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Synchronous communication happens when one participant says/sends something
and then waits for the other participant to reply doing nothing else.
Exactly the same as with synchronous function call: you order some operation
and wait patiently for it to return the result.

Asynchronous communication is when one participant sends something and leaves
things as that. For a reply, either another (asynchronous) message is sent,
this time in the opposite order, or the sender checks if the reply arrived.

Real-time communication, like phone calls, video conferences, and various
chats and communicators are synchronous by the very nature of the activity of
conversation. Everything that you may postpone checking is asynchronous;
e-mail, tickets/issues, and source code commits are like that.
People made the same argument when FB turned down Yahoo 2billion dollar bid. This kind of stuff is too hard to predict. It is a very risky play, but its all based on projected growth and what you feel it is.
"based their prediction on the number of times Facebook is typed into Google as a search term"

While it might have been common to go to a website by searching for it, accidentally or not, many interact with Facebook via a mobile app. Using google search trends will not account for this change in behavior.
I see what you mean and I'm thinking about that as well. In there startup world there is this "focus mantra". So everybody things that everyone should work as focussed as possible. Somehow this is highly efficient for some time but on the long-run I'm sure it strongly contributes to burn-out or some kind of bore-out.
This last presidential race more or less started 2 years ago. If he were to run for President for the election in 12 years, he'd more or less start running in 10.
I work in software and also run some pretty active open source projects, so I worry about this happening to me. I've felt somewhat burned out, or felt close to a more serious burn out, on a few occasions. What has helped me is to remind myself that ultimately I don't owe the open source community anything. I do it because I enjoy it, and want to create things for people to use. But if it's creating stress, I take some time off, spend a few weeks playing video games or spending more time with my partner, and that in turn reminds me that the world does not end when I stop programming for a few days. In other words, I haven't stopped, I've just slowed down, and participated in free time open source development with better moderation.
Still no daisy chaining though, unlike with DisplayPort which uses packeted data. Why isn't DP replacing it faster? Is it too expensive to become ubiquitous?
About negative 19 months (Elsevier filed a lawsuit against Sci-Hub on June 3, 2015).

http://www.stephenmclaughlin.net/2016/03/18/elsevier-v-sci-h...
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No I was just going by Zuck's age.
I assume people, (even tech savvy HN readers) access sites as a search because it's less effort than urls, typo resistant, and almost all browsers installed now have search built in - it's not a sign of a naïve user.

However, i'd assume for Facebook a much larger % of users are now via smartphones - so get their fix directly through the app, with no search engine involvement.
I was just looking for something modern to keep my sight reading practice interesting... oh, the serendipity; this looks really nice!
Why not just wear a ring?

Seems like the main reason is so that the guy who made it can call himself a transhumanist and say futuristic things.

Watch him put his phone to his wrist. If it was on his finger he wouldn't have to take the phone out of his hand. Is that thing glass? How is he not worried about it shattering when he falls?

I found http://nfcring.com/ but macbooks can't do NFC, otherwise I'd preordered one.

I also learned that NFC is RFID at 13.56 MHz.
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After ACA this is no longer true in Medicaid expansion states.

There is no asset test, and there is no paying back benefits if you are under 65 when you took them.

Medicaid expansion is quite literally the best insurance that money can't buy.

In CA, for example, a family of 4 earning less than $33,500 gets MediCal [1]. If you just want free coverage for the kids, you can earn $64,600. [2]

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The trivial disproof still doesn't disprove anything about go and/or chess. Both chess and go have rules preventing repetition of moves (three fold repetition, and rule 8, respectively), and have a limited pool of possible future states. Therefore, there is no game of go or chess that does not halt. Thus, "Games like go and chess are necessarily solvable by definition, right?"
I might be an order of magnitude off here, but I believe there's only around 1 billion unique numbers per card once you take away check sum digits and look at how they are issued.

Assuming that's correct, it really wouldn't take up much memory or computing power to create a lookup table for every credit card number with hash x.
This is something i've wondered about for years. If you have a million sockets, and you've set SO_SNDBUF to 4 kilobytes for all of them, does that mean the kernel has 4 gigabytes of memory sitting around waiting for TCP segments?

