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Nano Server gets it right finally for Windows Server. It's tiny and headless...no graphical stack at all. Just watch, most internal Microsoft teams will transition to it over time. First they will start releasing software as a container that runs on Nano, probably in the form of Server Core. Then built native for Nano Server.

I've said this before...If you still think that Microsoft has been sitting still for the last 10 years because they lost out on the mobile shift, you are mistaken. Server and tools have done a fantastic job and the rest of the company is starting to unf*ck themselves too. Azure isn't as popular with the HN crowd as Amazon, but if you work in large enterprises...they have a much better story to tell. It's really hard to compare.

Hate on, haters.
BDR has last-updated-wins builtin and conflict handlers that can be called if that's not what you need.
We use it, but we don't suffer slow queries in our case.
Not all land let's you build there, and water is often a larger issue in the south west. But, the point is when land is cheap renting it is also cheap. Budget shelter at say 120$/month, food at 60$/month and living off of 600$ / month becomes far more reasonable. Transportation, and entertainment can be hard. At 55 walking a few miles to town and back with say 20lb of supplies might not seem so bad at 70 it's a much larger risk. Eventually most people flat out can't drive or walk so there are also end of life issues.

PS: Medicine is also a huge issue, but such is life.
NO that's not how it works, in fact the street capacity of cars being fixed is the very reason why car sharing networks are awesome, otherwise you are stuck in current situation where each individual has his/her own car leading to traffic and congestion.
Similar thread that I thought was pretty interesting:

https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/4ra09i/joey_che...
My problem is the bulk sizes. I always end up throwing more than half away because they're sold in so big packs. They're really cheap, but I just don't like throwing food away, so I don't buy it. It's perfectly irrational, but hard to change.
2015: stateless Ruby on Rails web pods and sidekiq pods inside Kubernetes. Redis and Postgres provided by AWS Elasticache and Postgres. The single cluster served two customer facing apps and a single, centralized authentication for users that supports both apps.

This was K8S 1.1, before DaemonSet and PetSet.

On the production machines, I ended up provisioning two different node types -- one with burst cpu shares and one with fixed cpu shares. I had to use node labelling. The web workers were sensitive to spikes in traffic and the background workers ate up all the available cpu, and shouldn't be shared with the web workers.
Sorry -- getting evicted is not like "having to study hard for some test."
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If you live in California, in a multi-unit dwelling, they can't prevent you from installing your own charging port (which could be as simple as a standard 120V). The bill is AB 2565. You do need to carry an umbrella insurance policy, and come up with all the plans:

http://www.natlawreview.com/article/california-update-new-la...
They're betting on self-driving cars.

My expectation is that self-driving cars will be promptly disintermediated.

"Google Rides", maybe, or "Amazon Prime for People", scatter-gathering over thousands of small companies owning 1 or 2 cars. Prices will fall to the marginal return.

Uber's investor fountain will run dry and they'll be stuck with the same economics as everyone else. There will be no brand loyalty once price-finding apps enter the fray. They'll still be a major competitor, but the fevered dreams won't pan out.
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There's also the whole: subway = not air conditioned and miserable, uber = air conditioned and comfortable. Also, as a Hudson Valley resident for most of my life, Indian Point and nuclear power in general is a huge concern for me.
A pound of fat is about 3,500 calories of overeating. Real hard to do that much in one sitting for someone who doesn't do it constantly.
Seriously. I don't think I could even eat a whole Chipotle burrito and also guacamole and chips. Chipotle has a lot of filling lunches under 500 calories. My go tos when I was young was a salad with chicken, guacamole, cheese, and salsa. The soft tacos with just meat, veggies, and cheese also keep you under 500.
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Yep. Just tax the sugar and most of the problems go away. It sounds too simple to be true, but I think it could be true.
Turkish guy here :)

I eat around 1300 calories a day. Lost 50kg (110 lbs) in 9 months doing that. 1000/day is too freaking low to be able to function properly.
Shameless plug for anyone interested: I have a (German) healthy-food channel on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/CookedAndShredded/videos

No processed foods used. No supplements. Just real food.
I think the idea is that if all cars are automated then the street capacity grows. Imagine if all the cars on the road are talking to each other with swarming algorithms. Now you don't need stop lights, you don't have people cutting each other off, you don't have gridlock, you have seamless merging. You can also have the cars intelligently route around congestion to balance flow (similar to what Waze does only much more efficient since all cars on the road could do it).

