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Okay, so from reading the developer docs at https://github.com/coreos/torus/Documentation, I'm inferring that:

* Single reader/writer. If you try and set up more, Bad Things happen (even if it's single-writer, you don't get read-after-write consistency).

* It sure sounds like network partitions will allow all kinds of badness.

* If copy 1 goes down, you can keep operating on copy 2, then lose copy 2, have copy 1 come back up, and then warp back in time? Maybe that's prevented because of append-only and you just lose the data entirely because it was only replicating to one node due to the "temporary" failure.

Most egregiously, the Architecture description of an Inode implies that persisting a write-to-disk requires persisting the "INode". INodes are persisted in etcd.
Which means your entire cluster's write-to-disk throughput is limited to what you can push through a Raft consensus algorithm.

Look, there are all kinds of reasons one could legitimately decide that none of the existing scalable block storage systems satisfy your use case. Maybe containers really are different enough from VMs. But the blog post claims that there just aren't any solutions; the research papers cited in the Documentation page are mostly old and are about systems in a very different part of this sub-space; and what developer documentation exists does not encourage me that this is a good idea.

Granted, I've been working on Ceph for 7 years and am a bit of a snob as a result.
fair enough. :)
In Ontario, male teachers are not allowed to take children to the washroom, even if the child is a boy. This is a problem because if a child with a disability needs to use the washroom, he needs to wait until a female staff member is available.

I understand why men would drop out of the school system. Before you even start, you're already considered a predator.
Anybody have recommendations for decent providers of such backup services?
Out of band.

You don't want crypto-ransomware able to get to your keys to the backups.
You could, but I'm not sure how that's relevant to this discussion. Other fields have a similar problem, and are either unaware or don't consider it a problem.

I consider it a problem in the software/tech industry regardless of whether other professions do.
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> Doing backups right is just really hard.

Which, I think, was alexggordon's point. That he no longer wanted to manage the data himself because it was a hard problem, better managed by teams of professionals who have the time to do things like verify backups because they can amortize the cost of that effort over tens of thousands of customers.
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kifi (https://www.kifi.com/) by far the best i have ever used. its a little icon that you can position anywhere on the side of your screen. you just click it when you want to save the current page.

the great thing about it is that it indexs with your google searches. So if you had saved a link about "Sphinx Admin Configuration" that you really liked, you could forget about it and then on a google search it would pull it to the top of the list and show it as a kifi saved site.

Also cool is the social network effect, the people in your "network" you can see what searches they saved.
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>> Why don't we set aside the biological differences.

Because short of growing our young in labs, biology is the one thing that cannot be removed from the equation.
As with anything, it's important to understand the consumer. You can't build a payment company for sub-Sahara Africa from your SF highrise.

I've been following the work of researcher Ignacio Mas on financial management in developing countries. He has a really interesting research and model on how people in developing countries (some of the research applies to unbanked/underbanked in US) view and handle money.

See here: www.ignaciomas.com
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porta_Alpina:

Porta Alpina ("Alpine Gate") was a proposed railway station to be located in the middle of the Gotthard Base Tunnel in southern Switzerland. Intended to promote tourism and the economy in the region of Graubünden, the project was put on hold as uneconomical in 2007, and then indefinitely shelved by the Swiss authorities in 2012.

Porta Alpina would have been the deepest underground train station in the world at 800 metres underground, outclassing by far Arsenalna Metro station at 105.5 metres.

The station was proposed to be located near a crossover between the northbound and southbound tunnels and to be linked to the surface by the world's highest elevator, using shafts built near the village of Sedrun for the construction of the tunnel. Construction costs were estimated at 40-50 million Swiss francs, with annual operating costs of 2.5 million francs. It was initially projected to be opened in 2016 after the Base Tunnel was scheduled to come into service.
I found them useful when I looked at clojure and saw their shorthand syntax for lambdas where #(* % %) is a lambda that takes one argument and squares it. You can get some tidy things that are similar with regular macros but to make it actually equivalent your need to hook into the reader..and that's what reader macros are for. So within the hour I had something that let me write λ(* _ _)

The best bit though, is that this isn't some nasty hack. This is supported by the spec, so I can package this up and let other people us it just like any other functionality we care to ship around.

