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Android Wars 2016: Google Surrenders to Oracle
Abstract

When troubleshooting buggy executions of distributed
systems, developers typically start by manually separating
out events that are responsible for triggering the
bug (signal) from those that are extraneous (noise). We
present DEMi, a tool for automatically performing this
minimization. We apply DEMi to buggy executions of two
very different distributed systems, Raft and Spark, and
find that it produces minimized executions that are between
1X and 4.6X the size of optimal executions.
While we're in the business of doubting things that measure performance, why do you trust the credential-blind screen?
That is NOT Demis saying not to worry, it's him saying the Terminator movie is a bad model.
NOLA is oil, food, and booze. No tech options unless you're in Chem/Process Engg.
The Zeus one is definitely tied to aspect ratio..
Sure, but unless you're pulling ad stock from a secure source, that just obfuscates the issue. Is your network path to the client meaningfully less secure than your network path to the ad server?
Sounds like Devops.
These technologies will blow the lid off data storage
Python elitism cannot challenge the glory of the Hack. :)
There are a lot of people asserting that, while you should be writing (in part) for readability, you should be able to assume some level of competence on the part of those who follow. I would say that is probably the case but really consideration should be given to who your audience is actually likely to be given the circumstances in which you write.

It is also the case that we often overestimate how understandable things are to others - I write above discussing goals before any compensation for this is applied.
This was presumably the rationale behind the UK's "Child Trust Fund" scheme: http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/savings/child-trust-fund-vo... which included a £250+ freebie to kick it off. However, none of the beneficiaries have matured yet.
There's a gray sidebar on the right with a list of names and 2 arrows. If you click on any of the names, it goes to that picture.
Anyone aware of Vulcan support for desktop gpus from nvidia or amd?
I don't think anyone is suggesting to not educate yourself and instead invest, but the point is what even a small amount of money can do over a long time.
"Google is trying to change engines mid-flight"
Well, good luck with that !
What would the present value of that money be, if in a bank? Something to compare to would be instructive.

For me, the stocks would be ~$260K. Simple interest (7%) would be $207K
RE: 1, this reinvests dividends:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=%5ESP500TR

S&P 500 Total Return Index. Calculated intraday by S&P based on the price changes and
reinvested dividends of SPX <INDEX> with a starting date of Jan 4, 1988.
That's awesome. I was an early tester on Book 2 and I really wanted to take photos, but I didn't because I wasn't sure if it was against the rules. Really glad to hear that you added this detail so carefully!
An example integration of Agility Platform and ServiceNow – code included
Zeus is the winner! ;)
Sure, there's a chance people will pick up the mantle and essentially fork Python 2.7 to do unofficial bugfix releases past 2020; as you pointed out, it's open source and people can do what they want. But my point is there is no guarantee that will happen, nor that those unofficial releases will be of quality either. RH and Continuum on the other hand will most likely have financial incentives to make sure any maintenance they do meets the needs of their paying customers and thus are of a certain level of quality. IOW one possible future is more of a certain than the other.
That's right. If you've got a TV and a Raspberry Pi your ready to go :)
Maybe it was mostly smoke and mirrors (I never actually used it), but for some reason I feel like we still have reached the level of SHRDLU, which was written in the 60s on a PDP-6! Just this excerpt sounds miles ahead of Siri et all:

Person: DOES A STEEPLE
Computer (interrupting): SORRY, I DON'T KNOW THE WORD "STEEPLE".
Person: A "STEEPLE" IS A STACK WHICH CONTAINS TWO GREEN CUBES AND A PYRAMID.
Computer: I UNDERSTAND.
Person: ARE THERE ANY STEEPLES NOW?
Computer: NO.
Person: BUILD ONE.
Computer: OK. (does it)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHRDLU

