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"Therefore, I advocate a citizen's veto amendment, allowing the public to reject laws passed by representatives who only give a damn about the constituents during election season."

What happens when corporations give goodies to the citizens and shape the message in the social media in such a way that it makes feigned outrage seem organic that the common person votes their way? Don't think you can change reform the system which the powers that be created. It's their game where you just happen to be one of the tiny pieces in it. The real problem is that no one dares to think that maybe it's time to stop playing their game once and for all. That thought is too scary for most.
I don't think there is a limit on how many "block mined" you can send to the server per second. Or they might have fixed that. Some cheats allow(ed) you to fly around while at the same time mining everything around you.
Yes but why is Bob's harder? Answer without enumerating the full list of possible flip sequences
Everything he has in HIBP is taken from public releases. It's already out there, there's not level of 'really out there now.'
Did you have a follow up? I assure you, professing ignorance of American culture isn't a very interesting thing, certainly not enough to stand alone as a comment.
The one bright spot in this cycle, IMO, has been the utter failure of the campaign finance machines to have much of an effect.

JEB blew through $100mil (reportedly). I hope each and every one of those donors considers it wasted money, and are more reluctant to do it again.
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Both companies control the technology that most impacts their business.

Dropbox stores quite a bit more data than Netflix. Data storage is our business. Ergo, we control storage hardware.

On the other hand, Netflix pushes quite a bit more bandwidth than almost everyone, including us. Ergo, Netflix tightly manages their CDN. That's where they really focus their technical work. Their storage footprint is smaller and less important to optimize to the extreme.
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As a Vietnamese American working in San Francisco this fills me with pride in the strength of our Vietnamese people to persevere. My mother nearly died trying to escape Vietnam and through a successive string of luck ended up immigrating to America and opening a small business in our home state of Virginia.

The article unfortunately skips from Vietnam -> Indonesia ->Maryland in a few short paragraphs. There is likely some amazing depth to this story that is not being surfaced here. I would love for a more in depth interview to be done al la Kevin Rose style.
it's entirely dependent on whether or not you know what the hell you're doing in a datacenter. if you don't know what you're doing, you'll never hit any such point.
Lots of people will create a single address for each company that wants one, so that if it gets compromised it can be shut off without affecting any other incoming emails. And identify the offending firm. I have created an email account for a store that wanted an address while I was out in their parking lot (the ones that had plausible future value to me).

So far, none have been sold to marketing lists. Which says either that I'm a pretty good judge of firms, or that no one is interested in me. ;)
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I decline to volunteer a list of the exact ways in which I disagree with the liberal orthodoxy. (Thread derail ho!) I'm sure you'll understand.

He carefully makes sure that any exposure to the "opposite side" is sandwiched with snark on both sides, and to make sure that none of the strong arguments are shown to you. You are not actually being exposed to the other side, just a soundbite carefully processed to remove any possibility that you might even be so much as intrigued, let alone convinced.

Be honest: When have you been "exposed" to one of these viewpoints and even experience a hint of "Hmmm, maybe I should dig into that position a bit more, I'm not sure John's right here."? All I'm asking for is a twitch. I bet you're too busy laughing for the thought to even cross your mind. (Again... be honest with me. Don't hypothesize about how maybe somebody else might have. Tell me about whether you followed up on a video's points.)

I'm taking a bit of risk putting this challenge out there, because a lot of people read these posts and of all those people, there almost has to be one person who actually can tell a story about how they followed up and came to a conclusion that disagreed with John. But I dunno... I've probably still got decent odds, and I'm quite sure there won't be a long stream of them below this concept.

And let me reemphasize my core point here, which is not that I really expect that much more from a comedian (you are laughing, because he is pretty funny, after all), but that the media doesn't do any better. John isn't doing anything particularly wrong. He ought to be the dessert part of your balanced news and media diet; it's not the dessert's fault that the rest of the meal is short on nutrients.
There's also CMake hunter, which covers the same problem space: https://github.com/ruslo/hunter, with no external dependency on python packages.
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Scala isn't “becoming” too big and too complex. It already is. But, if you dig deep enough into the implementation details, you will find that pretty much every production-ready language is too big and too complex.
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The president has an enormous amount of power. The executive branch has been steadily expanding its power since the beginning of the country.

