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If I cared to talk about politics (rather than carefully avoid them), I think you'd find that my political beliefs are quite different than you might expect. I'm not looking forward to excessive political pendulum swings in the opposite direction, either. (There's an interesting counterpoint to the Overton window, in that extremists in the one direction can make extremists in the other direction seem more acceptable.)

But no, you have not described what "I want" at all. What I want is for people to stop hating each other and hurting each other. Failing that, I'd like people who hate others to do as little damage as possible, and I'd like as little interaction with them as possible, because quite frankly, life's too short.

In the long term, yes, someone needs to be doing the job of educating people, and instilling better values; it really shouldn't be hard to convey a simple value system that covers tolerating the next dozen groups and not just the last dozen groups, because the patterns are just not that hard to match. I certainly agree that fear is not the best motivation, nor is it ideal. But it is not the job of every last person in society to exercise the patience of a saint and try to fix such problems on an individual basis; it's hard enough to try to fix them at scale. Exclusion is not ideal, but as a near-last resort, it helps with damage control.

As an aside, I also find your use of the term "infiltrating" interesting; that has fascinating ingroup/outgroup connotations for who you consider infiltrators versus who belongs. That's not meant as an attack, nor am I suggesting you intended the choice of words as one, just an observation.
> You could build that same server for $15,000 through Dell, lease it at $400/month (OpEx), and colo it with a 1GB/s blended bandwidth connection billed at the 95th percentile for $150/month.

And then magically maintain it for free?
Just looking at the responses to this comment, I have to say that I agree with both sides. The book is really dated, but the advice is timeless. The biggest problem I've had trying to get people to take the book seriously is that they can not identify with it. I had not realised that Michael Feathers had written a followup. I will definitely take a look. Thanks!!!
You don't think the causality goes the other direction for high-density downtown neighborhoods? Lots of people want to live and work downtown (for a variety of reasons). When thousands of people are will to pay a premium to be within the same square mile it suddenly becomes possible to cover the massive cost of building a steel frame high-rise tower.

If density itself increased property values then you could buy a few acres of ranch land in Montana for five hundred dollars, build a high-rise and rake in profit.

Density is a trailing indicator of demand to live or work in some particular place. It's that demand that pushes up prices.

Of course, in some particular cases where some parcel of vacant urban land had been zoned at low density and then suddenly became up-zoned to allow higher density then its value can go up as a result. It had been able to allow maybe just a $2.5 million single-family home, but now it's possible to build an apartment building worth $60 million, so of course the price would go up.
You are right, the Google Network magic is awesome. Yet I agree with the opinion here. They charge more than they should. Yet I think in the long run it will become cheaper (AWS is always pushing for price reduction and the others will follow)
This is going to be a pretty interesting case study in deploying ML in adversarial contexts :)
Router? Gateway? Firewall? Network Access Control? VLANs? Ability to manage all this through declarative version controlled code w/ rollback?

The costs of doing those (well) yourself are not cheap.

Getting them from a provider that's certified to do them well while giving you software control also isn't cheap.

You're comparing cost of gas per gallon to to expense of miles driven per gallon. Pretty sure on your IRS or corporate expense report those aren't the same.
I think the key thing for people to realise is that none of what you just said has anything to do with women.

Meet your direct manager. Make sure you get along with them. Make sure people give off 'good vibes' i.e. you get along with them. Talk to people, get to know them.

This is just basic people skills. The interview is about you evaluating them as much as it is about them evaluating you.
you can also pickup an enterprise flash device and have a few terabytes of 500k+IOPs for a few grand whereas reaching a similar performance profile via provisioned IOPs will cost you 10x as much every month.
Without a sharing file system,you are forced to implement file syncing in almost every productivity app. It is madness.
> Emacs

On the non-Pro iPads, keystrokes were intercepted and not passed properly to the remote vm.

