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>I don't like the attitudes of pro-legalization people in the US. They wont accept that there are negative sides to drug use and seem to think there should be no restrictions.

This sums up my experience both in this thread, and living in Colorado.
hahaha awesome! Glad you spoke up, exciting news. Just started using spotify a few weeks ago, but it is an awesome product. Cheers.
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> So you expect other communities to review all code changes?

No. Third parties would be just a barrier against odd updates that don't hit everyone. If update starts hitting everybody then it's probably harmless because everyone is getting it, if it appears just at 10 clients then it's probably a backdoor.
The illegality of the stubstance gave police an excuse to search the car, or to intimidate the driver into implicitly consenting to a search of the car, during which they inevitably find something the stoner or one of their friends forgot which leads to an arrest. I've seen it play out on COPS dozens of times.

I wonder why they don't go back to doing a sobriety test for detecting intoxication though. It worked ok before breathalyzers, if you can pass the test than presumably you are ok to drive.
And what about user experience? It's times like these where I do not feel guilty about using an adblock, despite being a publisher myself, and hosting google ads on my website. Is it hypocritical? Probably. But I would think the issue isn't completely black and white.

Also, as a publisher who provides educational content (I'm not mentioning my website's name, but it's very, very similar to mentalfloss.com or the TIL reddit subreddit [even though my website has been around longer than both]), increasing the top ads is going to hurt my traffic. It's a bit of a selfish reason but at least I know the people who are searching for those terms are looking for exactly what's on my website. In many cases, my site is the only one with that information.
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Show HN: Azk – run code locally straight from GitHub and deploy to DigitalOcean
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I'm on mobile so this initial response will be short:

AWS' core product is AWS. They do a damn fine job of providing this.

GC's core is "who knows what" - they do a damn poor job of even making an offering if switch thousands and thousands of servers to - let alone thousands and thousands of man hours.

Ironically, Google has massive domain knowledge of how to run infra... Yet clueless how to adopt and support and foster companies other than google.

It sucks.

But I've been in the business of fork lifting many people to aws, for all the reasons you'd expect:

Find me a single ops eng on the market who has done scale in GC? Nope.

EDIT: may I please have a rebuttal?
Is that standardized? So why doesn't all those libraries (mostly jQuery libraries) that perform DOM transformation use custom elements, instead of a lot of nested divs with custom classes?
Hi! I'm part of Azuki, the startup that created azk.

azk (http://github.com/azukiapp/azk) is a lightweight open source development environment orchestration tool. It runs on top of Docker containers, but we tried to make it super simple to use.

We liken it to YouTube whereas Docker is more like Adobe Flash Video.

azk is versatile, but right now we're focused on the simplest use cases hence our focus on DigitalOcean as deployment option.

Accordingly, we created the "Run Project" button. You can add it to your public repos on GitHub and any visitor can easily and safely run your code locally in very few steps.

The only thing you'll have to add to your code is an Azkfile, a simple manifest file listing the required elements for the code's environment (OS, language, database etc.).

We even created this demo gallery with forks from GitHub to prove that http://run.azk.io . We'll be continuously adding new projects to it.

In this tutorial published by DigitalOcean, we demonstrate how easy it is to run code "in natura" straight from GitHub with the "Run Project" button and then deploy it to DigitalOcean with azk.

We know there are several options to deploy code from GitHub to the cloud or even to your local machine, however none of them allow you to deal with the original code unmodified like this which can be very useful for hacking/experimenting purposes.

How many times have you stumbled upon some code on GitHub you'd like to check out but it was so complicated to run it locally you ended up just giving up? How many projects do you have that could be going through that?

There you go. :)

I'll be glad to answer to any comments and doubts about it.

Thanks!
Essentially you are being given a copy of a VM that has a copy of Windows pre-installed. It's unlikely (but possible) that Microsoft has granted a license for this. I imagine this is technically not legal, but as you say, unlikely to matter much.
Horrible. This seems way more difficult to learn, because the chosen symbols don't always make sense. Why is "let" a cat and "var" a dog, for example?

And since probably more symbols are chosen arbitrarly, the Hello World example just seems impossible to understand, as long as you don't memorize what the emojis mean. Is this really more intuitive than let x = "Hello World" ?

It would be fun if emojis were used for different purposes, maybe like
> let pigs = 2 (pig emoji)
Depends on what those p2p nodes are doing. We do p2p on mobile but it's to allow the mobile device to act as a client to access an IoT device, not to force the mobile device to act as a CDN node. Spotify was doing the latter, which is more problematic.

