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What prevents the hardware offloading from being used on public interfaces? Even if microsecond-level jitter reduction on public networks is negligible this should reduce CPU load in high PPS deployments, right?
The point is, Lutz's future where you'll have to sell your car for scrap will probably not come.

It might make sense to do so, but you won't have to.

And, unlike a horse, a car doesn't require much to keep. If you have space to keep it (which, unless you live in a very densely populated urban area, you absolutely do), why wouldn't you? And on that note, if I could keep a pony for free, I would keep one too.
> Do we know this somehow? Beyond a doubt, if they have power they will use it.
I remember reading this somewhere, but I can't find a source. It is conceivable they may choose to be more "activist" with their holdings in the future, but thus far I can't think of any examples of them using their holdings to exert influence over the company's they invested in. Certainly they must be cognizant of the fact that doing so at this time would make most companies reluctant to accept their investment.
"non-top universities" actually publish contents that are not up to the mark in my opinion, however, there are exceptions. Also in many cases, I have seen that mediocre universities of India have a very poor environment for research that actually demotivates the bright candidates and hampers their performance.
EDIT: most universities / institutes in India focus and excel in undergraduate programs.
Crap. I like Computer Modern. :(
_Please_ let it be intentional that you wrote punished! It conveys the feeling of publishing so well.
Well they do only need the lower case "i" when talking about anything important.
If you run `foo | bar`, what starts running first? Does foo start and push its output into bar, or does bar start first and pull its input from foo? Does foo run to completion then bar to completion, do they take it in turns, or run at the same time on different processors? Does it matter?
> An inch should be an inch. A pixel should be a pixel.

We had that in Win95. You could scale the display for 1:1 dimensional matching with an on screen ruler. Then Microsoft found out how broken everything became if you scaled the display to a non-default value because invariably some GUI elements were built around hard coded pixel dimensions that couldn't adapt when the fonts weren't rendered the same as the developer's machine. So they hid all of that machinery in '98.

Guess what? People are still designing web apps today with px units and the same scaling breakage persists with browsers jumping through all sorts of hoops to hide it.
Or just replace the brain completely with the computer, like in Greg Egan's jewel stories. http://will.tip.dhappy.org/blog/Compression%20Trees/.../book...
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Honestly, the easiest way to get involved is, similarly to open source contributing, I think, is to build upon someone elses work. Find a paper you like and think you can use as a base for something. Then when you've done, publish it and contact the writer of the paper you used as a base. If you're lucky, you'll get some important feedback from him.
> Even if you would need this money to keep your own wife and children alive?

If I'd live under circumstances where I indeed had no other choice, maybe. Luckily, I live in Western society, so the answer to your question is "can't happen here".
I realize yes some of these sources have small budgets, others have million dollar budgets, yet haven't solved the "cheap storage & distribution" in a way Amazon has. It is a case of each to his own, Amazon is able to help in their way.

My comment was more a warning to not expect this to be any easier to access than the original data in the way of manipulating data.
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1. An IoT focused blockchain whose client requires JavaScript!! You can tell the project team has been nowhere near a microcontroller with 32KB RAM & 32Mhz CPU

2. 50 chains for 50 usecases? Most people don't have 50 apps on their phones! You can tell we're in a bubble or get rich quick scam
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In 2008, there was something like one or two US states and Canadian provinces that allowed same-sex marriage, and a couple or so European countries, and a few cities here and there. (Many others did provide alternatives to marriage, such as civil unions or domestic partnerships).

It wasn't until 2012, I believe, that same-sex marriage achieved enough support in any US state to actually win on the ballot [1]. It wasn't until 2013 that the ball really started rolling in Europe.

It seems kind of ridiculous to fire someone for supporting what was the mainstream position of the vast majority of the Western world at the time.

[1] Washington. That was a memorable vote, as not only did voters here approve same-sex marriage, they also approved recreational marijuana.
edit: It's late here and I think I misread this originally :)

The differential between public IPs and internal IPs is tied into the path packets take after leaving the host. The path out of the guest is identical for both, but using VM public IPs (rather than internal) can result in passing through additional hops versus being routed straight to the target VM. Common firewall configurations can also impact perf here.

Original comment:

With respect to guest CPU, the approach used by Andromeda 2.1 eliminates VM exits both on transmit and for interrupt delivery (where supported by Intel). In that regard it's essentially identical to PCIe passthrough. There are customers running DPDK to further reduce variance (and eliminate the cost of interrupt handling entirely).

