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What is the deal with 16 PCIe lanes? With the move to PCIe storage, this is disappointing. I am happy to see the price/performance is good (which is surely going to force Intel to be competitive again), but if this is targeting the high-end, I can not understand 16 PCIe lanes.
Actually, 2 weak horses could probably equal 1 strong horse.

http://timmaurer.com/2012/01/16/horse-sense/

https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-two-horses-pulling-tog...
> Also I never use the Discover page and I don't know anyone who does.

I do all the time. Equally anecdotal but still.
The BA changed the definition in order to keep Sam Adams "craft."

http://beerpulse.com/2011/01/brewers-association-enacts-sam-...
> I won't speak for others, but it would make my life much easier if you'd build (and name) your offerings on top of the base containerization tool like everyone else

We are doing exactly that. The base containerization layer is containerd, and it is now available standalone separate from Docker.

I covered this topic in more detail in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13775677

I hope this helps.
> How do you motivate a conscript?

When I was a conscript, it was relatively simple. Do as you are told or you don't go home for the weekend. Repeat your offense and you're not going home in a few months. Outright disobey your superiors and you're going to jail right now.

The alternatives for conscription was doing community service for about 2x the duration of the military service or face criminal charges with certain imprisonment.

It's pretty easy to get a medical discharge, though. It's much more common now than when I did my service.
Note that the pricing is per node.
It wouldn't pan out that well today though. I don't see how Sweden could ever stand up to a modernized Russian military without external assistance. But they would probably fare better than Ukraine.
It's like the joke of the mathematician giving an exposition of a complex proof. At one point he says "It is obvious that X", pauses, scratches his head, does a few calculations. Leaves room for twenty minutes and returns. Then continues "it is obvious that X" and goes to the next step.

Deep in the field, it's fine for machine learning experts to say "everything just works" [if you've mastered X, Y, Q esoteric fields and tuning methods] since they're welcome to "humble brag" as much as they want. But when this gets in the way of figuring out what really "just works" it's more of a problem.
It's specialized and I want a paradigm shift in how we grow food..not refine existing design.

I am not even looking for investment to get the design down. I feel like I am stuck explaining to engineers because it feels like we are talking different languages.

When I show a sketch that I want to be drawn technically, they immediately go back to an existing tractor or a vehicle..and we are back to a 2000lb behemoth.

I can't work my way around the engineer's tendency to keep tinkering. Example: I asked a dear friend for help..now..I have known him for 20 years and I am pretty sure he can read my mind at this point. And we spoke for 5 hours..I kid you not..5 hours! And I left to take a personal call and within 20 minutes, he was excited to show me that it can now also chop wood with an elegant tweak and refining design.

I almost wept. It was brilliant, yes. It worked, yes. But it is not what I needed. Sometimes simple is enough. I couldn't rein in that horse in the engineers' mind anymore. I am in awe of such cerebral dexterity but I want cunning nimbleness of smaller machines.

Also..I am beginning to think it's a gendered issue. Maybe I am wrong. Or not. Every male engineer that I have spoken to wants big machines that can multitask in the field. But I want choices and smaller machines..I want to be able to mix and match with lots of options. Each task is specialized. One big machine with brute force is not going to cut it. I can't translate that philosophy into a language engineers can understand. It's very frustrating.
It's unfortunate that Zelda was released against Horizon: Zero Dawn (which is beyond amazing on a PS4 Pro), as there is now a lot of competition over the past couple months for good games out now (and such limited time to play!); something which hasn't happened to this degree this generation of consoles.
The autoplay video with the music was fine, but then I started hearing something about a coconut octopus, which was just distracting (+ couldn't work out what was playing so just shut the browser tab).
Your company would have left money on the table, but not you as an equity holder.
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> If by "tell", you're talking about pulling aside everyone who "seems Muslim" (obligatory discussion of how Sikhs are often the target of hate crime from people who think they are Muslim because of their headwear here), you're pulling aside just under 1/3rd of the worlds' population. You can't use that information because it's literally useless.

To be clear, i most certainly did not mean that. In fact, i feel like i said everything i could to explain i mean exactly the opposite of that. I also mention, as you mentioned, that statistically Muslim means nothing.

This is a touchy subject, so please try to "if you meant"s in my mouth. I'm sure you meant no harm, but .. you know how these discussions can get :)
They're called "elected representatives" for a reason :)... I had actually seen a study showing the advantage in life expectancy for high-powered executives/lawyers/politicians. Only the tendency to work long hours was from my sample.
Biking 6 miles would probably only take half an hour and would be the cheapest & healthiest option.
Thank you! that's very interesting. The NYT article linked there seems pretty good. Maybe I'll submit it here.
You mean it sounds like torture?
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If they're treating ad views the same as regular story views, it's once the ad is initially loaded[1].

