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Rumpel is the private dashboard for users’ HAT data, allowing HAT personal data store customers view and manage their personal information, whilst providing a valuable case study for the viability of the HAT's privacy-preserving data infrastructure.

The HAT is a personal data ecosystem sitting on top of technology that stores individuals' personally-identifiable information in private data containers, to which only they have access. HATs provide individuals with increased control and unique data services, and businesses limit their liability to cyber attack while improving their access to contextual information.

Inside the ecosystem HATs can be used to sign into any app or device, and all of the information that's stored in them can be made accessible to the connected device in a secure fashion. HAT infrastructure modularises the user’s account away from their services, so that access can be granted to both while the whole system behaves normally. Upon modularisation, a global standard of exchanges can emerge between these personal data stores and the Internet applications that use them. The HAT is a creator and a champion of these standards. It has tasked itself with rebuilding the Internet's trust for exchanging personal data online, upon which “the foundation of the data economy must be built.”

HAT applications are built on top of a massive platform capability, but are still perfectly normal, as Rumpel 2.0 shows. This release of the product signs on, pulls, and pushes data normally, while behind the scenes the data for the application is coming from private and secure HAT data containers, not the Rumpel service. It is a demonstration of how an application can function and behave in exactly the same way any other app would, but with a completely privacy-preserving backend.
Pretty much this and two of the three languages I use regularly have the ability to call into a language that does use them so if I ran into a case where I needed more speed (and throwing hardware at it wasn't the cheapest approach which it often is) I could use something like C for that.

I'd be rusty as hell though, I haven't written any C or assembly since ~1999.
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The theory is that also other programs will be affected, with a similar slowdown.
A simple starting point for contemplating any art is to ask yourself the questions:

What is the artist trying to say?

Have they said it well?

Was it worth saying?

These are of course highly subjective. Your answers may be very different from those of others and even from the artist themselves. And that's fine.

These questions can also springboard your curiosity if you allow it. What was the artist trying to say? How can I tell? What can I read to help understand the context within which the artist was working? This can be a lovely, deep, rich contemplation if you choose. You can set your own pace, and decide when you have had your fill.
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It's so hard to imagine high traffic application with api serving information to clients from array that is refreshed once in 10 minutes? So basically most of the time you touch only this array on every request which is like sending hello world example. In this situation it will be noticeable if you have a lot of traffic but then you would not use stdlib http library but something like fasthttp which doesn't change that there are other real world use cases that would be affected, not a lot of them but they exist.
Seems like we now have the worst of both worlds now. A ruthless drone program, botched operations, and unnecessarily misguided bans.
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> too many people would be affected by such regression.

Yes, too many people do stupid "hello world" tests indeed.

Maybe this is a problem with running "hello world" tests and not that much of a real-world problem. Let's see.
Is there not an ombudsman you can take this to for them to fight these claims for you?

I know in the UK I would have spoken to OFCOM or CISAS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ombudsman
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That could be an idea for a service. Provide an instance type with stable execution environment for benchmarking. Just stable, and not necessarily performant.
I get the feeling that they are going to work on it come hell or high water until it lives up to their intentions. So while it might read like satire today, it probably won't in the future. But yeah, I don't have a non-costly use for it today despite reading the docs...
That is outrageous. I am happy that I left the US and that my son has access to universal healthcare in Europe. I am happy to pay 50% of my income to taxes if it guarantees that I won't have to suffer a situation like you did (and that my kids can enjoy affordable higher education).

What do Americans think of the typical European system? (Paying more taxes and receiving almost free healthcare & education)
$30 per hour for a teller? You live in California?
I appreciate the list of issues affecting home screen web apps on iOS. We're looking into improving how they work. I can't promise any specific set of improvements or timeline but we are aware of the issues you mention.
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good point, I'll update the post (although I think that most people who read my blog are .NET devs)
Some bacteria would be OK with that.
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Perhaps you're not the only ones at this restaurant to notice and discuss this same cocktail, such that Facebook has learned of a "Campari thing" from others before you?

I assume FB would have learned several friends have joined together in the same location.
"Facebook does not use your phone's microphone for ads or News Feed stories."

http://newsroom.fb.com/news/h/facebook-does-not-use-your-pho...

The phenomenon you're observing is due to various interesting human psychological quirks, such as priming effects.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priming_(psychology)
The closer you are to a release, the bigger the blocker needs to be. If there was incorrect behaviour in a mainline use case, that would be much more significant than a performance regression.