Consider, for example, a Sanders DOJ vs. a Trump DOJ? (I suspect a Trump FBI would be primarily interested in cataloging and spying on anyone critical of Trump or of Muslim faith, essentially use COINTELPRO as a starting point, but make it better and stronger and do good deals). What about a Sanders DEA? EPA? DHS? The executive can do nearly anything if they are bold enough. The executive can ignore the judicial branch ("He has made his ruling, now let him enforce it"), the legislative branch (subpoenas from congress? About illegal leaks of classified information for political purposes concerning Valerie Plame? Please direct the law enforcement officers with weapons in your branch to serve them. You don't have any?)

I believe Sanders would refrain from using executive power to make things worse, while I am certain all of the other candidates would not refrain. Hillary will not differ from Obama nor does she claim to. Trump's shtick is to be an American dictator, an executive strong man who advocates violence and abuse towards anyone who disagrees with him and acts as an outlet for racism and hate and anger. Imagine if he had an army of FBI, DHS, NSA agents at his beck and call.
The ML class here is the most popular class by far in the entire department, enough that it's the only class where enrollment is based upon an exam. Half of the "enrolled" ended up either getting cut or dropping before the first day of class.
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Congratulaciones
Lubiano
I think Statistics departments have lagged behind in teaching ML techniques as first class citizens of the statistical world, but also that ML folks tend to gloss over or ignore a lot of the benefits formal inference and statistical thinking bring to the table.

Traditional statistics is very very good at helping us learn a lot about relatively simple (or carefully and deliberately simplified) processes, and provides a rich background in study design.

ML techniques are good at helping us learn a little bit about arbitrarily complicated processes, and apply that knowledge quickly. A modern practitioner in either field should have a working knowledge of both [families of] paradigms.
A commodity is a routinely interchangeable product, available from multiple suppliers, competing primarily on price. No, "data" in this context is not that at all. A library of user profiles is the opposite: it's proprietary, unique, massive.
All I said was Elixir/Erlang/OTP makes it easier to write scalable, fault tolerant software with explanations as to why.

I'm glad you clearly get the OTP but that is definitely not clear to me from your previous response. Good luck.
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How sad. Everything uses Java or at least JVM.
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I think plugins like NoCheatPlus did something about it, but with more and more conservative cheat detection methods you start running into the edge cases of legitimate users.
This is one of my favourite topics recently. ML and AI is something amazing. A very nice skill to have. Good article also.
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> how do you think it's possible that you can easily get a $15/month dedicated server?

Sorry makes no sense to me.
It's just figurative language.
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Congratulations
Lubiano
ExternalProject is for the build itself to pull down dependencies, this looks more end-user (or end-dev) orientated
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I lost my license recently and was able to order a replacement online. Interestingly, all I gave as input were my SSN and DOB. I pressed submit, and the next screen showed me my drivers license number (unchanged), full address, height, weight, and all other information on my license.

Definitely an insecure system.
Which leads to the interesting question: if this happens in base 10, but not (trivially) in base 2, what other bases does it happen or not happen in?
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Can you specify what you mean by too big or too complex? As far as concurrency goes it simpler than Java. You have Futures and Akka, that's it.

You should read Java Concurrency in Practice, the entire book is explaining all the concurrency methods they have. And thats already a very good book (one of the top in my list). In Scala, I just need to read through a few pages of documentation and the rest is simply practice in mixing and matching patterns and a few configuration settings.
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I'm saying that if you just keep flipping coins (So, no Bob/Alice situation), and stop whenever you hit HH or HT, that the average number of flips to get to HH is 3, and the average number of flips to get to HT is 3.

But, if you are focussing on a particular scenario that you will flip coins until you get to HT, the average number of flips will be 4, and if you flip coins until you get to HH, the average number of flips will be 6.

I just find that really hard to grasp intuitively.
The article makes a brief mention of Go causing issues with RAM usage. Was this due to large heap usage, or was it a problem of GC pressure/throughput/latency? If the former, what were some of the core problems that could not be further optimized in Go? If the latter, I've heard recent versions have had some significant improvements -- has your team looked at that and thought that you would have been OK if you just waited, or was there a fundamental gap that GC improvements couldn't close?

Could you comment more generally on what advantages Rust offered and where your team would like to see improvement? Are there portions of the Dropbox codebase where you'd love to use Rust but can't until <feature> RFCs/lands/hits stable? Are there portions where the decision to use Rust caused complications or problems?
It's interesting that law enforcement claims that they need to surveil all of our private data to keep us safe, yet they can't even figure out a way to share amongst themselves crime-related information that citizens give them willingly.

