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Africa has more than its fair share of important historical achievements

Really? More than it's fair share?

What are we basing the proportions of 'fair share' on? Land size? Population size?

Would care to name just one or two of these important achievements?

But if you can't, don't worry. We all know what you said is a ridiculous empty statement.

Another thing to consider, all peoples and species are free to exist without need of 'important historical achievements.' Nobody needs to justify their existence. But we don't need to pretend things that aren't true.
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I'll refer you to the monitoring service I put together:

https://ctadvisor.lolware.net/

Meta: I've posted this a few times because it's been a direct response to the question asked. I'd be interested in how to handle future queries without feeling like a spammer.
Deep Neural Nets might solve the problem better than hashes
This is very useful, thanks. I'll concentrate on learning Ruby.
This is the tragic aspect of the hypothetical hierarchy of simulations.

We are trying to create another form of intelligence. I am of the belief (for numerous reasons) that the best way to do that is to create a simulation[1]. But by its nature it would have to be so large and complex that it could be difficult for us to "look into" it and make sense of the vast seas of data it produces to actually identify intelligent behavior, and more, to cross the barrier and interface with it somehow. What if our creators simply haven't found us? What if we don't look like intelligence to them? Or maybe they identified something but don't know what to make of it?

Dolphins are actually fascinating in this regard, they diverged from us long ago and they definitely have something going on in there, but we haven't yet figured out quite what it is[2]. They are the closest thing we have to an alternate form of intelligence, with the benefit that it resembles ours enough to be recognizable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_life

[2] http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2015/05/dolphin-intelligen...
You are paying penalty in complexity, latency and poor tenant isolation when running on "cloud infrastructure" and when things blow up you have no recourse.
> we have mountains upon mountains of evidence to the contrary

Do you mean the mountains of insinuation and innuendo in that article? Just because the Koch brothers want lower taxes and the people who engaged in these tax avoidance schemes do too, doesn't necessarily mean they are colluding to buy elections.

You might as well claim that Apple and Google are buying political power because of the billions they keep offshore, too. They buy power alright, just like all corporations that want to snuff out competition by influencing the laws in their favor. That also keeps the rich rich. But you don't hear of anybody attacking lobbyists, do you?
Last time I checked, js_of_ocaml looked a lot more mature than Funscript (whose repo doesn't seem to suffer from an excess of activity).

I think the big thing missing for OCaml right now is a solid persistence system (preferably something lightweight).
What the parent was describing isn't HPPD, which involves sensory disturbances, usually minor optical hallucinations, and is mostly limited to people who used psychedelics heavily over a long period. The parent probably experienced the disturbances of mood that psychedelics can cause in the days following a trip, got panicked that something was wrong, and then the anxiety perpetuated their destabalized state. Or something else, but not HPPD.
I think you're missing the fact that everything already is a PR piece and has been forever
The Voyeur’s Motel, by Gay Talese
Sounds good for upper middle class population. If your wages were $50,000/yr (aka US median wage) then you would think twice or may be thrice about anything that has word "subscription" in it.

Also, consider the fact lot of subscriptions have poor overall value. Advertises allow you to try and move on without making any commitments. If all internet websites enforced subscriptions then you won't be browsing around so often.

Finally, anyone who had been in media business for long enough knows that subscription is terrible business model. Subscriber churn is almost always ongoing threat putting significant pressure on aquition pipeline. If TV channels went subscription only, most would die quick horrible death. The open secret in media industry is that advertisers are forced to pay lot more money than return they would actually get which ultimately "subsidizes" the content creation.
> What other experiences?

Fevered dreams, near death experience, deep meditation, orgasm, stroke, epileptic fits, etc.

> So you're saying the parent commenter was made aware of the Tao? Or that it was a religious experience? I don't follow

I wasn't making any claim about his/her experience of the Tao. It was simply to emphasize my point, which is that certain experiences can not be described or analogized, but must be experienced first hand.

> That's bogus. You're likening abstinence from LSD to a disability.

Why is that bogus?

> That suggests you agree that the past and future are connected and important.

No, I said nothing of the sort. I said that you can't experience the future and past. They are just ideas in your head. They are just conceptual tools that you use to better your experience. How can conceptual tools be as important as you actual existence?
I looked at that too and thought cynically "Hmm, dream team for fleecing unwary investor/partners."

That said, its way early for any consideration of actual mining. I really do think that on orbit refueling is going to be a prerequisite for that and as far as I know only ULA has even speculated on how to make that work.
The endorsement is implicit, not explicit.

This is totally wrong.

To take a trivial example, criminal defendants (even obviously guilty ones) are allowed to speak in court.

