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Elastic Cloud is far and away the best SaaS ElasticSearch offering.

It's in every way a better product than the hosted AWS ElasticSearch service, which I find to be practically unusable. More importantly, I don't know anywhere that uses AWS ElasticSearch where ElasticSearch is a core component of someone's platform.

The problem Elastic has is that their Cloud isn't remotely as good as self-hosting. Using their Cloud doesn't abstract away the domain knowledge needed to operate ElasticSearch at scale, so anyone who uses it and becomes competent will eventually self-host.

If they can get better at abstracting away the arcane knowledge needed to operate ES, AWS won't be a problem for them.
Whenever I'm reminded that people like you exist I remember why I'm working so hard to build technological barriers that will eliminate the damage your screwed up viewpoints will cause. You are the oppressors. Remember that.
If this is AI, then so is the I-Ching.
Incredible. You honestly spun it so that the person who is the victim of racism is in fact to blame.
Evolutionary Tree-Structured Storage (2014) [pdf]
And in 10 years when the scam runs out it will again be '10 years until global disaster!'.
Mystery of the universe's expansion rate widens with new Hubble data
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Of course, I can't just link the model code (even though I'd love to!), but it's not just for reasons of secrecy that we use an "opaque magic number". All semi-sophisticated ranking systems wind up being opaque magic numbers.

We can't, for example, express a player's impact in terms of raw odds, because those odds are also determined by the level of their teammates and the opposition players. For the same reason, we can't express this number in terms of goals or points or any other easily-mapped statistic.

So we need to use an abstract points system -- just as Elo and Fargo and other player rating systems use -- as a means of tracking and ranking player impact over time.

However, right before kickoff -- when all the players are known from both teams -- we can distill those ratings back down to odds/goal/point advantages. This is, in fact, how we wagered with the model.
I was contacted by a recruiter friend (yes, programmers and recruiters can be friends) a few years back because they had a client with a very specific need to find .NET devs who had a deep understanding of threading and parallelism. I told them to contact Joe Smith (name changed, obviously) as he knew more about multi-threading and parallelism than any dev I knew and suggest he pre-screen all candidates for the client (and offer to have Joe talk to the client's architect to prove his knowledge). The client was VERY happy with the improved quality of the candidates (the only thing about which they were unhappy is that Joe Smith didn't want to work for them).

It's not idle theory... I've seen this work.
Totally agree and I considered the shear throughput making it impractical. And while it's impractical, my point is that it's still possible, and maybe even practical in the future.
Ask HN: React Hooks vs. proxy based libraries?
I have been using React.Component based Classes so far and they have worked really well.
I have read the React FAQ, they seem to discourage the use of classes for newer code.

Functions with Hooks don't seem like natural code to me with all the rules around it.
Yet for some reason I see every article blindly praising the idea of Hooks without listing out the disadvantages.

I really like the idea of using proxies(browser support isn't great for now), they are a lot more cleaner, feels more natural and easier to use (even when compared to redux).

Example: https://medium.com/dailyjs/design-patterns-with-react-easy-state-830b927acc7c

Do you feel JS proxies based libraries could be the future of state management?
>It's not that we don't care about Europe.

You then follow up with three sentences proving this exact point. The reason it's not our "default context" is because we don't care.
>Others say they’ve seen white, Tic-Tac-shaped vehicles. Aside from drones, all engines rely on burning fuel to generate power, but these vehicles all had no air intake, no wind, and no exhaust.

These sound like weather balloons to me. I don't think most engineers or academy graduates are trained in meteorology either.

Not that I'm saying this is the definite answer or that I am somehow correctly inferring all of this. I'm just proposing that legitimate explanations exist.
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That Upton Sinclair's novel bit on people falling into vats reminded me of Ambrose Bierce's macabre short story 'Oil of Dog'. [1]

There is even a beautiful animated adaption of this tale titled "My name is Boffer Bings" on Vimeo that was released few years back [2]

[1] - http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3715/3715-h/3715-h.htm#oil
[2] - https://vimeo.com/41718840
Thats only 750K$ - roughly have the price of a house in the Bay Area before taxes (maybe just enough for the down payment).
This is a speech Lincoln delivered well before he was president:

http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/cooper....

This is the Dunning School:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning_School

It is Confederate apologia, not Union. It is the origin of the states' rights theory of the Civil War.
Your family market experience was clearly very different from mine. High quality, local sourcing, and friendly services were never hallmarks.
The person in the article said “white people are so fragile”. That’s a racist statement, so no spinning needed.
I get the impression you're generally better off sticking to (whole fat/"normal"/etc) versions of products and simply being aware of portion sizes than substituting or diluting things just because there's some health fad going on against something in it like cholesterol or fat or sugar. Have a breakfast of eggs with real butter and a glass of whole milk, use full real mayonnaise instead of some sickly-tasting light version, have a burger, just watch out for daily calories. An exception of course if if you have a particular medical condition that requires a special diet.
30 years ago I did 70 hours a week for 12 weeks and have RSI in one of my wrists as a result.
The website says the hardware has built-in battery backup that can run it for 4 to 5 hours if power goes out. That is pretty dang cool.
That's awful. Thanks for the info.

