skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Would you describe universal semantics as being "Turing-complete in the context of a distributed system"?

Food for thought! But note Universal in context of EC-AP. That said, turing completeness also gives us the halting problem, which in context of a distributed systems seems to map to FLP impossibility and transaction finalization. (Just musing here, please note). If we're to insist on a robust notion of "gurantees" here, then prudence seems to suggest a weaker computation model is more appropriate.

> availability is not such a shaded guarantee as consistency is. I regard availability as a black & white property, whereas consistency is a whole spectrum of colours.

I definitely see the validity of that point of view but then question the insistence that (capability) availabilities should be seen as all or nothing. For example, what to make of a partially available systems? If you are old enough you may remember "all circuits are busy" when making international calls, but your calls to the local area network were still available.

Of course (re. colors), when we start looking at availability as measure, it is not a continuum, but rather a discreet space where progressively richer interaction semantics become available.

> Consider the following example. Say you're using MySQL (a CP system) and you also have a client-side cache (essentially AP).

We're in agreement here. First let's note it is 'turles all the way down', since e.g. your persistence subsystem at the OS/HW level (that your AP or CP system depends on) is at this point a miniature distributed system so this dance of availability and consistency (such as whether the OS or the SSD both agree that a certain block has such and such value) continues until we hit deterministic devices. To be concrete, consider fsync's consistency guarantees in the practical context of modern hardware and OS and virtualization.

End-to-end principle can inform us here. The interaction semantics are affected at precise delinations in the system. It should not matter that behind the facade there is MySql or just plain jane mmap'ed files. You, as the programmer, are modeling an interaction via a specific set of interfaces. So if at the system surface level you are interacting the characteristics are AP, it is irrelevant if the inner workings of the system are CP.

That said ..

> Now it's not clear to me why you need the make the distinction between CP and AP. ICG is orthogonal to these categories.

Possibliy because of the C in ICG :) A CP system can only be inconsistent if it is faulted. I am having difficulty in understanding how/why a non-faulty CP system would have incremental consistency states.

> I'll now run the risk of taking it maybe a bit too far: but I think whenever an application chooses a consistency model, that model inherently comes along with its own preset availability guarantee. As consistency models get stronger, there is an instant switch from available to non-available models. [I should cite some refs here but I'm in a hurry.] Consequently, if you have incremental consistency guarantees then you also have decreasing availability guarantees.

I think we're in agreement here.
Don't update to iOS 10, yet
A relatively bad situation
I'll trade you a BBB for an RPi.
This is the perfect storage solution for my beowulf cluster
My favorite Ruby memory leak was in a text processing app that was extracting via regex short strings (< 50 chars) out of 10MB+ text files. The short strings were apparently substring-like objects that held on the original 10MB text and indexed into it at a particular offset. Solution? Return the short_string + "" and then the GC did its thing.
Sounds like someone flagged it for whatever reason and it was flag-killed.
When I took out my student loans it absolutely was the banks. Federal takeover is only a recent thing.
This might be a decent justification if he had shot the man. (Which, sadly, other officers arriving on the scene did.) But firing an officer for not killing him? That seems nuts. Can it really be police policy that an officer must kill any armed suspect that he or she encounters? I'm not sure I'd want to live in a place where that was the rule.
As a free vector editor, I can't help but wonder how this compares to https://inkscape.org/en/?
You may think differently when someone you know or care about is killed by an AI controlled vehicle.

Apparent reckless use of technology frightens people, regardless of the actual risk.
I cry a little every time that I realize that Apple and Microsoft have traded positions.

Development tools should be open, at least we should be able to target platforms generically.
> Why is making loans to people that have, statistically, a very low chance of paying off somehow not also a "bad financial decision"?

I agree that the government shouldn't be making bad loans to people who are unlikely to pay them back. In fact, that's exactly what I said in my comment: the government should get out of the loan business.

Unfortunately, loan forgiveness would mean me (a current taxpayer) having to pay for the past poor decisions of students.

> We pay for "bad financial decisions" regardless of who makes them - debt forgiveness for individuals or bank bailouts when they get in over their heads.

Banks pay significant penalties for bailouts, while people seem to want debt forgiveness with 0 repercussions. Not to mention this whole issue of banks is orthogonal because most loans are from the government.

If we let the bankruptcy system handle it, people could get out of their loans but there would still be consequences.
Just curious, why does it need iOS 10?
Has Evernote gotten over their reliability problems? At one point there seemed to be an exodus over eating people's data.

