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I don't know. I've seen DRM that has never been cracked for quite popular software. Propellerheads Reason for one.
We're talking about a few DBs here, but I'm just going to focus on Cassandra, as Mongo is a lost cause, and I don't know much about HBase. However, my arguments apply to all AP systems with tuneable consistency.

I think you're saying that people use Cassandra with consistency=ALL everywhere to get strong consistency? In that case, sure, then they should look at something else. Potentially even the database your company produces. However, that is a strawman; Cassandra was designed to be an AP system. Later additions like tuneable consistency and lightweight transactions are a compromise, and implementing something as crazy as ACID transactions on C* would be insane. Like, totally stupid. It is so far from the core goal of an AP system, that I would be very worried about the leadership of the project.

I like my databases to do one thing, and do it well. That's why I like basic C*: it's an awesome AP KV database. Features that have been added later have generally been syntactic sugar (CQL, indexes, multi column indexes, user types), or compromises (tuneable consistency, lightweight transactions). But it still remains an AP system at heart. And because of that, ACID transactions would _not_ improve the product. It would all but destroy it.

You should probably mention that you were a founder of FoundationDB if you're going to comment on articles about it.
Absolutely agree - was just being a little facetious. Clearly not about to start uglifying everything running on the server just because of a random benchmark of unrepresentative functions running in a loop.

Correct to point this out, especially considering the predilection of devs to micro-optimise based on the most spurious of hypotheses. Putting a single IO operation in that loop will most likely completely change the picture, anyway - although have not run the test to check.
Solid product and value proposition. Quick access to relevant information is the competitive edge that any investor needs to win in today's market. Marvel will win because the established players have failed to address investors' need for quick, reliable data and analysis.
It is not. I wrote this for a computer security class, and the paper itself was (unfortunately) last minute. I posted it to reddit last night as an afterthought, found it here in the morning. I'm sorry if it isn't up to any sort of standards, this draft was rushed, and I wasn't expecting it to get any sort of traction.
Don't sweat it, people would've complained either way. Like you said earlier, it's a build requirement, not a runtime one, and there are advantages to using these tools.
That is a very fair point. I did not consider the timing when responding. I agree with you, if they actually cared, they would have said something at the beginning, not the end.
So you are saying that a phone will drop down from umts or lte to gsm if the gsm signal is the strongest? i know it will resort to gsm as a backup, but i thought this happened only if 3g/4g was altogether unavailable?
The classic C/C++ versions are recursive, and using the STL, c++'s quick sort looks very similar to the functional one.

From cppreference.com: http://coliru.stacked-crooked.com/view?id=0b2cec4d8c69ffaf

http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/algorithm/partition
I believe there are definitely advantages. The one that comes to mind is that physical books tend to offer fewer distractions than tech, encouraging focus on one thing (at least for me).
One thing I'm really happy about regarding this article and the accompanying blog post from Pomplamoose is that it pretty much devastates the argument of "you shouldn't expect to make money from selling recordings; release your recordings for free because all the real money is from touring and merchandise!"

People can quibble about how much they spent on lights etc but none of it would have made an order of magnitude difference. Plus, Pomplamoose is comparatively huge - I've seen that touring/merch argument made against the indie that only has 1-2 CDs out and simply wants their cd/recordings sales to cover the production costs of recording the CDs.

I wish Pomplamoose had broken out their "merch" number - how much was from selling posters/t-shirts, and how much was from selling CDs? The fact that they were even bundled together almost as an afterthought is another indication of how devalued it has become.
Any recommendations for the best online course on game theory?
I've seen Prezi used to amazing effect - way better than "PowerPoint" and equivalent. Effectively PowerPoint is computerized OHP transparencies, plus transitions. Prezi really uses much more of the potential of a computer-based presentation.

https://prezi.com/
Well not quite, you also need to specify that the opponent assumes that you are perfectly rational, and that he assumes that you assume that he is, and that he assumes that you assume that he assumes that you are, and so on. A perfectly rational opponent would not assume that you are perfectly rational in the absence of any relevant information. Rather, he would assume that his opponent was equally likely to be using any strategy.
Yesterday several users gave feedback in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8738672
I think you're not reading the comments and instead submitted another 4 URLs today. I think that's spammy behavior.
Skrillex Plays Pokemon, audio analysis and crazy unix hacking ensues
Here's a sampling of some great books in the front-end space. I'd also suggest looking into Tuts+ (http://tutsplus.com/) or Codeschool (https://www.codeschool.com/).

