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If you can design your protocol such that it can work in a mostly ordered fashion, I'd highly recommend that you do. It opens up your choices for technology stack tremendously. But, if you require ordered delivery, your choices start shrinking dramatically.

Also, just so we are on the same page. Kafka is a software product that can be run on hardware or VMs, not a managed service. Possibly, you are thinking of the Amazon Kinesis product which does offer a managed service with strict ordering.
You must not be a libertarian, so stop projecting it as a libertarian ideal, because it isn't.... If I'm rich, and I have to pay 20% more for UBI, but I get 1% back from UBI, essentially I'm paying 19% for other people. To paint this as "they're getting the benefit too", is completely ignorant.
>What is the large company, public or private, that is run democratically without a CEO?

It's structurally made virtually impossible to do such a thing. Nonetheless, this approach was successfully applied in Argentina. There's a good documentary about it http://www.thetake.org/
It seem to be navigable without zooming, for example hovering on the little bubbles make them bigger and clicking on some bubble takes you to a new page.
>Microsoft Corp. has the upper hand in its “intense competition” with Amazon.com Inc. for talent and is the only company that can compete with Apple Inc. over hardware, said former Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer.

I can see he's still batshit crazy. No wonder he was exiled.
I implemented a "light" version of MQL atop Cayley (https://github.com/google/cayley) that I'd be happy to extend :)

tsturge did a prescient job with the original (yeah, GraphQL is 2007 all over again) and I wanted to keep the flame alive.
Pay correlates with power not effectiveness. The highest paid in any organizations are those with the most power and the highest paid CEOs are those who run the biggest corporations.
Every programmer in Seattle knows that Amazon is a really unpleasant place to work. I'm a programmer in Seattle and I personally know at least a dozen people who worked there. Several of my friends worked over the magic 2 year limit, & one person is there right now, about on year 4. People almost always quit around year 2 because they just can't take it anymore.

When they offer you a job, it almost always comes with a bonus package payable each quarter over 2 years. I even interviewed there a few years ago and received that kind of package (which always comes with below market pay, plus a stock package which is often worth more than salary).

It's terrible because they way overwork people, and it is a super cutthroat environment. At the same time, they have very good people there, and accomplish a lot. It's amazing how they move their infrastructure along faster than microsoft, and are more nimble than google.

They also import thousands of young programmers, many of whom who are naive, from all over the us and the world. One friend who worked there for about 6 years said the core of good experienced people made it work, shepherding a large army of new people always coming and going.
You underestimate the laziness of countless spoiled children who have lived in their parents basements watching netflix and playing video games for years when they could be following their passions.
Facebook shares hit all-time high
Patents are one of many market controls that keep capitalism from destroying itself. They are, of course, abused like many things.
This is such a banal and not-constructive comment. Of course he would think about architectural choices. Your comment suggests one of the following:

1. The proposed feature is harder than other proposed features (which ones and why? edit: it turns out there isn't even a proposed feature here...)

2. You see pitfalls or good choices and bad choices (which ones and why?)

Either way, your comment as it stands isn't helpful in the slightest, and I'm calling shenanigans. If you are in either camp 1 or camp 2, why not actually say something useful instead of speaking from this glass pedestal of falsified authority.

edit: formatting.
You don't get "money" from technology, you get utility from technology. You don't give people money for the productivity of technology... That's like having your washing machine pay you for the money it's saving you on hiring somebody to wash it by hand. The value is in the cost saved from using a technology, not the money you receive from it.
Agree on first point.

No confusion on second point. My argument was that Kafka adds significant complexity and delivery risk because it's software that you must run on hardware/VMs, rather than a fully-managed service. You have to pay a whole lot of eng time to make Kafka truly "guaranteed delivery" because there's always risk of underlying hardware/VM/LB dying.

Pubsub guarantees delivery regardless of what happens with underlying infrastructure. In a sense, the bar has been raised dramatically.
"A $10,000 basic income, perhaps the bare minimum to prevent starvation and homelessness in the most rural parts of the country, for everyone in the United States over the age of 18"

You are assuming that every one of those people stops working and lives exclusively on the dole.

That's almost certainly not going to be the case.
When you're old, too old to work, someone will need to work to support you.

I'm sceptical that the anglophone world has it so figured out.

In Britain we have the pension system. In America the mechanism is rising asset prices.

In Britain the pension system is falling apart under the weight of demographic change -- pensions are by far the largest public expense, and the age to qualify is rising. I doubt I will ever get a pension.

In America, there is the opposite problem. People are supposed to put their money into the stock market (via a 401k). The idea is that equity prices go up over time at a rate exceeding inflation, so if you're old you can sell your assets to the people saving now -- for a profit.

The problem with this, is that it doesn't always work that way. The Nikkei hit its all-time high in 1989. The S&P sat in a two decade funk from 1970 to 1990.

