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"In trying to read the scrolls, scholars and curators have invariably damaged or destroyed them. The Herculaneum papyri survived only because all the moisture was seared out of them—uncharred papyrus scrolls in non-desert climates have long since rotted away. In each scroll, the tightly wrapped layers of the fibrous pith of the papyrus plant are welded together, like a burrito left in the back seat of a car for two thousand years. But, because the sheets are so dry, when they are unfurled they risk crumbling into dust."

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"Brent Seales, a software engineer .. gave a talk about the possibility of “virtually unwrapping” the scrolls, using a combination of molecular-level X-ray technology, spectral-imaging techniques, and software designed by him and his students at the university."

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"In 2010, at a digital-restoration conference in Helsinki, Seales met Uwe Bergmann, a physicist at Stanford. Seales was familiar with Bergmann’s work on the Archimedes Palimpsest."

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"When Bergmann read about the palimpsest, in an article in GEO that his mother had given him, he immediately thought of employing a synchrotron"

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'Once he obtained access to the palimpsest, Bergmann used X-ray fluorescence imaging, or XRF, in the synchrotron to get pictures of the iron-based molecules in the ink. Unlike MSI, XRF is sensitive to individual elements. Different elements emit characteristic wavelengths of light when the X rays hit them; by zeroing in on iron, Bergmann was able to see the letters. “What had been invisible for centuries was made, right before our eyes, visible,” he said, in an interview published by the Department of Energy. “Line by line, Archimedes’ original writings began to come to life, literally glowing on our screens. It was the most amazing thing.”'

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It is the newyorker, why use a single sentence when a whole paragraph - with endless digressions - will do :)
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What would happen is that developers would buy up blocks of housing, demolish them all, and build more luxury units.

The average owner of a single-family home can't afford to demolish it and build a new block of flats. All this would accomplish is to make it financially feasible to buy up single-family homes and build more luxury units in them, concentrating even more wealth in the hands of property developers.

This is basically exactly what's happening in Vancouver; build a condo tower that starts at $1m/unit, it gets bought by either the rich elite or property speculators (or individuals attempting to 'hide' their wealth in other countries), and then sits idle. Even with rent control, new housing being built is predominantly geared towards the upper class, or the top end of the upper middle class. Property values go up, and the only thing keeping rents even remotely reasonable is the rent controls.

Then, because rent is controlled, property values are kept lower than they would otherwise be, because the 'buy-and-rent' landlords can't pay for a mortgage that costs less than market rates for rent, so fewer landlord tycoons buy as many units. This means lower mortgages and more supply for people who actually want to purchase a home and have actual security.

Your proposal would still concentrate power in the hands of developers and landlords; developers would buy up all the houses that would sell, knock them down to build rental units, and then, if rents risked dropping 'too low', they'd stop building for a while and just hold on to the properties.
What about android users that already have iTunes accounts via the Apple Music trojan horse ?
This isn't about civil asset forfeiture or drugs at all. I can sympathize with requiring that you be found guilty of something before taking all your stuff, but this isn't even about that. And even if it were, a public defender's office that could take on that kind of case to help you get your money back when you're innocent would help stop abuse of it.

What this case is actually about is someone who allegedly defrauded Medicare. The state froze their assets so they could get back the stolen money after trial (it's frozen, not forfeit, so they have to find him guilty).

His lawyer (who is not a public defender, incidentally) argues that he had a lot of assets before the alleged fraud. But the response to that is that is that it's not really fair to let someone defraud Medicare and then declare their assets not subject to a freeze because they've spent all the stolen money. All that really does is incentivize thieves to spend the stolen money first and what good does that rule do? If you have $5,000, steal another $5,000, and then spend $5,000, why can't the state freeze your $5,000 whether you spent the stolen or non-stolen money? Is it really fair to let you hire a high-price lawyer that others could only dream of when the bulk of your funds come from fraud? Why does it matter which money they spent first?

You can find all this and more in the transcript of the oral argument: http://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcri...
It strikes me that the problem with Justice Alito's analogy is that it presumes guilt. One could retell the story this way: two brothers each received $5000 from a rich uncle on the same day, and also made $5000 selling old vinyl records that turned out to be highly collectible. Then they go and spend $5000 partying. The government comes along and accuses them of attaining the second $5000 through illicit means and freezes their remaining money on the presumption of guilt. Defendants then cannot hire the counsel they desire, lose their case and go to jail. But it wasn't drugs they sold, it was vinyl.

