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The Chrome worker for the demo site accumulated about 600mb of ram. Is the editor really that heavy or is the demo page abnormally heavy?
Will private citizens be allowed to hack Sony next time they instal spyware on consumer computers (presumably there will be an exemption for government sponsored hacking)?
And your point is? besides self-aggrandizing yourself there is no point related with the original topic of my comment nor yours.
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When you say not optimized for mobile, does that include use on laptops?
I suppose my thesis is hackathons don't promote end results with longevity, versus libraries and other foundational tools.

I'm not against throwing code away. I'm just not sold that the results of hackathons provide value.
Nice! what are you using for the Photos page on your site?
Yes, people use it. It's awesome and so is qml. Many multiplatform software use qt. Then there is Linux and kde and all that.

Please learn to leave your bubble once in a while. It is the only way you can develop.
https://blog.saush.com/2006/09/08/getting-information-from-a...

Almost all payment chip cards (except in France) uses a worldwide standard called EMV

A quick check with the smart card list maintained by Ludovic Rousseau shows that the card I used (UOB Platinum Visa Card) is likely to an IBM JCOP (JavaCard Open Platform) 30 chip card.
I don't know about rationale, but, IIRC, a significant portion of the deaths are from sherpas. In a 2014 avalanche, out of the 16 fatalities, 14 were Sherpas.

Regardless of the ratio of Sherpas-to-tourist deaths, almost every year a few Sherpas die performing the real dangerous work of running up and down the mountain making the climb manageable for the tourists, installing ladders and carrying oxygen to base camps and such.

So for the tourist, the death rate is probably much lower, likely in line with other dangerous activities such as skydiving, base jumping or race car driving.
Obviously they did something terribly wrong in the first place and now are showing off being all right. Netty would probably faster. As there're no details at all, I feel free to just guess :-).

I recently found Node much faster then .NET Core for a very specific scenario:

Elasticsearch - Node / ASP.NET Core (Kestrel) - NGINX - Client

where every connection must be TLS. So, Node / ASP.NET Core have to decrypt traffic from Elasticsearch and encrypt to NGINX. For a minimal workload the whole trip took 50 ms with .NET Core and 20 ms with Node. Obviously there's something wrong with the .NET setup - maybe some setting with Kestrel and TLS.

Anyway, that's my anecdote. And I wouldn't dare writing a block post how node is 2,5 times faster than .NET.
We're trying to improve the experience. One possible issue could also be a large gifs in the content: https://storage.googleapis.com/ory.am/inline-edit-lg.gif

I'll resize that, and let you know - could you test again then?
I've also heard "Systems Engineer" used as a synonym for "Sales Engineer". That term is too overloaded to be useful.
I've come to the conclusion that "All software is ultimately abandoned". Ours is a fast-changing industry. If software isn't abandoned, it probably should be. Its the oldest frameworks and languages that get the most criticism.
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> The iterative version in a number of languages is 10 lines, but the functional version needs some way of drilling down into an array in a mutable way (a monad) in order to make it match the iterative in performance

Sure, but IMHO the monadic code necessary to implement something like Arnoldi is neither harder to write nor uglier than the same implementation in an imperative language.

If anything, this highlights a strength of the language: we can capture an imperative idea in a functional setting, and even have the ability to nicely isolate the mutability from the rest of our functional program (with `ST`).
Split into what you imagine your different white label products to be? Or split into what the market has proven your white label products will be?
They use Tokens on top of the Ethereum Blockchain which is decentralized just as Bitcoin is.
That was referring to a 2009 launch of the predecessor rocket to the one in the OP.
I like it because it looks complete and clean, however in safari for iPad the readme page in github already breaks and says the typical:

"A problem has ocurred, so the page has been reloaded"

I hope they fix it because it looks perfect for fast mockups

Edit: it seems to sadly happen with all ORY pages including the documentation
And is the WHO primarily an aid agency, where very high travel costs would be a problem, or is it primarily a coordination body, where high travel costs would be the point? The article is just missing this piece of information how is the WHO supposed to work. (Next exercise for journalists, supposed according to the people who founded it, not supposed according to the guy who writes about it.)

More concretely, if the primary mission is getting high level officials into one room to talk about malaria, AIDS, etc. then travel expenses is precisely what the WHO is designed to do. If the WHO is designed to ship medication to third world countries, then it may be, that the WHO is doing it wrong. However travel into third world countries is expensive, you need to rent a car, hire translators, get equipment that can keep vaccines cool during transport, etc. It may be that these expenses are billed as travel expenses and only the actual vaccine is billed as cost of malaria. In that case the travel expenses should raise an eyebrow, but is still only some indication that something may either be wrong or the accounting is not optimal for PR purposes.

