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>Spanner depends on TrueTime, a powerful way of coordinating resources in disparate places. No one but Google has this technology, although AWS and Microsoft could conceivably build it. Pretty much no one else on Earth could.

This is what I thought when the Spanner paper first came out. As I've worked in industry, I've discovered that far more companies than you think have access to the hardware necessary to support such behavior. If the interest continues, I'd expect this hardware to become fairly standard on enterprise gear.

Kubernetes is also developed with the goal of preventing vendor lock-in... It is an on-ramp for "the cloud" in general, but there are many details that will decide where you run your cluster.
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Vertical integration cuts costs.
Someone shared this website with me a while back to find used servers on ebay https://www.labgopher.com/

What do you think of that?

I am trying to put together a render farm where I need a lot of parallel CPUs to run Unreal Engine Swarm [0] but I just don't have the time or experience to execute on it. My goal is 16 Xeon chips across maybe 8 'boxes' to get to around 64/128 cores.

Anyone know where I could look to find someone I could contract to put something like this together?

[0] - https://docs.unrealengine.com/udk/Three/Swarm.html
I mean, actually think that I don't understand and would like to be educated.
What about the argument that Apple won't be able to take it's cut of apps sold and installed outside of the App store?
The AI effect is real. The second you understand something, it stops being magical.
> I can't comment on Ruby's profiling stack, but I think that cProfile is a great tool for finding bottlenecks in Python.

Whereas I don't. Between the performance impact (code with and without cprofile can have very different… profile), the lack of stack information and yet the lack of precise, actionable code-level information makes it not really useful/convenient for non-trivial codebases. Feeding the trace files to more visual systems (e.g. gprof2dot or runsnakerun) doesn't help much either.

These days I tend to use python-flamegraph (or pyflame but that's linux-only, though it has the advantage of using ptrace and can be attached to a running process at any point), this gives a mile-high view of the entire software in an extremely readable format, and from there it's possible to dive into specific hotspots with limited-scope profiles (whether with cprofile, with line_profiler[0] or with dedicated benchmarks).

[0] which has cprofile's issue of impacting the software it observes except significantly worse)
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Btw. if you want to use a random mac address just for one specific network you can simply add the following to the [wifi] section of the config file for that network (/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/):

cloned-mac-address=random

That way every time you connect to that network you will have a new, valid mac address.
This article is of low quality. False dilemmas, appeal to authority and reasoning by analogy.

Even the on-ramp Kubernetes is now preferred container orchestration tool across cloud providers and on-premise. A more apt article would be how the big three cloud providers co-opt Open Source into managed services.
Don’t the walking dead already pick up prescriptions there?

I share your concern. Maybe they could service people out of Tesla Semis in the parking lot? Only half joking.
You've been given plenty of examples showing it's been done. What's the point you're trying to reach?
I'm going to presume that your family has a combined income of 100k or more.

Lets engage in a very simple intellectual exercise:

remove all immigration restrictions and all protections that we have.

Do you believe that

a) your family in a short term would be better off/not different/the worse off?

b) your family in a long term would be better off/not different worse off?
I thought that was the sticking point all along. with a choice of 10 providers you can imagine supporting all kinds of tradeoffs of access and cost.

last mile is a pretty big barrier to entry, with all sorts of capital costs and regulatory hassle.

I work in a medium sized US city and the number of providers that will serve my business location is one. I don't think I'm alone.
You had a running CSS engine within a day?
You can change your App Store region and load those apps if you want, even if you live in china. You can even have apps from different App Store regions be loaded side by side (e.g. Facebook and xiami).
That doesn't seem much of an obstacle. Something did change, and you can certainly explain that.
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Why do you assume that monetisation was the main problem? This wasn't a startup that needed to return 10 times the initial investment in 5 years.

The impression I got from the postmortem was that they just got tired of the format and wanted to do something else.
The Obsidian Serpent: Orange County's serial killer who stalked the homeless
"UA stylesheets" is sort of an intermediary format these days; you don't write them yourself, you use a browser or browser extension or a piece of native accessibility software that generates them for you in response to your described needs.
> Parenting generally goes pretty smoothly when you and your child agree.

CHILD. Singular. If you have more than a couple children you know how different it is. Someplace there's a comedian that has a bit about how having one or two kids is like comparing the Coast Guard to the Navy Seals. It's VERY different having a CHILD than having several CHILDREN.
Coming from an IT/Ops background, often the answer is, know the Ops/sysad folk in a small shop, and be around when they're upgrading.

