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It says it's a no-bid contract, so am I right in assuming it's been in the works since long before the current news and it's likely rolled up the bureaucratic ladder enough to where it's too late to back out? Or how does that process work really?
yeah. The search continues.

the following 3 have some potential:

https://feathersjs.com/and postgraphile
https://postgrest.com/en/v4.3/
https://www.npmjs.com/package/postgraphile
You raise an interesting objection. Some questions in this regard:

1) What does inclusivity have to do with Mozilla's core business, namely open-source Internet software?

2) Can any organization declare inclusivity as one of its core values and start enforcing it by firing every person in position of power who holds an exclusionary view on any subject? By the way, there are more people in positions of power than just the CEO. Every person in the corporate hierarchy, except perhaps the lowest, holds power over other people. The exact same argument you make about the CEO can be made about a VP, a CTO or a teamleader. They all represent their group in front of everyone else and they are all looked up to by their inferiors.

3) What is an exclusionary view? Is it one advocating that people in certain category deserve less than in another category? But by that logic, you hold an exclusionary view: after all, you support the idea that people with particular views should not occupy positions of power.

4) Why is it a good idea for an organization to declare holding exclusionary opinions a punishable offense? I can tell you why it is a bad idea. Quoting an excellent comment [1] below, "there's something wrong with injecting ideology into everything, that is, dividing everything in the world into what supports your ideology and what doesn't, making all judgments based on it, and shunning all who don't share your ideology. All must prove their purity and loyalty or be excommunicated. It's a very dangerous approach, and a quick glance at history books will tell you what's at the end of this path."

The life is a complex, non-binary (in fact, multidimensional) thing, and we all err in some regard, including yourself. You don't want to be discriminated based on your opinions, unless you overstep the boundaries of law.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15398460
That doesn't add up. I've managed budgets a magnitude higher, know the founders of every major SSP and DMP, and now specialize in B2B marketing for F1000 companies with long sales cycles. If you're really trying to reach a pool that small, open web advertising is incredibly inefficient.

This is well understood by the adtech community and even the flashy new "ABM" companies will tell you the same. 3rd party data is universally terrible. At best, it'll work at scale (of millions) on general demographic details but will definitely not recognize 1000 people on the open web.

That kind of list might work on Linkedin or Facebook with email targeting but it would be easier to focus on niche trade sites without any data, or just use a direct sales team. That $1.5M in data you're paying for would have much better ROI with a good VP of sales.
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In response to the reported RFC violation, elving@AWS writes: "I agree that's unconventional and unfortunate." My corporate bullshit detector is off the scale.

In earlier times, we would have both the ability and the balls to treat that unwillingness to uphold the rules we all set out with as damage to the Internet, and route around it. But sadly, AWS has become too big to fail, so the engineers introduce special cases into their products and deploy them.
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It still holds the data alone isn't worth much. If you've built an ad platform with customers, reach, and the ability to target people given data, then sure, you can convert that raw material into something more valuable. And once you sell the derived product (ads), you'll be taxed on your income.

I feel like you're arguing that dirt is worth as much as the farm that one could build with it.
The irony of that comment being made from an account with a username that doesn't clearly identify a person..
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I have the advantage of hindsight but this quote comes from Robert E Lucas Jr, 5 years before great recession.

> macroeconomics in this original sense has succeeded: Its central problem of depression prevention has been solved, for all practical purposes [0]

[0] http://www.sfu.ca/~kkasa/lucas.pdf
It probably has more to do with counterintelligence/defence rather than intimidation.

[http://edition.cnn.com/2015/05/21/asia/north-korea-spies/ind...]
> Spies and human intelligence play a big role in maintaining Kim Jong Un's regime.

NK "does not care" about security measures at SK borders.

[http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1329421/north-korean-s...]
> Nearly half of all North Korean spies arrested in South Korea over the past 10 years entered the country disguised as defectors, said a South Korean lawmaker on Friday.

SK "does not need" to engage in reassurance countermeasures because of the population.

[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/09/south-...]
> Residents of South Korea who have friends abroad often share inside jokes about how outsiders are way more alarmed than everyone here, who would actually be wiped out if Kim Jong-un ever ordered a nuclear attack on this country.
The head of infosec was a music major so the head of legal probably has a degree in dance theory.
(Update - the original title mentioned AWS has been breaking standards since 2010. The new title is fine. Thanks for updating it.)

Little bit of hyperbole in the title imo. S3 has generally been very good at embracing the fundamental principles of HTTP and REST, leaving aside corner cases like this.
That's dangerous schematic games along the same lines of "Metadata is harmless and can't identify anybody".

