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In case it helps, the speaker of this piece seems to agree with you. The continuation of that quote is basically your argument, only he blames it on the universities - since they are working both sides of this labor market by employing the graduates that they churn out.

> It gets worse. From 2008 to 2014, tenure-track English-department jobs declined 43 percent. This year there are, by my count, only 173 entry-level tenure-track job openings — fewer than half of the opportunities just two years ago. If history is any guide, there will be about nine times as many new Ph.D.s this year as there are jobs. One might think that the years-long plunge in employment would compel doctoral programs to reduce their numbers of candidates, but the opposite is happening. From the Great Recession to 2014, U.S. universities awarded 10 percent more English Ph.D.s. In the humanities as a whole, doctorates are up 12 percent.

> Why? Why are professional humanists so indifferent to these people? Why do our nation’s English departments consistently accept several times as many graduate students as their bespoke job market can sustain? English departments are the only employers demanding the credentials that English doctoral programs produce. So why do we invite young scholars to spend an average of nearly 10 years grading papers, teaching classes, writing dissertations, and training for jobs that don’t actually exist? English departments do this because graduate students are the most important element of the academy’s polarized labor market. They confer departmental prestige. They justify the continuation of tenure lines, and they guarantee a labor surplus that provides the cheap, flexible labor that universities want.
That's not the same thing, and nowhere near as helpful. Why would I want to wipe my phone every border cross if I don't have to?
>...there are plenty of immigrants year after year that if English was a priority, it would get funding...

English departments don't normally prepare their graduates teach English as a 2nd language. That's usually done by Applied Linguistics. Applied linguistics also doesn't have the employment problem English programs do. The job market is much better.
Thank you for the thoughtful response. The windows 8+ limitation is what prompted me to ask here on HN.
My thought exactly: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/india-delhi-ban...
> Didn't work first with my Zenbook and Arch Linux, when using the Intel i915 GPU, but just trying again with primusrun using the Nvidia 620M just worked.

Cool! Great to see successful Linux compatibility :)
Also check out the book "Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a
Successful Free Software Project" by Karl Fogel.

He just finished up the 2nd edition and made it freely available online: http://producingoss.com/
They aren't entirely closed, though: https://github.com/github

Quite a few projects there that they actively contribute to and/or originated.
I am in this exact scenario right now. The last entry on my tracking was my package arriving at my USPS facility 14 days ago and nothing has happened since. I just don't understand how something like this happens.
DHL says the package is already in USPS' hands stateside, so it's not on a ship.
There is mounting evidence that fasting and a few dietary approaches (like the ketogenic diet) are useful tools for dealing with a whole sort of issues, from autoimmune diseases and generally any excessive inflammatory responses (including CHD).

Calorie restriction OTOH is something that gives mixed results, and I suspect it may be related to the diet adopted and how it is implemented (ie, LCHF vs LFHC, fasting vs frequent small meals).

I suggest anyone interested in food/health to spend some time on google scholar searching about these approaches, it's enlightening.
Or maybe find a better article source? Maybe a good local Dehli paper?
I'm not sure that's widely true. Consider:

* Most Internet usage is via smartphone

* Computers are much more stable than they used to be

* Much of the world lives in places with less stable connections

* The most expensive spec in an Internet connection is availability. You can get a low-end 15 Mbps connection with no availability guarantee for $40/month; a T1 is one-tenth the speed and costs 10 times as much (all numbers are rough estimates).
I totally agree with you.

From your initial comment, I got the impression that you were claiming that closed source software could not be excellent..meaning secure.

By the way, I'm a big GPL/free software nut. However, I understand the place of closed source software, and under the right circumstances, it can indeed be excellent.
Damn, that update renders StackOverflow unsuable in Firefox 3.6.18pre :-(
I find the opposite. When I experience hunger, if I wait for an hour or two I forget that I'm hungry. Just today I was working and skipped breakfast. Around lunch I thought I should get up, but I kept working. I forgot to eat until I had to stop for a meeting at 4:30pm. Suddenly I remembered my hunger and grabbed a banana.

