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> One of the most important results in the theory of distributed systems is an impossibility result, showing one of the limits of the ability to build systems that work in a world where things can fail.

Layman question. I wonder how important this result really is. This is an impossibility result in a certain model, where processes are deterministic. It's certainly a nice theoretical result but in practice, there are probabilistic algorithm that solve this problem.

I don't know what are the probabilistic bounds of probabilistic consensus algorithms, but if it's arbitrary low, the impossibility result for deterministic processes is irrelevant isn't it?

After all, if we can live with a super low probability of a meteorite destroying the planet, so can we with a good probabilistic consensus algorithm.
We tried the 'startup in a corporate' experiment, boy did it crash and burn. We did great things, quickly and beautifully. Sadly when it came to get the new things into Production, we crashed and burned. Exec sponsor got whacked for 'failure to execute'. More to the point, he pissed a load of people off because his attitude was 'move over grandad this is the new way'.

The article describes the antipattern very nicely.
Is there support for multiple currencies? Could I use this from Australia to invoice clients in multiple currencies (e.g. USD, AUD, CAD GBP)?
You're reading too much into it. The person I responded to (at the second iteration) seemed not to be aware of precisely these externalities -- so I was providing clarification, nothing more.
I completely agree that my needs may not be the needs of everyone and actually, when we're talking about Apple, they tend to be changing ways of usage rather than following them.

Another perspective I've seen recently about this is that this new Macbook will probably make people change their habit towards something traditionally only for smartphones: you'll see people keep their computer untethered for the larger part of the day, and only plug it for energy during the night. So, basically, mobile first instead of plugged first. You then have a port constantly available for whatever you want to plug on the go.
It is, and isn't. "Dwarf" is a different species than Humans, true, but D&D also use the "subrace" classificatin for things like Mountain Dwarves, etc.

D&D is hardly the only or even first offender in this regard (it's a common and much talked issue in the larger Fantasy/RPG milieu).
What about the compile stack or webapplication stack like node or rails? I'm mostly just curious how this would work on such a OS.
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>Wanting to not support misogynists/rape apologists/rape denialists/sexual predators

"Rape apologist" is the left wing version of "terrorist sympathizer"
The VP of Innovation Steve Blank was impressing with his insights has a remit and obligation to be innovative. Most of the other folks at that big company I'll wager don't give a crap about innovation, they have their antennae out the whole time making sure their job is secure around repeatable processes that are a profit center for the firm they work for, and working hard to appear to be indispensably at the center of that repeatable process. That is the reality of large companies in the ranks...
A bluetooth keyboard doesn't solve the problem of needing to plug the computer to a charger while using a USB key.
Why can't we have nice things on Linux/Windows too?
That's a fine perspective to have, if you are a corporation trying to own an ecosystem. Me, I don't like walled gardens, and ChromeOS's true platform isn't the Chrome App Store, it's the web. I'm good with that.
I use 1Password for personal and Meldium for work so we can assign different passwords to different users.
Others have commented that evidence of Mallory's wrong doings would not be permitted in trial. Assuming this is true, court won't work.

Another thing I've gleaned is that Mallory spends incredible amounts of money to undermine the stability and security of our internet & hardware. We cannot compete with them on that level; we don't have the means to stabilize as quickly as they destabilize.

I actually want to know if anyone has any ideas about what to do in this reality. What do you do when constructive and legal means both fail? Seems like Mallory can get away with anything.
My astronomy professor talked about that place. Apparently it has nice living facilities and lots of researchers there.

Far from being lonely, he glowingly described it as a place where young, attractive, incredibly intelligent & mostly single grad students get to come together to do astronomy research in between watching re-runs of Contact. This location is like an Olympic Village for astronomers; with this telescope, a mecca.
For how many simultaneous users
Any basic rails stack would probably be using ActiveRecord which is the default ORM. I remember interviewing at a large medical health record company and they had built their own ORM and regretted it and were (at the time) trying to move off it.
I'll bet they hired someone else to try and do the same thing, too, rather than try to figure out why their people don't do it on their own.
There's a lot of little things that D&D invented and have quietly become standard gaming tropes, and I think that slightly incorrect usage of "race" might be one of them.

Other games have both "races" and cultures, which makes things a bit clearer.
I remember reading that raising a seed is selling a vision and raising a Series as is about numbers
Link for convenience:
http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/basicrules
The problem in SV and much of SF is the unwillingess of property owners to tolerate too much upward building and their use of the private right of action granted by the California Environmental Quality Act to stymie development at the planning permission stage. Incumbent landowners try to maintain the value of their investment by limiting any increases in density. We might, for example, do better to abandon zoning and instead set up mechanisms to auction development rights, eg http://marketurbanism.com/2012/01/06/the-coase-theorem-in-la...
> Dwarves are good at building things not because of some essential genetic racial qualities, but because they are raised in a culture that values building and passes on a certain set of traditional practices around it.

