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It works great for me in safari on OS X.

I just wish these web readers implemented control+f find feature, because this is the most useful thing for me and a lot of people. To be able to search entire books for a string of text is so useful.
The movie left me so disgusted as its message was that torture works.
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I believe you are overestimating the cost of a transfer from GEO to LEO and underestimating the costs from ground to LEO. Specifically you haven't accounted for the earth's atmosphere.

The earths atmosphere adds to the cost of ground launch (drag) and subtracts from the cost of GEO->LEO transfer (aerobrake). Instead of 4km/s transfer vs 7km/s direct, it should be 2km/s vs 9km/s.
Side question: how expensive is it to get your water tested? I live in an older house, and all this talk has made me concerned about what's coming from my pipes, since they are > 100 yrs old.
Yes, but so what if you need to continuously replace parts of the cable? As long as you can identify the damage and cheaply perform the repair, it doesn't seem that bad.
Maybe you could make some life-style changes to improve your overall energy level and/or cure your tiredness. How do you eat? Do you eat right before you go to bed? Do you wake up with an alarm clock? Do you eat a lot of greasy, processed foods? Soda? Do you exercise?

Other than that, maybe you could try pulling back the number of hours you're at work. I've felt myself getting stuck in that cycle of work, eat, sleep in the past, but I am currently pretty happy with my routine.

If you want to make some life changes, I'd recommend starting small. Pick one thing to improve this week (don't eat less than 2 hours before going to bed). Then next week try adding another thing. Before you know it, you'll be doing these healthier things without even thinking about it.
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So, your passive agressive closing is not better than open confrontation, only that it's direct.
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> "Type up a blog post" is not the important part of the scientific method.

How do you think all those legitimate scientific journals got started? It's natural to think that because science is currently done with a huge amount of rigor that it was always done with a huge amount of rigor. In truth, the author's approach is still very scientific.

He considered the research he had available to him, reviewed some of the science regarding different lighting technologies, then tried something and observed that it worked. What about that isn't scientific?

Every scientific pursuit started out as a pseudoscience. Even the most rigorous fields like Physics or Medicine were originally people intuiting about a phenomenon with each other. There's nothing unscientific about what the author did, and to me it raises far more interesting questions than a diatribe about a lack of rigor.
Important food source for fish and birds for quite a few species.

Wiping them out would be a serious error.
Watching Zero Dark Thirty, I immediately thought that this was an attempt to write history. With the flair of historical accuracy and lots of pathos.
Exciting. Are you plan on recording the meetup? Cuz that would be awesome :)
And that's a surprise? Same with drones. 3d printed objects. Labor laws need updated.
> Have fun

Yup, life is certainly way more fun without fear around.

> you can play with [that hungry, pissed-off tiger] all you want.

I can also choose to not play with it. That is the beauty of intelligently responding (free choice) instead of affectively responding (limited choice).
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I challenge you to provide an example of this vague claim of a problem.

Why not record a video of yourself breaking the prototype?
I'm on my computer, essentially, every waking hour. I've been this way since I was a boy. I have two passions in life: programming and playing the drums. If I'm not drumming, I'm programming and vice versa. This is what I enjoy and thus I contribute to many OSS projects, manage an Apache project, consult to two startups and have a full time job.

I do all these things because it's what I'm driven to do. I would go crazy without it. There's no shame in not being like me. Do what you enjoy.
If there are more than 3 negative reactions to an article I definitely go read it because at this point it's hugely probable that the backlash is mainly cultural/traditional rather than logical.
The article hints at the pattern, but I think it's worth mentioning directly: it's fairly common for a psychologist with a pet theory to publish a self-help book based on it. This creates an incentive to exaggerate the scope, size, and certainty of the effect they claim to have discovered, because their status as a scientific expert on the phenomenon becomes a marketing tool. Even if they don't engage in any deliberate misconduct, this could still create bias that leaks into study design and analysis/interpretation.
> (1) Even simplified simulations such as the Human Brain Project require so much computing power that (2) modeling a single mind is prohibitive

This step from (1) to (2) is a common assumption that most people are unwilling to reconsider, but it's equally possible to reject bottom-up modeling and ask what are the high-level constraints on brain activity that shape and direct it. This is what we do with the data I mentioned (T1, EEG, etc).
> Mosquitoes fill an important niche in a great many ecologies.

Source please. I am not aware of any study that confirms this statement. See also http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100721/full/466432a.html.
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I shoot large (4x5) and medium format film. I think that the 'resolution' is complicated by the entire workflow. He's using a very old lens with a very imprecise camera and imprecise film. The images should probably described as 'smooth' rather than necessarily high resolution. The old lens provides extraordinary sharpness in the center, but is soft on the edges.