FWIW, I don't see any chains in the video, but it does seem more likely that they were trained abusively (like circus elephants) to get them to do this.
We already use it and it's getting better at every release. However there is few pain point that makes it hard to use for non-agile projects and planning. One is the ability to set the desired start date of an issue: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/39862
San Francisco Has a Plan to Hit Its New IPO Millionaires Where It Counts
That very much depends on the company size too. If you're in a 100 person company you'd need a very high referral fee before you start pissing off your colleagues referring crap candidates. Whereas if you're in a megacorp you can pretty much do it with impunity.
Show HN: Quinesnake – A quine that plays snake over its own source
data fetch, in parallel: MOVDQA xmm2, XMMWORD PTR [esi+ecx]

data fetch, serial: REPNE SCASB

I also can use a webclient of some sort, which is handy for looking up instruction timings.
Quebec is not a suburb of Montreal but actually the province (Canadian equivalent of a U.S. State) in which Montreal is.
Perhaps a better use of AI would be to flesh out a comprehensive rulebook for playing 43-man Squamish. Someone needs to figure out what the Probate Judge & Baggage Smasher are supposed to do if it rains...

https://www.madcoversite.com/quiz_olympics.html
It's useful clinically, and it would be ignorant to deny it in that setting where it's secured by HIPAA. If someone in your family develops a cancer and you already have everyone sequenced, that makes it a lot easier to inform on therapy options. Having this data is also useful for future researchers on the disease (the best discoveries are made in museum drawers, not the fossil find on the hillside; you never know what you might stumble upon with a new tech or even just fresh eyes so it's important to have the data collected).

What 23&me offers is kinda useless IMO. We are too much of mutts to accurately trace your history with high confidence. Why do I care if I'm 14% swedish and 8% turkish and 3% kazakh? SNPs are mostly annotated by correlation, and rarely are causative to disease, so even if you had that 'bad' allele it means nothing devoid of any context or more downstream analysis. It's a $200 curiosity more than anything.

My only worry is insurance companies being deliberately obtuse about the data and jacking up premiums or denying coverage (if the Rs get their way). 'You have this allele that's in 5% of leukemia patients vs. in 3% of the healthy population, we will bill accordingly.' Doesn't mean you will ever get leukemia, but it's another potential excuse to gouge the consumer.

If you are concerned about you leaving DNA around or somehow big bad government spying on your boring life, I'm assuming you've never sneezed, and have already burned off your fingerprints?
Make that 6 months into two years and the sleep time to an average of 5 - 5.5 hours a night and you have parenthood of a crybaby.

You have to add in a boss who spends 2/3rd of the time you're home screaming at you to the mix.
To the benefit of our entire industry.
Very high acceleration and deceleration don't defy laws of physics.
>evidence of abandonment by genericization //

That's not at all how genericisation works it's really quite the opposite of abandonment.

The way one abandons a registered trademark, assuming we're talking about the registered rights [I only know about the un-registered rights in the UK, not sure what the scope of unregistered marks is in USA], is by not paying your renewal fees.

What it may do is reduce your damages claim to actual damages from the point when you notify the infringer.

Regardless, even if it were the case that one was required to notify all users there is always the option to offer a limited license for use of marks, so the layman idea of "you have to prosecute or you'll lose your mark" would still be wrong under such a regime.

Whilst the law is not logical, if you think about it allowing the law to work in the way claimed would actually provide a route to easily invalidate any [registered] trademark. One would simply use the mark for trade in a hidden way that the owner could not discover, the failure to notify of the infringement would then -- if the common wisdom held -- invalidate the mark and cause it to be abandoned. Millions of people would be falling over themselves to register Microsoft all the time because they were selling a product using that name and MS never notified them; it would be an entirely unworkable system.
This is the kind of rhetoric that people shut out. It doesn't work.

Facebook is many things, and has many effects on society. Not all of them are good and in some cases cause active harm but not all of them are bad and in some cases do active good. I think most people agree with this assessment if they're being intellectually honest.

And from there, we can try to identify what aspects are extremely problematic and potential solutions to curb the downside risks.

But the point of your rhetoric seems to be because you want to drive a specific agenda or viewpoint. Everything you said could equally apply to Television, Hollywood, or even Radio and those same arguments were made during the advent of those media too. It's just not interesting rhetoric to engage with.
Was thinking the exact same thing.

Though I got the impression that it was a deliberate backdoor to allow security services to operate incognito, rather than an AI-fooling hack. Maybe just because the book was written before modern neural nets became so widespread.

