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There's two good reasons to use a service like AWS:

- You're too small for efficient economies of scale on your own equipment (i.e. AWS is cheaper when considering total cost of ownership).

- You need to scale rapidly to meet demand

The second one is largely a data issue, if you have enough historical data on your customers, their habits, usage, and so on then scaling becomes predictable and even when it isn't you could offload only part of your infrastructure to a cloud vendor.

What's interesting is that several companies that I know which rely on AWS/Azure/et al aren't on it for either of the two above stated "good" reasons.

They are large businesses and do almost no automated scaling. They're on it for what can only be described as internal political limitations, meaning that they are on these services to remove the politics of technology infrastructure, one less manager at the top, a shorter chain of communications, an external party to blame when something does go wrong, and issues like HR/benefits/etc for infrastructure employees is outside the scope.

In effect they view themselves as "not a technology company" so look to employ the fewest technology employees as they can. Even in cases where technology is paramount to their success. It is very interesting to watch, and I'm not even claiming they're "wrong" to handle their infrastructure this way, just that it is hard to quantify the exact reasoning for it.
I just ordered the book from your recommendation, thanks.
>>Your statement also imply that Microsoft, Google, and Facebook is abusing too and no difference between Infosys and Tata.

This is largely true. These days Microsoft and Google do not outsource to Infosys and Tata. They set up their own centers in Bangalore, that way they can even quality control at many levels and the net result is the same.

The fact that Infosys and Tata aren't involved is just a minor detail here. Practices as a net do not change.
It's a problem in the realm of distributed computing.

PoW attempts to create a mechanism to verify accuracy of transactions in the database among a group of users who would want to cheat, suppress, or manipulate the records.

So PoW uses the lottery to create a competition among all users for high computational power (capital sacrifice), but unfortunately the computational "work" is nothing more than a random number generator.

Ideally, the computational work used in PoW would not be worthless random numbers but could instead be computations that provide value to scientific research. Distributing computing projects like Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC), Folding@Home, and Seti@Home, are all very similar distributed computing projects that predate Bitcoin.

The main problem is PoW for transactional verification needs to be a problem that's hard to known in advance, yet very easy to verify once known, and there must be a consistency to the solving of transactions. This can be done with a centralized validator, but presumably the ideal solution would need to be distributed/decentralized as was the point of Satoshi's p2p cash system.

The problem is it's very hard to have consistency of successful problems solved when you have complex useful computational problems being solved, whereas PoW simply asks "guess a number, now guess a higher number if the network hashrate is faster".

If anyone solved a method to process useful valuable computational work, instead of random numbers, and applied it algorithmically into a PoW transactional protocol - this would be a holy grail solution as it wouldn't be considered a race to the bottom of inefficient computational waste.

Golem seems to be attempting a distributed computational work for digital tokens model, but I have doubts their design will be genuine, effective, or sustainable.

See also: https://medium.com/@hallam/proof-of-work-is-the-worst-way-to...
you talk like there are no big tech companies in Canada. Every US tech company that's a household name (and many more than that) has offices in Canada with engineers in them.
Yes. It would be too simple to say we must focus on just one single priority.

The US has a big list of priorities: increasing GDP, protecting the environment, protecting laborers, providing medical care, protecting civil rights, enhancing tax revenue, taking care of the elderly, fighting wars, stopping disease outbreaks, curing cancer, exploring the solar system, patrolling the border, educating children, feeding everyone -- the list goes on and on.

All these arguments are about rebalancing and reordering these priorities.
This is an excellent question. The current wine implementation using OpenGL should mirror the behaviour of D3D, since it is using glMapBufferRange and passing GL_MAP_UNSYNCHRONIZED_BIT when possible. I am also wondering what is actually going on that is hurting performance.