Moore's Law eventually will matter, since faster and more efficient chips equal the ability to do more with lower power consumption. Batteries aren't getting better fast enough, but power consumption per fixed unit of compute is falling like a rock. As a result "effective battery life" for a given fixed workload is subject to Moore's Law.
Thanks. I wasn't actually aware they're a German company. This should make it even more reassuring though: if even German anti-virus companies won't give it any special treatment, this really makes it no more of a concern than any other malware from the user's POV (other than the political debate of course).
+1 for DTL. I've used them quite a bit for projects and had great luck. Currently have been borrowing tools to rebuild a motorhome and without them I would be storing and laying out a significant investment of tools. I would pay quite a bit more per year for a "Netflix of Tools" if delivery were fast and reasonable.
The next thing would be drone laser tag.

- the players sit at home(yeah latency issues) or at the venue
- order the standard drone-by-the-minute service(future service, copyright no-one-yet)
- drone goes to the venue spot
- shoot other drones...(no AI cheating!)
- best of 5 matches
Or instead of laser, user physical objects, and they need to reload them at a station with real people that can shoot down the drones to, so they can defend the loading station! that would be cool. "Real" warfare in a play setting.

mix it up with the Father.io thing/normal laser tag. so the drones will be tactical vehicles that will feed info. and the players can shoot them down. to gain information advantages.
Or just make the drones bomber planes, that can bomb the players. you know-normal military drones...

But if you have all that, why not do it virtually and with realistic graphics somewhere that does not look like anything on earth...
Can't emphasize enough how much I wish GCE had PostgreSQL support. Managing and maintaining our database is something I'd love to hand off to my cloud provider. MySQL simply doesn't cut it these days, and RDS has made me happy and lazy.
You've identified why I have so much clutter in my garage and house. I do exactly this - it's cheap to buy most of these tools compared to the cost of renting, and there's a surprising amount of overhead and liability in renting stuff.

That said, I do think there's something off about my accounting. I live in SF - the tool may cost X dollars, but what's the yearly rent on the square footage that the tool occupies? Just to sit there unused 99% of the time.

I'm starting to rent things not because it's cheaper but because I'm beginning to understand the psychological effects of having too much clutter in a relatively small house.

But yeah, renting is really expensive with all kinds of little gotchas, and it's a surprising hassle, too. Almost as much of a hassle as having a lot of clutter around.
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>The difference is that guns are inherently dangerous: their main purpose is to cause destruction and harm

The difference being how you framed that to begin with:
Many people have and continue to use guns to provide food and protection.

If we ban guns because a small group of people misuse them, I want:

1) Automobiles banned: http://www.amazon.com/Driven-Kill-Vehicles-as-Weapons/dp/088...

2) Knives banned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akihabara_massacre & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osaka_school_massacre & http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/01/world/asia/china-railway-attac...

2.1) Sharp objects in general banned: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/breakingnews/offbeat/man-k...

The argument is always "guns make it easier to kill others". This is almost always touted by people who've never shot a gun or have never aimed a gun. Worse, they target the wrong kind of guns [0]. Namely, rifles and shotguns and "scary looking guns" that are used less often than knives are used for murder.

The only compelling argument one can make is that "given the choice between a blunt object, a knife, or a gun, most murderers pick guns". There is little to no evidence that removing guns removes murderers. The reasoning that they would simply pick a different weapon seems to be tossed aside and ignored.

I don't and never will own a gun. Before anyone tries to justify my "owning a gun" as their argument for why I'm biased by supporting gun rights.

[0] https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/...
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I agree completely that the wild bananas have seeds. But do domesticated ones even have the structures to pollinate?

In any case, with modern tech. we could probably redomesticate bananas in a few years. I'm less bothered by the food implications of bananas dying off than the economic ones. Bananas are big business for some equatorial countries. An upset in the economy usually precedes an upset in the government.
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Painless eventually; the first versions didn't work at all, at least on the project I was involved with. Fortunately by the time you had to switch, it worked very well.
First, a 80MHz square wave does not have side bands that are significant below 80MHz, only above! And if it's configured for alternating 0/1 bits, a serial port at 80MBaud creates a square wave of exactly 40 MHz.