I still struggle with overeating when I'm hungry and there's food in front of me.
I am also interested in how it compares to NewSQL databases like NuoDB. NuoDB has been positioning itself as a very similar type solution (no compromise relational distributed database) to Cloud Spanner for a while (minus the cloud hardware provided for you).
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I'm sure it could be worse, but out of the 3 main providers we have in the US here, they're the most unreliable. I'm not trying to just rip on them, but from my experience, they don't think much of delivering packages a day or more late as it happens fairly consistently.
A low-calorie plant-based diet

>much of it from plant-based material like the Japanese sweet potato, their staple food, in contrast with the rice-heavy cuisine of the mainland.
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What is interesting here is that Jewish are the selected race to be protected on youtube. Some other ones don't qualify. Youtube is so old testament.
Plastic is the least of Delhi's problems. First they should be banning vehicles that don't meet emission standards. I visited there twice and I'll be lucky if I don't come down with some lung problem.

Edit:
They should ban the burning of plastic, not plastic itself. And enforce it.
> The absolute level of computation available isn't changing at the consumer level.

Maybe not, but consumers increasingly use centralized computation resources. I would guess that by now most applications used by consumers run in their web browser, such as Facebook.
> biological engineering or hard AI

Why not both? The future is synthesis, imo.
> Today's Signal release for Android and iOS includes beta support for video calls.

Android users like me can enjoy it too ! :)
You pay for the scalability. Your 4 core AMD is always a 4 core AMD unless you migrate to a new server. Your 1 core Linode can become a 20 core Linode in a few minutes, for just a few hours while you need the capacity, and then go back to being a cheap 1 core Linode.
Thank you for the pragmatic writeup rather than the usual "fantastic journey" blather. Also, returning investor money, rather than wasting it, demonstrates leadership.
Speaking as someone who hasn't tried colocation, would you care to recommend your provider or explain who the Linode and the DO are in that space?
If no one has unseated CL yet, isn't the answer a resounding no?
If it's so bad then turn it off :)
Agree with this. Question, it looks like this company just raised a seed round in January 2017 according to crunchbase. How can you raise a seed round in one month and then completely shut down the next?
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Yes, but those are orthogonal to the scaling issues that I presume user5994461 was thinking of.
I'm so sick of proprietary walled garden messaging systems. So now I need slack, chime, skype, hangouts, imessage, allo, facebook, etc depending on who I want to talk to.
A good point, but there is an up and downside to everything. The centralization of IT does impact civil liberties and possibly innovation - unlike FOSS and other local systems, aspiring hackers can't tinker with Facebook code and see how it works.
I guarantee you the contract you have with shipping companies doesn't let you (successfully) sue them simply because the package didn't get delivered. No shipping company would still exist today if that were the case, they would have been sued into the ground long ago.
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Startups are hard.

It's even harder to be open and honest with yourself, your employees, your customers and everyone else when shutting down. Perhaps somewhat weird, but I find it refreshing to see posts like these. I think it's the sign of a good and healthy entrepreneur/team (albeit hard to write).

I'm sure you and your team learned a lot, and I love the gesture to open source your software.

Best of luck on the next step!
We closed the round in July of last year, prior to starting the V2. We sat on the announcement until we needed a press boost on a product announcement.
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I could also really use one pls.
Do you mean the amount of time it takes to initiate a failover or the amount of time for a failover to complete?

For the former, I don't think they specify beyond "automatic".

For the latter, "service is typically restored in less than 120 seconds, and often less than 60 seconds": http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/Aurora...
Sorry to hear this. Any lessons learned?

I use WhenIWork for this area, which suits our needs. Not sure what would make me switch, probably not a text messaging. Most of my employees have smartphones, so a mobile app is fine.

Biggest problem for me (as a business owner) is managing schedules to a budget, and making sure we are being as efficient as possible with our staffing spend.

Most tools I've seen have a pretty weak budgeting feature. (You just put your budget in and it tells you how you did)
If the Trump administration wanted to control the story they could've just posted information about the change on the webpage and redirect users to the Obama administration archive (which exists, as pointed out here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13647041).

Instead they chose to break all links and API integrations with no warning or information.
> I've already maxed out my 401K loans on the Japanese game set, and it will probably be 2-3 years before I finish dumping and scanning all of those games to sell them for money.

I always feel a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach when I read things like this.

Is any labour of love worth your potential future? As much as I admire his dedication, it's not a choice I'd make... :(

Maybe it's just because I'm a bit of an ops guy, and it feels like leveraging a single point of failure. :P
Thanks for the answers!