EDIT:

After further research and more thought, I suspect that the "pipeline stall" doesn't involve waiting for the GPU to complete work using the buffer, just waiting for the driver. The map/unmap with overwrite or discard is working as intended, but the persistent buffer heap he implemented outperforms it because it reduces the number of calls into the driver required.

I initially had the impression that the existing wine implementation was somehow deficient, but really what the author did was find a way to use the new persistent buffers feature to optimize D3D code using the older per-frame map/unmap method.

This is in fact what the post essentially said (after a re-read), I just misunderstood and thought the pipeline stall was actually waiting for the GPU. The note in the post about the "GPU" line really being the driver is important.
This is called a strawman, you're suggesting people use 3 different versions of webpack and another bundler at the same time?

Real talk, this is the modern stack:

If you want to write a simple animation or calculation on a: Javascript. Nothing else.

You have several behaviors on your page and and to use modern code practices:
Babel. That's it.

You want a complicated Web app with Rich functionality on several pages:
React, Webpack, Babel. That's it.

Typescript can replace Babel, if you like strong typing.
The power cycling the car to get the stereo to work isn't limited to Fords unfortunately. I have a "dumb" smart radio and the BT is so bad between my Google phone and the car that I've had numerous glitches some that require power cycling the car, which is insane. I honestly cannot believe something that works flawlessly in nearly every other situation is so screwing in the car, what I wouldn't give to have my aux connector in again.
This is an absurdly long marketing-string-along style read.

At its core, it is delivering a summary of "7 habits of highly effective people", by Stephen Covey, and packaging it as two mental shifts. The "two shifts" are what Covey refers to as "the private victory", and "the public victory", and they each comprise 3 of "the habits". They are the following:

1 - Be proactive

2 - Begin with the end in mind

3 - Put first things first

4 - Think win-win

5 - Seek first to understand, then to be understood

6 - Synergize

For the record, the seventh habit is to continually improve.

Most of the article's >3000 words are descriptions of why, how, where, and when people fail to follow these edicts, with some motivational phrases and quotes added throughout. There are also actually a few good tidbits buried in here about confidence and systems-thinking and locus of control, but it's mostly the usual melange of pop psychology vamping.

And some broad categorical statements about men and women's attitudes and abilities to boot.
There are few worse design decisions than rotary encoders on a software synth
Fair. But that's not totally why I dislike my electric car (Nissan). I mention the modern stuff just to highlight the car has significantly better entertainment systems. The nissan compared to the gas (a porsche) is an unfair fight. However I haven't been impressed with tesla when test driving them as well. It's the drive, idk. I know tesla is trying to solve that but so far I haven't been impressed.
On the third hand, it'll still be running after 50 years and fully compatible with all standard issue eyeballs. Amortized cost of $60/year. Will the Apple Watch still be running in 50 years? At around $300/watch right now, each one needs to last at least 5 years to remain price competitive.
It's also easy to hire people who have AWS experience. It's getting harder and harder these days to find anyone who has actually seen the inside of a data centre.
Indeed, it seems very hard to dis the thissing.
Nice! Will be curious to see some benchmarks vs https://github.com/parcel-bundler/parcel
Is that really a problem? If you're making double than what you would make elsewhere then who cares what some random exec is making?
Love to see that paper; seems like nonsense to me. If someone came up with a more optimized transistor architecture than CMOS I'd love to have a look at it.
Though I see Apple is Berkshire's largest stock position by acquisition cost so there are presumably reasons to be long also.
I find this [type of] lock quite usable, and much more convenient thne keys:

https://www.amazon.com/Schlage-FE575-CAM-619-ACC/dp/B001RFDB...

Digital so I don't need keys, but still keeping it as simple as possible. Most have a power backup so you can power it from a 9V battery externally. I still wish it wasn't necessary to change batteries, but it's not too inconvenient given they last a couple years, timewise well worth not dealing with keys.
Great! Is there migration guide available from version 3.* ?
> We can also setup a chat with our ex-NSA post-Quantum hash function experts

Is there a modern secure hash function considered to be under threat from quantum computing? I was under the impression there isnt one.

