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Because Tesla is topical and outlets want to ride the wave of the self-driving murder car as long as they can?
I think a lot of people are considering it. The ideas behind Apache Beam are supposed to make the transition easier, with the ability to run in either mode. I think in practice it really depends on your use case. For a large enough amount of data, especially on the ingest side, running it streaming makes sense. Now for that daily report from aggregated table, do you really need streaming ETL/aggregation is another question. The operational cost is non trivial with streaming.
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Agreed. Always frustrating how parents will give teenagers such powerful vehicles.
Great link, thank you. Abstract in case it piques people's interest:

"High frequency trading has led to widespread efforts to reduce information propagation delays between physically distant exchanges. Using relativistically correct millisecond-resolution tick data, we document a 3-millisecond decrease in one-way communication time between the Chicago and New York areas that has occurred from April 27th, 2010 to August 17th, 2012. We attribute the first segment of this decline to the introduction of a latency-optimized fiber optic connection in late 2010. A second phase of latency decrease can be attributed to line-of-sight microwave networks, operating primarily in the 6-11 GHz region of the spectrum, licensed during 2011 and 2012. Using publicly available information, we estimate these networks’ latencies and bandwidths. We estimate the total infrastructure and 5-year operations costs associated with these latency improvements to exceed $500 million."
Hi.

There is a wonderful little piece of CoreOS that is toolbox[0]. It's not available on Atomic Host. Yes I could install it easily but the point of toolbox is to avoid installing anything on the host system in the first place !

It could easily be forgotten on the side of the road while doing the CoreOS/Atomic fusion work.

So I'm asking you, can you salvage this and integrate it pretty please :) ?

[0] https://github.com/coreos/toolbox
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Can you just loan your money directly to the US Government?

In the UK the "National Savings & Investment" bank is actually outright owned and operated by the British government, specifically for this purpose. Instead of raising money commercially with a debt security, and then having banks buy that take savings from their customers to afford the securities and keep a cut as profit, the NS&I gets rid of the middle man and just borrows money directly from citizens at a decent interest rate with zero risk‡.

‡ Obviously the government itself might fail, but you're exposed to that risk anyway, so it didn't add any risk to involve NS&I here.
> NPR listeners for example are also not the product just because they don't pay NPR (but instead its funded by taxes).

NPR is mostly not funded (even indirectly) by taxes, and has both actual targeted advertising on their own and platform (for digital properties), and “underwriting spots” from sponsors on its broadcasts, that while regulated more than traditional advertising and are, and have been acknowledged by NPR to be, a form of advertising by the sponsors driven by the same factors and concerns that drive traditional advertising.
At one point I was the sole engineer on two very large hardware/software projects. Projects that often didn't have dedicated marketing, sales, tech support, internal/external training. So I was wearing a LOT of hats, and I needed a way of figuring out how to be one of the most productive people in the company (for my own reasons) while also only doing the bare minimum of work.

Then one day the company decided they would completely change direction, dropped all future development on current products and moved everyone to their next gen product line. Turns out my two major projects wouldn't have next gen work for 3 to 5 years so I was "demoted" to a "gun for hire". I went from doing way too much work, to filling in the gaps when a team needed to complete a sprint on time. None of my work more than a few days, had no blocking dependencies and had no correlation to what I was going to do next week.

No more burn down, no more charting, no more task management. That is when I decided to change jobs. Now I' have some complexity, but its all easily managed in todo.txt.
I wish this framing would gain more currency, since it seems to me to accurately capture the problem: Creditors are (presumably unknowingly, but also largely uncaringly) lying when they report defaults against the wrong debtors.

When Equifax repeats those lies to other potential creditors, they're also failing, but at root the misinformation originates with the creditor who failed to properly authenticate their customer.
“In 2003-2007, U.S. fire departments responded to an average of 287,000 vehicle fires per year. These fires caused an average of 480 civilian deaths, 1,525 civilian injuries, and $1.3 billion in direct property damage annually.“

https://www.nfpa.org/News-and-Research/Fire-statistics-and-r...
Sadlly even this monstruosity is way better than the google I/O website itself. When push comes to shove ... it's a list of videos, and perhaps a schedule.

There's a big bar at the top with the title. Then a tiny bar with the videos, and then a solid 2/3 of the height dedicated to the "feed". I mean come on.

It doesn't take resolutions into account at all. At 1366x768 (apparently the most common web resolution) you can only see the title bar, "day 1" "day 2" "day 3" (clicking on them, of course, does not bring anything into view, you have to click, realize that it's not a link but a single page app, and then scroll to get it in the middle of the screen) and the text "highlights". Other than that, useless marketing picture/backgrounds and "design", which apparently means whitespace.