Apart from that, places like www.weirdstuff.com might exist in your area, and have stuff like this laying around for pennies on the dollar.
This is actually clever. Thanks for sharing the technique!
What he leaves out is end-user control, which translated to political terms, is freedom and self-determination.

Unfortunately this is a political trend in the U.S. now. The current President's administration has changed the generations-long U.S. policy of supporting democracy (self-determination) and freedom for people around the world, as a universal inalienable right, and arguably to some extent, for people in the U.S. who are not political supporters. (I'm trying to talk about the general trend, not the President; the fact that he had enough support to be elected and to enact these policies is evidence for how popular this trend is).
Why do we still have to pick prescriptions up? We have pizza delivery — why not for medicines? Order your drugs with an app and it shows up at your door.
> Pretty much no one else on Earth could.

Hyperbole.

1) time is a crutch 2) GPS receivers are cheap enough for every machine to have one.
Honest question, why are people so attracted to "lower prices"? Is this really beneficial for the consumer and the economy in the long term?

I have been consuming often slightly higher priced, better quality, ethically produced goods for some time now. I'm hapier having less stuff and caring for the things I have.

How do I afford to do this? I just buy stuff and try buy second hand quality items where I can.
Any professional investor is riding on a combination of a very long lucky streak, and portfolio-based risk-adjusting. Paying attention to the Winklevosses here is a selection effect; you're ignoring everyone who executed the exact same investment strategy they did, but ended up making bad bets rather than good ones.

You can entirely explain away the Winklevoss' success by supposing an investor pool of sufficient size that you can pick a set of first-pass winners (1:10000, say) and then pick a second-pass winner from that set (1:10000 again), where they happened to be the ones to be drawn, and everyone else wasn't. The sheer number of people trying to win explains away the improbability required to win—in exactly the same way that the number of people entered into a lottery explains away the improbability of the winner's guess.

Also, we only know who the Winklevosses are because they were a first-pass winner. So there's no reason to privilege them here; it'd make much more sense to look at all first-pass winners (in this case, early Facebook investors), rather than this random famous example of one, and then ask about this set's cumulative probability of at least one of them having gotten even richer from an early Bitcoin investment.
HIPAA - regulated health data requires physical destruction of retired hard drives. Usually this is done in sight of a video camera. The operator shows the drive's serial number to the camera and then drops it into the grinder.

CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) can require proof of destruction. That video does it.
The nonsensical overestimation of children shown in this thread leads directly to travesties like this judge arguing that toddlers are capable of representing themselves in immigration court. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/can-a...
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Look for government auctions. I bought a pallet of LCD screens for my son’s school for like $75.

A few years ago, they sold 4 pallets of Extreme 10/100 switches for $20! The catch is they sell lots and you have to pick them up at one time.
This is what NIST says about it[1]:

Advancing technology has created a situation that has altered previously held best practices
regarding magnetic disk type storage media. Basically the change in track density and the
related changes in the storage medium have created a situation where the acts of clearing and
purging the media have converged. That is, for ATA disk drives manufactured after 2001
(over 15 GB) clearing by overwriting the media once is adequate to protect the media from
both keyboard and laboratory attack.

That's an elaborate way of saying that zeroing a healthy modern disk is sufficient. No need to break out the crucible or jackhammers. If you really need to indulge your paranoia then use some wiping system that does multiple overwrites with random data. It's not necessary, but at least you won't put your eye out.

[1] http://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/SP/nistspecialpublic...

If the device isn't healthy and can't zero all of the media then you will need to resort to physical destruction.
We're on a mission to connect people to the music they love through their clothing. We use wireless proximity tech to instantly launch the user's favourite music playlist and we leave our tech fully writable to encourage exploration of the many functions. We would love feedback from the community.
Ask HN: How will the 2018 Tax Plan impact startups and small businesses?
How will the 2018 Tax Plan impact startups and small businesses?
Your post says “free MiniHack” app. I don’t see one in the App Store.
I was asked this before, and I enjoyed sharing my network; I'm not sure how it related to what I was hired for. Perhaps debugging my home network provided tcpdump experience, which is always handy for a job with networking. It also lead up to a load balancing discussion which was interesting. I'm now good friends with that interviewer, but I'm still not too sure it's a good question.

