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>> We've already lost when an arrest is equivalent to a conviction.

> It's not, under the law, of course.

It is under some circumstances. For example, the US visa waiver program:

> We do not recommend that travelers who have been arrested, even if the arrest did not result in a criminal conviction, attempt to travel visa free under the Visa Waiver Program.

(From https://uk.usembassy.gov/visas/visa-waiver-program/additiona...)
Yup. Going further down the "more force behind fewer arrows" approach with fiscal discipline.
I agree with this assessment as well. REAPER totally has the power of vim or emacs, but when I started out and knew almost nothing about multitrack recording, I stuck with REAPER because its defaults were so easy and I didn't feel handicapped. The UI is so logically laid out and it really helped me understand routing and signal path in a way I didn't before, when I was trying to use other DAW's with less success.
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Anecdotally, it's happened to my father and brother. There are bot-made accounts on Facebook with their biographical information and pictures, taken from Wikipedia. Apparently it's standard practice for "notable" persons who don't create their own pages.
I started keeping project logs on Confluence wiki recently and it is amazing how much faster task switching goes without that "who wrote this?" effect and all the "oh yeah, I went down this exact same blind alley of confusion last time too."
And they murder and enslave people all over the world. Well, the "third world" mostly, so it's fine.
If you want something a bit more user-friendly than tensorflow to get started, I suggest looking at Keras. It basically a higher-level framework built over Tensorflow (and Theano).
Although it's widely used for general censorship, the DCMA is supposed to only cover copyright issues. So the parent comment's concern about "anti-ageism" posts would not be a DCMA issue.
> Mathematical genius is fragile; society needs to stop destroying it

... but there are too many men in this field. Just love this marxist logic.
But Go really does encourage good practices. I came to Go after programming in C, C++, Java and a bunch of dynamically typed languages. After a couple of years with Go I returned to C (and a bit to Java). And I'm writing better code in those languages now.

Now, part of it is natural progress probably. But especially when I'm writing C, I can tell that I'm writing it much better than before because I'm adopting back some idioms that Go encouraged me to adopt in the first place.

Also, because Go's standard library is so well written, you can learn from the best very easily, and understand what's going on. It's certainly not the case with other languages I write in.
Provided that they can still buy the data, they may decide that the differentiator isn't the proprietary data but the data analysis they put on top of it. In which case owning and acquiring the data is no longer crucial.
You may want to re-read my post.
I'm sorry for not expressing what I meant more clearly the first time. I'm saying that given the extensive and unprecedented reach of private actors like FB and so, shrinking the state is not by itself going to make people freer. Most of the state's activities consist of providing services of various kinds, most of which people want, and it is this that employs the bulk of federal workers, and it is by cutting services that politicos aim to achieve the shrinkage.

The notion that shrinking the state will make it too small to surveil the people just seems naive to me, in the light of private firms' ability to surveil the population for commercial ends. If the state is so small as not to be an effective political actor (qua the 'deep state' permanent bureaucracy), then what is to stop those private entities leveraging their existing knowledge to wield power unchecked? The courts function as arbiters within the private sector only insofar as their judgments are backed up by the power of the state; absent a capable state actor that can be politically delegated to the security of public goods, what restraints exist upon private actors to conduct themselves peaceably?

I'm not really up for a philosophical debate on the broader role of government today, but in general I feel that the belief that less government will bring about increased self-reliance and we'll return tot he ways of our forefathers is a mistaken one, and really suffers from the same faulty utopianism as the idea of an all-encompassing state. If there were some optimal public:private sector ratio, or some magic formula for defining the appropriate scope of government, wouldn't you expect to see societies that stumbled across it racing ahead of their less nimble competitors?
They have tried and so far nobody cares.

When they announced Zolcalo at an AWS summit at the Javits Center the indifference was palpable.
lol, what brand. rotfl

edit: Apologies for this utterly useless comment. To elaborate: The construct "brand" is a psychological hack, a marketing fnord. Reading about it in a presumably rational discussion is what I found amusing.
Don't let the perfect be the enemy of something better than our current situation.
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More seriously they are aimed at different markets. Seaweedfs seems like a great project for simple clusters, and I've used it to store 600Gb without problems. But do bear in mind the bug tracker has several issues relating to backups failing, corruption, and similar. You'll need to check your backup-system and assess how serious they might be.

Minio started out as "just" an S3-compatible storage system, I've not used it much but certainly I found that I could interface to it with the existing Amazon S3 clients very easily. I've not used that in a distributed setup, just on a single node.

Both seem well-documented. Both seem "active".