The schedule, the other main reason people would visit that site, cannot be seen on the main page with my browser at 4k (!). Although of course the only things resizing are the marketing picture that is the "title bar" of the page and the 2 links at the bottom.

Is this supposed to be good web design ? Because I actually find the youtube videos listing, which is designed explicitly to distract you away from the videos more usable than the I/O website.

"Make information universally accessible and usable", indeed, except of course when marketing prefers pretty pictures that half of the web has grown completely allergic to. I mean, the pictures are not as repulsive as most business websites, but ...
It is basically what The Factory is already with its two Locations in Berlin. A place to cowork, for meetups, networking and some startup offices.
https://factoryberlin.com/
> That would probably mean they'd need to ban me, since I use an ad-blocker, right?

Are you saying they should be forced by law to block you?

> What about someone who uploads a lot of pictures but doesn't have many friends? That person might be using more resources than the ad revenue they generated...

That is a flat-fee/pricing issue, just like someone binge watching Netflix might be using more resources than they generate in revenue. It isn't relevant to the discussion.
> track your every billed second by taking screenshots of your desktop

Wow, that would definitely trigger my neurosis into a full-blown nervous breakdown. Does reading e-mail count as "working"? Does configuring environment variables and adding printers count as "working"? Does reading documentation count as "working"? And don't you dare stop by and interrupt me with a "quick question"...
> Nicotine smoking age is 21 in the USA.

That is not true. The federal smoking age is 18, and many states do not have a minimum smoking age set at all, only a minimum purchase age.[0] This means they simply defer to federal law. Some states made 21 the purchase age, but it is not federally mandated.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoking_age#Americas
> I actually like eshell because I can "cat someImage.png" and it will literally inline the image for me on the terminal.[1] I don't think this is limited to eshell, either. I just don't know how to do it in other terminals.

xterm supports sixels, which do real graphics:

https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel

The img2sixel program does what you want in terms of catting an image to the screen and having it show up correctly.

(Scroll down on that page to get to the per-terminal documentation.)
"Dynamic binary translation" is the term of art. Which of course VMWare and VirtualPC were doing 20 years ago in dynamically translating x86 ring-0 code to ring-3 code.

Dynamizer is translating x86-64 to faster x86-64, but the concept is the same.

DynamoRIO was actually talked about for application acceleration. There was at least a PoC that did dynamic function inlining.
it is extremely possible to sign away one's free speech; this is the heart of a non-disclosure agreement.
VPN in and delete your account? I've no personal experience to know if this is the wrong use case but I've seen it recommended enough on HN now to think its the right solution for this issue.
This is exactly why traffic regimes are sometimes described as "laminar" or "turbulent".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_diagram_of_traffic...
> Tesla has been under scrutiny before over several instances of vehicles catching fire.

Really? This old chestnut again? I thought the statistics were pretty conclusively showing that cars with internal combustion engines are far more fire prone than electric vehicles.
Hmm this comment is getting downvoted, so I'll just reference the Red Cross fiasco as one good example of what I mean: https://www.npr.org/2016/06/16/482020436/senators-report-fin....

If you haven't worked in the NGO space, you really don't understand just how bad it is.
Not only that, people will use anything as currency in the absence of fiat. Cigarettes, tea bags, polished rocks, etc.
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Can you click on a created task in Things and get back to the mail message in the iOS Mail app (as opposed to just seeing a copy of the message as text in the todo app the way most todo apps handle email->task connections)?
> I don't agree with people talking about a deflationary spiral (has it ever happened?), but there is another issue.

these happened all the time before central banks were created; see the two-century CPI plot: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-inflation-since-1775-20...
Absolutely! One of the best use of visualizations to support a story I've seen ever. New York Times in general does a great job with visualizations.
Yeah, I guess my real question is "why is this (hacker) news?". But I know why it's really being reported, I guess I just hoped HN wasn't as bad as other news outlets...but here I am, commenting on the story so...
A much more effective strategy than paying cash is to run your own email server (making sure that it is secure, of course). Email is one of the most common attack vectors, but most scammers are going to target the big providers. Attacking an individual server is not going to be worth the bother.
I feel for the family. I wish our society wasn't so hyper active with media coverage. This would be a very different story potentially with more facts.

"Reckless teenagers text & driving while exceeding speed limit"

Electric cars are fairly easy to show off with their insane acceleration. Sadly they're also insanely easy to lose control because of that acceleration.
Because the car burst into flames and two passengers were incinerated. According to one bystander, one was moving but the car too hot to approach. This (death by fire) is a horrific failure mode that is unique to current gen EVs.
I had lots of hair pulling fun trying to write portable C and C++ code across commercial UNIXes back then (hello aCC). Microsoft wasn't alone.
Exactly. There are thousands of instances where the article is just a local news of "teen crashes parents sports car", where the picture is typically a Ford Mustang. Yet, the make and model of the vehicle is very rarely in the headline.

