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When I had a Mac I used Carbon Copy Cloner to image the disks solving that entire problem. It creates bootable backups then which you can restore to exactly the original state. Time machine was a veritable pain in my arse on numerous occasions including one that nearly shafted everything I had. I genuinely don't trust it or HFS+ and never would ever again.

TBH I've moved to Windows as a primary platform now and I'm just using Beyond Compare to sync my data by hand to bitlocker encrypted USB sticks (3x 128Gb Corsair Survivor) and keep one on my keyring, one in the car and one at home. Takes about 2 hours to build a windows machine from scratch now including OS, Office, dev tools, updates onto an SSD. I imagine that would work reasonably well on a Mac too if you skipped half the junk that appeared in the user's profile.
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Obligatory - never talk to the police

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
Because your monitor is (probably) refreshing at 60hz. Your frames will display for some integer number of monitor refreshes - at 1 you'll get 60fps, at 2 you'll get 30fps.

Over a second, it's of course entirely possible to get something in-between, where some frames are displayed for 1 refresh, and others for 2 refreshes. Inconsistently waffling between these is going to be more jarring than sticking to one.

Recently, you have things like nVidia's... gsync? Which make the monitor refresh rate variable with compatible monitors, to match the game framerate, making 45fps entirely possible, and reducing the jarring from varying frame lengths. But this recent, rare, and likely PC and/or GPU vendor specific still.
You video is pretty useless. People taking pictures. Tell us why it's different, what's new.
What I don't get why would you have to explicitly invoke your right to remain silent, if the law says that you have the then.
Not really, it's just too weird for me
Lambda functions are just small Node scripts wrapped up in a Docker container and then executed on a custom scheduler. I don't think it would be too difficult to port to another platform.
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First, this is really great. I'm looking forward to seeing how it works in practice.

"We plan to do this for a long time. If some of these projects take 25 years, that’s perfectly fine with us. "

Building an institution that supports this kind of long-term commitment is going to be a challenge. While there are plenty of organisations that work over those timescales, very long-term projects seem to me to be unusual - and not just because results are increasingly expected in the short-term, but because 25 years is about half of a long career and few people (imo) have the commitment and self-belief to embark on such a project. I can think of some, like SETI [1] and Mass Observation [2], but they tend to be highly distributed. The danger might be that you end-up with something like the Institute for Advanced Study [3] with its debatable productivity record.

Nevertheless, this is a massively positive announcement from YC. We need more stuff like this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_for_extraterrestrial_in...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass-Observation

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Advanced_Study#C...
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As I read the article, he was just bullshitting.
Feeling hungry usually kills my concentration especially in early stages (I remember first day being the worst and later you sort of get used to it). And in general I feel weaker and drained.

This is the point, isn't it? For me, not only fasting does not make me weak or unconcentrated - quite the opposite. My fasting days are the days I'm feeling the best. And the added benefit is that I have so much more time because I don't need to worry about cooking and eating. Oh and the opposite too ... :)

Why is it though? I think it is just because I came over the initial obstacle, became used to fasting and now it is just as natural to me as normal eating pattern.

Was it worth it, though? After all, there is little chance I will actually experience real shortage of food so my "skill" is useless in practice. Well, one thing is that there is a growing number of studies that show health benefits. The other is that I am sure it carries over to other aspects of life - i.e. being trained to voluntary restrain from food, it's easier to restrain from impulse purchases or apply any other restrictions. Plus, I believe (with no studies that I know of to support that) that having a body that is more "robust" - that can operate equally well both during feast and famine - is a positive thing.
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funny that you should bring up Bill Hicks in a JFK thread. One of the bits he was known for was about the shooting.

"There were some anti-Castro pigeons in the bar, someone heard them say 'Coup! Coup!' "

Bill Hicks - JFK Assassination. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZq6UOiBu_Y
Great question, hope more people will throw in some funny stories.

If I ever get interviewed by Netflix, I am gonna ask that one.
Congratulations on this great endeavour! I've frequently mulled setting up website like patreon to help support and accelerate crucial research, which is seeing less and less progress these days. I'm glad YCombinator took note of this problem too!
Yeah. To follow up (and try to explain it in a way dumb people like me will understand) the US is big on "precedence", which essentially means if a court says, "We believe this law applies this way in this specific scenario" then another court can and likely will reference that previous decision while making its own ruling on a completely separate (but somehow related) case.

As a hypothetical example, imagine a court 50 years ago said that talking to the police after invoking your 5th Amendment rights nullified your invocation of your rights.

