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Why read an article _about_ him, as opposed to reading what he actually said? Are you concerned about contracting wrongthink?
Docker on bare metal would be pretty nice though.
This is a perfect illustration of the comment you are replying to. It boggles the mind that a scientific issue can be boiled down to whether or not Al Gore is a hypocrite. Who gives a damn?

Here is the core of your argument - you strongly agree with something based on sober reflection on empirical data. One day, a charlatan joins your side and becomes a prominent activist for your cause. Will you re-evaluate your judgement of the facts based on your dislike of this man?
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The cap-and-trade thing never made much sense to me. If you want to reduce something, simply tax it.
Haskell makes it extraordinarily hard to write memory safe, performance critical code that doesn't use a garbage collector. Just consider Ada's support for arrays versus that of Haskell for example. Haskell is nice for certain problem domains, but for those that Ada is used for you would be borderline insane to consider it.
Nobody on the entire planet is saying that Strangeloop doesn't have the right to kick people out because they don't like their political views, so please put that argument back in the drawer.

What everyone here is saying is that their actions are _wrong_, not illegal. By balkanizing people based on unrelated politics, their actions are destructive to the advancement of technology and fly in the face of the spirit of free speech. Do you not agree?
Isn't Urbit named for the Mencius Moldbug blog, whose writer repeatedly refers to same as "UR"?

How distinct is Urbit and Yarvin from the advocacy of the Moldbug UR blog?

The association between Yarvin and that blog isn't exactly cryptic; for instance, Yarvin has given somewhat recent video-recorded talks espousing many of the same ideas as the blog, purposefully and in some depth.

Is it possible that the most boring interpretation of facts is once again correct? That Urbit itself is a relatively obscure project with very few users and was accepted to Strange Loop as a sort of, "huh, interesting" kind of thing, by a panel not fully acquainted with "Moldbug"? And that once they were more fully informed of what Yarvin stands for, the costs of giving him a stage outweighed the benefits?

Talk proposals aren't binary things. Program committees weigh pros and cons for most submissions. Some of them are so clearly important that they'd get in no matter how outre' their authors politics are. But it seems like it'd take some retconning to suggest that Urbit is that kind of subject.
"This is the same argument from many people who pirate content"

I disagree with this (utterly and without room for discussion), and the courts disagree with this as well.

The content in question has been made available publicly on the open web. It is up to me and my browser to decide which parts of the content I download and look at. Further, I'm unaware of any site which includes in their terms of service that they require visitors to view ads in order to see the content (even without bringing up the technical methods of enforcing such a rule).

I strongly suspect that most sites with ads would rather people visit than not, even if they don't see the ads. I certainly feel that way about all of my websites (though admittedly very few of my websites rely on ads for their value).

"The better way of walking away is to just not consume the content."

Which I also do. But, when it comes to browsing HN and reddit and clicking links off to sites I don't know, I have every right to proactively protect my privacy and peaceful browsing free of intrusive/noisy ads.
To be honest, Scythe was a huge amount of work and brings in about half of the revenue of my photo effects app, which took about 1/10th of the time to write. Knowing what I know now I would never write another iPad app again, and I'm not sure I'd write another serious music app. If I do decide to write any more music software I'll target the VST plugin market, where people are still willing to pay $99+ for a good instrument. It's a shame because I think the iPad has tremendous potential as a platform for music making but it seems like the volume just isn't there to make up for the low price points users expect for iOS apps.

One thing I would do differently if I started from scratch on Scythe today though is make the base app free and make up the difference with IAP preset packs and additional features.
Thanks, this was useful!
Think of it as you might a ban on discussing religion and/or politics when dining with people you don't know especially well. Less an attack on MAH FREEDMS, more a simple means of keeping the peace. You may complain that this will give rise to nothing but an echo chamber - and that's possibly true, but I fail to see how it's any worse than the alternative ;)
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When is that going to come?
Nobody is saying otherwise. Please put that argument away. What everyone here is saying is that the policies and policing they are carrying out is _wrong_.
Please explain that for me, because resistance is the thing that burns the kinetic energy off to other forms (such as heat). If you remove resistance, what is the problem?
What are you showing exactly? A splash page?
Perhaps that is part of it. I did work in the main repo. I was looking into some of the teams under the Android/Chrome org before I left, but none of it seemed too different to me despite seeing some new projects. They didn't seem like bottom-up initiatives though.

AFAIK 20% time is dead, and has been for > the last 2 years. People only use it to try out new teams before transferring.

