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Great article, and an interesting use of Lambda, thanks for sharing!

To answer your final question: I wrote a spot instance automation tool, you can check it out at autospotting.org, so I would give spot instances a try. The latest developments from AWS on the spot market are real game changers, I think most of the workloads can now safely run on spot, my AutoSpotting tool makes it a breeze to migrate from on-demand AutoScaling groups while keeping them a bit more reliable than the native AutoScaling integration for spot.

As of a few months ago the pricing is much more stable than before, I've rarely seen terminations even over the maximum three months of history for instances that used to go bust multiple times a day. You also now pay them on a per-second basis, and you can hibernate the last one to keep the state of the group while everything is down.

So my approach for this would be to have an AutoScaling group of the smallest spot instances that can run your app, scale them to N nodes right before your experiment, then when you're done scale down to a single one, which you use as data seed next time, which you detach and hibernate with API calls.

Next time you re-attach the seed to the empty group, and scale out to N once again and run your test. So you only pay for the length of your test on a per-second basis.

You can also keep the seed as an on demand node outside of the spot group and have it run from the free tier if you still have some time left, or just hibernate it as well.
They are also showing signs of fatigue in the data center space which carries high margins. The underhanded I/O game they are playing is both alienating customers and providing a big opportunity for AMD, IBM, and Arm.
I'm also an infrequent developer in many languages. I find this is a really important article especially for new languages (Go, Rust, F#).

If your language has less adoption most of your developers will be infrequent developers. There won't be many companies purely building on this one technology. You will have a lot of people dabbling in small side projects to see whether the language fits their needs.

So it's important to have an easy way to update your whole toolchain or install the toolchain easily whenever needed. E.g. updating my Rust toolchain means runnning
rustup update
and updating VSCode (the RLS extension updates automatically)
cargo does everything automatically for builds with a very simple project structure.

It's also best if you can avoid the need for specific tooling (I use VSCode as my main editor anyway).

Another thing that should be thought of is that commands should do similar things like in other languages in order to not surprise people unnecessarily. If you want to go against the flow, you should have a good reason for it.
That's dope! Feature idea - multiple "lightsabres" in the same frame with collision detection with sparks/sound FX. I can give you the gfx/sound assets if you need :)

Used to make little films with my kids using After Effects - here's one - https://youtu.be/IRyy2BhbuaU

They love it but it's quite slow and painstaking. Instant AR version would be amazing.
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My guess is this sort of experimentation is pretty inevitable in various geographic regions where laws are loose, so rather than encouraging folks to do this we should probably focus more on trying to intellectually prepare them.

What does a talking chimpanzee mean for the world? Hopefully not a source of donor organs and rather a symbol that life in all its forms must be cherished and respected.
| does anyone know if more recent machine learning techniques have made their way into the field?

Oh god I hope not.
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One major correction to the above: Linksys are an absolutely innocent party in the above, result of a mental failing on my part.

The keyboard, a complete piece of crap, and with abysmal customer and warranty non-support, was from Logitech, who deserve absolutely all opprobrium that can be directed their way.

(Linksys make my old router -- a (very) tried-and-trued WRT54G model. Since retired, after well over a decade of excellent service.)
Yup, all of that is strange. Because if enforcement is rare, then a simple risk analysis allows everyone to leech without contributing back. Even more so if the only punishment you may have is "comply" (publishing code that is tied to your own personal hardware is not that much a problem, I think).

Now that everybody knows the true political aim of the GPLv3 and that we know the pragmatism of BSD and others, I wonder under what license would the kernel have been published today...
Contacting Facebook support by email has been a nightmare for me they just don't respond. Until someone gave me a direct email of someone responsible for my region then it went much faster.
There's a great rule of thumb coined by Andrew Gerrand: "The greater the distance between a name's declaration and its uses, the longer the name should be." [1]

There's no reason to use any more than a single character for a loop variable. Who cares how old the convention is?

[1] https://talks.golang.org/2014/names.slide
> "WAR ZONE" of 7250 KHZ - 7260 KHZ primarially on the two frequencies of 7255 KHZ and 7258 KHZ with occasional excursions to 7253. Those excursions to 7253 force the inhabitents of 7255 to move up 1 KHZ to 7256 to avoid interference. Their 'buddies' purposely left on 7258 start "Cranking the Hate Machine" saying the resulting interference on 7258 KHZ is intentional. Of course the guys on 7253 have no intention of moving. And on and on it goes every day, every day, every day, every damn day.

