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Most business don't maximize short term revenue in that way. Compare it to any new tech gadget, especially ones with hard supply limitations like the limitations that exist for live events (thus preventing a true market meeting point of supply and demand). I'm sure Apple could sell a lot of iPhones at $1500 until supply stabilizes, reduce the price $200, then rinse and repeat. That might reduce the secondary market and be the ideal pricing strategy, but it would be a bad business decision especially from a public relations standpoint. Just like there will always be people waiting in line at Apple stores on day 1 to grab a device and throw in on eBay, there will always be ticket brokers doing the same.
Sadly I think you still need -lnsl -lsocket on solaris :(
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https://github.com/rackerlabs/blueflood is a time series datastore with aggregation and rest APIs built on top of Cassandra. It's production ready and in fact used in production at Rackspace. Full disclaimer: I am a core contributor.
I think you are wrong that the web matters less, and also wrong that only Google is pushing it.

First, you forgot IndexedDB, another example from the article, which disproves your point. Other examples include fullscreen and WebAssembly.

Web Components/Shadow DOM and Service Workers happen to be two technologies that Google is pushing. There are of course plenty of examples where Google is behind: Nested Workers, asm.js, ES6, etc. etc.

It might be true that the web matters less to Apple than it used to, and that isn't very surprising - Apple's native apps on iOS are massively successful, and it makes sense for Apple to focus more on that. And that does mean the web matters less on mobile, since Apple is huge there, but the web is still just as important as it always was on desktop.
If capitalism is as good as they say, BTC entrepreneurs and miners should be pouring money into cleantech anytime now ;)

The second point is something I've asked myself without any clear answer. Interested too learning more about this.
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Did you consider a hybrid solution? You could store the most recent data in time series database for visualization purposes and dump the rest into a traditional SQL data store. Other than that, IIRC Grafana had plans for PostgresSQL but it's not there yet.
I was recently on the job market and read Secrets of Power Negotiating by Roger Dawson. I'm relatively inexperienced and that book gave me a huge confidence boost. I can directly attribute 15% of my compensation to reading it.

Even just the "flinch" he talks about netted me an extra 5k right off the bat. I had always been too afraid to directly ask "what is the compensation range for this position?" but now I ask exactly that, forthrightly and without confrontation. Nobody refused to answer.
Putting things in a kernel control failure modes, security, performance at the cost of rigid APIs. So I understand wanting to avoid committing to a kernel. But its harder to make strong guarantees without.
It's only degrading to your profession if it's actually true.

I was a software developer for many years, and I've seen hundreds of claims for software to automate (in one guise or other) that job, replacing the need for coders.

None of these claims offended me. The vast majority have been comically useless. The rest have just helped remove some dull bit of grunt work out of the job, allowing me to focus on something more valuable.
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Exactly my point... I think Hinton deserve a lot of merit for being "stubborn" enough to find grants for a field that a lot of people have serious doubts about.
> Ticketmaster is practically a saint next to them in my eyes.

Ticketmaster owns a Stubhub competitor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TicketsNow
As a manager of engineers I would add one thing to this generally good advice:

After you negotiate the raise, make sure you live up to it.

If you kick ass at your job, your manager will very rarely worry too much about what they're paying you, they'll just be thrilled to have you on the team. But if you're not living up to the high expectations you set for yourself then they're really going to regret paying you that extra 5k (or 10k or 20k or whatever).
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Lol @Navy's Army's Airforce. Did you coin that?
Company valuations are based on N(engineers). It is said that hiring a full-time engineer increases your valuation by $1M.

And it only costs about 10% of that per year to pay the engineer. Winning.

Basically, there's no incentive to give raises to current engineers because when your company doesn't care about profits or expenses, but about getting and maintaining investment and stock value, it doesn't matter how expensive it is to train new people and how ineffective they are. As long as they are just effective enough to maintain a N(user) growth, you're good.
Funny he mentioned System/38, which largely eliminated users' storage worries, then says that company's rep never heard of it. Funny cuz they still sell it: IBM i. I posted a link [1] to original system on his site. It got so many things right in a business machine it was hard to believe. That old design still has better security and reliability than Windows or Linux boxes. Most AS/400 deployments I run into just don't... have... downtime... They also pretty much manage themselves.

I'd like to see FOSS do designs like that [minus the interface & API]. The labor advantage might lead to something pretty awesome. Meanwhile, they keep building complexity on top of UNIX architecture with a few stragglers on better OS architectures. Not much hope there. Fortunately, CHERI (capability) and SAFE (tags) are each building on mechanisms System/38 used for software reliability and security. An academic team or company might build something great on top of it. Still holding out some hope!

