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(Author of Gordon here)

I think the people from serverless (and apex) are doing an amazing job evangelizing about the benefits of server-less infrastructures and they have amazing projects they should be quite proud of.

Than been said, I think both projects walk different paths in order to achieve similar goals.

What is different with other approaches?

* Isolation is one of the most important things for us. Each of the stages of your application are deployed into independent Cloudformation stacks.

* We don't stream commands to the AWS api. Every single of your resources are created using CF.

* We respect the tooling of each of the runtimes so javascript, java or python developers should not get exposed to software they are not use to.

* Convention over configuration. Perhaps this is because my background is the Python/Django ecosystem, but writing 200 lines configuration files in JSON feels completely wrong to me.

* Documentation documentation documentation: Again, perhaps I've been badly educated by the Django community, but documentation and examples are (for me) the most important thing a project like this should have. That's why gordon's documentation is quite complete (I would say) and we have more than 20 example project including integrations with Slack, Telegram, Twilio... and AWS services such as Kinesis, Dynamodb, Apigateway, S3, Cloudwatch Events, Cloudwatch Scheduled Events, etc...

I think is an amazing moment to be involved in the server-less community and we'll all benefit from a thriving ecosystem like this :D
Or for being a part of any other botnet. Oh wait, it's you: all those Windows zombies are nonexistent, because "shouldn't happen = doesn't happen, Windows is secure, Linux suxx0rz, Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia".
I created one grid system exactly like this [1] a couple of years ago as part of Picnic CSS [2].

However it was limiting in several factors, so I rewrote it from scratch as a flexbox solution, called it Flexpoint [3] and I love it. Now I need to integrate it back into Picnic.

For instance, can you change elements order? How do you account for an undetermined number of elements (same size, full width total)?

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20150713011953/http://www.picnics...

[2] http://picnicss.com/

[3] http://francisco.io/flexpoint/
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Pills also support fractional based grid like half, one-third or two-third like that.
Ask HN: Idea for yet another dating app but this one is well, out there
I have single friends no kids who tell me they are ready to pivot to married with kids lifestyle. But getting there from A-Z is really hard. They get stuck around B C or D and give up, or decide hey the single life with no kids isn't _all_ bad maybe I'll just stay this way forever... but then a few days later right back at Step A super convinced they want Step Z all over again. Viscious Cycle.

Enter "F it, lets go." a dating app for the people ready to go all the way to Z. It could be the worse decision you ever made, it could be the best. But at least you'll be done with the wondering and constantly getting older. Take the FILG pledge and agree to pick 1 guy or gal from a list of 12 within 2 weeks. You get 1 week with them. A normal week. Not a vacation retreat week. A normal day in day out work week. Then, un-protected sex with the goal of getting pregnant. This is the FILG pledge, you are ready to take that plunge. Rip off the band aid. Just do it. Get pregnant or get someone pregnant and give it your best shot. Your odds aren't any better than if you date someone for years first.
It's probably very variable, but I'm also curious how many responses the people posting to get hired are getting.
How can anybody be made to to sell a thing that he doesn't want to sell?

I understand government can do it for greater purpose, like building infrastructure but a company?

How can a company say "you know what, these stocks that were issued to represent ownership won't be a thing since next month, we can give you 13 bucks for each so you won't feel like a total looser"?

Suddenly I'm all for judge deciding how much people that were basically sold piece of paper with some meaningless letters should get.
Spooky, because I'm conscious about privacy & regularly check that my tracking is limited to only the things that I explicitly allow. Yet, somehow Google managed to flip it on for a few weeks over the past 2 years.

As someone else pointed out, 'app updates' or 'adding a new device' resets these settings. If I had one of those "always on" devices, it would have a lot more conversations stored, some that don't even start with the hotword.
Nice done!
Can you elaborate on how mandatory holidays stopped rogue traders?
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Which paper/blog post/book specifically documents the most recent research? E.g. just yesterday I figured out (after surfing the internet for a long time) that the diminishing gradient problem have essentially been solved by ReLUs, so auto-encoders are no longer necessary and we can train a whole deep network at once. Another is e.g. batch regularization. Probably not news for a researcher, but where could I learn these updates?
Why not just use flex? https://philipwalton.github.io/solved-by-flexbox/demos/grids...
In other words, whether they're doing it to be Eeeeevil (unlikely), or for profit (probable), the result is still the same: "YOU WILL SUBMIT TO WIN10, YOUR LORD AND MASTER"
The article speaks in "may"s and "might"s a lot, I can't find one concrete point outside the title, besides of course "after activation by speaking OK Google your audio is sent to Google". It seems to be clickbait indeed.
I don't know much about this, but it seems strange. When company issues new shares, it makes existing share owners percentage of the company go down — so shouldn't they have control on when such an operation takes place?
> You can't use rsync, rsnapshot, or any other tool that manipulates files and/or filesystems, to get a consistent backup of most databases.

