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Thanks I'll give that a go. I am going to have so many unread articles if I get back into RSS reading hah
If you need to keep your function "warm," why are you using FaaS in the first place? This almost seems like serverless satire!
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In all honesty, none of them. You can read and learn about many of the practices you will need, but it's entirely possible to understand the practice without being able to perform it.

For example, you can read any book on throwing the javalin and the quality of the book really doesn't matter much: it could be an amazing book, but no book is going to enable you to throw the javalin well. It can tell you how to do it, give you tips on what to try and what to avoid, but it can't help you in the actual doing.

You probably know enough about the practices to be able to design and build something already. The key is action; to do it, and to learn in reality what works and what doesn't. It's like throwing the javalin: the first few are going to be awful, but if you know the principle, after a bit of practice it will start to become a respectable throw (even if not world-beating).

I use the javalin metaphor because people can spend a lot of time building a SaaS. Treat each attempt as a throw, and recognise that if you spend the next three/six months on one throw then you're really not going to learn very much and it's not great practice.
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OVH runs servers for their clients, do you really expect them to randomly restart their clients' servers? Netflix is not a hosting provider, the situations are not comparable.
I think news of Hollywood sex scandals is about as far from hacker news as it gets. Can we leave this for TMZ?
> Not sure if this is just me,

It is not, many people are saying this.

Personally I find other search engines (DDG included) quite impossible to use, the results just are not what I was looking for, while Google is an always first page hit. Engines like Bing just give me straight up crap which isn't even related to (seemingly ofcourse; it somehow did find a relation obviously) what I am searching for.

I use web search almost exclusively for compile issues, coding searches and whitepaper searches. I would like to use something else but it would be very inefficient for the work I do at this moment.

What I noticed as well (and is sommewhat related); I work in China a lot and my colleagues there have no (real; they have it when they need to but they don't use it like we do) access to Google and, when solving hardware/software problems they are far less efficient than us. Thye have an advantage (I find) that they memorize a lot more than we do, but when we just need to solve something that they did not encounter before, Google always delivers while Baidu, Bing etc do not even get close.
I used to spend so much time on this topic, never really used IRC though. Or maybe .. I can't recall..

fun anecdote: some guy offered me an access to its ftp, full of tutorials. I didn't know how to use ftp, so he told me to install vnc so he could set it up for me. I didn't know VNC either but the second my mouse moved without my will my hand grabbed the modem cable.
AWS had an identical failure with their ATS(automatic transfer switch) system which took out an availability zone. After some forensics and a code review of the plc software, realized it was an omission in that system.

They now make their own if I remember correctly.

https://image.slidesharecdn.com/cpn208failuresatscale-121129...
Yeah nature got us here, but "here" is a local optimum based on evolutionary selection forces. If you were to design things based on biomimicry rather than first principles, planes would flap their wings, cars would gallop, and computer vision sensors would only perceive visible light. These people are building solutions rather than solving the problem.
Where is the HN RSS link?
It is a good example for solving problems without overengineering them.
This is a great post.

I love Rome but I don't feel it's one of the more grueling cities to visit. I guess if you have to fit in everything in a couple of days it can be. We had three, we skipped the Forum and the Vatican Museum but did visit the Galleria Colonna.
There’s plenty more where he came from. The reasons for his popularity may be just as random and capricious as the reasons for his downfall. Look at another example, Kevin Spacey. Sure he’s a good actor but is he so good that he should have got all the roles he got for the last twenty years? I think many such roles could have gone elsewhere. And now they will.
Your commemt doesn't make much sense to me. If a random person is searching for github, the top result probably should be from wikipedia. Someone actually using github on the other hand, would just type the address.
>miss Google Reader

Feedly
I hope he starts a YouTube channel.
Lol, we have all been there. Nothing wrong with running a message broker on a private network, unless you're sending all traffic through a single gateway. The easiest thing to do is probably swap out that Go server for a message broker and keep the VPN.
You have the power to leave it. You have chosen not to.
There is a big problem with the commercialisation of React. More and more companies are using learning resources as marketing material. And now one popular JS developer has started beginning his GitHub readmes with advertisements for a paid JS course. It's a far cry from the open, guileless sharing culture of webdev 10 years ago.
No it doesn’t, the work still exists; clearly the people in charge of Netflix really believe you shouldn’t be a star and be allowed to use your power to be abusive. Maybe instead it sends the message you have a duty of care to your fans and you should be careful about how and who you sleep with in these cases. It’s not cool what these guys have done (Weinstein, Spacey, CK) and I think they all know it judging by their apologetic statements. I think I’d expect to be fired if I had sexually assaulted or harrassed someone at work. The only thing that you can say is that further proof might be necessary but I think here there are so many cases to answer Netflix’s decision is perfectly understandable. These are not isolated incidents.
I'm torn as well. Some of my favorite movies and shows involve some of these recently exposed actors/producers. Shows like American Beauty, KPAX, Gangs of New York, etc. I get the knee jerk reaction of shunning the movies. But, if they go away entirely, that's a shame. It's also painting with a broad brush. Many other unaccused artists were involved in these things and will suffer along with the accused.

