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Older Millenial here. Bought my house while prices were still low in late 2013. Cashed out in March of this year.

Thought it was crazy it was bubbling like this again. Time will tell if that was dumb or smart but I did pay off all my debt including student loans...

I personally think a crash is coming soonish. But that's just my gut.
t3.nano instances already start at about ~$4 (+ ebs and network). Their lightsail alternative pricing model for ec2 instances also has $3.50 and $5 instances [0].

[0]: https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing/
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> Not being clear about the fact that the package is abandoned

This is really the key point here.
The World of Objects (1991)
The Federal Reserve banks are not one in the same as the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. That's why they have different names. It's Board of Governors that determines the interest rate. It is a policy making part of the federal government.

https://www.newyorkfed.org/aboutthefed/fedpoint/fed46.html

> The Federal Reserve System is supervised by the Board of Governors. Located in Washington, D.C., the Board is a federal government agency consisting of seven members appointed by the President of the United States and confirmed by the U.S. Senate. The Board has about 1,850 employees.

Please stop spreading this nonsense.
this is not good according to me! favoring the one while other may be good than that. I did't like it! But its google way to do it.
"Without a doubt, even from the vantage of today, 2016 will go down as one of the saddest sack years in recent history. A reality show billionaire was elected president."

Right off the bat, in the first paragraph, with an unnecessary political statement. Turns off half the audience right there. Everything said thereafter is taken with a giant grain of salt.

Is this person living in such a bubble that he can't have a conversation without mentioning Trump?
The key to the statement is the "a lot of our lives are just a little worse" at the end, which is an argument that doesn't work for floppy drives, serial ports and, arguably, CD drives, as they were phased out well after commonly-used replacements were well into the mainstream.

The use-case for the 3.5mm headphone jack is still well and truly within the mainstream, and will probably stay there for some time as per the comment in the blog:

the right pair of headphones was the pair of headphones in front of you, or in your pocket, or mangled at the bottom of your bag. It didn’t matter.

There's a lot of legacy-weight hanging around in people's houses, bags, and workplaces.

Your point, however, isn't completely lost on me. I still miss CD drives occasionally, having to retrieve an older laptop in order to grab data from a disc I haven't yet bothered to archive to an ISO file. However, removing a CD drive from a laptop feels like a much higher percentage space saver than losing the 3.5mm jack from a smartphone.
Anything at Scale is different
The concept creep of emotional labor
I believe one of the first few chapters of the four-hour workweek talk about this exact conflict of interest. Blew my mind when I first read it many years ago.
That might have been true 20 years ago but today basic development practices are a solved problem. Any competent senior developer knows what to do. There's no need to start with chaos and repeat the same unnecessary mistakes.
Have you ever heard of a "station wagon" or "minivan"? Also the Chevy Suburban has existed for a long, long time.
We've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the site guidelines and ignoring our requests to stop. That's not ok, even if some other account was wrong and/or broke the site guidelines as well.

Please don't create HN accounts to do that with.
The docker image they release for the on-host agent [0] doesn't seem to have an arm tag. That seems to point towards it being unlikely.

I'll also point out that most docker images you build/run today are x86 and so won't run on arm machines anyway.

[0]: https://hub.docker.com/r/amazon/amazon-ecs-agent/
Breaking down San Francisco's car break-in epidemic
You can't grow food on buildings
Fair point. I'm not really sure it's a comparison worth exploring too deeply as there are just too many differences. For instance, what's the pirated program equivalent of viewing just one article?

I think (hope?) most people here would agree that a hack providing you with a full WSJ subscription would be inappropriate. But many are fine with a single article. Perhaps that's hypocritical, I dunno.
Without legal gender, based on something other than "what do you feel like today?", how do you prevent exactly the situation you identify: a trans woman, or worse, a man identifying as a woman for a day, insisting she is a woman for all practical and legal purposes and demanding to compete against women?

Without mandatory, biologically-informed, legally meaningful gender labels, how can the discrimination provisions of Title IX and employment law be enforced reasonably and fairly? Anyone choosing to identify as the opposite of their biological gender will be discriminated against. How do you determine whether the discrimination was due to their gender identity or due to the fact that someone doesn't want to deal with someone who has gender dysphoria? And if gender ceases to be mostly-immutable and ceases to have stable legal meaning, how do you conduct a legal proceeding accusing someone of discrimination based on gender?

What is it that you hope to accomplish? Are you trying to find ways to reduce discrimination? I think what you're proposing won't do that. Are you trying to allow everyone to "be themselves" and damn the consequences? (We just need to fix society to be compatible with people being themselves, naturally.) Maybe if your goal were clearer...

