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Good question. The answer is that the dimension of time is something that exists within our universe. Within the standard model of cosmology there is no notion of anything before the big bang - that would imply the there is a meta-time that exists outside our universe.

This might be slightly difficult to digest, so let me give an analogy. A few of centures/millinia ago it was valid to ask, "What is beyond the end of earth?". Now that we know that the earth is a sphere and spheres don't have ends, it is nonsensical to ask "What is beyond the end of earth?". Similarly, at the big bang time just stops, there is brick wall beyond which you can't go. And it is nonsensical to consider what happens before the big bang.
Yes that's it. I got the name wrong.
In the event that this helps anyone:

I've since realized that a lot of my unhappiness was created when I started reading all this news about how much money people like Zuckerberg were making while fucking up the world. It's great and amazing that we have access to this information, but expecting my own life and experiences to be different, or expecting myself to be wealthier or more powerful than I am just causes unhappiness when I'm not. I can't ignore these problems, but I had to accept where I am and stop beating myself up over it. Part of that comes from realizing I can remain calm, and work towards a better future, fixing problems as I know how to solve them.
I assume you are strictly referring to within the city limits. If you include the burbs, then check out Robbins:
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Minor nitpick, but it screws up all the calculations:

The original NES console was only designed to output images that were 256 wide by 240 high; meaning that the final image that needed to be displayed to the screen was 180kb in size.

The NES definitely didn't have 24-bit colour, so the final image data was at most 60kb, assuming 256 colours, or 30kb assuming 16 colours and a palette.

I don't know for sure what colour settings the NES had, I doubt it had a freely selectable 256 colours for each pixel. Probably a limited palette, maybe per-sprite, maybe for the whole screen.
I think this post, including what you are saying, is even more interesting because you have privately funded NGO's and companies like Palantir in on the game which makes me wonder more what exactly is going on that we're not seeing. What are the other incentives (beyond altruism because we're already supposed to accept that) of these different actors[0] who continue to operate under the same assumptions? Do you elaborate on such questions in your thesis?

[0] https://polarisproject.org/supporters
Lifestyle or dietary changes don't work if he has familial hypercholesterolemia. You're not supposed to ever adjust your medication without consulting your MD. It's a good general rule that - when broken - can have fatal consequences in serious diseases such as this.
I assume most people consider XHR a kind of HTTP request. It is in the name, after all.
There's an important difference between creating a table in your HTML for layout, and using CSS to tell the browser to use its table layout algorithm on a particular element to center it.

Yes, it's still inelegant and nonobvious, but it's also better than throwing document semantics out the window.
At work we use Jenkins Job Builder http://docs.openstack.org/infra/jenkins-job-builder/#content... to maintain jobs using JSON or YAML files. As a result we rarely have to deal with the Jenkins web UI and that's alright :)
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It's not that I'm not sensitive to that, it isn't there on my phone. Well, with one exception and that's an app that I wrote so I suspect the problem may be the implementation.
It's true that that's a mega motivation lurking in the soul of every programmer. But it's also often true that writing a program can be faster than revising one (or even reading it) when the original programmer isn't available.

To me his justification sounded pretty convincing, though not to you, which is totally fair. As far as HN commenting goes it's just a matter of explaining your view in a substantive way.
Small software that's made up of small pieces is still big software. In fact, most big software systems in the last twenty years or so are built that way, but that doesn't eliminate the the complexity. It makes it manageable -- not cheap.
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They'd have to block the entirety of Wikipedia since it uses https. It would be interesting to see what would happen with these sorts of issues if push came to shove.

Usually the resort has been that local countries have threatened local editors living in those countries, e.g. there was a famous case with the French government threatening someone living in France who was writing about French nuclear communication outposts on the French Wikipedia (published in the U.S.).
> These are all very suitable to such decomposition into communicating processes.

That doesn't make them cheap to build; only possible.
This has been my current approach for a while, after exporting everything out of Tiddlywiki when it looked like that was dying for a while (Browser support drying up, etc).

Now that it's been revived with Tiddlywiki5 and development's picked back up, I'm somewhat tempted to get back into it.
Main advantage: Better crosslinking, rich content, etc.
Main disadvantage: Less simple to edit, some tedium to export.

I'd love to have a Tiddlywiki-like frontend to a set of Markdown text documents backing it. (This is something that's been gnawing at the back of my mind long enough that I might have to buckle down and make it myself)
Maybe Markdown + JSON for rich content data...
I think it is a combination of two things:

- the mod-256 conflict bug is exceedingly rare. Keep in mind that this is mod-256 individual hunk conflicts in a _single file_. Most files in a merge with conflicts have a handful of hunks. Over all of the testing at GitHub, only a single merge triggered this bug, and it was on a long repetitive file with automated changes.

