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Right -- it's much more likely that alien life is not sentient.

But when we restrict our search to sentient life, here is what the statistics suggest [and as you correctly point out, that restriction is what makes this an interesting discussion].
How does this machine compare to a modern day consumer laptop (such as a Macbook Pro) in term of processing power?
This is very cool.

However I am wondering, what could it be used for nowadays?

I would do some benchmarking, I don't know, e.g. LINPACK or maybe even distributed.net projects, BOINC ones, etc.

Other than that? Maybe you could do some 3D renderings? could you put it head to head with a GPU doing something embarrassingly parallel? probably not with anything like a Titan X, but maybe it could give a run for its money to something less powerful?

I am very intrigued by what you could achieve.
I went to the Atlantic to read some sponsored content, only to discover that uBlock Origin filters it out for me.
Yes, this is only about physics for me too. My physics does check out though. If you are in a car and it accelerates from 0 to 30 mph you will experience the symptoms of acceleration. For example, an object that is hanging from a string in your frame of reference, such as a fuzzy dice hanging from the mirror, will appear to move backwards on its own. Try holding the fuzzy dice while running on a treadmill. I guarantee you won't see anything like that happen. Because you are not accelerating.
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So very awesome of you. Thank you for the reply!
> Money is essentially a distributed IOU

Isn't this completely circular? If money is IOU, what is it that is being Owned?
I don't really see whats interesting about this either way. Lots of places you interview at tell you what the interview is going to be like and what you are expected to be familiar with. This is just 'write code and we'll be testing you on data structures and algorithms!'

There's some flowery language there about having a genuine desire to want to hire you unlike those 'other evil companies!'... sounds like the same shit pretty much every other company does to me.
Right here is a pdf on why you should consider owning an asset such as Bitcoin. I'm not saying everyone should go all in, just consider owning it as part of your investment portfolio...
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Our content editor looks a lot like the medium editor, and we are launching on RSS-to-email functionality this week.
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Why is it more interesting? The purpose of the blog post is to explain the rationale for the guide itself and directly links to it. I find it just as interesting to read about why they're doing it.
Sad is not being able to upgrade RAM and HD.

I love my rMBP, but I know it won't last as long as it could have if I could upgrade it.

I think most of this comes not from planned obsolescence, but from a ridiculous drive for thinness. Apple is obsessed with thin.
This is all fine and dandy, but it's based on a very optimistic view of human cognitive abilities. It only makes sense as a personal philosophy if you only attempt to apply it to your own behavior, and never ever use it as a way to explain away people who disagree with you. "Truth" is straight-up unattainable, and if you ever think you've found it the only thing you can be sure of is that you are wrong. It's like something you asymptotically approach by learning stuff and thinking really hard all the time, but you still never actually get there.

Even in supposedly cut-and-dried things like engineering decisions, there is very little capital-T Truth. People think their technical preferences are based on objective criteria but more often than not they are just as subjective as anything else. The only difference is that they can articulate an argument that on the surface sounds like it's about cold hard facts rather than personal preferences.

It's uncanny how often people who fail to get other people to do things their way feel like they lost that battle because their "truth" couldn't overcome someone else's "ego" (scare quotes intentional). It's also uncanny how often people who resent other people for trying to tell them how things should be done will perceive that as someone else's "ego" trying to steamroll their "truth".

So, I do try very hard to apply those ideals of objectivity/rationality/egolessness to my own life, but even then it's on a best effort basis because the human mind's ability to delude itself into thinking things like "I am right because of logic and they are wrong because of feelings" is utterly staggering, and that is just as true of myself (if not moreso) than it is of other people. By trying really really hard to overcome this common cognitive bias, I may actually do better than some or most other people in this regard. Or maybe not. All we can do is try, and also try very hard to not fall into the trap of thinking that other people aren't also trying (perhaps in their own way that doesn't completely make sense to us).
"Metrics from Kubernetes 1.2" is discussing the latency of requests to the Kubernetes API (for managing what's in the cluster).

The latency referred to in the demo is the latency of requests from the loadbots to the nginx containers running in the cluster.
In the video he says it's been negligible so far.
The original URL is here: https://speakerdeck.com/philips/pushing-kubernetes-forward
The Economist. Their ability to capture the "nuance" and detail of any story from the perspective of those who are most involved is absolutely unmatched.

Here's an example. For the majority of my life I've been a hardcore gamer. By that I mean esports, tournaments, strategy and more.
My most recent game was Dota which I played for 3 years then moved onto Dota 2 for 4 years.

