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Nice home page :)

Whats the difference between "co-living" vs "roommates"? Not trying to be snarky, I got this feedback when I had the page open.

If its for makers, are things like tool shops important to highlight? Or are digital makers included?

I would have liked to browse the co-living profiles, just to see where you have options. All of the calls-to-action involve applying of giving up some info.
I fail to understand why there is no quick and official way to terminate such bad actors. Isn’t there a task force for monitoring and enforcing some rules? There should be a SPoC for every AS, available 24/7 so that such notorious players are kicked out immediately. We live in an age where everything can be traced and monitored and we allow BGP hijacking and other similar acts. Oh well, my romantic idea for a properly moderated network.
The guaranteed human and economic benefits of wiping out mosquitoes, far outweigh any theoretical downside.

I like how you just state that, like it doesn't even matter what the downside was. What if bird populations crashed and a pestilence set upon crops worldwide, and caused mass starvation & millions dead- kind of exactly like what happened during the Great Leap Forward?

I'm not saying that would happen, but we can't just say "lots of people die of malaria, so don't even worry about the downside"
I've heard of even Unicorns throwing consistency out the window. Apparently Netflix has a bunch of "cleanup jobs" that comb the database for various inconsistencies that inevitably show up.

You can't have consistent microservices without distributed transactions. If a service gets called, and inside that call, it calls 3 others, you need to have a roll back mechanism that handles any of them failing in any order.

If you write to the first service and the second two fail, you need to write a second "undo" call to keep consistent.

Worse, this "undo state" needs to be kept transactionally consistent in case it's your service that dies after the first call.

In reality, nobody does this, so they're always one service crash away from the whole system corrupting the hell out of itself. Since the state is distributed, good luck making everything right again.

Microservices are insane. Nobody that knows database concepts well should go near them
This increase in lifespan is relatively recent in evolutionary history too so it can't involve too many genes, but yes it appears likely that the low hanging fruit may have been picked already by evolution.

On the positive side we live a lot less than animals like the bowhead whale or the Greenland shark. There is a lot (in theory) that can be done.
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Only thing is, for any given real world tension between dual paradigms, it's arbitrary which one you label as old or new. At this point, the oscillation has been going on longer than anyone has been in the field.
Shares and similar tokens don't work like that on the secondary markets like stock and token exchanges. One person clicks sell and another buy and very seldom does anyone worry too much legally about the reason why, insider trading being the occasional exception.

Issuing shares from scratch is different and there you can get done for fraud.
Save time at diary automating recurring tasks
Facebook handed maximum fine for data breach
This particular cognitive bias is formally known as the ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identifiable_victim_effect
This isn't unique to Linux.

Most people would read "Apple App Store Found to Contain Malware" as "Apple Devices Found to Contain Malware" too.
It seems like splitting off small repos for everything is a solution looking for a problem. Some of the most successful software companies out there have monolithic repos, but not monolithic services.

The real solution is microservices in monorepos.
More like a common misconception. If shares were distributed broadly, Friedman's view might make sense, and perhaps he was assuming that overall, it is. But stock ownership is not broad, it is exceedingly narrow---a tiny fraction of the population holds a wildly disproportionate share. So if corporations, which impact virtually everyone's lives, truly owe a duty only to their shareholders, it would be deeply autocratic. Friedman is simply wrong: all corporations are chartered by government, and consequently have a duty to promote the general welfare, above and beyond their duty to enrich their shareholders.
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I don't think you reverted to a monolith. I think you built a singular service with more cohesion than when it was split into 140 repos. And it sounds like the split wasn't because of the microservices architecture but because you didn't have a good solution for the queue problem.
The function of every decision and every input into a decision is to make predictions. The value of everything anything does is a judged by how well it serves a purpose of some kind to someone.

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Outside of Occam's razor and (measurable) knock-on effects, it's impossible to judge in any meaningful way.
I mean, this is the nature of hype, including scientific paradigms, fast fashion, music tastes. But this narrative obscures underlying causes and basically assumes the underlying cause is human love of hype. However, this isn’t a 2d circle as you imply, but a 3d spiral: you do learn over time. You can see which patterns apply to which problems. There’s a tendancy in these narratives to bemoan the individual that represents culture, but the real pain is that you’re watching people learn things you already learned, and there’s this irrational reaction where you think “i learned this already; so should have they.”