If the police departments had just shared the information about his stolen wallet (his local police department had just warned him about unauthorized use of his credit card 24 hours before the arrest), then the arrest could have been avoided.
After a while if an article doesn't get a lot of traction it's removed from the duplicates list so it can be submitted again.
But they would be asked to share this back door with the thousands of law enforcement organizations, as well as other countries. If they had to do the same with their signing keys, those wouldn't be secure either.
Like I said, re-election is what matters. It's not about money winning elections, it's about politicians spending their terms serving their donors once they're in office so they can stay in office.
I stumbled upon this MeFi discussion when I searched for "Atom City Number Nine."

http://www.metafilter.com/118133/A-Tall-Tail
I don't know that I would call the practice of "displacing the homeless" as disgraceful, but I agree that the way the private security elevated the situation is. They shouldn't be defaulting to spraying mace, as one might spray insecticide, it should just be there as a last resort.

The disgrace belongs to you and me and the rest of capitalistic society who have let homelessness happen. Since we can't/won't house them, the only thing we can do is shuffle them around.
I'm not even sure it's "in reverse." The supervised portion of ML is almost entirely regular ol statistics.
currency deposits must be duration matched with loans

Why? This is the essence of banking and has been for centuries.

Furthermore, if you try to apply this consistently, what do you do about commercial and consumer credit? Ban it entirely, including credit cards? No more car loans, just cash on the nail?
This is addressed in the article:

> Lemke Oliver and Soundararajan’s first guess for why this bias occurs was a simple one: Maybe a prime ending in 3, say, is more likely to be followed by a prime ending in 7, 9 or 1 merely because it encounters numbers with those endings before it reaches another number ending in 3. For example, 43 is followed by 47, 49 and 51 before it hits 53, and one of those numbers, 47, is prime.

> But the pair of mathematicians soon realized that this potential explanation couldn’t account for the magnitude of the biases they found. Nor could it explain why, as the pair found, primes ending in 3 seem to like being followed by primes ending in 9 more than 1 or 7. To explain these and other preferences, Lemke Oliver and Soundararajan had to delve into the deepest model mathematicians have for random behavior in the primes.
if "base 10" is a tautology, wouldn't that make "deci-mal" a tautology too?

so yeah, just hold up 10 fingers and don't say anything.
I know, right? I actually got excited for a second thinking he'd name drop that.
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"it runs on the same CPUs as everybody else with the same access to memory protection, same assembler"

I'm not referring to Turing equivalence at all. I'm 100% discussing practical considerations here.
Secondary discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11282749
steveklabnik also pointed out on the Rust subreddit that there's a Dropbox blog post covering a few more technical items:

https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/03/magic-pocket-infrastr...
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The key "insight" that helped me intuit this is that "HH" can self overlap, while "HT" can't.
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Thanks for the feedback! What would be your usecase for that API?
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I agree. When I was at university, I bought a top-of-the-line Macbook. Not even a year later, I couldn't even run Eclipse and Firefox at the same time without swapping. Any time I needed to switch from Eclipse to Firefox or vice versa, I wound up waiting a noticeable length of time while the system was busy paging one out of RAM and the other in.

I'm on board with Niklaus Wirth: https://cr.yp.to/bib/1995/wirth.pdf
Actually my email is c.schmitt@envisia.de, you could send me yours then.
The writing style in this article is really jarring for some reason I can't quite put my finger on.
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I agree. Also, I think there are going to be a proliferation of API's to choose from and it will be helpful to understand which ones are the best and why. Some could be flat out wrong.
Shouldn't that be `if p % x == 0:`, not `if p % 2 == 0:`?
ML is almost entirely based upon math that's decades upon decades old. The only reason it's become such a big thing lately is that the hardware and data sets have finally caught up to the point where it's useful on a broad scale.

Sure, the research portion of the field has made a lot of strides since 2011 but for anything that's not PhD or research level stuff, Ng's class is perfectly up to date.

You'd be hard pressed to find a better class anywhere.
I had an economics lecturer spouting this crap about how major countries never need worry to repay their debts and could lean on their massive power/influence if they got stuck. Fast forward to a post GFC world and suddenly it's like the story of the group of friends where everyone owes money to everyone else and it's all good until one new friend doesn't owe anyone and suddenly turns around and tells everyone it's time to pay up. Party stopped pretty quick after that.
I've done 2 & 3. What's the best way to go about doing 1? Pointers to a good guide would be much appreciated.
I'd guess the GP was pointing out that there are uninteresting results that those less qualified in maths see as some sort of magic. Maybe like those silly "choose any number multiply by x, etc etc did you get 7, magic!" games. Or:

9*9+7 = 88
98*9+6 = 888
987*9+5 = 8888

While not exactly trivial, and there's still maths required to understand the patterns, this prime result is much deeper and more interesting. The GP almost passed over it because they though it might fall into the less interesting category.
And how would you stop playing their game? Industrial scale propaganda has been as much a part of our environment since the early 20th century as atmospheric lead pollution. We have to work with it because we can't ignore it.