Pick the one that makes most sense to your use-case ("distributed storage" vs "distributed storage with known-API") and report your bugs as you find them.
The problem is that currently there isn't too many customers beyond hedge funds/governments for these kind of data
> You're trafficking in exactly the same stereotypes and myths you're complaining about.

I'm not complaining. I'm just showing you that stereotypes and myths exist everywhere.

> no cab driver in the US would pull a gun on you

I tried that in Boston (not New York, as I thought to remember). The driver was EXTREMELY nervous then and didn't let me sit in the front. The cab was shitty and there was a thick transparent shield between the backseat and the front. Something you would never see in Germany.
When I see things like the RAND 'long-range forecasting' study, I always look to see if they specify ubiquity -- it's very different to assert that we'll have ultrasonic implants for the blind in a laboratory setting vs. being commonplace and woven into the fabric of society.

As William Gibson is fond of saying, "the future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed." Predicting what will become integral to our daily life is much more interesting/difficult than determining how long it would take to develop a specific technology's proof-of-concept.
I appreciate your argument of the whole vs sum, but might it also be more expensive? Even if each member played perfectly in a single take, you'd need lots more recording time; member*lengthOfPiece instead of just lengthOfPiece
That is great news for the Terra Bella employees that Planet decides to keep[1]. Anyone know where the rest are going? A friend of mine who was part of the Motorola Mobility acquisition noted that employees got a big boost in benefits/perks but their output and business had not changed. I wonder if that impacted this deal or if Ruth just didn't feel it was worth it. Nobody thinks twice about a press release that says "We decided to stop buying our imaging data from Planet" but they freak out if you say "we just laid off the entire Terra Bella team." So it gives them more flexibility to cut costs without the PR hit[2].

[1] "As part of this agreement, a number of Terra Bella employees will join Planet to continue their great work within our combined organization."

[2] Its cynical I know but given how important maps is to Google, and how important satellite imagery is to maps, this is not an easy move to explain as anything other than cutting out the cost of the employees.
I'm not sure that I want to live in a universe where a one-wire telegraph system is an "improvement" over a magical owl postal delivery system.
For a very long time after cars were invented, the burden was actually the reverse of what you describe.

It used to be, "you don't like cars driving near you? Live somewhere else."

And it seems most people were fine with that, choosing to move to rural areas, where there were still cars, just less of them.

This localized tax is palatable to me because it is local and not national. But, it is still worth pointing out that the people who penalize behavior by taxing certain daily activities... may more so be in it for the money than for the social good.

If you disagree, that's fine. But when people are dying and having negative quality of living for so many more serious reasons, taxing congestion with a complex technological system is, in my opinion, deck chairs on the Titanic.

I hope that those who are greatly affected by it choose to move and bring their value elsewhere that welcomes them. Maybe Stockholm will feel their absence, maybe not.
Oh I'm well aware of that. And I predict the more heavy-handed the attempts to restrict protest become, the more people will come out to oppose them.
Honestly, I think the social norm argument is probably the bigger story.

I've been off of facebook for over 2 years. I used to log in occasionally to see if things changed. Now I log in to look in morbid curiosity.

The lens of facebook makes me feel that their users are a meat-based botnet propagating other people's content. I'm shocked that so many of my friends have devolved to this point. It is deeply affecting my parenting strategy.
On the web development part of my job, I'm excited about Elixir / Phoenix getting more and more mindshare. People I talk to are actively trying Elixir out and evaluating it as the tool of choice for their next projects.

On the networking side of things, I'm excited about network virtualization and the potential that tools like Docker and Kubernetes give to virtualizing large and complex network topologies.

And as an employee of an IT-heavy enterprise, seeing DevOps becoming a thing makes me happy, even if adoption is slow and expectations are high. It's still better than waiting 6 months to get a couple of VMs to deploy my projects to...
Thanks! Which stat are your referring to?
Sez you. Try convincing a crowd of thousands backed by the local authorities.
Wow. I wonder if it was opportunistic or planned. Either way, brilliant job of manufacturing consent. I'm both horrified and impressed.
I think literature sucks, but I dont go to literature forums and criticize it. I just spend my time doing what I love.
This is the problem. I do not believe iTunes allows you to sell or hand down to your offspring your music "licenses." So yes actually, someone is going to take away the songs you have digitally purchased.