But none of this implies that we are losing knowledge, just that the curve of engineers is fatter at the inexperienced level.
My safety and freedom aren't guaranteed, they are rewarded by me working in a lucrative job. If I wasn't fortunate to have the career I do there would be no safety or freedom. I'll agree it's easier to be critical of the US in the US as opposed to being critical of China in China but that's not the only thing that matters if you're talking about authoritarianism and human rights abuses.
Putting machine learning into the hands of every advertiser
You make a good point. I am trying to explain old wired vs. new wired. Old wired was really trying to do something- connect people, unleash potential, whatever something they gave a damn. New wired is trying to sell more to the dwindling audience created by old wired.

They may be just as smart, but wired’s old dumb stories (“The Future is Push”) were at least earnest.
You are being down voted because on the surface your argument seems unreasonable.

But in a way you could be correct that the remaining mosquitos have an innate immunity against mating with the sterile mosquitos. Just speculating but it is possible that some mosquitos are able to detect a sterile mosquito by the pheromones, or lack of them, that they produce (or through some other hidden mechanism that we don't know).

It is not impossible. All sexual organisms are choosy to some degree when it comes to mating. Otherwise the male would not have to court a female. More tests are needed, I say.
You don't really need jQuery anymore, due to the browser APIs being far more mutually compatible and useful than a decade ago. So really it would be more like React vs vanilla JS. There's definitely a place for vanilla, when you just need minor dynamism on an otherwise basic UI.
> or is the USA less strict about hiring into sensitive industries.

No. On the contrary you need various kinds of security clearances to work in sensitive fields.
I totally disagree that Google's success is due to 'thinking small' their success is because they understand that to boil a frog you have to increase the temperature slowly: first build a useful service without ads (which were really painful with slow modems) then when you have 'killed' all your competitors start adding a few ads then increase the number of ads..
The USPS does get to require that things are properly labeled and items which are /hazardous/ (such as highly flammable/reactive/etc materials) might require non-generic transport (which is that USPS is supposed to provide).

Are you proposing that EM emissions controlled entirely by the transporting party might spontaneously explode based on the content of the data as transcribed by those automated systems?
If you only train one fingerprint at a time, most people can rotate up to nine times. It's a bit inconvenient, though. :)
I'm not blaming the corporations. I'm blaming those who vote with their dollars/<other currency> to further the construction of the walled garden.
Repeat after me: there is no such thing as a synchronous network.

I get where you are coming from. But you will go async sooner or later if you need any reasonable error recovery or reliability.

The only question is how much pain you will suffer before you do so.
Well traditionally tech companies leave open gaps for the average Joe to do the law breaking themselves. If the concept of Taiwan is illegal then it would be a add-on available from other sources. Given how closed source and how rudimentary text input is to an OS I do not know how feasible this is for an IPhone.
Not on site, no, renting them from some big provider. The advantages are huge: if the magic smoke gets released getting a replacement on line is Someone Else's (TM) problem. If you find you need to grow, you release the one you rented into the pool and the provider will be able to rent it to the next schmuck. EC2 bare metal is very expensive. In general, I am very cloud skeptic. I found the bare metal being a much better price/value for almost all websites. People are writing these complex apps that scale across database clusters and I am like... YAGNI. One database server (or a two for a hot spare) and maybe separate few web frontends is almost always enough.
Having watched the video, I can place components significantly faster with tweezers and an Optivisor. If you really must populate a batch of SMD boards by hand, the best option is a Hakko 392 and a sensibly laid-out board for your cut tape.

The Liteplacer doesn't seem like great value for money IMO - for a bit more money, you could have a small used industrial machine with a decent set of feeders.
It's easy to deploy to the cloud and right now we're doing that on a customer-by-customer basis. As we grow I could see turning it into a formal SaaS offering or finding a partner to do so.
Well I never heard of them before, but they were mentioned in numerous news stories.
Is it just me, or does anyone else find the documentation of AWS and related services nearly incomprehensible? Maybe it's just too 'enterprise-y' and I haven't spent enough time in that environment, but it feels like all the information is squirreled away in 10,000 different pages and that I'd have to read all of it to just get the basics.

Also, does anyone know if there is an API for AWS to dynamically create, load, and launch EC2 and/or Lambda instances (i.e., boto - though I'm open to suggestions for something else) AND, preferably, have separate billing for each thing? Do I need multiple accounts to do separate billing? Something about IAM roles...?
If only Australia's CSIRO still had enough funding to do this kind of work itself rather than 'partner with' (i.e. contribute public funding towards the private investment goals of) for-profit companies.