Then, a case appears where a suspect wasn't read his Miranda rights but had invoked the 5th, except he then spoke to the police immediately after (and nullified his previous invocation). Well, what if the court decides he can re-invoke his 5th Amendment rights once he's finally read his Miranda rights? Boom. More precedence.

See how it can get complicated? It's almost kind of like when you have to write a bunch of edge-case code because weird "gotchas" keep cropping up and it's a bitch to rewrite the entire thing.
Hmm. What if It's just that more Americans are complaining about pain that isn't truly real? Like somewhat imagined.

So now a higher ratio of trial patients aren't I'll in the first place.
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I think, rather than arranging it in specific pattern they tried to fit 16 camera modules as close as possible so as to reduce overall size. As the modules are of different sizes, resulting placement looks irregular.
Please refer video 'The Story of light' on page https://light.co/camera
@1:25 , wireframe of all modules is displayed.
Why are placebos becoming increasingly effective only in the US ?

A couple of hypotheses were mentioned in the article. One is that only in USA and New Zealand is direct-to-consumer drug advertising allowed. Another, which seems to have some supporting evidence, is that size and length of the drug trial may boost the placebo effect. The latter point is presumably about the production value of the trial, mandated by increasingly stringent FDA regulations. The apparent cost sells the apparent effectiveness.

I wonder whether these results might be linked to USians sustained high level of religiosity, which is also unique in the developed world.
> Its a different take on the problem, stitching multiple lens and sensor data to make a whole that's better than the parts.

I've seen the idea discussed a few times in the past, essentially doing for cameras what is done with multiple radio telescopes to create something that would be impractical to achieve with a single unit. This is the first time I've heard about someone having implemented the idea outside of a proof-of-concept. I'd be interested to see how well it works in practice. I'm not that much much of a photo taker myself, but a few of my friends are camera bugs so I'll be passing the link on for them to dissect.
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I'm not sure if I'm missing something either about statistics or about how the trials work, so maybe someone can enlighten me:

> Based on patients’ ratings of their pain, the effect of trialled drugs in relieving symptoms stayed the same over the 23-year period — but placebo responses rose. In 1996, patients in clinical trials reported that drugs relieved their pain by 27% more than did a placebo. But by 2013, that gap had slipped to just 9%.

Wouldn't an easier way to look at it be to completely ignore the effects of the actual drugs in those trials, and just look at the data of how many people took placebos and to what extent those people reported changes?
Surely that's already entirely the point of natural selection.
A sophisticated ransomware app could do this: stash away a snapshot from the users cloud backup (e.g. CrashPlan) and then change the local backup configuration to backup no folders at all, which in the case of CrashPlan also removes the historic archives of the users' data, as history is only kept for those folders that are currently backed up.
J Strother Moore would disagree with you, the development of ACL [1] is going on from 40 years!

[1] http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/moore/acl2/acl2-doc.html
“Bean sprouts are still our most popular item,” said Zeng Wen

The most common explanation on the streets was that the floral fascinators just looked cute — “meng meng da,” in a cloying term made popular on the Internet.

I suspect a pun here. The meng character is 萌, which literally means "sprout"[1], and is related to the Japanese "moe" concept[2].

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%90%8C

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moe_(slang)
What really happened (and this is true to some degree in the Boston area as well), is that the tech boom(s) actually started in what was (at least then) largely suburban or even semi-rural areas. Silicon Valley and Route 128. This was, after all, a period when there was largely a migration away from cities.

When I was working in the Boston area tech industry (actually near 495) in the 80s/90s out of school, relatively few people I knew lived in the city proper or had a particular interest in doing so.

But then this interest in migrating to at least a handful of specific dense cities by young professionals blossomed and the nearby cities to these booms aren't really prepared for it.
Good. Mods like you who exempt themselves from the rules are one of Reddit's many problems.
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That's awesome.

My longest fast was 5 days. My personal experience was that starting from day 3 I was a little "lethargic" or basically slow in the morning, but that feeling went away fairly soon, and by 10 AM I was operating as normal.

But things like climbing up the stairs got noticeably more difficult, even though I'm a physically active person. I would not dare walking 12 kilometers while fasting, except maybe shortly before breaking of the fast.

