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>I can't begin to list the comforts and options that come from being rich.

I can't either, but for a rather different reason. What exactly does being rich get you these days?

You get to sit in a slightly nicer seat on an aeroplane. You get to drive a car that has vastly more power than any sane person needs, rather than one that merely has substantially more power than any sane person needs. You get to own a house with a lot of surplus rooms to fill up with stuff that has no discernible impact on your standard of living.

Rich people don't get access to a super-duper internet, they don't get to watch better movies or listen to better music, they don't really get to make better friends. Most material comforts are perfectly accessible to someone on an ordinary middle-class income.

Never having to work again is cool, but most people are unlikely to reach that point. Your probability of accumulating that level of wealth before retirement age is remote, the hedonic treadmill is a powerful trap and most people find meaning and value in work anyway.

Being average isn't better than being rich, but it isn't much worse either, at least not in a country with a sane government. The stuff that makes a real difference is mostly a matter of public policy - Germans and Scandinavians don't live in fear of a medical bankruptcy or an at-will dismissal, nor do they desperately want to own a home to escape shady landlords and rising rents.
To be fair, I had a really good wholesale price on the memory, so I guess it doesn't count.
This comes off as a bit of a red herring. No one is denying the value of their other offerings. It's the cost of bandwidth which is clearly disproportionate.

Let them charge for extra for the 'value adds', what is the justification for adding these costs to the bandwidth specifically?

I think people raising the issue are just seeking more transparent pricing.
One small reason is that Japan's Felica standard was only supported from the iPhone 7.

In Japan it's been common practice for certain smart cards to have Android equivalents (most of them here ship with NFC), so you have a decent app ecosystem that supports it.

For example I can get a Starbucks app on my phone and use that through NFC instead of a physical card
This is definitely true but I think that possibly as the big cloud players devote more and more of their revenue towards developing all kinds of (vendor lockin) APIs each of which does not concern the average user, rather than generic and reliable infrastructure that benefits all users, the value proposition will get worse and worse.
I think the post you're replying to was tongue in cheek and not propaganda i.e. "we technically didn't change vote totals, we just assassinated democratically elected leaders and installed brutal puppet dictatorship regimes in their place [which is obviously far, far worse]".
I avoided looking at docker/runc as a starting point since that would spoil the fun of trying to figure it out from first principles. I looked at systemd-nspawn when I was stuck adding mounts.
The existence of this limitation makes me think that there's a hardware difference that's important.
You have a very balanced view IMOP.
Haven't been able to replicate this.
If you are open to other locations, I used to work for a NASA contractor near Houston and at that time (when the shuttle was actively used) some of the best programming minds/organization (at least measured by quality/process/number of errors) were the group at Lockheed Martin that made the Shuttle software and I remember it was roughly 50% female from top to bottom. I wonder what became of that group, someone here probably knows the story better than I do. I thought it was SAIC but this article says it was LM.

https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff

When I was there in the early 90's, all the NASA contractors were pretty progressive compared to the stories you read about Silicon Valley today (where I am currently living.)
The art of writing an obituary
When I was 4 and 5 I played with plastic swords, squirt guns and watched Power Rangers. shrug My 6 year old nephew plays Super Smash Brothers. When I was 6 I explicitly remember my friends playing Sonic and Super Mario and X-Wing/Tie-Fighter. None of them grew up to be school shooters.

I'll limit the exposure time, but I'd let my kids play contra at 6. My parents went the educational-games-only route until 6th grade, and I was shut out of a lot of social situations as a result. No desire for my kids to go through that.
Hire 3 good people for 18 months, spend $200k on marketing
Then you are just trading one fee for another, but the "sysadmin services" you are ordering most likely has slower response time, less resources, less knowledge, and worse uptime guarantees than someone like aws.

Yeah, at the larger sizes it might make sense, but not for everyone.
How does that work out? Looking at the per-hour figures in AWS and GCE, they're similar for a 64-core, quarter terabyte RAM machine ($3.20 AWS, $3.40 GCE). Both vendors have ways to get your bill discounted (with google's being easier). AWS's instance pricing has been fairly comparable to other vendors for a couple of years now; it's their bandwidth that's costly.

What are most people running anyway? Using this kind of behemoth server as a 'typical' example seems out of line.
Isp is only one factor. The GSLV Mk. 3's upper stage is LOX/LH2 but it's also fairly small. The Falcon 9's upper stage is 4 tonnes empty 107.5 tonnes fueled, with an Isp of 348s. The GSLV Mk. 3's upper stage has an Isp of 443s (good) a dry mass of 5 tonnes (not as good) and a wet mass of 33 tonnes. The mass fraction on the F9 upper stage utterly dominates the GSLV's upper stage Isp.

Let's look at GTO payloads and upper stage delta V.