You're saying that this is an "implicit endorsement" of their crimes by the court? Are you really claiming that?
I totally agree, in fact, I'd say "it's way more important to be correct than to be fast" is almost always true in cryptography. Incorrect crypto is useless no matter how fast it is.
IMHO, the next wave is likely multi-cloud. Enterprises that require maximum uptime will likely run infrastructure that spans multiple cloud providers (and optionally one or more company controlled data centers).

OneOps (http://oneops.com) from WalmartLabs enables a multi-cloud approach. Netflix Spinnaker also works across multiple cloud providers.

DataStax (i.e. Cassandra) enables a multi-cloud approach for persistent storage.

DynomiteDB (disclaimer: my project) enables a multi-cloud approach for cache and low latency data.

Combine the above with microservices that are either stateless or use the data technologies listed above and you can easily develop, deploy and manage applications that continue to work even when an entire cloud provider is offline.
MailChimp's voice & tone guide at voiceandtone.com does a nice job of explaining the 'why'.
https://equipment.erac.gov.au/Registration/EquipmentSearch.a... isn't the database you're referring to?
Using the words "inclusive" and "diverse" to describe a position which encourages banning people who think differently than most is highly problematic and disingenuous.
Religion is what the unconverted soul does in order to do right by God. To "make it to heaven", so to speak, by doing good things and avoiding doing bad or downright ugly things. All attempts at pleasing God - i.e. religion - are doomed because you inevitably will fail to meet the standard, because it is an impossible one - i.e. don't lust for women in your heart. Just as I wrote that...probably a thought or an image flew. Too late, you just sinned.

What's a chap to do in the face of the ever present human nature and its propensity to play God with anything and everything it can get away with? -NOTHING- seems like a really tall standard. Have you tried to do -NOTHING- lately in the face of whatever went on in your mind which was absolutely telling you to act?

Try that. And when you fail - and you will... MAYBE..and I say MAYBE then you might get a glimpse of how powerless we are as humans as well as our will to execute on what we know is right, but constantly fail to do.

Maybe this makes sense to you.. maybe it doesn't. My only advice is - keep being whomever you are... and you may, if you're humble enough, experience this conversion, past which there's no turning back.

The only two elements required to get to it is humility and faith..... in the end you will see Who God is, regardless.

I'll stop here before I start to proselytize or make even less sense.
Perhaps that is your answer - that you will only be left with questions until you experience one of these states firsthand.
What does the `?` mean?
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Regarding representative democracy there were roughly 2 lines of though, historically speaking:

1) the ones that believe government would work as long as we had good people there; and that's where we need to focus, getting good politicians that can do good things, oh well if there are bad apples, nothing is perfect

2) government is a necessary evil, that has to be constantly under check because even if there is good such thing as a good politician, the ones that should worry us are the bad ones even if that also hinders the good ones; oh well if government has it's hand tied, government doesn't need to be a father figure, and has to be limited

The first group, fueled by the symbiosis of some enlightenment naivete, different classes of people trying to legislate advantages for themselves and the lust for power, won over time.
TPP 'worst trade deal ever,' says Nobel-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz
Cheers - apologies for the ignorant question. (feel rather silly!)
Quick caveat, this is written by the same firm (Digi-Capital) that came out with a totally preposterous estimate (on the high side) for the market potential and uptake speed of VR.

So, you know, grain of salt; the Digi-Capital numbers were followed by much more sane (and significantly smaller) numbers from Piper Jaffray and others. Digi-Capital then revised their numbers so they didn't look like quite such an outlier.
I am friends with one of the cofounders --- these guys have been working hard on this for a while. It looks great!
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How did I miss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PivpCKEiQOQ the first time around? I thought it was submitted but it doesn't show up on search.

userland proxy! just use openstack for all I care. wow, that was really entertaining.
(rant) Yes, traffic to Netflix increased significantly as Spotify was down.
Like I said, there were a lot of confounding factors that make it hard for me to put the blame solely on the acid. But pretty much I went in to it without taking it seriously. I ended up tripping pretty hard, by myself, from 1 PM - 9 PM, then kept tripping (not very hard, but enough that I didn't like it) throughout the rest of the night. I ended up watching the movie Chinatown on Netflix because I absolutely could not sleep -- pro tip, this is not a good movie to watch when you're afraid about not having come down and you're not sure if this is what life is going to be like forever into the future. This was the day/night before my school's next semester of classes started; needless to say it put me in a really weird place.

I have a ton of weird files that I wrote in VIM while I was tripping most heavily. I kept opening a new split/file instead of using parentheses, and I kept wanting to do this because my thoughts kept becoming more and more abstract. So I'd write a sentence, move that thought process to more abstract language, open a new buffer, repeat. At some point I remembered how to write macros and wrote a recursive macro that wrote some line of text and then a newline. I should really post this .tar.gz I have of all the files at some point, they're pretty out there.