Actually that is a argument I notice too often, X should work like this and they're doing it wrong, according to the author, and when one looks into the matter a little bit, then it turns out that the organization in question has very good reasons to not work like this.
Containerization? That's really interesting. I knew it had a big effect on how shipping worked, but didn't realise it was as important driver of change to the world economy as electrification.

My Dad used to work as a merchant seaman, I believe he got up to first officer and had passed his captain's exam.

But then the big container ships came along, and they needed a tiny fraction of the captains, officers and seaman they needed previously per tonne and he ended up coming ashore to pursue a different career. His stories from those times are pretty amazing.
What size start-up do you think is benefited by a microservices architecture?
Yeah, I was just wondering out loud because it's a source "of the times" from people building these sorts of addictive products knowingly. I just read the book and was surprised it wasn't used as proof that people are knowingly doing it.
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Yeah some things seem very wrong to us, and probably are.

But I like to keep aware that, much that we do is viewed as appalling by others. Some is objectively worse (like healthcare, prisons, racism). Yet we struggle at the highest levels to preserve these cultural features.

Sigh.
Money: medium of exchange, store of value, unit of account.

Intrinsic utility doesn't really enter into it; the value of money is inherently social, because it relates to other people. You're either going to exchange it for something now, exchange it for something in the future, or hypothesize an exchange to put a numeric value on something concrete, a number you can compare with other numbers.
Pedantry: cats do ovulate. Not sure if it counts as "laying eggs", though.
I made a thing that turns my Instagram posts into ambient soundscapes by understanding the content of the images, searching for relevant sounds, and mixing them into looped audio scenes.

It was made for the Monthly Music Hackathon in NYC held at Spotify, but it ended up being not terribly musical and more about just fun with audio and convnets :)

https://zopf.github.io/ambiance

Oh yeah! And for another instance of the same meetup, I teamed up with a guy who was great with audio synthesis, and I hooked up an Arduino and a gyroscope and microphone to my drumstick, and we made a wireless throat-singing, spatially-aware percussion instrument:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-g1GBaTevk
touche.

the question really is a generalization of "what research would I do if I had a few orders of magnitude more computer resources?"

Well how many orders of magnitude are we talking about [1]? What would the HN guys do? Why limit the question to 2 or 3 OofM?

[1] I'm license limited to my workstation despite having access to a cluster. So the orders of magnitude are within reach.
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...unless the probes reconstitute them upon arrival?
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Not sure the cryptocurrency boom and gift certificate utility are super-correlated -- Target has been trying to trap me and my USD with those checkout cards for ages. Usually the incentive is social shame for not just giving straight cash to my friends as gifts -- here, I'm not so sure?

I guess it's about as viable as Dogecoin.
I'm happy to agree that "all sellers in a market perfectly coordinate on price" is functionally equivalent to "there is only one seller in the market", and that this qualifies as a monopoly. My comment doesn't hinge on that obvious point. (Indeed I said "alternatives from another seller", not just "alternatives", and it's pretty clear that nothing changes if all the sellers perfectly coordinate as one.)

Your explanation doesn't save your example. It will always be the case that, for any given buyer in a non-commodity market, one choice is better than all the other. (If the products are not identical, one will essentially always be at least a bit better than the others for some reason.) However, this doesn't approach a monopoly except as the alternatives become arbitrarily bad in comparison (i.e., do not function as substitutes). Yes, in this limit, it's a monopoly, but this is almost never the case.

Your remaining comments imply that anything sold at auction is a monopoly and not a free market. You also incorrectly ascribe this to lack of mobility:

> In effect, each unique location is an auction, with a different group of buyers interested (at different prices) each time. This only happens because land doesn't move.

Art, used cars, items on eBay, etc., are all products that move (unlike land) yet "each...is an auction, with a different group of buyers interested (at different prices) each time".
Again: the key mistake is that you are conflating all non-commodities as monopolies.
Number 11 is championing 1, 5, 8, and 10, to management and other developers. Number 12 is stealing developer time for 1, 5, 8, and 10.
To me Somalia and the attempts at "communist" systems demonstrate what I find to be a flaw that actually is common to both philosophies. As both purist libertarian and purist communist philosophy share a skepticism of authority, leadership, and power / social structures (even if the end goal is different).

Yet humans naturally gravitate towards tribalism. Which means at some point, naturally, leadership and power structures will emerge from any group. Whether it be the warlord-oriented chaos of Somalia or the often awful authoritarianism Lenin-inspired states seem to drift towards.

Since power naturally corrupts, I'd rather see people focused more on systems and practices that mitigate corruption at the top, e.g. proper checks and balances, transparency, etc. Wishing power structures away is unfortunately going against human nature, in my opinion.
... this very article? Where​ they said that management were explicitly telling doctors to keep patients in longer to make more money?
I don't think that's a valid analogy; firstly, you yourself can involve yourself or be privy to the academic discussions about the future of Communist ideology, Slavoj Zizek for example writes about it, as do a few modern day Marxian economists right up to Cockshott et al. and even incorporating neo-Ricardians. Secondly, the software product hasn't been made yet, and you can decide what changes will be made. And finally, there's not just one software product (ideology), there's many of them, each with either small differences or completely different in architecture.

