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> Of course, for such a high profile customer and for the priviledge of a case study, we can assume Spotify has some heavy discounts.

I am pretty sure it is also not unusual for average customers on AWS to get some discount, with some reserved instance committment). One such example is probably Redshift which is extremely expensive.

Would be nice to get an estimate quote for AWS but just for SQS I don't expect to be too expensive.
You're making a big assumption here - that they don't batch events before publishing to Google's Pub/Sub system.

The blog post says "We also added queuing and batching in the client. (This wasn’t first time that we needed to roll our sleeves up and reimplement a Google Cloud API client: in another project we implemented a high performance client for the Datastore API.)"
I'm sure Soylent 5.0 will be pretty close to that.
I'ts just a spam machine for me, all I seem to get are "are you or anyone in your network looking for a job" communications.

That plus the fact I have to be ever so careful to never hit that "search for contacts in email" button that randomly pops up
Are there laws which prohibit the actual taking of drugs? I thought they all targeted manufacture, distribution, and sale, which are definitely in the purview of the state to limit. I guess simple possession would be the grey area here, but there are plenty of other substances whose possession is regulated as well.
I think when they were referring to models they weren't necessarily referring to mathematical models, but also experimental models. They more stressed the importance of the predictive models that you are using, which in biomedical research is typically an experimental rather than mathematical/computational model.

From the takeaways portion of the article

"Judging the quality of the 'compass' (i.e., the 'validity' of experimental models) is very difficult. However, the drug industry should put its brightest and best people onto the problem of model validity"
None is illegal if you don't have a monopoly.
My guess is they won't. I suspect that Google heavily subsidized the deal. One way to get market traction is to get market awareness, and Spotify on GCP achieves that. Spotify would have been dumb not to get a huge discount in exchange for its logo.
I'm making an intermediate claim. I find that most studies that claim "A does not cause B" to be extremely unconvincing exactly because of the statistical methodologies used and the fact that they don't actually do any statistics that would imply that A does not cause B.

The upshot is that I (and I'm more scientifically minded than most) am less than fully trusting of the interpretations given to a lot of claims resulting from scientific trials. Furthermore, I think a large part of this issue originates in both awful language used in actual papers and in the fact that people aren't doing the types of analysis that they should be doing.

The fact that I so frequently see news exclaiming some clinical result and that the statistical analysis (even if done rigorously and completely honestly) does not imply what the news claims means that something is very wrong in the way that statistics is used.

At least in Physics (my field), people tend to be a bit more careful about it. Physicists may do somewhat silly p-value tests, but they mostly insist on p values very very close to zero, and papers tend to at least answer the right question (such-and-such effect is upper-bounded by some tiny number to five sigmas).

I will backtrack a bit, though. I dug up "Vaccines are not associated with autism: An evidence-based meta-analysis of case-control and cohort studies". They do establish bounds on the odds ratio. Good for them.
Actually, "fibers" are a custom abstraction that can be used instead of threads, but SQL Server uses the threading model by default.

So you're right, I do think it will be an engineering challenge, but as parent mentioned, the fact that SQL Server kind of treats the OS itself as abstract means I think they might have a path forward. Otherwise, I don't think they would have announced this.

Another way of thinking about this is, maybe the low-level refactoring necessary to make this run on Linux will actually be good for the SQL Server engine, although it will most likely go through a period of serious instability while they figure out how!
This is also my big complaint when it comes to MS SQL -- there has been precious little development on their SQL language. It's almost like they're in a complete feature-freeze when it comes to the SQL language.

MS SQL is missing some very basic SQL functionality.
Yeah, I think it could work. I at least got some "vim-flow" by playing nethack!
I have worked with a couple of banks.

My impression is that the main issue is that the bankers really don't understand software development, which is a bit ironic since they are heavily dependent on huge it-departments and behemoth systems, and banks were forerunners of the digital age - decades ago.

(I am not talking about traders and algo-wizards here, but the guys making sure that your salary is paid and the mortgages are billed, and the ATMs are spitting out money...)

The development departments are typically competent but also a bit aged and COBOL centered, and while it's nothing wrong with that per se, it tends to makes some changes harder than they have to be because of technical and cultural issues.

As the (top) management do not understand software development, which is similar in some ways, but vastly different in many other fundamental ways from business administration and also all other engineering fields, they are doing it wrong and without the right sort of people in charge or in the teams, [skipping a bit about hordes of coordinators, "business architects", and "requirement specialists" (and some developers) that don't understand neither the business nor code here...] and the end-result is long projects, low throughput, and unpolished and amateurish services.

