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I have used both GCE and AWS. Current I have website that is hosted on GCE, but I am using Cloudways managed platform because I am not good with server configuration thing. GCE is definitely better in performance and cheaper in pricing than AWS. Their block storage is more than AWS and they have native load-balancing technology which AWS does not have have. The only downside I have felt with GCE is that they are present in less regions than AWS. Google should also work on expanding their presence to more regions.
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I just installed this because the autocomplete looked cool in the screenshots and wanted to check it out live. I wish we could have this in fish shell.
I take satisfaction in it because of her incredibly irresponsible conduct. Medicine is a serious field where failure can cost lives.

If your Twitter clone doesn't work, no one notices. If your "revolutionary" blood-testing device reports a false positive or false negative, it can lead to a misdiagnosis.
I think the objective is to wash-out the casually-opposed with the bribe of reduced property taxes, leaving the smaller hard-core opposition to be tackled.

However they don't offer any novel ideas to address the often-genuine concerns of that hard-core of 'NIMBYs'. Those are the ones opposed on principles or personal experience.

For example in my neighbourhood the building of new developments had resulted in hugely increased road-noise [0], to the extent that it's no longer pleasant to sit in in the front garden. So naturally I'll oppose any further development. No amount of trivial-tax-tinkering will convince me otherwise, since it's my quality-of-life being affected.

[0] multiplied more-so by the fact that modern car tyres are much noisier, but planning permission only considers the number of cars and not their cumulative noise
I think we may be arguing the same point.
I'm not sure what you are saying corresponds with reality..
Low cost, high performance, low TDP - choose 2
And the retransmission delays...
They need to show some benchmarks of load testing for this comparison to be fair.
Edit: retracted, after a closer look at your previous comments.
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Interesting. So to answer the other poster who complained about the use of pixels rather than "display units", your lower 'glue layer' could accept dp in the input and scale the output to provide density-independent behaviour?
There are two different versions. The first one uses pixel measurements like you said the other one uses a fractions of the window.
If it is something requested then it is something that can be changed quite easily either by me if the feature is requested or the user since it only requires modifying one function. Furthermore for input you only provide your input data the library does not control it and the output can be scaled if required.
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Google's innovation is what they are doing with Kubernetes. Amazon's ECS is meh when you compare it to Kubernetes. I don't think Azure has done anything yet in this area.
I'd never seen Polynesian stick charts before, they're incredible. Thanks for sharing!
Would be awesome to combine it with something like https://bitbucket.org/rmitton/tigr which is a small and tidy window creation/input processing lib, because I find glfw and SDL too bulky for casual C/C++ programming.
Similar to pumped water storage I wonder if we could do a household version with weight. Something like the gravity light (gravitylight.org) but on larger scale. I wonder if we could see a resurgence of chimneys on houses except now instead of letting smoke out they contain a XY ton weights that gets pushed up by excess solar capacity during the day, and then drops by evening powering the house.

I have no idea if that's realistic. Does someone know what the weight/distance to power output would be limited at...
This will definitely lower the demand for coal, which in turn could lower its prices as well. This is good, because India might still need few coal power plants, considering its population size.
> I specifically said "as a developer" to make clear that my requirements in this respect are not necessarily the same as those of an ordinary user.

I was speaking as a developer, too. What kinds of things do you count as needing "that level of control"?

The things installed in my home directory include my text editor, clang and gcc, installations of Go, Node, and multiple versions of Python, etc.
To clarify, my cheater bike" is a $50 eBay 2nd hand mountain bike that I use to commute to work - not something I ride dressed in lycra pretending to be faster than other people... I call it my "cheater bike", 'cause that what it _feels_ like riding it up hills... It makes me laugh everytime I ride it.

(I do _occasionally_ enjoy passing mamils on bikes that weigh less then their brekfast going uphill on my way to work.)
I am not so sure about steady fat intake. One of the recent tendencies was replacing animal fat with oil in various bakeri products as a way to reduce price. As a vegan I should welcome that, however one typically needs much more cheap oil in calories than butter to get a product with about the same properties. So we get increase in calories when all of them are stored as fat. Again, as a vegan I am very aware of that as I gained about 4 kilos before I realized my mistake with bakery with too much oil.

It is true that to compensate for the worsen taste with cheap oils in bakery products, the producers add more sugar. However medical experiments that I am aware showed that humans are very bad at converting excessive sugar into fat. The body rather generates heat from extra carbohydrates than converts them to fat for storage unless one eats really way too much of sugar. That level is still well above what is found in a typical current western diet.
No, it shouldn't be Ws. It's the ratio of the manufacturing cost per rated power of PV-modules.
Judges may think of their families, communities, and countries; in something of this scale it would be hard to be impartial.

