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No it's not you, that really threw me off as well. I've worked on fairly large data mining software and we almost always talked about requests on a per second basis (sometimes requests per day if we were discussing aggregate projects and total output). Using requests per month would be...astronomical. Hell, one product was running 100M requests per day (though to be fair not every request was 1:1 bound to a corresponding database read or write op).

That brings me to my next observation: I don't want to demean the author, but 15 rps is really not extraordinary, so I'm wondering why these requests are so expensive. I assume there is a good reason they need to focus on "scaling" that many, I just can't figure out exactly what it is. They might be doing a lot of very inconsistent throughput with hard to predict peaks, I guess...
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> However, retaining one to advise you on how to navigate the process, how to phrase your arguments, how to communicate with the opposing party, etc.

How, exactly does one "retain" a lawyer?

Is that a formal, monthly-fee kind of thing, for the ability to call them up for questions and advice?

Or is it more like an informal, having done business in the past, maybe for a larger lawsuit, getting to be friendly, and knowing a guy who knows a guy, sort of thing?
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Here are the reasons I stopped using clojure (a phenomenal language) a year ago, in order of importance:

1. No C/C++ FFI.

2. Lack of a strong type system (clojure.spec almost solves this problem now, but when I quit this didn't exist yet).

3. Horrific startup times: although clojure itself is fast, its startup time isn't. This makes scripting in clojure unsatisfying. And you don't feel like a ninja when it takes 30 seconds to start a REPL. You can use clojurescript to target node to get around this, but then you cut yourself off to most of the powerhouse clojure libraries.

I now use Haskell (with C/C++ FFI). I do miss the homoiconicity (and slightly more concise syntax) of clojure. In my opinion Haskell and clojure are the two sexiest mainstream languages that you can get stuff done in.
Elliott Waves do not meet the scientific criteria to be considered a real theory. They have no predictive power. It's just more after-the-fact rationalizations and attempts by humans to find meaningful patterns in chaos.
Does that mean we'll soon have an alternative to ElectronJS / NWJS based on Firefox ? (Positron :p ?)
Same in America.

I went to a public urban highschool for the first two years of highschool, then a scholarship for a private highschool where tuition is $40k/yr.

So in that regard, I would say its comparable that America also has a range of top tier private schools, and then both high end and low end public schools, with the high end ones residing in rich suburbias.

Also, I think there is some slight flip of how public and private schools are referred to in the UK vs US, and that might directly conflate the comparisons we are making in our heads? Is it not the reverse in the UK, where a private school is actually the default district school and the public is a school with tuition? I feel like I remember being confused about this previously in my life with a UK person. Maybe that is also the source of confusion.
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An interesting analysis that Nanex twitted some weeks ago: http://parasec.net/transmission/order-book-visualisation/#sh...

The visualization code (R) is available here:
https://github.com/phil8192/ob-analytics
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I don't see how headless mode would be related to that?
Because catering a C++ compiler towards people who can't (and won't) actually learn C++ is stupid.
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I'm not underestimating the cost at all. The people in control of those budgets underestimate the importance of personal contact.
For those wondering, there is a specific term for this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect
everything comes with a price!
>Bakers and taxis are inherently different - no one gets stuck in a location they don't want to be because of a lack of wholewheat.

And no one gets stuck in an unfamiliar area while low on blood sugar?

>I'm not saying peopl are ok with changing it after the fact

Yes, you were! You brought it up specifically in the context of cabbies who refused CC after taking on a fare with signs and machine saying they could pay that way. If your point was just that "being able to pay with CC is nice so it should be mandated", then you shouldn't have pointed to the after-the-fact case as a danger.

>I'm saying the government should do what government is supposed to do and serve its citizens, in this case forcing taxi companies to accept credit cards.

And you're failing to ground it in any way that doesn't generalize to forcing arbitrary merchants to accept arbitrary payments, while focusing the majority of your rhetoric on grandstanding about "hey, I just think governments should help the people" instead of a concrete justification for how this helps the people, or any recognition of any downside of such a mandate (which you were able to see in the case of bakers and CCs).

>Market/self regulation generally trends to work in two ways: the well off get to crow about how government regulation isn't needed, and the less fortunate don't get to use that service because they're never the prime market for business, but they don't have a soap box so the other side keeps barking on about how good it all is.

Again, you're assuming your policy helps the poor and anyone who opposes it just doesn't understand it, instead of actually elaborating on the substantive mechanisms. Tomorrow you'll be right back lecturing us that credit card acceptance hurts the poor because merchants have to distribute the fees over all customers, including the poor unbanked who can't get one, and I'm just too privileged to see that.