Anyway - no noticeable hunger, no nausea or vomiting and the bowel movements also stopped on day 1 or 2, so quite a fun experience overall.
what's the point of those? the random ones i read, the interviewer, besides the record not capturing over half of his phrases, only ask questions about black segregation at the army.

nothing really interesting in those if you already know the army works by friends recommending friends.
Thanks for an excellent reply! Well, I had totally overlooked the FAQ and I see now that they are hoping to deliver DNG, and it doesn't seem to be the demosaiced linear DNG variant (which is very good). As you say it most certainly needs to be processed/exported (either in camera or in post) to DNG. If the software lives as long as the camera, that's fine by me. Many camera makers already "cook" their raws so perhaps this doesn't need to be bad.

> Any focusing will be done computationally at post-processing time.

I catch myself being stuck in old ways of thinking. Again you are right and you just threw some fuel on my excitement fire.

I must say I love the innovation that new actors are bringing to the market. However, I will remain a bit skeptical until release. A lot can happen in a year.
You either already voted, or you haven't got enough Karma to vote.

For some silly reason HN doesn't let you change or retract your vote.
then they can't import it.
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Yup, we actually discussed this last week in our podcast http://www.africantechroundup.com/volkswagen-up-in-smoke-as-...
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An interesting project - thanks for pointing it out.

I'm not saying that such long-term projects are impossible, just that they are rare due to institutional and human reasons. And because they are rare, we don't have much experience with how to design successful support institutions.
That doesn't seem insane at all. There's not much light from the sun that has already set, there's light from the bulbs above and there looks to be light coming from behind the photographer.

Also I see extreme amounts of noise even though it's downsampled to 1920 on the long side, especially in the black guys shirt. There seems to be lots of lost detail and and also loss of information in the shadows. Of course it would help to have full res images to say something substantial, but it doesn't look all that promising to me.
My advice for anyone interested in fasting would be to go slow. If never tried it before, start with a 24 hour fast - i.e. eat dinner, then nothing until dinner time the next day. If that went fine, next week try a 36 hour fast - i.e. dinner, no food the next day, and eat breakfast the day after. If that goes well again, continue extending the fasting time, but also allow yourself time in between. Eventually you will get a grasp and some feeling about how long is too long, or how often you can do fasts - I don't think there is much science on the topic.

I did 36 hour fasts, then I did 48 hour fasts, then I went for 3 days, then for 4, finally for 5 - over a course of several years actually. May try a longer fast in the future, but my current schedule is to have a weekly 36 hour fast - at least, most weeks.
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I'd say it's a matter of debate how good that control is when who's controlling it is either incompetent or has it's own interests -- or worst, both. I'm not saying we should go back to the gold standard, but alternatives such as Bitcoin become increasingly interesting in countries plagued by hyperinflation.
Perhaps its a reaction to all the pollution.

But is it actually weird? Tell me you've never seen a girl with a flower in her hair in the West. Of course, you have.
One thing it doesn't clear up for me is whether you can invoke the fifth amendment even in cases where there is not a specific crime you might incriminate yourself with. "Could your answer make it look like you committed a crime?" Considering that I have been advised that anything I say may be used against me, I would think that the answer to this question is inherently yes, even if I can't actually imagine how it might be used to incriminate me. Can I invoke the fifth simply on the principle of playing it extremely safe?
I agree it seems to qualify as something considered cute.
Why was any future academic career out of the question?
this is the only reason here for this "news" "article".

besides this, that is pure libel, with no source or fact checking from the " journalist". and that is just mentioned in passing. the "journalist" doesn't even notice that is the only real interesting bit, and obviously does not expand or investigate on it. I'd love to hear what github has to say on this.

just flag this garbage.
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You know who didn't stop messing with Shakespeare's language?

Translators.

Thankfully, we don't need to read Shakespeare in the original Klingon but even then, the first English translation is already 400 years old. And it shows.

As a non-native speaker of English, the standard English version that is written adds another difficulty for enjoying his works. You not only need to look up all those obscure mythological references but also you need to understand the small but important differences in language. English has changed since the days of Shakespeare and as even native speakers struggle with that, it is even harder for non natives.

German has a long tradition of translations of Shakespeare (the first one dates from 1604!). The German "standard" translation is the Schlegel-Tieck joint translation from 1826 although it has been updated in parts ever since. But there are other translations as well. Wikipedia claims that the sonnets have been translated into German almost 50 times since 1967.

I think some native speakers have a problem with "translating" Shakespeare into modern English as the English of Shakespeare is still quite understandable. Just let English develop some 200 or 300 years longer and such translation will become a non-issue.

