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That's a pretty rude response to a fairly moderate comment.

seanmcdirmid points out that being imperfect doesn't make your criticisms of others invalid. You respond by calling him a bigot and suggesting that he's racist to boot ("all asians may look the same").

As an Asian myself, this is uncalled for. Playing the race card when no such sentiment has been expressed weakens us when real racism occurs.

There is a larger, more worthwhile argument here, one that delves into very core personal values, about the fundamentals of governance. Is a completely orderly, benevolent dictatorship "better" (in however dimensions one defines it) than a less orderly system with more self-determination?

In opening up this argument you'll also run into the age-old struggle between common good and individual freedoms. Does maintaining an orderly, prosperous society justify the silencing, oppression, and imprisonment of a minority who disagree? If so, how far is too far - how small of a minority is okay to oppress, and at what point does it become not-okay?

There are some good arguments to be had here, so let's drop the mud-slinging and get on with it.
If you're making a fairly standard webapp, what does it provide you that, e.g. softlayer or linode does not?

How much of AWS' popularity come from it just being a safe choice, like a cloud version of "No One Ever Got Fired for Buying IBM"?
He means that you should hire unbalanced workaholics, that meteoric success is more important than providing a good, sustainable life for yourself and your employees.
"Tell me how exactly at that point, an exhausted, stressed, emotional person is supposed to just have a moment of self realisation and go "oh wait, what I'm doing is destructive, is actually making the situation worse, and I should JUST STOP". (Which by the way is what I've heard many people tell alcoholics who don't understand the disease)."

This thread's probably dead, but I wanted to add a few more cents, here...

I hear what you're saying, and I have my own business, so trust me -- I understand much of what you describe. Please don't automatically assume I know nothing about this.

At one point, I was an exhausted, stressed, and emotional person. And I had a moment self-realization and I said "stop." I thought deeply about how I worked and why and begin to make changes to create a more sustainable work-life balance. It took some effort, but I enacted most of those changes. Although it's an ongoing process.

I have never been an alcoholic, but I have been close to alcoholics. What they went through is nothing at all like what I went through. Once I made my decision, I had the power to enact change. My understanding is that managing alcoholism is a very hard process that pretty much requires community and accountability to work.

Now, I don't dismiss at all people getting together, talking, and helping one another out. I didn't do anything like "Startups Anonymous," but I did find that I was able to reach out to people I knew and find some help.

What I get frustrated by, though, is a much more subtle tone that I hear when founders and entrepreneurs talk about their problems. It's a little hard to describe, exactly, and I don't want to be either dismissive of rude. But. I feel like I hear too much pained moaning about a loss of friends, relationship difficulties, and loss of pleasures like taking vacations that don't require packing a laptop. Things like that. This bothers me because I actually think that just taking a deep breath and going, "You know what, I've simply got to stop what I'm working on for a day and just go do something else, something different -- just for a day (hour/evening/weekend)" is totally possible, no matter how myopically stressed you may be. In fact, I've found that when I most stressed, taking these breaks and enjoying life -- in the middle of the stressful period -- helps me keep the stresses in context, helps me not let them invade my every neuron and eat my brain out from the inside. It frees my mind to actually think about the stressful thing without falling into a dark hole.

So what I'm saying is, don't blame your company, your co-founders, your investors, your employees, or your customers for these problems. You. Are. In. Control. Act like it. It's not a pity party. Nobody who relies on you wants you to be a friendless basket-case. And suffering isn't a requirement for creating something great.
I was wondering that too, but I was thinking that at some point that would take human interation:

1. i reply back and say thank you
2. they register for an account
3. i approve them and then they start spamming

Maybe a Mechanical Turk type thing?
I'm aware of the API rate limit when an AZ goes down, but the original comment was about problems that people run into for highly-variable traffic sites that scale up and down on a regular basis (e.g. spin up 20 instances during the day with high traffic, at night shutdown 15 of them to save cost, on a daily basis). This of course is not related to any AZ/API downtime, and I am not aware of any problems that could interfere with the normal usage of APIs during normal service operations, which is why I wanted to hear more about the details of those problems.
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I think you are wrong about this. I deeply regret a couple of times earlier in my life where I didn't give something my all.
>If someone criticizes your country, just point out how no country is perfect to deflect the criticism.

I'd be the first person to agree on many of the criticisms, but still, this:

>SG is a dictatorship

Is a total lie. And, yes, I will happily compare it to various "not perfect" non-dictatorships to make this point.

>it is well known that the Lee family have been running it as their own little fief for awhile now by controlling the press so they can continue to win elections.

No, not really.

The reason for PAP continually winning elections has more to do with the fact that they dragged the country from being a 3rd world country on a par with Tanzania to being richer than America. That wins elections.

