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> Does AWS offer you the option to just have all your services shut down when spending reaches a threshold?

Not really. “Shut everything down” is a VERY dangerous switch to have; you’re almost always better off having a billing alarm that prompts you to react in a more considered manner. Obviously, from this perspective, AWS is targeting “business-critical production infrastructure” a lot more than “hobbyists” as the intended customer of AWS; the risk of unintentionally spending lots and lots of money on AWS is also much greater for organizations that can probably page someone to address the issue in a more fine-grained manner than just shutting everything off.

There’s also the question of how that would even work. Do you delete all your S3 buckets? Or do you just hold the data hostage until the customer increases the budget enough to access it?
How many hours have you logged on an Apple touchpad in the past 5 years or so?

What you say is technically correct, but you can enable all those things and Synaptics still is miles behind Apple in accuracy, comfort, additional possible gestures (I use "pinch" "four finger up" and "get outta here" gestures frequently).

Sometimes the Synaptics just doesn't recognize what I'm doing with simple two-finger scroll. That literally never happens with Apple hardware.
You clearly don't understand what you're talking about.

Sparcity is an issue for the wide table not the EAVT form.
There is another Tensorflow bayesian programming library called Aboleth - https://github.com/data61/aboleth
The revised Stuart edition nothing is changed except Stewart has added a preface, and a 37 page chapter "Recent Developments".

John Stillwell also has a good survey book "Elements of Mathematics From Euclid to Gödel"
Great article with a very thoughtful description of choice of the Clojure over other languages.
I'm curious what you mean by this. We use a combination of RethinkDB + Deepstream at work and it's amazing to work with with really simple querying language. I might very well be missing something, though, as I'm not the main developer so not too deep into it.
Your two assumptions are that it is easy to change your job, and that if it's exploitive and "terrible" Uber will stop. Neither of those are good assumptions.

Although I think I am on board with this being a really interesting experiment, even if it might become a morbid fascination it is definitely interesting.
Middleman is still my favorite static site generator and it has exactly that in mind: General purpose website that may or may not feature a blog. If you're already familiar with ruby it's an obvious choice. If not, I'm sure there are countless alternatives.
If they're going to do that, they may as well just drop the dot.
As a consumer, I feel that Nvidia’s Linux support is shoddy at best. It seems like they do the bare minimum to get it to work. Some things work best with the proprietary drivers, some work best with the open source drivers. Then there are weird limitations on both, that don’t exist on other platforms.

Recently I finally managed to get 4K at 60fps over HDMI 2.0a working on Linux. For some reason the Nvidia drivers (both) only advertised 4K at 30fps, where as on Windows it works out of the box. I had to manually add my monitors EDID (which is extracted from Xorg in the first place), and now I get 4K 60fps HDR.

I hope AMD continue their rejuvenation, as it’s good to see Intel and Nvidia have some competition again.
wow ngrok is nice...
The world sucks, and inaction by a lot of people allows the Harvey Weinsteins of the world to keep up their hateful acts. Ideally the victim will have support needed, but these predators can only be stopped one way if you want to remain within the law.

The predator is always the one responsible, always.
Exactly. This affirmative action type law will not have the effect they are publically claiming to attempt to achieve.

Bring the data. And I will continue to volunteer my salary information at the very first interactions with my prospective target/clients/employers.

What a joke. This makes it basically easier to appear bold and "transparent" on my side.

Seriously love how these political correct activists keep skewing the playing field to my favor.
I think Robert left UploadVR before the scandal broke in the news (his linkedin says he left in March) - https://www.linkedin.com/in/scobleizer/
As GP said, rethink the code, from as far out as you need to. Granted, much code has been written under the explicit constraint of not doing this. In that case, do the nasty thing and then if it matters that much to you, find somewhere else to work that cares a similar amount about producing maintainable software.
This is exactly how I cook as well. It’s not always a great result, but it’s never terrible. And it seems to be trending positively.
I do not understand the sensationalism. I think there would be reason to be upset if Uber decided to enforce a system where if you drive less than $x per week then y% of your nominal rate is cut. However, this is a incentivizing system, not a coercing system. In other words instead of punishing those that do not drive as much, it's rewarding those that do.

It's effectively the equivalent of a loyalty card availability in industries of all sorts. You pay $xxx for a card to get a y% reduction on transactions through a certain time period. If you engage in a high volume of transactions, it's +EV and you purchase it. If you don't then it's not +EV and so you don't purchase it. The industry operator profits in either case since their margins exceed the real value of your discount, and so it is win-win for them.
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> printing passports and employing a police department.

You’re just making up an alternate definition for charity - that isn’t a valid argument.
Clearly you have never been a landlord.

