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> Libvirt LXC is designed to make containers appearvlike VMs and is pretty heavyweight to set up.

Isn't libvirt just a controlling wrapper? It is basically an abstraction over various VM-like technologies: KVM, Xen etc.
Machine learning can predict Game of Thrones betrayals
Stolen, Twitter profile trading card game, pulled from App Store
Actually, they're CSS animations, which is why it's able to start over instantly.
you're really grasping for straws here. Nice try, Faraday employee.
NetBSD: The OS that can even run on a "toaster". :)

https://www.embeddedarm.com/software/arm-netbsd-toaster.php
The way to save Yahoo is for Yahoo to kill Yahoo.

Tumblr is in New York. Away from Sunnyvale. Yahoo could build a new Yahoo there that was comprised of small teams, making new products, shipping on a regular cadence, shielded from the mothership.

When the original Macintosh was created, the team was in a new building away from the Apple II team. Yahoo needs to find its own pirate flag to fly.
Especially if your inventory system requires an invoice number in order to -x from inventory.
IBM to tackle fraud with Iris Analytics
A sobering report for biotech entrepeneurs (and the industry in general). Hopefully more details become avalible, not for blame but to learn from it.

There is a duty of care and caution needed in medicine. Of course this needs to be balanced with the damage from slowing or preventing innovation.
This is cool, but since hover states don't update until mouse move in chrome, it's easy to cheat. Move your mouse to the start, and then don't touch it until you win.
All Windows Users Can Now Translate Speech in Real Time
> any LVM or mdadm mode with parity contains a functional checksum. To use it for data integrity, do a regular scrub.

That doesn't work. Scrubbing the RAID can detect errors, but when they occur, the block layer has no idea which copy is the correct one. I haven't verified for LVM, but at least for mdraid, Linux explicitly does not make any attempts at recovering a 'correct' block even in cases where there is more than one copy. It just randomly picks a winner and overwrites the other versions. You still want to scrub for the error detection.
I think this touches upon an even bigger problem in the Bitcoin community. Very few people actually know what they want other than the price to go up.

And those who do are all at odds with eachother because Bitcoin can't do everything at once.
Ask HN: What are some examples of companies who sort consumer data for a living?
I'm doing some research on the industry of data middlemen and was able to think of businesses like:

RetailMeNot (coupon site), Kayak (travel), Fandango (movie tickets), PriceGrabber (Price comparison)

Are there other prominent data collecting/sorting sites you can think of that just make data easier to digest for people?
Definitely seems more practical than the other pony language, FIM++
Attribution doesn't necessarily need to be a name or contact information. It just has to help end users identify the provenance of a work of intellectual property. A URL does that. Many end users are already including URLs in their code to indicate where they found a snippet - compliance with the new terms is already somewhat socialized. That's a big reason we chose these terms. We spoke at length with the Open Source Initiative about using a URL as attribution, and they agreed it works in our case.
> Removing functionality from traits wouldn't result in making the language less complex; that functionality would just end up going elsewhere.

Yes, the Waterbed Theory of Complexity[1]. It can be useful to funnel complexity into specific areas where it's at least expected, and there may exist better mechanisms for dealing with it.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterbed_theory
Tumblr has recently (actually, not so recently any more) disabled commenting on their platform. My partner is part of a relatively close running community that used to use Tumblr to connect with others, give/receive encouragement about their runs, and so on. Since they disabled comments (with some half-hearted promise about bringing them back, well, sometime) hardly any of her friends post any more.

Since, as this article says, Tumblr's business model is depending on people using it, removing comments (in favor of pushing people toward reblogging) seems ill-advised.
The unfortunate nature of the seen and the unseen is that we will always notice the times we approved a drug too early or tested too aggressively, but we will never notice the deaths that happen because we were too timid or cautious in our approach.

While this case should be studied to ascertain whether process changes could prevent it, the solution is absolutely not further testing, control, and regulation. Hundreds of thousands of people already die or suffer every year because of the paternalistic, conservative policies governing medicine.
Seeing this reminds me of how there is never an exciting story to publish for the far greater of number who suffer great illness or death because of regulators being too cautious about allowing trials of new treatments.
Didn't Popcorn Time go down?
A mattress generally does not have enough rigidity to allow it to be carried by the far ends like that. If you put handles at the head and foot and carried it that way, it would likely sag so badly that you'd be dragging it the whole way.

Edit: Nevermind. It works fine so long as you turn the mattress on its side like everyone does when they actually move a mattress. The diagram made me think of carrying it flat, which really only happens when assembling the bed.
You said DOS like its a bad thing. It's well understood, completely paid for, and does the job.