Now that the country is largely very wealthy, it has also become very conservative. If you removed all censorship laws, the party would still win, just by a smaller margin.

>The dictatorship is completely benevolent, non-brutal, and very business-oriented, so the people tend to be relatively happy (not free but rich!)

The restrictions on one's freedoms are not significantly greater than in Europe or the US.

>Honestly, I'm not sure real democracy would have worked given the context SG is in. But that still doesn't excuse reality.

It is every bit as real a democracy as the United States, which has similarly draconian controls over the press by the business elite, but which has deluded itself into somehow thinking it's the world's gold standard in freedom of expression.
Are pen pals "virtual friends"?
Sounds like Keek, which has been doing it for 2 years already.
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Got a citation that has all the features of even the first claim? That's all that's needed. The patent doesn't claim a system which does analysis of natural language input, it claims a specific system for doing such. Again, find a citation and prove it isn't novel or inventive. Until then, why should anyone consider it invalid? The law must work on proof, not people saying "Oh yeah, I've totally done that before, trust me". If it's so obvious, then it should be easy to find a citation.

Also, why should inventive ideas in software be any less valuable and worthy of protection as inventive ideas for physical objects? This patent protects a very narrow scope, anything that infringed it would have to perform all the steps in the first claim and it seems to me that it wouldn't be too hard to design a similar system which doesn't infringe. It might not be dissimilar enough to get you a patent, but it also wouldn't infringe.
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OVH has a datacenter in Quebec. We use OVH in France (OP, btw). It started off because 1 system needed SSDs, and Hetzner isn't great about SSD. Once we had 1 system there, it was easier to put them all there.

Doing it again, I'd pick Hetzner over OVH. The OVH machines are great (weird disk partition though) and they've worked reliably..but the management console is horrible and while the support is fast and helpful, it tends to take a couple back and forth to get to a meaningful conclusion.
I don't think anyone seriously compares Singapore to Somalia or Turkey - by that measure it's a veritable paradise. The comparisons I have seen have all compared it to developed, first-world countries like most of western Europe, the USA, Canada, Japan, Australia, etc.

It is, after all, the league that Singapore wants to play in both in image and influence.
Also, I think the author is mixing up spot instances and on demand instances, which have vastly different pricing structures.
My internship now follows all of these points very well. In particular,

1. I'm compensated very well (plus they pay my rent in a metropolitan area).

2. I've already contributed greatly to their internal products.

3. They ask me what I like to work on. (I was hired with a more
systems-engineering speciality but have the opportunities to do web dev work if I choose).

4. They have me working with a brilliant developer who is probably the smartest and kindest man I've ever met.

5. I feel like a part of the company after only a month.

My internship last summer seemed like a complete joke after I've been at my current one.
Sure, EC2 may not provide the best price/performance, but some of their new services are killer: Redshift makes Map/Reduce obsolete, and DynamoDB makes other NoSQL DBs weep with its scale/performance/flexibility.

These services make it an easy decision to stick on AWS, and sadly ec2 as well
check out the vice guide to north korea, also fascinating.
Also, it's not uncommon for hotels to upgrade their loyal customers to top-end suites if they're available.

While I wouldn't be surprised to hear about an instance of waste in government, it's also quite likely that those individuals were upgraded for free.
That's perhaps depend on the type of your customers/users, and their priorities.

If you have "users", then you might be right, as no harm will be done, if once in a few years, their free service will be shutdown for 18 hours.

However, if your customers are running core and critical parts of their business on your system, this part becomes a significant factor in the equation.
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> all the shit is swept under the rug

This is quite literally true in Dubai: http://gizmodo.com/5857475/without-trucks-the-tallest-buildi...
I had a similar thing happen to me, but still in highschool, where I pulled allnighters to make an insanely stringent schedule work so I could catch up to those pesky A+sians that played the Violin and helped blind orphans speak (or something along those lines).

I mean workwise, I feel better sprinting short burst than to walk for long periods, but trying to take on a 4 year death marathon, starting at 6 in the morning and ending 2 in the evening, wasn't much of a bright idea. I ended up crashing every second term, to get sick weekly during that time and to pull down my hard earned grades into the D range.

I believe that the mind is a lot like muscle in that respect. Don't excercise it, and it will atrophy. Strain it constantly, and it will break down, along with your bodily health. The point to building mental muscle seems to be alternating between periods of excertion and recuperation.
Anyone telling you that carrying weights constantly is the path to strenght is proably trying to get you to build their pyramids, pulling stone slabs up an incline day and night.
Having both been a summer intern and supervised summer interns since, I have followed the advice of the person who mentored me as a summer intern when it was time to work with my own:

Choose a project you would do if you had time, but is off the critical path of your project plans, then help bring your intern up to speed on the nature of the problem you want to solve, make yourself available, and give them some breathing room.

