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The real problem is that their extremely high costs are an enormous barrier to entry for anyone trying to build a product that is more than just a low throughput CRUD app.

$35 vs. $500 means that when you are in the bootstrap phase you do not use Heroku. Meaning you do not get used to the very nice quality of life features they have for deployment, CI, etc. Then by the time you have income or an investment switching to Heroku makes even less sense because you've already invested into whatever stack you are using.

With the availability of high level tools on AWS and GCE, it does not take that much work to get to a functional system for CI and deployment. My small team of three at my last gig managed to tie Bamboo to a large scale AWS deployment with what amounted to basically a side project worth of effort.
Unless the laws of physics require the quick and painless destruction of the original in order to get the information to send to the other side, I wouldn't count on it being quick and painless.

All I'd count on is that it would be the cheapest method that does the job. If soundproofing the booth and killing you slowly and painfully saves them money over quick and painless, you are probably getting slow and painful.

Personally, my threshold question for whether or not I would consider using a transporter is: can this technology be tweaked to make a duplicator instead of a transporter?

If the answer is "yes", I'm not riding.
> On the occasions that I have lived in Europe, I always spoke of how interesting it was that we could just "drive to St. Petersburg" or "just drive to Transylvania" or whatever, and otherwise smart and interesting european friends would look at me like I was a crazy person. It is very, very rare to meet Europeans who drive across multiple countries for leisure.

Me and my gf did a Bucharest-to-Geneva and back car-trip last year and it was wonderful. There's something to be said about getting up to 2,000 meters in the Swiss Alps using a 1.4l gasoline engine car with 86bhp (probably less now, as the car is already 10 years old), all in third gear. Plus riding on the Austrian and German autobahns, as a car-lover that's pure bliss. Or riding on the Autostrade of Northern Italy in the middle of the night and stopping for an 1-euro ristretto at a gas station which was better-tasting than the majority of coffee-drinks that I had ever had.

But you're of course correct, ours was an isolated experience. I think my car was the only Romania (or Eastern-Europe)-licensed plate on the streets of Geneva (and Lausanne). If only gasoline were less expensive...
Because investors are entitled in a literal sense, not a figurative one.
It would be relatively straightforward to announce the scanners you use without disclosing your analysis/correlation tools (which presumably is where you're looking to add value here?)

I'd echo the other comments about being very careful with language like "non-intrusive", I've taken systems down with a single ' character in a login box before or by carrying out basic port scans.

Now obviously you could say that a system that fragile has bigger problems, but customers tend not to feel that way if something bad has happened to their site on the day you're scanning them...
I think this is often overlooked. Traction aids and computer control has filled in so much as horsepower and weight increases. It's absolutely mind-boggling that people drive around in giant SUVs with huge amounts of horsepower until you look at the suspension and brakes - which are bigger and more complex than performance cars of just a few years ago.

* still a "petrohead" but I prefer light weight and low displacement (Lotus FTW!)
Just as a point of reference:. I got hired 'through the backdoor' at a research institute once. I applied for a ba/bs biologist position and got a substantial pay raise over the postdoc position I had prior. Eventually they converted me over to postdoc and with a pay raise with the promotion, I became the highest paid postdoc.
One thing I know for sure is the enormous difference between myself as a beginner and today!
You should try sudoku as well. Instant gratification.
People are going to be on their phone at 70 MPH no matter what do-dads are in their car. The best we can do is take the human element out of the equation.
Right off the bat, rolling nullability into the static typechecker is a significant break from Java.
Not really. A fire's heat creates conditions under which fire more easily spreads by drying out the surrounding area. That's does not suggest needs / wants / goals etc it simply a statement of what happens in very specific circumstances. Further, while evolution might seem to be dissipating energy, oxygen + coal is a much larger reserve of energy than you get in similar environment without life.
Close to 7 figures? How are you doing that math? (Genuinely curious)
"To me, the last 15 years have been car manufacturers figuring out that with the right kind of engineering, you can get rid of turbo lag, and if you don't have lag or reliability problems, turbos make everything better. Smaller, faster, more fuel-efficient. My dad's sedan has a twin turbo these days. It gets 35 mpg."

I think this is a mistaken interpretation of what is going on.

What I believe is happening is that ever-increasing emissions and fleet efficiency requirements have seriously clamped down on what carmakers can produce, with technology and feature creep continuing to add weight to the car.

That is why we see cars going to smaller and smaller engines (basically the entire Volvo fleet is 4 cylinder now) with increased reliance on turbo/super charging to achieve necessary horsepower.

But these things are not equal - smaller engines vibrate more, they are louder, they are most likely inline and therefore have badly balanced "secondary forces" and they are going to have trouble achieving displacement larger than 2.5L.

I have no skin in this game since I don't care at all about ICE or ICE car culture and I want to transition to fully electric vehicles ASAP.