The choice to not pass through host hardware comes down to a few factors, but high on the list are supporting live migration and NIC vendor flexibility.

(I worked on this effort; see other comments for specifics)
Source(s)?
They were replicating the look of small fonts on CRTs where black text on a light background needed thicker lines to compensate for the bleed from neighboring active phosphors "shrinking" the apparent weight.
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There's not much to gain from spinning pedantic hypotheticals around the word "never"

"But what if you were hanging from a cliff and only a job offer from Pol Pot could save you.. "

Because that's not missing the point at all.
australia, with its migrant crisis is somehow better than japan?
React 16 adds Portals and Error Boundaries, which are very useful things that often change the way you write components. When you defer upgrading something that changes the way you write code, you accrue debt because you're increasing the amount of code written in a style that will be deprecated once you upgrade.

If you're all-in on React (as Discord is), the upgrade to React 16 is inevitable. Given that, upgrading now makes sense.
My understanding is that there are two VMs running in different zones within the same region, the primary, and a failover. Instead of writing to a zonal disk (the standard behaviour for a non-HA Cloud SQL instance), the primary's writes go to a new Regional Disk. The regional disk is replicated synchronously between two zones, rather than writes going to a single zone.

The obvious question you're having here is "Won't that be slower?" and the answer is yes it will necessarily be slower due to physics. However on the Google Cloud public Slack (https://gcp-slack.appspot.com), it was mentioned that networking for zone to zone is similar to machine to machine, so this is likely to not be an issue.

If the primary instance fails (either because of machine/rack/zone failure), it will stop sending heartbeats and the failover will try to mount the regional disk and become the primary. Because all writes are synchronously replicated, no data loss occurs, although your service will be unavailable until failover completes.

> Their mention of replication makes it sound like they are behaving similarly to RDS' Aurora instances

I don't think anything this fancy is happening, to my understanding it is just a disk that happens to be synchronously replicated to two zones. Under the covers they may be doing some smart copy-on-write stuff, but that isn't exposed to the user.

From the sound of the blog post they plan to unveil regional disks sometime soon, so we may get more info then.
Is anybody here who has used both AWS RDS and Google Cloud SQL? Any feedback/comparison? Any special points one should consider while moving from RDS to Cloud SQL?
The point I was trying to illustrate was that neither operating systems nor genomes contain the information needed to specify their required operating substrate and environment.

Perhaps it may be possible to derive or infer these requirements through simulation and analysis of the OS or genome, or perhaps not.

I guess it depends on the degree to which the "code" defining the system is abstracted from its operational embodiment, i.e. is the operating system in question encoded in the form of a Hardware Description Language [1], FPGA IP cores, or more abstract high-level source code?

I assume it would be more difficult/impossible to work out the hardware requirements for an OS given the just the high-level source code (are compilers included?) vs a low-level or "bottom"-level (hardware-level?) code.

Likewise for a genome, I don't think the sequence of As, Gs, Cs, & Ts specified in an organism's reference genome [2] entail the chemical and physical particulars needed to instantiate the genome in an environment (physical, virtual, whatever) such that it functions. On the other hand, if you gave me an actual genome comprised of purified genomic DNA, then I'm getting a big hint about how the code needs to be physically instantiated for it to work. From this hint, maybe a near-omnipotent reverse-engineer could infer the biochemical requirements (i.e. cell-free expression system or a donor cell) needed to boot up the organism.

Am I just being pedantic or do you see what I'm trying to get at?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verilog

[2]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/NC_010473.1?report=grap...
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Haha, Freudian slip thanks to Swype... but I'll keep it there.
Depends how you do the job, if you initially design for mobile you can use the mobile layout for everyone that does not support grids, and add grids for the traditional desktop layout. Since grid layouts are created as a list of elements, this workflow is actually pretty efficient.
That doesn't sound like a safe way of resetting passwords. You should supply them a token they can use to set their own password. Your employees should not know your users passwords.
How I built one of the most active startup community of India
From the past 4 months, I have been working on building Pushstart and I have shared all my learnings and insights through the blog that got published on Hackernoon yesterday.

Pushstart is a family of entrepreneurs where you can launch ur Startup Ideas, Startup and get solutions to your daily startup problems through community-wide collaboration. :)

Do let me know if it helps fellow entrepreneurs and community builders out here. :)

http://bit.ly/How-I-built-one-of-the-most-active-startup-community-of-India-hn
In my case, the main pain points were third-party packages, more than React 16 itself. For react you only had prop-types and createClass to change everywhere. The migration of react-router in particular was awful, the new react-router is so different from the old one they should have created another repository for the new version.
Well, it hasn't gotten any better since then.
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Wasn't Einstein'srelativity a product of intuition rather than of calculation? And, intuition of processes that far exceed the bounds that Darwinian evolution would have prepared us for?