In the classic C10k scenario, most sockets don't have a segment in flight at any point in time, so their buffers will be empty. It would be a huge waste if they were actually occupying memory.
I remember at one point reading an advertising industry report about ad revenue + avg. number of uniques over the year, and did the division

I can't find this anymore, but did find an estimate that internet ad industry did $60 billion last year. Assuming 1 billion users ( I know more people have internet but lots probably don't interact with ad-ridden sites), you're talking $60/year. Which is pretty good overall.
Interesting, I hadn't seen that post! I wonder if there are any posts that elaborate on the internal Google bits more. I'd love to know what "they found other ways to solve their performance problems" wound up meaning in practice.
But your method also ignores mobile access - which is huge.
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ACA is likely about to be repealed.
Wine is definitely closer to art than anything.

e.g. "Damien Hirst Spot" or "Jackson Pollock Blue Poles".
I run a small dev shop (python backends and mobile apps), not sure if this counts as an online business though

Got started by a post on linkedin
Apple actually marketed their computers this way once… I don't think they meant it to be funny: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQWjxAdSsHE
These things seem to come in cycles - as one service begins and attacts users the other one declines. We are not seeing the alternative to Facebook yet. In other words users are not going someplace else...yet, but they probably will.
> Next we're going to go around and fine people for leaving their TVs running without paying attention to the commercials...

Well that actually might happen someday. Not sure where, but some podcast on youtube was discussing almost just that. Electronics companies might strike a deal, where you have a smart tv with a camera and face recognition, where you get a good deal of channels cheaper if you watch the commercials. Also when you rent a movie via their streaming partner, you pay depending on how many eyes are watching.

Off course we all know how easy it is to game face recognition now, but in the future it might not be as Ai algos keep improving. Sadly I hate to see this day when we get to the level where most people will obediently watch the commercials because they can't pay trice the price. This kind of future seems both comical and disheartening, like someone would combine 1984 and They Live.
Whenever I see a prediction from academics, I'm reminded of this: http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/scientist-predicts-...

"Princeton professor predicts 99% chance of a Hillary Clinton win"
So is this a blog like techcrunch? What is it?
Mostly because you can get the benefit of improvements to the build config just by updating the one `react-scripts` dependency. For example, 0.8 enabled proper sourcemaps support in Webpack (and 0.8.2 bumped the Webpack dependency to fix a problem with not being able to set breakpoints in sourcemapped code). If you eject, you don't get those easy updates, as the config files are now a permanent part of your own project.
Author of the original piece here. You need to watch Hackers.
Having burned out a number of times, I think that perhaps you would benefit greatly from investigating what burn out actually is, and the causes of it, rather than making broad assumptions about it.

For instance, burn-out has less to do with what you are doing, and more to do with the stress and effort required. It doesn't matter if you're disarming bombs ("bomb technician," huh?) or grading freshman assignments. What's more relevant to it is the value you place on the task, the recovery time (off hours) you get, and level of stress placed upon you. Even the most dreary job can burn you out if the employer demands near-impossible targets.

Educate yourself, then you won't seem as much of an arrogant arse to the rest of the world.
No I'm totally aware you wouldn't be able to replicate BEAM/OTP on a JS runtime, but my guess is you could port enough of the syntax and some of Elixir's high-level abstractions, especially to ES7. The point wouldn't be running the majority of existing Elixir/Erlang libraries, but to easily write ElixirScript within a webapp and transparently reference/integrate with server-side models, auth, etc.
One of the many things about humanity- we adapt to near all circumstances no matter how bad. And we adapt fast, in 20 years from cold-war showroom equality and egality to oligarchy without borders.

Oligarchs abusing there power? Not so bad, as long as it hits somebody else backyard. Even better, if it just never makes its way into the news.

All even, the democratic powers playing the great game again, condemning every country who doesn't want to be a feudal servant and go for a "Leave me alone" nuke-stance?
And after all - hey we are still here, aren't we- so its not so bad.

People vanishing every night? Guess, one can get used to that, nobody of the vanished has ever complained. And hey, dropping housing prices, finally a solution to that.

To actually get a accurate, neutral moral "measurement" you would have to take a group and enclose them in the isolate standards of the past- and then have them write about how they perceive today.

The interesting measurement question- if there is one, is what is left that those in power could do- they wouldn't get away with?
That couldn't be swept under the rug, that once really tied the room together?
I'm forgetting something that /has/ changed since then.

How apt to use critical thinking the average / many users of the Internet are.

"Real names" on Facebook profiles are also problematic since they are not actually authenticated in any meaningful way.

