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> This is roughly equivalent to 4 m4.xlarge's ($0.086/hour each at 3 year reserved pricing) and 2TB SSD EBS disk ($200/month) or around $450/month. Add in a TB of outbound data for $100, so that's $550/month.

How about this one ?

https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ex41s

That's, including network bandwidth, 40 euros/month. The commit is one month, not three years. And redundancy is a problem, fair enough. How about we take two in every continent, and still comfortably beat you on price ?

You might say that the cpu is not equivalent, but I'll discuss that below. Everything else is obviously equivalent or better.

At this point you've got WAY more of everything, including reliability, for a significantly lower price. Everything. Network bandwidth, cpu capacity, disk, memory, everything.

And this is metal, not virtualized performance. So aside from many tasks performing better (anything that isn't pure compute, anything that needs to use the network, disk, ... whatever), you're also way safer, you actually get to use the memory ...

4x m4.xlarge will give you, in total 16 "vcpu" on a 2.4 GHz Intel Xeon® E5-2676 v3 (most likely), plus 64 gigs of ram. The i7 runs at 4Ghz, with significantly less cache (takes 3 of them have more cache than 1 Xeon). However, since this isn't virtualized it's going to matter a LOT less.

You see you are trying to compare 2/3 of a single xeon cpu in a quad-xeon server virtualized against 100% of a dual xeon server. Surprise ! The 100% dual xeon is more expensive. In reality that R530 is equivalent to 12 m4.xlarges.

So apples to apples, however, non-cloud is absurdly much cheaper.

And I'm being polite here, not pointing out that 100G of internet bandwidth is nothing, and just how much that Hetzner server includes, or your example hosted R530 (will definitely come with, in the worst case possible, 40T, and if you want better prices than that, feel free to contact me)

> > This cloud scaling is only useful if your credit card can handle 50x the charges

> If you can't pay for your infrastructure it doesn't matter whether you're on cloud servers or not.

True, but every big company got big by producing more value for less money. Not hosting on cloud is going to make the less money part a lot easier.
This article makes it seem like drug companies alone are responsible for predatory pricing in US healthcare, with hospitals being somehow on the consumer's side of the issue. In reality US hospitals are just as guilty of predatory behavior. If they do achieve lower costs through a new generics company, I do not trust them one bit to pass on the savings to patients. Why would they?
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This sounds similar to what Barcelona is trying to with something called "Superblocks"
In the US, our democratic process has delegated all these roles to regulatory agencies that are staffed with economists. The FTC, FCC, Justice Dept., etc. all employ many PhD economists. Whether their bosses and the politicians listen to their recommendations is another matter.
That's the thing. They don't even give averages. In my view they should have to publish all costs for procedures they have done. The current system is totally opaque and as patient you are often forced to do something hoping it won't ruin you but you have no way get something concrete upfront.
Well, SBCL does not ship with an interpreter, for example. Expressions entered at the REPL get compiled directly to machine code, so there's no difference in performance for a function entered at the REPL (or via SLIME C-c C-c) and one built as part of a batch compile.

Contrast that to Haskell's ghci interpreter, which is slower (last time I checked) than the same code built on the command line with ghc, the compiler. But I would still consider Haskell a compiled language, not an interpreted one, since you never run code in production under ghci, you always ship your binaries.

I suppose it's about perception. To me "interpreter" refers to a language implementation strategy. It's fuzzy, I know, since there is some continuum between interpreting an AST directly, compiling the AST to bytecode and running the bytecode on a VM, JIT compiling the bytecode to machine code on the fly, and compiling offline direct to machine code (like C/Go/Rust). To some ears, "interpreted" can sound synonymous with "slow", which is I guess what prompted my comment.

Finally, to me the place where you can enter expressions to try out your program interactively is the REPL, not the interpreter.

