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>It's almost certainly a caching layer, so there is no permanent data loss.

People who use Redis rarely end up using it solely as a caching layer. It often also takes on the role of an RPC facilitator and pseudo-database. GitHub's post also mentions that their engineering team had to replicate Redis' dataset before they could get the alternative hardware running, which implies that they do need some data in there before the site is operational.

Personally one of my pet peeves is people throwing mission-critical data in Redis and acting like it's honky-dory. It happens all the time and seems really difficult to get people to not do. There's a reason we have a real ACID compliant database storing non-disposable data; it's ridiculous to ignore that just because it's easier to stuff it in Redis.

I think it's reasonable to have a dependency on a Redis server, but I don't think it's reasonable to depend on any data in particular being stored in that server. It should be used as a caching/acceleration layer for data that can be easily and automatically regenerated.
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I think that's very unfair. When it was announced, a team had been working on the practicalities and included detailed diagrams and calculations.

Yes, he had the team at his disposal, but it didn't just gain attention because he has a recognisable name.
> every engineering team has government engineers working side by side with their contractor counterparts

I'm curious about the government engineers and their roles: Do you mean aeronautical and other engineers who do the core development and design work? Or do they monitor, provide customer input, ensure quality, and do other oversight of the contractor's engineers? Or something else?

Also, whose payroll are they on? Defense Contract Management Agency? Some other Dept of Defense group? Air Force?
From the syllabus: "Lectures and projects can only be accessed by clients with a CMU IP address."
Delve is an open source debugger for go. And many editors can work with delve such as Visual Studio Code. There is an animated gif of the debugger on the vscode-go page.
https://github.com/derekparker/delve
https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-go
Something like the Alameda Weehawken Burrito tunnel.

http://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda_weehawken_burrito_t...
I wish our experience was like this. We used to have business level but we dropped it because we weren't getting value for it. Our experience was slightly better when we had it but we still ended up either fixing most problems on our own or waiting them out.
Did anyone read this? There was so much buzzwords and bullshit I couldn't slog past the first page.

Who do they write these things for anyways? It's not like we're college admissions or professors, just give us the straight deal. Unless you're pitching to schools and naive undergrads of course.
Yea I resonate with similar experience, I've been working for a tech company for 8 years. I found myself worked into an agile silo and my confidence dwindled to an all-time low as the once creative problem-solving tasks turned to maintenance. I tried to solve the issues by tinker a lot in my spare time and exploring new technologies and ideas. However I'm finding it eats up all my spare time and I get burned out and mentally drained. My plan is to save up enough to support my family for 6 months and take a break to find a new path.
That link is for "a software engineer on the Network team", not network engineer. Did you post the wrong link or just use bad working? I'm a network engineer but I'm not a "developer" by any means -- and there's a helluva difference!
Because if they don't expand acceptance with the number of applications being done for every class they would end up being a program that you have almost no chance of getting into if you apply. They might miss out on quality that way, there is most likely a fairly fixed relationship between #applicants and #accepts in order to make the formula work.
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So we have built this android app whose concept customers love. However we dont have a designer on board and we have got some feedback on our UI looking very old school.
Can you guys give ideas on how we can go about fixing this considering that we are bootstrapped and short on time. I am willing to invest about 250-300$ on this.

Extra:
I have tried posting on freelancer and odesk but I mostly find designers who cant code, id prefer someone who can integrate his designs into our app. Have any of you gone this route? What are your leanings?
What makes you think they can keep up?
Yes, Meow is an excellent tool.
He was talking about the rules for other teams (pointing out that the minimum stake has gone down from 30% to 5%, apparently). The Green Bay model is explicitly banned for every other team.
You could only make that claim if you knew who applied to YC that first batch and was rejected. Do you actually know or is this simply a way of harping on a subject that is dear to you and is there someone / some group that you feel got left out on purpose?
Hard to say that cloud storage and travel accommodations are not real problems. The solutions created with YC's help have improved the lives of hundreds of millions of people.

And you're not considering the recent increased YC focus on startups from developing countries. Just from top of mind you have companies selling cheaper solar energy in Mexico, improving online payments in India, lowering interest rates in Africa, treating low-income patients in Central America, etc.

There are dozens of YC companies just getting started that will positively impact the lives of billions of people in the next 10+ years.
You're right! Much like helium, we burn away an important resource. It cracks me up still we tax (non-fuel) uses of oil.
The F-35 is slower and less maneuverable than nearly any contemporary fighter aircraft.