Is that bug fixed on the iPad Pro?
I'm not sure which region you priced, but an m4.16xlarge in us-east-1 (Virginia) is $3.20/hour, or $2304/month.

But if you are comparing it to a purchased server, you ought to be looking at Reserve pricing, a 1 year reserved instance is $16K/year, 3 years is $32K (or you can pay monthly if you want).

Still not as cheap as owning the server, but not quite as bad.
In principle, it doesn't have to be. But cash is theoretically the most efficient. Individuals know better than anyone else what they need at any given time. Giving them cash allows them to effectively manage their needs, and invest in their own development better than government could.
That shows WebKit supporting tailcalls. It doesn’t a show Chrome supporting tail calls.

I vividly remember us implementing tail calls and v8 not having them yet at that time. This was almost 2 years ago.
I'd say it's much more influenced by one's gender or race.
True, and it's still probably overpriced... but a lot of the SDN expense is in the stateful routing between networks (e.g., traffic going to/from the internet).
Since Lightsail is mentioned, it's probably worth including Digital Ocean since they offer almost identical network transfer for the money [1].

[1] https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/
Native ES6 is faster in WebKit than polyfill/transpiled.
Thats a really bad tl;dr as it make the typical mistake of thinking we need general AI for this to be a reality. But the fact is that most people don't use all their human capabilities to perform the part of their job that is valuable and so AI doesn't need to be as good.

The economic cost is only a matter of time and the larger transition is already happening. Every time a company looks at how to improve productivity they will look more and more at automation.

You are making the mistake of looking at now and saying see it's not that good and thus missing the point which is that technology is exponential and will continue to be so. Even if there was a limit to the CPU speed the connectivity of things will provide a better and better datasource for machines to learn more and more on top of.

Of course there is no precedent thats the whole point. This is the first time machines are actually competing with what we normally thought required highly trained people. We now know it doesn't and you will be hard pressed to find a job that isn't soon going to be possible to replace with some sort of AI or completely disregard it because it's been digitalized away to some other process.
I had selected a dedicated instance. It's been my experience the difference in performance between dedicated and non dedicated is dramatic.

edit: I had selected a dedicated instance in order to compare apples to apples. By definition you don't share a colo server.
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I'm not cruel enough to locate actual people in Provo, just servers.
Theres other hidden costs as well.

What happens when a harddrive fails in your colo? Unless you have best practice backups, you will lose customer data and trust.

GCloud abstracts the issue of hardware so you can focus on real business development. And to some, that's worth the cost until they can properly afford all the hidden costs of independent hosting.
I was mouth agape through the whole article. Call me old fashioned too, but I don't want my 5 year old killing things with swords when their grasp on what is real and imaginary is so blurry. It blows my mind that most of the kids in my daughter's junior kindergarten class have seen Star Wars movies, Spiderman, and other violent movies.

I'm not against a 4 or 5 year old using a tablet for a limited account of time for interactive educational 'games' but guns and swords is well over the line.

Edit: Contra at age 6!
Worth noting that Digital Ocean doesn't actually bill for bandwidth. They say they do in their Droplet template descriptions, but they really don't. I've pushed many many terabytes to/from my Droplets and never received a bill for it. But you need to cap your individual Droplet bandwidth using something like tc[0] around ~400MB/s or they'll shut off the network interface (DDoS detection).

[0] http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Traffic-Control-HOWTO/intro.html
LA certainly has an abundance of strip malls but those are people's businesses and livelihoods. Practically how do you just "take them down"? Are you talking about eminent domain? Who funds this?

How about the parking for all of the people you propose putting in this repurposed space? Strip malls tend to be on major thoroughfares that already experience congestion. How do you handle this increase with the addition of all the new residents above the strip mall?
I wanted to come back to this, because I actually really appreciate the moderation going on in this thread. I obviously don't know how women feel about it, but I hadn't noticed those features before and it's let me get a lot more value out of this discussion.
That's a pretty shitty solution for everyone involved if they don't actually want to be separated from the rest of their family by 3,000 miles. And not just their families, but their friends and communities, which have a profound impact on overall well-being in their later years.