How about confining your remarks to the pros and cons of various policies without dragging motives and demagoguery into it?
You people suck and you basically deserve everything that is coming to you.
I agree, but the GP comment was in the context of Go. Nim is a newer option I'd like to see tried more, its GC is optional and swappable.

If you never run out of memory you'll also never need to GC. ;) Or even free(), just let the program finish and reset the machine. (Actually not too weird in some embedded systems...) Some languages make it easier to not heap allocate than others, or notice when you are heap allocating. I hear Go does better than Java in this regard. But if you're facing a performance issue at the level where you're fighting the GC as the biggest barrier, and the language doesn't give you much assistance (like being able to choose latency/throughput tradeoffs or controls on non-determinism), that's a sign the language isn't that suitable for that performance problem domain. With performance sensitive games, you're already in the corner of having to worry about hardware details, so there's a strong incentive to just start the fight at the beginning without your hands tied by some language's static GC.
market cap is worthless when we talk about fiat currency.
It also kills the human-robot job, where basically a normal human is taken and his brain is replaced for 8 hours with a mobile app, running a task.
If anyone is really interested in Watchmaking, I wouldn't start out with G. Daniel's book. It's really about making a watch from raw materials.

I would start with books by Fried. If you feel comfortable with 90% of Practical Watch Repair in a year, or two; go for Daniel's book. I guarantee most will not get through Practical Watch Repair, but might come back to the hobby/profession later in life. When time is more cherished?

George Daniels was a brilliant Watchmaker. The book is o.k. There are parts of the book where it seemed rushed. George expects the reader to have a working knowledge of basic watch repair, and know exactly how a mechanical watch function. There's not much on repair, cleaning, or oiling.

I really liked Kikuno's workshop. That is years worth for tooling too. It's not cheap stuff either. My point is don't go out and spend a fortune on tooling until you can clean, oil, and time a 17 jeweled wristwatch with under $500 worth of tools.

It's a really a good feeling resurrecting an older watch, and knowing how to fix it if it breaks down, or runs slow.

That said, I'll get political. Many of the major watch houses will not sell you parts for your watch. You buy a $10 grand Rolex, and can't buy a new crown. They claim it's for quality assurance, but it's a money grab. That's it. The govenemment knows it violates The Sherman Anti-trust Act, but they have bigger fish to fry--I guess? They said it was a rich man's problem? This said while they wearing Rolexes(couldn't be gifts?), with Lobbyists scurrying around in the chambers.

If you do get good at watch repair, you will look at watches, maybe the world, differently?

Since I got into watch repair, I stopped looking at the outside of many mechanical things. It just happened? Maybe because I used to be an auto mechanic, but I believe it was the watch repair that changed me.
I wouldn't say it's data independent. Look at goldbach's conjecture. While there is no rigorous proof, it seems almost impossible to be the case that it is not true. A lot of conjectures like that are based on data gathered first.
+1 for node-lambda. It's a lot simpler than Serverless when you just want a little help with testing/deploying.
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This article seems to make the statement that most of the value is in making the rules and how they change versus enforcing the rules. Which(enforcing) is what the author says crypto does.

https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/blog/the-blockchain-paradox-why-dis...
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Everyone is price sensitive once you've met the minimum threshold for those other things.

What you're selling sets the threshold for those things. Return policies, advice and reputation matter more for embroidered clothing than they do on bulk sales of nuts and bolts.
More nonsense for clicks and fame
So is there something like a limit order on ethereum? I'd like to place a $1 limit order & see if I catch anything.
"human error is the cause" - indeed. What is the purpose of a desktop system inside a traffic camera?
Actually, you wouldn't get a signal from a sub going overhead with these.

They're focused on recording relatively low-frequency response, so they don't pick up sound (hydrophones do a great job of that, and they're dirt cheap). Subs are neutrally buoyant, so there's no pressure anomaly. There will be a tiny one from the bow wake, but that's the sort of thing you're trying not to detect.

Part of the entire point of these is to sum out things like waves (and possible minor blips like the bow wake from a nearby sub). You're summing over time to get a very precise average height of the water above the sensor. You're deliberately designing the sampling system to not be sensitive to small temporal blips and filtering the data to remove any that show up.

Basically, if you want to detect subs, there are far cheaper and easier ways to do it. These tools are designed to do something very different.
"IoT ecosystem will be one of the biggest holes in cyber security and a heaven for black-hat hackers."

