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> Regarding your second point, at this point that's not really debatable. SCOTUS has consistently ruled that admin agencies are constitutional within the legislative intent of Congress.

There is a difference between what the courts have ruled and what the constitution actually says. The significance of the difference being that when the courts have it wrong, you can sometimes convince them to change their minds. Or at some point different justices are appointed with different opinions. Roe v. Wade is long-established precedent but that doesn't mean it hasn't been a major consideration when appointing justices to the Supreme Court.

And there is a completely reasonable way to have "administrative agencies" without making them part of the executive -- you make them part of the legislature, in the nature of the CBO. The difference being that after they propose new rules, Congress would vote to approve them or not. Which in most cases could be a rubber stamp but it would give Congress the opportunity to say no when it matters, and get the executive branch entirely out of the rulemaking business.
Agreed. The value of AWS is not in the cost of the instances it is the services and customer service which go along with it. Its all of the easy manages services that add up. Its the combination of RDS, SQS, and all of the other features that add up. Sure each EC2 instance may be more expensive, but there are huge savings in time (which is more valuable) elsewhere.
I'm still having a hard time not stopping at the intersection by my old high school and they removed the stop sign there 3 years ago!
Ah yes that's what I was wondering. So Custom Elements are actually part of the Web Components standard, and it looks like it was already implemented in Chrome and Opera, works with a flag under Firefox and so now it has landed in Webkit / Safari, right? Besides Edge, and safari's support for HTML imports, it looks like Web Components implementation is slowly getting there. What about uses? Are there any popular webcomponents out there yet?
Web apps on VPS sounds like something fit for micro or tiny instances, in which case a month pre-commitment might actually be cheaper if you look at OVH's Kimsufi programme: https://www.kimsufi.com/en/vps-ssd.xml. These are cheap, but in my experience reliable (after multiple suboptimal experiences with DO) KVMs.

While KS is probably more important for EU customers, the KS-VPS line has three regions to choose from: Gravelines (Northern France), Strasbourg (Eastern France) or Beauharnois (North-America). You can also DIY your own cloud with https://www.ovh.ie/vps/vps-cloud.xml, though I've never tested this.

Personal point: I may be very old-fashioned, but after using GCE and AWS for various tasks, I still prefer the transparency of pre-committed billing. E.g., I don't know if this changed by now, but I ran into dozens of inexplicable administration errors with GCE, to the point where I couldn't manage my own projects anymore. Plus, after creating billing details, I couldn't detach my credit card from the platform. The only way around that was to disable all projects, but that still left me with an uneasy feeling.

I don't have automatic billing setup for KS/OHV. I get billing reminders 30/15/7 days before each cycle and authorize each payment.
Let me quote paper:

«Although the idea of a pilot wave or realist interpretation of quantum mechanics is not the dominant view of physics today (which favors the Copenhagen interpretation), it has seen a strong resurgence of interest over the last decade based on some experimental work pioneered by Couder and Fort [13]. Couder and Fort discovered that bouncing a millimeter-sized droplet on a vibrating shallow fluid bath at just the right resonance frequency created a scenario where the bouncing droplet created a wave pattern on the shallow bath that also seemed to guide the droplet along its way. To Couder and Fort, this seemed very similar to the pilot-wave concept just discussed and, in subsequent testing by Couder and others, this macroscopic classical system was able to exhibit characteristics thought to be restricted to the quantum realm. To date, this hydrodynamic pilot-wave analog system has been able to duplicate the double slit experiment findings, tunneling, quantized orbits, and numerous other quantum phenomena. Bush put together two thorough review papers chronicling the experimental work being done in this domain by numerous universities [14,15].»

So it makes sense in paper, but does not makes sense at HN?
Isn't it true that those require a 1-yr or 3-yr commitment? You can't move a reserved instance to another region. IIRC, its tied both to a region and AZ.

OTOH, spot instances can be cheaper but then you should be prepared for those to vanish anytime.
Did you read those opposing phd opinions yet?
You made no mistakes - you wrote an opinion (speculation ?) in hopes of stimulating a discussion.

Unfortunately, there are too many assholes who would rather just click than talk.

I up-voted your post.
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Hall-effect thrusters throw ions at 15 to 30 Km/s, or 0.0001c.

There is one other thruster that doesn't need a tank of reaction mass: a photon rocket-- moving yourself around only using radiation pressure. Exhaust speed really is c, but generated thrust is tiny, since photons are pretty light. The resonant cavity thruster is more interesting than a photon rocket, since its thrust is much higher.
In July, Anvato joined Google. They're using Google Cloud to power video processing solutions for customers like NBCUniversal and Univision.

http://www.anvato.com/anvato-joins-google/
> I do love wearing a uniform of my choice

Every uniform is someone's choice. If it's my own, I love it. If it's someone else's then it's a hit or miss -- I will either love it or hate it.

