is going to confuse my idiomatic use of quotation marks to offset a sarcastic summary of an argument which I claim is as old as civilization for a direct quotation from any particular person.)

In the general genre of PG criticism, my comments are treating him with kid gloves. For a more vigorous and amusing analysis of his essays’ analytical rigor, Maciej Cegłowski provides a gem, as expected, still just as relevant ten years later: http://idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm
The Bayesian interpretation of probability is that it is a measure of subjective uncertainty. As such, a plausible model proposed by a credible member of the scientific community very much gives me a reason to update my priors.
Yes, and whenever people talk about human concepts like inequality, wealth, economics, power, or other social constructs, they are not referring to this physical reality. You can't talk about any of these without injecting values, desires, emotions, and other subjective experiences. These exist only in peoples' heads.

The objective, physical description of a scene at work might be something like "The person called 'Andrew' sat down at a table with the person called 'Bob'. They talked. Bob stood up and left the room. Andrew rested his elbow on the table and cradled his forehead in his hand. He stared at the table for a couple minutes, and then he got up, left the room, went back to his desk, and started typing quickly."

The subjective description from Bob's POV might be: "I'm a manager for a critical feature team. We had a really challenging feature request that may bring in millions of new business. Andrew is my best engineer. Knowing that he has always delivered high-quality code, I called him in to a quick meeting and explained the customer's request. He didn't say anything, but I could see the wheels turning in his head. He was already grappling with the challenge. I left to go to my next meeting, confident that the project will be done in time."

The subjective POV from Andrew's head might be: "I work hard on my code. Sometimes I wish my boss would acknowledge that. Today, he called me in to a meeting, unscheduled, and dumped a huge new project on me. I'd planned on taking my wife on a vacation to celebrate our anniversary, but now I might have to cancel if I can't get this done in time. Grr. Anyway, better get back to work so I can crank out this code."

See the difference? What happened, objectively, is only the physical actions in the real world. Moving body parts. Manipulating tools. Being physically present in the same place. But there's a whole layer of subjective experience underneath that which people take for granted, but which may be completely different between different people.

Many, many arguments come from misapplying the tools meant to deal with objective reality to subjective reality. Both PG (in several of his essays) and many of the commenters here make that mistake. I've made it myself, frequently, in the past. But in general, whenever you're talking about wants, desires, values, or reasons, you can't say "This is the way the world is" without adding the implicit qualifier "for me" or "based on this evidence".
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We let this comment be posted after the thread had closed to new comments, as we've done in the past when people's businesses are affected by material posted on HN.

(Not an opinion about the subject.)
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I've read that novel. I think your comment, while clever, and admittedly a little oblique, is still a major spoiler.

Why would you write 'spoilers' after your comment?
Its probably better to say nothing. Would you consider editing?
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Even on 8 that full-screen pdf reader now has a title bar with close button (since 8.1). And on 10 it's a normal window.

Yes, MS messed up the UX on windows 8.0. They realized it, they fixed it.
Highly recommend using Python for whatever it is you choose to do. It's very fluid from thought to code without the language getting in the way. When you have a reason to pick up other stuff like Android coding, then you can pursue those.
Gosh, I couldn't complain about Atom being slow and then move to JetBrains stuff personally... While they are a lot better than they used to be, and they're amazingly powerful and fully featured, "fast" isn't a word id use to describe them unfortunately
The fact that the author took the precaution to say that Nietzsche himself would have disagreed with his supposedly Nietzsche-inspired theory, doesn't make his conclusions regarding mainstream culture any less of a non seguitur.
However, getting that cash back is nigh on impossible because the 'offense' is allegedly perpetrated by the cash, not by you.

The law is an ass. Especially when it has anything to do with the 'war on drugs'.
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What? Win 10 runs on more older/leaner hardware then anything that's come before it. It seems like you're complaining more from emotions rather than objective criticisms.
> dealing with other people's mistakes

I stopped right there :( If you're not willing to deal with other people's mistake throughout life, you're probably so self-centered and full of your own certainty that what can be argued after is probably not worth reading. bye now :)
So, even Mark Zuckerberg can't afford a house in the bay area. /sarcasm
"I think Hannah Arendt said that one of the great achievements of Stalinism was to replace all discussion involving arguments and evidence with the question of motive. If someone were to say, for example, that there are many people in the Soviet Union who don't have enough to eat, it might make sense for them to respond, "It's not our fault, it was the weather, a bad harvest or something." Instead it's always, "Why is this person saying this, and why are they saying it in such and such a magazine? It must be that this is part of a plan."" - Christopher Hitchens
"Ariel Sharon, who led the attack, later wrote in his diary that he had received orders to inflict heavy damage on the Arab Legion forces in Qibya: 'The orders were utterly clear: Qibya was to be an example for everyone'. Original documents of the time showed that Sharon personally ordered his troops to achieve "maximal killing and damage to property", and post-operational reports speak of breaking into houses and clearing them with grenades and shooting."

