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Working at BigCo doing work with our internal enterprise data centers that are spread globally a few concerns would come up.

- How secure are the AWS offerings in comparison to a company's internal offerings?

- How cost effective is it? If a company's internal cost is the same monthly rate, roughly speaking, transitioning from internally hosted to AWS would be a huge effort and could take many years. Case in point is Netflix transitioning to AWS took a few years and they are "new" compared to larger older companies.

- A huge amount of re-architecting applications would need to occur to work on AWS for nearly any company. These are critical apps that were written a decade ago but keep the bits flowing on old technology.

The plus side for a big company would be for new projects. It takes eons to get infrastructure and storage for something - like months. If I could fire up VM's and storage in a day or two, projects would move insanely faster.
Create an example of your problem. Solve for specifics before variables. Then generalize it and replace those specifics with variables. Skipping the first step can be confusing because many people struggle to conceptualize abstract data.

Studying algorithms and their use cases can be helpful as well:
http://blog.notdot.net/tag/damn-cool-algorithms

When you have to search something to solve it. Make sure you aren't searching for the answer to solve the answer but are searching the answer to understand the answer. Take some time to study the solution to your problem and make sure you understand what it is doing and how it works so that next time a similar problem arises you might be able to solve it because the solution worked for you in the past.
It's a totally separate product. It'll have no effect on your EBS usage.
I read in order of publication! Seemed to work well.
Hm? This wouldn't have been any better if implemented using sockets.
Or your IT department could force you to use a Golden Master of 10.9, and not let you update.
What's good StreetAccounts highlights
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"US regulates high-tech exports on Chinese defense research."

A lot less flashy and baity though.
Of course not. But there are varying degrees of evidence supporting the idea that consuming excess carbohydrates (and more specifically, "simple" carbohydrates) contributes to a wide array of health issues.

We know consuming excess carbohydrates is bad for you the same way we know that climate change is happening. The same way we know that a sedentary lifestyle is detrimental to your health. The same way we know that smoking causes lung cancer and a cornucopia of other health concerns.

Science rarely affords us the ability to make absolute statements.
Actually, unity 5 (released last month) can now compile in webgl. So next step is clearly an html5 version. It would be great to have urls that bring you directly inside DiveReal at given coordinates. However, this will take sometime and put meanwhile divereal in standby.

I think I should also interact with today's users to try to figure out for what divereal could be useful..
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Well, it depends on your definition of fact. So far it's a fairly well supported and entirely non-refuted hypothesis.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15082091
I think it's because electric charge comes in positive and negative varities. Together with no charge at all, ternary isn't that crazy of an idea. You might even get 50% more storage for the same amount of hardware?
I would also like to learn more about your view of btrfs. Is it a fundamental problem? Or an implementation, or community issue you have?
Apparently this also happens for things like mattresses, airline tickets, and food (which doesn't make it less frustrating when you notice it).
Yeah it is a huge problem: Without a way to source a billion dollars Intel can't build a new factory.

Now you could replace banks with e.g bonds sold in the public market, but you still need something to finance the IT of the world.
FWIW - most car clubs offer "precision driving" or "autocross" events where you can explore the limits of your car. You may want to look into it. It's actually a ton of fun.
Where Sea Breaks Its Back. It's about a journey that naturalist Gregor William Stellar (Different transliterations different spelling) and a trip he took with Bering to Alaska. He was the first naturalist to describe a number of species, a number of which were never seen again or hunted to extinction before being studied and he was the only one to describe. To top it all off most of the products of his research, notes books diagrams specimens etc. were lost of damaged.
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Interestingly enough, a low carbohydrate (often including a switch to artificial sweeteners) is a well-established treatment for childhood epilepsy.
> A major pension plan serving 100,000 retirees needs their 100 billion dollars in assets to be managed responsibly, can a 24 year old Stanford grad manage that?

Judging by the NYC pension fund, I could manage 100 billion better.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/04/09/nyregion/wall-street-fe...
Until Amazon starts offering EC2 OS X instances, I'm not sure that's as relevant.
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Functional Programming Application and Implementation by Peter Henderson. Old but interesting.
Woken Furies by Richard Morgan. Good sci-fi detective thriller series.
Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael C Feathers. Hell of a book. Up there with Mythical Man Month.
There was a documentary where identical twins did a health challenge or a month. One ate only carbs and the other only fat/protein. Guess which had blood sugar spikes at the end of the challenge... the one eating fat/protein.
If the pain inflicted on the deer is relatively equal and the desired outcome (lower deer population) is achieved then what difference does the method make.