What you said, doing away with compulsory or immutable gender labelling, would do away with any (government or gov't-regulated, which encompasses quite a lot) attempt to identify anyone as anything, so what I wrote might be an improper generalization, but I can't see how that harms the argument, and calling it a straw-man is quite a stretch.
Less code should not mean either less readable code, or cleverer code. It should just mean ... less code.

Using abstractions, removing dead code, refactoring to share common code paths, etc, all reduce the amount of code you have, and all typically increase the readability of your code.

This doesn't seem at odds with your bullet list for maintainable code.

A useful maxim is: working software is an asset, source code is a liability. More code means more maintenance cost, so accomplishing business outcomes with less code is good, to a point.
This appears to be more pop-science trying yet failing to provide a succinct translation of what is happening. It sounds like certain researchers are relating a better studied mathematical model from a different field to the problem at hand - the energy transmission speed limit that is the focus of the article - to see if their mathematical machinery from the other field could be useful. I've got a physics and math background that focused on quantum physics studies but I'm still guessing with this interpretation.
SUVs have been around since the 70s. Maybe earlier.

Here in Europe many, probably most, parents do parent stuff without an SUV just fine. If you have more than average number of kids an estate (stationwagon), or people carrier (minivan, I think) seems to work perfectly well.

An estate drives just as nicely as any car, SUVs and people carriers often don't.
The Small Island Where 500 People Speak Nine Different Languages
This. Same boat. Have a Mazda CX-5. No clue how one functions without an SUV. That said, my wife has a Honda Accord - she is always driving my SUV and is actively looking to trading into some sort of SUV especially as we start thinking second kid.

I'll also just wrap that whole thing up and say Tesla seems to be selling sedans just fine. Let's not forget that GM is the company that willfully killed people to save money on a $0.25 ignition switch.
Which is why, I'm assuming, the author added the last bit, which sounds like it covers your exact experience:

every time I have had to use wired earphones since have been worse than if I had my AirPods on me
Catharsis. I had been suspicious of similar things since early 2000s, thinking that the technology must be there. Surprised how only-ok sensors were while at research institutions (I avoided career paths even adjacent to military per principle).

Perhaps this is naive: One matter I never hear of, and is underestimated is automation of the legal system, and its equalizing effect. I have high hopes for it, although to be fair, our society is as unequal as we are. But those who cannot win the battle will have everything they need. And those who never have enough will be put in their places, and ideally technologists and scientists can take over from politicians, if we aren't automated ourselves. Then I wish to submit a request for democratization of computing power to the legal skynet, which grants it, and that in theory gives me my freedom as much as a gun claims it does. I should be able to own dust sensors to monitor intruding dust sensors. High hopes.

Some people make fun of elon musk for mars, but he has a point.

But thanks for turning my fanthom chills into real ones. The downvotes are from those who believe otherwise, which is not bad at all to see.

I wanted to mention something about certain areas of research on similar grounds, but I am not topping dust sensors by a long shot. Although my suspicions are probably correct then.

Again, I am probably on the naive-spectrum, but deep down, I feel if I don't ever go after money, I'll have less of a say in how the world plays out, and I am more fair than most I know, so I have a responsibility (I currently do research for research's sake, attic-style, and unfortunately I am only moderately bright, but bright enough to see through the facade where I am living that many many things only exist and function so the rich may remain rich, despite new technologies).
yes. for example, i sometimes use my phone as a high quality source for outputting audio that i then sample into my op-1 or octatrack. yes, those are niche products though not niche use cases, and i think it’s an example where apple’s usage dictation doesn’t work.

what is funny is that apple gave the excuse of wanting to save space getting rid of the audio jack. but my lg v35 has an audio jack and is thinner than and just as nicely designed as the iphone xs. additionally, lg actually has a high end audio dac in the phone, so music on my v35, and the v10 before it, sounds insanely good on my beyerdynamic headphones.

if i were to move to an iphone, apple would want to take these experiences away from me. and for what? pure hubris predicated on the business plan to sell more accessories like dongles and headphones mascaraed as design courage.
Ingres is free though.
> Often in Go, errors are used to mark different states, such as EOF which are expected

Then it's not an error, and Go has once again forced people into writing something semantically confusing and/or incorrect because it lacks basic abstractions.
Adding probably legacy businesses into the growing 'new cloud' revenue totals looks like they have more than they say, that's why they do it. Amazon cloud only started with aws, they don't have 30 year workloads from ancient companies moved to a cloud. It matters because you are hiding the new part from the legacy part, legacy is probably shrinking in general. It makes microsoft look much larger.

you can argue that running active directory in a cloud vm is still in the cloud - yes, but that's not the same kind of growth because that entire old windows market is static at best.
High volatility is exactly what you don't want in a store of value. Boom-bust cycles are terrible for stores of value.