If we all just shut up and calculated, we'd still be doing Lorentz transforms near speed of light "just because they work", right?
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will force you to do the job twice

That's one way of looking at it. I prefer to see it as writing features that only certain users will benefit from. In the case of layout, I tend to give users with older browsers a much more basic, linear flow (just making the semantic HTML work really), and then add in more complex layout using what tech is available. That's not really doing the same work twice in my opinion.
Your assumption is that economic cooperation makes "evil" countries become more like the "good" countries they cooperate with. I don't think that holds true. Just take China and Russia, who have very strong economic ties with almost all of the world. Human rights in Russia certainly are not getting any better, and I doubt they are in China. In fact, taking recent relevations into account, those ties might just as much be corrupting the "good" countries, and not (just) working the way you assume they are.
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I'm sorry, exactly what kind of socioeconomic policy do you support? You speak as if you are a proponent of free market capitalism. Is that so?

We live in the real world, where things are not black and white, but that line you talk about? It's called law and we will be spending at least the next couple of centuries working out the kinks.
> These instances designed for compute-heavy applications like [...], highly scalable multiplayer gaming

Is he referring to specific titles? It's been a while, but to me, the max lobby size for multiplayer games was stuck at ~70 concurrent players (sending all updates to everyone is n^2).
Why is compensation (above and beyond what you need) so important?
My brother decided on his own he was going to be a paper boy at the age of 8. He wanted to save up money to buy a car. Announced this to my dad, who decided to roll with it. (My dad had picked fruit from orchards as a kid for similar reasons -- other kids did it because their families needed the money.) Later he set up a business doing yard work with a friend, put up flyers and everything.

Me? I sold origami in elementary school and tried to become a loan shark in middle school, until some wuss took up a dispute with a teacher.

Why is playing video games and roaming the neighborhood on bikes a more appropriate behavior for kids than doing work and getting money? It beats violin lessons.
The UN Admits That the Paris Climate Deal Was a Fraud
This is a really exciting approach to issue tracking! Can't wait to hear more about the details, so I can tell others. :)
Do you mean doing academics and research on your own time outside of a job? Is it for fun or do you have some goal to accomplish in mind? I ask because getting published might be relatively easy to do. However whatever you publish may get lost in the million plus papers that get published each year. Perhaps there are more effective ways to let others know about your important ideas?
> Also, speeds like "100 times per second" should be scaled down with the size scaling, if you want a feel for mechanics.

I'm a little confused, are you saying that the real speeds and rates in the article/this thread are all too fast by a factor of 100 million, or are you saying that its useful to perform this scaling mentally when imagining these systems to get a better intuition of their mechanics...?
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Indeed, it’s not easy to come up with a repeatable benchmark from which broad meaningful conclusions can be made. But if a real-world React application gets faster when upgrading, I’m all for sharing that, and it can be a useful estimate if that application is somewhat similar to my own codebase.
Yes "Not really". The majority is not really everybody.
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> they have a duty towards their shareholders as much as BP or Exxon

Or as little. The concept of fiduciary duty is just a hack to keep corporations working in the service of capital, rather than, you know, the common good or whatever. It's neither a legal standard nor an economic imperative, just a convenient myth. I guess it can be encoded into the charter of a company, in which case it is their imperative, but I digress.

But I totally agree that it's absurd that this debate is being scoped to the tech industry.
I absolutely agree :)
This is based on a cursory examination of [1], so I may be off-base. But Xen appears to rely on the host for many things that can be, and often are, hardware accelerated in KVM. Searching for CONFIG_XEN_PVHVM, it doesn't appear to cover much.

[1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/x86/xen/
The 1978 movie adaptation is superb and deeply memorable. Voices actors include the great John Hurt and Richard Briers. Here's a taste:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGyQmH9NZcw

There's at least one thing about the film, though, that I find mysterious. It was given a 'U' rating in the UK (which means universal, i.e. suitable for all ages). Yet many people find it scarily unwatchable -- why?

SPOILERS. True, there's blood, which is unusual for a children's animation. The enemy warren, savagely run by General Woundwort, is terrifying. But I think the real objection seems to be the perception that vulnerable little rabbits are being picked off one by one as our group journeys across the countryside. Yet, if you look closely, you notice that only one member of the group, a minor character, is actually killed (Violet; by a bird of prey). Bigwig escapes from the snare, Hazel recovers from being shot, and so on.

