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> The problem is, it's not cool to talk about how our infrastructure is built on very straightforward LXC containers, managed by HAProxy, connected to a cluster of MySQL servers. The tech isn't bleeding edge enough to hear about on HN, so you end up not hearing about it.

And those are exactly the ones I want to hear about.

Like you I find the old, established tech choices to be good. New tech is fun to play with, but when I need to get work done and keep it running (for years) I take old every time.

Please write more on this!

Also, I like the interplay between new/risky tech in one area of your story and established in others. Pushing a manageable number of boundaries.
They were the friendly coyotes that managed to invent something that did not threaten the state.
The question: Should everyone learn to code?
And that's probably what he honestly believes because that's how some lobbyist explained it to him. I think a huge chunk of America's problems would be solved just by getting rid of lobbyists.
> Isn't the AST there, but just hidden?

I can see what you're arguing, but I think this is so abstract as to not really be meaningful. At no point is there a tree data structure. I suppose there is one if you extend it into the fourth dimension :)

> And I'm curious what makes you say that an assembler doesn't count but source to source compilers do.

I think for me it's because an assembler doesn't have any choice about how to translate the program. A compiler has more freedom for how to translate the program.

I'd then say a transpiler is a form of compiler, but an assembler is not.

> And finally, yeah I've seen references going back to the sixties, but they're almost always marketing literature.

See for example The Communication of Algorithms by A F Parker-Rhodes, 1964. This is a peer-reviewed academic paper, not marketing material.

Anyone who tells you that transpiler is some kind of neologism invited by JavaScript developers who didn't know any better is the ignorant one themselves.
the plan currently is end of 2018/early 2019
This is exactly the approach that resulted in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
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> Airlines realised that passengers prefer 10 flights a day with a small plane rather than 4 a day with a large plane.

That isn't relevant or news regarding the A380. The A380 was designed to connect hubs in a hub and spoke model. Thus they were designed expecting to operate under the 10 flights a day scenario. Yet, if airlines bet on point-to-point services that have a limited demand then there goes the demand for higher-capacity planes.
I'd love to add more useful resources to that list, so if you happen to know any, please share here or send me a PM.
Mainstream media has lost all integrity is just ludicrously over the top.

And the angle most of them are chasing is to get their own name into history, to become a "journalist emeritus" like Carl Bernstein. That interacts badly with the yawning chasm of airtime on cable news channels, but CNN and MSNBC aren't teetering their way towards becoming anti-state media either.
It isn't the number of deaths, rather, it is the imminance of the predicament. The desperation caused by the situation. Single astronaut dies during space walk, big news. Epidemic, famine, these are slow processes that don't immediately invoke the fear reflex or curiosity as much.
"I don't have enough knowledge to make a judgement of whether the moon is made of cheese" is a perfectly valid statement. And if you base your personal beliefs on whether they'll impress other people, then I suspect you're making your own life harder for yourself than it needs to be.
People like to say that because of the military industry complex having a small role in the funding of research that Sergey Brin was part of while he was at Stanford. Back in reality, the government has had its hands all over funding programs like that since the 1940s and it amounts to nothing more than routine government sponsorship of science & research, which all nations do.
What Google isn't telling us about its AI demo
I am still trying to understand basic details and unfortunately docs aren’t helping at all. You might get much more interest from community if you can compare and contrast existing NNs. Specifically,

1. Where can I find a diagram of neuron you use?

2. Where can I find a diagram of network you use (for simple example)?

3. What is an example of simple learning algorithm for above?
Image Steganography – Hiding text in images using PHP
Drawing trend lines is one of the few easy techniques that really WORK. Prices respect a trend line, or break through it resulting in a massive move. Drawing good trend lines is the MOST REWARDING skill.

The problem is, as you may have already experienced, too many false breakouts. You see trend lines everywhere, however not all trend lines should be considered. You have to distinguish between STRONG and WEAK trend lines.

One good guideline is that a strong trend line should have AT LEAST THREE touching points. Trend lines with more than four touching points are MONSTER trend lines and you should be always prepared for the massive breakout!

This sophisticated software automatically draws only the strongest trend lines and recognizes the most reliable chart patterns formed by trend lines...

==> http://www.forextrendy.com?kdhfhs93874

Chart patterns such as "Triangles, Flags and Wedges" are price formations that will provide you with consistent profits.

Before the age of computing power, the professionals used to analyze every single chart to search for chart patterns. This kind of analysis was very time consuming, but it was worth it. Now it's time to use powerful dedicated computers that will do the job for you:

==> http://www.forextrendy.com?kdhfhs93874
Refreshing that they use an OpenCL backend instead of CUDA. Would love for OpenCL to grow more to challenge CUDA’s dominance in scientific computing.
6 weeks? Unless I'm radically misunderstanding that multiplication.
> With that being the case, I don't see why being an atheist is not the most rational position to take.

