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>Do the methods reading data from the drives consider the number of heads/platters involved for performance gains?

In general no, at least not since the early 80s. Although you still hear about cylinders, heads, and sectors, spinning hard drives have effectively been a black box to OSes for 30 years and will internally remap sectors wherever they feel like it (and lie about it if you ask them).

The result is that while you can be reasonably confident that sector 33566 is followed by sector 33567 and reading both will not involve seeking, things like reading the whole cylinders at a time are not worth the effort since you don't know where the sectors are.
Because your bank probably limits you to 10 characters or something, and your insurance company requires at least one special character, and now you have to remember a bunch of special cases and you start wanting a password manager again.
The US as a whole is an incredibly rural country. Compared to Europe and Asia, the US only has a small handful of cities where public transit is economically viable.
Bad headline. They found fossils. No actual living thing discovered.
I cannot really see any negative in learning a new language, something that any programmer should feel comfortable with and look forward too.

It's not like learning FORTRAN (or C, or Pascal, or COBOL) will make someone unable to program in other more markeatable languages.
Medicine, CAD, Commercial Aviation, Finance, Retail, Graphic Design & Illustration...

Pretty much everything serious.

https://www.apple.com/business/mobile-enterprise-apps/health...
A lot of people are moving to Austin, Portland, Seattle, and Denver/Boulder. No state income tax in Austin or Seattle, no sales tax in Portland. Home prices are rising in all of these areas, but are a bargain compared to the Bay Area or NYC. And you can still see a show, go to great restaurants, meet interesting people, find a good job, and have a livable amount of space for a family.

A place where you can get a cheap, large home, and pay no state income tax is Vancouver, Washington. The city itself isn't very interesting, but you are across the bridge from Portland, where there is a lot of great food and drink, and you can shop with no sales tax. You will rarely see snow, but you will see a lot of clouds/drizzle for much of the year, which can take its toll.

Austin has a lot of tech jobs and is sunny for much of the year, but brutally hot for at least 3-4 months if you aren't used to it. It's a fun place to live.

If you want more of a small nature town feel, you could try Bend, Oregon or Boulder, Colorado.

I have lived in Portland, Seattle, and Austin, and spent a lot of time working in SF, so let me know if you want more specifics on anything.
I don't contribute to many open-source projects. But I'd imagine Python would have a good track record, PEP8 specifies something like a 72-character limit.

That said, long lines in an existing project aren't a dealbreaker, if I have other reasons for contributing. (The one I'm working on now has them.) But if there's no reasonable way for me to write code in a language without breaking 80 chars, I'm not likely to choose that language for my own projects.
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Cool domain name :)
Nucular weapons in the Eye-rack!
I live in the Atlanta area. I could literally have the same job in the SF area (where I used to live) for 20% more - my company has an office in Palo Alto where there are people with the same job title and the same responsibilities. However this would more than be eaten up by the increased cost of housing. Say my take-home pay is 100 arbitrary units; my housing costs about 20, leaving 80 for everything else. In the Bay Area I'd make 120 but I'd pay at least twice as much (40+) for comparable housing, leaving 80 or less for everything else (and everything else costs more there). Salaries are higher in higher-cost markets but that difference usually doesn't make up for the cost of living difference.
Forging and Welding an Education
Using two-factor authentication with your password manager helps mitigate the risk. Online managers such as lastpass only keep encrypted versions of your passwords, and they do not know your master pw to unlock that vault, so even if they get breached (which has happened), the attacker just has a bunch of encrypted passwords.
I too have used Aptible and been very impressed. Seems like Aptible would be avery smart acquisition for Salesforce.
That seems unlikely. I can easily imagine guys with 40 years experience writing Fortran or Cobol getting six figures. Or even just 10 years.

But I'd have to see it to believe it for a straight out of college kid and rudimentary familiarity with the language.
I really like this approach and it reminds me of the approach that Google takes with their versioning. Everything in one giant source repository.