It's scary to see marketing spiels thrown into technical discussions, it's even worse when the thread is released as some sort of defense and those less informed see the big words and appeal-to-authority name dropping.
Are you sober?

hahahaha fuck me, this is good stuff.
Different cultures value things differently. In many societies east of Europe, things typically considered private in the west (work, salary, family, political affiliation/opinions etc., friends circle etc.) would be commonly accepted social knowledge.

So what you consider "Important" may not be as important to them when you consider they may already expect society knows these things.
Yes I would like a Starship Enterprise-style computer in my house. Who wouldn't? But it has to be the the ad-free version that works for me. It won't monitor the activities of my family and then sell the anonymized data to selected third parties. Then supply the de-anonymized data to government agencies and school boards at the drop of a hat for 'safe-guarding' or 'anti-terrorism' purposes.

In the meantime I recognise that there's some health value to getting up periodically to flick switches.
Yeah ethics and quite a number of other characteristics. Buffett has written quite a lot about it. It this letter:

>Each has been with Berkshire for decades, and Berkshire’s blood flows through their veins. The character of each man matches his talents. And that says it all.

given it will probably be Ajit or Greg as things stand. Quite likely Greg as CEO.
5 years sounds alright, actually. Tech can last that long, despite engineering for obsolescence. But that moonwatch will probably stay in style much longer too.
That more or less describes how Philip's Hue works.

If the hub died, the smart bulbs can still still be operated using the regular light switch. If the bulb is in standby (smart "off") just flip the switch twice to turn it on. Then it will act like a regular bulb until the hub returns.

Hue only has one big defect with regards to this... If there's an electrical outage and the smart bulb is in standby, when power is restored the bulb will turn on. Meaning if power goes out and is restored in the middle of the night the lights could suddenly turn on full brightness.

And as an aside, the nice thing about smartbulbs as a concept is that they require zero re-wiring or specialized wiring. So if the manufacturer of your bulbs went out of business or you wanted to change vendors, just replace the bulb and your work is done. Simple.
Mostly I’m just saying that, given that most aspects of personality are 30-80% heritable, I think people should really think twice before contributing to a future with less long-term thinkers in it.
Do we know how much they were spending on AWS before?
Not that $75m isn't a lot but it would be interesting as a %!
I think this is the kind of article where you have to mentally translate the self-help jargon to see if there is anything valuable in it for yourself. It's not actually a worthless article, but all the talk of synergy etc is going to turn people off immediately.
I'm curious, is the date header important or not? OMG, Is this a real conversation? Even this tweet from the tangleblog who leak this document is hilarious: https://twitter.com/tangleblog/status/966286394636296192
Can you explain that more? Does quality of life go down in every country which doesn't "attract better people?"

Did quality of life go up in China because it "attracted better people" or were there other reasons?

One of the things your comment made me think about is the US citizens I know who have relocated to other "less developed" countries in order to make their quality of life go _up_.

Does the quality of life for people in Japan go down because Google is headquartered in the US?

As a US resident, would my quality of life go down if Microsoft were headquartered in India, Facebook in Singapore, Google in Denmark, and Apple in Japan?

It all seems rather complicated and murky.
>>I know of so many people who gamed the system, working in cahoots with consulting companies that exist solely to scam people.

It's sort of strange you even write this. Almost all engineers from India 'gamed the system' in some way both back home and in the US to do anything they have done in the US.

The only thing not surprising to me is the way you talk. All Indians/ex-Indians I met while I was in US believed they deserved to be there and others do not. Therefore they should go back, giving them a chance. And of course everybody thought, everybody else should go back and only they deserved to stay. Not surprising, because Indians live the crab mentality day in and out.