Emails can sometimes contain very detailed and very denoting user information. Trying to differentiate between users "personal information" and users "personal content" is imho a rather dangerous thing to do because who decides where to draw the lines between the two?

As a user, I expect my data, regardless of which data, to stay private unless I explicitly intent to publish it to the public or somebody else. I most certainly do not expect some employees reading through my private emails for their lunch-break entertainment.
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It seems likely that Python is targeting a wider field than just the latest few generations of desktop/server CPUs.
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China isn't close to having a larger economy than the US. The US is ~60% larger and is growing its economy as fast as China in dollar terms.

2014 to 2015, the US added roughly $650b to its economy, China added $580b. 2015 to 2016, the US added $530b, China added $140 billion (due to the dollar's return to being strong).

And if we're talking coal, China is the king of coal. They have no plans what-so-ever to do away with it any time soon. They're not reducing their use of coal, in fact they're expanding their coal use, while simultaneously adding a lot of renewable energy. Meanwhile the US has reduced its coal use by about 1/3 in a decade. This chart says it all:

https://i.imgur.com/hcPeoAB.png

> having schizophrenic and increasingly more bully-like foreign policies

Uh, you mean like using military aggression to annex a massive area of six other nation's territories in the South China Sea? Or did you mean the constant military threat to use force to invade and annex the independent nation of Taiwan?

When was the last time the US annexed territory like that or the last time official US policy was to annex another nation when a convenient opportunity presents? Imagine, tomorrow the US decides to annex all of Mexico's gulf water territory, and then some more territory in the Caribbean Sea from six or seven other nations. The next day, the US declares that Toronto and Vancouver belong to the US, and that it has the right to invade at any time to force that outcome. That would be almost equivalent to what China is doing right now.
I don't see any reason to believe blacks are worse drivers than whites. Especially after taking other variables into account, like economic status.

If there even is an effect, just like your gender example, I doubt it would be large our align with our stereotypes. E.g. it could be the case that whites are 1% worse drivers. And yeah make them pay more, again as a group they aren't being treated unfairly and anything else would amount to subsidies to them from other groups. That's not fair either.

>being penalized for the actions of others,

This different way of viewing this situation is perhaps why we disagree. I don't see it as a "penalty". If you live in a wood house, you will pay more on fire insurance. You aren't being penalized, your house is just objectively riskier. People in stone houses shouldn't be forced to subsidise your extra risk.

If you banned discrimination and removed all female drivers from the planet, insurance rates would go up to match what they are for men now. Men now pay what they would if there were only men.

>That's where I vehemently disagree.

Yeah well that's not an argument. And you can't make me bite the racism bullet if you aren't even going to acknowledge how disgusting your alternative is. After all your system has far more racism because human judges are racist. And why should someone spend twice as long in prison or be unable to get a loan because they are less attractive?

Its algorithms or nothing. Humans are not even an option. And in many cases nothing isn't an option either.
Ask HN: Traveling to China for an extended period
I'm headed to China for 2-3 months for my job. C++, writing docs, etc. I have been learning Chinese for a while.

What advice does anyone have for equipment safety? Things to think about, etc.

Examples:

1. Someone told me to not take my "expensive" iPhone 7+ as it is a high priced item and a target for pick pockets. Same thing with my ceramic Apple Watch series 3. Buy an iPhone SE or even an Android phone as HTC phones are very common there and not really an item to steal.

2. Same with my cash and id, don't carry in pants pockets, hide it in a backpack someplace.

3. Laptop. Same thing as my phone. Don't take my 15-inch MBP, but an Air or something.

How valid is this advice? My employer is sponsoring my trip, obviously.

Any other advice on laptop setup?
They could make it configurable on a per bucket basis (perhaps defaulting to the old behaviour if necessary; ideally you would make the conformant behaviour the default, of course).

That way you could opt in to the standard conformant behaviour if you require it, but they can still keep backward compatibility.
just the other day i was looking at this cryo-EM playlist, seems relevant now: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8_xPU5epJdctoHdQjpfH...
Does anyone know if this behavior persists when the bucket is served as a website?
> Or you could think carefully through the incentive structure of the scientific publishing

We already have such an incentive system: patents. Sadly, they are pretty flawed. The deal with patents is that the government grants you a monopoly right over your idea if you describe and publish it. Problem is that they are expensive to obtain, and the language of a patent is designed for lawyers, and is so obtuse and difficult to read that they are almost useless for practitioners. But the fundamental incentive to publish ideas and make them free to read is there.
Who knows what the future may hold?

