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I feel similarly about AWS and I've been using it for a while. AWS is very powerful and flexible but the number of options and different services can be bewildering. I've suggested AWS to several developers I know that have never used it before and they were turned off from not being able to understand what was being offered and how much it would cost them.

For example, compare the Heroku pricing page and the AWS pricing page for EC2:

https://www.heroku.com/pricing

http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/

The Heroku one is significantly easier to understand in my opinion. I understand AWS has more options and is therefore harder to summarise though.
And on our network the Windows PC prints fine, but the Macs have no idea what's going on.

TL;DR: Printers still suck.
Rather than "mid-century", it's actually high modernism. Subsequent so-called "modernism" ads needless, structually questionable adornment and archaic features.

Similarly, high modernist poetry peaked in the 1940s and 1950s. Since then we've had some good poetry but nothing that attempts to meld form and function in the same way that modernist poets like Eliot and Stein were able to.

IOW there is nothing dated about it -- which is why we still love it. Until furniture starts being made out of more space-age fabrics (or perhaps poetry out of emoji) it's unlikely that modernity will have much more to offer to furniture design or poetry...

Postmodernism is the realization that modern ideals have been met and that some objective other than design and functionality can become the focal point. Often, ironically, it's nostalgia of some kind.

There is nothing nostalgic about choosing modern designs. They simply optimize form and function with current materials and technology. That materials and tech for furniture have plateaued is a separate issue. Largely, the innovations have been in production, distribution, and manufacturing. Someone is far more likely today to live in a space adorned by modern designs mass-produced by Ikea or Target.

On a separate note I just discovered startup furniture company "Joybird". Pretty nice stuff, mostly so-called 'mid-century modern'.
I'm the other author of the blogpost and we're both happy to answer any questions anyone has.
> From a business standpoint it makes total sense.

Investors are not idiots. Not saying you are, you might be just misguided. Lynda and Coursera are nothing alike.
Ask HN: Work on your own car/home or contract out?
Replaced calipers/rotors on my wife's Passat, renovated a bathroom (led to updating some wiring in my old home). Do hackers spend time on this stuff or spend their wealth on contractors?
I have found that when I am deploying to production, when I pull the source to compile and run "go get" then the version of the packages pulled are different than what I was working with locally. One example is the martini oauth2 library changed the way you configure it, so on production it broke when trying to take it live, but it worked fine on development. It wasn't until I ran "go get -u" that I noticed all my applications using the martini oauth2 package were now broken.

If this can fix that by checking to see if there are breaking changes and place them on a different major branch, that would be a nice feature.

I realize my build process could be better, and when I believe go 1.5 comes out I can compile native binaries on my dev machine to be deployed, but it was a pain nonetheless.
If you're going across the network, a slow timeout is often trickier than an explicit failure.

I wrote about handling this in Python: http://www.mobify.com/blog/http-requests-are-hard/
Yeah, it appears that stevia would likely have similar effects, as it has been suggested that tasting sweetness causes an spike in insulin without a corresponding bump in blood glucose levels, leading to an excess of insulin[1].

What causes the difference in effect between glucose and artificial sweeteners appears to be the taste of sweetness without the carbohydrates that would go along with natural sources of sweet taste.

[1] Sucralose Affects Glycemic and Hormonal Responses to an Oral Glucose Load -http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/early/2013/04/30/dc...
He uses OS X. Rantilly.

http://www.jwz.org/blog/tag/mac/
All of the GP's complaints are about Windows. You are attempting to divorce "this PDF viewer" from "Microsoft Windows" while the GP's complaints are about the laptop running Microsoft Windows with a bunch of Windows software installed on it.

I love how you point at "unchecky" as a great service when it is a piece of software you use to deal with problems that shouldn't exist in other software.

How manu Windows users wailed and gnashed their teeth over iTunes insisting on installing Quicktime? Is that because Windows users are lazy or that they didn't want Quicktime installed just to use iTunes?

"You are all too lazy for your own good," is classic victim blaming.

Is it perhaps possible that Sony, Dell, Toshiba et al have poisoned the well?
The question of slavery seems quite orthogonal to government. It was, after all, the United States government that codified and made slavery law in the first place. It was, after all, the southern governments that subsidized slave owners costs through police enforcement (by catching slaves), and courts (Dred Scott v. Sandford anyone?). It would arguably be quite difficult to have functioning slavery without it being subsidized (its usually cheaper just to pay people to do the work, unless someone else is paying to keep them in line).

