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Are you happy with the performance of AppEngine?

I have tried it last summer and was quite disappointed. CPU-bound programs that completed in a few seconds on my own computer took about ten times as long on AppEngine despite similar nominal specs (GHz and RAM).
rolls eyes I have been playing with their stuff internally for a while now and no one told me that we would get a discount for a tweet. I tweet about shit I like. There is no giant conspiracy.
I'm currently working at implementing all types of ETL & data extraction processes with Elixir, and so far I must say I like this (although I cannot share numbers are the moment, just yet).

My own impression (as the author of http://www.kiba-etl.org which is a Ruby ETL framework) is that Elixir is going to be a great fit for high-quality, decent throughput data processing of all kinds (streaming, batching, or other such as websocket-api-endpoint types).

The immutable data + lightweight processes + ability to go distributed + concise code (testable, composable etc) is truly appealing in my opinion.

I will share more stuff online (at http://thibautbarrere.com) when I can, but I can only say this is so far very promising.
I have been running my website on AppEngine for 6+ years now. No problems at all.
The parent comment proposes that Nazis as such are not the actual problem, that Nazis are merely an extreme case of typical in-group/out-group behavior, and that "21st century intellectuals" need to avoid all the badness of Nazis by being more aware of their own in-group biases.

The first proposition is then not a non sequitur at all: it is simply a restatement of the original poster's view that certain people ought to be more aware of their in-grouping bias.

Even if the proposal had not been explicitly limited to "21st century intellectuals," this explicitly calls for the differentiation of people into "those who are aware of their in-group bias" and "those who are not aware of their in-group bias." The point I made follows even more strongly from the explicit qualification of "21st century intellectuals": the original post is stating directly that 21st century intellectuals ought to act a certain desired way -- that is, forming an in-group with a certain sociall prescribed norm of belief. It indeed follows from this that not only all people who do not adhere to the "be aware of your in-group bias" proposal, but indeed all people who are not intellectuals, form an out-group.

I believe this explanation of how my reprhasing correctly restates the original proposition adequately addresses the "straw man" point, as well.
I just hope they don't start pressuring anti-virus makers to ignore their malware; lest we be exposed to malware pretending to be government spyware.
I dunno...

https://www.google.com/search?q=how+can+i+pirate+movies

Seems to have no results about pirate movies.
Did not know about this. To me, Google has a terrible reputation when it comes to support and keeping products with large numbers of users running.

Edit: (posted too soon) my main concerns with putting anything on GC are around support, continued support / long-term commitment to the platform, ease of switching (App Engine was a very bad on boarding experience for me when I tried it a few years ago and required lots of GCE-specific ways of doing things in the code), and pricing differences that might make it cost way more in subtle ways to run a thing on GC.

I think it'd be good for Google to start fixing their story around support and commitment to products with everything else under the Google brand before people will be wanting to risk their infrastructure with that brand.
Not CNet, ZDNet (Ziff-Davis) and TechTV (Which started life as ZDTV). Worked there can attest ;-)

A lot of the Adobe Stuff including the Macromedia divisions when they were alive are still immediately next door or across the street. I think their use of 650 Townsend was mostly for overflow office space.
What do you mean by "types of LSD". It's one chemical, no?
What would I propose to do about what?
Its scary how a gatekeeper like PG doesn't even have the basic understanding of poverty.
And what's their business model going to be like? Freemium as in Nginx Plus? Pay for monitoring? Support and Consulting?
I think the point is that those sorts of smaller innovations can be a trap. As he says at the start, even reducing CO2 emissions by 50% isn't enough. By focusing on low hanging fruit, we might feel like we're making a difference, and lose the urgency to search for more innovative solutions.

I'm sure Bill supports anything that can reduce CO2 emissions, but I expect his feeling is that we don't need more encouragement to look for little efficiencies; rather we need to find a big solution. Or maybe we need encouragement on both fronts, but he didn't want to dilute the main point of this particular essay by focusing on existing tech.

(That said, he does talk also about improved energy storage and power lines and such, things that would build on existing clean energy sources.)
Honestly, it does look like fun. But also like a lawsuit waiting to happen? Like a future source of broken noses and arms and what-have-you when people trip or run into walls. Which, that's fine, if that's a risk you choose to take. But I think "what could go wrong?" is justified.
> people don't always do things for their own benefit

This may be a new concept for you, but "The theory of psychological egoism suggests that no act of sharing, helping or sacrificing can be described as truly altruistic, as the actor may receive an intrinsic reward in the form of personal gratification." - From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altruism

People always do things for their own benefit. Always.

And who else could it benefit? At least her digital begging seems to be working out, but certainly this wont convince the CEO to pay these entry level folks San Francisco living wages.
For Google Cloud products that have made it to General Availability (GA), we have a one-year deprecation policy (https://cloud.google.com/terms/, Section 7.2). That is, if we're going to make some big change, we give you a 1 year heads up.