Furthermore cnlohr doesn't use a fixed square-wave but a variable sequence of pulses. And a single pulse of (1/80Mhz)=12.5ns will have a sinc spectrum. sinc f=(sin f)/f. For an infinitely sharp-edged pulse, this sinc-spectrum basically extends to infinity, for real-world pulses you can expect to see a few harmonics.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=fourier+transform+box+...

cnlohr basically uses the synchronous serial i2s interface, running at 80Mbits/s as a 1bit DAC with a zero-order hold (stretching out a constant voltage over the bit time), so this DAC will recreate anything between 0..40MHz correctly (within the capabilities of its pretty poor quantisation noise and within the first lobe of the sinc-spectrum).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-order_hold

http://www.ee.ic.ac.uk/pcheung/teaching/ee2_signals/Lecture%... (last slide)

But, any signal you recreate will, because it's made up of the single pulses with the sinc spectrum, not only have energy between 0...+Fs/2 but also between N-1/2 and N+1/2 times the sampling frequency. There's a obvious trick involving the fact that convolution in the time domain corresponds to multiplication in the frequency domain, but unfortunately I can't really recall it correctly now... so you have to just take my word for it ;)

And that's why, if this "DAC" outputs 1MHz, you also get 79 and 81.

http://www.analog.com/media/en/training-seminars/tutorials/M...
(here's a nice graph)

Conversely, when you try to output a sharp pulse on your soundcard, e.g. an audiofile consisting of {zeroes, one sample of 32000, zeroes...}, the output to your headphones will be something like a sinc pulse. The Fourier transform of this since pulse in the time domain will be a box function from 0..half the sample rate in the frequency domain, and hence no higher harmonics will be output.
This is a group of predominantly young computer-people. They are not going to be wise to depreciation or the effects of old age.

If I buy a new video card, when I open the box its resale value instantly drops perhaps 50% of its price, and in perhaps two years its resale value is "you're gonna have to pay me to recycle that for you...". Money spent on computer hardware in 1981 dropped in value to $0 if not less by, perhaps, 1983. The experience is worthless, or negative worth, on your resume (trust me on that one) If you're a computer-person, money spent is money wasted, in the long run.

28 years ago I got a nice full set of fractional/number/letter drills in a Huot case. Instantly when I opened the package its value dropped from whatever it was sold for, to $10 at a garage sale. I get 28 years of use out of it, some are getting a little shorter from resharpening or have been replaced, and I could still get $10 at a garage sale. If I sold my drill bits to raise $10 today, I'd just have to rebuy them again in a month or two at full list price and eat the substantial depreciation a second time. Its not like my world is going to run out of things to make holes thru. I'm not wealthy enough to buy the same tools over and over; likewise I'm not wealthy enough to buy cheap tools that fall apart such that I have to buy them over and over. I'm not wealthy enough to rent things I use on a regular basis. Actually I am wealthy enough now, but character traits like this are exactly the cause of why I'm wealthy enough now. Minimization of total overall lifetime system cost. Nobody ever got rich by spending more money than is necessary.

Now multiply the set of drill bits by every other capital good / tool I own, and in some capital intensive hobbies it adds up. And there's really nothing wrong with that. That's how you end up with (old) carpenters having $30K shops like my accountant neighbor, or (old) bakers with $1K of gear, (old) ham radio operators with $10K radio stations... At least with some hobbies, not making dumb decisions adds up over time.
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And here I was able at the article for spoiling the fun of it's 'guess the search terms' game in the damn title. Nope, it wasn't the author I had to be disappointed with, it was HN's blind adherence to keeping the original title AND removing click bait. A much better title would have been the original or something like "what to include in Twitter search terms".
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WIRED is playing heavy trying to get us to subscribe, denying content that was free.

It is so annoying that I am now using WIRED.CO.UK instead.
I always was curious about about one thing with DJB. Even DJB must to admire that focusing almost everything in modern crypto world around DJB is not _secure_. Curve25519 became default in OpenSSH, used in Signal in Axolotl Ratchet (and our project - actor.im too) and so on. It is going to be everywhere. And all lines came to one specific person.
In the case of abortion, I'll grudgingly admit that reasonable people can differ, at least in cases of rape or incest; in life-of-the-mother cases (pregnancy in the Fallopian tube), the other side might even be right.

But on torture? I'm not willing to make any concession to people who think that hanging a Japanese general for waterboarding US soldiers is fine, while leaving a US president entirely unpunished for waterboarding actual and suspected terrorists is not fine. Either we owe the Axis (and especially that general's heirs) some enormous apologies, or we need a few trials of a certain past political administration.

I tend be a fan of bright lines in general. If you don't know that some things are wrong (and, therefore, that any line of reasoning that leads to them has a problem with it somewhere), how do you know when you've gone astray?
>So it's better on the balance sheet because less is being spend up front (Even though it's more overall).

A balance sheet balances, so every asset matches a liability. A sale like this doesn't alter the sheet, they are merely swapping one asset (a building) for another (cash).

