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When I see teardowns for most computers/gadgets, I'm always puzzled by the size of the battery. Somewhere someone decided that battery life barely long enough to sell the product, is good enough.

What I expect to see (and I do in Apple products for instance) is the battery dominating the volume of the product.
I work with Terra's ground based flight crew. I don't know much about ASTER specifically, but most of the instruments on Terra have a very wide field of cover and gather light in bands beyond of our spectrum of vision. The data primarily of interest to climatologists and scientists. You won't be able to pick out cars parked on our street in these images.

Historical and current data from some of Terra's other instruments is available on Worldview here: https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/
Whoever picked Mediums category images did a horrible job
I found another one. Page 420 of "Making History" also includes a reference to "warm milk" (as opposed to "warmed") in a book written by Fry.

I also found comments on Stephen Fry's site about QI XL from 07/03/09 [1] where bread and milk was apparently discussed, with no mention of Fry going off the handles over the subject he himself apparently introduced. And the comments themselves includes multiple mentions and have been left up.

(EDIT: The episode in question is season 6, episode 11, Films and Fame. It doesn't mention "warm milk" but it does go on quite a bit about bread and milk which GP also claims he has an issue with. Stephen Fry asks what you should not feed a Porcupine; Emma Thompson, who is a close friend of his and certainly would know if this was a no-go area, answers "bread and milk" and Stephen Fry repeats her answer, and David Mitchell and Alan Davies then gets into an extended argument about bread and milk. Here is where it starts [2]. That episode also includes a fantastic segment with discussion about the late Alan Rickmann, btw., where John Sessions does some fantastic impressions of him)

Barring evidence to the contrary, I'm going to assume that if there's a mention of this in his autobiography, that it's meant as a dry joke or exaggeration for comedic effect, which would fit very much into how Fry writes and talks.

[1] http://archive.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/qi-xl-070309-bread...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBk-z3OmMj8&t=34m40s
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Everyone I've seen that's used it has been totally blown away. If it's going to fail, it'll be a wii-like failure. Sell millions and millions and millions of units that will sit unused in people's closets.
Sorry couldn't post the link, it was part of the sign-up wizard.
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This was ported to the Atari ST/TT in the early 90s, and I ran it there. And then for a while it was the only practical option on my early (pre 1.0) Linux because X11 drivers for my Trident video card were not done.

Some neat ideas. Nice and minimalist.
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Thank you so much for posting this, its so nice on a human level to think about turning mine laying tech into tree planting tech.

At the end they mention a planting capacity of 3k square miles per year which is a lot but still small compared to deforestation rates of 46-58k square miles per year.
But they're not triggers because you're not actually triggered by them, as opposed to a person who was raped not appreciating rape jokes because it makes their PTSD real bad.

As much as I disapprove of the caricatureizing of the concept of not being a rude person and the extreme positions that are being taken by the students, I feel it's still important to recognize they are young adults navigating these heavy concepts of balancing censorship and unacceptable behavior that deserves derision such as shouting slurs at people. Being condescending and dismissive of the entire concept just comes off as a rather extreme reaction to young people being what they've always been and exploring the society's boundaries that they live in and seeing what negatives they can change in their own circles. Once they actually get out of university I'm sure it'll be fine, as every generation has been one way or another.
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Unless people feel start to feel comfortable calling it out as manipulation: "you want to be treated like and adult? Act like an adult." I hope the inevitable backlash takes this form.
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I believe the intent was that despite the flaws in Fry's character, it doesn't make his argument any less compelling.
That depends on the context. I'm totally ok with saying fuck the students union or the university trying to censor speakers student clubs and societies have invited though. If the illiberal left feel like using violence and intimidation to physically no platform people good. The more people see that they're just bullies on a power trip the better.
This appears to be header images taken from popular or random recent articles within that category, rather than an image specifically chosen to represent the entire category.

e.g. For Climate Change they're showing the header for https://medium.com/invironment/an-army-of-ocean-farmers-on-t...
I think you missed the “often" in your quote from wiki.

This study is telling us that Africans and Neanderthals are not able to produce fertile male offspring when a male Neanderthal reproduces with a African female. This is a common occurrence when two different species breed.

I do agree that it is extraordinary that the meaning of this discovery is not recognised more widely, but please do not place words in my mouth as to what this means.
What are you? A rocket scientist?
Twenty years ago assembly language was losing its last battles with higher level languages as a viable choice for game development. Skilled assembly language programmers insisted they could give a factor of two more performance on the same hardware. It wasn't enough: everyone moved on.

