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In my experience, cloud is affordable especially for bursty edge cases. They only get unaffordable for hobbyists when you run them 24/7 or have significant amounts of traffic, which is really expensive.

But since the pricing is public (https://cloud.google.com/pricing/#pricing), we can check. Please double-check my calculations, I may have made a mistake somewhere.

* "single 8-core Google Compute Engine (GCE) instance with a 2TB SSD persistent disk ... downloaded the books to the instance’s local disk" Unfortunately doesn't say how long it took. A n1-standard-8 instance costs $0.4 per hour without any discounts, plus a neglegible amount for 10 GB OS disk space. A 375 GB local SSD costs $0.113 per hour, so let's assume a total of about $1 per hour. Pretty affordable if you just run it for a day or so.

* "ten 16-core High Mem (100GB RAM) GCE instances (160 cores total) to process the books, each with a 50GB persistent SSD root disk" => 500 GB of persistent SSD root disk at $0.17/GB-month would be 85 per month, so about $3 per day for the storage. The instances are about $1 per hour each, so ~$10/hour. Affordable, but can cost a pretty penny if you need to let it run for more than a day.

* "single 32-core instance with 200GB of RAM, a 10TB persistent SSD disk, and four 375GB direct-attached Local SSD Disks" $2 per hour for the highmem instance, another ~$2.36/hour for the persistent SSD, plus the local SSDs, for a total of slightly under $5/hour. Again, dirt cheap if you need it for 1-2 hours, expensive if 1-2 hours turn into 10-20.

* cloud storage... no infos how much data it was, but $0.02/GB-month for durable reduced availability storage (which seems like a reasonable choice). For 10 TB, that would be ~$7/day ($200/month). There are additional costs for writing and access: 100,000 "Class A" operations (e.g. writes) cost $1, so that'll be likely at least another $35 for writing the files. Class B operations (reads) cost 1/10th of the price.

* traffic - inbound and internal is free, so likely neglegible if you just want to analze a lot of data. However, getting the full data set out would likely be very expensive. $0.12/per GB quickly adds up - 1 TB would be $120, 10 TB would be ~$1110! OTOH, if you just need 100 GB of results out, that's $12.

All in all, I'd say that "a couple hundred bucks" is a pretty reasonable assumption, which is still affordable for dedicated hobbyists (I just looked up the price of Märklin model locomotives, which also cost a couple hundred). Especially considering that you get $300 of free trial quota if you sign up - if you're fast, you may even be able to run this for free.

BigQuery pricing is highly dependent on what you query, but I'd call $5 per TB of data queried affordable (i.e. for $5, you can run 10 queries over a 100 GB dataset, and only the columns you touch in your query actually count against the amount of data). And the performance is just insane.
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Nobody seems to be pointing out that it is unlikely to be cost efficient as well (sun is free), which is what matters.
> Why isn't something like Passwordless the new default?

Because we had a dozen "the end to all passwords" schemes pop up over the years and they all lost steam and died and were replaced by the next shiny thing (this time the really ultimate!) before any user managed to use them on more than two or three sites, at most.

Despite everything, passwords have one advantage: They work, and they will keep working for the next ten years, and not just until the next fad.

(In its defence, Passwordless does seem pretty reasonable and decent. But so seemed others.)
Setting aside the fact that, if it actually works it would be clean, cheap, reliable, and nearly limitless energy for all, what about all the tech and science we're picking up just following this line of inquiry? Also, the entire budget stacks up pretty well against Social Security, Medicare, or Defense all of which are basically helping old people, poor people, or helping us kill people (kind of wasteful).

Finally, how is this research money zero sum? It's not like nuclear is completely broke or something because we're spending all this money of fusion.
I vote "Titanic"
"Money is speech" is doublespeak for sure, but it's doublespeak used by people opposed to Citizens United to make it seem like money is at issue rather than speech. Those people want you to believe that a political movie about a Presidential candidate stops being speech and becomes money just because of where the money to make and air it came from.
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For those who don't prefer this level of abstraction, just use a higher level zero cost abstraction.
Is this really a surprise? A short term rental usually gets you a house, full size fridge, unlimited free internet, free cable, a full kitchen, free parking and maybe a garage, flexible check-in and departure times, a quieter atmosphere, more location options, and you usually end up doing business with a regular person or a local small time renter in the area rather than HILTONCORP® Customer Service. All this and it's still cheaper than hotels because even after charging half what a hotel would cost, the provider's cut, cleaning up the guest room, and the weekends worth of utilities the owner still gets a sizable profit for very little work.

Sure, you might occasionally have to deal with assholes but with hotels you always have to deal with assholes -- it's company policy.