That's my favorite thing really, being able to treat approaches to writing code in the same way we treat the functionality we make using code.
I'm working in Antarctica and everything takes at minimum 3-4 weeks to arrive (often 6) after ordering, so it's really taken the starch out of impulse buys.
There's nothing to say that leveraging your own immune system will necessarily reduce the frequency or severity of side effects relative to current therapies. Your immune system is quite capable of killing just about any cell in your body, foreign or not. The multitude of different autoimmune diseases are clear evidence of that fact.
I've heard many horror stories, VC seems to be a two-faced industry. And their #1 stated legal goal is to maximize shareholder value, whether or not that is in line with the founder's initial vision / whether or not that means firing the founder to maximize profits.

Of course there are success stories as well, YMMV.
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You certainly have chosen the right user name, but it is a logical error to use the success rate of all cancer trials to calculate the chance of success of this immunotherapy trial.
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That wasn't why I left and I agree that Buddhism does not argue that suffering is bad. After being asked about monks ignoring Precepts like the first one a Zen priest is said to have said to Gary Snyder "A Zen man should be able to eat dog shit and drink kerosene". I remember when I first heard the teaching "one should be as happy to eat dog shit as chocolate cake", part of the 'everything is one reality and there is no differentiation' over-arching theme, I loved it and embraced it. "Simply do not differentiate and you will see that everything is good, just as it is."

Eventually though I was stuck by the reasoning in the joke "I used to be a nihilist but then I thought, what's the point?"

If Nihilism/Zen were true, it would not be wrong to think more positively and to deny Nihilism. CS Lewis noted that if one denied nihilism and was wrong the only thing that would have happened would be that one would have paid the universe a compliment it did not deserve. Or as Tim Keller puts it "Aim at heaven, get earth thrown in. Aim at earth, get neither." And I realised my Buddhist/Vedanta aunt and uncle were just driving around in their Prius from satsang to satsang hugging and laughing with Hollywood celebrities and the 1% while my Evangelical friends were reading books to children with cancer at Children's Hospital.

For a direction, Hume is who persuaded me (like the original article notes, he was not an Anti-Realist) and a nice tool for his writings is the versions found at Early Modern Texts. Another useful direction would be the films of Terrence Malick or the polemics of Martin Luther King Jr. Primarily though I recommend the perspective of Erwin McManus (who you can see speak in Los Angeles, on that video at the end of the essay, or from his podcast) who is pursuing things in the footsteps of mystics like Tozer, Murray, Mueller, Francis, and Jesus. For another thinker who is good at explaining things you should listen to Tim Keller's talks available in the Redeemer app at http://www.redeemer.com/r/get_the_redeemer_app -- regardless of what you believe, Keller's frequent and glowingly respectful citations of thinkers like Shakespeare, Derrida, Foucault, Heidegger, Marx and others and his references to all elements of culture, from ancient operas to obscure art films is an amazing breadth that always starts conversations between camps who disagree and leaves any listener, spiritually-inclined or not, with more knowledge than they came in with.
is it really true that women don't get promoted in engineering as much? that's a honest question, the only few I've met did not aspire for higher and higher positions intensively, rather enjoyed what they were doing (that could be said about most of the guys too).

I am all for equal situations for both genders, but my assumption was that we already +-have it in western societies, thus such a move would make guys actually in a disadvantage and thus be unfair.

IT is not a very cool job to non/tech people outside few top companies like facebook or google, somewhere along accountants maybe. naturally, more ambitious ones will go for jobs like lawyers (if they have no heart :)) or medicine as my fiancee did. IT is just not that sexi.

another point - if you are in your 40s, it's hard to be just developer. people move up to architecture or management, which I consider both boring as hell - endless conf calls, producing never-ending stream of powerpoints etc. not exactly why creative people came into IT in first place.