Also the 'consulting company' bogey is so broken to repeated in these situations. Why do you think you deserved to be there and they don't?
"So don't use iCloud backups. You're never required to. You can trivially back up through iTunes"

Is that how iDevices work ? You do data backup with your mp3 player ?

Is there really no Finder equivalent on an iphone ?

Genuinely curious ...
The crypto world has certainly inspired me to pursue whole new fields of research. Not in cryptocurrencies, because while the idea of a distributed ledger I think is solid and here to stay, but because at least 90% of these "currencies" must have their value drop to zero given a long enough time frame -- there's simply no reason for the market to support anything else.

No, for the past half a year or so I've been trying to learn all I can about market microstructure, quantitative finance, anything that makes money off of high variance.

Because if there's one thing I will bet on, it's that there's a ton of risk and volatility here in these hills, and there's probably money to be made somehow while it all crashes and burns.
also this: https://twitter.com/tangleblog/status/967513038374031360
I get ~60 fps on Broadwell Xeon, Xubuntu, Chromium, and a 1060 GPU.
It's only asymmetric crypto used today that's broken under quantum. Symmetric and Hashes should be OK.
>>Going for EB-1 has been one of the worst decisions of my life. I wasted 2 years collecting paper work, getting letters, wasting money and waiting!

Also depends on the company and the leverage you have with the manager in the company. Plenty of people from India have gotten GCs in that category in months after arriving to US.

So yeah, Its luck by most means. Life is unfair, if its any consolation, think about this aspect of luck. There are likely more merit people in India who haven't even gotten as far as you. Is it unfair for them and their lives to be compared to you.
Wow, this was the juiciest goss I've seen in a while. Seems like the bitter tone was due to some early passive aggressive comments by the Mit media lab team, though.
I have used the Gmail API in Google Apps Script to calculate my monthly uber credits usage. The company where I work provides fixed uber credits per month and I use the script to calculate how much over / under I am.

It's a small code hosted on github : https://github.com/himanshujaju/uber-monthly-expense
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Yes it is, it just requires critical thinking. What I'm saying is that you wouldn't be all about the West if you experienced colonialism as China has in their past. It makes sense that many people may not hold the same viewpoint, if they're from a former colony or just have a strong knowledge of history.
Interesting to see the range of opinions about IOTA.

The conclusions on HN are (so far) completely at odds from those on the cryptocurrency subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7zztey/full...

Meanwhile the commercial world seems happy to engage with IOTA:

"Volkswagen CDO will join the supervisory board of the IOTA foundation. And now, Volkswagen is going to utilise this technology in their automobiles." -- https://coingape.com/iota-volkswagen-partnership-raises-hope...

"Bosch makes first investment in distributed ledger technology, purchase of IOTA tokens to support creation of new business models for the Internet of Things" -- http://www.bosch-presse.de/pressportal/de/en/robert-bosch-ve...

"Taiwan's capital city of Taipei is working with the IOTA Foundation to bring Tangle - IOTA's answer to blockchain - to its citizen identification plans." -- https://www.coindesk.com/city-of-taipei-confirms-its-testing...

So what to make of all this?
>It is a great example of someone (the "expert") convincing a non-technical person that they are the "ninja rockstar 11x post-quantum hash function expert".

It's hilarious that he thought that would work with a security researcher at MIT.
> Events behind the event horizon are postponed to "the end of times".

Thank you. To me, this has been obvious since I learned about the time slowing required by GR. Since then, I was unable to understand why people are talking about things "falling into" black holes. (There's an episode of SG-1 where a team is trapped by a black hole, and times keep slowing, but they never realize that this means that team WILL NEVER DIE.)
Anecdotal:

I live in Whitehorse, Yukon. For reference I drive due South to Alaska.

The weather here is nothing, and I mean nothing like it used to be. It would reliably be -40 for all of Jan and Feb in the past. The river would freeze to the point of holding the massive festival ON the river with cars, tents, thousands of people ,etc.