(Person in the Midwest since that might matter)
Fujitsu runs a similar farm. For them, one of the advantages was that because they were growing in a disused clean room, formerly a fab, they could control air quality such that bacteria were negligible. This led to produce which could sit on shelves much longer without spoiling. Fujitsu charged a premium since retailers typically lose a portion of their lettuce value to spoilage or discounting.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/22/fujitsu_grows_lettuc...
Sanders is under no obligation to run as a Democrat in the same way the Democratic Party is under no obligation to change protocol or devote resources to a candidate that is not a member of their party. The Super delegate system has been in place for decades. In light of this information, the Sanders-side cry of foul rings especially hollow.
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Looks like it was stolen after expiring to me.

Looking at Archive.org the redirect first appeared in November 2015, shortly after when the domain would have expired.
It doesn't work quite like that. Here are the economics in my area:

- Buy $1.2M
- Rent $1800 a month. By law rent can only be increased a limited amount every year (and it's never been increased for me).

The landlord is getting 1.8% return on his money before his maintenance expenses, taxes, etc.

The only scenario this makes any sense is interest rates remain at 0% for the next 30 years. Even in this case it's not clear that house prices can keep appreciating at the same rate. Unless we go negative rates.

If I have 1.2M in cash why would I buy this house instead of renting? I'm taking a big risk with a lot of money. It's true that over the last 10-20 years people who have taken this bet came usually ahead (except in some parts of the US) but it's still a huge risk.
True. Yet, the size of this single renewable project is bigger than what happens around my town. It is more significant than the current rounding errors.
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This article cites the FEC.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/29/us/politics/bernie-sanders...

In one sense, it's hard to track the dollars directly. For example, an Anti-Hillary PAC at this point is effectively a pro-Bernie PAC.
This might be a completely ignorant question;

How can there not be an drawing app built on top of this so that you can just model/draw and have it translate??
Hmmm... biggest shortage of housing is in the London area, I guess?

This is due to people parking their funds in real estate because interest rates anywhere in the stock market are basically zero when compared to real estate, and because transferring ownership of an estate holding company is a pretty nice way to launder/transfer money.

I'd propose a law that makes it illegal for an estate owner in housing-crisis areas to leave a home un-occupied for over 4 months a year; if this is not the case the state is allowed to choose an arbitrary person and let him rent the apartment at a rate similar to the non-luxury-housing market.

In Germany, in some areas this law is already in effect (e.g. http://www.hamburg.de/contentblob/3999156/data/hamburgisches...). The legal foundation for these laws is in the Grundgesetz: "Eigentum verpflichtet. Sein Gebrauch soll zugleich dem Wohle der Allgemeinheit dienen.", which basically means that if you have the privilege of owning something, you have to contribute to common wealth with it.
True. To nitpick, technically Bernie isn't independent anymore.
It's a chicken-egg problem. Desirable places tend have an ecosystem that offers a high quality of life (as agreed upon by the demand-side of the market at the time). Local coffee-shops, a decent arts and music scene, acceptable public transportation and proximity to work (sociologists have conducted studies which find duration of commute is a direct function of quality of life) are pre-existing features which exist within the those high-demand/low-supply areas. You can gentrify and build out (i.e. Williamsburg, Oakland) gradually building those ecosystems out with it, but in high-demand places like NYC and SF which have a fixed area of land, you can only build up a certain amount in certain regions, and only build out a certain radial length before your commute becomes 90 minutes. Zoning laws controlled (as you mentioned) by incumbent lessors/landlords and NIMBY's who currently own property (and don't want a new co-op or apt complex housing to go up because they'll lose their scenic view) contribute to this problem. "Create more" in those spatially limited/legally restricted regions is difficult. You can region shift and build out there (ie. there are tons of homes available in Kansas one could buy for 3 months of an average SV engineer's salary) but it lacks the ecosystem that, say, SF offers. In places like greater London it's an even bigger problem due to even higher density (you can't really build out into the English Channel).
Any idea where the speedups came from? Is it that the problems weren't algorithmically limited in the first place (lots of io for example), reduction of overhead etc (what kind of python was the code running on before?), or just that the speedup on low level operations added up cumulatively and cam e to dominate the other timing factors?

Also, did you change the data structures or use the same ones as in python? Was any of the speed boost data structure related?
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> Urubu is also the 10th album of Antonio Carlos Jobim, one of my favorite song composers.

As a Tom Jobim fan, this warmed my heart. Thank you.

But, I still prefer Stone Flower [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Flower_%28album%29
Sure, but:

1) As soon as you wrap it in a Python class, much of that speed advantage goes away.

2) Double-double doesn't solve the problem with the limited exponent range of doubles.

3) When the goal is to allow setting the precision to any number of bits you like, having a separate implementation for X bits complicates things a lot, especially when the X-bit arithmetic doesn't quite behave like Y-bit arithmetic for X != Y (double-double behaves somewhat differently from 108-bit floating-point).

