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Hmm, okay. Thanks!
don't need to maintain a schedule of testing every disk every year.

So you trust Glacier or Google Nearline (or any similar provider) without testing? No testing ever???

I wouldn't feel happy with my critical data floating around in the cloud, without my checking it at least once a year to make sure it really exists.

And once you do start verifying that data, you will incur all sorts of charges to access it.
If you check the paper the authors indeed mention some rate limitations using Chrome. However Firefox provides samples at 200 Hz.
Also, every application can access those measurements without any permissions.
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The same reason as with Why Always Java - availability bias, self-serving bias, attribution error and related mass hysteria.
> The only way to avoid it is to make the test subjective and non-standard.

How so? You can make it multiple-choice (objective) difficult, non-algorithmic math problems comprising multiple concepts each and then grade the whole test on a curve.

Impossible to game except to actually teach the students a broad range of math skills and how to problem-solve, while still objective and standard (in the sense that everyone gets the same test and is graded the same).
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Looking at it - I can't help but feel like he simply said everything he said in the original essay, except with quotes from that other guy sprinkled in.

That is to say, the position hasn't changed at all.

This is simply a reiteration, a response to the number of people filling HN with emotional comments on the topic.

The potential problem that hasn't garnered much attention is that the issue of having a lifestyle you are not satisfied with goes far beyond the distribution of dollars.

If we agree on that, then there can be room to discuss what's really bothering people.

From an individualistic point of view, it is easy to say 'he has more than he knows what to do with, I'm struggling, I want some of that, just give it to me!' and anyone who says otherwise, is clearly not cool.

It makes sense too. That point of view makes total sense - if someone has a billion, giving me personally a million would be real good right?

Too bad there are just not enough billionaire people to make that work, not even close. So then what are we talking arguing about? The solution is elsewhere.

That is to say, we have to pick our battles, we only have so much time and energy in a lifetime. Arguing about 'if we distribute it differently, I think it'd be better' back and forth if you are an economist, philosopher, or someone in a place where you can actually affect these things is totally fine. That's not the people here, so then maybe all that's happening is people venting their frustrations out on PG and if that's the case, no amount of responses is going to fix that. It's like arguing with a dude who believes the root of his problems is witchcraft.

That's something each person has to fix for him/herself.
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In my experience you have a moderate chance of a pay upgrade if you can show the market rate is significantly different to yours. Also this depends on how critical you are to the machine and how management view your future. Ideally time this request when they really need you to stick around for a project e.g another developer leaves. Cruel world I know. Also I wouldn't pull this unless you've been in a role for well over a year.

The best way is to get a formal alternative offer and say you want to stay but company XYZ is offering you this amazing offer and be prepared to walk. Though most people who do this are rarely in the job 6 months down the track as it usually indicates they have itchy feet anyway.
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I want to discuss your last point. With Docker, you are free to either modify the image or the running container. An image is a "template" for a container and in the scenario you describe, the ideal solution is to create a new image because it can be potentially running on multiple nodes. However, nothing prevents you from accessing the container (no SSH required) and modifying the container in place. Although I do believe it is discouraged.

Thanks for the SmartOS reference, it looks very interesting.
Agreed. There is a reason MMOs didn't appear until 30-40 years after the first video games. They are extremely complex, require a large number of assets, and a large testing team.

I am still waiting for that 100% science based dragon MMO.
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I don't think you're addressing the concerns which made him choose C. In his case: debugging is complex, compilation is slow, name mangling is unreliable, global state is abound.

He makes no mention of inline assembler, nor does he encourage premature optimization.
He talks instead about a concrete problem he had: the typical performance of operations was not good enough, thus no single optimization would help much. He also mentions that the abstractions encouraged by C++ do not help you build data-oriented applications (e.g. games); using them properly actually hurts performance.
If you simply conflate "richest" with "most powerful", this is already the case, and has been for most of human history. It's unclear why we should care about monetary wealth specifically more than other dimensions of power.
How do you define "genius" or "satisfactory"?

Education should be taught in a way such that one is exposed to the methodologies by which one should approach problems, rather than solving the problem itself[1]. "Teaching to the test" is awful, I agree. How can one, on a national basis, ensure that every school is affording as equal an opportunity as possible? I'm not being sarcastic - what is the better alternative, the better metric by which we can gauge the performance of both our students and our teachers? I certainly don't think 8th grade math teachers should be penalized for the poor performance of their students if those 7th graders who matriculated into your class on September didn't have a functional understanding of fractions. (Conversely, I think teachers who reached 'tenure'[2] and have clocked out until they've hit that pension-year _should_ be punished). How should those teachers be evaluated? One could suggest "grade the teachers on the improvement of performance of their students compared to their prior years performance" but that brings us back to the same problem -- you have a test. I ask this without snark - how do you test as many concepts at that broad a scope of subject, at that grand a scale (let's start small - 3 districts in NY state chosen at random)? How do you even choose what concepts are important at that broad a level?