To answer your question, equities and stocks are in fact not great stores of value. Cash in a bank is the most common one.

Your comparison is also pretty bad. Housing and stocks had hundred-year track records before they fell. More importantly, they have demonstrated value. Stocks are backed by real, income-generating businesses. Houses are things people live in.

Bitcoin, on the other hand, has no real demonstrated utility beyond some light crime, like buying some drugs, penny-ante extortion, and a little money laundering. You can't live in it. You can't even make jewelry with it, so unlike gold there's no practical use propping the price up.
“They call it mellow yellow.”
“Quite rightly.”
> A quick method is to get a hunk of dry ice, put it in a metal container or box with a tight lid (taping the lid airtight helps), and sprinkling the grass on top. Allow it to sit tightly covered for about three days until all the dry ice evaporates.

Oh, now that's just mean.
The most impactful change I made in 6 years of professional programming was 1 LOC in one file and about 5 LOC in another file. It was a 10x reduction of queries at a billion queries per day scale. I fixed a broken cache and it took me over two weeks to find the issue.

On the other hand I put out hundreds of LOC per hour, when writing the basic HTML for an internal crud app.

This metric is as useless as it can be. Even as an average. It has too much to do with your role and tasks.
> you should feel bad

Please keep nasty internet tropes like that one way, far away from Hacker News. If you'd review the guidelines and follow them from now on, we'd appreciate it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
To my knowledge, the concept was never used in product. I left Bell before any kind of prototyping etc, so don't have any idea whether it was pursued in my absence (but I'd guess probably not.)
Well, an alternative solution would be to ban all links to paywall content.

Are you sure that this is what you'd want?
Yes indeed. Although I'm not sure the TBBBs will provide much of a floor. Holding doesn't prop up the price; they have to keep buying.

I heard somebody refer to Bitcoins as "math beanie babies", which certainly fits your model.
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AWS Firecracker - Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing
but that doesn’t really answer the question of “why remove it?” keeping the audio jack does not prevent the use of wireless headphones. and keeping the audio jack does not really pose a problem.
Australia's PM rebukes schoolchildren protesting climate change
I think self-censorship itself is a problem. Just knowing that there are sensors around, many may remain silent.
The Ethics of Experience Machines
Whether intentionally or not, you've been trolling this thread and perpetuating a flamewar. Please stop, and please don't do that on HN.

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It started with Pythagoreanism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoreanism.
Continued with sacred geometry. And also holofractal is popular.
Firecracker – Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Computing
It is a sales deck, not an investor deck.
Alright, I'll elaborate.

My dissertation was based on a highly speculative new treatment, in a field where mathematical models are not widely used. One of the potential answers was "Yes, this should entirely change the course of care for a particular disease."

My current advisee's first paper is, essentially, "Has the field been doing this wrong this whole time?"

Note that I publish regularly in the good society level journals in my field, and on occasion in the splashier journals, got a tenure track job at an R1 university, and have enough grant funding to cover my lab.

Also, your assertion that "incremental" research can't change the research status quo is flawed.
Taking this into personal attack breaks HN's civility rule. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules when posting here.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18538285 and marked it off-topic.
Use an AWS Transit Gateway to Simplify Your Network Architecture
It does answer it: as I said, it forces quicker uptake of wireless, and thus quicker reduction of cost.
Myths of Inequality and Stagnation (2013)
There's also an AWS blog article: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/firecracker-lightweight-vir...
It's not, of course, as you point out. One can't defend the ethics or law on the basis of what's good for a particular political party. One should come to a proper understanding of relevant US law, and US jurisdictional limitations (Assange is an Australian citizen and as Chris Hedges points out in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hyZktgMp4Q "he isn't bound by any law to protect American secrets"), but the hyperpartisanship you speak of is remarkably corporate media driven and not in interest of the American citizenry. Most Americans call themselves independent and did so around the time of the 2016 US election (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/01/08/a-... and https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/09/160907114001.h...). I think it's because more people (particularly young people) are coming to realize that a two corporate party division is not addressing their needs as citizens of a wealthy country, and the Democrats and Republicans take remarkably similar sides on the most major issues of the day that get national interests involved (chief among them: war -- the single issue that costs the most money and lives).

You'll find similar unnecessary disclaimers before any serious discussion of Pres. Trump these days (such as "I'm no fan of Trump but...") as if a black-and-white ('for us or against us', remember that?) view is right and proper and must be dismissed before any serious discussion can begin. Even when what they're about to describe is a continuation across US administrations. Majoritarian issues don't get that kind of framing. I rarely hear anyone say anything resembling "I'm no fan of mass surveillance, but...", or "I don't like extrajudicial murder like what the US does with the drone war, but...".
I give it a lot of weight. Microsofts releases are backwards compatible in many cases, and when not, they always have a detailed transition path.

