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>>> nice prose of your <<<

Thank you, but my prose is far from being nice. You should see my boss with a red pen around my prose. :-)

>>>but the tiny blue ball thing is bullshit<<<

Carl Sagan has another take on the matter. :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p86BPM1GV8M

>>>Any plane on window seat will show you that the Earth is enormous and empty for most it's parts, even in China.

Don't think I advocate more cars and buildings. It's just that the tiny crowded ball argument is wrong, and dangerous, as it can be used to build a nasty antihumanism.<<<

I would argue that treating our resources as essentially endless because of the sheer size as compared to the individual fails to take into account that there are now 7 Billion people on this earth. Each and every one of them deserves a better life, they deserve to be able to have a luxurious bath, flush toilets with water, wash hands with water, eat processed foods which take a lot of water to make, wash their cars with water, drink pure water and at the end of the day consume around 315 litres of it. Of course, today not everyone lives like that except for wealthy countries (the statistic is based upon the US) but I think everyone wants a standard of life like that. If somehow, tomorrow 7 billion people started consuming water like that then we would drink up 2 205 000 000 000 litres of fresh water in a day, but the total possible water supply we can access (and this includes the glaciers) is only 3.5 × 10^19 litres...

That's quite an easy way to run out of water.

Now if you do the same with energy, with waste, with consumption and so on what you have is a ticking time bomb waiting to explode. The way we live today just can't last. I think that you can solve this problem using technology, but its roots lie deep in our societies.

What's frightening over here is that there is no way out for us. Unlike our ancestors we simply can't burn and move on. The earth is where we have to make our stand. I really think that it's important for people to start taking the gravity of the situation seriously. We need solutions, and we need them fast. Our time is running out.

I think that there is no greater form of humanism than realizing that all of these people need to be saved from such an horrible end and devoting your entire life to creating a better future.
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Another thing is that if everyone at a location has to be serviced by a person, then everyone currently not being served have to wait in line for their turn. They're not doing shadow work, but they're equally improductive.

Airport check-in machines are a fantastic thing because it speeds up the process. The airport can have ten times as many machines as desks, and that means your check-in will be about ten times faster. That's a lot of time saved that you can use for something else.

And you can still have service personnel and machines at the same time. I can check-in at the desk or through a machine. I can withdraw money by going inside the bank, or use the ATM outside. I can do the self-checkout in a store, or have it done by a cashier, and so on.
If you purposefully exploit known shortcomings of people, to their own disadvantage, there's something very wrong with you as well.
I find a bit disturbing that the Italian press never mentioned the story.
Anyway the 'ndrangheta explanation (cheap disposal of hospital waste) more credible than the international plot.
Setting aside the outlandish CONJECTURE which is the CONTENT of your post, the arbitrary SHOUTING does not aid your CREDIBILITY.
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Seems like at Google they tried to tackle this with free dinners, doing your washing, cleaning cars etc.
Even if the resources were enormous, exponential growth would still have to level off sooner or later.
I don't ever bother with screen savers, as I think they are a waste of cpu cycles - I just blank (turn off/standby) the monitor.

I was hoping that this was a deliberate move by Canonical to save energy.

However, I was a little puzzled to not find it there.
And the turkey buzzards from the Dark Crystal, wall street, the military, Wall Street, political parties, academia so ummm nearly everything. It is difficult for human groups to be open minded and self critical of their own belief systems.
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> Read the FAQ and tell me how a story about art/discovery/paradigm-shifting is OT...

Art, okay. But how is this paradigm shifting?

We already knew they have bodies below surface for at least a couple of decades. And a good deal of the statues are well above ground with their bodies. They're just called "Easter Island Heads" because their heads are often disproportionally large to their bodies. PARADIGM SHIFT!

If that's a paradigm shift to you, here, have some more! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions

Though, I do notice that "Easter Island Heads are in fact not merely heads" is not among them. Maybe I should edit that, given the popularity of this story among what are supposed to be a community of knowledgeable and intelligent people :)

Finally, you say it's a story about "discovery". The posted article doesn't really mention anything about a discovery. The original article kind of does: http://www.eisp.org/3879/ Has the same pictures, nearly the same text, maybe it's a bit TL;DR for this crowd given that you even had to summarize your one-sentence post:

> tl;dr hn is not a technews aggregator.

