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> Running on rented hardware is the equivalent of a traditional product company renting all of their factories.

Correct.

Traditional product companies very rarely own all their own factories.

Do you honestly think Netflix management is incompetent? They've run the numbers on this countless times. They have way more insight into their spend and operations than a random anonymous internet commentator.
Would this not have been avoided if companies were mandated by law to advertise the full cost of their installment plans in their ads? In Denmark (and presumably in many other countries), this is the case for anything from cell phone plans to dish washers. I.e., you can't just say how little you have to pay each month and over how many months and hope that people don't multiply the numbers.
Google ran on desktop computers for a long time. If anything, the cloud is less reliable than individual machines once were. You have no control over when or why one of your VM's goes down, and there's nothing you can do but wait and hope everything comes back in short order.

I've had degraded instances screw my customers websites many many times in AWS. On our VMware cluster I never have any such issues because I make sure not to touch anything running production sites
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ECC is not complex to implement.
I'm not sure how widely distributed it is, but if you're in Oregon, Breakside Flagship IPA is easy to find year round and quite good.
The real question then becomes one of what will the masses do? Hedonism is a short trip, next sets in boredom. What we need is scientists and explorers in space. Ultimately, a risky adventure.
That takes even more science in areas that are much more undeveloped than AI: psychology, sociology, science-based politics and definitely biotech (which is on the cusp of important breakthroughs ) and space travel. (Elon Musk plan in essence)

The meantime would require a massive shift in thinking of elites from greed to charity and cooperation.
a trickle charger will solve that problem
>'if this isn't for you then you can go home'

Instead of practical motivators like weekend holidays and such, in more philosophical sense some of the better arguments in my opinion:

1. "So you don't feel like doing this and you want to go home. Consider this. If one day the shit gets real, are you sure there will be still home for you to return to afterwards?"

Many countries have Ministries of Defense and call their armed forces "defense forces". That sometimes makes me uncomfortable because the (not unintended) likeness to the Orwellian ministry naming scheme of 1984. However, compared to some countries, with some other countries a better case can be made that their military really exist for a defense of a political system against a potential immediate existential threat.

For example, South Korea still has conscription. European countries started moving to volunteer forces en masse only after the Cold War was over. Consider the political climate Sweden is in and why they suddenly think they need an army.

Of course, this is going to be as effective as credible the threat is and (more importantly) how willing the populace is to trust the their countries' political institutions. For example, looking at the map, Switzerland does not face any immediate military threats from its neighbors, but I understand that their conscript force is reasonably popular and motivated. According to Wikipedia numbers quite many people simply do not serve for some reason or another.

2. "If this isn't for you, then you are free to fill in the forms for declaring yourself conscientious objector and you will shipped to the non-armed civilian service to serve rest of you term ASAP."

This one hasn't been relevant in all conscript-based systems in all time and places, but in modern times it is. If the strategy does not call for absolutely every person capable of holding a rifle to do so, this is an option.

Additionally, if failing the service is considered shameful enough, the military may very well be willing to simply kick the unmotivated out.

In general, I believe it's more or less established that people are less likely to volunteer to do boring things, but if participation is mandatory and you need to do make a decision to get out, most people are going to do the compulsory thing. Of course, many people are quite averse to war because it's quite possible that you may really die, so usually the armies of the world make the "getting out" option penalized somehow. In the ideal world I'd actually like to see the "opt-out" version without any further penalties tried sometimes somewhere.

3. Additional forms of persuasion known to exist in various countries at various points of time are different forms of legal consequences, ranging from extra tax to jail to prison to death penalty.
Intel provides a lot of tools and SDKs for game developers. I presume some/many are specifically optimized and highly-tuned for running best on Intel processors:

https://software.intel.com/en-us/gamedev/

But also things like physics engines (eg. Havok, which was acquired by Intel and heavily optimized for Intel processors), etc.

And of course Intel's C Compiler is known to cripple AMD:
http://www.agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=49 And some/many games are compiled with ICC...
I find poetry to be the most personal of the arts. It can take a lot of hunting to find the poet that's just right. My tastes has changed greatly as I've gotten older, too. I can't relate to many of the poets I loved in my youth, and I'm sure the younger me would have found the poets I like now to be ridiculous. Finding poets with whom you resonate can be a life-long treasure hunt.
> "Twitter-like growth with FB ARPU"

Isn't Twitter's big problem that they stopped growing? Much like Snap it appears if the most recent trend holds.

TWTR had 231m MAU at the time of its IPO compared to 313m currently (3.5 years later). They hit a roadblock at the end of 2014 and have not recovered.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/282087/number-of-monthly...

