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Well, I was kind of joking. People who call it "regulatory capture" of course understand the concept. To most people it's counterintuitive and barely grasped.
After re-reading I think I see that point, but I still don't understand the overall comment...

Is the author saying his standard language is C++? Everything I know about Midori said that it was competitive with C++ on performance in almost every way. Regarding error handling in particular, Midori used a combination of returning values and safe exceptions, both of which seem similar to C++.

It also explicitly doesn't have the aforementioned conflation of bugs and runtime errors.
Let me guess, they paid the bargain price of $100m (+ $100m in earn-outs) for it, mostly "for the talent". Then they smoked some more pot [1].

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-executives-smoke-too-...
Agreed. Had the same aeropress for 4 years. Very easy to clean. The filters are very cheap, you'd normally expect to be gouged on these by some bean counter scumbag.
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I think tags would work very good in HN, and I've often wished for the possibility of adding "private" tags for posts, comments and users, so yes, a prefix for something as clear-cut as a job announcement self-post would be nice. I usually notice the lack of upvote arrow, though, so it wasn't one of my pet peeves, until now! :)
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Sure, but is that a right thing to outlaw ? I don't think so. We should have access to basic needs like water, food and healthcare. We can do that, it's only the greed of corporations, nations and ultimately greedy people that limits that.
Maybe it's a case of 'use it or lose it' for their acquisition budgets with the year coming to a close.
Twitter seems to be learning best practices of Yahoo. Acquiring small/insignificant products and generate buzz (laugh?) in tech media.
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I don't think so - from my perspective it's more like a misunderstanding on some people's part of what AWS is.

It's a practically unlimited scale-to-the-moon platform that allows you to provision hundreds or thousands of virtualised bits of internet infrastructure in seconds or minutes - and automate it all.

All their "light pattern" UX is laser focused on allowing you to instantly provision all the capacity you ask for.

If you expect a UX oriented to "cost minimisation" or "potential user error protection", AWS is the wrong choice of tool. You can still use it, but what seems to you to be "Bad UX" or "dark patterns" can easily be explained as "you chose the wrong tool" if you view AWS from a different angle (and I'd argue, that angle is the one all AWS's 7 digit per month customers see it from, and hence the way the AWS team builds and prioritises everything)
In what way is it clear that people want something better than DSL? The carriers lose money rolling out fiber even in urban areas, in part because they're required to make it accessible to lower-income families that don't want it.

Hell, I'm in the industry and not sure what I'd really get from something better than the DSL I have today.
faulty signalling hardware on the rogue train

http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/transport/mystery-of-c...
Sure, I know the 4th Amendment, too. What's your point? Perhaps a better question: how do you establish standing to sue over the retention of your encrypted traffic? What constitutes evidence in that situation?
Took me a second. "why would students be showing a garden to an octopus?"

Oh, and I love your username op. My brother started a comic with that same title, never did finish it
I'm not convinced "out of touch with reality" is a personal attack
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Yeah, I always thought Dallas metro (including Ft. Worth) was bigger than Houston metro.
I'm curious if this is in spite of you being on board that "sure, server farms do more than enough computation for parity with the human brain" or whether you don't consider neural nets in relation to human neural nets (biological brains)?

If you do consider and admit that computationally there seems to be enough horsepower there, where does your skepticism come from that anybody would figure it out?

Alternatively, did you happen to completely ignore the argument about how much computation the human brain does? (Which isn't that much compared with server farms). I mean on a neural level, using the same neural network topology or an approximation of it, actual neural networks.

I guess I'm perplexed at your skepticism.
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It's deserved, he painted a broad segment of working class folk as welfare queens. Why bother with that computer shit when there is a next to zero chance of it ever being useful? God help you if you want to progress into a field where the knowledge is locked away in the ivory tower or behind expensive texts/journal memberships.

Quite frankly it's disgusting and repulsive. Community rules be damned.
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Totally agree that it is indeed "our loss". No argument there.

I don't want to appear a kook, so I won't relitigate what I said in another reply. But essentially we do want to give back. We just aren't always able to give back everything (at least not right now).

AGPL, like GPL, is all or nothing in that way. I don't get the option of giving back something, then giving back more later (OSS is threatening to some people - I have frequent discussion at work re why we give anything at all back).

Your software, your rules. You have every right to take this all or nothing position! More power to you.

But assuming that anyone that doesn't like AGPL does so because they "want to use someone else's work while hoarding [their] own" is, respectfully, a simplistic and stereotyped point of view.
Any type of wiki engine? There are plenty, DokuWiki, MediaWiki, MoinMoin,
TWiki, ikiwiki, Trac has one integrated... There is a whole page on Wikipedia
that lists only wiki engines.
As an addendum to the two maps here showing freight tonnage by rail and water route, the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics has a nice one that overlays rail/water/truck tonnage on one map: http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/pub...
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13082318 and marked it off-topic.
http://langsec.org/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2300836

https://arxiv.org/abs/1010.5023 Yacc is dead, Matthew Might, David Darais
it really depresses me that we can't do similar things in the tournament scrabble community :( there's no shortage of programmers and open-source enthusiasts; it's just the spectre of being sued by hasbro that kills everything.
Steve Jobs might disagree :)
Yes, that helps a ton! So it's simply combining extensible effects with state transitions to help you be more specific about the legal ways to sequence effectful operations.

