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by troymc 10y ago
I live in Berlin lately and I get the impression that the carriages are a mix of old and new. The newer ones have monitors to tell you about the next stops. Many are made by Bombardier. Bombardier Transportation Global Headquarters is actua
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by troymc 10y ago
The copyrights and patents are already covered under the licenses they used (AGPL v3 and Apache v2). A search for RETHINKDB on the USPTO trademark search engine turns up no results.
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by troymc 10y ago
There are some grammar errors on the homepage, e.g. * "Convert your leads to customers using more effective way" * "Protect servers repute" * "Get rids of the duplicate emails to contain only unique addresses"
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by troymc 10y ago
It seems to me that the connecting of bikes on Bike Index with bikes for sale on various online marketplaces could be, at least partially, automated. It seems like a fun challenge, especially the pictures-only marketplaces...
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by troymc 10y ago
Another way it might go is something like this: User always downloads everything to a proxy browser (maybe in the cloud), renders everything, runs all JavaScript, and lets it send back tracking info etc. But the User doesn't see that
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by troymc 10y ago
They have enterprise versions of Terraform, Vault, Nomad, and maybe more. You can get them all in "Atlas". They'll also host it all for you, if you want (for a fee). They charge enterprise prices for all that.
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by troymc 10y ago
I'm not sure how you put a backdoor in an atom.
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by troymc 10y ago
I use Microsoft's "Office Lens" app on my Android phone all the time, like a "smart camera" which automatically squares off and white-balances each photo of a page (usually mail or forms filled in by hand). It can&#
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by troymc 10y ago
It's also possible that there is no killer app, and the whole thing just stays niche, like 3D movies or Second Life.
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by troymc 10y ago
As soon as there's strong evidence (from multiple credible sources) that self-driving tech reduces accidents and fatalities, the government conversation will switch from, "How shall we regulate this?" to "Oh! These are l
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by troymc 10y ago
You've got a point. BigTable is an example; they've never open-sourced it and instead other OSS projects (notably the Hadoop ones) were inspired by it. Other examples are GFS, Colossus, Spanner and F1. The OSS analogue of GFS is H
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by troymc 10y ago
This is awful, another trick site that fools people into doing work that they could be getting paid to do, all for the joy of getting some "karma." Well kids, karma ain't gonna pay the rent. If you want to get experience vo
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by troymc 10y ago
You can send someone one Linden in Second Life (the virtual world), i.e. over the Internet. One Linden works out to about 0.004 US dollars. (It depends on the exchange rate, which is determined by an open market.) This has been possible for
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by troymc 10y ago
Update: The link to the job description changed to https://github.com/bigchaindb/org/blob/master/engjob.md
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by troymc 10y ago
BigchainDB GmbH / ascribe GmbH | Berlin, Germany | Decentralized Systems Engineer | Full Time Job description: https://github.com/bigchaindb/org/blob/master/bigjob.md Our homepage: https:/&#x2
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by troymc 10y ago
It seems they're somewhat new and it's natural for them to start with the low-hanging fruit.
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by troymc 10y ago
There are many deterministic BFT protocols. PBFT is probably the most well-known. [1] The SCP paper points to several BFT protocols with message complexity of O(N polylog(N)), e.g. [2] [1] Miguel Castro and Barbara Liskov. Practical byzanti
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by troymc 10y ago
I think people get consensus finality mixed up with eventual consistency. (To be fair, they do sound like similar things.) Nakamoto Consensus (used by Bitcoin and others) never reaches consensus finality, i.e. a point in time when you can b
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by troymc 10y ago
I agree that "blockchain" is essentially a database protocol for a special kind of database, but I'm fairly sure there's no standard, agreed-upon, single "blockchain protocol." Bitcoin may be the best-known blo
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by troymc 10y ago
The article answers that question.
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by troymc 11y ago
Amazon S3 went down globally on July 20, 2008: http://status.aws.amazon.com/s3-20080720.html
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by troymc 11y ago
Yes, I think that's the most interesting part of the Intel proposal. Rather than using lots of energy to compute a gazillion hashes (the work in Proof of Work), they rely on special processors to prove that they've waited for some
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by troymc 11y ago
Mice often carry diseases [1]. When they get into homes, they can transmit those diseases to the occupants, which are often house pets, children, or the elderly. Mice also chew holes in walls, cupboards, pipes, and wiring, sometimes to disa
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by troymc 11y ago
I'll remind you that Disney also has some cute rats. If you don't know what I'm talking about, then watch _Ratatouille_. Maybe _you_ don't think mice are gross, but maybe you're not a representative sample.
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by troymc 11y ago
No, but many humans will jump up on a chair, or run from the room if a mouse runs across the floor. Calling a product a "mouse" must have seemed like a strange decision at the time. Now we don't think twice about it. My point
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by troymc 11y ago
What's different now: * Better BFT algorithms (e.g. lower network load, more reliable in practice) * Faster computers * Better computer networks * Cheaper storage * Better software development and deployment practices (faster, more rel
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by troymc 11y ago
The "mouse" (computer hardware) has an equally bad name, and yet...
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by troymc 11y ago
Algorithms/protocols to solve the consensus problem in the presence of arbitrary "Byzantine" faults have been around for a long time (since the 1980s, at least e.g. [1]), and they keep getting better. Make the network closed-
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by troymc 11y ago
Another source: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?5
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by troymc 11y ago
If you get big enough, you'll find that Bitcoin's blockchain a terrible blockchain for what you're doing. It's throughput is on the order of 1 transaction per second, you can't store much data per transaction, the l

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