http://hci.stanford.edu/winograd/shrdlu/
Leangains IF assumes that you track your macros. I was just talking about your feeding window influencing hormonal entrainment (ghrelin).
Google AlphaGo(AI) vs. Lee Sedol(the World’s Best Go Player)
Regarding the first one, I don't think this would be a serious issue. It shouldn't show what move its considering, just the current best option. It would probably converge on a good move within the first second. Running the free, quick analysis from chess.com on my Iphone has a great visualization that rapidly updates the computer's scoring of the current position and shows what it thinks is the best move, as well as pointing out any previous moves it thinks are mistakes/blunders.
If you believe that you'll believe anything...
Not to excuse your case but a company I work for just got funded and posted a job ad on AngelList, it's been a week and there are 50+ applications sitting in the mailbox. We produce and sell a physical product so one of the founders keeps the operations going, other does biz dev and I do tech. This year alone we need to hire about 10 more people. It's overwhelming. Especially so when hiring the first key employees for roles you don't have experience with.
This is really cool. I've been using various tools for quick demos, but have really been looking forward to something that makes use of webpack and npm (in the browser).
Watch the moment a self-driving Google car sideswipes a bus
It would be simple to get anyone into OS development. The only easier language I can find to teach someone is Python, and that doesn't have such an easily portable runtime.

JavaScript is great because you can learn it in the afternoon and master it in a few years and has a nice subset of lisp-like features.

It would be a toy to prototype in. Easy to use, and easy to modify. Nothing serious.
The technical details in this case really are everything, so it would make sense to get flagged out of existence if you got them wrong.

To be clear, I'm not one of the flaggers, but I can understand some potential motivation there. There is already a lot of noise on this topic.
+1 for Journey. It's awesome. The person who runs it, Thomas Lotze, was also a Society member and is quoted in my article.
Estonian Government Adopts Blockchain to Secure 1 Mln Health Records
That's not necessarily something to aspire to. For example, many people refer to Mr. Trump as The Donald.
Solder reflow recipes are a good idea! Although, in good conscience, I would not suggest using the oven for food after that.

Meals are delivered, fresh and uncooked, a la ingredient delivery services. In our case, they're already prepared and just need scanned and put in the oven. Modified atmosphere packaging helps with shelf life and stability.

(disclosure: I'm the CTO of Tovala)
Nice site.

You may want to look at Robert Schiller's (of Case-Schiller index fame, among other things) data set available here:
http://www.econ.yale.edu/~shiller/data.htm
He has S&P dividends by quarter back to 1871.

Fees do make a difference, though they are pretty small in e.g. VFINX -> VFIAX. If you want to be super realistic you could build up the dollars a day at say the federal funds rate until you hit the VFINX minimum, then accumulate $100 batches at that rate before investing them in the S&P 500. Once the account hits VFIAX switch to that for fees. There's also taxes but that's just a mess because there are so many possible scenarios. Probably this whole paragraph is just overkill.

As for as inflation goes, the big thing is not the current amount of money, which after all is today's dollars and so easy to understand, but to try to get across the fact that in 1950 $1 was a heck of a lot more than it was today (about $10). Still not a huge amount of money perhaps, but not something you would just drop in a tip jar either.

That also gets to the point that is kind of a crazy investment strategy. In real terms you are investing the most when you are least able to afford to. Since it isn't supposed to be a serious strategy, instead more of something to think about that's no big deal, but it's worth noting.
I think immutable infrastructure still requires a lot of tools and moving parts today. We're spending a lot of time thinking on how to improve this. Two idea's we have:

1. Deploy directly from GitLab to Kubernetes https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/14040
2. Add a container registry to GitLab itself https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/3299

Any comments or suggestions are welcome.
You did a Show HN 60 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10866996
10e6 microseconds? ;)

The quote came from Dave Limp, Amazon’s senior vice president for devices. I feel that people in senior positions such as the person quoted are far more focused on metrics and tangible results (e.g. "reduced Q4 defect ppm by X%") so it probably becomes second nature to alter the phrases used favorably. To a passive listener or someone skimming the article, milliseconds can seem far better.

