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> Or in other words, it's more expensive to run our applications on a SAAS platform than on our own servers, ...

But isn't this just because the initial up front investment for your existing on prem infrastructure has already been spent, and that they are unlikely to all reach eol at the same time? Over time, won't the cost savings of the cloud model make up for the on prem write-off plus the costs of re architecture-ing for cloud? What sort of workloads do you never see moving to IaaS, where the costs of rearchitecturing are just too high? Any opinion on the new VMW on AWS offering, it's pricing, etc?
It's not a question of it being simple it's a question of ROI the market would be too small. If you read the article this was done using stock Eurocopter AS350 Squirrel.
Not So Fast with That Trillion for Infrastructure
Broken for me - Chrome 63.0.3239.84, Sierra
For what it’s worth, for me, the main impact of adderall is on a second to second level, not whether I can concentrate for 12 hours straight.

When I’m not on medication, I have a lot of short term memory loss and sudden changes in train of thought. The impact of this was that I would sometimes “wake up” and have no recollection of how I got to where I currently was, I continuously lost everything, and had trouble with math word problems that were described over long paragraphs.

My parents actually originally went to the doctor because of the stress caused by always losing things.
> maybe its more of a "gravity-bending" technology, who knows.

We already have gravity bending technology: it's called mass. Gravity is caused by concentrations of energy, which have to be extremely large to generate significant gravity.

How much do you know about general relativity? Are you sure that dreaming about this kind of stuff isn't just a way to avoid learning about what we already know? If we suddenly found something buried under an old village, would you want to learn about that, or do you just want to be able to use it without understanding it?
Absolutely. In terms of effective, controlled movement, it's better in pretty much every single way, except that it costs more energy, which is why it's generally not a particularly natural, intuitive thing to do all the time. Like probably every living organism, we're not generally programmed for unnecessary exertion.

EDIT: That being said, a lot can be improved in most people's heel-first gait, among other things - taking smaller steps, pushing the pelvis slightly forward into a neutral tilt, staying a bit closer to the ground (slightly more bent knees), making contact with the ground before shifting the whole weight, not throwing the legs forward and letting the heels slam on the ground. Getting all of that right makes heel-walking a lot more controlled and less bouncy. It also feels great.
SPOF is too jargony for business people. And it's rarely single; just too few.
> but the same people who argue for that liberty also ask govt to go search when someone goes missing in the mountains

It's two distinct groups. If there is overlap there'll likely be ideas like fining someone after a rescue unless they have insurance, & then leaving it up to insurance companies to decide about solo climber coverage
I don’t doubt you at all. I truly believe nobody has ever thought through all the ways of rescuing people from Everest. This has the power to be game-changing.
Why not just use a drone to investigate the situation before sending in human police officers?
> Maybe they got the technology, and subsequently used it to leave Earth alone, eh?

And maybe there's an invisible dragon in my garage. This is not rational thought.

> I mean, this is really the point of these art-forms

My mistake, I thought we were discussing likely possibilities for external reality. If this is just a fantasy game, carry on.
I am not advocating building one or using it to remove bodies I am just speculating that it's possible to design and build a model that could accomplish the fit much easier and that theoretically could be used for rescue. It's obviously would require too much $ to be practical.
I use this site regularly its never let me down.
True, but if you think you can have a real conversation with any inanimate object you've fallen for the AI overhype. Maybe in the future but not now. The Echo and Google home are great if you keep your expectations in check.
I hate to say this but I have mixed feelings.

From a personal standpoint, I always put family first and will go to bat with my manager all the way up to chain for anyone who has personal obligations that reports to me.

On the other hand, technology is more black and white. I don't expect anyone to know everything but I do expect a certain level of competence and being able to work independently based on your hired skill level - especially for contractors.

When I'm hiring contractors, I don't expect to have to handhold, mentor, etc. I'm not making a long term investment in them and they are getting a premium for it.

I don't see myself any differently. If I'm applying for a contract job, I know 90% of the job requirements. If I'm going in as a permsnent employee, I'll try to squeeze in with 50-70% of the requirements and bust my butt to get up to 90% proficiency.
On Sierra here:

* Chrome 63.0.3239.108 - broken

* Safari 11.0.2 (12604.4.7.1.4) - works fine
Probably not point 2. Lab grown meat would probably still need antibiotics.
Debunked is too strong a word. It has undergone revision.
Ironically, the Lack tables are actually insanely sturdy for their price and weight.
The woman at the beginning of the article made $202 a week doing this work. Based on the danger, the potential impact on human health and the US food system, the limited job pool, it sure feels like this is the type of job that should pay more.
Mass shootings are almost by definition outliers
What sort of LinkedIn groups would be good to join to find clients?
That is an interesting idea about the converse.

