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Starred. This looks fantastic. I've been exploring lambda deployment options for my new Alexa skills kit library, since Amz pushes lambda.

https://github.com/johnwheeler/flask-ask.

Can you please explain any differences over Zappa and if you're deploying flask?

Oh, and the project name is oh so damn cool.
Yep, even for small personal projects I deploy docker apps via saving an image repository and transferring it to the production server from my laptop. It is so easy to do so I just cannot see justifications for not doing that especially in any kind of commercial deployment.
Are you saying "stop using NodeJS with Javascript", use a third party language that compiles to Javascript ? What's the point using NodeJS at first place ? Better use Haskell directly...
Check out Tuft & Needle, there was an article on HN a few years back

https://www.tuftandneedle.com/about/truth/
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Indeed, but it clearly doesn't have to be this way. My company lets me work remotely and does not have set holidays but gives employees an extra ten days or so a year to take off as they see fit. Not all jobs can do this but I'd venture to guess most office jobs could, so it really comes down to that thing employers like to boast about that they almost never have: corporate culture. I'll take this any day over the stupidity that passes for corporate culture in many companies these days.
I wouldn't hire a dev who's still a junior after 5 years of using a technology
You capture my feelings, too.

I don't think all rates should be the same; the risks of default should be priced in to the finance or lease rate.

I agree "predatory == bad", so perhaps we could devise a system to (try to) ensure that the hit that subprime borrowers are taking is commensurate with the risk the lenders take. But arguably this is already done through competition (in lending in general, not specifically with this one-lease-company-only arrangement via Uber).

Maybe you can say we as a society should 'protect' subprime borrowers by banning lease/finance rates that are more than x% more than the best rate, and you tell sub-prime borrowers who don't meet the criteria, "too bad". But then lenders would game it by not lending to the best credit folks in order to extend down to the truly sub-prime.

Or it might flatten the rate spread between prime and subprime. Maybe this isn't an entirely bad thing; well-qualified buyers take a slight hit in order to subsidize those who are down on their luck. But then another lender comes along with better prime rates, and everyone who can swing it goes there.

Personally, I'm not really a fan of telling people they can't make their own financial decisions because "it's bad for you". Isn't this the opposite of what basic income proponents say? That we should let people be free to make their own decisions? We hear over and over that poor people make bad financial decisions (with the anecdata to support it... and some ACTUAL data and scientific research).. but there's also lots of data showing that people are best left to make their own decisions rather than some 'helpful' government scheme/program/regulation.
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I guess we Germans take pride in our engineering. I don't know about the code, but I could very easily imagine it being stricter than in th U.S.

For example, anecdotally, a major reason for Germans to oppose TTIP is that we're concerned about our standards in consumer and health protection and build quality. U.S. standards are perceived to be much lower (although the reality is of course not always like that).
Not sure how healthy the prevalence of dark themes is. Darkness leads to dilated pupils which leads to a shallow depth of field which leads to constantly adjusting focus – think SLR with a wide aperture.

Not sure about the effects, possibly none. Not sure if I want to be part of the experiment.
In ES6 async code can already be written synchronously with generators and yield
The co-founder of Kayak (which was sold for $1.8bn) moonlights as an Uber driver
Can we speed-listen and still understand?
Faster Than Fast String Search in Qt
Most animals can get cancer, even invertebrates. Not to say your hypothesis isn't close to reasonable, but you'd have to strike the "species" part.
Perhaps smitherfield actually was talking about the overall relative performance of "Rust [programs] on that Benchmarks Game site".

To say something about whether Rust-the-language-implementation was building faster executables wouldn't we compare the same Rust programs built with different Rust versions (not compare Rust programs against Java or C++ programs).

Match-up measurements of the same programs, from the 1st June 2015 and 1st June 2016 data files, like this:

elapsed secs	program id
4.013 => 3.780	binarytrees #1
15.449 => 16.650	fannkuchredux #2
5.204 => 5.588	fasta #1
0.070 => 0.067	meteor #1
0.050 => 0.044	meteor #2
24.630 => 24.068	nbody #1
1.733 => 1.743	pidigits #1
436.686 => 288.131	threadring #1

:and then note that the measurements were made on different OS versions, probably with different LLVM versions.
> That may actually help rebuild some of the lost trust between it and the public.