Besides, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people need to think for a second before realizing 1000 milliseconds = 1 second.
Why PC Gamers Hated Microsoft’s “Games for Windows Live”
That's what I use. Very fast - enables you to disable images (and adverts) to speed things up. Also uses CSS to create a night-mode with a black background.
I think it is a great visualization and it helps to illustrate why saving and investing should be part of everyone's strategy to have something set aside when they are older.

And I think it illustrates that it doesn't have to be a "lot" of money to make a big difference over time.

It's also rather misleading, as you point out, because you can't invest $1 (or often even $31 a month). I assume you have seen the mr. money mustache (MMM) web site. His approach to communicate the value was to discuss mutual funds which reflected broad diversity in the market. Many of them have quite long histories as well. Of course with mutual funds you have to factor in taxes (which is really hard to do in a general way) since funds transact sales and that results in the realizing of short and long term gains and losses.

Aside from the difficulty of actually investing $1 a month I found the visualizations excellent and the floating bubbles pretty cool too.
Yeah, it's actually a lot more complicated than that. Let's assume the security team creates the Dockerfile. It'll look like this:

FROM ubuntu
WORKDIR ${foo} # WORKDIR /bar
RUN developer_script.sh

So now with each new container update you'd need someone from the security team to audit/review `developer_script.sh`. It's kind of pointless if your goal is fast deployments.

If you just need to make sure your developers don't make a mistake in terms of securely configuring their containers (and making sure to always use the latest software) then you simply scan them before the canary stage. The problem there is, "what are you looking for?"

Also, there exists only one tool to scan Docker containers (OpenSCAP) and if your security team doesn't like it, well, you're screwed: https://github.com/OpenSCAP/container-compliance

The other problem is that OpenSCAP only checks the container's packages for compliance. It doesn't actually scan the container's filesystem for things like JREs and bundled libs. So if you're using Docker best practices by keeping your images as minimal as possible you may not even have a package tool inside your containers. In that case how do you check for things like out-of-date versions of Java?

Another problem is you assume there's some modicum of control over what's inside the containers before they're deployed. We're in charge of creating the infrastructure for running containers with the promise that end users (who would be various application teams) can make their own containers (or at least their own Dockerfiles) and deploy them on our infrastructure.

We can work with them to help develop, say, a Kubernetes pod config for their app but as far as what their app is or what gets bundled with it we'll have no knowledge after the first successful deployment.
I would not classify Freemasonry as a secret society. Freemasonry wants new members and while recruiting is (supposed to be) a big no-no, being visible (preferably while bettering your community) is encouraged.

The appearance of symbols in movies and other media are somewhat like rickrolling or "masons were here" tagging, intended for other masons. An allusion to the "We Are Everywhere" motto which is intended well, but ends up sounding ominous to outsiders.

There are appendant bodies within Freemasonry that certainly are secret societies. Even secret from most Masons. Some Googleable (eg. J-----rs), some not. I can answer more specific questions here, if desired.

They have their own legends, symbols, and modes of recognition. Some of these are as small as a few people, and some are worldwide.

Source: Am one.

Edit: I should mention that this is all from my perspective in the US. European Freemasonry works substantially differently and I'm not familiar with perceptions and processes there. Thanks cm2187
Amazon has leased 20 Boeing 767s to carry out fulfillment services
Fairly new Netflix employee here (started last November). From what I can see so far the "highly aligned, loosely coupled" culture here works very well. The company has a clear focus, we all get it, and we all work to make it happen. Teams have freedom to accomplish their goals they best way they see fit. There is quite simply not a lot of focus on particular means, the focus is on outcomes.
RIP Google PageRank score: A retrospective on how it ruined the web
It seems like this comment is meant to be funny, but it actually hits at the root of the problem. The "Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists" (AUMF) was passed in 2001 and is still in effect. The AUMF allows the executive branch broad use of its military and surveillance powers without much congressional or legislative oversight.