And yes - the systems are insanely complex and old, and they get insane amount of new regulations coming, and they keep adding complexity to keep up, as the systems are only cost centers and to replace something is insanely expensive. (Although typically only a fraction of the quarterly earnings for the relevant business units within the bank.)

Because of this, the development projects don't go that well, and the bankers are not at all impressed with the performance of their own it-departments.

So the banker are now looking at the fintechs, and their perceived development force, and all the buzz about digitalization and disruption- and they are afraid that this will undercut their margins, and while that is probably true given all of the above, they somehow fail to see that virtually all their own services are already digital - or built on top of a digital service with a thin administrative physical process on top.

There are actually probably no truly disruptive threats - (BitCoin and distributed ledgers are actually not that competitive to a trusted 3rd party solution, as everything already is digital ) but there are absolutely profit margins that are in danger, until now typically on products that already is low-margin - probably because the market already works there, the others products are too regulated for others to enter.

The major difference is that the fintechs are prepared to invest a lot of money for a small cut of the margins - possibly trying to grow into ubiquity - probably unrealistic, while the banks have historically focused on spending as little as they can get away with on "admin" while still enjoying high margins on a traditionally oligopolistic market.
So we are in a never ending search for big insights about the world and ways to encode them into fun games.

So what's with the raft of dull first-person shooter franchises that aren't fun to play? I suspect it's more like any other industry; churn out what sells.
And you can't accurately perceive the problem in 6 dimensions without substantial help from LSD.
So, QED.
Well public intoxication is illegal, and the legalization of the possession of drugs wouldn't change that. I'm firmly in the drug-use-is-a-human-right camp, but I don't think that you have a right to use drugs in public. I think it's OK to be under the influence in public as long as your intoxication is subtle enough to be unnoticeable to a casual passerby, but I would oppose getting rid of public intoxication laws.

You have a right to drug use in private or where everyone present consents to your using drugs, like in group psychedelic rituals.
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One of the interesting things that occurs to me when I read this is the potential failure for researchers to remember one great way to test a hypothesis is to test a competing hypothesis.

So for example, in the cookie/radish story, were all participants exposed to the cookie smell? Were they aware some people got cookies and some people got radishes?

If so, the reduced performance of the radish group could be related to a feeling of being pushed down in the social hierarchy, a self-esteem blow, because they were denied a perk other participants received.

I intuitively feel some of these psychological experiments suffer from this. That there is another phenomenon which is really close to the one they think they are studying, which is how they get it wrong. Because the brain/sense of self are both such complex interrelated systems and it is extremely hard to make distinctions between different elements of the process.
It's a law. A lot of laws are old and don't apply to the present anymore but the little guy still has to obey them.

They can lobby for a law change but it's not acceptable that people/entities with lots of money can decide which laws they obey and which not.
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Our goal is to calculate P(pb > 0.5 | "Six girls and one boy"), where pb is the probability of having a boy. (Ignoring that we have already assumed p is fixed), by applying Bayes' Theorem, we have:

P(pb > 0.5 | "Six girls and one boy") = (P("Six girls and one boy" | pb > 0.5) * P(pb > 0.5)) / P("Six girls and one boy")

Applying Bayes theorem thus requires us to calculate P("Six girls and one boy" | pb > 0.5). How do you suggest that we do this? Why is your answer the unique correct solution?
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Very cool idea! I could add a simpler variant of what you're suggesting by not allowing cursor movement past opened tiles. Thanks for the input :)
We raised $600k coming out of YC S11 demo day for the classroom lecture tool. We kept costs low, and paid ourselves just enough to live on for ~2 years (plus servers, shared apartment doubled as office, etc.) We burned down to about $80k in cash (~3-4 months runway, not recommended) about 6 months after the launch of analytics.js, and then raised $2m (June 2013).
I'd also point out that there are a couple of projects out there aiming to add "blockchainish" behavior to a "regular" database without sacrificing the functionality we're all used to (try finding a tx with a specific value of the op_return on the bitcoin blockchain for example).
Also uncompensated are the owners of servers that had to spend a little bit more bandwidth on the billions of HTTP requests that got this header tacked on. For someone that has lots of small requests from mobile devices, say for HTTP server push, this is not a small number. When I first went looking for these on my servers, they were in 10% of requests.
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Thanks!

I'm pulling the day's songs via the API:

http://tracklist-api.kcrw.com/Simulcast/date/2016/03/04?page...

etc, and creating a playlist out of those. I'm parsing the artist/ song names pretty crudely, so I think it drops some.