I admit other branches of engineering might look differently, no clue about it.
In the first sentence they sound very bitter: "using recently poached developers" - Almost as if they're trying to say that poaching developers is a bad thing. Developers are people, you don't own them and they owe you zero allegiance.
Torus implements a kind of MVCC, yes. As for read-many-to-write-one, I assume you're talking about Reed-Solomon or similar erasure coding? There have been some papers written about ways to reduce that, a good one is from Facebook: https://code.facebook.com/posts/536638663113101/saving-capac.... And that's just one option. Also, this is all speculative since we have yet to implement erasure coding.
My wife was an Office admin at Sequia Capital. She had not graduated college yet and I was out in Palo Alto for an internship. A friend randomly said they where looking to bring on a temp office admin and she got the spot.

She might not have had the coolest title or daily jobs, but she was there when fb bought whatsApp, got to sit in on partner deals (help bring coffee and set stuff up lol) and meet tons of amazing people.
> The US government forces American tech companies to spy on users, so US companies are to blame?

It's not the government, it's the establishment.
Westerners seem to have a serious distrust in men when it comes to young children. A woman talking to kids in a park is most obviously a mom. A man talking to kids in a park is most obviously a paedophile.
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Left to their own devices, people would never upgrade. This is a security risk for MS. (Win 8 support ends January 2018). Chrome was championed for auto updating, and now all browsers do the same. Web apps can auto update whenever they want. Mobile apps auto update. Why shouldn't operating systems?
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What would "computing in an AI-first world," in the context of moving from computing in a mobile-first world, look like?
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I believe the broadest consensus defines consciousness as having a subjective experience.

I could go one further and say "I believe the absolute broadest consensus defines consciousness as having a conscious experience." and only say slightly less vague than your statement.

Conscious, subjectivity, awareness in some of their meanings are just synonyms for some internal experience or other. There's a sense that this internal experience reflects things in a unique way, that it's not controlled by outside constrains, that it reflects a person's unique choices not controlled by any fixed pattern or program. But it's just primarily an intuition.
Yes, your second interpretation is the right one.

Oh, I'm sorry, you think what people choose to spend their money on is a poor way to judge what's good entertainment?

I suppose you're right - we should let French bureaucrats decide instead. Their tastes are far more exquisite than anyone elses, after all. It goes with the job.
It looks good on many sizes with anti-alias turned off. But with anti-alias it's very thin and the contrast is bad.
Because lisp is an immensely flexible language/concept. Everyone has their own idea of what it should be/can be.

Common Lisp was exactly what it says "Common". Just some sort of common ground between all the various lisp dialects that existed, because everyone went their own way in extending the language. People end up coming back to it time and time again, because all the others don't quite provide that common ground for people to work on. Whilst there may be things missing, there's always something more missing in other lisps.
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When I get to look at the average I can keep it under 0.5 if I change the key every time the number goes up (and I keep pressing the same key if that strategy stops working).

As arguments against free will go... I think people with no short-term memory make a pretty solid case. You'd think with all the complex activity in our brains we'd at least behave a little randomly based on some chaotic processes, but without your short-term memory you begin to sound like a broken record.
This looks like it enables even more complex UI interactions, even if the device looks simpler. Also, this is going to suck on those with darker skin.
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I think they mean it more in the context of why its relevant to HN. usually we only talk about acquisitions of YC companies.
Excellent point that this is a tool that allows anti-semites to communicate in a less publicly visible manner.

The database they are using is gated so the best an actor could hope for is to flood the submissions to make updates more costly. Of course such an action would only strengthen the resolve of these groups.

