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My two last laptops have been from ASUS. No complaints, no problems with reliability, decent trackpads and generally solid builds (not Apple-solid, but they are also not Apple-priced as you point out). For a while, they were the only company making decent 13" with discrete graphics.

The thing that I found incomprehensible, and somewhat tangential to the grandparent, is how ASUS manages to screw up distribution so badly. They release slightly different models at slightly different times in different geographic regions, and it is usually impossible to buy, say, the European or Asian versions, in the US. A year ago I was quite literally ready to throw money at them in exchange for a UX303LN to replace my aging U36SG, but my dream model was only available in Europe. The only two options I could get in US both had something wrong with them. Repeat: they actually manufactured a laptop to the exact specifications that I wanted, but didn't give me a way to buy it.

Considering they have global distribution channels, it don't imagine it actually being hard to make all models globally available, so the only other explanation I have is forced market segmentation: the two models available in US were pretty much the lowest and the highest end, with nothing in the middle.

I had been waiting to see if UX303UB will make it to US, or if it will suffer the same fate. Instead, I just pre-ordered a Surface Book.
Isn't the issue that poor people cannot afford fresh food? The calorie/dollar of veg+fruit is not a good value because in places like NYC or SF the markets are completely gentrified and the prices are astronomical. The other consideration is that the poor cannot live in nice real estate areas -- they live in grocery ghettoes. Take a look at the un-even distribution of places like trader joes around the uS and compare that to wal-mart. TJs is only in NFL metros for the most part (with upscale exceptions proving the rule). All of these public health "concerns" reeek of 1st world problems by weatlthy urban people who don't farm or have extensive familiarity with subsistence living. Remember that food stamps were created for poor white people in rural appalccia. The urban poor have completely different health concerns tied to the economics of real estate and transportation. None of this is served or in the scope of normal by the usda.
gather/take is more the general Perl 6 take on list comprehensions.
Limits for "lottery" green cards makes sense.

But for educated professionals who are already working here? Doesn't make a lot of sense.
Still, the Hilbert transform is fundamental knowledge. Although it may not be particularly suited for analyzing speech, it is crucial for understanding communications theory. It's a good next step in the study of envelopes.
Thank you both, very useful.
There already is; it's called organic chemistry. Completely synthetic medicines are a relatively new thing; for hundreds of years chemists have tested everything they could get their hands on for everything they could think of. Even so, novel natural products are discovered every year, and new uses for them likewise. Even those are usually synthesized, however, for cost reasons. If you find something interesting by grinding up sea sponges or something then you'd better hope you can synthesize it, or you'll never have enough to be useful. Also, if you can synthesize it then you can try a bunch of different modifications to it, and possibly find something similar which works even better. Evolution gives you random scatter-shot of chemicals; it's as likely to miss a really good one as it is to find it. (Plus the sea sponges and algae and so on are all optimizing for their own survival, not biocompatibility with humans.)

The only difference between medicine and "traditional" medicine is that "traditional" medicines are never discarded once they're proven to be ineffective.
>Chemotherapy in general is mostly just poison.

"slash, poison and burn" for surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy - a phrase from a well know cancer doctor mentioned on NPR couple days ago.

As another commenter mentioned it isn't just a poison though. Just for example - the artemisinin - the anti-malaria drug that was discussed recently being the subject of the recent Nobel prize - is looking promising so far as a [low toxicity] chemotherapy drug due to the same super-oxide interaction with iron-rich cells that makes it an anti-malaria drug as cancer cells are iron-rich too.
It isn't just geographical either: I spent many formative years in a single school-system as an expatriate in Hong Kong... But despite being a long-term resident everybody else (or at least, those who spoke English and went to my school) kept cycling in and out. (Executives' kids, military service-members' kids, etc.) I wouldn't be surprised if the yearly turnover was 10-25%.
Wait, all the way to the ground within five miles of an airport? A drone hovering four feet above your driveway is illegal in those areas?
Apparently, diagnoses of autism has become much more valuable for parents. (at least in the Netherlands). If you don't have a the label autism, you'll have to pay for everything yourself, but with a diagnosis the (local) government will help you out with certain things. (like schooling)

Something somewhat related, the diagnosis a child gets is highly dependent on the educational level of the mother. Higher educated mothers are more likely to have a child with Aspergers then "regular" autism. The cause is probably not genetic but more likely that a "smarter" mother will try to get a better (Aspergers) diagnosis then a mother with less intellect.
At least Windows and Linux have supported hot plug PCIe for ages.