But I never did get access to the "other" codebase, so you know more than I in that respect. :)
This uses gettimeofday() for timing purposes which has been deprecated for a few years now. I believe it's not reliable as it can be changed by other processes running alongside your application (like ntpd for example). A better alternative is clock_gettime() with a monotonic clock.
Makes me appreciate the Chrysler build all the more.
"If Al Gore were so profoundly afraid of climate change, he wouldn't fly in a private jet or have a huge mansion with massive electrical consumption. Since he does those things, then he's obviously not convinced that human activity affects climate."

Nobody is claiming that climate change is a threat just because Al Gore says so, so the sincerity of his belief is irrelevant. Politicians are not the ones "selling the world" on climate change; they're the ones being persuaded (to varying degrees) by scientific evidence of a man-made threat, and they're in a position of power to do something about it.

As for what happens when politicians don't pay attention to climate change, just look at Florida: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/03/09... Their senator and governor don't believe global warming exists, and they're already having to deal with rising sea levels. It's the politicians who don't take action that are harming their constituents, not those who do.
Can you explain that a bit more? What added security benefits do micro services provide that couldn't be accomplished using role- or claim-based authorisation?
This discussions tend to focus on the two extremes.

What are best practices for making monoliths ready for future SOA design

- Workers listening on event bus

- Database queries abstracted in RepositoryObjects

- ServiceObjects isolating domain logic

- Specs isolated around concepts

- Extracting to plugins (eg vendored gems) if not part of domain logic

What are your recommendations?
I have at least attempted to be _very_ clear that I do not begrudge the organizers of this conference for exactly the reason that you say. Your 'boring interpretation' lines up with my understanding of the situation.

As has been said many times in this thread, Yarvin is free to say what he believes, and I am free to say what I believe, and organizers are allowed to do what they want. This is how a free market of ideas is supposed to work.
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"I want them to connect to your headphones and tell you to keep right down a specific corridor that connects Bank with Monument, and to make sure you’re lined up perfectly for the exit to your platform. I don’t need to use it myself, I just need all my fellow commuters to be made to!"

Yandex.Metro does it for some metros, minus the headphones part. You also do not want everybody to get same directions because it will make congestion worse.
(Throwaway account, because I work there)

Just a correction, Apple does indeed forbid employees from working on side projects, including selling software on the AppStore and most contributions to open source projects. This is made very clear during the employee's initial (and yearly) Business Conduct training. To me it's one of the major drawbacks of an otherwise great place to work.
I've only used ascenders when climbing up free hanging rope, and they work very well for that purpose (I've done several hundred meters of vertical ascent in a single trip using this technique).
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so how much is the oil, coal, gas industry worth? how much more than a billion?

the money politics is pretty clearly stacked on one side. your argument about eugenics, though distasteful, is actually illustrative of what happens when you latch onto bad science to find excuses to maintain the status quo.
You know how if you drop a conductive material between two magnets, it slows down?
I suggest reading this: https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/2vf565/myths_of... and other posts in the AskHistorians SubReddit.
Interviewers are generally not allowed to ask you about your political positions or take them into account in any way. Frankly, talking about one's politics at an interview for an apolitical position would be so inappropriate as to reasonably raise concerns about the interviewee's impulse control and judgment.
>made software

On the artist's webpage there's following note in the footer:

"Note: Contrary to some errors made in certain press articles, McCollum's Shapes are not "generated" in a computer with an invented or scripted "program." Every shape is laboriously created by the artist using Adobe Illustrator — a common, everyday graphics program — by drawing little parts, cutting and pasting the parts into bigger parts, then cutting and pasting those parts into even bigger parts, and so on, and keeping track according to a written protocol, to insure against repetitions. The first exhibition of the project, in 2006, took around two years to complete."

Anyway, thanks for a very interesting link.

EDIT: More info on the tedious labor involved: http://allanmccollum.net/amcnet2/album/shapes/shapesworkshee...
I'd guess that what he means is that an attacker who compromises one micro service may not end up compromising all of them, whereas if they compromise a monolith, they have access to everything.
Wait a minute, all scientific hypotheses are falsifiable. An unfalsifiable hypothesis is a belief. A theory without a falsifiability is also a belief.
Venture capital is very "cheap" right now and easy to get. We're in a private equity bubble.
Interviewed Apple EE last year-> BSEE from caltech and MSEE from UCB, so educated enough, but a rather narrow range of experience for a Sr Engr position. In fact, too narrow to be of any use to our small-potato company. So perhaps their organization is big and anonymous enough to find places that are well-hidden; that is, they find a comfortable niche, then just park it for a while.
Apptopia just changed its name to Fliptopia. It's a marketplace for just this sort of thing:
https://www.fliptopia.com/

