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Germany was always an industrious country. Greece is a tax dodging, spendaholic, big-time-borrowing-then-avoiding-repayment country.
How much cash can they continue to pour into that bottomless pit?

Let them leave the euro, let them have their drachma, they need to sort out the real problems first.
I often see the trope that the nazi were democratically elected, but that either demonstrates a very poor understanding of history or is a deliberate misrepresentation.
Dan thanks again for all the feedback. I truly appreciate it.
Azul also sacrifices throughput over the HotSpot GC to achieve very low pause times—the overhead of a GC is not just in its pause times! There's no free lunch.
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"The problem is that the Greeks want to keep things as they were"

I don't think that's true, if you remember that they just elected a very different party into government.
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Thank you. When you say "very very easy", what do you mean? How long did the process take?
The nazis stayed in power but wore the clothes of democrats:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/from-dictatorshi...

And, for all syriza's faults (they're socialists :p), they're not responsible for the mess: they were never in power. Therefore, they were never corrupt or fed the system of clientism.

I don't like socialism, quite the contrary. But German banks made bad loans. German banks get bailed out by all EU governments, nationalizing their losses [1] German bank survive stronger than ever. Sounds more like a moral hazard [2] for the banks than free market capitalism to me.

1. ironically enough, Portugal, and All the other PIIGs, holds greek bonds because they bailed out German banks in a sign of "European solidarity".

2. It's easy to make money when you gamble with the House's money. In the US when (small[3]) banks fail, their assets are sold, their depositor's assets insured up to 100k and the system continues nicely.

3. I realize congress and friends chickened out with the "too large to fail". But TAARP was much larger than what the Greek bailout ever needed to be. And the EU's gdp is larger than the US'
The previous discussion of another zlib alternative last month mentioned unexpected issues incorporating them into other software (that reaches into internals), as well as the potential for licensing issues.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9664655
Newspapers really fucked themselves by sticking to unnamed old-school practices: $15-$50 for 2-3 lines in print, no online-only option for more copy and lower price. They could have simply out-Craigslisted Craigslist with online but chose not to. In the process the abandoned the market completely.
I feel like existing debt is a bit of a red herring in discussion of the crisis. Yes, Greece has a lot of debt, but as a consequence of the previous bailout, that debt has very long maturity and low interest, so it doesn't actually cost that much to service.

The actual issue is that Greece has a huge primary deficit (and always has). Germany et all are disinclined to continue funding that deficit forever, which is entirely understandable (why should German taxpayers pay for both German and Greek services?) This is the actual problem. Writing off the existing debt does nothing to solve this.
An improper comment is still a comment. An improper fraction is still a fraction. What exactly is your point? I'm not sure why you felt the need to be snarky.
Would someone knowledgeable mind answering a few questions:

1. What are the differences between this + AWS lambda and parse? Is there additional functionality or freedom with this route? Is it cheaper?

2. What kind of savings could one expect hosting an API with this vs a heroku standard dyno?
I think technology will eventually solve this problem through P2P sites that no one owns. Ads will still exist but they'll be mostly as endorsements, official sponsorships, and infomercials (e.g., any corporate blog). People who can't be easily paid this way (e.g., researchers, investigative journalists, writers, artists, open source programmers, forum admins) will eventually collaborate to create a fair system of distributed payments for projects/content. That system will be funded both from the grass-roots and top-down by governments and large corporations.
Elections and referendums are very different things. Popular referendums often go way very high towards one side. 60/40 in that context just isn't impressive and there are many, many Greeks who see the current leadership as reckless and dangerous.
Does it?

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fraction
Couldn't he get around this by doing contracted work and wanting only $1 for payment?
The article starts off about "desktop apps" and then it goes into server-side apps?
As I mentioned in another post the article is insulting for us Greeks because it is historically inaccurate. At one point the author mentions “There are ruins at the center of Athens, too, but they are rather more ancient”. This is utterly inaccurate. Germans literally left Greece in ruins. The following is a report written in 1946 for the Greek government that describes the extend of the destruction.

http://www.truth-out.org/speakout/item/24456-the-math-of-mas...
I will fully admit that when I started using AWS, it took me a while to learn Amazon's "language." Unfortunately Amazon does a bad job of distinguishing between their core offerings (e.g. S3, EC2, Route53, etc) and their very niche ones (e.g. EMR, Kinesis, SWF, etc), so new users are left scrambling to figure out what they need to know.

I understand their desire to create unique "products" that people can use in a conversation (e.g. "Have you considered Route53 for your DNS?"), but ultimately mixing common and niche things together and giving everything confusing names is likely doing Amazon more harm than good.