Although hardware PCIe slot register must support the optional presence detect bits. Also slot capabilities register must report optional hotplug support and surprise removal support.

I guess thunderbolt has those features supported by default.
Or use rakudobrew.
http://codeselfstudy.com/wiki/Perl_6

I don't know Perl, but I saw the presentation and was blown away. Installed it today, and definitely will try building something with it soon.
Well, just like modern/western/industrial pharmacology, traditional medicines range from Very Effective down to Actually Quite Bad For You ... and their efficacy and safety are heavily influenced by the preparation method, dosage, the subject's physiology, other medications (including food) being taken, and so on.

So while it's not 'really dumb' to discount any traditional medicine because it wasn't made by a profit-driven multi-national corporation, it perhaps indicates some naivete regarding the provenance of many current 'modern' medicines. Some casual reading on digitalis, neem, cinchona, and willow bark may be enlightening -- most people on the planet, including you, have almost definitely used at least one of those (or, I'll concede, a synthesized version of the active chemicals taken from those plants).

There's some great resources on the net that speak to the role of plants in modern medicine - apart from the story you just read - keep in mind how many $'s have been spent over the past hundred years trying to come up with a synthetic cure for malaria.
But do you have tests for your tests? Assuming tests are written in Python2, gotta make sure they don't start testing the wrong things when you upgrade them...
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Works great in Firefox so long as you lie about what browser you're using. Cool project, wish it wasn't a jerk about user agent sniffing.
> Perhaps it's just the egoist in me that wants to think there's nothing nature or a random plant can figure out or has figured out, that we can't figure out synthetically in the lab.

It's the other way around - most of the drugs we have are reverse-engineered plants. But there's nothing nature can do that we can't do better once we know how it works. What we do is, we take from nature the parts that actually do the healing and refine them, and we throw away the irrelevant rest.

The reason some old herbal cures may be worth looking for is that it's likely that there is yet another plant-based substance that we could turn into actual, much more powerful medicine.
I just hope we don't all end up in that Audi commercial stuck in an office building, heh.

But seriously, I'm glad to see the FAA is paying attention to drones.
The Safe Harbor ruling stems from an earlier decision by an Irish court
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But my unit tests do do that ;-)
That is a quite odd stance to have. A very large part of modern drugs does come directly from plants, and are only later on produced synthetically, if it has the desired effect (and can be produced cheaper or cleaner synthetically)
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You don't get high bandwidth utilization by pointer chasing unless you have many threads doing it and you switch threads while waiting on memory. That's true for GPUs, not for typical server workloads running on CPUs.
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I don't understand what you are saying here. Can you clarify? Thanks.
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UUIDv4 is the only version of UUID anyone should ever use, and it should be generated with a secure PRNG, so using UUIDv4 is fine for this purpose (it has 122 bits of entropy).
On the contrary, the mandate of the USDA is to provide guidance and regulation relating to the meat and dairy industries. As the meat and dairy industries have definite environmental impact, they have space to make recommendations relating to the intersection of the meat industry and the environment.

It's foolish to think that we should all live in tiny, proscribed silos of expertise, and simply ignore all areas which other silos might have some claim to...
Here's the actual price data of U.S. cities compared to the midwest:

http://www.bls.gov/regions/mid-atlantic/data/AverageRetailFo...
Isn't it for ELBs as well?
Of course by definition there is no corruption in western countries ;)
On a serious note, the country limits make sense since it was designed for diversity (both lottery and employment based). It is unfair to give preferential treatment to a particular group. Whether we like to admit it or not diversity is important (I'm an Indian and I'm saying this)
Do you really think someone who's prepared to DIE gives two shits about your laws? Did you also forget that murder is already illegal? You want to criminalize the criminal so he doesn't commit a crime? That worked so well for drugs, nobody ever uses those anymore...

Laws only affect those willing to follow them, and guess what? Criminals by definition aren't.

Also can people stop acting like 'the black market' is this foreign place that you have to know a secret code to get in? For christ's sake, it's 2015, you don't even have to LEAVE YOUR HOUSE to buy an un-registered, unmarked, illegal firearm, but sure, the people buying them legally are the problem.

Bad people will always have guns, suggesting a ban is basically telling everyone who has defended their own life with a firearm (myself included) that they deserve to be dead, and well, my response to that would be pretty vulgar.
Current US grocery prices are distorted by farmbill subsidies. Beef, dairy, corn, wheat, soy, sugar, etc are all heavily subsidized by the Federal government's farming policies and tax deductions.