I think you meant "is" here.
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> Maybe we just have different definitions of "ops works" but it bothers me when people claim that you don't need to have anyone minding AWS because it's serverless. You still need to have people monitoring, managing permissions, optimising to reduce cost, pushing updates, etc

Thank you. Instead of being able to find a server ops guy from a large pool of experienced folks, you now have to find someone specifically with AWS-ops experience - a growing but much smaller pool of people, ime. Getting IAM permissions correct for complex stuff is just not simple, for example, and there's some use cases IAM stuff doesn't (or didn't) cover.

Had a client who couldn't give me EC2 access because - at least at the time - they'd have to give me access to all their EC2 instances, not just the ones I needed. Now... this may have been IAM-inexperience, although, at the time, my digging seemed to indicate it was the correct conclusion.
Not a whole lot. The fastest CPUs will net you less than 100 MH/s [0]. The fastest single-card GPU configurations will net you around 1,000 MH/s [0]. The current total hash rate is around 5,000,000,000,000 MH/s [1]. WannaCry affected around 300,000 PCs [2]. So if every WannaCry miner was operating off CPU and getting 100 MH/s, it would only be 30,000,000 MH/s. Or 0.0006% of the current total hash rate. If they all had high-end GPUs getting them 1,000 MH/s then that would bring it up to 300,000,000 MH/s. Or 0.006% of the current total hash rate. So WannaCry wouldn't even be a drop in the bucket. If you're wondering how the hash rate is so high, it's because mining has switched to using ASICs, the fastest of which run around	14,000,000 MH/s [3].

[0] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Non-specialized_hardware_comparis...

[1] https://blockchain.info/charts/hash-rate

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WannaCry_ransomware_attack

[3] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison
A Rust View on “Effective Modern C++”
Setting up your own resizer using sharp[1] is pretty simple. Just make sure you install the module in a Lambda-compatible environment, so it can build its copy of libvips (native C library) correctly. I built and deployed my image thumbnailer on a CentOS VM.

[1]: https://github.com/lovell/sharp
Wait, so basically I could create a buy order for $2, leave it sitting there, and wait until there is another crash [1]? If there is no crash, then nothing happens. For good measure, do it for every currency on the exchange.

Is there any risk or downside to this? Seems like buying a lottery ticket for free.

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[1] ... or someboy fat-fingers an order - although I think in that case I think still the higher bidders would win, wouldn't they?
You are referring to an as yet unsolved problem. The maths is as yet un-done!

Sure, there is data that suggests it is probably true. The scientific can say there is enough data to be almost certain it is true and move on. The mathematical community cannot say for certain it is true because it is not yet prooven. Which is why they are still working on it.
> you're not going to be using features that haven't actually been published in a formal standard (optional).

So you then have things like:

class Foo
{
public:
static Foo* create();
...
};
...
Foo* foo = Foo::create()
if ( foo != nullptr ) ...

> so how do you have Containers of foo?

std::vector<Foo*>

Not saying either of those are better than the alternative (I prefer using exceptions and RAII), just pointing out what I've seen in real world projects.
Hey, thanks! Can we make it use your API by default, or perhaps as a fallback?

I'm not sure what the difference between the Node API and the Gateway API is, I had to hack around this by reading the js-ipfs code. If there's a better way to interface with the gateway without including the entire js-ipfs 2.5 MB file, please let me know.
"std::shared_ptr corresponds to Rust's Arc type. Both provide thread-safe reference counting. Rust also supports much faster thread-local refcounting with the Rc type. Don't worry, the compiler will complain if you try to send an Rc between threads."

Perhaps converting from Arc to Rc could be automated?
The article is somewhat long-winded and covers a number of issues, but I couldn't agree more in its conclusion as to what kind of CEO Uber now needs, and what kind of hurdle he is facing:

A boring, operations wizard. Uber is a logistics company that needs an operational wizard, not a product visionary. The bad news for Uber investors is that losing Kalanick creates a massive vacuum of power and resetting this toxic culture will be all but impossible for anyone. [...]

Uber does not need a product visionary. (Guarantee no other Valley insider will have that hot take…) It needs an operational, logistical genius. It needs a brand person. It needs a showman.
"Try buying plain TV (without YouTube and Internet), try buying non-smart phone..."

Disable data connection for both and you have "dumb" counterparts. Of course, you still pay for unnecessary features, but it's the price to pay if you value your privacy.
A cross platform project in modern C++ that doesn't use CMake? Unsure if want.
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Beside Knuth, another celebrity, namely Sussman, made a lecture on mechanical watches https://duckduckgo.com/?q=gerald+sussman+mechanical+watch&at...
but ethereum/bitcoin aren't fiat currencies?

market cap is useful in that it shows the total value of the coin. Comparing the price of 1BTC to 1ETH doesn't make sense, but comparing their market cap does
the profits from that automation are going to accrue in the hands of a very, very small elite minority

Why would all profits from new efficiencies go to owners? Generally, efficiencies accrue to consumers through lower prices, unless there is some barrier to entry for that given market.

