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you out there who play the absurdity of the situation down as anything short of conspiratorial and fraudulent and try to make the author out to be crazy are sheep.

His tone is the result of witnessing you people, who are supposedly intelligent, act as ushers walking bystanders users into Stalin's Strawberry patch pits of current day, the ultimate surveillance state.

Wake UP SHEEPLE
You’ll need to evaluate GCP’s peripheral offerings for database, APIs, pricing, etc.

The biggest thing that this does is give you first class access to the ecosystem APIs and with native setups for AppEngine (Heroku-ish), Compute Engine (do it yourself on a VM) and a provider in Gigalixir which runs on GCP that gives a Heroku-like experience but is tailored specifically to everything Elixir needs (hot loading, clustering out of the box, etc).

Between those two things, GCP is pretty strong.
> The current main incentive against cheating is that miners will lose their invested PoW (compute time + electricity) if they cheat and get their block thrown out. However, with a useful PoW, this calculus changes. Now, the PoW is no longer "wasted" when the miner cheats and gets caught as the PoW is now useful for something besides mining.

So you spend $x on (compute time + electricity) to mine a useful PoW worth $y outside the blockchain and an additional mining reward of $z. If you cheat, you don't get to collect the $z reward. Although your original $x are not completely wasted, you still only have $y instead of the $y + $z you could have had.

How is that not incentive enough?
Sure, at some point the distances are just too great and flying is the only option
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It still feels a little like abuse of the (more common) mathematical usage of the term, but the same sort of abuse is ongoing with the term "serverless." These things have moved into developer vernacular, so there's no point fighting it, even if I'm a little biased.
>The fact that someone who's worked for a good chunk of their life at an In-N-Out makes more than a young professional fresh out of school seems pretty reasonable, when you think about it. (Although it still makes In-N-Out an exception, which is too bad.)

With almost certainly far more hours worked to make that salary, as well. Most fast food managers are spending 60+ hours/week in the store, opening early and closing late at night. All to make a decent living wage in California. I would not envy that life one bit.
Store managers most likely aren’t the front line’s direct supervisor. And the gap between roles as far as responsibility would be high. I would expect very high standards and tough to reach goals would make being a store manager a challenging role to succeed at.
BRT in the English speaking world is hamstrung by the BRT creep as drivers demand their lanes back.

In Latin America, BRT is proven out as a cost-effective approach to mass transit.

Rail mainly offers comfort, a small incremental improvement in speed, lower manpower costs for drivers (offset by the massive capital costs) and greener running.

Comfort and speed should not be underestimated. There's a reason middle class people avoid buses.
Buy a locked down vendor controlled device and what do you expect? Why anyone wants any of Amazon's spyware in their home is beyond me anyway.
I don't know, looks like the ultimate carrot and stick to me.
>> obviously has some pretty good experience at running data stores in the real world, at scale.

I missed that part. Did they mention it in the article? Perhaps they should mention that kind of stuff more prominently. Numbers... and such.
This is even more interesting than I thought at first glance: by selling hardware to other miners (for conventional money, I suppose, as that's what they need to pay upstream suppliers like TSMC) they can fund large mining power bills without having to sell their cryptotokens to do so, which would depress the market, which would threaten their whole business. BTC will crash whenever the influx of money into the network is lower than the outflux to power suppliers. Miners can't "hodl" everything when they have power bills to pay. Selling chips to mining investors is a form of inviting new money into the network.
This is a common talking point against the FCC retaining Title II classification. While I don't disagree in principle, until Congress acts, Net Neutrality is only achievable in the US via Title II enforcement by the FCC. The FCC reclassifying ISPs as Title I without a corresponding push to have an alternative Net Neutrality plan in place was irresponsible, unethical, and against the will of the constituents of all parties. Ire at Congress for not acting is completely reasonable, but acting as if what the FCC did was in any way acceptable is not.
Well, yes. You can't have one without the other. You want good accessible living? That requires density and transit.

It's not like the last 70 years of terrible urban planning and lack of transit construction didn't happen during that "entire life" you speak of.
Yes, and as much as I like the currency, the perpetual "they'll do it out of the goodness of their hearts" answer to "who will run a node with no incentive" isn't very convincing.
Your comment reminds me of the futurist philosopher David Pearce’s work, specifically his Abolitionist Project (https://abolitionist.com) and Hedonistic Imperative (https://hedweb.com).
Crypto Will Do to YC What YC Did to VC
Picked this up from a different thread. Thought this needs more discussion!
Which is probably more than cancled out by lack of advertising revenue. Cable networks get 50% of their revenue from ads.
I visited Japan a few years ago. There are regular extremely fast trains going between large cities and smaller ones. I estimated that the passenger capacity of trains stopping at one smallish city was equivalent to like 3x the passenger capacity of a major metropolitan airport in the US. From a big hub it's probably 10x that (maybe more).