> This stupid WAR has been raging since late 1968.

http://www.eham.net/articles/1120
I think Artivive has some kind of traction at the moment, at least among the hipster artist demographic:

https://artivive.com

Kind of fun to see people having productive reasons to point their phones at paintings, though I'm sure it's giving some gallery operators conniptions ..
I can't speak for Win10, but back in the 7 days, you'd be batty to buy an AMD PC. They had a high flake value and I'm not really sure if the average PC user ever changed their mind on that.

It seems to me that most people would do a bit of research, see that Intel is still destroying AMD on speed tests, or they go to Best Buy and see a load of Intel stickers. The sales person will rightly or wrongly tell the customer that Intel is better, and so on.

The main point is that mot people are not power users or knowledgeable about computers. That's why you can read reviews online about how Dell is horrible because "it catches viruses."
This is the first time I've actually seen equity crowdfunding. I'm used to companies talking about "investors" when they really mean donors or preorders.

I've been thinking about the three wheel issue lately. In CA, a three wheeled vehicle is a motorcycle, so it does not need to meet automobile safety regulations, which means it can be made much lighter and therefore more efficient.
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Yeah, it could be a new struct, especially if another parameter or two comes along (though the simplest thing has its benefits, too).
Elide is a Java library that lets you set up a GraphQL or JSON API web service
> I thought the whole idea of open source was to avoid litigious assholes.

How is that? Not sure what you mean.

Writing everything from scratch in-house is how you usually avoid litigious assholes.

When using someone else's stuff it is a good idea to comply with the licensing terms. That's also a valid strategy to avoid litigation.
Machine learning is for identifying pictures of cats. Regression is for testing the statistical significance of the estimated effects of your variables. Right tool for the right job.
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Agreed kilit before it kills you
You don't think that's an interesting hypothetical? Do you think interest implies endorsement?
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Pilot makes the Pilot Petit 1 which is a fountain pen that is tiny, although posted it actually has a nice size.

I have had a set of three for about 2 months and they never seem to be dry, unlike some other fountain pens I have used.

The only caution I can give is that their blue-black ink seems to flow very poorly.

They can be gotten on ebay with refills for a reasonable price.
As others have pointed out, the FSF (founded and headed by Stallman) has the same position.
Because you can hunt with black rifles as well.

Well you used to be able to buy cocaine at the corner store, too, but cooler heads eventually prevailed.

And lots of people simply like guns and have fun taking them out to the shooting range.

Ibid.
The "environment depends on genes" part was pretty interesting.
The Soviets have tried this before - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Ivanovich_Ivanov .
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They're improperly using "crypto world", to mean "cryptocurrency world" - fucking idiotic.

Crypto already means something, people: cryptography.
Yes. I must say I chuckled a bit when I saw the headline. Intel is still churning out 63% gross margins. On semiconductors. That is exceptional.

Intel is not fighting for its life by any stretch of the imagination.
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The only thing they demand is to accept the licence.

Well, the problem here is that they're actually demanding a few million euros.
Rohrer und Klingner Dokumentus ink works great too, it's certified to withstand water, organic solvents, bleach, acids and the lot. It bonds with cellulose, but it won't stick to your fingers!
Isn't that how Planet of the Apes start?

Anyway, can't we make better models? I understand why having an entire organism is important, but we seem to be working rather well so far.
So long as we remain wedded to directory paths as a means of referencing files and folders, much of our storage will contain duplicated content.

As a counterpoint, there are many situations where duplicating content may be preferred. If I'm pasting something into a document, I want it to remain immutable there without the risk of an external change (by me) altering the document that I assume to remain static.
Assuming brain changes only, more like:

looks like a chimpanzee, can't really talk due to throat limitations, can't walk very well, but likes to read and write
Looking at the chart, it could be explained if they briefly delivered more quickly to buyers. Reading on, I see that the methodology is based on reported VINs and spotted in the wild VINs. These could easily decline as the novelty wears off. The first model three I saw was in the low 100s off the line. This was interesting. Now there's a black model 3 parked in the office garage regularly. Less exciting, less likely to creep over and get a VIN, less likely to tweet about.