Hopefully this will be mostly focused at new opportunities for the specific offender versus past works.
Louis CK does not need Netflix. In particular, check out his phenomenal self-produced show, Horace and Pete: https://louisck.net/show/horace-and-pete
Honestly I can’t see YouTube being that much less liberal with this kind of thing, given how big of a deal he is. However he does have a history of self-publishing and I wonder how well he could do out of that
I have no interest in watching anything Louis CK does right now. Maybe in time, I might. Mel Gibson seems to be working his way back, perhaps Louis CK will as well.

When there are enough people like me, that's just basically the market at work. The value of Louis CK's commercial art is down. If his art wasn't commercial, he could keep making it if he wanted. But really, he's making a product and his product losing popularity bothers me about as much as the Wii U selling poorly.
Because the only people that use Markdown are programmers. I know, we think we're the center of the universe but the other 99.999% of the population have no idea what it is, nor do most care to learn it.

And Apple designs for masses, not niches.
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The sites seems somehow immature to me. The "Shared Pipes" sections lists a few examples, but the first one returns an empty feed and the second one returns "Internal Server Error".

It is probably because of the definition of the pipes being outdated, but it needs better presentation.
The deaths sure wouldn't.
The comment in the OVH post-mortem suggests it is about internal servers and services. You're right about customer bare-metal servers. They can't restart them randomly.
> Simplicity makes picking up the unfamiliar easier.

The talk I referenced talks about how the opposite is often true. Tools that result in objectively simpler systems can come with a initially steeper learning curve.

> You can't accurately deduce from time alone that the time to pick up Vue was based on familiarity with similar libraries.

True, I was really just suggesting questioning instincts when evaluating tools based on the initial 'time to get started'.
Ask HN: Is my understanding of AI correct?
Until last few years/decades, all computer programs (all work that was done by computers) had two important characteristics:
– Humans where making exact rules (algorithms) how computer will make decisions
– Everything that computer did, human could do it also

This is my understanding of the significance of current AI, a deeper explanation is at:
http://buklijas.info/blog/2017/05/01/how-machines-learn-an-illustrated-guide-to-machine-learning-book-review/

Am I correct or missing something?
Very low quality article.

Rehashes a few talking points from media about Google having bad results in searches, throws in the election stealing with fake news conspiracy theory and presents the whole steaming pile with hot pink highlights as something worth reading. Fails to explain why I should not trust Google search (other than some bad results may pop up... a fact I'd previously believed to be well known about the Internet in general).
The particular failure mode you're talking about is reasonably easy to reliably remove: all fuel piping should be under lower than atmospheric pressure. You accomplish this by installing suction pumps next to consumers (and install additional pumps if the height difference is too large). That way, if a pipe breaks (except for the short pieces of pipe between the pipe and consumer), there will be no sustained fuel leak.
I would be pissed if my hosting provider randomly restarted my servers, taking them offline for minutes each time.
He doesn't need Netflix, but he does need his audience. Netflix dropped him because they think he lost his audience and because there are 1000 other productions in line.
I think the real story is the battle between The Platform and The Artist (or Content Producer).

In the beginning, platforms such as YouTube, and Netflix, were weak. They needed artists to create content that would drive traffic to the new platform.

Now, the platforms have most of the power. As soon as they don’t like a particular YouTuber, or a Netflix Comedian, the platform simply fires the artist.
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This doesn't make any sense. I'm not the one who posted it. It's entirely reasonable for me to implore my fellow readers not to submit/vote on these articles without becoming some kind of hypocrite.
I'm sure this differs from region to region. I'm from a small town that had one landfill site that was in use since decades, and will likely be the only landfill for the town until it runs out of people. For sure quite a bit more low-tech than any metropolis landfill.
>it reveals that empirically, it produces a narrower political dialogue, poor participation, and low satisfaction with government compared to systems that produce better proportionality.

