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> Part of the appeal of DIY delivery is same day/next day and Sunday service, and USPS can't necessarily offer that.

This reminded me, has anyone actually had a package from Amazon delivered on Sunday by USPS?

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/11/business/postal-service-an...
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I posted an edit to my original comment. I meant that the equivalent defining of a function (in zsh) does work, but zsh -c won't run the function unless you permanently add the function to your env.
One-time pads are only useful if they're not re-used.

Or are you suggesting that the high-latency link is higher throughput, and provides constant gigabytes of pad material? (Eg, stream cipher)
The top-20 schools have the pick of the litter, they can choose whomever they like from applicants all over the world. That leaves all other schools to choose from a thoroughly picked-over pile.

As a university teacher the most important thing you have to do is to pitch the level right. Anything that isn't a top-level school suffers from the tyranny of low expectations, and the cliff after the first 20-25 schools in the rankings is really quite steep. There are no public ivies.
As a geek hobbyist, I have always liked the 1U form factor, but the noise out of those things can be crazy.
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Odd that ARM even bothered to reply. And the arguments are the expected stuff you'd expect to see from an entrenched leader. Basically it's "benefits of standardization trumps openness", though not stated that way.

A few bits struck me as amusing, like the chart with all the extensions to the ARM ISA over the years, most of which have been abandoned in modern cores. Citing the original VFP standard or Jazelle as "innovation" seems laughable.

If I were to write a ARM-vs-RISC-V paper, I'd start with the important things that are actually missing from RISC-V still, like a MMU spec.
The few times that I have disabled an ad-blocker I have felt blinded on several sites and felt so frustrated that I couldn't read the main content in peace. I'm ok with non-intrusive text ads, but most sites have a big chunk of screen space filled with ads in weird layouts, as if they're either testing new ways to get over banner blindness or capture accidental clicks to boost their revenue…or both. :)
There is an interesting relationship right now between the Federal Reserve and asset prices. It is a place we have been before.

Investor confidence in interest rates being low for a long time makes investors comfortable with current public equity valuations (besides all of the other things low interest rates can do to asset prices.) It is even more interesting now because a big jump in interest rates would cripple the US budget with debt payments.

One of the things I think about a lot is what is the fair market value of certain technology companies? It would be helpful to be back at a place where I know Netflix, Facebook, etc, are worth more than their public valuations. Additionally it would be healthy for the long term human impact of tech to extinguish some of the arrogance that has been building up for the past decade.
A lightly used i5/i7 with a bunch of RAM and an SSD would be a much, much better host.

I rescued a Dell workstation with an i7-950 from disposal, and added 2 disks and some RAM (9GB). Still not as quick as a 2500k in a lot of stuff but great for anything I can throw at it (decent size MySQL DB, lots of Rails apps, and quite a bit of web traffic). I could bump it up to 24GB but that's still $250 worth of RAM, new.
It's complicated because orchestration is complicated. You're looking at essential complexity that can't be made to go away.
What you can do is wrangle the complexity into a repeatable, declarative form. That's what BOSH and other orchestration tools do.

Everything on that terminology page is what has been found, in various systems of various sizes, to be necessary to ensure some semblance of robustness and operability as you scale from a single box to thousands of VMs and containers.

In my dayjob I've written BOSH release and deploy manifests that stand up a virtual machine containing 2 containers. I've used other deploy manifests that start a virtual machine with a small cloud of containers. My employers use BOSH to orchestrate multiple clouds on multiple backends with thousands of VMs.

Running a process inside the box is necessary to be agnostic of the substrate. BOSH can't assume that you'll run everything in Docker, or AWS, or vSphere, or any other such system. You can run heterogenous combinations per your requirements. Again, some people absolutely require that capability.
> The VCs are the ones that have been pouring cash into these companies so they can blow it on obscenely expensive parties and offices. I think they're just trying to deflect criticism away from themselves and onto the startups.

No VC will ever say they invested in a company "so they can blow it". They invest so the company can spend on marketing/distribution, product, etc. Not on just-for-fun items.

I work in a startup and we keep ourselves in check. If we weren't managing our finances it would be our fault first. Mayyyybe blame the VC's indirectly for who they invested in.
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As a point of linguistic curiousity, would a more accurate literal translation be "one who undertakes", or perhaps "one who engages in", given the fairly specific meaning of "undertaker" in English?
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>> the contracted services would include logistical and research cargo delivery and return to and from the space station through fiscal year 2020

SpaceX is the only one of two current contractors capable of returning cargo. Seems a bit skewed in favor of Falcon/SpaceX? Unless Sierra Nevada has the cargo capacity on the Dream Chaser...
VCs aren't oracles, but they're invested on 5-10 year cycles. Moreover, big VCs are always in multiple funds at once, so one is beginning while another is halfway through it's life. So even if you think they trade more on reputation and influence than actual value, I think it'd be incredible to claim that they're totally divorced from actual value creation.
No, it's a form of laziness.
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All good points though I think the last regarding licensing is debatable. I am not certain these courses would exist at all if it were not for a profit motive.