GSLV Mk. 3: 4 tonnes, which translates to a stage delta V of ln((4+33)/(4+5)) x 4.34km/s = 6.135 km/s

F9 FT: 8.3 tonnes -> ln((8+107.5)/(8+4)) x 3.41 = 7.72 km/s

So the Falcon 9's upper stage is able to push twice as heavy a payload through about 1.6 km/s more delta V despite having nearly a full km/s lower exhaust velocity, all because it has a better mass ratio.
More importantly: They're going to block auto-playing shit.

As more and more sites offend readers by disturbing their coworkers, waking their companions, and interrupting other media with offensive NOISE; it's Apple, and not Google, stepping up to do something about it.
There is a solution. Since this would probably have to be implemented at a city or county level (that is where permitting, zoning and property taxes happen), my current theory is that it would be something like:

(1) Get rid of rent control; it doesn't work because it focuses on the price side. Instead...

(2) Tax all businesses and individuals collecting long-term residential rents at a flat rate of, like, 65 cents for every dollar of rent collected.

(3) Deposit the 0.65 revenue into a totally transparent, 100 percent "open accounting" fund that awards building projects to competing builders. The builders must build "for sale" units, some high-density urban, some "family size"... the key is to truly increase the supply of housing that allows people to build equity (as the article points out, people who rent simply cannot build equity and that has been the problem all along).

(4) Businesses and individuals who can't afford the 0.65 tax on rents they collect are probably already too leveraged with other people's money anyway; let them go under and convert that "for rent" complex into a "for sale" one. Whoever buys it will be subjected to the 0.65 tax, too, if they decide "making money on rentals" is the kind of business they want to do.

I suspect this "being too heavily leveraged with other people's money" is a root-cause issue for why rents keep rising astronomically and people's wages are not keeping up. Why not build a system that lets renters leverage their own earnings?
Does this mean opengl is going to work on less and less platforms?

Are there real crosspolatform options left? Or are people going to rely more and more on things like Unity to capture that extra complexity?
I investigated this story a while ago and concluded it was a parable, based on how it was presented in Art and Fear. However, I checked with the book's author and found that it is a true story. Strangely, the class was actually a university-level photography class, but they changed it to ceramics in the book.
It's known as a stereotype. "Men who do not have career wives are trouble/red flags/misogynist pigs." Unfortunately, this stereotype appears to be perfectly acceptable on this board.
He said that chrome and Firefox had everything except for tail call optimisation earlier.
This only affects selinux installations
> For one who decries false equivalence of equating some non-violent action to violence, I find your application of "harm" here a real stretch, and a bit hypocritical besides!

I don't think it's unreasonable to use the term to refer to non-physical harm. I'm certainly not equating it to violence.

> I wonder if you're the sort of person who would advocate that a non-political group make a political statement, then make everyone sign or make some sort of pledge in support of it and throw out those who don't.

If you mean a political statement like the support of a political candidate or party: no, absolutely not. (And that's an area where I've definitely seen the kind of tribal behavior you mentioned, and I'm not a fan of it.)

If you mean a statement like a code of conduct, attempting to create a welcoming community (which I don't consider political), then: still no, but I'd require people to abide by it whether they signed it or not. For the purposes of the community, I'd prefer that they're doing so because they believe in it, but I'd settle for them following it because they want to participate in the community more than they want to be hateful.

> The chief emotional dishonesty here in our blue tribe

"our" is broadly speaking incorrect here, though I certainly share its values with respect to tolerance.

> is the degree to which hate and emotional aggression actually rule the tribal, othering behaviors

I've certainly seen some of that. Not a fan. But given a limited amount of time and energy with which to change the world, I don't see that as very high on the list of priorities.
Sorry, but this is one of the worst comments I've read on Hacker News! Its main contention is wrong and expressed in the most unhelpful and toxic way I can imagine.

First, the language on sites like GlassDoor really can offer some insight into how the company intentionally and unintrntionally treats its employees.

But more importantly, when the majority group of employees are working on systemically creating and supporting a fair environment, minority groups of employees do benefit.

Ideally, good workplaces would "just happen," but they don't and the ones that squelch the reforming tendency with toxic language such as you used decrease long-term hiring competitiveness measured across demographics.
The money paragraph:

A machine learning model is used to classify which top privately-controlled domains have the ability to track the user cross-site, based on the collected statistics. Out of the various statistics collected, three vectors turned out to have strong signal for classification based on current tracking practices: subresource under number of unique domains, sub frame under number of unique domains, and number of unique domains redirected to. All data collection and classification happens on-device.
Isn't GCP the one that pushes for price reductions and then the rest will follow?
If the president is derelict of duty, then he's a traitor.
Uber has hired a new SVP to fix its leadership problems
Ask HN: Why WWDC is not anymore biggest tech event?
Some hours after Apple WWDC I opened HN and I see only one or two links related with Apple, and got totally surprised. In the past for days it was different story. What happened to Apple? What happened to WWDC?
The cloud pricing model has, I would say, definitely been set for ecommerce uses, not scientific computing. Ecommerce uses use a lot less data, and if they are using a huge amount of data they are likely to have a corresponding amount of revenue to pay the high prices.

