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> Spanner is consistent, available and partition tolerant due to the extremely precise clock synchronization...

This is nonsensical; even in a universe without relativity and with instantaneous communication--an unrealistic world where being able to talk about synchronized clocks can even make sense (as otherwise you fundamentally must deal with an inability to decide the order of two events due to latency)--you still cause indeterminate simultaneity by introducing a partition: your perfectly accurate and infinitely precise timestamps on one side of the partition would no longer be comparable with timestamps on the other side of the partition for purposes of establishing causality between events, as the recent changes being made on one side of the partition "should have" taken place between any older changes on the other side and any transactions being performed right now, and yet they couldn't because they were unknown. Spammer either gives up availability (waiting to verify what happened) or consistency (accepting that it will have to fix the result later) when a partition occurs: they can't do both, fundamentally; the only extent to which there is an engineering challenge here is "maybe you can minimize the number of partitions you have", which I totally believe Google to have done; but, given a partition (which cannot be fully prevented), the tradeoff is clear and unavoidable.
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Covered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17506044
I'm curious, could you use a 307 redirect to redirect the user agent to a signed upload URL?
It is a very rational argument people want to copy what Big boys are doing often fairly rationally as they want that stuff on the resume. I've seen countless projects using "BIG data" tools for dealing with 100GB or less of data that has very modest grows rate.
Sure but you reduce the search space considerably anyway.
Southern Reach Trilogy. On the last book. All three very well written.
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I’m not sure, but for what it’s worth, I’ve got “Automatically adjust brightness” unchecked in System Preferences. So either it’s just ignoring that option, or it’s using some secondary light sensor.
I used to believe this. I even created a recommendation algorithm / company that got acquired some years ago. I'm less sure today. Just as I do not think that high frequency trading firms are really providing value to society, I neither think that squeezing out a little bit more of a recommendation provides all that much more value either. We watch enough TV, and the best music wasn't brought to me via algorithm. I never would have discovered Emancipator via algorithm, I was too stuck in my own music bubble. Human interaction and human recommendation is nicer. I still listen to the recommended lists, but they rarely compete with simply hanging out with cool friends and seeing what they're listening to.
How has your experience with that been? My MBP (early 2011) won't be supported by MacOS Mojave, so I'm anticipating a similar patch.

I may end up staying with High Sierra, but I'd really like to try out the dark mode
It is not easy now but you can plan for upgrade of PC and then do it successfully. E.g. If you bought AM4 platform in 2017 you would be able to upgrade. If you bought AM3 platform in Phenom era you could upgrade to vishera/zambezi.

You can upgrade your storage independently, you can upgrade you GPU out of step from other components, you can upgrade GPU more often than CPU without compromising too much. And so on. You can for example keep your soundcard since 10 years ago with some fiddling with drivers. One of my SSDs is 6 years old and while not ideal case it is still much faster than modern HDD and I use it constantly.

What you also mention - case and PSU - those alone cost ~100-200$ each, so worthy saving for upgrade. My seasonic PSU will work for a decade at least, or more.

It is not easy, yes. But possible.
Where did you quote this from?
OTOH $699 sounds like a reasonable price for a GPU in that class? You're just trading an internal interface for an external one.
I found 59 Seconds: Think a little, change a lot by Richard Wiseman to be a good contribution to the genre, if you're looking for more.
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Actually wide tables for example can't be done at all.

And technically we can use Microsoft Excel as a photo editor. But that's just ridiculous. Just like it's ridiculous to say you can use relational models for any data structure even if the queries will never return.
I read a bunch this year but Pandora's Lab is the most mind-boggling shit one should read.

My list resides here: https://saru.science/readinglist/
That would be good. At the moment, I can autoscale CI builders that run on Linux on EC2 with a moment's notice at cloud scale.

I don't like having to run, maintain, and rack physical Macs to do the same for iOS/MacOS projects. It's a pain.

I was unaware of the BuddyBuild acquisition! I hope that helps in the future.
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I also really enjoyed Traction. It provides a good framework on testing to identify the channel that provides the results needed at the stage your business is at. It also goes drives home the concept that the channel that gets you to one stage of growth might not be the one that gets you to the next stage.
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That's not a choice. To make a choice you need to be aware of alternatives. You use NOSQL because it was easy to achieve your goal.
> 1: Hero With A Thousand Faces

Unusual. The first time, I - happily - see someone on HN mentioning Joseph Campbell and this book.