If users had to use a credit card to buy some type of service and the name on that card became their public identity name then at least in that respect it would be ///a/// Firstname Lastname that was an owner of the account. There would still be namespace collision issues (there are billions on this planet).
I don't like the idea of handing over my contributions to another party under their terms. Either release software under a common open source license (BSD, MIT) or not. Don't add additional terms with some custom license that certainly wouldn't help me.
The cost per boat is really meaningless. What matters is the total lifecycle cost of the entire system including R&D, construction, operations, shore support, and eventual decommissioning. The total for that will be much more than $112B.
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I use it to store many small files (JSON and images). My requirements were:

1. predictable read time
2. read/write access through LAN
3. server easily installable on VPS
4. simple API

The main downsides I found so far:

1. Master splitting are very hard to recover from. They happen rarely but when it does, be ready to restart master many times in random order. Latest version seems to have fixed it
2. No easy way to list the content of a volume. You need to use the command line on the volume files
3. Cleanup is hard (compacting the volume files), I fee that the GarbageThreshold is not working well
4. Hard to resize the volumes (i.e. set lower limits) after it has been started
5. Replication, as I mentionned in another comment

Overall it works fine for me. The potential alternative (not fully tested) was Cassandar (the 64MB limit per object when I checked is fine with me).
Oh man, the 4:3 stretching. Whenever I reach for the remote to correct it, people go "stop messing with the TV! It's fine!" and then go "it's stretched now, it was fine before!" when I fix the aspect ratio.
The alternative to Facebook already exists: Instagram.

That's why it it was such an inspired move by Zuckerberg to acquire it when they did.
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How about Slack and Docker? Do you think they're going to IPO soon?
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Grow your understanding a bit, would you? There's more there.
You can (should) have multiple masters. But each volume has a primary master. I did see other masters loose the volume state information after the primary master has gone down and been taken out of the cluster.
I wonder what OLED would be like
I personally like them, but every time the subject comes up I am reminded of the surreal line from the original _Dress for Success_ "In general, I have found that people believe a man in a bow tie will steal."[1]

1: badly OCRed here https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/131743317/
Well, find a way to stop retirees from voting then.

It should not be the governments job to manage retirement funds.

Sez you. I'd like to outsource that job to them as private financial advisers often seem to put their own interests ahead of their clients', and I really don't know how to evaluate competing investment vehicles except int he most shallow way. I'd really like to delegate that job to someone, and I'd really like to join up with enough other people to feel the same way to delegate it to the same entity and enjoy the resultant economies of scale.

If enough people decide they want government to perform some function on their behalf, and it seems like a majority of people over several generations of western democracy in multiple countries do want the government to run a pension system, then it damn well is the government's job.
Actually, as Bitcoin's value and "market cap" has increased it has become more stable. The current fluctuations are small compared to what used to happen. If the value continues to go up (it is still up 30% over 30 days), stability is likely to increase as well. If not, it won't.

I'd also like to point out that "real" currencies experience large fluctuations sometimes too, despite their much larger "market cap". The pound, the Swiss franc, and the ruble have all seen large fluctuations in recent years. And of course there have been many cases of hyperinflation in the past and we have a current one in Venezuela.
This is an excellent solution. Schools should really advocate for this. The law is counter-productive in it's current form.
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I enjoy reading articles on your website. Just curious, how do you know whether the numbers of your guests are correct or faked?
This is a little unfair, it's not clear to me why academics would always have worse predications than any other body of people. This especially goes for the presidential outcomes predictions.
isn't it the case that amount of data required to store the result of a lossless DCT is bounded below by the size of the data, and this is why lossless JPG compression does not use such a scheme?
And maybe that's a good reason why it should be.

A progressive tax system should not be paired with a regressive subsidy as massive as ACA. It adds up to nearly a 100% tax on the first $60,000 of income for unhealthy / chronically ill families, and a 60% effective tax rate for healthy ones.
This describes me well, today, right now. I have dev'd software my whole life, chucked it in to dev apps, have been successful, I _love_ developing apps but for the last 4 or 5 months I can't do it, sit and write code - I don't want to do anything to do with writing code. I can't stand that I have to sit in front of a keyboard to do anything these days - even research a non computer related activity! So this is a real thing and I'm happy that others experience it too. I interviewed for a casual customer service related role yesterday simply because there are no keyboards involved and I have the time!
No offense, but they can and they do get that, routinely. You go to a judge, get a warrant, and you get pretty nearly anything you want. Similarly, there exist licensure and reporting requirements for taxi and hotel companies, for really good reasons (whose car is your wife/daughter/girlfriend getting in at two am? Is there a fire escape in that hotel? Are there bedbugs?), that Uber and AirBnB, among many others, are thus far shirking. For now-- it's only a matter of time.
I think Darth Vader is worse than neo-Nazis and equally likely to affect affect my life in any measurable way.