In which case, congratulations to anybody who read this far.
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The problem with 'Shadow Work' is that it rarely benefits the people who have to actually do the work.

My company has a homegrown A-B testing platform. Without getting too far into the technical details, the process typically occurred as follows: A business unit would suggest a performance increasing hypothesis to the statistical analyst ("let's change the font size from 12 to 14, I bet that'll increase conversions"), who would clarify the hypothesis into a statistically correct terms ("let's set 1% of our traffic to size 14 font and segment the resulting revenue this way") and submit a ticket to the engineering team, who would set up the test using XML, then ran a script that would convert that XML into MySQL insert statements, which populated a table that the web application would read from.

Then we had layoffs and engineers were canned. To mitigate some of the work for the engineering team's now reduced staff, I gave all the analysts the necessary permissions to set up and execute the XML -> MySQL translation themselves. On the one hand, they appreciate the direct control. On the other hand, they've fucked up production more than once with malformed XML and the like, which is something they never had to worry about before, which in turn has caused huge headaches for my team.

Is this 'shadow work'? All I know is that my company used to employ more people, and both engineers and analysts were happier. Now nobody is happy, even if the productivity per person is higher, except maybe our executives who have squeezed out more productivity out of fewer employees.

Hmm, maybe I should see what those OWS guys are babbling about after all.
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You can start practicing meditation using books. But joining a meditation group helps enormously.

While the instructions for meditation are truly simple, taming the mind is not :). There are some pitfalls we all walk into, like attachment to serenity that meditation can bring or getting discouraged by roadblocks. Having a teacher or joining a group helps you not getting stuck.

In cities, there are groups in different traditions (e.g. Vipassana, Zen, Diamond Way). These traditions have similar goals and methods, they can 'feel' very different. So, it's good to sit in with different groups once or twice to see where you feel at home.

With respect to books, I really enjoyed "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind", but it can be a bit daunting. Philip Kapleau Roshi's "Three Pillars of Zen" is said to be a good introduction.
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Apple and Jobs damn well know their marketing exploits societal pressures and individual shortcomings that also results in their devices being sold to people that can't afford them and suffer as a result of buying them.

Many philosophies allow you to defend such behavior, by pointing out the net advantage the devices have for all people that buy them combined. Buddhism doesn't, because it expects you to act in non-harmful ways.

In these days of mass communication, that basically means from abstaining from using mass-communication devices, because you can know, within reasonable doubt, that many kinds of communication will cause some harm. It's only within personal interaction with a small number of people that you can honestly attempt not to cause any harm.
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Derogatory simply means critical, or a statement which detracts from the standing of something. A statement of apparent fact can easily be derogatory.

Women are on average physically weaker than men.

African-americans are on average of lower intelligence than asian-americans.
That's a really captivating story with a strong message but it's far from obvious whether it happened, and whether it happened like you describe:

http://www.marklynas.org/2011/09/the-myth-of-easter-islands-...

Especially the claims of cannibalism seem a little far fetched.
Like everybody, I've heard of the heads at Easter Island since childhood and yet I never had a clue of where on Earth Easter Island migh be.

So here's a Google Maps link for geography-impaired folks like me: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Easter+Island,+Isla+de+Pascua,...

Answer: between Chile and Australia, closer to Chile.
Nice writeup but it's easter, not eastern. If anything it's western.
I'm a Linux user, full stop, and generally have some eye-rolling in these threads, where someone comes along and says something like "after 10 years of Windows, I tried Ubuntu for a day and it sucks", but the hardware regressions are indeed maddening. If something worked once, it should not stop working.
He may very well have. There is not a shred of experimental evidence for the multiverse. In fact, experimental evidence is not even possible. That places it firmly in the pantheon of metaphysics.

Now it could be an unescapable conclusion from an otherwise very successful theory with many experimental verifications, but unfortunately the article neglects to mention that there are many alternative interpretations and theories that can equally well explain 'how it all started' and still result in inflation and all associated theories.

That the multiverse theory successfully appeals to the imagination is the main pillar of its succes.