I'm not sure I would call an attack by IDF troops, ordered by the government, and executed by a man who would become the future prime minister not indicative of the government's mindset. Sure that was a long time ago, but you did claim "it has never carried out terror attacks specially targeted at civilians".

A civilian is someone who is not a member of any armed forces. The Iranian scientists assassinated were not part of the armed forces, they were civilian scientists working on a military project. Much like the thousands of American civilian scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project. Furthermore, several family members of the Iranian scientists were wounded in the attacks, so whichever way you slice it they were attacks on innocent civilians. And by the way, MEK was considered a terrorist group by the US State Department at the time of the assassinations, it wasn't just Iran saying it.

So what if all of that is true? Maybe that means there is in fact a double standard, in that Israel is allowed to violate the NPT while engaging in the same behaviour as its neighbours.
>but build it in ten years.

A hundred years, actually. I made the same mistake reading the article and had to do a double take.
But reviews at Cell are academic papers; they are peer reviewed. Doudna has direct financial conflicts, it should have been disclosed. The viewpoints are usually solicited and not peer reviewed (at least ones I've been involved with), and are often meant to have an individual's biased and perhaps provocative viewpoint. Regardless, I think most of the COI argument is a little silly. None of these folks are particularly motivated by the money.
I don't know, even after smoking for a few years I could still "feel" it, beyond just the cessation of craving; it's the same feeling I get when I use nicotine lozenges sublingually for focus (which I do at most once a week to avoid tolerance)
The physics is amazing, the idea astounding.

But given the history of the universe isn't this just wildly improbable as a story? I mean, 12bn years is very long, but is it enough time for neutron stars colliding to make my wedding ring?
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I disagree - a number of things in Windows 10 (like Metro) are not necessarily bad conceptually, but feel unfinished at best.

A number of tools have half-complete functionality requiring falling back into the old mechanisms for doing things (Network Connections comes to mind), or removing methods of accessing useful information (ex. how are you supposed to find out what the total capacities of the respective batteries in modern laptops with more than one are, or even which battery it refers to as "battery 1"?).

Some things are even strangely broken (either Win8 or Win10 added a nice abstraction layer for consistent transition of headphones/speakers/... without needing to reinit your sound output or relying on the sound card hiding it from you. This behavior worked great in Win8, but now sometimes crashes any program outputting audio when headphones are unplugged.)

The tile-based UI experience is somewhat painful without a touchscreen, and I'm glad that Windows 10 migrated away from requiring that experience regardless of your ability to touch - but for the "last version of Windows", it definitely feels like most people are going to be waiting for an equivalent of 10.1.
The only exceptions are if you're in a vehicle

That's why he was stopped in the first place, for (allegedly) talking on his phone while riding. Doing so is a Vehicle Code violation. In CA, a bicycle on a public road is a vehicle subject to most provisions of the Vehicle Code.
Hmm. Gotcha. I didn't take into account utilities being paid for - that can certainly be a pretty massive difference.
Whether or not housing prices are a problem really depends on your own financial situation.
What does the title phrase actually mean? That's not a use of "regression" I'm familiar with.
Interesting, how come he had to get a loan at all? Is all of his wealth tied up in investments and Facebook stock?

Or is it that the loan is such a low interest rate that it makes more financial sense to keep making money with his cash through investments, say at ~10% return, to offset the loan interest?
Hardly.

In fact, BART sought, and was allocated, funds specifically for security cameras... not unlike how PG&E charged ratepayers in San Mateo County for gas pipeline testing and replacement that never happened.
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Same here, I use Atom for all my projects. Sometimes with > 10 files open at once. I've never seen it get anywhere that bad.
Can you refuse to show your ID to the cops?

Outside of cause supported by reasonable suspicion OR driving a vehicle, yes (under case law). But your average beat cop may not know that (or care).

"Am I being detained?"

To avoid certain ambiguities, instead ask, "am I free to go?"
> People got riled up because he touched an issue that effects people a lot in real life, is seriously effecting [sic] our society and democracy for the worse and got it really, really laughably wrong.

What did he get wrong, specifically?