Because the absence of proof is not the proof of absence.
The irony of a decentralized version control system centralizing SCM usage to a single SCM and to a single SCM hoster, basically. Github dwarfs the alternatives.
Everything I needed from YouTube for it to become a "music streaming service" was the possibility to leave the app without it closing the damn video.

Other than that, if they can keep all the live concerts they have now in audio only, it could be cool, but I would hardly change from my current service.
i've also noticed that on every page load, the sidebar pops out for a couple seconds before automatically hiding again.
Very annoying.

Chrome, Windows.
This has nothing to do with smart contracts so your rant is misplaced.
Flexport as in the YC startup? I had no idea they were operating their own planes. I thought they were pure software / logistics.

That is some audacious vertical integration!
On Windows VLC will swallow hot keys if it's on top, otherwise they are caught by spotify. If they are both in the background it's spotify. If there's another app that listens to the same hot keys, I think (pretty confident) that it's the last one to register for the hot key.
While this statistically might be true, I believe that this is completely dependent on one's personality. Having extra chances to remedy a trouble (which, as can be seen from the article, may occur due to reasons completely out of hand) has notable benefits, such as eliminating such prolonged downtimes.

It is like having replacement toothpaste ready for your bathroom. It is such a nuisance to go out and buy it on the day it runs out, and more likely to have a day without if you do not keep replacements ready.
Interesting, doing the same in OCaml right now
> YouTube is not a music service

I have to disagree there, it's become my new de-facto music service on my desktop/tablet, at least since I failed to properly move my iTunes database and lost/unorganized large parts of my music collection.

The autoplay and mix playlist features are great for discovering new artists, even tho the algorithm can get a bit repetitive and after a while starts populating many lists with the same songs, having the music videos to many songs is also a great added bonus.
Yeah, I remember reading about this in PSYC 101. The idea is that scale of tragedy is proportional to people’s perception of how “avoidable” it was.
>> ~12 Google employees resigned. Out of ~4,000 signers to the petition. Out of ~74,000 total employees.

> 5.6% of staff signed a petition and 1.6% resigned.

1.6% would be almost 12,000, not 12. I'm not familiar with this case but a quick search corroborated that it was a dozen employees that walked out.
Again, this has nothing to do with the type of smart contracts you are referring to. There's no code on the blockchain involved. The contract in this case is an actual contract, a legal document between two parties.

You should actually click the link. It's a job/contract board where you pay with Bitcoin. The only "smart" part is that you can lock up your funds to show that the money exist but the actual execution is still centralized and backed by the existing legal system you talk about.

Not saying the service is good or bad but your rant is off topic!
Fancy feature request: Let me change the OS to even retro ones, like Win95 or OS/2 :)
No, absolutely not the case. In Estonia for example, you are extremely lucky if you are able to actually consume services or any meaningful amount of content in services by registering your account to be in this country. Basically, it's not worth the effort of entry even to the country for large companies, so they don't.
The primaries aren't official US elections. They're unofficial elections set up by each political party (which are private, non-government entities).

You can vote however you want in official elections.
yeah, i'm having trouble sourcing my statement, although i definitely read about it in some publication that i can't seem to find now. i was also sure it was part of the official DCM or ICD criteria. hmpf.
The EU is (very slowly) moving in that direction. Last year they introduced legislation so that you can travel throughout the EU with your subscriptions[0] and the next step is to change copyright rules to a country of origin principle so that if you own the broadcast rights in one EU country, you are also allowed to deliver it to other EU countries[1]

[0] https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/cross-border-p...

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/proposal-...
Softagram was mentioned once here as a solution to keep your diagrams up-to-date automatically. I happen to know it quite well as I am their lead developer ( --> take my words with a grain of salt ;).

It's surprising though how many are still bound to the idea that if you want diagrams for documentation, you'd better get a good drawing tool and draw them yourself. While manual drawing might give more flexibility, the burden of creating and maintaining those diagrams is often too much in the agile projects we work with. I suggest you all take a test drive on Softagram. Just go to softagram.com, register for a free trial, add your git repo and off you go. I'd be delighted to hear if you like it or not.
What is algorithmics and why does it matter?
Of course, bitcoin's own limitations would've prevented it's widespread use, with or without the over-speculation (lack of throughput and excessive energy consumption).
Installing the Python PIL Module for Google AppEngine Dev Server on MacOS
While I was using the slider on my computer, I kept a laurel/yanny video playing on my phone

=> I think I can confirm there is no bug in the demo.
Emissions of banned, ozone-depleting chemical CFC-11 have climbed 25% since 2012
What's better than duckduckgo.com?

duckduckgo.com/lite

For some reason before I couldn't use it as default search engine on Firefox. Bug? Well, I just tried it on 61 and if you use their new "Add Search Engine" button, it works.
GPA has no impact on your final degree in the US either. You complete the same coursework and get the same degree as the person with a perfect GPA.

