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Cybersecurity National Action Plan
I would think that containers would help obviate such concerns, since it would be rather trivial to keep even a hundred images in place for an automated compilation run.

Of course, serving the output would be harder, but still not impossible.
Who else do you think will pay for them? We are all customers; we all end up paying for them one way or another. The question is whether you want to pay for the regulations that actually benefit you, or the regulations that rent-seeking organizations can convince the government to use your tax dollars to pay for.
ITT: No one who understands or even cares to research gender dysphoria.
Perhaps there's a cookie? I opened mine in privacy mode. Also, I use DDG instead of Google.
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Tokyo’s mile-high skyscraper to be the tallest in the world
In case you were searching for it too - here's a tutorial that demonstrates practical usage: http://webdsl.org/tutorial-event-planner-files/webdsl-tutori...

This looks like a lot of complexity squeezed into something that is quickly becoming much more than a DSL.
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Hugely important. Compiling your own Nginx has never been trivial in modern development pipelines, and until now that's been the only way to use external modules.
> After thrusting much of the health system firmly under government control,

Everyone outside of Medicare is in private insurance, which is regulated but not "firmly under government control".

> raising costs substantially,

While there is debate about whether the ACA has slowed the rate of healthcare inflation in its short life, there is no evidence that it has "raised costs substantially" across the system.

> literally fining people for being unable to afford more expensive plans

Fining people for choosing not to pay for health care if they are able. Everyone needs health care, most everyone gets (possibly lacking) healthcare when they need it, and it costs money.

The previous solution, brought to you by Ronald Reagan, was the mandate that hospital emergency rooms couldn't turn people away who needed help. A humane concept, but poor social or economic policy for addressing the healthcare system in the large.
So you learned a valuable lesson you'll never forget and all it cost you was a few items in a video game? I'm not sure the cost/benefit ratio gets better than that.
Sure, there are lots of things that can be done by executive orders. Changing tax rates, however, is not one of them.
SENIOR CITIZEN DEBT RELIEF: 31% OF CANADIANS BELIEve CPP/QPP WILL BE ENOUGH
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The part that confused me was his claim that these are "necessary expenses" when in fact, they aren't. Very shaky ground.
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For me, every social media site is like this. The only reason I can even stand Tumblr is that half the blogs I follow only post once or twice a day.
For problem 1, you'd use a distributed lock to update more than one resource. A single resource could very well implement its own lock in which case you don't need a distributed lock. But once you have more than one resource to update, you do.

A lock should result in linearized access (all resources updated while holding the lock should be updated in the same order based on the time when the lease was granted). A counter is enough to put the updates in order. Giving leases a unique id doesn't do that - the network could reorder writes seen by two different resources. Fencing ensures that if the network does reorder writes, one of them fails.

The lock is acting sort of like a clock that ticks whenever it hands out a lease. The resources effectively update their local clock whenever they see an update with a new token from the central clock, and use this local clock to detect stale writes.

Note that fencing doesn't guarantee that writes don't happen late - all updates could be delayed by 10 seconds and it wouldn't catch it. But it isn't feasible to prevent this on systems with bad clocks connected by a flaky network.
Fear. Fear of being left behind by the economy, fear of being encroached on by immigrants, fear of terrorist attack.

Not all fears are justified and proportional, but it's easy to turn them to anger.
How would he seek to do that without having a majority in Congress? The last 6 years haven't taught us anything?
Apple takes its eye off the ball: Why Apple fans are hating Apple software
That may be the case, but all other protocols that guarantee consistency suffer from similar subtle issues (which can be resolved through careful algorithm design). Eventual consistency, however, is never the answer, unless your question is "how do I get eventual consistency?" The consistency required by an application is entirely imposed by the domain, and it is that requirement that causes algorithmic difficulties. Using less-consistent protocols to achieve a consistent view simply pushes the problem to a different layer.

Also, eventual consistency is a weak requirement that, when sufficient, enables a certain level of fault tolerance and low latency not achievable with other consistency levels (see [1]), although other consistency levels may offer good-enough fault-tolerance and latency (rivaling EC in many cases). EC is not in general the solution to the problem of "how do I best distribute my data?"

[1]: http://www.bailis.org/blog/when-does-consistency-require-coo...
This response is incorrect at a very fundamental level.

First, Antirez claims that requiring the "materialization" store to be able to tie break with a monotonically increasing token requires linearization? This is completely false. The monotonically increasing token allows for eventual consistency. That's the entire point of it. It's monotonically increasing.