In terms of mining the signal, one could try to look for correlations between people being added to the list and comments made against those people. The idea is that people using this plugin will have their behaviors influenced in a detectable manner. Effectively scrape the comments sections of new sites and fish out those using the tool.
Meanwhile, most Apple services are down.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2016/06/02/apple-con...
I'd love for syntactic sugar to mark a function, arrow or otherwise, as returning a promise. Reject and resolve could be standard, hidden, context-specific variables, just like arguments and this.
Not in a minimum wage scenario.
If a transcendental number is imperfectly remembered, are its digits thereby less random?
Absolutely! Spotify's 30M settlement with NMPA is a great example of this kind of failure in existing systems
Did you buy Minecraft by any chance? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11822993
Good analysis. Now that good information on the causes is available, the larger community can discuss solutions.
It's just a part (although a big one) of what happened. Still remains to be addressed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyrian_genocide

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_genocide

http://www.aina.org/news/20150421034904.htm

"In three short years, 750,000 Assyrians (75%)" were "killed, 1.5 million Armenians and 500,000 Greeks."
The Simulation Argument is just taking a more general intuition that is also behind the Fermi paradox to its full limit. This intuition that Mankind is a grain of sand in much greater goings on, is one of the key dogmas is modern scientism; probably best personified by patron saint Sagan.

We laugh now at the 19th century man unable to accept that "man evolved from a monkey", but his case more charitably stated is the reluctance to give up the dignity of being made in his creator's image.

Likewise, I think people who build the 21st century secular myths are setting themselves up to be "disappointed" by the actual data when comes in barren in the next two centuries - telescopes that can measure exo-planet atmospheres basically confirm or deny.

I'm not taking either side, but if the "fact" turns out to be that we are alone, not anybody's simulation, not part of multi-verse, etc, this seems to be reality that modern scientism would have the most problem accepting.
Sounds good for some situations. I have to take a few perscriptions per day, so I'm assuming they wouldn't be covered? That could be the dealbreaker.
Honest question, why not just run Windows 10? I find that on older hardware it runs better than Windows 7.
Actually, I should add that to my CV "poached developer" ;-)

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http://i.imgur.com/reUNxYu.png Definitely something odd going on in computer science.
My machine is about as old given it's a Core Duo 2 with 4GB of RAM. One of the Dell laptops designed for Ubuntu. What do you use yours for where a quad-core 3GHz and 8GB RAM isn't enough now but was a while back? Just curious.
I have put myself in their position and I do understand their arguments: despite that, I think their arguments suck. Because what do they boil down to, really? It's this:

Bureaucrat: You should watch what I like and not what you like, because my taste in entertainment are superior to yours

This is not an argument worthy of much attention, regardless of what fancy pseudo-intellectual babble is used to justify it (of which "shiny with no real valuable content" is a prime example).
> Example use case is carrying my sleeping infant holding with a single arm while the other hand unlocks the door

I think you are underestimating the strength (as well as form) women are born with, specifically for this reason. Most women I've seen carrying children on their hips with one arm behind their backs look much more comfortable than when a man does the same thing.
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While ARM Holdings reference processors are reasonably good, the company is specialized in low power designs. Apple for example had to do a custom design to get the high performance ARM it needed. It is not obvious that ARM has the knowledge, the money and even the will to pursue a server design.
All due respect, but i'm not sure it's a violation of the rules for a link about a company to be on the front page without you knowing who the company is.
> But most startups are not built with sustainability in mind. They're a get-rich-quick scheme.

That is the truth.
Just in case you weren't aware: you can turn off Force Touch and turn on "Tap to click" in System Preferences > Trackpad.
I got mine down to 0.31xxx. I did about a hundred strokes and it never went over 0.48.
Thanks for the response. If the Republicans get in can they scrap Obamacare? Don't want to make a big life change assuming it'll be there only to have it disappear shortly.
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It's a reference to the GP's suggestion that maybe this isn't the correct problem to solve.
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You're providing a block device interface to the container. The container's FS is addressing LBAs. Sequential reads to the container's adjacent LBAs get turned into reads to whatever random Torus node is storing the data, based on when it was last written...
I really like executable shrinking posts. However, isn't it the case that the size of the executable won't increase significantly if you use --release to distribute bigger programs? After all the size comes from the library and memory allocator being included in the executable. As long as the libraries are not heavy, the executable should stay reasonably small.
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Of course it does, there are always vultures out there.
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It's relevant because it's a $3b sale of a data visualization software company, which is more than any YC acquisition and bigger than all but a handful of YC companies.
But unless you give them access to decrypt the data, you can't trust them to make sure it's valid. It doesn't matter how good they are at their job.