Sure, there's still a limit to what the road can carry, but it would be much higher.
Confused Brit question - how? That's below min wage, which I thought was national law. I imagine it's a bit lower for youngsters.
Isn't this already happening, though, on a low-level (i.e. ASM) ?
The hydroelectric dams are taking energy from the water system by slowing its descent. Presumably the friction of faster moving water would heat the riverbeds and surroundings more than the waste heat from the data centers does. The thermal impact should be negligible compared to releasing energy stored in hydrocarbons or atoms. However, pouring a lot of concrete can release enormous amounts of carbon dioxide.
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Anchor - Radio for the People

Excellent iOS audio sharing app now available for Android. Excellent UX and design has been carried over as well.

Radio stations have been using the app for months, so it's great to see on Android. It feels like an excellent new way to connect with an audience.
I don't know much about this type of technology, but I'm assuming that in it's current state, fMRI machines can't be compacted to the point where it is comfortable to wear on a daily basis.

I know that in their current state, MRI machines are huge and cost exorbitant amounts of money. Is there any other emerging tech that might allow users to go about their daily lives while capturing brain activity at a resolution that's useful to neuro-scientists?
This is compared to ~$2.50 a trip on the subway, which (depending on which line you're near and whether you have a transfer) could take substantially less time than a car ride.

There are however some "subway deserts" -- the upper-east and lower-east sides come to mind -- whose residences would greatly benefit from skipping two long walks a day.
> Man these negative people just gets my blood boiling. I am from Norway, so I grew up with the Law of Jante. I am surprised that that law seems to have spread across the globe.

I understand where you're coming from. But it is not about all negativity per se.

I am quite negative about our progress over the past few decades. But that is because I think we could be doing much, much more.

I think it is a combination of seemingly opposite attributes that is the most helpful here. Enough optimism to have faith in the future, and enough pessimism in another part of the brain to catch the bugs before you get taken down by the obstacles.

So please don't throw me in with the crab people! :-)

Elon Musk has given us a torch for the first time in a long, long time, and if he falters, our cadre shall pick up the fire and continue on.

http://millionmarspledge.com/

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Ask HN: Build a deep learning box from scratch or just buy one?
I'm interested in hearing from anyone here who has either built a deep learning box from scratch or purchased one? I would like to build one from scratch but if the analogous HW can be purchased already constructed for a similar amount of money, I would just buy it.

I'm basically looking for links to instructions for building your own box and/or links to a product I could purchase.
I'm fond of a "munchy box", eaten over the course of two days. The buttery is lovely, it's basically an all butter croissant that someone couldn't be bothered to roll up.
sure, once the 90% of people who don't have resistance all die without producing offspring.
I'll answer for them. None. It's just another fad diet, no less ridiculous than any other.
You are what they call "high hanging fruit". People like you won't be part of the equation until deeper into the adoption curve. But the answer is: your car will charge itself somewhere and drive itself to you.
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Nope. No reason not to be eating carbs when trying to gain muscle. Yes, you need protein. No, that doesn't mean you can't also eat carbs. In general if you're trying to gain muscle you should be eating quite a bit of carbs (and fat) because the alternative is to make it really hard to eat enough, for no real reason.
Because: (1) government can ignore some protections that corporations are supposed to follow and (2) government can act on this in a way corporations cannot (use this information to argue for or issue search / seize warrants, etc.).
I have had a situation where I had what was I thought deja vu, only to realize that I accurately "knew" what was about to transpire for at least 1 minute after. I've had regular deja vu before, and this was not it. I was interacting with another individual, so I don't think I was having a weird seizure or was mentally detached in any way. It was not a lucid dream either.
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This is a key point, well said. However, we need more people who are proficient in both "worlds" or at least, as another user points out below, more people willing to collaborate.
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I think the lesson came in earlier in the NUMA and MPP machines where they kept trying to cram more stuff on boards that were themselves pluggable into the larger system. This convergence has happened from several directions. It's not all the different from the earlier one that started in the 1960's where they fought cost and inefficiency by getting as few components per box sharing as much as possible. Moores Law temporarily reversed it (transistors and memory are free!) then reality check hits that this seems to be a fundamental principle.

My design a while back was to put it all on PCI cards on a PCI backplane. I saw backplanes that basically look like motherboards full of PCI slots that load into racks. I wanted to make the cards nothing but CPU and memory whose software communicated over efficient networking (not TCP/IP) through PCI DMA. My design had IO/MMU functionality in the backplane or PCI cards. At least one card having full-featured stack for management and at least one I/O card for external interface. I figured the backplane itself could be extended for that, too, with a dedicated port like motherboards do integrated GigE. Management and I/O could come through remote DMA over dedicated wires like many servers do with Ethernet so all the PCI slots could be dedicated to compute.