Compared to the combined national budgets of the EU member states the fine amount would be a rounding error.
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Considering that India is making progress on nuclear, it would seem inevitable that they shut down a few if not all of them.
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That's a good example of where orthodox economics breaks down; Money doesn't substitute for a quiet garden.
That stuff would seem to make it all the more strange.

Was she "playing business" and got in over her head?

Was it just an outright scam?

Some people have said maybe those big name directors were brought in to grease the tracks as part of a deliberate scam. Who knows?

Maybe there will be some answers if this probe turns up anything.
If you can create a solar panel that pays off too quickly you could be better off selling the energy than selling the panels. You only need to start selling to the public when your competitors release enough solar panels to lower the grid price or you need cash. This is somewhat analogous to the situation with the manufacturers of hardware bitcoin miners.
Seems like that could just be because they need greased and/or aligned.
There is nothing really dependent on any of the provided demos. As long as you are able to provide an OS window, input and a way to either draw basic shapes or vertexes you are good to go.
What stops a company like bitly from doing something like this? How would you compete with them?
Then it'll be like, "why can I only have two wheels?"

Bicycle racing, whose equipment is required to have only one source of power, a certain minimum weight, and no disc brakes (and maybe a couple others) is probably one of the less-constrained pro sports.
True, but you don't need GCE to run Kubernetes. Also, given GCE is more rudimentary, you need Kubernetest with GCE more than you need it with AWS. For example, if you want to run Elasticsearch or a video transcoding service, you need something like Kubernetes on GCE, but you already get a managed service from AWS that does this well.

With Lambda, API Gateway, WAF, and ECS, DynamoDB or RDS, you pretty much can cover 95% of the usage scenarios.
One of the more interesting bicycle races of the year does exactly this: the Little 500 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_500)

All the bikes are identical in spec (single speed, coaster brake, flat pedals).

This is the race that features in the movie Breaking Away. I wish more were like it, but I guess part of its charm is its uniqueness.
This is great news. Years ago it was considered an indisputable fact that solar (and wind) couldn't compete with the economics of coal and nuclear.
Astounding! Yet another example of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler's_law_of_eponymy !
\ vs / is an interesting example. fopen() and family from MinGW can use / in paths on Windows. I use that feature all the time. cmd.exe can't, and I understand that would break things due to the use of / instead of - for flags in the Windows world.

Whenever it comes to something programming-related that might improve code portability between different OSes (C99, LF, UTF-8, etc), there's a mountain of after-the-fact justifications for why it would break backward compatibility and other such tripe.

But honestly, what would making "EDIT" accept "\n" alone do to break backward-compatibility? "\r\n" would still work, of course. Is there a group of people inserting stray "\n"s alone into text files, and expecting Notepad to silently ignore them and dump all of that text onto the same line? If so, those people are absolutely horrible :P

But okay, fine. Require a program .Manifest flag to opt-in, then another special ES_ACCEPT_LF flag with a caveat that it's Windows 10+.

Even all the people that have jumped through hoops with things like hooking paste operations to transform "\n" into "\r\n" for "EDIT" ... that would still work just fine, it would just be unnecessary.

The only cost would be that there's a short time where people are trying to use these "\n" only text files on older versions of Windows. But we've been dealing with the fallout of that anyway for the past 21+ years now.

You can't possibly tell me that supporting "\n" alone is an immense burden for a company with as much money and developers as Microsoft. No, I'm sorry, but this, C99, UTF-8, things like _wfopen, WSAPoll over poll, etc are all very much intentional: they're designed to maximize vendor lock in. Microsoft doesn't want your code easily moving between Windows and Linux. Even though they're a convicted monopoly with a mountain of evidence of their abusive actions, they still have so many white knights ready to defend their actions as benign =(
The potential energy of a mass m at height h is mgh.

Play with this and you'll immediately see it doesn't seem useful. e.g. storing a 50-tonne weight at 10m gives you less than 1.5 kWh of energy.
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You're mistaken. Fuel is sold by price/energy, effectively, but generating capacity is sold by price/power. Since in the case of solar PV, the "fuel" is free, the only cost worth mentioning is the capacity cost.
Valuation =/= "control" over that money.

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If we vary a bicycle race one way, by replacing the bicycles with walking sticks, which require no technology as long as you're willing to put in the time to find one rather than carving it; and vary it another way, by replacing the cyclists with monkeys -- which of those two resulting races (humans with walking sticks vs monkeys with bicycles dimensioned appropriately to the monkeys) is more similar to a "bicycle race"?

You can have a bicycle race without cyclists; you can't have one without technology. Technology is playing a dominating role.