Very hard to predict geopolitical outcomes.

Humans need more humility in the face of future uncertainties. Let us make our decisions based on what players do, not what we think they might do. Considering that China does not as far as we know engage in unilateral drone strikes, extraordinary rendition, and extra-legal imprisonment one could argue that (internal political freedoms aside) China may be a better global steward than the current US/Nato crew.

As you say, Given that China has 4x the pop., eventually it should have 4x the economic might, all other things being equal (which of course they are not!).
That combo is demonstrably more addictive than many of the other stuff you mention. People are literally eating themselves to death, just wishing they could stop and can't, and get withdrawal symptoms when they try.
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That is strange. Asian (korean/japanese in this case) bakeries are quite popular BECAUSE most of the breads and pastries are loaded with sugar. Goes well with Coffee (also with sugar)
The funny thing is that if you try to do it as a one person or small company, it won't work as your company will be considered a tax resident in the company you live in (as far as I'm aware).
I didn't downvote you, but I'd like to know what makes Perl a good option for embedded language and what implementations are available.
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Off-topic I know, but reading that title strongly reminded me of "The Road to Amber", discussing Roger Zelazny.
OVH Virtual Cloud Desktop (https://www.ovh.co.uk/cloud/cloud-desktop/) does not have a minimum no. of users and it starts from 10 GBP/month.
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Oh my God. Seriously? You'd report them? Snitches get stitches. Jam up one of my guys, you'll wish you hadn't. If he's starting with 5k you could easily get a lot more. That is the price for suckers. Course you don't have to take anything but that could be hazardous to yous health. I'm just saying. Take the fucking gift.
Then that's exactly what consumer groups help with but it sounds like you want partitioning then - which is exactly what Kafka does but with a little more automation.

Run multiple Redis instances and use a simple hash based on whatever key you want to route messages and get the throughput you need. It's probably never going to be part of the core Redis logic but should be possible as a module to do the routing when used in a Redis cluster.
That's an excellent article. And a very hands-down approach using code examples in Python.
Am I the only paranoid one who thinks this is just Google's way of capturing millions of faces in their database? Or did Apple beat them to it?
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Dun and Bradstreet is the business equivalent for credit scores. Businesses can easily sign up for a free service to get instant notification of creditworthiness changes. It's free as a marketing tool to buy their very expensive other services, but works well and is very easy to challenge any adverse reports.
I can see that from a margins perspective. Even if it were profitable it would depress Intel's ASP, but the strategic risk is also an issue. Apple now ships more processors than Intel. ARM chips have already appeared in Chromebooks and are feeling for a toehold in data centres. All I'm saying is Intel needs a counter to this threat.
Yes. It saddens me that it seems to be rather involved to make my OS use copy-on-write behavior without screwing things up.
Hmm. I wonder if one could train this with dick pics and embed into popular messenger apps client-side... "this picture was classified as a penis", to counter morons sending their dick as first message.
It has nothing whatsoever to do with fracking. Radon is a by-product of uranium and radium decay. It is present to some level in just about any soil. It is also a gas at standard pressure and temperature, so it is slowly filtering its way up from deeper rocks through the soil and then out into the atmosphere. When you dig a hole, for example a house foundation, you create more exposed soil surface through which the gas can escape. Some aspects of a home also cause more radon to escape into a cellar than would escape through surface soil, like the suction effect of natural convection in the house due to daily heating and cooling. How much radon your local soil is producing can be quite variable due to random variation of subsurface rocks and other effects of local geology.
What did Apple beat them to? FaceID is said to not upload data off-device.
To the contrary, I think it's actually a refreshingly honest response. A "corporate bullshit" response would be to ignore it altogether, try to argue it's a feature not a bug, or give a canned statement about how we respect the environment and want the world to be a better place.

The AWS support is explicitly acknowledging it's an issue, while giving a rational reason why it probably won't be fixed (even if you disagree with the reason). The back-compat concern is unfortunate but a good argument can be made it's not in users' interests either (beyond being just a cost to AWS to implement the change).
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They could compromise by adding a few more lines of code and having '+' resolve to ' ' if and only if the file can't be found with '+', or vice versa.