[1] http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~levy/capabook/Chapter8.pdf
Not sure if I agree with the statement that "=" is used for definitions. It's true meaning is to simply state that two things are equal. I can see where the confusion comes from since mathematicians have a tendency to just state "Let x = 2kj", instead of the more explicit "Let us assume that the statement 'x = 2kj', is true". It's important to note the distinction though, since introducing a new variable by simply stating it's properties is more powerful than just defining it to be equal to something. For instance it's equally valid to define a symbol x by simply stating "Let x∈A". This is used quite a lot since anything you can then prove about "x" must automatically be true for all elements of A.
Satire, aside, I think a very short addition to the last line holds a lot of truth:

"A hash is simple. A hash is fast. A hash is all you need to start with".

I can think of plenty of good reasons to stop using a map/hash/associative array in code, but I can't think of very many good reasons not to start coding with associative arrays as your default data structure. If there's a performance/memory problem, fix it later. I've seen a lot more code suffer from premature optimization than I've seen suffer from using data structures that were a little too inefficient.
I agree both in parsing via another program as well as parsing error messages in my brain (not sure which you were intending).

Perhaps it is because compiler messages suck but my brain has been trained to quickly pick out the line numbers and file names.
I definitely agree with this. A previous employer of mine had a policy of never matching any competing offers -- you stuck with what you had or took the offer. Combined with very infrequent raises this led to a fairly low morale. I stuck around as long as I did only because it was convenient enough while I was building up my own things.
Only if you were going to later cite yourself as a pioneer of calculus.
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I see it more as an "Assert(x==2kj)".
Is this where the notion of "overflow" comes from?
That's interesting. I was in a small/mid size co. where the CEO had to approve all raises. I would think it makes more sense to have bands for each position and only hiring or going outside those bands would need approval.
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I was under the impression that the storage model in the system/38 was part of what was carried forward into the as400. Not the capability model, as much as the lack of "files" because everything is just persistent objects/segments.

Is that not the case?

But I'm not really sure how this by itself solves the problems of modern SSD's. Problems caused by two things, the differing segment/page sizes between the upper layers (OS/filesystem/database/etc) and the need to rewrite static portions of the SSD in order to wear level the entire address space. (and to a lesser extent the need to update small portions in the middle of existing pieces of data).

Its the second part that seems to be forgotten by lots of people suggesting alternatives to the current storage stack. Whats really necessary is a higher level communications protocol between the flash and the filesystem. One that provides the metadata to the ssd about the sizes of individual "objects" so that they may be keep together as atomic units. That way the flash layer knows if a write is to a larger object, or a new object itself that can be managed separately.
InfluxDB can downsample on the fly, to name an example. Functionality like this out of the box can be pretty handy, otherwise you have to build it yourself.
I suffered from this disease in Montreal, Canada at the age of 5. It came on as Scarlet Fever. Eventually entire portions of my limbs were 'peeling'. The skin on my tongue peeled towards the end - that was neat...

Nothing quite like being an early case for that particular city and having doctors ask an 8 year old if they can photograph him...

Edit: What's really interesting is that a friend's cousin, only a few blocks away from where we were living was apparently diagnosed with the same thing only a few months prior.
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That sounds plausible to me, I'm not an expert, but it's not always a choice for the bands.

Pearl Jam tried to stand up to Ticketmaster with a boycott and lost.
What is Ticketmaster doing about outrageous fees?
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Can't upvote this enough. Switching jobs vs. getting a raise, is the difference between a 30% raise and a 5% raise.

Also, if you get a 30% better offer, don't be afraid to switch after just a few months. Job hopping won't hurt your career, but throwing away a few thousand dollars of opportunity cost per month will hurt your wallet.
Yes, the previous commenter is a purist with no battery life on their laptop.

Further, if you're in the middle of upgrading your production OS, does this mean that you need two developer machines?

C'mon!
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Now, what about things like accessing boot services memory after ExitBootServices?
Nice with the downvotes, but the announcement does not actually say what software is included. Totally valid question.

Clearly they are dancing around the fact that fucking up DNS broke all of their applications, I just would like an actual changelog.
>Well it's like employers that seek technical solutions to administrative issues.