At the end of the day, the government is just the people. I don't "blame" the government for slavery in America anymore than I "congratulate" them for ending it. People at one point wanted it and thus the government unfortunately reflected that, and at a later point stopped wanting it and thus the government reflected that. Just look at your own interpretation here: it relies entirely on the historical accident that the north won. Had the south coincidentally won instead, which would have had little to do with which side was "right", would you think government doesn't work? Military force this time around thankfully was on the side of good, doesn't seem in any way guaranteed however.

Not to mention the ways government continues to support slavery. It was only 50 years ago that we were interning the Japanese. And if you read the 13th amendment, you'll notice a peculiar exception: "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted". That's why you can have a profitable prison system in America, where the government picks up the tab of incarceration, while private companies are provided a below-minimum-wage workforce (http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-prison-industry-in-the-unit...).
Why is that a non-issue? You cannot charge your Macbook and charge your iPhone with it at the same time.
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I don't understand the nuances and fighting over what database is better.

So the key takeaway for me is the reminder that persistent storage is generally no longer spinning rust. Programs and operating systems should evolve to take advantage of the different strengths and weaknesses of flash based storage.
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> bash gets a bad rap, because there's a ton of horrible shell scripts floating around

I remember when this was the most common defense of VB :D
The parent is not incorrect. Any corporate officer can be sued for actions they perform within a corporation.

The government can also pursue you monetarily due to actions you perform as an executive.

Just because the point of a corporation is to shield its directors / owners / executives, that has no bearing on whether it always does. Just because you have a corporation in front of you as an executive, that does not guarantee you won't lose in a court of law or that the government won't tear you to shreds.

See: Jeffrey Skilling

"Upon being sentenced, Skilling agreed to turn over $45 million to the Justice Department in conjunction with his conviction. The money is to be added to a restitution fund related to the civil litigation on behalf of employees and shareholders."

http://www.chron.com/business/enron/article/Skilling-settles...

Executives are very frequently responsible for all sorts of bad things they do in the name of a corporation. See: Worldcom, Adelphia, Enron, Tyco and countless other examples.
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No, their business model is (among other things) curated online courses — yes, for money; it is a "business model", after all.

Without looking, I can't say definitively, but I'd bet an appreciable number of the Photoshop tutorials found in your (probably also unverified) LMGTFY-fu are poorly written, inaccurate, inspecific as to which version of Photoshop they're teaching or otherwise suffer from quality control issues — and probably more than one, at that.

I've also never taken an Lynda.com course, myself, so I can't speak directly to the quality of their offerings. A number of former co-workers work there [1], however, and if they're any indicator of the caliber of people the company employs, then they're probably pretty solid.

They're selling a (presumably somewhat reliable) minimum level of quality in the courses they put up, so that people who have better things to do than perform comparative analyses of the free offerings out there [2] can get on with the thing they wanted to do in the first place: learn the material they're interested in learning.

I don't think that's a particularly terrible business model at all — especially if you can also flip it for $1.5b.

[1] Congrats to them, and I hope their options agreement included accelerated vestiture upon acquisition!

[2] A thing that might be rather difficult, given their desire to learn about the subject in the first place. How, exactly, do you know which course or tutorial is worth a damn if you don't know anything about its subject matter? I guess you could pay someone to do it...

Oh, wait.

EDIT: Footnotes instead of parentheticals for legibility.

EDIT 2: Please don't call people whose priorities and skillsets differ from yours "incompetent". It smacks of the kind of elitism I find so disgusting in our industry, and of the myopia I was referring to up-thread: "Well, if I can do this, everyone should be able to!"
Eames, one of the most important pioneers of the mid-century modern design had a great motto: "The best for the most for the least." It was aimed merging great design with mass production so the everyday man could have affordably priced, well designed furniture. Not sure what happened, but these items are now priced for the wealthy.
Intel only contributed the code for that a year ago, so while we now know it can be done, there's no particular reason to believe that it's easy to get working properly. The messy mix of EFI 1.x and UEFI 2.x that Apple uses could make things even trickier.
Really? How much interest rate does it take to change things? Someone will invest in foobar.com social toaster app over putting in a savings account based on savings rate going from 1% to 2%?
That quote is a bit misleading when taken out of context.

Early in the war, there were a lot of conservative Northern Democrats who felt that, while crushing the rebellion was a valid war aim, going beyond that to emancipation of the slaves was not. They felt that insisting on emancipation would poison any chance of ever reintegrating the South into the Union. Since Lincoln was the first President ever elected by the then-new Republican party, which had a strong pro-emancipation faction, these conservatives tended to view Lincoln as a potentially dangerous radical whose ideology could potentially sabotage the war effort.