So all we've done is add more layers of abstraction. Instead of your children supporting you, now everyone's children are supporting you, and instead of supporting you out of filial love, they hate your very existence.
iPhone users sue Apple over Wi-Fi feature that gobbles cell data
It is deeply disturbing article, down to the point where it looks like an attack on fundamental science.

Without science providing the explanation how all the fancy technology works, inventors would be blind and deaf.

For example - how can you make an accurate GPS without understanding relativity? How one can make a CPU without science of solid state physics? A computer network without information theory?

The better explanation would that fundamental science research gives a foundation for the future progress, in both applied science and technology. Those next steps can happen sometimes much, much later so the science behind it appears to be disconnected or a completely mundane knowledge by that time.
I was confused about what "bogus discounted travel vouchers" were so I found some more detail about the fraudulent business in this local TV story: http://www.ketv.com/news/company-sold-flight-vouchers-but-no...

> "The price that I was look at was for a 90 day in advance reservation for $139 round trip anywhere that Southwest flies," Creative Creations customer Phyllis Hicks said.

> Hicks paid for several tickets and received a receipt. The voucher explained that customers would fly on the days they requested, and a confirmation should arrive at least month before departure.

> However, Hicks never received her confirmation email because Creative Creations exceeded the 2,000 vouchers for flights in March.

> "They're asking people to cancel their March vouchers. Well, I travel March 26, and it's not an option to cancel," Hicks said.

What a weird model. The "you can only redeem 2,000 of these per month" angle almost makes this sound like the business was trying to be a Ponzi scheme. But it just doesn't make a lot of sense.
Sorry, but the "12 Factor App" is an idea first promoted by Adam Wiggins - one of the Heroku cofounders - not by some guy trying to sell you things at Amazon. It's also very widely agreed upon as a good way to build applications that can be easily developed locally as well as deployed to multiple environments (staging/qa/production).

Whether Amazon charges twice as much to do automatically for a job you've already concluded is difficult to handle manually is completely unrelated to 12 factor applications.
PubSub is not a product I work on, so apologize for lack of detail:

- PubSub is used by Google internally to power everything from Android notifications to Hangouts messages. So it's certainly proven.

- A lot of your questions are answered in docs:

https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/

https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/docs

You can always reach out to me, and I can get you in touch with a PubSub SME.
You must not be a libertarian, so stop projecting it as a libertarian ideal, because it isn't.

One of the best-known advocates of UBI/negative income tax was Milton Friedman, and he most definitely was a libertarian.

There's a difference between idealistic versions of political philosophies that don't match human behavior, and practical versions of those philosophies that do.

Let's say we wind up with 50 million people who have no marketable skill. What's your solution? Let them starve? What are you going to do when they take exception to that?

If your answer is to simply kill them, good enough, but you need to face up to the fact that this is what you're advocating.

Jailing them is not an option -- that will likely cost more than the UBI scheme, and you can't even put them to work (it being a given that they can't perform any job that provides a net economic gain).
"Does talk therapy help ease symptoms of schizophrenia" is a very valid question to ask and study to conduct.

Treatment options for schizophrenia call for some of the strongest psychoactives psychiatrists prescribe. They will lower your lifespan, ability to stay conscious, cause serious metabolic disorders, diabetes, obesity, gynecomastia and less commonly movement disorders. They're a first line of treatment and are prescribed long term or for life.
Quitting or switching medications may make the disorder even worse than it was before starting medication.

If a professional can look at a case and decide that maybe therapy + less to no medication can work for that patient, it can result in a significant improvement in quality and length of life.

>Could the resources devoted to this study have been better used to explore what is creating the problem?

Probably not, because the study was funded with this question in mind.
This is just how the system works: it is a pyramid, and people who happen to be on top earn more, despite any value he or she can bring to the table. There is of course some relation between value and position in this pyramid (particularly true near the bottom of it), but this is definitely not always true. As for the choice of this structure, well, today everyone expects a pyramid structure, and I believe there is no indication of change (I might be wrong on that).

It is surely not a perfect system given most definitions of "meritocracy", but I believe it is the best we can do now.
I don't know about you guys, but I find that old maps are just fascinating in terms of the history they represent. Perusing old maps and seeing how names of places have changed over time is something that always intrigues me.

Here's an example: The closest intersection to where I grew up was the corner of Civietown Road, Shellpoint Road and Holden Beach Road. As long as I can remember, the whole area was always referred to as "Civietown" and there are a couple of stores right on the corner, and the fire station for Civietown Volunteer Fire Department. OK, boring enough, except I always wondered WTF "civietown" meant.