Also, I believe that private corporations should pay for public goods (free to the public) as a means to attract talented employees who can increase profits, so I am not convinced by your argument or solution, if there is one at all.
Well, you can't really expect to hold a meaningful conversation about a language without knowing, at least, its basic concepts. With Erlang "processes" are front and center; you read about them in every tutorial and reference, in most blogposts, basically everywhere Erlang related, ad nauseam. So you're guaranteed to understand what kind of processes we're talking about if you have any familiarity with it at all.

And there is a good argument in favor of calling them "processes". Conceptually, both are providing a very strong separation/isolation and cleanup guarantees, which is not true for any of other constructs you mentioned. The range of operation you can perform on a process: spawning, monitoring, sending signals - is the same for both OS and Erlang processes. You can very much think and use both kinds in exactly the same way, other than rather excessive memory usage by the OS-level kind.

I actually have a somewhat related talk tomorrow, about - in essence - replacing Celery in a Python project with Elixir. Integration via ErlPort makes it natural to think of Python worker processes as simply (Erlang) processes - you spawn and link and monitor them just like you would normal (Erlang) processes. It even works with Poolboy out of the box.
They did mention this, but they didn't talk real numbers. And, my second point is (I think) slightly more subtle -- the probability distributions need to be considered, not just the counting upward angle.

As I'm writing this out, I'm a little less sure that this would matter, but I'll leave the comment out for the sake of discussion. :)
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Yes, exactly, another bad typo ¬¬

Thanks for pointing it out, I did this over an IPython session and copied it in a (completely unnecesary) hurry. The results are good though :)

Edit: as to keep my claim that the results are good, check this sentence from the article "...Nor could it explain why, as the pair found, primes ending in 3 seem to like being followed by primes ending in 9 more than 1 or 7." -- it backs up the data I posted :)
You have seen our politicians right? You hope that at least a comedian is funny.

Also it's hardly an "American thing" nearly every country in the world engages in satire in some form.
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Open Whisper is based in the US so Signal isn't different from Apple in a way that was interesting for the story.
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Keep in mind that that doesn't just result in more costs : it results in limits on scaling.

Suppose you are on S3 and you can serve a customer x Mb/$. Now you're limited to products that you can charge more for. Suppose you get data served to customers on dedicated at x/10 Mb/$ (easily doable, and compared to S3 I bet x/50 would be doable).

Isn't this how products like facebook video, vimeo (and thousands of porn sites) survive ? If you calculate how much it would cost to serve 20 Mb out from EC2, you would never ever be able to pay that using advertising revenue, even if you got as much as TV gets.

So that reduction in price that comes from not using the cloud doesn't just go into your pocket : it enables new business models that just aren't accessible to you otherwise.

Also can we stop pretending that the alternative to the cloud is buying servers from HP and colocate them ? That's simply not true. There's any number of projects that would enable you to slowly scale up that aren't EC2. It's more work, certainly. But it's worth it at quite small scales.

And in some ways (e.g. geographic reach) clouds simply don't match existing dedicated offerings. Not now, and at a 20% yearly price reduction it'll take them decades to match dedicated server rental.

Obviously I'm not claiming clouds don't have advantages. But you're paying quite a high price for them atm.
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My reasons for leaving DB was due to their director of board choice. They were great but since then I have found equal if not better services.
If you look at stackoverflow surveys you'll notice that those using Scala are amongst the happiest users of any language and are very willing to continue using it. It's growing slowly but steadily and Spark is also driving adoption. With some exceptions most criticism seems to be coming from those who haven't had much exposure to scala and trot out the same tired old material time and again. Once you grok scala it makes more sense. It's a bit like complaining that Mandarin is hard to understand if you are English. It takes time to learn but it's worth it if you stick it out.
Why would you expect 9.1%? At low numbers like these, primes are likely to be closely packed, meaning you are not as likely to have to search forward 11 numbers as just dividing by 11 would imply.
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Even C++'s de-facto package manager is too painful to write in C++? Haha I kid, I kid.