As a following up lecture, I'd recommend: The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/242530.The_Hero_s_Journe...
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>Enlightenment Now by Stephen Pinker

Just started reading it after having finished another one of Mr. Gates' favorite -- Factfulness, by Hans Rosling -- which, btw, he's distributing at no cost to college students in the United States. [0]

Insofar, I could observe Enlightenment Now to be a book that ties the loose ends of all of Mr. Pinker's previous works -- The Better Angels of our Nature, The Blank Slate etc. Would definitely recommend checking them out before starting with this to get an idea of the intellectual depth of the man.

[0] http://time.com/money/5303143/bill-gates-free-book-graduates...
http://barefeats.com/ which in the Apple community is known for graphics testing of Apple products and other solutions has done a lot of work with external GPU enclosures.

One vendor (Sonnet) [1] has a 580 solution at 499. B&H has the no GPU unit at 299. So there are options.

[1]https://www.sonnetstore.com/collections/egpu-expansion-syste...
I have a Vishera CPU and it is definitely NOT obsolete. If anything it ages much better that Intels due to better multicore support in modern apps.
"Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to Master Our Greatest Opponent", by Ryan Holiday.

I really enjoyed this one and I will read it again. IMHO, it helped me understand people better and especially myself. It changed a lot of my own perspectives and opened my eyes in at least 2 areas of my own life.

Behaviour, intentions, humility, self-esteem, focus on right things and don't let other opinions (about you or your work) mess with your mind.

I read this last year. Since then, many different daily situations reminded me in some way to topics discussed in the book. I will also gift this book to others (if I feel someone is open for these kind of topics).

- Good Reads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27036528-ego-is-the-enem...
I think I misunderstood that yes.

https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public-publication-....

TLDR: It's technically CP, but google claims partitions are so rare people can assume it's CA as well (99.999% available).

I assumed TrueTime bypassed the CAP theorem, but apparently that's marketing bs. It's to ensure something called external consistency, which is important if you want to take consistent snapshots over a distributed system.
Technically true, but with RAID5, you still only get one drive's worth of redundancy, no matter how many drives are in the array.
I wish I know how to cut these shapes out of regular square tiles in large quantities. I would love to have Penrose tiling on other exotic patterns in my bathroom.
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So it's okay for developers to build their own database for their specific use case. But it's not okay for developers to use a database for their specific use case.

Makes sense.
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http://patronvpn.com
If anything the draft brought the war to a close sooner. Once kids of upper and middle class parents started getting drafted and killed they started putting pressure on the government to end the war.

Now that American wars are mostly being fought by volunteers from classes without political power they can drag on for decades and most Americans barely even think about them anymore.
Here's Jeff Atwood's 'Recommended Reading for Developers': https://blog.codinghorror.com/recommended-reading-for-develo...

From the header:

> This list was last updated in March 2015.

> Why are updates to my reading list so rare? Because computers change a lot in 10 years, but people don't.

> To make better software, you need to understand how people work, and that is what the books I recommend tend to focus on.
Peter F. Hamilton, "Commonwealth Saga" and "Void Trilogy". Among the best Sci-Fi I've ever read.
I suppose I could give my summer reading list:

The History of the Peloponessian War - Thucydides.

On book 3 right now, it's some of the most profound political strategy and philosophy I've ever read. It really helps if you read Herodotus' Histories before hand, to give context on the Persian War, and how what we now call Greece ended up in this mess. It's extremely illustrative, and if you've read it, the rise of populism after 70 years of American hegemony should be absolutely no surprise (it looks a lot like Athens).

The Gulag Archipelago - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Another book that is very important today, as socialism/communism is on the rise in parts of the western world. It's an exploration of what happens when social trust breaks down in a society, as it did after the Bolshevik Revolution. Is the US at that point? No. Does it have the potential to get there, with a few elections of more radical types and further breakdown of the social fabric? Absolutely.
I, too, have been wondering that. On a high level, a linker does these things:

- Read in objects file and parse linking information (needed symbols etc)

- Do some in-memory calculations - resolving symbols and some other stuff. Simple graph theory. Is there any need for more than O(n log n) runtime?.

- Write out object files

I don't think anything should take so long. No caching needed. I read the series on linkers by gold's author, where significant speedups were claimed. And also, that object-oriented C++ was the right approach to software architecture. I strongly disagree with that second point and didn't understand too much from the article series to be honest. So I am not surprised at all that there are today even much faster linkers.
The audio version of Principles in much better, imo.
Except none of these comments take into account the fact that actually no one verifies apt package signatures either, and this fairy tale world where all of this is a solved problem in some other domain is not manifest.

https://blog.packagecloud.io/eng/2018/02/21/attacks-against-...

The reason that package signing never really matters that much is that once you boil the thrat model down to package publish credentials are compromised or package repository infrastructure is compromised, the form of credentials involved is of little consequence to the prior and uninvolved in the latter. The threat is against the client, not intermediates.