But never forget, kids: there is no replacement for displacement.
Has anyone used officehours.io before with some sort of success?

Seems like an interesting idea, but not sure how well it would work.
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Due to it's simplicity, due to it's support for atomics, and due to some traditional Fortran features (modules, F9x object-based, build-in array support), Coarray Fortran does already allow to break it's own limits for development of more sophisticated parallel logic codes: https://github.com/MichaelSiehl/Atomic_Subroutines--How_the_...
Hey Elfen! Founder here -- thank you. :)

We're always looking to hone in our pitch and improve the product. If you or anyone else here has feedback, let me know.
> consumers would dump those ISPs in favor of others.

Competition does not exist in the US for ISPs.

> Some Companies Take Up More Bandwidth Than Others.

They pay for that bandwidth and we pay for the connection. Asking companies to pay more so they're not artificially throttled does not make sense in the actual world of the internet.

> The Government Still Allows Discrimination In Traffic.

Saying because there is vague language in NN we need to get rid of it entirely does not make any sense what so ever. You don't demolish a building because the window is broken.

> Barriers to Entry Are Created

NN removes barriers to entry for many startups that simply can't pay the "troll bridge" of the ISPs.

> Technological Stagnation

These ISPs that are for the removal of NN were given billions of dollars in tax breaks to make the internet better in the US. NN has nothing to do with development of the internet, and using Europe as an example is pretty stupid. Europe has NN, they also have heavy governmental regulation in terms of the last mile.

Saying NN is bad because it doesn't solve that problem is like saying oranges are bad because they can't power your car. It's a totally different matter.

> Internet Taxes Could Happen

If these taxes are used to deploy more public owned fiber lines, I'm all for it.

> Content Restrictions From The Government

NN has nothing to do with this.
I like the idea, but this would also be easy to game.
Yes, banks and lenders played a big role by offering up and then selling terrible loans. But they never forced anyone to buy overvalued houses. Part of reason why people were compelled to buy houses during the bubble was the "flipper" mentality and thinking that buying a house was a great investment with no risk. I believe that is what the author is talking about.
> How do you specify a fast readonly array in C?

Generally in the function declaration rather than the variable declaration, but to declare a non-aliasing pointer to array of constant ints would be

const int (restrict *my_array)[N];

or

int const (*restrict my_array)[N];

and the other two variations thereof.
I like that a lot, but the `to` syntax bugs me. Why not a colon, or Scala's `->`?
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> Blaming Harvard for this enables us to ignore that there is a fundamental issue with the structure of our society.

True, although HBS serves as incubator and training ground for the next-generation of management consultants and bankers, many of whom will eventually become Fortune 500 executives, politicians, government consultants, etc. These are people who have an undue influence on the system.
It is when you bring it first-party to a platform the size of Java.

The userbase of Objective-C was much smaller before OSX brought Cocoa to the Mac ecosystem.
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There are risks other than just not being able to build it.

If I have an app with a codebase in a language that very few people know, that's a risk. What if my main developer leaves and I need to find someone else to continue working on the code base?

You can now bet that a lot of people will be picking up Kotlin as a result of the latest announcement.
It's not like driving the wrong direction. Lets say you build 3 systems and only one gets used. You are still getting 3x the experience and your revelations could end up being very valuable for the system that does get used.
Through making a stupid graphic to descibe what I meant, I answered my own question.

http://www.theresomewhere.com/dump/stupidnevergoingtohappen....

I figured a far-off low level diversionary shield could act as a 'spike' and head off supernoval rays like some bow shock, but obviously that would be impossible to maintain a position as we orbit. Duh.

So, I guess the only even vaguely plausible shield we could have is a local one — some sort of massive heavy water density spray to absorb energies before they hit our atmosphere.. in the very vain hope.
There are a ton of Priuses on American roads, which I think are a bit larger, will easily meet or exceed those fuel efficiency numbers, and do it all while burning gasoline instead of diesel. (Diesel is more energy dense, so it's easier to get better MPG numbers with it. Diesel is also more expensive in the US, so it's not cost effective unless the efficiency gain is significant.)

It's not all that hard to find efficient cars here. The Honda Civic is rated at 32MPG city/42 highway (and our ratings tend to come in a bit worse than real-world driving will give you), Toyota Corolla is 30/42, Chevy Cruze is 31/47. You can do worse if you want, but you don't have to.
I'm more annoyed by the ridiculous "mufflers" kids seem to think are a good idea.
Atheists still exist? My my, the world really does turn slowly.
This is Kerala - women definitely have a major role and this is the best state in India for gender equality. Women even outnumber men in this state. This is also a state that historically had a matriarchal society.
I am a big fan of the blob emojis from Android 5.0.
They are very opinionated and because of that I think they were amazing at conveying emotions. To me it always seemed like the blobs had their own character and role they played.
Another thing I loved about the blobs was the consistent neutrality. Gender, color, social standing didn't matter at all. They were just blob people, doing what blob people do, display emotion and context.