This doesn't change the fact that, relatively speaking, food is more expensive where the cost of living is more expensive and I do not dispute the fact that there are so called "grocery ghettoes".

This also doesn't change the fact that McDonald's burgers are vastly cheaper per Calorie than consumer-packaged vegetables or raw meats, but that is to be expected. The dressing on a salad is almost always more calorie-dense than the salad itself.
Definitely worth a listen/watch. Just goes to show how seriously Microsoft is taking the quality of their products.
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I cant agree. I really dislike the feel of the MacBook touch pads. Besides that they work good
You can't realistically separate agriculture, nutrition and the environment. Any body that deals with nutrition has to worry about agriculture, and any body that has to worry about agriculture has to worry about the environment. The way people get food is one of the biggest factors in the changing of the environment.
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With every passing day I find myself asking "Who are these people still falling for the 'American Dream' scheme?". I mean, it's just so obvious that this country is slowly falling apart, there are so many huge problems that I don't even know with which issue to start. I guess John Oliver's 'Last Week Tonight' is quite honest and does a decent job at scratching the surface. But for myself, following Edward Snowden's work and understanding it in the general economic/political context was the final nail in the coffin.
That's why we have other departments of the gov't to advise on their proscribed silos of expertise. No, I think this is the right thing to do. Stick to your area of expertise. I don't want gov't departments going rogue using up resources.

They should stick to their scope like nutrition, food safety, etc. They have too few food inspectors as it is.
That would buy a "border guard" few beers. Why would he want more for not causing some person a trouble on their way?

The other story if you would have some drugs or make some legit reason to arrest you and demand ransom, but nothing you would not be able to pay anyway.
For what it's worth, the `prepend` API in Ruby, which I advocated for back when I was working on Rails, works pretty nicely:

https://gist.github.com/wycats/0a354a96d00d47fa4e04
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Don't Walmart sell fruit and vegetables?

The British supermarket they bought, Asda, is the cheapest major supermarket in the UK and it certainly sells fresh fruit and veg.

https://www.google.dk/search?q=asda&prmd=imvn&tbm=isch#tbm=i...

It's not fantastic quality, but it's very cheap.
Passwords is one thing, but its sending information to servers that is the issue.

Things like U2F have a better chance of solving the password issue.

Information though.. i'm happy with google apps processing my data but i'd rather they can't actually store the data on their servers.

Ex: lets say you're a gmail user. Wouldnt it be nice if only your browser could read the contents and gmail servers only metadata?

Obviously, Google wouln't want that (remember, you're the product) - but that would be nice in the grand scale of things, wouldn't it? Like you know, instead of being slaves of corporations, just have them do stuff that's good for us and what not (dreaming out loud right now)
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Perl 5. Lots of good code out there to learn from, which will take a while for Perl 6 to be written.

And then you have a well documented mental migration path to Perl 6 since it tends to be explained in terms of deltas to Perl 5.
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> In that case they should just leave out the examples entirely.

I'll consider it.

> Also I'm not sure "password hashing" is any more descriptive than "password encryption."

It absolutely is. Encryption is a two-way transformation of data. It is, by design, reversible.

Hashing is one-way.

Password hashing is a special case of hashing where you want it to be computationally expensive (even with special hardware at your disposal) to attack, but still perform well enough to interact with.

Password encryption implies that a two-way transformation has taken place, and given the key, you should be able to reverse it. This is not within the scope of the requirements for secure password storage.
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No I get that. But that's for someone like the EPA to regulate, not the FDA to give an opinion on. They should be _unbiased_ as to what constitutes a good diet and nutrition (not conditional recommendations).

Imagine getting medical care and the doctor says, well, yes, there is this cure, but if I put on my accountant hat, it would be too expensive, you know what, instead let me recommend this course of action instead. It's not as effective, but it's better for the budget.
No man is an island. Advice and guidelines that don't take context into consideration are useful mostly as some kind of utopian ideal. The various agencies should be working together on things like this. And they sometimes do where their goals overlap. The dietary guidelines are actually an example of that since they're jointly issued by the USDA and HHS.