After that, I try to remove as much friction from the work process as possible - make sure they aren't handed the laptop from the bottom of the storage cabinet that is running an OS from 2002, have access to test servers (db, app server, etc) as needed, and get them access to other people who can provide other support as needed.

In general, I want interns to have projects that can "tell a good story" and help them along their career path.

It helps that I had two great intern/co-op experiences and one that was terrible. On the terrible one, I was literally handed a stack of dusty manuals and then abandoned for the summer. No deliverable, no regular meetings with anyone, nothing. I needed the pay to finish school and it took me a two or three week window to realize that I was on my own.
You might like the book "Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea." There's quite a few jaw dropping stories from people who defected from NK. It's such a mysterious country, I am completely fascinated by it.

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In Mozilla's case the _output_ is nowhere close to 2GiB.

What hits the 32-bit limit is the link-time code generation, which has to have the entire program's AST, plus all the profiling information, plus whatever other data structures it's using in memory all at once.
There has been talk of criticism on HN about how comments are negative and that is true. So I hope this doesn't add to it and I am trying to honest here and say how I see things. First of all thanks for putting the effort into writing that. There is good information in the article describing how the GIL works and how threads work and things to watch out for.

But unfortunately I have to agree with the gp as well, a part of it is FUD. The FUD is not in what was said (most what was said about the GIL is true) the FUD is in what was not said, and that is that threads are there for a reason, and they do provide good speedup in a large number of applications, namely those that are IO bound.

I don't think that fact is too hard for novices to grasp so it should be me mentioned. The perception otherwise is that the creators have simply gone insane and decide to add threading to the language but you should never use it because it doesn't work (so why didn't they just remove it then?). Well it does work in large class of problems.

Think about nodejs. Like it or not it has become popular recently. It doesn't by default support or take advantage of multiple cores yet it is often found to be performant enough to handle a decent number of concurrent clients connecting. Granted it doesn't pretend to have threads in the first place but it is an example of a modern, useful ecosystem that does not take advantage of all the cores.

> To say "blocking on I/O gives up the GIL" is true in a very narrow sense

Not it is not. It is true in a very general and wide sense. Try it out! Spawn 50 threads and try to download 50 different pages, you'll notice a speedup relative to doing it all sequentially in a while loop.

> Import any third party package using C extensions and you now need to worry about how well the author manages the GIL.

Also misrepresents the facts a bit. GIL actually is supposed to make it easier to write C extensions. If the C extension doesn't mess with the GIL it is straight forward to write because the GIL is there. If the GIL wasn't there calling C extensions and returning or having a callback in Python from C would be a pretty complicated affair.

Now you can play with the GIL in C and release it to achieve parallel speedup, and I have done that, but that was in a few cases already over the years.
How do I vote the non tech things on HN
I bet IRS workers don't even get free coffee at work.
Really nice.

As I created my sweet tree house and bridge to the other islands in your game, my thoughts of "wow what a capable developer" kept turning into, "Why's a talented person like this working on a clone of someone else's work? Why not invest this energy in an original title and truly shine?".

If you're talented enough to put together a clone, you're talented enough to create an original title with it's own audience. Maybe this is just an exercise but I do hope you iterate this towards something unique.

If anything here's a list of things that I HATE about minecraft and that you can use to differentiate yourself:

- I hate having to harvest blocks. I wish I could just click once and immediately harvest the block. Someone made a browser game like that a while back (forgot the name) and I immediately spent hours building a city because it was so much more intuitive and easy.

- I hate having to collect all the blocks I've broken up by walking over to them. Just give them to me directly.

- I hate having to harvest a block in order to plant it somewhere else. I wish I could just harvest a block type once and then be able to infinitely use copies of that block.

- I hate the closeness that I need to be in order to harvest and plant blocks. I'd love to be able to build something 20 blocks or so away from me rather than have to be close by blocks.

- I hate how Minecraft didn't explain anything in-game. I shouldn't have to rely on an external source to understand a game. Call me stupid but I think this is terrible user experience and is just taking us back to the days of games that required strategy guides or online faqs to beat.
So you've addressed maybe half the essential features of the claim, and that clearly makes all of it obvious? What about the rest? Is it obvious to do all these things in the way claimed? Do you have proof this it is obvious to do so? The law doesn't work based on opinion, it works on proof first, and evidence when proof is lacking. You can call it bullshit all you want, but until you have something to back it up, you're just talking shit.
$50 million is a lot of money. However, it's a three year period, and it involved a lot of people (2,600 managers in on instance). How does that compare to how much normal companies "waste" on team building and training? I need those figures to make sense of the article.