IMO, double-double would be most interesting as a NumPy extension.
I’m not sure I agree 100% with your thesis on the B2B side.

I’ve seen a few companies recently that seem to be getting strangled by the long tail. They have large numbers of low paying, price conscious customers draining resources. They can’t raise prices to a level that enterprises would be happy to pay since this would kill their established customers. Enterprises don’t want to pay a different higher price, why would they. The companies usually skimp on sales, especially field sales, so they have trouble competing in larger deals. And they can become arrogant that their niche solution, while better at one thing, can take on larger platforms that solve multiple problems.

Not saying your points are invalid, just that there seems to be a bit more at play and going from the long tail to the enterprise doesn’t seem trivial and shouldn’t be an after thought. In B2B it does seem like all the biggest winners have generally nailed the enterprise, but not necessarily the long tail.
Vulkan backend for RetroArch

https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/pull/2729
R's server sockets can't select(), so unless you've reimplemented that as well, don't count on handling concurrent requests with that web server.
Who do you call when you can't call the police?
How about Canberra?
Here here! I'd love to see a side-by-side comparison of each candidate's email server ip address reputations.
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You may want to define what Full process means? Also, your question emphasizes process than designer, which I think is the position you are really looking for
I agree. It's more about getting big than growing fast. A startup could spend years perfecting its model and technology before going full force.

Perfect example: YC funds startups only. YC funded a company working to cure HIV. That is going to take a decade probably. When they are ready they will be big in an instant.
I stand happily corrected.
As though its of no cost to Apple to make Metal available on every platform, or support other products on their platforms?

Not every decision has to be filled with malice, sometimes it just makes sense.
> -No worry about landlords disapproving of your lifestyle, no drop-ins and inspections, etc.

In Germany, "inspections" are flat out illegal except in very strictly regulated circumstances.

> The only pet limits are those imposed by your government

Not true either. Just look at the HOA crap in America. Worse than government, in fact. Laws at least have to act like they've been passed by a democracy and stand up to judicial review, HOA decisions more often than not are pretty much final.

> With a fixed rate mortgage, your monthly costs stay basically the same

Good luck getting a long term fixed rate mortgage.

> With rent, your landlord can raise the price and you have no choice but to pay it or move out

That is what regulation is for: in Germany, there are laws limiting rent raises.
A VC taking the valuations down and encouraging the companies to become profitable sooner, to get a fatter slice of a tastier pie when founders come begging for money. News at 11.
Someone needs to build a threeJS/WebGL scene of this. So we can drag it around.
It's a housing bubble that's going to end the same way all housing bubbles end. Much of this "wealth" is just paper wealth that's going to disappear over the course of a few months.
I believe that you have to pass a programming test upfront. I know people who flunked the test but still got a good job outside. So, while they may be good, you can also by pass them
Tecnically that's reference invalidation and no pure library is going to help you. You need compiler/runtime help (i.e. static analysis or some sort of sanitizer).
They literally already updated literally in the dictionary.
Thanks for the shout out!
That looks to be addressed here: http://www.ams.org/notices/201106/rtx110600804p.pdf
When they combine these god-damned long form articles with clickbait titles it's that much worse.

At least clickbait spam content has the class to let you off the hook after 5 seconds.

You click on an article about MH370 or the Paris attacks or something, and the fourth paragraph is "Jean-Denis lives in a quiet suburb of Orlean with his two children and their dog, a basset hound golden retriever mix named Harmonie." Good god! It's the slow, lingering death by a thousand cuts.
Maybe you guys are both correct? In that PACs aren't donating to the campaign, but are advertising on the candidates behalf. Anyway you can get the raw data at:

http://www.fec.gov/data/IndependentExpenditure.do?format=htm...
She clearly says that, given free time, she does nothing but snap chat. Not sure how that's a minor distraction.
When fear turns to boredom aka...when you feel that you stalling hurts you more than moving forward, even if the match is not perfect.
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How do you determine that someone has occupied the home before 4 months? How long should the length of the stay be? If some ridiculously rich person has a bunch of houses, this would mean they just need to visit each house once every 4 months, or send someone to do it, which for the people lucky enough to own a home in London I can't imagine being difficult.
Same thing is easy to see in established companies: management is more inclined to throw piles of cash at businesses that don't make money while at the same time cutting costs in the "cash cow" divisions to show better growth numbers on the balance sheet.
People in R&D are different than your frontline engineers. I'm not sure putting them in the same team is going to make either one happy. Would be interesting to see how this plays out.

I expect more costly departures for Yahoo.
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Baez didn't mean that as a mathematical statement rather as a statement in the field of history and human psychology: "So far nobody has been able to devise a proof that is widely regarded by people who study it as being trivial (where triviality of a proof is a subjective judgment for which there is (1) no formal criterion, but also (2) a surprising amount of agreement)."
And I hold out hope that "heretofore" will ensuingly not be considered a fluff word. We can all dream.
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> However StartSSL support is often actively hostile, treating customers as idiots or worse.