A friend used to design systems for a major CCTV company. I asked him to add a similar backdoor for me, but sadly he never did...
For native, there is Brisk[0], "A cross-platform set of tools for building native UIs with Reason/OCaml.

The goal of the project is to allow developers efficiently create fast, native apps for all major platforms. It's the best of both worlds: speed and portability, simplicity and great APIs."

[0] https://github.com/briskml/brisk
I'm one of the creators of Masquerade. It's open sourced and you can check it out here:

https://github.com/TonicAI/masquerade
In the realm of physical products, it's already pretty annoying not being able to purchase Nest products on Amazon.

One of the main things Amazon has going for it is that one can usually expect to see the whole gamut of competitive products, read helpful reviews, etc.

But when products are missing from the results for competitive reasons, the trustworthiness of the platform goes out the window.

So this may be a short-term beneficial strategy for Amazon but will surely backfire in the future. I'll be reluctant to buy more stock until the impact of the strategy becomes more clear.
Open core seems to be a good model that satisfies people that want open source stuff but still lets you charge for some features that your competitors can't easily steal.

Gitlab is a good example.
This is what they did: https://www.securityevaluators.com/casestudies/ethercombing/
Or you could do it with a single $5 virtual machine without any of the Amazon "you're an idiot for using the cloud because you don't need it" tax.
While that's helpful I think the point of the experiment is to see whether or not it changes what other people post, how we interact with HN, what stories make it to the front page etc. Hiding karma for yourself doesn't do that.

It would be interesting but I doubt a week is enough to see a real difference, and I'd be sad if I didn't get more internet points.
Fast.ai is nice, but not "a boilerplate/template structure for any given deep learning framework"
It would not be that simple, but yes.
you mean not interrupting yourself is better than constantly interrupting?! I would say pretty much everyone knows this, however until expectations change around responsiveness, nothing will happen.
Is this a book review? What does the title have to do with the article? The content here is out of context and confusing.
Open Core is just a nice name for "CRIPPLEWARE".
I work on a specialized React interface that's effectively a full-on IDE in the browser. It has an "outer" interface with navigation and search and history functionality, in addition to around a dozen full-fledged "tools" that you can switch between. We've replaced nearly every core HTML tag with a custom component, so that we have full control and can add capabilities exactly where we need to. It doesn't have to be served to anyone outside our office; it's loaded from a file server down the hall and run on powerful workstations. We have effectively no constraints WRT complexity and size. We go to no extra effort to compress our builds outside of sending it through a standard minifier.

The entire JS bundle clocks in at 4.9MB.
The idea of working for a larger company (traditional not tech) such as Whole Foods is that you have a place to move up in the company. As such and if you have ever run or owned a traditional (non tech; non vc funded; 'small business' I have...) where there is no opportunity to move you would realize that the pay is only a small part of what people are looking for. So my point is the 'carrot' with working for a large company is that if you do a good job you might become manager then district manager and so on there is a place to go. Now of course not everyone can be promoted but someone who has ability can. When my Dad came to this country he started off in a factory then moved to manager then started his own business and so on.

One other thing. Don't assume the equation will work if you drastically increase pay. If you pay more you have to charge more. If you charge more people will stop shopping. It's a delicate balance for sure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License is probably what you're thinking of
I'm convinced it's going the Google Way™ (i.e. will be abandoned) in 5 years tops. This company has repeatedly shown it can't commit to products that are slow burns and not entirely obvious where revenue may come from. It's part of the reason why I see Go as a fad too.
There already is TabNine. TabNine is a machine learning autocompleter that works for all programming languages.

https://tabnine.com/
> Obviously not

It's certainly not obvious to me what they comparisons mean (is it obvious to you?) and the authors of the site don't even state, let alone support, a hypothesis. They just say what the comparisons don't mean. So unless it's a work of art, I think observers can be forgiven for thinking it doesn't mean anything.

> What do you mean by "market aspects"?

I mean a hypothesis about "free market competition" driving people to write really fast programs.

> You're allowed your own personal opinion about what's cool and what isn't

True, but I meant something that could be used in a more rigorous/meaningful way (e.g. comparisons where only one variable changes). Meaning is perhaps also subjective, but I don't even know the subjective opinion of the meaning behind the game, because the site doesn't say.

> https://salsa.debian.org/benchmarksgame-team/benchmarksgame

Cool.

Anyway, now that I've taken a slightly closer look, I realize I spoke too soon when I said that the SBCL vs. Java benchmark is "better than nothing." If, say, Java uses parallelism while SBCL doesn't, then if Java is 4x faster that may not be a "better than nothing" indication.
I don't need to do that, browsers carefully show the actual domain in ways to avoid that problem since a few years now.
This is exactly why I say Electron is going to “win” in the cross platform GUI toolkit space. I do not think this is good thing. Cross platform GUI dev has been a train wreck as far back as I can remember. Contrast that with the immense amount of human years invested in making the browser a cross platform GUI runtime.