- the failure case was to quietly accept the merge. The result was obviously bogus, but didn't look any different than a user accidentally checking in the merge conflict markers. So if it was happening, I'd suspect that it went undiscovered either because the merge results were never used (e.g., it was a test-merge to feed the PR "Merge" button status) or the users simply scratched their head and fixed it.
And a second article I didn't try to promote anywhere, which got no views at all lol. It's pretty much BYO traffic.
For those like me who'd never heard the term "carrier hotel", it's what is (in the US perhaps much more commonly) also known as a colocation center.
Why are they looking at the inferior closed system...
That is why we publish updates with fixes 2 weeks before we publish CVE's. If a would-be-hacker follows CVE's, all users who updated in the last 2 weeks are safe.

On top of that, while we prepare updates mostly in public in github we only release the security-related fixes the moment we release the update.

So a would-be-hacker would have to look through the source code of the update to identify security fixes, and then he/she can hack ownCloud instances. (Lukas should check this, btw, I'm only 75% sure about this)

There is nothing we, or anybody working on any product can do about users not updating, though we do give warnings, offer packages which makes updating easier and do all we can to use security hardening to limit the damage security problems can do.

It is true that hosting your own server doesn't make you safer from targeted attacks. If you follow our security recommendations, you'll be quite OK, though, and there are tricks like using a special port and port knocking and what-not to improve security even more.

But this is no different to any other self-hosting tech.

Yeah, a public cloud can do better - they don't publish any source. They also have, almost by default, a back door to the NSA so that's like saying "let's give up on trying to build a roof because if you do, it could have a leak".
Nothing really to contribute or ask, other than to say that I really enjoyed the writeup. Although I have nothing coming up that would use the code, the new library sounds really neat. Kudos!
But why would they? My guess would be that they don't bother to clear a carry flag or are computing the estimate using a few extra significant bits, and do not bother to initialize those at start, but that's 100% guess. I know very little about designing CPUs.
I wonder, has anyone ever tried berating the successes and praising the failures?
I agree, it's great. I just wish DEVONthink had a better iOS client.
How about Camlistore by Brad Fitzpatrick [1]:

"Camlistore is a set of open source formats, protocols, and software for modeling, storing, searching, sharing and synchronizing data in the post-PC era. Data may be files or objects, tweets or 5TB videos, and you can access it via a phone, browser or FUSE filesystem."

[1]: http://camlistore.org/
Moreover, you cannot exactly measure the actual mass of the electron. A 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 difference is not measurable, which echoes the fact that you cannot verify the claim from the start.
Anybody know the performance cost of enabling encryption on boot volumes? Interested in enabling encryption on our database volumes.
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remember, kids: duration of time is the sole data point with which you should determine what "stage" a project is at.
That's because 2^64 is naturally represented as 2^n, while you're representing it as n. You can technically define n as whatever you want, but if you don't follow certain conventions you will face opposition.

n as 12 makes a lot of sense. n as a number too large to count doesn't make sense in the context of real programs.
How is it a lie? Was the intent of the title to deceive you?
66,000?! That's a yotta years!
Thanks for posting this
In talking about pseudo-intellectual dismissals, I am appealing to the prior news.YC discussions about middlebrow dismissals, which would have been better wording. Sorry about that. How is what I mean different from an appeal to authority? Mostly it has to do with the type of evidence selected by statin "opponents", which tends to be of lower quality.

As for studies that I find instructive, here are a few:

People with loss of function mutations in PCSK9 have lower LDL-cholesterol. These people have an even lower risk of ischemic heart disease than you would expect based on the degree of LDL-cholesterol lowering. [1]

Mendelian randomization demonstrates that genetic scores for LDL cholesterol associate with reduced risk of myocardial infarction (suggesting causality, since cholesterol doesn't reverse-cause a genotype).[2]

IMPROVE-IT showed that a non-statin medication (ezetemibe) added to a statin regimen further reduced the risk of second heart attacks after suffering a first heart attack. This is probably the clearest experimental evidence to date that suggest it's not only statins that reduce cardiovascular risk, but LDL-cholesterol reducing agents more generally that lead to reduced risk of heart attack. [3]

This is a very contemporary summary of genetic and clinical trial data; there is a wealth of older data that I won't get into.

1 = http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa054013

2 = http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3419820/

3 = http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1410489
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So in other words, really bad news for anyone in Europe running a gaming website, since a large portion of your audience are under 16. How are the likes of Eurogamer, Nintendo Life, etc supposed to cope with this sort of regulation? It puts them at a clear disadvantage compared to American based sites...

