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> buying the rights for titles in a new region is expensive, so we start off with a giant loss on the balance sheet. But as we get more members we'll be able to buy more content in each country

Sorry to pick on your comment, but I resent (maybe a strong word) businesses telling me things like this: Unless you'll give me something extra when you make massive profits (a discounted subscription? shares?) then don't expect me to make sacrifices for you when you have losses or cash flow problems. Why should I fund your business? Am I an investor? Where is my return? You're selling a service for a price; if the service has problems, the reason why generally is not the customer's concern - that's an internal issue.
This is dated Jan 21 (two days ago). Wikipedia adds (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humberto_Moreira), "On January 22, 2016 Moreira was granted restricted release on a bail." The allegations seem to center on a possible link between Moreira and the Los Zetas criminal organization (http://www.elespanol.com/espana/20160121/96240415_0.html), which is known for its drug smuggling and its brutal human rights violations.
... And the article linked on "read more" says the opposite: "Vegetable oils contain 'toxic' chemicals, say scientists"

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/...
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A small amount of work that will save $90pm is "optimis[ing] your business"!
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> Netflix is usually good at expanding their content across the countries they service. I would not be surprised if they increased their content availability over the months and years across all the countries.

Why pay now for a service that won't be sufficient for months or years? Netflix can try to sell to those customers again at that point, though some reputation and trust will have been lost.
Examples of such tools?
Preferably open source
Now to apply compressive sensing!
one further point to keep in mind is the rule for the inductive reactance of a device (either an amplifiers output or a speakers input) is stated for 1000Hz which is an old rule for the mid range of audio for the clear hearing of intelligible speech, and of course the most efficient transfer of energy is when the output of an amp matches the input of the device it is driving.

To understand a given amp and speaker you also need to know the inductive reactance for the full range of frequencies you want to use.. so amp and speaker maybe matched at the rated impedance is at 1000hz but way off at 15khz
I think that works on some architectures but would not be guaranteed behavior. In theory on a system with no memory ordering constraints, the pointers could update before the cache lines for the underlying ring buffer. Which means that without an acquire barrier at the beginning of aring_take, which without an item count, would require writes to the shared head/tail pointers to sync anyway, you can't ensure the the data written to the ring buffer is visible to the thread, even though your pointers would indicate there's data there and so you may load either torn or completely different data into the consumer thread.

Which means that if your memory barriers are operating correctly, they're just causing two cache lines to sync for the metadata instead of one, if the pointers are split across two lines.

Whereas with an item count, only one line ever has to sync, even if the pointers are split across two, since the pointers aren't shared between threads.

In practice, the compiler might not be smart enough to realize this and might be enforcing order for all side effects before the barriers though, even if the other thread doesn't read them. So maybe this isn't a good approach.
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In my opinion, this is a scary section to read regarding Heroku and the way they are handling SSL traffic. They are essentially asking for clients to predict 2x spikes 48 hours ahead of time, otherwise you will see performance degradation. Am I misunderstanding this? Does anyone have more knowledge on this? We are paying a premium to even deliver SSL traffic on Heroku, and now we need to predict traffic spikes as little as 2x to maintain decent response times?
Yeah we noticed that we had access to a several Pixar movies and other interesting shows when in Brazil.

I see that the newer Avengers movie is available in Canada also, sucks.
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Was wondering, in the general, is the patient always the copyright owner of this kind of data? Can they relicense it, publish it, do anything they want with it?

It seems like that would be the case, but there has been talk about patenting parts of the DNA in the past, and legally sometimes things work in un-expected ways.
I like the fact that he explicitly mentions letting go of traditions. As companies grow, all kinds of things have to change, and this includes informal activities as well.

It's good advice for life too--if you are too afraid of setting up a tradition or trying something because it needs to be perfect and last through the ages (or at least your life), you won't do anything.

The perfect is the enemy of the good.
I hadn't noticed the 808s because they all sound like "Kick 2" to me. b^)
Bootstrap only requires jQuery if you're using bootstrap.js - which is 37kB.

So, if you want to use bootstrap CSS + JS + jQuery, you're immediately looking at ~75kB worth of stuff.

Side note: I was recently dealing with this, and found Zepto to be a suitable jQuery replacement for small single page apps.
> If someone wants to share content and exercise their freedom of expression, they can still publish that material directly on their own system,

That is not a practical solution and an unfair burden. Most people do not have that option at all. They don't know how to do it themselves and they can't afford to pay others. Aggregating many users makes publishing affordable to many and the filter-always rule goes a long way towards making that impossible.
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From the article:

"They are also brainier than any previous generation. Average scores on intelligence tests have been rising for decades in many countries, thanks to better nutrition and mass education."