Anyway, thanks for explaining your position to me. (Also, good to know Python dev environments have improved, but I guess it's to be expected, 10 years is a long time :-) .)
I have become effectively alt-right (it is complicated, but for HN purposes it suffices), from a libertarian conservative, in the last two years, specifically because of behavior like that of this interviewer.

I no longer think it is possible to engage in dialog with people who think dialog is not possible. The punch-a-nazi meme, its acceptance across my social circles (including HN), the our-violence-is-speech-their-speech-is-violence talking points, etc. have pushed me to some very shocking and depressing conclusions.
So true. In addition, once they see that you're so accommodating they'll adapt by inventing new offenses.
I'm sure at one time he was of at least above average IQ, after all the average person accomplishes very little, wealthy parents or not. But I wouldn't call him (now at least) smart either as to me that implies some kind of skill or at least attempt at abstract reasoning. He does have a talent for tapping into this great unconscious id that I think makes him like an actor or artist in some ways.
> Oculus should put games on the back burner

To be fair Oculus are one of the ones in the industry looking beyond games. Look at Oculus Medium[1], it makes something that was extremely fiddly and required hours of practice into something instantly intuitive.

I don't actually think VR will hit the mainstream, work like spreadsheets just don't benefit much from being in 3D space. The true magic of VR is the hand tracking, being able to interact with computing with both hands in 3D space.

Definitely feel VR will find it's workplace niche in the creative space rather than standard office work. Worth mentioning too that games are an innovation driver, so don't discount them so fast.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m1Jm_Osxls
Premining has a very simple technical definition: premining is the act of hard-coding the distribution of coins into a distributed ledger prior to the ledger's public debut.

Unfortunately there are plenty of prolific high-ranking members of the cryptocurrency community who accuse coins which are explicitly NOT premined by any technical definition, of being premined. Many of those coins can only be accurately described as "ninjamined" or "cripplemined" or "instamined".

Admittedly, some do consider ninja/cripple/insta-mining as being on the same spectrum of a premine, in that the end result is essentially identical. But this is a bit of a slippery slope, in that it opens up all coins to "premining" accusations, and then the simple technical definition above loses all meaning.

For example, many have speculated Satoshi Nakamoto must've been running a network of 20-50 Bitcoin mining servers prior to the launch of Bitcoin, given the blockchain evidence we have of Satoshi's hashrate maintaining consistency from Block 0 onwards. Is this a ninjamine? If a ninjamine = a premine, then Bitcoin is arguably premined by this definition. So you can see it's not very meaningful to diverge from purely technical definitions.

Ethereum epitomizes the technical definition of premining: their ICO raised BTC on Bitcoin's blockchain, and the founders of Ethereum initially hard-coded all ETH owed to their Bitcoin-based ICO backers into their blockchain prior to its public debut. The Ethereum Foundation premined still more coins on top of this.

But this doesn't necessarily mean all ICOs are premined, although I don't personally know of any ICO which doesn't exhibit some amount of premining; at minimum the project founders usually scoop coins in a premine on top of an ICO, Ethereum-style.
Trump's skillset is that of a reality TV star. He knows what to say and how to say it to engage people in drama. His presidency has been a continuation of this. It freaks out the intelligentsia because it seems insane to them that a person in such a high place of power could get involved in things like Twitter flame wars. That's low class/blue collar behavior that is totally foreign to their own culture. That is why people on the blue collar end of the spectrum are more capable of realizing that this particular aspect of his behavior does not represent a genuine threat, because it's part of their culture.
> That makes sense you would find that notion demeaning. I do as well. As I said to someone else, if you took offense (which wasn't intended) from my comment, I'm sure you can understand why many people would take offense from Damor's memo :).