The original developer here reused credentials. There is nothing in signing that protects from this attitude. This attitude is the one that also reuses credentials for signing keys, if encrypting them at all - I'd bet this user has numerous stale ssh keys and never encrypted any of the secrets. Some of the top eslint contributors have multiple short rsa keys on their GitHub. None of them have modern keys.

There are more effective places to invest to better protect users. Auditing infrastructure for example.
Blake is indeed great summer reading - a retreat from the rational mind. In that vein, my two summer picks are A.R. Ammons' "Still" and the fragments of Friedrich Holderlin translated by Michael Hoffman.
> We watch enough TV

Agreed, which makes better curation all the more important - if there was enough time to watch more than a tiny fraction of what's out there then recommendation would matter less.

> I still listen to the recommended lists, but they rarely compete with simply hanging out with cool friends and seeing what they're listening to.

Doesn't that very fact prove that there's plenty of room for improvement in recommended lists?
To me “large scale feature engineering” is precisely the kind of problem SQL excel at.

Is it something that makesme grab for SQL it is the need to do adhoc querying exploring data.

Care to elaborate?
Rural areas often have local thift stores with massive VHS collections. You can buy a tape for, usually, a $1, keep it as long as you want and donate it back if you decide you don't want it taking up space any more.
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"Why liberalism failed" by Patrick Deneen (listen to the latest econ talk for background: http://www.econtalk.org/patrick-deneen-on-why-liberalism-fai.... )
It sounds to me they want people to learn about deep learning and tensorflow. In the long term there will be more professionals and the salaries will go down. That is how they will make profit from this type of thing.
it cost me roughly $600 to build diy egpu. happy to see this finally hit the mainstream.
Microsoft Edge doesn't support them.
The GDPR consent screen for this is scary. They want to share your data with around 200 different "partners".
I have so many problems with this it's hard to articulate.
from pithy "1984 called and they want you to make home televisions"
to scary "micromanaging your employee's to a soul destroying level"

This is like reading an advert for a dystopian corporate overlord future.

i look forward to the report that manages each individuals productivity to the point that when it goes below a certain level you just replace them like a worn cog.

But sure, you do you!
You've described the exact approach I've used for my B2B SaaS.

Initially we had a web server (two actually, to achieve zero-downtime deploys) and a database.

A few months later, we introduced Redis for caching. This was much earlier than I expected we'd need to - these days as soon as a web app gets traction, it starts attracting scammers, spammers, and manipulators who put unexpected load on your system.

Just this week, we've finally added a worker server to run long running tasks. Until this week, Java's brilliant Executors were handling this for us in a background thread.

A Java uberjar, deployed to AWS's Elastic Beanstalk, is an approach I'd highly recommend for anyone wanting to get version 1 of their web app deployed.
I feel like "mutation testing" is somewhat of a misnomer, since it sounds like it's a form of testing and is e.g. complimentary to or a replacement for unit testing. Rather, it's a measure of code coverage by your test suite.

As such, it's mostly useful when you've exhausted other, easier methods of finding parts of your code you forgot to test, such as regular line, branch, etc. coverage. I think there's few projects for which that's the case, and that that more than anything "hindered" the adoption of mutation testing.
Could you compare Malone Dies with Joseph Heller's Something Happened?
Factfulness

I couldn't recommend this book enough.
That specific dev was completely banned from kernel development four years ago (two years later): https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/2/420.
I don't know the persons involved and how much they contributed, but I'm wary of the implied cause.
That’s what he said :-) (first google scraper = scraper used in original google implementation)
Readline bindings, emacs mode.

Despite (mostly) using vim as an editor, it's got to be emacs on the shell itself.
They're not forcing anything. You want an upgradeable laptop? Buy one. I'm sorry the fact that a lot of people like thin and light designs is to painful to you, but those people do have a choice.
To be honest, I fail to see what I could use your product for so I'm out of the target audience.

Assuming nosql is for something very efficient or very scalable, I need some space to use it before I have to shell $$. There are many products where I have to pay before going on production.
I make more than that, live in a high COL area in CA, have a family of four, live relatively modestly, and still live paycheck to paycheck.
I'd also recommend his Mythos series. And his "Power of Myth" interview with Bill Moyers, which should be required viewing in every highschool.
There's increasing pressure to fix that too. Norway has introduced gender neutral draft two years ago.
Thanks for taking the time to write all this. You are courageous, people often look elsewere when there are abuses.
The first goal is to make contribution easy, but I can't find any documentation on how to do this.

