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NASA started using HoloLens developed by Microsoft to explore Mars
> US/Canada/Australia

And in the next sentence, you remind us that Germany is not Europe.

Before the Canadians lynch you, you should amend your comment to point out that you are very cognizant of the differences between the US and Canada! Australia's different from the others in its own ways, not least of which is that it's on the other side of the planet.
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12 times more is not a big difference? Blimey!
I completely agree. Any time you try to turn complex social systems into a simple number, things are necessarily lost in translation. The numbers represent simply what they represent, and nothing more.
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Honestly, if you don't have any better reasons not to use Facebook I think you should just stick to it and keep a minimal profile. I'm pretty sure that as soon as something becomes mainstream enough to be used by "normals" you will classify it as evil and not use it out of principle.
That in nutshell is what the LEAN methodology is all about.
"The Tesla Gigafactory", "A battery factory".
>it should be replaced with something more like bitcoin.

What does that even mean?
These broad statements seem ridiculous to me. If you're speaking from personal experience, you should at least add which subject you studied and at which Uni/FH you studied.
you're forgetting the API (pepper). There are already Pepper shims for Emscripten but they are unusable.
> This is like paying $10 every month for a raspberry pi + $40 SSD, or $75 in hardware.

Raspberry Pis and SSDs do not come with bandwidth and redundant network, power, and cooling infrastructure.
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It seems they're using xnbd to provide the storage for the box. On Debian, the box is running a xnbd-client, which provides the rootfs:

xnbd-client --blocksize 4096 --retry=900 10.1.32.197 4096 /dev/nbd0

root@scw-6d2eff:~# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/nbd0 46G 507M 44G 2% /

I did not check, but I hope there's some filtering/authentication for that process.

Like EC2 and others, the box has an internal ip allocated and an external ip via nat (or something else).

I was able to download a file from OVH with ~500 Mbit/s throughput when writing to the filesystem. Writing to /dev/null it increases to ~650 Mbit/s.

Running an untuned nginx, it can do ~300 req/s with ~20% cpu util.

Seeing as the storage is still virtual, I'm not really sure why this would be so much better than a virtual machine. I like the idea though.
FYI: https://cabforum.org/pipermail/public/2014-October/004278.ht...
"Rails" is not a programming language. You just can't compare it to PHP, Java, or Python. "Ruby" is a programming language. Rails is a web framework, in the same way Django is a web framework.
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There certainly are. Iphones smuggled into mainland form Hong Kong are sold at a premium. Whatever the reasons for that are among the conditions that Apple must have conceded to to sell legally in the mainland.
I just went searching for ARM servers last week...the options for white box systems are very slim. There are no Supermicro, Asus, etc. ARM rack mount systems yet, so you'd need to work out a deal with one of the few big name vendors with offerings in this space.

The costs seemed very high, to me, compared to whitebox/barebones AMD or even Intel based servers on a performance basis.

I think it is simply a function of them not being widely available cheaply yet. I wonder how they're getting them cheap enough to make this make sense...maybe quantity pricing is much better.
except the raspberry isn't in a datacenter, it won't probably have the same network speed, you can't move an IP from a raspberry to another one, you can't easily make snapshots, ...
I am 99% sure that's not the same benchmark. The cheapest way to break 12,000 CPUMarks is a $370 Intel Core i7-5820K (15MB of cache, 6 cores, 12 threads).

Perhaps they are using the Android benchmark. A score of 12,000 is about what a quad core ARMv7 phone gets.

http://www.androidbenchmark.net/cpumark_chart.html

Edit:

Compared with the cross-platform Geekbench3 a HTC One (ARMv7 4 core, 1.7-2.2Ghz, 12,000 Android CPUMarks) gets between 2,000 and 3,000 points[1], while a 5820K gets around 20,000 points[2].

[1]: http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/search?q=HTC+One

[2]: http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/search?q=Intel+Cor...
One common error I come across a lot in home stereo installations is that people get the phase wrong on one of their speakers, even on very high end systems (or maybe especially there because those usually have their wires separated out).
Really? you regularly see reports of German Pensioners getting caught trying to smuggle large amounts of cash to Lichtenstein.

