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Few things:

* Existence of tools beyond Map/Reduce in use at Google, does not imply that Map/Reduce's "days are numbered."

Map/Reduce is still enormously useful for many tasks even when other approaches (BSP, traditional distributed RDBMS techniques like Dremel) are available.

* Hadoop is not restricted to Map/Reduce. HDFS, cluster management, and more can be used and are used by other applications.

I am not too heavily involved with the query-processing side of Hadoop, but as far as as I understand the long term idea is that Map/Reduce will become just another application (of many) running on top of Hadoop's cluster management and storage infrastructure. See http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/r0.23.0/hadoop-yarn/had...

(Disclosure: I contribute to HDFS and HBase)
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I learn a lot from reading it. I am a Linux(Debian) user.
I couldn't agree more. The phone is a good device and the OS is ready for prime time.
You will probably never see an anthropologist endorse a global campaign like this, because the sorts of thinking are very different.

Given that the American Anthropological Association is quite happy to weigh in on exactly this subject politically, I am not entirely sure that you are correct.

the AAA Executive Board issued in 2004, the following statement in response to President Bush’s proposal for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage:

The results of more than a century of anthropological research on households, kinship relationships, and families, across cultures and through time, provide no support whatsoever for the view that either civilization or viable social orders depend upon marriage as an exclusively heterosexual institution. Rather, anthropological research supports the conclusion that a vast array of family types, including families built upon same-sex partnerships, can contribute to stable and humane societies.
I think the whole point here is why does PHP even have references like that. Right now the only mainstream language I know that does that is C++ and well, its C++ and mutable references are actually not frequently used in practice. Most other languages stay with pass by value most of the time and PHP references kind of look like a leaky abstraction from the underlying C implementation...
Robert Reich[1] in http://robertreich.org/post/26708840314:

And it would amount to a rip-off of almost cosmic
proportion – trillions of dollars that you and I and other
average people would otherwise have received or saved on
our lending and borrowing that have been going instead to
the bankers. It would make the other abuses of trust we’ve
witnessed look like child’s play by comparison.

Sad to say, there’s reason to believe this has been going
on, or something very much like it. This is what the
emerging scandal over “Libor” (short for “London interbank
offered rate”) is all about.

[1] Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley, was Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration.
So if somebody is pro gay marriage, they are telling you "you are a vile, hateful, homophobic bigot", but if you are against gay marriage, you are "merely thinking their behavior is immoral". I think your self evaluation could be improved.

I find it surprising (but cool) that Google takes a stand on a controversial issue here.

Think about it another way: if Google doesn't take a stand on other human rights issues, there is a huge scandal. For example if they were to reveal information about Chinese activists to the Chinese government. So why shouldn't they be expected to take a stand regarding other human rights issues, too?
So we're gonna add this to our drinking water now?
Google is involved in a lot of projects that aim to make the world a better place...
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The world will always need business process management software. If you provide something flexible, you can adapt to new technologies and opportunities.

But the basic overview of business process management software hasn't really changed as much as we might want to think. Even mobile devices have been around this area for most, possibly even all, of the last twenty years though they used to be a lot simpler.

As far as maximum size, I look to the businesses that dominate today and figure on a significant fraction of that size. If most businesses are 2-4 billion dollars a year in this space, if we can compete we should be able to reach a billion dollars.

Moreover in your question I think you are assuming that with changes, old opportunities go away. So I am wondering: what economic opportunities have died off as a result of the rise in the web?
UFOs may be aliens after all
I would like to see a good alternative for recognize method and group method.
Their statement is correct, but that is hardly a global campaign of this sort is it? I mean I read that statement as basically saying that the arguments in favor of the change to our system of laws are anthropologically flawed.

I don't see that as taking a stand on the matter globally. I certainly don't see them saying that if the Hopi don't allow same-sex marriage that they are in violation of the human rights of the members of their society.

Of course as far as different family structures, these include polygamous families, and other things like the Greek model (heterosexual, monogamous marriage with heavily circumscribed homosexual relationships filling important social roles in parallel). Same sex marriage could be part of it but it doesn't have to be. They aren't saying "you must recognize SSM" just that it is misguided to pass a constitutional amendment against if that's the fear.

It could even include the wonderfully complex polygamy pattern portrayed in the Mahabharata, where the princess Drupadi has five husbands, each of which had at least one other wife.
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As someone who taught themselves enough PHP to get by over the last 7-8 years, this is brilliant.
I don't spend every day keeping up with the latest developments in PHP, but I know in that time the techniques I'm using must be out of date.