I tend to suspect that jdietrich didn't mean to include things like metallurgy, rubber, and gears under the umbrella of "technology", but there is no actual line between the use of gears and the use of motors.
Modern online brokers already have the option to "mirror" another trader's trades (i.e. I say "I want to copy this person" and I make every trade they do, at the same time). How will you compete with these?
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Every spandex rider you pass is pretending?
Do you want Qt? Because this is how you end up with Qt.

(I'm mostly kidding but in my experience, the sorts of apps that you build with this sort of library invariably end up dealing with pixels anyway. There's no religious reason why resolution-independent scaling code has to live in the UI primitive library, especially since it probably can't be confined there.)
Well, there's spot instance pricing and reserved instances with AWS that nobody can touch. What "native load balancing" are you referring to that has no equivalent with AWS? There are many options for EBS - including magnetic storage. I doubt you can beat the speed of EBS with provisioned IO! Maybe you weren't using the right type for your need!
I'm not sure I believe this. Is this due to subsidies on solar? Or taxes on coal? I'm not sure this headline is possible at face value.
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They weren't really clear about what tests they could perform with their technology, but they did say they planned on offering the "full range" of blood tests.
Doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose? Why not ride a scooter?

Not aimed at you personally, but in my commute I'm not happy with all these motorized bicycles on the bike lane nowadays. They're usually ridden by people who don't race seriously, and are now riding 30+ km/h, but doing it as though they're still going 15 km/h: not looking behind them before passing or turning, immediately ringing their bell if you're in front of them, without first looking if maybe there's a reason why you're slowing down, not keeping distance. One slammed into me when I stopped to yield for traffic. Yield? Why would one yield?
That was the case with the original Atom, but Braswell and the various Trails are pretty low TDP.
Why aren't you using Wire (https://www.wire.com)? It is cross platform, end to end secure w/ open source audited crypto, focuses on app usability, and doesn't need a phone number to sign up.
Got it - the actual paper cites it as 285 mAh g^-1 ie 285 mAh/g, so it does indeed look like ~410Wh/kg.

The nature article has a nice chart that doesn't need access:
http://www.nature.com/article-assets/npg/nenergy/2016/nenerg...

Looks like at 5C discharge rate they can maintain 92% of their capacity ~375 Wh/kg even after 5000 cycles - this is the most promising stuff I've seen since Li-S (lithium sulphur), which have a higher specific energy, but lower cycle life and much lower discharge rating.
everyone should get a motor
“I sincerely believe that what the West is doing in this respect is anti-development and anti the fight against climate change,” he said, accusing rich countries of charging too much for clean technology."

I really don't believe any country is sincere towards climate change. Every country puts their economy before others. So expecting another economy to help you is a foolish assumption.
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Well, I guess, GCE has won the price war. I haven't checked pricing recently, but it looks vastly cheaper than Azure here: https://www.cloudorado.com/cloud_server_comparison.jsp

Am I missing something?
You're in luck: https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/03/announcing-two-... (Oregon and Japan this year, more to come)
To be pedantic (which I think is warranted here), range does not return a generator, it returns a sequence called a range object. This object can be indexed, sliced, and (relevant to this discussion) supports the 'in' operator.

"x in range(10)" will operate in constant time and memory in Python 3. Whether it is actually more efficient than "0 <= x < 10" is another matter, of course. I would expect the call to range() to dominate here, and indeed, it is much slower in this microbenchmark:

$ python3 -m timeit -s 'x = 8' 'x in range(10)'
1000000 loops, best of 3: 0.351 usec per loop
$ python3 -m timeit -s 'x = 8' '0 <= x < 10'
10000000 loops, best of 3: 0.0732 usec per loop

Even aside from this, I find the "0 <= x < 10" syntax to be clearer.
It doesn't help that the developed countries want to flog off their increasingly-worthless coal reserves to developing countries.
I get the utilitarian site viewpoint, but I think there's a certain minimal level of design you can put in that requires very little code, and nothing beyond garden variety CSS. IMHO if you don't go to at least that point it's pure laziness and has nothing to do with what you're trying to convey, but I fully expect other people to disagree about that.
Neither - just production-level economies of scale. Operating costs of solar are way below that of coal, and setup and manufacturing costs have dropped significantly with volume.

Note the comparison is for new installations - coal power is only cheap now because the massive construction expenses were sunk long ago. Constructing a coal plant is a huge expense, particularly as it has to be centralized because it makes no sense below a certain size. Whereas with solar you can have very small installations closer to point of use that are still financially sensible. You win on capex, you win on operating costs, and you win on transmission losses. Capital expense used to be much much higher a decade ago for solar, and emission standards for coal plants were not rigorously enforced for old installations, making coal appear cheaper. Of course, if you count the expenses related to the pollution and health damage done by coal plants, coal was always more expensive.
From the article: “Of course there are challenges of 24/7 power. We accept all of that – but we have been able to come up with a solar-based long term vision that is not subsidy based.”