Seems it could help you more than an HN post...
Al Gore's net worth is about $200 million, for the people who don't want to google.
In science a theory is a framework that connects facts, it can't be demoted to a hypothesis nor can it become a law. Sometimes people say theory to mean hypothesis but that's not how it's being used in this article.
Thanks for unkilling it. The most fascinating part of this issue to me remains how "uninterested" HN is in discussing it (insofar as the mechanics of HN allow us to collectively express interest).
If we do experience moderate to severe climate change, millions or even billions of humans will die in pain: through starvation or wars over resources. I know people like to consider that sort of thing in the abstract, but the thought of that much suffering actually happening should be horrific to anyone.

So when people make the very important decision to take climate change seriously or not based on the shallow level of reasoning that you've used in your post, it scares the hell out of me. For your first point: you could just as easily argue that someone doesn't believe that poverty exists because they haven't sold all of their belongings and given the money to the poor. Some problems need very large political changes, and so it's perfectly rational (though perhaps hypocritical) to not worry about personal behaviour when changing it would be just window dressing.

Your second argument boils down to "scientists have been wrong in the past". The fact that you're willing to take humanity's largest gamble on scientists being maybe wrong this time is irrational. The downside risk is literally the collapse of human civilization, with violent or desperate deaths for most of us, and the upside is that we'd managed to not be duped into making investments into energy infrastructure and enriching a couple of charlatans? Why would anyone take that bet?

Granted, we can't be held hostage to every doomsayer that comes along, but the alarms that are being raised by scientists and researchers now is unprecedented. Something large appears to be happening, and no one knows what will happen, but everything but the best case scenario is very, very bad. If your post presents the best evidence you have, then you have practically no grounds for being as certain as you are that everything's going to be fine.
What does "order" mean here? Is a register different from any other, except by conventional use?
Hmm... You're just getting me thinking now: if we get sophisticated enough to travel hundreds/thousands of light years, etc... Then wouldn't it also stand to reason that we wouldn't even need to find planets, but rather can build our own artificial "microplanet"?

Curious what you think.
Machine separation for one (OS level exploits, escalation of privileges in one component compromising another). Network partitioning with strong protocol filters between security tiers can be invaluable.
You're supposed to just statically allocate memory, which is probably adequate for many special-purpose applications. There are alternative solutions, though. Some compilers offer GC, but most people use manual dynamic allocation.
Without descending into self-congratulatory back-slapping, it's also pretty cool to submit something to HN about an interesting concept you've just discovered and then have people who work and publish in that area respond ;)

I'm reading your papers too, now. Thanks for the links.
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Just curious why you say that is the "main tactic of the left"?
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If we can not make moral decisions as a society, to say "the opinion that minority races are inferior is not one we are willing to tolerate," we stand no chance to have any meaningful cultural progression.

Can you suspend disbelief for a moment?

Imagine, hypothetically, that in the world we live in, the one standard deviation difference in IQ between certain races was in fact primarily due to statistical differences in gene frequency.

Would it still be morally unacceptable to point this out? Would it still be counter to progress to point this out? If you still think it would be immoral, how can you progress if you misdiagnose reality? I mean if you want to solve the problem, you have to know what causes it. If environment causes the problem, then environmental changes can fix it. If genes cause the problem, then we might have the technology in a few decades that allows parents to level-up their children. In the mean time, if genes are the issue, then universal basic income would be a lot better for disadvantaged then spending money on the school bureaucracy. So if you want to help people, you need to have a truthful view of the problem.

Follow-up question. If would be OK to hold the genetic view in world where the genetic hypothesis was actually true, how are we to know which world we actually live in, if people are not allowed to make good faith cases of the evidence and analysis for both viewpoints, without fear of ostracism and career suicide?
It seems like an endless cycle of some new trend coming out (microservices), then the reactionary comments which create even more new trendy buzzwords. Application design and development is not this black and white. SOA is not GOOD or BAD. It is a design structure that some people like, and some people seem to hate. There are good ways of doing things and bad ways of doing things. In my experience, having small manageable code bases that are responsible for one domain makes things so much easier to develop and maintain. But, that is my opinion not something I think is a universal truth. Architecture/Design/Implementation of any complex system is not an exact science with perfect formulas for creation. It would be nice to have more articles about new and exciting ways of doing things, instead of the same old tearing down of others for being stupid/wrong/etc because they think functional/OO/SOA/microservices/containers/etc is the wrong way to do things.
There were a number of people who voiced their objections on Twitter. It's easy to ask the rhetorical question here, but if you really want an answer, go check out what they said.

