skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yes, you can, but if you add something - like issue tracking, user/access management etc.. around that then you need to publish that under AGPL as well..

Mission accomplished?
Why Amazon will actually be the first trillion dollar company in 10 years
Can you scale up and scale down seamlessly? Can you turn off unused instances? Can you automatically and seamlessly move to the latest hardware running on-prem?

Do you want to focus some significant percentage of your time on managing infrastructure or do you want to focus on making what you sell to customers better?

I know it sounds like marketing and I know there's a point at which the cost of cloud doesn't make sense, but I do believe that that inflection point is pretty low if you're in a field that is moving quickly or are say a new startup and need to get to market with a minimum-viable-product to get an idea off the ground -- what a shame it would be to fumble that opportunity re-inventing the wheel with infrastructure.
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For what it's worth, the initial EJB spec was written by IBM, so I guess the answer to your question could be yes.

"The EJB specification was originally developed in 1997 by IBM and later adopted by Sun Microsystems"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_JavaBeans
Yes, I agree. It seems almost perfect apart from the fact that non windows support is still lacking.
Each datacenter not server :).
That's the OS, too.
Afaik libgit2 is a derivative of git.

Anyways, for Pijul to be successful, there must be something like PijulHub. The bar is higher now. Thus, make it easy to build this hub!
I couldn't tell you technically as I didn't build it, however, I use our app and it's very quick, I know that we keep our regions near each other (east east), front end can fail through nyc locations, we have no customers outside of the east coast either, so that helps as well. As far as back end, we are restricted to AWS GovCloud regardless.
We too have used Uberconference, I forget why we ditched that as well, might have been down to the cost of the thing. I actually quite liked it, the web application was solid and it encourages ad-hoc meetings.
> the only growth market for Oracle right now is their hosted database service

This is not true. Oracle is far more than a database company nowadays in the same way that Microsoft is more than Windows. Oracle has been acquiring high-growth startups at a significant rate.
This paper is available through Google scholar if you search for "CCS 16 password WiFi" or click here: https://www.a51.nl/sites/default/files/pdf/p1068-li.pdf

I've been a part of a similar paper that detected exact keystrokes. This one seems to build on a similar idea. The thing to keep in mind is that these systems need user and environment specific training. That is if the user is changed or the user or something in the environment moves, the system needs to retrain.
> It's precisely because most developers are terrible at mathematical reasoning that so much software is so difficult to reason about -- there are tons of unnecessary special cases, when hidden inside all the tangled logic there's secretly a simple set of axioms and theorems that lend themselves to intuitive composition.

Have you ever developed software outside of academia? Special cases arise when your perfect mathematically structured snowflake is put in the hands of actual users who want to do actual work with it.

A buddy of mine who did work with JPL has told me that NASA uses a decades-old FORTRAN app to calculate orbits. When I asked him why they didn't port it to a more modern language he said it was because the system has so many special cases and fudges that would take forever and the new system might not be able to replicate the features of the old one.

Of course having a logical basic architecture (example, a structure that encodes special cases as configuration) can make it easier to maintain as a project matures.
Couchbase and CouchDB have similar name but both databases are quite different. A slightly dated comparison of CouchDB vs Couchbase is at https://www.couchbase.com/couchbase-vs-couchdb. We are in the process of getting that updated.
How many artists, do you think, value their fans over money?
It'll be interesting to see how well customers will adopt this. When I was at one of the two companies you mentioned above, we tried adding global snapshots (a la TrueTime, which is the real innovation in Spanner not the clocks) and demoed it to our DBAs/MVPs. They didn't understand what on-earth was going on. Wanted something that worked with existing clients. We just gave them classic 2PC and they went home happy. I think that's the reason why Oracle will keep on chugging. There just aren't that many workloads that need this sort of scale. It is real cool technology though and we always used to wonder why Google wasn't offer Spanner as a service.
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> "I'm going to charge $100, and at the end of the day someone else is going to make that money"

That's what StubHub imagines the artists were thinking.

What I think many artists are actually thinking is "I'm altruistically going to charge $100 (or $10) so that someone who can't pay $500 can get to see the show". They believe in the lottery system and wish it worked.

More effective altruism could be achieved if the artists actually charged market value to buy a guaranteed ticket, and used some of the proceeds to 'buy' their own tickets to give away in a lottery.
The new application ELB supports HTTP2. One can confirm by looking at the Chrome developer tools.

http://imgur.com/4mpDwJh
Thomas Watson in 1943 amd his famous quote: “I think there is a world market for about five computers".

If he was alive, he could say these computers are Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook.
It's 2015. The scene: Wife and I (both experienced decision makers) are playing Fallout 4.

Me: "I'm supposed to be running a paramilitary campaign. Why am I repairing someone's carrot?"