No, in fact this it's just the opposite. Claiming that "women are less likely to choose to work in tech" is a harmful statement is implying that those who do not work in tech are lesser. This is what I am pointing out. Those that do take offense to Damore's memo are inherently implying that people who choose not to work in tech are lesser. Otherwise it would not be an insult to say that group is less likely to choose to work in tech.
Does anyone know if SonicStage works on Wine? It's an ancient piece of proprietary software from Sony to transfer songs to their NetMDs.
First I’ll address inflation measures as they apply to me, then I’ll just air some fringe views that hopefully you will enjoy reading. EDIT And thirdly I'll extensively change what was written because I'm pretty sure it misrepresented the monetarist theory of inflation.

I’m happy to be corrected on this, but ‘inflation’ in the US is usually the CPI-U series; less Food and Energy when the Federal Reserve sets monetary policy; not the PCE with which I am unfamiliar. I got weights from [1], which suggest 25% weighting to a theoretical owners rent component which in reality I don’t pay because I don’t have a mortgage. Obviously the index can't apply to everyone, happens not to apply to me. I would love to see a comparison of CPI weights vs average expenditure, which might make me feel a lot better, but I don't know where to find that info.

As for elaborating on the monetary policy part, I broadly subscribe to the idea that a 10% increase in the amount money should link to a comparable reduction in the value of a unit of currency. That is basically using a personal inflation rate that is the rate of increase in the M2.

The core inflation rate is <3%, the inflation rate that I expect is 5%. This means either I am wrong (popular view) or that the inflation rate is measuring something that isn't very interesting. I favour 2 with the caveat of accepting inflation in asset prices as inflation which seems to be the big break with mainstream thought.

The big downside of this is all the usual stats become questionable – particularly ‘real GDP growth’, which I mentally downgrade by 2%. A lot of monetarist inflation types end up looking to measures like energy/capita, which is theoretically a measure of real wealth that can be used without relying on understanding inflation calculations. I like that measure for my own reasons.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/cpi/tables/relative-importance/home.htm
What about browsing over tor?
I do not doubt that there is some mathematics behind modern torture, we've come a long way from the days of gruesome medieval torture which was mostly punitive. Given the data we have on what has worked in the past, and cross-referencing it with a person's time under torture, we can reduce or even eliminate the intensity of torture after a certain confidence threshold has been crossed.

Let's be clear, torture is an unpleasant technique and should only be an absolute last resort when everything else has failed, but it's far better to be tortured by people who know what they're doing and are only trying to get information out of you, than by people whose goal is simply to hurt you (often for no reason and with no stopping point).
If people would stop conflating poverty with racism, I think we'd have a better chance is solving both.

Poor people, regardless of color, have a remarkably similar experience (with education, the police, the criminal justice system), while yes, people of color are more likely to be poor - the harder we focus on race, the harder it is to fix the underlying issue, a lack of educational, and economic mobility for the poor.

Most racism (heck, most "-isms" in general), are born from a lack of familiarity with people who come from a different life background or culture than they do - if we both encourage opportunity for the poor, and encourage mixing of socioeconomic strata, the problem will melt away over 40-50 years.

The racism that will remain after solving poverty, will be of a very different nature I believe than that which exists now.

It's dangerous to fall for the trap that you can adjust for outcomes - but we can do a far better job of adjusting for inputs - or ensuring the poor have equal access to education, and economic opportunity.
minor revision >> "other programs _aren't_allowed_to_ do the same things they _are_
IME it's because SF homeowners have created a narrative that says any new development threatens (and can only ever threaten) rent control. There are many theories--induced demand, Ellis Act evictions, destruction of rent-controller properties--but the narrative is the same.

Therefore, if you're worried about protecting the security of renters (who constitute about 2/3 of residents) and especially low-income renters then unless you know any better the predominate political narrative is to oppose new development.

The narrative is deeply entrenched. For example, the narrative says (among other things) that new development destroys rent controlled properties as any building newer than 1995 is exempt from rent control under state law. But rather than lobby to change the state law to make it easier to expand rent control (i.e. some sort of quid pro quo--expand rent control at the same pace as new development so total rent-controlled units stay the same) people just reflexively oppose new development.