In particular, people who represent groups that Moldbug treats as subhuman in his writing expressed concern and dismay. Perhaps looking through their eyes for a moment might illuminate why a person would care.
No, that's oversimplified, I find. The quote implies that the colonizers found Africans to be more suited to fulfilling slave roles, and that the master-slave cycle formulated earlier is a genetic one. It doesn't make a direct judgment whether the colonizers were correct. The jab at political correctness doesn't seem to be an absolute refutation of opposing arguments, so much as an outlining of the historian's fallacy of trying to apply contemporary moral value judgments to past circumstances. FWIW, there was "political correctness" (sidestepping taboos) in those days, but the taboos were wildly different.
But this doesn't really involve politics as traditionally understood. Nobody here is particularly interested in defending Yarvin's views, AFAIK. But for an active HN user working on a project right in HN's wheelhouse to effectively be banned from presenting at Strange Loop (for violating what policy?)... It's a fascinating story with broad implications for how we interact with each other.

Overall, disappointed in those who have flagged these posts.
Could you provide links to those talks?
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What makes you say that? I'm fairly certain the two projects are unrelated.
You're right - socialism is much worse than racism. Socialism (actual socialism, not "social democracy" aka capitalist welfare state) destroys countries (eg North Korea), while racism is merely a moderate problem (eg South Korea is very racist but doing fine).

edit: To be fair, people are probably more sensitive to racism in America because America is so diverse.
The issue is that a multiverse is so much harder to fathom and support, because once we accept the multiverse theory, we begin to see the infinitely different possible universes (that being said, infinity is hard to comprehend as well).
Yesterday's discussion thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9669945
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I don't understand how your claim (that users want the products that data collection enables) refutes my claim (that data collection has not helped with government transparency).
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You have argued to suppress Yarvin's ideas in one realm based on his unrelated ideas in another realm.

This is emphatically not how the free market of ideas is supposed to work.
I find asserting superiority of one race over another hard to justify, but is it crazy to think there are differences?

Dogs are the same species, but people do assign traits like aggression/playfulness to different breeds.
Below you commented that you hadn't put much effort into understanding Urbit, but here you're evaluating its technical value.
Why does it matter what his political beliefs entail on a technical subject?

More to the point, while I'm guessing you didn't dox him or whatever, the fact that he wrote under a pseudonym and (as a person having read his blog) had no idea of his actual name, I get the impression you went out of your way on this one. I don't really care about right or left (I think both sides are idiotic), but it seems like you're going out of your way on this one.
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Hi,

I'm thinking of creating a reading list of technical papers that were referred while implementing distributed systems software. For example, ZooKeeper uses distributed coordination and is inspired from paxos. Is there a list like this already?
How do various systems map to published technical papers?
I picked up some Python to learn some web development initially, and then bought an ebook on computer vision with OpenCV. I never thought I would be able to do some of the things I've done with OpenCV!
We have wifi and nice coach buses in the US. Still don't want to ride them over a train. Trains are certainly faster and more dependable in terms of time of arrival.
Having used both, LDD has a much better UI, but LeoCAD is probably overall the better program. It's able to export to more file formats than LDD, and is generally more of an open program.

The difference is comparable to Maya (LDD) vs. Blender (LeoCAD).
I'm not sure what you mean by "it", but this thread has 158 comments. That's not uninterested.
It's stories like this that reinforce my belief that banking should be treated like a utility, and everyone operating within that sphere should be kept on a very short leash.
Yes, and if the server has access to your clear-text password, it can choose to store it insecurely. Something like SRP enforces that the server store them in a secure manner.
> In my experience, having small manageable code bases that are responsible for one domain makes things so much easier to develop and maintain.

I think everybody agrees with that.

The issue is that architecting your system like that on a code / repo level means that you gain the complexity of having to manage dependencies between your components, and it complicates the deployment story.

microservices then further complicates things by requiring you to be able to independently deploy each service. this is a lot of complexity to manage for something that doesn't directly solve any problems in your business domain.

This reaction you are seeing is because people have now had enough time to actually work on and hear about projects that were built using microservices. Many of them have found that they don't deliver on their promises, because of the reasons mentioned in the article.
As someone new to this dialogue I find these second-hand sources highly suspect. There seems like a big difference between this one person and that movement. I don't really see him 'leading' anything. Why not stick to primary sources?