Whats wrong with it, in this case? Even if maintenance costs go up, its still cheaper to maintain than to build a new system, especially if the old system fulfills all the requirements and is proven.
Do not fire from the equator, or if you must, don't aim along the line of latitude. This way, the planet's rotation should move the cannon away before the ball completes a full orbit.
Nah, image through a single fiber sounds like a hoax, it's against the physics of how optic fibers work. But if it's a bundle on fibers, I can see how that would work, but again, projecting it onto a surface seems unlikely. The moment the light leaves the fiber, it starts dispersing.
That's referring to a previous drug trial.
That's not strictly accurate. The lift-bros will eat it, as it is the cheapest source of protein. They are the ones that guarantee the marketability.

If it were truly the case that no one wanted it, it could not be used as money, as another good would quickly replace it.
This is why for years here on Hacker News I have been more than a little skeptical about university press releases announcing that this or that group of researchers has discovered a new breakthrough for curing this or that human disease. It is wonderful that medical researchers continue to do basic research better to understand physiology, genetics, and biochemistry. And it is especially wonderful that researchers doing basic research sometimes think about translational research to apply to basic science findings to clinical medicine. But that takes a lot of time and careful work.

Here on Hacker News, we all like to be excited by possible breakthroughs that will help us or our loved ones to enjoy longer, healthier lives. But an announcement of a laboratory result in cultured cell lines or in mice or some other preliminary model is a LONG way from a demonstration of safety and effectiveness for a new treatment of a human disease. Let's keep funding and celebrating basic research, and let's keep advancing the frontier in clinical trials on human patients, but let's reality-check every step of the way to make sure that proposed new treatments really do good, and really do more good than harm.

For perspective on this, it's important to note that age-adjusted all-cause mortality has been steadily going DOWN all over the world. Life expectancy at age 40, at age 60, and at even higher ages is still rising throughout both the developed countries and the still developing countries of the world.[1] Right now, the number-one thing we can do to reduce our own risk of disability or death is to take action on known individual preventive measures that raise likelihood of good health and to set up institutional incentives for doctors and other practitioners to use best-practice means of preventing and treating disease. Steady incremental improvements of many kinds are increasing healthy human lifespan all over the world at all ages.[2]

[1] "The Biodemography of Human Ageing" by James Vaupel

http://www.demographic-challenge.com/files/downloads/2eb51e2...

[2] http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science_of_...
Every time I've transported mine, I've ended up carrying it exactly like that, having to grip the ends with my hands, and it's never sagged in that way.
Bitcoin was always going to fail one way or the other. I expected it to be power usage, but I should have anticipated bog-standard Open Source infighting. I'm hoping the idea of a decentralized electronic ledger and programmable currency doesn't die with it.
FTA: But it's opening more than 300 new ones next year.
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t18.htm - " Average weekly hours and overtime of all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted" says it's about 34.5 hours per week.

Assuming 2 weeks vacation, 34.5 * 50 = 1725 hours, which is about what you said.

However, that's all workers, including part-time. You said 'average full time worker'. From the 2014 Gallup poll at http://www.gallup.com/poll/175286/hour-workweek-actually-lon... :

> Adults employed full time in the U.S. report working an average of 47 hours per week, almost a full workday longer than what a standard five-day, 9-to-5 schedule entails. In fact, half of all full-time workers indicate they typically work more than 40 hours, and nearly four in 10 say they work at least 50 hours.
If you press a key on your keyboard the mouse cursor goes away and you win!
The very people who want the value to go up will keep the Bitcoin alive. It is too early to proclaim it dead.
That was announced after this post.
I really hope companies like Lockheed Martin do not get into the autonomous infrastructure or self-driving vehicle business. LM already has their tentacles into federal/state governments with traffic monitoring programs, 911 operations, etc.

Since silicon valley got into the SDV game much early on, I hope they, rather than defense companies, also provide solutions for the infrastructure.
Hm, my mattress has a very definitive built-in padded top, so flipping it isn't really an option - but still has the shitty, useless side handles.
Thanks! I hadn't thought about having an IRC channel. I'm trying to keep up with the invitations. Didn't honestly expect that much interest. :)

I hope the website is still usable (I'm monitoring 'top' here and ruby/nginx is still constantly below 25%).

I'll probably not be setting up an IRC channel today/tonight as it's pretty late where I am, but may consider it in the future.
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Not sure why you got downvoted.

I like his ending statement:

"Hacker culture often seems kind of irresponsible. That's why people proposing to destroy it use phrases like "adult supervision." That was the phrase they used at Yahoo. But there are worse things than seeming irresponsible. Losing, for example."
Here is more information on the trial mentioned in the last two paragraphs: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TGN1412
That paragraph is referring to a previous incident. The current incident occurred in France in behalf of a Portuguese firm.
This (HN) title is incorrect as it would make 7 "affected" instead of 6 as is written in article.
This is brilliant :)
Kudos to the author! I really like this format.