Why do you say that “not built to last” is a characteristic of minimalist shoes? To me that is a characteristic of the brand. The soles of my xeros have hardly any wear but they are ungluing from the upper and split at the edge.
eye-roll... as if the existing skyline wasn't composed by corporate temples to greed like the transamerican building?

It's like when the people who gentrified SF yesterday complain about the people doing it today... news-flash, it's always been an expensive pretentious place to live and do business, and yes, it's always smelled rather rotten and moldy as well...
Could you elaborate on what you mean by "break primary keys"?
Any suggestions for cold weather?
By the way, if you know of specific companies that are sacrificing long term for short term stock prices, you can make a ton of money by shorting their stock.
Albert Einstein on the Limitations of Our Science
Taiwan's health care system is quite comprehensive, coverage includes annual eye examination, teeth cleaning, etc. And, I don't remember paying much for it.
People usually go straight to the hospital instead of visiting their family doctors. Most checkups (e.g. X-ray, blood check) are done at the hospital; no need to do mulitple trips. I actually prefer Taiwan's system over Canada's.
The thing is, Taiwan's system is relatively newer (the same with their subway). It is difficult to compare.
>Put it this way how many seconds of full throttle will get you banned?

So your argument in favor of gas cars is that they are slow? Ok.

I had two Miatas, including one that I modified for autocross (SCCA CSP) and later turbo'ed. A Miata with 1.2 bar of boost is almost too much fun. Great cars! So I know what you are talking about.

About 4 years ago I leased a Chevy Spark EV, one of the most basic of tiny econo-hatches. I assume the gas one is pretty sad to drive. The electric one is brilliant. Instant silent thrust! One pedal driving! It was a revelation. I'm never going to buy another ICE car, they just don't drive right.

Try something like a Chevy Bolt or a Tesla and see for yourself.
How about not mounting publicly funded rescue missions at all? You can pay for insurance if you want someone to risk their life to come get you.
That’s a great cultural example.
"Extreme Ownership" was popular this year: https://www.amazon.com/Extreme-Ownership-U-S-Navy-SEALs/dp/1...

My personal favourite is called /Winning Through Intimidation/ , I think it is much more relevant to our capitalistic and legalistic society than military memoirs or the ancients, as much as I enjoy them. https://www.amazon.com/Winning-through-Intimidation-Victor-B... . It is not prescriptive because it is a bit dated and specific to real estate, but the core ideas are rock solid.
I read The Obstacle is the Way last year and I liked it. Also, Man's Search Meaning is a very interesting book about the personal experiences of Viktor Frankl surviving 4 concentration camp during World War. His outlook on enduring suffering and overcoming it is very deep and enlightening.
"Quantum advantage with shallow circuits" by Bravyi, Gosset, and Koenig https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.00690

What's beautiful about this paper is that it shows a provable separation in the power of quantum circuits over classical circuits. That is in contrast to many cases where quantum advantage is only suspected (the most notorious being Shor's algorithm: Factoring could be in P).

Another cool thing is that this separation is fundamentally connected to quantum entanglement and the challenge of simulating measurements on multipartite quantum states with shared randomness and classical communication. This gives me some hope that this points to a path for future deep insights separating quantum from classical computing.
Can't a malicious actor use this to check their own reviews before posting, until they pass the test?
Male/Female this is due to the pelvic structure.
The question is not whether we can have a meaningful conversation, but whether we can have a "functional" conversation. Can the machine quantify a basic statement of my needs, conversationally clarify any fuzzy parameters, and properly execute my request? I believe it can, but only across a set of narrow fields, with much training data and effort.
I meant it in the sense that there is nothing you can do.

Jesus christ HN can be dense sometimes...
I don't entirely agree. There are lots of situations you have to learn how to navigate safely in society. How to use a crosswalk. How to address a judge. How to prevent house fires.

I think putting the burden of citizen safety 100% on police is like putting the burden of pedestrian safety 100% on cars. Yeah, the driver has greater responsibility and is held to a higher standard of caution... but this sort of thing really is a lot more practical if people know to stay on sidewalks.

I for one want to have police in society, and I want them to be able to deal with very dangerous and violent people as safely as they can. I think needing to know how to safely surrender to them if they mistake me for a dangerous person is a reasonable price to pay.

