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I'm not sure how well we can estimate how difficult a task is just based on our amazement at "iceberg complexity".

Just the fact that I was able to read that article the way I did is the product of something enormous. Discovery of electricity and semiconductors, mathematics, development of CPUs and memory, global computer networks, the entire software stack that allows me to display what someone wrote three years ago on a glowing rectangle with no involvement of any paper at all. The entire social and economic development that allows me to read this instead of walking through the woods and trying to impale some creature on an arrow.

That's a lot of solved problems, most of them figured out during the past century. I don't think some image segmentation, pose estimation and semantic reasoning is going to take quite as long, especially with more and more people working on it.
that's great, thanks for answering! I have not yet looked at Calico - I have OVS-VXLAN between my worker nodes, which is a simple solution that works great. Is it possible to say "use whatever is already in place"?
That's not correct. You are expected to file SARs, but only for suspicious transactions (you have to specify why they are suspicious on the form). You can't just blindly upload every transaction to FinCEN and have discharged your responsibilities. The laws are much, much more complicated than that.
As long as we're talking about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it's worth pointing out that humanity's experience with the insidious effects of nuclear radiation had not yet been formed -- they began that day -- and that leaves the trade-off of "frying people with nukes" versus "shooting and/or exploding with regular bombs" look a lot more humane. (In either case assuming peace is not yet secured, obviously.)

Or we could light their cities on fire with bat bombs. War is hell.
We're not the best at making anything. We're pretty good at using things, though.
In the book "The Stragegy of Conflict" Thomas Schelling proposes accidental launches as a form of "randomised threats" which let you position yourself in between "I certainly won't launch" (not a threat) and "I certainly will launch" (not a credible threat, as not rational due to MAD)

A Washington Post article [1] describes it like so:

So you're standing at the edge of a cliff, chained by the ankle to someone else. You'll be released, and one of you will get a large prize, as soon as the other gives in. How do you persuade the other guy to give in, when the only method at your disposal -- threatening to push him off the cliff -- would doom you both?

Answer: You start dancing, closer and closer to the edge. That way, you don't have to convince him that you would do something totally irrational: plunge him and yourself off the cliff. You just have to convince him that you are prepared to take a higher risk than he is of accidentally falling off the cliff. If you can do that, you win.

So in the Cuban missile crisis accidental launches, not intentional launches, are what the Russians are threatened with. And when designing a nuclear deterrent, it's actually useful if the failsafes aren't 100% reliable - if a rogue general sets your nuclear launch code to all zeros [2] and they make sure the Russians find out about it, that's actually a good thing.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10...
[2] https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/12/11/for-nearly-20-ye...
I've been producing a few services recently which output a chunk of JSON for each log message followed by a newline.

I think it actually solves most of the problems text logs have that binary don't (inability to easily present structured data, etc.) yet keeps the advantages of a text log (human readable, resistant to file corruption, future-proof).
After reading the article I wonder if there are lots of tools that do all the binary advantages in indexes but leave the logs as text files, why that is not fine. To get the binary advantage the log does not have to be binary.

The example with the timestamps is also strange. No matter how you store the timestamps, parsing a humanly reasonable query like "give me 10 hours starting from last Friday 2am" to an actual filter is a complex problem. The problem is complex no matter how you store your timestamp. You can choose to do the complexity before and create complex index structures. You can choose to have complex algorithms to parse simple timestamps in binary or text form, you can build complex regexes. But something needs to be complex, because the problem space is. Just being binary doesn't help you.

And that's really the point here, isn't it? Just being binary in itself is not an advantage. It doesn't even mean by itself that it will save disk space. But text in itself is an advantage, always, because text can be read by humans without help (and in some instances without any training or IT education), binary not.

Yesterday I was thinking there might be something about binary logs. Now I'm convinced there isn't. The only disadvantage seems to be that you also lose disk space if you store it in clear text. But disk space isn't an issue in most situations (and in many situations where it is an issue you might have resources and tools at hand to handle that as well) It is added complexity for no real advantage. Thanks for clearing that up.
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statico: you can load a different TTF with ImGui, it doesn't have to be monospaced and they can be smooth. The perf differences are due to designing the library with performances as a major pillar, lots of things are optimised. A visual redesign is planned but it'll take a bit of time to get it done to keep the perf up.
In the setup the author presents, using syslog-ng and elasticsearch, it seems the logs are serialized as json for the transmission.
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I agree. The scientific article is interesting, but the press report has a lot of misleading parts. Another:

> Since the 1970s, life has traditionally been divided into three domains: multicelled organisms, such as plants and animals, and the two domains of single-celled life, bacteria and archaea.

