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> assume updates can be sometimes applied in a different order than they were submitted

I suggest you re-read the analysis. Some databases can offer safe, generalized commutative updates; e.g. Riak. Cassandra can't: updates, in general, can be lost through reordering.

> There is no better way than last write wins if you want high availability and partition tolerance and don't want to pay the performance and availability price for a consensus algorithm like Paxos or Raft.

There is. There's a whole field of research devoted to this problem. http://hal.upmc.fr/inria-00555588/document
anyone knows if there is a business need for human to train/label data? I have been thinking of going to a place w/ cheap labor cost (perhaps Vietnam) and set up an operation like this.
Wikipedia volunteers are doing some cool work to pull together data and images from museums across the world: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_sum_of_al...
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There are regulations proposed in Congress to make it illegal for regulators to consider results from all studies of ecological effects after "one off" events such as the Gulf Oil spill. I presume it also applies to smaller events like a pipeline leak.

The stated motivation for this banning of research is because these studies are not "repeatable". This seems like a pretty blatant attack on the potential for the entities which benefited from the activity that led to the accident to be held accountable.

With a rule like this on the horizon, there's no way I'd be willing to allow any oil company to pursue any construction with any risk of an ecological effect anywhere near my back yard.
Sure, but don't we hear the same "propaganda" every time any group gathers anywhere? If it's not Soros, it's the Kochs; if it's not unions, it's the Russians: whatever boogieman gets you going. In future, can't we just take it as read that some percentage of any group is paid to be there and some higher percentage is accused by someone else of being paid to be there? Is it something we have to worry about?
Yes! Tachyon Design Automation was formerly Pragmatic C Software.

It looks like GPL cver is an ancestor to the current CVC; CVC currently supports Verilog 2005.
> more incentive to look for other alternatives.

Which are still oil, just from elsewhere. The Saudis are quite happy to sell you as much oil as you want.

> limiting the supply is one way to do it by not extracting it in the first place.

I covered that - all that would happen is people would get the oil from elsewhere.

You can only induce people to pump less oil by increasing supply of other forms of energy, or by reducing demand.

If you are going to pump oil at least do it where people actually care about the environment - don't make things so hard you just push production to places with less oversight.
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> As far as I understand it, the pipeline being fought over symbolically rather than for reasons that make analytic sense. If there's an environmental argument, it's that the pipeline will make using shale sands oil from Canada cheaper which is a Bad Thing because we use more stuff when it's cheaper.

Your last argument suggests you are conflating aspects of the Dakota Access Pipeline (which is for domestic shale oil from a particular field) with the Keystone XL pipeline (which is for Canadian oil sands oil).

The environmental argument about Dakota access is that the pipeline, which was rerouted from its original route because of an unacceptable threat to a mostly White community that it would have crossed just upstream of the water supply of, and it's been rerouted to run just upstream of the water supply of the Standing Rock reservation.

Which is why the protesters style themselves "Water Protectors".

> Now, as to the subject of the pipeline running through native american territory because white people were (justifiably) worried about their drinking water if it ran through their watershed -- that's a whole different issue.

No, it's actually the whole issue with Dakota Access. Keystone XL is a whole different pipeline.
You expressed in a comment, directed to me, that you wanted people like me kicked out of the United States, and that I was not "entitled" to be here. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11313462

Honestly, there are no words more hateful than what you said, for an immigrant. I've been in the United States for 10 years now, since I was 17. It feels like home now, and my friends, my community, are all here now. To quote Justice Louis Brandeis, "[deportation] may result also in loss of both property and life; or of all that makes life worth living." You want to destroy my life.

If I'm mistaken about you, and if you truly want to have a constructive private conversation about this; add your email to your profile, and I'll contact you.
That seems prematurely pessimistic to me. We are only in the science and physics business for a relatively short period of time, even if you take ancient developments into account. And if you focus on modern science and physics, it is more like a blink of an eye. Only a century ago we realized how wrong we were about the fundamental things because we only had experiences at human scales before.

Who is to say that there will not be another revolutionary change in our understanding of the universe just like relativity and quantum mechanics? Or two or five. In ten years or a hundred years or a million years?

Maybe it comes from a totally unexpected direction. Maybe we next learn how minds work and this makes us discover that something build deep into it obstructs or view of reality. It wouldn't be the first time that our natural intuition about the world lead us astray for millennia.
Easy, use a handful of pre-vetted volunteers, not anonymous IPs. Like all the internet communities that require some form of vetting by mods before a user can do some action.
It's a good we got out in front of that issue ahead of time by killing Native Americans and then moving them away from their ancestral homeland.
I would also propose that its partially not wanting to get the cord wrapped around my neck.
Yes it does lie especially with fsync() because that call's purpose was to flush all caches to disk, which is an expensive operation.