But, as others have mentioned, Snapchat appears to be more interested in sponsored content and Discovery features.

1. https://blog.bufferapp.com/social-video-metrics
Too complicated. I was thinking just have some baseline numbers on a clean SSD and run the buildworld a bunch of times. Either would work tho the latter I'm confident I could do.
As already noted in other sibling comments, the Netherlands is famous for having lots of territory under current sea level. According to Wikipedia, roughly half of its territory is 1 meter above sea level or lower. Two more facts from the same source: it is one of the more densely populated countries in the world, and the second exporter of agricultural products (only behing USA).

On the positive side, they have 500 years of experience building dykes and defending their coast line. Their experience will be invaluable to fight off raise of sea level during the current century, inland and around the world.

On the negative, they have huge liabilities that can be triggered even by temporary floods. Refugee crisises during storms, lost of high value agricultural land due to increased salinity of soil, etc. All this will cut down on their budget to support their current dyke infrastructure, precisely at a time when they should be extending and enhancing it agressively.

Rinse and repeat for 50 years, and you are bonded to see an ever growing number of marginal areas that are deemed not worth salvaging and left to be turned in unproductive swamps. I do not see the impoverished and overpopulated remanant of Netherlands surviving for long afterwards.

Best case scenario I imagine is they will be absorbed by Germany, who may at that time have the economic power to keep the dykes in running order. Or they may try to stick to their own guns, in which case it is hard to tell how much land they will be able to hold dry.
> my job and lifestyle have caused me to detach from a significant chunk of society

Yeah, the 13-21-year-old chunk of society. Do you, as a Linux Kernel Developer, happen to be within that demographic? Even their IPO roadshow video (which I see has now been removed) talks about their "13-34-year-old" user base, and then emphasizes the far higher levels of engagement and far higher potential among the lower half of that range.
The point I was making is a lack of propaganda to support a war against a target country doesn't necessarily indicate that country isn't a target, just that the propaganda machine might not yet want to make that country a appear as a target.
As a lot of other people online are pointing out, this is pretty much the exact same thing people said when Bulldozer came out, but it never materialized. AMD has always won in terms of core count, and people have been saying for years that games capable of taking advantage of 8+ threads/cores are right around the corner, but it never really happened. We shouldn't be basing purchase decisions today on what might theoretically happen at some point in the future.
I'd like to +1 this - one year is a tough sell in a world where a 5-10 years is norm

Backwards compat and LTS already comes up a lot with enterprise support, requiring an annual upgrade project will only complicate it
Personally, I think it would be more useful to ban (or make harder to get) handguns than automatic weapons. In almost all the legitimate uses of guns I can think of, rifles and shotguns work just fine. Easily concealed firearms are the problem. Make those more problematic to own and buy.
That's the most astonishingly nuts part of it all.

"Hi we recognize that you are legit and you can now come and go as a resident alien. This is a milestone towards becoming a naturalized citizen. Oh, oops -- rules just changed I know you only went to visit your grandma but you can't come back in now. Please pay your mortgage and property taxes on time and stuff, though."
"Or North Kazakhstan" :) you don't watch Russian news much do you?
I wouldn't want to be the person who wrote the wrong command! Sheesh.
the conquered are the "bad guys"?
You literally cannot use conscripts for anything of "operators and maintainers of the hi-tech death machines, sigint operatives, radar operators, tank crews, missile forces, officers." First of all, most of them take at least a year to get up to speed, if not more, and they have to maintain their competence. You cannot just release a conscript after his year long stint, and call him up ten years later - the ten year old tech he was trained on will probably have been replaced, and even if not, he'd have forgotten most of his training. Oh, and officers by their very definition cannot be conscripts.

So you're looking at guys to dig holes and sit in them with rifles and maybe some supporting jobs (administrative, kitchen, IT, construction, etc.)
It was viewed for a long time as merely a curiosity until Armin Ringo started publishing benchmarks, and some level of CPython extension compatability was added.

I use it myself as my python runtime for some personal projects, and also to run locust.io when I need to loadtest stuff. Neither would have been practical say more than two years ago?
> Java libraries are complex because Java is inexpressive? Not because the libraries attempt to do everything for every situation?

Why do these reasons have to be mutually exclusive?

Furthermore, your second point relies on every single cumbersome/complex java library also being a perpetrator of trying to do too much. Surely a lot of people here can probably think of smaller libraries that explicitly don't try to do everything, and are still "complex" and cumbersome to use. The best examples I can think of were of internal libraries at previous jobs, and that happened across many languages not just java. These sorts of annoyances pop up repeatedly in a wide variety of languages, despite not necessarily having the same culture as java.