That all being said, Amazon are slowly improving. See this page[0]. They now have a list of their products and how they fit into different categories. But the console can still be a jumbled mess of different acronyms and made up words.

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/
there was only one (maybe two) TLDs that would allow emoji domains names.. that was the famous .la TLD

and so you saw http://💩.la

that was my inspiration for http://shizz.it
shizz.it allows people to create http://👿.shizz.it or any other emoji character mix, as a subdomain, which is then redirected to any other URL. Thus link forwarding.

By making use of emoji in subdomains, you can get around the restriction of no emoji in domains or TLDs.

;)
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> Borrowing its name from ancient stagehands in traditional Japanese theater

I would have guessed its name was a play on Cokin, the photography filter company.
What is your reasoning for this?
>Geneva conventions?

These only apply during wartime.
Out of interest SOAP services tend to be message/operation based, while REST is deliberately not this.

How do you go about proxying REST style requests to a SOAP backend?
I wonder if they add IOS at some point. Maybe it's the Amazon way of doing. Start with MVP and iterate.
The European GPD is slightly larger than the US, but it's important to note that it is larger.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...
Ask me what I want and whether I'm interested.

Respect "no".
Surely it would have to be sufficiently good.
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But when Merkel wins in 2013 with 41.5% with a voting age population turnout of 66%, with 1.5% invalid, it's ok, eh?

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/merkel-wins-thir...

http://www.idea.int/vt/countryview.cfm?CountryCode=DE
I find this to be a strange comment. Quadratic voting is much better if we have to reach a consensus and want to protect minorities. So it has it's application (and is woefully under-used). But surely it's not always the best method. I think often you want the most popular comment to be at the top of the list, because it's what appeals to the most people.

Secondly, one of the big problems that quadratic voting addresses is when an ambivalent majority outweighs a minority simply because everyone votes. But not everyone has to vote on every comment on a site like reddit, so the ambivalent majority is already ignored.
Yes, except that you're far more often operating at the 0 boundary instead of at the INT_MIN / INT_MAX boundaries.

Also note that C only half-heartedly supports objects larger than SIZE_MAX/2: relevant quote from http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/types/ptrdiff_t

"If an array is so large (greater than PTRDIFF_MAX elements, but less than SIZE_MAX bytes), that the difference between two pointers may not be representable as std::ptrdiff_t, the result of subtracting two such pointers is undefined. "
nice project. I'm curious what hardware you have running caffe and the deepdream code for this? And which layer is being used?
In my opinion, GitHub has demonstrated how a good monopoly[1] can operate. They're quick to respond to problems, they act ethically for the most part, their pricing is a far-cry from the type of gouging most monopolies get away with, and their product continues to get better and better. GitHub also makes it easy for new developers to get started with Git, and their UI has many awesome features that keep getting better.

As Peter Thiel would say, because they have a monopoly, they have money to spend on things (e.g., improving their product) other than competing themselves out of business.

All that being said, where is the market gap that AWS seeks to fill, other than hosting of large-sized files (scientific / big data applications, etc.), and perhaps the user management, which I feel is a bit outmoded and cumbersome?

1. I think it's fair to say GitHub has a monopoly on paid Git hosting
Yes, Bayesian weighting. I feel that every kind of pool needs Bayesian correcting for calculating how much information does an opinion really carry.

The problem of people only visiting isn't really a problem. If a person only visits good places, he'll be perfectly able to differentiate those good places from each other, and can say one of them is bad. Yet, somebody that visits good and bad places has a saying on what places are good, and what ones are bad.
This points to the real problem. When Greece was originally "bailed out" in 2010 what actually happened was that the debt was moved from German and French banks to EU taxpayers. The banks were paid in full by the EU and IMF for all the bad debt they had made. But capitalism cannot work that way, when lenders make a bad loan they're supposed to take the losses, that's how interest rates are set. If they can lend without any risk then the whole market gets out of whack.

On your point #2, Greece has been running a primary surplus for several years now, meaning the government takes in more than it spends before debt payments.
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hah. I believe you either don't understand Brazil (the build system) or you had to deal with inexperienced people that don't get it. IMHO the internal Amazon tooling is THE reason Amazon is able to build things so fast and to iterate so quickly.
Elections and referendums are very different things. Especially in European style parliamentary/coalition governments.

A popular referendum leans HEAVILY on one side. 60/40 shows that this issue is very contentious in Greece as well as many Greeks are sick of the poor classes voting in "hand outs" Marxist politicians instead of reforming and fixing corruption, being fiscally responsible, and collecting taxes.
England's realization was also assisted by Soros, so to say.
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Well, the Japanese were in the attacking business pretty much, too... And sadly never accounted for their warcrimes....
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How is this framework similar/different with Meteor.js ?
> This press release is equivalent to "Scientists Cures Diabetes in Mice" - a breakthrough that happens about a half dozen times a year but has still yet to make it from the lab to the FDA.