The trains run very frequently, with reasonable fares. It looked to be completely sensible and fast to live in an outlying city and take the train into a larger one for work, whereas the idea of catching a commuter flight from a smaller outlying city into a major metro area in the US (or likely anywhere) is almost completely untenable -- too expensive, too time consuming, too irregular, and too much hassle.
Cop in my family. Using the business card is exactly how I was told to do this for traffic tickets.

I get that the scene in The Wire had to do with being an informant (IIRC), but it's also important to distinguish that it's not always presented as a ridiculous "Get out of jail free" card.
I've used Elixir/Phoenix on K8s and there's some truth to this. For example - kubernetes' "if the process dies, kill the whole container and restart it" model doesn't work very well with Elixir (a process within the VM can die and K8s will have no idea). To some degree, K8s is replicating some of the BEAM functionality.

But there's still a lot from Kubernetes that Elixir can take advantage of. For example - service discovery, autoscaling, clustering, secret management - all made easier with a K8s deployment and Elixir.

I wrote a few blog posts about it a while ago if you're interested: https://medium.com/polyscribe/a-complete-guide-to-deploying-...
Not everyone on this site is from the US - quite a few people aren't, actually.
I wonder if it is imprudent to create too many vehicles that have partial self-driving capability before we have ones that can do 100% of it. Instead of to the point where you can take your attention away from the road, but not to the point where it can reliably avoid accidents on your behalf. Too many people aren't wise enough to use the partial autonomous technology without abusing it.
We have plenty of problems in our own time too.

Obesity, metabolic disease and cardiovascular disease are out of control and we seem to have no idea how to fix it. Rates of unhappiness are as high as they've ever been and people are becoming increasingly reliant on psychiatric drugs.

It's also not guaranteed that increased automation and AI will be a net benefit. We could easily end up with an economy run almost exclusively by robots, where the only humans needed are those who are technically minded enough to program, design and service the robots, where everyone else is left massively underemployed.
I am highly skeptical of container systems for persistence. Docker does not have
disk I/O as a first class citizen for a reason, they're focusing (rightfully) on isolated compute and deployment/dependencies, and kubernetes, to my mind builds on that quite nicely.

I generally avoid abstractions for persistence layers, but I believe I'm the minority
and I believe I'm going against what the industry desires me to do.

I'm not convinced this is a good idea /yet/. I did, however, see some interesting
docker/kubernetes integration with ScaleIO (clustered filesystem) which cut out
huge chunks of the disk I/O pipeline (for performance) and was highly resilient.

The demo I saw was using postgresql, the dude yanked the cord out of the host
running the postgresql pod.

Quite impressive in my opinion.

https://github.com/thecodeteam/rexray

https://github.com/kubernetes/examples/blob/master/staging/v...
I would wager that's the biggest single factor
I live in a place like that in Lexington, Mass. I commute by bicycle (or wimp out and drive in bad weather) about 8 miles. Two groceries, the elementary school, three preschools, an amazing cookie shop, three pizza places, and a fantastic Chinese place are walkable. Oh, and two dentists and an eye doctor, plus your selection of churches. A bus line runs from there, every 15 minutes in rush hour, to the terminus of a subway line. Oh, and a public library.

Now, it’s not perfect: the T breaks down all the time due to criminal underinvestment, my bike commute is noticeably faster than driving through the traffic, the mass transit schedule is such that any route with multiple transfers is insane.

But I’m going to guess that the Italian and Dutch versions of this aren’t perfect either; it’s a matter of deciding which flaws to live with.
I have a feeling Tesla knew this and didn't care. The marketing value of "Autopilot" is too great.
Perhaps numba might help, accelerated by gputoolkit

http://numba.pydata.org/
If I recall correctly, just turning on private spaces is not within most people’s price range.

With most things you’d want stateless. Erlang/Elixir is designed with 3 built in databases, the ability to hold states on isolated processes and per process supervision and recovery. It’s a different animal than most.
Whenever there's a big controversy, especially when it's about whether a "this" is or isn't a "that", the first thing I assume is that people are trying to make a taxonomy out of a continuum. I believe AI is like that. Just as there's a continuum from replicating molecule to god-like alien, there's an analogous continuum from a NAND gate to strong AI.
> I'm sorry. Did I mention my grandmother is 96? Ninety-six?