Eg https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7009995
Recruiting process gone dark
Hi I'm hoping just to get some advice. I went through the whole Amazon phone rounds. I received and email saying that I was invited to the Seattle interviews and they were requested dates within the following three weeks of that email. That's was 4 weeks ago. I was contacted after that by phone saying that they didn't realize my start date was in May ( I'm graduating and they did know this) and that I was being moved to university recruiting and that I was still being flown out for the interview. Then it sounded last that my original recruiter was still handling my application. However I feel like I'm just being told things and that it is all slipping away. Any advice? I haven't received anything from my original recruiter since the first invitation... Panicking a bit.
Is this true? Sorry I need a little more proof than one sentence.
This looks so similar to Lightbot that I wonder if it's the same game just with updated graphics and characters and stuff.. and of course all the swift code
DNA Dragnet: In Some Cities, Police Go from Stop-And-Frisk to Stop-And-Spit
Why? I guess you parsed inputcoffee's confusing multiple negations wrong?
Great thinking point at the end:

"We always assume that intelligence is responsible for our success," says Hare. "That humans became smarter, which… allowed us to invent wheels and agriculture and iPhones. But what if that wasn't what happened?"

Hare suspects that, "like the foxes, and like dogs, we became friendlier first, and then got smarter by accident. This would mean that our prosocial skills, the skills that allow for cooperation and friendliness, were what made us successful."
What would the Earth be like if it was the shape of a donut?
That sounds like premature generalisation to me.

I'd say use a separate free function when it needs one, which is not the case yet (and might never be.)
It appears that once you remove the g-load, recovery is relatively fast (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16696261)
That's an unproven assumption.

If existing lenders aren't willing to loan to minorities, then there would be a fantastic opening to make a profit in loaning money to poor minorities with high test scores to study STEM.
Nonsense.

I haven't any belief, and therein I have not any belief in God or gods. (As specified in my github url, entitled "God")

However, I maintain that mankind shall perhaps attain God-like PROPERTIES.

We are simulating more and more detailed universes (Sample illustris).

If computing power increases, mankind shall probably simulate universes detailed enough to contain intelligence.

Alternatively, mankind has already generated brain based artificial intelligence platforms that exceed humans on several different tasks (eventually, such shall probably exceed human on all tasks simultaneously - general artificial intelligence)

At this point, (whence we shall probably still be a mortal species) mankind becomes God-bound, as mankind would have then created universes with sentient beings and or separate general artificial intelligence programs.

Ergo, mankind shall become Gods, just not the omnipotent, omniscient, infinite kind specified in religion.
ITA Matrix.
oh, it was a pretty funny message. Official one! With huge amount of grammar errors in Russian text :-)
That's not really true. If you're truly poor, you'll spend every dollar basically as soon as you get it. If you're moderately wealthy, an extra dollar you receive might pay off a dollar on a loan, or turn into an extra dollar in your savings account, both of which actually reduce the amount of money in circulation. This isn't "hoarding" but has a different effect on the economy than spending.
That's not a rational person, it's a simplifying-until-wrong person.

That person is neglecting the fact that it's not in the business' interest to "acquire all rights". The main reason being that _some_ layer would read it and _everyone_ would read it the next in the New York Times.

A secondary reason is that it'd be illegal and/or unenforceable in many jurisdictions.
dismissed as thruthers in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12474076
Hackers website: http://fancybear.net/.

There is documents, that WADA allowed Serena Williams to take oxycodone and hydromorphone (opioids), prednisone, prednisolone, and methylprednisolone. Her sister Venus Williams was allowed to take prednisone, prednisolone, triamcinolone and formoterol. This is very strong grungs, they should lay in hostpital if they need then for living (owning some of this drugs will cause a 14 years sentence in EU). There is also info about Simone Biles and Elena Delle Donne and they promise more :)
This is a great example of how we (collectively) are using virtual worlds as "dreams" for Deep learning.

In the Deep Vision world we as a group are trying to segment, classify and reinforce our NN training on labeled real world data. The challenge is, it's a very manual process to label data - specifically images. The more that we can do inside the computer, for example automatically labeling pixels inside an image, without having to acquire and label real world data (or making it easier to do with real world data) the easier and faster training becomes that can be applied to real world use cases.

The trick is making the virtual world match the real world as closely as possible so that the nets we make are accurate representations of real world scenarios.
Thanks for taking a look, definitely not for everyone but for people like me its good to have a solid wall when I'm working.
Let's not pretend public universities are low-cost options now. Their cost has ballooned along with private universities.
networking is best done when you see it as relationship building - which takes time & effort. as few others said here, a non-transactional approach is the best way to create a network with value.

one of my all-time favorite resource in this regard is this book: "Work The Pond". it totally alligns with my own philosophy + values.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/894407.Work_the_Pond_
> So I don't weigh 600 pounds and smoke. But I have to pay higher health insurance premiums than I rightfully should. Why don't they get consequences?

