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Look, I see that it's a relevant article today. But I don't think it's saying much, and it has a weird homophobic/racist current running through it. For example, Epstein mocks the idea that the US government exacerbated the AIDS crisis (which it clearly did.) He says slavery ended "more than a century" ago - slavery effectively continued several decades after the Thirteenth Amendment was passed.

Now, I don't like the idea of tearing down a good article just because the author is an asshole. But in this case, I think the article isn't very good, and the author also happens to be an asshole: this is the same guy that was "revolted" by the idea of "fags" (both his words, though he later switched to using "homosexuals".) The same guy that criticized people writing candidly about death, the same guy who constantly thought he was being hunted by "men with strange appetites, men whose minds were twisted". And the same guy who, upon learning an acquaintance was gay, was "angry at being victimized by his duplicity."

Oh, and the same guy who thought it was better for a gay man to commit suicide than act upon his unrealized gay desires. It'd be very interesting to read a good article on victimization from someone who isn't so horrible, though: it is an important topic, and there are many interesting things, which are frequently left unsaid, to be said about it.
enormous spaces with laminar flow. So cool! most relaxing place in the world, wonderful background white noise for getting work done.

Most cleanrooms are now class 10 (meaning 10 half micron sized particles per square meter) compared to a class 1,000 operating room. The wafers are all sealed in the 'clearnoom within the cleanroom' spaces of tools and FOUPS.

I have heard of fabs having problems fro msources as strange as nearby farms and earthquakes half way around the world. The filtering (ultra-HEPA filters) will absolutely clear up your alergies almost over night.
Nowhere near 'doing fine'. Govt ready to go bankrupt under an unsupportable and unfunded pension obligation.
>It is interesting that similar ideas tend to pop up around the same time.

I've heard 'enlightenment ideas' pop up in music and conversation going back to my teens. I would personally bet that similar ideas (such as 'all men are created equal,' as is highlighted in the article) had been proposed countless times in the minds of people long before any enlightenment, or even Christian, thinker.

The problem is the willingness of people to tolerate such ideas. The fact that even though in 2018, with the benefit of hindsight, we can see great civilization and prosperity has been made possible by these ideas, people don't always want to believe them--and in America one does not need to look for very long at our legal system, government & politics, and social behaviors to see this.

Maybe we need another enlightenment, and one more inclusive of the liberties and freedoms of all people.
I wish sports medicine docs were concentating on this instead of on how to make hormones disappear from blood samples
Seems like every ten years or so a new architecture comes along and quickly devolves into into being yet another distributed RPC mechanism. There was CORBA, SOAP, SOA and now micro services. All promised to fix what came before and all ended up repeating the same mistakes in practice.

Can any of the old timers here name any predecessors to CORBA?
Start a total war. This seems to be the only thing that causes the 1% to share their wealth with the 99% - nothing like the fear of expropriation to motivate a change in heart from our rulers.
People were not ready to give up the wii and wii u was so different. I just played a wii game an hour ago.
It's worth mentioning that while electric turbopumps are a lot better that pressure-fed designs, for larger engines they aren't as effective as using pre-burners (due to the weight of the batteries).

It does make the design much simpler, though.
Sports don't stop the race randomly because somebody has found 'victory points' under their chair. Payers' efforts are rewarded with clearly recognized progress (down the field/on the scoreboard). There are time limits and buzzers and some sense of tension. Not just grind along and then, randomly, 'its over, and you lost'.
PayPal it's just another Luxembourg bank for EU citizens
Ask HN: How to Get Started in Cyber Security?
As someone who's a privacy & security hobbyist due to circumstance I've often wondered what it takes to get into the field and what kind of skills you would need to have? Like degrees, program languages. etc.
> Exceptions don't exist

They're called panics.

> There's no subtyping, so ClassCastExceptions can't exist.

Any sort of polymorphism opens you up to the possibility that code that's written to take abstract type A, implemented concretely in B and C, implicitly expects a B and blows up when it gets a C. Rust doesn't solve this problem.

> final doens't exist

Sure it does. It's just implied, and not-final has to be spelled out. This is one thing Rust did that I do agree was a good move. The other stuff? I remain unconvinced, especially with respect to structural subtyping.
I am playing on a laptop and when I use the movement keys it stops updates from my touchpad, so I can't look around while I'm running around. Is this a bug in the game or with my laptop/touchpad driver? Any ideas?
My original comment was rather ranty, I've calmed down since then :)

I think the comparison with science is fair, engineering in this sense is very close to physics. If you don't like that example we could try the shift from vacuum tubes to integrated circuits, or the disrespect thrown at neural nets before they got popular again. All analogies are crude, but they convey some meaning.