For anyone who claims that once you have coordination (locking) in your system you already lost is completely ignoring the research coming out of BOOM (Berkeley Orders of Magnitude). You can design your system to push the coordination out to the edge and way from your "choke points" and use these monotonically increasing tokens to keep your bottlenecks coordination free.

Secondly, Antirez's argument that you can use a compare & swap in a transactional storage layer is also wrong. This is not possible to write safely.

I'm not even going to touch his argument that using system clocks in a distributed locking algorithm is safe...
Ok! But why is that bad? Unity3d is lock-in. Flash was lock-in. Hell, writing your own engine is lock-in, because rewriting that chunk of technology is so time consuming it could easily bankrupt a smaller game company.

Of course Amazon wants lock-in. It's what they're selling. But we all make decisions about who we want to be married to and to what degree we want an open marriage. All of us in the game (et al) industry are "locked in" in many ways.
What are the modern alternatives to Access? Web frontends?
Reminds me of this exchange when the Hogfather gives a sword to a little girl: http://m.imgur.com/gallery/DXDvM

You learned two valuable lessons that day on Diablo. 1) don't be too trusting, 2) crying does not fix things in real life

I think kids should be exposed to experiences like that. They should be given guidance, not bans.

Take alcohol for instance: in Europe people start drinking very young (illegally). It's socially accepted as the norm that everyone knows happens. But for kids this is very hard to do of course.

As a result, college is a lot less ... shall we say exciting? By the time we have easy access to alcohol (money+legal) we already know how to treat it with some amount of respect.
And my point is that the lousy screen is sold as satisfactory because the customer is told & convinced that the specifications say it's satisfactory.
Presumably because inadequacy and fear are so fundamental to our identity now that few people question it's source.
I don't. I recognize that Android is definitely a more dominant platform. My best experiences in mobile have been working with a strong native Android developer. I do love the web for some things, but for what I'm really excited about, the web is just the wrong answer--yet people keep trying to make it the right answer.
Reflections on Bootstrapping (2014)
Instead of simplified subtitles, you would just see the definition of a rare word that was just said.
It's 'Hacker News', not 'Objectivist News'.
As pjmlp mentioned below bigger orgs have better Microsoft licensing deals - volume licenses and such and smaller ones can apply for Bizspark or whatever to get lower prices.

But yeah your point still stands that they should simplify the licensing for people who are neither big org nor a small startup. Especially so in the wake of cloud and Linux.
I don't think your employer would either, no matter who they are. They will take advantage of the system like everyone else. We all benefit from roads, power, water, etc. Bernie is trying to reduce the cost of health care by taking profits out by controlling the costs. If you have an organization that is paying for 300+ million people's insurance, that organization has tremendous leverage. I understand that this is a very complex subject, but that's his position and I support it too. In other words, Bernie sees health care as an investment, in the infrastructure of the well-being of the American people. (I think this last sentence is poorly worded but I gave it my best effort)

(added, post edit) Also, the masses will benefit tremendously from it. He estimates about a $4,000 yr savings for middle class. You might not get any benefits from your employer but you're not voting for your employer, you're voting for your rights (Bernie says health care is a right).

As for this:
> 'such a policy shift could happen purely from the POTUS'
That's never been Bernie's rally cry. He's calling for a political revolution. Essentially, for young voters and progressives to actively engage in the political system and to vote for progressives (and to encourage others to do so as well).

This is a solid video about it all by Robert Reich: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfIhonVoFSg
You seem to assume that governments will magically do a better job than customers of regulating the behavior of market participants. They won't. That's why your models do worse in the real world than mine.
People consider those popups to be legal contracts? That's funny.
Maybe I'm just too skeptical of these types of stories coming from generic polling, but I will say that I don't have a high degree of confidence in polling done by random phone calls (the CNN/ORC poll listed says that on page 14 [1]). My wife frequently answers the political poll questions when people call, in part because she feels sorry for the poller. Answering those calls can take 15-30 minutes. So you're depending on the results of people who have 15-30 minutes to answer 35 questions about the government. I feel like there's a selection bias at work there already, and you're assuming that people will give thoughtful answers to the questions, that the order of questions doesn't affect responses, etc, etc, etc. You're depending on 1018 people who actually may not be statistically relevant, since America is a big, big country, to drive your thinking on that country.

Plus, would the responses to the surveys be different if the word 'disappointed' was used instead of angry? And would the perception of the responses be different?

Secondarily, and this is far more anecdotal, but I am friends with a fairly wide swath of people via social media, from conservatives to libertarians to liberals to progressives. The key takeaway that I have from watching all of their posting and all of their interactions is that people are angry at others. And people have always been easily angered by others, it's just that the modern American landscape allows for a) easier access to others and b) easier access to well-written, rational condemnation of others than can be easily shared. But reading through my feed,

Maybe Americans aren't actually angry, but since it's easier to construct understandable stories using language like anger, Americans feel like they should be angry?