Maybe that's because 90 % of them actually are?

Oh, and they allow you to authenticate for their web interface using client certificates instead of form abominations? Sweet.
> How do you determine that someone has occupied the home before 4 months?

Make the owner register his primary residence. I forgot not every country has something like we Germans have with the Meldewesen.

Seriously, using utility bills as proofs of residence... what a load of ...
Your definition of good and mine clearly differ. As has been noted, Metal existed and shipped before Vulkan, yet you claim they are using all its ideas in their own lock in variant.

Multiple people have mentioned in this thread how engine vendors have abstracted all 3 competing technologies (Metal, DX12, "Vulkan") with minimal effort.

How is there any lock in here? How is it any different from Microsoft or any other vendor deciding to, or not, implement DX12 or Vulkan?
Huh, haven't noticed that yet. This re-brand is so thoroughly weird in every way you could imagine. The original Uber site that I remember had a mark of professionalism and gave me a luxury limo vibe (though I knew it was just people's cars). This site has a more bubbly, AirBnB vibe, for better or worse I guess. I personally thought the professional vibe was better for their product.
> Thousands and thousands of small donors to counterbalance 1 billionaire.

Exactly. Speech is definitely speech, and a billionaire can't really shout any louder than anyone else. But with money, their voice can be thousands of times louder. So is money speech?
> but when an incorrect usage is eliminating a useful concept with no ready replacement

The transitive form "begs the question X", where X is som actual question) and intransitive ("begs the question", with no specified question, referring to the petition principii fallacy, from which, by poor translation from Latin, the English idiom is derived) forms are distinct forms; the one doesn't replace the other.

Better, the older, intransitive form can be viewed as having a clear relation to the newer, transitive form where the question "begged" is the one that was at issue and which the claim was offered to resolve, which -- given that the newer, transitive form, follows closer with the definitions of the individual words, especially in modern English -- actually provides a link between the older idiom and the rest of the language. (This can be viewed in reverse: the newer form serves as a generalization of the older form.)

> the older sense deserves the right to at least go down fighting.

Its a pointless fight when the two users are complementary and structurally distinct, as here, rather than opposed.

> but I hold out an unreasonable hope that "literally" might survive its struggle.

Complaining about the figurative use of "literally" as a figurative intensifier (where it means "almost as if literally") is pointless. Complaining about the various dictionaries that misreport this use and assert incorrectly that it is used to mean "figuratively", instead of being used figuratively itself may be more pointful (but, by this point, perhaps still somewhat quixotic.)
I've had two Seagate drives "fail" recently after <2 months - the drive is fine but the (OEM) USB3 enclosure is dead. No idea who manufactures those for Seagate but I'm not impressed.
Well often times as a tech entrepreneur you have the choice between

a) working on something that generates revenue in the short term (by adding features, improving the interface, improving your market reach or even doing some service work) and

b) something of more impact that generates revenue in the long-term (like investing in R&D, creating entire new products, etc..).

Note that b) most often does not include a), i.e. choosing b) explicitly means that you're foregoing some short term revenue opportunities for possibly larger revenue down the road.

This is precisely the case for VC (which you've argued against) so I was interested in how you'd solve this dilemma.
What about interest? What about property price falls during housing downturns (it will happen). Interest is equivalent to setting it on fire IMO.
When I graduated from college you'd see exactly this sort of article in the paper every so often. And indeed, at the time the 20% downpayment for a house was going up faster than I could save money. And then the housing market collapsed and I bought a house.

Over long periods of time housing only goes up about as fast as inflation. Younger people in the UK are not facing "becoming permanent renters". They're just facing a bubble, for the time being, that will produce lots of bargain prices when it pops.
At the risk of being overly pragmatic, note that I said "fast enough" and not "as fast as possible."

My comment was more on the perception that python is unworkably slow in many situations, where I can count the number of times on my hands that I've NEEDED to C-ify some hot paths.

If you're writing a plasma fluid simulation to run on a HHPC cluster, yes, you probably damn well want some straight C/C++. Outside of similarly exceedingly high throughput situations, CPUs are normally more than fast enough, especially if the application in any way brushes up against people and thus falls into "human time" scales, in which case you'd typically be hard pressed to make things slow enough for someone to notice. (Yet somehow we find a way...)

To a sister post re: where python->C speedup can occur, to two birds with one stone, I imagine there's a lot of low hanging fruit, to take one obvious one, anything the compiler can optimize away. Memory read/address optimization, vectorization, potentially better support for branch prediction, I can handwave at more but I am so far from a compilers type that I'd probably make a fool of myself.