In my opinion the evolution of the emojis has taken a fundamentally wrong turn. The introduction of skin, hair color variations, genders, granular selections in things like a family setup and mixing in humans is, in my view, fundamentally wrong.

To me the simplicity of the emojis were their main strength. You want family? Sure, family emoji. But now you have to select genders of parents, numbers of kids, etc. I think this guides the users into the wrong direction to convey a completely different meaning.

Maybe helping the user identify with the emojis more is a goal that people want to reach? I certainly don't. My emotions and context may be culturally flavored but otherwise quite universal and I think emojis should be the same.
Tesla could design their factory so that people don't have to work with their hands above their head all day. There's a video further up in this thread showing how a production line in a Ford factory where they clearly took care to make the workers handle things right in front of them as much as possible. It just requires you to have the worker's comfort (or, actually, health) in mind when designing the production line. Or if that's not possible, assign shifts so people don't have to work in an unhealthy position for too long. Apparently that didn't happen at Tesla, which I personally think is a fair thing to blame them for.
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And this is the guy who ppl compare to the modern age Jesus and applaud him for making the world better place and ecological. Such bs. He's personally responsible for more co2 emissions than millions of other ppl put together. The real heros are the ppl who don't have a car in the first place but use other transportation.

Seriously the only ecological car is the one that isn't built.
Ask HN: Is Hackernews still using the file system as database?
I'd love to learn a bit about what the current hosting/tech stack setup looks like. IIRC the posts were stored in files on the file system and scaled quite well vertically. Is that still the case?
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I don't think anyone would say Lambda is the answer for anything but very quick jobs, not until they pump the available run time up to an hour.
For a good anecdotal, non-American example:

My grandmother lives in quite a hilly town. Her old car was from the mid-80s, with few airbags and basically zero crumple zone, so at a certain point her kids (my mom and uncle) persuaded her to get a new one.

Her worry was power - the old car was a pretty upcharged model to make it uphill to her house, and she was not looking forward to figuring out which new models had the same power-to-weight. Turns out she needn't have worried - you can't even find a car in her preferred (pretty small) size range with that little power anymore.
> Most other businesses offer a free scan (or partial scan), so you can get an idea of what is provided.
>Most other businesss show sample reports, so you can get an idea of what is provided.

This is clearly something that we will add. Thanks for the suggestions.

As for the rest of your comment, you raise valid criticism from a technical point a view. This is our launch and we did it on hacker news to collect feedbacks. However the website is designed to target small business or mom-and-pop shops that do not have the technical shops to understand the nitty-gritty security details.

We will try to find a way to give more information about how we do our scans whithout overwhelming a non-techincal reader.
Musk has the right idea - automate everything.

I don't know why people complain about automation and robots. It's a much better job building or fixing robots than acting like one all day. That way you don't have a boring rote job that is likely to cause repetitive motion injuries.
"But you're of course correct, ours was an isolated experience. I think my car was the only Romania (or Eastern-Europe)-licensed plate on the streets of Geneva (and Lausanne). If only gasoline were less expensive..."

Good for you! I love to do these trips.

It is so baffling how uninterested most Europeans are in just getting out and driving to parts unknown. It's tremendously rewarding.
I am glad you enjoyed it, it's one of my favorite musical performances ever! Some other incredible renditions:

- Caprice 24 by Alexander Markov

- La Catedral by Ana Vidovic (worth checking her Asturias version as well)

- Pictures at an Exhibition by Kazuhito Yamashita

- Shadow by Harmen Fraanje

All of these you can find on youtube.
> 10/02/2017 – Google already fixed the issue but forgot to tell me … I contacted them asking for an update

> 19/02/2017 – Got a response, they implemented a short-term fix and forgot to sent my report to the VRP panel …

I hope Google forgetting to follow up on bug bounties and needing to be reminded isn't a common occurrence.
The overlap of capabilities is between StackStorm and Salt --
the later has many orchestration capabilities. For event driven ops it can even be used alone. I don't want to say that one is better than the other, but this comparison does not surprise me at all.

As a friend (big Ansible fan otherwise) would say: "Ansible is just a glorified bash script; nothing more, nothing else". Without making it a bad product, Ansible is that one limited to CM only.
>there are a lot of small business offering 'managed' vulnerability scans

Which managed vulnerability scanners would HNer recommend?

When I Google for them I can't tell who's good at security and who's simply good at SEO and snake-oil-selling. I would love to hear what HNers have used/would recommend.
Research organizations hate to admit it, but much of what they do would be considered "plant engineering" in heavy industry. Installing equipment, building tooling, connecting things up, and running the equipment are skilled work, but not research work. The physics community in their big-money "nuclear future" days was organized that way.