Since then NCQ/TCQ were added to disks and also systems like Linux implemented write barriers to enable more control[1].

[1] https://monolight.cc/2011/06/barriers-caches-filesystems/
>"As the OP was kind of insinuating just because many are too young to remember the OSes written in those languages, they should be ignored."

No, I wasn't. It was an honest question.

The only OSes I've used or had any experience with are Dos/Windows, MacOS, iOS, various Unix/Linuxes and the reaally old Commodores/Macs that just ran Basic. I was hoping maybe something I'd heard of wasn't based on C/C++.
Yes, it's not the coding marathons themselves, it's being in a moment of intense focus and flow where your fingers really seem to be coding on their own. Time becomes meaningless, ceases to exist even because you're lost in your own world and everything just makes perfect sense.
Are you referring to something like this?

Using Artificial Intelligence to Write Self-Modifying/Improving Programs
http://www.primaryobjects.com/2013/01/27/using-artificial-in...
The NHS is for the whole of the UK, which has a population of 64 million.
On that note, there is a similar clause in the Google Analytics ToS.
Professors are sometimes worried that students are more interested in a subject on a 'spiritual level' than they are interested in the practical, nitty gritty, hard work and math.

Perhaps this one had bad experience with people who talked too much about GEB.
These arguments always comes up in these types of discussions. In reality though personal information has far less protection than commercial information. If you take nude pictures of yourself you might as well keep your credit card in frame, since that's essentially the only way someone would be sentenced for copying them later.
If I ever get to work 100% remote I'd probably check Nomadlist.com

No offense to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, but I need more arguments before I come visit :)
The NHS is for the whole of the UK, which is 64 million people.
The 'You Don't Know JS series'
https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS or this http://eloquentjavascript.net/
I think prosthetic knowledge will become deeper and more accurate in the long run. And if it scales we don't need many people building the general purpose AI.

With this prosthetic knowledge we will have to learn much more what to ask and know how much the machine knows.

One has to quickly grasp the abstract that is one level too high or detailed for the machine to find and than find the seperate answers of the level below to recombine them. You can't yet ask where to open a restaurant, but you can google for demographics and write a program to map ratios between income, foot-traffic density and restaurant density.

Once we can ask what and where is the most profitable business in to start in town, we probably still don't get a step by step guide how to do it, interior design included. Where the rubber meets the road there is still a lot of oppertunities to decide on and complex data we can grasp more easy than the machine.
The pace of New York City is pretty much unique, at least in the West. (Somewhere like Hong Kong is different enough that I wouldn't try to compare.) London certainly feels like a slower pace, which can be good or bad depending upon your perspective.
Not defending the headline, but the link is just an AMP page - on mobile it doesn't redirect to a bbc domain.
> "Water risk to white people? No no no. Water risk to Native communities? Well, we can live with that."

I don't think the Army Corps is that corrupt. I'm guessing it went more like "Water risk to 50,000 people or water risk to 5,000 people?"

This history of the US government relations with native people makes any object assessment suspect though.
>Do you know anyone would watch 25X more content if it were cheaper? I wouldn't.

They don't need to watch more, just start paying for what they watch.
Certainly one of the more interesting questions about the universe. Are there properties of the universe that are unknowable? Who knows, maybe a whole class of interactions are so rare or have such low energy we may only ever receive the slightest of hints that they exist.

As a programmer, another interesting question involves dimensionless physical constants, such as the fine structure constant. Are these numbers rational? Irrational? Uncomputable? In computing theory, an uncomputable number is one that no finite algorithm given infinite time and storage can produce. Things like Pi and e are computable. Any randomly chosen real number is almost certain to be uncomputable. We may never know if the physical constants of the universe are computable, but I think it would tell us something very fundamental about our universe.
'hacker' has also changed meanings. There isn't much you can do about it. That's the nature of language.

Copyright infringement isn't theft, it's counterfeiting. It's 100X worse because instead of just stealing some physical items like a television, it's devaluing the television to the point where it can no longer be sold.
Or that the majority of people spend everything they earn (or more) and never accumulate wealth.
The social media shitstorms raised by mere announcements of his later-cancelled attendances is enough to draw attention to his dead blog and propagate his ideas to receptive ears, without him actually doing any new political-advocacy work. This arrangement seems quite ingenious for its efficiency, but I suspect it came about accidentally.
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Assuming we're all going to be deep learning programmers is quite a bit foolhardy. I think what's really relevant to consider is AI winters can and do happen[1]. I would not disagree deep learning has done some amazing things, what I would say is it does have limitations.