What is affected is cash and cash flow.
Wake me when they made an augmented reality game where people actually have to do something creative together, instead of 'killing' each other in a million ways.
I signed the lease in the past two years. So rent control has kicked in once. I have a room in a shared apartment. There are plenty of open rooms on Craigslist for similar rents. I'm not saying life will be great but it's entirely possible to live in the city on $50k/yr.
can you translate this phrase? google translate produces "life-affirming African propagation type", which doesn't have any clear meaning...
I upvoted you, but I caveat that in the 10,000+ times I've shot a gun, far less than a thousand times have I even intended to "cause destruction and harm", i.e. kill an animal while hunting game or for pest control. Most of those rounds I've fired were on my school's JROTC rifle range.
Much cooler if you play while riding a Segway.
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I've worked in paid search for some time now and can't help but chime in.

I'd agree CPC/CTR will increase. But if you think about it, the real logical reason for the change is that Google needs more real-estate. Search is continuing to evolve (I.e, the way the you and I look for information), and Google has been testing new ad formats to better serve queries.

Limiting the number of traditional paid search ads is the only way they can continue to maintain a balance between SEO & paid search while testing new ad formats.

I wouldn't at all be surprised if they began testing a new product in the latter half of 2016
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Individual features of Facebook can be picked off by competitors. Instagram is just Facebook pictures. WhatsApp is just Facebook chat, etc. And, at least Facebook thought they were competitors, because Facebook obviously acquired them.
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Google's core business is providing web services and putting ads on them. That core business means Google focuses a lot on running those web services effectively, which is why they are now focusing hard on the business angle of running other people's web services.

Google spends $2+B per quarter on capital expenditures; where do you think that money is going if not datacenters?

Using Facebook as a default login was never core to Parse (e.g. PFUser: https://parse.com/docs/osx/api/Classes/PFUser.html) nor is Parse nearly on the same scale as Google's investment in its datacenters / web software efficiency.
Expressing the size of the desk in a coordinate system specifically chosen such that the size doesn't change is much more than a convention. Conventions are arbitrary, like whether to drive on the left or right side of a two-way road.
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The intended and implied meaning "the African race has more sex and reproduces faster"
Invasive species are certainly a concern with a lot of things: just look at how Kudzu has taken over so much stuff in the American southeast.

However, cacti I would think would be unproblematic, especially saguaros. Saguaro cacti are huge when mature, but it takes over a century to reach that size. They're very slow-growing. They're not going to overtake any land on their own unless you intentionally ignore it for a few centuries. Moreover, they only do well in the Sonoran desert where the climate is right for them, and there's no competition or predators. They wouldn't last anywhere where anything could eat them (not likely with the spines of course), or where the weather killed them off (they probably can't handle freezing temperatures very much). They can't even handle too much wind: their root systems are very shallow, and they tend to fall down in storms when they're old. Young and middle-aged ones that are transplanted are normally propped up with 2x4 lumber for a while to let their roots grow more; it's an extremely common sight in Arizona in places with new development where they transplanted some cacti in for landscaping.
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> It's important to articulate why the company will eventually be in a strategically valuable position (i.e. a monopoly).

Is it possible to ever answer this in a meaningful way, besides "we're going to be the best and get mindshare and beat everyone out of the market"? Anyone have examples, or care to imagine what the answer would have looked like for those few companies that DID go on to dominate a market?

I guess if your product has vendor lock-in or network/virual effects then you're in a better place to answer it well (?).
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Touché -- That said, we don't have pinggom tied to SMS, just email. =) Pingom is just an external tool for us to graph uptime from other parts of the world.

If we're down there is plenty of other alerting to notify us (mostly through Slack). That said, there isn't much we can do other than wait for Google to fix it.

It is part of the trade off that we have to consider, I'm paying Google for devops instead of paying a team to do it for me. If you've ever had to hire a 24/7 support/devops staff, it is a much easier hiring proposition to just rely on Google to do that for us.
No, the $1MM curve will cost you CPU cycles. If you want a fast curve, use 25519.
but what's your businesss (that you're hiring for)
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Isn't that what some like to call "employment"?
Would this be a useful app without Slack?
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>I'm not sure why anyone cares more about why someone is impaired than they do about whether someone is impaired.

It's easy to target people who are engaging in unnecessary actions at the expense of driving capability. Drinking, using drugs, and texting fall under this category. People are much less accepting of punishments for things seemingly outside of personal control. Imagine the embarrassment for law makers when some mothers' advocacy group attacks them for banning all new mothers from driving (except those rare exceptions who function well on <4 hours of sleep.) Or the backlash for hardworking people getting arrested regularly because their multiple jobs keep them from getting an amount of sleep that makes driving permissible.