It cannot avoid an engagement, nor press the attack.
Most of this sounds like typical teething pains for an exceptionally complex project just reaching version 1.0.

“Each new version of software, while adding some new capability, failed to resolve all the deficiencies identified in earlier releases,”

Doesn't that describe every software update ever released for any system?
It could drop too if the applications drop in quality and YC continues to accept companies into their program. The best way to analyze this is to figure out if the ratio of big hits to applicants is dropping relative to the ratio of big hits in a given 6 month period.
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Why 200-300? Why not 20-30 so they can really focus?

And if the answer is 200-300 because it seems like something they could realistically support, then what's against them scaling to support 2000-3000? Especially with their inclusion of overseas companies likely to tackle broader markets.
No, you saw blotters with an NBOMe. Actual 2C-I would be much better and safer (and not absorb an active quantity into a blotter). Luckily NBOMes are now superceded by actual lysergamides like 1p-LSD
Article tries to pass judgment on Nexus sales based on Marshmallow adoption. With Android estimated at 1.2B handsets in 2015, 1.2% is roughly 14M phones. Even knocking down to 10M for Nexus alone, thats still not a bad number given how little advertising Google does.
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I have no idea what you are talking about and downvoted you for the drive-by stupidity, not because I (necessarily) disagree with you.
Cruise (YC W14) is hiring a technical recruiter to help build self-driving cars
What's changed is that in the perception of the commenter he's not on a level playingfield to begin with and this announcement tilted it even further away from level. So in order to do what's in his power to re-adjust he takes away some of those profits.
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I didn't read that as name recognition, but rather that Elon Musk is one of the few people with both the resources and the drive to turn ridiculous shower thoughts into real projects. If it was Bill Gates, he'd just dismiss it as silly and get back to wiping out malaria or whatever, and if it was me then I wouldn't be able to make it go anywhere.
Unbelievable. Fighter jet industry is only six or seven decades old at most. The navy on the other hand has been around for hundreds of years. What does the airforce think they can do the navy hasn't already tried?

The F-35 program is the biggest scam in history. The people in charge of it need to be put in jail.
If I have wiggle room, I make my max inclusive of the "x% more if it catches my fancy". It's unintuitive to search for "max $680k" to ensure results are within a $750k budget. As someone who uses real estate sites, this is enough friction to send me elsewhere, where, as tamana says, my preferences and ability are respected. Why not add a slider bar for "perfect place" wiggle room amount/percentage, with a 10% default, but which the user can set to zero?
In reading about Sync, I was surprised to see their claim that they never hold the encryption keys, even when signing in from mobile devices. This is in contrast to SpiderOak, which says that if one signs in from a mobile device or on the website, they hold keys in RAM for the session.
In most places, restrictions on bars and nightclubs are a moral/religious issues driven by the elected representatives (and hence the electing public's) perception of what is "right". Therefore logical arguments don't really work until majority of the populace is doesn't hold as strong emotional points of view. Amsterdam has of course for long been down that road and so these things are easier there.
It's "simian army". A simbian army is like a herd of dildos to sit on. I doubt that would have helped github's services recover faster.
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Soccer comes off as slow hockey played by people who are afraid to get hit.
It sounds like your gut is telling you to bail, but your heart is wanting to hang on to that "big" tech company for prestige or whatever other reasons.

I agree with the other posters. Look for a better offer. In my experience, big raises or promotions don't really happen. I've gotten my two biggest salary bumps by changing employer.
Why? Cargo is what we do best in the US and it doesn't care how fast it gets to the destination. Further, the car shown is far too small to replace the 125 car unit trains we send around the US. We have a larger, harder to replace cargo infrastructure than any passenger system.
Hmm, are you sure they do? Including the "PRIVATE" section? Any docs from them saying this, and clarifying whether this includes the PRIVATE section?

Because if so, that would seem to make the certs-per-domain limits not so much of a problem. If you own example.com, and have customers using sub-domains at a.example.com, b.example.com, etc -- that would seem to make example.com suitable for inclusion on the "PRIVATE" section of the list.

No?

"owners of privately-registered domains who themselves issue subdomains to mutually-untrusting parties may wish to be added to the PRIVATE section of the list... Requests for changes to the PRIVATE section must come from the domain owner."

https://publicsuffix.org/submit/

And indeed there are a few dozen random .com, .net, etc domains in the PRIVATE section. For instance `github.io` is listed there.

