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You shouldn't run databases on it unless you can express exactly why you should. Me, I already have resource segmentation throughout my infrastructure. They have their own network stacks and predictable, understandable resource utilization.

I call those segments "virtual machines." It's rather harder to blog about an RDS instance (or even a self-hosted EC2 one), but you minimize moving parts and the way your bleeding-edge systems can screw you.
Perhaps you could try setting the process affinity manually with taskset or numactl?

Clearly it'd be nicer if the scheduler could figure this out automatically, but it might do in a pinch.
I think Gravity has a few moments of dodgy orbital mechanics.

Not sure if that was the point!
The idea of applying backprop to other hierarchical network structures (in this case, an economics example) seems very interesting to me.

What other use cases could this be applied to?

One I can conceptualize hazily would be manufacturing to lower defect rates or increase production rates, or something like that. I'm not sure what the structure would look like, or what the nodes would represent, but it feels like a plausible use case.

Perhaps it could also be applied to employee management (or other kinds of management)?

Part of the issue with other use cases is "getting the numbers"; it seems analogous to finding and applying metrics in various six sigma approaches - if you don't have an objective measure, you won't get very far. Now that I think a little bit about it, based on my limited knowledge and training in 6s, process mapping and optimization of processes was done in a kind of "backprop" manner...
Can't wait to see the first nanotechnology based antibiotic.
Exactly. I would go one farther and say that if there is no competition for 'an old idea' you are most likely in a lot of trouble. It's a common trope that engineers google ideas and then give up because there is already competition, while the business folk see $$$. The fact that there is competition usually means there are customers.
Ah, from this I was expecting it to be something with a little more expansion. I think I remember this.
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now that I think about it, I've had the mindset of a content based lead generation site builder for a while, but just haven't had the balls to execute on it because I didn't think it could actually make money. I have a few domains in my pocket which would be great, I just have to select which niche to dedicate myself to. could definitely use help with that.
Ask HN: What are your thoughts on the Mill CPU?
Do you think that it will be a technical and/or commercial success?

Personally I think that they dance around the two issues that have historically plagued VLIWs, static branch prediction/accurate trace scheduling and stochastic memory latency.

What're your thoughts?
Durability. Its one thing to quickly and cheaply add infrastructure, and I've traveled the world to places where this is accomplished at a dizzying pace. Its another thing altogether to engineer and build projects that can endure over time and in the face of natural and unnatural disaster.

Yes, the US is overdue for infrastructure investment. Yes, its costly and unproductive Federal and State entitlement obligations compete for these dollars. But the expense of building infrastructure in the US is justified by the longevity of its engineering and build quality. This is not the case globally.
That is nothing new though. So in the boundaries of what this statistic actually measures, the number improved.

The "real" statistic isn't a secret either and published at the same time by the same agency for everyone to see.

http://m.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/a-1133354.html
In the end this was a fail for BAT. Sure they got the money, but what would have been more valuable would have been a massive bunch of new incentivised users.
>I wonder what the Adams brothers would do with "fuck you" money

If EA bought Dwarf Fortress then they would move onto their next game:

"Slaves to Armok: God of Blood Chapter III: Simulation Hypothesis"

Some say we already live within it.
> I think Squad was never a particularly good place to be a game developer

Given the usual conditions a game developer works on, that's a particularly intense phrase.
Valve seems like it might be a little too "humane". Gotta light a fire under those devs and get them to actually release a game now and again. Valve has been coasting on Steam and Hats for way too long.
Peter Thiel and Tyler Cowen have a lot to say about this subject. The argument boils down to regulatory and cultural pressures have caused innovation to slow down drastically since the 1970s in all areas but ICT.

I strongly suggest you read "The Complacent Class" if this is a subject that interests you
I guess this explains all those 3 dollar pool rides where I was the only passenger
All these ICO's have been avoiding any SEC regulation regarding private security sales by claiming the tokens are just a method to use/exchange services on their platform, not as an investment.

However, when ICO's like this one keep happening where only 100 "accounts" own 99% of the ICO offering, you pretty much lose that argument of the tokens only being there for use of the platform. It's a private security sale, and I only see one way this will end. The SEC will make a case out of one of the ICO's 100%. They do not take advertising to unaccredited investors lightly.

My only suggestion, if you are involved in any way with an ICO (developer, investor on the team pre-ICO, etc.), either get out of the U.S. now and/or make sure all operations are happening outside the U.S. I was almost involved with a company doing essentially what these ICO's are doing (not blockchain/crypto currencies), and fortunately I figured it out before being involved, but it did not end pretty for them. Like the IRS, the SEC/others will come down hard, not a matter of if at this point, it's when and who gets the beating first. They love making cases out of someone to set precedent.