- Dive Into HTML5 http://diveintohtml5.info/

- Scalable and Modular
Architecture for CSS https://smacss.com/

- HTML5 and CSS3 (2nd edition): Level Up with Today's Web Technologies https://pragprog.com/book/bhh52e/html5-and-css3

- Programming JavaScript Applications http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1234000000262

- Building Backbone Plugins https://pragprog.com/book/d-dbback/building-backbone-plugins

- Automate with Grunt: The Build Tool for JavaScript https://pragprog.com/book/bhgrunt/automate-with-grunt

- The Offline Cookbook (recent article, but great stuff) http://jakearchibald.com/2014/offline-cookbook/
That's a really important question. How much exposure to books do they currently have?
You need better brakes and stronger hands.
Yes, Plato is the author of the Dialogues of Socrates. My bad if my last sentence was written unclearly to seems as if Aristotle was a student of Socrates.
Yet, I suggest going back to that same link you posted and read all of Book II of the Nicomachean Ethics where Aristotle defines courage and what is the only real justification for war. After reading Book II, by the time you get to Book VII, you may not think Aristotle believed people deserved to be slaves.
Also, if Aristotle is bonkers, I'd be glad to know who you think the real man/woman of science is. And I hope the answer isn't Einstein.
>I think that is a bad comparison. When anyone says "America", they almost always mean "USA". There are also a lot fewer cases in which most people want to talk about the Americas as a whole

Perhaps that's a bias from being in the USA? In Latin America it's far more often to want to talk about Americas as a whole (or about North/South America as a whole).
> It demonstrates the consequences of a modeling different distributions of attitudes in a particular way.

The model is defined in terms of the attitudes.

If the model does not match the stated definition of the attitudes, then that is a bug in the code, not being creative about how to model those attitudes.

> It does not demonstrate this, because the parameters and details of the model have no relation to reality.

You say that, yet you go on to contradict yourself:

> All this model demonstrates is that for some parameters, individual preference for similarity of neighbors dominates over preference for diversity of the community. Which is (to me) obvious anyway.

The model shows that you can assemble a wide range of attitudes that most people wouldn't dream of considering racist, yet that still contributes to make segregation worse.

That's certainly not been the prevailing attitude. A lot of people that are strongly in favour of desegregation have been assuming that relatively small steps (e.g. getting people to be fina about moving into mixed areas) would be sufficient to over time lead to desegregation.

Yet the model blows that idea out of the water.

That there are other factors is largely irrelevant to addressing this attitude.
Certainly you may not be worried about this, but when there are human beings involved one has to be more careful. With any physical process, you can change something by just applying force. Changing the status quo in situations like these is harder. The harder you push, the more they'll form a rock wall against your demands.

Nobody wants to protect the poor surgeon. But everyone knows the tragic fact: each one of them was a poor surgeon at some procedure at some point. Experience made them better.

The article stresses the importance of the way these things are done. In order to have surgeons participate you need to earn their trust. Show them that you're not out to 'expose the failures' so to speak.

Besides, the idea that surgeons will only take easy cases is not a hypothetical. The article lists instances where gaming occurred. In fact, it stresses the importance of confidentiality in gaining surgeons' trust in ensuring this doesn't happen.

Like in everything else, we should treat how to change systems as a science and the evidence looks like it favours Amplio's approach to the problem. Maybe in some years from now things will be different and more information can be public. But for that to succeed we need to get there carefully.
Small Bank in Kansas Is a Financial Testing Ground
When discussing the mobile market, and especially the iOS mobile market, we are talking about a consumer who typically thinks nothing of dropping $4.50 for a 12 oz. cup of badly roasted espresso with steamed milk. That they don't want to pay $0.99 for something they think is "really neat" and arguably longer lasting than a cup of "cappuccino" says more about their (consumers') sense of entitlement than the value of the products under discussion.
Okay, but, doesn't it, like, at least double the amount of fuel needed for a launch?

Also, there is something about using the same engine on every stage to gather more data per launch, but iirc different engine profiles are used for different velocities and air densities long the launch. I wonder what's the efficiency loss of using a single engine profile for the whole launch.
I don't see how anyone who already has a job can do that.

OK, you want me to do a full-day onsite interview? And you only hire 10% (or less) of the people you interview? That means that I'll pretty rapidly use up my annual vacation allotment on interviews.

Some people say that you're supposed to "disappear" for a couple hours in the middle of the day to interview. That's dishonest to your current employer. In an "open office" environment it's very hard to disappear without being noticed.

Taking a full day (or half day) for an interview doesn't scale for a candidate that already has a job.
Couldn't agree more that the opposition is real. I have witnessed much of it living in a divided city like Chicago. The most difficult question about it is what we can do to shift government attention and resources? Not in the form of police cameras, squad cars, or militarization, but in the form of education and infrastructure projects. This is only a small part of the question, however. A bigger issue is not where the government spends money, but zoning laws, tax incentives to move to certain areas, and other laws that have been built up and influenced over time to create the situation we have today.