What causes AI winters is when an advance such as deep learning can be applied to new problems and leads to increased interest. And while this new thing is really good as a subset of problems and impresses the public, of course it can't displace humans at everything and naturally has it's limitations.

So funding pours in, everyone gets hyped, and then those natural limits are (re)discovered and everyone gets all anti-AI research. Of course many people knew the limitations all along, but the dream is gone and so is a lot of funding until the next thing comes along.

This is probably natural to a lot of fields but AI just seems more prone to these boom and bust cycles because it's really exciting stuff.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter
Ok, but what do they do for Air Force One? The only souls on that plane when it's flying are likely to be the pilot and copilot.

Same goes for any corporate jets used by corporate executives.
> Direct experience of the last decade is a lot more relevant with a lot more lessons to learn that were never even on the radar in the past.

Do you make that statement with the experience to back it up? Or do you make it because "if it were useful someone would have done it"? What if everyone is thinking the same thing as you are?

Beyond what other people have said, we are also a relatively young industry. There aren't that many people with 30, 40 years experience in the field. When I got my CS degree, 13 years ago now, there was no such thing as a "software engineering" degree, and CS was mostly focused on CS rather than the sort of thing you're talking about.

I also wonder how much collective knowledge we throw away with pushing developers into management. Or the outsourcing in the late 90's and early 00's. Or ageism. We are purposefully driving people with knowledge out of the industry.
I'd say that by simply copying and reading those emails and financial records you haven't done any harm. If you've used the knowledge gained from those documents to deprive someone of their finances(theft) or any such malicious action I'd say you've harmed the owner of these documents.

Disclaimer: I do not condone piracy, I just believe you've made a logical fallacy.
Woah, that is unreal.

And upon retesting, I see the same, sometimes. But sometimes, there are just a few extra nautil.us lines.

And for sure, opening a new tab is the safe bet.
> If people [...] bought a home one income could support

I think GGP's point was that those are becoming hard-to-impossible to find in many places, especially places with decent-paying jobs.

I don't agree with him that this was a deliberate conspiracy by employers to keep workers oppressed; I think it has far more to do with an out-of-control financial sector and governments addicted to over-loose monetary policy. But blaming people's "uncontrolled passions" for wanting a stable home, one they might actually be able to pay off one day, is a bit silly.

(Disclaimer: this is a view from London, which while it might not be quite the absolute worst for housing is pretty damn close to it. YMMV.)
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>Higher energy costs and a slower economy are not necessarily bad

Are you going to be the person who tells families around the country that their grandmother had to freeze to death this winter for the greater good?

How about the young couple that just had a kid and is suffering from stagnant wages. Are you going to come around and tell them to "tough it out" to prevent a catastrophic event a century or two from now?

All the while the smokestacks in the 3rd world just keep growing, and thanks to the lack of demand in the US they can consume even more petroleum products (and in a far less efficient manner) due to the lower cost globally.
It seems that OP could just be more careful?
You are assuming no one else would sell them oil. This is incorrect.

The is currently enough oil supply for everyone. Reducing/removing an oil source just means the oil comes from somewhere else, but it does NOT reduce oil consumption.
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And I bet Iranian commercial pilots always remembered to monitor civilian frequencies from that day forward. Lesson learned.

Prevention is better than the cure. Same with Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 shot down over eastern Ukraine in 2014. Very bad, Russia probably to blame, 298 fatalities. If only some common sense were applied prior to planning a flight route over a known conflict zone, the lives would have been spared.

Civil aviation is not exempt from negligence in these matters. In the case of the Malaysian Airlines flight, 16 military aircraft had been shot down in eastern Ukraine in the weeks prior to the commercial flight. In the report, Ukraine was also criticized for not closing its airspace to commercial traffic. Another hard lesson learned.
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Way to cherry pick. The article you quoted is talking about search results. That's exactly what I said in my reply to you. You're pretending like they're the same thing when they're not.
> - bandwidth : ... More generally, if Urbit got even moderate adoption, the hosted-server companies would fall over themselves supporting it.

I am highly skeptical -- the Wordpress has pretty high adoption, and it is useful for "non-techy Mom", but there are very few companies which support wordpress integration, and if they do, it is at a much higher price (bluehost: $3/mo regular hosting, $20/mo wordpress hosting)

> - mail : ... full-fledged identities on the Urbit network cost a couple of bucks, and it is assumed that anyone who spammed from one would get blackholed before they recouped the investment.

This blackhole mechanism is very much like spam problem, so it has all the usual questions: Is it going to be managed by someone? Does identity get un-blackholed after some time with no spam? Can you pay $$$ to make this process faster? Can someone blackhole whole galaxy? What if your computer gets malware which spams other users on your behalf?