With the general public playing into an overbought token market fueled by Asian countries for the most part, the regulators/SEC will come down extremely hard on this.

I think investing in Ethereum/Bitcoin is fine, just know what you're doing, record your cost basis for when you bought it. And seeing first hand what the IRS does to people who avoid paying taxes, just make your life easy, when you exchange back to a currency that is considered a currency by the IRS, just pay your capital gains on it and move on with life. The IRS will catch up and many people will go to jail for tax evasion. Don't be one of them. Obviously, all this only pertains to the U.S..

Also for fun, if you really want to see the hysteria around the Ethereum price right now, check out r/ethtrader/ or even the Ethereum FB group. People are throwing their entire savings into this while not knowing anything about it besides everyone in the group hyping it up amongst themselves. It's really sad. Ethereum is now actively pumped heavily on MLM sites/blogs. It's beyond gross. I believe Ethereum is an amazing project and am worried that this hype fueled hysteria, once it collapses on itself, will give Ethereum a bad reputation. It is a great protocol.
I think in 2017 participation rate is a way better number to follow in Western countries.
Makes sense. I'm of the mind the immigration allowance will prob be net good; but short term it has to negatively impact honest unemployment numbers
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> in all of your new tabs

This is a bit confusing. My new tabs are for opening new web pages. And I occasionally click on one of the recently opened page icons. Will those be gone?
Facebook sometimes submit to European laws. Facebook turned off their facial recognition after Germany made it illegal, registered used data has been made available for download among a few other cases.

Recently Facebook got fined 110 millions by France for lying to antitrust regulators during the vetting of the whatsapp deal, a few days before it got fined the maximum of 150k euros for repeated infringement to local privacy laws (maximum has since been raised to a percentage of the worlwide revenue) and a few days later it got a 3 millions fine in Italy for a similar privacy offense.

I'm not sure shadow profiles are covered by the legal obligation as facebook never acknowledged the existence of those for they are illegal in the EU.

More about the difficulties and process to get your data from facebook here: http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Get_your_Data_/get_your_data...
SHA-3 does seem to have relatively little to offer by way of incentives to switch. "Just as good" isn't motivation, and any notions of higher cryptographic strength haven't been extensively discussed. "Easier to implement in hardware" will be more compelling when such hardware exists.

I'm curious about the statement that SHA-3 is slow; it links to https://www.imperialviolet.org/2016/05/16/agility.html , which doesn't seem related, and matches the previous link. I wonder if that was supposed to link to somewhere else, like http://bench.cr.yp.to/results-sha3.html (as linked from https://www.imperialviolet.org/2012/10/21/nist.html )?

From that, SHA-3 certainly doesn't run significantly faster than alternatives (variants of BLAKE do indeed outperform it), but it seems roughly on par with SHA-256/SHA-512. But "on par" doesn't give any incentive to switch.

I wonder how much relative attention the SHA-3 winner (Keccak) gets compared to other alternatives, like BLAKE?
For people who have had their contract for a while, they still are. You can't get a new phone contract that gouges you on international calls, but you can keep your old one.
Is the data correct? It says ~$150k/yearly average salary for Bay Area: http://i.imgur.com/J74O18V.png
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> Yes, Germany is a wealthy country but most of its citizens are poor.

What do you mean by "most of the citizens" are poor? I can understand if you say that Germany income gap is increasing but I can't understand this part.
in short: "SHA-3 should probably not be used. It offers no compelling advantage over SHA-2 and brings many costs."
Hi, I'm the co-founder of Peer5. The difference is that Peer5 is a hosted solution with coordination and analytics. It's an "enterprise" product with support and everything a large media company would need.
Your question reminded me of the resistance of PEX adoption in California, even though it has been widely accepted in Canada.

http://www.remodeling.hw.net/products/house-systems/californ...

I was surprised the article didn't address regulation much nor the fear of litigation (when I googled for canada pex legal, I found class action suits...)
At least in my city, nearly every construction project, private or no, receives (often unnecessary and/or astroturfed) public scrutiny.
Ahem. In the UK, the second high speed rail project, HS2 (which hasn't even started to be built) has so far awarded contracts totaling almost £0.5B to various management consultancy firms to produce nothing but checklists. It's an utter fiasco.
Is it possible to disagree in principle without parroting Trump's talking points?

I wonder if know it all's on the left will ever clue in that international relations are extremely nuanced rather than a hard science. Perhaps some people's relative willingness to cooperate is influenced by the level of respect and willingness to understand differing points of view.