The AUMF has also been cited by the Department of Justice as authority for engaging in electronic surveillance in ACLU v. NSA without obtaining a warrant of the special Court as required by the constitution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_for_Use_of_Milit...
The two are eerily similar. It's a very artistic effect he achieved. The whimsy seems uncharacteristic for him.
As iOS devices are premium, having a Lite version wouldn't serve Facebook any good. I'm pretty sure they get most of their mobile revenue from iOS devices.
Almost forgot to tell you all -- I wrote a followup and FAQ on one of my blogs here: http://lydialaurenson.com/my-new-article-in-vice-about-san-f...

(For those who haven't seen my previous comments, hi, I'm the article author! Thanks for reading!)
Behind the curtain: Blue Origin’s secretive rocket factory
I don't think that's right if there's really a fixed cost per each snapshot. The website says this in the pricing FAQ:

> Each snapshot is billed €0.50 per creation and €0.002 per 50GB/h up to 500 continuous hours.

Why is the snapshot billed per-rate instead of per-time or per-capacity?
Text-To-Speech in 1846 Involved a Terrifying Talking Robotic Head with Ringlets
> It could be buying off the shelf products in the same manner as every other customer

What do you mean?

The only company I've worked for for any length of time that was funded in part by government funds was WNYC, which was a blast!

Public Radio to me is one of those times where the broken clock happens to show the right time of day. Sure, it's government funding, but the content we created was really stellar.

I mean, on some higher political level, there's always the "you use the roads" argument, but I'm talking about having to report to someone in the government about how their funding is being used. That's what I object to.
Show HN: User Hook – Create and retain power users for your mobile app
I am in exactly the same boat. I use pocket for almost every article I come across, but the comments come across to pocket funny. To expand the question, has anyone found an extension/tool that makes the comments more readable?
I tried to outline a bunch of things at http://www.snarky.ca/how-to-pitch-python-3-to-management . But what one person considers an "innovation" while another considers just something "nice to have" is going to vary from person to person, problem to problem.
Yeah I think I need to see a study controlled for income before I'm convinced.
It seems to me that the people who say "it won't happen" do tend to have a much better reason to say it won't happen (or rather that it _probably_ won't happen) than the people who insist the next big revolution is just round the corner just because the last big revolution did happen.

The optimistic position is a bit like saying: "I 've lived 113 years, I'm not going to die now!". It's entirely possible for a trend to reverse itself. If machine learning has taught us something is that background knowledge (in this case, of processor technology) gives you much better results than just guessing based on what happened in the past.
>Say they buy it for $20,000. Do you really think someone will derive $20,000 of profit from this before it's caught and patched by Facebook?

I can absolutely think of a situation that would make access to one person's facebook account worth way more than $20,000. Say, an unethical high-profile divorce lawyer fishing for information that would help during a multi-million dollar case. Or a political activist trying to dig up dirt on a candidate.
Well one thing you can't do is take away the benefits. EBT and other kinds of state assistance have caused generations of people to become entrenched, and reliance upon this assistance is baked into much of the American culture. To remove it suddenly would be as cruel as it is to continue to perpetrate it among the masses today, knowing what we know.

The exact solution is complicated. It would, on the one hand, involve grandfathering in all current entrenched users of state subsidies. On the other, we'd have to allow young people to opt out of any of these payroll taxes, and therefore not be eligible to receive these benefits. They would see a massive uptick in their take-home income, which they can spend as they wish instead of having to buy the cheap bullshit that EBT affords its users.

With those extra dollars young consumers would have many more votes as to where their dollars go, and will have a greater ability to influence corporate behavior. Companies that peddle sugar-filled crap will have less of that predictable monthly revenue to depend upon, and therefore the prices for their food products will rise. This will begin making real food more attractive to EBT consumers, and will introduce actual competition into the market.

