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I'm an Indian working in SG. If anecdotes mean anything to you, I faced the same issues while finding a place to stay here. In any case, it is a big enough problem they BBC covered it here: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-26832115
Stuff like this is to be expected. Communists and socialists alike are, after all, glorified thieves. It turns out, of course, that stealing from "the rich" for "the benefit of the poor" will never stop there. A thief is a thief.
It's hardly "bullshit" that the reference to Trump's speech doesn't go down a rabbit hole teasing out the question "did he say ALL Mexicans are rapists, ALL Mexicans coming to the US are rapists, or only MANY of the Mexicans coming to the US are rapists", because in the interest of good journalism we need to know exactly what completely wrong, racist thing this guy was saying (in the multiple cases where he said some variation of it).

BTW in the initial quote he says "They're" several times in a row, and then the last case "They're/their" rapists would either have to be a very odd piece of rhetoric, or most likely another "they're", in which case he actually, literally, did say "they're (all the people Mexico is "sending" us are) rapists".

I don't think this article meets the standards of the New Yorker -- it's really more of a People magazine article. I guess they had the exclusive, and they hate Trump so, whatever.

But complaining that the article doesn't parse out the exact and/or intended "meaning" of Trump's statements (which are well-known) is stretching it.
With Trump, there are 2 tells:

1) He never brings up Hillary's ghost writing of her book. (Hint: can you guess why?)

2) He never brings up Bill Clinton flying on the "lolita express" plane. (Hint: can you guess why?)
Not quite, though there is some overlap. Someone else asked me to compare Prometheus to other tools in the APM (application performance monitoring) space, and I'm going to share the summary I came up with:

The way I would describe Prometheus in relation to those other tools:

- Prometheus is open-source and self-hosted.

- Prometheus is about dimensional numeric time series metrics only (no log-based analysis, no per-request tracing, etc.).

- Prometheus has a strong focus on systems and service monitoring, not so much on business metrics.

- Prometheus is more of a Swiss army knife of monitoring rather than a ready-to-drop-in package that starts monitoring everything automatically.

- Prometheus is very much about whitebox monitoring and manually defining any metrics that could be useful for you (although we support blackbox exporting and bridging metrics from existing systems as well).

- We don't do machine-learning-style anomaly detection, but we do alerting based on manually defined rules.

- For a purely metrics-based solution, the insight we deliver is one of the best in the field (via the dimensional data model and the query language to go with it).

- Many open-source projects are starting to expose native Prometheus metrics (like k8s, etcd, ...), which gives Prometheus an advantage when being used together with those.

EDIT: Also try the "Getting Started" tutorial - that should only take a couple of minutes to try it out: https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/getting_started/
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CGI did namespace these headers correctly: headers X becomes HTTP_X. The problem is that the outgoing proxy config variables aren't PROXY_X, they're X_PROXY. (Other env variables from CGI aren't namespaced, however)

Dumping the headers into a single env variable means a) you need to have support for pretty big environment variables which probably wasn't realistic in 1993; b) every program that wants to use headers needs to know how to parse them, which is tricky.

Dumping the body into an env variable is bad because any reasonably sized body is not going to fit, and you really want the program to be able to start working on it before it completes.
Yes, HN's built-in anti-procrastination features make it so that I don't mind having it out of this hostfile.
>but the competing project took the entire idea of a bash script on the local folder that implements plugins like my project.

Ideas don't belong to anyone, though. And I'm sure you're not the first or only person to come up with "a bash script on the local folder that implements plugins". And unless you've got a patent on that, you've got no right to be upset that someone else does something you did first.

And again, you know, you did open source the code, which implies you want people to use your code and modify it if they wish.

But did they actually fork your project and not provide you credit? Your original comment made it seem as if they did, but now it appears you're just upset that someone else created a similar project to yours, rather than contribute to you.

If that's the case, it's understandable that you would rather they contribute to your project than have their own, but it's not plagiarism on their part. Contributions are a privilege, but forking is a right as far as open source is concerned.
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The point of a ghost writer is to do the work and not take the credit, hence the word "ghost".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostwriter

> A ghostwriter is a person who is hired to author books, manuscripts, screenplays, speeches, articles, blog posts, stories, reports, whitepapers, or other texts that are officially credited to another person.

I'm certain this is not the first case of such an event taking place. This seems perfectly reasonable.

The examples I gave show clear bias and at times lies. However in reading further I'm seeing more interesting negative insights into Trump and his particular temperament.

If there's one thing I've learned this election cycle, it's that you really have to weigh the good with the bad. And like any entrepreneur I don't doubt Trump has made a lot of mistakes. But would the good outweigh the bad for American leadership? That is what I am still deciding.