Try playing a game on release date when all the drm servers are overloaded as well. The people who didn't pay get to play, while the paying folk do not. Because truly owning a thing means not having to beg to use the thing.
Use tmux in iTerm with `tmux -CC` and it'll open tmux in a native pane. No more re-learning!
Go gets compared to "systems programming" languages because its designers specifically intended it to be used as such [1][2], albeit the definition of 'systems' they are using is deliberately evolved from the original shade of meaning as suggested by low-level languages that are sometimes deemed to be for 'systems programming' to illustrate that the nature of environments has changed, and a new approach is advantageous.

[1] https://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.article [2] https://golang.org/doc/faq
And further, in my view, if manual memory management is extraordinarily difficult a language is not necessarily a good candidate for systems programming.
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> as is access-control and UID remapping

Mind you, these are obviated if, as I was saying above, the NFS server and its clients are all part of the same directory-services domain.
It does though. Maps and folds - and functional programming in general - focuses on the /what/. For-loops on the other hand tell the compiler / cpu the /how/.

Summing is a nice example. A naive for-loop will just iterate through the list, keep a variable around, add the next item in the list to it. In functional programming (or with a reduce), you tell it to sum in a more concise way - but more importantly, you don't tell the compiler how exactly it should do it. It's trivial with functional programming to make the task (for example) multithreaded or to use advanced underlying cpu tricks, without you as a developer needing to know how exactly it does what you ask it to.
I have become an advocate for using the same stack you shipped with last time for the exact same reason.

Deeper experience and knowledge pays off way more than learning each incremental improvement new languages/frameworks/etc offer.
Apologies, I thought that was referring to some other workaround.
I think you have this backwards. 'Systems programming' has never meant 'operating systems'. To believe that Go is misdescribed as a 'systems programming' language you have to believe Rob Pike doesn't know what 'systems programming' means.
Their maps imagery layer already shows the higher resolution data available from DigitalGlobe.

I wonder if they just decided that they had been beat into the space (DigitalGlobe has 5 satellites capturing higher resolution than Skybox 1 and 2. It also isn't obvious that the Skybox satellites can even cover the same area; DigitalGlobe crows about their daily acquisition rate, Skybox doesn't mention it).
There are a lot of people trying lots of things. Eg a French startup is trying to do a kind of system for add it ng such micro contributions with blockchain to confirm who did the original contribution. It looks from my view a lot like a kind of specialised Twitter, but I'm not informed in depth of the system.

I think the main problem with any such system is that a paper has a certain weight. You can be sure that it has a minimum value. (and estimate its value from the journal it's published in). Number of contribuons does not give an equally good indicator - eg the most active users on Wikipedia are all bots doing minor edits.

In addition, there is no consensus building like on github for individual projects which each in turn can be judged on popularity/use/... . Having a similar system for a science corpus of knowledge would even more encourage status quo thinking than the current system.

Apart from that, having a self-contained paper has value as that's a package you can judge as relevant or not to your work. It's fairly easy to use as the author is basically doing the curation. Having all knowledge of a field in one single Wikipedia like entity could end up being overwhelming for anyone but (and maybe even) existing experts.
> Real space doesn't appear to be infinite

Citation needed. People keep saying things like this ("real space isn't infinite" or "real spacetime must be discrete") but never show their work.
Problem is, the topic itself may be worthy of discussion -- but then you limit the people involved in the discussion (who have read the article) only to those who have a subscription to that given site.

What would be more useful is, where possible, post a non-paywall link, to maximize the number of potential participants in the discussion. An alternative in cases where the paywall link is the primary source, is to post a summary in a comment. But then you risk having the editorial slant of the summary be tilted towards whoever wrote up the summary.
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Fantastic job! Functional and beautiful at the same time.

This is the kind of stuff that I love to read about in the mornings.

I know this machine will not solve world hunger or bring about world peace but I know this would bring peace to my family.

I apologize in advance but I am going to "borrow" your design and work with my kids to recreate this.

Thank you for giving me something worthwhile and productive to do with my kids today. Atleast give them something inspiring and fun to look forward to.
I've been thinking about a two way compiler with a primary focus on producing readable code. If such a compiler targeted Go or Java, you could white your "Go+" code (for lack of a better name) in a higher level language with more features, and have it compiled to readable Go code. I don't know to what extent this is possible, but if it was good enough you could be a Go developer while rarely writing actual Go code.
No, I don't avoid Medium links.

It's just another content medium. Ignoring Medium isn't anymore logical than avoiding Blogger or Svbtle. There are short and long, shallow and deep, low quality and high quality pieces on Medium, just like any other open content platform.
The axiom of choice is used to demonstrate the existence of something, in this case a perfect strategy.

However, if said strategy's implementation requires actual infinities, eg each prisoner having an infinite memory, then that is why you find it intuitively objectionable.