Myself, I'm not sure what I'll do for my own sites. Probably just a 'don't require accurate information' then never check. Like a tick box saying 'I have permission to share any personal data under whatever laws'.
The locations are most likely calculated using orbit information published by NORAD and/or the spacecraft operators. This is called ephemeris data, and is usually published in a format called "two-line element," or TLE. A TLE contains a complete description of the spacecraft's orbit at a specific time, so you can then calculate where the spacecraft will be at any moment given that it stays in that orbit.

See http://www.celestrak.com for a bunch more information on the subject. Of particular interest is the TLE format itself (http://www.celestrak.com/NORAD/documentation/tle-fmt.asp).
BART also has built in speed limits (third rail + old, rundown equipment and tracks) that would limit express trains. Hell, even regular old trains.
Org-mode. A benevolent beast. Once one gets to learn it, it can be made to do anything. Also having a programming language shared with the runtime and other programmes for that runtime (Elisp and Emacs) is just priceless, it just lends itself to be customized in whichever way one would like. A major con for me, though, is the lack of decent iOS-Android integration.
Just to give those numbers some context, the stock market currently values Yahoo's core business at around $1.7B:

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-12-02/yahoo-is-lo...
I don't know about that. There seems to be a lot of research investigating the difference between placebo and no-treatment. The publication [0] mentioned in article searches out all the studies that tested placebo treatment, and they all included a no-treatment group.

Here's an excerpt:

>We included randomised placebo trials with a no-treatment control group investigating any health problem

[0] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20091554
There's that, too, but the happy fluff is definitely there in some circles, if not yours.
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Self hosting does have this issue in general, yes. It is a bit harder to get at security vulnerabilities in ownCloud as was initially portrayed in the thread you mention (we publish CVE's 2 weeks after updates have hit the net, and these updates contain unmarked security updates).

Client side encryption is a great solution but you lose out on most of the benefits of the cloud.

Honestly, I don't know. I haven't seen any of such attacks but of course, with about 3 million users, ownCloud isn't a HUGE target. I just don't like the idea of giving up on self hosting ;-)
In my opinion, FreeMind is the best solution currently out there because of forces mindmapping conventions and places a strong emphasis on folding. A lot of other solutions I've seen are more like concept maps, which are great for project management, but not great for knowledge bases.

http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

(The one thing of note is that there is a bug in the default version of OS X Java, so it frequently crashes unless you update to Java 8 and edit the config to use that version of Java.)
This is not what I was trying to convey. Doesn't absolve a company from wrongdoing. If a company is doing something horrific, but no one knows about it, that doesn't make it okay.

I was just trying to rebut the initial comment that this proves the market couldn't solve this.

I don't necessarily have an answer, but I am just saying, if the market isn't even aware, how could they even act?
I've been using Zim (http://zim-wiki.org) for several years, backed up to Dropbox. It's a significant improvement over plain text files.
If you read about what they're doing, they basically are doing that. The tests are run independently of the production code, and production is just providing the test cases.
SSRIs were recommended to me by a proper doctor and it was a good decision to start them. I was fortunate that the first type I took worked well and I didn't have to change types.

That's great and I'm glad your decision worked out well for you.

This kind of 'common sense' stigma is what kept me away from professional help for years. It's not helpful, it's FUD.

Funny thing is, there's about an equal amount of FUD floating around as to the potential benefits of talk therapy. Which is what kept me off it for decades and decades.

Anyway, what I'm saying about SSRIs isn't FUD. There's a near-consensus view out there that though they may sometimes help, their technical workings are still poorly understood[1]; that they have complex side effects; are hard to get off of, for many people; have been over-proscribed for certain vey broad classes of folks (such as adolescents and children); and have often been disingenuously promoted by their makers -- in at least one very famous case, criminally so.

I'm not giving citations for these points. There's plenty of stuff out there to read about these topics -- most of it not only non-sensationalistic, but quite well-reasoned (to the point of sounding dry and impassioned), and really now, pretty easy to find.

[1] Not in "serotonin re-uptake inhibition" part; but in the, you know, "how do these drugs actually treat chemical depression?" part. (Assuming your depression actually is chemical, which is also quite debatable).
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This is tangential, but given the increasing functionality and maturity of libgit2, I wonder if it would yet be feasible to replace the Git command-line program with a new one based on libgit2, and written to be as portable as libgit2. Then there would be just one Git implementation, across the command line, GUIs, and web-based services like GitHub. Also, the new CLI could run natively on Windows, without MSYS.
Full disclosure: former Parse Push tech lead, current Firebase engineer.
If your slowdown is only while the device is on mobile, it's almost certainly due to something outside of the Parse stack. Push notifications have grown to be an async information pipe, but never a real-time or reliable one. The most common example of this is APNs (Apple's push network)--Apple only buffers the most recent undelivered notification for an (app, device) pair and messages without UI (aka "silent push") must be sent at a low priority which will likely incur extra delays.
If your goal for silent push is to help improve cache hits by pre-populating an app with useful data, don't worry about the slowdown. If you're using push for something that must be reliable or real time, you're probably using the wrong tool. Consider something like Firebase for this instead. If you're already deeply invested in Parse, I've seen people use Parse Cloud Code to replicate writes against Firebase and use Firebase to build a client sync layer.
Where I need markup, I've been sticking to HTML or LaTeX syntax for the most part.