It has a nice effect where every change to a library requires a commit which can trigger a build. There are no hidden updates.
3D Touch is just a gadget, not a feature that would help Apple raise their sales. Bigger screens were such selling point, so was NFC support, so was swipe keyboard in AppStore - and all those were added by Apple only after they became popular in Android phones. Of course Apple made some improvements when adopting them, but it seems that they are using Android phone owners as their beta testers :)
> You could have simply bid 1.25 or whatever your true reserve is in the first place. If your reserve price changes in the face of the current auction price you're not acting rationally.

Well, sure, the rational choice model is a poor model for human behavior in general that is only even a reasonable approximation when aggregating over large groups, and even then only in certain kinds of interactions. People not acting rationally isn't some kind of exceptional failure mode, its the norm.

In relevant particular, the rationality assumes -- falsely -- perfect, zero-cost knowledge of utilities and opportunity costs. In reality, understanding of the expected utility and opportunity cost of a transaction is always imperfect, and the degree to which it approximates perfection is dependent, to a certain extent, on the effort expended in considering the utilities and costs, which has its own opportunity cost.

If you modify the rational choice model only enough to accommodate the fact that certainty of costs and utilities in the real world is dependent on effort which itself has an opportunity cost it then becomes easy to see how it is as rational as it is practical to be to revise ones estimate of value of a potential purchase in light of information that indicates that the safe (and cheap) estimate used in preparing a bid is not enough to secure a purchase, so further consideration is needed to determine if it is worth upping that bid or whether the purchase should be abandoned.
This has some awesome implications for open source. If a huge company like IBM openly supports and dedicates resources to FOSS, I think we can expect these products to get way more attention and receive the full treatment of corporate testing and development which would really offset the ephemeral nature of projects like Node. Not saying the current foundation guys aren't doing a great job already, but IBM's expertise in software can only be a plus I think!
For Live Photos, there is something which is much more similar than gifs. Even the 'animate while swiping through the gallery' is the same:

http://www.windowscentral.com/trick-enable-nokia-living-imag...
Whoever downvotes without an explanation is a poophead. I still like him.
One method of speciation is reproductive isolation. One model for this is the Bateson–Dobzhansky–Muller model, where if a species is, say, separated by distance, and then subgroup A has a change at one loci, and subgroup B has a change at another loci, and due to these mutations, individuals from subgroup A can no longer reproduce with individuals fom subgroup B - then it can be said that speciation from reproductive isolation has occurred according to this model.
I promise it wasn't that many.
> Force touch is like adding right click to mobile,

That's a really amusing way to phrase it, given Apple's long history with the single-button mouse.
Robot Spider is very realistic
I talked to them out at AWS re:invent in November and it was implied but not confirmed that HIPAA compliance was being worked on. Maybe things have changed since then.
If you like this, you will also like the documentary "Alone in the Wilderness" -- see http://www.dickproenneke.com
Great! but I cannot find AWS Lambda. I would be much better ;-)
I realize this blog post is full of optimistic "nothing will change!" statements, but that doesn't seem super-IBM-like.
also known as the Polar Plunge
Thank for the information buro9, my company has started to go global and we now serve clients in Australia, Japan, locations far away from our origin server (+200ms) and I am hoping to see a big improvement there.

I'll enable it today and see how it goes.
3 steps to connect service bindings of complex deployments
Consider Atlanta. Plenty of tech companies (although less startup-oriented and more corporate; whether you see that as good or bad is something you haven't elaborated on). Everything is cheap and the infrastructure is shitty. When it threatens snow flurries a couple times a year everybody freaks out and stays in and it's really easy to get to work. Summers aren't too bad if you're used to NJ; it doesn't really get _hotter_ here but it stays hot _longer_, and everything is air-conditioned well.
Can Cars be Hack-Proof? Here's the baseline and who's responsible
New Details on What's Returning for Dark Souls III
Is the technical webinar required to sign up for the beta?
1st Library to Support Anonymous Internet Browsing Effort Stops After DHS Email
Maximum length tops my list of favorite restriction, because it strongly suggests that they're keeping my password in the clear somewhere - or they used to, and just never got around to changing it.