Disclaimer: I work on Compute Engine, but I'm not a lawyer ;).
So, you ask your paying customers to pay extra – not to get support, but to increase the chance of getting support in time?

That’s... an interesting business model.
So far Microsoft haven't even sent me a C&D for https://win95.ajf.me/, and that site got media attention!
It's surprising to me that so many pro-crypto people are so stridently anti-gun.

The arguments in favor of restricting or banning the two technologies appear (to me) very similar. There exists a technology that, in the hands of a law-abiding person, can be used for legitimate purposes, including protecting oneself from aggression. But in the wrong hands, the same tech can be used for great harm. The logic in favor of restrictions goes like this: Most law-abiding people don't actually require this form of protection, so we should restrict access to prevent a malicious person from causing harm.

Therefore it's not surprising to me that 51% of Americans in a recent poll are siding with the FBI over Apple. Many of those same Americans are probably in favor of the assault weapons ban, etc, too.
Your confusing flexibility with necessity. You can get really serious about say photographing bugs with a single camera. It's not going to be as widely useful, but trying to do everything is a great way to fail.

Consider, nobody says you need an electron microscope to get serious about photography, but they can take some amazing photos even without using photons...
How is this different form just re-sizing the window to see how everything looks?
Eh, it varies by location, but everywhere I've been, the cost of rent was dramatically higher than any sort of minimum stuff I might need... in fact, the primary reason for me to cut down on 'stuff' is to get rid of the expense of storing it.

I mean, personally, I like having 'stuff' - especially the sort of stuff I need at a moment's notice that I can't get amazon to overnight me, but if you live in a major metro, it's more of an expense than it is a cushion.

Of course, if I owned a big house with a garage, the equation would be somewhat different, but in areas where I want to live, that is somewhat unrealistic.
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"Living minimalistic" - life connects you more to the present. In the end, this is what matters most. But having memories makes us more empathetic by virtue of emotions. If you know yourself and connect with humanity no matter what, then living minimalistic could be great! Otherwise not!
Serious (and weird) question: does valium help with flying that much? What is it like flying on valium?
THat's one way of looking at it.

The other way of looking at it (and the way your comment came across) is that you're using 'back in the day' as a means to say what you feel, under the veneer of not actually saying it yourself. After all, if it didn't reflect what you thought, why would the phrase come to mind - and why take the trouble to call it out?

Underscoring this is that it's not actually "back in the day" at all. It's still a term that's commonly used.
the polarization of the american congress (in the 90's) happened in large part because the amount of time congress members spent in each other's company went way down. this is at least the explanation i've gotten from people who worked in the congress. so, it seems like that is at least one data point that supports your argument.
You can bet your bottom dollar Spotify are getting heavy, heavy discounts. Google are ramping up here in Stockholm, partly to get this account. This has been in the works since before last summer, so they've taken time before announcing it.

The precedent for Spotify was switching from Cloudera to Hortonworks a couple of years ago. Rumours are that they got their licenses for close to nothing from Hortonworks, they were so desparate to close them. Same rumours going around vis-a-vi GCE...
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App Engine expects your web apps to return almost immediately (in a matter of few ms). For anything that takes longer, you need to use task queues in App Engine. Or maybe try AppEngine Managed VM's?
This may shock you, but yes, it's livable. Many people live on $50,000 or less everyday in San Francisco. It may not be a standard of living that we as engineers are familiar with, but it is not poverty either. It's not a salary you'd want as a household income with dependents, but for an individual it is fine.
Parts of it strongly remind me of Ingress.
You would have to find a synesthete with the same sensory cross-over to you, and hope you have a similar mapping of the senses, right? Aren't the mappings at least semi-individualistic? E.g. Person A sees red when looking at the number 42, Person B sees blue.
Google Cloud SQL is no replacement for Amazon RDS in my opinion. Cloud SQL instances run outside of your project's private network, so connections from Google Compute Engine have to be over a Public IP. This means accepting connections from any host (insecure) or whitelisting each Google Compute Engine VM's IP address (pain in the ass).

I've resorted to running my own MySQL instance inside of Google Compute Engine and setting up replication and off-site backups myself. It's definitely not as convenient as Amazon RDS, but the rest of Google Cloud has some great features like Google Container Engine.

Would love to see an RDS-like solution from Google that runs in a project's private network and supports more than just MySQL.
LSD's effect isn't limited to visual perception. One of the most common reported phenomenon is a sort of understanding of the connectedness of things.

That may be a result of the reality that all things really are connected when they are stored as concepts in a network of neurons.
>parents leaving things lying around for kids) applies for painkillers, anti-depressants, alcohol etc.