A 20% performance regression in a minimal http server (i.e. one that doesn't have any business logic) does not sound like a big problem to me; that kind of overhead would normally be dwarfed by database calls, and a 20% increase in the overhead doesn't sound like it's a large increase in what I'd expect to already be a very small number.
FWIW, I'm in the UK and this is the first I've heard of this.
I said:

> In terms of performance, I don't think Metal is even a contender, given how bad macOS hardware is compared to Wintel.

The response was:

> It makes no sense to judge the quality of an API by the power of the available hardware it might be running on.

You are right, that my statement is not very clear.

The key point here is that I'm not judging the quality of an API by the power of the available hardware, but the quality of APIs relative to how much overhead they add, and that's quite a different proposition.

Given my intimate frustration with the state of Mac hardware and GPUs, I brushed off macOS as being somewhat ancient w.r.t. modern hardware and benchmarks. You can't go out and buy a Mac with a GTX 1080 for example. In fact, even the best Mac hardware you can buy is ridiculously outclassed by PCs costing significantly less.

However, back to the specific point of interest:

The overhead of APIs can be measured if you run the same benchmark, on the same hardware, with the different API. On Windows, it's possible to compare, say, DX9, DX11, DX12, OpenGL and Vulkan within the same benchmark. It's not possible to test Metal this way.

Specifically though, Vulkan is a C based API which is essentially as fast as it gets, in terms of actual function calls and so on. In comparison, Metal uses Objective-C. If you are familiar with Objective-C, you'll know that it doesn't have the fastest message dispatch (quasi-function call).

Basically, it would be really interesting to compare them, holding all other things equal. But, doing this with off the shelf GPUs simply isn't possible AFAIK. macOS hardware is simply too far behind. You might be able to jury-rig something using an external GPU, but it's still not a good comparison. My past experience of the graphics stack in macOS tells me it's unlikely to be great.
The number of new questions tagged by mainstream language has been relatively stable (python) or decreasing (java, js, php) in 2016.

http://apps.axibase.com/chartlab/c1acecc0/3/#fullscreen

If anything, it might suggest that the knowledge base coverage is reaching a plateau. It would be interesting to watch how many questions are tagged as duplicates. The ratio is probably increasing.
It's a regression in the closing of the connection in the http server in the standard library.

If really worried about performance, the fasthttp package is much faster than the one included in go.

"In short, fasthttp server is up to 10 times faster than net/http."

https://github.com/valyala/fasthttp
You didn't read TFA. There were no online exchanges involved, the bitcoin wallet was in his computer.
Here's a theory: after your conversation with your friends, one of your friends checked out the Campari product on the web, and from there FB deduced that you might also be interested.
My banks has a special ATM where I can deposit money into my accounts or for buying EUROS|Dollars. This service is available when the bank is staffed or closed. Is it a question of trust or do you not have those types of ATM?
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The contract of the phone company was being enforced, there was nothing in that contract regarding the matter at hand.

The OP was asking that the phone companies should have more regulations in place to go beyond the contract being offered.
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When, say, 100000 people are out on the street protesting something (anything), and 5 of them throw a chair through a window, then yes, I would prefer the media to focus on the 99995 who engaged in peaceful protest. Those 5 do not just discredit themselves, but in the eyes of the people who weren't there, they discredit the entire protest. By focusing on a handful of black bloc anarchists rather than the overwhelmingly peaceful majority, the media intentionally or unintentionally aids those in power.
Obviously you can interpret the parents statement in more than one way. My interpretation was as a rather pragmatic statement that the probability that Metal is a high performance design (and implementation) is lowered by the fact that it to date only has targeted lower performance hardware, and thus there could be several undiscovered bottlenecks present. It is generally the case with any code that high performance on less powerful hardware not always imply high performance on more powerful hardware, especially when there are high levels of parallelism and multiple optimised fast paths to choose from.
What the??

8k a month is good for a huge chunk of our country.

The poverty line is in the mere tens of rupees per day when I last checked.

32 rs/day for rural india and 47 rs/day in cities.

32x30 is ~1000 rs.

Additionally, 25% or so are below the poverty line.

