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Now that's a cloud! The largest structure ever found in the early universe. The proto-supercluster Hyperion may contain thousands of galaxies or more. (Science)

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• four petabytes: added to Internet Archive per year; 60,000: patents donated by Microsoft to the Open Invention Network; 30 million: DuckDuckGo daily searches; 5 seconds: Google+ session length; 1 trillion: ARM device goal; $40B: Softbank investment in 5G; 30: Happy Birthday IRC!; 97,600: Backblaze hard drives; 15: new Lambda function minute limit; $120 Billion: Uber IPO; 12%: slowdown in global growth of internet access; 25%: video ad spending in US; 1 billion: metrics per minute processed at Netflix; 900%: inflated Facebook ad-watch times; 31 million: GitHub users; 19: new AWS Public datasets; 25%: IPv6 adoption; 300: requests for Nest data;  913: security vulnerabilities fixed by Twitter; 2.04 Gbit/s: t3.2xlarge Network Performance; 60%: chances DNA can be used to find your family; 12: Happy birthday Hacker News!; 1/137: answer to life; 


• Quoteable Quotes:
  • @ByMikeBaker: My favorite Paul Allen story: 47 years ago, Allen got banned from UW's computer-science lab for hogging teletype machines and swiping an acoustic coupler. UW's massive computer-science school is now named for him. 
  • @cpeterso: Your quote reminds me of cybernetics' Law of Requisite Variety: "If a system is to be stable, the number of states of its control mechanism must be greater than or equal to the number of states in the system being controlled." 
  • Mark Graham: I love Google, but their job isn’t to make copies of the homepage every 10 minutes. Ours [Wayback Machine] is.
  • @gmiranda23:That is legit my favorite quote in IT: “Every application has an inherent amount of irreducible complexity. The only question is: Who will have to deal with it—the user, the application developer, or the platform developer?” -Larry Tesler
  • dweis: I'm an actual author of Protocol Buffers :) I think Sandy's analysis would benefit from considering why Protocol Buffers behave the way they do rather than outright attacking the design because it doesn't appear to make sense from a PL-centric perspective. As with all software systems, there are a number of competing constraints that have been weighed that have led to compromises.
  • atombender: I don't think GraphQL is over-hyped at all. Maybe it's flawed, but the design is absolutely on the right traack. GraphQL completely changes how you work with APIs in a front end.
  • @adrianco: The AWS EC2 NTP service has been backed by atomic clocks for the last few years...
  • @BrianRoemmele: “Amazon has more job openings in their voice group than Google has in the entire company right now"—@profgalloway This is a #VoiceFirst revolution. Only few astute folks take seriously. This was foolish on multiple dimensions...
  • @stephenbalaban: We've benchmarked the 2080 Ti, V100, Titan V, 2080, and 1080 Ti. 2080 Ti destroys V100 / Titan V on performance per dollar.  Full blog post here...
  • @kellabyte: We created TV’s without visible scan lines so artists created simulated scan lines. We moved to digital and artists create simulated analog noise. We created high resolution displays and sometimes artists create simulated pixelation. We create 4K HDR and artists simulate banding.
  • Steven Acreman: My recommendation is go with Google GKE whenever possible. If you’re already on AWS then trial EKS but it doesn’t really give you that much currently.
  • Nick Farrell: Music piracy is falling out of favour as streaming services become more widespread, new figures show. One in 10 people in the UK use illegal downloads, down from 18% in 2013, according to YouGov's Music Report.
  • You can't handle all the quotes that are coming your way...