The proliferation of type params looks intimidating from a user perspective though - is there some way to make it easier on folks? Would it look nicer in a language with row polymorphism perhaps?
Why haven't they just hired him? It's not like this company's products is worth anything as they are shutting everything down. It's shameless acquihire.
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Yes, the differences (and lack of, really) "summering culture" is something I acknowledged in the first sentence of my earlier comment.
I remember I had asked you forever ago about what issues you had, so I looked it up and you responded! One thing I don't understand from your response is

Amazon also funnels you into using a single container type per EC2 instance. It's not impossible to use a single EC2 instance for multiple containers, but if you desire to run multiple instances of one specific kind of container on one node, ECS doesn't make the implementation easy for you at all.

Was this related to ELBs and host ports? ELB really isn't a great fit for containers because you attach them to the instance on specific ports, which stops you from running multiple copies of a task on a single instance and also requires a lot of port janitoring between different tasks. ALBs attach via instance:port pairs, so they can actually work as a "container load balancer".
It might be rare. If it lasted say 100 years, a supernova could make some, but it wouldn't last long, making it quite rare. (Depending on how you define "rare", is rare a relative measure compared to other elements, or an absolute total quantity?)

> the conditions in our accelerators are singular in the universe.

Most likely they are. A supernova is a random event, an accelerator is directed. It's quite possible we could make lots of something in an accelerator that would never happen in the random conditions of a supernova (for example if some other more common effect consumed the raw material needed for the rare thing to happen).
I went to one of the first IPv6 sessions at re:Invent this morning. The room was for maybe, 300-400 people? There were 40 or so people in it. So, yes, the interest is low.

That said, I think it's a great signal to the industry, and I'm excited to try to use IPv6!
8 IPs per instance, max :/
The strawberry is perhaps the best evidence that the physical layout of sugars matters tremendously. A fresh strawberry tastes incredibly sweet. But blend up a pound of those strawberries and it tastes wretched without added sugar. Since the strawberry has most of its sweetness on the outside, it tastes fine when you're biting into it directly but the blending exposes more of the tart inside.
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Uh, what brands are you looking at? In addition to my sibling who addressed jerky, I generally buy Arnold's/Orowheat bread and it has no corn syrup whatsoever.
I thought of it at first, but I think silicium beats it as it's most of Earth's crust.
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I am not saying it is right (it isn't) but this is what the FBI does: they try to intimidate bad people and innocent people alike, skirting the edge of the law or outright violating it.
I'm not so sure that is the issue. Currently you delegate ownership of the toolchain to the EDA vendor. Sure you have tools installed locally on your machines, but the tools typically have licenses that expire, so there's never a guarantee you can build it later with the exact same toolchain. Also EDA vendors end-of-life tools at some point, so even if you pay, that tool won't exist for ever, and the license will not be renewable.

I do think the issue with cloud is the concern over IP. There are not a lot of EDA vendors, so the chances that your competitor is also using that same EDA vendor is pretty high. I think companies are pretty wary of using a cloud hosted service where you could literally be running simulations on the same machines as your competitors. Can you imagine some cloud/hosting snafu resulting in your codebase being accessible by your competitors?

EDA companies also sell ASIC/FPGA IP, and VIP (verification IP), so there's also a pretty clear conflict of interest if they have access to your IP. So, if you're really paranoid, imagine the EDA vendors themselves picking through your IP and repackaging/reselling it as IP to other customers (encrypted of course so you can't readily identify the source code)?
The capitalist system trusts that even after individual capitalists gain a comfortable level of wealth, greed will ensure that they will strive for more wealth and continue to invest their capital in a self-interested way to produce more wealth. Greed for better living standards will motivate people receiving basic income too.