The concept of illegal characters is tied for second. If you're handling it right, there should be no such thing - yet so many sites continue to set arbitrary limitations for reasons that aren't clear even to them.

Kind of wish I could just generate private keys for each site and not think about it anymore. (Yes, I know there are some convoluted ways to do this, but they're not particularly usable.)

THe best part is that even so many new and/or modern sites enforce the same arbitrary requirements.
Very strongly prefer matte.
And Android got rid of the press-and-hold for 'right click' long ago. Because hidden menus and settings aren't easily discoverable.
The irony is great.
Readymade art, remade in the 3d printed world. ReadyRemadeAndReprinted art as it should now be called.
All the 3d printers need to do is sign every piece and hang them in a museum .
I used to work with an old IBMer who used to say "it's no accident that IBM nearly collapsed at the same time as the Soviet Union did". Lou Gerstner famously rescued IBM from oblivion by turning it into a consultancy led company, and moving the focus away from mainframes. This is just a case of IBM snaffling up the latest cool thing so they can sell consulting services.
In case the author is watching - would it be possible for you to add information about thermal temperatures at idle and at load? Notebookcheck is the only website I know of that includes this information regularly in their reviews. Unfortunately they dont expose this in their searchable fields. I have written to them asking for this feature, but for now there is no good resource to find a laptop that wont burn my lap.
What does it really cost to resubmit an app
This post focuses on hardware which is a limited view, Apple certainly made very bold moves with respect to business. One reason I let go of my (very nice) Android phone and got an iPhone6 was that I was sick and tired of being at Verizon's whim for software updates and always had to use slightly older versions (while my friends with AT&T enjoyed a newer version of KitKat). I'd much rather deal with Apple, at least everyone's on same footing.

For me the biggest innovation that Apple did was to break the stronghold that wireless carriers had on phone innovation. Note that some others couldn't even think of this possibility (Moto, which killed it) or tried it in a half-assed way (Google).

I never agreed with idea in this passage:

"In the place of a Dark Lord you would have a Queen! Not dark but beautiful and terrible as the Morn! Treacherous as the Seas! Stronger than the foundations of the Earth! All shall love me and despair!"

If it's a necessary evil I, for one, would want to deal with a terrible Queen rather than the Dark Lord. And I sure hope that Apple aims cable companies next.
What is the connection to the Soviet Union? Were they a large IBM customer?
I would never suggest eliminating car travel; just providing more efficient alternatives for the most common use cases. 90% or more of people are physically capable of using mass transit. Why should they take up 30 times as much space as they need to just because the other 10% need to use a less efficient means of transportation?
No, you can re-hash the original hash you have, and add an additional check at login for new-hash(original-hash(password)).
IBM have been a major Linux contributor since around 2000 (just as a more recent example), so they aren't exactly new to FOSS.
Side Note: Unlike what Graphemica may have you believe, there are actually more fonts than just DejaVu Sans that contain glyphs for the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block. Modern versions of OS X come with STIXGeneral¹ (v1.1.0 on OS X v10.9 at least), and fonts like Symbola² and Everson Mono³ also have glyphs for them. (I love Symbola’s glyphs for the MATHEMATICAL ITALIC characters such as U+1D463 MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL V⁴, while Everson Mono is fantastic if you need a monospaced font for all those characters⁵).

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¹ — http://stixfonts.org/

² — https://web.archive.org/web/20150625020428/http://users.teil...

³ — http://evertype.com/emono/

⁴ — http://f.cl.ly/items/2h2p0r1F1h2E1y2o2y0c/Screen%20Shot%2020...