The only reason that these multi-national food product corporations can make money on uninformed, unhealthy consumers is because the government props up these business models. This can be witnessed throughout the debate among many stakeholders - farming subsidies, environmental regulations, tariffs, and even our government's own horrible diet recommendations - there are so many bad actors here that no solution will be comprehensive. What I believe to be the most important of all the fixes that we need to derive, however, is the education factor. Because EBT exists, consumers are not driven to be educated. Until we give people a choice, they will never bother to lift a finger and educate themselves.

All the well-meaning charities, after-school programs, and education facilities on the planet will not stop Coca-Cola from lobbying Congress. Even Michelle Obama's ridiculous nutrition program facilities the wrong message. (Look at how little abstinence from sugar is promoted by her, and how much exercise is promoted, as if kids have the ability to run 10 miles per day to work off the abhorrent amount of sugar in their breakfast cereals, let alone the rest of the sugary junk they consume on a daily basis.) The only way to get Congress to listen is to have the electorate realize just how fucked over they have been by their representatives who peddled the food product multi-nationals' prerogatives, and get MAD AS HELL about it.
Is this really surprising? All the benefits of illegal drugs without the risks involving prison time and public disgrace. All you need to do is figure out what things to tell your Doctor to make him think you need one of these things, and you have a legal (and probably insurance funded) supply.

Not saying of course that everyone who gets these doesn't need them, I'm sure many do, but we have something like 90% of the worldwide consumption occurring in the States, so something is clearly up.
Yeah I thought this would be a dramatic example of compound interest. Instead my total matches about 3 months worth of principle for me nowadays.
Improving the Bitcoin Development Process
I really do not think the creator of this site is suggesting that children invest in the stock market. After all, how exactly does a 1 day old child do so? Instead, I think this is just an interesting tool demonstrating a "what if?" scenario.

That said, investing a dollar a day on behalf of your child and tracking the progress of the account with them over time would be a cool way to teach them about money. You could even give them the option of instead of receiving some portion of an allowance, invest that as additional money into the account. There's all sorts of possibilities.
Are there any GTK bindings that feel "native"? These automatically
generated bindings are almost as “ugly” and uncomfortable as using
GObjects in C.
NVIDIA recently updated their mainline driver to support it on Windows and Linux. AMD's support is in beta driver and only for Windows.
It must have taken a fortune and many hours of searching to collect all those items which (almost) look exactly like the originals from 1973.
None that I know of, but IANAP. There may be some uses on nuclear engineering, I wouldn't know of those.
Facebook Advertising Strategies for Early-Stage Startups
Odd - It's been a long time since I've gone swimming in salt water, but I've never had any problems opening my eyes in fresh water.
This is absolutely nuts... extraordinary.
John McAfee better prepare to eat a shoe because he doesn’t know how iPhone work
I think there is a cost for the initial provisioning, not for loading the snapshot each time. I might be wrong though.
We are doing something very similar (mesos rather than k8s), also in a financial organisation.

Our main issue is also security - as docker containers aren't very good at actually containing, from a security PoV, we're using SELinux MLS, assigning each container a unique SELinux level/category (fedora-atomic sets this up nicely for you if anyone wants to try).

This is great for security, but breaks so many things - lots of the cutting edge work with docker and related tech isn't done by people that care deeply about security, or really understand this sort of usecase, so we run into a huge amount of edgecases and bugs. We spend a lot of time fighting this.

It also makes having a really good build/deploy pipeline essential, as well as a good environment set up to reproduce and diagnose issues.
I had my account disabled a few months ago and support wouldn't re-enable it, told me to wait in line. :(
Knowing what I know about pain and how well that opiod painkillers combat that pain, and knowing that what I've experienced isn't anywhere close to what some people have experienced, I'd absolutely accept a script for opiod painkillers if I needed one.
Another Spinnaker: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1103.2408.pdf
The look-elsewhere effect is already taken into account. This is what is meant by "global".
Hi Corey, I know someone who has already developed an algothrim to predict attacks within 1 minute, let me know if you'd like to connect (janet.ge@gmail.com).