People have been noticing this and pointing it out for a long, long time. Surely Einstein would observe similar treatments as well, particularly because of his fresh perspective.
I don't believe you are giving nearly enough credit to the civil rights movement or its ongoing efforts. Racism existed in various forms for hundreds (thousands, if we go back to Aristotle) of years. It is a human institution, like slavery or marriage, both of which have taken concerted effort and time to end or change.

The "free market of ideas" only works if you assume everyone is a rational actor judging ideas on their direct merits. That simply is not the case.
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You're right, the proper statement is "you can't count _all_ payroll taxes as lost income." Your numbers still aren't accurate. You're also going higher than the initial income you mentioned ($100k), and you've switched from household income to individual (a two income family with $75k and $45k will look quite differently).

And you can't make the point without disability income. As shown lower down in the thread, your claims are hyperbolic even including DI of $31k!

It's funny..I agree there is a problem here. I just think we need someone intellectually honest to do the numbers properly. And that person is obviously not you.
Looks nice, but I miss one crucial thing for me on the specsheet - what levels of hardware video acceleration (both encoding and decoding) are available and how well are these supported under majority of media players (vlc, mplayer, omxplayer?)
I don't mind my daughter using a tablet—but I'd much rather her using interactive apps rather than watching videos. Her iPad gets put in airplane mode sometimes so YouTube doesn't work. But as long as it's active rather than passive, I don't mind. (Not that she uses it constantly, though—there's plenty of other things she likes to do as well).
Honestly, rating surgeons is probably much more difficult than rating programmers.
>You don't even have to compile CSS and JS, really, but I guess people aren't comfortable with js or css which isn't machine generated. Fair enough - there are benefits to that, but as general practice, it's needless complexity.

You don't minify your production js?
Better brakes, I do need. But there's little I can do about losing friction when braking with the front wheel on ice & stomped snow..
There is plenty of software which restricts computer application usage.
Errr, correct me if I'm wrong, but as I read the v2 RISC-V spec (starting with the absence of a flags register!), plus some quality time on Google, RISC-V has no provision for integer computation errors besides divide by zero (which can be checked for). From the spec:

"We did not include special instruction set support for overflow checks on integer arithmetic operations. Most popular programming languages do not support checks for integer overflow, partly because most architectures impose a significant runtime penalty to check for overflow on integer arithmetic and partly because modulo arithmetic is sometimes the desired behavior."

!!!

Or, RISC-V is a Worse is Better (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better), New Jersey style processor, following the same exact model of the primacy of implementation simplicity.

Well, especially since we aren't going to get people to use "safe" languages prior to e.g. software errors killing 4-6 figures of people, I guess it's a really good thing you're adding tag bits that can be used to improve security in unsafe languages.

On the other hand, as a CPU for The Right Way operating systems and languages like Lisp, RISC-V would seem to be ... subpar, especially since who knows what other corners have or will be cut. (Yeah, I know you can check, and for Lisps, it would be fairly cheap to have fixnums be 32 to 29 bits (subtracting LSB bits for more tagging) and then promote them to bignums, but....)

While I think you're doing a very good thing for the world as it is, my personal interest has dropped ... but that's OK, I've got a couple of years to muse about this as you develop your design and get it into production.
It serves the point of illustrating that a common belief about how segregation and level of racism in the population does not hold together: More segregation can occur even with beliefs we would not consider racist; all else being equal, reducing, or even preventing the increase of, segregation takes far more than absence of racism.
Recursive discussion – a logical way to debate
My daughter is 5. We've done several things:

1. Blocked youtube on all iOS devices. This has been the most significant, positive action. She was rabid and unhappy whenever she used youtube, even for 20 minutes. The mental unbalance would sometimes last for hours.

2. NO live TV (no ads), unless we're watching a special event, e.g. a tennis tournament or other major cultural happenings (usually via BBC/VPN). The TV screen is hooked to a Mac mini, with XBMC and an account for the parents and another one for our daughter.

3. Weekly budget. She has a few cards which she can use in a given week (refill each Monday morning): 3 for documentaries (mostly nature, 45-60' each), and 1 for a weekend movie (animated or musical). Initially she had 2 documentary-cards, which we increased when she turned 4, and we added the movie card when she turned 5. She's much happier and specific about what she wants to watch with her own budget control. She has made a fake mickey mouse club card (she had discovered it through youtube), but we've never honored it. She also made a joker card to enable herself to watch anything she wants as many times as she wants; never accepted that one either... I highly recommend all the BBC Natural World shows.