Rigid rules are a bane or a blessing depending on which side of the table you are on.
I'm not advocating for it, I'm saying that it is likely to come about, even in the face of extraordinarily violent resistance by the few that end up with the wealth.
I would like to hear what platform bits of AWS that you find lacking in Google Cloud. Google's ecosystem of fully managed services is very rich broad and compelling, and in many ways far ahead of competition.

(work on Google Cloud but don't get paid to post here)
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I think this is the first Skylake/AVX-512 in the cloud. Access to AVX-512 is very exciting.
Indeed you're correct, that sure worked wonders for President-Elect Hillary! (http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/...)

As for the "boot", I'll just note that in the US at least, it's us on the Right who own the guns. Good luck trying that; any particular reason the anti-Trump election rioters seem to be limiting themselves to Blue areas?
Most interesting part here:

My internal TW contacts informed me that on Thursday night, 10/6, TW CEO, Jack Dorsey, personally killed the emoji and notified his senior staff.

I asked if “There’s going to be another BS legal reason like last time” and they responded, “No, Jack just killed it, there isn’t one.” They were shocked that this was happening.

---

Straight up torpedoed by the CEO.
i.e. at best, it provides no new information at the expense of learning an entirely new framework.
well, both still loose to budget app hostings if you count only cost
Because it's not in the title nor anywhere on the page, I'll point out that this appears to be written by Stuart Russell, co-author of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/), the standard intro to AI textbook.
Is there another source for the 220Mbit/s limit for m4 class instances? I was under the impression that you could get enhanced networking with those, and double the speed when paired with placement groups.
From the fist paper: If you want to learn more university-level math and physics, I invite you
to check out my book, the No bullshit guide to math and physics

I just wanted to pop in and say this book has been excellent. These papers are brief and therefore a bit cryptic, but the book is eminently readable. https://www.amazon.com/No-bullshit-guide-math-physics/dp/099...
A virus hijacks the resources of a host cell to create copies of itself. These copies can then then move into nearby cells and hijack those too, setting off a biological chain reaction.

An antibody is just a protein molecule with no ability to create copies of itself. It might move from one cell to another, but that does create a new synthesizer of the antibody at the new location, and so does not trigger a spread of the antibody throughout the tissue or organism.
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What services are missing from GCP?
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Managed Postgres.
Starting with a large chunk of code that doesn't compile is pretty weird. I don't know why you'd ever have this naturally.
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I would like to hear what platform bits of AWS that you find lacking in Google Cloud. Google's ecosystem of fully managed services is very rich broad and compelling, and in many ways far ahead of competition.
(work on Google Cloud but don't get paid to post here)
AWS is actually a pretty high margin business (~25% operating margin is public, GM is not publicly known but good guesswork puts it ~50%). So, there's some hard data showing a lot of room for price competition.

If you'll allow me to get a bit more wibbly: I've been an engineer at both companies, and from a technical perspective, Google is much better at this stuff. In order to provide their own services, they've been operating at much larger scale for much longer than anyone else. There's a pretty long record of the new hot thing in the industry being something Google's been doing on the order of a decade. The basic deficit in experience is exacerbated by Amazon's relatively poor retention of its best talent.

Putting all of this together, it is my expectation that Google be able to build better services faster, and to operate them more efficiently. AWS started with a massive first mover advantage, but my expectation is that in the long run Google will have little difficulty closing that gap and pulling ahead, should it wish to.
Please don't quote out of context.

> "Starting with kindergarten, tell me about your life." Then probe with more questions when they talk about pivots in their lives... Look for the patterns over the course of your people's lives that give you strong signal and just write them down.

The goal is to look for the things that motivate people to change their behavior, not how they mythologize their origin.
It's all a statistics game. If you can vaccinate against 99% of current strains, you can severely stunt the spread of the virus with its current strain distribution. Combine this with adequate awareness about general prevention methods (safe sex practices) and you have a shot at severely reducing the incidence of the virus so that its numbers are small enough to control. New HIV infections are actually on the decline worldwide thanks to community awareness and ART meds that decrease the chances of spread.

We've been able to eradicate or nearly eradicate several viruses from the planet. It starts with getting them down to manageable numbers, then addressing every outbreak. (Granted, HIV is not quite an analagous in terms of spread to viruses like smallpox.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eradication_of_infectious_dise...
I wouldn't introduce someone to Satoshi Kon with Paprika. In my opinion it is much better to watch Kon's movies in their chronological release order. Perfect Blue is much more accessible and less surrealist than Paprika which may confuse someone and cause them to dismiss Kon's whole cinematography as a whole.
Hit me up offline - this is one gap Google's had, I admit. On the other hand, you've always been able to run managed postgres through a partner.