Now the author is again saying his SPMD hand-coded assembly language can outperform higher level languages by a factor of two for some test cases.

I don't see the economics working out any better for the assembly language solution this time than last time. It won't port across different hardware generations, is hell to write and maintain, and requires super-specialist knowledge.

What this might point to is room for a new high-level language that maps better to the reality of current hardware.
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"optimal" and "standard" do not go together....

You will always be more efficient if you can tailor your code to a particular device, a standard abstraction will never let you get to that level.

What you need to ask is:
1) Do you really need the extra 90% effort for the 10% extra performance?
2) are the tools good enough? are the abstractions wrong?

This article seems to be saying that the abstractions are wrong... how do these techniques fare on other devices?
>It is not news that Apple has given up on Mac OS X as a UNIX server platform, but seeing one UNIX vendor outsource to another UNIX vendor at this level is still weird.

Had Apple ever used OS X for iCloud?
I work on Convox, an open source PaaS. Currently it is AWS only. It sets up a cluster correctly in a few minutes. Then you have a simple API - apps, builds, releases, environment and processes - to work with. Under the hood we deploy to ECS but you don't have to worry about it.

So I do agree that ECS is hard to use but with better tooling it doesn't have to be.

I'm also a big fan of how GKE is shaping up.
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A lot of instances of "no platforming" is just someone refusing to participate in an event if someone else is present (usually because the person doesn't like the other, or their politics). Everyone has a right to not take part in an event if they don't want to. It's not a threat to free speech if someone has conditions on their attendence.

I'll bet Stephen Fry has conditions on whether he attends events (perhaps around money or expenses). If he won't turn up to my house in another country on his own expenses, is he trying to shut down debates? No. Get over it.
Ironic mistake in the HN title, the actual title is "Addicted to Distraction"
The top change I would love to see in C is to have a way to have conditional macros, that could produce efficient statically compiled chunk of texts of defines. I think you can get some of that in C++ with templates, but without the whole C++.
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The best explanations I've found seem to include "a culture of victimhood" rising in popularity [0]. Though my sociologist friends probably wouldn't agree.

[0] http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10....
"NSFW" is a trigger word. Should we ban that?
That's a really interesting look at the politics between those two. Applies to some stuff I'm involved in too. Useful link, thanks very much for sharing!
Finally a possible explanation [1] as to why Apple chargers (USB and laptop) give you tingles when touching the metal casing of the device they're plugged into.

Would love to know if the mentioned capacitor is indeed the reason and whether it leads to enough efficiency to justify the scare it causes with first time customers.

[1]: https://youtu.be/3Hdn0MuCK_0?t=2m14s
Does this culture of trigger words and safe spaces really exist out of the Internet? Is it an US/UK thing? I've never encountered it in my life.
> because someone might take offence at something that is not intended to offend

Just because -you- don't mean it to offend or -you- don't believe it's offensive doesn't mean it isn't -to someone else-.

> I would mind having to pre-emptively self-censor because someone might take offence

Don't you do that anyway? I do that every day - at work, to my nephews, to my parents, to strangers. What's the big deal?
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Point #2 - exactly. If the car was available now - in production - I think a lot more people would of put the 1k down. I myself, my lease runs out March 2017 - I can't not have a car waiting on the Model 3 to come out. I'll have to wait for the next round.
I recently tried to read 'The denial of death' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Denial_of_Death). I did not manage to go too far - but one of their theses, maybe the main one, was that we are basically crazy not to fear death, that in the childhood we learn how to ignore the objective reality which is too much for us to bear.
"safe spaces" are not about pretending that "homosexuality doesn't exist", it's about telling people that saying "faggots are mentally ill perverts" is unacceptable for the environment.
There's the question of cause and effect in the gradual degradation of the remote X11 experience. A lot of it depends on how the X client is written and pays attention to protocol round trips. In the old days people complained and filed bugs on apps if there was a slowdown in remote X11 performance because many people routinely ran heavy X11 apps on beefy servers and displayed on a wimpy machine.

RDP and VNC are immune to this because they are just glorified animated gif streams, but NeWS would be prone to the same problem if it was alive today.
Hey guys, this is a really interesting idea! One question - i'm new to the wtb concept, and i'm not a member of any facebook groups so i'm curious as to why someone would post a wtb instead of shopping around online?
Sadly, too many workplaces (Github being the most famous recent example) are succumbing to the same institutionalisation of coddling.
>Maybe we shouldn't be surprised to see safe spaces / micro-aggressions as a strategy to shut down unpleasant situations (ideas) rather than confronting them as ideas

Is it not confronting to refuse it in your presence because you find the behavior unacceptable? What would you prefer the confrontation to be like?