I am very skeptical of studies purporting to run statistical analysis on such small data sets as the recent history of countries, let alone the recent history of democracies. It seems that in the quest to produce quantitative political science research, people forgot all the statistical lessons about sample size, confounding factors, and so forth.
I think the world will be worse for burning people at the stake for making mistakes.

Comedians are some of the very few people who seem to be able to get anyone to change their minds about anything. They're widely loved for bringing people up. But this is a talent they developed by practicing on themselves, because they are, almost down to a person, deeply dissatisfied, disturbed people. And for men, one of the most disturbing subjects has always been sex.

The exact same behavior by a man can be super hot or extremely repulsive, depending on whether a woman wants it, and this is hardly ever explicitly stated, and it falls almost entirely to men to initiate. I don't find it surprising that men are dorks about it and make mistakes all the time. If we were to somehow make women twice as horny as men, I think we would find that women would make the same kinds of mistakes. Women actually do touch men without permission and so forth, but of course this is not seen as trespassing.
You’re wrong — HN has guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

What to Submit
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Ideological or political battle or talking points. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
You could use "flag" and "hide", no need to ask for anything.
This is perfectly reasonable content for hacker news? I don’t think it should have been flagged...
That’s fair. You’re not a hypocrite. I’m just not sure commenting on it is effective.
The stuff you order from sites like aliexpress has no quality control.
Not Invented Here, huh?
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Since you have 2 clients lined up, I assume you are working direct and not through an agency. If you are in the US, $150K 1099 will probably end up being less than $100K W2 (working for an employer) situation.

Here’s some data points:

1099 status means you pay all of the SS/FICA (~15%) deduction instead of half you pay as an employee.

Health insurance costs are insane and are getting worse. My health insurance is going from $800/mo to $1600/mo next month for 2 people. My bottom of the line health insurance will have ~$10K deductible next year if I keep the same plan. If your wife/husband has health insurance through work, the situation is a lot easier.

You can only charge for work you do for the client. Printer died? You can’t charge for the time it takes going to OfficeMax and getting another. I work about 5 billable hours a day. You will get paid for a lot less hours than you spend in the office. Don’t make the mistake of thinking you will get paid for 2000 hours a year.

When the contract ends you stop getting paid until you line up another gig. Being a “man of leisure” as I call it, can cut into you income a lot. Contracting involves assuming lots of risk and you need to charge for assuming that risk.

I am absolutely not trying to scare you out of contracting but you do probably need to recalibrate your costs and bill accordingly. You should bill at least $100/hr.

As for the “not having a boss” thing; it depends on your attitude. Like a lawyer, I provide a service to my clients. I dont think a lawyer feels like his clients are his bosses and I don’t either. It’s an attitude thing. Picking good clients is a good skill to develop. Raise your prices and you’ll get better clients.
My dad just looked at the last three orders he had on AliExpress, all from more than a month ago. They appear now on the website as if they have 30%-50% discount, but the end price is exactly the same, for all of them. I'm not sure how much of a sale it really is...
The way this journalist is using Google is so different from the way I use Google that I find it hard to understand what the problem is.

Trying to think what I googled recently. Let’s see...

- what new pages have appeared about ReasonML over the past week

- ditto for rxjs

- any code samples of doing server-side rendering when using redux-observable?

- any examples of applying functional javascript patterns to drawing on canvas?

- what javascript conferences are planned for the coming year?

- how is the phrase "the good wife" used in the books (searchable via Google Books)? is the title of the eponymous series an obvious allusion to some literary work? (haven’t fugured that one out, by the way)

For all these searches, I was very happy with what the relevance of what Google found.
> That said, other Louis CK content is still available on the Netflix service.

> We’ve reached out to Netflix asking if they have any plans to remove other Louis CK content from the platform.

Public statements like this always smell of activism more than journalism. Sure, it's an obvious question and it's transparent to report on questions you've asked but not yet received a statement about. But in this context, it's obvious that it puts public pressure on Netflix. It's shifting the goal posts.

This isn't a political interest group asking this, it's a journalist on a news site. The author seems to subscribe to the idea that the only moral conclusion of the confirmed allegations is complete "no-platform"-ing him by removing all his content and anything less is hypocritical at best or making the company complicit at worst.