If that's the way for SaaS providers to get free certs from letsencrypt for their customers at customername.provider.com, I'd expect to see the listings in the PRIVATE section skyrocket.
If they made it hackable or released an SDK with a published spec at launch (instead of waiting for the community to reverse engineer it), I would be way more interested and I think a lot of others would too. Prefab digitally addressable flipboards aren't something I've seen.
Except, probably, the CEO's.

https://books.google.com/books?id=_h4eF9H9UtQC&pg=PA93&dq=%2...
Pretty sure Google Compute Engine puts each project in a private network.
I'm much disturbed that the big G hijacked the dataflow term, to suddenly mean their specific - rather involved I must say - dataflow based programming model. The real dataflow [1] is a much broader term that doesn't outline specifics like programming semantics.

Seems as if they're trying to ride the wave of the recent upsurge in interest in dataflow in general (with sub-fields such as Flow-based programming, and implementations like Akka streams etc). That's OK, but hijacking a term for the whole field, is not.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataflow
Somehow, the valuation of the team increased by $600 million in that year. The teams are capturing plenty of the money going around. I'd be willing to bet that the players pay more tax than the owners per dollar extracted, too.
You try controlling 1K drones. Their command and control links would be jammed easily. And what's the flight time/range of one of these toys? And the ceiling on them? The idea that these would pose more of a threat than a flock of geese to a modern fighter is laughable.

And a $10M drone attempting to engage in A2A combat is called a target. Not a threat. Drones are a long ways away from engaging in A2A combat.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11030663
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"They won't win wars by themselves. Sorry 'bout that, Air Force."

Aircraft (and aircraft carriers) were devastatingly effective in the WWII Pacific theatre. (Okay, this wasn't the Air Force, but I'm focusing on the aircraft part.)

It's true for both sides. Japan nearly destroyed the US's ability to contend at all in that theatre. The US turned the tide at Midway.

You're right they don't win wars "by themselves", but I think you're undervaluing their strategic value in wars fought on certain geographies.
Yea, the suckers (or 'allies') in Asia and the Middle East that weren't even part of the "program" or development will buy these white elephants and subsidize the cost!
I think the Raiders should be moved to Las Vegas. The theme of the stadium vision should be conservation of the region's resources and the project should lead to a stronger initiative on renewable energies for Las Vegas. Lake Mead, the lake that flows to the Hoover Dam, has lower water levels every year and the issue of its real sustainability hasn't been fully addressed. Fortunately, The sun shines often, and outside of Vegas there are areas of the Desert with high winds. The gambling issue will be better for the NFL as the league continues to grow and become a global brand. If there are any problems with the gambling, then smart regulations can be implemented with the trends of electronic currency in mind. The stadium should have the ability to host other events so that football doesn't need to be the main revenue driver. Most importantly, the groups who made their money through gambling would be able to give back to the city, and their capital should be respected.

I'm biased because I enjoy Las Vegas, Laughlin, and Northest Arizona and I like the green energy developments in the area. I agree that the project would be a great challenge.
Quit reading the press that loves to paint military spending as a waste. The F-35 isn't a dog, it may not be as fast as the fastest jets, or as maneuverable as the most agile, but it's not like it's a C-130...

It has stealth, so it can avoid an engagement if need be, or maneuver so the engagement is on more favorable terms. Try that with a 4th gen aircraft.
I always thought an interesting idea would be to launch an unmanned Soyuz to dock with Columbia.

In 1960's Soyuzes were launched sometimes without orbital module - project Zond; that's saving of about 15% of mass. Even if that wouldn't be sufficient, Zonds were launched on Protons with DM kicker - and that combination flew as far as over the Moon, so I'm sure it could match Columbia orbit inclination and height.

Russians launch on average more often than anybody else, so they could pull that attempt. Problems are that Soyuz spacecraft takes 2 years to manufacture - but money could have helped there, especially in 2003, before oil prices made incomes larger in Russia. Protons were manufactured in larger quantities - may be more that 10 per year. Even with one Soyuz - for 3 crew - some Progress spacecrafts, which are built in larger numbers, could be added rather soon, maintaining the remaining Columbia crew until further options would become available.

So, to sum this up - Russian spacecrafts could technically reach Columbia in 2003.
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True. Though in Node, you can make calls to standard programs, so it can act pretty seamlessly. And there's already a lot of direction towards supporting a lot of familiar methods and more. Like this: https://www.npmjs.com/package/cash
That is a completely different issue. I am not saying that F-35 is the greatest fighter plane in history. If it were there would not be so much controversy around it.
I seriously doubt this version of the story. While it's possible for several hardware/firmware to fail in all your datacenters, for them to fail at the same time is highly unlikely. This may just be a PR spin to think they're not vulnerable to security attacks.