I also wonder why they don't check with DMVs to find out when the VIN was first registered. Apparently in NY you can get this information. https://www.faxvin.com/vin-check/new-york
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I believe I remember potty training but my parents said I learned at 13 months. I'm likely misremembering using a tiny plastic toilet in the bathroom from that age to 2-3.

I can almost certainly remember the daunting climb onto a full sized toilet between age 3-4.
Disagree++
Please elaborate on the thought processes you're describing.
If you're the sort of person who feels better thinking such things, sure. The point is that any biases are the paper's biases, not (necessarily) the state's.
Web Development in recent years has made being an infrequent Web developer unnecessarily complex, to the point that only frequent developers can perform tasks
Damn, the report is super well written (I dunno if it reflects the facts though). The copyright claims analysis is really good. A must read.
The slave states would have have said that this was just bolstering an existing, common understanding that the US was voluntary association of states, and hence even the US constitution could not override basic state powers.

And before the Civil War, that understanding might well have held in both the North and the South. Indeed northern states often thumbed their noses at the federal fugitive slave laws -- including the Constitution.

By the time of the war though, the political state of play was that state sovereignty and the abolition of slavery were at loggerheads -- and abolishing slavery was far more important.
These days you could solve the problem with virtualisation: boot a small ramdisk that loads KVM with GPU passthrough, and give it a block device that's an LVM snapshot or something similar that you can reset every boot. Pre-KVM, you could have used Xen with a paravirt kernel.
This is why everything is behind an API paywall now. This is why XMPP is getting shut down. This is why IMAP is being replaced by proprietary front ends. Why we have DRM in HTML5. Why TiVo did what it did.

In what way would a vigorous enforcement of the GPL prevent any of that?

The only even remotely related to the GPL is TiVo, and even then it wasn't lack of enforcement, the version of the license simply didn't prevent it, hence GPLv3.
This is mentioned in the article:

> During the 1920s, a Russian biologist with the marvelously Slavic name Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov appears to have made the first serious, scientifically informed efforts to create a genetic hybrid between chimpanzees and human beings. Ivanov had the perfect qualifications: Not only did he possess a special interest in creating interspecific hybrids, he was an early specialist in artificial insemination, who had achieved international renown as a successful pioneer when it came to horse breeding. Prior to his work, even the most prized stallions and mares were limited to reproducing by “natural cover”—i.e., the old-fashioned way, one mounting at a time. But Ivanov found that by appropriate and careful dilution of stallion semen, combined with adroit use of the equine equivalent of a turkey baster, he could generate as many as 500 foals from a single genetically well-endowed stallion. His achievement caused a worldwide sensation, but nothing compared to what he next attempted.

> And failed.
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True, although it's the one thing that made 'Up' more than just okay. The prologue(?) is heartbreaking and quite the tragedy, and could be a satisfying (if sad) story all by itself.
Amazing. I'd expect it to be clogged. Nothing a thorough rinse cannot fix, but just a quick wipe? What ink was in it?
I've been using a fountain pen since when I started uni (nearly 4 years ago), first used a local brand for some months, then found the Pelikan I bought second hand from a pens repairsman, which I still use. I write quite a bit on paper and almost exclusively with my fountain pen, and to this day, I've only been through one bottle of ink, a Lamy Black I bought for TRY15 back in the day (~$3,5 currently). All I ever do to that pen is fill it up when it needs a filling up. And very infrequently I switch from black ink to blue or viceversa.

A usable ballpoint or rollerball pen costs at least ~TRY5-10, and it does not last me more than a couple months. Cheaper stuff tends to not be reliable. And it may be hard to find that particular pen again, with the same tip and same feel, whereas with my fountain pen I always know what will happen when I put the thing on some paper.
Why can't Intel acquire Qualcomm instead of Broadcom?
>The underhanded I/O game they are playing

Can you please elaborate on this?
I've just recently started enjoying olives and have only been eating them on their own. Hadn't thought of putting them in my eggs.

Fish Veracruz looks tasty, thanks for the suggestion!
I don't know how this article got on HN in the first place. It's clickbait garbage disguised as interesting science.