Is this true? From what I've read on the Flynn effect[0], these are only possible explanations.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect#Proposed_explanat...
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It's amazing that a simple comment on HN reminds me, viscerally, of how I will never, ever write software. So much so, that if I ever find myself contemplating this approach, I'll jump off the nearest building.
A bit on Intel GPU frequency
To clarify, I was speaking to broader claims of people saying f.lux puts them to sleep like a baby and the f.lux authors themselves claiming it as a tool in the fight against cancer and acne.

Note that f.lux does not even claim to prevent eyestrain. The closest they come is this: "Our users say that f.lux prevents eyestrain." That's hardly science; in fact it's exactly how shady companies market vitamins.

Also, I don't know what "feels better on your eyes" means but I will point out that if 2700K screens felt better "in an otherwise dark room" then movie theaters would use them. You say "It's that simple!" but like most things, it's a little more complicated than that.
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What's the definition of "defective". The company defines this, federal regulation can supersede that, but between those two things the "leaks personal data" definition of defective must be present or it simply isn't true just because you (and most any reasonable person) says it's true. If it's explicitly excluded from warranty (or EULA) and inclusion isn't required by federal law, then you're SOL because you've tacitly agreed to be bound by that warranty and EULA by buying the product and not returning it. EULAs allow companies to get away with even known bad design bugs in software that cause data loss, there's nothing you can do about this liability wise.

So maybe you're talking about changing the law, but good luck with that.
This is about the triple-damages rule, which says that if you're found to infringe on a patent willingly then the damages are increased, while if you didn't know about it, they aren't. This, combined with a large number of very-low-quality ambiguous patents and the fact that the patent office's screening only creates a legal presumption of validity but not a practical one, means that everyone is strongly incentivized to avoid ever looking at anything the patent office publishes. Which makes things even worse, because the problem is hidden and the patent office can't draw on public knowledge to shoot down bad patents.
Just as a general note, these images contain personally identifying information about the patient. This includes not just the patient's name, but also his age, address, phone number, and an extremely limited health history.
I do use it. It makes a lot more sense if you use something like LISP or Clojure because (parens are king).

I really enjoy programmer dvorak. As you say, re-training copy and paste is a bit of a task, but my hands feel far less fatigued typing on dvorak than on Qwerty. Now I am type-fluent in both due to necessity and public terminals, but prefer to use programmer dvorak. I really like the numerical layout because there is some rhyme and reason: Left hand from middle out: 91357%, right hand from middle out: 02468` ... so it's a lot easier to type numbers because of that break-up. I don't mind having to hit shift for numbers because it makes for faster coding.
(LLVM is under a BSD-style license and thus not copylefted, although it does require attribution.)
Is the utopian workplace just a ploy to keep us all at work?
Yes. Patients own their data. HIPAA.

EDIT actually, it looks like I'm wrong in more states than I am right:

http://www.healthinfolaw.org/comparative-analysis/who-owns-m...

However, there are very strict rules on how that data can be used and shared.
I use the KDE equivalent all the time. Really nice on web pages at night when they're bright white. Don't know if it's saved my eyesight but it has made things more pleasant at times. It's also really nice to be able to invert the desktop and then invert a single window (VLC) so colors are correct there.
Hopefully they'll have better luck with this guy then they did with Pinochet.
Only one of the three things you mentioned is comparable to F.lux: iOS Night Shift.

> Kindle added "Blue Shade"

Blue Shade is, unfortunately, an exceedingly half-assed implementation; I wouldn't be surprised if an intern wrote it over the course of a month or two. Unlike F.lux, (or Cf.Lumen on Android), it doesn't change the color temperature of the screen—instead, it uses the same naive implementation as apps such as Twilight or Lux, which is a semitransparent reddish overlay that causes black colors to turn red. Considering that Kindles are running a completely customized Android ROM, Amazon could have done so much better.