Partly because I hate Markdown due to its inconsistent syntax (that's my personal opinion), but also because it feels like a fad of recent years, much like a successor of the MediaWiki fad and the BBcode fad. I feel like in another 2 or 3 years someone will invent Markleft or Markright or Visual Markdown#.NET 2.0 or Dustindown that's 10 times better than Markdown, and then I'll have to switch everything over yet again.

HTML and LaTeX on the other hand, aren't dying any time soon due to their extensive deployment, and I'm confident that my syntax will be renderable for at least another 10 years or more.
While not the best answer, I've used Jenkins extensively in the past for some rather creative purposes. Besides the standard "watch a SCM repo and react" type functions I've used it in combination with libvirt to spawn VMs self service for users (as well as coordinate the accounting and access control around this), watch an etag for a file to change in object storage and react, etc. I agree with some of the other commentary in that it's most useful aspects are around not using it with a traditional CI pipeline.
Constant time goes beyond O(1), it means that the lower bound is equal to the upper bound. 10! can't be faster than 12!
Odd, not long ago French movie theaters were shown this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhYynZMwzYs

a blend of hand made compositing and simple warping. Technology is catching up too fast.
This is, unfortunately, rampant in healthcare. The natural variation amongst people as well as the natural variation of our health throughout out life makes actually analyzing healthcare outcomes incredibly difficult.

90%+ of published outcomes can be invalidated by simply looking at the published data. If you want some chuckles, read blog posts by Al Lewis ripping on research publised by companies touting their own performance. He's acerbic and condescending but also, mostly, correct.
> I don't know for sure what colour settings the NES had, I doubt it had a freely selectable 256 colours for each pixel. Probably a limited palette, maybe per-sprite, maybe for the whole screen.

http://www.thealmightyguru.com/Games/Hacking/Wiki/index.php?...

"a total of 64 pre-set colors (56 of which are unique), and you can only show 25 on the screen at one time (under normal circumstances)."

So ya, a little more limited than 24-bit colour.
That's a really dumb idea ;) </meta>
I've got a 2.5 year old i7 (ThinkPad W530) with 32 GB.
I'm surprised to read this. Confluence is the most unpleasant "wiki" product (its lack of support for redlinks prevents me from really considering it a wiki) I have ever used. Its built-in hierarchical structure for pages is excessively intrusive and undercooked at the same time, and the search is so bad that I have had it fail to pull up pages when I typed in the literal, complete title.

Like most Atlassian products, its only apparent notable quality to me is that it integrates with other Atlassian products, as well as being a semi-functional platform on which to pile plugins and customization. It's possible that there's a good Confluence install out there, probably administered by the same people who run that really nice JIRA instance that people claim to have used once.
In the same way that your your Mum and Dad are just another two people.
Apparently not. Communication between team members has a huge cost factor ... not only ito dollar/time but also ito the quality of the final product.
Camlistore is a nice append-orientated sync system, but I wasn't aware it included any data modelling or search?
The interventional studies which have clearly demonstrated an effect of diet on cardiovascular risk are the Lyons Heart Study (for prevention of a second event after a first) and the PREDIMED study (for primary prevention). The broad takeaways are that a Mediterranean diet may reduce risk, and more specifically, supplementing a diet with extra-virgin olive oil and some nuts seems to be beneficial.

The magnitude of the effect of diet (for people without specific monogenic dyslipidemias) is not large, probably in part because most cholesterol in the body is produced by the body.

In many circumstances – especially in the case of familial hypercholesterolemia – diet and exercise will not achieve an acceptable risk reduction. I would conclude by saying that your GP could have engaged with you more effectively to achieve a mutually agreeable outcome. Nevertheless, if you think "cholesterol == unhealthy", this is an acceptable gestalt understanding under the modern Western diet.
For the record that's not what it's called. The official terms are legends. It's been re-branded as Star Wars Legends. Honestly the EU was a bit of a mess but by far the best parts of Star Wars were in there. Unfortunately books make less money than movies and no one was interested in doing direct translations of already told stories no matter how much they made sense.
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