Really? Let's say that the DM chose to run a game with mermaids in it. Would anyone question the (theoretically) superior swimming ability of mermaids? Let's see how a similar statement reads:

Mermaids are good at swimming not because of some essential genetic racial qualities, but because they are raised in a culture that values swimming and passes on a certain set of traditional practices around it.

It sounds ridiculous, doesn't it?

Edit: And if you're going to deride D&D for that, why not praise it for its lack of sexism (I'm talking about the stats system, not the art here)? The higher amount of testosterone in a man's body makes it much easier for him to gain muscle, but the D&D stat system allows both male and female characters "equal opportunity", so to speak, by not adding or subtracting stats based on gender choice.
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Before Amazon jumped on the touchscreen bandwagon, I would have suggested a Kindle with a new subscription, whether something that's paid, or by rolling your own via Calibre.

Now, not so much. Maybe find an older Kindle keyboard (or 5th Gen) and have stuff delivered onto it. Doesn't quite give her the same sense of pulling content, but it might be less fraught than browsing on an iPad.

Another option, though, might be to find the feeds from the sources she likes, run them through a full-text feed generator, feed that into an email delivery service (e.g., blogtrottr) and have those added to something like Readability or Instapaper. Would work well on the iPad and there would be very little to mis-click.
What is the specific thing you feel you're being forced to do?
Because D&D races might as well be called species. These are not ethnicities, they are entirely different biologies. So having a problem with D&D races stems from an oversensitivity to the word race.
Apple seems to rely on long term user training sometimes. I knew that was a send button because I have used previous versions of iOS, it's never even occurred to me that it doesn't look like a button at all. Similarly, I was late to the iOS party, I joined around iOS4-ish, and there were features I discovered completely on accident. Like double clicking the home button on the lock screen to bring up audio controls. Great feature, but I had no idea it was there. People joining in the next few years probably won't know to swipe from the top or bottom until they do it by accident.
Not yet. Started with USD, but hoping to expand that offering soon.
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It does not. Here's the adapter; the separate USB-C cable (one is required to use this adapter) Apple sells for $30 does not include a hub or extra ports either. I'm sure there will be some third-party option that does this.

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MJ262LL/A/apple-29w-usb-c-...
It seems like one, strong leader should be able to make good progress on this front in most large organizations?
Agreed.

"Dwarves are good at building things not because of some essential genetic racial qualities, but because they are raised in a culture that values building and passes on a certain set of traditional practices around it."

Dwarves (and Elves) can also see in the dark and can live for many hundreds of years. In many ways a character's race is a set of advantages derived from genetic qualities.

This isn't race in a human racial sense. The word "race" is used, when biologically speaking it should likely be species.
First, you are not required to use dropbox with 1Password.

Second, the data stored in dropbox is encrypted by a key that only you have. Dropbox has no way to see what is inside that bundle without your long password.
Even if on the surface the in-universe beings are from another species, that isn't necessarily a get out of jail free card. People can and will read between the lines.

This happened in the context of sci-fi when The Phantom Menace came out. I remember reading criticisms of both the Gungans[1] and the Trade Federation aliens as weakly veiled racial stereotypes.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jar_Jar_Binks#Allegations_of_ra...
That doesn't account for my screens, charger, etc. It's an admittedly minor concern, but I imagine it'll be very nice when I can just plug in a single cable :).

The thing I've come to appreciate better is that everybody needs different tools. When I was working as a Systems Engineer and needed to connect via serial port to ratty old servers, this new Macbook would have had me screaming. As a developer at my current workplace, I don't need infinite connectability, just portability :).
The CEO isn't the top of the org, the board is. Of course the CEO shouldn't/isn't the best at everything. If a C-level is lacking or needs help, you get them the help. The mentality that you are amazing or gone is utter bullshit, at the same time it isn't an excuse for chronically shoddy work. Everyone thinks they can be, or should be, The Yankees.
> This means any and all changes I make while employed are automatically subject to the GNU Public License.

The GPL doesn't require a company to submit changes upstream. If you publish something as GPL your employer can still pay you to work on it but refuse permission to commit to anything other than an internal fork. Only people who have had the product distributed to them have rights under the GPL, so if you leave you have no legal recourse to get those internal commits unless you somehow cause the code to be distributed to you (which may cost a lot of money, if it's part of a piece of something expensive's firmware, for example).
And dragonborn are good at breathing fire not because of their genetic racial qualities but because their culture values such things.
I like the Dorian Gray reference.
I've seen the ABS guide criticized for being obsolete and recommending wrong or obsolete best practices. A recommended replacement is The Bash Hacker's Wiki: http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/doku.php

Which itself recommends as best (current) alternative: Greg's Bash Guide: http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide
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Actually, it's even worse: if people are forced to consume ethanol with their oil, and ethanol makes the combination a worse product, then demand for oil will drop further than the displacement alone.
Helping with SEO
My sister owns a photography business and she's looking at SEO as a solution to bringing in more business. She's a fantastic photographer deserving every bit of business she has brought in so far, but she thinks that SEO could ramp her business up from a solely word of mouth business to people finding her "organically" on web searches.

