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VisualOps.io is a relatively full featured SaaS, for designing AWS environments, generating CloudFormation, and converging environments, plus more ops tools.

It can also import to visualize:

“Want to visualize your current AWS deployment? No a problem, Import the existing resources and generate the relative diagram automatically.”

http://www.visualops.io/feature/

https://github.com/MadeiraCloud
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> I've been following patio11's blog posts since way back in the Bingo Card Creator days

Great blog, but part of me finds it sad that such an intelligent person spends a huge chunk of his life working on creating Bingo Cards.
it invalidates your opinion but you’re free to hold the opinion that it doesn’t
No offense but TensorFlow's Dataset API documentation also sucks. This combined with bad API design (that actually can be used as case study for bad design in classrooms) is disaster in making. For example, shuffle() takes a mysterious argument. Why? It's not to be found in docs except that it should be more than items in dataset. Why can't shuffle() just be shuffle() and why do I now always have to remember passing correct parameter for rest of my life? Whatever. I still don't get what exactly repeat() does. Does it rewinds back to start when you reach past end? Why you need it? Why not just stick to epochs? Why make things complicated with steps vs epochs anyway? Docs gives zero clue. Then there are whole bunch of mysteriously named unexplained methods like make_one_shot_iterator() or from_tensor_slices(). Why is make_one_shot_iterator() not just iterator()? Why do I have to rebuild dataset using from_tensor_slices()? The docs are designed with a point of view "take all these code calling mysteriously designed APIs, copy-paste and don't bother too much about understanding what those APIs really do". It really sucks.
Got it ;-)
>it's a state our bodies have evolved to survive in

In an emergency

Which is absolutely not the same thing as a healthy long term state.
In which way is Dropbox data not protected? Do you mean they tend to lose files?
Venezuela has launched its own cryptocurrency, the Petro
As someone who has been an expat in several locations and also divorced, I have found that it's not really due to age but down to where the people around you find themselves in their life and where you find yourself in life. When young people go to college a significant portion of them are in a situation where they would need to seek and develop new friendships. The same happens if you move to a location which has a large expatriate population. It's when you don't have your old friends around and surrounded by people who are in the same situation. That means the people you work or take classes with are also open to making friends with people they work or take classes with. Everyone also live, work and socialise as close to each other as possible, for this purpose. This is in contrast to, say, if you move to a new country or a city where the majority of the people already have established friendships and families where they live and work. These people don't live close to where they work, they live close to where it's convenient for their established friends and family. They don't feel the need to make friends at work. This makes it hard for you, as an outsider, to make friends where most people you deal with don't have that need. This changes again if you have children who go to school and you find yourself with other parents in the same situation. The same when people move when they retire somewhere.
What exactly are you referring to? My life is stored on Dropbox so I'd rather like to know.
I'm not suggesting anything; I'm interpreting the grandparent's comment.
What is even more surprising is the 2 year evolution of vb.net. If you click on the line, it shows a chart consistently going up.

I am less surprised by VB. After all this is the only way to script Microsoft Office and it's not like VBA had gone away, lots of users actively build stuff now in VBA.
May I ask how you meet guys on Tinder if you're straight? Is there a friends feature?
I can't see why you've brought this analogy into the discussion, because the two things are not very similar. Refraining from being late to one appointment does not activate any bodily instinct that you need to be late to the next one.
So here's some more context about the campaign, because this article is very biased as well. The information campaign is owned by both the central bank and the financial supervision committee (not sure if there's an official translation of that name). It's not a local idea, but rather a local implementation of the European effort. You can find more details here: http://www.eba.europa.eu/-/esas-warn-consumers-of-risks-in-b...

The committee's involvement is not surprising in this case. One of the agency's goals is to provide information about financial risks. It even keeps a public registry of companies reported for not paying their debts (think credit score for businesses). It's very much what they should be involved in. In case anyone thinks they're on the banks' side - they're involved in prosecuting banks and pension funds regularly.

As for the contents of the campaign's site https://uwazajnakryptowaluty.pl/ - it's very reasonable. I couldn't find anything outright wrong on it. It doesn't even tell you that you shouldn't buy Bitcoin. The repeated information and claims are not very different from what you sign when you open a share dealing account - you can lose money, gains are not guaranteed, these investments are not insured, lack of liquidity is possible, etc.

The social advertisement campaigns are also nothing uncommon in Poland. Sober driving, don't dive in shallow water, read to your kids, and similar topics are the common target of the social ads / PSAs that are created when some issue gets too common in the country.