> Pathfinder's API is based around the concept of an atlas in order to improve batching.

And the result of a raster job is then coordinates in the Atlas?

> Especially at small sizes it's a lot more efficient to render multiple glyphs all in one go without issuing separate draw calls for each one.

Makes sense

> There's nothing preventing you from making a separate "atlas" for each glyph if you want, though you'll pay some performance cost for this.

It's not exactly an atlas then is it :P. Sorry if I wasn't clear; I was trying to understand whether the library or the application is managing the Atlas. Sounds like the library.
I'm a developer at USPS; if you send me the tracking number I can try to pass this along to someone.
Gotcha, thanks for the clarification! As an entrepreneur myself, greatly respect the decision to shut down and return money to investors instead of just spending until theres nothing. Good luck in your future endeavors!
Thanks, this is exactly what I suspected would happen.

Same thing as the last panic when they switched the web server and pages on major Obama policies vanished. Just an entirely new webapp moved in.

Defend your policies, whatever you stand for, but please don't panic over a website changing hands.
admax88q said they wanted a mode where it wipes your phone. That mode is called "factory reset".

If what you want is a mode that wipes your phone only when a CBP agent looks at it, as other people have stated in the comments here, you'd probably be committing some sort of crime (e.g. destruction of evidence or lying to a federal agent).

The only truly safe way to cross is to not actually have your data when you cross, not to try and throw it away once you get singled out by agents.
All the arguments along these lines with respect to scalpers get caught in the "is-ought" problem [1]. You are describing the economic situation and saying "This is the way things are at the moment, therefore this is the way things ought to be". It is a leap that you don't really justify.

If people want to take a libertarian approach, why don't you say it is the person selling the tickets prerogative to do every legal thing in their power to limit prices. It is their show after all.

It would be as if I started selling piggy back rides to my friends for $10. When some random guy realizes my friends really like piggy back rides (for whatever strange reason), so he buys all my piggy back rides. I'm all booked. He then turns around and tries to sell them to my friends for $20. What the scalper apologist arguments are saying is that any attempt by me to tell this scalper to get lost is somehow wrong, because I am disturbing the natural order of things. It doesn't take into account that I care who I carry.

To be clear, I'm not saying artists only selling to "poor people" is the sole right way or something of that sort. I'm just arguing against saying that second price auction is the only way to do things.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem
Thanks for the advice. Will do. But I still fail to understand how this makes SEO a software problem.
Haha. Cleaner air takes perceptions a long way =).
Something like that. But not necessarily the Big Data that's being analyzed, that's usually done with Hadoop/Spark/whatever is the big thing now. It seems to be aimed at, like, huge apps that actually need horizontal scalability.
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Those pretty much have press releases and other specific videos.
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and out of all the ridiculous things that could have been done he paid for them to hold up a "death to all jews sign".

How is that not anti-semitic?
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Eh, those links tend to be difficult to find and not very useful in my experience. Usually it's not much harder to just scroll back to the top manually.

Plus the "show on scroll up" bars have the advantage of making it easy to access the top navigation without losing your place on the page, which is useful if you just want to open a link from the top bar in a new tab or quickly check your notifications or something.
Title should probably mention that the plastic banned is disposable bags, cups, and cutlery. Not IV bags, syringes, laptops, bike helmets, etc..
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Yeah. I wrote about this obvious point too in "Universities treat adjuncts like they do because they can:" https://jakeseliger.com/2016/02/25/4791/
"I will provide my full name, address, the tracking#, and the missing mail search ID to anyone who can contact me from an @usps.com e-mail address."

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It's almost as if programming languages should support integers, rather than just machine words. Or, put differently: Fixed-Width "Integers" Usually Harmful.
Rwanda also has this policy, since 2008, and they enforce it. The country is very clean, it looks different than other African countries (and countries like the US), just because there is no plastic rubbish everywhere. I think this is a very good policy, and would welcome it at home.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/15/rwanda...
Not if you're healthy.
> This is the case on the Mac, since Apple has not implemented any OpenGL features newer than OpenGL 4.2 (2011)

sigh

Once upon a time, the Mac was a great development platform...
Great in major metro cities where internet use and penetration are almost taken for granted. I think the Dallas CL is just as lively as the SF one for instance. However, in a city like San Antonio, which I kid about being "40 years in the past," it's barely worth even looking. Very drastic difference in the community approaches. As in, the Dallas Music Instruments section might get 4 pages a day in volume. San Antonio might do 4 pages a month.
That's right. It won't solve the problem, but it will substantially reduce it, as in less grid storage will need to be built.
I bet it's great if you use Metal.
Let's look at your metaphor. It's more efficient for the raising of a large overall number of chickens. It's less efficient when I need fast access to a single egg.