> Android announced "Night Light"

This is only for Google Play Books, and nothing else. [1]

[1] http://officialandroid.blogspot.com/2015/12/silent-night-wit...
I highly doubt this will ever be possible, from both a biological and a computer science standpoint.
For extremely optimistic definitions of "normal". Also, if your "five variables" have non-overlapping live ranges, then you might be able to get it down to only 2 or 3 registers, so I wouldn't say it's "optimal by default".
Yes. They realized that their conclusion was incorrect due to a faulty clock.
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I was surprised when they announced they were coming to Canada. They seemed like another mid-market red-coloured retailer. Why did they think they'd succeed where Zellers failed?
Watch Hal Abelson explain this on video, right at the start of the first 1986 SICP lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Op3QLzMgSY
I wish someone would bring back the greatness of real-time music sharing from Turntable.fm, except maybe with instruments you could pick up and jam with. Maybe each person gets 1-2 loops, and 4-5 people get to be up on stage at once. Everyone else just gets little avatars that party.
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Anyone recommend a viewer?
Whoa, hold on there. HIPAA generally gives patients the right to access their medical records [1], but I don't think it says anything about whether they "own" it in the sense that they get to edit the data to their liking (I don't believe they do, in the US), and it certainly doesn't say anything about copyright.

Most of the HN crowd (and myself) would probably say that the ideal situation is for patients to own copyright and other rights in medical data generated about them, but I don't think this issue has actually been settled, either in a cultural or a legal sense [2].

[1]: http://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/guidance/...

[2]: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/837393
Are you sure? I see his doctor's phone number and address but that's it.
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You can't copyright such material at all.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikilegal/Copyright_of_X-ray...
since 808s are a rather low frequency, headphones or some speakers with bass are a must
I don't think it's that straightforward. HIPPA gives you the right to access your images, but the hospital or imaging center owns the copyright.
It doesn't seem that the case is relying on the "universal jurisdiction" the Pinochet case was based on (trying the dictator in Spain for crimes committed in Chile, without Chile's consent), but on money laundering that happened in Spain itself.
I'm loving this, here's my take. http://sampulator.com/cryptojuice/slowjam
Netflix didn't actually "make" House of Cards despite that being the popular public perception. Netflix simply financed the production by buying the streaming rights to all the countries Netflix operated in. TV rights internationally were sold to a patchwork of local TV stations in exchange for exclusivity. Now, Netflix is in those countries, it has to reacquire streaming rights after the exclusivity window has closed.
Not trying to be dismissive, but does it really matter? You can call yourself whatever you like - but at the end of the day a label doesn't change what you do (and from your post you seem to be quite good at what you do!). Why not just tell people you solve problems with technology - sometimes that means setting up a website, other times you work as a sys admin, and still other times that requires you to build an app.

*EDIT My comment is in regards to casual conversation as that is how I read your question, originally - if you are asking what to call yourself in business situations, a more formal title may be appropriate thus my comment is irrelevant.
goes on to gloat a little bit saying, he considered his earlier score of 53 his most impressive considering he was 14 at the time

Just to set the record straight -- that wasn't gloating. That was me being annoyed with how people focus on the "Putnam fellow" bit to the exclusion of all else.
Most definitely. Using the pydicom library, you can view all of the metadata stored along with the images. For instance, the patient's telephone number is listed with a 540 area code.
I'm not sure if I agree that these circular charts are more readable than flamegraphs. It seems to obscure the actual stack frame detail and make it difficult to visually compare the depth of non-adjacent stacks.
I would argue that patients owning the copyright on their health data is actually a bad thing. It would make a lot of research much more difficult if they had to get rights to publish patient data even after de-indentification. We NEED that data to drive the field of medicine forward and as long as the patient's privacy is not compromised, it would make sense for the hospitals to own the data.
Ehhhh, it's a grey area. They are definitely in the 'embrace' stage, but they're doing it on iOS, where f.lux doesn't really have a presence. You can argue that makes it different, or you could argue it's close enough.
Heh... Folks use software like f.lux to purposefully distort their displays in order to reduce fatigue.

The ability to adjust the output to one's liking should not be confused with an inability to faithfully reproduce input.
About 20% of the file is metadata, from a brief scan of it.
Digging through my piles of books, it's this one, outdated if you're interested in current stuff.

Interconnections Bridges Switches and Internetworking Protocols by Radia Perlman

http://www.amazon.com/Interconnections-Bridges-Switches-Inte...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radia_Perlman
I don't read the authors as saying that intellectual need is the only way to motivate. Rather, they're saying that regardless of motivation, students are unlikely to learn certain concepts unless they directly experience the need for those concepts ("disequilibrium"). (Of course, it's possible to learn to solve a class of problems that "require" certain concepts without learning those concepts.)

Where the MUSIC model addresses motivation, the DNR framework addresses what to do with that motivation. So they seem compatible to me. The teachers described in this article would certainly benefit from studying the MUSIC model. I winced a little at the teacher who said, "Well, you care if you want to get a good grade on your test."
I think it's largely because the long-standing mathematical tradition comes from an era where those formulas always had plenty of context, be it that of a topic-specific class/lecture or a paper that is published in a journal with a particular focus. Once you know what field of mathematics you're dealing with, there are strong conventions for what variables mean what; that's one of the things that has let to mathematics drawing from so many alphabets. It's only been with relatively recent advances in information technology that the highly technical details of many specialties have been aggregated closely enough for the context to be lost.