I'm not sure that my story would end up changing legal minds, but failing to consider it as a possibility is unpardonable.
"their livelihood invested" - somebody said that "you can't be a true scientist if you don't rejoice when your model fails". As you suggest, a researcher today can't afford that. The best of science is done when somebody is "playing" curiously and without being invested in the expected results. In today's academia you just can't do that, or very rarely.
The majority of the US has had free market pricing for renting for two centuries, and the scheme you're describing has historically been the extreme rarity, not the common.

Further, in a market system there's no such thing as: "landlords would be able to rise the fee as much as they want." Not even close. I don't believe anyone can fail to understand what happens next when a landlord tries to command ten times their prior rent. People are not hostages, they move.
From my perspective as a former academic there is no simple solution here. We have created a system where the pressure to publish first and ask questions later is totally overwhelming. This is a cancer within science that will ultimately destroy public support for funding scientific research.

If we are going to solve this problem we need to reduce the pressure on scientists to publish at all costs. This publish-or-die thinking is driven by the extreme competition for grants and tenure tracked positions. Given I think it unlikely that the amount of money available for research is going to quadruple anytime soon (this is about the amount of money we would need to put into the system to get rid of the publish-at-all-costs mentality) what can be done?

1. Break the link between publication and grant funding. We could move to a system where once you had proved that you could do research (say published a few papers) and could come up with a viable research idea that was doable assessed by a simple grant proposal, then you go into a pool and the grants allocated by lottery. We should aim to have 50% to 75% of all scientists in this pool. We then fund as many grants as we can given the money available.

2. Spend some of the current research money on long-term fellowships (say 10 years) that are awarded in the same lottery way as grants.

3. Drastically reduce PhD student training to get supply and demand back into line. e.g. make it such that a supervisor can not supervise more than one student at a time.
because while one worker is blocked by IO the other one is processing the results of the previous IO.
This throws an invalid SSL cert warning on Android Chrome.

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It seems like this could make Postgres even better for large-scale data warehousing. Very exciting!
That's a piano cover of "U. N. Owen Was Her?", which is the musical piece (from one of the Touhou video games!) which inspired "Death Waltz".
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What does "pro-housing" mean? Isn't everyone who lives in a house pro-housing?
Excuse me, aren't you supposed to be a lawyer? Please read item number 8 here and stop spreading misinformation that can get others in serious trouble:

https://transition.fcc.gov/eb/jammerenforcement/jamfaq.pdf

"What are the penalties for using a jammer? Can I go to prison?

Yes. The unlawful use of a jammer is a criminal offense and can result in various sanctions, including a jail sentence."
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That example benchmark he has is weird. You'd probably want to test this one something with at least a million rows, taking more than a 100ms and probably actually returning some data. This sub-second difference can be attributed to solar flairs. Also it is not clear that it is not just result of the table getting cached.
Did they implement a feature like this and not run a real performance test?
Isn't unrestrained profit seeking what modernity is all about? Pre-modern societies had all sorts of customary/institutional restraints on profit seeking.

* The classical Greek had their notions of temperance

* Romans had the notion that a proper aristocrat needs to own an agricultural estate, idea of civil virtues (these cost a lot of money) and that one has to spend the money on a huge estate with a court of slaves (familia urbana)

* China had their Imperial bureaucracy

* the European middle ages had corporatism/guilds in the cities

Once these restraints were gone we entered modernity.

(here is an article why China didn't do modernity, despite having had all the big inventions that supposedly brought us capitalism - like the printing press, gun powder, paper money, big advances in materials, a fleet that discovered America. The authors say the structure of institutions was restraining entrepreneurship and progress :

http://www.amphilsoc.org/sites/default/files/proceedings/157...
But let's not forget that a significant proportion of stakeholders have no interest in changing the system. The same "broken" system is actually a way to provide hidden subsidies for industry, decrease unemployment (in many countries), show the public that "research funding was increased by the government", and who knows what else.
In the DC area many apartment buildings offer first year deals (months free, waived fees, etc). But you forget that there is nothing forcing you to stay in that apartment after the year is up. I have friends that purposely move from apartment to apartment nearly every year to take advantage of the deals. It's not like there is only one living unit available in a school district.
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> A project for public space, with posters put up in Karlsruhe, Cologne and elsewhere in autumn and winter 2015/16

> Commissioned by ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe on the occasion of the exhibition Global Control and Censorship, October 4, 2015 – May 1, 2016. The Cologne part of the project consists of 200 advertising columns

If you click the link "Advertising Columns" you can see those. I guess I am still confused as to what calling the number does (that we can actually see) and how it relates to the art.
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In other bands, the operator in control of the transmitter generally needs to file paperwork with the FCC to get a license (in some systems like cellphones, the base station is in control so the subscribers don't need licenses, just approved equipment).
Wow you know I always knew that Ultima Online had its predecessors in the Ultima series but never really researched them until now. Its blowing my mind right now to see the evolution of the games leading up to UO!