Moral hazard and consequences are exactly why smoking is one of the few things which are allowed to affect premiums under ACA.
Both GlusterFS and ObjectiveFS are shared filesystems instead of block storage, so they work with POSIX files/directories (like NFS) making them easier to scale out. If your application can work directly with an object store that is of course also a great way to go.
This is total extrapolation but I wonder if one or both of the other two officers who arrived later aren't somehow more 'connected' to someone at the police department or in local government. Perhaps there was even a "it's him or me" type ultimatum.
I don't think so. Getting companies to lend to students was the whole point of the program. Normally you'd use the term to describe unwanted side effects.
> I'll just say though, that when jobs are very scarce, people are broke, and everyone and their brother keeps saying "get an education to improve your job prospects", then what do you expect the swarms of unemployed young people to do?

Get a degree in something useful (ex. CS) instead of political science or musical theater.
Even the moderator in this video asks him "Whatever you are on, I want some" :P
Yep, definitely. Here's a quick look at Marriott's ownership structure, which is an operating model shared by many other global hotel brands:

http://marketrealist.com/2014/10/why-marriotts-hotels-have-s...
I also use google flights but I thought google flights was created after Google acquired ITA software. Isn't it ITA's backend behind google.com/flights?
Functioning and right are not the same thing. And right for the shareholders is a strange way of defining what's right. Strange for me anyway.
I agree that it isn't an obvious case as it was with a pre-teen with a toy gun (Tamir Rice) or unarmed cigarette vendor without a license (Eric Garner).

Here, the man was armed with a gun (albeit unloaded). He was unstable enough for his girlfriend to put the police on suicide watch during her 911 call. If the police had to take classes on handling various situations, this particular scenario would be a final exam question. Moreover, I'm afraid that a majority of our policemen would have flunked this question.

Law enforcement is meant to be complex, and should require sophisticated knowledge in law and philosophy as prerequisites for aspiring policemen. Each police officer working on duty is not only serving as the enforcer but also as a judge. He judges whether a subject should be let go, detained, or - shocking as it may seem - be put to death.

A well functioning civil society founded on the idea of some social contract is bound to provide its citizens with some rights and protection. The prospect of summary execution at the any sign of threat to its law enforcers appears to fall short of this requirement in my eyes.

The officer in question in the topic being discussed, Stephen Mader, acted ahead of his time. He demonstrated the form of policing possible in our society with further sophistication of the minds of our officers. He took decisions that prioritized the right (to life) of his citizens. He was fired for doing so.

I am sure he would have shot Mr. Williams, having had his gun trained on him, had he chosen to make any threatening move.

It is a fine line, I admit. But is this not what progress is based on? Have we not advanced our civilization by continuing to investigate finer and finer still of dimensions? Why do we continue to rely on such crude measures when it comes to law enforcement? Are we incapable of serving our citizenry with increased space for preservation of their rights?
bookwithmatrix.com
The Free-Time Paradox in America: The Rich Work Many, Many Hours
Is there a "list" permission? It exists on azure storage.
This should be even easier these days. Async I/O platforms like Node.js mean you don't have to worry about a process sticking around while it trickles data to a client. And web frameworks make it easier to deliver datasets asynchronously as JSON to the browser. Generally, there's less excuse to buffer everything server-side, e.g. to generate a full page.

I think the reliance on large frameworks and external libraries is the problem here because they don't generally compose in a way that permits optimizing data flow. That and the usual reduction in average skill required to work in this area.[1] People will spend an eternity arguing over which is the faster hash table algorithm, but have no eye or concern for optimizing the large details even though the relative improvements in performance and scale could be orders of magnitude better and conceptually much easier to implement.

This is why higher-level languages need stackful coroutines, not just promises or async/await. Stackful coroutines make it much easier to implement and compose space-efficient iterators, for example, in the context of uncooperative libraries, and to do so performantly. People are so obsessed with async I/O they've forgotten why it's so darned useful and how you want to best leverage it. They keep going down the rabbit hole of callbacks and actors, but the fact of the matter is that those things are too complex to use pervasively in the pipeline of individual requests. They're the modern equivalent of gotos--easy to use and abuse, but not what you want to use as an abstraction for tying together different pieces of code because they have poor locality of context, require leaking too much detail at the interface boundaries, are more difficult to refactor, and generally require a high cognitive burden. We want to be lowering cognitive load and other constraints!

[1] To be fair, I was one of those less-skilled newcomers back in the late 90s, abusing the newer technologies and frustrating the grey beards.
Here's the big hotel operator in Austin. One operator, all of the hotel brands: http://www.whitelodging.com/portfolio/hotels
And then, of course, there are the people who take it a little too literally and actually use "correcthorsebatterystaple" as their password ;)

http://qz.com/501073/the-top-100-passwords-on-ashley-madison...
> Student's are for the most part clueless on what it means to be in debt without being able to pay for it.