That said, even with 6cmx6cm film negatives I feel like I often cannot really use the detail available. That is, unless I'm printing very large photos in a film-only workflow I don't really see all the detail. My scanner seems to be limited by the ability to keep the film flat rather than the actual scanning sensor. I don't usually bother scanning higher than 50MP.
Honestly, I can't imagine myself wearing such a gigantic and ugly headset.

However, I can't wait until this technology is miniaturized and mass commercialized for a few generations. Hopefully, it doesn't trip up like Google Glass did (which is another important technology that ties in with this kind of thing).
No. It's bad science. I'd go as far as to say it's fucking crappy science. Which is what TFA is saying.

I mean, look at the figure in TFA where they show the original study effect size plus/minus two standard deviations, and the huge error bars (at 95% confidence) are just barely excluding the null hypothesis. With a sample size of 21 people. That is so pitiful even the Mythbusters would've said "We need to do a bigger experiment." But this Harvard professor instead said "Hooray, a significant result!" and went and did TED talks and books and all sorts of publicity stuff.

Scott Aaronson recently quipped "(...) there was much discussion around the discovery that most psychology studies fail to replicate. I'd long assumed as much, but apparently this was big news in psychology!"

The observation in the hard sciences that psychology has a big problem goes at least back to Feynman's "cargo cult" speech in '74. The fact that it's taken them forty years to catch up to this fact speaks volumes about the field.
Why would you want to simulate cells?
What characteristics about these people makes them above average? I need some goals to set my sights on :)
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Also, social media and the 24 hour rolling news cycle give a lot more coverage than 20th Century TV news bulletins and newspapers.
We call that propaganda round these parts!

---

Seriously though, the disgusting narrative over the last 16 years has left me completely numb and disenfranchised from the idea of justice in the US.

There is just a mountain of evidence that we are living in the police-state side of an Empircal Oligarchy in the US.

The Oligarchs experience unfettered financial, political and legal freedom -- whilst their position is protected and enforced by the police-state-complex that punishes the poor or the questioning.

/cynicism
Since I apparently cannot reply to sridca's comment directly:

The point is that the fear-response tells you to not play with the tiger, you astounding idiot.
Yeah, at the time people like Sy Hersh called out ZDT as being a completely fabricated propaganda piece. Of course, if you watch the movie, it's obviously fictitious, but the veneer of realism is enough to implant ZDT as the cultural "canon" story.

That's the problem. We let them define what the canon is.
The author is trying to explain a global phenomena. Can an aging demographic bulge explain the Hukou? Honest question.
I can't state this strongly enough: machine learning is not hype. It has been going strong longer than you may realize, has been generating more sustained revenue than you may realize, and has been disrupting (ugh sorry, I hate that term) more industries than you may realize.

I started my career working at company that built its first machine learning based systems in the mid 80s. Very successfully, too: their early products are ubiquitous today, and probably will be for a long time. You almost certainly indirectly use them several times a week without realizing it if you don't leave your money under a mattress (I don't want to go into too much detail because it's a small industry, but it's related to banking and finance).

Google is, at its heart, a machine learning company that branched out as it grew. Pagerank was developed more than 20 years ago, and transformed the internet; can you imagine using the internet without it and its successors?

I could go on, but the fact is 100s of billions of dollars of value in the economy are a direct result of machine learning or were enabled solely due to machine learning. And this has been true for a long time. Sure, it's very popular right now, but it's not going away any time soon. Calling machine learning hype is like calling the internet hype because of the 1999 internet bubble.
>Machine learning systems are only as biased as their training data and their construction.

The Bias-Variance Tradeoff means that all machine learning involves bias. Without it, you couldn't learn.
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Go to the north. Wait. Wait until the sky darkens and you are afraid to venture outside. Then say that mosquitoes don't matter. There is some evidence that they consume more caribou, by weight, than the wolves.
I don't think that's how it works.

It's God's mind you have to "change", not the Pope's.

At least, if I understand Catholicism correctly.
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You're assuming here that there aren't and never will be exploits that break out of the hypervisor. This is not the world we live in. In literally exactly the same way that you can break out of an application in to kernel space, you can break out of a guest VM in to hypervisor space. VM guests are processes, and hypervisors are operating systems. We've switched the terminology around a bit, but in doing so we've given up decades of OS development
This is freaking amazing
It affects newborns because it affects fetuses. But if a newborn gets the disease (I assume) it won't result in the same level of brain damage.
I wonder what the political fallout will be from this. It's easy to imagine Chavista and Peronist style politicians using this to their advantage.
As a tech fan, an on-off switch is too simple. I want to be able to adjust the brightness and "color" like the volume of my stereo. I never put my stereo to 100% because we figured out long ago how to do affordable loud speakers that are uncomfortably loud. Why haven't we figured out how to do affordable lights that can be tuned to uncomfortably bright? I want Caribbean beach bright as my 100%, with an "equalizer", to tune the heat/reading comfort/UV/color to my liking.

