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To me, the definition of Serverless is this: Developer writes code and the management of resources for running that code is taken care of by a Serverless platform. As a developer, I don't have to deal with servers, disks, networks, logs, metrics, ...
Except when organizations decide it would be too much of a security risk to give every authorized person keys/cards, or doesn't do so in a timely manner. Then the one designated key-holder is too busy/important to personally let everyone in, so the "secure" door gets propped open and/or opened in response to a knock from anyone, authorized or not. When low-level but authorized staff need access to further secure spaces, they start by tracking down someone with higher access privileges to borrow a card from. People with high-privileged access then start to reflexively toss their credentials to anyone who asks, because most of the time the request is necessary.

Super common with event venues during rehearsals and preparation (below the level of production value where there's a security desk checking IDs).
I think they are talking about the more common process of leaving out the pulp and only serving the liquid.
"I think the iPad is still the best device, especially if you want to do real work ... While the Google apps are very powerful, you’re limited in what you can do in a web browser."

Every platform has limitations. Windows and Mac seem to have the least. But does "real work" just mean whatever device you like best?
For eduction I put down "Various" - that seemed to work.
> "To break even on an extra 100k within 10 years of graduating"

Why are you limiting yourself to a 10 year window? The average career last 30+ years. Over a time period that long, it's much easier to recoup the initial investment costs.

> "The student could drop out... get pregnant, go to jail"

Ironically, many of these dangers are much more likely to occur at non-elite universities, due to peer-influence and peer-pressure. This is actually a great reason to attend elite universities where you'll be ensconced in a ivory-tower-bubble.

> "A debt burden like this taken on by young people seems to me to be incompatible with the concept of free society."

I guess you and I define freedom differently. A society where only the ultra-wealthy attend elite universities, doesn't sound nearly as free to me. Allowing extremely bright middle-class kids to invest $0.25M in their education, so that they can optimize for their millions of dollars of lifetime earnings, as well as get the education they've dreamed of, sounds perfectly reasonable to me.

Would I prefer it if elite schools like Harvard weren't so damn expensive? Of course. But the current situation still sounds far better than getting rid of student loans entirely.
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Heavily underreported? Yes.

Similar? Yes.

Ethereum is different because it is built to be a platform first and foremost. This platform is for allowing other individuals and organizations to build new blockchain technology without having to engineer their own blockchain.

Imagine if every crypto company had their own blockchain, adoption of crypto would be unlikely.

So, Ethereum allows you to create 'smart contracts' which you can think of as microservices (yeah, code) that exist forever on the blockchain, maintaining application state on a decentralized and infinitely expanding database i.e. the blockchain.

Industries will be disrupted by the new concept (web3) of the decentralized app or DAPP. This concept effectively removes middlemen from various processes (middlemen charge fees and own your data in a centralized way).

So think:

- No more centralized trading exchanges with fees.

- No more Google owning your digital identity data.

- No more AWS running your computing infrastructure in a
proprietary, closed manner.

- Direct licencing for artists and musicians.

- Impossible to censor, decentralized news.

The list goes on.

Why is Ethereum different? It aims to make it EASY for others to create ontop of a blockchain.

A few interesting projects:

Golem - Decentralized cloud computing

Uport - Self-Sovereign digital identities

Augur - Prediction market platform

OH and don't forget about the popularization of a new (to me) investment model called​ the ICO, or "Initial Coin Offering" there are DAPP companies rasing millions of dollars in immediate funding in a matter of days right now.

See Gnosis.

Hope this helps you understand.

Edit: Missed letter (on phone), Formatting
First they came after milk and now juice
Right, but they also want to _spend_ money to accelerate the problem. With just a dozen years of subsidy, we're now at a point where unsubsidized the solar and wind industries do better than the still heavily subsidized fossil fuel industry for everything but the midsized high-output applications (e.g., trucks & shipping) and some specific industrial cases.

The first would could do commensurate good by spending its enormous resources accelerating the reliance on renewable resources. So this argument against Kyoto (which is indeed a proposal that is more a gesture than a solution) is basically used to dismiss other things.

For example, Trump's proposed to wipe out the EV tax credit (please don't, I want my tax credit!) in the US. It'd reclaim less than a billion dollars but substantially deter the uptake of EV cars.

Similarly, the US is facing a grim truth that even it cannot maintain its entire massive infrastructure in the face of modern economic challenges. Renewable resource generation offers an alternative, distributed power grid. Between this and modern manufacturing techniques, we see a glimpse of a future where socialists, centralists and anarchists all see a world resembling more of what they want, with regional control and generation of power resources and control over economics, but a framework left in place for a top down government to govern things that are advantageous overall (central planning for scarce resources & conservation, rights and health care, etc).