I am not asking for immediate answers to these questions, I just wanted to point that having "federated identity" will not fully solve spam problem.

> - viruses : Urbit is designed to be essentially impervious to malware. ... In a worst-case scenario (say, your whole urbit got bitlocker'd), recovering would require you to a) get your hosting provider to restore from a backup, ...

That's not the worst case scenario. The worst-case scenario is bitlocker reaches in your urbit (via whatever mechanism you use) and encrypts all the your data there, slowly over time (so your backup is corrupted, too) and starting with least-recently accessed files first, to minimize chance of early detection.

Looks like in this situation, your only hope is that your hosting provider kept your backups, and this is not guaranteed at all. So basically not much better than existing self-hosting systems.

Note: I have not actually checked, but I suspect that Urbit may keep all the previous versions of the files around. This will help against bitlockers, but:

(1) Is there a mechanism to permanently remove data, say because you accidentally uploaded 25GB blue-ray movie? If yes, this is what bitlocker will use.

(2) Are you sure that every user will have different urbit credentials and admin credentials to the hosting provider? Because if not, then bitlocker will ssh into your hosted machine and damage the files directly.

(3) There are other things other than bitlockers. Malware will use your account to send SPAM, use your webserver to sell illegal drugs, use your CPU to mine bitcoins, and generally make a botnet out of your urbit.
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Well, unless it's alcohol or tobacco. Or in the Muslim world just unless it's tobacco. Or Khatt in Somalia. etc.

It's a mess and entirely determined by cultural history. I'm not aware of any culture that comprehensively bans all drugs, they just dodge the issue by weaseling the definition of what constitutes a drug.
I don't think it's the same as getting paid to do it like a job. It's more along the lines of your group or committee or activism organization gets sponsorship from someone. The assumption being that now you(the group) are getting money, you're 'funded' therefore you need to 'do something' that your group advocates or represents. If you are a pro environmental rights organization you would have to send someone to protest a pipeline for example.
Nope, 5 year ban on lobbying after a govt job.
WOW.... that's some brass courage right there.

And to think there are so many of them buried around. It's just heart-breaking.
Once it's good enough to solve as many problems as VCs claim, you won't need anyone to program it :p
Yes, those comparisons at the end show differences in rendering caused by the "approximations" used prior to VS Code 1.9. They were all caused by the difference between the ranking rules of CSS selectors and the ranking rules of TM scope selectors
Those sensors do fail, however.

http://globalnews.ca/news/2117570/alberta-oil-spill-when-fai... (2015)

Notice how many failure reports are not the sensor, but are due to humans checking up on the pipeline. The conditions these pipelines are installed in can be pretty hostile to equipment and monitoring. Going by those numbers, I'd say sensor systems have a ways to go.

The debate that usually goes around is that pipelines fail less often, but their failures tend to spill more oil, in more sensitive areas.

The other dimension, that isn't often talked about, is which transport system has the best chance to improve. Despite their current shortcomings, I think that a system that is dedicated to one job (moving dangerous fluids) has a better safety ceiling than shared systems, like trains and roads.
US Constitution's Bill of Rights pretty much covers it.

I designed, implemented, supported 5 regional health information exchanges. I'm also chin deep into protecting the secret ballot. I have more than passing knowledge of the relevant issues, technical and policy.

"Then, can you explain why you think that's feasible?"

So it's feasible to record every waking moment of every single person, but infeasible to disclose that activity and track it?

Have you ever tried to correct your credit report? Had your identity stolen? Been discriminated against, or disenfranchised, because some system some where decided you were the wrong color? Or lived in the wrong zip code? Are you on any watchlists, eg TSA no fly, FBIs inventory of peace marchers?

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You advocate radical transparency (Brin's Transparent Society), but then profess incredulity when that right is demanded. Nice.
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You seem to make extremely light of "doing original research" here. A PhD or equivalent is absolutely required to do serious research in the field. Sure, you can always get the depth of knowledge required without a formal program, but the reality is that few do. Most people just take Machine Learning 101 then think they are a domain expert.

That said, there is definitely a place for non-PhD level ML practitioners. I don't think the industry has stabilized in this regard, but I can definitely see a "machine learning developer" type position becoming quite common. This is not the same as someone doing original research, but would definitely meet the needs of a great many business use cases.
I'm on the same boat; H1 is a fantastic service. Doesn't matter how many smart people you have in the room working on your product, its always possible for some flaw to slip through the cracks.

At my last startup a H1 researcher picked up a few critical flaws. The whole process was incredibly easy to work through. One tip for anyone trying out the service: be prompt when working with researchers. If they find some legitimate bug, pay them the bounty they deserve, and stay in constant contact.