That's how bad it is. I think discussing welfare programs without knowing what the poverty line is resulted in misplaced goalposts.
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And here's another theory: you were already targeted by the Campari ad before, but you were not consciously aware of it. This triggered the conversation with your friends.
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'Put Rust and Go in front of a python coder who wrote dozens of web services using flask - and I am pretty sure I can predict what tool he'll pick'

It depends what part you show. For example Rust has an experimental flask/sinatra/... inspired library (https://rocket.rs/overview/), and although Go has similar things you can't cut boilerplate that much:

So in the end it may depend why someone likes python in the first place: because of the concise high level constructs or because of ease of use.
Someone tried to do this in Boston by hiring Maine residents to build the components and then shipping the components down to be put in place. The permit was rejected in part because it was taking away local jobs and in part because it would change the character of the neighborhood.
Usually, the release candidate is modified only if significant bugs are detected. But this this branded more of an implementation pitfall so I doubt it'll be fixed.

You're absolutely right about asking if it can be fixed now rather than later (I was very surprised they wanted to wait till 1.9!), and thanks for asking that on there. 1.8 would be known for this bug in case of static site hosting since there are more req/s for that use case, if this did make the official release.

It should be noted that it was tested against a hello world benchmark and it won't matter in higher payload cases when the limiting factor isn't the extra routine but the payload itself by a long shot.
But you Also don't hear of the person who didn't get to eat cooked food because he didn't have gas regularly either.
They can say what they intended to mean, and while that won't become a part of the license, a court may consider that. Especially if this would get widespread as "not tested but meant as a canon interpretation" common knowledge.

To put it in other words, clarifying won't hurt, even if it could have no real effect.

But, yeah, the real way to fix is AGPLv4. And FSF surely can do this.
>Look, I made A!

Ok, but why isn't it B?
I appreciate this comment.

We did indeed discuss this widely. No one thought that an API which only works on top of Vulkan was right, everyone in the relevant sector thinks it has to support the big three. Very few thought modeling the API closely on Vulkan was the best technical path.

I honestly don't understand why everyone here is so obsessed with Vulkan. Cloning it on the web won't make it more successful in the market. Building a Web API that is able to work on top of it (without mandating it) will likely help Vulkan in the end.
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> "brought to justice" in India.

Good luck with that.
> You get to a certain point in your experience where you have fewer questions to ask, and most of the questions I do have are already answered.

That assertion is correct if you are at the cusp of retirement.

For most people, they'll need to re-tool by picking new technologies during their careers to round out their experience. The blunt truth is that, not keeping up with new languages/frameworks/stacks etc will mean that such folks will become very unemployable long before they reach 50 [0] unless they transition into a management role.

[0] http://liveblog.co/users/davewiner/2015/05/06/iWouldHaveHire...
> our installation is straightforward

Speaking from an enterprise point of view, that makes all the difference. A lot of companies will have mishmashes of different systems with one-off setups that are not worth the effort of automating.

The main selling point of AWS, from an enterprise perspective, is to shift costs in the right balance-sheet column, lower build times, and lower headcount because you can cut the hardware boys. Everything else (automation etc) is entirely optional and only worth the effort in some particular circumstances.
It's not. This is happening now any way. The debate is on which system is more effective at helping People out of poverty.
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As jerf mention I don't believe that this particular regression is going to be significant for the almost totally of the use cases (and the very few that are going to be touch by it probably are savy enough to test their performance before to deploy in production).

What I believe is more serious is that this wasn't catch during the development, it could definitely be a worth trade off however we should be aware of it...
>6yo CPU/mobo still does not feel in any way slow or in need of upgrade

The limiting factors have changed- or rather, the limiting computers have changed.

Throwing more client horsepower or internet speed at the problem can't solve the fact that the server (and to a limited extent, an internet connection) has to deliver both a huge amount of JavaScript and the (typically image/video/audio-heavy) content itself.

The client is always underutilized- the fact that smartphone apps (or rather, cached local copies of what would normally be a website) have similar performance to a modern desktop PC should speak volumes about that.
It's probably why Microsoft smartphone-ized Windows; though their execution of that was awful and it didn't help that WinRT wasn't mature on release.

And raw server performance (like desktop performance) has been at a plateau for a while now as well. The lack of competition for Intel doesn't help that (maybe AMD's new processor line will start driving improvements again, but there are no hard numbers on performance; and higher-TDP ARM designs aren't currently competitive with Intel's in this space either).

Until this changes, and there's nothing to indicate it will on Intel's roadmaps, clients will continue to be good enough- it might be the first time in history where computers (since 2008 or so) are replaced because the hardware failed and not because they were insufficiently fast.
I'm not sure if you have some kind of cognitive impairment, that you still didn't get the point after I explained it 5 times already, so I'll explain it yet again as simply as possible:

If you buy a co-located rack space you are using a PRIVILEGED CONNECTION to the market that and taking advantage of that using some algorithm: That's High Frequency Trading.