There are a lot of unicellular Eukaryotes. For example in this graphic, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Filogenia_Cavalier-Sm... the big orange blob is made of unicellular and almost unicellular Eukaryotes. Plants, Animals and Fungus are the small blobs in the corners.
Why not simply melt it?
Or blur with canvas, so you only do the client-side operation once?
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Twitter has form[0]:

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As I said elsewhere[1]:

Never, ever trust another company
for your business model.

I was accused on that occasion of spouting a "thought-terminating cliche" - the resulting discussion was interesting. But think what you like, as some else has said, working with Twitter is like collecting pennies in front of a steam-roller[2][3][4].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9363102

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9363274

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9504016

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taleb_distribution

[4] https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=collecting+pennies+in+fron...
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"...and that action ended the war..."

It is worth noting that there is considerable debate among historians about the degree to which the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings influenced the Japanese decision to surrender. Hiroshima was attacked on 6th August and Nagasaki on the 9th, but the surrender wasn't announced until the 15th. Some historians see the Russian declaration of war and invasion of Manchuria as being equally or more significant [1].

[1] http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/05/30/the-bomb-didnt-beat-japa...
Are these strong enough to build a space elevator?
Because he's sharing the source code rather than a compiled binary. It's no different to having make + gcc listed as a dependency for C++ code.
One of the most important thing to remember is the efficiency of the human brain is layered. The ancient parts (vision for example) have been honed to an amazing level of efficiency so even the most powerful computers can't come close, while the other modules (say simple arithmetic) are so inefficient that a $2 calculator needs to uses only 1/100,000th the energy to solve the same problem. The general rule is anything we find easy as humans to accomplish is amazingly hard and ancient, while anything we find hard is relatively easy and recent (evolutionary).
I had both Intel and AMD computers in that era. Afaik, AMD K7 Athlon had more MHz/GHz, run on less power (Watt) and were cheaper at that time than the Intel Pentium 4. But performance wise both were almost equal and the Pentium 4 3GHz model introduced the HT (HyperThreading) technology (multithreading performance). Athlon 64 on the other hand were the first x86-64 CPUs.
There's the old plan of Zubrin and Baker: Mars Direct. It involves manufacturing methane fuel on Mars from a small import of Earth hydrogen. 95% of the return fuel mass is manufactured on Mars, giving significant mass fraction savings for a launcher.

Not only that, by using a nuclear thermal upper stage you double the payload, or halve the size of the Earth launcher.

If on Mars you also bring along a nuclear rocket vehicle (Nerva-style) you can have unlimited, reusable global range, including Mars surface-orbit operations. Suck and liquefy Mars CO2 and use it as a reaction mass.

All this was hashed out 24 years ago by Zubrin and Baker and NASA needs only a firm commitment to Mars to put it into practice.

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

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/marsconcepts2012/pdf/4069.p... - Gashopper, a concept derived from the larger NERVA hopper, this time solar powered small robot for exploration

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERVA - compact nuclear reactor for space applications
We can't do a lot about 70 years ago but hey, we can be against the irrational drone attacks and mass murderer of today that we are going to contest 70 years from now.
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> "reasonable grounds to believe"

(approx) 57% of Americans believe in the devil, so this provision in the bill doesn't really fill me with any confidence :(
Thanks, wego is very beautiful and quite useful!
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Yes, it's a diabolical situation that a good defense system actually increases the risks, that is, a defense system promotes war.

It's a risk-vs-return situation: the nuclear standoff brings the risk of complete destruction, but that has low probability; while conventional weapons make mutual obliteration harder, but increase the likelihood of some war.
Exactly. Us meatbags will be useful for a while still even if just to interpret other meatbags.
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Thanks for the info on HBase stability. I probably won't use it again (once burnt...), but if they really managed to pull their act together - good for them!
They are quite easy to build. Finding pure enough fissile material is the hard part.
In my opinion its more like: Go comes with a package-management/install system onboard, and for every 'go install', there's a full copy of working sources which someone, some day, might consider reading and contributing to ..

So I think, at least as a go newbie, that its quite handy that pretty much every tool I might be interested in - because it was written in Go - comes with full sources onboard as a basic, starting-gate, expectation. At least, I am quite happy to be learning Go this way ..
"In contrast, a 12.6 megawatt supercomputer, in 2013, took 40 minutes to simulate one second of biological brain activity."