The problem is that the guy she has communicated with is going to charge $9k over the year, though he has the "results" to prove he's worth it. Does anybody know any resources or trips for somebody with limited time (aka me) to hack the system and help her improve her SEO without paying such exorbitant fees?

http://www.simplygreenphotos.com/
I am glad they gave this model a reboot. If I was in the market for a new linux laptop, this would be a my number one choice over the XPS13 as a close second.

I am glad more companies like Dell and Google are supporting linux.
And Apple is replacing the nigh-indestructible magsafe with a traditional plug...
This is fantastic - I hope you'll get in touch with the people at opendata.gov in the US.

My only grumbles are with the main landing page: http://wikibudgets.org/ - there's no obvious way to search for other datasets, and the tone of the copy seems oddly adversarial; I don't see myself in a fundamentally oppositional relationship with public administrators even when I'm critical of them.
That crazy ape go fast.
Given the descriptions usually associated with subraces like the Drow or Mountain Dwarves I'm not sure if the racial stereotyping is a lot more offensive than the fact that the groups as portrayed have non-existent or stone-age economies. You know why Dwarves aren't portrayed as reading books? Because they're not portrayed as owning books or anything beyond pickaxes for that matter.

Games and game worlds can and have been designed differently but this is how D&D is. There's definitely space for critical commentary, but complaining about it or calling it "evil" is like complaining about the physics in a "Transformers" movie. If you want an accurate simulation of reality, there's reality. Or GURPS.
Despite this submission being posted by Reddit's cofounder, I don't think Twitter's policy update is related to Reddit's actions. Twitter has had its own very public and very significant moderation failings in recent months. (E.g #GamerGate)

"We suck at dealing with abuse." http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/4/7982099/twitter-ceo-sent-me...
It's my first time seeing the package, but looking over the docs it looks like it implements LSA. The major difference here is that word2vec dramatically outperforms LSA in a variety of tasks (http://datascience.stackexchange.com/questions/678/what-are-...). My experience has been that the vector representations in LSA can be underwhelming and poorly performant. I can't comment on the Random Projection and Reflective Random Indexing techniques SemanticVectors implements.

This link is about document distances but still compares other techniques nicely:
http://datascience.stackexchange.com/questions/678/what-are-...
It's an unrelated video somebody created subtitles for. The only thing funny about it is the guy's laugh, especially at the last second of the video.
It's in the Newsweek article, which discusses several possible biological mechanisms for problems from fluoridation, complete with sources, many of which are direct links to studies. Perhaps read it?
Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9132385
Before people get too worked up about its implications please realize this course is taught by two researchers. The syllabus quotes Arthur C. Clarke, Rowling, and Tom Waits. I wouldn't interpret this as MIT being overtaken by pseudo, feel-good social science.

http://indistinguishablefrom.media.mit.edu/syllabus/
Rolling new D&D characters was one of the first non-trivial programs I ever wrote. It was on a VAX-VMS in basic, but hey that still counts as programming, no?
It turns out that a photon can describe any real rotation angle around a black hole (I've asked a physicist). The continuity argument I gave is valid: take the critical energy E wherein the photon is attached to the photosphere, then with an adequate E+eps, eps > 0, the photon will describe an according monotonically decreasing angle.
"“You felt fear?” I asked.

“Danger,” she said. “Clearly my body was telling me, ‘You are unsafe.’”

[...]

“You talked about danger,” I said. “What were you imagining might…?”

“Have you ever heard that thing, men are afraid that women will laugh at them and women are afraid that men will kill them?” she replied. “So. Yeah.”

from http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/21/internet-s...
1. Many of our customers get paid by checks. We receive checks for some of them, and our goal is to make as easy as possible to reconcile those payments.

2. If your customer's card is out of date, we prompt the customer to update their card and store it back to Stripe for you.

3. You aren't alone. Some customers use us for pieces of their transaction volume (i.e. only the invoiced customers or only customer paying via ACH)

4. A la #3, you can send us a portion or all. We're also happy to help you get started. It's free to get set up, so you can try it out. We also provide a test environment so you can play around with it as much as you want.

