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I came here to say the same thing. The article has things the wrong way round: rather than moving the computation on individual webhook event streams into the SaaS provider of that webhook, I want to consolidate all the processing of all my disparate webhooks into my company's own unified event log.

Shifting the computation to the SaaS provider is wrong for all the reasons you mention, and others too - for example, if I want to sink my webhooks into a database, I'm not going to want to share those database credentials with the SaaS provider.

At Snowplow we support ingest of various webhooks (yes, standardization is a total pain), and then you can write your own "webtasks" on them in whatever tech you like (Lambda/Spark/Hadoop/SQL):

https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow/wiki/Setting-up-a-Webho...
pardon my ignorance but wouldn't you have the same kind of issues once you distribute any system, NoSQL or not. CAP applies to all distributed systems.

Surely I get the feeling, NoSql just exposed the issue and became synonymous with it.
The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 repealed Glass-Steagall [1], in part to make a merger between Citicorp (a bank) and Travelers Group (an insurance company) legal.

Goldman Sachs did not win from it. They were on the "protected" side of Glass-Steagall's wall. Fees went down after JPMorgan and friends were allowed to throw their balance sheet around.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramm–Leach–Bliley_Act
The Boeing 737 is still controllable with no electric or hydraulic operation, since the yoke and rudder are linked with cables to the control surfaces. From what I understand the hydraulics also provide power assist, so it might not be too dissimilar to driving a car without power steering or brakes when that happens.

Scenes in movies of pilots physically struggling with the plane are not as unrealistic as they may seem.
Wolves can easily get over a 6 ft fence. How would you contain them in a "private forest"?
Maybe the sharks discovered some prior art that invalidated the sunshade patent, like the Halliburton Survivaball. [1]

[1] https://youtu.be/JzSMjSxM5Vo?t=4m4s
Is Google still a startup? How many .Net devs do they employ? Netflix? Facebook? All hipster startups?
I don't understand the emphasis on air travel I frequently see in these discussions.

Passenger planes are much more fuel efficient per passenger-mile than single-occupancy cars. Most people drive far more miles alone each year than they travel by plane. It makes no sense to me to criticize someone for flying a couple thousand miles at ~100MPG when the average American drives 12,000 miles per year at ~25MPG.

Beyond that, I don't see how refraining from individually polluting activities will help to enact the laws and treaties we need to make a real difference. It's a collective action problem, and those aren't solved by having individuals with strong beliefs alter their own habits to match what they want, they're solved by having individuals with strong beliefs convince everybody to change their habits.
This is beautifully said. I'm printing out.
Thanks for sharing, you've really opened my eyes to a lot of things. Looking up O1, it says extraordinary ability in sciences or art. What exactly qualifies as an extraordinary ability. I'm a pretty decent programmer and the ease with which I get jobs at European startups pretty much validates that. But am not sure if it qualifies for an O1. Can you give a few examples?
So you're saying that because general intelligences exist and are made of matter, we can conclude that it is possible to build a general intelligence out of metals and salts?

I don't see how that follows. Seems totally speculative to me.

If you mean possible in the "I can imagine it" sense then of course it's possible. So is a zombie apocalypse. Is it possible in the "there are models which predict it as a possibility"? Not to my knowledge.

The only such theoretical model I've seen is "processing power is increasing eventually, therefore computers will be able to do anything soon, including AGI" but that's a totally flawed model.
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thats not what he said

> I searched through 10 pages of StartPage (that's 100 returns)
> Customization is what distinguishes platforms from applications.

What does this even mean?
I used Scala for one company I founded and the Python Paradox to be true. People who already knew Scala were generally much more accomplished programmers and for the people who didn't know, the learning of it was a great test of their ability. Here's why: as a hiring manager, I know it's possible to learn Scala. So if someone couldn't learn it and be productive within 30 days I knew they weren't sharp. (FYI, everyone did learn it quickly, but frankly, the best programmers can learn a new language in a weekend.)
Dutch roll is characterized by a low frequency oscillation, with a period in the order of seconds. So it wouldn't be a "bumpy" ride but a slooow yet continuous, very nauseating oscillation (try to slowly rock forward and backward in your chair).
> This is much better than trying to estimate bandwidth from packet loss.

This definitely seems like an improvement, however is it possible that this changed could result in one or more additional attack vectors?

In addition, what about the additional resources needed to pull this off; how many fewer persistent connections could be maintained by a single server with the same specs?
Ah, I understand now. I didn't understand your original comment when you were trying to point that out.
Yes, Berkeley has quite a few resources available, more than most schools. It's probably because of a settlement in a separate case about not serving the needs of their enrolled students. The costs may be prohibitive to an instructor or their academic department but they shouldn't be for the institution as a whole. Not cheap, but not prohibitive.
> You simply don't have the same knowledge background as people who think AGI is realistic or even likely.