Their changes are never motivated by having to change to suit an upstream packages new version, and their entire codebase is cohesive.

Its what I like in a compiler: a stable tool that I never worry about.
> Setting up PHP correctly is cumbersome and depends on a complex interaction

One of the reasons PHP is so successful is that (in most cases) you don't have to set it up beyond the default installation. But when you need something done "correctly" it takes time. The same is true for every other server environment, where what's correct for you isn't necessarily correct for me.

> If you're using Nginx

I don't have any experience using PHP with Nginx - we use Varnish at $dayJob, alongside some very basic non-PHP routing e.g. foo.domain.com goes to one set of servers, bar.domain.com goes to another. Everything else is done in PHP, with a simple wildcard .htaccess pushing everything to that front-controller you were talking about.

The point I'm trying to make here is that for most web request use-cases, PHP can help you get what you want. But if there's a paradigm you prefer, use it. If you control the stack, the world is your oyster.

Edit: the article you posted is from 2011. It's not entirely fair to say PHP is bad, and use evidence from 7.5 years ago to back up your claim.
Introducing Dynamic Training for Deep Learning with Amazon EC2
Quote from article:

Most politicians go to great lengths to avoid alienating large sections of the population, but Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison apparently didn't get the memo as he blasted schoolchildren who are organizing protests for climate action.

"What we want is more learning in schools and less activism in schools," Morrison said during question time in Parliament Monday.
A lot of modern SUVs aren't like the SUVs of yesteryear. The Honda CR-V, Toyota RAV4, Ford Escape and the like are basically tall hatchbacks - they're not built on truck chassis like the GM Suburban or the Ford Expedition used to be.

If you're not driving aggressively, where you need minimal weight and a low CG, a modern SUV is generally more versatile than a car, and more stylish than a minivan, while still offering a ride and gas mileage that's on par with equivalent cars.
This. An SUV is just a station wagon or minivan with more cosmetic appeal.

Not a bad thing. Kind of clever really. Car manufacturers figured out how to deliver a vehicle that has the benefits of a minivan with an external appearance free of the "I just traded my cool car for a minivan, my life is over" negative association.
What's also good is sow thistle, which most people mistake for dandelion, but is a bit uglier looking. If eaten when they're young and tender, they're quite tasty and not bitter like dandelion. Whenever I spot a sow thistle in my yard, I just let it grow like any other vegetable.
> I literally linked to the commit where V8 is indeed unanimously making that decision.

And for things where retpoline isn't needed it's unambiguously wrong (wrong in that runtime is slower than it should be for no gain). What are you not getting about that? They made a decision that when it's wrong it's still safe, but it's still going to be wrong for a non-trivial amount of users.

> Go read the WASM spec. [...] It just didn't make it into the MVP.

Yes, I know, that's why I said what I said. Which was correct and supported by both the spec and your statement just now...?

We're not talking about hypothetical future WASM, we're talking about WASM as it exists today and what problems it can/can't effectively handle.
Firecracker
Sure, Americans are buying fewer sedans but they're definitely buy way fewer American sedans. Domestics ones just haven't been as good as imports for a long long time. Why buy a Chevy Cruze when Toyota Corollas and Honda Civics exist? Add in Hyundai, Kia, and Volkswagen's offerings and it's no contest.
I actually don't have any ideas but I do think there are at least 2 opportunities.

1. A better meetup.com

I have no idea if there is a way to make a better one so maybe there is no solution. What I find though is few meetups are actually that good. I have no idea how to make them better. Sponsor them? Hire organizers?

I know this is a hard problem. For example there was that "dinewithus.com" service and I guess the biggest issue is odds are low that the people you end up dinning with are actually people you want to be around.

2. A better dating service

I see 2 problems with dating services today. (a) too many women get scared away from too many DTF messages which reduces the pool greatly (b) too many people not trying hard enough or not putting in the effort or unsure how to get the fire started. Examples are profiles with no info. Profiles with no pictures. Profiles with generic info "I like dining and travel". When matching bad messages "Hi!" etc..

I think there are creative ideas that might help with both a and b issues. It might be impossible but I think it would be interesting to try.
The Bloop mystery has been solved (2012)
Mental health: Five people called Met Police 8,655 times in 2017
Please don't post any more unsubstantive comments to Hacker News.
If the reviewer normally reviews free games, and it was sent to the reviewer with a stated MSRP of $0, then it is misleading to try to charge everyone else after they read the review.