Well, incremental lab improvements of this and that technique do make it into practice all the time. The failure of various biological researches is symptom of some fundamental brokenness or inherent hardness to biological research (biological systems are inherently messy - the ability of biologists to work with uniform, mass-produced mice is actually a hindrance when they try to apply those researches to non-uniform humans, etc). None of these apply to chip manufacture. The increase in quantum effects as one goes down in size may be a barrier to 7nm but it seems like it would a barrier to working one-off chips as well as to final production.

Which is to say, the skepticism doesn't seem to have a basis. A working chip is an important and necessary step to getting to mass production - clearly mass production would be their aim.

Your supposedly better link agrees: "While it should be stressed that commercial 7nm chips remain at least two years away, this test chip from IBM and its partners is extremely significant for three reasons: it's a working sub-10nm chip (this is pretty significant in itself); it's the first commercially viable sub-10nm FinFET logic chip that uses silicon-germanium as the channel material; and it appears to be the first commercially viable design produced with extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography."
Not all trend lines are created equal. Some are more important than others. You too are confusing technical analysis with investment/trading strategy. The breaking of a short or intermediate term trend line does not inherently call for "turning over your portfolio."

Depending on where you are in a trend, the breaking of a short-term trend line, for instance, could set up an opportunity to add to an existing position when the trend resumes.
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It's considered "functional style" because react is a functional reactive programming framework.

This is about more than just managing state.

If you're not familiar with FRP, then I think learning more about the theoretical side might help clarify why everyone is describing react as functional.
> Beautiful design is a failure anti-pattern.

I've been wondering about this recently myself. It does seem to be the case sometimes. Any idea why, or if this has ever been studied?
My 2c: I know it sucks when your mail doesn't get through, I've had the same issue with att.net, but gmail.com has never been a real problem for me.

I have a lot of mail that gets forwarded to gmail, including from cron that goes to my own mailbox at gmail. I sometimes have to unmark it as spam, but not too often. My IPv4 doesn't even have a custom rDNS -- only provider-specific one -- nor have I bothered to implement DKIM, although I do have SPF and am also registered for Webmaster Tools (although I somehow doubt that really matters).
Absolutely they are evolving as a news org, and for the better. It is just hard to shake off the view I had of them.
My office has been captivated by this for at least 15 minutes. Everyone seems to love the idea so far, even if it increases visual noise a bit. EDIT: Some of us had to quit and re-launch our clients to see it.
Words and phrases have multiple, context-dependent meanings. That's just how natural language works.

"a fraction of ..." is commonly used in informal and/or non-technical contexts to mean what would be expressed in a more technical context as "a positive, proper fraction of ..."
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Because, quite frankly, many FOSS components are not that actively maintained, and all of the alternatives either raise licensing considerations, were not intended for use by general projects, or are not significantly mature yet.

Many projects have also invested heavily into optimizing the performance of OpenSSL itself or the use of its interfaces.

You can't sprinkle "magic SSL dust" over these components and just start using an alternative. In some cases, significant, non-trivial changes would be required to change which library is used.

The reality is, as fast as OpenSSL development is moving now, it remains the better option for a lot of projects because of the significant investments already being made and concerns I mentioned earlier.
Extremely good R&D done by semiconductor companies. It's frankly amazing how good they are.
I really wasn't trying to dismiss what the have been evolving into, rather to voice my own problems seeing past the Vice that was presented in Page One.
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AMAZON DEPRECATES EC2

November 3, 2017, SEATTLE

At the AWS Re:Invent in Las Vegas today, Amazon Web Services today announced the deprecation of Elastic Compute Cloud as it shifts toward lighter-weight, more horizontally scalable services. Amazon announced that it was giving customers the opportunity to migrate toward what it claims are lower cost "containers" and "Lambda processes".

"We believe that the cloud has shifted and customers are demanding more flexibility," tweeted Jeff Barr, AWS Spokesperson. "Customers don't want to deal with the complexities of security and scaling on-instance environments, and are willing to sacrifice controls and cost management in order to take advantage of the great scale we offer in the largest public cloud."

Barr went on to add that since their acqui-hire of Heroku last year, AWS has decided that the future of the cloud was in Platform as a Service (PaaS) and is now turning its focus to user-centric SSH key and user management services like https://Userify.com.