Let me know if there are any others that you feel strongly about?
the design possibilities and field day designers will have when steering wheel and forward-facing seats aren't retrictions will be amazing
I agree that seems likely, and I agree it's not the President's place to determine constitutionality, I've just been noticing a lot of people stating that Trump is planning to throw out all of Obama's executive orders, and that isn't necessarily what he specifically said.
Yes, and also "Manufacturing Consent"

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

The corporate media will do everything they can to maintain the status quo including attacking the alternative media as 'fake news'.
I wouldn't put it past the Congress to blow that requirement out of the water.
I can confirm that first hand; We're just moving our whole stack from AWS to GC and right now we're running everything in parallel with roughly the same amount of resources. AWS monthly bill: ~$1000, GC monthly bill: ~$600
The main part is that math notation was optimized for (and by) people writing: On paper, without the aid of computers.
Cool. I'm going to go with NASA, MIT, Wired[0], and the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory History of Apollo On-Board Guidance, Navigation, and Control[1] as my sources of information on this one.

[0] https://www.wired.com/2015/10/margaret-hamilton-nasa-apollo/

[1] http://klabs.org/history/history_docs/mit_docs/1711.pdf
ConEmu is endlessly modifiable. You can inject dll hooks into it if you so wish even.
The only compromise I see with open source Android is the proprietary firmware blobs. With the exception of http://www.replicant.us/, this is true for most open source mobile operating systems. Cyanogenmod adds in closed source analytics but those parts can be removed with https://github.com/nvllsvm/freecyngn

While I cannot attest to daydream, I have happily been building a custom version of Android from source for years without Google Apps or other closed source applications. Everything I need is either part of Android, on Fdroid.org or Github.
Being able to tell who grabbed the data and when is nice, but what's to stop someone who is willing to grab the data and run/leak?
DO is more comparable to AWS than GoDaddy.

Essentially a VPS provider is someone who rents you a server instance on a much larger server running other instances of other people's servers. You are in complete control of your server instance. You have to manage all the application installations, firewalls, security, etc.

A GoDaddy or Bluehost is someone who gives you folder space on a server. They have the web server, database, and any other application all setup for you already. Typically those types of providers only allow you to serve static content, or certain scripting languages (mostly PHP).

It depends what stack you wrote your web apps with for which provider you should go with. With a VPS, Linode is going to be cheaper than Digital Ocean, which in turn is cheaper than AWS when you compare specs to specs. If you're app is a simple PHP app that talks to a database, you could probably host it way cheaper on GoDaddy or Bluehost. You just wouldn't have very much control over all the different versions of the DB/PHP, etc. that you might want.
Yeah, comment your code! Comment your maths, too!
Corporate media was pushing one candidate heavily, it didn't get elected, now they are pushing story that people somehow read fake news, on Facebook! :), implying that people are not good or smart enough (unlike them). That condescending attitude got us where we are.

Problems are not as simple. There is not nearly enough good reporting, analysis. War is promoted heavily. TechNews are last few years plagued by what I call 'sponsorship reporting'. Apple always get glowing reviews no matter what. What I believe is most troubling, is that even people who participate in this started to believe in this news.

Anyhow, good news is that we are talking about it and push for change is present. We need a lot more respect for other people views before anything can happen. This is most lacking now.
Old tuning frequencies varied: The actual frequencies of the notes weren't standardized for centuries.
Seems like a deficiency with computers, not humans or math. Fix it.
I can't speak for anybody else who downvoted you, but I did it because your post comes across as being quite condescending. Take this pattern, for example:

> You know that X. Right?

> Y. Right?

> Z. Right?

The "You know that" part makes your argument unnecessarily personal, when your comment could just as easily be stated without any reference to the person behind the comment you were responding to.

The "Right?" ending each line is also very patronizing. This sounds like how an adult might talk to a child, walking them through a line of reasoning.

Maybe you did not intend to sound condescending, but you did, and this is no place for that.

(Also, your post is worded as if the pilot wave theory is a fact, when it is actually not even particularly widely accepted. It is one of many interesting views of QM, but certainly not the only one.)
I agree about real-time. I get that it would be more boring but I find it hard to judge how the performance differs from a typical human driver in the sped-up version.
when did snopes turn into some kind of political fact-checking website?