It is useful here to think of computer algorithms and not just math. While mathematical arguments have no problem supposing infinite amounts of actors, the next question is whether each actor can have infinite memory.

In mathematics, infinity can be thought of as a property of a set. It can also be thought of as some limit of an infinite sequence of operations on sets, which is a statement that is simultaneously true about each member of that sequence.

This is useful because it can tie constructions we observe in the real world into patterns that approximate and converge to the limit of this infinite sequence. And then the question is how the computational complexity grows.

So in your example here, each FINITE set of prisoners can't coordinate a strategy. So there is no "approaching a limit" - the thing only starts working with an infinite set of prisoners, each of whom has infinite memory etc. And that is why you get your intuition alarm bells go off :)

But it is even more than that. Your construction requires each prisoner to use the axiom of choice in order to take an action based on the NAME of the chosen member which is used to demonstrate the existence of a sequence of actions that satisfies a certain property. However, when the axiom of choice is used normally, it is not used to actually NAME the chosen element, but merely work with it like a black box. By NAME, I mean an id that distinguishes it from all other elementa, and lets you pick it out and examine is properties THAT ARE DIFFERENT than all other elements in that set.

In other words, Sure, you can assume that the chosen "representative" sequence has the same property as any other in the equivalence class -- namely that all but finitely many terms are equal. BUT the part where you "cheat" is having the prisoner "find out" more than that about the representative sequence, in particular its initial values up to an arbitrary depth.
> Errors are just a worse Either monad after allm they're much more pleasant to use than exceptions.

How are errors in Go at all monadic? They just have a convention where you return a tuple and manually check if something isn't nil. Either type will inhabit one variant or another, not both with one having a value of nil.

The 'monadic' part of Either (or Result in something like Rust, where try! is sort of like >>= if you squint) is the ability to chain Either types together and have the boilerplate abstracted, that feature is completely absent from Go. Errors in Go are neither the Either type nor monad, IMO.
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> People should be presumed innocent until proven guilty.

How did what I say imply otherwise? I completely agree with that statement.
To be fair, there are plenty of companies that are still irreverent of rules and laws. Zenefits and Theranos are the obvious bad boys. Arguably AirBNB and Uber in their early days were just as bad too. It does seem like society, and the law, comes down much harder on startups these days, ever since the tech industry went from being the underdog to the 800 pound gorilla.
Would you consider pasting a sample? I do work with rails and can't think of a time when I have experienced this issue.

Maybe when passing multiple cars to a partial?
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s/too many men/not enough women/

Suddenly it makes perfect sense. Why on earth do you choose to frame it the first way? Getting more women into math by having male mathematicians be less shitty people doesn't decrease the total number of mathematicians.
It would be more like "Basketball is about being in very good physical shape", which makes more sense.

IQ (or more precisely the g factor) correlates not only with math but also with language skills and music[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)
Well, it's time to come up with a better solution than 'don't feed the trolls.' I have been saying for years that trolling (the aggressive kind, not the witty mutual banter kind) is a serious problem and the response is almost always 'oh just don't give them attention, that's what they feed on blah blah.'

this ignores the fact that trolls and bullies systematically pick on people who are vulnerable and target their specific vulnerabilities. Telling people to just ignore it is equivalent to telling them that their injuries don't matter and you're not interested enough to help, and can't think of a single suggestion to do anything the problem they're experiencing. That is an implicit endorsement of the idea that aggressively trolling other people is basically acceptable.
I would not be willing to use any extension that is not free software.

I want the code to be auditable and hackable.
I would agree that Google search would be hard to replace, but I think it could be done, and probably done better. But one site is not worth keeping a crappy system in place, IMO.
> ...free to obtain the means to do so. Libertarianism has never argued that liberty means everyone gets a house on the beach.

This is the strawman. No one is suggesting that everyone gets a house on the beach.

The problem is that Libertarianism has a naive presentation of coercion strategies. It ignores economic and generational coercion mechanisms, instead focusing on violence (and the government's monopoly on it) as the only form of coercion. This prevents it from achieving the liberty which it promises, except for those who are already wealthy. By seeking to obfuscate and divert attention from other coercion strategies, it disproportionately favors those who wield them to reduce liberty, and so it has a net negative effect on liberty.
I seriously doubt there's that much detail. It would be dumb for FB to tell customers that something like this is a primary targeting criteria. That's the racket, that FB (probably) doesn't say, and if any customer is asking I can't think that FB would tell them, since it just results in wasting the customer's money.

It's like a conversation I saw last week, that video ads pay out to the provider/site even if the user only sees one second of it before pressing pause or the back-button.