Oh please. This is the sort of thing journalists say that has no bearing on anything real, they just say it to make themselves the center of conversation. Lost trust my ass. Nobody trusts big American business, or big business everywhere. Commerce has always had a large element of adversarial conflict to it, the tug of war between the public will, exercised through politics and legislation, and markets is what produces social progress, not any kind of altruism.

This is really just the press industry rallying behind their own. They think they should just be able to say whatever the hell they want about whoever they want with no consequences whatsoever. They're the ones that want a legal advantage. You know why nobody sues the tabloids? They all have humongous legal teams, going up against them is like shooting peas at a brick wall. But they've created a business model around saying vicious, wrong things about people who did nothing to deserve such treatment.

So forgive me if I'm a tad bit skeptical.
https://syntaxdb.com/reference/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search=...

no results?
A few disconnected thoughts:

It is worth noting that without the current low interest rate environment, subprime loans would be a lot more expensive or just wouldn't not exist.

There certainly is a balance of responsibilities both among the borrower and the lender. Presumably the lender is the most educated of the two parties, especially in a sub prime situation where the borrower may not even be at a high school math level.

Lenders should not expect to be able to give extend unlimited amounts of capital and use a taxpayer funded legal system to recover it. Bankruptcy on the borrowers side is definitely a very important tool to keeping things somewhat fair. Most young people now see what a catastrophe that can cause in the case of student loans, a whole generation or two facing a very grim financial future short of massive inflation or winning the lottery.

Nothing is perfect and I imagine solutions will introduce their own downsides. Future car use probably won't even be a loan or a lease but rather a license to use a vehicle at a given time. That system could apply to a lot more than vehicles 10 years from now.
Let's not forget that Gawker monied up ahead of the trial, too. In a January 2016 staff memo, Gawker CEO Nick Denton described an investment by Columbus Nova (controlled by Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselburg) as a way to make sure his company had the resources for a full-stakes court battle.

The judge in the case had recommended mediation, but both sides really wanted a big trial. So they got one.
I don't think anyone suggested that 4 hours would make up a sizable part of yearly revenue. That's not the point.

As another poster mentioned, even with the post-outage spike in sales from folks coming back to get what they wanted an hour ago, they lose those impulse sales forever.
> Just because something is well liked, does not mean it is beneficial to society overall.

Granted, but who gets to decide what is beneficial?
> If Peter Thiel's goal was to help out defenseless individuals harmed by thoughtless journalists, that suggests one set of structures. E.g., a public nonprofit

This has popped up several times in this thread, and I don't see why it's true. There's no obligation, legal or moral, that philanthropy be coordinated through a nonprofit. The only reason for the nonprofit is to get tax advantages. If you're donating tens of million of dollars to a nonprofit, it'll be to one where you wield significant control (officially or not).

If Thiel's actions here were inappropriate, they'd be exactly as inappropriate if managed through a nonprofit.
person a says: i have a unique perspective into a part of this issue, here are my experiences and how they differ in two societys. I prefer society a's method of handling process x.

person b: go back to your own country if you hate it so much here!

yeah, we are headed for a really productive and intelligent debate here.....
Yes, please find a new name if you can. It's too easily confused with our style otherwise. (I'm a maintainer of above style)
"...Eventually they need to put money in the hands of investors."

I get your point, and did not mean to oversell "Option 2". But then the shareholders do get to vote on how they'd like it.

BTW, a truer example of "no dividends" is Amazon (http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/amzn/dividend-history) - Apple does have a history of dividends (http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/aapl/dividend-history), certainly with some regularity since 2012.
Oh man, I can't say enough good things about PureScript!