Maybe it's useful for 'can this person describe something complex they worked on' with lots of places to dig into 'how much low level networking knowledge does this person have,' but a large number of my peers use the WiFi that comes with the modem from their ISP, and don't even realize they're doing everything wrong.
Even worse for a small package (200g), will cost you around $5 to your neighbour or about $3 from China. If we want to send the same package back via Auspost would expect at least $10.
How would that not significantly harm the pharmaceutical companies? Don't they make a decent percentage of their revenue off of brands which are currently price protected via these tariffs?
Tip: fill up your phone storage. Seriously, my ios 11 experience was so bad that I don't want to even have the possibility of apple automatically installing it here (or me accidentally updating it, since the update popup is extremely deceptive and screams dark ux).
“The Orville” is on a smoother trajectory, with just a bit of turbulence
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I dedicate this comment to future parents. You'll come across many a BS, and it'll hit you in a very sensitive period of life - when many of your established defence mechanisms would enter a general CCD state. And some of it is actually true! But how can we tell the difference? Surely there's a simple bluestick test for that? Yes, there is!

1. Does it offer something concrete? Does it give examples? Does it include recipes how to handle situations? Can you tell if your own parents followed that "way" or not? Parenting BS/fluff tend to appear in the form of a "philosophy". If you say something very specific, people may actually try it, and find out it does not work for them.

2. Ask your parents. They are 20++ yoe ahead of you on this one.
Welcome to the world of tax avoidance. For example, if the software is assigned to a subsidiary in the Isle of Man, which "licenses" the use of the software to Google France, then Google France in the high tax jurisdiction pays these licensing fees to Google Isle of Man, shifting profits from the high tax to the low tax jurisdiction. This is one of many tricks available.

See this Forbes' article on transfer pricing as tax avoidance:

https://www.forbes.com/2010/06/24/tax-finance-multinational-...
I think I’d rather store the data on a gbde encrypted disk and simply toss it when I’m done. Then I know the data can’t be read.
"I find many adults are put off when young children pose scientific questions. Why is the Moon round? the children ask. Why is grass green? What is a dream? How deep can you dig a hole? When is the world’s birthday? Why do we have toes? Too many teachers and parents answer with irritation or ridicule, or quickly move on to something else: ‘What did you expect the Moon to be, square?’ Children soon recognize that somehow this kind of question annoys the grown-ups. A few more experiences like it, and another child has been lost to science. Why adults should pretend to omniscience before 6-year-olds, I can’t for the life of me understand. What’s wrong with admitting that we don’t know something? " - Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World
Ask HN: What to do with a new technology that allows much better voice quality?
I created a proof of concept audio calling mobile app which provides much better voice quality under bad network conditions than most existing Apps (Skype, Viber, WhatsApp, etc.). It is demonstrably much better than what exists today and fixes those annoying metallic noises you hear when your WiFi connection is bad and you cannot hear your peer properly. With my codec the voice stays almost crystal clear and the other performance characteristics are still very good (low latency, bandwidth used, etc).

The question is what next? I have a pretty busy day job and created this on my spare time on weekends. Now I need to decide what my next steps are.

Some of the options I have:

1. Build a production audio calling App and release it. This requires funding, team, time and infrastructure and I will need to quit my job. Cons: I have no idea how to monetize yet another audio/video calling app (and the world probably doesn’t really need another one).

2. Try to license the technology to existing App vendors. One problem is I don't know anyone from these companies and don't know who to approach (likely solvable, I can search my network). Probably need to patent the technology first otherwise not sure I can sell anything; the idea and implementation are not rocket science and if not patented can be re-implemented from clean sheet. I hate software patents but don't know if I will have any negotiating lever with Big Co without one. Another problem is I have no idea if anyone will want to license what I created.

3. Open-source the technology. Unfortunately doesn't pay the bills. Plus what I have is just a proof of concept, not a production ready library so I will need to spend even more time on this without being paid anything. This may be my last resort if I don't find a good way to monetize or build a business on this.

4. Something else?

What would you do?
Forgive me for what may be a cliché but aren't we just going back to 10 years ago when we moved from layout in HTML tables to CSS? Only now it's `<div class="row"><div class="col-xs-12">` instead of `<tr><td>`.

I worry that the reason people started to swing back towards that style isn't really being addressed by things like CSS Grid. That being that it's very hard to maintain CSS because it's very hard to reason about what rules are being applied where unless you follow some strict personal naming conventions.

What are we doing to address this?
Ah! I have one of these in my basement!

(The kind of "battle scar" you have from being involved with educational software long enough.)

Palm, for me, illustrated the possibilities of mobile computing the first and best for the time. In the educational space, the alphasmart was an incredible promise.

Through the educational software company I worked for at the time I did some work on software for the Alphasmart, Newton, and emate. Unfortunately, this stuff didn't really take off, though in hindsight it was clearly just a matter of an idea being ahead of itself.