That's ad hominem. But if you need to know my credentials to be able to take me seriously, I have a computer science degree and studied Cognitive Science at one of the top cogsci PhD programs in the U.S. (didn't finish). I have been a professional programmer for 20 years, in between school.

My point is that, like God, unless you can explain how it might work, you don't have a scientifically workable theoretical model.
It seem like, these days, anyone talking about how something is suspiciously lacking in transparency is a critic. You're not allowed to question or second guess anything, only mindlessly praise.
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> Apple sales are less than 1% of Intel's revenue

It is my understanding that Apple purchases the highest-quality chips of the highest-quality runs and pays a premium for it. What fraction of Intel's profits do Apple represent?
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Can you provide evidence for these claims?
The GPL doesn't restrict integration with proprietary code. It requires any code you choose to integrate it with to be similarly licensed. That is the same choice you have every time you create code.
There is a very workable to blackboard.
This decision is probably for political reasons in favour of two groups within Norway: hunters who probably want to shoot more deer and elk or perhaps moose and the Saami who get paid by the state based on the number of reindeer they have roaming the tundra in the mountains and the north of the country.

Not sure if the latter is still the case. When I last visited the far north the effects of overgrazing by reindeer were starting to be severe in places. The densities of reindeer are pretty high so wolves would have a spectacularly easy time and would do very well as a result.
What's the difference between a charge card and a debit card?
One other factor is the degree to which hand-optimized code in general has been going away: Apple heavily encouraged people to use system frameworks like CoreImage, CoreVideo, etc. both to ease the transition and to take advantage of their significant optimizations, and that appears to have been followed by many developers. Adobe presumably still has a whopping case of Not-Invented-Here but I'd be surprised if a significant number of apps couldn't be ported with very modest changes.
A big difference is that roads are (roughly) a government monopoly—reudcing competition while these municipalities are adding competition.

The idea is that in poorly functioning markets the government can step in with an alternative, especially one that is obligated to at least break even in order not to stifle innovation, to restore the market.

This really ought to be a bipartisan idea. I beleive the Roosevelt institute his written on this, let me find a link.
The article was written by a guy who owns a advertising consulting business, specializing in social media and native advertising. He's trying to sell something, even if it's not strictly a business transaction directly between him and GiveDirectly.
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Thank God we still have Windows, I say seriously.
Now, if only we could get Brugse Zot in the states...
I can see your point. Facebook isn't doing anything short term that is going to achieve returning money to investors in two years. However it's been noted that Zuckerberg has longer term ideas of where the company is going. There's the 10 year plan noted here: http://mashable.com/2016/04/12/facebook-10-year-plan/

When a company is going for the long term the short term can suffer.
Emin's unmade bed and the pickled sheep were both impactful, memorable works of art. They were successful. I mean, just that you referenced them off the top of your head and I know what you're on about is proof of that.
Maybe I'm too much of a pessimist/cynic, but while I certainly love that Zuck is doing things like this, I hope he's not just trying to butter Nigeria up to the free basics anti-open-internet bullshit that he tried to pull on India.

Nigeria and Africa are definitely the next big frontiers for the internet, and I honestly doubt that whatever facebook's got planned is mutually beneficial enough. Though if FB decides to establish and maintain a persistent, competent power company in Nigeria, it might actually be worth it, NEPA is shit.
>They don't want to do that because that takes money away from them.

It takes money away from the enrolled students that UCB is currently spending money on.
It relates to typing as a method of encoding invariants, yes. I was trying to say that it is unrelated to which "type" of typing. That is, I can perfectly imagine a statically typed language where you could encode such restrictions as easily as you do with Elixir and you would get the same result, a runtime error.

Regarding your rating example, you could encode that restriction in a type (or class in OO) and have a guarantee that once you have an instance of that type you no longer need to check for it's validity. Rendering a Rating would never fail at runtime, you'd get a type error first.
The point is Clinton canceled it.
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass%E2%80%93Steagall_Legisla... )

And the answer is: over $7 trillion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Economic_Stabilizati...