Not to play evangelist here, but I just haven't had as many of these kinds of issues with libraries since switching to more modular typed functional languages (i.e. ML/Haskell), and it has really played a role in helping me see the forest instead of the trees. Noticing how language complexity and inexpressiveness leads to those kinds of problems isn't supposed to be obvious or intuitive, because it's effectively a Butterfly Effect that causes most of its severe repercussions much further down the line. We can play whack-a-mole with smaller sources of complexity (such as java having kitchen-sink libraries) as long as we like, but shouldn't the goal be to hunt down where all those "complexity moles" are even coming from in the first place? Because if that is the goal, and even smaller more focused libraries still produce annoying amounts of incidental complexity, then there's not much room to blame anything other than the constraints of the language at that point.
It apparently hasn't fixed anything:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2017-switch...
So parts of BBC can't be viewed in the UK? Ironic.
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I'm really glad you guys decided to listen to the experienced commenters' advice and change your mind, rather than obstinately plowing on with what seems to be a bad decision.
No? They make under 100w.
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It's interesting that the first half of the explanation is largely quotes from a prior HN post's responses.

Does anyone else feel a bit weird seeing off hand comments getting quoted in the explanation for a business decision? I guess we should all get more accustomed to our public input carrying weight in the zeitgeist.

Gitlab's "develop in the open" nature really shows through here. I am not saying that's bad, it's just so different than most startups and established businesses.
TLDR; Someone on the team ran a command by mistake that took everything down. Good, detailed description. It happens. Out of all of Amazon's offerings, I still love S3 the most.
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Depends on your culture and point of view regarding the state, as a French myself, I think asking religion/race on a form is offensive and outside of the role of a state (same for schools as well).
Overwatch would be right up your alley :)
Right but I think that most people have used a bank, telphony company, or prescription drugs in the past.

OTOH, depending on how loosely or tightly you define what snapchat is ("ephemeral image communication platform", "image communication platform", "communication platform", "social media", "news aggregator"), there are huge groups of people that have never used snapchat or any competing products. There are lots of people in the US who have never used snapchat, instagram (stories), whatsapp, or even facebook messenger (the app specifically), which are the closest comparisons to snapchat. I think that's the point.
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Oh that's pretty neat. A colleague of mine is working on a similar project applying directives to allow loop reorderings for OpenACC and OpenMP code (CLAW project). He's using the Omni-Compiler tough.
Amazing future technology makes our life more exciting
Don't know where you live, but here in UK both Game and CEX(sort of like Gamestop in US) are full of second hand WiiUs, I guess a lot of people traded them in before the switch launch.
It sounds an awful lot like the Brave New World.
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But is it unfair?
Meh, that's a process problem, not a people problem. Playbooks that have you retype commands with complex options, with no confirmation, etc, are inviting that sort of thing.
A bit disappointed in the article, as the bulk of it is simply quoting various viewpoints, some of which disagree with each other. I'd be much more interested in the thought process that occurred for them to reach the conclusion they did. What internal doubts did they raise? What possible solutions to those doubts did they consider? Things like that.
> Optimism isn't science

Pessimism isn't science either.

> and at the scale of the problem it is a mistake that gets to happen only once.

The problem doesn't even exist yet. It's a potential problem. We are speculating on potential solutions to a potential problem. There are an infinite number of potential problems. I think it's a waste to start solving them until it becomes abundantly clear there is a problem.

I don't see science happening at any level here.
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>>frustration of driving all around town only for very small profit.

Wasn't this the whole point of Uber.

The very reason why people even use Uber is because of this model. A lot of drivers signed up for this because they didn't need to go through the taxi license process or the medallion business.

Now complaining the same doesn't work because there are too many driver driving sending up the supply and lowering demand is some what wrong here.

What were these drivers thinking. Those regulations existed for a reason.
Conscription is slavery, and many conscripts will consider themselves to have a moral obligation to resist slavery. If you give them access to the whole military machine you greatly increase the opportunities for sabotage. With the traditional rifles in trenches style each individual conscript has very limited chance to fight back, and you can always call them traitors and murder them if they try.
Wii U has a great library now, even if you only played 3 of them. I personally have almost 30 games for the system, more than Xbox One or PS4 put together, and I've certainly played the Wii U more than the other two (although I did recently close the gap a bit with Xbox One and The Witness).