OK, maybe we can make a hybrid... so? Why would we? At least part of the author's hopes seem to be to run evolution in the face of all the anti-science nuts who pretend to doubt it. But genetic manipulation is not evolution so it doesn't prove anything but it does give people a good reason to think that science has no moral compass.

The subtitle claims it's scientifically possible and morally defensible but the author doesn't seem to know what "morally defensible" means.
Alfred Anaya's conviction is quite a story. He really got the book thrown at him and then some, while much bigger fish in the drug trade got half of his 24 year sentence because they opted to bargain with the government.

Thanks for the link.
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If your pen feels scratchy, either you are holding it wrong or your ink is the cheaper-than-water type..
Funny piece :)

I'm getting the impression the underlying message is that in most common situations a high test coverage is often overrated? This would also be my impression after working on dozens of projects
huuh ?
They are extremely stingy on the PCIe lane counts to limit the usefulness of GPU coprocessors. They've also pretty much ignored PCIe v4.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions, apparently... And David P. Barash wants to become Satan.

No, it's NOT time to breed humanzees or Chimphumans and vindicate Alex Jones. It IS time to give legal protections to species that live in their own society and pass on culture and language through teaching and observation - sentient species like corvids, dolphins, apes and whales.

Stop trying to hide madness by cloaking it with the false pretense of intellectualism. David P. Barash should retire STAT.
I'm an avid hunter and have never known, seen, heard of, or even imagined using an AR15 (for example) for hunting. Although I’m sure some people will claim they do. The modern AR15 a semi-automatic "retail" version of a gun designed to be optimally efficient at killing multiple humans in combat scenarios.

And absolutely you're 100% correct. The vast majority of owners are law-abiding and just enthusiasts who like customizing and shooting their semi-neutered human killing tool at the range. Hey, I agree, the AR-15 is cool looking and fun to shoot in "safe" environments.

However, humans are unpredictable, unreliable bags of irrational emotions. The future is going to be marked by a steady removal of humans from things they are unreliable and unsafe at doing (ie. driving, etc). If you think 100 years from now Bob is going to be driving himself to the range to go shoot whatever absurdly powerful handheld-railgun-type-instrument-of-death exists in the future I'd say you're comedically on the wrong side of history.
I'm sure if you look through the various pits of the internet you'll come across the "pronounced jawline = monkey" ideology that's so popular with the far right, along with a lot of pseudoscience to back it up.
You're saying with a straight face that you want to have encryption containing a backdoor. How is your demand different from the FBI's and its ilk?

Intercept the traffic on your machines, if that's a legal requirement.
There is a legitimate argument behind treating water as a market good like anything else. There is an incredible amount of waste due to water rights in California (e.g. Almond growing during droughts) because water isn't sold in an auction.

We obviously need some token amount guaranteed for drinking water. But the rest used for industrial and farming purposes should be auctioned by the government.
On mobile the characters on your site are literally like a millimeter wide you should fix that
Pharmaceutical exporters who are bad at paperwork.
I am sure scientists creating a half-chimp half-human monster will make the general population trust them more and stop doubting their sanity and just put all other decision in their hands /s.
From what I read court seems to ignore GPL license in this perspective, and totally based decision on copyright law.
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Its hard to say with any amount of certainty what the 15000 developers from practically every country in the world believes in regard to copyright.

FSF and the SF Conservancy is attempting to try to bring a consensus to that issue, but that too is a contentious discussion. Some vocal developers has some views, the Linus Torvald has his, the Linux Foundation has theirs, and not counting everyone else which has a stake in the issue. In general it seems that the overall ecosystem seek compliance but I suspect even the effort to try establishing that as a consensus and have it written down as an official policy of the project would be an uphill battle.

An interesting aspect that this judge brought on is the statement that the 15000 developers should not be considered co-authors of the linux kernel as a whole but rather defined in the German law as "editing authors" with limited rights compared to co-authors. It might mean that Linus, if any, is the only one that can make enforcement for the project as a whole.
I’ve been working on a sports data AR camera app. Coming to Android soon. Am just now starting to promote it. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/rmxsports/id1329303993?mt=8
Is the main benefit of this sampling technique that it reduces the contribution from rare though large error variance outliers?
I’m curious - what makes the nib “better”?
I think that was a pill that was supposed to make people smarter, but ended up used on apes, and to boot caused a human epidemic?
Sharpies have pretty powerful fumes...
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