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You can have 3 years at McDonalds.

No, that's clearly not what it means.

"3+ years experience" always means "3+ years of relevant experience."

Mostly that clause is added to weed away wannabes.

No. It's specifically there to weed out anyone with 2.99726 years experience of, also. In other words, it's just nonsense filler.

In more direct terms, what it's really trying to say is:

"Shit, the bossman wants me to crank out 10 position reqs before the 4p meeting. But I'm so hungry I can't think straight, and all the good bagels in the kitchen have been taken... What am I gonna say... I know, lemme just mouse-grab from this other startup's jobsite over here..."
First, it would behoove you to run a full node on your desktop PC.

What you will surely find is that maxing out your CPU at 100% for hours on end isn't very fun and isn't necessarily conducive to getting other work done at the same time. This is again to say nothing of the bandwidth requirements, streaming videos or playing games for example may become out of the question depending on the quality of your network connection.

This is to say, at 1MB blocks, full nodes on the desktop are already becoming problematic for some users. The warning signs are as clear as day. What's more, to even get the performance of full nodes on desktop to this level has been a monumental feat and one largely spearheaded by the so called "small blockists" - th efforts of Dr. Adam Back, Gregory Maxwell and Dr. Pieter Wuille have been absolutely essential to making Bitcoin full nodes at least runnable on consumer hardware. For example, Greg Maxwell claims testing an original version 0.1 full node would take upwards of _20 weeks_ to sync fully.

Second, Gavin Andresen originally proposed 20MB blocks starting January 2016, and doubling every two years [1]:

> CPU and storage are cheap these days; one moderately fast CPU can easily keep up with 20 megabytes worth of transactions every ten minutes.
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> Twenty megabytes downloaded plus twenty megabytes uploaded every ten minutes is about 170 gigabytes bandwidth usage per month – well within the 4 terabytes/month limit of even the least expensive ChunkHost plan.
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> Disk space shouldn’t be an issue very soon– now that blockchain pruning has been implemented, you don’t have to dedicate 30+ gigabytes to store the entire blockchain.
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> So it looks to me like the actual out-of-pocket cost of running a full node in a datacenter won’t change with a 20 megabyte maximum block size; it will be on the order of $5 or $10 per month.
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> I chose 20MB as a reasonable block size to target because 170 gigabytes per month comfortably fits into the typical 250-300 gigabytes per month data cap– so you can run a full node from home on a “pretty good” broadband plan.

That we now see Gavin entertaining a much lesser fork - to 2MB instead of his previously claimed "safe" 20MB - speaks volumes about the severity of this issue.

Now, the Bitcoin core team has proposed a similar increase to 1.6MB effective through SegWit. Hence, the divisiveness of this issue isn't just about the numbers, but it is regretably devolved into a political power struggle with one side apparently wanting to demote the other side. "Big blockists" have long seen no harm in putting full nodes datacenters, backing their logic up with such gems as "Satoshi said this was fine 8 years ago therefore it's fine now". Meanwhile the "small blockists" - who are comprised of the very people who optimized Bitcoin full nodes to the point where we can now have this very debate - believe you need desktop PC users of full nodes to have a truly P2P network.

[1]: http://gavinandresen.ninja/does-more-transactions-necessaril...
The first release of D was in 2001. That's 15, not 5, years ago.
It's not extremely expensive, but it's clearly aimed at enterprise-level companies and not at small businesses.
I've recently been doing a bunch of stuff with sports stats, which involves lots of GIS data. This sort of thing comes up a lot - trying to find a player's 'territory' based on coordinates of their actions in a game, without including outlying events that cause you to overestimate the area.

There's a concept in animal behaviour called a 'home range' which is more or less the same thing - GPS attached to tigers in the wild etc. Some of the algorithms there are quite interesting, from simply drawing a bounding box around the the data points, to working out the probability density, to things like LoCoH, which sort of recursively build up convex hulls from nearest neighbours.

All of these things are pretty much possible in SQL to one degree of performance or another. But ultimately I'm fascinated by things like SQL Server's R support - you can get far simpler, more natural implementations of these things in R (or indeed in custom aggregates or functions in other languages). I think in the long term, database engines that offer this sort of extensibility are going to thrive for analytics work, be they SQL based or otherwise.
Here is a photo of the escalators in Holborn station, as mentioned in the article

https://www.flickr.com/photos/topaas/16557435918/
They are!!! Especially in the larger cities. In fact, in some ways I think landlords and apartment companies raise rents deliberately to push certain classes of people out. In the last apartment complex I live at before I purchased my house, there were numerous restrictions on how many people you could have over, how long a guest could stay at your apartment, even how long your car could take up a parking space. We were spied on, constantly monitored, and we were always under the threat of an exorbitant rent increase. It was not unheard of for someone to get a $300 Per month increase in the rent when they went to renegotiate their lease. This was an upper-class, "nice" complex. I can't imagine what it's like for low income people. Living in an apartment is awful, and you are absolutely at the whims of corporations and landlords.
That's your house, you disconnect the cable and turn the lights out ;-)

Well said btw. Right there with you.
The tokens you pass out even expire automatically. How useful.
That's just not how probability works at all. You absolutely can put a number on risk. You can look at past drugs like it that and determine what percent caused harm in humans after passing animal trials. You can narrow it down to drugs that are similar.