I thought they were folding all shows during the day into that list, but maybe I'm wrong?
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> If your drug use results in you losing your job and becoming dependent on welfare, you will be a burden on society and the rest of us will have to pay more taxes to provide you with health care and treatment.

What if reading hacker news at work results in you losing your job and becoming dependent on welfare, should we outlaw news sites?
Hmm I'm in marketing/sales and spend a lot on LinkedIn. That's a simple business decision because it saves me time and makes way more than it costs. The more friction and anti-user crap they have, the weaker that business case becomes as it a) slows me down and b) hinders activity and growth of the network. They have great business models around very highly targeted ads, sales prospecting, market intelligence, and recruitment - each of which are highly monetizable in their own right. I don't really see how a killer app for any of those would be improved by bloat.
450 mil for this but 1.3 for Verizon super cookies, and Verizon doesn't even have to stop doing it. I guess Apple should hire better lobbyists.
Seems cool. Slightly off topic but I hate when someone names a file format with "format" or "file" in the name. Isn't it a bit redundant to include format in the format? Something that has always bothered me about PDF.
Of course a well rounded education comes from many sources and factors, both internal and external. But in general I feel that:

STEM training = literacy for the jobs we have now

Liberal arts training = big picture training for innovation that we have yet to do.

Remember this John Adams quote:

"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain."

Education has moved in this direction, but our economy has not innovated alongside it to make work for them.
People like junk food.
EDIT: and there's nothing wrong with that. But the games industry has grown immensely as an art form thanks to independent game developers.
It's not the 1990s anymore. The web no longer belongs to us, it belongs to the graphic design and typography crowd. If there's no guarantee how the browser will render text, that's a huge bug in the Web.

And using a fixed-width DIV -- or cramming everything into a TABLE cell in the old days -- has been recognized as a remedy to one of the Web's most glaring typographical bugs: the tendency to expand the text flow to the width of the browser, which fucks with a human reader's ability to scan the text.
Don't all restrictive laws by their definition violate human rights? 'Rights' is the sphere of activity the law agrees not to encroach. This question is tautological.

Better question -- given that legalizing psychedelics will make 1% of us healthier or better at our jobs at the cost of doubling the pedestrian strike rate in large cities, do metropolitan mayors want to make that trade?
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That same argument applies to alcohol, tobacco, or a poor diet, which likely incur even higher externalized costs. Do you believe we should criminalize those, too?
Sure, but look at the shitty sub-thread it's generated.
And here's the article on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sium_sisarum
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Absolutely - just checked out the Kano model, a good read for anyone interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kano_model
WBUR is Boston's NPR radio station. It's the 21st Century equivalent of a local news piece, while they could work harder to adapt it for a global audience it isn't really in their remit to do so.
I wonder if you believe people send Larry Ellison money because of his likeability.
wow. around here (northeast US near Boston) you're lucky to get one decent guy for 125K.
$290k per month is $3.5M per year.

A software engineer at Google earns, on average, $127k per year [1]. We multiply that by 1.4 [2] to obtain a cost per employee of $177k.

This means that according to this estimation, Spotify pays for 20 Google software engineers.

[1] https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Google-Salaries-E9079.htm
[2] http://web.mit.edu/e-club/hadzima/how-much-does-an-employee-...
Emissions standards get more strict each year, so it's not arbitrary at all. As technology advances, emissions systems get more advanced and ten years makes a world of difference. A 1995 Honda might be legally allowed to spew 1000x the amount of NOx that a 2005 Tahoe can. So a newer car could be much cleaner than an old one, even with a 3x larger engine.

This is also completely ignoring the fact that older engines are more likely to have various parts of their engine and emission systems degrade over time, reducing their effectiveness.
>as Ingres

I've read that SQL Server code was originally based on Sybase code they licensed. Not sure.
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I am one of the ZoL developers. I assume that you are referring to the PPA and EL repositories. The ZoL PPA and EL repository maintainers use DKMS there because there is no way that a third party can ship kernel modules at the same time a distribution ships a new kernel. That means that there would always be a window of time where the new kernel is available and the modules are not, which breaks things. Furthermore, keeping up with new kernels from upstream to publish binary modules is a burden that DKMS eliminates. if it were not for those things, the upstream project repositories would have had binary modules available years ago. Since Canonical is in the position to avoid the race, they are able to ship the binary modules that the upstream project could not.
Education is cheaper than prohibition. If costs are the problem, that's what we should do.
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Having worked as a Windows admin for the the past three years, the one piece of Microsoft technology that never gave me the least bit of trouble is SQL Server. It's expensive (compared to the € 0,- price tag of PostgreSQL), but otherwise I like it very much. It will be interesting to see SQL Server on Linux.
"Even if you consider the waste that stays around for "thousands of years", that's a short time compared to some types of chemical waste that doesn't decay."