I would argue this is a very important aspect of human relations and negotiations, and real world events I think support this theory quite well.
These were fun, but if i remember rightly, Apple have largely phased the Sudden Motion Sensor out on all their laptop models that come SSD only, which is increasingly almost all of them. There were some ridiculous examples of using it to sort mail into folders in mail.app as well, by tilting the MacBook left and right.
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> No patient wants to be the first to try a new treatment.

Plenty of patients are willing to try new treatments. New treatments are incredibly expensive, but unlike in other countries and industries, old treatments/technologies continue to get more and more expensive. The problem there is that pricing is totally obfuscated, and providers are able to get monopolistic profits as a result. The government could step in and hold down prices, as they do elsewhere (or at least require transparency), but their pockets are too stuffed by the monopolists to do anything. "Free markets!" they declare, destroying capitalism.
You mean right after the Copyright Term Extension act was passed?
Signatories of the letter are here: https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-senators-urge-trump-make-clea...
Given the speed with which this sold out, didn't they massively under-price their advertising space? At least versus the rampant speculation that happened.
Gah, thank you. I did, indeed, mean to link to bench.cr.yp.to. Fixed.

(The BLAKE2 page (https://blake2.net/) has a graph too.)
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What's the incentive for a user to switch to the Brave browser?

What advantages does it have over a different browser using ad- and tracker-blocking plugins, especially now that the Brave browser allows ads from these ad providers?
Database servers are generally designed from the ground-up to utilize basically the entire machine and to be left running for a long time, with caching and memory utilization techniques designed around these assumptions. VMs muck with this somewhat but at least the memory region is reserved for that VM's usage. Docker eliminates that, and k8s eliminates the knowledge even of what type of hardware/memory the system is being executed on (without taking several contrived steps to restore this).

Database servers are also designed on the assumption that each node will be available on a consistent basis, at a consistent address, and that the data directory will be available to the server as soon as it starts up (except for rare node bootstrap operations).

This is the exact opposite of what Kubernetes/Docker seek to provide, and in fact, such things can only be provided within Kubernetes by extensive special configuration that leans heavily on experimental features.

There could not be a worse ideological match. Yes, you can try really hard to ram that square peg through that round hole, eventually pushing it through with significant damage to both the peg and the hole, but why would you?
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Dang, you have a lot of rules that you enforce but don't write down. Any criticism could be called an attack and everyone is a person so you're being arbitrary. My stance is that I'm doing some guy who refers to "my engineers" like they're his royal subjects, the favor his copy editor should do him in letting him know how aragance plays with the audience. I'm arbitrarily enforcing our culture's unwritten sanction against humble bragging and general douche baggery. Basically, what you do.
Exactly and the best way to save the chickens from the wolves is not to find a better chicken house builder but to stop building chicken houses.
tl;dr

In cases where the statute of limitations has made a debt unrecoverable in court, debt collectors may nonetheless file a claim for that debt as part of the debtor's bankruptcy proceedings, even though the statute of limitations is a valid defense against the claim.

The 5-3 majority found that debt collectors don't do anything wrong by filing such claims and should not be legally prevented from doing so, because there's a difference between a claim and a valid claim, and it's up to the courts to sort out the validity.

The dissent argued that the debt collectors' business model essentially exploits the bankruptcy system. Even though they know their claim will be shot down if noticed and appropriately answered, it often goes unnoticed or not appropriately answered.
Too many value extracting rentier owners and valueless executives skimming off the top of projects done for the common good.
It's well known that the unemployment figure widely cited doesn't include discouraged workers and underemployed workers. In fact, the BLS says that when they publish the number. They also publish all of the other data you would need to get a great picture of discouraged workers and underemployment.

The fact that you find it difficult to believe but have made no effort to enlighten yourself further is telling.
Awesome, really interesting thoughts here and a lot of material for future study.
Ive not been to the archive at Goldsmiths, though I once gave Mick a haircut as "performance art" :)
Flagged for repeatedly re-posting. There was some discussion less than a month ago, and this subject hasn't resurfaced in an interesting or meaningful way since then.
Unity's great for small indie games. Complex simulations don't mix well with mandatory GC. Microstutters suck.
My main reason to run basically everything in Kubernetes is abstraction between resources and applications and standardization of deployments.

While you can achieve the same with various other ways like good configuration management and virtual machines I have found that the overall cost of creating/running and monitoring deployments on Kubernetes is smaller than on a traditional VM based solutions.
Ask HN: What language learn in 2017 to power up my technicals skills?
I'm currently a fullstack javascript developer and in the middle/long term I would like to become a backend only guy. Currently I'm searching a language to replace Node.js.