Though Germany isn't as bad as Italy or Greece
It isn't as good as this one, that happens to also implement acceleration: http://okmove.tumblr.com/ (and it was made years ago by the folks who designed soylent packaging).
The man in the middle attack was injecting javascript to recruit unwitting man on the side attackers against github. github was not being MITM'd, but its "attackers" were.

edit: above may be imprecise. I went back and read the original more closely. they note that if they artificially drop an injected packet, it doesn't get resent (and hence the conclusion that it's man on the side), but they don't mention whether they get the original packets or not. If something is blocking the original baidu packets, it would have to be in the middle, not just on the side.
Any idea how a JVM would do on one of these?
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I hear what you're saying, but my gripe is not at all it's "mainstreamness" -- it's that FB plays notoriously fast and loose with privacy as well as copyright: I'm not quite prepared to sign off copyright to everything I post (notably photography, for example). Plus, it's also got to do with a US-based company knowing precisely what my social graph looks like that makes me uneasy (although as I said Google mostly knows already, so ok).

> if you don't have any better reasons

Finally, I am curious: don't you think freedom is a reasonable reason? If Diaspora were magically to become mainstream, I'm unlikely to classify it as evil in the same way I would with FB. (i.e. you can transfer away your data, spin up your own server, etc.)

EDIT: also, be the change you would like to see -- if I'm still on Facebook, my friends would have even less incentive to move away than currently, where at least I can convince most people to email me.
We are clearly polar opposites because I love native apps ;) For example you might think The Economist was perfectly suited to a browser web 'app', but I prefer the native Android app because (a) it notifies me when a new issue is published; (b) it downloads the content offline; (c) it is fast to navigate and has smooth animations between pages.

I think we've been talking about two separate issues:

1. Do a significant proportion of apps need to provide the same functionality on both a smartphone and on desktop computers? Here I think the answer is yes. Twitter, Gmail, weather apps, maps, image gallery, music streaming, games, banking apps, youtube, etc. provide essentially the same feature set on both devices.

2. If an app needs to run on both smartphone and desktop, should it be native or a web app? Here I think the answer is not so clear-cut. Certainly in the past 15 years it was true that "if your app can be done on the web, you're already going to do it on the web, because there's not a platform on the planet that won't automatically have it". But will that still be the case in 5 years time? The choice of platform for a new app depends on more than just the potential number of users - the usability and development cost also matter. Let's say I expect to produce a web app, an iOS app and an Android app - is it really worth the extra cost to produce the web app if I can cover 95% of the potential user base without it?
Maybe that's part of the issue, websites don't needs 5MB worth of images to look good.
It's the same in Finland, at least in universities. If you don't pass your courses, the state stops paying the student benefits[1], but you can stay at the university. There is another, very low number of courses you need to pass every year in order to stay in, but that is very low indeed, it's only meant to keep registers clean of people not studying at all.

1: That's right, Finns are paid to study. I think students in most of the Nordic countries are.

edit: formatting
Well, that sounds as if you want to turn around the invitation for foreign students?

As the (currently) first post states, americans love the safety of germany and the free education - and the beer. I encourage everybody to come here, then take home what you appreciated and make american universities a better place too (I write this under the impression of suicide reports at MIT and poisoning of competing lab colleagues at stanford, the murder of a visiting german student in Missoula last year). Ignore the german hierarchies. I wouldn't put it as drastic as DrinkWater, but german universities have their little kings at the tops indeed. But this doesn't concern students, only scientists.

The atmosphere is much less competitive here, more a friendly competition that supports teamwork and good science - as it should be.

Have a good time everybody.
Do you have any suggestions about where to look for such a "trusted source"?

I fear my comfortable life with iOS/Android/OSX/Windows/mainstram-Linux OSen at my bidding in various devices and niches, would need to change radically to approach that ideal.
I know how engineering courses look like in Poland. Universities are 100% free, but they have absolutely no qualms about kicking out weaker students. Electrical engineering course at any of the largest universities in Poland will enroll 300-400 people,but 200 of them will fail the first year. The last year is usually finished by <10 people on time, there is plenty of people taking resits for years, and it's not uncommon for exams to be so hard that they have 100% failure rate. I have several friends studying engineering in Poland and well, first of all you need to pass all of your assignments to be able to take the exam(if you failed any of your practicals or assignments you are not even allowed to take the exam), and then like I've said it's not uncommon that out of 20 people taking the exam all 20 fail.