The fact that the are no gov logos in the video clip is weird. (Also the clip is extremely cheesy - think high school video project about misinformation surrounding cryptocurrencies) But the campaign itself seems fine. The post is very sensational.
Looks like a PR stunt to jack up the hype before going public.
Don’t know what to tell you except that one of them is known to filter and personalize results, definitely leverages your IP address and other identifiers, and the other claims not to.
I've noticed that American articles cite Vint Cerf as the "father/inventor of the internet", while British press give the same titles to Tim Berners-Lee. Of course both were instrumental, but as you say, many people and teams were involved in the creation of what we know as the Internet today.
Don't the street signs give you an indication that a lane branches off?
> Basically the message was that serial performance is saturating, and the only way to get speed improvements in the future is going to be by exploiting parallelism.

People have been warning us about this for about 10 years now, but I still don't see those 64-core CPUs I was promised anywhere.

If we had the amount of parallelism we were told we were going to get, we could give every app its own core. OSes could even consider disabling context switches altogether for the majority of apps. Instead, we're left complaining about Electron apps like it matters.

That said, I'm not sure what stagnation you refer to. There's a reason languages like Rust, Elixir/Erlang and Go are getting popular. My PHP app could handle hundreds of concurrent connections on a single machine, my Elixir app handles hundreds of thousands. Yet, processors didn't get 1000x faster (and Elixir isn't even a particularly fast language). This is the opposite of stagnation, it's progress.
Interesting read. Thanks. I almost didn't click due to the ridiculous title, but it doesn't do justice to the article.
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I suppose your reply comes from the fact that I missed saying I wasn't teaching in grade school --- I was teaching CS courses to paying students, so presumably they have some interest in learning; yet the amount of "I didn't bother trying to learn anything, but please let me pass" was still incredibly high.
The article doesn't answer the question at the fundamental level. The closest it gets is this: "Increased frequency depends heavily on the current level of technology and advances cannot move beyond these physical limitations."

Certainly, Moore's law is just an observation and cannot go on forever. Would it fair to say that we've simply reached the point where we can no longer "keep up" with Moore's observation because the technology is getting harder and not because we've actually reached any limit of physics?
so what about that overeating protein? and what about your ketoacidosis fud? will you concede you were wrong?

> Which is absolutely not the same thing as a healthy long term state.

you call it emergency because you were told by some fad vegan food blogger to call it that because "emergency" comes with negative connotations.

it's just a different metabolic state, there is no evidence that it is harmful long term. unless you want to present some?
It's more than a little cynical to assume that most of us only care because we want to make money or grow our business.

The way I see it, as people who have more knowledge about this domain than the average user, it's actively our responsibility to act in the best interest of the user (our parents, friends, etc.), even if said user might not appreciate or understand the effort.

In the same way that I appreciate, say, doctors actively working against stupid/pointless stuff (homeopathy, avoid vaccination), I appreciate IT people trying to think beyond the immediate convenience of AMP.
So all opinions based on a political precept (such as valuing the open web) are inherently invalid?

Pure silliness.
At least looking to their product sites, Microchip and Green Hills seem to have quite good tooling, then again I don't have embedded experience on modern systems, beyond mobile devices.
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The unique part, for me, is having to physically be in a specific place to engage in parts of the game, and the places are 'anywhere around the world'.

Reading the sentence I just wrote it still just sounds like sport, where you have to go to an oval or arena or whatever. But with Pokemon Go it's sort of 'anywhere' and yet specific at the same time. It's a particular place at a particular time. The difference may just be that it's a virtual / digital game rather than a physical one.
Ask HN: Is there such a thing as a part time web designer?
I am an engineer at heart, I have always wanted to be better at graphics and design but nothing I create is good enough

The site is http://www.interrupts.io

I am working on a part-time concept, basically meetups but for companies and institutions. I have built the core site and functionality but I am looking for someone to help really make the UI slick and fast

Where is a good place to find help> I have tried dribble but nothing came of it. I am willing to pay $2-3k
At a large organization many business units will be tracking traffic metrics that flow through several layers of data warehousing and BI tools, far removed from any teams implementing changes to the site and logging.

This is an eye opening article for me.
They have been here for a while, just for a very specific market.

Threadripper and EPYC exist now though. With 32 and 64 logical cores respectively.
I'm afraid that science indeed isn't what people usually think it is, and that there's a lot that could be improved.

Following people whose work you enjoy generally works, but it also leads to potentially valuable work by lesser-known researchers (e.g. Early-career researchers) to go unnoticed.
Unfortunately not as of now. But I will write it down and share here over the weekend.
There is no ethical consumption, as in consuming only from ethical companies. But come on, almost each and every one of us has a company (online and offline) that we're desperately trying to avoid whenever possible.

Reasons for that could be different, but ethical reasons are completely legit ones.

The main reason why I have a personal Nextcloud server is because I don't want to deal with considering pros and cons when choosing where to stash my most valuable data (like cloud service, calendar, contact lists, to-do lists etc).