Edit - would appreciate someone explaining why they think this comment is so unreasonable. It's a ghostwriter. The point is to give the other person credit and let them say they wrote it. Lots of others have done this before and are doing this now.
I'd prefer to use `if let` and/or `try!()` instead of the methods here.
Not quite. Blackmail is defined as demanding money in order to not reveal something.

As long as there's no threat of selling the exploit to another party, there's nothing illegal about it.
most companies have and will just port it to different platforms, using the api that gives them the most performance. It's hardly lock-in
Nah, this is what *nix got its reputation for. Once you have a defined task for it, and have a solid UPS solution to back it up, you can pretty much set and forget.

Contrast this to the modern trend of spinning up and down container instances or virtual machines at the drop of a packet, where 400+ restarts a day is considered normal.
Really? Doesn't the following section from the OP directly contradict that view: "In 2010, peace activists climbed over a fence at the Kleine Brogel Airbase, in Belgium, cut through a second fence, entered a hardened shelter containing nuclear-weapon vaults, placed anti-nuclear stickers on the walls, wandered the base for an hour, and posted a video of the intrusion on YouTube. The video showed that the Belgian soldier who finally confronted them was carrying an unloaded rifle."
Looking at this disaster, I have to wonder why most people regard "preppers" as crazy.
This is probably an interesting semantic debate to have, but I have to apologize for being completely disinterested in it.
Full-time work in most professions is just the appearance of full-time work. It actually sets up a culture of dependency, much like welfare, except with people selling their days for money. Many of them don't dare build value for themselves because they are afraid of losing a steady paycheck, getting sued etc.
That's pretty crazy assembly syntax... It looks like "AX" actually references "EAX" (in 32bit mode) and "RAX" (in 64bit mode), so neither Intel nor AT&T syntax. Wonder when we'll see the first crypto bug in ported code that mixed up AX/EAX/RAX...
Let's not make it about race? When the agent lists the property as "No Indians, No PRC" I don't think you can quite get away from making it about race.
The study only measured home use.

I also think the correlations categorized by type of contents are way more interesting than the TlDr.
There is another article that mentions Venezuela is fully making their debt payments rather then defaulting. This crisis could be avoided

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/02/29/venezuela-is-making-surreal-s...
> You can't even compare the situation to what's happening in Venezuela.

Well having the US send $1 billion a year, year after year to prop your country up ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_Colombia ) helps.
Right which is why I prefer to use collectivism which is prioritizing the group over the individual and would seem to subsume any definition of socialism you could ever reasonably give.
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We are doing a pilot projet in Québec city rigth now, our plan is to expand into other cities in the future. So right now when you download the app you just get the info of Québec city. Thanks for your suggestion. :)
For my first serverless project, I built a service that manages an advertising account, by analysing ads and optimising the spend spread for a configured goal. I was surprised to find that one of the most difficult aspects, was in throttling outgoing API requests. Basically, I needed to avoid abusing a 3rd party service by hammering it with parallel or rapid fire requests.

I discovered all kinds of weird solutions:

- Push a "please wait" message onto an SQS queue, and set a Cloud watch alarm to fire when the queue length was >= 1 for at least one second. Have a variety of lambdas respond to the alert by checking if the have any work to do, and then racing to pop the queue and do one operation. I think I needed SNS in there too, for some reason. Fanout?

- Build a town clock on an EC2 and have it post "admit one" tokens to SNS. Nice and simple, but I was evaluating serverless, and adding a server felt like defeat. Might as well just run the whole thing on that EC2.

- Have on lambda pop request descriptions from a queue, and sleep for one second after sending each one. The request responses would have been pushed onto another queue. All of the other lambdas could just handle the events they cared about as quickly as data became available. Sleeping in a lambda just felt wrong, but for one second, it probably would have been fine.

In the end, I was still experimenting and exploring when my estimate loomed near, so I just wrapped up all of the application code and piped it all together with delays in loops that made API requests. Deployed it to Heroku in a hurry with minimal fuss.

What I learned:

- There are bad use cases for serverless, and I had started on one (SLS doesn't wait on no one)

- Serverless does encourage a clean architecture, from a code perspective: I was able to quickly transform it into a completely different type of application.

- AWS's services have lots of little surprises in their feature set: SQS doesn't fire any kind of event. SNS can't schedule events in the future (maybe I should have expected that one). Cloud watch events can only trigger a single lambda.

- There is a need for a town clock / scheduler as a service in AWS'. How many people have built that themselves?
Work is too ambiguous and complex of a concept to directly state that 25 hours a week is optimum over a certain age.

