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If you think Ja Rule won't just let the business entity declare bankruptcy while he continues to tweet "NOT MY FAULT" because he used to have hits (the last time he charted was 2004), you are very naive.

It seems very unlikely that everyone who paid will get their money back. Ironically, it's probably the people that paid the most/have the most "influence" will be reimbursed the fastest (if at all), because the "organizers" were most assuredly obsessed with status. The people that paid the least/have the least will almost definitely be the most screwed. They were asking people to sign pieces of paper for refunds. Come on.

The co-founder of the event has a history of over-promising and under-delivering [1], Ja Rule hasn't had a hit in 13 years and is irrelevant, and the only people that probably got paid upfront were the models [2] that posted on Instagram but were then warned not to come to Miami [3].

[1]: http://www.businessinsider.com/magnises-complaints-from-memb...
[2]: https://news.vice.com/story/fyre-festivals-25-year-old-organ...
[3]: http://pagesix.com/2017/04/28/a-listers-told-to-avoid-disast...
I recently got an older Surface Pro 1st gen.

And it came with Windows 8.1. And I reminded how awful the UI was compared to 10. That mix between Tablet/Touch and Desktop, when Microsoft was in a very pigheaded way.

The true 'crippled' nature of Windows 10 isn't the UI. It's the intrusive always on Updates, Apps, ads on your desktop, popups on your lockscreen, etc that 'cripple' it.
The use of "native" in this thread is confusing. My understanding is that in the US, the term is normally used to refer to "Native Americans"

I'm not sure what the correct term would be though. "Natural born citizen" normally means someone who is a citizen through birthright, usually, but not always, because they were born within the US.

The phrase that I've most commonly heard is "Nth generation American", but does this require all members of N generations to be citizens? My daughter is eligible to be a "Daughter of the Revolution", but I'm not (yet) a citizen
I don't really follow any of this. THT is indisputably about misogyny (and racism, and authoritarianism). You don't have to take my word about that. And, of course, 1984 is drawn from Soviet communism, but not "about" communism.
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You could also go for the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Schickele
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._D._Q._Bach
Would it help to get multiple images from the pieces on the belt, each illuminated from a different direction by some kind of strobe? Then the shadows could be incorporated in detecting some shape information. Might even help with translucent pieces.

Colored strobes may also help separating out different color pieces, although I expect that would be overkill.
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Looks like the intention was there, they pull in TclX with a comment about it.

https://gist.github.com/antirez/6ca04dd191bdb82aad9fb241013e...

Guessing he just found some interim version that wasn't the one he actually wanted to post.
Quota seems to be going well, just raised funding at a 1.8$ billion valuation and with now "190 million monthly users, up from 100 million a year ago"
https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/21/uniquorn/
Can we start this at the ballot iniative level? I imagine that if the change was worded like "An inatiative​ that requires free, public access to all government funded research" would be a relatively non-partisan issue.
Persisted = Burn millions of $ because some insignificant minuscule minority happens to like their phones.
How long can it take to learn how to cook rice? Couple of hours?
A new Canadian naval base is being constructed in Nanisivik, Nunavut I was reading about the Alert base and saw info on the new base at Nanisivik.

The new base is almost right in line with the Northwest Passage so I assume it's meant to police it just in time for the big melt.
To be clear this is less about the Internet and more about the USA. I doubt Internet users in other countries should really care about net neutrality in the USA. If anything, once the FCC ruins the Internet for Americans other countries will take pride in being less like the USA and strengthening their net neutrality legislation. Similarly to how health care discourse in EU countries often cites the USA as the bad example to avoid.
That Switzerland is a landlocked country surrounded by Germany and its allies, who are also Switzerland's biggest trading partners is a stronger reason they wouldn't steal from Germany. The consequences of doing so would be devastating.

The US, on the other hand could get away with it, being too big to fail.
I should point out it was a linux terminal server.

much much cheaper. seemed to scale reasonably well too.
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Every devops guy I know is really excited about serverless. I don't think it's because they think it's going to get rid of their jobs.
What's most interest is that the A.I. made this forecast before Trump even took office - back on January 11.
Ask HN: Would you be interested in a “cyberpunk” inspired news site?
Hi HN,

I've been thinking about starting a blog / news site covering topics like privacy, cryptography, robotics, software etc, with a critical view on their evolution and potential effects on society at large.

Ideally it would be made of long form, researched, in depth articles and interviews with experts in those fields.