Not really. As a parent its a good first line of defence. i.e. A transparent solution catches the worst/obvious stuff & the good old parenting talk covers the rest.

i.e. It doesn't have to be mutually exclusive.
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I would do it. As long as it didn't involve seafood. What are we talking, cheese and yogurt?
"Server Delivery fee: $11.25"

Yeah, I'm beating on them. But I worked at a Ticketmaster outlet in college, and the convenience fee was only $2. That paid for the special ticket printing machine, the leased line to their network, and the blank ticket stock & ink rolls. These days, they don't have those costs as the customers are the ones supplying the hardware, internet connection, and doing the printing. So there's no reason for the high fees.

Story time: Our best customers? Grateful Dead fans. They were happy to sit anywhere. Worst customers? Sports fans. "Can you show me that other seat? Can I see better from there?" "I'm sorry, that seat was sold to someone else."
There are already several of those types of aircraft to choose from. My favorite is Embraer's Super Tucano, of which the US is buying 100 for the Afghan government.
Upthread, you claimed:

(1) The US has no national maternity leave provision, and
(2) A few states provide maternity leave, but even that is only unpaid.

The fact is, the US does have a national unpaid maternity leave provision, and a few states provide paid maternity leave.

> FMLA has so many loopholes it may have well not exist at all

FMLA covers about 60% of all employees, and is used by about 13% annually. So, while it certainly doesn't cover everyone, it certainly has considerably more effect than if it did not exist at all.

> Plus let's be honest, unpaid maternity leave is worthless even if the FMLA worked (it doesn't). That isn't maternity leave, that's "job assurance" if people cannot afford to take leave, they won't.

Its true that unpaid maternity leave obviously isn't as good as paid leave, and people are less likely to take it at all, and likely to take less of it than they would if the lead were paid. That doesn't change the fact that the existence of FMLA as a national source of unpaid maternity leave makes your early claim that there was no US national maternity leave, even unpaid, false, nor does it change the fact that the existence of state paid maternity leave programs makes your further claim that the few states that offered maternity leave offered only unpaid leave also false.

> The US is by far the worst western country when it comes to guaranteeing that mothers and fathers will be able to spend time with their kids in the all important first year.

That's rather clearly true, but not what you claimed upthread, and, more importantly, would have been irrelevant where you made the claim upthread about the nonexistence of required maternity leave in the US, since the US's relative position on maternity leave is immaterial to the issue, which is that hiring managers might avoid hiring women because they might take maternity leave. Since most positions are covered by FMLA, and since FMLA does provide for maternity leave that employees have a right to take, hiring managers might well be considering that, even if the US maternity leave provisions are poor compared to every other developed (not just "western") country.
Yes, and that was fifty years ago. Let's put this into context. Fifty years before US involvement in Vietnam Manfred von Richthofen was on the cutting edge of air combat.
Agree, as a manager of 15 people, there's 1 or 2 superstars I would say pay them almost whatever they want - if they demanded it (which they don't). They're worth it. Only true for the highest performers however.
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This is not always true. There are some rare gems like my current place of employment who's managing partners, with a little persuading, allowed me to give raises up to 20% for some individuals.

EDIT: But yes, for most people and most companies, you'll need to jump ship to jump up a rung or two on the salary ladder.
I've just implemented a custom backend for graphite-api which seems to be working ok although I don't have crazy requirements. https://github.com/brutasse/graphite-api is a cleaned up fork of graphite (which is much easier to install). I'm using grafana as the front-end and my data is in a postgresql database and graphite-api is linking them together.
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Market rate doesn't matter - what matters is what you can negotiate. The idea that you can swap one $120k engineer in for another is a ridiculous story that employers tell their staff, usually to avoid a discussion about salaries.

What matters is how much added value you bring to the company. The difference between your value and your salary is (in some sense) the profit that the company makes on you.

Further, is it your assessment that the plausible value of the stock brings you in just above market rate, or your bossess? Even if they're right, why be happy getting a bit over market rate, if you think you could get more?
Your title is highly misleading.

> Out of the $585 billion remittance market, an estimated 10%-20% is used solely for bill payments.

If there are $585 billion in remittances made, your market is not $1 trillion. It also isn't $585 billion. If you captured 100% of the market, you'd have to be charging a 100% fee for your market to actually be that large.

This isn't limited to you, but don't inflate your market size to look better. It only shows an insecurity and lack of genuine business knowledge.

I know this is harsh, but it will help you in the long run.

P.S.

You submitted the same story six hours ago. Don't worry about Hacker News, go back to building your business.
> I enjoy using the tool part of my brain when computing. It feels "quieter" and contemplative.