Sure, it takes me maybe an hour per month to keep it updated, but constantly considering different options would take me even more. Sure, paying for a dedicated server takes a chunk of my monthly income, but it would also add up to pay monthly subscriptions to other bullshit SaaS, because free editions rarely allow a consumer to accomplish most of the things[0]. And as far as the climate change is concerned, my hosting provider is powered by a hydro plant. My hosting provider is also not from a five-eye country (nor does my everyday traffic reach any of those when traveling to my server and back) and is in the EU jurisdictions. I don't really have to worry about NSA that much, as long as I trust my end devices not making those connections with my most sensitive types of data.

With all that said, I do feel like an ethical consumer online. There are some hints of it outside the keyboard as well. Heck, I'm 23 and still haven't learned how to drive because it isn't viable to have an electric car inside of my country, and I prefer public transport over taxis and Uber.

[0] Shoutout to Pocket, the only SaaS I could think of that's completely usable in the free version, and becomes even more usable when paying for a premium.
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Sure, there's been high end niche products for anything forever. You could buy a 64 core computer in 1990 (they'd call it a supercomputer, but same thing).

The people telling us we had to go change our code to use parallel processing fast predicted a significantly faster increase in amount-of-cores on commodity hardware. Instead, CPUs stopped getting faster and hardly gained more parallellism.
> Or to put it another way: a $30 trip from SF downtown to airport becomes $10 trip which is competitive with BART prices.

I looked up BART because of what you said and it looks pretty bad.

https://github.com/enjalot/bart/blob/master/data/bart-comp-a...

175 people make six figures in base pay. The total cost of employment is ridiculously high. I don't know anything about BART but they clearly need to lay off a lot of people. This is ridiculous.
I think the expectations for novelty may be to high.

Look at the new drugs list every year and you see a lot of churn with minor variations common, but less novelty than many assume. https://www.centerwatch.com/drug-information/fda-approved-dr... And this is with 100+ billion in public + private money world wide per year.

Sure, there is plenty of stuff being discovered, but we can't expect a steady or increasing rate of progress across all areas.
"flexible and free payment services"

Actually my government already has rules on that. Using my debetcard at a store, withdrawing money from an ATM or transferring money between bankaccounts is free.

Its almost as if we live in 21st century already!
Doesn't go also make it relatively easy to write parallel code?
A foundation with 20M$ and these ambitious goals is a gift for the society. However, it is also the typical American way of company-society interaction. The actually intended way is called "paxing taxes". Dropbox, like a good part of the US tech companies, has it's European site in Ireland, a country known for its low tax rates [1].

[1] https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/business-spectator...
> but the vast majority of websites out there do not use EV or OV certs and to be fair users by and large don't even notice the difference between a DV and an EV certificate in the first place.

You could also say the same for HTTP vs HTTPS (except HTTPS being considerably slower on unreliable networks).

So what's the value add in forcing everyone (even those who don't want to and have no need) to use HTTPS?
There are plenty of 64 cores servers. Yet, multi-core architectures seem to have hit a wall caused by slow memory access.

I'm still waiting for the massively parallel NUMA machine in a chip, but there are many manufacturing problems keeping those away.
I'm not a Dropbox user, so I don't really have a stake in this fight, but I think it's pretty different. Eich using his personal resources to support a personal social/political cause is not at all the same as being a politician who was part of the senior executive circle of the Bush administration.
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You can still capture an uncontrolled input's data `onChange` and `onBlur` for validation, password strength checking, later submission etc., you just don't reflect it back into the input on every render.

The only thing it affects is your ability to change the input's data via a state change, but for a password field would you ever want to do anything but get its current value or clear it?
Yes. This.

The terrifying thing is that this type of application "demo" is being built by smart people who are already fully aware of the _theoretical_ concept of ethical violations being enabled by software.

And yet refuse to connect the obvious dots to the dystopian, anti-human capabilities enabled by the tools they're building. "Oh yes well we didn't mean it for THAT".

WAY more respect (fear) if they came out and just honestly explained all the revenue generating capabilities this could extract from users. Better business. Less disingenuous.

I certainly feel MUCH safer knowing that my software could FORCE me to spend my attention on it for whatever reason. Bravo Machine-Box, really helping make the world a better place.
It actually looks better than expected: https://imgur.com/a/5BjvC
Realize that surfing the net is mildly hypnotising.

http://markforster.squarespace.com/blog/2016/12/21/fast-fvp....
http://markforster.squarespace.com/tm-systems/
There is no problem here, marketing folks would love it :)
My everyday use case for navigation is along the lines of having a buddy tell me to avoid a certain route, due to traffic.