MOOCs like Udacity and Coursera have a fair amount of funding...

http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/coursera

http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/udacity
Just kind of weird that a few accounts signed up and commented in this thread within a couple minutes of activation.
They've actually been scaling QE back for quite a while now.
Yes. My most recent purchase was delivered on a Sunday. I was surprised because I didn't know that was a thing.
SmartPost is a risky proposition for online sellers like the one I work for. Feedback is important, and a couple negatives at the top of [popular review site] can hurt for a while. Looking at ours, there are some legitimate screw ups in there, but 4 out of 5 negatives are slow shipping complaints, all of which can be attributed to the local PO sitting on the package for 2-3 days before sending it out for delivery.
If you're vulnerable to this, then you're vulnerable to someone setting PATH and changing all executables that you refer to.

That's not the "shock" part of "shellshock"; that's a long known issue. Applications which pass arbitrary variables from the network through environment variables already add a unique prefix to the variables, to prevent this kind of problem. That unique prefix also prevents them from accidentally conflicting with the name of an actual executable for this case.

Now, there are still going to be bugs with suid executables not sanitizing their environment, but those apply in many other ways, such as via PATH and LD_PRELOAD.

The "shock" part of shellshock was that it was possible to execute arbitrary code, upon just loading a variable in Bash, regardless of what its name was, depending only on the contents, which in many cases can be attacker controlled.
So after such market correction in how investors value startups and software business in general, I suspect that there will be a starkly different valuation model, one that relies on net positive cash today and the prospect of net positive cash in the next quarter.

Spending cash as soon as they come in won't be good enough for the next group of investors, to further weed out the cash burning companies, they will look for a more conservative and cash positive businesses.

This would impact consumer centric startup models where valuation comes from having a large userbase more. Companies that pursue businesses wallets will have a more favorable valuation, possibly a lot larger than what was previously thought.

Looks like a good future but not so much for if you are building the next facebook. Those days of sustaining high user base with little to no paying customers are gone. Market will no longer place favorable valuation on such operations.

This is just what I'm predicting of course.
The 1U servers are very loud. But a 4U or tower server will be fairly quiet, and have the bonus ability to hold more disks. A must for VM's, disk contention on spinning disks gets pretty high after your 2nd VM.
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>I find that most of the time, "Big Data" isn't really all that big for modern hardware, and so going through all of the extra software work for specialized data stores isn't really all that necessary. YMMV, of course, depending on the nature of your queries.

I totally agree. Most of useful "big data" is time-series data, and they aren't all that huge compared to images/videos/etc.

That being said, I think the reason to adopt something like Hadoop/MPP engines is not for storage but ease of querying: while Postgres can handle storing terabytes of data, joining two terabyte-scale tables can get a little iffy. This gets even more complex if you start packing data into array columns for space efficiency.

There is an argument to be made that historical/archival data aren't all that useful and thus do not need to be analyzed: that was definitely my assumption coming from finance. However, I've been surprised how far back some of our customers at Treasure Data go to mine insights from data.
Give it time and Amazon might start offering electronic locks to landlords free of charge so that they can do just that.
> It's the ultimate in vulnerabilities.

As someone who has survived the 1990's scare-a-palooza of Sendmail exploits, and ssh before separation of privileges, and on and on - no, it's not. Not even close.
Url changed from https://blog.riscv.org/2014/09/arms-rebuttal-to-risc-v-the-c..., which points to this. The article being responded to is http://www.linleygroup.com/mpr/article.php?id=11267.
Isn't this always the case if you have access to cheap labor?

But do they tap into the resource of dabbawala`s[1] as well?
That`s one of the most sophisticated end to end delivery system i have ever seen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dabbawala
He's not saying he has a cloud at home, but rather that this server was likely part of one in a prior life:

"""
There is a lot of conjecture on where the Dell 1U rackmount model CS24-SC came from. Some people say Facebook data centers. Others just say that it was mass-produced for “clouds.”
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> Can you comment on how one can safely enumerate "all" keys of the hashtable, while minimizing contention.

for each bucket:
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The trade is getting crowded - that's the feeling I get from some higher profile VC funds complaining recently. Their buy-in's are getting more expensive as more private money from non-traditional VC funds moves into the sector due to continued low interest rates, a feeling the public markets are getting close to topping and the fact that each round seems to be up, up, up.