Scientific computing -- you've probably got a ton of data, and your 'revenue' from project-based grants doesn't really scale with the amount of data and other computing resource needs you have, at least not to the extent it does for ecommerce.

Possibly AWS could make money on scientific data at prices you could afford... but they probably make the _most_ money by targeting their pricing model at ecommerce, which has the most money to spend.

Possibly there's a business model for a cloud-provider focusing on scientific computing. I mean, there probably are such providers already I don't know about? Maybe? But it'd be a tough business, the people paying are pretty budgetarily constrained, their budgets don't neccesarily go proportionaly as their resource needs go up, they traditionally are (ironically) averse to innovation in IT, there might not be enough likely customers to give the provider the scale they need to make money, etc.

Capitalism!
Considering my experience with google adwords service, I wouldn't be surprised if the teams providing these services were under heavy pressure to over-promise, under-deliver, and sneak in as many hidden charges as they possibly can.
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A time machine is the only solution. As a web developer for a family-owned newspaper who recently removed our failure of a metered-paywall, the only solution I've been able to come up with is a time machine that sends a killer robot back to 1995/1996 and remove the incompetents industry wide who decided to give away their expensive to produce content for free.
Did he factor in latency? if you want to ride in first class you have to pay more.
The counterpoint is that doing these releases means having to roll out 100 changes at once instead of trickling them out continuously

The reason people hate upgrading is half "losing features", half "everything breaks". Imagine if they rolled out changes continuously?
What are you talking about, you can't turn it off
> Windows is not UNIX and that's its strength.

This claim needs explainatory details, citations, and maybe even context.
But what if you do subscribe? Shouldn't those results filter up again? Google knows I subscribe (the information is in my gmail account).
Often, you still need a "systems administrator" with the cloud. Except, now he calls himself a DevOps guy and charges a lot more. ;) AWS isn't going to configure itself.
1. You can't just compare core counts, think Mediatek vs Qualcomm
2. Surfaces run 60fps on battery, not sure where you got that from
Pretty much the only thing I've had problems with is generators. Regenerator runtime is so slow. Especially when making a bunch of calls with async/await
If it doesn't exist, then it can't have poor vendor support.

It will have good vendor support when it exists.
It's not been uncommon for apple to limit new features to new phones, even without a hardware limitation.
Take your third one for example, which was the quickest to process due to the presence of an abstract:

> Among males aged 10 years or older, who represented 96% of these deaths, the mortality rate among non-Hispanic Black and Hispanic individuals was 2.8 and 1.7 times higher, respectively, than that among White individuals.

If this is the argument you're making, than I'm not disputing this fact at all. I'm not arguing that the mortality rate for black individuals is equal to white individuals. It's not.

I'm arguing that the mortality rate relative to the frequency of violent crime is more proportional. Look at these statistics for violent crimes:

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2014/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
The heart of craftsmanship is understanding tolerances. Making something practically perfect is often remarkably easy if you throw enough time and effort at it. The hard part is making something just good enough. A master craftsman knows exactly what constitutes "good enough" for any given task and knows exactly how to achieve that goal with a minimum of time and expense.
Which is actually part of the problem. Higher density cities allow for/require good public transport, which increases quality of life for young people, the elderly and people that like to go out for a drink and would much rather not have to drive afterwards. Also, higher density with mixed use zoning allows for corner grocery shops, so you can walk to buy whatever you'll have for dinner that day, and possibly work close to where you live.
Falcon 9 FT beats Mk III hands down.

But ISRO reached 2 Tons for GSLV just last year, This is rated at 4 Tons, and future improvements to 8 to 10 tons is on cards within 1-2 years. Even a proposal for 15 Tons by 2020.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/Mega-launchers-for-ISR...
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCE-200)
Someone struck gold there.
The new definition of "power user" is probably going to be a user that runs applications acquired outside of the app store.
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This calculation is an all or nothing affair though. The reality is that you can avoid most AWS bandwidth charges by direct connecting to an internet exchange. It's still only worth the effort if you're looking at a 6 figure bandwidth bill, but it doesn't require new employees.
This is a false dichotomy. Abandoning a website because of a paywall !== bad user experience. The UX can be fine, but the user may be poor. Many websites have restricted logins and perfectly acceptable UX.
License notwithstanding, has anyone tried to create a HEIF file? There are a few samples on this site, but even given the code they've provided on GitHub I can't seem to create a HEIF image from another image format. Their code seems to take an H265 HEVC bytestream as input, which is fine, but I can't find anything that will build an HEVC bytestream for an image rather than a video...
I have Daydream, and I don't think it's going anywhere.