Compare that with Facebook who despite covering a meaningful percentage of humans is still growing:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly...

The multi-billion dollar question is which path Snap takes...
This is information that was not in play in the original statement - without it, there is no context to make the proclamation in the first place.
I'm not that worried about 2017, but where Russia is heading in the medium term. But even this year, they seem to be willing to continue to wage war in Ukraine, and with Belarus in turmoil, they may feel they have to send in some tanks to defend the friendly Lukashenko regime.
They don't, that's kinda the point. The idea is to place the blame on the people.
I don't know why you're being downvoted, your comment is accurate. Consumer hardware traditionally does not support registered memory, which is (reg ECC) the standard for server hardware hence cheap, while unbuf, unreg ECC is rather rare. AM4/Zen is no exception, no DDR4R for consumers.
There are a lot of reasons Bitcoin is worth more than other cryptocoins. I lay out an analysis here: https://medium.com/@jimmysong/why-bitcoin-transaction-capaci...
But wouldn't there be jobs to make, fix, manage robots ?
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Did you use it from within mc or as a standalone?

I use FTP or SFTP within mc all the time. It's fantastic - no shortcomings so far. Much easier than command line usage. You're navigating remote directories just as if they were local.

What did you find problematic with it?
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Very well said!
I suspect the driver door isn't a special toggle and is instead just an easy way to trigger a transition to a known state.
Internally, how do Googlers feel about its messaging "strategy"? I've heard the explanation that Google encourages the schizophrenia with the "launch a product to build your promo packet" philosophy, but that doesn't seem to cause issues in other product lines. But the strategy also certainly can't be intentional, since Google's squandered an obvious chance at dominating the messaging space and is teetering on irrelevancy there.
I got jail time for refusing. I was born 1975.
My reasons for refusing? I was totally uninterested in it.
To me that sounds like development and testing (i.e. figuring out what the steps are). Once you have that it should be automated fully.

Too often people will put up with the, "well, we only do this once a month so it's not worth automating". Literally, I script everything now, just in simple bash... if I type a command, I stick it into a script, and then run the script. Over time you go back and modify said script to be better, eventually this turns into more substantive application. At a certain point, around the time that you have more than one loop, are trying to do things based on different error scenarios, it's probably time to turn to rewriting it in another language.

The simplest thing this does for me, is guarantee that all the parameters needed are valid and present before continuing.
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What about Uber Eats? I got to delete two apps, myself.
playbooks can take arguments: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30662069/how-can-i-pass-v...

So, fat-fingering something is imminently possible.
Why? People make mistakes.
Have you found any good ways to speed it up? The five-fold training on the Critic is very expensive.
The IMC in almost any Intel CPU also could do ECC, but on most consumer SKUs there's that pesky little configuration flag set by the factory telling it not to. Why? Because Intel can, that's why.
Will you stop calling me a liar if I correct that from "the costs" to "your costs"? I am assuming that you are growing, and I think there's a provable assumption that for high levels of service, hiring someone else to do it is more expensive than in-house.
> There is no way a transportation system that revolves around everyone getting into cabs is going to match that sort of efficiency.

If _everyone_ used lyft line/uber pool, the vehicles could be larger and more efficient. Uber/Lyft know where people are going; at scale ("everyone") they can aggregate rides more extensively.
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See, the main difference is the scale of the destruction. WW2 exactly ended because it escalated to really horrendous levels. (If the Japanese or Germans got the nuke first, we'd be in a very different world now.)
They probably didn't know the service would go down. For that, you need to identify the minimal requirements for the service to be up upfront, and code that requirements into the UI upfront. Most tools don't do that. File managers don't check the file you delete is not necessary for any of the installed software packages to run. Shells don't check the file you overwriting doesn't contain vital config file. Firewall UIs don't check that this port you're closing isn't vital for some infrastructural service. It would be nice to have a benevolent omniscient God-like UI that would have foresight to check such things - but usually the way it works is that you know about these things after the first (if you're lucky) time it breaks.
Took me a second for my brain to read that as "Canadian Bacteria" instead of "Canadian Bacon".
No, it's not. It is utterly impossible for the government to defend the nation without soldiers. It's also impossible for the government to create soldiers out of thin air; they have to come from the populace (or hire foreign mercenaries perhaps, but that has its own ethical problems). If the populace isn't willing to serve as soldiers in sufficient numbers, then it's impossible for the government to satisfy its responsibility to defend the nation. The people cannot blame the government for not defending the nation if the people are not willing to be part of that defense.
I think there have been some attempts to explain, none of them fully satisfying.