At least since they hired this self-admitted biased person to do political "fact checking": http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/17/fact-checking-snopes-websi... although she isn't the credited author of the item the Daily Caller calls out.
well done, but the painted backgrounds of ghibli's work is a huge part if its charm... the 3d cgi robs it off that
One of the things I've heard (from googlers) is that by using KVM as the underlying hypervisor, they do live migration much better than Amazon. Using that, they can live migrate applications to the same servers and bin-pack much better. This allows them to squeeze more jobs onto the same hardware by leveraging their already dominant lead in machine learning to predict workloads.

Basically, they can do a better job than Amazon predicting current and future workloads. As a result, they can more efficiently place workloads and literally do more with equal or less hardware. That and the fact that they have been building their own hardware better means their hardware is also very likely more advanced. Those together mean they can do the same thing for cheaper and still turn a profit.

Amazon optimizes for doing something first and doing the most. Google optimizes for doing things smarter and as a result often does them cheaper. However, it also means that Google provides massively fewer services than Amazon.
> When will AI systems become more intelligent than people?

Human intelligence is a sort of 'field awareness' as described by Alan Watts. Think more waveforms than digital bits. I think strong AI will happen when the intelligence is given enough free will. We might one day have to throw out the rulebook regarding AI harming us.

I think we lack a real metaphysics yet for what Strong AI is allowed to do. Aleister Crowley's[1] 'do what thou wilt' is the only well thought out metaphysics for free will we have now, and something we could teach the machines.

Putting them in sandboxes is a nonsense as it has been demonstrated even in modern computing that breaking out of sandboxes can be done. Even the most hardened air gapped VMs can be bridged to the public Internet, more often than not, by accident.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleister_Crowley#Beliefs_and_t...
i wonder if blender is the gimp equivalent in the 3d world.. gimp is just horrible.
Uh, most newsworthy topics cannot be articulated in a 10 bullet listicle or 30 second teaser video. Plenty of intelligent people have no problem reading longform journalism, so yes, at least one component of this is in fact "people are stupid." Or they're at least too lazy to confront the complexity of the world.
I suppose this might be able to explain why I've seen a lot of younger computer users seem to have no problems at all reading webpages full of flashing, moving ads or just animated GIFs in general, that I would have to physically block out in order to even focus on the text. However I've also noticed that a lot of these users are not as attentive to the details of the text they're reading, skipping entire words and even sentences. Maybe they are being distracted, but don't notice that they are.
I think the article misses a big part of the experience of switching platforms that goes beyond what GUI applications are there by default.
Rolling a dice in Google has same results anywhere
> In any future imaginable the web, or a successor is going to continue to be the biggest part of our lives

Reality check: the Internet economy (all of it, not just the web) contributes ~5% to US GDP [1].

https://www.statista.com/statistics/250703/forecast-of-inter...

I would also not be so quick to dismiss especially China's web companies. It's a different world on the other side of the Great Firewall.
You're back to the case of having one static page and then having your javascript enhance things as you go. You'll be stuck replacing elements with your JS. I still think it's a great way to think about how we render on things like mobile. Ever get those slow-loading pages where the elements jump all over the place? Or half-way through reading an article the pop-up add finally renders? We need to build those into the baseline.

Fortunately, we can reliably depend on javascript now. What we cannot rely on is internet/processing speed.

I've always found progressive enhancement to work best as an additive process. You want to define the functionality of your page and then add enhancements and verify that the base functionality still holds. If you start from the most complex behavior it is a lot harder to reason about how removing functionality might hurt the page.
A bit off-topic, but

- AWS has a 12 months free tier [1]

- Google Cloud has a 2 months free trial [2]

That will make a huge difference when I'll have to choose.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/free

[2] https://cloud.google.com/free-trial
My dad worked for the Falklands Islands Dependency Survey between 1958 and 1961, setting up the ionsopheric station at Halley Bay. He then returned to work for the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Antarctic Division (New Zealand) between 1962 and 1965, as scientific leader at Scott Base. He had seemingly endless fascinating stories and fantastic photos from his time there. My sister has created a blog with some of these at https://elw0168.wordpress.com .
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For me the two big things missing from Google Cloud are a PostgreSQL service and a Redis service. I'd also need an alternative to CodeDeploy, but I think I could something that wouldn't be too terrible to self-host.

> in many ways far ahead of competition

Yep. In my experience, when Google Cloud does something, they do it right.
What's your path to getting back into math after 20 years?
NASA's peer-reviewed EM Drive paper has been published
It is the duty of every branch of the US Government to follow the constitution, so they are all required to determine constitutionality. Most, if not all US Presidents have made statements on the constitutionality of bills brought before them to be signed, and they have often refused to enforce laws they believe are unconstitutional.
http://www.abc.net.au/site-archive/rural/reporter/stories/s3...

Another great example of Aussie ingenuity! One farmer's way of dealing with the 2010 locust plague.
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