Sure you can and if you can't, then get a better database!

A well functioning database should be able to deal with being inconsistently shutdown. If you can't take a snapshot of the disk then what's the difference between that and the power cord being pulled?

The main reason not to do this on a DB server is that the recovery time may large. That doesn't mean it can't be done though.

> Databases come with their own tools and/or commands for creating a consistent "dump". Nothing else is guaranteed to be safe.

Sure they do and you should use those as well, that doesn't mean you can't do this too.
That would be speech detection / voice activity detection.
I would call technical debt to writing it as you go, since there are many small bugs and inconsistencies that (hopefully) are fixed by these libraries. Just a couple of random examples:

- https://github.com/picnicss/picnic/issues/79

- https://github.com/picnicss/picnic/issues/64

So you can have a half-baked solution with 10 more minutes or use a tested and documented one and save 10 minutes.
Do you really think the french tax office just ignores domestic french tax evasion?

No. The french tax office does not exist solely to go after American companies. America giving these companies a free pass to pay little to no tax is ridiculous. They are stealing from your society.
Yes, it is possible for them to be sending all recorded sounds (even if the hotwords are not detected) to a remote server. However, as discussed above, there would be no legitimate reason for doing so—it is demonstrably true that the phone is able to recognize the hotwords even when a remote server is not reachable.
Grab is doing the same here in Malaysia.
Or maybe Facebook is still doing fine since there is no good enough alternative. It seems like Facebook is getting worse all the time but since everybody's there and it's familiar people still uses it. Indicators are they are losing young people, who tend to adapt faster and have not yet build habit of use and more and more people are using other services for particular activities.

Still there is nothing which could totally replace Facebook so old users are staying and baiting new users. It still has unique offer for large user base and very useful features so even if it's getting worse it can stand. People might be clicking their feed more but that's because they are so bored with content that they try if they can find something more interesting behind the links. Or they are scrolling down since trying to find something interesting, something different which is hard since algorithms just push same boring content all over again. But statistics look good.

What's the magic of Facebook? If you could answer that and build the service people will flock out from Facebook.
It's not all discounted future cashflow, it's discounted future utility. And a lot of people get the best part of their utility from family, friends, and relationships. Finding a reasonably prosperous position from which to secure a future with your family may be the best investment one can make.

Academia's contribution to that position is a murky proposition (added debt without added earnings potential undermines financial security). And while there are certainly immediate rewards from the pursuit of intellectual goals and from your friends at university, you can also get not-too-dissimilar rewards and more cash doing something like programming computers. And then you can use the cash to do things like: honeymoon with your wife in South America, enroll your child in a really good arts or music program, or spoil your grandchildren with a study-abroad semester in Europe.
No they are not.

Stock buybacks are effectively same as dividends. If company buys stocks from the market , it increases the value for the shareholders.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share_repurchase
You're talking about current market size, but world markets of such goods and services are growing, especially in developing countries.
Would you mind explaining the significance of this to me? What does properly redacted mean as opposed to drawing black rectangles over the content?

Am I correct in assuming that if done improperly the content underneath can be reconstructed?
Exactly, you are abandoning market and its prices once you say "those stocks are just pieces of paper now, we'll give you few bucks for each so you won't sue us"
The dilution does not affect everyone equally. Consider the extreme case of a company with only two outstanding shares and 100$ in assets, so each share trades at 50$. Now, the company emits an extreme dividend of 50$ per share. The first shareholder choses cash andthe second one stocks. Now, the first one ends up with 50$ in cash an 1/3 of a company worth 50$, while the second shareholder ends up owning 2/3 of the firm, which is worth only 33$.
I dont think medium is the word you wanted. What is it about the "medium" (which I am assuming is 'air' since it is a spoken language) of piraha language that has shaped/created a language without numbers/colors despite the fact that english has colors and numbers?
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You don't talk negative about other people, especially if you worked with them for a long time, and especially when it's not a matter of "they hid bodies of people they killed" but mere differences in opinion about how to do business. So no, this dirty laundry should not be aired in public.
I think a more on-point rebuttal would give us examples of flexbox-specific bugs.
I often have to pass on bad news in my job. For example, if we realize that there is a problem and estimates need to be pushed. Or if I'm mentoring someone, sometimes I have to adjust their perception of their performance. In many cases I've tried to lead in with casual conversation, then break the bad news. This seems to work very poorly. Instead it is better to lead in with the bad news, deal with the fallout and then finish on an up note. I've never really understood why this order is more effective, but it makes sense to me now. Very interesting.
Well, the point is that paying a stock dividend is equivalent to doing nothing. All that happens is that 1 share turns into for example 1.05 shares. Price per share should go down by ~ 5%, but total market cap stays the same. A rational shareholder should completely indifferent as to whether the company gives out a stock dividend or not.