Most people in the comments clearly do not understand the words "easy" and "straightforward". I can only recommend them to go to the nearest dictionary and look at those words carefully.

Personally, a tool like this is what I always wanted to have during my Engineering Master and Machine Learning PhD. A clear, simple, straightforward & easy format so that I could process my images easily, simply, clearly and straightforwardly.

The only small complaint I can make is the use of BE that requires a manual transform to an "actual" integer.
The actual story here is that the attempt to fork Bitcoin (Bitcoin XT) is dead. Hearn tried to do so, failed, and left. Anyone who doesn't run XT should be celebrating their victory.
The solution may very well be more testing, control, and regulation.

But there's a difference between minor tweaks to address the root causes of this issue (hypothetical: maybe the drug got contaminated in transit and post-shipping verification of contents needs to be done) and a "Shut it down, shut it all down" reaction.

To draw a thin (but perhaps appropriate analogy): after the hijackings of airplanes on September 11th, the United States responded by expanding the air marshall program, significantly jacking up security and restrictions on passengers, and putting combination locks on airplane cabins. Only the last policy, I think, is actually necessary to address what happened on September 11th, and it's all they should have done.
If you actually look at lives saved from each years new drugs per year it's vastly smaller than drug related deaths in that year. We might push back a few months or toss caution to the wind and add ~2 years, but the costs in lives and healthy would be very high.

Where do you draw the line?

PS: Prescription drugs already make some top ten killers lists in the US, there far less safe than generally assumed.
In other news, sky proven to be blue.
I have (unfortunately) no experience with this. But have you tried getting 2 larger mattresses (or 3 regular sized ones) and placing them down at a 90-degree angle (crease perpendicular to your body)?
Further, using a bed with tight-fitting raised edges will keep the mattresses together better than most beds. This would most likely have to be custom crafted given the size though.
It'll buy you a queen size mattress easily. Mattresses really aren't that expensive. Now, if you want a tempurpedic, you probably need to triple that, but you can buy a nice inner coil queen mattress for $600 if you buy on sale.
The last two paragraphs are in reference to a separate trial. More info on that trial: https: //en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TGN1412
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It's not like de Raadt or Torvalds got arbitrarily dropped into their positions. People effectively chose them by investing usership and development effort into their projects.
Simply eliminating Phase I is the wrong solution. Entering a Phase II study before Phase I is a great way to maim or kill people. Anti-cancer drugs are often severely toxic; even the new spate of immunocentric therapies proved highly dangerous when first administered. Several early recipients died due to clueless drug administration protocols. THAT's the reason we have Phase I. Humans usually respond differently to a drug than the animals who have gone before.

That said, I think the FDA should approach cancer differently than other diseases, probably by establishing a new experimental model entirely (eliminating the Phase I/II/III system). Given that canger drugs and patients and protocols must ALWAYS be administered sensitively, circumstantially, and adaptively, the current 3 phase system seems to be serving cancer patients poorly, locking them into ineffective treatments for too long, based on too much emphasis on inflexible trial policy. Experimental protocols that are more adaptive and personalized are needed. Of course, this will be very hard technically and insanely expensive clinically.

How to begin this? Like Obama, I'd love to see a 'moon shot' reinvention of the cancer business. Perhaps a project-based redesign of the system is possible, by engaging the most innovative cancer research clinicians and data analysts to explore alternative models for cancer research and drug trials. If that's what Obama has in mind, I support his wish. Now how do we make it work?
Test banners are run through the year - small audiences, particular countries or whatever. (Wikimedia Fundraising A/B-test the heck out of everything they do.) But the big fundraiser is the annual one, around Nov/Dec, in which they go all-out to raise this year's target as quickly as possible.
Pardon my ignorance, but why are they policing this? It seems like they would be better off continuing to look the other way. Are the on the hook for not punishing proxy users?
We buy almost everything for the house online, but I can't imagine buying a mattress online. Is it annoying to buy in-store? Yes. But a mattress is an expensive, once-every-8-year purchase that you will use almost every day and is critical to your health. I don't think the solution is a mystery-box-by-mail foam slab.

Many internet companies find success just by helping young-ish customers avoid the awkward interactions associated with traditional commerce. That's fine, but you are still paying for that "experience." Rarely do you get a better product.
Moreover, BDFL has clear upsides over a more democratic model. Not considering that "in any other community aspect of our society" is just stupid.
Indeed. Going to HR when the harasser has high value to the company might work differently...

http://www.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2015/03/07/former-google-e...
I hear your skepticism and acknowledge it. But I think you're being a little too flip with your 99% figure as well as your definition of useless.