The only real exception is if you’re screwing up so bad that they kick you out, in which case you don’t get the degree because you don’t complete the coursework.
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This project has been around for years (created in 2003 according to wikipedia). In fact I submitted it 3 years ago. [0]

It's awesome but not Show HN (unless you made it)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8746883
Home Remedies for Migraines
Probably, but really hard to find. I think alternative social media will only take off with very good integration with other social media we have now.
> Pay for movie theater ticket, get served 30+ minutes of ads.

In Thailand, there is (was?) a 5-minute-long (literally) memorial video dedicated to King Rama IX before every movie. Everyone in the theatre is expected to stand for the video's entirety - after the 30 minutes of ads and trailers.
Yes, because everybody knows that testing eliminates all bugs.

(it's not that testing is useless - far from it; but I thought the HN crowd knows better than to respond to issues with "that's because you didn't do enough testing!")
> People do things in loops— they go to work every day, come back home every day, hang out with the same people, engage in the same hobbies, think the same thoughts.

And bad trips are people stuck in a loop, unable to break out. Which is why the best thing you can do with someone is change their set and setting - move them elsewhere, not take it too seriously, remind them it's just drugs and will be over soon, get them to do something else etc.
Really? See https://www.owf.org.uk/ In the UK Lady masons have their own lodges and we are very supportive of their efforts often sharing masonic halls and facilities.

As for Prince Hall Masonry yes there was racial segregation in America, but nowadays most State Grand Lodges recognise each other with a few hold outs in the deep south.
It's not a question of numbers, but relevancy. I would say that a disaster in Central Europe and North America will always get to the news, even if it didn't cause a large number of deaths. If it happens anywhere else in the World, it takes a lot more to be newsworthy.

I don't agree with this binary view of the world, but that's how it is. As a European.
Can someone give a short summary of the changes and what will be axed? From a quick look, follower counts should still be easy to retrieve from the free tier, right?
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I think the many complexities with running Linux (Especially Android) on many different devices is why Google is creating Fuchsia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Fuchsia
Are you saying that most people who have dogs in farms use invisible wires to keep them safe?

Because I'm in the position to know that this is not the case. My partner's father has a farm with animals, including dogs. The farm has a fence and the dogs can roam freely inside it.
What I don’t understand is why Twitter don’t maintain the existing streaming chronological ad-free API and allow third party clients to connect to it, but to charge users a subscription to enable it for their account. This, to me, is so obvious that I must be missing something. Potentially it’s along the lines of Facebook’s quoted $35/month income per US user, but I can’t be alone in being tempted to abandon the platform if forced to an ad-ridden 1st-party-client (or no client on desktop) with an algorithmic feed.
>Science doesn't believe, science constructs and improves models based on repeatable observations.

That's confusing the scientific ideal, with how actual scientists operate. Actual scientists hope that they get something right, they feel strongly about their research like the mother of a child, they're just as clouded by emotions as any other human being. And if you add corruption into the mix, then yes, what we call science is not as solid as it looks, but it still provides useful results sometimes.

But we can still talk about a scientific reason to believe. Because the reason might be scientific, but it still might be something which we can believe or not. Because scientific reasons are about as flawed as their creators.

The replication problems in many fields are evidence that science is only as ideal as the people producing it.
Fixing online streaming: from a mafia to an ecosystem with Injii
Russia blocks llvm.org
Is there any other country doing this?
>>...the general public are also to blame as the source of demand.

Yes, but companies have absolute control over what mode of transport is used to do shipping, not consumers. Demand is good for the economy, so you do not want to quash it. You DO want companies to satisfy demand responsibly.

In the maritime trade industry, we can absolutely fuel global shipping 100% on GHG emission-free renewables using H2 fuel cells. The tide is starting to turn, albeit a little too slow for my taste. Granted, the challenge is exponentially harder for extreme high power density kWh consumers like aircraft. Ships are very high kWh consumers, but don't have the power density of aircraft, so much lower density/higher weight fuels and engines can be employed that makes the problem significantly easier to solve.

...Also, Thanos, please count me among one of your childless population growth inhibitors. I don't dissagree with you there.
Now you know why the PS/2 port is still around.
By the way, I suppose git can already run in JS, if compiled to WASM.
One thing that's far more effective is tying the dog up to a pole and never letting it roam free.