Furniture is a great example. In the past it was hand made, now much of the process is automated (machines size and cut the wood). That didn't make furniture makers more profitable, it just led to cheaper furniture for consumers.
Hi Runamok,

Today given that aliases/versions do not have any sort of different permissions you are probably best to either run completely different stacks of resources or the multiple account model. With AWS Organizations these days its not that hard to run multiple environments across accounts.

We did a webinar on some of this a few months back, the slides here might be useful to you: https://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/building-a-deve...

It heavily leverages AWS's tools, but you could create similar practices using 3rd party frameworks and CI/CD tools as well.

Thanks,

-munns
You should read about constructivism.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivism_(mathematics)
It is not "modern" C++.
It uses GENie, a fork of premake.
I have not followed this story one bit, but that's exactly what I thought from just the first paragraph. Its like TMZ for the tech world.
On the one hand, Sarah Lacy's reporting on Uber has been the gold standard in terms of her paying attention to specific events and their significance, and explaining it all to readers -- especially with regard to ongoing litigation.

On the other, it seems like she has developed a persecution complex with regard to Uber; since Nov 2014, every article I've read of hers that covers Uber (I'm a Pando subscriber) has at least partially been about her and her relationship with the company. Yes, the fact that Emil Michael casually floated the idea of doing oppo research on her / her family to her face is really fucked up. However, to say she's taken that ball and run with it would be an understatement. I do hope that this is actually her last Kalanick-related story (doubt that will turn out to be the case), because she's a great journalist who is tremendously good at sniffing out what's really going on, and she should be training her sights on a more diverse target set.
Over the years I've done R&D as well as manufacturing engineering. The closer you are to the manufacturing end the tighter the processes are nailed down, you should still learn for your mistakes but at all times have a controlled default. I'd say the F1 race is like that as well, if the low fuel case was not tried before, which surprises me, it should be a wake up call for the upstream R&D guys to better cover their process space. For the guys on race day it's a sign that process monitoring needs to be improved. Anyway, everyone should benefit in the end and most places I've been have had this attitude. When it comes to learning from your mistakes individuals have a wide set of reactions, though, and it's sometimes tough to swallow your pride and debug the problem in front of you instead of quickly moving on and trying again.
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They are still their slowly plugging away at projects: https://harc.ycr.org/.

Edit: You haven't heard from them because they are aiming very high so it will take years before any of their work hits the general public.

Edit 2: From my understanding, they are still working on their Universal Basic Income Research as well and have chosen Oakland as the testbed: http://basicincome.org/news/2017/04/httpswww-youtube-comwatc....
Last month a few eviction notices were served in my building. The guy who was delivering them was wearing GG, presumably to legally document that the notices were served.
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I would suggest that formulating conjectures based on data is part of the mathematical process, would you not?
This reads a bit like a heliography. I'm sure there's plenty of people who have fond memories of him. Sadly that does not offset the literally illegal things that occurred on his watch, under his responsibility. If anything emphasising his hands-on, interactive, lead-from-the-front style only heightens his responsibilities because it implies that he should have detected what was going on and directly implemented countermeasures.
Ask HN: How are “first world” economies going to change over the next 20 years?
I'm a perennial startup employer and founder. As I watch the populist wave sweep the Western world and plan for future startup ventures, I feel that making predictions about what the economy will look like in 20 years is becoming harder than ever before. What does HN think is going to happen over the next 10-20 years (and beyond, if you prefer), insofar as the basic structure of our economies are concerned?
Now most miners are using ASIC instead of GPU.
Lisp is certainly amenable to this, and structured editors for lisp have been around for a long time, but the concept is not specific to lisp except inasmuch as it's much easier to implement since the syntax is so similar to the AST.

For instance, I like to use Paredit [1] for elisp and Racket hacking, and there's a similar mode for Haskell in emacs [2].

[1] https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ParEdit
[2] https://github.com/chrisdone/structured-haskell-mode
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+1 to the folks at IOpipe. A really cool product that gives you very interesting visibility into your Lambda function executions!
Ah I was meaning to say use Brave as it will by pass adblock walls.
You risk your buy going through and the price never recovering to above $2.
Of course. But there is tons of risk there. If you get hit on it's way to nothing you are out your $2 per coin.

Some exchanges do put price bands on some items. Also some exchanges have trading halts when certain price points get hit.
Customers you can turn down - employees you can only fire.