⁵ — http://evertype.com/emono/emtype.html
I don't want to get into a my framework is better than your framework fight, but I disagree with people who say flask can only be used for simple applications. Just because it's a micro framework doesn't mean it's only for micro apps. The trade off on framework size is how much functionality you want out of the box. If you want a bunch of features and are okay with doing it the Django way, Django is great. If you want more flexibility, smaller frameworks like Flask or Pyramid work fine.
CloudFlare, Clinton, clipper and crypto
How to win a hackathon with machine learning
The button is enabled when the mail contains a valid List-Unsubscribe header. It's not because there's a link in the e-mail body itself.
The entropy in the resulting hash is almost the same as a salted MD5 though, is it not? You have more bits, but not significantly more possible hashes.

edit: I guess most people only start out with short passwords, thus limiting the possible entropy anyway...
That would be consistent with mentioning the use of Alexander palms on his other project. They are native to Australia.
Who, exactly, is "the industry" here?
I still think it's super weird that they don't count as different species.

There's the suggestion that breeding + fertile offspring is the main concern, but couldn't early humans and neanderthals reproduce, for example? But we definitely consider them separate species.

Dividing lines are hard here I guess.
N00b question. With more cores, wouldn't it also mean there's more overhead to "managing" process execution? There are probably some specific applications where it makes sense to have more cores, but does the everyday mobile user benefit from having thousands of cores?
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> My hatred for Soylent doesn't make it okay for Cryoshon to give dangerous advice.

Except it isn't dangerous advice. The site you link is an extension of British paranoia over the safety of leftover rice. I don't know where it comes from, but I can find no sources that are not British or Australian that claims leftover rice is dangerous a mere day after being refrigerated, assuming it is cooled properly in the first place.

I personally make gumbo, jambalaya, and dirty rice days ahead of time. I have never been sickened by it. I personally know of no one who has been sickened by leftover rice that was stored properly. The few American sources that address the subject directly indicate three days is perfectly fine. That said, leftover rice safety is a non-issue over here. I have no idea why it is in Blighty.
I had the same feeling, while watching the Office ad, showing a guy who brought the work home. Instead of productivity, it looks like the lack of work-life balance
Yes. The Neanderthal species supposedly died out about 40k years ago. [1] In this article they talk about a species that may be millions of years older.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal
> Additionally, the user agent MAY provide user setting to control the use of resource hints.

Why isn't this MUST? Users absolutely have to have a choice, because prefetching (even just DNS) allows tracking ("analytics") information to leak.
> I can get behind most code style guidelines, but people who harp on 80 character line limits drive me nuts. It's such a funny anachronism. Is there really someone out there using an editor that can't soft-wrap?

Personally, I'd never know. I assume my editors can soft-wrap, but, IME, in terms of being able to easily work on code, lines that fit the window are better than long lines that aren't soft-wrapped, and long lines that aren't soft-wrapped are better than long-lines that are soft-wrapped, so I don't ever use soft-wrapping features.

I'm personally not that tied to 80 characters as a perfect line limit, but its a not unreasonable general guideline for most code in most languages. Like most guidelines, there's times when its inconvenient as a hard limit.
> I thought the standard way of migrating your PW hashing function was that you could only do it during a login, because that's the only time you have the PW in plain text. No?

No. Well, I mean, it's common to do that, but it's a bad idea and it's not necessary to keep all of those vulnerable hashes around.

Say you have a bunch of MD5 password hashes stored, and you want to upgrade your password hashing to BCrypt. Don't wait for the user to login and rehash their plain text password.

Instead, Bcrypt all the MD5s. The authentication mechanism is now BCrypt(MD5(plaintext)) == stored_bcrypt. Upgrade them to straight bcrypt on login.
Yep but I've got you beat - using your scheme, I recursively encoded this one 64 times!
You can't use green wood to build anything you expect to last and you certainly can't just shove it into the ground and expect it not to rot. It's interesting intellectually but completely impractical.
Yea, I wonder how that's reconciled. The Neanderthal DNA comes from a 38k year-old specimen:

> The researchers recovered ancient DNA of Neanderthals by extracting the DNA from the femur bones of three 38,000-year-old female Neanderthal specimens from Vindija Cave, Croatia, and other bones found in Spain, Russia, and Germany.[8] Only about half a gram of the bone samples (or 21 samples each 50–100 mg[1]) was required for the sequencing, but the project faced many difficulties, including the contamination of the samples by the bacteria that had colonized the Neanderthal's body and humans who handled the bones at the excavation site and at the laboratory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal_genome_project