I don't agree with the extreme measures often taken by university kids but I also think criticism of it should be accurate to its state. That is, it is a form of confronting the idea of a social issue by creating a space where certain behaviors are unacceptable to facilitate more productive conversation without someone's ignorance shouting it down, taken too far with too many subjects because it's practiced mostly among young college kids who are really not experienced at all.
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What moral argument can you make that money earned overseas by a multinational corporation intrinsically belongs in the U.S.? You can make that argument on the basis of nationalism—not morality.
> Over on Amazon, anyone can offer something for sale.

The practice is called white labeling: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/w/white-label-product.asp

Basically an Amazon seller sources product from China and gets the manufacturer to label the product with their brand name. Quality can be either really good or dodgy.

However, I have seen a lot of this stuff with the CE mark but not the UL mark.

Do the CE underwriters just let anyone stamp their mark on any product with minimal oversight?
I'm curious, would you be able to go into how they nearly ruined your life?
Apparently is it common for there to be issues with teeth when individuals from different genetic lineages have children. The genes that control teeth size and location have some level of incompatibility that manifests itself in orthodontist’s vacation homes.
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A lot of people think it's important that people warn about potential spoilers. (SPOILERS: Vader is Luke's father, and Bruce Willis' character in "The Sixth Sense" is actually dead.) Aren't spoiler free zones a form of safe space, and the word "SPOILER" itself a trigger warning?

A friend in the Army told me about one of the training exercises which simulates a car roll. Some people who have been in a car roll get a panic attack if they go through the simulation. The instructor said that if anyone had been in a roll and felt that way then they would be excused from the exercise.

I suffer from acrophobia. I would like some warning that the hotel I'm going to stay in (Hyatt Regency San Francisco, I'm looking at you) has a large open atrium and glass elevator for my room on the 8th floor.

Do you think these are childish and oversensitive reactions? Perhaps. But if so, why call out "Social Justice Warriors" as being unique? If not, what's the difference?

The point isn't that plot twists, car rollovers, and glass elevators don't exist, nor that rape, race, homosexuality, etc. don't exist. It's that some people have been raped, and talking about rape unexpected may lead to unexpected emotional reactions.

Now that I think about it, a few years after 9/11 I was in Sweden taking a Swedish course. It was a 9/11, so the teacher thought it would be an interesting topic for the class. Completely out of the blue, I started thinking about what happened again, and broke out crying. And it's not like I had a close connection to NYC or any of the people involved. I figure if a reaction like that can happen to me, then I can well see how others would be more strongly affected by more personally directed trauma.

Nor was it something I wanted to talk about more at that point. The teacher quickly switched to a different topic, since the goal wasn't to talk about 9/11 but to learn Swedish. It certainly doesn't mean that I want to pretend that 9/11 didn't exist, so I don't think you can make the conclusion you did.

Again, you might say that I'm oversensitive or childish. Shrug At some point how do you know you aren't sensitive enough?

Don't take that to mean that I require warning before anyone talks about 9/11, or that there be some sort of "safe space" for me. I am neither proposing that nor defending it, only arguing against the validity of your proposition that people want safe spaces and trigger warnings as a way to "pretend rape, race, homosexuality, transgenderism etc don't exist by not allowing these words to be spoken, or acts and circumstances to be portrayed, [and thereby] create the environment for these facts of life to rot in the mind of society."
All CE certification is self-certification.

The manufacturer/importer is supposed to keep and present on demand a "technical file" detailing compliance to various standards, which is supposed to include particular tests, but there's no real guarantee that they've been done.

On the other hand, this is a major barrier to entry to small-run products, as is WEEE.
>> Likewise, the copyright holders of ZFS (the version that is actually used) can give permission to use it under the GNU GPL

> Personally, I don't see that happening anytime soon.

Remembering reading that the author of ZFS has said that they would prefer if ZFS had been licensed Apache license rather than CDDL. Its not their decision to make, but it goes to show that there is people are interested in such license change.
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Here's an open letter signed by many people involved in "SJW" stuff that strongly criticises the no-platforming happening in the UK.

https://gendertrender.wordpress.com/2015/02/14/the-guardian-...
It's sad in a way that I only find out about these other channels on a HN thread. Youtube really should work on making channel discovery much more effective.
There are no CE underwriters and you put the mark on your own products. It's self-certification.