For now I have this one in mind : Ocaml, Rust, Go and Haskell. (by preference order)

Do you have some advices about this languages ?
That doesn't explain the difference in time/cost between current-day USA and current-day France or Japan. All three have modern safety and environmental regulations, yet two can complete jobs faster and for less money.
What you've said is largely true, but asserting that the US military presence in Europe costs literally nothing seems unlikely.

EDIT: I obviously misspoke using literally nothing, please replace with not a lot of money at all. The point that matters is: is it a non-trivial amount of money or not, and has it plausibly benefited Europe by decreasing the number of wars? The region does have a history of it after all.

This apparent sentiment that my line of thinking is 100% wrong feels a bit offensive to me, if anyone cares about such things, and believes that perhaps feelings affect real world behavior.
My brother and father (concrete construction) would probably lay the blame on onerous regulation. They regularly complain about nit-picky engineers with their insistence on (in their words) unreasonable slavish devotion to engineering specifications. I'm not on the jobsite so I don't actually know.

I wonder is our construction regulations are much more stringent than other western nations?
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The buck stops with a letter from 22 Republican senators?
The 100 will sadly ignore physics, logical consistency, and more, if it can better serve teen drama. Which I guess is a permissible creative decision, just not one I like.
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You'd think so... But a lot of people see Silicon Valley, see the TV shows and movies, hear the stories of a dozen people in a 10'x10' room working 30 hour days and ordering in pizza for every meal and becoming rich... And they think that's a model to follow.

When, in your mind, "more hours = more product", then it's not a huge leap to think that the abusive and ridiculous parts of the "Silicon Valley Model" are the reasons for their success, not that the success happens despite it.

I've run across several local (and very far from Silicon Valley) businesses that try and model themselves after the Silicon Valley startups, thinking it's some key to success. But the parts they model aren't the parts that, arguably, actually lead to success - exploring new ideas, MVPs, failing fast, making industry connections - it's the workspace design and cultural attitude towards hours and work/home balance.

We have several local web development shops that try and act like Silicon Valley while pumping out $3k brochure websites, and can't figure out why they're not rich yet.
Whoa, very cool.
I like the integrated live coding aspect.
The solution is shrinking the state to the bare minimum and making as many transactions as possible voluntary.
Anything completely outside your control ought not to be viewed as a problem. A circumstance, reality, boundary condition... yes. But not a problem.
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Much more likely for it to be the ole "Download it quickly and I'll make it private"

Edit: After reading the article, I have no idea what could explain this. They had a dozen passwords in there as well..
The two are not mutually exclusive.
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I-85 in Atlanta was repaired in just over 6 weeks. So things can get done quickly if the incentives are right.
But that article says the numbers improved considerably.

Using the same method (and tricks) to calculate unemployment, the numbers went down from 7 million in 2005 to 4 million today.
It doesn't fit.

Railway systems in Japan and France (taken as example in the article) are high quality and last long as well. Yet construction railway is way less expensive there.
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I'm impressed it's still archived there.
Lol, nobody understands what really happened here. Myself included!

They used some kind of digital currency to purchase shares in an upcoming venture?

I'd love to try to explain this to my grandma
Wouldn't they vary wildly due to OSHA and other requirements like permits and bribes?
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Essential question:

What matters more in a portable computing device (i.e. "phone") the software or the hardware?

Essential seems to be flaunting unique hardware designs, but in fact, it seems that as though without a software stack that's at least as innovative, that this doesn't have any chance of being a success.

If they follow the "luxury watchmaker" pattern, and yet they have a new & unique software platform to enable new functionality, how will they attract the app developers?

There is a bit of a "chicken and the egg" type problem here for sure. I think that in the future there will inevitably be new platforms and new solutions that enable new functionality and attract developers away from existing platforms (as iPhone did), but I don't feel that the time is ripe for this to happen yet.

That said, I wonder if this thing just runs heavily modified stock ASOP?
Particularly given that even in their tests bacteria were still (very) slowly gaining resistance.
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That's opt-in, and you'd be paid for seeing them.
AFAIK, it does prefer underfull boxes to overfull ones,but sometimes the penalties work out such that it has to put in an overfull anyways (IME really long words that it doesn't know how to hyphenate correctly are usually the culprit, and it's more frequent in two-column than single column layouts). You can probably set it to be even stricter though by tweaking the penalties for underfulls and overfulls. The details escape me, but it's probably pretty easy once you find the right part of the TeX book to consult.