But there have also been systems that create vectors with that property more directly instead of as a side-effect of a neural net. Examples include Stanford's GloVe, or Omer Levy's Hyperwords, which is made entirely from old-school ideas such as mutual information and dimensionality reduction, and was for a while the best system if you limited it to fixed training data (still Wikipedia).

A gripe: reviewers don't even seem to like explanations. If you can explain your system with well-understood operations, it's boring and "not novel". But when Google publishes magical mystery vectors, they lap it up.
> I'm nearly sold out

Can I ask what your sales goals/expectations are? Being "sold out" on software licenses certainly looks like a marketing trick rather than a meaningful demand quantifier.

> 24% of my visitors are on Mac, Windows is 34% - hardly 1/10

The 1/10 is the actual rate of Mac to Windows desktop shares. The fact that you are getting 24/34 simply means that you are either not reaching Windows audience or the product doesn't resonate with it.
Ever heard the phrase "rabble of conscripts"? Napoleon was the first to use conscripts successfully; before him, it was proverbial that a smaller force of professionals (volunteers, landowners, adventurers, or typically a mix of all three) could wipe the floor with a much larger conscript army. Conscripts could make adequate garrisons, where they'd seldom be called on to fight (and if the castle or fortress fell, everyone in it would be killed, so there was that too), but not much more than that.
Netflix runs their most expensive part (pushing those terrabits of traffic ), with their own hardware and network. https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/

so, you were saying?

Or do you think facebook,google,aol,tripadvisor and pretty much anyone beside HotNewStartup are incompetent?
I agree that it is pointless. Much more useful would be the other way around (your car getting data access from your phone). But that doesn't make anyone extra money. I removed the SIM in my car as soon as the free trial ran out.
When an enterprise runs Kubernetes directly from the source how do they deal with bugs and support ? Doesn't that need some vendor backing with tight SLAs ?
>How do people who are not served by public transit feel any of these effects?

What? You realize air tends to circulate right? And people tend to know other people in their lives who get hurt by accidents? And less traffic on roads is an externality that benefits people who drive. As does giving drunks a safe way to get home.

>My point exactly, this is how it should be but municipalities are rather cash strapped at the moment so you likely won't see increased spending on anything. Thus "more public transit" isn't really possible without federal intervention.

Road infrastructure and sprawling development are the reasons they're cash strapped. If they had adopted more transit-centric development patterns they would have raised their tax base to pay for it rather than exporting the people who use their infrastructure to unincorporated 'bedroom communities' where they don't pay into anything.

If we subsidized transit to the extent that we subsidize sprawl this wouldn't be a problem.

>This ignores the positive impacts. If only local roads existed very little trade would be able to take place vastly lowering GDP. Can the system be run in a more cost effective manner, certainly but that would require pushing out the public sector unions that demand unrealistic wages. Pick your poison.

Please review what I wrote. I didn't say not to have highways. I said we hit the point of diminishing returns long ago and additional spending in this direction is no longer beneficial.
Webkittopdf (or however it's called) is cross platform, based on the Qt port of Webkit.
Everything has a cost. As I said, frameworks do not compose and often fundamentally take away control. If you want to change the behaviour of your framework, you need to hope they have created the necessary callback interfaces.
Just get a Chevy Volt and it will take quite a while!
Just for some statistics, I just purchased it but the main selling point for me is cross platform. I use Windows/Linux at home and Mac at work, so a tool that works on all of them is a real boon to me. This way I can customize and use a single tool and use it no matter where I am. Same reason I purchased a copy of Sublime Text.
> Because people still buy new computers and use those applications on them – that's why single-thread performance is (for the moment at least) still important.

That's a load of bullshit. No one ever complained that the web is unbrowsable or an excel spreadsheet is unworkable without a high-end boutique processor. Those benchmarks are simply a load of bullshit that evaluate something that is utterly irrelevant.
Does anyone have references to books about this topic?

I'd be interested in reading about it.
In her blog post she claims she took and shared many screenshots, among other items, with Uber management of messaging she received. There is proof. Will it come out in public forums? Why would it?

The odds of a lawsuit from one side or the other seems high, at least right now. Why air that all publicly? Doing so can and has undermined cases for both sides in the past.

Besides that, does our justice system now use Twitter to try and convict? Are trials by public opinion what matter now? When did that change?

What exactly is stopping Uber from defending themselves? They have a lot of money, top-notch PR folks, and I suspect top-notch legal representation. If they could easily disprove this, would they not have done so already?
It says you can connect 10 devices to the car's AP via wifi. So all 5 passengers including the driver can have one wifi device in each hand!
what gave it away? was it the VR hardware announcement they made a few months ago? :)
Actually no, enabling external cache coherency (eg. QPI) incurs a significant cost in terms of pin count, power, die space and clock speeds. The same does not transfer to ECC memory.
Your opinion isn't really that original. There are plenty of old-school sysadmins who will insist that the cloud is a hoax. They'll fight tooth and nail to avoid it. Eventually, someone fires them and moves to the cloud with significant savings.