I mean, I've shown people hard data (not even from simulations,from hardware) and they've still essentially ignored it, so I think it's fair to say there's at least some dysfunctionality in the industry. As epitomized, by the very article I'm responding to here.

I'm not usually like this I promise, it's just that this article struck a bit of a chord with me :)
That said, the healthy effects of the exercising on the sea must counteract the bacteria

That was my initial thought as well, basically.

Cystic fibrosis is a deadly genetic disorder that makes one vulnerable to infection. Last I checked, the life expectancy was about 37 in the US, though someone on HN recently said it is now age 40.

People with CF who surfed had such a better prognosis than average that it led to development of a non drug treatment where they inhale nebulized saline solution as a treatment.

I think a better solution is just consume good quality sea salt. That's what I did to good effect. But everyone tells me that's anecdotal, whereas the existence of hypertonic saline solution as a medically prescribed treatment for my deadly condition is sciency or something. (There is probably a better way to say that, but I can't think of it at the moment.)
Security is more of my concern: these things change constantly and versions can even be completely replaced, so even if you convinced someone to do a full security audit (and they checked all the dependencies of the dependency, etc. etc.) I still don't think I'd feel entirely secure.
As the oldest of 6, I can confirm that a pleasant game of Monopoly can turn south real quck. That & "Sorry!"
What part of Mexico are you based out of? What download speeds are you seeing?
It's fine to ask for workarounds. It looks like they still support a limited number of articles for free. Others have already posted workarounds in this thread.
I met Peter Beck (CEO/founder) at SmallSat 2014. Hat-tip for doing what he set out to do. He told me that a Ferrari was not much more than a bunch of carbon fiber, software, and fuel--and only costs $500,000. So there is no reason that a small rocket, which is also carbon fiber, software, and fuel, can't also be $500,000. Now that his launch vehicle is orbital, I'm looking forward to it someday being a half-million-dollar launch vehicle.

Minor quibble: The company is over ten years old; I don't think it's quite a startup anymore.
> Stressed and unhappy employees are not going to perform well

I like the sound of that. But I wonder why aren't there more startups then?
Though the launch was only a test, Rocket Lab managed to launch three satellites into orbit for tracking shipping, weather and imaging.

Orbital class rocket, not bad. Also, made it to orbit on the second attempt, beat Spacex by two launches :P The Rutherford engine sea level Isp of 303 on RP1/LOX is damn impressive.
What if you expect the team of 7 to grow to 20 or more.. In a larger context almost any company would hire more developers if they could find them and hire them.
You took the words right out of my brain as I was scrolling through the comments. My internal dialogue literally was "This is EJB all over again", which admittedly may be a bit too much but as they say history never repeats but often rhymes :-)

In this go around I think the value of discreet, well factored services clearly have merit but it's really a question of just how often you truly have something that's a good candidate for this pattern. From what I've seen in some places it's used as a reason to rewrite systems and not worry about doing a good job creating well abstracted software because the integrity of the overall system is some other team's problem.

This article is really well written and does a great job shedding light on the truth. Thank you for sharing.
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I can listen to music and work, sometimes I get so focused that I don't even realize there is music, but I usually more effectively in silence. I hate background chitchat beyond a certain level, and when the people talking have to get louder to be heard over the level of noise, it causes me a ridiculous level of frustration.

I have experimented with various volumes and types of music while I'm studying, but overall, silence works for me.

For me, the best option is quite ridiculous: I wear a good set of (class 5) earmuffs. Even traffic just a few yards from me is almost silent. I'm wearing a pair right now, actually.

It's just so peaceful. If I could wear these things to bed, I would.
Not in C (which does not have exceptions) and not in C++ when doing what the parent suggested (calling malloc, not new).
There is something strange about this claim. By definition there are 70 million people in the global 1%. I find it hard to believe the median wage of the top 70 million highest incomes in the world is only $32,000.
IOW, good, clean function composition.
He lost me when he lumped every non-Jewish group in the Middle East as "200 million Arabs" and equated it with the Palestinians; and tried to justify the mistreatment of Palestinian children. The organization Shovrim Shtika (Breaking the Silence), founded by veterans from the Israeli Defense Forces, have also corroborated these accounts - not just western academics, international observers, and journalists.
> lower quality of life generally

The quality of life in Tokyo can be quite extraordinary, depending on your point of view.

As a westerner imitating the salaryman lifestyle? Absolutely terrible, primarily for work-related reasons.

As a westerner doing basically anything else that doesn't involve employment at a massive Japanese conglomerate? Excellent.