I give students more credit than you do. If you're capable of going to college, you should be capable of understanding compound interest.

> The supply and demand curve has gotten out of wack.

I agree completely. Get the government out of this business and we'd see realistic supply and demand.

It'd be much easier to get a loan for a CS degree and a degree in CS would cost a lot more than one in English literature. Instead, we have the ridiculous status quo where the latter costs almost exactly the same as the former despite vast differences in value.
One of the more surprising things I've discovered as I've worked more closely with our QA guys is how little auditing goes on, especially when everything seems to be doing well.

But I work in the relatively non-essential world of analytics. I can't imagine that the world of finance is so lightly examined. But I guess 2007 showed us that it really is lightly audited in some aspects.

Really, I think some of the difficulty is in the complexity of our financial system. I'd argue it's similar to how no single person fully understands how a modern OS runs on an x86 chip - usually it works, but there are issues hiding in the shadows. Sometimes one of those CPU errata comes and bites you and the system crashes. Other times there is a stack overflow - something that obviously shouldn't have happened except the code auditing guys didn't do their jobs.
> We're using their free hosted service, and so I'm reticent to ask for these sorts of changes by opening issues unless I want to at least attempt to contribute the code for it.

Please feel free to open issues anyway. We love hearing directly from users and always want to improve the product, even if you don't pay for it or contribute code. :)
For I am "causalmachine".

The original story regards Elon's "biological boot loader lamentation", which is likely.

To clarify, I haven't any belief, and therein I have not any belief in God or gods. (As specified in my github url, entitled "God")

However, I maintain that mankind shall perhaps attain God-like PROPERTIES.

We are simulating more and more detailed universes (Sample illustris).

If computing power increases, mankind shall probably simulate universes detailed enough to contain intelligence.

Alternatively, mankind has already generated brain based artificial intelligence platforms that exceed humans on several different tasks (eventually, such shall probably exceed human on all tasks simultaneously - general artificial intelligence)

At this point, (whence we shall probably still be a mortal species) mankind becomes God-bound, as mankind would have then created universes with sentient beings and or separate general artificial intelligence programs.

Ergo, mankind shall become Gods, just not the omnipotent, omniscient, infinite kind specified in religion.
Not as exciting as AIDE I have 2 apps on Google play with over 20 thousand users both of them built in AIDE with a combination of Java and C++ right on my android device.
For every legitimate use of binaries in source control there are dozens of idiots checking in build artifacts.
Solving algorithmic tasks by just building a ML model of your competitor's algorithm seems like a funny way to start. I imagine this to be the way "programming" will stop being a thing in a few hundred years.

At the moment for web search it probably would not work, because I imagine from feature extraction to result there are several models involved to create intermediate results.
Meet the 22-year-olds tackling our plastic waste
How do astronauts on EVA deal with nose itching?
However I'm holding out hope that iOS will become self hosting like Android this is a step towards iOS xcode in the future.
I think the science of what they are doing should be more important than their age and headline takes away from the work they are doing. But following HN guidelines not changing the title.
>The difference is that Russian state security is protecting him from deportation

that's a double edged sword; if the Russian leaders decide some day that they want to improve relations with the US by extraditing him then they might just do it.
you missed the part where he said choosing the tester is done by regulating authorities. That would prevent the financial ratings agency fiasco.
YC, short for YC Combinator, short for Y Combinator Combinator.
Wow, thanks for the kind words. GitLab has grown a LOT in the last year or so.
> My ideal solution would allow citizens to dispel student loans through public service.

We actually already have public service loan forgiveness programs. I think they're great and would support expanding them to additional fields.
>This creates a distinction of caste: the "regular programmers" are relegated to maintenance work, never trusted to touch any of the mathematical and CS-degree-requiring parts of their own discipline.

Perhaps it's because people with formal training and degrees often have better skills than some random kid who taught himself javascript and thinks that that makes him a software engineer?
Obviously adequate connection time between flights is an important factor. Especially important if you're traveling with kids.
Whoo baby! 8.3g blackout right into a 9.1g recovery. That's a gut check and a half.
When you order coffee, you get an espresso.

My daughter was just in Italy, and granted, she probably didn't stray from the tourist areas. But she said that she had to ask for espresso, or they would assume: She's an American so she must want coffee.

With that said, she still raves about the espresso.
DroneCode is indeed part of LF:

https://lwn.net/Articles/700497/
More comments:

https://lwn.net/Articles/700479/
But mobile is the future!

(Where nobody can create anything.)
There are many cases where it is an effect of "what you want requires skilled time. Someone must pay for that".