I don't understand this whole "I shouldn't need to know" perspective. Of course you need to know. Police are part of society, and so we need to understand how to be around them.
Minor, but ASLR doesn’t deal with code obfuscation. It is a system technique to help deter exploitation of an arbitrary app.
>Today, most hospitals in Taiwan remain privately owned, mostly nonprofit. Most physicians are still either salaried or self-employed in practices.

What they didn't mention, is that often med students get their studies paid by one of the hospitals and then are tied to that hospital up to 7-ish years at depressed salaries --which is likely contributing to the shortage.

>Taiwan, in contrast, revamped its top to bottom.

Sorry, "its" what? Copy editors, please.
While I agree that most people can do it, it's a very large undertaking often lasting 30-40 days. A lot can go wrong in that time, including ill health or injury. That's why having others with you makes sense.
Thanks, I didn't know about that tool. Better than the images I provided.

Still, NYC subway is far denser both within Manhattan as well as the surrounding area.
>I'd love to see a resurgence of that kind of stonework and masonry in elements of future architecture. What has happened to all the basic brick and granite structured ornamentation, and the elaborate tilework in modern buildings?

This is just speculation, but I suspect it has something to do with maintenance. There are tons of beautifully detailed stone buildings in New York, but half of them are either weathered and run down or in the process of being fixed up. Also I think modern architecture has moved away from detailed carving in favor of more minimalist designs.
> Facebook did two things: make everyone part of the network (from your grandma to your 9 year old nephew)

This "everybody" clearly does not include privacy-conscious people.
Evidence of brain damage after high-altitude climbing by means of magnetic resonance imaging.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/16443427/
While it's true that they're only leasing part of it (and thus got their name added later), it was still built to serve some hoped for tech company office. So while I'm not in agreement with the article, the point is that tech companies caused this to be built.
Wear belts
Clean Code is good as well as anything by Bob Martin or Robert Fowler.
When we were looking at the task of creating autonomous battery-powered reasonably-sized device with 6 years lifespan - we took into consideration every single point where we could conserve power. Now we have what we have, not what you think we could have. Feel free to try and break our encryption with couple kilobytes of ciphertext on hands - you will have a prize of reading your neighbour's water consumption data on a daily basis)
Fine on Firefox 57.0.1, High Sierra
This. This was exactly my experience.

I texted my wife after my first dose that I heard someone having a conversation near me and that I could hear them, but I didn't know what they were saying and I didn't care.

This was a revelation for me.
It almost makes sense for all civilized societies to threat those who incite violence as a threat to the stability of the society.

But we can look deeper. Violence is usually a symptom of a disease and not necessarily a contagious disease itself that need to be purged.

It's a test of will for a nation state to properly handle dissenting voices.
I long ago concluded that the app stores are useless wastelands. Even if you know the exact name of what you want, there will be 30 scammy knockoffs that show up in the search results. (All "free" with in-app purchases and ads, of course.) Okay, so can you search the broader internet for what you want, then click on a direct link to the desired app? Sorry, no -- the search results are dominated by garbage articles about "50 apps for X." It's pretty much hopeless.
You're right. He could've been watching Netflix instead.
Some really good suggestions here, so I'll just add: become acquainted with a code search tool (I used grep for a long time, now ag -- I don't think the tool matters that much for most purposes as long as you are comfortable with it).
+1 for the Netherlands. Nice job on an irregular name :).

Regarding mostly fictious: we have national television reporting our first aid/response units are being assaulted on their jobs. We have police officers on trial for arresting people who didn't comply simple questions (no crossing orders). We have the generic public joking about public service. Mostly fictious is not what I would call it. The image of our national police is not great. I would say we could have a bit more of the US respect and they can have a bit of our control. Then again, no proof so hard to fight either way.

P.S. I knew I should jot have taken a 13 yo example :(.
The ducks/geese had me rolling! Love it!
> I'm neutral to the Israeli-Palestine conflict. Each side is doing what they believe is just.

Doesn't seem to me a very sound stance, as you can do very evil or wrong things while doing what you believe is just.

I agree with the "asymmetric warfare" definition (which by the way implies conventional warfare from one of the two sides); however you should not forget that is one of the two parties that is illegally occupying, controlling and expropriating a good portion of the other's territory.

If you see two people fighting in the street,the fact that one has illegally appropriated (i.e. stolen) something from the other might give you a better idea of what's going on.
Yes, if you have USD on an exchange, you can instantly buy bitcoin, and quickly move it to another exchange, and again instantly sell it there.

The problem is that after this sequence of events, your USD is at the exchange with the higher priced BTC, while you need it at the exchange with the lower priced BTC to repeat the process. This requires moving the USD back via the traditional banking system, which is slow. The bank wires are the bottleneck.