Amongst CSIRO's earlier inventions are 1960s insect repelent 'Aerogard', polymer banknotes and major components of Wi-Fi as we know it.
That's not what I recall. Having a quick reskim, I don't believe they can handle the shared mutability in `F(S(X), X)`, so would end up duplicating the work to generate the elements of `X`. This problem looks unavoidable to me; if you are computing `f(x[n], x[2*n])` you need both points in memory simultaneously.
Not necessarily SaaS, but we've been planning to roll out ready-to-go AWS Community Edition images so you could just provision a VM, upload the license via the web UI, and start using it.
The chip looks a lot like the NEO CPU of Rex Computing.
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An article or maybe comment on HN the other day where serverless is hyperbolic hit the nail on the head.

The OP at the time suggest serverless should instead be re-branded Function as a Service which is a considerable improvement.
How do tapes like this get lost in the first place? I mean, if you were a startup funding this mission, and your CTO said, “Oops! I totally lost all that data from our multibillion dollar mission!” wouldn’t you fire them immediately?
> Imagine dropping by for your weekly ultra-targeted radiation therapy to kill this week's tumors before going for lunch.

I suspect if we ever reach such a distant future, we'll consider most radiation therapy to be a very blunt and barbaric instrument (even if ultra-targeted) and use some kind of nanotechnology instead. Some engineered virus or bacterium or nanomachine that hunts down the carcinogenic cells.
Discovering history in the unlikeliest of places
You don't need to be an expert to write working software. You don't even need to be an expert to write good software - you do need to be knowledgeable in that field to write maintainable software, but even experts in the field often write bad software in the name of expedience.
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I don't think the devices to enable this will be available. Unless people plan on saving the devices that are in use now.
Because they were Klashinkakovs, a Russian design and not made by the American War Machine.
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I chose this example because, in practice, sometimes changing a single feature does ruin the prediction, especially in computer vision. Often, the systems are somewhat resilient to these kinds of errors, but often not also.

The fact that a computer can label an object missing many features does not imply that it cannot also make a mistake doing so. Like the Tesla that couldn't recognize a truck right in front of it.

Then there's Google's Deep Dream, which did silly things like think that all hammers had arms attached to them.

Then there's also this:
http://www.evolvingai.org/fooling

and many other examples like it. I chose a simple example that would be maximally relatable and still accurate even with respect to state of the art algorithms and datasets with billions of samples.
>> At least migrate some things from mobile, such as more cameras, touch, accelerometers, payment systems, etc. Why can't I pay online as easily on my laptop as I can on my phone? Where's the facial recognition logon?

That's a hodgepodge of things in your list. Some of those are hardware (cameras, touch, accelerometers).

You make it sound like there's a huge divide between paying with your laptop (which is site based, not app based) compared to a phone. I personally don't think it's that much of a big difference (I use 1Password to fill in credit card fields, which works fairly well). I actually prefer to buy and pay for stuff on a computer over a phone, but that's just my own preference.

As for the facial recognition logon, you can always use Windows Hello if you've got a supported camera (which, by the way, relatively few people have). That API is available to Windows developers and has been used in apps in the Windows store.
Places with endemic disease tend to have higher fertility rates. Mosquitoes aren't keeping the human population under control.

The ones most harmful to humans are also fairly specific about what species they bite:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anopheles#Preferred_sources_fo...
My argument is that it doesn't automatically make you a bad programmer either - you do need to be knowledgeable in that field to write maintainable software, but even experts in the field often write bad software in the name of expedience.
IP is fundamentally different from property as me know it.

Something is your property if you have exclusive control over it. Since IP is not exclusive (two people can have the same thought), it is not property.

Patents are the worse form of IP, since it is possible to accidentally infringe on them.

Copyright is almost as bad, especially at current timespans, and because it has such a chilling effect on the internet and other media.

Trademarks are essentially just defenses from fraud, so they aren't really IP.
> It’s easier to just press a button and have your application go to all of your servers based on a deployment group.

It's not so much about the deployment process itself (I agree with you that this can be easily automated), but rather about the deployment granularity. In a large system, your features (provided by either components or by independent microservices) usually have very different SLAs. For example, credit card transactions need to work 24x7, but generating the monthly account statement for these credit cards is not time-critical. Now suppose one of the changes in a less critical component requires a database migration which will take a minute. With separate microservices and databases, you could just pause that microservice. With one application and one database, all teams need to be aware of the highest SLA requirements when doing their respective deployments, and design for it. It is certainly doable, but requires a higher level of alignment between the development teams.