Resistance to the topic on the grounds that Kyoto is bad is over-applied to all attempts to grapple with climate change, even when they actually have huge positive effects only tangentially related.
> I don't have any numbers

I do :-) Wrote about a book about it, in fact.

> but I think it's generally possible to write very high performance code in Objective C... by not using the dynamic language features of it such as message sends.

Yes, that's a common misconception...with a grain of truth. In my experience, you get the best performance by judiciously mixing dynamic and static features. And yes, that means eschewing some dynamic features in some inner loops (The 97:3 rule applies). However, you can also often gain significant performance by hiding behind a polymorphic dispatch.

For example, I reimplemented Apple's binary plist parsers+generators in Objective-C (from C) for a significant speed boost: the polymorphic implementation allowed me to put in override points for things such as lazy loading, and interface-based (de-)serialization removes the need for a generic intermediate representation. Compared to those advantages, the cost of message-sends is negligible (and optimizable if it becomes a problem).

> Objective C I believe does a globally cached method lookup for every message send(!)

Yes. It's quite fast and despite what people fret about rarely a problem.

> and so can't inline through message sends (!),

If it does become a problem (measure, measure, measure!), there are techniques to avoid the lookup: IMP-cache, convert to C function call, convert to inline function, convert to Macro.

> since inlining is the mother of all optimisations

Hmm...the mother of all optimizations is measuring and removing unnecessary code. Then comes eliminating/reducing and "sequentializing" memory access.

Very few of these can be automated.

Inlining is nice, too.
I agree. I've had 10 jobs in my life, and only 2 were regular employment. There rest? I invented them. They didn't exist until I approached someone and said "This is what I can do for you".
Yes but Windows Mobile was awful, the reason Apple did so well with the iPhone was that the rest of the industry had stagnated.
In the large, sure. But "if you're going to say you can do X, you should have a good idea of what X is" is pretty baseline, I think.
> Personally I don't understand why a person would juice a fruit when you can eat it whole?

I feel the same way about veggies. Raw veggies are awesome.
Although I'm a proponent of smoothies over juices, I disagree with this article's stance. The article argues that drinking juice leads to diabetes:

"She had always been overweight and had relatives with diabetes, but she believed she lived a healthy lifestyle. One of the habits that she identified as healthy was drinking freshly squeezed juice, which she saw as a virtuous food, every day. We asked her to stop drinking juice entirely. She left the office somewhat unconvinced, but after three months of cutting out the juice and making some changes to her diet, her diabetes was under control without the need for insulin."

Read between the lines: "she had always been overweight ... she made some changes to her diet". I highly doubt that cutting out juice, and juice alone, resulted in the patient living a healthier lifestyle. This is misleading. Unless the patient was downing a gallon of juice every day, eliminating juices—from whole fruit, not processed concentrated crap—would not solve her diabetes.
Switzerland don't have any German gold according to the article.
You are correct - Serverless DevOps.

Serverless actually makes DevOps fun and challenging - and especially if you work on multiple cloud platforms.
There is a major difference between learning programming and learning how to start a career as a programmer. The skill sets needed are very different.

You can either become a good developer and get hired on merit. Or, you can become an imposer who has great social (and bullshitting) skills and manage your career that way. The second option is undoubtedly easier.

The reason I'm bringing that up is because for an adult, starting from scratch, with no computer science degree, doing it yourself, you are easily looking at four years of hard study 8h/day to become competent. I think almost anyone can do it, but very few have enough time and stubbornness to pull it through.
> Yes, but honestly what percentage of businesses need regulatory conformance or anything like signed logs?

Uh, as soon as you're processing PII, be it health information, social security numbers like in payroll, or credit card information, you're required by law (or the CC industry) to have these. And no, cutting corners is not an option, at least if you want to avoid some serious jail time.

Media processing (in the sense of professional movie studios) requires MPAA certification, which in turn requires that all systems handling "customer data/assets" even be airgapped to the Internet (source: MPAA best practices guidelines).

And if you're ever dealing with car manufacturers, goodbye to cloud - they're similarly sensitive when it comes to anything near unreleased products. No Dropbox/Slack/... allowed, and for good reason.
Huge in the context is a few hundred kb, not great for a simple webpage. https://blog.nrwl.io/angular-is-aot-worth-it-8fa02eaf64d4

You could and should AOT the client side, my point was this quickstart project doesn't.

Typescript isn't the problem here Angular is, without AOT it includes an in browser compiler. Minification doesn't change with http2, you are probably thinking of concatenation/bundling.
I am actually sad how schools are going to locked down, consumption based hardware. How many people here got their start in computers by messing with school computers to make them do new things? Now, the computer is just a "magic" locked black box to do homework on.
Also, Nokia didn't have to choose between Microsoft and Google. They could have done both, like Samsung did.