I did mention a plasma converter and the possibility of chemical options coming up down the line. Not many possibilities like that for nuclear.
>The only real recourse is to switch carriers; however even that is not real because they all play by the same rules.

The only recourse available within the given legal system. It is the legal system which limits our recourse against aggregated petty injustice, and so if people cared enough, the system could be changed or bypassed. The bigger problem is people just don't care about the many small problems... they really don't care about most big problems either. Some days I look at the apathy and wonder if I should just sign up alongside the likes of Verizon and try to profit off the apathy.
While true, it's a bit disingenuous to say this today. The fork happened 23 years ago, and the two products have diverged to the point where there's probably very little common code left.

As an aside, back in the early 2000s I was using the free version of Sybase ASE on Linux for webapps. It was great; painless to run and manage, and fast. Of course, MSSQL blew it out of the water even back then.
> You said "caused". Not "it would not have happened" (that is, it was one essential factor), but "caused" (that is, this is what made that happen).

I said "caused" because I was copying the statement and style of the previous poster. His point (I believe) alluded to the commonly held belief that the roots of WWII lay in WWI; my point, since he used 1941, was that the roots of Pearl Harbor lay closer to home.

> To see the difference, do a thought experiment. The US takes Hawaii in 1893, but does not end the sale of oil, rubber, metal, and everything else militarily useful to Japan in 1937. Does Pearl Harbor still happen? Probably not, because the US is not signaling opposition to Japan's invasion of China.

Okay, I say in this fictional version of history that it still does happen, because the US is still in places it should not be, due to its late 19th century imperialism, and still poses a military threat to Japanese ambitions in the region.

> On the other hand, say the US doesn't "invade, overthrow, and annex" Hawaii. It merely negotiates for a naval base. Does Pearl Harbor still happen? Yes.

Why does it still happen? If the US is acting peacefully in this imaginary situation, why can't Japan?
For the last 3 months, Groovy has been officially known as "Apache Groovy".
The space of applications for which storage bandwidth is a limit on performance but where the overall scale is appropriate for a SQL RDBMS is shrinking every year. Is this even a meaningful niche?

Basically, http://yourdatafitsinram.com/
It's not a derivative work unless additional creative effort is added.

That is what I meant by transformative: http://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/fair-use/four-factors/#...
Yes, true, and Sybase is a descendant of Ingres.
No, it's because the people who pay for it aren't the people who have to use it.
Alternatively, just refund every consumer who paid to have their privacy violated. Nobody should pay to be on the receiving end of a tort.

That number would be way higher than 1.3m.
I think you've hit the nail on the head! People respond to the incentives they're given, and those certainly are the incentives here. Quite the opposite of an email app or a programmer's editor.
Indeed, but generally people seem to be coming at it from the Oracle suing over the CDDL side.

Additionally, if I understand correctly, in order to have a chance to sue, Oracle would have to show that the code in question violates their actual copyright, which is only in code that the wrote/contributed. So Oracle would likely need to prove that the ZFS code interfaces/touches/uses their copyrighted code, otherwise they would not have standing (in the US). I have no clue if that interaction occurs or not.
I'm still struggling to see where your obtuse fixation on the idea that conscripts are obliged to murder the people conscripting them in order to avoid a hypothetical future scenario in which they might be ordered to kill civilians actually counters my original argument that civilians generally don't suffer more in war zones than troops. I mean, if I was going to try to refute that argument I'd probably say something like "except when there's a food shortage and the soldiers have all the requisitioning power" rather than branching into obtuse lines of argument about last resort responsibility to shoot recruiting sergeants.

Sorry, but taking out the word "easily" doesn't make the argument that prospective conscripts have more agency to avoid the unpleasantness of potentially having to shoot people because they can buy a civilian firearm (unlike civilians?!) and fire first any less silly.

And no, soldiers generally ordered to follow a particular course of action on pain of death generally don't have more agency than civilians who generally aren't under such orders. In particular, civilians are far more likely to be allowed to permanently leave the war zone(s) at any given time than soldiers, and far less likely to be intentionally fired at.
The piece mentions David Nutt who was infamously fired by the British government for his use of inconvenient facts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Nutt#Government_position...
NoScript->Options->Embeddings->Additional restrictions for untrusted sites->Forbid <IFRAME>

Just turned that option on, myself. I might have had it on years ago--can't remember for sure--but now that I know it's being abused, I'll definitely leave it on. IFRAMEs are generally poor practice, anyway.