If the PH in our oceans became so unbalanced they could no longer support any kind of commercial fishing and it became a delicacy would they continue to push a certain percentage of fish as part of our diet? Considering the distortion lobbies create with respect to the balance of democratic power it would surprising if there weren't a certain amount of undue influence.
We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10342663 and marked it off-topic.
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That is really "niche", but I wonder how transferable her skills are? in case those IBM mainframes becomes obsolete :-)
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It's unnecessarily condescending, especially given that Ruby got `?` and `!` suffixes from Lisp, which far predates Ruby, and that Ruby itself is in many ways a descendent of Perl.
Oooh. Yes. In the above comment, "very cute" should be read as being said genuinely in an approving voice with a big grin, and exactly zero sarcasm.

This may be the first time (yeah, English, but do wear a kilt a fair bit) I've ever run into a problem with an American overdetecting sarcasm.
Yo Alexis - was the main logic behind starting this the fact that so many other sites are using Reddit UGC to drive their content machines (and thus revenues)?
its quite a bit more complicated than that but yes.
On the one hand one could argue that the US is also stealing resources from india because the US has more power.

On the other hand if 100% of india works in the US, you're back to the reason why you left india, in another land. It's a bigger issue than an immigration issue, and honestly I don't think it's solvable (til machines supersede humans of course).
Link doesn't work -- do you have another source?
And a good test suite is no replacement for being able to express invariants in your code. They are complementary tools.
There is alternative views to that:

https://modernmoney.wordpress.com/2010/09/20/the-myth-of-cro...

Anyway, you say "businesses re-invest the income to produce goods" that is not always true as we can see at this moment. They just hoard the money.

And "Private sector income is further reduced by expansion of taxation", but expansion of taxation is not necessary if the economy is not overheated and the people in charge understand what a public deficit really is.
I don't feel going back to the old days of borders everywhere is a good idea.
People say that traditional herbal medicine is unscientific, and to a degree they are correct. But just because no one has published a paper with a controlled experiment doesn't mean they don't work. Some of them does work because of trial and error.

Consider how the original discovery of a poison is made the hard way. It's morbid to think, but someone probably died to figure out that some plants are poisonous. Now extend that to thousands of herbs that may treat pain such as weed or may treat gout. Its not an efficient process but there was an observer that recorded the data when someone took a herb. That observer may not have recorded the data but s/he may spread it by word. This is sort of like an expert that gives small weights to its neighbors in a training group. So over time and through many iterations (sort of like a training group that iterates through many cycles), some final accumulated "common truth" is collected. That is analogous to a fuzzy logic or probability in whether a herbal medicine may work.

But that's with only 1 herb. Even with just 1000 herbs, a 2 herb combination is already half a million. You see how inefficient that is? Even with over 6000 years of human history, the trial and error is still very limited in drug exploration. So just because theres no recorded data of the tests that it doesn't mean it can't work.
Steve and I had a previous similar conversation; this one got further subject wise, but the original was also a fair few posts deep and we didn't accidentally piss each other off that time.

Pretty sure we'll manage to resolve the confusion shortly.
Not to my knowledge, and I agree, that would be very interesting.

This is the closest alternative so far, but the heat map visualization approach is much less granular/doesn't do as much as could potentially done with the slavevoyages.org data: http://mcb226.github.io/SlaveTrade/
For what it's worth, I completely agree with the "crappy alias" thing, and wrote a lot about this topic back when I was working on Rails full time (example: http://yehudakatz.com/2009/03/06/alias_method_chain-in-model...).

Ruby eventually added `prepend`, which I demonstrated upthread, and is a genuinely generic, in-language solution to the problem you're talking about.
But it would have made an interesting article if someone discovered you could often leave food on the ground for multiple minutes without issue, and named the article after their new "five minute rule" ;P.
Hey Y'all, I made FeedbackLoop because i think livechat should be easier.

I hated the fact that our teams all use some chat service(slack, hipchat, etc.) but sales/customer-service have to jump in and out of other communication tools for reaching and being reached by customers.

Long term: We can be the powerful interface to your customers you've been waiting for. With a first-class chat interface that your employees are familiar with.
It makes sense if you don't want to get educated professionals just from China and India and nowhere else.
Exactly. For game companies in particular, the code and the digital assets are dependent on each other. It's a bad day when you run your code against models that are missing bones the code expects.
T450 has 130dpi, T550 has 140dpi. It is small but noticeable difference.

It is a software problem that for pragmatic reasons I don't want to get into. Good luck setting non-integer scaling on current operating systems (like 1.25 or 1.50). It's either not supported, or the effect is blurry. It's a different story for retina screens, you set scaling to 2.00 and you're fine. But I was talking about non-retina.