You realize that a lot of people have NO sense of budget and will be DOA the moment they take possession of a rental?

We literally look at the tenants ability to STAY A FLOAT so we do not harm them, their credit and also our pockets too.

You took the most cynical and 1 sided outlook.

There are WAY more people that would get themselves under water (financial and budget illiterate) vs. the situation you describe.

Your bias is betraying you.
> because there's not really welds, it's one piece

Wait, isn't the result basically just one giant, continuous weld?
Interesting, I have communicated in writing with many French people without encountering this. Maybe it's a more traditional thing. But thanks for explaining!
Wait, so not only does everyone have more money to spend on rent but it now costs more to maintain rental property? You’re just guaranteeing that rents will rise dramatically.
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The difference is that your own workplace isn't charging you money. Imagine if your boss said "hey, there's a spot for some overtime work this weekend, the first person to pay me $100 gets it". Would that be OK?
Please stop this. Throwing the victims to the wolves and not caring if they end up dead over your concept of justice is heinous. You are talking about additional ways to victimize them.
The root account has no restrictions whatsoever, but you as an admin IAM user can block yourself from e.g. deleting DynamoDB tables to make accidental deletion harder: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/preventing-accidental-...
Such a tax would only increase rent - most landlords don’t run on huge margins, and those that do aren’t going to just give them up.
PC Engines uses coreboot for their APU boards (usually used as routers or firewalls).

The price/performance & energy efficiency isn't too compelling in my opinion, but if you like the idea of running your router, firewall or other network appliance on x86 with an open source BIOS and OS, its worth looking into.
find vendor, sign up for reseller account, grab api keys, churn our ssl certs using favorite language, create front end to site, and sell. Maybe you'll get bought by Symantec, who knows -that's the sad and typical end for that dream
> internationalised metadata

I hope this includes the version-release dates in the app pages. As a non American, they were always a sticking point, an unintuitively presented piece of information in an otherwise smooth UI flow.
Did you find a Swype-ish replacement on F-Droid? Gesture typing is the one thing I miss about running stock Android.
But he called the piece "excellent and fair to all sides" and was pretty gracious in response to Cuddy's criticisms and how the NYT portrayed him. I honestly wasn't a huge fan of the article but re-reading it after a bit of sleep, and knowing that Gelman thought it was strong, I appreciated the issues it brought up.

I love (genuinely, non-ironically) that you reconsidered the merits of the article after reading Gelman's positive assessment of it. A possibly underappreciated benefit of Gelman's unabashed approach to criticism is that when he writes "I thought Dominus’s article was excellent and fair to all sides", it's reasonable to assume that he actually believes this rather than just pretending to "make nice" with scripted double-talk. His willingness to criticize things that he sees as wrong makes it possible (for me, and apparently you) to trust his stated opinion of things he sees as right.

And I don't think sexism can be dismissed outright, if people find it safer to talk shit to a woman compared to a man.

You prefaced it with an "if", but do you think it is common that "people find it safer to talk shit to a woman compared to a man"? I'd guess that at this point most male academics would be significantly more reluctant to criticise in print the work of a female colleague than that of a fellow male. I see Gelman as trying to adhere (possibly recklessly) to a gender-blind approach to criticism, and find this refreshing.
Yes, I work remotely a few days a week.
Anything that's hosted and free is likely to be tracking you to make money off you.

Except if it's an analytics tool, where it's likely to be tracking your customers to make money off them.
Some people have a career in building new things or inventing things.

Other people have a career in connecting people together, or writing criticism of things other people have built, or writing documentation or other kinds of exposition, or interviewing, or doing investigative reporting, or editing, or building communities, or ...

John Gruber does not sell himself as a programmer or computer scientist or technical wunderkind. He was able to cobble together a little ad-hoc specification and perl script (markdown) that works for him, and many other people like it (because it’s great at what it does!), but I have never heard him introduce himself as “hi, I’m the brilliant inventor of markdown, that technical masterwork”, or whatever.

He has made his career in writing, which in his case is some mix of criticism, journalism, and surfacing interesting stuff from around the web. He’s quite good at his job, which is why many people read his blog.
I don't quite understand why Yelp's on that list — do you mind elaborating?
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"it can use to entice and entrap vulnerable populations into an exploitative relationship"

And here's the root of the matter - the belief that individuals shouldn't be expected to stand on their own two feet, to critically think, to judge with reason, and be held accountable for their actions. Indeed, the belief that these people are UNABLE to take care of themselves, and to use reason to make personal, individual decisions. Well, I believe that freedom means the ability to voluntarily engage in transactions, with the full weight of responsibility on the individual not to be an idiot. I voted Republican - let me guess what party you voted for.
> backseat driving how other people spend their free time

I like that phrase a lot, captures a lot about comments on OSS projects here in HN and elsewhere.
I do not honestly understand the negative comments, including the "Hugo did that already" since the dev points to important differences such as SASS.