It's a shame he is being downvoted for succinctly stating a plain truth.
Sorry I have dyslexia, I tend to get muddled up like that sometimes.
Of course they have bodies! How is this news to anyone? A good part of these statues are well above ground including their bodies, and we've known the sunken ones have bodies below the ground for several decades already.

They've been excavating these statues for quite a while already.

Here, go read the Wikipedia article on Moai, it's way more interesting than this article (which is just a copy of the first few paragraphs of http://www.eisp.org/3879/ with the commentary "wild stuff" added):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai

Now excuse me while I go submit an article about the Great Pyramids having five sides. Yes mind=blown, I know.
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I thought myself to progrman in the Flash 5 days, because i really wanted to make interestign things with Actionscript. Javascript was easy after that, and after came PHP, and then Python and Java and Ruby and ... and after i knew programming well, I enrolled to the university to take my CS degree.
But i have to say that it is easier to learn something (on your own or with help) if you have a context to apply it to. I already knew web design and doing html/css at the time so when i decided that maybe learning actionscript and javascript can be more useful, i already had ideas i wanted to make with it.

I think the author's idea to "learn some javascript because later maybe i can take some node.js jobs" will turn out not that easy, because she/he doesn't have a context to apply it to, or better, he/she should have an idea/problem that javascript would solve, and THEN try to learn bits around it.
I know I promised I'd post an article about how they have five sides (that's including the bottom, for those who were wondering--Law of Fives and all), but I figured the revelation that most Pyramids are in fact, not Egyptian, would be more of a "paradigm shifting discovery" to most.

What next?
I might be wrong, but I'm sure I read a detailed discussion somewhere about how they analyzed burial pits and found large amounts of cuts as if the flesh had been flayed and so on. Apparently they did detailed DNA analysis and even found human bone fragments in waste pits.

I can't seem to find that discussion online right now. However I did find a rebuttal by Jared Diamond on the same site to this argument;

http://www.marklynas.org/2011/09/the-myths-of-easter-island-...

On a side note I think that it is uncomfortable for us to think about the demise of everything we cherish in this way, and that's why we tend to shy away from discussing this more openly and rigorously.

It's interesting to see how the blog post I cited ended with the same note;

>>>The islanders did inadvertently destroy the environmental underpinnings of their society. They did so, not because they were especially evil or deprived of foresight, but because they were ordinary people, living in a fragile environment, and subject to the usual human problems of clashes between group interests, clashes between individual and group interests, selfishness, and limited ability to predict the future. Does that remind you of any problems that we ourselves face today? That’s why we find Easter’s story so gripping, and why it may offer us lessons. You’ll find good coverage in Bahn’s and Flenley’s new book.<<<
As the only criticism on this article has been downvoted strongly, I feel compelled to repeat my explanation of that criticism (that believing in the multiverse is like believing in heaven or hell) at a higher level, in the hopes that people will be somewhat more critical of what esteemed scientists are peddling as truth:

There is not a shred of experimental evidence for the multiverse. In fact, experimental evidence is not even possible. That places it firmly in the pantheon of metaphysics.

That there is a multiverse could be an unescapable conclusion from an otherwise very successful theory, with many experimental verifications, but that isn't the case. The article neglects to mention that there are many alternative interpretations and theories that can equally well explain 'how it all started' and still result in inflation and all associated 'best' theories for the experimental observations of the universe. This article is all unwarranted extrapolation (back to the beginning of time and before).

The main pillar of the success of the multiverse theory is that it successfully appeals to the imagination. The main reason that it is being promoted is because the great physicists promoting the idea do not realize they are not as great philosophers as they are physicists.
I would have thought quoting SZUKALSKI alone would have set that off, but okay .. not that I'm a huge fan of Zermatism (a subject I would have thought at least a few hackernews visitors might be familiar with) but the ideas of SZUKALSKI are intriguing from the perspective of being able to look outside the box. There is scientific analytical thought, and then there is artistic motive desire, and if you apply both to the same subject you often get surprising results.