Headline is not possible at face value except that it is.
I suggest that you join one of the Crystal Set Forums.

eg "The Radio Board" http://theradioboard.com/rb/index.php

There are many patient Guru's there who will help you resolve any problems.
8 years? I've had my @geocities.com (which now aliases to @yahoo.com) e-mail address for about 20 years. There are probably on the order of 50-100 services for which that e-mail address is my contact info.
Li-ion 18650 cells held 2300mAh in 2005[1], and 3350mAh today[2]. That's an increase of 45% in just under 11 years. If capacity were really growing at 8% per year, then 18650 cells should have a capacity of 5300mAh by now.

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@pinaceae I accidentally upvoted you looking for 'reply' button. I admit I wrote this with little sleep after a game jam, and it is lengthy, and not my best writing, but I was responding to the healthcare aspect of @toomuchtodo's thread. Was your remark intended to be snide? I find it offensive in any case that you would compare what I have written to a murderer. I guess with all of your karma here on HN, you find it easy to hide behind your keyboard without much consequence. I am always eager to hear opposing view points, not for argument's sake, but to learn. Hopefully this can turn into a less ad hominem discussion, and we can both walk away a bit better off for it.

[EDIT] - moved reply to @pinaceae, and deleted from under my comment.
Absolutely. Especially since this is a service. Sure, employees could copy the chat locally, but by using this service they end up sending the data offsite. Certainly sounds like a security breach to me.
I don't know the current status of yahoo mail, but whether or not POP/IMAP has not always been available for free.
Compile-time monomorphization happens only when you request it from the compiler, because it relies on the unsafe assumption that your code won't be redefined.

Common Lisp is designed to be dynamic and the code that is produced should be able to work values of type T (anything) and dispatch it to the correct specific code. SBCL performs static analysis but the only useful way of doing static typing is to assume that known types won't change, otherwise you are going to widen types quickly and treat everything as type T.

The compiler can avoid doing redundant checks, in all modes.
But it is allowed to blindly trust static analysis only if you allow it, because that's a dangerous thing to do. SBCL also has a special operator name TRULY-THE, a more aggressive version of THE (http://clhs.lisp.se/Body/s_the.htm), which declares that an expression is of some type U (e.g. (the single-float x)).
Its use is reserved for cases where you really know what you are doing.

Is static typing as done here useless? Not at all, because sometimes you know that values cannot be redefined, for example inside a function.

I was writing a state machine, with local functions being used as states and a local variable that would be set to the function that represents current state. At one point, I compiled the code and I had a note about code removal being performed. The compiler guessed, based on the different `(setf state ...)` expression, the range of possible values for the state variable and determined that one state was not reachable. This is the kind of things for which the type system is useful, and dead-code elimination was safe to perform here because everything was done in the scope of a single function.
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That's a great news. The article mentions that more will be added throughout 2017, this means GCE is slowly catching up with AWS.
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Aww, he's just excited! He really does work for Monsanto, not Google and if you go back far enough you'll see he's used AWS, GCP, and Open Stack (and seems to enjoy meditation). So he's not some sort of shill, just a happy customer!

Disclosure: I work on Compute Engine.
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Nothing gets my brain going like a hard-fought game of ping pong.
I don't think this is actually all that different. Both jurisdictions recognize that competition is preferable. Minor differences in why they focus on that, is probably not all that relevant. Making it impossible for competitors to function in the US is problematic as well, because it leads to a lack of consumer choice. (Just because Google is free, doesn't mean all of us want it.)

Furthermore, the EU has demonstrated overall a stronger focus, I think, on the individual over corporate interests. Seen also in their handling of privacy, where they're willing to place large burdens on corporations in order to adequately protect their citizens' fundamental rights.
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Surely the purpose is to get to work. The motor certainly doesn't defeat that.
The US Treasury also offers a fairly similar product called TIPS--Treasury Inflation Protected Securities http://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/tips.asp

It's worth noting that the yield on these sorts of things are quite low. All of the eTIBs maturing before 2035 currently have negative yields, meaning that you'd actually be paying a small fee for the inflation protection. The US TIPS yields are also <0 until 2023.
It's had its troubles, but there does also seem to be a tendency for the media to focus on it.

Look at FIFA in soccer - it's completely rotten - and yet we're back to 'those cyclists...'.

Also: if you consider the money in cycling, which is pretty modest, compared with soccer or US sports... you're delusional if you think that cycling is dirtier.
Yet they allow advanced alloys and other materials. There's obviously a balance. This is typical in racing.