[1] This gets into a whole meta-discussion about what the appropriate methodologies are, which I'll leave as an exercise to those doctoral candidates finishing up their dissertations.
[2] Tenure as I understand it serves to allow researchers could undergo extensive, perhaps subversive, study to enrich the human body of knowledge while retaining job security. While educators at a grade/secondary school level perform a great service, I fail (heh) to see the purpose it serves at that level.
> But the next time and the time after that, it becomes quicker and quicker because you already know the basics. It only takes 10 minutes to see what new GPUs or CPUs have come out.

Is this assuming that one would be building a PC with only a few years in-between?

It’s been more than 8 years since I built a PC, having assembled three of them in the past. It would definitely take me more than 10 minutes to research hardware because, after being shielded from the hardware complexity after using a Mac for so long, I’d need to research to make sure my previous knowledge of how to build a PC are still applicable.

Sure, it wouldn’t take me 2 days, and if not a lot has changed since I last built one four hours seems doable. But if I was very unsure of myself somewhere in the middle is more realistic and probably a more accurate assumption of how long it would take someone research, order and assemble a PC.
My wife has a great doctor. We lost our first kid and this doctor took tons of extra time helping us in the second pregnancy. From fitting us into her already full schedule to taking 10 extra minutes in an appointment to calm my wife down.

There is nothing about the experience that could be captured in these metrics. But I can tell you that she kept my wife afloat during the bad days and probably kept her from seeing another councilor. Ultimately we had a baby girl the second time around. The kindness and as cited in the article, love, that the doctor showed us really really helped us.
I went though the H1-B process myself in the past(2007). If USCIS gets more applications than their yearly quota, then their will be a lottery and your chances will be the same with either (startup or larger) employer filing.

Once the application is selected in the lottery, USCIS will start looking at the background of the company and if it's a legit corporation.

"Only" if you are going through one of the shady Indian consultancy(+) companies in the bay area, their is a chance they will want to probe more and might reject your application. But like you said it's a startup with a product, you should be fine with either choice, and I would not worry too much if I were you.

(+)These are basically companies that will apply for an H1B for a fee (H1B + their own commission) but they don't really have a product or a job for you. If the application is accepted, you can either find a job on your own and transfer your H1B AND/OR they will try to place you in some company and take a commission out of your salary.
There's a difference between some evolution and being totally ideally adapted. Even lactase persistence hasn't spread though the whole human population.

Heck, we haven't even totally adapted to walking on two legs yet.

(Side note, you don't need to say log10, all logs are proportional to each other by definition.)
But why can't fuel cells be used as simply another type of battery? Can you simply run them in reverse to generate h2? So you'd just give them a source of water and plug them into the wall? What am I missing?
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Yet poverty as a whole is decreasing according to numerous measures.

Plus their report contradicts the world bank observations:
http://ourworldindata.org/VisualHistoryOf/Poverty.html#/Glob...

Which is not surprising since Oxfam has a clear political agenda.

EDIT: world bank poverty report, clearly showing the decreasing poverty rates globally: http://www.worldbank.org/content/dam/Worldbank/gmr/gmr2014/G...
Probably because it's very easy to measure, and correlates with other dimensions through well known adjustments like Purchasing Power.
Money and assets are more easily measured, taken, and transferred.
I generally support this approach. I have liked working with C and chibi-scheme. Though I think depending on the size of your game logic, it may make little sense to even bother with a scripting language.

There are real costs to building the abstractions needed in order to make a useful scripting environment.
More likely, IME, they could do the job fine, but have been led to believe that they need a higher IQ, so why bother to try?
Not sure what your point is?
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Do they found how to factor out air, water, climate and bacteria or realized that a body continuously adapts to behavioral patterns and environmental conditions? Or that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, and naive studies on already overweight US student subjects does not replicate anywhere in less developed world?
>While pg's essay contains a fascinating call: to imagine a world where we have to chose to live with increasing economic inequality, I do not believe such a world would be easy to live in.

It's almost as if people will always find something to complain about.
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"Absolute" poverty, yes.
> 538 and other sites that just do stats can easily just have a giant number database that output correlations for click's sake.