A public GitLab instance where everyone could submit pull requests would be really cool (or just host it on GitHub).
Daemon was a good story and so was another by him, "Kill Decision", which is about autonomous killing drone warfare.
Thus also shell/generic readline shortcuts.
Thanks. I think we meant the same, and it's rather a question where your argumentation's starting point is set, because Wikipedia concurs, that DNA damage is caused by decreasing repair or apoptosis.

Anyway, I think this is where some lifestyle fads can become interesting. Sure, there are definitely some aspects to aging that are unaffected by this, but I think better chances of reaching current max human age are in our hands somewhat. Balancing IGF1 and frequently giving the body a break to repair, kill, and remove trash, are sound targets IMHO. So for me that is: restriction of certein makros, in particular animal proteins and refined carbs, early and midlife to lower IGF1 (raising it seems beneficial in old people); short term fasting every now and then. Both have shown to increase apoptosis and repair. It's not even hard to do, if you stick to a blue zone typical diet (plantbased diets are associated with double digit reduction in overall cancer risk, which is huge considering lifetime death by cancer risk is 1/5) and have a daily fasting window of 13+ h (eg. Shown to reduce reoccurrence of breast cancer). I focused on cancer here, because intuitively it seems like a good marker for DNA maintenance.
I pity the poor fool who tries to point a laser at my eye.
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I do this as well. Mostly I want a record of what was discussed because how will I remember otherwise.
What he's trying to do is not conveyed in example code.

That said, he gives plenty of examples.
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> especially with some of the premium brands

I'd venture to guess it's only with the premium brands, and only when buying new (or maybe used-certified) and only with a model with terrible fuel economy.

7 years would be, for the average American, 100k miles. (Assuming that $90k Tesla costs nothing at all to operate...) Even at a generous 35 cents a mile for fuel and maintenance, that leaves $55k for purchase cost, and that may not be exclusively premium-only "make" territory, but at a make like Honda, that's going to be a fancier model.

Take that per mile cost difference down to a more realistic 20 cents ($3.60/G, 30mpg, independent shop for maintenance, no tires or suspension since electric cars need those, too), and now it's $70k, well within premium brand territory.

Residual value of the Tesla is likely to be better, but if it was financed, that cost would be higher, too. I'm not sure how to estimate that.
>Which you have to scroll past pages of manifesto to find

Well, you are also free to skip the language altogether.
You should read this essay then:
http://pinyin.info/readings/texts/moser.html
This book was such a pleasure to read. It's an excellent summer read recommendation.
You can unmount it from OS X.
Why would you want run-time code generation for things that you can also generate at compile time? A linker is there to link, not to compile.

One of the big problems with templates is that you're not required to instantiate them explicitly. So you end up with lots of duplicate instantiations. Maybe try doing it explicitly, always - have a well defined place where the template is instantiated. You can also put the compiled code in a library, I think. (There seems to be an extern template feature since C++11).

Anyways, templates are a mess...
As a simple alternative if you have a trackpad, the mission control gesture is an easy way to see where you are and then select a new desktop if desired.
So the crowd forbid to name Karl Marx here of what?
+1 for Ready Player One - really enjoyed it.
>> THALER: So my toast began by saying that my fellow winners had discovered things like gravitational waves, and circadian rhythms. And I discovered the existence of humans in the economy.

Funny quote. It's a testament to how complex things are and how far people go to simplify them.
Books on the north would be good for me. Anything economies or about business there. Very happy to read anything you recommend about life in general there.
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Judea Pearl's The Book of Why.

Basically Pearl argues that classical statistics completely ignored the concept of causality so far and introduces a complete framework to bring causal inference into statistical/data analysis. The framework is based on graphs and asks for causal hypotheses (like econometricians would do with instrumental variables) and allows to compute/quantify causal effects.

Anyone working with data should probably read this book. The fact that Pearl brought in a professional math/science writer as co-author is a huge boost to the main ideas accessibility and make for a nice albeit deep summer read.
> It is a tragedy, but I cannot imagine a language better than Spiral. Not within real world constraints facing me. A language better than it would pretty much have to be magic.

> So, in this respect, my programming skill has reached it's limit and the most I will be able to do is refine it.

> And it is embarrassing to me because I want to do better. I am ashamed, but the one to come will have to follow up on what I could not manage with my meager human abilities.

This reminds me of the fictional inspirational process of dwarves in the Drizzt Do'Urden series of books [0] by R. A. Salvatore [1]. In that setting a dwarf craftsman gets only one moment of exceptional divine inspiration in his life to forge a legendary artifact. It is both a blessing and curse for them, because they realize that they will never be able to surpass that work for the remainder of their long lives.

I wonder if other people here have had that moment in their life as well?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Icewind_Dale_Trilogy

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._A._Salvatore
Unlike the https://xefer.com/2008/03/interrocolon which actually would be useful
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