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Several aspects in American culture contribute to this:

- prioritization of the ability to make a buck over all else. This is an old tendency, dating back to the early 1800s.

- Postmodernism ruined the general reputation of the fields it touched. The Sokal Hoax was very famous.

- Most liberal arts majors didn't seem to work hard, or to work on hard problems. This in contrast to the engineering major slaving away until midnight 6 hours per week.

- pg has an essay on this; I forget its name, but the "drop-out-to" lattice in college - people often drop out to easier majors. Psychology or English are roughly at the bottom of that lattice where I went to school; things like CS, Math, Chemical Engineering or Physics are near the top of the lattice. So... yeah. "Couldn't hack it, got a English degree, now serving coffee" stories show up enough to, at minimum, distort perception.

Add those together, and it's a pretty potent mix for looking coldly at the humanities as a useful thing.
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You created a 'should' from a 'would', and therefore implied that 5F36B5F62640 had ill-feelings towards Indians.

I'm not attacking you personally, nor am I speaking to you personally. I am just pointing out to anybody reading this, that you just tried to smear somebody.

Of course, whether you did so on purpose is another matter.
So much for being a digital nomad.
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The copernican prior is totally speculative.
Sample size of one, but I haven't used public transit in probably close to 10 years, and I use Uber all the time. I definitely would not turn to public transit if Uber shut down. I'm sure it depends on the city and the quality of its transit offerings.
> Note: Amazon's TLA+ reports said they model-checkers for finding bugs that didn't show up until 30+ steps in the protocols. An unlikely set of steps that actually was likely in production per logs. Reading such things, I have no hope that code review or unit tests will save my ass or my stack if I try to clean-slate Google or Amazon infrastructure. Not even gonna try haha.

For those unfamiliar with the reference, there was an eye-opening report from Amazon engineers who'd used formal methods to find bugs in the design of S3 and other systems several years ago [0]. I highly recommend reading it and then watching as many of Leslie Lamports talks on TLA+ and system specifications as possible.

[0] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/tla/fo...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11806105
Just got our Vive today. Only 1/3 people threw up.
I love that I know who this is at CoreOS by the choice of username. Pick better throwaways if you're going to blow up a thread like this. (ideal0227 upthread is also a CoreOS employee and one of the etcd developers.)

On topic, yes. It is quite trivial to lose data with etcd and pretty much everybody I know who runs it has experienced problems. Try backing it up and restoring. etcd is compsci great yet operationally burdensome; it is extremely difficult to operate, tends to make assumptions and explain to you how to operate your fleet, and the developers are not very receptive to these and other operational concerns. This stems from CoreOS culture, to be quite clear -- CoreOS seeks to eliminate operations as a discipline and replace it with software, and tends to disregard or devalue operational concerns as a result.

Launching down the storage path with Go software and disregarding several decades of operational experience in the industry on how to do distributed storage correctly (not to mention the "looking down" on etcd-related infrastructure decisions from this anonymous employee) should indicate to you that I'm not making this up, despite how it may appear.

90% of folks I know on etcd, I'd estimate, have (a) reverted to Zookeeper or (b) moved on to Consul. It is the single piece of software that is holding Kubernetes back, too, and it's fairly obvious from roadmap direction that Kubernetes is now the etcd customer. Plan accordingly.
I can assure you there's a large audience of cosmopolitan and well-educated people who also want regional flavor. Nearly everyone wants to feel special, and many do not want the homogeneous world you seem to desire.

I used to subscribe to the "Santa Fean", which is "an art, culture, dining, history and lifestyle magazine in Santa Fe, New Mexico." If a city of 60K inhabitants can have its own city-centered publication, then a city of millions can certainly have its own.

I now live in Sweden, which has a smaller population that the NYC area. When Swedes cover international news, they often describe it with a Swedish viewpoint, or how it affects Swedes. Do you think Swedes are using "repeated regional stereotypes"? Or that Swedes are not a "cosmopolitan and well-educated audience"?
Thing is, I don't see how the stuff from the article ties into their existing business. When I hear "IoT" or "self-driving car" or "Computer Vision" I think about ARM, Google, NVidia and a bunch other brands, but not Intel.