Currently been working on my own FPS for 1.5 years in UE4 (hoping to release a trailer soon) and I owe a lot to Ultima for inspiring me to learn game dev at a young age. I know Richard Garriot has been working on what is effectively UO2 with Shroud of the Avatar but sadly have not had the time to check it out.
This does not seem outrageous to me on either side. DoorDash wants to satisfy demand and grow their business; In-n-Out wants to protect its brand.

The details will determine who is right -- hence the lawsuit.
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Could this also be explained by the "influence" experimenters had on their subjects? By influence I am supposing some kind of subtle cues... body language, or whatever. It also makes some sense that a smaller sample size (group of people) would be easier to influence.
The post shows a 3.5x performance improvement for requested 4-way parallelism, so that's a significant improvement right now!

You might be surprised how many queries are bound by memory bus bandwidth and CPU, rather than I/O ... but even I/O bound queries may benefit:

Remember that postgres is a "demand-pull" system. A sequential scan node returns a single tuple at a time, whenever its parent node asks for a tuple. So there can be considerable time between requests for an actual disk block.

Parallelizing the scan should result in more frequent requests to the disk controller, which could then have better opportunity to optimize reads - even for a single disk. Since most of the latency for spinning disks is seek time, having more outstanding block-read requests should help performance.
What about retired people? A friend's single mom paid off her house 35 years ago in a relatively poor neighborhood in southern California. She worked as many jobs as she could to do that, all would be considered menial today; laundry, sewing, cleaning houses.

That area is now expensive enough that even with Prop 13 her children have to pay her property taxes for her. Her family, friends, church, etc. are all there, so it's not a trivial thing for her to move someplace cheaper (which would be at least 50 miles away, not a reasonable bus ride in that area).
No, not really, see this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10546875
Yeah, without a grinder, you'd pretty much have to do it hot. I've run across some knife makers who work entirely by stock removal, and I could imagine someone just grinding an edge into the end of a salvaged rasp and calling that it.
What's it going to be called? Unicorn Blood?
Need to start incentivising negative results, reproducing results and even finding no results at all. It should be possible to publish to some kind of database a data analysis with methods and data even if you don't find anything, because then maybe other scientists could look at it and say "ok, this seem to not yield any result, but I could try to change it" adn he either finds it ant publishes, or doesn't find and publish anyway, so we start to get a collection of results and be much more skeptical when one of 8 studies, for example, finds effect of p barely over 0.005.
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> it runs counter to the goals of a stable and healthy society to allow landlords to force people out of their homes arbitrarily.

Italy makes it very tough to kick people out of a rental even if they decide to stop paying.

This creates all kinds of problems for people trying to rent, as landlords vet them very, very carefully, and flat out refuse people they think might not pay up. They won't come right out and say it's because you're a foreigner, or a young couple that look like they might decide to have kids, or something like that, but it can be tough to find a place if you're the wrong kind of person.

Helping people with housing is a worthwhile goal, but dumping it on landlords is probably not the best way to accomplish it.
Any ideas for how we can guard against this?
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Also:

> I've heard quite a lot of people that talk about post-privacy, and they talk about it in terms of feeling like, you know, it's too late, we're done for, there's just no possibility for privacy left anymore and we just have to get used to it. And this is a pretty fascinating thing, because it seems to me that you never hear a feminist say that we're post-consent because there is rape. And why is that? The reason is that it's bullshit.

-- Jacob Appelbaum, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3h46EbqhPo&t=7m46s
"it runs counter to the goals of a stable and healthy society to allow landlords to force people out of their homes arbitrarily"

I don't think you'll get anyone many people that disagree with the premise of stability. The devil is in the details of implementation.

Rent control causes as many problems (or more) than it solves. You get much larger price swings in the rental market, for example, because the effective market size is highly constrained.

No system is perfect, obviously.
You just admitted to being a shill. The question is, are you being compensated for it?
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> the basic argument is that the availability of private college/lawyers/your-favourite-resource favours the rich and powerful, and that you can only get actual equal access for all to education/trial-defense/something-else if you force the rich and powerful to have an equal playing field with everyone else (at which point they will then use their power to ensure a decent/good level of the service for everyone, including themselves).