Because homeowners have co-opted the disparate opposition groups, the potential for compromise and novel solutions is stonewalled and never communicated through normal channels (community groups, neighborhood papers, ballot initiatives, City Hall backrooms, etc). All the voters know is to oppose development. Full stop.
> Plenty of people want to acquire USD independently of the fact that it can be exchanged for EUR, for example.

It's doubtful that any of those people would want to acquire USD if it couldn't be traded for bread, gasoline, or anything
else. People want USD, precisely because it can be traded for items.
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Inference engines: 5 examples with TypeScript, Flow and Reason
The main problems with Caltrain seem to be cost, too-infrequent trains, and delays. Does electrification address that?

And even if it does, this doesn't improve VTA, BART, SF Muni, etc.
You're not locked into their service at all, you can use Steam VR content on it and you can run arbitrary .exes on it.

It's less of a walled garden than tablets, smartphones or consoles which almost everyone just seems fine with.
You'll need to do a lot of traffic analysis to make a cost/benefit analysis of purchasing international capacity.

Transit is likely to be cheaper until you get big enough to hire someone to do this analysis for you. At that point, they will probably look at purchasing some small amount of transit from a larger ISP (e.g. Megaport, Verizon, etc) to allow you to peer freely with your largest sources of traffic. E.g. if you have a lot of Korean families who stream a lot from Korea, it might make sense to get a gig or two of bandwidth to Korea, and putting a router there to peer with Naver, etc. rather than paying for those 1 - 2 Gbps of transit. But it's probably not really going to make sense until you're in the 10's of Gbps.
Not sure about first, but Zermatt, CH already has.
I agree that it's a good thing, but is it good enough to warrant its price tag, when we're painfully aware of significant issues with our existing transit systems?
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Can I ask why you don't [seem to] use a VPN?

The reason I ask is, I'm under the impression that a VPN definitively mitigates this kind of attack. I'd have to change my habits if it turns out a VPN is not a one-stop-shop solution for this kind of attack. And, in case convenience matters to you: an enabled-by-default VPN is also less configuration and fewer manual steps than turning on HTTPS everywhere and blocking all unencrypted requests.
> - Currently has a large Amazon distribution center in the suburbs

Amazon currently has EIGHT large distribution centers in the DFW area, actually.

And I think that they might be building a #9 and #10 within the next couple of years.
Manhattan feels way more congested than Tokyo. In Herald Square and Times Square, pedestrian traffic is so overwhelming it often halts to a standstill. I never really felt uncomfortably overcrowded in Tokyo.
I wonder if they meant the city of Dallas itself. I'm not really sure where they'd even put a large HQ campus. Frisco/Plano/etc? absolutely. But in the City of Dallas proper?

Hmmm.
I don't have military experience and I will stop short of saying I wish I did because I think that does a disservice to both of us. What I will say is that the vets I have worked with have been excellent contributors and leaders. I work in a place that values strong leadership and makes a point of hiring veterans. It would be easy to dismiss that as public relations fluff but I truly believe vets make an invaluable contribution to a company.
> We definitely do NOT treat female doctors as just doctors

I'm not sure if I wasn't very clear by what I meant by that in my original comment or if I just failed to understand your response - while I don't dispute the accuracy of anything you said following this line I don't quite understand how any of it is relevant (at least not regarding what I was trying to say).

When I said "we treat females who are doctors as simply doctors (and likewise for lawyers), not female doctors" I mean:

* I've often heard people being discussed as e.g. "a female dev" but don't often (never that I recall) hear anyone say "female doctor" (I'm referring to casual conversation, not discussions about who's gonna work the catheter on a patient)

* We have female-only hackathons, bootcamps, and meetups, etc, do similar things exist in the medical field and if such things do exist are they as common? Are there many medical conferences open only to female doctors?