I'm not going to defend the man or his actions but whether the person can be seen as separate from the art is a difficult question and it seems inappropriate for a news article to position itself this firmly on its conclusion.
This stopped working like this a long time ago; if you put something in quotes, Google will still sometimes return pages that don't include it, or that contain "synonyms" for it. You need to turn on the verbatim option for the old behaviour, I think.
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That's how I feel. He was good on stage, but the thought of watching him fake masturbate again during his performance makes me a little sick, so won't be watching him for a long while.

But if he wants to self fund and produce his show, or if the belief is that he is so good, then someone else will pick him up fund his performance and they'll make a profit.

On the Netflix side, I think the problem is the subscription service. People believe that they are directly subsidizing him and so are in a way endorsing him too.
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Actually the real first rule is not to take them. Flash people your bits in person instead.

Assuming you were the one to take the pictures, of course, and not got them from your ex-partner that's trying to pressure you by threatening to publish them on FB.
The former forces both "like" and "so" to be present in the result without any further relation between them. It's awkward and unintuitive, but it was specifically introduced when they remapped +.
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The Discord article authors are incorrect in saying mutating props broke with React 16.

What really happened is that they switched from createClass to ES6 classes. ES6 class methods have implicit 'use strict' mode.

They weren't forced to switch to ES6 classes if they didn't want to. createClass is on npm (create-react-class) and still works fine.
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I use Thunderbird for my email + RSS together. Somehow the three things that lots of people keep on thinking are dead or dying work perfectly together.
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It seems a special (already very useful) case of ZKP as explained in the article is when f is independent of x, giving you the concept of certificates, a concept well-known in interactive theorem proving, for example: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-21046-4_...
It's now way past 22B USD.

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Most of these Singles Day sales are likely brandname products, not no-name products. For example, I've purchased several Singles Day items this week. A breadmaker by Panasonic, a noodlemaker by Philips, a vacuum by Midea (a Chinese brand), and some glass food containers by Lock & Lock. If you buy no-name stuff, you're taking a risk. But even for the no-name stuff, I've done OK when purchasing stuff that has a lot of good reviews. I think just need to be careful when browsing.
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Part of the gap can be explained by: (1) Increasing income of internet users, (2) The average user spending more time on the internet, (3) Google getting more effective at matching advertisers with Google users
If you use a web reader, I think you don't even need an unique url if your ads are static images. Just request an image from your server and use the user cookie for recommendations
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Although Marines are known for the possession of many qualities, literary acumen is not among them.
Verbatim has worked for many years.
TIL if kid's not injured by a grenade or raped - he's fine, nothing to worry about.
I didn’t say it was on topic, so I’m not wrong about that.
Ah so it's ok to be sexually abusive if you're an artist. What if he was a CEO of a tech company, would that be ok too. What if they were widely loved too? I don't get it why artists and celebrities get a pass here.
You’re totally right.

That said, I’ve recently seen comedians such as Ari Shaffir, jump from Comedy Central to Netflix. The main motive was that Comedy Central was too restrictive, and Netflix gave total artistic freedom. Many comedians, such as Bill Burr, rave about Netflix’s artistic freedom.

Soon, we might see artists jump from Netflix. And, Netflix might not care — just like Comedy Central seems to not care.
Virtually no consumption of any kind is environmentally free. But some things are less costly than others (like chalk is to plastic)
That's a very interesting answer, thanks for taking the time to write it.

For the most part, as a professional Ada programmer, I agree with you on every point of your analysis. I personally like algol like syntax, but would like Ada to be less verbose at times.

I just want to say that there is now a fourth option, gnat pro developer, that is more reasonably priced than gnat pro, and more targeted towards regular companies' needs rt. Safety critical: https://www.adacore.com/gnatpro/developer
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A chrome-only jupyther notebook environment. Seriously? Did they put extra effort into making a browser agnostic html-app chrome only?

Just use Azures jupyter notebook environment if you need a no-setup in the cloud notebooks.
I use newsify. You should check it out.
Purchasing inside of China, it's different, I think? All the items I bought, I can clearly see what the original price is. I remember last year buying a clotheswasher. Two months after Singles Day, checked the price and confirmed that it did indeed have the higher original price.
You use Google for very specific niche queries where you already know enough about the topic to judge the veracity and usefulness of the results. If someone makes a site that associates ReasonML with ISIS and Google surfaces that as the #2 result, you'll just laugh it off.

The article is talking about people using Google for news and contested political topics. The extent of damage resulting from poor/misleading/fake results for the search "Texas church shooter" is much greater than for "ReasonML".
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