This is forcing higher prices for the traditional VC funds which in turn makes them more conservative with how their money is spent. And because the money is so easy to acquire the start-up's are blowing it quickly. They are competing for a limited set of "top" employees which is driving labor costs up to potentially unsustainable levels.

Money won't always be so easy. Use it carefully. However, I see the top VC's getting a bit upset they have more competition to invest in tomorrows potentially massive businesses at discounted rates.
The quote I used is in the first paragraph. If he leads with it, presumably its one of his strongest arguments.

Also, nothing alarming about the quote you just mentioned either. To the extent consumer laws consider sophistication of the consumer, its probably quite right. Sophisticated investors, for example, do not have many of the protections that apply to the general public.
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> If there is one, valuations will drop, cash will be harder to get. Its not going to change the kind of work I like to pursue or the work that makers, builders and engineers do.

It might change the work that makers, builders, and engineers can get paid to do (and, thus, what work they will do, if they need money from work to pay the bills.) Becuase "cash will be harder to get" mean that "people paying you for what you want to work on will be harder to find".
IMO there should be some sort of header like

x-whitehat: autopatch

which gives white-hats the opportunity to patch your system without exploiting. The why I see it, a malicious person is going to exploit your server anyway. This way white-hats could patch your system and not be prosecuted. With this, someone who discovered the patch could scan the internet, look for servers that say "yes, please patch me" and deploy a quick patch and nothing else.
> The thing is I'd rather take a course from a top instructor even at a massive scale, than to take a poor course made by a guy who doesn't have any real business teaching the class.

There's an excluded middle here.
I have a relative who works at the FedEx Ground HQ, they told me Amazon keeps hiring away their executives. Unsurprising of course, especially if you know anything about what it's like in there (typical TPS reports type hellish corporate environment). I mean I'm sure Amazon isn't all peaches and cream but they at least seem better than that.
What about deploying parcel lockers ? is it just not perceived as comfortable enough by people ? or the economics aren't that good ?
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>>The question isn't whether or not regulation is lax and whether or not this happened, it's how to fix it.

In my opinion the only way to reliably fix this is to create a group similar to the one that the federal government created to end Al Capone's illegal activities during the Prohibition.

That group was nicknamed "The Untouchables" because they were fearless and incorruptible (by reputation, which is what's important). They were hand-picked by Eliot Ness, who reportedly went through the records of hundreds of Prohibition agents and personally identified a small group of them who were known for their honesty and integrity (as well as special skills, such as car tailing). What's remarkable about this group is that they were not only stubborn as hell but also extremely resilient to Capone's attempts at bribery and intimidation. Ness himself declined a bribe that was equal to his salary but would be paid to him monthly. They had a huge impact on bringing down the kingpin.

It's pretty clear that the regulators in charge of overseeing the financial industry today don't have this type of drive. To them, it's just a job. They are normal men and women who are up against groups of massive political power. As such, they are not in a position to do their jobs effectively. That's why the system is rife with rampant corruption.

Before you say I'm dramatizing, consider the possibility that Enron was just the tip of the iceberg, and under the surface there is ten Enrons that are propping up huge sectors of the economy with lies and deceit. Maybe ignorance is bliss and we should just let it operate like that. But truth has a habit of coming out sooner or later - and the sooner it comes out and everything comes crashing down, the sooner we can rebuild the system.
I remember when the company I was working at bought a bunch of new Sun hardware, and ended up throwing out all their old Sun 420Rs. Despite being slightly outdated, they were still in perfect condition, so I took the 4 of them to the house (carefully, because they were heavy) and set up a pretend data center.

The first shock, I can confirm, was the noise they made. I ended up relegating them to the basement, which was otherwise unused.

The second shock was when my utility bill came in the next month. It's very easy to know the power consumption of enterprise-class servers for planning purposes. There's a giant abstraction between the power consumption on paper, and the power consumption on your home utility bill that I think everybody working around servers should experience at least once.

They were retired, shortly after.
Is this super-loud? I have an old 1U server which seemed cool until I booted it up. It's like vacuum-cleaner-loud.
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Well, no. As a consumer, I would assume that a tip is being paid, and that it is indeed an appropriate tip being given completely to the person above and beyond whatever agreement they might have for default service.

If this wasn't the case, Soothe is lying to me, the customer, and not providing what I paid them for. That's deceit.
I was bored, went tightrope-walking with friends, sprained my ankle.

Then I got into Ingress, a GPS-enabled game. I had lots of adventures and made new friends. My old friends tolerated me.