It seems like they're trying to catch up to the leaders of several newly fashionable IT fields while simultaneously pivoting away from their core business. That's why it strongly reminds me of IBM and HP.

Also, for the heck of it, compare the types of news you see on NVidia and Intel websites:

http://nvidianews.nvidia.com/

https://newsroom.intel.com/

Side note: I'm surprised Intel isn't focusing all their effort on the emergence of VR. Proper VR requires a powerful PC, which is one of the areas of computing Intel still dominates (along with NVidia). If they bought Oculus...
Where would that subhuman line be? If they think an adult from one ethnic group is as intelligent as an infant in another, but that there's nothing wrong with that, is that believing they're subhuman and hence racist?
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I can't imagine the incessant legal and legislative battles they are fighting are coming cheap. That means hiring legal and policy people, paying a ton of money to outside counsel, lobbying expenses, the hidden costs of building influence.

And it's at a huge, because most of this isn't happening at the federal level (yet)—it's all state and city—which means they don't have the luxury of concentrating on the familiar, well-tread (and very insular) game of DC politics. Instead Uber has to have boots on the ground in a ton of places, and they have to have people knowledgable on the nuances of regional politics and culture. Things like the dynamics of a state's house vs senate, country executives, the port authority, taxi unions, legal systems, initiative systems, local elections, Chambers of Commerce. The list really does go on and on. It's a huge and complex footprint to manage.
For you young folk:

"The Spirit of Christmas" was an animated short that led to "South Park". Was commissioned by an advertising executive as a holiday gift to industry pals, distributed on video tape. Friend of mine transcoded it to QuickTime MOV format -- a technical challenge at the time -- and once digital, it spread like wildfire.

QuickTime was a Mac-only video format at the time.
Because running a process in a VM doesnt meet what requirement ?
I've been doing it a while with Cavium via Octeon's:

https://www.cavium.com/OCTEON-III_CN7XXX.html

Looked awesome. The ThunderX is the Octeon ported to ARM ISA far as I can tell. The Octeon II's with 16 cores plus Gbps I/O and crypto accelerators in PCI card form can be had on eBay for $200-300. Now, I have performance sheets from Intel confirming it performed as well as I hoped.

Great news for Cavium. ;)
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http://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-reports-surge-in-profit-1...

> The cloud division’s sales rose 64% to $2.57 billion. While that is less than one-tenth of Amazon’s overall revenue, AWS generated about 67% of the company’s operating income in the quarter.
That's what they tell everyone when people start questioning the fundamentals. It's what they told me two years ago when I interviewed there. Linking drivers with riders is not a complex problem. It doesn't even require machine learning. It doesn't require ongoing research. The whole dispatch infrastructure is mostly node and redis running predetermined matching algorithms.
I would imagine it's to put out the first driverless fleet. How else could this valuation be justified.
People who are willing to share this information about themselves usually put it in their profiles. Many people, like myself, would rather be anonymous on HN so we can speak more freely.

I noticed that you haven't answered these questions about yourself, either in this post or in your profile.
That video is the most painful thing I've ever seen in my life.

Let me be clear when I say that. It was literally the most painful thing I've ever seen.

When I was young, I stepped on a nail so long that it poked through my foot. I was scared and in shock, so I slowly pulled the nail out of my foot. Blood squirted everywhere and I passed out. I couldn't walk for weeks. Even today I walk with a limp.

That was nothing compared to watching this video.
Kahneman's book, Thinking Fast and Slow[0] is a great read if you like to think about memory and how thinking functions in practice

[0] - https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp...
What is the fractal dimension of your life? (Pycon closing keynote)
That friend of yours -- he's a hero to my entire generation.
To the best of my knowledge, the container features in the vanilla kernel today (cgroups, as used by LXC, docker, etc) originated at Google, where they were used more for resource allocation than for containerization per se. The kernel patches developed by Virtuozzo/Parallels for OpenVZ were never upstreamed, and were considerably different in design from cgroups.
What about Solr? They're both based on Lucene but I imagine it qualifies.
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I won't deny the role of luck, but I find that the more careful I am to keep my systems redundant, flexible, and rapidly deployable, the luckier I am.