The Economist wrote a story on the esports explosion and culture and they TOTALLY nailed it.

They were able to capture the emotion and passion people have for video games, and why someone like me would travel across the country to go to tournaments, and spend hours watching professional players on Twitch TV.

I had seen dozens of articles in the New York Times, Washington Post, the New Yorker, but none of them really captured what it was like to follow the esports scene.

The Economist always captures the essence and nuance of many different stories around the world, perfectly. That's why always come back to it for excellent stories and news.
Not really, though, right? The body cams video would almost certainly be treated the same as dashcam video, would it not?

Generally, dashcam video is extremely difficult to get released if it incriminates or disagrees with the reporting of the police in any way.

That's not really surveillance by any meaningful definition.
How is this related to the article?
Three reasons why Rust cannot adopt Go's solution:

1. Rust is not garbage collected. This means that a separation between strings-that-own-their-data and strings-that-reference-their-data is needed.

2. Rust cares about first-class FFI support; in particular, copying strings at FFI boundaries is right out. That is why Rust needs C strings to be a separate type.

3. Rust wants to do pathnames right in a cross-platform way. In particular, it should be impossible for other apps to create valid pathnames that cause Rust apps manipulating those paths to crash or malfunction. UTF-8 paths fail this criterion.
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That makes a lot of sense. It follows, then, that the way forward is to hyperlocalize, either geographically or in a particular subject matter. And come to think of it, I would find much greater value in a detailed news site about my city, or even my particular section of my city.
> Most people that climb Everest take out insurance that protects them from a cancellation of their trip. It is the insurance companies that, in turn, refuse payment to the Sherpa.

That can't be the full story, though. Because the obvious answer to that is that the Sherpa mountaineers should purchase insurance against cancellation of bookings (this is quite common for tourist attractions in more developed economies).

Underwriting this insurance would be quite easy, because the people who underwrite the insurance policies for the tourist climbers should be quite happy to underwrite policies for the Sherpa mountaineers as well.
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it may be worth checking to see if your friend made other comments around the same time that may have actually been the source of a shadow ban. I've had half a dozen times where someone linked to a comment that supposedly got another account shadow-banned, and I looked at their history and found another comment made at about the same time that was a much more likely culprit.

Like, "I got shadow-banned for this comment about memory management in iOS" "... you sure it wasn't for this comment from a few hours earlier about how people who vote for the other political party are [long list of expletives]?"
That's some serious job right there, just dismantling the thing and putting it back together.

I hate it when I assembled computers and I ended up needing extra screws... or worse, I ended up with "spare" screws which left me wondering what exactly I missed. Can't imagine doing it to something this big.

Or like when you buy something that comes packed neatly..and as soon as you unpack it it becomes impossible to put it back and make it fit as before.

Maybe I'm the problem... uhmmm..
> Or if you are outside for a long time in the cold with no jacket, upon feeling very cold, you don’t say that you have "a coldness disorder".

A better example for anxiety or depression would be standing inside in a warm room, and despite everyone else in the room being comfortable, you are unable to warm up at all. When you complain, you are told that "everyone gets cold sometimes".

This article doesn't seem to have any new information, it's just repeating the old ideas that depression and anxiety are the same as temporary sadness and worry due to legitimate problems.
Some of them used to be. Some still are.
> We’ll ask you to solve some coding questions in a language and text editor of your choice. Feel free to bring your own laptop, or we’ll be happy to provide one. Notably, we ask candidates not to compile or run their code during this exercise, and not to refer to online resources.

Every time interviewing comes up, I have this funny feeling about letting people look things up vs. whiteboarding them out. Reading this finally broke something loose:

Coding in interviews should be as hard as the hardest coding you'll do on the job. Heck, anything in the interview should be about how you do things when the job is hard.

Now, this doesn't mean under stress. That may come naturally. But the difference between good and great engineers is decided when the task is hard and information is sparse. Asana is explicitly selecting for people who are going to reason about things from first principles and try to get it right the first time. I admire that they're owning up to that.

They'll pass over people who are exceptionally good at searching / synthesizing information. They'll ding people who focus on tightening the iteration time as a way of learning faster. But that's OK. They've probably built a culture where that kind of person thrives, and they're trying to find more engineers who will thrive at Asana.
Seems like a very well grounded kid. He took his GED at 16 and started attending a community college using extra time he gained by going early to do career exploration. Very smart approach in my opinion.
Agreed, BuzzFeed has produced some great articles of late.
It's a certificate that can be traded to offset taxes. But yes, the government can inflate its value away to next to nothing.
With so much $ at stake it's hard to rely on any reporting on the subject.
> to a degree you can. There's probably always someone to lend to you at some rate.