It seems like this article is partially premised on research done on assembly line workers, who are, as far as I'm aware, actually working and doing physical labor for most of the time they're at work.
I wonder how well this applies to mental labor? Beyond that, as some people have already commented, white-collar jobs tend to involve a lot of downtime.
I agree. Someone is still hosting the servers and services. It is just someone else. It is also just a re-spin of the term Application Service Provider. That term never gained popularity.

There are some discussions of API's. Whether or not a service has an API is orthogonal to something being a hosted service.
You can stick your fingers in your ears and scream so that you won't hear reasonable people using the word "socialist" to mean things you don't mean when you say it, but that doesn't change the fact that reasonable people disagree with you about whether "socialism" implies "command economy".
Do these phones typically run Android? Or older OSes that have a mobile JVM?
Note that the SSME puts out about 3x the thrust and has a substantially better specific impulse, so you should probably be comparing one RS-25 to 3-5 Merlins.

On the other hand, that SSME cost figure is probably in 1970s-era dollars....
In this case, I think a little more verbosity in the names of these methods would assist in understanding significantly. For example, enterAnimation/enterTransition would increase the clarity for someone new to d3, or who has been away from it for a while.
Please don't confuse interracial marriage (a social construct, and prevented by law in many places in the US until 1967) with interracial breeding (the thing that would matter for biological definitions). They can have very different rates, and surely did in the US in the 18th and early 19th century.
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Rust does not let you globally add things to existing stuff, so it's a very different situation than ActiveSupport, even if it may look superficially so.
I had heard on NPR that his wealth would have performed better in the S&P than his business dealings...
This isn't the same source, but it has a similar message: http://www.moneytalksnews.com/why-youre-probably-better-inve...
Just the beginning. Software is eating the world, and more and more software is powered or guided by machine intelligence whose behavior adapts to new data.

AI will be everywhere.
"I keep my social media clean and I never had direct messages from old men attempting to talk to an underage girl."

Next time you guys start messaging encouraging comments to someone on the Internet, make sure you wait until they celebrate their 18th birthday (or whatever their country laws say). No one wants to talk to "old men" before that day.

I am beyond angry and disgusted that this has happened.

(/s...)
SpaceX is staffed by some of the brightest aerospace engineers and scientists with decades of aerospace industry experience. Tom Mueller and Gwynne Shotwell had over 3 decades of experience between them in the aerospace industry before they joined SpaceX. To say they had not space or rocket experience is absurd.

Additionally SpaceX has received tremendous support from NASA both financially and technically. SpaceX has received close to half a billion dollars in "seed money" from NASA and has contracts for almost three billion dollars from them. NASA provides an extraordinary amount of technical oversight and guidance to SpaceX.

That's not to say SpaceX hasn't made significant advancements, Boeing has considerably more experience and received similar amounts of funding from NASA but has failed to achieve nearly what SpaceX has.
Mexico sends its rapists and criminals? An intentional program by who exactly to send criminals over here?

Some other race-baiting accusations never proven by Trump:

A Mexican-descended judge can't be impartial.
Obama was born in Kenya.
Millions of Muslims celebrated 9-11

These statements are absurd and rather than defend them, Trump and his camp change the subject and attack the media for questioning it.
Buying ARM wouldn't help Intel, that's why.

I assume you ask this question because ARM is absolutely killing Intel on mobile CPUs. Worse, Intel has tried to get into that space and ARM has handed Intel its head more than once. So this is not a dumb question.

But ARM makes a trivially small amount per CPU manufactured, making it up on volume. Intel takes a large amount of both revenue and profit on each piece silicon that goes out. And you can see the result: Intel's market cap is still 5X ARM's ($160 Bn to 30 Bn).

As an individual investor ARM is (was -- assuming this buyout goes through) probably a better investment than Intel since Intel is struggling to find new markets to expand into, with most of its revenue coming from a dead end business (PCs) while ARM is being pulled by many people into new, growth businesses. But because of its business model, an ARM acquisition would dilute Intel's results (its margin would drop).

For smaller companies it's OK to "eat your own lunch." This was in fact Sun's principle (which didn't work out for them so well) and Apple's (which has, so far). But when you get to be huge, it's hard to move the needle in a way that appeals to investors. Look at Apple: they have a crummy iPad business that, were it standalone, would be one of the phenomenal businesses of the decade. But when mixed in with the rest of Apple, it's simply blah.

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Separately, I remain astonished that Intel killed its StrongARM business line. They definitely had the best ARM on the market and it played, I think, to their strengths. I think they were just afraid that it attacked their brand, which at the time was very expensive CPUs. But they could be dominating the mobile market now.
I must warn the young man that girls are far more difficult to fathom than any math equation.
I always considered salty to mean the act of being bitter or resentful.
http://www.robustperception.io/scaling-and-federating-promet... explains it. Unless you're absolutely massive, it's fairly easy.
So it is about how the user perceives the application?! If so, why is it called "an architecture"?