2^(38000/521)=10^22, so there must be other effects. That Nature article says

> The team predicts that even in a bone at an ideal preservation temperature of −5 ºC, effectively every bond would be destroyed after a maximum of 6.8 million years. The DNA would cease to be readable much earlier — perhaps after roughly 1.5 million years, when the remaining strands would be too short to give meaningful information.

which I don't know how to square with the 521 year figure. I think maybe 521 years is at the high temp?
The negative is that time is a finite and limited resource. If a junior person spends their time learning about Fortran or some other esoteric thing while their peers learn skills or languages that are in demand, the junior person that learned Fortran will be at a disadvantage.

Of course, if you're doing it just for fun, then I'd say there's no negative. But from a career perspective, you'd be better off learning more relevant skills.
async I saw what you did there.
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Thanks, that's a great article. May be worth a repost since it's been 5 years since it was last posted (according to my cursory searches).

Somebody posted it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10199163
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Posting this censored comment for the good of the community; it seems entirely reasonable, although a bit overwrought.

"Gurer jnf rknpgyl bar oernxvat cbvag, sebz Clguba 2 gb Clguba 3"

Bar oernxvat cbvag?

Gur znwbevgl bs gur yvoenevrf gung V hfr qba'g rira jbex cebcreyl va Clguba 3. Gur fgnaqneq Zlfdy yvoenel sbe vafgnapr, juvpu vf hfrq va gur znwbevgl bs BEZf (vapyhqvat FDYnypurzl) vfa'g vapyhqrq va Clguba 3, juvpu zrnaf lbh arrq gb znxr znwbe punatrf/gel gb hfr n qvssrerag yvoenel.

Gur pnfr bs znal fgnaqneq yvoenevrf jrer punatrq, oernxvat ybgf bs pbqr. Rknzcyr: PbasvtCnefre gb pbasvtcnefre.

Rira fvzcyr guvatf yvxr cevag 'grfg' vf abj cevag('grfg')

Gurfr ner bayl n srj rknzcyrf. Gurer ner ybgf bs bgure znwbe punatrf gung oernx 2.K pbqr.

V unir orra hfvat Clguba 2.K sbe nyy bs zl cebwrpgf naq jnagrq fb onqyl gb punatr gb 3.k sbe zl arj cebwrpgf. Ubjrire, orpnhfr bs nyy vapbzcngvovyvgvrf, V pna'g.

V qba'g guvax V'z nybar ba guvf rvgure. Clguba 3.K fgvyy vfa'g orvat hfrq ol gur znwbevgl bs qrirybcref.
AFAIK Israel actually attempts airport security instead of security theatre, which is understandable considering what happens there.
Does Uber try to prevent drivers from also being Lyft drivers?
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With Rust, we pulled time out of the standard library before 1.0, specifically because we knew it wasn't up to the task. So if "no library" counts as a "non-broken" library...

We still don't have great libraries yet, but they're coming, slowly. Chrono is pretty good.
I know it was a candid interview, but time and experience can do quite a bit to diction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1KD7DdnRb8
Actually calling it right click is severely under selling it, it has huge advantages for gaming etc. there will be apps that will not be able to be ported to android, at least not usably.
The Economic Organisation of a P.O.W. Camp (1945) [pdf]
I don't get it and await an explanation
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$4M and counting for XTI's Aircraft that doesn't exist
Don't companies, like distelli, already do something like this? I worked for the city and we used them.
Apple: You’ve Seen It All Before, and Nothing Else Like It
The considerate seafarer might consider warning others, rather than sitting back with popcorn. All these arguments really center around two points, will the mermaids eat you, and even if they will eat you, should we care that the singing tricks people or just accept it?
> The entropy in the resulting hash is almost the same as a salted MD5 though, is it not? You have more bits, but not significantly more possible hashes.

The entropy isn't the significant problem with MD5. The problem is how damn fast you can perform 2 billion MD5 hashes on modern machines.