In contrast, I studied in UK and getting through university at an Engineering course was very easy if you didn't care about grades too much. You could even fail an exam completely and still be allowed to continue, which is unthinkable in Poland.

The main difference is, that in Poland all that matters is the diploma,not the grades you got, while in UK a diploma with a third or 2-2 grade is nearly worthless. So I think that Universities in Poland are much more careful about actually letting people graduate, while in UK pretty much anyone can graduate,but poor grades make their education worthless.
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The content you see must vary per region/user, but this is what I see in the UK.
No, Pod is designed for multi-containers grouped to run on the same host, primarily for sidekick process, like syslog.

If you want to multi-host deployment, it is similar to CloudFormation. You can still use multiple pods to compose a distributed app.
I was looking at the wrong FAQ. There are some typos on https://www.scaleway.com/faq :

> Scaleway is also providing a fast, 100% S3-compatible, object storage service called SIS (Scaleway Infinit Storage). SIS starts at €0.00004 for 1GB of storage.

Should be 'infinite'?

> At Scaleway, we provide bare metal SSD servers. When you request a server, you get full root access on a dedicated servers.

Plural agreement. Should be 'on a dedicated server'.

> A simple, robust REST APIs to control all your cloud ressources

Plural agreement, 'Simple, robust REST APIs'. Also spelling, 'resources'.
Is it as simple as storing the backing file on an SSD?
You weren't shocked by the low status of Engineers in the UK.
"stop buying unproven hardware just because it looks cool"

Does it really need to be said? Yes, it does

90% of the stuff on Kickstarter is crap. And that's already filtering for things that can be produced/shipped.

Of course, experimenting is part of the solution. But most producers have no experience, no expert knowledge (on the domain area AND/OR on the technology). I wouldn't be surprised to find people thinking programming an Arduino is the same as using jQuery. IT IS NOT

Apple 1 was crap. No doubt about it. But it wasn't marketed for the end user. And it was what got Apple to the Apple II and then to further adoption.

And even that wasn't enough. Visicalc did that.

Now, a wireless IOT thermometer that uses AA batteries, that's just stupid.
I don't know about the Portuguese job market, but in Silicon Valley, I think it would make a difference. (At least at a first glance; you could probably explain it away to an individual -- but the problem would be getting to the point where you would have the opportunity to talk to them.)

If you're not highly adverse to math and physics, I would make the switch.
Controlling this game with my mind almost drove me crazy
>I rather pay $40/mo for Hetzner 3930 CPU server with something like 30 VMs.

Good luck when Hetzner null route your server when a competitor DDoSes you
All of these fees combined are peanuts compared to the cost of attending any U.S. public university (I'm most familiar with UMaine and UNH, which is $10-15k, and around $30k for non-state residents, in tuition). Private colleges are often on the order of $35-50k for tuition.

It's really outrageous. 35 years ago when my parents were in college, they could make enough money doing typical college-kid jobs (waiting tables, working summers, the same sort of things college students do now), to support themselves AND pay their tuition. I'm a software developer, working full-time, and I don't clear enough money after taxes in a year to pay for a year of tuition at the college I graduated from, unless I were going to be living in a van down by the river and surviving on free pizza provided by student groups.
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No, it is not a joke. Seriously, it was one of the major manufacturers of malware (CNNIC中文上网, with rootkit included) in China.
I don't think these two things can really be equated when you give them an honest look.

In one instance you are preventing others from profiting off their own culture. In the other you are piggybacking off of and profiting from another cultures success.

Both may be wrong but they are separate issues. Conflating them seems like a form of whataboutism.
The claim that champagne refers to bubbling wines in general and cannot be owned, is (not perfectly, but quite) the opposite of the idea that a general and public concept (route 66) is ownable by an entity.
I think that action was somewhat different in nature, though. It's an instance of Vogon-type bureaucracy that sends blocking orders to Internet service providers without an understanding of the issues. I presume the Indian government is not actively trying to shut down VPNs that people use to access this kind of resources.