Or do you mean that the user don't have to care on how to configure the application? Then "Zero-configuration" is a better name.

Or do you mean that the application hides that it use services on the net? Then it is even worse.
I'll give you middle class, but what does the lower class (Which is far larger then the middle class) in Colombia and Brazil end up dealing with?
Which is why collectivism pops up murderously over and over with different names.
Very common everywhere.

I'm North Indian. When I was posted in Chennai, I was told the Brahmins were not going to rent to me.

Today (18 years later), I shudder a little in the presence of a Tamil Brahmin.
In this context "server" doesn't mean "entity listening on some network endpoint, providing some service to network-connected clients" (which is I think the definition you're assuming). Instead "server" here means "Unix Machine".

Thus "serverless" means software and humans writing and deploying said software that do not need to know anything about /etc/<whatever> and installing packages and disk partitioning and swapping and whether Python 2 or Python 3 gets installed by default this week and ...

IMHO a good thing, mostly.
That's not a scathing critique, it's a joke. It resonates well with people who already dislike Atlas Shrugged (including myself), but it doesn't convince anyone. Those who like Atlas Shrugged will read it, maybe laugh, then correctly point out that it's not a well-reasoned argument, it's a joke.
That's a bullet passenger train. I'm well aware of them. I'm talking about freight rail.
It takes a long time to wreck a country this badly - particularly when it has desirable natural resources.

Venezuela didn't wake up last year and decided it wanted a particularly messed up form of socialism. This started much longer ago..

(I'll hijack my own comment: socialism != social democracy, as practiced by a few northern European countries.)
Turkey has not been a particularly useful US ally in the region in several decades and it won't be again, perhaps ever. The continued decline of US, Saudi and Russian influence in the Middle East is an irreversible trend, and Turkey is configuring itself to become a leader in the future of the region, both in cooperation and competition with Iran. I think its time for the US to depart Turkey, H-bombs and all, and stop clinging to delusions of power and influence that no longer exist and which face continued decline.
I agree. It is preempting definition use from a true serverless architecture: a swarm of symmetrical client/servers that implement an application and distributively store application state.
I lean towards assuming the known liar is again lying.
>The people were voting for Communism

Clearly, the world has always been filled with idiots full of resentment towards people that made better decisions and became more successful.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trump_Organization

What he created and grew is undeniably better than where he started, even with loans from his father.

I believe he has a few misses like selling steaks, water, and maybe his university wasn't great, but jeez, a handful of failed ventures out of 515 subsidiaries?

This is actually his biggest strength in my eyes. Organizational management. Making things move, making things profitable, getting the right people into position to execute.
You only get to shift blame to your predecessor if you predict and warn about the unavoidable problems and state your plan for how to handle it.
I don't necessarily mind all of that, save the sneaking around with tech when it seems a bit harsh.

We don't know which things are actually detrimental to brain function. If I were to speculate, I'm going to guess the differences lie in some combination of low-level stress and the actual effort involved.

The effort bit might explain more of the differences. Some folks have better genetics for long-distance running and can do so for much of their lives while others develop issues from overuse and/or become more prone to injuries. I'm hoping we sort some of this stuff out in the future as we get better ways to gain insight.
Although I don't think of Python and Java as that similar, I do see what Larry is getting at. Python encourages "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it", which is very nice for institutions where multiple programmers have to work with the same code.

The power that comes from "more than one way to do it" in Perl is great for an individual programmer that wants to create his own custom tool box, but it can cause difficulties in an organization with people at different skill levels all working on the same code base.

By the way, you see similar issues with Common Lisp. It is great for individual power programmers, but it seldom catches on for something that has to scale way beyond one programmer. As a contrast, look at Go, which was, as Larry Wall would say, "dumbed down" to meet the institutional needs of Google.

I know a lot of Hacker News types would rather think of themselves as power programmers rather than institutional types, but we shouldn't overly disparage the power of institutions to scale way beyond what a single individual can do, even though there can eventually be problems with bloat and mediocrity.

All this is to say that there is need and room in the world for programmer-centric and institution-centric tools. Larry has been helpful to point out the difference, and so people should think about these things when choosing between Python and Perl, for example. I work at a small school, and although I am a one-man programming shop, I do everything in Python in the hopes that if something happens to me, my successor will have an easier time understanding my code. I had done some work in Racket, Clojure, and Haskell, but then I thought about the future and converted everything to Python.
> he was as popular with elites as Bernie Sanders

So... not popular with elites.