I agree with your remark about refactoring. In addition, when doing a refactoring in a microservice, you always need a migration strategy, because you can't switch all your microservices to the refactored version at once.
There is different social contract there: in Paris the "fraternite, egalite" means you cannot pay developers more than the other people around and high taxes are a second way to ensure this will not happen. This makes Paris a prime choice not to do development and in the end gives dramatically lower "market" rates.
Don't forget that "the best of the best" more to places like Silicon Valley where they earn top dollar, the ones that chose to stay in Paris are what is left behind and a few exceptions.
At least this is what it looks from an European point of view.
The cup example was to show that people are dumb enough to sue a cafe because they got burned by hot coffee. It's an example of overreaction. Instead of thinking "I ordered a hot coffee, maybe this cup is going to be hot and I should be careful", people think "I ordered a hot coffee and because the cafe gave it to me in a cup I am going to assume it's the cafe's responsibility to make sure I don't get burnt" When people get burned they react by finding scapegoats.
> But you probably can't imagine a world without relational databases. I know I can't.

Having worked on a couple projects that used Mongo at the core, I wish I could say the same.
Its a bit of a different paradigm. From a deployment perspective we are a few static binaries and we don't require that you fully understand your data prior to ingesting and operating on it. The storage system is a bit different too, in that it treats storage as a cost center (e.g. use expensive storage when you want speed and ageout and optimize when you need longevity. A short answer is that we are truly unstructured, and will handle a lot of data in its native form.

To your second question, our entire system is built around processing local, copying is a HUGE no no in the platform until you absolutely have to. We're VERY happy with the performance we're getting out of this sucker. That's one of the primary reasons we were dumb enough to start from scratch on the storage and search architecture. We're just glad it paid off.
Speaking of AWS, you may find our Kinesis stream integration useful: https://www.gravwell.io/blog/amazon-kinesis-streams-and-grav...
Does anyone know if a CVE number has been issued for these?
If that were true, then no one would file patents for 36 years, they'd just enjoy copyright protection or 150 years.
I have no real idea what a Surface is, other than the fact that it’s a Microsoft product. I have never seen one. Is it like an iPad? I don’t know for sure. Now certainly I can look it up and find out, but my point is that marketing copy should sell customers on the product and it’s features and advantages. This copy says it’s “the best Surface yet” and I’m sure millions of people don’t know what that means.
http://archive-srel.uga.edu/outreach/ecoviews/ecoview021118....
>Seventy years ago things like Fox News didn't exist.

There was also much more variety, but since then most of the newspapers and news networks have been bought up by a relatively small amount of companies. Clear Channel was allowed to own thousands of radio stations.

[0] http://www.businessinsider.com/these-6-corporations-control-...
Position yourself as the one who can do it right.

Companies with significant security or compliance concerns (payment processors; healthcare; password management; etc) and vaguely clueful leadership have a huge need for people who REALLY know systems and network security and can find their way around modern provisioning and deployment automation.

If the openings you want aren't listed, find a few companies you think need your level of expertise and look interesting, and pitch yourself directly to their VPs or Directors of engineering.
"Test Pilot", "Experiment" are not words I want to see when it comes to my login credentials.
I'm glad the story brought up the comparisons to the early days when exporting crypto was similarly restricted under munitions laws. That era was similarly full of calls to ban or regulate or backdoor encryption, saying that only terrorists or evildoers had need of such "military-grade encryption."

Putting aside the specifics of the gun control/rights question (if such a thing is possible), it's downright refreshing to see this guy's attitude. It's reminiscent of some of the earlier, more libertarian hacker ethos, of being focused on being able to do something and fighting hard against authority figures wanting (justifiably or no) to step in to suppress it. With the growth of the SV tech industry, it seems a lot of that fire has been stomped out.
SQL is declarative and functional. It's only a matter of time before it's the new hotness.
Tensorflow? Dude you're thinking of an old technology.

The new way to do it is not AI, but NI -- natural intelligence.

You take human babies, and you send them to schools and colleges where they learn programming.

Then you make them use daily mouse gestures and key presses to solve problems.

Its hard to explain, but it is the new leap forward.
But if Tim's work is so bad that you can prove it..... How can a boss dodge the proof? I guess Tim should be fired second, the boss should go first...
Pay a wage for passing the tests.
Look, for most websites renting less than a handful of dedicated boxes would be enough for all purposes -- dev, staging, production. Instead they rack up an astonishing cloud bill from Amazon. It's not hype. It's boring. But it goddamn works. Sometimes I feel I am the last warrior of the YAGNI tribe.
Everything is cyclical.
How can the red exclamation mark not bug you ?
No. The worst interests of MS today would be to build products around competing cloud platforms.
Toyota is not an American company.
Ban those people from doing that.

Now I'm curious if patent officers have ever been fired, sued, or prosecuted for profiting from the information in a rejected or granted patent.
Put my phone in a drawer on Sunday mornings and take it back out Monday morning.