For a cash dividend that's not true. Something real happens: the company has less cash afterwards (and the shareholder more).

There's a school of thought that says that the value of share should be the discounted sum of all future _cash_ dividends. According to it a company that only does share dividends should be worth nothing.
He totally failed to mention that all people who owned Dell stock were forced to sell for that price whether they wanted it or not. That made me think that all of the process of deciding the price outside of the market is insane while it's exactly opposite.
Agree with all of that.

Still no reason not to be optimizing our environments a bit more than the usual person might. There are less obvious threats to respiratory health in the developed world but the ones that are left are probably more insidious e.g. radon gas, VOCs from paints.

Having cooking fires sucks for the women tending them in the Third World but most family members probably aren't in the house/hut for most of the day. They're probably engaged in plenty of physical activity outdoors. We on the other hand are sitting in places with artificial florescent lights and are in the same spots on a consistent basis.

We should:

- have natural sunlight (using my magical heliostats)

- run about more

- be surrounded by plants (perhaps visits from cool animals)

I should start a minor religion.
I'm sure these lists are well meant, but these days I find that quality and especially quality in relation to time that's the problem when learning new things. What I've been doing for years is to look at the course curriculum at schools known to take the subject I want to learn seriously and try and find the few essential books on the subject. Then get the one I feel suits my style of learning and learn (how you do this is also individual) the basics while still not taking everything at face value.

When you have acquired that "common knowledge" the whole field usually opens up and you can quite quickly see what will be relevant for you among pappers, talks, projects etc. A large amount of knowledge, especially in software development, is just rehashing of basics made to sound more interesting than it really is.
It sounds like they didn't have a viable business model, so they're starting a new company to get rid of any ties the old had.

Maybe there's VC money coming in and this is a requirement to be able to be sold later... Who knows? :)
Thanks, I got it. More cash for the company, and same net worth for shareholders (even more worth if you take taxes into account).

So this would lead to an exponential growth to the number of shares? It really looks like a geometric progression. And, at the end, a huge amount of shares, each worth nothing.
That's going to have the same problems as the "company store" scam where you are paid in scrip. This makes moving to another employer much harder, because of the debt to the current employer (and/or their business partners).
Anyone who's worked with Postgres at scale would guess autovacuum.

Postgres doesn't have many weaknesses, but most of them relate to autovacuum.
True, I thought it was widely know but there's a whole Flexbugs project [1] and that there are many Known Issues with flexbox [2]. Some with solution, some without them.

[1] https://github.com/philipwalton/flexbugs

[2] http://caniuse.com/#feat=flexbox
That's why HRV systems exist.

Keep your environment's air clean while retaining the heat plus circulating fresh oxygen.

I intend to get a decentralized HRV like Lunos for my passive Tiny House. Any problem regular houses have with air quality, will be multiplied in a Tiny House without proper precaution.
Indeed. Flexbox made grids superfluous. Except people expect it.
If you also use rsync for the restoring from rsnapshot-managed backups, they are just as efficient in terms of the data transfer being just byte-level deltas as the backups. But rsync can't work with a serverless data storage like S3.
not being allowed to do something is oppression.
Isn't the income from selling any shares also taxed, though?
6kg for an ebike frame is not lightweight at all. Downhill mountain bike frame with traditional aluminium tubing weigh less and have to handle much greater forces.
that's exactly what we do at speechmatics.com - feel free to give us a try and make the most of the free credits
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Wrote this [0] more than a year ago, it generates a tiny CSS grid template using attribute selectors. Should work with any amount of columns. Might be useful for someone here.

[0] https://github.com/mateogianolio/griderator
Besides lack of good cross-browser support until recently, I think there are a few reasons why flexbox is still less popular than float- or margin-based grids:

- Steeper learning curve and less accessible than adding a class like "col-3" or "grid--1/2". The latter is almost self-explanatory.

- Requires an existing or new CSS class to bind the styles to. If it's a new class, you have to figure out a good name (which isn't always easy, naming things is hard).

- Requires editing CSS/Less/Sass, which (depending on your setup) can require waiting for it to compile. The wait time for compiling/bundling HTML is usually negligible.