Dumbest thing about Facebook's model is them destroying drives. The first thing to notice, due to Ross Anderson's Security Engineering, is that those pieces still contain a lot of data if they weren't degaussed first. Next is to remember the fastest way to destroy data: use clustered, encrypting filesystems so that secrets never touch the drive. Then, you just have to delete the keys to loose the secrets. No need to trash the drives at all. The crypto can happen at the storage manager or at hardware interface with HW acceleration available for both types. I'm surprised they haven't already built this with all the smart people they have working on big-data stacks.
Yeah, over 40 years it would be easy to reduce the number of horses simply by attrition.
> Under federal law and in most states, employers may pay tipped employees less than the minimum wage, as long as employees earn enough in tips to make up the difference. This is called a "tip credit."

Technically you can sue your employer if they wont pay you the difference if you dont end up making enough in tips to end up at or above minimum wage - in practice however, suing your employer is generally not a great way to stay employed

http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/michigan-laws-tipped-...
Do you have some specific feedback that I can share with the team? Which aspects of the console and the workflow are not working for you?
I'm referring to promises of reliable, cheap and zero waste cold fusion or plasma or whatever reactors that were promised to 100% replace fossil fuels.

A handful of reactors here and there while an awesome achievement in itself doesn't really meet the expectations people of the sixties had for the year 2000.

Other analogies I considered using but was too lazy to mention in my comment were jet packs, space tourism, cure for cancer and HIV.
(and you could say all of these have also been delivered... to some extent)
Microsoft doesn't use OpenDaylight.

I've never heard of any serious non-research uses of it, and I've spent a good bit of time looking. Every time I've heard a rumor, it had turned out to be false.
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Just about every one of us is culturally indoctrinated with a list of necessities and norms. It's interesting to see what happens when people who received different lists bump into one another.
At home I make beverages with stevia and erythritol sweeteners. When I go out, about everything non-caloric is sweetened with aspartame, sucralose, and acesulfame-potassium.

Also, I don't like kola-flavored or caffeinated beverages, and very often the only "diet" option is a cola.

Because of that, I either drink water or the HFCS-sweetened beverages when I'm out. Some restaurants get snotty when you order water. That's probably because fountain drinks are a huge profit center, and corporate accounting leans on managers, who in turn lean on line employees, whenever the break-even or loss-leading entrees outnumber fountain-drink cups by too wide a margin.
This is really awesome/useful, thanks for making this quick tip post. Currently for this, you need Chrome Canary [1], but I wonder what the timeline is for getting this into the regular Chrome build!

[1] https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/canary.html
"Marketing photos released by Facebook's CEO" is a much more accurate headline, this is clickbait.
Yeah, but the way you're getting the calories matters. There's nothing similar about metabolizing 4000 calories worth of raw meat vs. metabolizing an enormous milkshake.
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Hate to say it but this is part of the problem. There's nothing sustainable about these manufacturer/government sponsored lease deals. California is the biggest offender with the largest incentives and unreal regulations. A car is a long term consumer good, the energy that goes into building one outweighs the 2-3 year leases these cars are offered at loss prices. What happens when these leases are up? Most owners will walk, because why pay big bucks to buy out the car if you can get into another one for $50/month. These cars will end up being bought back en masse by the manufacturers and it's a big question what will happen then. Very likely to be scraped and, again, lots of energy wasted. All thanks to Californias EV credit system.

Edit: lol downvote all you want, the reality won't change. If you understand the economics of these leases (see my other comment) you'll see it too...
It's really unfortunate too, because NXP nuked quite a bit of the NDA free support for the i.MX6 after they acquired Freescale. There's now tons of dead links, and they even removed stuff like a bunch of the SD Card images for their Sabre boards. When we asked where that stuff went we were directed to some crappy Indian outsourcing firm that kept it behind a $19,000 pay wall. I'm really happy that one of our more seasoned engineers essentially locally mirrors everything he can download when he starts a new design just for this circumstance.
Nomad will run your apps in containers without docker: https://www.nomadproject.io/docs/drivers/exec.html

The Java driver does slightly less containerization, but there's also a QEMU/KVM driver if you need more isolation than containers offer.

Edit: Noticed someone mentioned LXC: initial LXC support will hopefully make it into the upcoming 0.5 release: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/pull/1699

(Sorry for the shill, I recently joined the Nomad team and am pretty excited!)
I think it is bad journalism, intended to boggle not enlighten.

The paper mentioned is http://arxiv.org/pdf/0912.0008, and does not itself make mention of black holes.

Presumably the "higher-dimensional" aspect is coming from Hartnoll and Hofman's "large number of degrees of freedom" analysis.

I don't know anything about this area to guess whether there is really a black hole analogy.

But I am confident it isn't a useful analogy to make anything more clear!
Not really. The third slide is titled "A Ghost Data Center" because so few people are needed to run it.
Related: A man with HIV and cancer was cured of HIV infection when he received a bone-marrow transplant from a donor who was HIV-immune: http://www.fredhutch.org/en/news/center-news/2015/02/timothy...