Unless the English speakers do something similar like the Greeks did and let old classics influence how they develop their language. But given the laissez-faire attitude of the English native speakers in the past and the influence of L2 speakers on the English language, I don't expect this to happen.
Oh sure, I'll read an 84 page PDF. While I'm reading that, why don't you have a read of this:

https://en.wikipedia.org
Cravings are very much related to what you eat and don't eat. Cut out all sugar from your diet and pretty soon you'll be dreaming of cake and frosting. Overdose on sugar and you'll be hungry again two hours later.
I don't think the "suburban party" is denying any such thing. In cities like San Francisco people who paid a million plus for their townhouse don't want new highrises blocking their view or their light. People who live in suburbs don't care one way or the other.
Problem with Crashplan is the limited pipe they have. If you have few T of data like I do it will literally take you months to back it up or restore.
Totally agree. Just wanted to stress how the grant funding systems is totally nonsensical. While as a PhD you could get funding for your entire 3/4 year program (at least here in the UK), if you decide to go for a post-doc things get dramatically complicated as your employment is (usually) tied to a particular grant. When the grant expires, you're out if there isn't another source of money. Is that a decorous situation for a highly skilled person who devoted much of his life to studies? Not sure about that.
Is anyone even slightly surprised that the actions of the US government would directly hurt US businesses?
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Yes I do agree with you. ACL is just an example of as the devotion of one or two persons can bring unexpectedly successful results. Achieving the same in bigger organisation is a much harder challenge.
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I tend to use the HN crowd like that :). You can expect to find from an optics professor to professional photographer and everything in between to comment on this.
Jai also seems rather "ideologically opinionated" to me (which isn't a bad thing in my opinion).
Must be a slow news day.
What constitutes "reasonable" is a hard question. What I know is that all societies on this planet curtail speech to prevent intimidation. They only vary on the degree of intimidation they forbid. As a matter of fact, I am not aware of any single system of ethics where free speech is a higher value than preventing all forms of intimidation.

I also, again, must take issue with the use of "free speech" in this context. It is not at all clear that it even applies to every sequence of letters a person types or every utterance a person makes. At its very core -- or consensus -- free speech means the freedom to express all ideas and opinions without fear of arrest. It is not at all clear that "I would like to rape Ellen Pao" is either an idea or an opinion, and therefore I don't mind discussing whether we should allow such things to be said, but I do mind including them under the umbrella of "free speech" (my objection is not on principal grounds but on aesthetic grounds).

I do believe that every person should have the right to freely express his or her ideas in public without fear of arrest, and I think that this value is rather high in priority. But I agree with all other free societies (including the US[1]), which think that this freedom does not apply (and I'm not talking about various exceptions to that freedom based on offense) to certain combinations of words that constitute neither ideas nor opinions.

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

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_the...
I have no insight, but looking at the text you highlighted, I expect they must have done exactly the analysis you suggest.

It is likely that the researchers and the audience want to understand how to get more effective drugs onto the market more than why placebos per se are becoming relatively more effective. This may explain the unexpected reporting emphasis.
They link to this, and leave out the latter part:

A Study on the Effectiveness of Ultrasonic Sound Emitters [in Controlling Bat Populations]

They're practically parodying themselves at this point.
This is the sequel to Uber's subpoenaing of Github for all the IP addresses that accessed the gist in question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9131921
“Nobody knows what it means, but we do it anyway.”

This one comment sums up pretty much the entirety of Internet "culture", see for example neknominate, the ice-bucket challenge, etc.
how often does this "witty" project gets posted?
Here is the distinction, I think:

Anyone who endures verbal abuse chooses to do so.

In the case of physical abuse, the intuitive presumption is that coercion dominates any voluntary component.
Mixing different responsibilities for the same role
Human ears can't hear ultrasound. What about other animals[1] on this planet?
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrasound#Animals
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They also have implemented push in default iOS mail app (which pretty much makes their own iOS app useless).
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When you're doing a regular drug trial, you control using a placebo to account for the effect of just taking something.

In this reverse analysis you need the opposite: if the placebo effect is changing, that could either be because the placebo itself is more effective, or because people are reporting pain differently, or a number of other confounding factors. Analysing the people who took real painkillers too gives you a baseline to compare against.
It's impossible to test "absolute" effects of drugs, so they are always tested in relation to each-other, this makes analysis easy because the only variable that's different is between whether participants are taking the actual drug, or a placebo. What you're suggesting would require testing a placebo in relation to not taking anything, which would introduce a lot more variables, and would make it impossible to do double-blind testing.