Her: "All managers ask themselves this darling".

Cue hilarity all round.
> So, the main joke is him having enough money to get poor people to execute on his silly whims and then laughing at them.

I haven't seen the video (and try to avoid his videos in general), but from the article that seems to be the joke, and the anti-semitic part of it is to have them do/say the worst possible thing.

Basically, having them bark like a dog isn't "extreme" enough, so he have them support Hitler, because that is extreme.

I'm not saying that makes it more tasteful, but I am saying it makes it less anti-semitic, if not actually semitic.

There is no joke in making them say "Hitler was bad", because anybody would say that.
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> The pricing makes sense for their "target market" of folks who currently have a "bursting at the seams" MySQL or PgSQL instance

My intuition, which I hope is wrong, suggests this is a small market.
You can't add proprietary bits to their system without contributing those bits back so everyone can have them. Boo hoo.
Here is the ACM link: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2978397
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So in your objective reality, the mormon is a liar. But christianity is about your personal identity. You can't put rules on that for others. I used to be christian, and one that would fall under the "not a real christian" category.

I proseltized. I knocked on doors for years and talked with thousands of people about their beliefs.

Because of my personal experiences, I find your explanation lacking. There is not agreed-upon definition of a christian other than "says they are christian".
Yeah, Apollo Client helps you do a lot of these kinds of things with GraphQL - deduplicating requests, keeping track of loading states, etc: dev.apollodata.com (disclaimer: I work on Apollo)
In some cases they definitely are diverting directly, U2 only sold 1/4 of their tickets here through TM, the rest were held back for secondary market Seatwave and TicketsNow (both owned by LiveNation/TM). By directly capturing the secondary market the band can get a cut of this revenue, if they just allow the public to resell and TM gets all the fees the band makes less income.
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That may meet your priorities and maybe even the band's but it most definitely does not meet Ticketmaster's in a world where they can offload all the tickets in 15 minutes and charge the maximum palatable fees with basically no variable costs.

And Ticketmaster is in control of this process, so...
About a month ago, we had a ‘great’ marketing idea for Tock
Creating a Rails App from Scratch with Nanobox
How does this compare to AWS Aurora in terms of pricing and performance?

With Aurora the basic instance is $48/month and they recommend at least two in separate zones for availability, so it's about $96/month minimum. Storage is $.10/GB and IO is $.20 per million requests. Data transfer starts at $.09/GB and the first GB is free.[1]

Spanner is a minimum of $650/mo (6X the Aurora minimum), storage is $.30/GB (3X), and data transfer starts at $.12/GB (1.3X).

Of course with Aurora you have to pick your instance size and bigger faster instances will cost more. Also there's the matter of multi-region replication, although it appears that aspect of Spanner is not priced out yet. So maybe as you scale the gap narrows, but it's interesting to price out the entry point for startups.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/
I'm sorry, but this pricing doesn't put them anywhere near the bottom of the market. As someone that has been buying from the VPS market for almost twenty years now, Linode cannot in any reasonable verbiage be lumped in with the riffraff crap vendors at the bottom. I could rattle off a dozen or more companies run by thugs and thieves that truly define "bottom of the market" for VPS, and Linode, DO, Ramnode aren't even on the same planet.
Aurora's other zone replicas are read-only. Probably no atomic clocks and GPS for time synchronization.

To be fair, Spanner's cross-region service is coming "later 2017".
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Compare how many people are killed, let alone animals per unit of energy produced with Wind as compared to Nuclear. Wind is far more deadly to humans (from accidents) & animals than the public is lead to believe. Nuclear despite its accidents is far less lethal towards the environment around it.

Wind is only a third as deadly as coal apparently, which isn't too great in my book:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2013/09/29/forget-eag...

Also:
http://firsttoknow.com/in-october-2013-two-engineers-became-...
Very true, that is one thing I find replacing a lot of songs with others to get quality. Which can be frustrating when you don't have spare time at all during the day.
It is not close to equivalent. But I do want to get a better feel for if Google really has figured how to do basically the impossible. I want to see if this truly scales horizontally but of it does then competitors better hope for a much more detailed paper :)
> Trivially, by never allowing either half of a partition to make progress while the partition is in place.