The gist of PG's essay was that inequality consists of some bad components ("kids with no chance of reaching their potential") and some good ones (e.g., people producing things of incredible value); that it's a complex phenomenon made up of multiple parts; that inequality is at least partially due to individual differences in drive and productivity; that technology amplifies these differences in productivity.

He is concerned that people do not recognize this, and believes they need to recognize this if they are going to fight the bad drivers of inequality effectively. He is concerned that people oversimplify the issue and assume that inequality is all bad, or intrinsically bad.
I bought and returned a GE Reveal bulb. High CRI or not, it rendered colors terribly. Slate green turned purple. Bluish paint did something else nasty -- I forget exactly. It didn't look at all like incandescents, daylight, or other LEDs.

We returned it and tried a high CRI Cree lamp. It looked normal.
None of that addresses what I said.
Indeed, there's a clear inference that the poor are lazy which is demonstrably untrue as a rule.
Aid and help are given to other countries that aren't oil-rich, though?
Stop pretending that people sticking with Win7 is nothing but boneheaded, reactionary fear of change. You know very well that the resistance to 8 and 10 is because 8 and 10 kind of suck for many users. Embracing "the march of progress" only makes sense if each new product is better.

Nobody wants to support two major versions, but competent developers address that want by making sure each new version is at least as good as the last, not by just doing whatever and then cramming it down their customers' throats.
Good point. Ok, I think I have an idea for fixing this: make the display of flagged and deleted comments look just like ordinary comments, with only the text body replaced.
Are you running a 1Password version <5.0? In 1Password 5 AgileBits added 1Password mini, which is a small helper app running in the background. The point of this is to say that one no longer enters passwords into the extension - toggling the extension merely brings up 1Password mini, which is where passwords are entered. Once the 1P mini is unlocked, it then enters the relevant login info into the browser (by using the extension's functionality, all of which is transparent to the user.
Yeah. It's good news, definitely, but there's still a long way to go. It'll be interesting to see if they can keep up the diplomatic momentum once Kerry is gone, because he's been rather instrumental for a lot of this (as per a fascinating Aljazeera) report I watched today)
Really? I don't think that at all. Sikh guy here whos extended family back at home actually have to deal with poverty and could definitely use some just start up generating inequality in the area. There is just inequality.
Wow, This is a lot of anger. I for one appreciated the viewpoint (taken with an eye that it is his view). Anyways, for what it's worth, Lander's lab has done a bunch with CRISPR's so your initial premise is flat out wrong [eg., http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/24336569/ ]. Second, I remember when they figured out that they were targeting phage. I was working with some Cyanobacteria that had a bunch of crispr loci as well. I do remember distinctly it being one of the first times that a whole new bio came from large part from informatics. (Another being lncRNA ultra conserved elements). Anyways, I really don't get the viciousness of this response.
Pardon me, do you understand what "spoiler" means?
> The fact that google stores your search queries for later suggestion is spyware to some and convenience to others.

There is one very significant difference. The fact, that the Google search is being done at Google servers, so you have to send out the query - and you are aware, that you are sending the query over network to another computer.

Not so with Windows 10 - search in start menu (with Cortana and Bing integration disabled) still sends your query to Bing. Why? It cannot do anything with the search, your local machine is being searched, why should be the query sent at all? The solution would be to firewall SearchUI.exe from sending out anything. But it turns out, that this was intentionally made difficult:

a) The firewall rules include exe version numbers.

b) The exe versions, their respective firewall rules and your preferences are changed by updates.

c) You cannot forbid or manually vet the updates.

So basically a+b+c together, Microsoft can (and does) change anything behind your back, without you noticing.

> There are a set of checkboxes under advanced options in the Windows 10 install to "disable spyware" and, it turns out, having those checkboxes didn't stop people from complaining.

As mentioned above, they are there for good feeling, if they are there. They don't really work as a reasonable person would imagine they would. For some things (i.e. telemetry, update vetting), there are no check boxes at all. It does not help, that even for check/combo boxes that are there, they are silently reset with updates.

No wonder that people think, that this is unreasonable and talk loudly about that. And yes, it is easy to address - just don't do things behind people's back, be transparent with data you are sending out, allow out outs (you can ask at OOBE, without hiding choices) and don't silently change preferences. You know, behave how a honest person would behave.
"How am I misreading this? I don't feel like I'm cherry-picking, I feel like I'm finding the theme of the text. If that's not it, then what is its theme? Its central idea?"

I don't see how he advocated a position that poor people deserve to be poor. He advocated a position where being rich is ok. These are two different things. It also focuses discussion on economics - eliminating mega-wealth should not be made priority, but the focus should be placed on poverty minimization.