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Sorry, I'm still pretty new to Kubernetes. I am exploring using Serverless Framework + AWS Lambda/GCP Functions to build out a full CRUD-like REST API backend. If I used Knative, would I achieve a similar functionality? Would each "function" (i.e. endpoint) be deployed in a separate container? If it's all in one single (autoscaling) container you still don't acheive full pay-for-what-you-use, right?
That's sweet. I wasn't sure this fix would be able to tame the i9.
I mean, AWS is #1 so that makes sense, and then their own platform as their second choice to implement, that makes sense too. I don't think it's like a conspiracy that they haven't released the Azure support yet.
At that time the US was in SOW mode. For the past 15 years it has been in REAP mode.

At least, many of us -feel- we were reaped.
I offer a product with a wholesale price of €149 and a recommended retail price of €249. Competition between retailers pushes down the actual retail price to €169. Online retailers can make a sliver of profit at that price, but for brick and mortar retailers it's pretty much a break-even proposition. Those retailers will come to me saying "We can't make any money selling your product. Unless we can get a bigger discount, we'll have to discontinue stocking it". I either lose my presence in retail stores and the sales volume that goes with it, or I have to eat into my margins to keep those retailers on board.

If I do eat into my margins, there's a good possibility that the online retailers will figure it out and demand a discount too. Big online retailers have good market intelligence resources and considerable negotiating power, so they can demand as good or better wholesale prices than anyone else despite having very low overheads.

Left unchecked, everything converges to the margin. I'm making just enough money that it's worth keeping production running, most retailers are making just enough money to justify the shelf space, but we're just barely scraping by. I can't afford to invest in R&D, so I just churn out cheap me-too products. Retailers with high overheads will be driven out of business, leaving only the most efficient of box-shifters. Customers get low prices, but very little more. Sound familiar?
Instagram did this a long time ago with their API - they require you pass a Permissions Review [0] where you submit your featureset along with a website landing page (ex. for a product offering) for review by a human who then can accept or deny your application.

[0] https://www.instagram.com/developer/review/
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As far as I could tell, none of them had ever watched a movie with anything but the speakers built-in to their television.

I think it's all about the sound bars these days. I don't have one, but there seem to be dozens of them for sale every place you can buy TVs.
From https://github.com/knative/docs: “Knative (pronounced kay-nay-tiv)”
It’s because behavior is an emergent property of a dynamical system, and that means that if you want a particular behavior, you have to know when to provide input and when to let the system process.

If you want a plant to bear fruit, you have to nurture it for a while, and you will never be able to browbeat it into producing fruit before it has developed the facilities for doing so.

Part of effective parenting is resolving the dependency tree for healthy attitude/behavior in your child.
I worked at Xerox Office Systems Division 1984-86. At Xerox they made hardware 10 years ahead of its time, and got the software finished in 5 years. Then, the computer was 5 years too early, and too expensive. This was the problem with Xerox Star 8010 Workstation, and Macintosh Lisa which was very similar. What Bill Atkinson & Jef Raskin did at Apple was to make a screen-based picture language, store the pictures in the resource forks of files, and copy the Smalltalk software virtual-memory system, reducing the memory footprint by a factor of 4x. Star 8010 workstation didn't have this amazing advantage, and was too expensive (you needed 512KB or better yet 768KB to get anything done; the Mac needed only 128KB).

Since most of the cost of a computer was RAM, the Apple innovations reduced the price 4x, to $2500, roughly, making the computer viable. It was not useful until Bill Atkinson wrote MacPaint and Apple wrote MacWrite and MacDraw, so you could do WYSWYG word processing on it for only $2500, plus the cost of a memorywriter printer. So the Mac priced like a PC but it did something new, and more importantly, it was a blast to play around with that computer, and internally the software was 20 years ahead of anyone else, it was a joy to read the programming manuals. Many companies (even Microsoft with MS-Word) immediately switched over to Mac development, and after getting stuff working on Mac, figured out how to port their software to the IBM PC.

I got my first Mac (a Mac II color machine) in 1987. It was light years beyond the best Xerox-internal prototypes in that year. It lacked virtual memory, but with 1GB of RAM, 80 MB of Disk, and better software than the Xerox Star (MS-Word, by Charles Simonyi who invented Wyswyg/Bravo at Xerox), it didn't need it. I had left Xerox to go to grad school.
It's a lightfield display, not a lenticular display. Lightfield lens bumps go in two spacial directions:

http://graphics.stanford.edu/projects/lightfield/leslie-hold...

http://real-eyes.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Technologie_0...

I guess in their case the microlenses aren't even round, since 45 is 5*9. I guess they have 9 horizontal X 5 vertical pixels per microlens.
I don't know where you read that I "completely discount the value of mathematics".