+1 to this Tylenol is probably as dangerous as poison, and some people treat it like jelly beans.
So what does the appearance of being stoned really look like?
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> Which of the following would you attribute responsibility for what happened:

> [Picture of guns] [Picture of iPhone] [Picture of perpetrators (not present)]

The actual correct choice is missing.
This is also very true.

It's an injustice that school quality is usually determined by local property taxes, but if the alternative (sharing) leads property owners to throw a fit and defund everything, perhaps it's the lesser evil.
It concerns a 2001 proposal to style scrollbars, which Firefox still doesn't want to support to this day.
It's 2016, we have web apps, but we have no way to change or hide the ugly Firefox scrollbars (assuming we don't want to write our library to render custom scrollbars, which is inherently fragile and not trivial).
Debating if this is safer than the BB Gun wars we used to have.
Lobby-occupied bureaucrats attempt to bypass the popular opposition against ISDS
Actually, ever since I posted this comment, I've received several emails from other HN users telling me of their Taiwanese cab driver rip off stories.

Get rekt, Taiwanese sympathizer.
Is it the over abundance if guns or the lack of accessible mental health care?
Reasons for mass shootings are more complex than 'take the guns away'. That's black and white thinking.
There are several places both by-mail and in person that I have rented lenses.
>(parent comment was edited since this was posted)

I did add a little blurb about the AS3/Flex compiler stuff. I don't know if it changes the comment substantially.
>The ratio of stoners to non is pretty high, so the smoke just soaks into everything.

I live in an apartment, too.

I could complain about the fact that my neighbors smoke tobacco in their apartments and that it slowly but surely seeps into mine. But I don't. I put weather stripping on my door that faces the hallway and have my windows opened slightly whenever it's warm enough to allow for it.

You have to make compromises when you live in a building shared by 400 other people.

You're part of a community. Learn to live in it.
You don't have contact info in your profile.
I can attest that absolutely none of the pro-Right to Keep and Bear Arms (RKBA) people I follow are siding with the FBI.
>You can't and shouldn't cite a tweet from a random person

Except this is exactly what ~90% of the articles that "cite" twitter do.
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If you like the App Engine model, but want a "full computer worth of horsepower", you might want to consider our "Managed VM" environment built on top of Compute Engine: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/managed-vms/

Disclaimer: I work on Compute Engine.
I'd respectfully like to submit my project, Convox, into the discussion of not reinventing a PaaS:

http://convox.com/

https://github.com/convox/rack

Convox is another open source PaaS, but we're building it entirely on top of AWS services like CloudFormation, ECS, ASG, etc.

This means it's only suitable for teams that have 100% bought into AWS. If that's you, we make all the hard parts of operating a distributed deployment system Amazon's problem.

There's another project in this same space, Empire: https://github.com/remind101/empire

If 100% AWS is not you, Docker Datacenter / Swarm, CoreOS, Deis, CloudFoundry, etc. are doing incredible work.

It's amazing how these sophisticated tools are available to all of us.
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This is drifting beside the original point, but my understanding is that the anti-nuclear movement in Germany has established a non-negligible violent culture. If you go to these protests, you know you're going to participate in or give vocal support for violent action.

http://www.dw.com/en/clashes-between-police-and-anti-nuclear...
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He's working on it: http://terrapower.com/
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Lowry is out of the city; I'm not sure where we disagree.
People need to start understanding that the more you swear and shout, the less convincing your argument is to anyone who doesn't already one hundred percent agree with you -- in fact, the more it drives away people who are on the fence. If I see an article with an obscenity in the headline or some clear attempt to shock some imagined 1950s-style population of clueless milling establishment types, I pretty much instantly move on.
So, basically something like AWS's VPC? Given that it took them a few years to get that right even with tons of people asking for it, I'm not super optimistic that Google could match it any time soon. I'd love to be wrong!
I drank "Dad's" root beer [0] when I was younger and never once mistakenly drank a bottle of my actual father's beer.

[0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/4pk_Dad'...
Obviously irrelevant, which renders moot the other two questions that you asked me.

My point is that the work itself is what makes something scientific, not the workers' CVs (note the careful wording here; calling them researchers is another appeal to credentialism).

With that in mind, what would I like to see? You should be able to answer that one yourself now.
I'll take Macromedia's luck any day of the week.
> There are vendors running managed Postgres services on Google Cloud Platform, like ElephantSQL

I did check out ElephantSQL but my pricing needs are somewhere between their $100 and $20 plans and there seems to be a lack of configurability compared to RDS's parameter groups (e.g. enabling extensions).