The all point of TFA and the comments was the OPPOSITE: To be in a NON PRIVILEGED position (as in, the same access time to market transactions as the median of the access time to market of EVERYONE ELSE) and to use machine learning to predict market moves in a long enough term so that the market access time was irrelevant.

Do you understand the complete difference between the two scenarios now?
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Iraq has assets important to the functioning of the US and world economy. The war in Iraq and Afghanistan was also the first time there were major anti-war protests before US entry since WW1

If you want to talk about carpet bombing, look at what was done in the "Secret War" against approximately 5000 communist guerillas in Laos

http://i.imgur.com/wxYiyO0.gifv

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

> US. aircraft dropped more ordnance on Laos than on all countries during World War II, leaving Laos with about 78 million pieces of UXO by the end of the war.[96]

> UXO remains dangerous to persons coming in contact, purposefully or accidentally, with bombs. Casualties in Laos from UXO are estimated at 12,000 since 1973. Thirty-three years after the last bomb was dropped and after decades of UXO clearance programs, 59 people were known to have been killed or injured by UXO in 2006.[97] So abundant are the remnants of bombs on the Plain of Jars that the collection and sale of scrap metal from bombs has been a major industry since the Civil War.[98] About 300 Laotians are killed or injured per year by UXO
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Not surprised at the ratio. Wix, Web.Com and other "we'll build you a website for free" sites combined with offshore web devs have commoditized (in management's heads) a lot of web dev work, and they're looking to get in on mobile dev since it hasn't been commoditized yet.
That means either a return to flawed means-testing, or a hope that the better-off will voluntarily opt out.

₹7000 per year is an absurdly small amount. Why wouldn't everyone opt out of it?

I'm kind of stunned that this small amount of money every year is enough to wipe out poverty down to 0.5%

I'm also perplexed at how the rich will gain from it.
If you force people to jump through a few minimum hoops to get it, most of the working class will not even bother trying to claim it. Am I correct?
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"the GitHub migration will be happening this
Friday."

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>It is the other way around. OpenStack is dying, we're just watching how vendors respond.

The idead of a bunch of giant openstack public clouds is dying, but openstack as the solution to build private clouds still seems to be going strong.
Thanks,

I have never used GO so it might be a bit rude of me to ask. But when I looked at the commit, it seemed to be a fairly small subset of changes which I, maybe stupidly, assumed meant that it would be quick to fix. :)
The nomadic thing! Used to do something like that with random Internet forums, it was great fun :)

We had a small group of friends and/or religious zealots (Discordians) from all over the world, and we'd pick a medium-smallish webforum on a random topic and we'd go on safari. Dress up our avatars with little pith-helmets, register an account and uh, explore the local wildlife.

We didn't really try to disrupt or actively troll anything, just have a bit of fun and, well, basically we'd roleplay stereotypical Bri'ish explorers and I dunno it was hilarious :-)

Reactions varied widely. Sometimes moderators just got spooked because five new accounts registered all at once and they were acting silly and it looked like a troll invasion (but we were always nice and polite and we offered them tea) depending on their sense of humour, sense of adventure, sometimes we'd get banned within minutes, otherwise we'd hang around for a day or two, check out some discussions, actually being helpful if we could, just play in the "general discussion" sub or photoshop some pterodactyls on their memes. The better forums really got in on the joke, great times were had, and occasionally some of their forum members joined our little band. If we didn't get banned, we'd try to leave a link to the next place we would explore.
We are working on many of the things you list. We are able to work on more than one thing at a time though.
voice is not realistic in any scenario. Amazon echo or google doesn't understand everything, wide range microphone recording can't go unnoticed, the apps don't have access to it.

You are just one of Billion Facebook users, those numbers are high enough to have coincidences.
>Uh, AWS is absolutely known for being cheap.

Not if you need always-on instances.
Nope, hardly anyone with real workloads will be affected.
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Alhough I shouldn't derive my enjoyment from others' suffering, I do on this capture. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du6acZ-PZQ8

The long and short of it, the Indian scammer ends up setting a SysKey password and a bios password on his machine. He's using his bosses' machine, and it appears to be the domain controller.

The scammer ends up crying and screaming at the guy and out of terror and rage, ends up hanging up.

Normally, I would be like "I feel bad for this guy". Nope not at all. Bloody scammer got what he deserved - a taste of his own medicine.
I encountered this a while ago, I've ended up bechmarking in relation to a past change and ensuring the percentage difference it's within a margin.

Not ideal but it's better than pure X vs Y.
Apart from growth hacking, is there any other proven way to do this?