I very much look forward to testing the binary (not knowing Rust I see no reason to try to play with the code). Just one preliminary feedback: gutenberg --help does not indicate any options. But if I could make a suggestion that might help set this apart a bit from other markdown-site-generators, it would be to have real support for footnotes. Most seem to use the GitHub flavor which is sorely lacking in that regard and it's unfortunate that most generators do not address this vital need for many of us.

Thank you for your work and for sharing this project.
It's funny, in an age where we can do whatever we want with apps, we still fuck up with basic functionality that was perfected decades ago.

Want to use something offline? Nope! Online only!
Want an app to stay stable and fast? Nope, here's some new useless features and a 20% reduc in speed for all phones on the market.

Seriously. How do we go backwards, whilst going forwards.
"Les cordonniers sont les plus mal chaussés." - roughly translated: the shoemakers often has the worst shoes.
For years, but intermittently. I'd missed the laziness thing, which is also wrong if true.

On IQ and violence: I had thought it was a fairly settled matter that the black population in the US has a lowered measured mean IQ, and higher incidence of violence, than the non-black? (Leaving aside all the issues with IQ itself).

I'd also thought it was uncontroversially thought a matter of poverty, education, and culture - and that race was _not_ a causal factor (except in that being black in the US means you're likely to be a victim of discrimination).

Has ESR claimed it's genetic, in the past? Because if so I've missed
it ( I've clearly also missed some other wrong stuff, so it's entirely possible).
Three things
- in a world like startups where the people in the lead haven't got much experience and might have many doubts, anyone with an explicit opinion and even a vague air of knowledge might be clung to.
- Even the people that see through all the BS might still want tot tap into his network of contacts
- Exposing him and getting into a fight with a loud bully potentially takes a lot of energy, so most people just shut up and get on with their own things rather than risk being diverted into a non-productive, public and probably drown-out game of mud wrestling.
>RDBMS makes sense for most applications.

Why? An RDBMS has never been the best option for any application I have created and I have created standard business applications as well as consumer applications.
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Adios Robert Scoble, our very own Kim Kardashian.

As per sexual harassment, even after Weinstein most women will keep quiet. It's a much better career move, unless their attacker is on the ropes. (Unless he's outed he can not be in the ropes, I know).

Many people with money and power do feel entitled to everyone, not to just those that go after such men.
Yeah, I'll get the notice and decide at that point. My current thoughts are $24 is the limit. I think I'll adjust the notification to $25 and maybe automate selling at $24.

That way, I can change my mind if, for some reason, I think it will rally.
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We've been working on this since a little over a month ago. Growth is a big challenge for us, but so far retention has been pretty good. We'd would love to get any feedback on the value prop and any other thoughts or suggestions. Thanks!
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> ("Look at how beautiful those charts and graphs are. You can really visualize the data to make better decisions!")

That's one of my pet peeves. This literally is goes in the opposite direction most of the time - the prettier the graphs presented, the more useless they are. They show less, take more space, omit units, scales, or well... even useful data. Not to mention connecting things that should not be connected, or drawing areas where they shouldn't be, etc.

It's almost like if some people wanted to screw over their customers on purpose. But, I guess, it's more of people who don't know what they're doing selling things to people who don't know how to use them.
It appears [0] to be Ruby.

[0]: https://github.com/Thibaut/devdocs
Interesting valuation. 8x revenue is a success for SaaS companies. They were initially priced at $20/share, which would imply ~9.5x revenue. At $32/share they're at ~16x revenue. Very steep.

They also fail the VC "rule of 40" where SaaS companies should have growth plus margins equal to 40%. (50% growth and negative 10% margins, or 10% growth and 30% margins) They seem to be at 50% growth, but minus 40% margins.

Somehow they pulled it off. Great for them!
Researchers are extremely unqualified to be teachers. That's because researchers are good at researching.

And this skill has very little overlap with teaching undergraduate students.

And on the other end, a fairly small percentage of students end up doing any research in college.

In an ideal world, researchers would research, and people who specialize in teaching would teach.

You do NOT have to be some cutting edge leader in your field to teach undergrads. Simple skills, like being an engaged and interesting speaking are way way way more important than how many papers you've published.
Have smartphones destroyed a generation?
Lenovo dismisses more than 1,000 employees, the first of three steps
Sorry, that should have been “non-tiling”.
What's the benefit/reasoning here for another distro? I just want rock-solid hardware with strong Linux compatibility. It seems like the man-hours would be better spent contributing to drivers to ensure stability and accessibility across all Linux distributions.
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Denmark's education minister will let high schools check students computers
These things come at a cost. If the cost of grad students goes up, we'll see some combination of the following:

1 - Less grad students.