Also, long variable names would greatly obscure the overall structure of many formulas, which could be an even bigger problem.
Weirdly it was when the lanes with staff were open. I'm trying to figure out if we're all anti-social or is there some other reason.
There are many more people capable of programming their devices nowadays but I'd wager there's less programmers to each user now.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10928528

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10928159
I've never heard of formal continuing education in software engineering in any way analogous to that in legal. Curious to know to what you refer.

Yes, in SE you've got to work hard to keep current, but this is not achieved by attending seminars and the like.
Just go with programmer and sysadmin. That is what you actually do...
OsiriX [1] is a popular OS X/iOS viewer.

3DSlicer [2] is an excellent alternative that runs on Win/OS X/Linux

[1] http://www.osirix-viewer.com

[2] http://www.slicer.org
Blue Shade is almost 100% un-fucking-usable. Its as though Amazon shipped it without a single person trying it out one time.
And all of them allow you to set your number to private, so that the receiver doesn't see it.
The beauty is in that a weighted graph of lambdas could be build out of conses even back then. The idea that code is data (and it could be generated by a program itself) was already there, but they have dropped this right intuition and turned back too early, and the dark ages of Java and packer's mindset followed.
Interesting. I saw the MIT license and was wondering (mostly in general, not about this particular case) how that would work. I understand to re-license something, one must hold copyright ownership, and unfortunately, I could imagine imagining companies or even hospitals getting a bit strange about that.
Huh - can you share a piece of source code that the average developer wouldn't be intellectually capable of understanding, not even in infinite time? Or point to one in the open source corpus?
I'm pretty sure that he's legally allowed to release his own PHI and PII. Since the README includes "I open sourced my brain. Here it is," it's from "dcunited001" and the scans are for David Conner, I'm pretty sure this is the person in question releasing his own information.
I can see your point, but almost all clinical research already involves a consent process where the patient is told the benefits and risks of participating; signing away a license to a subset of their medical data could simply be included in the consent.

There are some regrettable examples of cells and tissue being taken from patient specimens without their knowledge, some of which give birth to entire fields of research, and then it is later unclear whether data that could re-identify the patient's family (like genomic data) can be published [1]. It can be really hard to fully de-identify imaging and molecular data.

[1]: http://www.nature.com/news/deal-done-over-hela-cell-line-1.1...
I don't think people are questioning the right for him to release his MRI scans. I think we are wondering if the patient is aware of how much of his private info is being released in the scan.
Seems walmart is buying up some of these failed target leases.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/walmart-to-buy-13-former-tar...

2 of these locations are within 20km of me, and not too far from 3 other walmarts within 20 minutes apart.
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On my last web project (a couple years back now) I used GUSS
(https://github.com/guardian/guss) which I liked because it was light-weight and modular. But it hasn't had any activity recently and so I'm in the market for a new CSS framework. I was looking at Bootstrap 4, which certainly has a lot going for it. It has created a community - including template developers. But Bootstrap is big and it presumably still uses JQuery, which I've dropped from my toolkit. Milligram looks promising. Are there other similar projects?
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Yeah that's why I asked. On first thought it was "well yeah, it is their brain of course they own it". But then I could think of scenarios where imaging centers, doctors, hospitals, equipment manufacturers could get wierd about it.

I found a case in Canada, for example, about a hospital asserting ownership rights to a biopsy tissue sample.

Then remembered the DNA patentability case not too long ago as well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ass'n_for_Molecular_Pathology_....
Yes lots of times. So it's exactly what it looks like, a boilerplate. I'm still not convinced why this is noteworthy.
agreed. super fun!

here's what I came up:

http://sampulator.com/lusenrc/saturday-night

http://sampulator.com/lusenrc/saturday-night-2

(turn the metronome off by clicking on the two circles on the right side that alternately light up)
He is legally allowed, yes. The question is whether he intended to and whether he even knew about it.
Plan 9 in general reflects this ideology and concept. The entire operating uses the mouse very expressively to the point that when I develop outside of a mouse expressive UI it feels lacking. Among other things, the mouse chording used in Plan 9 is available almost everywhere in the OS. Ex. L+M=Cut, L+R=Paste
Do you want to sprinkle water everywhere? Because that's how you prinkle water everywhere.