As my ankle healed I bought a scooter and used it to play Ingress.

A surprising amount of Ingress is photographing uninspired corporate art.

I started to believe life is about boredom and I was glad I was filling the boredom more creatively, although it's not really that creative I think sometimes.
Hey @tokenadult, thanks for the feedback!
You are right, the point 10 is important and should've been placed a bit earlier.
What we mention here stems from our experience. Yours might be different and suggest some issues our suggestions. Thanks for pointing it out and suggesting the more extensive blog post.
I was literally thinking this would be amazing until I realized this is really only for grand mal seizures. My father has suffered from petite mal seizures his entire life.
The entire concept of online classes is an anachronism - the way early automobiles resembled horse carriages. This is just schools' futile attempts at staying relevant using some token internet and marketing themselves to people indoctrinated that traditional classes were the only way to learn. Lecture is the worst way to teach, and yet people gush about putting videos of lectures online as some sort of innovation. It's sad that we can't think a little more outside of the box.

An online education service I'd like to see is not teaching but certification. They could recommend learning resources and offer email and voice communication with subject matter experts for feedback and questions as needed, but the main job would be assessing your competence in a specific area and backing it up with a guarantee. You could get a card showing certification in Calculus II (expires one year after issuance) or Early American History, or whatever. But when you pass certification, you actually know the subject - not just sleepwalked through the course doing the minimal busy work. The student may use whatever learning methods that work best for themselves to achieve this and employers looking for specific experts would have confidence in the possession of that expertise.
23+ for actual bands. Most pop music is probably made by 40+.

(recommendation: listen to Porcupine Tree - The Sound of Muzak)
>I can't speak for him, but it terrifies me that we expend so much energy and capital to completely remove any sort of human reflection from the operations of our global economy.

The mistake you're making is thinking that human reflection is an inherently "good" thing to have. Humans have cost their companies orders of magnitude more money than algorithms have.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Rogue_traders
I saw a web app aimed at guys for tracking menstruation a few years ago (before mobile was popular). The site implied that it would help guys know when their partner was mood was likely to change.

The site's comments section was full of very angry women, hating on the sites creators and any men that might want to track their partners cycle.
Great recommendations, these two sites are still the best today. Ozgrid is my go to forum, the community there is top notch.
UPS has had a bad reputation for a long time. I've seen it first hand and I've heard it second hand from people working in distribution centers. It was a long time ago but I will never forget the video card that arrived in a box full of water.
How is that cloud? Isn't that just... a server?
Just buy a Synology NAS and be done with it.
also see https://www.zeel.com/
I like to picture you, sitting there comfortable on the couch, waxing philosophical, languorously reaching out to pluck the food out of my child's hand as he goes to put it in his mouth. Because it works for you, right, you wanted that sandwich? It was his responsibility to eat the sandwich somewhere out of your reach? Want to talk about egregiousness, let's look at the entitlement on display in this thread.
There is already a second fibre link in these setups that has higher throughput and not much more latency.
MOOCs are a great alternative / supplement to the the modern day debt peonage that often results from standard educational options. One to watch? Minerva Project, which has Miriam Rivera as COO: http://www.minervaproject.com/

I found out about it after taking several courses on www.Novoed.com including: "Technology Entrepreneurship" with Chuck Eesley (free, two-part course offered by Stanford University), "Startup CEO" with Matt Blumberg, "Venture Deals" with Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson, "The Startup Pitch" with +Chris Lipp, and "Raising Startup Capital" with Clint Korver. Miriam was previously CEO of Kauffman Fellows Academy.

I've referenced these courses and the type of opportunity MOOCs present on my personal blog while addressing the "Pipeline Problem" that has come up in relation to diversity numbers at major tech cos.

http://timesnewromanempire.blogspot.com/2014/08/is-entrepren...
I do the same. Axiomatically, Exercism.io's target audience will not have the experience or knowledge to do that.
Hasn't the Fed been warning they'll halt QE "soon" for many years now? I think the actual policy is to keep interest rates low until it's impossible to do so. At present it seems there's no limit in sight to how many $trillions can be borrowed to keep QE going. Why wouldn't the choice always be to keep kicking the can down the road, when the alternative is to pay the piper?
How did the 'Berlin patient' rid himself of HIV?
This was the exact sentiment in the HN thread a few weeks ago about Homejoy, and to those who put up with Homejoy for the price but unsatisfied with the quality, those in the thread recommended finding a professional cleaner to contract directly with.
Because that's hacking and totally illegal in most countries.

And this exact question was posted to Ask HN yesterday.

Edit: It looks like yesterday's discussion was flagged out of existence.