I'd also like to feature regular "hackers" doing cool stuff (like the guy who traveled to shenzhen to build his own iPhone)

What do you think of this idea ? Would you be interested in reading such a site if it existed ?
I think it is lemming stupidity. Building one's own "cloud" is easy, and can be one in a tiny fraction of the expense any cloud provider charges. The mindless march to the cloud is a huge competitive advantage for anyone "brave" enough to buck the propaganda and run their own hardware.

There is a breed of developer that is doing REST in C++, building services that live in only a few hundred K, and a single physical server can concurrently host thousands of such services for an expense of $75 a month, running 24/7 with 16 cores and 16 GB RAM. The same capacity on a cloud provider is exponentially higher for a single server.

You know that "fake news" idea? I think it has been manipulating developer opinion for a while. The cloud does not make sense, unless you are a cloud provider with a reason to sell that lie.
>> In isolation, human behavior is actually quite predictable; only in the aggregate does it get difficult to predict.

It's the opposite, isn't it? You can predict what a group of people will do on average, but you can't know whether a specific person picked out of that group will be average, or an outlier.
I am aware of the etymology of emoji; I think your interpretation goes well beyond "fair", all the way to "wildly reaching". It also doesn't explain the "emojie" in "a simple emojie journal" unless you want to make a case for "picture-character picture".
The term "artificial intelligence" is applied when a machine mimics "cognitive" functions that humans associate with other human minds. Understanding the shape in a image, reading the text from a photo can also be considered AI.
The conversion rate will tend to be low in any process that is designed to protect against false positives. Protecting against false positives is generally the preferred process for early stage companies and late stage companies (e.g. small startups and Google/Facebook etc.) A company that is staffing up fast can often exchange more churn for expansion, in part because even with a selective process the rapid change induced by expansion will cause churn organically as people's roles and responsibility evolve and the hierarchy adds layers and the org chart adds links.
Thanks sherm8n. Happy to chat to anyone about best practices, but our platforms lets you set commission and make payouts.
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I don't understand it, there should be a customer base for managed rather than BYOD devices where a Microsoft device should be mandatory, as per Blackberry in earlier times. Although not a huge market compared to the mainstream iOS/Android world this market could make enough money to support three or four devices that do a good job of running Microsoft things.

Such devices need not be marketed as 'phones' but more as 'Pocket Office', so you have a gadget that completely connects you to work doing things like Office and Outlook properly, a deluxe experience. Remote desktop should also be a thing so your 'Pocket Office' can be just another desktop window, with Synergy style copy and paste. It would not have been that hard for them to have got that seamless experience right, to not care about regular phone apps and just deliver the experience their corporate customers would want, with endpoints of their network fully locked down.

Surface has proven that MS can sell decent hardware to companies, they should have done the same with the phone even if the market was to be a new 'Pocket Office' one rather than a 'smartphone' one.
I know someone on one of the booking agencies involved. They insisted that all the DJ's get paid up front. So they basically all got a free vacation to Miami.
The scholar in me admits that you have a point, but the practicist in me says, who cares? Let's use this narrative to get the basic social guarantees that all those poor and middle class people have in Europe-- education, health care, retirement, etc.
Is a 100% filled in linked in profile something to strive for? It seems like the poster has chosen an arbitrary goal, then seeks to manipulate the goal so he can finish it. Why not just choose a different goal?
> You act like a full scale revolution is the only solution and that this would somehow redistribute wealth.

Where did that come from? I didn't read that in the above comment.

Unless you have this idea that to get to socialism one has to undergo a bloody revolution? Nope. One just have to set up taxes properly and pump up public services.
I've always wondered: what would happen when most nations central bank's gold holding drop below say 20%? or 10%?

Is there a cliff where gold as a store of value just starts crashing? Or would the fantasy continue for the non-institutional holders for a while?
The problem here is that our technological society needs metals to operate. But getting those metals is making a big mess in less-developed places like this, for the benefit of the more-developed places.

So, the solution is simple: mine asteroids. No one cares about pollution in space.
This reminds everyone that a new season is coming out. The larger the news story the more people who will watch, the more subscriptions netflix gets.

Kinda surprised netflix hasn't gone for a strategy where they post the first three episode of a series online for free and then require a subscription for the rest.
We have this in South Africa as well.
Looks like the startup is trying different approaches to increase their revenue.

Paid monthly subscription and analytics charges to the end user. I guess the author thinks it is the end of the platform, which is possible. I'm just hesitate to immediately conclude the business is done because of this choice. If the paid upgrades don't provide enough value the people won't sign up and maybe they will focus on another way. Research Gate is very similar site that sells ad space and for job postings so maybe they will head in that direction.
Arxiv submitters were sent pleas for funding at least twice during the 2000's. I don't have the emails because I no longer work at the schools that gave me those email accounts.
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Serverless does not make DevOps obsolete. It just make less of a must for everyday team. Do you want to enter to Russian, Vietnamese, or an African country in general? Then you will likely need devops.
That's said you only need to take over the Bundesplatz in Berne.