The point is not to take a hard engineering problem and turn it into a 5 minute solution. You're right. Not all problems can be reduced to short Youtube videos (although it is amazing how many can).

The point is to take what may have been considered a hard, even impossible, engineering problem and get it in the hands or head of someone who might someday come up with a new or better solution. Even if the ultimate solution takes years or decades, it's still a radical reduction in TTK.
> that isn't POSIX- or ISO-defined at all. If you choose to use it, you're using a weird dialect.

People used C (even on multiple compilers) long before POSIX or ISO. You're putting the standardization cart before the compatibility horse.
Yep. I have a more modest setup but the amount of media I've ripped from owned CDs/DVDs and the number of raw photos far outweighs the handful of pirated movies I've picked up over the years.

Mainly I use my NAS as a bit of protection against losing those files that would be difficult or impossible to recover if my local storage in the workstation failed. Online backup is good too but for quicker or more frequent access, a NAS fills the gap nicely.

The other big storage hog is security cam video. There are occasional reports of burglaries in my neighborhood and sometimes I just like to know if a package was ever dropped off or someone bumped the car while parallel parking. So I picked up a couple of inexpensive IP cameras and rather than shelling out monthly for some unreliable and potentially insecure "cloud" storage plan, I use Synology's Surveillance Station IP cam software to manage recording, playback, and storage of camera footage. The amount of space on the NAS means I can easily keep a week or more worth of recordings from both cameras and with the actual NAS being stashed away out of easy view, it's unlikely to be stolen in the event of a burglary. Granted I could include those files in online storage but currently I don't have it set up that way.

Either way, the point is that many modern homes have plenty of sources of large files outside of pirated movies that can make a NAS useful.
Scientists have actually found a non-toxic way to recycle lithium batteries. The process involves using an all natural, non-toxic, gluten-free organic voss water obtained from mountain springs.
There are plenty of stories published with exactly that message. Granted, they might not be exciting, but hit pieces are fairly common.
Welcome to the age of digital repression
gmail handles a lot of mail, which again puts an upper bound on how difficult the puzzle will be. I don't think this changes anything. And if you make it too hard, "free" (ad-supported) email will no longer be possible because the costs are simply too high for the financial return.
When I worked at yahoo I suggested this idea. Take yahoo as we know it today, silo it off and give it just enough resources to keep it alive. Then with the massive cash reserves & rest of the employees start experimenting new products that are not under the yahoo name, but get media exposure from Yahoo. If one of them is successful make that the new yahoo.

Sadly, It was not taken over well. If I were an executive I'm not sure I'd also risk my lucrative salary either. I'm also pretty sure the shareholders would not appreciate us burning potentially billions of dollars if this plan failed. So I totally get where management has gone. Its just sad as yahoo never really got a fighting chance.
It is about actually equally participating in the decision. I agree with you on direct democracy, I am big fan of it (since about 2000).

Consensus can work but only in a very small groups. That's why I explained that there are different methods to achieve democratic participation and have different trade-offs.

I don't think ideologies are big a problem for direct democracy. I think they are artifacts of representative system, where you have to choose a package of things, rather than when you can decide each issue in isolation. From what I heard, that actually happens in Switzerland - since everybody is sometimes in a minority in referendum, people don't take losing as a big deal.
From what I can tell, he's basically just giving you movements that stimulate muscles that are ennerved by the C4-C6 vertebrae. Ignore all the crap he's saying; you're still engaging (albeit very lightly) the muscles that support your back, spine, shoulders and neck while stretching the ones that are typically contracted all day over the computer.

This may not correct any serious deformity caused by hunching over a computer for extended periods. For that you need to go to a physical therapist. But for people with just a little tightness or that have difficulty keeping correct posture, it can certainly help. But so can a lot of other things.
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What percentage of those are intentional misuse?
I don't think I've ever owned a mattress that wouldn't have sagged too much if carried like that, unless maybe I was going to carry out overhead to keep it off the ground. You must be buying much stiffer mattresses than me.

In fairness, I've not moved my current mattress (a memory foam mattress), so maybe that one would work? It's a bit more rigid. But of course no handles at all.

Edit: Nevermind. You're going to turn the mattress on it's side when you actually carry it, and then it will be rigid enough. Handles on the ends work fine for this case, just not the nonexistent case where someone inexplicably tries to carry the mattress flat for more than a few feet.
I recently started testing NetBSD in a virtual machine on my PC. I really like it, although there are some things that annoy me with it.

I would like to use it as my primary OS but it won't boot on my hardware. I've considered installing and running it inside of a hypervisor but I don't know if that is wise.
One of the recommendations from the previous episode (TGN1412) was that in the first trial on humans, the administrations should be staggered so that if there is an unexpected adverse reaction, you only get one or two patients down. It sounds like that may not have been taken on board.
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