* There are often articles/lists of prominent/powerful/etc "women in tech"[1][2][3]. Are similar such articles published in the same quantity for medicine? A quick google yields almost entirely historical results, where's the list of "30 Inspirational Women to Watch in Medicine in 2018"?

* Is it a common practice for hospitals to make reports publicly available that detail what percentage of their doctors are female and how they plan to increase that number?

* Do hospitals generally do anything to recruit (and/or retain) female doctors specifically or are their recruiting and retention efforts just focused on doctors?

[1] https://www.inc.com/john-boitnott/30-inspirational-women-to-...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinehoward/2017/11/01/the-w...

[3] https://www.computerworlduk.com/galleries/careers/10-most-po...
Australia specific, but: https://www.telcoinabox.com.au/
>, if you’re looking for objective verifiable facts you can get some useful information.

If you're getting "verifiable" facts, you didn't need to torture him/her in the first place... you were just being lazy in your reconnaissance.
Actual flight schedules published by airlines say 85-100. My actual experience flying that route agrees. Taxiing to and from the gate and waiting in the queue to take off may not be included in travelmath's calculations, but that's real actual time you have to spend.
In order to do ROP, you need to chain together gadgets of code segments which means you need to be able to see the source code/binary. This doesn't reveal any information about the call stack nor the available libraries to chain together ROP. And that's if stack canaries haven't screwed things up already.
Yes but I can also imagine all kinds of problems coming from keeping private keys. Stolen, lost, hacked (see Estonian id card)(well all right, secp256k1 is much less susceptible to it than RSA).
I'm not trying to be facetious, but you don't have the freedom to choose in a private company what tools are used. You do however have the freedom to leave if you feel oppressed by being forced to use non-free software.
But it is symbiotic in some ways.
It's scary how effectively this sort of thing can push reasonable people towards the fringes. I've noticed the same somewhat disturbing tendency in myself and others who would otherwise be relatively centrist, but are disgusted at some of the antics and rhetoric villifying them.
Yes, educate fellow citizens. Here's a material for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsfROmgVN5U
We're finding out the cost, now, of the extreme centralization of these platforms, especially caused by their device-locked app stores. Doubling down on the idea because people "seem fine with" it is a bad idea, especially now that we have hindsight. It's no mistake that the big innovation of the era, cryptocurrency, is happening largely outside of all the platforms you listed.

Also, I know that you can run SteamVR apps - I develop a VR game with hundreds of thousands of dollars in sales on Steam, but I've been locked out of the Oculus store for...unknown reasons? Someone behind the black box must've made a decision to block it.
I think the lock-in is more regarding Oculus-exclusive content. My understanding is the community has mostly gotten those working on other headsets by now, but Oculus itself certainly hasn't helped.
> Military recruits are often tortured to "toughen them up", as punishment, or ostensibly to prepare them for possible torture at the hands of "The Enemy".

That couldn’t be further from the truth. It use to be that drill instructors/MTI can hit you. Not anymore. The worse they can do to you is yell in your face and give you a spit shower. They're even required to give you 8 hours of sleep except in special cases. There are many other rules as well and these rules are a big deal these days.
Blockchain is not going to make some traditional company rich. Its going to be used to build things like a decentralized, public web of trust that can be used for open, public uber & airbnb clones.
The bottles in current PET refund programs in Sweden are recycled as raw plastic. The old 1.5L (4 SEK, ~€0.50 refund) PET bottles that existed in the 90s were refilled, though.
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Why not use Arch Linux? The arm version is called ALarm (for obvious reasons).

https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv8/broadcom/raspberry-...
#2 is actually useful.

Now just waiting for the smart contract that bundles a bunch of your tokens and sells structured tranche tokens :)
I don't need government approval to start manufacturing cars. Why for generic drugs?

Note that you're paying plenty for having the FDA as gatekeeper.
So what's your take on why did they fly them overseas. I'm not saying I disagree with you, but why did they do it really?