In short, I believe the Chinese government knows what it is doing, while the Indian government does not.
Here's a Reddit /Bestof on the German university application process. It's not exactly free.

http://reddit.com/r/UpliftingNews/comments/2itsz2/germany_of...
The insult is not that the company is specifically European but that it is non-US. I think the analogy you describe would be more apt if a Californian company were attempting to prevent French people from using the term champagne to describe real champagne from Champagne.
If you google 'ublock', at least for me, the first results should tell you what it is. You can also see that it seems to be owned by gorhill on github.

I would like titles to be altered to tell people what the subject is actually about, or give some background, but I can't see that happening soon, so I'm sorry but you'll have to google for now.
I'll never understand people going full security mode when they live in complete harmless neighborhood (and insurances are not crazy themselves). If anything you are asking to be robbed to be honest, combo challenge + there is probably something good to get.

You already living in an apartment in a secure building. Who do you think is coming for you? The Ocean's 11 squad? ><
This is one of the few times it's actually appropriate and non-insane to use the phrase "cultural appropriation":

"Using something from some other group's culture in a way that makes life for members of that other culture more difficult."

Is it copied from American culture? Yes.

Is their use of it making life more difficult for Americans? Yes.
As someone quite opposed to copyright and patents, I'd say there is an argument for trademark; the use of trademarks is weakly rivalrous - if I start using it, it can potentially occlude your ability to use it. For example, I start an Acme widget company, and you also make widgets branded Acme, of a poorer quality than my widgets. The strength of the rivalrousness depends on factors, such as locality of operation, domain of operation, and it is on that, rational, basis that trademarks are managed - you have to show you're using the trademark, you have to show that you are defending it, and you only get a regional trademark where you are actively operating and in the domain that you're operating. Five guys hamburgers can't (easily) stop Five guys auto mechanics.

On the other hand, there are people badass enough to not bother trademarking (David Tran doesn't trademark Sriracha)
I reckon the domain name will be one of the many assets sold off to recover any losses as a result of the shut down. But having said that, if you don't ask you don't get!
I'm not commenting on the people who want to use the service, I'm commenting on the video which is unashamedly monoculture big-business. If they'd included a custom button for organic honey from the local local yoghurt-weaver I wouldn't feel quite so negative...
Tried scrolling down on the Online.net's website? On the footer of their home page, they have their phone number, address and RCS number.
Creating marketing materials first clarifies a bunch of important things around your business: who your audience is, what your model is, how are you going to reach them. It also gets you speaking your customer's language early. All good things.

I tend to go this way too. In place of a speculative pre-startup business plan (though it grows into that, naturally, I find), this has a lot of the same benefits.

The downside is that I've produced a lot of vapourware, and have been in the position that I've conditioned potential customers to be disappointed. It isn't always easy to see what is feasible, and this can easily lead to over-promising and under-delivering.

If you can walk that fine line, it is an okay approach, I think.
The answer to this question depends on how these taxes are raised.

Currently, this tax is raised in the form of fees, due quarterly (or per semester) for the four (or more, or less) years of UC education consumed. Paid for by students and/or their families. Payment plans, subsidies, and loans may be available to pay this tax...

(I know I'm being a bit colorful, but I hope you catch my drift)
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You can study at METU / Turkey. It is one of the best 100 universities in the world. Very cheap compared to the USA. And it is a state university, founded with the help of the USA during the cold war. http://www.metu.edu.tr/announcement/odtu-among-top-100-unive...

Less than €550 per semester for foreign students (if you are Turkic it is cheaper (might be free), or if you are Turkic country citizen, or if you have graduated from a Turkish high-school in a foreign country etc). http://oidb.metu.edu.tr/en/tuition-fee-amounts

Also there is another campus in Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, which is private (acts like a private). http://international.ncc.metu.edu.tr/tuition-scholarships/
Maybe they understand that education is a universal good.
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Is there any evidence that Scaleway is any better and will not do the same? At least we know the downsides of using Hetzner because they are not new.
I thought so, hence the question mark. The whole phrase 'Scaleway Infinit Storage' could be French, although perhaps it would be 'Storage Infinit Scaleway'.
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