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I've been thinking about literacies a while ago and recently put together a proposal for a talk on just this (mostly with regards to 'fake news'):

In order for students to know who and what to trust and not trust on the internet, and develop the ability to spot fake news for themselves, it is crucial that we don't just provide them with the conventional toolkit and heuristics for spotting misleading information like paying close attention to authorship, peer-review, and something's scholarly nature, but instead grow their technical literacy to encompass a functional understanding of how content flagging, search ranking, and content recommendation work in order to h ave a more general and transferable understanding of why fake news can, in fact, be seen as real news to some.

Discourse around technology is interesting. I've been reading a lot of essays on technology, digital media, and the digital humanities over the past few weeks.

The upsides of the future seem to get perpetuated a lot more than the downsides. In one of the papers that's at the forefront of my mind, the New London Group's "Multiliteracies for a Digital Age" essay, they call out the good -- more collaboration, more opportunities for a utopia, etc. While they do mention downsides, they kind of get drowned out.

People want to be optimistic -- there's a bunch of core human ideals and one of them is that things will improve. As such, technological downsides and pitfalls either get called out and responded to by tin-foil-hat types, or just fall away until it's a bit too late (thinking randomly of Atwood's "Oryx and Crake" here...)

This headline immediately make me think of Arthur C. Clarke's "The Trigger".

I believe you're looking for the XPS13 that comes with Ubuntu.

I completely agree. I jokingly tell everyone I know using AWS to "not use us-east1" and that they need to use another region not just AZs...and they always laugh and say "you were right" with us-east goes down.

At least from my view, there's a difference in backbone versus corporate space networking, but you're right, most everyone won't ever realize any savings from that side of things.

That's a good distinction. CoLo providers are pretty reasonably priced and most of the larger ones are good at what they do.

There's a HUGE scale difference between a CoLo and your own -- as soon as you start having to negotiate diesel supply contracts yourself things get crazy fast.

It's different for everyone.

If your 500 servers are for storage, S3/GCS will beat you in cost. For compute, that might be a different story, but then you still have to consider regionality, networking, etc.

A lot of this article isn't that surprising -- especially the part where they're keeping "Business Critical" data on GCP. Of course they are! Every company needs a disaster recovery plan and in general shouldn't put their eggs in one basket.

I'd be interested to see where the AI/ML frameworks differ though, and what additional value one can extract using GCP versus AWS and at what cost/presumptions.

This -- _so_ much. That was my first thinking as well.

IAM in GCP is still half-baked. How about they finish that? I understand that GCP is a massive engineering effort with endless things going on in series, but core parts of their platform are still mediocre at best. I'd prefer not to see more hackweek projects on their blog.

I've seriously thought about buying an N9 again just so I can whip it out every now and then to show to folks for how far ahead of it's time it was.

Man, I miss Windows Phone all the time. If you could have run WP8 on the Lumia 800 I feel like I might still be rocking it today.

I used an HD7 for years, as well as a 925, because it always felt snappy and "brand new".

I fired up my 925 a few days ago and it still feels fresh, quick, and gorgeous.

I live inbetween Boulder and Denver -- that's my sentiment. I really don't want Amazon to move in, and I'd be even more unhappy with it if we do ultimately give some terrible incentives (terrible for CO residents).

I used to own one -- it was a fantastically designed machine, but holy cow was it a good space heater. I had a south-facing second story bedroom and during the summer, using my PowerMac, man, it was toasty in there.

Wow. This is sad. Not surprising though.

I'm disappointed that we're now stick with a mediocre duopoly of OSs now.

I like that it comes with NVidia graphics -- that doesn't look like something you can get on a T470. The price point, while expensive, is still much better than I thought it'd be (I was thinking well over $2000).

An old team did a similar thing! A terminal window with a skull and crossbones when you log into anything that's ".prod.X.com".

Hah.

They'll sell it one way or another -- it's too good of a revenue stream to pass up, provided you're legally allowed to pursue it.

ReFrameIt and Me.Dium were also two annotation startups. It's something that people keep trying over and over again. While neat, I honestly don't expect it to ever catch on.

Yikes. But unfortunately not unsurprising.

I live in Boulder and drive past the NOAA (and NIST, and I think parts of CIRES) offices every day. I've had family and countless professors that have done joint research with them, and very, very good friends and colleagues that have started their careers there. Part of how I wound up here (in the tech sector, posting to HN) was on an eighth grade field trip there asking how they drove 'Science on a Sphere' (7 RHEL machines).

It'd obviously be terrible globally if this were to go through, but it'd be pretty awful locally too. Every year around budget approval season, most NOAA folks I know would be insanely worried...Guess that comes a little early this year.

EDIT: I guess as a follow up, I anticipate pretty substantial(proposed, at least) cuts to UCAR/NCAR and NREL as well. "We don't need no stinkin' climate research!"

Previous comment of mine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13225000.

Twitter's built Aurora, large parts of Mesos, Bootstrap, Storm, Heron, Pants, ThriftMux, DistributedLog, Apache Cotton, Iago, Scalding, Finagle, and Finatra. A lot of these exist so they can build things quicker.

While there are still a reasonable number of very talented engineers at Labs, having talent is sort of meaningless if you stifle their ability to actually ship (which Walmart at large does very well).

Well, there goes my entire day.

Twitter has a bunch of longstanding SMS delivery agreements, so it's quite cheap.

My understanding is that it's not exactly "by force" but rather a condition of funding. The U.S. Government is probably Digital Globe's largest customer.

You're right, they didn't make it and open source it. But they did work closely on it's creation, as far as I know.

(edited above post to remove Mesos mention).

Twitter's Github: https://github.com/twitter

Apache Aurora, Bootstrap, Storm, Heron, Pants, ThriftMux, DistributedLog, Apache Cotton, Iago, just to name a few.

Glad to know I wasn't alone in thinking it was an AT&T one...that's what I searched for first. Those were the 80s though, right?

Here's an ad from IBM circa 2006 predicting(?) this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eob532iEpqk

Crazy to think we're actually here now. And even sans-RFID.

I went to one of the first IPv6 sessions at re:Invent this morning. The room was for maybe, 300-400 people? There were 40 or so people in it. So, yes, the interest is low.

That said, I think it's a great signal to the industry, and I'm excited to try to use IPv6!

I was wondering this too. The best I could think is that they're trunking PCI-E over TCP or something? Or maybe all of their new instance types have something like Infiniband?