I did have an issue once where a very large power outage that took out a data center. Total downtime was about 50 minutes, which consisted of:

1. Calling the hosting provider and ascertaining the problem.

2. Pulling the latest code onto the fallback server (from a different hosting provider).

3. Restoring the database from the backup server into a newly-created database server.

4. Changing the configs.

2 and 4 were able to happen while 3 was running.

As an aside, this is largely why specialized cloud services like AWS or AppEngine that promote vendor lock-in seem crazy to me. AWS can and does go down, and if your infrastructure is built around their tooling, you can't just provision a new box on a new provider.
Amazingly, it is. A match made in heaven.
>Swift 3.0 is not source compatible with Swift 2.2 as it introduces source-breaking changes

tee hee oh Apple, you scallywags!
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>Using one market (gmail) as leverage in another market (chat) is basically the definition of monopolization

No its not. Unless you're claiming that this is a form of product tying, but that would require that

1. Gmail held a monopoly or near monopoly over the email market at the time
2. hangouts was a service that people needed (or that to use gmail, you also were forced to use hangouts)

Neither of those were the case.
I'd much rather be denied access to the content if I'm outbid. I'm bidding to view the media, not auctioning my eyeballs. My eyeballs are not for sale, at any price.
Our lab had free printing from the macs because they didn't have software available to track and charge people. Using a PC came with a printing tax. Good reason to use Macs back then.
It's not a donation if it comes with enforced obligations.
Makes me wonder what the next AI industry buzzword will be. After Big and Deep, maybe comes Fine or Narrow, Tactful, and finally Aware.
> I would suspect that Uber's will still be lower than cabs'

What people pay for an Uber still varies a lot by city.

At home in Ohio, Uber is more expensive than taxis in several cases, for example, to/from the airport, and short trips from the city center to the bars (2-3 miles). Taxis are also generally cheaper here for longer trips (maybe 30+ miles).

Similarly taxis can still be cheaper (and are still ubiquitous) in NYC.
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>So yes, it most definitely isn't about copying code.

Exactly?
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Was Bolo the first networked-multiplayer shooter for personal computers? I know that "Maze War" and "XTrek" predate Bolo by quite a bit, but they required $20,000 workstations.
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Sorry if I offended but it was meant to be constructive. No doubt much effort went into the research but two mistakes in 2nd paragraph of the introduction do not reflect well on the presentation to readers like myself who are not in the field but are interested to know more.
You're grasping a bit on this. Logic does not dictate that there were implied ill-feelings on 5F36B5F62640's behalf. In fact, I can categorically state that from the one post I've read from them I do not believe they have any such ill-feelings!

To restate, then:
"Wait, so your argument is that only Native Americans would feel unwelcome in this community?

Is this supposed to be in his favor?"

I appreciate your dedication to accuracy, and I must assume this satisfies your complaint.
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Civilization is to deny milk powder to people who want to pay for it, just because they are from another side of a border?
If they can get cash at a good deal, why not? 10 years later, if they do make a truckload of money from overseas expansions, they can pay back their investors with oversea cash without paying American taxes. Double win!
> So where's all this cash going?

In Singapore, Uber owns and operates a car rental subsidiary that has singlehandedly driven up the total cost of owning a car. [1] I suspect that this has been the case in some other cities that Uber operates in as well.

[1] http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/transport/uber-bids-co...
At this point, this is really an apples-to-oranges comparison.

Lustre, as truly awful as it is, is a POSIX filesystem (or close enough for (literally) government work).

Redhat/Ceph only at the end of April, announced that POSIX functionality was ready for production. Personally, that's not when I'd choose to deploy production storage. Ceph object and nominally block have much more time in production.