I've tried Google Maps and Waze (as well as Google's dashboard thing which keeps a semi-permanent time estimate pinned to some area on your phone), but these all miss the main point in my use case - I only need an detour away from my daily commute maybe twice a month. On the rest of the days, I know how to drive home, thanks. This is not enough for me to be semi-permanently firing up heavy apps to check the route. A simple thing which says "hey, I've noticed you just got in your car, and you're probably heading home - don't take highway X" would be nearly perfect.
Exponential growth can't be infinite. Who knew! Mind blown!
Unrestricted grants are a blessing when you deal with a world that will let you buy a student a computer but not the desk to set it on.
Oh there was, just people with big pockets. Have some application written in VB6? Need it to go faster where money is no object? Get VB for the Dec Alpha. Although I've never seen anyone do that, but there was such a thing.

Now when it came to a massive DEC Alpha to run SQL Server, then absolutely. It was the ultimate hardware solution to a software scalability problem, and it was not cheap.
Dropbox doesn't encrypt your data. Compare them [1] and SpiderOak [2] for example.

[1] https://www.dropbox.com/security

[2] https://spideroak.com/no-knowledge/
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> The thing is that "control of the DNS" can mean different things.

In every way this discussion is related, "control of the DNS" should mean control of the one authoritative DNS source, in a way which means that if a service across the internet requests a DNS record, it won't be affected by whatever DNS-trick your neighbourhood cafe's wifi may apply.

Trying to muddle the discussion of a fairly straight-forward, reliable scenario with consumer-space DNS resolution is IMO not very productive.
Is a hum not more or less expected in the vicinity of busy harbors, even more so than in general industrial areas? Harbors attract a lot of possible sources that could cause a hum: maritime equipment, ship engines, generators, industrial equipment, large refrigerators (in containers or in warehouses), ...

You may want to read about the Kokomo, IN "hum" investigation which was traced back to an industrial source [1].

[1] http://www.le-bruit.com/easy-media/kokomo_hum_report.pdf
The other guy is right though. Other than gastric bypass, all methods of weight loss have like a 2% success rate over the long term. Given numbers like that, I don't see it as useful to cast it as a problem of willpower.

The existence of large national trends also, to my mind, points away from individual failings. I find it hard to believe that the willpower of the average person has simply dropped off steeply over a few decades.
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> There's always a risk when you give money that it will be used in a way you don't approve of...

I’ve seen people on the left get upset when they find out that the ACLU defends the rights of people on the right in addition to those on the left.
I'm surprised that there hasn't emerged a "parallel-by-default C++" kind of language + hardware system to exploit it to keep things going forward.

There has. GPU programming is exactly that. CPU-heavy tasks (games, bitcoin mining, machine learning) have already migrated.
Being in the UK I don't see a valid claim to TBL's involvement in the creation of the Internet.

I see it more as Vint Cerf being instrumental in the creation of the Internet, and Tim-Berners Lee of the world-wide web.

Now, if any one person were to be credited for the creation of the Internet as a whole, that honour would undoubtedly go to Al Gore.

Exhibit A: https://goo.gl/X8D3yb
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Me too, the rate limit is preventing me to keep on using LE.
In the same general spirit, check bytebeats!

http://countercomplex.blogspot.fi/2011/10/algorithmic-sympho...
http://canonical.org/%7Ekragen/bytebeat/
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I moved to Seattle from the east coast about a year ago. I'm heading back because I don't fit in here. It's me, not the city.

I spent a lot of time working remotely. Bouncing up and down the northeastern corridor. I found a way to get acclimated to a city rather quickly. Find your tribe, friend the service staff, and it generally grows from there. Make yourself that you're a regular, and a good person.

I'm not an outdoorsy person, I'm not a "chill" person. What I enjoy wasn't common fare. That's not meant as a knock. The closest I found here, was the LGBTQ community. But there was a bit of trepidation with me being a software developer, i.e. causing problems for the city.

There is the Seattle freeze. But it's also we're busy and there is not that much in common. It's important to try and not be negative. Blaming the city is not beneficial. Maybe the city just isn't right for you. What do you want from your city, where you live?

I will say I did find it's more insular. My usual fare of trying to join a conversation at a bar didn't work. Saying hi, was not well received. I also think I had a cloud of negativity, from heavy job dissatisfaction that limited a positive response. My few friends here. Were gained from bartenders a bouncer, and someone I met at a mixer.

One other thing I'd note. Is I try and perform outside of work, event hosting, dj'ing, etc. I tried talking to promoters but got stood up a lot. Make an appointment to meet up and no show.
speak polish, can confirm that the page is very reasonable and only a bit sensational. haven't looked at the clip, though.
Yes Dropbox encrypts your data. It even says so on the Dropbox page you linked to :-)