I totally get that. Personally though, I see conversational UI as an additional parallel mode of interaction, that you can use simultaneously. I can imagine e.g. coding, and interacting and thinking analytically about that, while still verbally being able to have a conversation with my computer for e.g. responding to email or calendar appointments. Not for everybody, of course.

Edit: I suppose, what I really mean, is that I'd like to interact with human things (email, meetings, messages, etc.) in a human way (conversationally, as I would a person), and I'd like to interact with machine things (coding, simulations, etc.) in a machine way. Trying to interact with human things in a mechanical way seems unintuitive, really, except it's all current technology affords, so we all have to learn these machine interfaces instead. And maybe that's why so many (non-techy) people find computers needlessly complicated.
Are you also empowered to make that decision yourself?
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Hey, please consider my rants to be of good faith, plus I'm a rookie :-)

On Rx, the step method is synchronous. It works for the original Rx protocol and it works for RxJS because RxJS has implemented backpressure with the suspend/resume model (e.g. in the observer you get a handle with which you can suspend or resume the data source), but otherwise the model is pretty much like the original, in that the source calls `onNext(elem)` continuously until it has nothing left, so it is pretty much compatible with transducers. RxJava started as a clone of Rx.NET, but is now migrating to the Reactive Streams protocol, which means that the observer gets a `request(n)` function and a `cancel()`.

And this changes everything because `request(n)` and `cancel()` have asynchronous behavior, very much unlike the step function in transducers. And furthermore, implementing operators that are asynchronous in nature requires juggling with `request(n)` and with buffering. For example the classic flatMap (or concatMap as called in Rx) requires to `request(1)`, then subscribe to the resulting stream and only after we're done we need to request the next element in the original stream.

Then there's the issue that the protocol can be dirty for practical reasons. For example `onComplete` can be sent without the observer doing a `request(n)`, so no back-pressure can happen for that final notification and if the logic in the last onNext is happening asynchronously, well this can mean concurrency issues even for simple operators. Although truth be told for such cases there isn't much that the transducers stuff can do.

I might be wrong, I'd love to see how people can implement this stuff on top of transducers.
Ball's allegations are more specific. He claims that Shamir was introduced to the group by Assange, and that he was introduced under a fake name, because a cursory check on who the guy was would reveal he was a holocaust denier. He also claims Shamir asked for documents about "the jews".

At some point, this "Ball had reason to make things up" stuff has to amount to us taking Assange's word for it. Ball signed his name to the allegations, and the Guardian found them credible enough to run. I don't love the Guardian (they are to the left what Murdoch is to the right) but it's not credible to say that the Guardian would simply make things up because they had a falling-out with Wikileaks.

Would your opinion of Wikileaks be impacted if more evidence was presented corroborating Ball's story? If Assange really did knowingly introduce a holocaust-denying agent of Belarus to Wikileaks? How much would that matter to you?

I think that's what happened. I think it's very relevant.

If you think it doesn't matter even if we stipulate that it happened, that's fine, and we can be done discussing that part of the story.

Does it bother you that whenever something comes up about Assange or Wikileaks --- the refusal to present himself to prosecutors in Sweden, the ties to allies of Lukashenko, the Russia Today show and the refusal to publish documents about Russians that he said he'd publish, the accidental doxxing of Afghani Taliban resistors --- there's always some elaborate story that exonerates Wikileaks?
I have tried to talk Evan (Elm's creator) out of the first person, but as you can see he likes it. But I think you bring up an important point: for some people, being able to use the social parts of our brain is like offloading to the GPU, and for others it's like firing up a generator when the power goes out.
Yeah there is also Zephir Language > http://www.zephir-lang.com/ Same names is very confusing.
I think the parent is referring to the ability to sell bonds (borrow money) in their own currency. If Zimbabwe wants to borrow money, nobody will agree to be repaid in Zimbabwean currency. So, they need to borrow in foreign currency, which they can't print.

But, I think he overstated that point quite a bit. First, most countries do sell bonds in their own currency, so they can print and devalue to pay it back if necessary. They use a combination of their own bonds and foreign denominated bonds.

More importantly (especially in Greece's case), most government's obligations are not bonds. They're salaries, pensions and other things denominated in local currency. If Greece had its own currency, they would print more of it and use that money to pay government salaries and pensions.

It is true though that the US has an advantage. (A) they have very little foreign currency obligations and (B) inflation is like a cost to everyone that holds a currency. When the US prints money, the cost is spread out among anyone who holds dollars. Lots of them are not american.