So yeah, $200k.
Their core hypothesis is that you can't separate any kind of agent from their physical capabilities in the environment and still have cognition. That perception and action are not two phases but are an atomic unit of analysis. Perception is action. And what is perceived is not signals but relationships between an organism's capavilities and it's environment.
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What would then accomplish when you have fast chips that don't need emulation RIGHT THERE?
Somebody mentioned on here a few days ago that it's possible Apple would kill their laptop line entirely. I scoffed at the time, but this article has made me wonder. If the iPad offered the same screen, had better battery life, was just as fast if not faster and had a more stable OS... why wouldn't they kill their laptops entirely? Their laptop sales are a small and shrinking portion of their business.
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Oh well, one thing I try to do is study a lot. I realised even if you could program well, it pays to know the buzzwords and how things under the hood really work, and that's what normally asked during interviews. I made it a goal to read a lot of books on Javascript, HTML5 and CSS3. I recently started learning data structures and algorithms, turns out this knowledge is useful not just as a programmer(sometimes, depending on what you do) it helps you when interviewing at big companies, especially if you want to get into one of the big 4 like I do :)
Well you'll have to if Apple decides that ARM MacBooks will only be able to install apps from the Mac app store - they already have a precedent in iOS and precedent of pushing developers to do things their way.
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it's not what she/he speaks, it's that they become the honeypot for the event, so the event can get larger attention/influence(fame, money, publicity,etc).
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Makes a lot of sense. However, we don't need to worry until XCode appears in the iOS app store.
Might be bias from my anecdotal experience, but whenever I speak with people working at large corpos, go comes up more often than python or ruby.
I've thought about the strike thing for sometime also, why do we keep propping these people up?

The kind of action you're describing is inevitable IMO. Humans may have to go on mass strike until we get the correct Government action on climate change.

Sadly, strikes might not even be required/optional soon due to impacted health from rising temperatures, air pollution and difficulty commuting.

I'm currently living in Amsterdam now, it's Autumn and it's as hot as Sydney in summer, 30+ C. Bridges are getting stuck and stopping trams which then need to be hosed down with cool water constantly to keep them from ceasing up etc, little things like this along will have a major impact on everyone's pockets and forget getting a good nights sleep in an apartment which is designed for temperatures no higher than 24C. Goodbye productivity.

In the middle of heatwaves in Sydney (reaching 40+ celsius), I've watched people struggling on trains that are delayed due to issues with infrastructure, robbed of proper sleep from the extreme temperatures, heading off to participate in jobs, supporting industries which are clearly the cause of our sleepless nights (major banks, energy resource companies etc).

I often would think to myself, why bother? If the end goal is such devastating destruction and suffering? Why not stop and get out priorities straight before getting back to work? Economies are great, jobs are awesome, fossil fuels and deforestation isn't and they're no longer required to run a model civilization and healthy economy.
I would say Africa is yet to tap the potential of its people in Africa. Nigerians and other west Africans have been making huge inroads in the US and UK for decades now
I am extremely racist so you're did get that right.
First off, you can't blame Obama when Snowden was in China before any of his leaks became public. He could have been anywhere in the world at the time of the leaks, but he chose Hong Kong.

Secondly, I like how you are the one accusing me of posturing and then say that Snowden has received harsher repercussions than anything I have experienced, talk about posturing.

I didn't make the same decisions as Snowden. I know that most of us wouldn't make the same decisions in his situation. That is why the system exists how it does as countless people allow it to happen. Like I said, that is why we champion whistle blowers. They do something uncommon and difficult. But that choice also involves facing their accusers. Going to jail is often part of it for anyone practicing civil disobedience. It was part of the missions for everyone from MLK Jr to Gandhi. Yes, it is a lot to ask of Snowden to compare him to people like that, but once again no one put Snowden in that position but Snowden.
> You design systems to make them self-correcting: Log events durably first, and then act on the events. If possible, make operations idempotent. If not, either make operations fully commutative, or group them into larger commutative operations and use local transactions (so require local consistency) to ensure they are all applied at once. The point is not to require no atomicity, but to localise any guarantees as much as possible, because the more local they are, the less they affect throughput.

You can't do this in general, because we often want to build applications where the user expects their actions won't be reordered. People often forget this: the user is sort of the unstated extra party in a distributed system. A canonical example is privacy settings on a social network. If I want to hide my profile from a user by unfriending them and then post something unkind about them, it doesn't really work for me that the application is free to reorder my actions.

At some point your desire to have HA via a weakly consistent system conflicts with intuition and usability of an application.
It actually became law, because the governor, who could have vetoed it or at least put up a fight, chose to do nothing.
Hah, why not.. We already created perceptually correct audio CODECs. Doing the same for real-time image generation seems like a worthy research area for sure!
It's so easy to create awesome looking forms using modulr.css
One has only two choices in those situations: drop logs or block receiving more logs. Given their availability requirements, I don't think that blocking is a viable choice. So dropping logs seems to be the only sane choice here. There's no other alternative really so I'm not sure about the consternation.
I don't think you're overly pessimistic in this at all. Facebook does what's good for Facebook. So does Mark Zuckerberg.
I've linked it before, and I'll link it again.