2 - More undergrads doing the work of grad students.

3 - More adjuncts doing the work of grad students.

4 - Grad students being asked to do more.

The irony is this is happening at the great home of Price Theory!
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Sorry, why exactly do you think 7.5x next year sales is too low?
Yes. I read In eighth grade, I took advanced-placement calculus and statistics courses, which enabled me to take multivariate calculus in ninth grade. and thought, "A lot of Silicon Valley tiger parents will be sending their kids to math camp next summer!"
My last firm had an unpaid high school intern. He was the son of one of our accountants. Despite the nepotism, he actually produced code that we used.
I'm a C++ dev and this sounds extremely interesting. I have nim a spin a year ago and really liked what I saw, but GC was a real issue because I'm doing audio development where you end up having to circumvent the GC anyway. I would love to allow my users to create MIDI plugins with nim and this is a key step towards that.
There might also be another effect in play - as the labor market tightens, I think Uber is looking into ways of boosting the supply of rides from the drivers it already has.

This offer exploits loss aversion on the part of those drivers (once they take it up, they don't want to "lose" and have it not be worth it, so they might end up driving even if fares are low).
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Agree, but what about all the scholarships and free state universities?
Ah, I wasn't really thinking about DNS cache poisoning. I was thinking about someone going to a public place (a school, a cafe, an airport), setting up a deceptively named Wi-Fi hotspot on their smartphone, and intercepting all non-HTTPS traffic that's going through.

Maybe this is not a lucrative opportunity for someone who also has the skills to gather a botnet that consists of millions of computers. But this attack requires minimal skills. If Gmail didn't use HTTPS, there would be an easy-to-use Gmail hacking app. If Facebook didn't use HTTPS, there would be an easy-to-use Facebook hacking app. The risk of getting caught is small. And by going to the right place, there's a reasonable chance of targeting a particular person, which many would find appealing. I think that the only reason attacks like this aren't more common is that most of the high-value attack targets are already using HTTPS.
> do you think it is common that "people find it safer to talk shit to a woman compared to a man"?

I don't know whether they find it safer, but they certainly do it more, and are conditioned to do so from childhood.
He's worth hundreds of millions and is in his 20s. I hope he doesn't change at all because he has no reason to.
That's true, but beyond the jobs there is a legitimate issue of national security. If we're going to have a military at all then that implies we need a domestic aerospace industry capable of producing large aircraft. That capability has to be preserved as a strategic necessity regardless of cost.
Yes! Pritchard remains extremely well known for this and subsequent work. If only they had given it a catchy title ;-)
Darn it, that doesn't seem to have changed, unfortunately.

In fact, I can't detect any easily visible change from 0.104 version - I guess it's mostly bugfixes and more subtle changes.
Its a safe bet to say No... Betteridge's law of headlines is one name for an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
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Wouldn't it be better to supply a link? Then people could make up their own minds.

Even if you're right, I'm not sure what evidence it's supposed to count as; everybody knows we make bad calls, and I know it better than anyone. But I searched for your incident and could only find https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14530877, which is close to what you describe and (I think) would strike most HN readers as pretty defensible.
I agree. This is just a way to encourage supply in a busy period by asking for an early commitment. Drivers get paid more for committing to work, and people get lower fares because of less need for peak surcharges. This is the market working. Nobody is forced to accept it.
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Unless I'm misunderstanding your point, I think it still works out equitably regardless of the existence of a VAT system.
I know this isn't the whole picture, but doesn't a spike in inflation imply some kind of dilution of value? It's not as though the govt would be creating currency to fund this, it was collected from somewhere. Doesn't the idea that the price of everything will go up because some guy in a suit noticed that everyone has more money to spend, fall apart the second a competitor decides to keep their prices low?

Things like rent and certain utilities I can understand this might happen to but a mass devaluing of a currency just because the flow of money is routed a little different doesn't smell right to me.
The cost could be offset by administrators not taking a huge cut. Quite literally these administrators do nothing of worth; it's the work of grad students and not-yet-tenured professors that keeps universities rhnning., Not the endless circles of bureaucrats
Thanks for this outstanding idea. Unfortunately even for legitimate, properly registered businesses in China, hosting on S3 is illegal for some inexplicable reason. Any other very light, easy to manage versions for EC2, preferably something that can be run with Dokku?
But then what is the difference between what he is complaining about and a traditional pointer.

I always assumed that a default-constructed unique_ptr<T> was simply a NULL pointer under the hood. So you have exactly the same representations of "nothing" as you do with a T