If you're a commercial bank, you don't have to get another loan.

> I don't think we are discussing the right of individuals to get all the benefits of working at scale.

No; but we are discussing "benefits of working at scale" that aren't really due to working at scale, but to special privileges that commercial banks have that private individuals don't.

> I don't agree that's the purpose of the arrangement though.

It's not the ostensible purpose, no. But when one looks at the history of how the Fed came into existence, it's hard to shake the feeling that it was the real purpose, whether or not anyone will ever admit that.
Just about any of them, or playing video, or really using the device in Gear VR mode at all. I generally started getting the cool-down-please warnings after about a half hour of use, regardless of what apps I was running.

Source: I have an S6 and Gear VR.
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Meta question: to what extent is the present-day "tech crash" or tech funding crunch scare a reaction against this particular high profile implosion vs. a more general sentiment?
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Radicals don't gain majority support, can be demonized, scapegoated and persecuted into being impotent. It is very easy to rally people with moderate or disparate ideas together against a common enemy.

See: witches, anarchists, terrorists, etc
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Thanks. At work, can't (well, more "out of courtesy to the client that pays me by the hour, won't") watch the video. I'm not terribly familiar with the Z architecture, but I guess if you're not working the thing real hard maybe it doesn't use much power. On the ancient hardware I grew up on, just spinning the drives would probably double your residential power bill.
I like the idea of downvotes costing you karma.

Forcing the comment box is also interesting. Maybe only make the downvote available to people who have already replied to a post.
Anonymity often brings relief to people who weight otherwise self-censor. 4chan is a really good example of this. Though it's got a terrible SNR, the peak signal is actually really high and sometimes you see really intelligent discussions about taboo topics like incest, furrydom, and racism. The anonymity allows people to state beliefs that simply wouldn't be acceptable anywhere else.

Maybe HN should have an 'anonymous' feature for accounts above a certain karma that allows a post to be made with no username attached, and no effect on karma. Behind the scenes, admins can still issue bans for unacceptable comments but the opinion gets protected from the groupthink.
Your definition is weird.

Not from a distributor's perspective ;-)

xscreensaver is X11, not GPL.

Correct, but since it is distributed as part of the system, or is a component that most users will have, then, as an example, if you link your GPL'd code to Xscreensaver's API, that's ok, because it's considered a "system library".

Really, I was referring to more for the purposes of definition than anything.

Why does a C++ ABI really matter in a system distribution?

Because ABIs create a point of synchronization, and internally for that distributor, that create a flag day where a given set of components must be rebuilt at the same time.

Ideally, for a distributor, you don't rebuild the entire world every time one component changes. You only rebuild what you have to, since every delivery causes new binaries to be produced, which then in turn increases the amount of downtime for consumers that are upgrading.

As such, changing ABIs (thankfully GCC's doesn't change as much as it used to) create unnecessary churn, and if you can easily avoid them, you usually do (as a distributor).
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I just want to give a public shout out to Wojtek on this blog post. It shows scalability in for an actual scenario at levels that most users won't need (10M req/s!). Beyond that, there is a clear methodology with lots of hard data. This along with listing the work that it took to get there. Very good post!

Disclaimer: I co-founded Kubernetes and help to coordinate the k8s Scalability SIG, although I'm no longer at Google. I didn't see this before it was published, though.
Hash the resource to be fetched, farm the work out to a node or work queue based on the last n bits of the hash. That way you don't need any centralization, any node can compute the hash and come up with the same id for the node to do the work.

Good luck.
Paywalled :-/
Some people would argue that social capital provides a better balance. Allowing, for example, the Sherpas to go home without fearing starvation or poverty.
My point is that the initial discussion wasn't limited to anything except "sentient life." It wasn't limited to vertebrates or mammals or any such thing.

Thus, the statistics are purely for the discussion of "what should other sentient life look like?"

Finally, it's ridiculous to complain in a discussion about aliens "that we can't begin to imagine what type of life form constitutes an alien."
You have to make some fundamental assumptions. For instance, we should be able to assume that they obey the physical laws of the universe.

Anything else puts you in a totally unscientific world of discussion [your claims are no longer falsifiable], and that's not one I care to participate in.
>You want to assume people are inherently good actors

I wish I could assume such but having studied a bit of psychology, I have found no evidence to support such an assumption.
> There's no deflation to be had with a shrinking economy.