Doesn't availability mean getting a response on success or failure. If during a partition there is no response on success of failure how is the system available? It seems re-writing a term like "x will happen" to "x will happen after an infinite timeout" should not be valid
No, the business is international with HQ outside US. They just have a branch in the US.
I like it! I just wish it weren't fixed. The design does indeed add clarity and make it easier to quickly parse compared to the old nav. But it being fixed makes it feel like a design that's trying to coerce me into staying on the site longer. Which is fine (and more and more sites are doing this anyway), but to me it makes Stack Overflow feel a little bit less like a tool, and a little bit more like a company trying to subtly influence my behavior for their profit. But I'm probably reading way too much into this.
FWIW, this is traditionally quite possible with Darcs. I sort of misformulated in my original post; it's not like it just gives up and you're at square one. The workflow IIRC was basically the same as Git: it'll throw its hands up and you make a new commit to fix everything. So that isn't really a problem or any different. Note that Darcs 1 did have the exponential merge case on top of this, however, which was pretty unfortunate (and really a byproduct of the design of the change format, among other things).

In all honesty, given years of experience with Git, and fondly using Darcs as my first version control system: I still think merges are absolutely the one thing it beats Git at, hands down. When it works and it does its job, it always is correct. When it doesn't, you can bail it out. Not much different, but the "always is correct" and dependencies-being-implicit is what makes it good. Darcs could have saved me at least dozens of hours of hair pulling when doing STABLE merges I estimate... Git's still good. I wish it could do that, though...

Your note about git is interesting. In fact, Git is, in at least some cases, more magical than other VCSs in the merge department. You might just not be aware of it due to being so familiar. When I say "Darcs always gets the merge correct", I don't just mean it literally finishes with exit code 0, but also that the semantic model is, in some sense, more 'correct' or 'intuitive':

http://r6.ca/blog/20110416T204742Z.html

Darcs (and others) always get this 'merge associativity' case correct, where 'Base+A+B' where (+) is merge is associative (so it doesn't matter how you 'bundle' the changes or whatever). That means you have less edges to worry about. And to be fair, I don't think there's anything inherent about Git where this particular case can't be fixed. It's just a good example of why people are trying projects like Pijul/Darcs at all, so these things can be formalized and understood. The theory of patches is actually rather rich and helps formalize a lot of these notions of what a "merge" really is in an algebraic sense, how patches relate to one another, etc.
Digital Ocean really needs to cut their prices at this point. There's no compelling reason to pay them 50% more for the same thing.
Creating UI by hand is ridiculous. It doesn't scale.

- All companies think they solve a unique problem, and believe that justifies creating a custom UI.

- All brands want as much exposure to users, which demands custom UI themes and styles.

- All devices have access to different I/O components, which implies completely different user interfaces.

- All users have different preferences and needs.

You can't design a one-size-fits-all UI taking all of the above considerations into account. You need to operate at a higher level of abstraction than "pixels on a screen".

The solution has been in front of us for decades. It's semantics.
This release shows the different philosophies of Google vs Amazon in an interesting way.

Google prefers building advanced systems that let you do things "the old way" but making them horizontally scalable.

Amazon prefers to acknowledge that network partitions exist and try to get you to do things "the new way" that deals with that failure case in the software instead of trying to hide it.

I'm not saying either system is better than the other, but doing it Google's way is certainly easier for Enterprises that want to make the move, and why Amazon is starting to break with tradition and release products that let you do things "the old way" while hiding the details in an abstraction.

I've always said that Google is technically better than AWS, but no one will ever know because they don't have a strong sales team to go and show people.

This release only solidifies that point.
> How does an experienced user (he has 14k edits!) make an edit like that?

That's exactly how he made it to 14k.
I beat you by 7 years :)

https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=1109206
"Resist! Use adblockers, disable cookies which live over the session by default, turn off JS if you can."

For the fourth or fifth time this year, in response to a thread about browser privacy, I am reminded that what I really want is the ability to jail/chroot a browser.

Firing up a full-blown VM for a browser ("banking profile", "twitter profile", "sketchy online store profile") is way too heavyweight and resource intensive. I want a totally, totally clean slate (restored to post-install defaults) to restart certain browsing sessions with (and dispose of when I am done) but a full virtual machine is too expensive in time and resources.

But if I could jail a GUI application ... then there would be almost zero resource overhead and the jail would die quickly when you're done.

jailing a GUI application is not that well developed of a use-case. Further, OSX doesn't even have a jail command.

I wish this was an established use-case - I would really like a totally throwaway browser profile that I could reset and re-use.
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This article seems to miss a favorite possible source of the valentine heart shape, (which Don Knuth eludes to in the Metafont manual on his way to a classic heart shape): it's the shape of woman's buttocks, viewed from a certain angle.
As much as I'd like to see more support and success stories for Linux/LibreOffice in public administration, as I think it's the right thing to do, putting statements like this into the document makes me question their motivations:

> In addition, according to estimates provided by Green Party councillors, another 15 million euros should be spent to replace or upgrade PCs which are perfect for a small footprint operating system such as Linux, but cannot support even a Windows 10 basic configuration.