Crypto-Crypto trading pairs don't have this problem, which is why the ETH/BTC spread for example is much smaller. The spread there probably just reflects fees and custodial risks that put a slight break on arbitrage.
Text editors still have a line at 80 characters, which comes from punch cards.
Well... Ok.
Explain how increasing public spending will redistribute wealth. More likely than not it will go to contractors who have gotten good at obtaining grants because they were good at obtaining grants which made them wealthy and allowed them to buy consultants to help them win the next grant.
As documented in that Bangles song.
The term 'speed of light' is somewhat confusing. Just to clarify: there's the universal maximum speed, c; this is the speed with which light travels in the vacuum; in a medium light happens to slow down, while neutrinos do not, the result of which is their moving not slower, but even "faster than light."
That's true, a fair comparison would include metro and Caltrains, and NYC's equivalent long-distance commuter lines... what just makes NYC look even better.
>Sorry, "its" what? Copy editors, please.

Imagine the sentence "Alice tinkers with her health care system. Bob revamped his." It's the same concept, but with "its" as the pronoun.
Users are rightly downvoting and flagging you for breaking a variety of guidelines. Could you please stop that?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Levandowski's First Church of Artificial Intelligence
I really do think teaching people how to be non-threatening would be one of the most effective methods of avoiding tragedy. I know you make light of educating large numbers of people, but there are a lot of things we all know about society in order to be safe. It seems to me that "sudden movements in tense situations provoke violent reaponses" isn't that hard of a thing to learn. Don't we teach people not to run from bears, for example?

I am not saying the guy's death is his fault. I am saying expecting policemen not to react to certain movements just because they can be innocent is not a realistic expectation to place on them. It is safer for everyone if we all just stay calm, de-escalate, act deliberately, sort things out. Flapping around is a good way to look dangerous, and I just think things would be safer if people understood this.
How cold are we talking about? I find that thin uninsulated flexible shoes often keep my feet much warmer than more insulated inflexible shoes as long as I keep moving, because they require a lot more muscle use by the feet and lower legs, and blood ends up circulating more. When just sitting around they can get cold though.

You could try a knee-high leather moccasin or the like.
Reminds me of this infographic showing the revenue streams for five of the largest tech companies:
http://www.visualcapitalist.com/chart-5-tech-giants-make-bil...

It still boggles my mind that Facebook makes 97% of its revenue from Facebook Ads.
In the sense that there's generally not very much there to be sturdy. I can't think of any highly durable materials or construction methods that are suitable for shoes that aren't also relatively bulky, which minimalist shoes are often striving to get away from. It's a tradeoff. I don't think it's something they're designing for. There's likely an opportunity here, but I'm not sure how big the market is, particularly at prices that would be competitive.
The point is context. The technology wasn't created in a void. I wouldn't accuse the sentence of being well written, and the point could have been made more clearly. Simply saying that the developers used psychoacoustics were tested against the developer's own hearing preferences and tested against their music preferences. A wide range of different listeners were not consulted and a wide range of musical styles were not tested during the development phase. All technology has a context. Pointing out context isn't an attack.
Good point. My point is that some people don't think about the consequences of what they are asking for, unless prompted for it, and they usually have ideas that are contradictory. Of course, your point still stands and I agree alternatives should be considered as well. However, I am still in support of forcing people to go in groups because it is safer. I don't have data, but I do believe from experience that there is safety in numbers.
Romana: a no-overlay Kubernetes network
I agree. That one's rediculous.
I'd say probably not. It should be in a very controlled process.
Since we just told you we'd ban the account if you kept breaking the guidelines with unsubstantive comments, we've banned the account. We're happy to unban accounts if you email us at hn@ycombinator.com and we believe you'll start posting civilly and substantively.

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> Why aren't they concerned about the integrity of their community?

Amazon has virtually no competition, ergo is not incentivized whatsoever to be concerned with the integrity of their community. Further, Amazon will charge you for return shipping so, again, they couldn't care less if a positively reviewed product actually sucks. Now that I think about it, the whole system is pretty brilliant because they're double dipping: charging the customer for returns but charging the vendor for warehouse space. It's the definition of a win-win.
My martial arts sensei walks like this. Smooth as a cat. He has done Ninjutsu and traditional Jujutsu training in Japan.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Across_the_Nightingale_Floor

But it's partly out of taking short steps - to maintain balance. If your feet are too far apart you're vulnerable to tripping and leg sweeps and getting unbalanced by being hit in general.

I find it impossible to do toe first if my step is the usual length.