In terms of attracting programmers, Android could be programmed on Mac, Windows or Linux. A developer account was a one-time fee of $25. Apps needed no approval.

Windows Phone had to be programmed on Windows. A developer account cost $100 a year or so. Apps went through an approval process. Not that different than Apple, but Apple was first to market with a modern smartphone and could get away with this.
Undeveloped microbiomes make infants more prone to illness
Seconded on the + raw vegetables front. You can prise my Champion 2000 juicer from my cold dead hands...
I'm working on something that might be useful, maybe you could message me on discussbook to discuss it? My handle is the same as on HN.
I think the cause for this belief is the particle nonsensium
China Lounge in Pleasanton is every bit as good as a restaurant in Chengdu (which is where the chef previously cooked).
The article actually mentions you should drink Milk but not Juice. I bet we can find a juice industry blog where they advise Juice but not Milk.

Personally I avoid both for my kids. Juice is sugar water, and my kids are not calves, so they have no need for baby cow food.
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Darn you for sending me down that YouTube hole.
Misleading title -- Vegetable juice isn't bad like fruit juice. We should be targeting "sugar" and not "fruit" or "juice." Sugar from fruit isn't as bad as processed sugar, but from my experiences, too much fruit has the same negative effects as eating candy or sugar laced cereal. Fruit in moderation seems to be ok.
Vegetable juice is indeed better in that it contains less sugar.

However, fruits contain acids that can be helpful in moderation for fighting free radicals etc.

Also, these days sugar is added to everything, including genetically modified plants, which is pretty much every plant you buy in the supermarket.
Which one? Indian Kitchen? Ganges? Beijing isn't Tokyo when it comes to Indian food, but it isn't that bad!
Wouldn't that be a smoothie? I'm curious about the difference with just eating the fruit.
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I agree with your point 2, but I disagree on point 1.

> when you make juice, you leave some of the most wholesome parts of the fruit behind. The skin on an apple, the seeds in raspberries and the membranes that hold orange segments together

Since people mean one of those smoothie-like juice which you make with a blender when they talk about "healthy juice", I'll talk about that. It's actually the opposite for me. I never eat apple skin, and never really like raspberry seeds, also no grape seeds. But when I put them all into a juicer and make a juice, i drink all that.

Who drinks "squeezed juice" nowadays when they can make one with a juicer anyway?
Also e.g. the ACM copyright agreement explicitly allows you to host your own papers on your own website, even though you've assigned copyright to ACM.

I don't think this applies to places like academia.edu or Researchgate, but IANAL.
School computers were locked down for me since at least 1998.
I forgot to mention the difference leaves different room for how much impact other factors can contribute to the final outcome, which, in my opinion, is more important.
Strange... the author claims milk is necessary for healthy growth in young children (which is ridiculous in its own right) and links to a study on fruit consumption.
Touché. Excellent point.
> Apple willingly jettisoned the school market to focus on consumers

Which is foolish; they have the resources to devote to both, but they don't know how to do more than 1 thing at a time. The lack of bulk iPad management tools until recently (and I don't even know how good they are now) makes them almost unusable in a lot of school situations.
In LA, Bollywood Bites, an Indian resteraunt, has an ethnic menu where you can order various food transplanted to Indian transplanted to the USA, so things like Manchurian Chicken are there.
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> I think the problem is less that there are companies who want to sell you "faster internet to specific websites" and more that there can't be any companies who want to sell you "fast internet to all websites."

I don't follow. You don't feel there are currently any companies that provide fast access to all websites? Perhaps that's true in some parts of the US, but it isn't true worldwide. That suggests there is another way to go about setting up a competitive environment that yields low cost, high speed internet.

> I'm just not sure it's fair to say that one side here is for content agnostic networks and the other is against them, but rather two different approaches to solving the problem where just about everyone agrees with content agnostic networks.

When your ISP middle man charges special access fees for certain data, that isn't content agnostic. It's specifically giving preference to some content over others based on big corporate $$.
Don't beets contain a lot of sugar? Isn't that what table sugar is refined from these days?
Exactly what I was thinking. For less advanced students, you could even provide more templates, etc. There's something to be said for long multidisciplinary projects.
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I thought we learned during the 2016 campaign that most polls misrepresent reality...
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"The gold in the U.S. was earned by West Germany through trade surpluses in the 1950s and 1960s and was never moved out of the United States due to fear of invasion by the Soviet Union."

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

So for a while the U.S. was saying to Germany 'thanks for those cars, machine tool and other goodies, have some gold, we will keep it in the vault safe until you need it...' and, after a while, got a bit lax about moving the piles of gold from one vault to the next.