If they compare that really with KDE4 on Ubuntu 12.04 I'm not sure how they come to that conclusion. Windows 7 or 10 is just about as fast or for some tasks even faster than a Linux Desktop with a full blown DE. In my experience feels Windows even faster on older machines due to less lag (I might be bullshitting myself here).

And without enough RAM Linux is a pain to use - as is Windows.

Lately I'm asking myself if that Linux advocacy myths that are pretty widespread hurting more than they help.

Yes Linux is fine, it's usable, it's fun. But in my experience using Windows/Linux with DE (Gnome, KDE) on low end hardware (P4, Core) Windows has an edge and feels faster.

Or they are running a minimal i3 setup but I doubt that.
See also: detecting and motion tracking people behind walls, with the ability to recognise specific people ( also using wifi ).

http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/28/9625636/rf-capture-mit-wi...

Of particular interest: It can determine breathing patterns and heart rate.
I was going by this document: http://s1.q4cdn.com/289076952/files/doc_financials/quarterly...

Which has their 'cloud services' doubling their contribution to revenue year over year and licenses losing 50% of their contribution to revenue year over year.

There 'cloud' collateral is pretty opaque though.
Perhaps, but it's also a database and it doesn't really hurt anything. We can point at pretty much any article and find a strange influence of geek male culture all over the encyclopedia. "In Popular Culture" (which I think is now supposed to be removed from articles) all too often simply contained links to video games and obscure anime.

Personally, I find the shift to wikia troubling. Mainly because it came down from Jimbo to purge the articles and move them to wikia, which ahem Jimbo runs and profits from.
Totally fair question. Sorry for not being more specific. All multi monitor and docking/undocking broke in seemingly random ways. That's despite giving state transitions ample time (ie. not detaching a screen and then immediately closing the laptop to put it to sleep).

Also I was bit by the bug that somebody else mentioned here: the panels would disappear with sweet reliability. If I remember correctly, this was a bug that would hide the existing dock. So if you simpy recreated it, you'd have two running side by side, and so on.

There was more but I don't remember specifics. The screen issues were enough to be a big practical problem for me.

Edit: speeling
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Please do! I would also love to help you correct grammar issues via PR.
This one!

http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/28/9625636/rf-capture-mit-wi...

It can detect people and track their movements behind walls, and tell different people apart.

It can also measure breathing patterns and heart rate.
I guess the secret's out now.
Managing State in Angular Applications
Interns are a great solution to the "running out of new, untainted eyes" problem.
Making VR less painful for the vision-impaired
I've been using one for a side project for a while and they're perfectly fine if you're ok with one core and 2gb of memory.
The point is not that is 86K is low. In fact it is an interesting salary if you consider all salaries in the US among all jobs. The point is that it is lower than US software engineer average salary. This leads to wage compression for the local population whom or their parent have been paying taxes hence the prosperity and attractiveness of the US.

Nobody says that the fault is with the Visa holder who happily work for less than average wage. The problem is with companies exploiting this law which was designed to attract best talents who wouldn't work for less than average because they know their worth.

As a foreigner, I say this is not fair to local population (including those immigrant after they obtain their permanent residency) whose wages are kept low by companies who abuse these laws.
I thought that this was interesting.

Apparently the term 'barritus' used to refer to the sound an elephant makes with it's trunk (trumpeting). It was a term that was also used during Roman times to describe the Roman war-cry which they had adopted from Germanic soldiers. http://worldofdictionary.com/dict/latin-english/meaning/barr...

It's possible that this association may have colored educated naturalists to paint an elephant with a 'war-trumpet' on it's trunk. It's also possible that the author was getting the viewer to visualize the sound that the animal makes via visual imagery.
I love seeing cloud providers offering better deals, the more the merrier! However, I still have yet to find a better deal than the one Scaleway offers. ~$3/mo for a dual-core, 2GB RAM, 50GB SSD host. They also support terraform, rancher, swarm, etc. Been using them for a few months and haven't had a single complaint.
I browsed web in phones before iPhone, the experience was awful. Though there is some truth in your saying that the US market was much behind Japan and Korea at that point. (Europe and rest of Asia was definitely not significantly ahead.)
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Thanks, we've moved comments there.
Your making value decisions based on expertise in your existing delivery methods and trying to map them 1-1 to aws features, that may or may not map 1-1

eh, no. You have no idea about my areas of expertise, what features I require, or how I map them, or what I map them to, so you cannot make this kind of statement (well, you can, and you did, but it is a fallacy).

you have numbers and not broad statements we'd appreciate them.

I'm sure you do. Doing what I do today in terms of functional parity, but doing it on AWS, will work out roughly 2.5 times more expensive, and will not gain me any additional features or functionality, and will leave me with about two-thirds of reduction in overall performance against metrics that are of interest to me. Also "we"? You speak for others? Who are the "we" that have appointed you as their speaker?
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