Deflation almost always accompanies economic downturns. It's literally defined as a decrease in prices, which is caused by a lack of demand. A recession is literally a reduction in economic activity. They go together by definition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflation#Deflationary_spiral

Of course, that's a fairy simply definition, you can have inflation in a downturn when your currency devaluates, and the price of imported goods go up, which is a problem if you import too much. But the value of domestic assets is still going down, so measuring inflation/deflation does depend somewhat on what exactly you're measuring.

> With inflation, you can grow your share of the economy from your position alone

If you own assets you benefit from inflation. If you have cash, you lose from inflation.

If you only have $1000, and the price of a business goes from $500-$1000 (inflation), you go from being able to buy 2, to only buying one. Cash loses.

If the price deflates from $500-$100, you go from being able to buy 2 to buying 10. In the deflationary scenario, cash wins.

If you already own a business, it's easier to guess which is better. You want the price to go up.

> Nope, inflation feeds people like on Wall Street since they get to spend the new money long before workers get their salary increases (after they feel effect of inflation on their expenses!).

You literally didn't read any information that I posted, did you? Central banks don't lend to banks to pay their bills or CEOs. They buy securities that are backed by real assets, and they generally prefer buying government bonds.

> And who is capable of performing arbitrage? Average Joe?

In this particular case, arbitrage is simply deciding who you're going to borrow from. If bank A offers a mortgage for 5%, and bank B for 6%, which loan are you going to take? This creates an incentive for both banks to lower their rate until a point where it's no longer profitable (ie. the rate that they're borrowing at). This is obviously a simplistic example, but should illustrate the point.

On a macro scale, if the central bank offers loans at a certain rate, then other banks will match that rate, otherwise they lose business.
> Money is an IOU. That is a promise of something.

What is that something?
> Therefore, I think it's much more likely that what you're seeing (dissenting opinions being downvoted) is coming from both the heavy-handed non-transparent moderators, and from others in their "inner circle" of longtime members.

???

There is no such group on HN. Where are you getting this idea? (Look at my karma score and date joined - if there was such a group I'd know about it by now.)

And on top of that there are tons of users who can downvote, you don't have to be part of some mythical inner circle.
Very interesting headline, unfortunately the content is behind a paywall :(
It has been tried (though you could argue not well.) I feel like it was either Yahoo or AOL who tried hyperlocal news and it did not gain traction.

However, you could argue that this lack of traction was due to the climate of the users and what they were interested in at the time, they also (if I remember correctly) were actively paying local "reporters" who had a specific local beat.
Okay I mean I follow your assertion, but I don't ascribe that much weight to the mention of color versus the context of the length of the picture.

One thing this discussion does bring up though is that if VR can only be worn comfortably for 20-40 minutes, will it have a viable mainstream future?
I hate it when I assembled computers and I ended up needing extra screws... or worse, I ended up with "spare" screws which left me wondering what exactly I missed.

Nah, that's just Rap's Law of Inanimate Reproduction in action!

http://www.anvari.org/fortune/Laws/1348_raps-law-of-inanimat...
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Dollar for dollar, the Chelsio and Mellanox HW is better in terms of features. Better drivers and vendor support at lower purchase price make it a no brainer. I don't know about SolarFlare pricing but it is also better HW.

igb and ixgbe HW seem to be fair, but you can go look at the HW errata to judge for yourself. Intel had to recall the XL710 due to silicon issues. They also had a firmware incident that fundamentally changes the driver interface, so a particular driver will not work between different FW revs.
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Fair enough, I can see people being motivated by $60/year if they find the results comparable.
Truuuuue, but my clothes are still wet. Combine the two, though, and it'll dry clothes faster than you can put them in.*

*An incredibly lame joke playing off the I/O throughput of mainframes, and...oh, never mind.
Here's what dang, who's currently in charge of HN, had to say about downvoting a while back:

> Downvoting for disagreement is not always bad, but it sometimes is. There should be some nuance here. Don't be indiscriminate. When a comment is blatantly false, downvoting is probably ok, especially when there's something else wrong with the comment. But high-quality, polite posts don't deserve penalizing just because you don't share their position. When you see one of those in negative territory, please be a good citizen and upvote it back to par. Users doing that is one of the community's self-correcting mechanisms, and it's more important now that we've made some downvotes more powerful.

(Emphasis mine)

For what it's worth, I agree that this should be in the site rules.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7606517
If you want to add IO into Java's mix, you can also use StringWriter.

Also I personally don't consider paths as strings, nor URLs – both are types for specific purposes with specific invariants, which are distinct from strings'.