EDIT: I guess this is the time I talk about my weird acid trip on HN. OK. Hope you all enjoyed.
Trying to scrupulously avoid inflammatory descriptions but I personally believe the Republican Party has become a shadow of its former self by taking a totally uncompromising and childish approach to policy and governing.

I think it's important to have two parties that have strong ideas, even ones I disagree with. It's not ok to have total obstruction and political total war. Total war just leaves everyone worse off, the country deserves better. I would like to know why back then people disagreed at least as strongly with one another but we're able to move forward and today we've totally lost than.
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There's a reason their weather forecasts were in ALL CAPS. After all, they've been transmitting weather forecasts and data electronically since before the (US) Civil War! They predate ASCII by over 100 years...

http://www.weather.gov/timeline

If you ever want an inside look into the weather, and can put up with some meteorology jargon and ALL CAPS, the forecast discussions are quite interesting! Here's one for San Francisco, discussing the light rain maybe coming Wednesday night:

http://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=NWS&issuedby=mt...

If you read these, and then watch the local TV weatherman, you'll notice some of the same language - the weather announcers read these, too!
I actually lived with Craig for two years (one before the accident and one after). He actually moved back in to the same college house the rest of us lived in. Caregivers came every day to help him. Really great guy and sad to hear of his passing. He absolutely deserves it!

As a second thought, the quality of the adaptive tech is really abysmal. Wheelchairs with that level of capability are at least $20k and have nowhere near the level of technology of your average economy car. Sad, really, with what I know we (tech minded folks) are capable of.
LSD makes the brain more 'complete', scientists say
Just to be clear, your penultimate paragraph does not rule out there being no knowledge distinct from belief, even if some people believe that their beliefs are related to an external world in in a certain way that somehow validates them as real. For example, many humans have created representations of gods and believe them to be realistic, but we are under no logical compulsion to agree.
I was getting really frustrated at the gym when the Spotify app wouldn't work. Didn't expect to find the answer here.
But PR pieces are not exactly spam.

You might block "27 Thoughtful Wedding Gifts" because it has product links, but there is chance some of those links would actually be useful to people looking for wedding gifts.

Such a blocker would have to block the entire Buzzfeed, for instance.
Is there some truth to this episode ? An acquaintance of mine (picture a stereotypical MLM-type guy) recently added a P.S. to an e-mail suggesting I subscribe to 60 Minutes All Access. I found this bizarre since I had recently clicked on 60 Minutes All Access link. It felt like my friend was advertising to me based on my browsing history.

But this would suggest Google monitors what I do in my Chrome browser then suggests an affiliate embed a casual link in an e-mail based on the friend he is writing. That sounds kind of evil and improbable. Anyone ?
I'm currently using flame graphs at work. If your application hasn't been profiled recently, you'll usually get lots of improvement for very little effort.

Some 15 minutes of work improved CPU usage of my team's biggest fleet by ~40%. Considering we scaled up to 1500 c3.4xlarge hosts at peak in NA alone on that fleet, those 15 minutes kinda made my month :)

One thing to note once you eliminate the easy pickings is that as you go higher up the call graph, the profiler visualization is often misleading. There may be sections of code without safe-points, and stuff that appears wide on the flame graph may just be getting blamed for adjacent code that doesn't have safe points.
I don't really like the idea of throwing data away because it ultimately gives an incomplete view of the system. But, easy solution to solve a hard problem!
A very condescending read. While anyone can pick a few tips out of such a long article, the strange "know what I know" + SJW/BLMisms make it a piece worth skipping. He might want to look in the mirror when pondering why more women aren't in computer science programs.
The killer app was always scientific documentation

Specialty film for ID cameras was a big, big deal for Polaroid as well. DMV, passports, company badges.

Digital ID photos were the first major digital blow against Polaroid. ID photos don't have to be all that great, as a rule (meaning that early, low-res digital cameras were good enough) and the entities that used ID cameras were perfectly willing to invest a lot of money in a digital camera, if it meant they weren't burning through expensive Polaroid film (even back then, shooting Polaroid film was like lighting $10 or $20 bills on fire).

Scientific and legal uses (which do require high-quality imaging) got eaten by digital as well, of course, but ID photos were what first put Polaroid on the rocks.
Outage lasted about 16 minutes
Simulated dolphins.

By turtles.
Big distinction -- people are moderated for their content on Hacker News, not off.

If this speaker makes a racial slur he'll likely be removed from the conference. Inside the conference (much like HN) they're free to limit his speech. However, as was mentioned in the article, the conference does not and will not judge speech outside the conference, much like HN does not (to my knowledge) ban users for offensive speech outside HN.
"Men are estranged from one another as each secretly tries to make an instrument of the other, and in time a full circle is made: one makes an instrument of himself and is estranged from it also."