If you need POSIX, trusting Ceph at this point is an issue unless, as you say, MTBF isn't a concern. You might want to try BeeGFS, a similar logical model but much simpler to implement, performance up to a very high level, and a record of reliable HPC deployments (as oxymoronic as that sounds).

If you can do with object then certainly exorcise Lustre from your environment in favor of Ceph (or try Scality if non-OS isn't an issue). Lustre's only useful as a jobs program anyway - keeping people occupied who'd otherwise be bodging up real software.
What is the name of the anti-pattern where the new person to the team can't do any work because the DM has the only working copy of the source code on their own machine. Where version control is keeping folders in the desktop labeled 'new', 'new2', 'new3'. Where you do fixes in the live database. Where there is no test database, or any tests. Where deploying is copying some files to a shared drive. Where functions have multiple uses and multiple effects based on what flags are set. Where the answer to every flow control problem is more flags. Where "no the users can't upgrade to Access 2015, this only works with Access 12". Where the project maintainer can't be bothered to learn anything new, because they've already forgot more than you'll ever know. Where we bs the managers and users in to beliving it's supposed to work that way, and if it crashes well then don't do that.

I guess there is more than one anti-pattern
While I understand the scepticism if you've used a VR headset then you'd likely know that it's a very compelling experience in a way a 3d tv isn't. I don't know if it'll get big enough to drive trends in computing but I think its niche is likely to be large enough to be sustainable.
For sure. I take adderall and have an incredibly high metabolism to the point of needing to add 1500 calories per day in protein shakes to stay at a healthy weigh.

7.5mg (15mg in half) is my usual dosage, but it's strong enough to fill me with the energy you'd expect someone on a high dosage to have. When I talk a full pill, it completely screws me over. Others can take 30mg and be completely fine.
Dat Auckland rent though.
Could Facebook be doing so well because this is actually a win-win situation for everyone involved ?

That includes the people you mentioned yes, but also users who get to use a valuable tool for free.

The whole "if it's free, you are the product" party line may resonate in HN circles, but you have to realize the public as a whole doesn't think it's a bad deal at all.
there's no license for kqueue's interface or netgraph, and many other great interfaces. but they decide to create square wheels and not leverage from errors that others have made before them.
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What do you mean by "Customer base mostly mid tier and less savy ecommerce customers, read: future Amazon victims"?
Ebay tried the same trick in the past, chasing off the platform thousands of small "unproductive" sellers. The problem is that this sellers were also specialized buyers spending money and many hours chasing rare items in Ebay AND showing their trophies to all their family and friends to see. Ebay lost not only some fine and loyal buyers, but also tons of great free advertising. In the end this lead to losing a lot of momentum as company, that probably helped to the raise of Alibaba.

Freelancers are also numerous and cheap and Upwork definitely can afford to lose some of them, or even a lot of them, as long as keep the clients. But, as in the case of Ebay, the problem is that small contractors are also potential clients. Moreover, small clients add an interesting and very desirable collateral effect to the platform: A big increase in job diversity. If you alienate those people, you risk to lose some money, but also the outliers, very specialized freelancers interested in solving rare problems or offering less common experiences in many fields.

As Ebay before promoting big asian sellers with a lot of transactions, It seems that Upwork is mostly interested in big clients with lots of work that needs to be done, posting again and again the same type of jobs. This could lead to:

1) The same few stablished freelancers being hired again and again. New freelancers eventually will lost interest and leave the platform, or will be swallowed by the sucessful freelancers, now stablished as agencies or farmers, and forced to work for less money.

2) ... Or there is always a different freelancer hired. This would point to a problem with quality of freelancers or clients (can't keep any freelancer for much time and need to repost the same job each month).

3) ... Or nobody is hired. A red flag that could be seen also as a worrying symptom of "ashley-madisonization" of the platform.

I hope the best for the company, but it is unclear currently to me if this will be a smart move or a big mistake.