In my opinion, the idea of Protong-as-a-warning has quite a bit of validity, if only intelligent minds weren't so easily dissuaded from looking outside their own little boxes now and then ...
Now I certainly plan to. Thank you.
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This is great stuff, thanks very much for posting this.
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I always imagine that future construction of houses will be less like a giant 3d printer larger than the house laying it down, and more like a bunch of smaller specialised robots building up a structure like ants build a mound or spiders build a web.
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Reminds me of the project that a guy added twitter support to his washing machine. I for one would like to know when my washing is done without having to walk all the way down the stairs =)
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Interesting. I'd much rather have root on my machines, bag my own groceries, pump my own gas, find my own books and tickets on the internet, and drive my own car. Not only is it less expensive and more convenient, it is more egalitarian than ordering around clerks or gas station attendants. It is also more socially responsible, as you are less of a burden on society.

The author's position on "shadow work" appears to be opposition to productivity and self-reliance, along with a pining for servants and dependence.
Just as a data point, the TomTom turn by turn apps have been consistently in the top 5 paid apps over the last several years here in the UK. You could argue that's even more reason for Apple to provide their own solution of course.
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As usual, it depends on what you define as a "transaction".

If you don't need ACID, I can probably jerry-rig something in C that'll give you hundreds of thousands of "transactions" per second. It may have problems with retrieving the data, but hey, look at that sucker go!

OK. Time to be more reasonable.

1. Relaxed Guarantees

There's no actual durability in the conventional spinning-rust sense. Instead you're hoping that a fleet of identical instances all receive the same event objects in the same order. If they don't, you're going to have mysterious problems when some of the systems get out of sync.

According to fowler, business transactions are broken into events which are processed individually. This essentially means that some transactions aren't atomic. LMAX can credit A and fail to debit B because the bits are done independently.

Consistency is palmed off to the input queues.

2. Smart data structures

They profiled the code and found places where they could swap out standard Java collections for their own problem-specific variants.

What they refer to as "Disruptors" are smart ring buffers; or as they are sometimes called, "Queues". I realise that this is not as cool-sounding as "Disruptor" (they should have called the "Business Logic Processor" the "Phaser"!), but it seems to more or less describe the interface, which is that things go in a given order and come out in approximately that order.

Actually, it's possible I've misunderstood how that structure works. It might also be that the system is skipping over elements that aren't yet ready, in which case this looks more like an active priority queue, interface-wise.

3. Conclusion

Impressive work from the LMAX team. But let's remember to keep stuff in perspective. It has always been the case that ACID exacts a high toll on performance. To the extent that you relaxed it you could always go faster.

Too often we in our industry see the shiny big performance number and forget that it isn't free. Like everything in life there is an opportunity cost. Choose carefully.
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It seems to me that people think monitoring means "in real time". It does not. It just means "recording". The government records (or it would if it had the money) all telephone conversations. It does not listen to them nor index them nor transcribe them nor even scan them for keywords. It just records. From any number to any number. All the time. The tapes are kept indefinitely. If someone becomes a suspect in something, all phone conversations he was party to can be played back, either by humans or a computer that can transcribe, cross-index, identify other people by their voice, etc., whatever the technology permits. Same for all IP packets, if they had the budget.

When they have a lead or reason to find something about you, e.g. you work for the minority party or are an actual dissident or slept with a cop's ex-wife, they comb through everything and find something you did that may not even be illegal but would be embarrassing.

No humans need to be involved in storing the voice data on tape, and automatic transcription and cross-indexing only ever needs to be performed for a few phone numbers which are under investigation. But once someone becomes a suspect, all his history can be played back in order to, for example, discover his accomplices.

There are scenarios which demonstrate how this can be useful and can save lives. I imagine these scenarios were used by the fascists to get the government to allow this. It goes like this: In a system in which wiretapping is only allowed by court order after law enforcement has probable cause, wiretapping a suspect's phone could be too late - he's either dead (law enforcement first got interested in him after discovering his body) or learned enough to not talk about his activity on the phone. But back when he was getting started he made mistakes. With conversations recorded before law enforcement ever heard of him, those mistakes can be exploited.
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Not to mention, the recent financial crisis stems to a large extent from banks being 'under-capitalized,' i.e. not enough rich people just leaving their money in an account.
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Once in a while I hear in internet that there are two ways to stay in software market - one, build something cheaper and sell it to thousands of customers. Or, build a high end product and sell to a niche customer at reasonably high price.

I would like to know how high people/enterprise are paying for a software. Do we have any list where we can see the the top 10 or say top 100 software in use ranked by their price ? Have you used any of those high priced software in your career ?
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