If you want to get really advanced, which isn't necessary, you could fit a bayesian model to all the data you have. Or use a prediction market to determine the risk.

Don't confuse uncertainty with unpredictable. Everything is uncertain, but few things are unpredictable.
This is seriously awesome. Got to love when you make a blog post about a 20x speedup, and the internet returns the favor with an Infx speedup.
Curator at your service. HN is for gratification of intellectual curiosity, whether there's a lesson in it or not. "Lessons to hackers" is too narrow a way to look at it.
The time to investigate outlandish hypotheses is after the space of more plausible ones is exhausted.
I have a bank you can deposit your money into and invest through. I also have an insurance company that will guarantee you won't lose a dime with that bank. Trust me.
I suspect that fusion/fission models don't allow for the way it's being observed.
I think the 20% number is a misnomer. It's a good number to have, but I think you can get away with less. I have good credit, not super great, but good. I have some student loan debt. I have some credit card debt. However I was still only required to put down $10,000 with an interest rate of 3% to get my home. For me, when I added up mortgage, interest, insurance, and basic bills, it was still less than living in An apartment.
Is that really true? I thought Java and .NET had pretty comparable mindshare in the enterprise server-side world. Certainly Windows desktops rule but line of business web apps are often J2EE on RHEL/CentOS. Or is that not true anymore?
I'm responding to adrianlmm's child post here due to nesting limits.

1) Because (in the US) of the fifth amendment, as I had mentioned before and you, it seems, either missed or chose to ignore.

2) Decrypting the device would, due to forensic procedures, result first in an image being taken of the entire device, meaning that content outside the scope of any discovery process or search warrant would then become available to the judge/state/prosecutor/government, and said content, depending on specific judicial rules in effect, may also end up as a matter of public record. It also means that anything you've said on your device's record, no matter how relevant, can be held against you without your ability to exercise your rights to refrain from speaking.

Privacy isn't about keeping secrets, it's about controlling access to the truth and ensuring that you are able to take an active role in any action that results in the truth being disclosed to a party who has the authority to take said actions against you.

Similarly, the fifth amendment isn't designed to protect criminals from confessing a crime which they in fact committed, but to protect an innocent person's "truth" from being taken out of context and used to bias a judge or jury against them.

Honestly, the more I think about it, it does boil directly down to freedom from self-incrimination (e.g. saying something that would get you in trouble regardless of its applicability or truth). Leaders in our history had the presence of mind to recognize that an authority figure could easily choose to punish anything said by someone who was, according to procedure, supposed to be innocent.

It's a moot point (encryption) in civil issues anyway. A civil complaint should not allow any random person to use the power of the courts as a bully to force their enemies to disclose their private information. There's a reason civil and criminal procedure are so different.
No, you can make a timeless design with or without wood. The point is it would look equally at home in any time, or at least anytime from now into the future.
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Setting aside the cost which I thought similar for Linux.....

If you are running Linux , azure works really well. Give it a try if you can set aside your bias.
Comments like this, as well as "you sound like you don't know what you're talking about", break the HN guidelines. Please edit incivility out of your comments here, and keep them substantive.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
I'm getting the sneaking suspicion that you want to decrypt the device of your spouse/partner. Is that your intent?

I'm taking your speech and applying my own context to it. Precisely what would happen to someone whose private communications are laid bare in a court of law, or indeed, to anyone.
Probably because hardly anyone owns one. They are luxury items.
> “The alien-megastructure idea runs wrong with my new observations,” he says, as he thinks even advanced aliens wouldn’t be able to build something capable of covering a fifth of a star in just a century.

Thet could have built it over hundreds or thousands of years. All we can infer is that if it is aliens, they deployed it in just a century.
Okay, that's a pretty good resource. I will note that you're quoting a $17 billion fine that was redistributed to the people affected, but it sounds like the main contention is that nobody went to jail. It all seems plausible, so I can't fault investors for demanding that.

Reading between the lines, I see that the Justice Department is most annoyed that the FDIC and government-sponsored Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac took the heat from these loans.

I can see why the JD is motivated, but it does raise the question of why individuals all over are so angry. A couple reasons might be A.) There was an unpopular tax imposed to pay for the bailouts B.) People overpaid for their mortgages(I see that this settlement includes principle reduction on outstanding mortgages) or C.) Angry people are primarily investors in mortgage securities.