At the war's opening Lincoln tended to agree with them. But a year of hard fighting that saw a string of Northern defeats changed his thinking. He began to feel that only by embracing a higher goal than political union could the North seize the moral high ground it would need to keep its people from giving up in frustration. So he slowly began to swing towards emancipation.

However, it was critical while he was making that swing that word of it not leak out, since if it was revealed prematurely, without the right buildup, it could shock the conservatives into bolting from the national unity coalition of Republicans and Democrats together that he had assembled at the start of the war. So even as he was drafting what became the Emancipation Proclamation, he was furiously insisting to anyone who asked that he intended nothing of the sort. (The quote you cited comes from an open letter Lincoln wrote during this period to a prominent conservative New York newspaper editor named Horace Greeley as part of this PR effort -- see http://www.nytimes.com/1862/08/24/news/letter-president-linc...)

It worked, at least as well as it needed to work; while the conservatives never really trusted Lincoln, they couldn't ever pin him down on the slavery issue either. And by the time he revealed his shift, it was clear to everyone that the conservatives' dream that the South could be reconciled with sweet words and restraint was a fantasy -- the South was in earnest, they were playing for keeps, and the only way they would be brought back into the union was with fire and sword.
I like the "Introduction to Machine Learning" which sort of briefly outlines the basics of machine learning for people who don't know about it.
At the moment, the most feasible way I see to the stars is via laser-launched ship. The cruel mistress that is the rocket equations don't favor even a self-contained starship driven by 100% efficient antimatter reactions, to say nothing of things that might actually work. Leaving your engine behind is almost a necessity. But even if you try to launch things from a solar-system based laser station the physics still don't really work out well. Light-years is a long way to maintain a focus for the beam.

Some have decided this means star travel is impossible; I say it just limits how quickly we can do it. We could launch very large ice asteroids with nanotech unmanned fusion stations that construct lasers ("vigorous handwave about magic here") and create ourselves a series of stepping stones to a star. It would take a long time, not least of which is because we would also need to set up the "stepping stones" to stop us on the other end, too! But in theory it seems like it would "just" be a matter of time. Lots of time. But a whole star system on the other end! It's a pretty big payoff for a strapping young Kardashev II civilization.

(Note that "just send information" only works after you deliver a physical package to the other end which would be capable of receiving it and doing something with it, and even nanotech is unlikely to be able to land anywhere to begin its lengthy self-replicating process to bootup civilization on the other end if it's merrily passing through a system at 80% the speed of light relative to the local rest frame.)

If you were lucky enough to stumble on to one of these planets in the way, it would provide a pretty nice shortcut to setting up your bridge by providing you a nice, huge power source (if you can find a lot of hydrogen lying around somewhere, which is a reasonable guess) that's already more-or-less at rest in the galactic frame, allowing you to use it to relatively easily create more stages on the enormous pipeline, and allowing you the ability to relatively easily replenish the stages in the middle. (If that's even desirable... perhaps the stages can be retargeted to other stars or something once the bootstrap package is successfully delivered.)

... of course, the article's starting with "10,000 years in the future" is probably not a terrible guess about all this, as such things go. This is a guaranteed-slow process, trading time for space. Tell your great-grandchildren to ask their great-grandchildren how the initial plans to make the initial plans for all this are going, and say "hi" to the future for you. Saying "we" will do this might very well be considered to be rather impudent of me, much like Napoleon trying to claim some sort of perceptible credit for the Hoover Dam.
True, people developing Joomla sites are not the retards, their customers are.

Just kidding. And I agree with you.
It might be that nobody owns anything an AI produces. If the works are created mechanically without measurable influence from a human creature, copyright simply doesn't protect them.
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Just announced: a $9m Series A, and our customers include eBay, Square, and Hipmunk.

We've got a great product in a huge market with the right people for the job, and we have a hell of a lot of fun. Come join us!

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Sadly 3 stopped all-you-can-eat tethering in December. People were using insane amounts - significantly more than 250GB.
Anyone Using Happy Hacking KB Lite 2?
Interested in your opinions. I like the lower price and arrow keys but not sure of the overall quality and key switches.
While I agree that many of the laws aren't stupid and should be followed, I can't figure out any justification, other than greed, for restricting supply the way many cities do. If you can, please share.
That sounds like an issue with the implementation, not the protocol. There are countless large environments I know of running NFS in production on NetApp without any issues at all.
Some irony there at clastic [1]

"A functional Python web framework that streamlines explicit development practices while eliminating global state."

Meanwhile somewhere else, it comes in as an overbearing global solutions provider. Hope that does not spell the end for the table_html utility.