Also, there are a ton of ICE crashes where the vehicle catches fire, but, it is also not news. Any rupture to the fuel tank has a high probability of catching fire and it happens so much that it never makes a news article.
Don’t they still track you even if you don’t have an account?
Well, cromwellian works at Google, so maybe he did build it himself. :)
I had the same thought, though it’d be interesting to understand the tradeoffs of better crash test safety + higher flammability, vs gas powered cars.
> That and also driven so many European subways (most called METRO) you never seen cars as overcrowded as in USA and barely people leaning over the door! In USA its normal to lean against the door because people are exactly gotten used to the fact the train will stop first before the door gets open.

The only places in the EU that have public transportation on a scale comparable to NYC are London and Paris. I haven't ridden in Paris in a while, but in London, you absolutely do see cars that are overcrowded with people leaning against the doors.
It is a tragedy. But the question asked is "Why is this news?" and that's the question I will put my 2 cents worth in.

It's news because it has the word Tesla directly in the headline. It's news because I clicked on it, and therefore the Sun Sentinel made a couple cents from advertisers. It's news because they very consciously decided to report it that way, with the intention of optimizing their incentives. Had it been a Ford Taurus, the make and model of the car might never have been mentioned. Also, had it been a Ford Taurus, the headline would not have been phrased in a way such as "look at what the car did to these poor kids" instead of "look at what happened to these poor kids."
if you say so. I find for-profit insurance morally untenable regardless.
LiFePO4 batteries are significantly safer for a penalty of 14% less energy density
They might, but Google got there first.
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It's how they pay the bills, to be fair. I don't think that's much of a secret anymore but looks like they're making it more explicit.
The 2nd phone call idea seems to be stolen from Family Guy : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjzQ_1MvmDk
Being able to define an ETL workload within a simple script is not the same as your ETL system itself being a simple script.

While I love both Spark and Dataflow, both of them are incredibly complex distributed systems with very high operational costs. Someone, somewhere is paying a lot of money to have an operational resource maintain that complexity. Whether you have an internal devops resource doing so or you're using a managed service, you're paying for that complexity somehow. And, for a lot of workloads, you aren't actually getting any more value than you would from standing up a ~$50/month standard Debian/Ubuntu server and a set of simple scripts on it.
Lets all get chromeos, security tracking tool build inside by default
> Due by May 11, 2018

If you want to participate in this sprint, this coming weekend will be too late.
Thanks! That was really not clear in the article, and after their list of existing Google campuses, I wondered what had happened to Zurich and Sydney...
I couldn't agree more; I too get frustated by the degeneration of most public debate. Personally I was very much on the fence, leaning net Leave on the meta level (major constitutional change should not happen without a popular mandate) but net Remain on the object level (especially on things like digital rights, where the UK has a long and sordid history of tin-pot authoritarianism long predating T. May).
It isn't any different than running your production in a container, a VM, or the cloud, all of which can significantly affect what's actually going on.
I'm really curious to find out if the GDPR privacy stance (I'm American, not well traveled, and with no non american social circle) is like the 'no JavaScript' community. Vastly over represented in the tech community and not really representative of the population as a whole.

In other words, are 99% of European citizens going to just click through what ever annoying prompts they have to in order to get to their facebook (thats what I would do) or is there an actual widespread cultural difference in the EU that would stop large segments from agreeing to this.
This. I use a service to keep two servers online. They worry about updates, security issues, and what-not. If I want to know if the latest $OhChristWhatNow affects me, I don't have to deep-dive the forums. I email my service- they're on it.

I deal with other servers, but leave these biggees to the full-time pros.
Don't apologize the notion is deservedly laughable. BTC only has value in a technologically advanced society that you expect to continue. If you are concerned with societal collapse it is the absolute worst thing to expect to have value.
Modern fuel tanks have to be protected.
There could be many explanations for us not hearing from extraterrestrials. I think you are falling in a cognitive bias trap of having learned too much about one of the reasons and thus assigning it higher probability. Memory is associative, so the more you know about something, more likely you are to use that concept when trying to solve problems or explain mysteries.

To ameliorate that I would suggest reading up on other theories. For example great filter or simulation argument.
On the contrary, commercial interests, including things like direct marketing, are considered acceptable "legitimate interests" under the GDPR, assuming the practice follows industry standards, ethics, and are legal.

However, they need to pass two other tests, a "necessity" test that determines that the processing of information is necessary to serve the interest, and, most crucially, a "balancing" test which balances the commercial interest against the user's interests, rights, and freedoms. It's this latter part where more onerous advertising practices will falter.