I feel like A would've been mentioned by now. And C is unlikely because I don't think note investing is actually that common: Banks don't usually sell their mortgages to one-off investors, so you usually have to trick a really small local bank into giving you one to get into the club; and then you need the skills to be someone's 'lienlord'.

So is the root cause of the anger B: People feel like they overpaid for their houses?
In most, where divorces are "no fault".

Friend, if you suspect someone has cheated on you, HN isn't the place to go for validation. Talk to your partner.
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I meant using multiple variables to categorize outlier events. What was shown here are also techniques to categorize discrete events ("Does this day cross some threshold?"). I guessed supervised learning methods.
I wasn't merely referring to your particular words but to a more general sentiment which is expressed in many meme posters that are shared on Facebook, etc.

Are there well publicized examples of US bankers who did crimes related to banking - not great harm but crimes - and were let off due to being high earners?

The example you mention above is nothing specific about bankers; it's a claim that a rich person gets off lightly because he can pay for the damages. In fact, related to this particular case, there is a claim that the banker was targeted by police because of his wealth, because other hit-and-run drivers have gotten off completely.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/40071519
Seems wonderfully retro to see an article about NSDocument on the front page of Hacker News. :)
You need CALs for things like Domain users (people logging in to managed desktops), Sharepoint users, and Exchange accounts. Your business's internal users of Microsoft products.

Your own code running on Windows Server, no. MS charges editions of things like SQL Server and IIS based on functionality, cores, nodes, etc.
The author of this blog post has a course on Udacity where he teaches the basics of real time rendering using three.js
Are there lots of good examples of fraud (not just claims, but actually in some way reasonably proven crimes) done by bankers where they're let off because they're bankers?
> For some reason, using a server really stumps new web programmers.

With Beaker you can program your client and server all on one page in one document. It makes working with D3 really easy. Here are some examples:

D3 JS and Python:
https://pub.beakernotebook.com/#/publications/560c9f9b-14e6-...

node client and server:
https://pub.beakernotebook.com/#/publications/560b4be1-2d91-...
Nothing in the article supports the claim that Netflix might accept bitcoin payments.
(if you don't know the author, he's a web evangelist, working previously for Mozilla, now for Microsoft; now you can understand his frustration, in the times of recent Chrome monoculture in the web)

I wholeheartedly agree with the author and wanted to post another long rant here, but I resisted the temptation :)

In this particular example of a WebGL demo, I think it was not exactly malicious, the issue was IMO most probably due to writing non-future-proof code, and then abandoning it (there was a related post last week about writing non-future-proof Python code that will break in python4, same applies here). Lots of early "HTML5" demos do not work anymore because they used some not-yet-standardized and/or prefixed syntaxes that have changed since etc.

Anyway, the link to [1] is very interesting. Many people underestimate the risk of third-party JS server going down (or being slow), adblockers preventing some JS from executing etc.

Edit: to clarify, I don't mean you should not use JS (heck I'm a JS developer, and IMHO the times of "progressive enhancement" are long gone, unless you serve almost only text content). I don't mean you should have 3 redundant servers to serve your JS from; just detecting that the thing didn't load, and not making assumption that it will be reliably delivered to the user in 0.1 s, would be good enough. There are pages out there that will totally break or fail to load if some non-important JS file is not loaded due to a network issue or whatever else.

It doesn't require infinite amount of work to handle some cases like that (though, sadly getting management buy-in for even small things like this is not easy, and we might sometimes have to go against the flow for the good of our users).

[1] http://kryogenix.org/code/browser/everyonehasjs.html
So let's hear some more plausible ones.

If you assert that no intelligent extraterrestrial entities are capable of harnessing, redirecting, or otherwise manipulating the light from a star, then you have a burden of proof of your own to meet.
Url changed from http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/16/isis-app/, which points to this.
> I'd much rather have security for the EHR managed within the EHR system itself

I would trust Google's security team over most EHRs. I base this on finding a few sql injection flaws and single DES usage in one I worked on but I don't have broad experience in many EHRs.
I've always supposed it's a plan for calculus. It seems to me to make more sense that way round.
More info: WHOIS for cryptsy.com:

Name: PAUL VERNON
Organization: CRYPTSY INTERNATIONAL LTD
Street: 5 CALLE AL MAR
City: BELIZE CITY
State/Province: BELIZE
Postal Code: 00000
Country: BZ
Phone: +1.8889639935

which is a "virtual office" space in Belize.[1]

Cryptsy is not in Dun and Bradstreet or the Florida Department of Corporations database. But they have another corporate name,
"Project Investors Inc." It has a BBB rating of F, with 17 complaints.[2]
That business is registered with the state of Florida.[3] Those records include the CEO's home address, which is in Boynton Beach, FL.