Feel free to always shoot us an email at hello@paidapi.com.!
Is this for a commercial service? If yes, then I'd say at the beginning go with Heroku (or Modulus), concentrate on software and leave the DevOps/Sys-admin for later. If your project starts generating enough cash/traffic then either stay with Heroku (if this is a 1-guy venture) or go with a VPS if you have time or can find someone who will setup and manage all the rest (security, updates, backups, etc.).
IE10, if left alone, will auto update to IE11 silently.
Is that a technical term? :)
Took me 365 days exactly from start to finish. It depends on where you were born and what your highest level of education is.
It's somewhat ambiguous though, has you can half-elves (human/elf). Actually, it also looks like you can half-dwarves (http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/Half-Dwarf_%283.5e_Race%29) too.
We (nomadbits.com) have been using it and everything has been great so far.

We help companies with APIs improve their developer onboarding process, which means we invoice both monthly services (like creating and maintaining high quality API libraries), as well as one-off consulting (like updating documentation and creating "Getting Started" guides), and Paid has been great for both use cases.

Do you have any specific questions?

Full Disclosure - Paid is a customer of ours as well, so we may be slightly biased :D
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Presumably, if one person called another a "childish jerk nymph", then you have at least one person to fire (the person resorting to name-calling), if not two (the person maybe deserving the label) or more (the people taking sides rather than trying to dissolve the dispute.)

"Fully-formed adults" are people who I would expect to know how to mediate themselves. If people aren't able to successfully mediate their own disputes, then your failure in hiring came long before your latest addition.

Examples of people likely to be fully-formed adults: a mother with multiple children. A schoolteacher. A military sergeant. A nurse. A bartender. In general, people who have been exposed to enough pointless complaining and dispute that the object-level arguments don't matter to them any more, relative to the issue of figuring out what will allow everyone to continue working together optimally.

Note how most of those jobs are service jobs. People with natural talents rarely have to grow up in this way, and the people with the most natural talent are frequently the least grown-up (rock stars, career academics, startup founders). You only see this "fully-formed adult" trait re-emerge at the highest levels of accomplishment: astronauts are frequently fully-formed adults, for example.
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Word2vec is usually the standard neural word embeddings implementation. There are other algorithms as well such as glove[1], document embeddings[2] and backpropagation based methods[3]. Facebook just came out with a paper recently that beat word2vec as well[4].
Neural word embeddings are a neat way of representing concepts. I see a great future for automated feature engineering with text (joining audio and images) in deep learning.

[1]: http://nlp.stanford.edu/pubs/glove.pdf

[2]: http://cs.stanford.edu/~quocle/paragraph_vector.pdf

[3]:http://www.australianscience.com.au/research/google/35671.pd...

[4]: http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.01710
I really enjoy the perspective that "now" is often a useful abstraction for certain types of processes. The fact that it turns out that "now" is one hellishly leaky abstraction. My perspective coming from biology is that for many systems the only meaningful type of "clock" is a logical clock. The important thing is not "when," when is used as a proxy for an assumed state of a remote part of the system (even if remote is only 10cm away), logical clocks are the only source that can guarantee that the state of the system is what you expect it to be so that it will perform as expected. Thanks to the many hardware guys who have spent years working out the underlying logic for this we mostly ignore it for things like processors. Now we just need to solve it for arbitrarily large finite delays! This also reminds me of a very funny (or depressing) read on systems engineering by James Mickens [1].

1. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/thenightw...
My projects are made with Sinatra and Sequel (a nice ORM similar to AR). That said I don't have any particular SQL needs... Just input/delete/edit and search records from the DB. The rest is done by the app.
Via a quick Googling:

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http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DE...

Both are reputable.
He thinks the right equity stake for a great engineer is 0.2%. Huh.
Great project and I love the UI! I was actually just looking for an EDM discovery/explore app like this just yesterday. Bookmarked. :)

Any information on the technology stack?
Ah, I misread your post, I thought you just said "Chromebook". My bad.
Microsoft didn't want this patched at the direction of their biggest customer...the NSA.
It depends on your budget, and what kind of lifestyle you wish to lead.

Could you elaborate a bit on your expectations?
This reminded me a lot of Starwing/Starfox -- simple mechanics but a nice feel to it.
How do you define "major"? By "10+ years ahead", are you referring to techniques for addressing very large datasets in memory?
(Not CEO, Exec Chair) but here's the original reddit announcement: http://redd.it/2x0g9v

And they followed the FAQ that came out of our Buzzfeed interview: http://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/twitter-tackles-reveng...

> The company also issued a new FAQ regarding stolen nudes and revenge porn, based on a series of 12 questions first posed by BuzzFeed News to reddit.

This has not been an issue in the press for twitter, but our community team at reddit has been doing a great job reaching out to other platforms to try and work together on this -- that's the important thing. We're hoping this is just the start and we'll see more companies join us.
Has anyone heard if this is getting an Australian release?