I don't get it. Can you actually argue in court that because a particular outcome would be "unequal" in terms of access, that the services in question shouldn't be available to anybody? As far as I know, that's never been a viable argument. You have to satisfy a much stronger criteria for this sort of thing, that it's an actual public ill. Inequality, as far as I know, has never, by itself been sufficient to prove that.
I can't tell whether or not you're being sarcastic but in the US, Veteran's day usually means a major sales holiday not unlike Labor Day, Memorial Day, or Black Friday.
Services like this have taken off in Sydney (HungryAndLazy, Menulog, etc)

It's made getting delivery food here SO much better, as it's many smaller family owned stores that now get massive business if they have better food
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> Their argument dealt only with the Sixth Amendment — that while the government can seize untainted assets before trial, it must allow a defendant access to enough of his untainted assets to pay for his own defense.

However, in this case it seems to me the defendant is guilty of defrauding the govt. to the tune of $40M. The possible outcome of the trial would be forcing them to pay back + penalties perhaps. Had this been a trial about something else (murder for ex.) govt might not have fought much to freeze the assets.

EDIT: The problem is of course with the word assets. Are we talking about physical assets? Probalby not. Otherwise say they stole 5 apples from the govt and they also happen to have 10 bananas of their own. Govt comes and take away the apples and bananas. So one can say ok these apples are stolen, only get those back, but should not take the bananas. Now imagine the assets is money (as it probably is in this case). Can a thief steal a bag with $100 bills, change them all to $20 bills and then tell teh govt, don't take my $20 bills, these are not the assets I stole. I only stole $100 bills but those are gone now. It doesn't work that way of course.
Seem more like your injecting you pet issue into the conversation than any sort real analysis. Why would i even matter? Any single issue is hugely overshadowed by the reality of rapid growth in demand.
Woah, awesome! It'll be interesting to see how Apple responds to this sort of instillation. I image with this publicity on HN we'll see other devs taking advantage of this instillation option to bring third party apps to users who are not jailbroken.
They're not saying he's presumed guilty, they're just trying out various scenarios to illustrate the effects of the laws.

And if you go that route, then it's not at all fair that some people can hire expensive lawyers and others cannot to improve their chances. If someone defrauds Medicare for millions, why should they get an expensive lawyer for that when other people cannot afford them?

If everyone was forced to use public defenders, the powerful would use their influence to make sure that it provided effective, independent defense. Even so, it's not like getting an expensive lawyer somehow gets you off and a public defender guarantees you'll be found guilty.

But it does not seem reasonable that we should adopt rules to increase the unfairness by doing everything possible to remove any incentive to improve the public defender's office and doing our utmost to ensure that the poor are forever trapped with ineffective counsel.

Just for the record, this guy has a very expensive lawyer, not a public defender.
Thanks for your feedback. You can access it via SSL as well https://stubonweb.herokuapp.com/

It is currently running on heroku and mongolabs free tier. I'm glad to see more people find it usefull. I'll work on getting a domain and better server. I'll get in touch with you in case I need help. Thanks
Many are bought without inspection and are not lived in. Some of the large apartment buildings in the north of the CBD and Docklands are largely empty while being completely sold.
Robert Haas is the real deal, and will certainly have tested this feature.

Perhaps I missed it, but I don't think the post specified how many rows were in the source. Could have been more than a million. Having a relatively expensive filter (regex) eliminating all results keeps the performance picture clearer. Anything done with a tuple that passes the filter would apply to both the regular and the parallel scan cases, so eliminating the results highlights just the difference between regular and parallel scans
I never understood why ad networks and advertisers were so militant about porn. I think advertising on porn sites is actually a great idea: jacked off, shop for a motorcycle; watched porn, get an expensive fishing kit, etc.

Whoever creates a brand ad network of premium advertisers which is tolerant to adult content (or at least to any user generated content) and competes with AdSense will make very significant money.
But were players even aware that there were essential weapons and abilities to be collected? If no, then it would be another design mistake. Hiding essential information from player. With endless stream of games it's not a time to rely on player curiosity and let them explore - you would have to build a reputation of someone who makes games worth of exploring. When just taking random game almost nobody will spend any significant time trying to find secrets.
Or fewer people will want to become lawyers.

Really thought this one through, I see :)
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With this I can consider switching back to iOS again.
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Trademark stuff, ok, it makes sense they can't use their logos and such. But the whole quality control, food handling, meh. Soon as it's paid for and in the customer's hands, it's the customer's business what happens to it next, not In-N-Outs, it's not theirs anymore.
Didn't know about Cainiao, thanks!

Ad.2 Accodring to [0], thought, Cainiao is only a middleman that connects sellers with delivery companies and/or warehouses. It's a stretch to say that sellers are managed by Cainiao, I believe

[0] http://www.alizila.com/inside-cainiaos-modern-fulfillment-ce...