Don't assume, get out there and take a look if you're interested. But if you're not interested, there's no need to draw up strange analogies as if they discredit a whole massive field of literature and research going back to the fall of the USSR and even before that from internal resistance (such as from Orwell, Einstein, the leftcoms and anarchists) within the USSR. Even Lenin recognised the differences in ideology, famously allowing a funeral procession for anarcho-Communist Peter Kropotkin to continue, despite his supporters being vocal opponents of the Bolsheviks. And what of the Mensheviks, too?

There is too much to dismiss, at least in my opinion. Though I admit that if we want to continue with Marxism-Leninism, a specific variant of Marxism which is a specific variant of German Socialism which is a specific variant of Communism, then we should investigate that. If not, then we shouldn't dismiss the rest of Marxism, the rest of Socialism and the rest of Communism, anarchism, egoist anarchism and even post-left (Stirnerite) anarchism, or even Georgism or social democracy. If you're going to start dismissing Communism, where do you stop with it?
Attended my first hackathon last month. We built "Spitter". It speaks twitter! You subscribe to someone's twitter account through it and whenever they tweet, you'll get a phone call and an automated voice will read out the tweet to you. Was really cool/creepy the next morning when we started getting calls with a robot reading Trump tweets about Obamacare to us!
Big parts of the toolset I use every day are several decades old; if done correctly, software can be iterated and refined until it's of a very high quality. In my experience, it tends to stand a much greater chance the smaller it is (the best examples I'm thinking of are small unix command-line tools like find, grep).
You mean, like Sandstorm did?

https://apps.sandstorm.io/app/70awyqss6jq2gkz7dwzsnvumzr0725...
Wouldn't it be much more exciting to discuss actual physical limits of computation? Something like https://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/revcomp/physlim/ ?
Will data science eliminate data science?
That's false... OP gives an example in another comment here.
We're building this for a company. What I mean is that its a big bureocracy to justify buying stuff.
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I'm thinking that the 'hackathon' is an experience, not a production technique. It has value in the teamwork it creates, the enthusiasm it kindles and so on.
If stuff gets cheaper to produce, and there's a fixed stock of money, I see no other outcome than deflation. In this case prices simply reflect that goods can be produced more efficiently.

So, if USD inflation is, say, 5% and bond yields also 5%, then you would indeed make no money by holding USD-denominated bonds. But I would argue the problem is with USD inflation in this hypothetical, since bonds also yielded 5% during the international gold standard and yet we had 2% deflation.

I would also argue that money is a sort of collectible; the only difference is that it's highly liquid. A painting might very well increase in value, but if you need to sell it quickly (as opposed to waiting six months for the right buyer) you can easily end up losing money -- if you can even find a buyer on short notice.
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I enjoyed messing around with it but, like others have noted, it seems to be resource intensive - both CPU and memory. My CPU fans kicked into turbo-jet mode after playing around with the editor for a while. Maybe it's less resource intensive on the user (non-editor) side?

Optimizations will go a long way to swaying adoption. Clients like easy-to-use editing capabilities, and it doesn't get much easier than this.
Oh tell me it does voices, according to who's tweeting!
Whenever I've been in this position, or run teams this way, its been less about saving money and more about making sure developers have to live with their own bad calls on tech. I've worked in places where dev teams would just throw code over a wall with the equivalent of a sticker saying "Works on my machine!" and weren't the ones getting woken up in the middle of the night when that overeager query taps out the memory limits, and its a recipe for headbanging.

All things being equal (i.e. I've got the money to have someone who's role is more ops than dev but still does both) having that person to "own" the production configuration is valuable, but developers still need to be in touch with what their code does in production. Otherwise you eventually end up with the equivalent of a cool interaction design that's damn near impossible to implement on the web (another pet peeve of mine...)
rebase : centralized repo :: merge : decentralized repo

rebase : linked-list :: merge : DAG

If the work/repo is truly distributed and there isn't a single permanently-authoritative repo,
a "clean, linear" history is nonsensical to even try to reason about.

In all cases it is a crutch: useful (and nice, and sufficient!) in simple settings, but restricting/misleading in more complex ones (to the point of causing many developers to not see the negative space).

You can get very far thinking of a project as a linked list, but there is a lot to be gained from being able to work effectively with DAGs when a more complex model would better fit the reality being modeled.

It's harder to grok the DAG world because the tooling is less mature, the abstractions are more complex (and powerful!), and almost all the time and money up to now has explored the hub-and-spoke model.