If you can deal with the lack of English and gain some modicum of comfort with Japanese culture, it's a fantastic place to live.
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Yea same. Anecdotal but my surfer friends and I are seemingly never sick but other people I interact with are sick more often.
A minimalistic framework inspired on graphql for building JSON APIs
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Wow really? How much is your apartment, and how many bedrooms?
Isp is awesome, TWR... not so much. The electric turbopumps are a big propellant efficiency win, but aren't without other costs.
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> nuclio is an open source serverless platform which is faster than bare-metal code

WTF? Can somebody explain to me what they are trying to convey here?
Catan has significantly more adversarial aspects than Monopoly; Cutting off roads that players need, controlling the placement of the robber, choosing who to steal from, denial of trade of resources. I think one of the things that makes Catan so rage-inciting, is that it's quite common to take actions to deny the other players points, even if it has a negative effect on your overall position.
Amazing that doctors can get away with NOT disclosing any of that information when prescribing any medicine to patients. I would certainly want to know what they get from X when they prescribe a certain drug with other alternatives around.
It was created to teach about the downside of capitalism. I don't see what's so terrible about that. Capitalism isn't perfect nor the Devil.

When people don't actually play by the rules it turns into a mess.
Wow, this is quite hard.. a tutorial on how to read these logs would also be useful, specially to get the handwriting.
It would be interesting to hear your experiences in publishing.
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Very cool! One bit of feedback its a pain to have to whitelist all the IP addresses for the game server. Can you associate a DNS and connect by name, this will make it easier with selective js filtering by domain?
Splendor has a small bit of hidden info - when you blind reserve a card, you get to look at it, but it stays secret from other players. However, blind reserves are very rare, so you’re basically accurate.
This I can entirely agree with - framing my point around Conway's law works well and I think I can reframe my question as "is the expression of Conway's law a management failure, or is it the mis-structuring of the organization causing the expression to be harmful?"

The parent post I was replying to seemed to simplify things down to "let your developers communicate and they'll build a more coupled system that works, instead of a morass of microservices that don't." That's another thing that looks good on paper but doesn't scale, at least in my experience.
Well, error codes are not special constructs in any way. And exceptions can be easily overused. So you have to draw the line somewhere. Rust just choose the balance where facing an exception is truly exceptional :)
i'm long on semiconductors for this reason. there's a lot more that can be done with them than grinding out increasing dense general purpose CPUs and DDR memory.

we saw a tiny bit of it with the introduction of MEMS IMUs, and we'll see more yet.

sooner or later we'll get low costs on small quantity ASICs, and things will go really nuts.
Other than freeing up memory where the binary would be loaded and maybe some network ports I don't see any advantage to scaling two "light weight" services separately.
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They haven't made their first commercial launch yet. They've certainly received money for scheduled launches in the future, but I'd say they're definitely just getting started.

Some industries have longer incubation periods =)
It's interesting seeing the difference between the publicity that SpaceX gets, and the publicity of other rocket companies like RocketLab get.

It shows how effective the PR machine for SpaceX is. RocketLabs launch is pretty significant, considering it's the first orbital launch of a rocket designed and built in a small nation.

This has barely hit the news. I guess part of the reason is that it's not in the USA, and that New Zealand isn't capable of putting nuclear warheads on top of one, unlike North Korea.
If I were looking somewhere in the Americas I'd probably choose Chile for some of the same reasons you mentioned. Santiago is a great town, relatively safe, and Chile has probably the most stable government in Central / South America.

It doesn't fit the short flight criteria, but it's better than going Oslo to Dallas.
That's exactly what I mean. It (I mean racemic street amphetamine, you can't get medical adderall in Europe) makes the majority of those who try it very agitated but makes some of those with ADHD serene and tranquil as a pure water lake surface on a windless day. I doubt it works on everybody this simple though and there hardly is any scientific research on this subject.
Do you legit think that people are all just doing this as a fad?

There's legitimate arguments for looking at these patterns, the big one being "isolation of concerns". The biggest counterargument is that the ops cost is much higher than assumed, of course.

The idea that the existing code base could have problems shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. Amazon almost fell over because of their code base. Twitter too. And its not even not doing it right, but simply that scales change. Or patterns change.

And in new companies, it _could_ be that people don't get it.

"Microservices as mass delusion" discounts a lot of people who are really thinking hard about how to handle the pros and the cons of things.
As always, Scott Manley is an excellent source of commentary:

https://youtu.be/U5k1mlu6A7I

No transcript, but it's a short video.
And does what with it?
No coastal surf break that's close to civilization is safe from bacteria infestation but it is manageable.