[1]http://edition.cnn.com/2015/12/29/politics/cnn-orc-poll-full...
As a progressive (but a highly-taxed one) I'd like to see defense spending cut by 50%+ first. That's not going to happen either.
Coupled with the fact that anyone who can use an FTP client can just throw up a copy of WordPress onto a shared hoster and get going....PHP+MySQL is ubiquitous in this market.

In fact, it's even easier than that, many shared hosters run automatic installers that grab the latest WordPress and unzip it into your shared host website htdocs folder and it's just point, click, bish, bash, bosh...you're good to go.

Fancy selling your home made widgets? Just add WooCommerce which supports the most popular payment gateways (PayPal, Stripe, Braintree, WorldPay etc).

And provided you stick with plugins and themes that are well known, well maintained, play nice with the official WordPress hooks, get security updates, and keep on top of WordPress updates it's reasonably secure.

Sure, WordPress may not be "sexy" but for non-developers you can get a lot of things done in not a lot of time.
Django isn't as fashionable as Rails was in its day or Node is now. I'd guess a lot more people are using it then are talking about how they use it.
Accounting for local, state, and federal spending, most states spend more money per student in their poorest districts than in their most affluent ones: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2015/03/12/in-2.... In California, the poorest school districts receive almost 14% more money than the richest ones.
I think the Java thing about it is to create an external language to compensate for the deficiencies of the actual language in writing declarative code.

For most of the examples, you could probably easily write type-safe Scala code that does exactly the same, while still being flexible enough to handle the cases that the DSL doesn't currently handle.
It's an interesting ploy by Amazon to get game devs to lock themselves into Amazon's AWS for backend and Amazon's Twitch for streaming.
Since init is the first process that runs, you can't use an interpreted language like ruby (since the interpreter would have to run first, which is impossible if your program itself is init). Maybe there's a Ruby-compiler out there somewhere, but as-is Ruby would be impossible.
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The only way out I can see is to make government small enough (or homogeneous enough) that one's opinion doesn't matter much. That's the way it was in America for much of the 20th century - there wasn't much difference between the major political parties. When people are trying to remake society through the political process, is it any wonder that is polarizing?
In other words, the regulatory regime provides no actual benefit, yet we are paying for it with our tax dollars. Thank you for making my point for me.
Greed isn't going away. In purely socialist countries we just see the greed moved to the government where it is subject to far less checks and balances than in capitalism. For instance, see Cuba where there are a couple of really nice hospitals for the powerful in government, then some dirty hovels for everyone else. This is easily the biggest reason capitalistic countries are so much richer and better off than purely socialist ones.
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No, that exports the whole address book. LinkedIn formerly had a link on each contact page that allowed you to download the vCard for that person. This was handy when trying to ensure you have the latest information for a particular person. If I use the export page you pointed to, I'd have to resolve conflicts for every entry at once.
"...in exchange for its data," plus 'unspecified other ideas "that I'm not willing to talk about."'

In other words, "Inventor of Android wants to track your every word and move while onboard." Nothing could possibly go wrong in that scheme.
what a strange thing to subject your kids to, shame on these parents.

Has anyone done any studies on what these 'math wizards' end up doing in life.

I grew up in Indian community where this kind of stuff was the norm, many of my friends won regional championships but none of them do anything remotely related to math now.
Instead of associating math with magical patterns that explain the world, they now associate it with stress/anxiety/competition.

Please don't do this repulsive stuff to your kids, read Richard Feynman's bio and see how his parents inspired him to like math/science/world.
Why US v. Texas is the most important case the Court will decide this year
The article calls on someone(?) to Jepsen test Redlock, which is a good idea, but I think that the author(s) of such systems should release their own Jepsen test suite along with the software they're purporting to be safe (as others have done [1][2][3]). I would suspect that operations on Redlock, when subjected to nemesis that partition, kill and skew-clocks on various nodes, would not be found linearizable.

In general, I don't understand why one would build a system that attempts to approximate consensus without just using one of the proven consensus algorithms. Redlock is not the only one here, there are other systems that do this as well.

[1] https://github.com/atomix/atomix-jepsen

[2] https://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/testing-apache-cassandra-w...