UPDATE. I think I've figured it out. Because of the beautiful song 'Bright Eyes' (sung by Art Garfunkel), we have mourned Hazel even though he was only wounded. So it feels as if he has died, even though he hasn't.
This is all just tax loophole money anyway thanks to the carried interest scam. They're fighting over money that rightfully belongs to schools and the needy. These seem like particularly greedy thieves.
> Fun thing is: pixels don't have a size. They are just 2d locations (with a color assigned).

Sometimes pixels are not even 2d locations. I've seen experimental hardware running hexagonal and other unusual pixel configurations. Vector images look absolutely amazing, even at low resolution, however certain font types (formats, not typefaces) look better than others and some look downright terrible.
Yes. You act like it's a hard question to answer.

If my wife hates me for not taking blood money, I have failed to find a compatible life partner.

If my children hate me for it, I have failed to educate them about morality.

Whatever kind of ill will falls my way as a result of sticking to my guns and valuing the herd over the individual, I will take it with a smile. Because I can sleep at night knowing that I didn't decide that my own petty little problems are more important than the problems faced by people living under dictatorship.

Love can be an incredibly powerful thing. Love can be an incredibly selfish thing. Love can bring peace to all who accept it. Love can be the spark that leads to war. It is neither purely a good or evil thing. It cannot be used as an excuse for supporting the systematic degradation of human rights. That is love being selfish. Because it's not about the wives and children of the world, it is about your wife and your children.
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a technique known as a fee waiver ... The concept was apparently foreign to Conway, however.

How is this possible? VCs are masters of terms and veteran VCs are grandmasters of terms.
Most high DPI web-browser/software run into the main problem that the world runs on <= 96dpi screens.

I'm typing this on a 27″ iMac 5K with 218 dpi resolution. My smartphone (an iPhone 6) has 325 dpi; my 9.7″ iPad has 264 dpi. And you don't even have to use "retina" high-DPI displays to beat 96 dpi. The older 27″ displays, with 2560×1440 resolution, have 109 dpi when you work out the math; the MacBook Air 11″ has 135 dpi.

I think it's fair to say the world ran, past tense, on screens that were 96 dpi and under. But that's just not a very good assumption to make anymore.
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Are papers not published by the 'lesser' institutes?

I ask because you state that you can't test at the highest levels and so won't get into a 'top institute' but are you concerned you would not get into any graduate programs?

I ask because while the source institution might get you in front of the review committee more often, it is the quality of the work (in the ideal situation I know) that gets you into the journal. You can also publish papers as an undergrad with your adviser's support in the US, is that not true in India?
Been looking forward to this as well. RDS is a solid service but it’s good to have competition. Will be great to see PostgreSQL adoption widening and growing with 2 major cloud provider offering it as managed service.
Sounds like production hell.
It's hard for people to understand it, and this is not the first time I've been accused of lying about this very thing... But when I say never, I mean it.

My principle on this matter is more important than any emotion I may have.

Some people feel like it's ok to be selfish as long as they don't directly see the results of their selfishness. Yet imagine if every time you went to pick up your check, you were forced to watch a woman get stoned to death because someone raped her, and the ones doing the stoning were the ones handing you the check.

Any person that is okay with this scenario is a scourge on this planet.

Any person who isn't okay with this scenario, but is ok with taking blood money from foreign countries where they do not have to see the violence actually taking place, well honestly I just pity them for living their life in such a state of confusion.
s/fraud/failure/ or

s/fraud/not as effective as we hoped because of lack of serious commitment by signatories/

Clickbait-y non-news article.
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Yeah it seems like a perfect fit for the open source community.
I understand the author may want to make money out of it, and likes to keep control, but this feels like a product that depends on community contributors. You can’t charge for others’ contributions :-)
I feel it's pretty arrogant to think that you can contribute to research entirely on your own. You really need to be around other researchers who are smarter and more experienced than you to share ideas with and learn from, you simply do not have the insight needed to make progress in your field on your own. If you were that wunderkind who could do it, you honestly wouldn't be asking.

If you truly want to get into research, grad school should sound like a dream (at any school with a decent program, not just top schools). You'd be surrounded by likeminded people, get to do crazy science stuff all day, and you'd push the frontier of knowledge a little bit. It's really the best and most effective way to immerse yourself in the material and become a good researcher.