I've learnt JQuery and Python lately, but my Swiss army knife is still PHP. So this has already fixed a lot of incorrect techniques I've been suing in a side project.
While I can't speak for others in the "Atwoodian camp," I for one think Atwood's article was that response, to a large degree: it pretty much said that his next big project is trying to bring those strengths to a platform built on another language.

Having said that, it seems to me that there's certainly a fair amount of work being done to make deploying apps in other languages pretty simple. With mod_passenger, for instance, setting up a Rails app under Apache isn't notably more difficult than setting up any other Apache virtual host. Deploying Python web applications isn't quite as simple yet (at least in my experience), but it's nothing that should be beyond the ken of someone who's figured out how to write a Python web application in the first place. And that, in turn, isn't really beyond the ken of anyone who's learned how to write reasonably good PHP MVC code.
It's all very well crying out for this and that but without defining the path and in this case the jobs, there sentiment is nothing more than a soundbite.

Anybody can say:
(1) More Scientists.
(2) ???????????????
(3) Profit.

Its the number two aspect the goverment needs to focus upon as well as allowing others to focus.

How can they do that. Well they could offer TAX incentives for R&D. Tax incentives for recruiting new people into the feild. Many many ways, though all of those involve the carrot approach without any sticks.

Sadly there is no golden answear/solution for this and soundbiting "we need more scientists" is not a solution unless you want to soundbite and then read other peoples comments in the hop[e of finding that magic solution you need to inact. good luck too them.
It's a totally different world these types of people live in to mine. I read the blog post, it was nicely written and a seemingly heartfelt reflection of a mans own position in life but I guess it's difficult to feel he's been anything other than a success already.

Perhaps it's all relative and compared to Sean Parker's bank balance he's a dismal failure but to reach 40 and have "a little under a million" in liquid assets and to have been able to dabble in angel investing for several years just doesn't seem that bad a life.
You've got the idea. We're focusing on great clients to make the upload painless and keep everything up to date. Videos are next, but as you point out a lot harder.
I've heard such things promised for years, but somehow they never arrive. Not sure if they are being blocked by the industry (curing diseases is bad business), or if there are other issues. But I am not holding my breath.
It comes from an essay by Isaiah Berlin, The Hedgehog and the Fox. Hedgehogs know "one big thing" and Foxes know "lots of little things".

In the expert prediction study, experts who had a universal framework which they extended rigidly to every problem performed poorly on both calibration (correlation of confidence and actual post-factual probabilities) and discrimination (correlation of more/less/same predictions to actual outcomes).

Foxes tended to throw together a bunch of thoughts, including from incompatible theories, express a lot of "one of the one hand, and on the other" sort of thinking and qualified most of their predictions. They did much better on calibration and somewhat better on discrimination.

Basically, Hedgehogs tend to make more extreme predictions ("Russia will fall into civil war by 1997") more confidently ("it's almost certain") than Foxes. But statistically, about 40% of the time variables in the complex systems being forecast actually stayed within a band and neither decisively moved up or down.

I know that you're probably thinking of holes and objections to the study already -- read the book. Tetlock and his collaborators were astonishingly thorough in trying to deal with all the relevant arguments and counterarguments with actual data.
"Making sure" is signing a contract with them.

That's what contracts are for.
I just want to add that balance is what I do now but in a different way. I have read a lot of articles about how to go to sleep early and how to go to gym regularly etc. That worked... sometimes. When someone recommended "balance", I always understood that I need a fixed schedule and to stick to it. But I really can't do that (I want to go to sleep early but I'm not that tired. I will not sleep even if I go.).

What really works is what Marissa Mayer recommended: find your rhythm. So if I want to stay late and work for hours I will do just that. I also realize that maybe the next day I will not be able to work that much or at all. So I just do something relaxing the next day. Sometimes I can work a few days in a row like that. But I always know that there will be one day in which I will not even start the computer. So I think of something to do outside the house. Changing environments helps a lot. That's the rhythm.

http://www.entrepreneur.com/blog/223723?Source=Taboola
> I also disagree with you that Google shareholders opposed to gay marriage shouldn't be forced to choose. They are just as wrong in their beliefs as those who supported segregation were or those who were against women's suffrage were. Marginalizing these people for their ridiculously antiquated beliefs is fair game, IMO.