HN forgets that not everyone has coastal tech money a lot.
Wouldn't be surprised if a few have dabbled in cryptocurrencies in arms length relationship with investment partners while governments blame the technology for lawlessness. That's often how these things work.
> People aren't "driven to piracy". Piracy's a conscious decision to take what they want without paying for it.

Do you believe in psychological studies? Dark UI patterns?

Denying these things doesn't make it less true. People take the lowest effort route to the end goal.
Robot hired by store to help out customers gets fired for scaring them away
Disney is pulling/will pull out a lot of stuff from Netflix[1] and will also start its own streaming service[2]... and Netflix' catalog had already shrunk a lot before that news[3].

1.https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/08/disney-will-pull-its-movies-...

2. https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/tv/disney-start-own-stre...

3. http://www.businessinsider.com/netflix-catalog-size-shrinks-...
This is a great focusing question.

There was a study a Few years about about which cities and suburbs could be built under their current zoning laws. I remember it showing that Somerville—a dense collection of 3-decker houses near Boston—was completely impossible to build under its current laws. I don’t have the link handy, but happy googling.
.. causing rapid plastic deformation.
The same isn't so true for China. While they have HSR inter-city down, they don't have the same developed smaller branch lines that Japan does.
Complaining about downvotes is never cool.
On the other hand I could see people enjoying having a competent and motivated boss.
Not true - another way to return money to shareholders is to buy back their own stock. https://www.bloomberg.com/quicktake/buybacks-dividends
Sorry, but no. That's very much NOT how you want to think about security. And because that's how most executives, technical leaders and managers think, we ended up in this shit storm in the first place.

Given how integrated is IT with everybodie's financial information, and now with the Internet of Things with automatic devices that have real effects in the physical world, you must enable secure defaults for everything. Only on devices whose purpose is 100% entertainment, like smart TVs (and then, you cannot trust that assumption either because everything is connected to everything, but I digress) you may set unsecure defaults.

What we need is a secure default, and a way to enable usafe features, on a per process basis if possible. That way, you can delegate the decision of what level of security is required for the application developers. Other than that, you need to educate the public to pick Safe!Device vs Fast!Device, which goes very much against the common wisdom dujour.
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The old and the poor are increasingly left out of public transport.

The city where I used to live removed the bus routes from the poorest parts of the city and opened up new routes to the richest part. Buses on the new routes were almost always empty...rich people own cars, you see.

The city where I currently reside simply shut down their entire bus operation instead of jerking around poor people.
Also the Yamanote line (circles inside Tokyo, goes thru Shinjuku and all other major wards) stops at each stop once every ~3 minutes during the day. It is incredible.
There's a few way to slice the data.

China greenhouse gas emissions per capita are less than half the USA's.[1]

1. https://wri.org/blog/2014/11/6-graphs-explain-world%E2%80%99...
I feel you are reading too much infowars. If anything, China is using biotech to save and extend lifes not terminating them. Why would you assume something like that by default?
I agree with you that purposeful gene editing ought to be better than random evolution at the individual level.

However, grand parent raises a good point about reduced diversity, which is bad at the species level. There is really no way to guard against this because:

1. Even though diversity is good at the species level to safeguard against future disaster, everyone will race to have the same set of (currently) desirable traits. Framed another way, since human genetic diversity is a public goods, few people will help maintain it at the cost of their own benefit

2. While we could theoretically understand the genome in full, I'd argue it's impossible to foresee all the potential disasters that can wipe out a genetically homogeneous humankind.
Eh, I'm fine with it. Beats the fuck out of old-school eugenics. Offers the chance to cure disease, improve humanity and generally make the world a better place. It comes at a steep cost.

I think it's obvious what predisposes humans for success -- intelligence and good lucks, for starters.
I used bus and car interchangeably there as per the link the top speed of the fastest rapid transit was 80 miles per hour. Even a school bus has a 70mph top speed.

Of course, I'm aware that things are much faster (literally) outside the US, but the OP was referencing the US.
The main effect is that your API guys can now suffer from the same framework burnout that front-end devs endure.
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> I'm gonna just be honest here and say that I don't really know the difference between "microservices" and "service-oriented architecture" except for the notion that "microservices" implies breaking up your services before they get too big and hairy, which kind of seems obvious.

The impression I get - and this could be totally wrong - is that the difference is how the services relate to each other.

In this post's example, 5 of the 6 microservices look like something that would be exposed to the user in some way. I would call this a microservice architecture; they're networked together in a way where no one thing orchestrates the others. They likely all touch the same data storage, but the overall structure is mostly flat.