4. Purchased a few iOS apps for her enjoyment: first animal pictures and sounds; next Doodle; and in the last couple of years several Montessori apps. She loves them all, and usually after an initial obsessive [edit: 1 hour over a] day or two with a new app she'll only return to the iPad for much shorter, infrequent sessions (maybe twice a week). I buy a new app maybe once every 2-3 months. I've turned on restrictions in all devices, to prevent in-app purchases and installing+deleting apps; if a (rare) free app keeps popping up advertisement when she's using it we delete it and explain to her it was broken.

Last year she inherited my old, sim-less iPhone 4 which she can use as an iPod to listen to audiobooks and her favorite music. She loves that, especially Roald Dahl stories. I've only recently installed on it one of the apps I had purchased (via the iOS/iCloud family feature). And this week she discovered Siri ("the computer speaks to me!") by accident.

hth
None of that negates the original poster. Nothing says that the public actually knows what benefits it. In fact, the founders tried to avoid direct democracy for that reason, hence the Electoral College: you vote for someone to make good decisions for you. Given the short-sightedness of American culture (maybe just people in general), I am not convinced that the public makes good decisions. How many members of the public are going to vote to remove entitlements that benefit them, even if it is not in the best interests of the public at large?

Mind you, I am not convinced that Congress makes good decisions, but if the public does not approve of Congress, it does not provide any information on the quality of Congress' decisions. Just their popularity.
Can't worms simply relay to each other the message signed by the botnet master? No Sybil attack there.

The trend of throwing blockchains at problems for which they are totally uncalled for is profoundly annoying.
Our kid is two, so not really relevant. He watches peppa pig / masha / noddy for about 30 mins a day when we're feeding him.

As an adult who started on computers at 6, I think we're overstating the problem. He's more interested in mud / trains / walking in the park than the iPad. It's not novel to them, not as it was to use in the 70s/80s.
> The cost of any widely available item will trend towards its marginal cost.

This is really the problem that copyright was meant to address in the first place -- once industrialized publishing hit, marginal cost of production was always cheap compared to investment required to produce the first work. Digital changes the degree but not the character of the problem.

Of course, that's really only half the equation.

> You may lament this fact, but it is the reality.

"Reality" is a pretty fluid concept when you're talking about money, markets, or value, all of which are largely cultural concepts.

It's arguably accurate to say that right now we're tending towards a culture where people don't pay for digital copies of media. That doesn't make it the only possible reality.
Are Modern Programming Languages Easier to Learn?
I'm a little disappointed it's not called PReVIOUS...
Whats interesting for me is that they have almost exactly 10 time the amount drives we have in production (excluding system drives)

On average we get around 4 failures a week(some weeks more, others none) They tend to fail in bunches. For us there is a correlation between the way they are used and failure rate.

One bunch of file servers was being used for particle sims to model black holes. We pulled petabytes through the array. within 2 months of the show finishing we had replaced about 30% of the drives. (raid 6 with 14 disk luns, 4 hot spares).

Other have been happy and not killed as many drives. yet they've had the same amount of data pulled through them. They are also identical. They have the same drives, raid controller and bought very close together.

One thing to note is that if your work load changes, so will your failure pattern.
Father of a 4 year old boy here. The way you encourage reading, it seems to me, is to read books to your child and read your own books. If there's a micro-culture of literacy in your home, it's easy. A good time to read to your child is right before bedtime. It also helps with bedtime by easing the child into going to bed as a positive routine (instead of child feeling "I have to stop doing [thing child enjoys] because it's bedtime.")
Would you mind explaining more about how you find and recruit fellow-minded collaborators and eventually delegate tasks to them?
Bluntly, this argument (which is tiresomely familiar to me at this point) strikes me as nothing so much as self-fulfilling justification.

Thing X doesn't pay, therefore I don't have to pay you for Thing X, you should've gone into something else if you wanted money.

Baloney. I can think of no other field where the kinds of man-hours involved are as devalued. Yes, supply is generous, but so is demand, at unprecedented levels in human history. We are a culture grown fat and rich off its own cultural products, yet which routinely refuses to actually pay for any of them.

Labor isn't free in almost any other market, so why should you get to demand someone work 80+ hours a week for nothing? Explain to me how that fits any sane market theory.
The algorithm finds me fiery and prone to worry. Seems about right.
Why You Need Intrinsic Motivation to Be Happy and Successful
Nobody explains the situation better than Corey Doctorow: http://archive.dconstruct.org/culture/free

Making a living as an artist is a dream only the tiniest fraction of privileged people have ever been able to do. Of all the economic injustices in the world, the fact that it's a lot of work to scrape by providing some awesome entertainment is not one that justifies a lot of sympathy and certainly not one that we should destroy cultural freedom and technological freedom over. It's nice to be transparent, and I don't mind Pomplamoose's original article. The artistempathy.com article is hyperbolic and out of touch.