A thousand times this. Some opinions need to be taken out back and shot, and being against gay marriage is one of those opinions. Shitty beliefs like that aren't something that needs protection, and adults who hold those opinions should not be coddled or kowtowed to anymore.

In programming terms, showing deference to these kinds of opinions is like being forced to support Windows 3.1.
"... Per watthour, nuclear power is the safest form of energy production, by a very large margin ..."

The kids in Fukushima disagree, segment from "Children of the Tsunami," BBC, March 1, 2012 ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JS0Rf_gWFA
Overconfidence in flawed human intuition is equally if not more dangerous. Math and algorithms done correctly are unbiased, unlike humans. Economics, unlike much of machine learning and computer science, is often based on very loose base assumptions. Hence the flaws.

Science and math have varying levels of rigor depending on the domain. On the other hand, not using them has a consistent outcome: guessing and ignorance.
In 15-20 years, I will zoom as required. The issue really is less the font size and more the way the text stretches to the window, so if you zoom out then the sentences become far too long. I ended up having to alter my browser window size.

Edit: Just checked, definitely just the stretching, though a bit smaller would be better for me.
Unless it's illegal for you to marry the person you want to marry, in which case you don't have a choice. Hence this campaign.
I think he answered that question already in his comment, in extenso.
That matches my experience. Chrome can (according to its internal task manager) easily use over 100MB per tab which adds up quickly. Firefox is much more frugal. And for me Chrome's memory leaks are worse then Firefox's ever were.
It would make more sense to have insurance against the less likely risk, like a bank run.
Interesting argument, and large scale trust issues are probably an important factor in economies. However, the examples from the article do not have too much to say about it, since Greece and Spain were rather dynamic economies before the financial crisis.

World bank data of per capita GDP growth for Italy, Ireland, Greece, Spain and Portugal compared with Germany:
http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&#...
For a assembly language designed for humans they sure did like there 3 letter TLA's.

How hard would it of been to have STORE_ADDRESS instead of STA.

To realy learn a assembly language you realy need to write code and to write code you realy have to have a project/purpose.

Now 6502 is one of the oldest assembly languages still in active use as they still do very well in the microcontroler sector. Though that said ARM is also in that area and alot cheaper to obtain ARM compatable kit. ARM was born out of frustrations/limitation with the original 6502 CPU and in that may be a better more practical use of your educational time.

That all said - every programmer of any language should at least learn/play with one assembly language sometime in there life, maybe one or two. I remember after my ZX81 I opted for the Oric-1 over the Spectrum just becasue it had a different CPU (6502) and after that I opted for the AtariST (6800) and a amstrad PC (X86).

Also inventing your own CPU/assembler is not as hard and intimidating as alot will think. All are very rewarding and a good use of your time on a rainy day.
I'm 19 yet I feel I can relate in some way.
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>Gay marriage is not just a small detail, it's huge.

Really? How so? Because gays suddenly want to take part in the antiquated, religious inspired ceremony of marriage?
I've always found the whole "Get a STEM degree if you want ample employment" argument to be a bit specious. It implies that all degrees that fall under this rather large umbrella are of equal worth, but the reality is that prospects are better for those under the "TE" portion of this umbrella.

Even within that smaller subsection, those working on, say, Aerospace Engineering degrees are likely envious of the prospects of Computer Science guys, and the Computer Science guys are looking at their upper-division coursework wondering if they shouldn't just bail out and test the waters of whatever startup hotspot is on their minds.

It's better than worrying about what you could possibly do with your Theater degree, but it's still stressful for the people under this giant umbrella of promise.

At the end of the day, I guess everyone feels like the grass is greener somewhere.
> Remember we're talking about a very different world from the one we actually live in, a world where banks aren't allowed to lend at longer terms than they borrow. In such a world health insurance would presumably also be very different....

So that's your solution, throw away the world and start over again? This kind of thinking gets very unappealing when you realize that for all its flaws, the world seems to work fairly well as it is--and that empirically-based, stepwise improvement on the status quo is a safer and more reliable way to go than hoping some ideology is going to work better.
If everybody starts using this molecule, isn't the bacterium going to adapt, like with antibiotics?
As far as I can tell, it's not greed and incompetence during operation that's the big problem, so much as greed and incompetence during the design and construction itself.