- Traditional grid systems just work, and they work well enough for most things. When you have more important & interesting problems than a CSS grid system, there's a bias towards shipping what works and moving on.

That being said, flexbox is really powerful and a great tool for many things. But for many simple layouts, traditional grid systems can get the job done just fine without requiring much initial investment. On interdisciplinary teams where non-frontend devs can contribute, end-user simplicity is sometimes more important than language sophistication.
>A system that ONLY detects cancers earlier

There isn't such a system, anywhere. Even if you could have a public health care that detects and tries not to treat, you still cannot effectively forbid people from getting treatment themselves - if you make a law against it, people will try to escape the country to get treatment. So if you have a better detection rate, there will be actions to treat.

>Increased detection sometimes helps and sometimes hurts.

Perhaps the fallacy here is the belief that the helps/hurts ratio of treatment is 50/50? It isn't.

Of course there are cases where the treatment actually made things worse. There are more cases where the treatment has no significant effect.

But it is rather silly to assume that cancer treatments would have a net negative of zero effect.

Regarding the infant mortality rate, the definitions of miscarriage, stillbirth and dead newborn are not so different between developed nations that it would change this. Where IMR is lower, also stillbirth rate is lower, so it's not really about moving the boundary between these.
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My favorite is when they have the nerve to call vets "civilians".
You need good Windows. We switched our apartments in Beijing, and it made a world of difference in indoor air quality with our big blue air running. The problem that "purified air" becomes stagnant enough to be uncomfortable, even if clean, so we open the windows whenever the AQI is below 170 as long as a dust storm isn't going on.
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Agreed, most ludicrous thing I've read today
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True about the cert, and also your HN account! But between them that would take two security breaches to pull off.

Alas there are a few things to not be proud of in the code, but I'm proud I got it working enough for hundreds of people to play. The synth ... meh ... I had higher hopes for that part, but it turned out to be a lot harder than I imagined, and it's honestly a bit of a hack that doesn't truly represent the wavefunction to my satisfaction. I had to prioritize making it bearable to listen to. Audio is hard (I've worked in that field as well).
having kids should not be just a checkbox on your bucket list. Horrible idea. Start a happy family and good home before you make it the problem of the child
> Do we really care on which CPU architecture runs S3 servers and etc.?

Somebody above the "we" in that statement has to care.
You are making a lot of unfounded assumptions about what I believe.

I'm not defending any particular contractual structure. I'm not arguing against banning specific types of contracts. I'm not calling for excessive punishment for copyright infringement or for a surveillance state to enforce copyrights.

I'm saying that artists can be trusted to understand their own situation and act in their own interest, possibly with the help of lawyers or organisations that support them.

If some of them come to a conclusion that is different from yours, you can't just go ahead and declare them mentally incapacitated. That is what I call paternalistic and it is actually a rather moderate way of putting it.

Artists are not enslved imbecils who need to be protected from themselves. They may need to be protected from others, but that is something they need to diagnose themselves and make demands accordingly (some certainly do that).

Our societies are moving pretty quickly in a direction where we take away people's freedom to enter into voluntary agreements with other adults based on the claim that they are in a forced situation and can no longer be trusted to speak for themselves. Just look at prostitution, smoking, gambling, foreign currency loans, variuos fetishes, assisted suicide, etc.

Yes there are situations in which people need to be protected from themselves and their inability to grasp their own situation. But these situations are exceedingly rare. There should be a very high threshold before coming to that conclusion.
You're missing one important event. In the moment that the dividends are issued (regardless of whether they are stock or cash) a part of the company's value transfers into those dividends.

Your example cannot work because a company worth $100, cannot create new shares worth $100 ($50 per share). (It could theoretically distribute a cash dividend of $50 per share, but then the value of the outstanding shares would be $0).

If it were to distribute say 50% per share. Then it would create two new shares (in addition to the existing two). This would mean the new value per share would be $25.

So investor A has one share worth $25 and a cash dividend of $25 (he owns 1/4 of the company) Investor B has one share worth $25 and one (dividend) share worth $25 (in total 1/2 of the company).
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In the past there have been instances where e.g. the Microsoft Word highlight tool has been used to... highlight the paragraph in black, which obviously visibly hides the text but not removing it (unless only published as an image). Drawing a box directly onto a PDF without re-rasterizing it (or explicitly removing the text from the pdf data) achieves the same effect.
The problem is that these don't fit into most Chinese apartment rentals. Landlords could make some big bank by installing an HVAC, but they are missing even in new buildings where 90sqm apartments are going for more than a million bucks.