Not really a fair comparison. That's like simulating one processor with another and complaining that 1 second of activity took 40 minutes to simulate. If we can implement the NN directly, rather than simulate it, we should expect a much smaller performance gap.

If your calculations are correct, that doesn't sound so bad. If we could implement a brain-sized (by number of neurons) neural network in the area as half of a medium Domino's pizza, that seems like a damn good achievement to me!
I will happily look over these once they are part of upstream Go, or I will happily review them once they are proposed upstream, but I will take a pass on their "special fork of Go".
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Rationality won't save us, according to McNamara[1]

[1] http://nothingbuttherain.com/2013/08/12/lesson-2-rationality...
Whether or not somebodies sense of depression is triggered by something "trivial" or "stupid", it is likely genuinely causing them distress. Personally I wouldn't pull my friend aside and say, "Hey man you seem down, but the fact that you just broke up with your girlfriend is a total BS reason to be upset". Perhaps we are only differing in the way we like to describe the situation, but your language comes across as being unnecessarily "macho".
I don't have a solution, just an observation. I think your mention of the word "overwhelming" is very important. If there is a solution, I think it will be found in non-destructive (not drugs, not sleeping all day, etc.) changes in lifestyle, values, and focus--things that vary a lot from person to person and probably require experimentation--that prove effective at reducing the emotional feeling of being overwhelmed.

Also, it seems that "overwhelm" is what happens when we combine several bad things that don't have to be combined (various fears, various regrets, disappointments, etc.) into a single, nasty package viewed all at once. Finding a way to focus on them separately really reduces the magnitude of the overwhelm.
yes, for example for all parts of the route that are not on a highway.

They have the numbers that it's less stressful work, which they'll no doubt manage to compensate for soon enough with more work.
They can also collect data that may help automating larger parts of the route. Or evidence that machines are more reliable than humans (making the case for building these things without a driver's seat)
Speaking for myself - multiline .json output is problematic, as most of the parsing tools work best when the data is on a single line, and it's a cognitive struggle to deal with multi-line output, even if you are clever with your tools. I usually have to end up writing a json parser in python to get the data into a format that I can manipulate it. (Thankfully, python does 95% of the work for you when reading a json file)

But - here is the thing, even though the .json format isn't convenient for me, I can, with about 20-30 minutes effort, write a parser that can get the data into a convenient format, because it started out as a text file.
I think it's just you (from your username you're probably a native English speaker, still)

"we are far" to me means "we are distant (from the objective)"

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/far#Adverb

If it was "far ahead", or "we've come far" I'd agree with you
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"Stalin was planning an all-out nuclear war"

It seems unlikely that Stalin would have planned a war which would have been so completely one-sided. The Soviets didn't really achieve any kind of parity with US strategic weapons until well into the 1970s.

Starting an "all out" war with the US with LeMay in command of SAC would have been national suicide - and the Soviets knew they were at a huge disadvantage. Stalin was lots of things but I don't think he could ever be accused of being stupid.

Edit: Mind you I suppose it was possible that the Soviets thought they could invade Western Europe and survive the inevitable US and UK attack - but the US would have been untouched in such a scenario which probably wouldn't be a good idea...
If we think fission. If we think fusion - you could build something nasty with tritium and deuterium with some depleted uranium as neutron deflectors ... but the ignition will be bitch ...

Edit: replaced neutrinos with neutrons
One thing to point out that even if the "module" that does arithmetic is slow, the brain understands the context of that calculation.

2 + 2 can be viewed as a computation that happens in nature and our brain all the time.

But the real magic doesn't lie in the pure computation. Our brain understands what that 2 means in the context of all the knowledge of the entire Universe. 2 cows, 2 sheeps, 2 planets ?

Understanding context is what we are really good at, as said in the article "prior" knowledge. So its not surprising that a cheap calculator can outsmart me in computation when it doesn't actually compute the context of its computation, which is sort if cheating.
Yes, exactly! But the point I was trying to make (very badly that is), is that most people call "fiat money" just "money". And they know no other money than money (including my past self). You can earn money, you can buy stuff with money, and you can save money. All fiat money of course, but that doesn't matter, because that's the only money people know. In the next decade, that perception will change. "Money" won't have a monopoly anymore.
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I give up. I think you're wrong, you think I'm wrong. I dont have time to iron out all the mistakes you are making and Im sure you feel the same way.
The other historically plausible motivation is that Truman wanted to display to Stalin as a deterrent against for soviet expansion into europe that a) they had the bomb b) they were not afraid to use it c) what effect it has on cities. Japan was at war against USA at the time and effects of firebombings with traditional planes and explosives were no less horrible in cost to human lives than the A-bombs so the morale of the whole thing is ambiguous.
For a fission bomb yes, not s fusion (thermonuclear/hydrogen) bomb.