Ahh, there you see the problem! you can also output all harry potter novels from digits of pi, but that doesn't get anyone anywhere. : ) The entire point of a good content producer is to understand what the customer needs, and put it out, NOW. So I'd imagine 538 will be automated about when computers start writing Harry Potter equivalents.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdR7WW3XR9c&feature=youtu.be...

Rising inequality on its own is not a problem.
It's easily measurable and since everything pretty much correlates with everything else when it comes to complicated systems like the world economy putting in some corrective feedback is a worthwhile effort. As it is I think things are stuck in a positive feedback loop (rich getting richer) and that's not healthy from either social or systems perspective.
> isTrusted can apparently be spoofed

isTrusted cannot be spoofed in this situation, which is its intended use in Chrome. A Chrome extension in the isolated world is receiving events from the main world and checking isTrusted for those events.
Massive income inequality hurts economic growth. Why? The rich don't spend (much of) their money, they hoard it.
It is a problem if only because of the huge power differential it creates and the segregation it leads to. It doesn't result in healthy societies.
At Cronitor we've just finished building out lambda infrastructure for a fan-out where I would otherwise use a worker application and Supervisord.

Lambda has a lot of strengths, and it gives you solid primitives like immutable versions, version aliases/pointers and stateless functions.

The problem I had was that it didn't give me any more than that. Here are just a few of the things we had figure out and then build ourselves:

1. The development workflow. How can I get a REPL workflow going that doesn't make me go crazy.

2. Deploys and Rollbacks. How can we safely deploy and rollback, especially in cases where you have the same lambda function in multiple regions and each region is at a different published version (because the version number is monotonically incrementing)

3. Permissions and Policies. The broad strokes are clear. But you want your S3 bucket or SNS topic to trigger lambda? Get ready to spend an hour trying to figure out what you've done wrong and what's missing from the vague directions. Hope you get that REPL flow solid first.

In the end, we built several scripts (create_build, publish_version, promote_to_prod, etc) and we use these directly during development and from a Fabric-based deploy script. When I have time I plan to release this tooling open-source.

If I had to do it all over again, I wouldn't. And I wouldn't use Apex (at least not yet). I would just use a t2.small instances with a simple worker.
I think the best option for backups at AWS these days is the "Infrequent Access" storage class introduced a few months ago (probably as a reaction to Nearline): https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-storage-update-new-lowe...

It's almost as cheap as Glacier, but requires no waiting and has no complicated hidden costs, just simply somewhat higher request pricing, a minimum 30 days of storage and an extra $0.01 per GB for data retrievals.
> Even in america most people are worth 0 (or less)

Wrong. In the US only about 4.1% of people in US have negative net worth (wiki stat). The rest with debt such as mortgages and the like have assets against this debt so while they owe the bank $300k type thing they have a $500k assets against this.

> even if you took the top 10 richest people in the world and gave it to every person in just america, thats only about 1600$/person. They'd still be poor and there'd still be a richest 1%

There will always be a richest 1%. Also ideally in a redistribution sence you wouldnt give to everyone, you'd redistribute to the bottom X%, and this would drastically change the $1,600 figure oyu quote (I'll trust your maths). And don't be distracted form the problem being addresses here is how much that 1% (or far fewer %) own of a nations wealth, not that there is a 1% class. It's not just the money either, extreme wealth can give influence and have other negative effects e.g. power within the political system, unproductive hoarded capital in a nation, and ability to monopolies by buying assets etc.
The author does mention Rust:

> New and hip GC'd languages don't care about the priorities efficient game engine code has. Safety-enforcing languages like Rust are going somewhat off already by definition, as they're focusing primarily on safety, which is not the focus for most game code.

However, I disagree with this. Rust does enforce safety, but once you have a feel for how the borrow checker works (which isn't hard at all coming from C or C++), it fades into the background. The real benefits of Rust for games are the build system, the module system, affine/linear types, and all the various syntactic features like pattern matching and expression-based control structures that make it way less crufty to read and write than C or C++.

Rust's biggest weakness for game dev (again) isn't the enforced safety, but the still-growing ecosystem. There's a few really good low-level libraries (Glium, for example), but if you stray beyond them it turns into a nightmare of writing your own FFI definitions and unsafe glue code.
I would caution against extrapolating from your experience. You must have been living in a good district with a decent school (and if you've been in France for any period of time you'll know that fighting for the right school is almost the most important thing in parents' lives and can even decide elections). Crucially, as there are much fewer private schools in France than say the UK or the US, the elite will instead make public superschools and then use connections and districts to put their kids in them (and get the taxpayer to foot the bill), the most famous being Henri IV and Louis le Grand in Paris, but this system applies to all regions (AFAIK).