Huginn [0] is an amazing self-hosted dev-friendly Zapier/IFTTT/MS Flow that, more relevant to this topic, supports acting arbitrarily on webhooks.

[0]: https://github.com/cantino/huginn
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because tablet is not a laptop, relevant story which also mentions laptops: http://www.cio.com/article/3058715/ios/why-i-ditched-the-ipa...
Yes. There are more options for providing accommodations to individual students taking a short list of classes in person. Out of all the classes, relatively few will have a student enrolled who requires the most elaborate accommodations. Some books will be used for many years so making an accessible version will likely get reused but quite a lot of course content can have a short shelf life so an accessible version made for a student today may never be reused.
Why do you need a machine for that? What happened to plain amaroli?
Wow, rev_null, very cool. I only watched the YouTube videos, but I like the 'aliveness' of the cursors visualized in each process in the top panel.

I've been following and dabbling with livecoding ever since I found Fluxus many, many years ago [1]. My current fave is Extempore [2]. I find that the examples that sound good to me from any of the livecoding environments make a lot of use of samples. A lot of these environments are capable of low-level DSP stuff, but they don't seem to lend themselves well to livecoding from the signal level. As far as I can tell, a function or library of instruments is developed in the 'studio' and then performed live.

Tidal was more a pattern maker, manipulator that seemed to lend itself well to livecoding due to the terse syntax [3].

I program in J (not livecoding), but a fellow named John Earnest made a 'graphical sandbox for k', and then added audio too [4].

I think it is going to be something like ike from John Earnest, Tidal, or your, noise funge, if I don't write my own, that finally gets me playing and making music! Cool work.

[1] http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/

[2] http://extempore.moso.com.au/

[3] http://toplap.org/tidal/

[4] http://archive.vector.org.uk/art10501610
Do you (or anyone) know of a better example than the bank account? I wouldn't be against changing it.

I wanted to communicate through a fairly succinct and understandable example that there are potentially high stakes, and I wanted to show a 'NoSQL' example rather than a micro-services one. It was the first one that came to mind.
Even 'dumb pipes' aren't equivalent. Here it's either IPv4 only (telekom.de), CG NAT IPv4 plus IPv6 (Kabel), or the small ISP I'm with (/28 static IPv4, /48 IPv6).
We lack even a basic understanding of many aspects of the global climate. Imagine trying to engineer a computer with a nineteenth-century knowledge of electromagnetism. The only thing we know for certain is what worked in the past.
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I don't feel sorry for them. They have a lot of inertia but I sincerely hope their days guiding the evolution of personal computing never come back.
> we should be trapping them and redistributing them

European wolves routinely travel 60-80km a day for food, and since they are very social (pack oriented) hunters, a lone wolf (forced away from the pack, for what ever reason) can travel many hundreds of kilometers per week in search of other packs, new hunting grounds etc.

Meanwhile, Norway is full of hill farming in areas suitable for wolves.

I can talk about the livelihoods of people and families that have been decimated by the increase in the wolf population in Sweden, but instead I will say that many of these people would rather risk a jail sentence and hunt them themselves than try to convince the government to do anything about it.

> This is sad.

Agreed.
"Importantly, this is NOT a lawsuit."

It will be soon.

There's a lawyer, in the Bay Area, that has made his wad off ADA lawsuits. I guarantee, he is setting up shop as we speak.

I know this because my best friend (deceased) got caught up the ADA lawsuit game. He took a driving job. He drove around these two handicapped individuals. They drove through out the U.S.

He used to call me from the road, and say the strangest things. Like, it seems like they want to go to resturants/gas stations that don't have the required ADA construction. Then they slip, and fall? My job is to take pictures of them on the ground. He was naieve, and thought it was a "travesty", the way these horrid capitalists couldn't build the right way. Most of these owners had no idea they were breaking the law. These subsequent lawsuits shut down many small businesses. Although, this lawyer would settle out of court--much of the time.

He got home, and I told him he was being used by these guys, and that lawyer. He couldn't believe they would do such a thing.
>To the contrary, programmers with the ability to deliver and iterate working code quickly is what is needed -- and especially without overengineering, or inadvertently creating huge future technical debt due to inexperience.

That requires smarter programmers.

It's just not the kind of smart that correlates with knowing technical trivia or being able to write out a binary tree algo on a whiteboard.

There's a cultural prejudice against overengineering in the python community whereas in the Java community (possibly Scala too) there is something of a cultural prejudice in favor of overengineering.
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