BUT sewage regulation can go a long, long way - take a look at the San Diego bacteria report http://www.sdbeachinfo.com - the regularly sampled coastal water is in general pretty good even though there was rain in SoCal last week.

Meanwhile less than 30 miles away the surf breaks next to Tijuana, Mexico are extremely high bacteria - that's about par for the course - really sad to see:

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/environment/sd-me-t...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEyeCm0GVKg
> This "something" usually comes in the form of tax handouts, and when it is distributed, I'm certain it is quite mismanaged.

Oh yes, corporations typically just hang onto it and use it to enrich executives, or they funnel it out of the country. But it should be well-known by this point that corporations get way too many tax breaks.

> It seems like these types of problems can only exist when there are too many people living in close-proximity.

Let me guess: you avoid cities because the black people scare you?
The Apple guys and gals solve a problem that more people understand they have and less people offer good solutions to /shrug
I'm not OP but the biggest cost driver for foreigners in Japan is actually living like a foreigner. If you adapt to the Japanese lifestyle it can be good value; otherwise, you're gonna be paying $15 for a bottle of mustard.
Processor hardware is technically as close to magic as I’ve found in the modern world. The science and logic required to make chips is simply breathtaking.

That said, processor hardware is a mature market, one that is so mature that it is starting to consolidate in major ways. Until a startup comes up with a chip that can solve current problems not solve able by a CPU/GPU/FPGA, profits will continue to accrue further up the stack to the software companies that are adding differentiated value.
They are both equally difficult.
I live in a country were just under a 1/4 of the population lives in poverty, on mass most people don't even come close to earning 32K USD a year. The average is around 1/7th of that at approximately 7K USD.

So, is it fair to compare someone in the US living of 32K a year and someone earning 32K a year where the laborers are being paid $2 a day, well the answer to that is yes. After all you would be talking about edge case, as there isn't a lot of people living in those circumstances in developing countries, while the mass in the US is living under those circumstances.

If you want to talk about the "standard" of living, then the cost of the same standard in developing countries is often the same as developed countries, Petrol, cars, healthcare (though this may differ in some areas), quality food, are comparative in cost, as many of these products are provided from the same or similar sources as where US consumers get their products.
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Ding ding.

I've always been of the opinion that the end of Moore's Law will result in a new wave of startup innovation. When the cost of newer nodes are a barrier to entry and the advantages of startups can be obviated by just moving to the next node (which the startup cannot do), then innovation stagnates. This is largely what killed many FPGA startups (e.g. Tabula, which btw had super cool tech).
RFID tags have a lot of problems among them that unless you get every manufacturer on board for labeling all the products in your store you're going to have to spend a lot of time labeling products before shelving. It's also a continuous cost per item either from the manufacturer or from the in house labeling process where a static system like Amazon Go can track without adding a per item cost. It's also not good enough to be the only system in a store because it's easy to block the signal using a foil lined bag so the store will already need another system at least as good as RFID at tracking things coming off the shelves.

As for what they look for that's the secret sauce but there's a few things that are pretty clear from descriptions. They seem to be using mainly (only?) cameras for the identification. Luckily branding is pretty prominent so they have a pretty convenient thing for their item labeling to look for in the feeds. For cart shopping there's some simple things like tracking people with their faces from when they enter then adding items to their cart when they move an item outside a defined shelf region.
I use a monolith AWS Lambda function. No need for snowflakes unless some cary huge binaries.
> If you use BSD type license and others exploit it like it was intended to, don't complain.

Uh. No. This is only valid if you interpret laws and ethics as one in the same. Maybe you do. That's fine. But not everyone does.
But that is ridiculous. Fiddling with database flags is silly, I agree, but inserting and updating database is a completely normal side effect of most business logic. So if your microservice handles any kind of ordinary feature of your business solution, it will almost definitely have side effects because it will write to database. There might be services which just do some computation in memory and return result to you but I think those will be a small minority, most of your services dealing with features such as payment, subscriptions, identity etc (just some examples) will have useful side effects.
Have you tried Quorn mince for comparison? It's probably not great in a burrito but I find it fine in a rich pasta like Bolognese. I'm also a fan of their southern style chicken patties, I prefer them to any "real" chicken patties.
Trump administration's immigrant-crime hotline released victim info
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which totally explains news article after article about people and business fleeing california for states with less of a tax burden.
Cardano is the perfect example of hot air blurring the lines of sales vs. science.
well a library + deploying it into its own space so that it doesn't bring down your main app due to compute time.

The operational part of microservices can end up being pretty important in these cases