To me it feels like any advance in light bulbs is only on the lumen/watt scale. How long until we have a one million lumen broad spectrum LED configuration that doesn't cost a fortune?
Read half of it and haven't found anything newsworthy. So far they describe that (1) one of movie authors was present during the secret award ceremony without getting a proper security clearance and (2) the officer the movie was based on ordered fries in movie guy's hotel, got cheap knock-off earrings as a present and declined offers to go to a Prada show and attend private movie screening with family.

Is there anything actually worth the time in the second half?
Let me rephrase. In a capitalist society where given the choice people and corporations in general function as self interested entities.
I'm not sure that's the best way to counter the quite common "I don't have anything to hide so I don't care if they spy on me" reaction.

As the other reply to your comment shows, many would say that it's very unlikely a government agent would bother or want to watch them having sex.

I usually counter by reminding them that it's not just about them - it's about journalists, whistleblowers, lawyers, judges, activists, politicians, etc. Should the government be able to access their communications and track their online activities? People generally understand why that is a bad thing. While everybody absolutely should be worried that their personal online activities are being tracked, it seems like that's a harder sell.
I think you need to do wet scanning to really get the detail beyond ~40 MP.
I don't think it is comparable, unless Spain has an organization whose purpose is to prevent the influx of outside cultural influences that formalizes use of the translated words. I don't know enough about Spain to know (one of my ex-girlfriends was a Francophile, so I have some familiarity with French culture on a number of fronts, though I'm definitely not an expert).
It sounds like scientists thought about it, decided that their niche would quickly be filled by other insects - "Life would continue as before — or even better":

- http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100721/full/466432a.html

- http://blog.chron.com/sciguy/2010/07/scientists-go-ahead-kil...

- https://cogito.cty.jhu.edu/43255/up-for-debate-should-we-era...

Of course, whether it's ethically right is worth considering, as is the possibility that the scientists have missed some unintended consequence.
Cook with your wife. Make it a date night and stay in, cooking together, or with family too. I did this with my gf last week and we had a blast while we made pasta from scratch.

But I will say this can't be done often. We try to cook together at least once a week, but more often than not we eat out cause its fast and we both work long hours + long commutes.
Not that hard.

Minimum useful experiment

Minimum viable prototype
But no diff or sync algorithm is going to handle this so I don't know why you're bringing it up.

Because that's what programmers do when they see claims like "robust and self-healing".
> I'm having a hard time seeing the benefits given the obvious increase in complexity.

What? It's simpler. You remove all the overhead of separating the kernel and app. And that of running a full-featured multiuser, multiprocess kernel for the sake of a single app.

> What features of a full-fat OS do unikernels retain? If the answer is very little because hypervisors provide all the hardware access then it would be fair to say that hypervisor has become the OS and the traditional kernel (a Linux one in this case I presume) has become virtually * ahem * redundant.

Yes, that's entirely fair.
The full value, since you bring it into existence as a farmer.

If you buy cabbages from a farmer and make cabbage soup, you are taxed on the value addition that soup making results in.
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All you need is the 460 nanometer wavelength of light. That's what your eye's daylight detectors are most sensitive to. Halogen lights don't have that frequency, which is why they didn't work for you.

Furthermore, you don't need this light all day. Just in the morning and evening.

You can get 460 nanometer LED lights from grow shops online for around $50, and put it close to your face for 15 minutes in the morning and evening. It'll reset your rhythm, cure your sad, and that's all you need.
Why don't you read http://www.skjegstad.com/blog/2015/08/17/jitsu-v02/ and decide for yourself?

The gist of it is that for a typical DNS server you can boot a unikernel per-request to service the query instead of leaving a long-running process going on a typical server. You can boot these things fast enough to even map them to URLs and create a unikernel to serve each page of your site.

It's hard to approach it from the perspective of what you already know to be true and reliable. It's still experimental and we've only begun to explore the possibilities.
It's more helpful to think about classes of errors and what the type system prevents.

A simple type system prevents type mismatch errors. A more complex type system like Haskell's might be able to encode interfaces and other rules but might also has it's limits.

The trade-off is usually that the more classes of errors you remove, the more complex the type-system becomes. Over the lifetime of your program, how much time did you spend hunting bugs vs time spent in long compilations or encoding all the rules.