[1] https://www.abcn.com/offices-belize-city--calle-al-mar-3605
[2] http://www.bbb.org/south-east-florida/business-reviews/busin...
[3] http://search.sunbiz.org/Inquiry/CorporationSearch/SearchRes...
Funny. It's like "Hi, you are rich. We like you. You should onate your money".

There are tradeoffs, so pick services you like.
> Apple and Google could easily kick apps used to organize violence out of their official app stores. But would they be willing to build further barriers to usage directly into their mobile operating systems?

This is a silly question for the Android side (and possibly the iOS side as well). That would be a monumental effort that would seem easily thwarted by simply installing your own version of the OS.
Which I am sure the intelligence agencies are having a field day with.

Nothing like rolling your own encryption.

What are the chances it was created by one of the intelligence agencies?
Oil is really complicated. It is deeply tied to US foreign policy and all recent military conflicts. Lower foreign oil prices harm US oil producers, but they're awesome for almost every other industry (unless they bought oil futures!) Lower fuel prices also make it easier for people and goods to move more cheaply/freely around in an economy, which is also incredibly good for everyone!

I don't know the answer to your question, but I did some research and will also speculate. I could be totally wrong.

I don't believe there's a tariff on oil imports in the US. So why don't US oil companies buy foreign oil? Probably because the infrastructure required to move and store oil is incredibly expensive, and because the oil buyers could just go straight to the source.

The amount of oil that would have to be purchased in order to increase prices again is totally astronomical. I imagine most oil companies prefer to have low storage costs and therefore try to avoid overproducing, which means they probably don't have massive amounts of unused storage space.
Would love a sample of this..
>>The stand-on-the-left controversy is no exception. Harrison, Stoneman and their colleagues believe it could make a noticeable impact on congestion at some of London’s busiest stations, congestion that will only get worse as train design, frequency and reliability improve, as the trains get faster and the doors get bigger, and ever more passengers are dumped on the platform at a time.

THAT is a very british approach. Planners know that a problem is approaching, a problem created willingly by infrastructure improvements elsewhere. But rather than address that spillover issue with money/time/new bricks, yet another code of behavior is to be enforced. The people are to shoulder the burden yet again. Heaven help the tourist in a hurry who gets an asbo for not maximizing the carrying capacity of tube escalators. I wait for the day the escalator stops and everyone stands motionless for fear of being ticketed.

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyL5mAqFJds where shoddy architecture is answered by suggesting that things will be ok so long as only lightweight people enter the building.

And i thought there was an obesity crisis? They've been telling us for years to keep moving and now here is a government agency telling people to stand motionless? I say encourage people to burn calories by running the escalators in reverse!
> Or is that not true anymore?

No, it's still true. Java's market share of server-side applications is enormous.
This post should be flagged.

The OP needs to quantify the statement about azure being expensive or else it will just sound like anti-Microsoft fud.
You wouldn't even need to install your own OS. You can just side-load
Solving problems by going away from them
Considering that an escalator is one of the few real-life powerups available outside of a video game, not walking up it is tantamount to wasting it, both traveling up and down. Like getting Haste and then just standing there, or being able to Deal Double Damage and not hitting the trigger.

I usually camp at the bottom, waiting for the crowd to disperse, then grab the powerup and use it efficiently.
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I think you should lean Rust just for some new insights and patterns (error handling, optionals, pattern matching come to mind). It might make you a better programmer over all.
Chances are 10/10
Many valid points in there, but many weak arguments also.
I asked a question because I was unsure, and you behaved like a prime ass. You will continue to get responses like mine as long as you try to push a viewpoint as hard as you've been trying to here.
If that's true why do scientists take seti seriously and ask to increase its funding?

The attitude has always baffled me in fact. We constantly say that alien life is likely due to the size of the universe yet we can't use them as an explanation for observed phenomenon.
Perhaps they use the heat very efficiently?
I don't think that's what anyone asked for, but I think, but those in power have seized it as justification for their authoritarian policies. Orwell predicted it quite well.
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In any cost comparison I have done, Google comes out ahead of AWS, followed by Azure.
You can write databases and other things in java/scala and people sometimes do so (though often use lower level languages for more control), but to do it efficiently you'll need deeper understanding of how whole stack works, including (at least) how it interfaces with operating system, how memory is organized and managed and what os and hardware can/can't do for you. I suggest to pick some project that interests you and get familiar with how it works, why it does so and how you could contribute.
C/C++ are popular choices, though recently I am learning rust and that brings a tons of low-level knowledge with nice safety net (c is a language that preys on your mistakes, rust will not let you compile them).
Would you expect startup-ers to go to prison for having caused the dotcom crisis of 1999?

Because putting money in the bank is exactly like investing in speculative high-risk tech stocks.
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