[3] https://foundationdb.com/blog/call-me-maybe-foundationdb-vs-...
From the Zenefits homepage: "Payroll, benefits, time, compliance, and more"

And the article: "Parker Conrad has resigned as CEO of Zenefits, following a number of regulatory compliance failures"

The irony..
You probably shouldn't choose any of them, but should set up your own server, but some people don't want to do that, and we don't want to play favorites and say "this is the best server to join" so instead we list a few servers run by our community.
I was suprised to see how many Java applications run on Windows + MSSQL.
Ridiculous hit piece based on dubious poll results.

There's a lot of angry people in this world. I remember quite a bit rioting in France, revolting in Syria, revolting in the Ukraine, etc.

> When asked if they trust the government, 89% of Republicans and 72% of Democrats say "only sometimes" or "never" . . .

I'm in the never group and for obvious reasons. Governments abuse the power we give them. And that doesn't make me angry, but smart.
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Exactly, I view this completely differently. You just learned an important lesson. Fuck up on the internet and you lose - there's no undo. This applies to many situations in life, there's not always someone there to protect you from your own poor judgement so it's best to train your judgement rather than trust by default. This same lesson not to trust people by default can now save you from malware, scams, counterfeit purchases with real money, etc. This was a very cheap way to learn the lesson.

I'm reminded of all the people who had money with pirateat40 when his ponzi scheme disappeared... he claimed 7%/week returns and some people still believed him and sent him real money.

EDIT: In this way the internet provides a very useful social playground where practical damage was minimized but still real enough to be felt. I think this sort of learning is perfectly fine and should be encouraged more, not less. Better to learn how things really work yourself than to be constantly relying on someone else to shield you - you sure don't want to be an adult who still doesn't get it.
Because it's the narrative the media can use to generate interest and clicks --> https://medium.com/@parkermolloy/5-things-the-media-does-to-...
They left off the number one reason I think people are angry - the feeling of being powerless to change any of the examples given.
If you're building a programming language and you arthimetic operations. You would need to handle the case of overflow and underflow.

Edit: a Web Developer doesn't need to know it but it's most likely part of a CD curiculem.
Somewhat tangential, but does Space-X have the will or ability to develop heavy lift rocket engines which at the moment only the Russians seem to be capable of producing?

I think Boeing etc. have to procure their heavy lift rocket engines from Russia because they have no alternative supplier, at the moment.
The issue about this is that it is already being targeted in Antitrust suits, too.

Why? because Google, through their almost-monopoly in some areas (including captchas) has gotten an unfair advantage in computer vision.

I personally would prefer if Google would be forced to publish any training data and parameters for neural networks that were trained with data created by the public.
It's probably because political party is now a stand-in for whether you intrinsically think all of society needs to work together or its every in-group for themselves.

Both precepts have merits depending on your general outlook on life, but they are diametrically opposed in terms of how you think people should act in the large and small.
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Even the 73% optimal tax rate proposed by Saez and Diamond is based on bogus analysis. The point of taxation is not to maximize government revenue -- if the government wants to maximize revenue it could just print dollar bills. The point is to maximize purchasing power. Thus the downside of high taxes is not manifested in lower government revenue in dollar terms. It is manifested in fewer startups and fewer risky investments, and thus fewer new technologies and new products. Overly high taxes change the equation for risk taking -- why try to start a business when if you succeed, you won't keep that much of the winnings? If fewer people start businesses, the economy becomes more sclerotic as big corporations no longer have to face competition from upstarts.

The problem is that it is fundamentally impossible to quantitatively measure the impact of taxes on startups and economic dynamism. We know that if we taxed at 100%, we would likely have very few startups. But we do not know how much any given incremental change will hurt the economy. But as rough estimate, if the current tax rate is ~33%, and a tax rate of 100% would kill all startups, then a tax of 73% (the max rate proposed by Saez) would kill about half of startups (or rather, mean that they never exist. Immigrant founders would choose to start companies elsewhere, other founders would sell out early to a big company, and the big company would then just ruin the product like they normally do, etc.) Very roughly, such a tax rate might raise around an additional $100 billion. Would increasing total government revenue by 2% be worth killing half of all startups? That doesn't sound like a good trade to me. (Of course I am personally biased on this issue).
'bending the stick' of public perception

I prefer the term "opening the Overton window". (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window)
> Using less-consistent protocols to achieve a consistent view simply pushes the problem to a different layer.

Absolutely, but if you can avoid using global locks, which are error prone and reduce reliability, isn't that a good thing?
Even still you have to be intelligent about the interfaces because you'll have to support them for approximately the rest of time immemorial.
Prototyping in requirements definition: bringing vision to the process
My impression was don't over-extend a product, such as Evernote or LinkedIn have done, and try to keep your product focused - similar to the Unix philosophy of "Do One Thing and Do It Well".