Amazon (AMZN) stock was up $0.02 on the latest announcements.
I'm working on the new alg. to extract location. Next "Who is hiring?" should be way more precise.
And Microsoft has multiple articles hitting the front page when they do a big developer conference, as does Apple. It turns out that developer conferences lead to lots of things interesting to developers. Who'd've thunk it?
The latest version (2.3.7) of the official OpenVPN client is vulnerable, as is Tunnelblick for OSX. No fix has been published yet. The OpenVPN clients for Android and iOS are not affected.

See https://mullvad.net/en/v2/news for more details.
> I'm sure this can get a lot messy [sic] with more than one developer ...

Frameworks are for programmers who must collaborate.
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I would luv for it to also support the A1200 spec and AGA games.

Still, it's a great idea and I'm seriously considering ordering one.
"API Mullet" has got to be my favorite description of this type of system. Well done.
Yeah that's why I'm excited about this. I have a small instance that just runs a sort of "node proxy" to lambda, it's cheap ($11 / month or something), but annoying to run just to be able to connect to lambda. Now I can get rid of that.
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The Nazis weren't elected. They never got anything close to a majority of the vote. They got a decent minority of the vote and then cheated their way to absolute power from there.
There are definitely some issues. Regarding the mapping plugin, I managed to build a large custom CRM and accounts payable system without using it, but I did have to build out some custom routines in order to standardize my workflow...

React.js seems like it could be a good core for something like those alternative frameworks that you mentioned popping up. Aurelia looks interesting to me, but I don't think it uses React by default.
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AWS response: http://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/openssl-se...
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Wow, that's interesting! Do you know if somebody tried to enable one of this "extra cores"?
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Paging @sytse; "GitLab CEO here" coming soon... :)

For those who don't get the joke, https://www.google.com/search?num=40&es_sm=119&q="GitLab+CEO...
I don't think it's an either or situation. If you have internal app services, it should be easy to break that/expose that as an external service.
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Say you're a homeless junkie multiply convicted of petty theft. Then say I lend you 20$, with 50$ due a year hence. Who made a bad decision? And who's going to be surprised I haven't got my money back in a year?

I don't think it's as simple as that with Greece, but obviously at some point creditors need to bear the risk as well. It can't be an "always win" situation for them, and I don't think it has been. Question is where to draw the line?
The use of shorthand names like that is a strong indication that the variables don't need to be live for ~319 lines. If you reduce the live range of your variables, you reduce the complexity of your function. Less complex functions are less likely to have bugs and are easier to diagnose when they do.
I think we're actually running ahead in some ways. What are things that GH has that you miss in GitLab?

See also:
https://about.gitlab.com/better-than-github/
That, or AWS drives an enormous amount of internet and an even larger portion of startup services, and those here are very interested in what Amazon is launching.
But if your project is still small, with a small team you likely don't need that yet. However, if your going to start with a monolith with the intent of going to microservices you had better have strong architectural discipline in the team. Otherwise, with no physical barrier to prevent it, developers are going to fall prey to the temptation of taking shortcuts and reaching across module boundaries, out making chatty APIs that can't be made distributed in a practical manner.
> the financial advisor who treats his esteemed clients to FREE! luxury box seats at the big game (* when you pay him $10,000 a year).

Always be suspicious of lavish gifts from someone who's services you employ... often means you're overpaying. We see this in real estate all the time. A broker who just made $80k on a week's work will often send their client a $200 gift card or take them out to a fancy dinner to "celebrate" (and alleviate guilt?).
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There are instances where government funding for a technical project is suspicious, like NSA paying RSA to set a weird default PRNG. This isn't one of them.

DARPA funding for independent businesses and research groups is very hands-off. That's the whole point. I can't think of a single recent case where a DARPA grantee even complained about improper pressure.
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> “This Watchman publication is what physicists call a singularity. There has been nothing like it before now, and there never will be again,” says Daniel Menaker, a former editor at Random House

You'd think someone in the business of words would be less likely to abuse terminology they don't understand.
Strange, I was actually thinking the pricing was very reasonable. 250 minutes free is pretty generous and will likely be all many small developers need.

17c/minute/device is fine after that since you'll only likely need 20 minutes to test your average app against each device (and they only seem to support a handful). So $10~ to test your apps against a bunch of Amazon devices (ignoring the free 250 minutes), is fine by me.

The only reason I might look elsewhere is that other services offer a more broad range of Android devices, not just Amazon Fire stuff. So you can spin up a Galaxy S6, Nexus, Fire Tablet, etc all under one roof.
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I guess it makes sense for their case, since who cares an image was uploaded by integration test or it was "real user" generated.