That being said, I have a feeling a lot of them are going to be essentially re-released on either the 3DS or the Switch (several already have been, or been announced), so I wouldn't recommend anyone get a Wii U now, unless you find it dirt cheap.
That person is the least likely to make that mistake again!
If you read the reviews, it's clear that some are. Others probably are not. My point is more that I personally don't feel like I can make a judgement yet based on what I've seen/read and I've been following this game pretty closely.
Buried towards the bottom is the interesting decision to dump CephFS and go with NFS instead.
I'm surprised how transparent this is, I can find Amazon often a bit opaque when dealing with issues.
I think you are right. Farming doesn't get a lot of people excited. I can see that now.
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That's only because America is shitty at implementing public transportation. Tokyo and Seoul are fucking amazing.

NYC subway is actually amazingly convenient despite being run down and disgusting. There's no reason to take an Uber in NYC unless you're drunk late at night, want to feel fancy, or are going to the airport.
At these scales it's the fault of the system, not the individual, so hopefully they don't come down hard on them.
It was done with purpose -- to be maximally disruptive.

Now idiots in the media will sell a new and still morally repugnant ban on refugees and other reasonably vetted immigrants as an improvement over their first attempt and in the meantime the administration gave a big chunk of their base some service.
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> How do you motivate a conscript?

Frighten them with the prospect of being put into the penal battalion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NyI6krdZ08
They have extremely powerful targeting data: geolocation. Afaik, one of snap's biggest revenue sources is geolocked filters.
Language shift occurs when mothers stop talking to their infants in the language. Not being able to access government services in the language may indicate a decline in the language's vitality, in its prestige and influence, but it is a long, long way from language "death".
The gist of my story was that I just placed Heddy Topper in that bin with all the other hops-bombs that really did nothing for me.

On a meta-level I was amused by the number of brewers and coffee roasters in Vermont, given the fact that neither hops nor coffee beans are grown anywhere even remotely local to the state. But hey, it's a hip thing to do right? 802ers gotta be who they are and that's cool.
> At 9:37AM PST, an authorized S3 team member using an established playbook executed a command which was intended to remove a small number of servers for one of the S3 subsystems that is used by the S3 billing process. Unfortunately, one of the inputs to the command was entered incorrectly and a larger set of servers was removed than intended.

It remains amazing to me that even with all the layers of automation, the root cause of most serious deployment problems remain some variant of a fat fingered user.
In this specific case, this is a valid question: this is round 2 after MS already got the notification they need to fix this issue. Google is back with a specific proof-of-concept after giving Microsoft a high-level description of how to find and fix this vulnerability.

As part of MS16-074, some of the bugs were indeed fixed, such as the EMR_STRETCHBLT record, which the original proof-of-concept image relied on. However, we've discovered that not all of the DIB-related problems are gone.
The biggest threat to security by obscurity: Google happening to find things.
The last company I would worry about servers going away is Blizzard. People are still playing the first Starcraft and Diablo 1 and 2. How many years later is that? WoW has been around forever as well. All of their "worlds" are lasting.
CoD4 is an example, but it is listed because it was one of the first modern games to toy with this idea. It executed the idea well enough, but it also paved the road for future games to execute the idea poorly.
GAAP vs non GAAP accounting refers to how you calculate PnL, not whether you use things unrelated to accounting to hint that you are growing and might make money in the future. You can definitely use strict GAAP accounting and also brag that users are super duper engaged.
> Google seems to have embarked on a mission to find vulnerabilities in everything that touches the Internet. Good for them (free marketing), good for us.

And perhaps scaremongerings us to embrace the cloud, and thus ChromeOS...
Fundamentally not much different, though. N shards holding the data, you have to know which shard is which and maintain connections to it. Split brains could happen if that sharding is dynamic etc.
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How can these trains possibly be profitable with that kind of schedule? In fact I remember reading somewhere that they lose money...

Which made me wonder whether that kind of loss is OK and can be waived off as a govt. benefit in lieu of private car ownership. I don't know how the economics would work out, but it would be interesting to see how they compare.
> I don't understand how the existence of [any company ever] adds over [their current valuation] of utility to the economy; furthermore, if [company] fell of the face of the earth, everyone would just switch to [their competitor], and life would resume ut fit. Peter Thiel's quote should be updated: We wanted flying cars, instead we got 1̶4̶0̶ ̶c̶h̶a̶r̶a̶c̶t̶e̶r̶s [trivialization of product's value].

These comments surface every time a company goes public. You may have some valuable information driving this viewpoint underneath, but from this comment it just sounds like useless trolling.

To me at least, Snap seems like a good company with cultish user-base. They have done a good job integrating ads and rich content (some paid content) into their core UX. A difficult feat which Twitter still hasn't solved to this day. They also have an interesting perspective on live events that even FB/Instagram has failed to replicate.
I hoped that on hacker news folks would provide a reason for why his research/conclusions are wrong, rather than simply offer up character attacks.

Do you have an example of where his research is wrong or his conclusions were overly pessimistic?