The river has not frozen for a decade, it regularly goes above freezing in Jan and Feb, and even some of the mighty lakes up here don't freeze enough that you want to walk on them. The ice used to be so think my 4 ft. ice auger wasn't long enough to let me ice fish.
Yup. iTunes has been a central hub ever since the iPod. Once they had the syncing work there, it made a certain amount of sense to use it for all iDevices and interaction with Apple's media, as it was available on both Windows and macOS. It's been a painful and unhappy evolution, in my experience (and those of many others from what I've read), however.
I’m so glad to see this article, I knew there was more to it than conceived in this xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1761/
Yeah, clearly Haswell (+ my GPU) is capable of much more. Just not being utilized well.
I just wanted to mention that the Schwartzchild metric doesn't only apply to black holes. It's the general metric for a spherically symmetric, static space-time, so it's good for roughly spherical bodies like stars and planets over small timescales.

Recently, I worked out the ISS orbit using the Schwartzchild metric as an approximation of Earth. It's cool to see the orbital period pop out and agree with real life! It's then just a small step to calculate the time dilation experienced by ISS astronauts.
Buy him a blender ironically.
Data centers aren't cheap, so unless you have the economies of scale to offer R&D investment and stock-based compensation to your employees to build a modern cloud DC, good luck with that... done right you can save operating expenses, but it'll take a huge investment that would not scale for others.
A sexy, secure visualization of password field input
Holy shit! this only reinforces the (probably unfair) stereotypes I have about random comments on twitter (as opposed to other places on the internet).
The Use of Counterfeit Code Signing Certificates Is on the Rise
>Gavin Andresen's ludicrous "validation" of Colin Wright as Satoshi

I'm out of the loop; do you have any good summaries of this incident?
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A black hole is a region that light cannot gravitationally escape. It has nothing to do with singularities which often but not always exist inside of a black hole. Small black holes often have singularities just to have enough mass density to capture light. It is not required though — imagine a binary system of two neutron stars that are each just below the mass threshold to collapse into a singularity. It would be a black hole to external observers. Oddly larger black holes require less mass density. More oddly still as you approach the size of the observable universe, the required mass density crosses the cosmic mass density, meaning light emitted from Earth cannot gravitationally escape the universe created by the Big Bang, meaning we exist inside of a black hole as big as the observable universe.

I’m not sure why I’m being so heavily down voted for stating this fact you can find in any cosmology textbook.
And you're failing to realize that what others make is irrelevant. If you're at Thanksgiving and you get food to feed you for 10 years, it doesn't matter if others got food to feed them for 100 years.
It's Saturday night in the US — slow news day/time and relatively few people voting.
If Google had genuine interest in just speeding up page loads after search they would let the client prefetch the page (amp or not) straight from the original domain instead of their own cdn.
Capital gains through increasing asset value. Check out the table at the start of the annual letter.
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Couldn’t find anything from a google search, but seems you could buffer files for writes, tar them, PUT the tar, and then use the tar index to perform range reads against the tar file.

Edit: “dar”, “zip”, or “dump/restore” might be able to do this:
https://serverfault.com/questions/59795/is-there-a-smarter-t... (will create an archive with an index file for random access, vs tar streaming requiring reading the entire file)

If you come up with another solution, I’d love to hear it!
Tips for using ESLint in a legacy codebase
The replies! I see a reality distortion field...
He doesn't have a good way to reinvest just now but probably believes one will turn up. He came out pretty well having a lot of cash in 2008. As a Berkshire shareholder I'd much rather have the cash sitting with Buffett rather than paid to me as a taxable dividend.
> Since the beginning AMP team was clear that AMP is not very useful without cache.

I don't see that at all. Even just calling it a "specification" is misleading in the worst ways. You don't need a spec for caching. Nor do you need a spec to tell you that you shouldn't include a ton of CSS and JS. Nor was it ever the plan of Google to actually see others implement this spec.