Immidiatly mark this behaviour as deprecated and switch over to proper '+' == '+' behaviour later.

edit: LiquidFire's idea is better.
I'm not familiar with how S3 works in detail, but I imagine this could require additional API calls in the backend which increases the latency and resource usage of API requests. In the worst case, such a change could easily require Amazon to purchase dozens, if not hundreds of additional servers.
Replace "Algorithms" with "Machine learning" and you have 2017.
I'm sure he meant what he said. Do the math. He was trying to point out that it would cost the same either way. But if you give the mark the money, it would have a much greater effect than 5k on silly web adds.
There's this course by the people who wrote `Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies`

It covers the basics pretty well.

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And by "border" you mean the actual border + 100 miles inland, right?

https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights-governments-100-mile-b...
Thanks, this worked.
Don't see a hyperbole. The title is technically correct (the best kind of correct), although questionable from a grammar standpoint.
and amoral
There's a Mooc starting in december by the INRIA ( French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation )

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So you are contending we are secure via DNS?
Amazon has a difficult time with the HTTP standard sometimes. Last time I had to touch an AWS project we discovered a bug[1] in the C++ code backing a Java library (sic).

They had implemented their own HTTP client, but forgot to add the "Host" header to requests which is required by HTTP 1.1.

Interestingly this client sent requests only to their own services, which means that they either released that without testing it or the backend once accepted faulty requests.

[1]: https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-producer/issues/61
Perhaps I'm missing something about your use case, but I only create buckets per application, or sometimes file category (videos, profile images, whatever).

Trivial example following your org/user pattern:

my_app/profile_images/org_id/user_id/aabbccccccc.jpeg

I then obviously have a reference to that file in my db.
> In 2012 extreme poverty in India was 20%, bit less than 10% in China. And shrinking each year.

Saying that extreme poverty in India is 20%, is grotesquely absurd. As recently as 2014, half of India's population (58%, or ~750 million people) was living on about $3 per day. Pretending that $1.25 is extreme poverty, but $3 per day isn't, is the obvious absurd part. That just demonstrates again how worthless PPP is. $3 per day is objective extreme poverty no matter how one attempts to hide from that fact.

I stated my reasons for why I believe PPP is worthless, numerous times over. Let's see you refute what I said. There are blatant objective economic lines involved in the standard of living gap between China and highly developed nations - which PPP as a fantasy attempts to ignore - and I listed several of them.
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When were these "earlier times" for the web? Not during browser wars, that's for sure. Not when web2.0 started with crazy ideas about rest. Not during flash-everywhere era. Etc...
Mainly waiting for the questions and answers. It took me 1 minute to answer something that could have been answered in ~10 seconds tops. And I didn't know if I had to answer 2 or 200 questions, so a few more and I would have given up.
I think it's more about the anxiety.

If you are travelling, most of local food choices tend to be OK. Why? If it was bad, localc won't come and they'll close down.

Your choices are actually worse at busy places with lots of strangers.

Source: personal experience.
how much code will you need to rewrite?

If you're concerned that a service might shut down then you need to architect your application with that in mind, in which case how much of a rewrite is necessary is essentially up to you. Usually there's a tradeoff between going fast and engineering solutions that will work in the long term. Most startups never get to the stage where they need to swap out a service, so closely tying your application to a service is probably OK at the start.

If the service that shuts down is reasonably popular though it's likely there'll be very little code to change. API-compatible competitors will pop up to replace it. It happened when Parse closed.
Because otherwise you couldn’t lobby for early screening programs. Only so few women will get breast cancer and need treatment, while every woman needs to be screened.

When you look at medicine as a business based on billing all the needs justifications make so much more sense.
Hardly the same thing.
my money would be on the insanely portioned sugary drinks.

When visiting the States I also found that the US tradition of offering free refills on sodas led to me drinking more soda that I otherwise would have.
Yeah, but that was mostly so that they could claim not to be a monopoly.
Just never use Google for building applications.

They have invested heavily over the lifetime of the company in avoiding providing support. That reputation can never be revived.

Google does not have direct customer support in its DNA, it has the opposite, whatever that is.

They have not demonstrated relentless commitment to being available to resolve issues, and nothing matters more than this if you've bet your company on their platform.

If something goes really wrong. Amazon has your back and you'll find someone who'll listen who has the power to resolve it. Google, you're stuffed. If you've built you're business around that thing that went wrong, well time for regret.
With the rate of AWS growth, they probably bought dozens more servers in the time it took you to write out your response. :)
true, money follows the path of least resistance.
Fast food or so called junk foods originate and consumed mostly in USA where there are so many obese people. Should we fix issue here rather than traveling 1000s miles to start unnecessary conversation?
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