I wouldn't call your suggestion deliberately cruel since you don't seem to have any idea how socially damaging this kind of isolating displacement can be. But I would say that the forced separation of people from their famalies and communities is a really hideous policy outcome, and one that should be strenuously avoided.

Obviously, if somebody wants to move far away, fine. But forcing them to do so is horribly wrong.
(Bandwidth is ambiguous in this context so I'll use "data transfers" instead)

I personally don't see the outrage. AmaGoogSoft overcharges for data transfers because they know they can get away with it and that lowering it won't attract more customers.

Customers with transfer-heavy applications will always buy their servers from providers with unlimited transfers like OVH[0][1], where you can do hundreds of terabytes a month with no extra charges (1.5 Gbps * 3600 * 24 * 30 = 486 TB). Even if AmaGoogSoft lowered their transfer prices by 100 fold their pricing still can't compete with OVH.

Companies with enough engineering resources can always go with the best of both worlds: transfer-heavy servers on OVH, and "regular" servers on AmaGoogSoft. The expensive data transfers will only hit smaller outfits, but these customers won't switch because it's not worth the hassle to split your hosting across two providers.

[0] https://www.ovh.com/us/private-cloud/options/bandwidth.xml

[1] https://www.ovh.co.uk/web-hosting/unlimited_traffic
You're comparing apples to oranges -- if you want a couple TB of locally attached storage, you'd get an i3.2xlarge for $450/month with 1.9TB of NVMe SSD (plus 8 cores CPU + 60GB RAM).

Using EBS volumes with provisioned IOPS give you some advantages that you don't get with a bare SSD -- like snapshot support and the ability to easily detach it and move it to another server.
I loved this at the end of the article:

> “Tech companies are always going to do what’s in the interest of their business,”

As opposed to what businesses? Jeez, talk about a sense of priviledge.
Cubicles aren't even the halfway point. Proper offices might be. Everyone working from home is the extreme.
I see now, I was calculating the temperature at the subsolar point, they are averaging over a uniformly illuminated sphere.

Since the illuminated side is a disc with area pi x R^2 and the sphere has surface area 4 x pi x R^2 we need to include a factor of 1/4:

(6.11e7*(1-0)/(4*1*5.670373e-8))^.25 = 4051.281 K
Definitely true. Nowadays painters use bleached titanium to get a brilliant white, but until the late 19th century lead salts were the norm. Basically you hammer out ingots of lead into flat strips, roll them up into a cylinder, and seal them in ceramic jars full of vinegar for 6 months. When you take them out the lead has turned white and is them ground up into powder and mixed with oil.

You can still get this from a few specialty suppliers and it's reasonably safe to use as long as you wear gloves paint slowly enough that you don't get it all over your skin. Ingested lead is much more dangerous than skin contact, and of course the process of grinding the treated strips of lead into powder was a respiratory and gastric disaster - although people were not completely clueless and apprentices in art studios would often cover their lower face with a wet cloth.
IMO remote is the new vector that will disrupt the pendulum's back and forth.

Working remote requires a high level of professionalism and independence, and it puts face-time at a premium. So you use it for your top priorities (which may be socializing / culture-building stuff, or it may be collaborating stuff).
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hopefully with your spare 3437 dollars a month you could figure out how to ever maintain such a thing.
I'm not an expert, but it's possible... from what I understand amazon does SDN on CPUs in Dom0, Microsoft uses FPGAs, and Google has burnt their own ASICs... those are all expensive options. Much more expensive than generic networking gear. Possibly 4-5x, but idunno...
Industry.