If greed is not motivating, then should we not tax the wealthy until they too are in "jeopardy of failure" otherwise capitalism is very far from efficiently deploying the resources of the world.
This honestly doesn't surprise me. Adding an infinite number of IPs is one way bot writers get around rate limits. I've done it before when I worked for a company that made a facebook/myspace/etc crawler.
This is actually a TIL for me, I've always just use pl/pgsql for sprocs as I've never had a need for anything beyond what it provides - I didn't realize the 'u' in python was for 'untrusted'.
The biggest advantage I see (which is heavily coloured by the use cases I faced at Heroku on the Add-ons team) is being able to peer many VPCs without gymnastics to avoid IP range clashes and routing issues. I haven't looked at AWS' IVv6 announcement in enough detail to know if it addresses this head on, but I always looked forward to IPv6 as an avenue to making that kind of work much more straight forward.
I wish there was some drop dead easy way for this. Like you just hand these items to the postman or the like. Dead batteries, outdated electronics, broken electronics, etc.
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This so much! Cloudfront/lambda/s3 combo is missing this piece for which you have to use unnecessarily complex api gateway or ec2 varnish/nginx setup. Thanks Jeff!
What a beautiful hack by nature. I wonder if you could create a lens with a similarly shaped pupil/iris and see the chromatic aberration in a black and white camera correctly focused on the output. Would make for a fun weekend project :)
What is a "shameless acquihire"?
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I'm not sure a ban on irrationality is exactly what you want. Even psychosis can be a very creative and valuable moment of insight or growth, and people inclined to (admittedly unreliable) irrational thought need to be supported by others rather than shunned. See also this recent article: http://arstechnica.co.uk/science/2016/11/election-ourage-mor...

Also, HN in particular can have a kneejerk objectivist flavour that discourages intuitive, unconventional discussion. Dismissing people who seem irrational is not a good way to encourage healthy cognitive diversity, and we could do with less of it.
Technical or non technical?

For technical I'd say markdown files in a git repo. I'm yet to find a non-aggravating non-technical one, confluence is about the best I've tried.
Well in that note React sucks too... Yeah I said it. Lots of dependencies, complicated bootstrap process, too many abstract concepts, and if youre using redux which is necessary if youre planning to build anything serious, you need to edit like 10 files just to add a new feature.
Well, there's also drugs, but most people are skittish about bringing that up in a high school setting.
This is actually one of the most fascinating aspects of modern society to me. I can't resist opportunities to tour local infrastructure.

I think it's NYT who a few years ago had a series of articles about the work of maintaining the underground aqueducts that bring water to NYC, and in building a new one. [1] It was to me a more engrossing read than any OS deep-dive article, despite the latter being more in-line with my passion and work.

It's also why I loved the fantasy book "Two Serpents Rise" [2] by Max Gladstone, because it's basically about the water infrastructure of Los Angeles. Which has a fascinating real-world history of its own! [3]

[1] can't find NYT, but here's a related article: http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/19/4853636/underground-with-...

[2] http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16059411-two-serpents-ris...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Water_Wars
What you're describing may be illegal.

A company cannot juice top line revenue with the full meal values like this as they report revenue to sell to investors and get ready to IPO. The revenue reported would need to be clearly a transaction revenue they get from facilitating the service between restaurants and hungry people.

troydavis' comment is correct. The full order values or GMV and Uber's separate cut of it (net revenue or transaction revenue) are both important numbers and both should be reported. But the total order value should not reported as a revenue.

A few years ago Groupon got in trouble for fishy accounting and had to restate earnings. http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/09/23/groupon-changes-its-r...

Also, for anyone looking for a more professional writeup about Uber's valuation, while he famously got it wrong at first I still think Professor Damodaran is the best one writing about it. http://aswathdamodaran.blogspot.in/2016/08/the-ride-sharing-...
That's not the regulator's problem, though. That's Uber's problem to figure out, without acting in an anticompetitive manner.
If you're looking at things solely from a distributed systems perspective, sure. But I work on graphics. It'd be irresponsible for me not to embrace shared memory, where it's so essential for performance it's practically impossible to contemplate not having it. (Imagine if you couldn't have multiple fragments read from the same texture!)

We should use all the hardware resources available to us. If our programming models don't allow us to do that, then we should replace them with models that do.
> what actually are these new elements?

They are as different from other elements as gold is different from carbon. Each is unique and unlike any other element, with unknown properties (they don't last long enough to study, although some guesses can be made).

We are hoping there is a "magic" number, that if we reach can make elements that actually last long enough to study (because certain numbers of particles are extra stable because they "fit" together very nicely - like how you can fit 6 coins around another coin much nicer than 7). That's called the Island of Stability if you want to look it up.

These elements are on the path to that, so it's important to study them. As of right now we don't know how to make anything heavier.
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3) Limiting the visibility of posts based on post quality. The more you post in a week and the lower your per-post average karma, the less an upvote counts. Effective Upvote Value = (per-post average karma) / (posts this week)

You probably weren't around for it, but HN experimented with something like this where each commenter's running average point tally for the last X posts or Y time was visible on their profile and indirectly visible on each of their comments. Their name (comment?) would appear in a different (darker?) shade the higher their running average.

I personally liked it, but it was rolled back after a couple of months. I think people became afraid to make replies that wouldn't accumulate up votes, and I know I wouldn't reply to threads if someone commented a day later because "it wasn't worth it."
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But if the peering limit is still 50 vpcs - I guess it might help if/when inter-region peering ships
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Which makes then ridiculously expensive.