The ecosystem you speak of was destroyed when the apex predators were removed generations ago . Re-introducing predators does two things (look it up):

1) Disperses the herds thereby extending their range, and
2) causes some serious (unmanageable) peaks and valleys in populations of prey (rabbits, deer, moose, etc...) until equilibrium is reached (if ever)

Apex predator birth rate is low and it would take years to have a noticeable effect. Of course, releasing enough predators to "thin the herd", so to speak, requires an unsustainable predator population once the thinning is complete. So you get mange, starvation, fido goes missing, etc...

Hunters on the other hand only get as many deer tags as needed to control the populations. With that said, I agree that predators should be brought back in limited numbers and allowed reach natural sustainable levels within the ecosystem. But to use them as a short term way of controlling deer density is silly. You don't fix a complex, interconnected system build over decades with a band-aid.
I would love to see this as well. If I have some time this weekend, I'll look into submitting a PR :)
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This wouldn't have been a surprise for the Chinese. Intel would have been told a long time ago, and so likely would the university in question.

It also won't be a scenario that China hasn't planned for. The reason that China's been building up its chipmakers over the last few years is for precisely this scenario; reducing the reliance on American tech. They've been doing this quite successfully; Cisco now aren't able to do business with the Chinese government, iirc.

Lastly, Tianhe-2 was a $400 million computer. The decision to block American collaboration on a project valued at a considerable fraction of $1 billion isn't made by some office clerk; it will have been considered at the highest levels of at least the military, but most likely the government in general.

It's a diplomatic maneuvre specifically designed to hurt China. Intel's just been caught in the crossfire. They could easily be pacified (for example, by giving them a supercomputer contract in the US).

In terms of the Chinese reaction, antagonization is probably the point.
Sentence segmentation and sentiment analysis may be overkill.

N-grams + Naive Bayes is potentially Good Enough.
That very much depends on what you're using and how you tune things. With NFSv4.1, you can use parallel nfs, which is essentially striping reads and writes over multiple nfs servers.

http://www.pnfs.com/

If you're using modern servers and clients, it is as fast as you can imagine a cluster of ssd nfs servers to be.
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It is not open source: google's ToU/copyright does not allow to release a reverse engineering of streetview.
> at scale

I'd say Apache Spark
I take statistical mechanics classes for fun on Coursera. I learn what Powerpoint buttons to push to make an animation from Lynda. I do not ever in my life want to spend ten weeks listening to lectures about Powerpoint. I want to get my Powerpoint crap done as fast as possible, and Lynda is pretty useful for those job skills.
I did a code project as a test once. Mostly out of desperation to find a job quickly. And it taught me to refuse and ignore any work-at-home tests, no matter what they are. Either you look me in the eye and we talk like men about software development. Or you play alone with your tests and quizzes until you find someone desperate enough to care.

Why I don't do code tests:

- Artificial problems with artificial constraints. I have to understand some weird context you dreamed up and figure out a solution that matches your expectations. Give me real world problems. I don't work in la la land.

- Solving your test takes at least a couple of hours. I can send three more resumes in that time. Or I can start hacking together a side project to compete with your company. I don't waste my time and neither should you.

- Skewed expectations. Your test is prepared in advance. And because you already know the solution, it seems easy. But it's not. Want a real test? Let's try one you haven't seen before side by side. We'll see then if I'm good and if you are as competent as you think you are. But if I figure it out before you do, I expect a salary higher than yours. Not so fun anymore, is it.

- Skilled people don't need tests to determine skill. They assume it's there and look for potential problems. If I built at least one side-project and you can see it, don't treat me like someone that can't code. If I have 7 years experience, don't test my coding skills like I'm a graduate. Because the 3-5 guys that hired me before you did that already. And they found me good enough to hire.

Show respect to your candidates. Treat them like they are as good as they claim, and look for discrepancies subtly. Don't assume everyone is an incompetent liar. And definitely don't test the living shit out of them just to prove yourself right or wrong.
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I'm not sure if it's in Android 5.1 or just a feature of CyanogenMod (12.1) but there's a feature in there to also change the color at night, and I find it less aggressive than f.lux, which I like.
> "correlation does not equal causation"

I hate this phrase so much because it's so often used to imply that "because there is correlation it means there can't be causation"

> Tufte suggests that the shortest true statement that can be made about causality and correlation is one of the following:

> "Empirically observed covariation is a necessary but not sufficient condition for causality."

> "Correlation is not causation but it sure is a hint."
Spinning programming plates and creative algorithms, with Charles Sutton
If anyone has any thoughts on the post I'd love to hear them.
A business needs to borrow $2 billion dollars -- are you going to crowd fund that?
A state government wants to borrow $800 million in bonds for a new arena, can you GoFund that?

Sure, why not?
what was the bug bounty?
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* A short history of the world by HG Wells.

* Discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru.

A bit of history dose this month.
To answer your question what to do with your knowledge, how about building an app just to get the ball rolling. This way you are also building a portfolio, which will help in your job interview.

If you're lacking ideas for a project then read this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5234692
>That means the cost simply would be spread among more customers, and in many cases a new broadband fee would be offset by a lower fee on a consumer's phone bill.

Yeah, but we don't pay for phone service since we switched to GV and an Obitalk router. I'd like to see someone explain why this is a good outcome and has anything to do with NN.
I'm casual reading these books

* Iron-Clad Java: Building Secure Web Applications.

* How Linux Works: What Every Superuser Should Know.

* Black Hat Python.

Paused reading

* Functional Programming in Scala.

* Version Control with Git.

Bought due to HN praises, skimmed through, but probably won't read

* Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs.
A lot of people are putting forth (b), but without a lot of justification other than disease, predation, old age. What I'm interested in at this point is how is that different than applying to towards people. What's wrong with "people die of alzheimer's, car crashes, old age, etc. and these are arguably worse than just allowing some people that enjoy killing other people from saving them from that burden."

The question is somewhat ridiculous, there are easily many differences depending on your stance on the importance of sapience, etc, but that doesn't mean there aren't important facets to examining why it's different, and what beliefs hold up or do not under careful examination after deciding what the important differences are.
Well he's pointing out EFS is not a replacement for EBS. You can run postgres on EBS volumes with PIOPS.
Thanks for the suggestions. I'll definitely take a look.
> Rule: The seller is not given access to the reviewer's real identity and order number and cannot communicate with
> them except for public comments (which are always a bad idea as you can be baited into a flame war by a smart competitor).

I agree with a lot of your points, but not this one. As a buyer on Amazon, I love seeing sellers respond politely to reviews. I've seen sellers offer refunds, repairs, and other things a few times and this has been hugely influential in the level of trust that I had in them.

On a few occasions, this has made it obvious that the original reviewer wasn't really being genuine or was just being overly critical as well.
And If I want to move to a different school system to teach before I'm vested? How do they pay out?
More competition is good for consumers.
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You can read more on Walmart with nodejs to find out the same story.
The validity low carb diets is generally orthogonal to artificial sweeteners and probably should not be conflated.
Neat, I don't need to figure out how to wear it over my prescription glasses. But then, I can't install it on the TV ;)
I realize that you may be using a limited input device, but surely you can afford a few spare grams of pressure for the shift key, or y and o? Anyway, I can see what you mean re: Venice/LA (Venice is not its own city), but as someone who used to work in Santa Monica there was a time when the ONLY places I would consider were SM, Venice, and just maybe El Segundo (the beach bike path did make for an amazing commute). Having WeHo or Northridge jobs mixed in there could be a pain.
Results from where Co-Founder met and their happiness
A couple days ago I asked the HN community to fill out a form with 5 questions about where they met their co-founder. I promised to share the results.

Although it only got 8 responses, I wanted to hold true to my word. Interestingly the two startup that had zero funding the founder knew each other less than an year before launching their startup.

I'd love to do deeper analysis. If you want to help, please answer 5 questions in less that 1 min: https://sectorscape.typeform.com/to/U5lQOM
Meh. The more I do machine learning in industry the more I realize how little the ML part matters compares to everything else. A typical project I've seen takes 3-6 months and contains thousands lines of code, but the machine learning part will take a week or two and be 100 lines of code. What Amazon ML is doing would probably take an hour and 30 lines of R code you can easily find online.

And here's the not-too-hidden secret: the ML part is the fun part. It's a big reason we spend months creating banking.csv. Josh Willis did a very funny presentation at MLconf partly about this. It's like waiting in line at a theme park for an hour, and then paying someone to cut in line at the last minute and record the ride for you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Gwf5zsg4vI&feature=youtu.be...
How did you bootstap your personal discipline?
For commenters who get things done.

Were you just raised right? Was it an event? Did you read a particularly inspiring book? Podcast? Subliminal tape? Was it an uncle, an aunt, a teacher? A movie? A pop song? A undefinable thirst for try-fail cycles?

It's most likely an ongoing process, but I thought I'd ask to help improve my own process.
Yes. And what's cool with a mirror world is that it will continue to enhance as sensors will continue to provide more and more precise data from more places. The coverage and the spatiotemporal resolution will grow with time...
Errol Morris did a fantastic job of telling this emotional story in his First Person TV series (ep: 'Leaving the Earth').

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Person_%28TV_series%29

It's a heartwrenching and inspiring tale. I tear up every time I watch it. Denny Fitch was an absolute hero. RIP.
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I understand where you're coming from.