One really neat thing is since PureScript basically copies Haskell's type system, if you learn PureScript you're learning to use one of the best type systems in industry.
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What does android phone have to do with it?
I would argue that cancer is more of a consequence of aging, genetics, and environmental factors and not a "feature". Cells have evolved multiple mechanisms to prevent rampant and uncontrolled growth. With cancer these mechanisms are perturbed through genetic alterations due to "bad luck" or the consequences I mentioned previously.
I'm guessing they believe 300 million (about 1 in 20 of the world population or about 1 in 4 of the developed world population) is not their natural limit. Facebook has 1.65bn monthly active users. Facebook is obviously a very different product but I'm sure they're looking at those numbers and wondering why they are here and not there.
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The only thing I could argue is a speed component. Something would need to work at a reasonable operating speed for humans to judge it as conscious. If an answer took ten years to get back I doubt anyone would call it conscious.
100 million sales. So? MS bought Minecraft for $2,500,000,000. At this point, for all it's popularity, Minecraft is still being subsidized by the other MS products. It has yet to reach profitability and might never do so ... at least for Microsoft. Notch certainly made his numbers.
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According to Wikipedia this makes it the second best selling video-game of all time [1], only behind Tetris. Pretty impressive.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_gam...
Any idea on how much revenue they bring in? I tried a quick google search but couldn't find any recent numbers.
I did notice that Blue Origin was the only company that got a paragraph explaining their logo...
Yes, Thiel was out for blood, but so what? There's nothing inherently wrong or illegal about feeling vengeful. It's a natural human emotion experienced and indulged by pretty much everyone at some point in time. It's not like we can eradicate it or make it illegal, so complaining about Thiel's goals or feelings seems like a waste of time to me.

The issue, as usual, should be with the system itself.

Is what happened here unjust? Is it wrong for Gawker to have had to pay the $140M? If you believe so, then your complaint should lie with the court. People should expect justice in court, rather than "typically" avoiding it via settlements and insurance. Our judicial system should be robust enough to make the motivations of a lawsuit's participants irrelevant. No matter how badly Thiel wants to destroy Gawker, they should only be liable for an appropriate amount of damages. If the court failed Gawker there, that's the court's fault.

On the flip side, if you believe the settlement was just, then it's Gawker's fault for doing something so bad that it cost them $140M in the first place.

EDIT: At least 6 downvotes now, but no replies. If you disagree, can you defend your reasoning at all?
Not being able to make choices for yourself is slavery.

Slavery is not about hard work or poor conditions. There were plenty free men who had it harder and some slaves that led cushy life.

Slavery is about not being a master for yourself.
Jeff Bezos: Seek revenge and you should dig two graves, one for yourself
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Great comment. I went back and checked the article because I thought you were wrong and it said "within the first 30 days". But you're correct, any time AFTER 30 days, they can leave the program.

No mileage penalties and no contractual obligation to the lease are huge benefits.
Await typically uses a CPS transform to rewrite methods into continuations. Effectively the remainder of the method after the await is passed as a callback to the async operation. The async operation can resume when it completes.

Erlang's waiting will interact with the VM's scheduler, and pause the green process until a message is available. Logically though, there's little difference between a stack treated as data by a scheduler, and the closure captured by the continuation after the CPS induced by await. The chief practical difference is a continuation could be called more than once. Resuming a green process with the same stack location more than once won't work very well because the stack gets reused. But you could get around that by storing the stack not as a reused vector, but as a linked list of heap-allocated activation records (an exact parallel to nested closures, which happens in anything beyond the most trivial CPS transform). Erlang wouldn't do that because (a) it's slower and (b) it's not necessary since it can't continue more than once.

(I implemented anonymous methods in the Delphi compiler and got intimately familiar with lots of these details.)
You have a strange view of reality, my friend.
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I am not sure that the analogy works at all.

Any child can download a "Feed the Beast Launcher" or somesuch that's able to install a modpack with a single click. For some packs, that amounts to hundreds of mods. Who cares if that requires hacking bytecode, that's all abstracted away. It's even abstracted away from developers, ever since Forge was released.
Well then that's not "turtles all the way down", it's just turtles 2 levels down.

Second, the simulation argument is about our own universe someday making simulated realities. Assuming we are being simulated by a radically different universe is entirely different.
>I'm saying this indeed is wrong in 90% of the cases because the big media companies are intentionally deceptive, and control the message that the artists are getting.

And what makes you so uniquely positioned that you cannot be deceived and the information you have access to is not tightly controlled by these supposedly omnipotent media bosses?

I haven't heard anything from you that makes me believe in your superior insight compared to the people who signed the letter the NYT is reporting on.

Artists talk to each other you know. If 10% knew some super secret truth about the media business, the other 90% would quickly learn about it.

I'm afraid you'll have to accept that there are different opinions out there and not everyone who disagrees with you has had wool pulled over their eyes.