> you can also run Kubernetes on AWS

I've had success turning up Kubernetes clusters on AWS for demo purposes, but I really don't want to manage a k8s cluster myself (anecdotes I've read about etcd failures / partitions especially scare me). Also I use Terraform for provisioning, and kube-up.sh is not something that fits into that paradigm. I've also made the mistake running kube-up.sh with the wrong arguments after a previous invocation that had created a cluster, which caused it to try and create a new cluster, which wiped the local cache of the previous cluster I had made, making kube-down.sh unable to automatically clean up the old cluster (so I had to do it manually in the AWS console).

The other thing I tried was the kube-aws CoreOS tool, which is nice, but it comes baked with a 90-day expiration due to TLS certificate expiration, so I'd have to set up some sort of PKI process to make that production-ready. All in all just too much work for a single person trying to deploy a small number of containers for small to medium sized projects; if I was a medium-sized company with hundreds of containers and some dedicated DevOps resources maybe it would be worth it, but for myself I'd prefer a turn-key solution like ECS or GKE.
Plus, people on psychedelics are already communicating in a level that sober people cannot understand.
Not sure if trolling, but if supply (housing) increases faster than demand (immigrants) prices go down (assuming you believe in Economics 101).

You could argue that it's impossible to build fast enough to surpass immigration rates, but that seems pretty easily disproved (for instance: Las Vegas since 2008 [1]).

Or did I misunderstand your argument?

[1] http://www.deptofnumbers.com/rent/nevada/las-vegas/
A quote from Wikipedia, which says that a theory suggests something, does not adequately provide support for your dogmatic statement that follows it.
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Yes, but that was almost a hundred years ago. We've figured out how to ban substances now, as the huge success of the War on Drugs demonstrates. So we should try alcohol again.

(Big, fat /s on that, just in case it's somehow not obvious.)
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You can't compare that to postgresql on aws. especially not when it comes to pricing.
The start menu is pretty nice, compared to the awful "launch pad" style full-screen app menus that are now in OS X, GNOME, and Windows...
Honestly, it's crazy this isn't true for all governments and businesses. Frequent flier programs are just transparent kickbacks. I'm not too worried about the redistribution (since ultimately people will count it as a perk when they are comparing jobs, so it's priced in), but there has got to be significant deadweight losses from inefficient compensation, and from the person booking the travel being insulated from various incentives.
> but that even in a hypothetical future where overpopulation is not a problem it must continue to drop.

This supposes that population is currently dropping because of overpopulation. I see no evidence of that. China is your best candidate as a counterexample, and it falls flat.

They've rescinded the one child policy. If you are right, fertility should climb there... but the initial indications are that a people trained to be low-fertility continue to be low-fertility even after the training stops.

I'm not exactly shocked.
The tagline at least reminds me of the company posted a while back that was building virtual reality experiences where just enough of the environment was physical to make it feel actually real.

edit: speeling
I can't blame the author to trying to focus on the best aspects of how to reach across the political spectrum (even within the same party), but I'll be honest and say that some ideas/positions are fundamentally incompatible with a liberal society. For example, the current crop of social conservatism to seem to be dead set on putting inspectors at the entrances of public restrooms because of pseudo-fears over transgender people (specifically male-to-female transsexuals). Clearly, it's not about protecting children, women, and the elderly. It's about shaming a minority into submission since we've been making gains in terms of the national discussion. Hell, the fact that Caitlyn Jenner got some conservatives to rethink their ideas signals that certain virulent ideologies are on their way out. So, all they got left is to demonize. Worse still, there's no compromising with these people on such legislation like ENDA. They always want more protection to discriminate in private settings where they would be in violation of existing protected class laws. If such people want to have a seat at the table then they need to stop assuming that transgender people are monsters first and foremost. If that's not in their agenda then there can be no depolarization or compromises, ever. You can't debate the humanity of another person, either they're human or they're not.
Use it for cooking if its too bad to drink.

Or as the Spanish teenagers do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalimotxo
> It's just not true that you need a huge variety of stuff for over $1,000 to bake bread. Think about it. The history of bread goes back thirty thousand years.

"You don't need a guitar to make music, because people once made music by banging two sticks together". I mean, the GP even specifically mentioned pie tins, cake containers, cupcake trays, and you retort with "baking is nothing but bread"? "You don't need stuff, because a simplified subset of what you want to do can be done without stuff"? Hell, you don't even need a hammer to drive a nail, but it's a lot more efficient if you have one.

It's doubly weird that you invoke how people ran 100k years ago, and then say "all you need are shoes". Nope - it's "no footwear". It's perfectly doable - I had an anarchist friend who spent several years without wearing shoes (excluding when he had to - boots for protection when motorcycle riding). You should ditch the shoes in your example, for both running and walking, as shoes are just as unnecessary to human locomotion as $1k of kitchenware is to baking. There's even a subgenre of running that is specifically about no shoes; I'm not aware of a subgenre of baking that is specifically about making cakes with no mixer.