Anecdotal evidence: my "college" or middle school equivalent (which I won't name and shame) in Grenoble had a much less interesting canteen. For example, the fries (served with every meal) were undercooked, sometimes still frozen inside, and we occasionally found worms. The queue for food could be as long as 45 minutes, forcing everybody to gulp down their food as fast as they could so as not to be late to the next class. The food was always deep fried meat or equivalents. A decent part of the student population was quite fat, although not to US or UK levels of obesity.

France is like the US. You have areas like Manhattan or Santa Monica, and you have areas like North Virginia or Ohio, all with their own history, local funding, civil servants providing wildly differing levels of service. Paris is almost another country (and its residents definitely see "provinciaux" as foreigners), maybe even more so than with London and the UK.

For a deep dive down the other end, I recommend the movie "Journee de la Jupe" which gives you a taste of the ZEP schools (arguably the worst in France), it's a bit more realistic than "Banlieue 13".
Ooh yay, a topic I can speak fairly well-informed on.

>> You can make it multiple-choice (objective) difficult, non-algorithmic math problems comprising multiple concepts each and then grade the whole test on a curve.

You do realize that that's what Olympiads are right?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Mathematical_Oly...
You can be fairly confident the Chinese "teach for the test" to a few handpicked kids who can perform well on those problems (in the same way they select children with an aptitude for gymnastics at an early age). Nearly 20 wins, not one Fields Medal. You can 'teach to the test' at any level up to the 400 levels, at which point you start creating new ways to approach the test, solving problems which weren't solved for a couple hundred years, or founding problems which won't be solved for another couple hundred.
I second "publish".

If you've invented something worth noting, you'll get infinitely better residual value, visibility, respect and goodness coming your way for years to come vs. one time deal of selling your work to a private buyer for a one time fee in a sell-and-forget type of deal.
There is no such thing as "actual probability"! An event either happens 100% probability, or doesn't happen with 100% probability. There is nothing else. If you flip a coin, it doesn't have 50% probability of landing heads. The atoms and their path through the air is predictable, and it is already determined that it will land heads by the time it's left your thumb, and perhaps long before.

But you don't know that, so you can only estimate 50%. All probability is just a representation of your own uncertainty.

If you bet anything other than 1% risk, over time you will lose money. After thousands of trials, 1% of them will go bad.
This sure seems to be HN's flavor of the month (and possibly for good reason). One thing I haven't seen mentioned is the fact that markets are created, not discovered. LLC's and Delaware C-Corps didn't materialise out of the aether, nor did the property rights regarding their shares. I dislike the concept of "deserving" at the best of times, but under this light, those that are the most successful reap their rewards largely in relation to how this system is established. Taxing large profits is no more "unnatural" than protecting the right to these profits in the first place.

That said, with regards to the article, appealing to businesses as moral actors is only so effective. A business acting unethically but legally is most rectifiably a problem with the law, rather than the business.
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Especially after VoLTE, all 4G data are IP based and even voice data are actuall controllable in Application Processor, it's basically SIP+RTP on a port like 5060. Someone need to develop a VoLTE p2p.
There are people who understand the economics of information and those that don't. The interesting thing is that capturing the value of your editorial qualities through advertising is a like capturing the value of a taxi by trying to draft off its turbulence as it drives by. Basically ad fraud pays but actual ads not so much.

There is a bargain you make between the reader and your advertisers, you protect your reader from aggressive overt advertisements, you provide your readers with something worth reading. It is hard to make a retelling of a story that everyone has reported on, worth reading.

It is also impossible (at present) to lower the friction of reading and subscribing to a point where it gets sufficient market penetration to make it scalable. I imagine that something halfway between flattr and the NY times subscription is going to be an answer.
What about actors? The top 1% of actors make more than the rest of the actors combined. Is this fair? Should we tell Tom Cruise that he needs to take 80% of his paycheck for the next Mission Impossible movie and redistribute it to the actors that are not well-known and aren't making as much?

How about something more relevant, like startups: Should it be fair that only 1% of startups make more than any of the other startups combined? Unicorns like Uber and Airbnb should take their profits and spread them around to startups that failed!

Yes, there is inequality, but I don't necessarily a bad thing. It's the natural form of most free marketplaces and systems.