Hence we get caching. There's the farms, then the inbound warehouses, then the distribution centers, then the grocer, then our refrigerators by the dozen or dozen and a half. When your local cache is empty of eggs, though, it requires a trip back out to the grocer to get an egg even if you need nothing else that trip. Then you generally have to buy at least half a dozen if not a dozen or more eggs just to get the one you wanted.

If I have my own couple of hens, I can go out into the yard and get an egg. If that's the whole of my fetch list, it's much more efficient for this single egg to have the hens laying right out back.

This whole few baskets metaphor breaks down from another point of view, though, when we consider that by the very nature of using a globally distributed hosted service we're actually eliminating a single basket problem. Yes, there's not much choice among just Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. (That they are the only options is a bit of a strawman, but lets grant this one legs.) However, putting just your own employees in charge of all your infrastructure in just your own datacenter(s) in just PostgreSQL or just MySQL is another single-basket problem. Spreading it out so that someone else gets to manage the hardware and the service and replicating your data widely within that service is from that point of view more baskets. You get more datacenter baskets, more employee baskets, and more software baskets. Using standard SQL means you can move among compliant software later, too, so you're not as tied to those baskets.

Now, back to your coop analogy. What's stopping me from having my application talk to Cloud Spanner and a local database proxy (or a work queue that sits between the app and the DB or whichever) so I can use Google's reliability for transactions and my local cached replicant for query speed when I'm querying older data? Why can't I keep a few eggs around?

Also, why would I be scared of Google or Amazon "having my data"? Why would I put sensitive data into my own database in plaintext and then replicate it among multiple datacenters that way?
What if the agent forces you to give them the password for "untravel mode", which restores data to your phone from the cloud?
I really have a dumbphone because the battery lasts more than one week..
I think the periodic outreach for donations on Wikipedia would be more successful if they earmarked some portion of the funds to identify and remove harmful volunteers.
I would phrase it as:

AWS prioritizes building blocks that support very high throughput and avoid leaky abstractions at all costs, and they're happy to push forward as long as these criteria are met. IMO they really succeed at this goal. Minus specific bugs that they're generally good about acknowledging, their services reliably do what they say they're going to. And they definitely solve a lot of problems for you, even if sometimes you're still required to get further into the weeds than you might want.

I'll buy that Google Cloud is better at questioning underlying assumptions and sometimes succeeds in releasing higher-level abstractions than AWS without any leakiness (a great example of this now being Spanner vs Aurora). It also feels to me that with releases like this Google is leveraging the full value of their own experiences running their services, and seems to be more advanced than amazon in some areas so this has a lot of value, whereas AWS seems to build a broader range of products with a specific customer in mind which is not necessarily themselves (e.g. all of their move your on-prem stuff to the cloud helpers).

If you consider Spanner vs Dynamo, it definitely matches up as Google wrapping the old way and Amazon forcing a new way (though to be fair, Dynamo was released 5 years earlier). But on the other hand considering Spanner vs Aurora, Amazon is the one embracing the old way with full MySQL & Postgres compatibility whereas Spanner sounds like a pretty dramatically different subset of SQL in not supporting insert and update statements. It's a very reasonable compromise for basically getting to ignore the CAP theorem, but it is a a significant difference that every developer will have to learn.
Exactly! It is very impressive when you think about how unusual it is for something even as small and seemingly unimportant as a postcard to fail to arrive.
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I wonder if all reports of poor battery life are from users of MBP with touch bar. It is interesting that the non-touch bar MBP has a ~10% bigger battery, half the TDP under sustained load and doesn't need to drive the ARM processor + touch bar. Thus better battery life than MBP with touch bar.
What happens when you lock yourself in to RDS.