I once worked in a large R&D facility for hydraulic equipment. The place was about 75% blue collar workers - good ones, because this was all one-off stuff, not production. Only about 20% of the work force had engineering degrees.
Hi, Tom from the Firebase Realtime database team here. To address the difficulties of figuring out where performance issues were, we made a database profiler (https://firebase.google.com/docs/database/web/profile). I expect that would help pinpoint where the issue was. My informed guess would be an index was not setup as you expected and the querying was being done client side, or my next guess would be the client was rapidly connecting and disconnecting. (check clientside with Firebase.database.enableLogging(true)).

The profiler excludes SSL overhead, but you can see usage inclusive of SSL in the webconsole.
The Python interface is the only one that addresses my criticisms, but do people actually use it? Is it well supported, stable and so on?

The YAML is the default, and it's what you find examples and support for (Stack Overflow and so on). I get the impression that many of the renderers are not "official", in the sense that they're maintained by other people.

If Salt only provided a Python API, the situation would be different. As such, it's a case of too much choice, and not enough standardization. There are no less than three competing Python renderers.
You misunderstand the entire concept of modern agriculture, I think: agriculture is demand-driven. People want food, and have money to spend on food, and so companies (farms) come into existence to turn natural resources into food, so that they can take that money.

You can't just have there be "less animals", without feeding less people than have the money to pay to be fed—which is effectively impossible without abandoning capitalism: a new company would always come into existence to capture that surplus.

Looking at things through a demand-driven lens, #1 and #2 are one-another's answers: if all the existing companies restrict themselves to non-"enriched" agriculture, then the market can only support a certain number of those companies—but there is still demand, so a new company will come into existence that uses (or one of the existing companies "innovate" to use) pesticides and fertilizer, to squeeze more feedstock out of the same land, to produce more meat from a given agricultural base, to answer the unmet demand.

(The real "problem" with this system is that demand isn't fixed; the more food there is available in an area, the more new people the people in that area tend to make, creating a positive feedback loop where demand will never be fully satisfied, necessitating a "race to the bottom" of who can squeeze their natural resources the hardest. Fix that, rather than abandoning an allocation system for operating too well.)
I would like to get your reviews please :)
Yes, and of course they will do from the comfort and safety of a confinement bubble such as seen in the Matrix... because absolute safety trumps all.

I sure hope I don't live long enough to see a world full of people scared shitless at moving at 80 mph on a road designed for that; and I quite would like to live some time, too.
Google has been running the most advanced cloud far longer than the others, and has the efficiency and costs to show for it, which they pass on to their customers.

They're definitely being aggressive with pricing but they're still making money. Their pricing is definitely way better to deal with than AWS or Azure.
> I always wondered why American cars are so inefficient. Seems such a waste of your significantly cheaper gas

Cart before the horse? Cars are inefficient because gas is dirt cheap. If gas were expensive, people would shift away from guzzlers. We have documented evidence of this happening after both the 70s gas crisis and the shift towards hybrids/EVs during the $4/gallon gas $100/barrel of oil days.

It's a pretty easy optimization game to play. If we increased gas taxes instead of flat demanding a fleet MPG (which the manufacturers simply game by making one or two hyper-efficient compliance vehicles which lets them continue to build guzzlers), you'd see how quickly the market would turn...
I wasn't "talking shit about Africa", I have no hidden agenda about this topic (or any other kind of agenda).

My phrasing was a bit awkward but my point was exactly what you said.

Every time there's a discussion about major cloud providers (Amazon, Google, etc.) in Africa someone says: "oh, there are DCs in Africa". Then you look them up and they're all in South Africa and the rest of Africa is blank.
I bet you can change the val color to something that contrasts the var color in an IDE.
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Ah, this is from back in March.

The consensus opinion then was that the surveyed folks were corp IT oriented, looking to transition purely Microsoft-centric workloads to a cloud provider. In that specific scenario, Azure is a solid choice. For non-Windows workloads, it's generally far more debatable.

Disclosure: I write a weekly newsletter (lastweekinaws.com) that focuses on AWS; I'm much less familiar with Azure.)
I strongly disagree with the magnitude of certainty and uncertainty you assign to these various things. We really have no idea how this stuff actually works. For all we know, your consciousness was in my body until a second ago.

All we actually have to work with here is memory. Based on this, we have the illusion of continuity of consciousness. But we have no real clue if that actually happens or if it's just something we've made up.
> amortized over a decade or so
If you really want to annoy me, use soundex[1] as a final normalization step.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundex
The video really helped me. I've been working on an idea and have been getting some bites. Is this product-market fit? Nope.

What he says just makes sense. There are no real metrics to describe it. I'l know when I find it.