That's too long to explain in a message but that looks like a nice subject to cover in a future blog post.
Sipser's Theory of Computation. It covers automata and languages, computability, and complexity - and is brilliantly written, the proof style in particular: clear 'proof idea's followed by the details that can be easily skipped if you're not interested, or it is clear from the 'idea'.
> The people driven out get to keep the money from their property appreciating, it's not like they were kicked out for nothing.

Soo, get out of this neighborhood and move someplace poorer to make room for people who can afford it? I still think that's pretty ugly when talking about people's homes. When you're talking about people with fixed incomes, the only option after getting kicked out is to move someplace lower cost...

I don't understand the rent control discussion - there was a reason I differentiate between primary residence owners and commercial rent investments, especially the intergenerational costs. I don't think prop 13 lets you make any transfers of ownership without resetting the tax assement. (I could be wrong here...)
No mention of Ballard? Or any of the New Worlds "New Wave" era writers?
> Increasing density in the long run increases property prices.

I think you have your causality backwards there - city centers are inherently valuable (close proximity to jobs, food, recreation, etc) which favors dense development to take advantage of that value.

On the other hand if you build a bunch of dense housing in the middle of the desert, it won't be worth much at all.
This is what average-wage people can get in Scandinavia.
In iOS 11 beta, the iPhone’s camera app can read QR codes
Russian mil. hacked US voting SW company, spearphished 122 election officials
"Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure and Google Gloud Platform are all seriously screwing their customers over when it comes to bandwidth charges."

Disagree. There's no false advertising here, they're making you pay for their service and convenience of using a combined [Paas, Iaas, Saas ..etc]. It's unfair to view these services as a singular function, you typically touch MANY features/products in production. The cost includes the convenience of offering everything under one roof, because, face it, doing everything by yourself at the SLAs provided by the giants is no trivial task.

Unless you're a BIG company that likes to distract itself with infrastructure instead of building and sharpening the core offerings, chances are that you will NEVER really build anything as reliable, inter-operable, configurable and manageable at cost.
Chrome and WebKit are two different things. So, no, you didn’t just say that.
re: "Spreadsheet software could take steps to mitigate some of these attacks, but preventing formula injection is ultimately the responsibility of every application that generates spreadsheets containing user-supplied content."

Whoah, that's putting the blame in the wrong place. Spreadsheets shouldn't look for formulas at all in plain csv files. That's not what they're for.
Frances Frei Joins Uber as SVP of Leadership and Strategy
NET and Docker
Wouldn't those attributes mean the volume is exceptionally high? I thought Jupiter was near the limit for volume as increases in mass beyond that point just lead to more and more density.
> You'll just end up kicking people out of their homes sorted from poorest to richest as the bubble intensifies.

No, it's the richest people with the smallest cash flow that get kicked out first.

Property tax for a salaried worker with a $1m mortgaged house is totally manageable, property tax for a retiree with a $2m paid-off house could be unaffordable. The latter person (who's much richer) has to move, the former doesn't.
I've been thinking of this for a while. What gamepads do you recommend? Is recallbox/raspicade better than the retro pi project ?
While public bandwidth is indeed significantly more expensive on clouds, not all traffic needs to be public and different clouds charge different amounts.

I wrote a blog post on Google Cloud latency and pricing across zones and regions which may be useful for others:

https://blog.elasticbyte.net/comparing-bandwidth-prices-and-...
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I mean that they would disallow saving photos/videos for privacy reasons, and could stand behind their hardware being secure enough that people don't have to worry if they're still being secretly filmed by hacked iRis's or whatever.
These are solved problems though. RAID works great around 99% of the time and for the others you can use off-site backup. It's extremely rare that something needs a true 100% uptime. Salesforce and Reddit still go down for maintenance windows in 2017. For one project I setup log streaming with Postgres to the cloud(since inbound BW is free :) ) and ran a hot backup there just in case.