Otherwise, I like your thinking.
I'm waiting for the crowd that got all upset over the rainbow oreo picture to start their outcry about this, they vowed to boycott oreos but i doubt they'd do the same with Google.
>Being forced to spend your life with someone who you don't want, is far more of an imposition than that of an organisation publicly stating that they think it would be nice if people were allowed to marry who they do want.

Thats what you say after 200K hollywood movies and romantic novels, which is another form on imposition.

Is what you say good for society in general? Is it even better for the persons involved? If you answer yes without hesitation, you should question how much of your thinking has been shaped by the prevalent ideology on your country.

>If projecting cultural preferences onto other groups is bad, then all I have to do is claim to belong to a culture that finds it deeply offensive for people to claim that projecting cultural preferences is bad, and then anyone who holds the first position isn't even allowed to tell me about it, entirely by their own argument.

For one, that would be a fake culture (the one youll claim o belong to). Cultures are made by populations, not a random guy.

Second, the workaround is bs. Here's another version: "projecting cultural preferences onto other groups is bad, period, even if its acceptable in your culture".
If we read this as an argument "And therefore MRv2/YARN will be important", it's not crazy. The Hadoop project itself is opening up to break its dependency on pure MapReduce. First out of the gate -- the Apache Hama folks, who I believe have gotten their own Hacker News attention by (somewhat ironically) attacking Hadoop.
Dave McClure doesn't care about effective communication. Maybe his ideas are shit? I'll never know.
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When I first read the subject line, I expected to see some outlandish claim that the trees had accumulated enough radioactive material to generate enough heat to make the tree spontaneously ignite.

The actual concern is that radioactive materials sequestered in the trees might be re-released into the atmosphere if the trees were to catch fire. That is an unsettling possibility.
I'm guessing very few people have actually created a billion dollar company by the time they're 30. Just sayin.
Strictly speaking, none of us "own" the majority of the software we pay for. We license it, and we are entirely at the mercy at the vendor's terms, with the only recourse being not buying it in the first place.

It's yet another area where the nature of software and the networked world breaks our object-oriented intuitions in ways we're still trying to resolve in the social contract.
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Interesting given I read this recently http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18686179

Which outlines how seaweed contains a enzyme which kills this very bacteria.

Now unless he is Apple, he may find it hard to get a patent Worldwide on this as toothpastes with seaweed in already exist. Seaweed contains this magic molecule so in many ways he is trying to patent what is already in use! :(.
STORE_ADDRESS takes more than 4 times the memory of STA. RAM was not cheap! Also having fixed width and shorter opcodes made assemblers faster and easier to write.
Citing a single data point doesn't refute the quoted assertion. It is basically the same as me trying to refute that air travel is safer than automobile travel per passenger mile by mentioning a single notable crash.

I'm not trying to downplay the plight of those affected, but it's worth separating these concerns when evaluating the true risks involved with any technology that can potentially have great benefits for the bulk of humanity, the rare catastrophe notwithstanding.
OK, let me throw this out there: what if you're developing a feature that takes longer than a fraction of a day to write, and you want that feature to be developed independently of any other half-baked features that are out there?

Or developing more than one feature at a time?

Or you are halfway through developing a major feature when you suddenly realize there's a high-priority bug that has to be fixed first?

Or you decide halfway through developing a major feature that you went about it all wrong and made a hash of everything and want to start from scratch?

> If you're committing to a branch then by definition you're not integrating your changes with people working on other branches.

When other people's changes are merged to integration, I'll rebase off of integration and resolve any conflicts then and there. No problem.

> Smaller changesets are far easier to merge.

...and since I'm continuously rebasing off of the integration branch, all my merges are fastforward, which is even easier.

The criticism against feature branches makes sense if it's coming from people who don't use Git fluently. Otherwise it's absolute nonsense.
Features ranked in descending order of importance (first entry being most important to me)

1) face recognition (with confidence value) [faces_recognize]

2) save tags/people to own namespace [tags_save]

3) get list of photos a person, or group of people are in [tags_get]

4) import feature to take face.com's discovered values

And for the service not to sold and then shut down.
Could you tell which is safer then? It sure is not hydroelectric power which worst disaster killed over 150 000 people.

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I love Ars Technica generally, but I'm a bit confused. Why not just link to the stackexchange question? Am I missing something obvious?
Indeed, in Italy the limit is very low at 15 employees. This is part of the explanation to the very small average size of businesses. Since the introduction of this limit in 1970, bigger firms started contracting more and more of their work to smaller firms with which they could flexibly terminate the contract with at any time.
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