(Still I'm not sure what it would achieve to start an open war...)
My Fonts had a tool for doing this back in (at least) 2009... I remember because I tried to run the burning "NERDS" sign from "Revenge of the nerds" through it. Didn't work very well though: I had to resort to human intervention. http://www.mrspeaker.net/2009/01/21/revenge-of-the-font-nerd...

Keen for an online version of this project so I can see if it fares any better!
If you worry about accreditation and brand recognition, why not do a Bachelor's degree in Europe for free/cheap and then do a Masters in the US?

The Masters programs in top US universities are much easier to get into than their undergraduate degrees, and you'll only pay crazy fees for a short while.

Moreover, undergraduate teaching isn's all that different anyway, they mostly use the same textbooks, and most important: how much you learn is mostly a function of how much effort studying you put in (aka the negative correlation between party and learning). A good Bachelor's degree from a good European university coupled with a good letter of recommendation will get you into masters program in top US schools. (Source: I'm teaching at a European univ here, and I always gets my top students into US masters courses if I want to.)
Gold is not useless in industry. It is used to conduct electricity in many industrial settings. It also has other uses - dentists use it as a tooth crown etc. That it is useful is why it has value.

Yes, storing and transporting gold for financial purposes may be a waste of resources. But gold is easier to store than most commodities - put it in a vault for several centuries and forget about it. You can't do that with strawberries. You can transport a lot of value in several ounces of gold without much space needed.
AI was around the corner when I learnt LISP and analogue processor arrays 20 years ago. Still not here.
There's a subreddit called r/findareddit where you can ask where to ask.

https://www.reddit.com/r/findareddit/
The general point is a good one. However, the specific issue the author raises (paid advanced search) is easily avoided with google's "site" operator, e.g. "potterheads site:academia.edu"
Reread the OPs post then because it did
Did you follow the link? MPAA's Best Practices are spelled out in explicit detail on a PDF linked from that page. It's a fascinating read.
"The exception [that] proves the rule" is a saying whose meaning has been interpreted or misinterpreted in various ways. Its true, or at least original, meaning is that the presence of an exception applying to a specific case establishes ("proves") that a general rule exists.
The minority that likes their phones may be miniscule in comparison to say the iPhone. But in the phone market a small market share can still equal billions a year.

There is room for them to carve out a niche of Microsoft Phones earning them a couple of billion in revenue, and a couple of hundred million in profit. However for a big company like Microsoft that money is a drop in the ocean, and they want to own the market which at this point in time is unrealistic for them unless they can produce something truely groundbreaking.
You want an analogy, here's a simple one.

The Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) was created in 1887 to prevent the vertical integration of the freight train industry. Folks like Rockefeller (Standard Oil) owned the oil production and shipping (freight trains). And used their ownership of freight trains to price discriminate against competitors. Standard Oil shipped for free, other's oil had to pay so much money it put them out of business. The ICC was founded to combat this and break up vertical monopolies.

In 1934 the FCC was founded in a similar vein as the ICC. One of its founding missions is to break up/prevent/regulate vertical monopolies.

What the ISPs want is they want to be Rockefeller. They want to own the transit and the oil, only this time the transit is moving at the speed of light, and the oil is packets.
He was complaining about the LinkedIn UI, and probably things like email, that would constantly complain about it being unfinished.

They've moved away from percentages, but it still nags you: http://imgur.com/a/vVOdv

Note there's a "NOT NOW" button, but no "NOT EVER" button.
Lots of smaller shipments, each secured. Potentially air or sea (probably would do 1-10 ton air shipments for JFK-FRA). Plenty of $100mm-1b items get shipped around the world routinely, although gold is pretty uniquely fungible. It is mostly determined by insurance or willingness to self-insure, though.

This is a great article about a similar problem: http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/08/23/how-to-get-...
A lot of the time, it's not even sent to the journalist in question. It's just 'someone else reported on something, so every site in the same niche rewrites the story in their own words'.

That's why every single 'controversy' and news story ends up on every media site under the sun.
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>c) Not doing regular audits of the locks their using vs. what criminals can crack

Any business that did this would quickly discover that all their locks can be quickly bypassed by criminals.

Physical entry is easy to do but involves much more risk. Remote entry via computers is much harder but much less risky.
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Exponentially higher does not even cover it.

You pay several orders of magnitudes more.