Google is ruining it in stupid ways. It has been deliberately made incompatible with all Cardboard apps. I get that Daydream is technically much better, but it has very little content, and there are tons of VR apps made for Cardboard.

Now my Daydream is gathering dust. I try to use it so rarely, that every time it I try, it refuses to run, because I have to install yet another controller firmware update. It's is a slow process and has about 75% chance of getting stuck and never finishing.
I personally still love Rails. Especially with Rails 5.1 I find it has what I need. I haven't had any of the scaling and performance issues some people mention in other threads. It's a fantastic environment for a developer.
Also in MOOC form now too:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/build-a-computer
How air conditioning changed the world
If you're going to make assumptions, you might as well just assume the MP3 magically appears on your device.

You see, I can USB-plug almost any Android device into any Windows or Linux machine, and transfer any files either way without installing any software. It just works.

Even with Dropbox, what if it's a 10GB file? Are you going to upload and then download it? Do you not see how ridiculous that is?
50 rps is a very modest box you obviously will want at least 2 but at any rate the difference between that and AWS is not a full time employee it's more like 10h per month. Why would colo data transfer cost $30/TB :)?
> I mean, where are service workers?

Every discussion about anything in Safari on HN, even if not at all related, for the last year or two has included multiple people complaining about the lack of WebRTC.

Now it's here and there is a new complaint /s

I agree with threeseed that it probwont come and frankly I don't see why I'd want it (or web notification, or even WebRTC). They only seem to support the use case of replacing real apps with webpages which I don't want to do and makes no sense to me as an end user (I understand the freedom motivations).
How long is mining actual viable by the masses at the moment? I assume this can't continue to happen unless other altcoins also use GPUs for mining. Won't the difficulty of mining eventually become unprofitable? I assume this is like bitcoin. However I don't know much about all this.
Enlighten me. How would you make the argument I'm trying to make?
If your house just went up in value by 1000%, then yes, you can afford $20K per year. Just do what Texas does and allow the home owner to stop paying property taxes and have the state get their money when the person dies or sells the house.
When I was at Mozilla, there were a ton of folks interested in WebMIDI, but nobody had the time to work on it. A lot of folks were hoping that someone would build a polyfill but it never really came.
A good case study is Dropbox. They didn't build any of their own infrastructure until they became big enough (2 years ago).
Well that's ideal, of course! But I was just pointing out that it's not "all the same" when you're in such an environment.
It feels like Youtube's recommendations are extremely overfitted. Just because I watched 10 episodes of a series yesterday doesn't mean that I'm interested in watching episode 31 of that series.

It also seems like the recommendation system is ridiculously sensitive to recent activity. Sometimes I feel like learning about swords, then I watch like six youtube videos on swords, and then my entire recommended feed is filled with youtube videos on swords. Maybe one in twenty is actually interesting enough that I feel like watching it, but I don't want to click through because I don't want to teach youtube that I want to view lots more videos about swords.

The content recommendation is just really terrible at surfacing videos on niche topics in general without greedily diving into the niche and just showing that particular subject. I want to get recommended videos that nerd out about swords, bridge design, psychology and personality, cinematography, economics, and all sorts of other topics. I don't want to watch five videos about swords and get recommendations for another hundred sword videos.

I think the fundamental problem, really, is that Youtube's core user-base is really young. Like, really young. Think six, not sixteen. The recommendation algorithm has to do a good job of tablet-as-daycare.
This says it all to me, Apple tends to themselves rather than the group. One thing that should be concerning for the majority.

I was hoping for Apple to switch it up this year with start of their new backend for Safari, rather I don't expect it to turn out as I have wished.
Shouldn't half the fun be in hooking the games up to an old CRT tv? Blowing on the cartridges? Cheating to use that modern Plug-and-Play joystick console!
"Women-friendly policies" don't just cover things like maternity leave. Ultimately they do boil down to "human-friendly policies." How: they accommodate women more and thus balance a culture that's traditionally male-dominated. At least that's the idea.

(I was going to quote seaknoll's comment until I realised that you already mentioned it!)
Dropbox built their own infrastructure over five years ago. They just took several years to turn the infra from idle to being used.
Exactly. Olive Garden is $10 for a pasta plate. I could have bought the ingredients for less than $2.

It takes times and skill to turn the ingredients into something useful.

Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are IaaS/PaaS, not ISPs.
NSA contractor accused of leaking top secret report on Russian hacking efforts
Being the fastest slug doesn't mean you're fast. Smartwatches failed to live up to the hype, sales areicb lower than expected, and you rarely see them on the subway.

Honestly, the aesthetics aren't there and it wasn't Earth shattering as promised. This looks to be the same, and Apple TV joins the club.