In many areas of technology, however, better tooling and socialization around moving from linked-lists (and even trees) to DAGs is going to unlock more advanced capabilities.

Final point: rebasing is just glorified cherry-picking. Cherry-picking definitely also has a role in a merge-focused/less-centralized world, but merges add something totally new on top of cherry-picking, which rebase does not.
Sure, but there will be a huge delay, so the "interactive" effect is kinda lost.
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I think there can be a useful interpretation for the federation idea though. There is sort of a problem with there being an over abundance of communication channels that makes the social media landscape very unweildy. Not sure if this actually address this kind of problem though.
"Many people enjoy using gold in jewelry for its own sake, not because they want to speculate on it"

I disagree. But it's not because they want to speculate. People enjoy solid gold jewelry over gold plated jewelry for the only reason that the first is "more valuable" and is associated to a "higher status." They also prefer real gold over gold imitations for the same reason.

Here is a thought experiment: if gold prices fell to $0.001 per gram tomorrow, would people continue using it in jewelry? No. I guarantee you demand for gold would dramatically fall in jewelry.

About 50% of the gold produced ends up in jewelry. Most of it ends up in solid gold / gold filled jewelry items (the rest in gold plated items.) And my claim is that demand for these solid gold / gold filled jewelry items would fall.
Yet I resent every time I have to use grep, instead of a tool integrated with my IDE. Certainly those baroque old tools have their detractors too. That they survive so long (like vi and emacs) due to cults, not objective evaluation?
I created "SideProjectors" - a marketplace for developers and entrepreneurs to buy and sell their side projects (and also you can show your side projects off too!).

https://www.sideprojectors.com

It won second prize sponsored by Freelancer at a local hackathon. That was almost 4 or 5 years ago now. I've improved the site a few times since then and it's still going quite strong! :)
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Honestly the death rate really doesn't play a large part in most peoples decisions to Climb Everest. It is something you want to do, you know the risks, and you do it. Now if you are talking about a real climbers mountain like Annapurna or K2 then the death rate is a serious issue, those are closer to 30%-40% death rate. Those mountains though will attract a different type of climber as they take real technical skill, those who can climb Everest rarely can climb those other mountains.
Yeah, my problem with hackathons is that too many people treat them like they are a beginning point of a startup.

Hackathons are to startups as martial arts tournaments are to the martial arts. You get good at the tournament by training for tournaments. But that's maybe 5% of what it takes to be really good at the overall practice. And in most cases, to get really good at the tournament, you have to do things that are only useful in tournaments and are actually anti-productive in real-life scenarios.

I still do weekend prototyping sessions, especially on my own, and there is a lot of value to that, so long as it's understood to be about learning. But from most of what I've seen about hackathons, that's not why people are being asked to come to them, and that's not why people are there.
IANAL but I imagine their are legal boundaries that come in place the second they become transferable, the second they cross international borders, etc. Personally I would argue the first time they are used to buy drugs has a cultural significance. I wonder where bitcoin would be without the Silkroad.
Opinions are subjective.
Will you provide citations for everything you said in your comment?
Which programming languages do you use to write code that runs on the server?
Dev = "how do i start a new instance? just chmod -R 777!"

Ops = "yyour code is broken!"

Devops = "I am super tired."
I believe that approach is also mentioned, but I was referring to section 5, "Potential Teaching Approaches", and specifically 5.1, "Domain Specific Language": "This approach would organize the course around designing and implementing a language for computations in a particular domain."
> ...and what do they have at hand other than addictive techniques?

Reaching for addictive behavioral models is like reaching for management policies when the hard work and long-term investment into leadership is more sustainable.

To directly respond to your question, they can for example move to a facilitation model; engagement is encouraged through longer discourse, or through editorial staff whose job is to summarize viewpoints/trends/patterns that quickly bring newcomers up to speed, but they do not moderate.

Another possibility is an aspiration model that shows the small steps and decisions it takes to succeed, rather than orient towards the highlights reel view favored today. Say someone you admire and follow wakes up at 3 am to go work out: the social media connection time-shifts to your timezone, corrects for your distance to your gym, and encourages you via your smartwatch to do the same, in realtime. They eat exactly 100g of oatmeal for breakfast; the social media connection corrects for your body measurements (lean body mass, gender, height, etc.), and says you can eat 90g to follow your aspiration person.

Yet another possibility is community-wide goal setting and pursuit. Engagement through groups creating their own layouts, platform-based applications, etc. to both decide and pursue their goals.

There are more models to consider. I posit they are not pursued by FB because they decided they cannot monetize those models under their current ad-driven monetization model, which in turn is governed by the capitalist (though not necessarily free market) model they operate under. Relax some or all of those constraints, and the other kinds of engagement models might emerge?