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-da...
You could easily argue that tracking users behaviour is a safety issue. But fair enough, how about the loan business, you aren't allowed to charge overly high interest on loans. That's neither a safety or environmental issue.
Buses open their doors before they come to a stop all the time. So far the lawsuits (if any) from this, don't seem to have harmed bus service.
> The L is entirely computerized already. The two people working on each train are there to press a "keep the union happy" button every 30 seconds.

In case anyone thinks this is a joke, it's not. The MTA pays the Transit Workers Union massive sums of money when they use technology they use which does a job otherwise performed by a human, even when it's been standard practice worldwide to automate that job for decades.

One example, from tunnel boring:

> The critics pointed to several unusual provisions in the labor agreements. One part of Local 147’s deal entitles the union to $450,000 for each tunnel-boring machine used. That is to make up for job losses from “technological advancement,” even though the equipment has been standard for decades.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-...
> Nobody is going to keep a billion dollars in a savings account, which FDIC insurance would not even come close to covering anyway.

If you spread it around 4,000 banks (there are 5,593, so this technically possible), it would, since the limit is $250,000 per depositor per bank per ownership category (I'm assuming avoiding the overhead of manipulating ownership categories, which could shrink the number of banks needed further.)
Damn, I'm going to miss the Gentoo build system.
I actually become intrigued why anyone would do this on a simple personal site that seemed to at least prioritize minimalism. The amount of junk Disqus loaded is nuts. 109 requests. And, as far as my quick skimming can tell, the only JS on the site is Disqus. So it must be some CSS thing or Disqus that causes this behavior.
Perhaps there should be some sort of parental mode so that Tesla vehicles can't exceed the speed limit.
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Now where did they get all that training data...
It doesn't seem to be the sort of thing that even has a chance of being profitable... The only reason to join is to save money on tickets, the only way they make money is if people spend more on membership fees than the tickets they buy.
Even if this was true (and that depend on euroshield implementation), this is not the spirit of the law. You don't even have to take a european lawyer (and those are at least an order of magnitude cheaper than US ones) to win your case (i'm joking, please take a lawyer). European courts don't like bullshit, even when it come from big company, so if you're afraid of trolling (a la patent trolls), please don't be.
Partner also just has a nicer feel to it. I don't like the idea of thinking of anyone/anything as a servant, but I do like the idea of someone/something assisting me.
That site is missing a lot of data still it seems.
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The problem is anonymous data is an ambiguous term, as enough randomness in the “anonymous” data can still uniquely identify that individual.

Let’s take YouTube for example - I never had an account with them, yet they recommend me videos based on what I watched previously - fair enough. The creepy part is, on a totally different machine, from a different IP and country, watching just a few very specific videos (not popular at all, each maybe 2k views) suddenly brings all those suggestions over.

You could argue videos watched is anonymous data, but clearly a certain, unique “series” of videos is apparently enough to identify me.

There’s also no doubt Google associates that with all the other “anonymous” data they have on me (search, maps & which browsers/IPs I used) and has an extremely detailed profile of me; sure, they don’t have my name nor exact address (yet), but they can definitely tell me apart from everyone else just based on a few searches and that’s quite creepy IMO.
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Whoa, whoa. Did you just assume the transitive property of sound pressure fluctuating languages with voltage fluctuating languages? You should check your access privilege.

Let me guess, I bet you think people can transmit information via the fluctuation of electromagnetic waves too. Brilliant!
I'm not very optimistic that we'll ever be able to reach that utopian state, though. After all, the only person in the fixed-bid equation with any incentive to nail down requirements up front is the developer - it's in the best interest of the buyer to be as vague as possible so that they can defer actually making any decisions until they've had a chance to see the finished product, when the consequences of the decisions are most obvious. Then they can turn around and say, "the requirements clearly state that..." or in other words, you're going to be working for free. Once you get up into even five-figure bids (never minds something that might take a year to deliver), the people writing the checks are happy to put more effort into deliberately obscuring the requirements gathering process than actually gathering requirements, just to keep their options open, and they have a legal department that you don't.
There was lastly some guy or girl at HN who talked about his or her company which does precisely what you say as a service!
Don’t know name anymore
The main feature which jumps out at me, I think it schedules on a single node, where Airflow can orchestrate across multiple nodes. Airflow is also starting to implement more enterprise-y features, like role-based access control, which should be coming to the next release.
I think we're underestimating the global health issue due to online advertisement (alcohol, smoking, or just bad eating habits). And I'm not speaking of attention disorder of so-called 'multitask kids' caused by social media that have business models based on ads, and do everything to grab your attention