The manufacturer/importer is supposed to be able to produce evidence of compliance on demand, but if it's posted from China, good luck with that. This is why the products are so cheap.
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Actually, I didn't botch the joke - it was you who missed the subtle point I was making. I think that, paradoxically, this may evolve eventually to more complete (operating) system with an editor, just like Emacs has a debugger.

That's why I asked the question, and made a clarification (which unfortunately killed the reason for being subtle) - your "doesn't add anything to the conversation" missed the point! (Actually, downvoting without a comment doesn't addd anything to the conversation either.)
> Being triggered because someone voice a different view about a political subject is neither hate speech or defamation

I haven't been following this very closely which is possibly why I haven't seen an example of this "political triggering" claim. Do you have some examples?

> Commonly, free speech is limited

I think you're talking about the governmental limits on free speech there - private individuals and institutions have no such constraints and can limit whatever speech they want (within the bounds of legally-mandated discrimination, obviously) because (as I understand it, I'm not a US lawyer) they're not bound by the First Amendment.
I went to an underground party in Switzerland a few years ago. There was a lab setup in one room to test pills. I am sure it isn't so uncommon.
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And what this has to do with "quarks and electrons and supersymmetry"?
Led Zeppelin have ripped off many artists, and Jimmy Page basically admitted it. More here: http://www.willardswormholes.com/archives/24449
Two hypothetical extremes. Yet the very real actual example in the submission "safe space" was an excuse to try to have a participant thrown out for throwing up her hands and shaking her head in a debate. No extreme slur against homosexuality, just a gesture.
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This is actually exactly it. It's a power-play.

The amount of think-pieces that have been dumped over the internet psychoanalyzing "the medal generation", talking about the ways in which kids have had their self-esteem massaged by lack of bullying, or beating, or suffering, or how "America has been pussyified" or whatever, all part from the premise that when a student says "take this down, it offends me", they are actually being honest in this weak way.

On some level I suppose it makes it easier for the person making the critique, they get to brag a bit about how they have a "thicker skin". But that's not what's going on at all.
No, not really. This is a case of right wing white males finding some phony thing to get upset about and battle against. Exactly what they accuse "SJWs" of doing.
Except these strategies are not really about behaviors in many cases, they are about ideas. There have been a number of cases of safe spaces being set up as alternatives for on-campus events where 'unpleasant' ideas are discussed. University professors routinely have to censor material that is 'triggering' merely because of the ideas it presents.
It actually works great; the "duplicate content problem" only impacts pages on the same domain, not identical content across multiple sites. It's possible to make a lot of money by taking the content of mild authority sites and putting it on a high authority domain - can outrank the source sites in short order.
From Pinker's book during the Korean war about 4.5 percent of the population died from disease and starvation in every year
vs about 2% of the US population in total for the US Civil War. Daresay not sure how civil that was - there were other powers involved at various stages.
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You don’t need anything complex here. Humans will optimise whatever is rewarded.
"Happy Holidays!" instead of "Merry Christmas!" certainly seems to offend a lot of people. So does saying "I'm an atheist" in many part of the US. Or, outrage for saying "we need the same types of gun ownership restrictions that then-Governor Reagan pushed for California."

The most recent outrage seems to concern transsexuals using something other than the cisnormative bathroom.

You did mean to include those forms of outrage, right? Because to me those still look like "game on".
> How do I know what I'm buying is safe?

I think I answered my own comment a few sections above. But for safety you should look for the UL mark:

http://www.ul.com/code-authorities/resources/faqs-for-code-a...

The CE mark is the manufacturer's self declaration of compliance with EU law, sometimes including safety.

Whereas the UL mark can only be put on products that Underwriters Laboratories have authorized themselves.
MGR never supported X clients, right?
There's been a lot of effort recently (past 5 years at least) on making sensors ever more sensitive to low light levels.

This is great for taking pictures indoors, at night, and for astrophotography.
Sometimes even large well trusted companies get fake products shipped to them.

I think EEVBlog highlighted this with the FTDI case. People were buying what they thought were authentic FTDI chips (and paying the proper price) but being delivered fakes that then went on to be bricked by the driver update.

There is so much margin in swapping good stuff with dreadfull stuff there are several points in the procurement chain where people can try their luck passing off crap.