Also, would you rather have the person going over your taxes to be happy, fulfilled and forgiving, or tired of their job and life?
Also with options, you generally still have to buy the vested portion when you leave, usually within something like 90 days. So you actually have to spend money to keep them, and hope the share price goes up
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Painfully slow and clunky non-native app. Crashed thrice on my Galaxy Nexus 4.2.2. Closed it. Not using as of now.

Guess, I'll wait for a few updates or patches before uninstalling. Or maybe I'll reinstall after it's stable enough.

By the way, I don't think there's a way to browse Vine on the web, is it?

App had it seems pre-subscribed to some of the users/streams/or-vines-maybe, because my feed is not empty and I don't see a way to empty it and then maybe subscribe to users/handles I would find fitting to my taste(I doubt that seeing all the animations).
>it seems like you find "not as bad as America" to be more comforting than I do.

Nope, not in the slightest. This is your bias talking. It has nothing to do with me. I hate this law as much as anybody.
In talking about causality, the article makes two counterfactual claims: had the Soviets not invaded Manchuria, Japan would not have surrendered and had the bombs not been dropped, Japan would have surrendered. (In my opinion, the first claim is well-defended, the second less so). Since the bombs were dropped and the Soviets did invade, any discussion of these possibilities is a little speculative.
You can't use a 32-bit cl.exe and a 64-bit linker to produce 32-bit binaries if you're doing PGO (which is the whole point of this "using lots of memory" issue). In particular, the 64-bit linker can't produce 32-bit binaries when you're using link-time code generation, which PGO does.
While you're waiting in line at the slow bank because that's the bank you've used for years, you're ignoring the bank across the street with no line, cheaper fees, and 80% of the same services you need and will use the most.
Depends on what kind of hardware though. With certain things, you can test a product market fit with some ducttape and a lot of creativity. There's a pretty good book on that called "One simple idea" by Stephen Key, which, whilst it has a focus on licensing such producs out, should come in handy for stress testing a hardware idea. And for the more high tech folks that won't go to the mall to test out whether their stuff will sell, there's still Kickstarter.
Softlayer, along with Rackspace, are expensive providers. The price will be similar to EC2 (but the raw performance of the CPUs and hard disks will be much better).

Hetzner and OVH provide the starkest contrast when it comes to price. They are also pretty well respected.

There's a million other choices in between. webhostingtalk.com is the best place to get more info..but I can give you names that have been around for a long time and tend to be liked by customers: webnx, singlehop, 100tb (softlayer reseller), reliablesite.net, hivelocity, netdepot. The list goes on and on, but if you want to see price differences, check them out.
Have you ever played creative mode in Minecraft? Or do you actually want to harvest? There are probably mods for what you want.
There are many use cases for which EC2 is exactly perfect and not overpriced.

As a consultant recently I was tasked to build a service which (rather not say), I had good data on requests per day, total data storage, factored in ELB, etc.

The cost was less than 2K a year. Now consider that the company refused to buy hardware or pay anyone to support it because they had a full staff of sysops maintaining their (rather not say) at great cost in their own data center.

2K is absolutely nothing to a company. Most of us are not Netflix or Dropbox. Don't pretend you have those kinds of problems if you don't. It could have cost 3x that per year and they still wouldn't have noticed it.

AWS for manageable workloads is dirt cheap at scale. I think you'd have to be nuts not to use it.
It was written by Adam Johnson, an English Professor at Stanford who just won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for a book, not coincidentally, inspired by North Korea.
I would imagine that both the star and the planet if actually shown properly 'to scale' in the image would be tiny pin pricks. What you would see if you were 'standing there' is quite different to what you see in the image.

The fact that the planet and star appear much larger is probably caused by a few factors - firstly the planet is probably only taking up a few pixels on the telescopes CCD - The image has been enlarged and post processed.

Secondly the telescope will be affected by diffraction which means you will not get a proper single tiny point of light and instead will get something like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Airy-pattern.svg

Finally you need to deal with all the air that the light has to travel through before hitting the telescopes CCD - this will distort the final image, like looking at the bottom of a pond through ripples.
I'm sure there is a boy scout badge you get to make it official.

On the other hand, I don't think it changes the meaning of the article the least bit if we exchange Arrington with any of
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After eight years in captivity, she made a life-or-death escape from her guards after being sent to Vienna to promote Kim's latest film.

Could someone explain how Austria permitted slaves to be held within its borders? Is this some sort of diplomatic privilege? This would be 1986 [1].

edit: Or a parallel (?) situation, Cuban athletes "escaping" from government minders inside the USA (2002 [2]). What power do foreign government agents have in these situations?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choi_Eun-hee

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Cuban_soccer_players_w...
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