Then, one day, I got hold of some WWII era USGS maps and started poking around and noticed that in the 1940's things were subtly different. The intersection we call "Civietown" now was called "Fulford" back then. Now that's very common family name in the area, so that part isn't terribly surprising. But curiously, "Civietown" was about two miles further away, at the intersection of Mt. Pisgah Road and Empire Road, and was spelled "Sivey Town". Huh, what? And the area near the end of Shellpoint Road was named "Monogram" for no apparent reason.[1]

This stuff fascinates me. My grandmother can remember the Monogram business, but has no idea when exactly, or why, the name went away. And I haven't found a good explanation yet for why "Sivey Town" became "Civietown" and relocated itself by two miles. I also still don't know exactly what either "Sivey Town" or "Civietown" actually means. An older relative told me it has something to do with a kind of bean called a "Seve bean" that was farmed in the area, but I can't really find much to back that up.[2]

So yeah... browse around old maps, who knows what kind of mystery you might stumble upon.

[1]: this post actually inspired me to take the time to download a "historical survey of unincorporated communities" that was put together a while back. There's no definitive answer on how "Monogram" got its name, but there is some interesting history associated with it. http://www.brunswickcountync.gov/planning/files/2015/04/plan...

[2]: To the extent that it's been researched, the "Seve Bean" story is widely acknowledged as a popular local legend, but that's about the extent of it as far as I know. http://www.myreporter.com/2013/01/is-it-spelled-civietown-an...
He was for about 4 hours [0]. It seems his wealth is more volatile than Gates'.

[0] http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/A...
It's called taxes, and it doesn't "do away with various kinds of property rights"
Are any of the people who keep modding this down able to provide a counterexample (i.e., a country where the "social safety net" consists of having lots of children that doesn't have a big population problem)?

Facts are facts, whether you like them or not.
I have a default of dreading social interaction, even doing things with people I've known for over half my life, but I have noticed that there is a pattern where I dread something before doing it, and then I enjoy it. So the dread is irrational.

You know what's worse than people thinking you're weird, or dumb, or dorky? So many things. A million things. Words only hurt if you let them. (Of course there is a limit to this idea, but not in this context really.) So whatever the dread is directed toward, it's a fake idea.

A lot of times people try to address social anxiety by giving advice like "people don't think you're weird, they don't even think about you". There is truth to that, but also, people will think you're weird if you act weird. So you have to get used to the idea that people are going to think that about you, if you're a weird person- and weird people know who they are. (Funnily enough, if you don't care whether they think you're weird, you'll start to act less weird.)

However, the downside of not caring what people think of you is that you have no interest in being the life of the party or anything like that. So you can actually travel through the other side of this situation back into not being social.

Ultimately the key is being able to control your own thoughts, to interrupt the fear thought and shut it down, recognize it for the nonce that it is. I'm not sure what the process is for getting to that point, but you need to be able to do it.
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It runs on Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, in addition to iOS and Android
It's not that hard, and if you are so huge that your devops takes a team you have a good problem. If you are a startup then architect your software so it can be scaled but otherwise just stick it somewhere and worry about product market fit. You can decompose and refactor and distribute once your product has enough users for it to matter.

A lot of the difficulty also comes from over engineering and premature scalability obsession. You often just don't need all that. I swear over engineering is the bane of software and devops these days. We've gone from java factoryfactorysingletons to "how many distributed systems fads can I use in one stack?"
Why San Francisco's way of doing business beat Los Angeles'
> Throughout most of history, the causation was reversed. Technology drove science much more than vice versa.

You're just making a blanket statement with out providing a detailed supporting narative.

For example: you mention agricultural production - What is the comparative improvement achieved in 3000 years of say Human agrarian trial and error vs. what was made possible by Gregor Mandel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor_Mendel) and Modern genetics in the 20th century?
Not anymore. They recently transformed into a PPV DVR.
IIRC, the military uses aptitude tests as a negative filter -- the ASVAB will be able to determine if you are obviously unsuited for a given profession, but it's not designed to single out exceptional individuals. I and a few others who took it with me got perfect scores, but that doesn't mean we'd be equally suited to any career path.

Unless the OP is asking if he has the mental capacity to be a minimally competent programmer, his raw IQ score won't tell him much.
Hmm... I haven't encountered that, at least not to that degree. In fact, my cardiologist was happy to get some lipid profile numbers from me, that I read off my phone to him (I had emailed them to myself for safe-keeping) based on my most recent bloodwork done at my GP's office.

Likewise, I just started visiting a new internist who specializes in diet/lifestyle who supervises people going on a ketogenic diet. He asked if I had recent bloodwork, and as it happened, I'd just had a physical about two weeks before at my GP's office. So I fired up the "Follow My Health" app on my phone, pulled up the relevant test results and handed him the phone. He took the notes and says "Great, you just avoided having to have blood drawn today".
Hey, you know what, it goes both ways.