While this was happening at Github, I noticed several other companies facing that same issue at the same time. Atlassian was down for the most part. It could have been an issue with the service github uses, but they won't admit that. Notice they never said what the firmware issue was instead blaming it on 'hardware'.

I think they should be transparent with people about such vulnerability, but I suspect they would never say so because then they would lose revenue.

Here on my blog I talked about this issue: http://julesjaypaulynice.com/simple-server-malicious-attacks...

I think it was some ddos campaign going on over the web.
I was intrigued by this comment and went searching for this. From this FastCompany article it's inspired by Futura and Univers though sounds like it's more or less a custom job:

> At the time, Lindon was "in love with two bold fonts" known as Univers 67, which is a condensed bold type, and Futura Bold. He takes me through how he started playing with the two typefaces and the letter spacing, from extremely wide to locked together, uppercase and lowercase, mixing and tinkering. One iteration had a capital E and a lowercase x: "I started squeezing the letter spacing, I saw a white arrow start to appear between the E and the x. I thought, ‘There’s something there.’ I tried both fonts, but I didn’t like how much I had to distort either typeface to make the arrow look good. I thought, ‘Would it be possible to blend the best features of both?’ I took the high x of Univers and mixed it with the stroke of Futura Bold. The x rose to the crossbar of a lowered E. I kept tweaking, and eventually not only did the arrow look natural and unforced, but I ended up with a whole new letterform."

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1671067/the-story-behind-the-fam...
If I had a boatload of money, I'd make an electric car, but like, make it awesome. Give it like a really big battery so it can go really far, and make it like a proper car. Oh no we're out of towels
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It's not a loop. Musk's test track is straight. Hyperloop Transportation Technologies is talking about a 5-mile loop. That's more interesting, because cornering is hard.

The MIT system is maglev against a passive track. The Transrapid system, used in the Shanghai airport maglev, requires an active track, which is why it's so expensive. Maglev with a passive track means a simpler track but high power consumption on the vehicle. Power has to be supplied to the vehicle in some way. MIT is using batteries, which is fine for a 1 mile run, but doesn't scale.

The Incheon airport maglev just started service yesterday. It's not high speed rail, but it's much faster than most airport trams.
The answer is "as many directions as possible"
I don't have a source on hand, but I've seen him say this was pretty much exactly it. Has to go back and forth between LA and the bay twice a week for SpaceX/Tesla, and had the thought for the Hyperloop while sitting in traffic.
Yes, this is my point: rate increases after accidents are done by choice of the insurance company, not because their risk management requires them to do so, as the grandparent post implied:

> Premiums go up after an accident because it is more likely that you are a poor driver and likely to have another accident.

No, premiums go up in that situation when the insurance company thinks they can do so and not lose too many customers. As you point out, not every insurance company operates this way.

An insurance company only cares about managing risk and revenue across the entire pool. They plan to pay out a certain number of claims, so any given accident might simply be fulfilling the actuarial expectations and not altering their risk calculations at all.
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>The F-35 isn't a dog, it may not be as fast as the fastest jets, or as maneuverable as the most agile

Yes. It's slower, and less agile. Than other fighter aircraft.

It can't win a dogfight. Period.

>It has stealth, so it can avoid an engagement if need be, or maneuver so the engagement is on more favorable terms.

Which the Chinese will surely counter, since they stole the blueprints. That stealth is mostly worthless.
Considering that, every time we have a gun control discussion, every person in Sydney on HN will come out of the woodwork to lecture Americans about how wonderful Australian gun control is and, gee, what a great idea a nanny state is in this one particular instance at least - no I can't say I am all that surprised, disheartened, or sympathetic to the fact that stupid rules and an overbearing legal regime have choked the life out of the entertainment economy in Sydney.
In WWII pilot lives were cheap and planes were relatively simple to fly. To fly an F35 the investment in the pilot is huge. Add to that the fact that deaths on 'your own side' are no longer as acceptable as they were in the past during conflicts mean that many can't be built to replace those lost to attrition.

The more war goes 'remote control' the more this will cease to be an issue, and this is a dangerous trend precisely because it removes one of the last impediments to scaling up the export of war. As soon as the losses to own troops drop to near zero because all of it is done through robotic means all bets are off, and it does not even require a 'skynet' in order to achieve it. All it takes is some more telepresence and that's pretty much a solved problem at this stage. The difference is that in the air we now have this and for other branches it is still being worked on but within a decade or two we should see robotic infantry.