This was in 2007.
Sure, though I have to confess to trending more toward IT than anth, and being limited in exposure to my sub-discipline (cultural anthropology).

Immediately after my time with Coinbase, I started working at Duke University. My team provided web application development and protected data management to social science researchers, and worked with the Department of Public Instruction on certain projects.

Without question, data management is the thing. Field data is almost entirely electronic (collected through the web, SMS, or downloaded off of tablets (mobile engagement is also big)), or will eventually be made electronic. This benefits later analysis in something like R, Stata or Julia, but introduces a host of concerns relating to secure storage, access, egress and ingress. Large data sets are also sometimes shared between institutions and typically come with stringent use requirements (up to and including air gapping).

It's very new territory for many in the social sciences, and they rely on IT to provide them with solutions and answer their questions. Interestingly, the medical field have already covered a great deal of this ground, so their work can often be used as a template for - or at least a vision of - the future of best practice in the social sciences.
How low level are we talking about? I'm tempted to learn Love, especially after having fun with LUA with Pico-8, but I also don't like spending a ton of time on low level things for hobby programming.

It doesn't seem too low level just by looking at its home page.
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From experience in the Seattle area, if you are in the USA you can get yourself passes for state and/or federal parks. In Washington state for example with a Discover Pass ($30 annual fee) you can park overnight for I believe up to two weeks. Not sure about the federal parks. Much cheaper than motels and no harassment from law enforcement. You're just camping! Move around as needed.

Edit: pass fee.
> for only $60/month after rebates

How is that possible? Even if you got a 72-month loan that would only be $4,320 with the MSRP being 'From $25,120'.
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So, by most research [1-4], you need unlikely more than 1.8g/kg of body mass. Slightly more if you're _cutting_ weight, and less the more well trained you are. Let's count high (2g/kg) for the sake of argument. I have no idea how big you are, but let's say you weigh 90kg. That's 180g of protein a day.

That's 667g of chicken a day, or less if you combine it with yoghurt, eggs, beans, protein powder, etc.
That's ~1050kcal if going just chicken.

That's all the protein you need. If you're gaining, I'm assuming you're aiming for 2500kcal and up. 3000? 4000?

Eating any more protein than that is a waste at best, and kidney stones at worst. Just eat whatever you want on top of getting your protein quota. Carbs aren't great, but some won't hurt you. And you should really go for more fat, and that's very calorie dense.

And just to reiterate: I'm counting very high on protein, it's unlikely you'll use more than 150g a day, if that. And that will significantly decrease the amount of kcal you'll get in the pursuit of protein. Go nuts with the rest.

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22150425

[2]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19927027

[3]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24472635

[4]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22935440
One issue could be that you need somewhere to charge it. A lot of properties (particularly in the UK) don't have off-street parking and you need to park on the road. So even if you own the building you can't install a useful charging point.

However, there's a Tesla Model S and a couple of Nissan Leaf EVs parked on a road near me and they must be getting charged somewhere. Perhaps at work?
A quad Titan X is still $4k for the GPUs alone, and was only possible in the past few months - people might have wanted to get stuff done in the years in between the last generation and the current generation...
Pay for what? I'm going to get in a robot car that was designed, programmed, built and maintained by other robots. It will take me to the airport on roads that are built and maintained by robots. I'll get on a robotic plane that was also developed by other machines and fly to Scotland. I get off the plane and stop in a cafe that was built and run by machines to eat food that was grown, harvested, and distributed by machines.
Different strokes for different folks but 'flow busting' is exactly the point of lunch breaks, to get you away from your screen and desk for a while.

There's no virtue in overworking.
We were thinking along similar lines. Except I just had an amusing observation about how I'm seeing some people telling me the Arctic might melt due to technological activity and another where critical datacenters are being built in the Arctic. One better hope the other isn't right. ;)
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> If someone has physical access to your computer with secure documents present, it’s game over!

Err, why? Is AES encryption not sufficient? And the key is secure in my head - not something someone could steal.

So, why is this even a thing?
Would you be willing to re-run that with SQL Server 2016? A Dev license is free, and there's been a lot of relational engine optimization since 2012. I'd be curious to see what the latest release can do compared to Postgres' latest.

I realize I'm asking a stranger on the internet to do something for free for me. If you don't have time or inclination to do this, no worries, but it seems like you've got a nice setup to be able to play with this. I'm sure I'm not the only one curious to see such a comparison.
Do you live in a van by choice or because you cannot afford other housing?
I thought Scots were supposed to drink Irn Bru or whisky with everything.
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