I've been working with my current client for the last 3 months. He brought me on at $150 per hour after he had to fire his previous contractors, and I've been cleaning up their mess ever since. I've heard of quite a few situations like this, but I'm sure that there are cheaper developers out there who are doing great work.

Demand for part-time + remote jobs seems to be pretty low in general, but I don't think my rate is the issue.

I am able to charge this much because of my experience with startups, and my open source contributions. I was an early engineer at a startup which is now worth over $500 million, and I'm currently the CTO at my own startup.

Obviously networking is one of my major weaknesses, and I need to work on that.
'Anything else would you change and if so why?' would make a good interview question.
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Sounds like actual warfare.
Thanks for clarifying that! That's been bugging me forever. :)
Which doesn't really effect my feelings towards those who are upset they can't hunt a location they were previously able to. If the hunting is beneficial and there's not a better solution, the ability to hunt there may return. If it's about people's feeling of entitlement, them my original assessment stands.
Boo! Party pooper!
> Test and analyze your forms to continuously improve your results.

Always good advice in any sphere.
"Lies My Teacher Told Me" by James W. Loewen, he's a sociologist that examines the major textbooks sold in the US. The title is a little cheesy, the book is a bit more serious.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies_My_Teacher_Told_Me
This. The pity is that immediately we get the results after a week the project is over and we move back to data wrangling hell!
I've been doing low-carb (to varying degrees) for about 4 years now and love it.

I used to be all about potatoes, bread, pasta, milk, etc. Never big on sweets, but the complex carbs... oh yes. Once I almost hit 200lb at 17-ish I decided to cut carbs (/r/keto) and it worked wonders. I was down to about 150 (a healthy weight for my size) in about a year, but the weight loss is asymptotic. I lost like 10 pounds in my first two weeks, but it took me another 8-9 months to lose the other 40.

The first week or two are somewhat hellish for some people because you're essentially going through a withdrawal. It's nearly identical in mechanism and symptoms of a drug withdrawal. If anything, that should underline how detrimental regular excess carb intake can be. What's even worse than the normal "withdrawals," though, is when you cheat.

When I first went to college I ate an absurd amount of carbs for a rush event (aka fun/eating challenge) and literally fell asleep at the table. Then I felt like shit for the next 3 days. That was my last time cheating :)

You're absolutely right, though, after the first 1-3 weeks, your cravings stop, headaches stop, brain fog clears, you sleep amazingly, feel energized, and don't even notice the dessert menu. It's fascinating and I highly recommend it. You may hate it, you may love it. It has benefitted me in a lot of ways, and it continues to even as I somewhat elevate my carb intake in order to work out effectively.
Transit apps will make the Apple Watch worth it
For comparison, EBS is $0.10 / GB / Month for SSDs and
$0.05 / GB / Month for regular disks.
Would you mind explaining how exactly "Apple consistently leads and innovates ahead of other companies and open source"?
I work remote, and worked even more remotely for a year. Yeah, this was just a 2mo bit of fun. Great. But longer stays in Thailand quickly run into immigration law.

If you're having power outages or brownouts, you want voltage regulators and UPS'. Bad power will wreck your electronics. It's good to have a backup internet connection as well. I've had outages lasting up to 3 weeks, and what are you really going to do about it to motivate a telephone company to work faster?

The 37signals people created a short book about working remotely. At about the same time as I was having problems with someone not overlapping their hours with the rest of the team, their book pointed out the same issue. If you don't overlap, people will become isolated in a very bad way. If you hire someone you just have to clarify the expected hours upfront.
The problem of course being that banks have a heavily regulated oligopoly on the _creation_ of money. Banks have a right to lend (a lot) more than they have deposits and capital. Think fractional reserve banking. They effectively create money out of thin air. Kickstarter and friends can't do that.

But the tech sector may come start scratch at the edges. I hope so, together with you!
Thus the phrase "often including..."

I wasn't attempting to disprove or contribute to his claims. Just to point out an interesting intersection of diet and seizures.
Huge +1. This is one of the best and most informative books about engineering process I've ever read.

The numerous real-world examples from airplane crash investigation also help put into perspective the relative unimportance of the "critical bugs" and "extreme pressure" most of us building the kinds of products discussed on HN actually experience.
The OSX and linux versions are still buggy and crashing: It's time consuming to maintain several versions of the software for different platforms. I definitively want to move to webGL...
I don't understand your point... at all. The relationship between a client and a prostitute is nothing like the relationship between a romantic couple. Do you really equate your relationship with your wife to that of a sex worker? Come on.
You won't get anywhere if you aren't moving your feet.
Try going low carb for a month. There are amazing low carb foods too.

Like steak.

And bacon.

And cheese.