>"...cannot avoid accepting that correctly applied theoretical manipulations of mathematical symbols jive perfectly well with the predicted, physical outcome they represent."

Close, except for "perfectly". Mathematics and other scientific models are approximations of reality and nothing more. They are fantastic tools but don't be misled into thinking they give a "perfect" picture.
It's clearly anti-competitive. The reason RPM exists is to prevent resellers from competing with eachother on price.

What is controversial is whether this is something that should be allowed, not whether it is anti-competitive.
What makes you say the "chigago-libertarian ideology" is not credible, let alone "inflicted misery" on people?
Employees ready to move on often have substantial time off built up and also have the ability to negotiate additional time flexibly.
There would never be rent seeking behavior without regulations. The natural state of mankind is perfect harmonious cooperation without the spectre of rules agreed upon by communities.
The ability to recognize key areas to build up capability is not discernible in absolute R&D numbers (it looks like FY2018 there is about $140B planned in total R&D). The other thing about your numbers is that we need to know if there has been a purchasing power adjustment to make them comparable.

With respect to the US Gov't R&D, you don't mention that about 50% of that R&D is for defense. Personally I would argue that a bigger split to non-defense uses would yield pragmatically better "defense" of the US. Of the non-defense funding, much of it goes to "FFRDCs" Federally Funded R&D Centers. There is this game that the US plays with liberal (in the economic theory sense) firewalls where we have increasingly bought into this ideological stance that the gov't should never compete with private interests. In contrast, I would guess that China's R&D went much more directly towards creating new industries. I think China is being much more pragmatic about it's R&D expenditures than the US.

https://www.aaas.org/page/historical-trends-federal-rd
I've wanted to watch a Broadway play in my living room that was indistinguishable from being in the theater for close to thirty years. I'm excited because this is the closest technology that I've seen that could make this possible.

But I'm saddened if this is really the Apple II version of this technology because if it takes another forty years I probably won't live to see it. Always imagined that there would be sensors on the floor and ceiling, not watching it in a glass box but if that's how it has to be I'm OK with it.
That sounds like the end of a lot of API use for small players... Review is noticeable hurdle for small/private projects, and at the same time services serving many small users will easily have trouble with the rate limits, unless they make it easy to get those raised (which is possible, but I'd be skeptical).
I'm actually surprised there haven't been more cases of VC folks being defrauded (Theranos aside). The way those people like to just throw hundreds of thousands of dollars or more at newly formed, wholly unproven, companies is astounding.
They fix the hardware, which needs to be hardened, a long time before launch. The capability to do something wouldn't happen in the same decade people call it blurry but passable.
Nice bit of auto playing video at the bottom of the article (picture worth a thousand words) or could have been an GIF.

My first thought was it looks like a great problem for some robots — they need a small fleet of floating Rhombas.
I think the difference is that celebrities and "influencers" are real (-ish) people, so if they say they recommend something, that's an actual piece of anecdotal data when deciding whether or not you want to buy into it yourself. If somebody in a movie says they're going to Fyre Festival, that might loosely associate the thing in your mind with "coolness" or whatever, but you're not going to mistake it for an actual endorsement from a real person.
How to successfully bring innovation to an enterprise organization
Yes, gofmt is a wonderful since so many other languages can have very different way of writing code leading to harder-than-necessary digestion of new libs or projects.
I wonder how that translates into day-to-day experience. I can download stuff at that speed for like 30 seconds before I hit my monthly data cap.
PAX, cannabis oil and moderation [video]
We can also ask what we use the computer for now, for which we don't need the Internet.
I would hardly call the Surface family cheap.
I am really glad to see Mans Search for Meaning on here for another year in a row. It is a short read with a very powerful message.

A few others I would really like to see on this list would be:

- Principles by Ray Dalio

- Ego Is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday

- Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth
I agree there is a risk of monopoly, especially in the US. Also in the US, the fact that employees can be laid off very easily and tax payers pick up the tab adds to the problem. But again, that’s more a problem in the US than in Europe. So perhaps it all hangs together (narrator: it does). Having consumer- rather than business friendly regulation might be intrinsically linked to social safety nets, and so on. It’s possible that just flipping one type of regulation in the US would be disastrous without changing a lot of other things. For example, I’m a big believer in single payer, but I don’t think the US can easily adopt it without also changing a lot of other related things in healthcare production, education and so on. Merely adopting single payer might just mean getting the drawbacks but not the benefits such as smaller overheads. So I think the EU regulations are actually pretty consistent and it’s possible the US framework is too.

Re: predatory pricing: I’m no expert but I think “how low can you go” is basically no lower than what any other retailer can go at your scale, without making a loss. Others explained it better elsewhwre in this discussion.
I'm not an expert in this field, also currently in learning mode.