Is there an objection to handling a dog in this manner?
That's different. The rust toolchain is compiled by rust, and it relies on LLVM which can be compiled by GCC. But LLVM does not have a backend for every architecture (or even if it does, it might require extra effort from the Rust compiler using it and they have not enabled support for _everything_). Thus not all architectures can be targets for Rust programs.
I Was on Facebook the other day in a group about gym-going and a black lady posted a question about working out. It was evident that English wasn't her first language, so I clicked through to her profile out of interest and had a look at some of her posts.

One of them I remember was where she had laid out some new purchases or something on her bed. What struck me, though, was that the walls of her room were corrugated iron. I wish I could have sent her £50 or something right then, without sounding like a patronising twat. Not a life changing sum, but maybe it would have helped her in some way.
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P.S.

Positive thinking or a therapy or the right medicine can improve much and might heal or remove a psychological or bio-chemical disorder.

Still, psychedelics should not be used privately for fun or to solve problems.
Non-paywalled:
http://outline.com/ctYCuP

Perhaps this is the redistribution of wealth we’ve been waiting for.

Can I look forward to the AptPass Startup that will pay my rent in Park Slope so they can study my consumption patterns?
It does make sense that it's harder to get to the front-page now. There are more submissions than ever before and there's got to be some way to filter what matters and what doesn't. This also means that a lot of good articles get lost in new, but it's not as troublesome as it would be if a lot of bad articles ended up on the front-page. That's what curation means.
You havn't thought this through, unpaid internships massively massively favor kids unpaid internship at an IB or similar high status job- poor BAME kids or kids from a middle class back ground wont get a look in.
Oh it's for the dog's own good? Well in that case you can lock it up in a pen so it can't get out, or the bears come in. That will keep it safe.

Nothing wrong with that, is there?
> Are people brilliant because they don't care or do they not care because they are brilliant? Seems to be a little of both...

IMHO, it's neither. If others want something from you then they pamper you to get what they seek, and the more indispensable you are the more they tolerate. Over time you feel no pressure to adapt your behaviour because those who deal with you feel compelled to adapt to you.
The party registration isn't counted as a vote for that party - when you show up on election day you can vote for whoever you want.

What it affects is which parties' primaries you can vote in.
yeh right and we know that labour law isn't massively flouted
Why your team needs to take collaboration online
Never ceases to amaze me the options (no pun intended) that OS X developers put hidden in the simplest of system apps. Makes them so versatile.

I remember as a stupid middle-schooler thinking I was being cool showing everyone how many <option>/<control>/<cmd> key combos there are to take the perfect PhotoBooth shot.

PSA: Reminder – option click everything for nice surprises.
Birds of North America Online
Arteta Next Arsenal Boss?
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We need to choose a service provider, can you help? (survey)
I'm a Google Play Music user and mark my words, the day they kill the service is the day I go to spotify. I'm not going to whatever Prime-like monster they're creating.
Or - as is often the case - the consumer is caching api responses for some period.
Ditto. "People with disabilities" feels, to me, very forced and as a result stands out, whereas "disabled people" feels like a natural way to phrase it.
MoviePass and Amazon Prime aren't the same, because Amazon Prime produces a lot of its own content, and is the consumption point for the other content it serves. Amazon buys the rights to shows, and produces shows - so it has a fixed cost. It then sells access which has practically 0 marginal costs.

MoviePass sells subscriptions and then buys tickets. For each extra subscriber they've got an increase in marginal cost. You might argue they can make a profit by charging more for the subscription than they pay for the tickets, but there's lots of factors working against that:

1. When they IPO their suppliers will know their revenue and can demand high prices to match, seriously threatening their marginal cost.

2. Their suppliers already have scale and so will be difficult to leverage - further hitting marginal cost.

3. Their suppliers are extremely capable of producing a competing product undercutting them- destroying the lock-in component. The suppliers control access to the content not MoviePass.
Why Develop Apps for Healthcare
I've been familiar with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's online resources for a number of years but just ran across their Birds of North America site, which appears to have been (relatively) recently updated. There are so many thoughtful details to the design that make it beautiful to interact with, including a spectrogram that appears when the user clicks to listen to a birdsong on the front page. I feel like my bird knowledge has been enriched after just a few minutes of poking around!
Report: Rich Guys Can't Find Anyone to Run Their Incredibly Vague Healthcare Co
> What makes you say that?

Years and years of experience with cloud-hosted products and anything that requires official support to continue to function.
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LetsEncrypt on Kubernetes for Nginx Ingress with Cert-Manager QuickStart
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