Fire bombing can (and has done) more damage to a city than a fission bomb.
Reminds me of that situation in The Dark Knight (Batman 2), where both sides couldn't bring themselves to kill so many people although they were sure that would mean their own death.

I wonder if we people really are like that, because at the same time there are many examples of people having threats to their own life or a loved one's life trigger them to kill another person.
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Not that I think it matters all that much but journald will be running on your centos box, but it'll be configured to spew text into /var/log.

Just type journalctl and you should see the data there.
The problem is that we don't truly believe in the strongest notions of the Anthropic principle. You can relativize it to yourself and then apply it to future events: "I will sit locked in this room where this bomb will detonate unless these numbers on my lottery ticket are the winning numbers tomorrow" does not sound wise but insane.
A related post on the front page right now:

"Neural network chip built using memristors (arstechnica.com)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9501119
I hope they mean something different than https://xkcd.com/1060/
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Strictly there is a little hindrance for the non-gopher user because this won't work until they set up a Go workspace, i.e. decided where they want GOPATH to be, set that, and added $GOPATH/bin to PATH to have the executable be runnable.

$ env -i $(which go) get github.com/schachmat/wego
package github.com/schachmat/wego: cannot download, $GOPATH not set. For more details see: go help gopath
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It may be possible by writing a slightly modified YAML file for the Clocker blueprint itself. To avoid dragging this thread further off-topic, please drop me a line at the email address in my profile, and I can probably help you.
well, it was this, but it seems splice.com has beaten me to the punch. so now i'm working on a new idea, but it's also very fun to work on.

http://te.xel.io/posts/2015-04-01-oh-i-have-this-stellar-sta...
With regards to disk space - compressed text logs are pretty common. The frequency with which they are compressed is adjustable, and, gzcat is a pretty well known mechanism for opening them.
I remember seeing a talk on this around a year ago, and while it did have some important backing and solve some interesting problems, there wasn't much in terms of examples of people using it in production.

Is this still the case? I guess with it hitting 1.0 it's more likely now, but I'd still be interested to hear if anyone's had much experience with this up until now.
Can you please give a link showing an exponential improvement between 2012 and 2015?
I don't understand, why reimplement this if it is already implemented with adequate performance/quality in OpenSSL? I thought Go didn't have issues calling C code?
It helps that you can run it for free on anything from an iDevice to a hand crafted hipsterbuntu server farm, where in the past you had to do it on expensive Ericsson kit deep inside of telco land.
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> How can we even begin to go about writing an algorithm that can reason about the scene like I did?

You are doing AI wrong. AI should learn all of that context by itself, from a large amount of stimulus. If it was a good one, it might be able to learn enough in less than N years, where N is the age of a human who would laugh at the photo.
Wow... The glassdoor reviews are damning[1]. Their new board better look into what's really going on down there. That's no sustainable way to run a "4 billion dollar company."

[1] http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Zenefits-Reviews-E820238.ht...
It's a really good list, can work as starting point. I advice you to be careful before applying in your business.

Pricing is too important for we stop just with this list. The list just show topics, results and conclusions of experiments, not the psychology experiments made and the reason behind each strategy, so, very easy to be forgotten, or even applied wrongly.

If you want to lean in a way you will never forget, and apply it correctly, you need to read some books about pricing.

Books about pricing on Amazon:
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Sure, an opaque binary file is pointless.

But that's not what most logging systems that log to binary files offer. They give you specs (example: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/journal-fil...) and tools.

Binary doesn't have to mean closed/opaque.
> If the US can attack cheaply on the ground (as in with no US casualty) and not be deterred by a nuclear response, war is just bound to happen.

This gets at the real reason there have ever been some long spans without huge wars: stable balance of power. Usually in world history when the World Order changed much there were big wars involved. In the 20th century the USSR and China and NATO formed a relatively stable set of opposing forces.
Do you have any reason to believe that to be the case?

I agree that self-preservation has probably been a factor in the more than dozen close-calls the world has seen, but I would hardly call it impossible. There are many instances of humans failing to self-preserve.
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Years _worth_ of learning. They could learn by watching videos, or playback of sensory data of early AIbots and by playing video games created for the specific purpose of training them which will be much more efficient.
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I think you mean neutrons - neutrino deflectors would be quite interesting...