> You said you were working on another JIT - what was that?

A JIT for a custom 32-bit RISC soft-CPU (FPGA).

> Also, do you have any suggestions of another project/language to implement compiler for to gain some knowledge about writing optimizations, actual intepretation/compilation logic, etc?

You could write another C compiler. Or a JIT for some scripting language. Lua is about as simple as it gets when it comes to JITtable scripting languages. Of course amazing http://luajit.org/ already exists.

Existing CPUs and bytecode formats are also potentially good.

In particular, other people might actually want to use a small WebAssembly (https://webassembly.org/) AOT/JIT compiler. I know I would. :)

Some source code I've personally found educating on this topic:

1) Lots of easier stuff (ARM/x86 encoding, basic optimizations, etc.) can be found in JITting emulators, like Dolphin: (https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin)

2) Web browser Javascript engines, like (https://github.com/v8/v8/tree/master/src). And of course LuaJIT.

3) Compiler codegen, like LLVM (https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm)
Annoyed by Restaurant Playlists, a Master Musician Made His Own
Formula 1 cars are about to go through a big change, but is it good?
I saw someone mention it in a HN comment before, but I'd like to restate it here since it is definitely one of those perspective-altering books: "Why We Sleep" by Matthew Walker.

The author is a professor and prolific researcher of the effects of sleep on the human body, and goes into nearly every nook and cranny of what sleep does for the human body. He has scared me off of my usual practice of sleeping 6 hours or less to get some work or studying done and to get more hours in the day. Throughout the book, the author cites a scientific study and article on nearly every page, so you know that these are real hard facts.

If you are curious about some common causes of ailments or what the function that consumes pretty much 1/3 of your lifetime does, I'd absolutely whole-heartedly recommend this book.
Departing Facebook security officer advocated for shifts in company’s culture
We don't have consensus for cause and effect at all. What we have is a well established groupthink trying desperately to maintain its view and its power.
The 2008 crash threw all of it up in the air.
I'd recommend reading debunking economics to see the heterodox viewpoint.
Essentially there is no value free economics. That a marketing pitch for a set of values. There is only political economy.
Seems disingenious to only talk about bandwidth (mbps) and not latency (ping in ms) when discussing "faster internet". I believe it is the latency that is the biggest cause for sluggishness when browsing or watching videos over 4G, not the raw throughput (anything over 10mbps should be more than enough even for HD video)
would there still be chance for startups doing similar thing ?
Peter Drucker style Life List, which oddly enough I fell into doing well before I read any related Drucker material.
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Definitely need bandwidth and latency, not just one of them.

Add into it being forced to use Google's DNS servers on android and there's probably some performance being lost there. It would be nice to be able to set custom DNS servers on all mobile platforms without having to use a VPN.
> If the universe is not truly quantized... mathematics is not related to physical reality

How does that follow? Mathematics is perfectly capable of modeling continuous quantities.
At some point, does it really matter?

Maybe I'm still in the honeymoon phase with my iPhone X, but I've had it for a few months now. The last iPhone I owned was a 4S, and I've been on Android ever since. I was very happy with Samsung's Galaxy line from the S4 Active to the S7 Edge, but the Edge simultaneously slowed to a crawl and lost at least half its battery life after 18 months. It was to the point that I had to charge it every time I was sitting down.

The iPhone X has been great. The interface is fast and gets out of the way, and Siri is actually starting to become useful for more than a parlor trick.

FWIW, I'm writing this from a bluffline overlooking a lake. My MBP is tethered to my iPhone, and I'm getting a consistent 50Mbps. I don't know that additional download speed would be useful to me at the moment.
They tend to throw shit at the wall, and see what sticks, reliability and safety are secondary at best. Or someone dictated that it should be done, not matter what.
GKE On-Prem eng here.

GKE On-Prem is packaged with upstream K8s. So for your team that currently uses `kubectl` to deploy or manage workloads, there won't be any differences.
Formalizing user rights on the Web [video]
I previously worked on a similar (non-Google) product that was similar -- it was an "On-Premise Cloud" [0], where the cloud provider managed and owned all the hardware and software, and the customer created workloads on it, and the physical hardware was scaled up/down based on demand.

The product worked well, but I think there was an uphill battle in explaining the mechanics of the arrangement to customers.

[0] https://knightpoint.com/what-we-do/offerings/on-premises/inf...
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17604358
This is also the approach Facebook has taken in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica debacle.

Everything has shifted back to the walled garden approach. Twitter had destroyed a wide ecosystem of applications that promoted their brand several years ago via a similar approach. FB has done (and may be again doing) the same.