BTW, there are still some things modern devices can learn from the alphasmart. E.g., it's not indestructible but generally you can drop/throw one around pretty casually without breaking it. likewise, the OS and user environment wasn't "delicate".
This was more like the setup I was expecting when I clicked on the link, not some buying of UniFi and setting up a few VLANs and SSH Keys.

I agree with you that they are great value but I find the noise and power consumption of that generation a bit much so just built my own boxes
Planning poker is not done by negotiating. It's done by doing point estimates simultaneously by the entire engineering team. Providing simultaneous estimates reduces cognitive bias caused by having the lead engineer's estimates influence junior engineers, etc. If they all agree on the point value, no problem. If there is a big difference, then it should open a fruitful discussion so the team can reach consensus. The key is that points don't mean hours, or days or any time measure, it's all a relative measure of the work involved. As long as it is, consensus is usually easy.

All tasks should be pointed in Agile. If anything was left out it's on the team to make sure a story is written for it. For example lets say my PM wants us to estimate 10 stories for the next sprint. If I know I have to do some low level work to update the database to make those 10 stories feasible I'll say we need a story for that, and it needs to be our highest priority since all the other stories are dependent upon it.

But good Agile is done with a Kanban approach, we have a ranked board of tasks, and work on the highest priorities first. If we forgot a task, we add it to the board and point it, and our PMM/PM prioritize it. This can be done at any time in the schedule. When we reach the end of the sprint, we make sure all the completed tasks are done, bug free and we ship.

Then we start a new sprint, working on the remaining tasks, pointing new ones, and working from the top of the Kanban board again.

No one ever need to make a single time estimate, or waste more than a tiny fraction of development time doing any type of estimation.
It might come down to the fact that it's easy for the average person to discriminate between prices but not as easy for them to discriminate on quality.

That's why marketers are able to take advantage of things like price signals even when there's no objective justification for the deltas in price between products.
I mostly agree with you but I think you are a bit pessimistic about what the top 1% are capable of. IIRC they currently pay something like 40% of the income taxes[1] (which is more than the bottom 90% combined). That's kind of a lot!

1. To be are I think this doesn't include payroll taxes so it's a bit of a skewed number.
General rule I have: sampling profilers for CPU performance, instrumenting profilers for memory and other uses, like analyzing control flow.
That was my "take away" to "playing with magnets around spinning rust media". It has nothing to do with my attitude toward data backup, or with playing with magnets in general. I have no desire to induce further failures in any other spinning-rust media.

It was a failure in following disciplined practices, in this instance, and it caused me monetary loss. It was a good lesson. I am happy with my attitude toward data security and data loss, and it's certainly not codified in the statement "never play with magnets".
Unless you pay them $50 more.
India imports a huge quantity of unprocessed cashew from west Africa, whereas Vietnam grows the majority of theirs domestically (or that was the case years ago when I was in the game). The video lays the blame (if briefly) on politics but there are plenty of other factors that could be causing this.
lol @ sanitize user input
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Your reasons may be plentiful, but if it's because you prefer the protocol, without the obstruction of handshake, I'd recommend using openssl s_client.

Obvious disclaimer: openssl binary may or may not be part of your system (although the same can be said about netcat and telnet)
Graphics and desktop publishing utilities. And I mistyped, it wasn't 40 different products, it was 40 different major releases, only about 8 different products. Though hundreds of minor releases counting Japanese, Spanish, French and German versions, and point releases.
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How does one actually claim a portion of that oil though? Its the same thing as a bond, which its feared they will default on. At the end of the day if they don't want to pay, then they don't pay.
> If you're in the top 0.1%, the actual taxes you pay each year is a far lower percentage than the middle class would pay, due to this unequal system.

This is false. Paid tax rates rise progressively with income in the US.

https://taxfoundation.org/summary-latest-federal-income-tax-...

The NYTimes article that you link to doesn't really discuss tax benefits that are valuable to the top 0.1% so much as those that are valuable to the upper-middle class: the mortgage interest tax deduction, 529 plans, 401k/IRA deductions, various aspects of our health care law, etc are all extremely valuable to this group but small potatoes to those making $2M+ per year.
This is the best justification I’ve seen, though it still isn’t very good. As a child, I saw discipline as serving the convenience of the adults. Sometimes providing the adults with a sense of power over others that they couldn’t experience in their adult relationships. I have yet to see anything that would change my mind about this. The best parents I know strive to address their kids as something close to equals, as much as possible. The others are mean people who themselves lack self-control.
> The middle class has been unfairly burdened with paying for the expenses of the entire country

That is a common opinion, and one that is not justified by the facts.

About half of income tax comes from 1% of taxpayers.