Has it occurred to you that the reality may be more nuanced so that reasonable people can disagree? Or that media conglomerates and their business models may be one problem that artists have and copyright infringement on a massive scale another one on top of that?
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this is just false.

http://finance.zacks.com/stock-prices-drop-during-exdividend...

http://www.fool.com/investing/dividends-income/2015/05/30/un...

http://www.investopedia.com/articles/stocks/07/ex_dividend.a...
When I was an undergraduate TA in Computational Physics, we had a deadline of Monday 8am, which arised from a technicality: At Monday 8am, a cron job would download the submissions from the designated mailbox, and print them, so that we could pick them up for grading when we came into the office that morning.

You're absolutely right though. It would be more sensible to have the cronjob run at Sunday 8pm instead, given that nobody is in the office until Monday morning anyway.
Did they ever fix the design of using a separate TCP connection per transfer, serially? It sure is fun to upload directories full of small files at 2 per second.
Well if you're up for something completely new, you can check out eHorus. They're still in beta phase but the application is very promising and solid nevertheless. The plus side is that they also include double factor authentication which gives them a big security advantage when compared to Team Viewer. You can check their webpage http://ehorus.com out and see what you make of it.
Netflix isn't filling government contracts

Nor has Netflix lied to governments for years about the efficiency of their products and purposefully built devices to defeat government tests. VW is either facing massive multi billion dollar fines or has to reach other agreements.

VW has had access to the US for decades. Them building electric cars in the US has nothing to do with access to the US market.

Netflix will, in fact, be paying to license domestic content. And the more their customers watch domestic content, the more they will pay the content providers. The government itself will be cut out of the loop and that's really the problem here.
this is potentially an amazing idea, especially for those of us who work in polyglot systems. However, a search as simple as "queue in java" returns no result?
I don't want to directly comment on Thiel's actions, but one of the most annoying things in court cases that I care about is when it reaches a settlement, preventing precedent from being set, and allowing other actors to do the same thing as the defendants, knowing that somebody else is going to need to bring them to court in order for them to be held accountable. Settlement in cases can be a greedy/short term out that allows the same injustice the plaintiffs suffered to be perpetrated against others.
You can total up one of those here: https://steamdb.info/calculator/
I have used backuppc for years as well, and it uses a similar strategy of rsync/hardlinks to make point in time snapshots available to the users.
Oh that's what it was. The 360. My memory is a bit faded.
You can tell it's a hit piece because having a vendetta against someone outing a gay man is something most people would find perfectly acceptable and ruins the narrative.
Wild, I just got invited to join a group for coffee over SMS. And before that, to meet with a technical group on MeetUp. And before that to meet up with my friends on GroupMe.
That's not my meaning at all, in at least two ways.

Firstly, this isn't about what sort of person Yarvin is (jerk or not-jerk), it's about what he's done in the specific instance we're talking about.

Secondly, neither advocating slavery and oppression nor being sarcastic about a stranger on the internet is the same thing as being a jerk.

So it's more like "The other guy is being grossly dishonest about the terrible horrible no good very bad things he has said, therefore I'm justified in being quite vigorous in pointing out the dishonesty of what he's saying now and the horribleness of the things he said before".

FWIW I doubt Yarvin is a jerk. I expect he's pleasant and interesting company and kind to strangers and animals. Being a jerk is just one of many ways to go wrong, and it is not what I am claiming Yarvin has done. If all the bad things I say about Yarvin and more are true, and if those are not just one-off occurrences but a matter of settled character, then the consequence isn't that he's a jerk, it's more that he's a fascist or something. I happen to think I'm not a jerk either, but at least you're in the right ball-park there: if all the bad things you say about me and more are true, and if that is a matter of settled character rather than a one-off, then indeed I'm a jerk :-).

[EDITED for clarity here and there; no changes to meaning.]
this story sounds like some free mason communist is seeding it's communist seed again so I clicked for that
ends up as misleading title that looks like generalising things
That's exactly what it is. The third parameter to memcmp is the length of the buffers to be compared - "G847MC6JZ5", the string being compared, has a length of 11 characters (including the null terminator, which is a little odd). 11 is B in hex, and is stored as an unsigned Long Long, so the representation in the disassembler is 0xBuLL.

And that string is the Blizzard identifier: https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/bdfd2017fb776b52a4604928e...
As someone else pointed out, it was the X-Box 360 that had PowerPC, I guess I forgot which one it was.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360
Or aptly or artifactory.