1. https://github.com/mahmoud/clastic
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> I needed lots and lots of OS file descriptors

Why?

I ask because I wrote a port scanner professionally once, and I got away with using one fd for network I/O. I can only think of one case where you end up using a lot of fds and that is if you're using TCP sockets and connect(2) where you'd end up with one fd/tested port, and that's not good.
No, I'm actually just manually counting votes and accepting/rejecting the PRs. I have become the bot until the limit resets :/
The LD-50 for theobromine (found in chocolate) is 300 mg/kg for dogs, and 1000 mg/kg for humans. Additionally, dogs metabolize it more slowly than humans.

As a result, a dog who eats 1 oz milk chocolate or 0.25 oz dark chocolate per pound of its own body weight could die. A 192-lb human who eats 12 pounds of milk chocolate is unlikely to die... from theobromine poisoning.

Cats have an ever lower LD-50 for theobromine, but they are less likely to eat a lethal dose of chocolate, because they don't taste sweetness, while dogs can. Birds are not affected by capsaicin, but are absolutely repulsed by methyl anthranilate (artificial grape flavoring).
I didn't know it was disabled, thanks.
pcp is happy to collect & persist metrics; vector just doesn't happen to render them. pcp offers other ways to interact with live or archive-saved data, including other webapps.
PSSST: Android watches were a thing long before Apple pre-announced theirs.
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I don't see any reasons why a silicon valley startup couldn't. Lots of small bank startups sprout up all over the country. Also, Simple.com was a startup (they are now part of a very large bank) that got FDIC insurance through a partner bank.
This being said, there is a big difference between 'ending slavery' and 'full equality'. For example. white women in the US at the time weren't slaves, but they weren't 'fully equal'. They couldn't vote, for example.
The actions of Congress lag behind the will of the 50th percentile person, but not behind the 90th percentile person. That is to say that once 51% of people decide something is wrong, they can act through Congress to force the other 49% to stop doing that thing.
Ask HN: Product Documentation, how did you manage to get it done?
Hi All, any tips on conquering product documentation?

Obviously it's best to go as your grow. In early stage startups - what have you found as the best workflow for creating content for help centers etc?

So far, we've been predicting common questions and have taken from various email exchanges we've had with customers during acquisition.
Well yes, and the question of what exactly emancipation would mean in practice would eventually end up splitting the Republican Party between "let 'em up easy" men like Lincoln who advocated imposing as little change on the South as possible, and "radical Republicans" like Thaddeus Stevens who wanted to go so far as erase the old Southern states off the map and divide the conquered South into military districts run by the Federal government. (After Lincoln's death the Radicals won the argument by default, and more or less ran things for the next ten years.) But that didn't come until a couple of years later.
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These are great!

You know, this makes me thing about how there are so many things that I wish Python would come with:
requests, lxml, gevents and a good amount of stuff from the package.

I wish there was Python 2.8.
What about without local privilege escalation? Is there no way for a malware payload or RCE to turn your computer into a botnet without root privileges?
It doesn't mean it's safe either. More importantly, it discredits completely the approval and its related studies.
I assume Amazon can't offer EC2 OS X instances until Apple allows OS X to be virtualized
Based on how present DJI is in US media, I never even considered them to be a chinese firm.
Two wolves and a sheep voting on dinner.
It would really be interesting to see a "computers-on-Jeopardy" competition that was open to all comers. (The 'Watson' appearance, while impressive in many ways, was essentially a contrived IBM infomercial.)
It isn't a great source, but this seems to suggest it would actually be pretty significant:

> "Near the galactic center, the average distance between neighboring stars would be only 1000 AU (about a light-week). If the Sun were located within a parsec of the galactic center, there would be a million stars in our sky with apparent brightness greater than Sirius. The total starlight in the night sky would be about 200 times greater than the light of the full moon; you could easily read the newspaper at midnight, relying on starlight alone."

http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~ryden/ast162_7/notes31....
The Android knockoff that was released a year beforehand.
Having some design constraints would provide more standardization. It would also provide interview questions.
Your example would be a 100% increase in cost of capital, which would be .. significant.
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> It was conversion from standard MongoDB to RocksDB based MongoDB

Well that would have been relevant information to put in the article now wouldn't it?
What is more important to you: time or money? This will determine the choice that you make.
agree. it's a moot point ;)
I don't think the early universe had sufficient amounts of heavy elements to form planets... everything heavier than lithium is made by stars.
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Not that I've ever heard. But considering they applied and were accepted to Techstars in London, Sherman and Karl had a ton of connections to London that they were using to fundraise. Techstars wants founders to be where founders want their company to be.