Street gangs have done several killings near where I live, neo-Nazis and Darth Vader, not so much.
15 years ago in The Netherlands.
I think he said 3GB per frame, not 30GB, but that's still pretty insane.
I regularly use 8 different devices (laptops and desktops). That's USD$400 in keys if I were to keep them in devices, not including shipping, currency conversion, etc.

Then there's the concern about who has access to those keys when I'm not around.

I keep a backup key in a safe location, and my primary on my keychain which is typically in my pocket.
You could say the same thing about half the things that piss people off. "Why do people care so much if a stranger flips them off?" Why do people care so much if a million people follow their blog?" When it comes to social interactions, irrationality is the norm, not the exception.
Thanks. You're talking about section VI.c of http://zerocash-project.org/media/pdf/zerocash-oakland2014.p...

It's saying if an attacker extends the blockchain just for you, and makes only you know about its forked blockchain, they would then know that if someone creates a transaction against the unique part of that chain, it must've been you. That attack appears to have nothing to do with the Zcash company as an insider -- the software is open source and hosted from Debian, etc. Am I misunderstanding? How does Monero stop an analogous attack?

(The paper continues "To
mitigate such attacks, users should check with trusted peers
their view of the block chain and, for sensitive transactions,
only spend coins relative to blocks further back in the ledger
(since creating the illusion for multiple blocks is far harder)." I don't know whether current software does this for you -- that paper's from 2014.)
Can't use a library that doesn't exist.

If you want an additional Rust hashmap implementation then you need to persuade the Rust community to provide one in std::collections.

No one is allowed to -- in your words -- "write an entirely custom [hashmap] just for the benchmark".
There's been a bit of an unusual spike of about 30% in the last couple of weeks due to a sudden influx of Chinese investors. Now it's returning to something closer to its normal value.
I think all financial journalists should be required to trade real money for a year.

Then we'll stop seeing these bullshit causations.

Bitcoin's today drop was nothing else than a normal reaction after the incredible recent runup.

If gold surged today instead of the yuan, the article would have stated that gold was the reason.

I remember a day during the hectic days of the 2008 meltdown, when in a single day DOW dropped 5%, but ended 5% up (thus a 10% swing). In that day I've seen two articles in the same source, with titles like this "Dow plunges on Fed decision", later "Dow surges on (same) Fed decision", instead of a more realistic "the market is crazy because everybody is scared shitless"
We already have a sustainable solution: admit more people to the workforce via immigration. As more of the baby boomers die off over the next `03 years, the pool of retirees collecting social security will shrink back towards the mean. You seem to be under the impression that the demographic bulge is a one-way thing.
For those interested in consulting, IRC is a great way to find clients. You can both contribute your expertise and socialize and network with developers who specialize in technologies that you know well. I've found a great number of contractors through IRC (especially freenode). The fact that it requires a modicum of tech cred to navigate makes it a bit of a self-selecting pool, which is great.
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I'm not sure. It's pretty easy to build a Wordpress site, use various plugins, and outsource stuff you can't or don't want to do to upwork. Expectations are higher but buildout is much easier IMO.
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Eh, it's a matter of priorities. By "can afford" I'm sure the OP meant "it's even an option at all" not "it's so cheap it does not require any real tradeoffs"

What percentage of USA residents would you say have spent $7k to $12k or more on a car, when only $2k is necessary to get you around safely?

But yeah, it's expensive, and someone earning more can afford to do it if they're merely interested in it, as opposed to having to be obsessed enough to make major sacrifices to afford it

That said, I have a friend who _is_ a (graduate) student and flies. He bought a gyrocopter for a couple thousand dollars, uses some license class that required minimal/no training but limits the weight of the aircraft severely (ultralight or experimental or something like that, sorry, not sure) and has ultimately spent relatively quite little over time on the hobby. Where there's a will there's (often but admittedly not always!) a way, but that doesn't mean it's not a way requiring sacrifices and tradeoffs
I have such sticker but not anyone is actually following that. It helps to shout at ad mailmen sometimes when I notice them. I'm much more irritated over political junk mail.
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