The message remains clear: don't build your business on another business without contracts and guarantees. When the utility of having you as a promotional instrument wears off, they will dump you.
> Experiment-based sciences such as physics do not work exclusively that way; we can make progress without being so ambitious as to describe and exhaust the whole world in a single scheme.

Nope The object of the game in the physical sciences is reductionism. Reducing the number of explanations required to account for observations is the definition of progress.

> "don't try to explain the whole world with a single scheme"

That's not a theory. That's throwing in the towel.
It's the difference between restorative justice and retributive justice. This is the former, and seems better for the public good.

I want them to know they'll lose everything they gained if they're caught. I don't want them coming up with ever more clever and socially destructive ways to avoid being caught because of harsh penalties.
Hi all. Karan from the GKE On-Prem eng team here. Happy to answer any questions you might have.
This is an argument against public investment in science and a reliance on private donor-based science. Is that really the direction we want for our country and the entities in which we want to entrust the future R&D decisions of our country?
My TV has 3D, and every once in a while I put the glasses on just for giggles.

Watching the news in 3D is... well... something else.
This of course needs to be discussed in the broader OpenWhisk community first, but taking dewitt's answer here into perspective (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17604185) and also based on what IBM has put out in their statement a possible interaction could be to layer OpenWhisk's higher level abstractions and multi-tenancy features over the knative stack and use the latter as an "execution-engine".

In technical terms, OpenWhisk's invoker system could be replaced by knative, keeping the API/Controller bits stable to still support the notion of actions/triggers/rules/sequences/compositions you name it.
I know and I still gave the answer I thought was best.

Unless you're going to run your own servers in multiple locations (or convince you friends to let you host a NUC at their homes), you're going to rely on a third party. All that changes is the type of service that you're receiving, i.e. whether it's an object store (S3, B2, etc), a virtualized server, or even a rack in a data center.
The point of plastic is that it doesn't degrade. How could you make a bottle that maintains its integrity when storing lemonade but dissolves once it hits the ocean or a lake? There is no useful signal that separates the situations. You could try continuous disintegration, but this requires people accepting part of a dissolving bottle in their drinks.
Your cited article says ~20 percent of the smog might come from China. That still leaves 80% that presumably comes from California or nearby states. Why do you think California should be less concerned about emission standards if it is true that they are getting Asian pollution on top of what is produced in-state?
Further reading at that Wikipedia link leads to the fact that California has outlawed such takings covered in the Kelo v. City of New London case.
There's WPS Office to replace most uses of MS Office.
Agree! Great book.
Ask HN: How do you earn a living from scraping in 2018?
I have been scraping housing markets. LinkedIn paired with hunter.io for creating mailing lists of companies. Recently I started MITM and Burp to intercept Apps to get direct api access. I created a docker container using different tor endpoints for different ips. I even used ssh proxying to create my own ip network.

To bypass recaptcha I build a container with chrome + puppeteer with anticaptcha preinstalled and pre logged in.

Yet I wonder if it is still worth it. Kinda looking for a mentor or inspiration.

Been a long time HN reader and I wonder what you think? Why scraping is still worth it in 2018?
Somehow I don't think the point was to be practical (not that awk would have been practical either)… yes, they could have used awk. My money is on 'interesting challenge'.
What is fun is how they raised the list price of a Mac II in late 1988 by ~$1100, and even the IIcx in 1989 was not much cheaper. To their credit, they did release the SE/30 which had the processing power and was even cheaper but still had the same screen.
> don't build your business on another business without contracts and guarantees

Or even with them: https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/21/twitter-smytes-customers/
I mean, that forfeiture looks like "return most of the money you stole from the bank" with no punitive damages other than an officer-and-director bar, so does appear to be a slap on the wrist, unless he also serves time for the wire fraud.
That was excellent, thank you for the recommendation.

To save others a trip to the search engine: http://www.metastatic.org/text/This%20is%20Water.pdf
You're providing a textbook example of pragmatism -- the rejection of principles in the name of arguing about minutiae and acting on the range of the moment, refusing to consider first principles in the name of expediency.

When Trump idiotically threatens tariffs on Canada and Germany, it should not be an opportunity to debate how much, on what products, or if there are easier ways to destroy free trade -- the proper question is: is that a legitimate power of the executive? (hint: it is not)
I have been using this for several years now. Great stuff! :) The only part that was missing from this was something that can update your deployments on image build. That's when I built Keel https://github.com/keel-hq/keel.

Basically, I have one trigger to always build from master but the rest are triggered by tag, for example, "1.2.5" and it builds the same image, then Keel updates affected workloads. So far I have never had to pay for it, apparently managing to stay in the free tier :)

Works way faster than automated Docker cloud builds either.