I guess my point is that a lite-weight type system might also be enough.
> Why any replacement for the libc would contain less vulnerability?

Because it would be written in better languages.

> Same question for replacing a kernel with an "hypervisor".

Because the hypervisor implements a much smaller, better specified API than a kernel does.
> The NSA is there to protect us, in theory.

The difference between theory and practice is greater in practice than in theory.
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Just wait for the Olympics to make this a worldwide epidemic...
Important food source or only food source?
I'm not sure I'm following: on what grounds can they apply this order? The man was acquitted of rape... If he's not a rapist then how can they restrict him?
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I'm reasonably certain ball point pens existed long before computerized manufacturing, despite the claims of the article. I'm no material scientist but I believe there has to be better ways to manufacture a ball bearing than computer controlled cutting?
I'm having trouble finding information on the language they are talking about. It doesn't seem like the language (COGENT) is presented in this paper, just a compiler for language. Is there a page on the language itself? A quick Google search shows only completely unrelated results. There is another language CoGenT[0] at UMass, but it is not the same thing.

[0] https://people.cs.umass.edu/~trekp/cogent-manual.pdf
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Overnight Oats is a great recipe for breakfast and is prepared in 5 minutes. It won't hit the $2.15 mark and it's roughly ~400 calories, ~40g healthy carb, ~40g protein, and ~10g fats, ~10g fiber, but its easy to make. (All depends on the brands you use to make it).

Toss 2 scoops protein powder, 1 cup almond milk, 1/2 tsp cinnamon, 1 tablespoon chia seeds, 1/4 cup steel cut oats in a jar and shake, refrigerate. Add fruit if you like.
I've automated large chunks of my life.

I have a JIRA for everything I do with customized workflows, and among many other projects I built this:

http://hnalert.tk

to mail me when subjects interesting to me come up on HN.

I recommend reading 'Getting Things Done' and working at your own pace. Focus on the things you're motivated to do, not what you think you should be doing - that's what a paid job is for!
If you're doing nontrivial computation that absolutely dominates the kernel overhead (almost by definition). But how frequent is that? A huge amount of programming boils down to CRUD and very basic transformations, maybe a little bit of fanning out/in, all of which involve minimal actual compute.
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Came here to say exactly the same. I'm old enough that the ball pens of my childhood were made without computers.
No it doesn't. Rather it says a lot about global supply chains. This is bullying and shaming with some nationalism thrown in for good measure (the one entrepreneuress saying, importing those spherules ships your profits overseas, bad, bad!). If Chinese manufacturers thought there was a big market for precision ball point pens, they'd make them. But there isn't such market in most of the world.

In any Chinese office, you'll have plenty of semi disposable pens, the likes of papermates and bics. They don't really explode in your pocket.

Most of the world just want pens that write, they don't see pens as status symbols. Other things take their place.

And even if we took the reprimand at face value, really, are the Swiss taking in and rolling in the dough by selling these small spherules?

It was opportunistic bashing by some apparatchik who saw it fit to bash industry who actually pulled the country out of dire poverty in a mere thirty years.
Cars themselves were ready before our laws were.
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Presumably plenty of higher end shops in China could produce such a ball, but inertia and economies of scale from current producers probably make it less valuable to pursue.

Some high end optics, semiconductors, etc perhaps China really cannot yet produce.
It wouldn't make much of a difference though if you are already wearing VR.
Perhaps advances in the other components - say, ink - rely on tighter tolerances in the ball. Or perhaps consumers expect a level of quality that only current balls provide.
Indeed, and MDMA really can help you in a transformative, psychological manner, but it's not a drug which can be taken with regularity, and it can have major side effects. It requires careful monitoring and therapeutic assistance.

This drug is much more side effect free and can be used regularly so not exactly in a similar manner.
So, if you're still reading this thread, I have one last question: what advantage do you think a browser extension has over WebSign as I've described it?

I'm asking explicitly because, since you still maintain that the extension model is objectively more secure, at least one of us is clearly missing something very important.
I switched to pinboard.in and can't imagine switching back. The only thing better would be bookmarking integrated with my journal but that would be hard since I use a paper journal.
It's mind-boggling to think of the societal effects this will have at the nationwide level for the countries where this is so prevalent. Entire programs that will need to be increased or completely created anew to handle the amount of people affected with microcephaly.

Likewise, depending on how effective the government's urging will be, imagine being one of the few children born during those two years, having only 3 other children in your class through your entire primary and secondary education (I'm not sure what the El Salvador schooling program actually is, so these are large assumptions; but I imagine at this point, not entirely outside the realm of possibility).