Really though in my experience the cloud is far less reliable than colocation. I've had AWS VMs "degrade" or randomly die countless times but I can't remember the last time my Colo boxes went down, probably not since I last upgraded the OS.
Apple may be a member of CTIA, and CTIA may have argued for a particular anti-privacy stance, but that doesn't mean Apple supports that stance. There are a lot of members of CTIA, and CTIA presumably lobbies for a lot of things, not just ISP privacy rules.
I'm pretty sure Safari's features are intentionally crippled to keep their app ecosystem safe. See: web notifications.
I don't think I've ever been rejected because I'm too old. Too experienced and therefore too expensive, yes, but not too old.

I'm in embedded systems. Here, experience tends to be valued more than it is in, say, web programming. I can come in and command better pay than someone with only 10 years' experience.

That is, I can come in a few places. Most jobs still list "senior software engineer" as 5 to 7 years, and that's where their concept of experience ends. I've learned to not chase those jobs, because they don't want to pay for what I have to offer.

At my current job, they wanted me to produce the piece that tied everything else together in six months. It had multiple threads of control and shared mutable state. They didn't have time for me to come "up to speed". They were willing to pay for the ability to deliver what they needed.

So, yes, there are places where you can program to 65 or 70. There aren't as many as you might wish, but they're out there.
1) Apple's cash assets aren't actually cash or just a bank account. It's accounting speak for liquid assets. Any investments that they could divest fairly quickly and easily and repurpose to finance other capital expenditures. The money isn't sitting around doing nothing; in the meantime it's invested in a safe portfolio which attempts to grow it. Imagine a hedge fund for just one LP.

2) Apple is a mega-company which has a bajillion lines of business and produces hardware. The WebKit team is a tiny tiny tiny sliver of what Apple does and cares about; so its budget is probably a lot closer to Mozilla's.
> Most people any of us may consider evil are not evil in their own eyes.

"Evil," says Google CEO Eric Schmidt, "is what Sergey says is evil."[1]

[1]: https://www.wired.com/2003/01/google-10/
Magnifying issues beyond the potential cost of the issue isn't a good idea. Do it too much and you become a disturbance.

Disturbance isn't good. It's a big part of the reason why (aside from legal issues and employee retention) we don't want racism or sexual harassment in a workplace. It causes disturbances. Not because Moses came down from the mountain and said these things are evil.
The scrolling in the guide is terrible. Can that not be a guideline?
this is not true, there should be no difference
That implies this is it's only use...
> It ought to say "to execute the commands embedded in this data, Excel needs to start another application," so that people bloody well know that they're not just viewing data but they're actually doing something.

That's an astute observation.

Somewhat related:

Awhile back I remember seeing a demo of some Mozilla tech that would let one rotate a web page and then view a 3d "stack" of all the DOM elements. A bit like each layer was made up of different colors of lego blocks.

Is there some similar visualization tool to help distinguish data from code?

For example, imagine I want to use some scissors to clip some daisies on a hilltop. I eyeball the daisies I want. When I pick up the scissors they snap a picture of the daisies and cut 1000ft below until they split into the bedrock. Consequently, a demon's fiery arm shoots out the hole holding my scissors, violently cuts the daisies, then picks them up and offers them to me as a low, rumbling voice announces: "Daisies."

Now I don't know about anyone else, but I think that experience would make me a wee bit cautious about picking flowers. Or at least more than I would be merely by reading a man page.

Edit: I guess to be sensible, the demon's arm would need to recede back into the bedrock and heal the split.
Windows-only wifi used to be a solved problem with NDISWrapper.

Does this library not work with newer chipsets?
According to whom?
The 2/20 model doesn't go away because it is a signaling mechanism for quality during fundraising with LPs. A16Z actually raised their carry to 30%. Since only 1/4 of VC funds actually outperformed the S&P Index in a Kauffman study, it doesn't pay to advertise yourself as the "cheap" VC.
Indeed, but if Apple's SDK makes it way easier for developers to get onboard, then the rest of the market will then have something to aim at.