I’m sorry folks, 198MB menu bar apps is what we’re going to have unless a cross platform GUI effort equivalent to that of Chromium comes about.
Or, alternatively: moderation at global scale with billions of pieces of content per day is an incredibly difficult, challenging, interesting, and impactful problem to work on and requires a lot of new technology.

If you can reduce abusive patterns of misinformation on Facebook by a few percent, that's a huge win for both the company and for the billions of people affected by the service - by extension, society.

This is likely the other side of the argument.
> $50 for a Pi starter kit

And $35 for an OpenWRT router that does the same thing and also offers a web interface. Why pay more for a second standalone device?
I don't eat lard, but I do render the fat from chickens I cook and keep it. I'll cook with chicken fat. And when you render it with onions, you can fry the skin as "gribenes" or spread the onion/fat mixture on toast as you would butter.

For people who don't eat dairy and meat in the same meal, chicken fat is widely used. I'd imagine it has some similar qualities to pork fat.
I agree with your point completely. What are we measuring? Some people's work is intended only to make other people more productive. Knowledge work can't have everyone 100% isolated to get 100% productivity. This is a sliding scale and where good managers get paid for maximizing their team's productivity.
I'm not sure what to tell you, basically nothing you've said is true.

There wasn't 'some skepticism' about EVs, very few took them seriously back then.

During the roadster the main narrative was it couldn't be done and if they could do it nobody would buy them.

For the Model S there were constant reports of Tesla not having the money to build them etc. the same thing was said repeatedly about the Model 3 (they would never be able to manufacture enough, they didn't have the money, they were going to fail).

Tesla pulled EVs from the future to now in spite of it being a very hard market to enter with massive up front costs. Along the way they also built out a charging network and made huge improvements in car software and getting rid of the dealership model.

The next shift is autonomous driving and the pivot to it is because any car without the tech when it happens will have negative value.

I'm not claiming that there's nothing to fear because they haven't gone bankrupt yet, they could still fail - but you're not arguing in good faith and people have been saying the same thing for years even though Tesla has proved them wrong at each previous stage.
Primer's Sean Gourley on Bots, Propaganda and Fake News – Ep. 83
I am just trying to say that "exploiting" team sports usually has much more direct consequences than the equivalent in purely intellectual sports like IT. Thus, what's a loophole for a hacker who reads the rules, is just a raised eyebrow for a competitor or a fan in team sports. Smugness does not have a place in something based on fairness.
DRI sounds like a fantastic way to operate!
It may also be because women, as a group, have vastly higher purchasing power than men. And, dollars talk, as they say in the USA.
> A non-negligible portion of these people have what we today call learning disabilities.

Well sure but if you do and if that doesn't make you 'a winner' it makes you 'a loser' doesn't it? Point is if I have no athletic skills and can't play football or hockey or soccer 'because of disabilities' doesn't that make me 'a loser' in some way?

The point is although people think that using the word 'loser' implies someone has control over the outcome but many times that is not the case. Often they have control but more often there is something else that is preventing them (family, abilities, intelligence) and so on.
When you say "Maybe you should talk to more poor people", unless you are advocating HN readers to conduct a randomized study, you are essentially telling HN readers to engage in selection bias.
i cant imagine an academic group environment that toxic. Most groups ive interacted with in the sciences actively encourage everone to ask difficult questions of each other to further the collective understanding. One of the first things my advisor told me as a new student was to make sure i independently understood what was going on because he doesnt know everything. Now that im more experienced i also see the upside of having youger people around who are engaged and help catch my mistakes. Hearing horror stories about corporate power dynamics from people around me makes me never want to leave academia.

There are of course a few crazy/asshole PIs, but if you dont work for them they have no power over you.
For the record: I wholly agree with the author, I'm just balking at Twitter's 40MB.

The app we build is the appiest of web apps, but whenever I'm working on something else I love seeing how far I can get with nothing but static HTML and some clever CSS. The purpose of SPAs was supposed to be that they were more responsive - only load the data instead of a new page! - but these days it's often faster to load a whole new page if that page is lightweight than to change views with JS. That's insanely backwards.
Linked in another comment is the incident you’re recalling: https://youtu.be/G9D8dzl4zGk
the line between movies and games will blur dramatically. think bandersnatch, but it's the viewer saying "open the door" and the directorGAN will generate a new storyline.
Exactly, what's with all the work that is behind Apache Lucene that's running under the covers of ElasticSearch. All of these people [1] would also never see a dime from elastic.co either. So you can spin the wheel the other way around and say they are monetizing other peoples free work as well.

[1] http://lucene.apache.org/whoweare.html