I’ve run the numbers several times, going from

colo -> rented dedicated -> rented VPS -> cloud VPS (think EC2) -> containerized cloud (think heroku) -> serverless (think AWS lambda)

is, on each step, at least a 2x or 5x increase in cost for the same computational power.

I started out a few years ago with my hobby projects on Heroku, migrated them to Digital Ocean, from there to OVH’ VPS, and now migrated them last year to rented bare metal.

Every migration multiplied my available resources at the same cost, and it’s definitely been worth it.

I did a price comparison of VPS and some bare metal providers over at https://gist.github.com/justjanne/205cc548148829078d4bf2fd39... and the result is pretty much just that. For 16$ a month I can get enough performance to run services handling tenthousands of concurrent users if I go with bare metal, or I can’t even handle a few hundred if I go with the "cloud".
The ability to plan falls out of experience.

All you have to do is listen to your users and do what's necessary if you have scars to remind you that sticking IO here will bring the system to its knees on a real user load, or that this customer is going to ask for LDAP integration next week so you better build your authentication accordingly.
What about cartesian programming?
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> We can keep our source in the cloud and edit it there

Even with this, it doesn't currently save you from code deployment for serverless functions. Editing in a remote-session doesn't help here, either. I have indeed developed via OSXFuse. That works fine (though none of the tools work quite properly together. Nothing detects file changes at the right time).

There are many other issues, but remote debugging is also a massive pain point, and in my experience devs are already somewhat prone to painstakingly printline debugging where other tools would be far more efficient. (PHP is sadly kind of the best at this as an artifact of PHP debugging being generally miserable.)
> the deposits are effectively on call, and apparently they are not

IMO you need more than speculation to claim that. Besides, it is known that US gold bars are of poor quality (a lot of the Banque de France gold is being recast because of it).

"buyers don’t want the beat-up American gold"
and “American gold,” the official says. “It is the ugliest.”
https://www.bullionstar.com/gold-university/banque-de-france...
> My real problem with serverless (right now) is that it just destroys your ability to have an efficient development workflow. Unless you want to use the really specific nodejs serverless framework.

What do you miss from Kong?

My main problem with serverless is the unreplicable latency tests. The latency metrics are below the threshold so far but if not, I will have not much of an idea why.
While I haven't used Erlang, I have used other systems with nice messaging systems (PX4 autopilot and ROS) so I will try:

1) Data is passed between threads/processes using a message bus (essentially, a queue). This means, no need to synchronize data access, as every subscriber gets it's own message copy.

2) Suddenly, you need access to certain data from another module. If the program was architected as regular class hierarchy, you would somehow need to pass the reference to that required class instance or use a global function call. If there is a message bus where the required class is already publishing messages, you can simply subscribe to data from the required module and it is delivered via message bus.

3) You can replace modules easily. The only interface to other modules is via message bus, so you can replace the module with one that publishes the same type of messages.

4) If the message bus is designed correctly, you can move the modules/process to different machines, and they can access the message bus over network. Bus broker just sends the messages over TCP instead and that is totally transparent for both involved nodes.

Btw, I am still looking for an infrastructure library just like that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14222202
Apple had an amazing product for schools and was dominating one-to-one laptop programs with their highly-repairable white plastic macbooks. And then they discontinued them to push iPads and the far-pricier macbook pros. Apple willingly jettisoned the school market to focus on consumers
The trouble is that if you actually traveled to some of these places and really liked the food, most of the "adapted" stuff just tastes bland. Some adjustments due to availability of ingredients I can live with, but most of the time the adapted version is just a slightly worse version of the original.

In part, this is also a problem of not having enough names for things. I guess there would be much less arguments over pizza if the Italian and American versions just had completely different names.

In the end, if I order an "Italian" pizza I actually do expect it to be made according to the One Italian Way, and would be disappointed if it's not.
I live in an area in Toronto that is very chinese (chinese supermarkets, chinese mall, even chinese doctor offices - you can pretty much live normally here without speaking a word of english) and my impression of restaurants in the area has been that rather than it being a dichotomy in terms of "american" vs "chinese" chinese food, the dichotomy is that chinese cuisine is extremely diverse compared to north american fare. You can go to a west chinese restaurant and get food that looks like afghan food, or go to a northern china place and get a mind-bogglingly spicy fish stew. There's dim sum, hong kong style cafeterias, szechuan, shanghai-style, and the list goes on and on and on. And a lot of it is quite accessible food without organs or chicken feet.

My wife tells that me that in china, you get diversity even in north american chains: pizza hut there is apparently considered "fancy food" and you can get all sorts of interesting things from KFC or mcdonalds.