C.W. Mills
One answer is to evaluate the uptime you get with a single cloud provider and figure out if it meets your needs. This outage means that for the year, GCE will have at most a .999948 == four and a half "nines" of uptime. From a networkworld article in 2015: http://www.networkworld.com/article/2866950/cloud-computing/...
And 2015: http://www.networkworld.com/article/3020235/cloud-computing/...

The article quotes Ben Traynor as saying that Google aimed for and hit 99.95% uptime, which is 4.3 hours of downtime per year.

My guess is that, despite cloud outages being painful, many applications are probably going to meet their cost/SLO goals anyway. Going up from 4 9s starts to get very expensive very quickly.
Do you have any examples of poor tenant isolation in AWS, GCE, or Azure?

Cloud complexity is also lower because you don't have to worry about power, cooling, upstream connectivity, capacity budgeting, etc. If 99.9-99.95% availability is fine for your application then you probably don't have to worry about your provider either.
That's actually well within lines of what Polaroid film used to cost, if you adjust for inflation. The last time I bought any (late 80s/early 90s) it was about ten bucks a roll.

I'm actually surprised they can sell it that cheap, given that they don't have anything like the economy of scale that Polaroid had in its heyday.
It's always better if you learn coding yourself. Also hulu has trivia ads. what do you plan to do differently?
You May Soon Be Able to Scan a Piece of Fruit to Check Its Nutritional Value
One clarification. As of a couple weeks ago, OCaml does have native support for many of the services AWS provides, via code generation:

https://github.com/inhabitedtype/ocaml-aws

I've been using these bindings internally for about a year, so the kinks have been worked out. A few more data types need to be supported by the code generator (in particular, the map type), and then it should have full service coverage.
Ah, but I said "even one simulation of the world at our current time" which side-steps that issue.

Agreed about the fact that too many shortcuts in the simulation might make it unable to develop or sustain life, but then we don't know when the simulation would have started or how much it might have diverged from universe zero by now. Presumably it would be intended to diverge anyway because they already know the outcome if it doesn't.

Of course, while we can guess about this stuff, ultimately at this point our guesses are unfalsifiable so as fun as it is to speculate, we're really just shooting the breeze. :)
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If you are doing life support, military systems, or HA big finance, then you are quite likely to be running on dedicated equipment, with dedicated circuits, and quite often highly customized/configured non-stop hardware/operating systems.

You are unlikely to be running such systems on AWS or GCE.
Or reading "CLOUDY" with an emphasis on the "OW" - for every day in the forecast (when living in Seattle...)

I guess his name is "Tom"

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/info/newvoice.html
Because we've all had enough of buzzfeed: the article doesn't even come close to bothering to actually answer the question. Decide for yourself whether that makes it link bait or not.
Not sure that I would be a user, but the design looks slick! Nice job
I'm admittedly biased, but have you checked out Docker Cloud? http://cloud.docker.com
Minecraft is many orders of magnitude less complex than our universe. We could be in a simulation, but then the parent universe would be orders of magnitude more complex and we would not be a significant simulation of a civilization's past as the original argument goes.

Of course we might be entertainment, but to explain this universe you would then have to explain the way more complex universe in which we run. We cannot proof this is not so, but now it seems pretty similar to the god hypothesis.
Why are programmers dead set against my concurrent Node.js runtime?
Right? Almost worse than pure click-baiting.
XUbuntu for those who gave up [on all this], fellas; or even Slackware with XFCE, may be.
Yeah the grasslands are 25 million years old. Humans have only been in America for 15,000 years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Plains#Paleontology
If you're in a position where you can spin up servers and get the job done, that means you're just using the cloud as rented servers, in which case you are absolutely right.

If however you're using the cloud as intended, and using all of the services it actually provides, I highly doubt you could run 23 data centers around the world with databases and firewalls and streaming logging and all they other stuff they provide at even a fraction of the cost.
Staffing such that on-call is handled by presently-in-office staff. This is, as I understand, pretty much what Google does. When you're in the office, you're in the office, but when you're not, you're not. Having global coverage means ops in several timezones, and this is what Google accomplishes.

Not knowing when, at any time, your phone or pager will go off wears in interesting ways over time.
Lokiarchaeota, they have many genes which code for proteins which aren't shared with other phyla: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lokiarchaeota
Developing software that other people deploy, as opposed to running a service people use directly, is pretty great for doing something people care about without being on call.

At my last job (comfortably small enterprise software shop), we had customers with more employees deploying and running our product than we ourselves had engineers. The only people who were first-line pageable were IT and the one engineer maintaining our demo server, which we eventually shut down.
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