So it is not as if this gold got there due to the Germans prudently shipping it across the Atlantic for safe keeping, it is money that should have been paid in gold for goods exported by Germany to the USA. I think they were promised to be paid and no physical gold was ever moved or paid.
Well, that was what we saw from outside. I'm partial to the notion that they actually believed they were going to have a broader appeal with iPads.

However, as a parent and as a long-time Apple user, I think they are completely incompetent at multi-user scenarios in general - Classroom 2.0 is "cute" but impractical in the few times I tried to help teachers to use it, iPad multi-user is nowhere to be seen in practice, and the price points are completely outrageous (my kids' school uses iPads).

To add insult to injury, parental control is also MIA (tangent, I know, but relevant in the overall picture).

Chromebooks walk all over that - they're cheaper, have pretty decent unified management (not really business-grade, but straightforward and effective enough for K12, for instance), and they have real keyboards.

Things start flaking out a bit upmarket (when you're in college, a Chromebook and Google services might not be the best computer/environment to use depending on your major, for a lot of reasons), but in general, and from what I picked up during a deep dive into the education segment a couple of months ago, I'm not surprised they're popular.

What I _am_ surprised (and then again, not much, really) is that Google and their hardware partners don't seem to tackle European markets in earnest. I had to buy a Chromebook in the US for my own use, and if I were to replace it today I would probably have to have something shipped from the US again - they are nowhere to be found in retail in my neck of the woods, and European online retailers only seem to stock a few outdated models.

So I guess the scenario the article describes is going to remain US-only for a long while.
> your brain doesn’t get the same “I’m full” signal that it does from solid food

Does that mean if I'm underweight, I should drink a lot of it?
Gold is extremely rare on Earth, because it is extremely rare in the universe - it comes from neutron star collisions. [1] To underline the scarcity on Earth, there are thoughts that we are reaching 'peak gold.' [2] You can read here the lengths we go to to get at small seams of gold: http://gizmodo.com/terrifying-facts-about-the-worlds-deepest... Asteroid mining may be a check on this.

Most of the gold in the world is used for jewelery approx 68-78% depending on the estimate. It does have its uses as an industrial metal, but if there wasn't gold tomorrow, the sun would still rise.

In the US, we don't have the same cultural relationship with gold that exists in India, China and elsewhere, where most of the demand is. Keynes called gold a 'barbarous relic,' and I think that's been adopted to some degree in our culture. Central banks hold many currencies, and in some cases baskets of currency. Gold is another that can't be printed, and has a multi-thousand year track record (what currency can claim that?).

More immediately, if I was in the shoes of a central banker, I would be looking to participate in the future gold-backed currency markets. Gaddhafi tried to start a gold-backed Dinar as a pan-African currency and to settle oil trades that would have competed with the petrodollar system. A bayonet and several bullets put these plans on hold. There has been talk of Russia, the top oil producer [3][4], and China moving to gold backed currencies [4].

I have exposure to gold mining stocks. For me, I'm thinking about the reasons above. I'm also thinking about the next financial crisis with the backdrop of rates barely above 0%, a massively leveraged derivatives market that will eventually be looking for real assets at the end of all of the complex chained structures, a massive debt overhang, and looking at what Moody's thinks about our pension system, Social Security, and Medicare [5]. Trying to stay hedged.

[1] https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2013-19
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_gold
[3] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-20/russia-ov...
[4] https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanlewis/2016/05/05/china-is... (note: commentary piece)
[5] https://www.moodys.com/research/Moodys-US-government-pension...
The phones and the operating system were great, but the ecosystem was not there and that was a problem. I used 920 and 930, but then switched to iPhone due to lack of 3rd party software (either the software was completely missing or the features arrived late).
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I'm doing some serious kicking of tires with serverless, and totally concur on the lack of efficient development workflow. I told a colleague last week that my productivity is about on par with assembly language programming in the 80s, or even punched car programming in the 70s (I've done both). I know that part of this is my needing to create new workflow, but I am concerned that part of it is implicit in underlying model. I hope that I am wrong and that it's just growing pains. The good things about serverless are great indeed.
There is plenty of reasonable sichuan food in the Bay Area, especially outside of San Francisco (e.g. Little sichuan in San Mateo).
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They must. I add them occasionally to sweeten the end product.
You don't actually need that good a credit score, since it's a charge card, not credit. You mainly just need the >$500/yr membership fee.
I see a lot of people consuming things like juice, whole grain breads, breakfast cereals, sugar-filled nut butters and yogurts, etc. claiming they made "healthy" choices. Of course everything is fine in moderation but a heaping pile of sugar and simple carbs with no lean proteins, good fats or greens is far from healthy. The solution would seem to be better nutrition education so that more people recognize the fat free yogurt they just felt good about eating had 25g of added sugar per serving.