In a service-oriented architecture, there'd be a tree-like or graph-like hierarchy. To an end user, it would look monolithic, but the monolith would, behind the scenes, delegate to the "user-facing" services such as Upload and Download. Upload and Download would then use the Transcode service as appropriate. But the important part is that this would all be one way: Transcode isn't allowed to contact Upload or Download, just return the result to whatever called it.
Seems fairly impressive that nobody was killed.

Will this turn out to be another "brightly lit sky" autopilot bug, like the 2016 semi truck incident?

https://www.tesla.com/blog/tragic-loss "Neither Autopilot nor the driver noticed the white side of the tractor trailer against a brightly lit sky, so the brake was not applied"
Hi, I'm Max, one of the two people who gave the talk this post references. I work in Google Cloud and help publish papers about how we have done BeyondCorp. Ask me questions!
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> A thing cannot be isomorphic.

It seems like it's pretty common to refer to something as Isomorphic X if it's an instance or implementation of X which relies heavily on the concept Isomorphism. For example, in homomorphic encryption the homomorphism is really describing the relationship between the encrypted text and the clear text. Not the encryption itself, so really a pedantically correct name would be "encryption in which the clear text and encrypted text are homomorphic with respect to certain operations" but "homomorphic encryption" serves as shorthand for that.

> Second, and more importantly, the client and the server do not share an isomorphism under this paradigm. An isomorphism describes two objects which have a mapping between them such that, for all intents and purposes, they are equivalent. “Equivalence” is a specific mathematical term distinct from equality: 5 and 7 are not equal, but under a function that outputs the same number for all odd inputs, 5 and 7 are equivalent.

I disagree that they don't share an isomorphism and also disagree with your terms here. The standard definitions of isomorphism, at least the ones I found, do not seem to use the notion of equivalence, I'd be interested to see a link to one that does. Furthermore "equivalence" by itself isn't a specific mathematical term, again I'd be interested to see a link its definition but neither Mathworld or Wikipedia seem to have definitions. Equivalence Relation is defined but there are other uses of equivalence in math.

> More precisely, you cannot tell two objects apart using only their properties

Yes, and this seems to apply very well to the Client and Server because you can't tell them apart by running Go code on them since they both will give you the same answer. You can tell them apart by doing other things to them, but that's true of all isomorphisms. For example the groups ({0}, +) and ({1}, *). (0 under addition and 1 under multiplication.) Are clearly isomorphic since they're both just a group with their identity element. But you can also obviously tell them apart in other ways.
There will be shift and assistant managers between a cashier and the store manager, I'd assume.
Counter point is that Google, like Intel, puts profits ahead of doing the right thing, selling out its users to advertisers with virtual impunity because those same users are addicted to the "free" stuff that Google gives them. So maybe we need more prominent people like Torvalds calling bullshit on them too. Finally we are starting to get such voices re Facebook, but even those not as honest as Torvalds.

See the bashcoder thread for a more hardnose analysis of this article, Torvalds and Intel: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16202539
Tensorflow's eager execution might challenge Pytorch. I for one love the imperative style of Pytorch but I also realize the advantages of pre-computed graph style of TF, especially when it comes to distribution. Interesting times!
Linked in the article from the grandparent post as well:

https://forum.officer.com/forum/local-discussion-groups/u-s-...

These have been a thing for years, are so readily knocked off as to be irrelevant, and make many officers angry.

For a while the 11-99 "get out of jail" idea required you also pass your membership card under the license (like the NY cards listed) but I haven't heard of an officer even considering letting someone off because of 11-99 in a long time (sourced entirely from the other side - spending a lot of time at car meets and on auto forums).
More consumers are actually affected by this than have been affected by the repeal of Net Neutrality. Maybe it is time to have streaming neutrality rules?
So talking specifically about the poor, I mean nursing homes. Good retirement homes have waiting lists years long and cost a pretty penny.
Maybe they could take some ideas from the rail industry, which have been dealing with this issue for quite some time now.

Engineers are required to to make some kind of input to verify that they're still alert, or the train stops[1] if they haven't done anything in X seconds.

Obviously you wouldn't want the car to just stop in the middle of the road, but there could be something like that designed.

[1] https://www.quora.com/If-a-train-driver-falls-asleep-what-ha...
You explain yourself why these tariffs aren't that big of a deal in the long term.

>"electrical energy will become dramatically cheaper starting in the mid-2020s, at least for diurnal uses. Consequently, the prices of goods produced by energy-intensive industries, such as aluminum and solar panels, will begin to drop precipitously, and new energy-intensive industries will become economically feasible, opening up vast new areas of the economy."

Not only will the tariffs halve in four years, photovoltaic prices will substantially drop in parallel. Better to give US manufacturers a chance to reach the promised land of solar you're predicting than allow them to crumble now.