Just because something is approved by the FDA doesn't mean that it's safe and effective. And, conversely, just because something isn't approved by the FDA doesn't mean it isn't safe and effective.

There isn't something magical about a clinical trial that suddenly removes all doubt about a substance. And this magical government agency isn't infallible, and has frankly made mistakes, some of them pretty major, in the past.

Let me share something with you. I've been suffering from severe RSI for close to 13 years. I've seen about five different doctors; I've had nerve conduction tests; I've had three rounds of physical therapy. Nothing works. I keep going back to the doctor, and they keep assigning physical therapy. Do you know why? Because, it's the only approved treatment that they can offer. Most of the doctors that I've seen refuse to even talk about anything else.

So I go out on my own, and I do some research, and I start trying things. Some herbal supplements, some alternative treatments. And you know what? This thing called trigger point massage therapy, in the span of about four months, improved my symptoms about 80%. I also found that B vitamin supplements helped with the nerve tingling issues. And that was several years ago and I'm still almost completely functional.

If I listened to people like you, I'd still be practically incapacitated and unable to support myself.

I think he's probably intelligent enough to look into any suggestions himself. After all, that's why people have ultimate control over their medical care. You're just being closed minded and pedantic, and your lecture on medical ethics is naïve.

So, if I may, get off your fucking high horse.

It's not like I'm telling this guy to go cut his left arm off. I'm basically doing the equivalent of telling him to go drink a bunch of cups of green tea and try a supplement of a compound that's so safe that it's approved for human consumption without a prescription. If it was dangerous, your precious FDA would yank it off the shelves in five minutes, right?

And if he tries my suggestion and it relieves his symptoms, even a little bit (even if it's placebo), then it's worth it. By all means, go see a doctor, but don't assume that doctors are all-knowing and all powerful and they are aware of and can prescribe the perfect treatment for your illness.

/edit I'll add that this is what happens when you leave mental health treatment exclusively to doctors. Hammer; nail, indeed. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/10/23/study-two...
I fully understand the authors argument and disagree almost across the board. He should just strike a licensing agreement like everyone else. It's not hard.
There's no minimum needed to get started. $100 a month isn't going to pay the rent or even be noticed by a lot of people, but on the margin, it will make a difference to people living on the edge.

Also remember that the average person breaks even, so affordability isn't really an issue.
Why would you need tax with a basic income? Flip it around and incorporate the tax into the income distribution.
Andrew Ng on Life, Creativity, and Failure
If you need 10000 cores for 5 seconds, that I'd awesome. My post was aimed at the 95% who don't.
Visa doesn't care about this because Square has paid them their money. For the most part, fraud is just a line item expense for the card networks. They care about it as long as fraud mitigation doesn't slow down payment transaction volume.
Pandora to pay $90M to settle suit over pre-1972 hits
This is ridiculous. You don't have the right to just take someone else's IP in order to make money. That is basically just taking advantage of someone else's marketing budget and hard work.

In this world you would never even know if a sequel to a game or movie is made by the original author or a cloner.

Maybe copyright periods are too long, but there is no way I should be able to release a game called Undertale tomorrow with the same characters and plot and slightly different art.
Squeezed Light and Quantum Clockspeeds
Warrantless Searches of Controlled Substance Prescription DB Threaten Privacy
An unprecedented time piece that brings the entire solar system on your wrist
Please elaborate. Is that a reason to dismiss the argument? Is it not obvious that tax payers are naturally at odds with tax eaters?
Unless you're a practiced dissembler, I think tone is much less likely to be misinterpreted in person. This is the phenomenon where someone nods and says "yeah" in a conversation even though they didn't actually hear / misinterpreted what you said; your tone is still clear (we are friendly right now and this conversation is enjoyable) and they want to affirm it. Or why sarcasm is so hard to do right over the internet.
Closing the Loopholes in Europe's Net Neutrality Compromise
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I'm not sure if this is a bubble that's popping or a valuation steeped in reality because of the value in this industry. If there is this much value in disrupting transportation it can't simply be to shuttle people around instead of using cabs. I'm starting to wonder what kind of business Uber needs to become for this kind of valuation to be justified.
Cryptographers Concerned Over NSA's Deprecation of ECC
Close.io Is Hiring Sales Development Representatives
I dont understand how they get that power. I guess they convince those with lots more money to give them that much?

I mean, if all the science is true, how does someone with so much money (say a board of directors) ever decide to pay someone that much? Clearly they're all ignoring the facts, but why? They dont seem to have anything to gain by paying someone too much, afterall their own stock/equity is at stake here.
I believe they moderate it at some capacity and remove abusive posts/accounts. They authenticate with Facebook and Twitter accounts which are more difficult to generate than a typical account. Especially Facebook. That probably helps them build trust.