There are some scenarios where it makes sense to run bare metal, but they're few and far between. If you've evaluated the (capital, operational, and human) costs of cloud vs. bare metal and bare metal came out on top, that's fine. But don't assume that other mature businesses haven't also done so.

For companies with AWS bills less than $10k/m, it'd be ludicrous to even consider bare metal.
> You probably won't find Gates, Zuckerberg or Jobs in the US Army

In a conflict like WW2, you would find individuals like that in the Armed forces.
Just sit in your car in the garage with door closed with your laptop plugged into the charger and your car running. Disclaimer: Don't do this. You will die.
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I think there's different ways of communicating. Trying to hard sell the same service other team offers for free looks stupid, and I don't think sales team being aware of the editing team's actions and behaving in a smarter way would not hurt the trustworthiness. It's not like this "if you don't pay us, we'll run your competitors ads inside your content" snafu did wonders to the trustworthiness.
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I'm looking for something that can pay founders (LLC 'guaranteed payments'), contractors (1099), or employees on a monthly basis automatically.

(Note: Google Rankings and SEO and reviews are too easy to game, that's why i'm looking for direct feedback on payroll tools/services).

If it files all the necessary tax/legal paperwork for us that would be awesome.

I've heard of 'zen payroll' but not sure what else is good out there.
This hits so close to home.
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I agree that neural nets are state-of-the-art and do quite well on certain types of problems (NLP and vision, which are important problems). But a lot of data is structured (sales, churn, recommendations, etc), and it is so much easier to train an xgboost model than a neural net model. You need a very expensive computer or expensive cloud computing to train neural nets, and even then it is not easy. Ease of implementation is an important factor that gets overlooked in academia. And on non-NLP and non-image datasets, usually the single best Kaggle model is an xgboost model, which was probably developed in 1/10th the time it took to make a good neural net model. Xgboost has come a long way since it was first introduced, with early stopping being an example of a significant improvement.
> Running on rented hardware is the equivalent of a traditional product company renting all of their factories.

Or a traditional business renting a storefront? Something that happens all the time. Even huge companies like Apple use OEMs. Samsung manufactured Apple chips for years despite putting up a direct competitor to apple in the Galaxy S.

Systems like this allow people who do not have capital to scale up. Just like developers build malls and lease space to retailers or OEMs build factories and lease them to companies to make equipment.
You can use several hosts, have two subdomains so if one is not red responding, engineers and managers know there are two status pages. Heck, have two different domains for them as well if there are dns issues. Amzstatus1.com and 2. Not dependent on Amazon domain anymore either.
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What's your practical alternative for WiFi security than WPA2-AES?
I have two kids with Fire tablets who would really appreciate a connection. I think I will be switching to Verizon's new unlimited plan with some amount of hotspot access because of this.
11 9s of durability is about the likelyhood of AWS loosing your data. It doesn't cover the likelyhood of you being able to access your data that's called availability.

For example on GCS (Google's S3)...A storage class specifies how many locations the data is made available. All storage classes share the same durability (chance of google loosing your data) of 99.999999999%, but have different availability (chance of being able to retrieve data).
Or as Upton Sinclair put it, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."[1]

1: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Upton_Sinclair
pathetic article, dunno why this article deserves space in NYT. Every region in India has its own conception of adda, nothing specific to Bengalis.
Care to share more details?

On paper, the cost differences between renting/colocating traditional dedicated servers and using cloud service with similar performance/capacity is huge, so it's pretty unusual to actually save money by migrating to cloud. I'd love to hear where the savings actually come from.
> The problem I see with these startups is that they never manage to achieve profitability. The best of them sort of get by, but none of them are actually rich, or anywhere close to it. I think that points to some fundamental problem in what they are doing.

Replaced "these communities" with "startups" and "prosperity" with "profitability". Statement remains just as true.
Haha, that's exactly my point! I do question why the entertainment industry siphons so much capital away from other, more productive endeavors. Perhaps no one has any good ideas on how to create the future, so we might as well throw it all at beer and sports.
Yes Verizon supports simultaneous voice and data. In actuality, they route all their audio connections as VOIP over the data connection (VoLTE). Which has the same effect.

Sprint still drops data connections during voice calls.
The main problem with robotics is the very high barrier of entry to making silicone electronics. This obviously concentrates power in the hands of the very few.