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100% true about the performance cliff, though at Delphix we worked a bunch to raise performance before the cliff and to push out that cliff. All COW filesystems filesystems (and I'll throw SSD FTLs into there as well) require over-provisioning for consistent performance.

And it's also a fair point that for enterprise storage running at 80%-90% of capacity is a reasonable restriction whereas the drive on my laptop is always basically %99 full. It will be interesting to see how APFS addresses this since I'd guess that most of their users look more like my laptop than my file server.
Sure, but you are neither a doctor nor an infectious medicine specialist.

Its trained doctors and researchers who get to decide quality of medical evidence. There is a reason why we have detailed set of protocols and levels used for assessment of evidence.

http://www.cebm.net/oxford-centre-evidence-based-medicine-le...
I do the exact same thing. I figure my job is to automate my job.
>What, with the horrible consequence of being downvoted looming over them? Probably a lot fewer than are afraid to speak out about charismatic abusers who have threatened to ruin their personal and professional lives if they speak out.

Downvoted? How about losing your job. Speak out and if your account has your Twitter handle, email, employer, etc. that many HN'ers share (or indirectly share by using the same handle on other sites) - risk having an ideological hate mob targeting you and lighting a metaphorical fire under your employer's ass until you get laid off because they disagree with your beliefs? Shit that has been happening in increasing amounts in the past decade. Plenty of people with the "wrong thoughts" self-censor or remain psuedonymous or anonymous to share their "real" thoughts.

The defense for attacking these people is almost always "They are a bigot/sexist/racist/transphobe/Islamiphobe/___ist/___phobe", often without actual evidence or relying on a he-said/she-said. Which is just a "morally correct" version of attacking someone for their beliefs and opinions. With very few lines and exceptions - I do not think anyone should lose their jobs for having their own beliefs and opinions. It's a very dangerous line to walk.

>Appelbaum's "victimization" isn't remotely close to the suffering of the his victims.

Innocent until proven guilty has been tossed to the side I see.
The media (and CrowdStrike) blame Russians for it [0]. Heh... yet this blog and the hacker himself, says he did it alone. I guess it's easier to forgive incompetence if you blame the attack on some huge, powerful, resourceful, state-funded opponent. That's why every hacking report of some big organization or company today lays the blame on APTs, China, Russia, NORKs and so on.

Management is off the hook since they don't have to admit that they were hacked by some kid and the security company gets the prestige of 'fighting and outsmarting a state actor'. And everyone's job is more or less safe. Other companies and CIO/CSOs now know that 'Sec Company X' will cover their ass by shifting the blame on some huge entity. Company lawyers are also happy because the liability of such attacks will be less. And the cycle continues. Guccifer, for example, didn't even know how to program and he used his phone to hack [1].

Yes, APTs definitely do happen but I'd bet they happen a lot less frequently than the media and security companies would want us to believe.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russi...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guccifer#Computer_hacking_acti...
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It's also easy to do this with Tarsnap. You can split out your host keys with tarsnap-keymgmt into separate read, write, and delete keys. Just take your delete key off of the host and store it somewhere secure.
Oh, never mind. I see now that you did know. Excuse my derpy question.
> Am I the only one who thinks Thiel should be left out of the story of Gawker and HH sextape?

It would be bizarre if it wasn't mentioned.
Cool, we've created several forms re-used in the same browser for different people to gather public information. We now know never to use Chrome, since its developer assumptions trump our actual design needs.
Permutations are for my own case pretty low, it's just a replacement for a handful of switches, otherwise the flow is pretty straightforward. But i see that if one wants to restructure the whole program flow on-the-fly it might lead to problems. What are the alternatives? The link you provided is for graphics, and does not seem to be generalised. Do you suggest a complete switch to a jit interpreted codebase?
That was never the point. Instead, the point was that when we require high-speed expressways in our cities, the land requirements blow up insanely and the land is then useful for pretty much nothing else.

Contrast that to Florence which required much lower speeds and therefore could use the land for many useful purposes. Obviously, Atlanta has nodes of high culture elsewhere, but they certainly can't put any of them here.

As for the proportion of how much land use blows up at speed, consider this: at 5 mph, making a right turn requires just a 15' turning radius, which occupies 225 square feet. The largest curves in the Atlanta interchange (the ones for which you don't have to slow down) have a radius of close to 900', which occupies about 810,000 square feet. So to go 14 times as fast (70 instead of 5 mph) you have to occupy 3,600 times as much land.
I guess you were hoping for new cutting edge stuff, but I've been really enjoying Common Lisp.

I've used it for a bunch of small projects the last year or so, and just have a ton of fun. In particular, it has surprisingly good bindings to graphics libraries like Qt, SDL, and OpenGL, and it's super easy to get animations and graphical apps up and running quickly.

The compilers are great for such a high level language, and it's significantly faster than Python, which was my preferred language before CL. It doesn't beat the raw speed of C, but I rarely need that anyway. As an example, I just wrote a cheesy, animated FFT visualization and full screen at 2560x1440 it gets 90+ fps with no attempt to optimize on my part, except turning up the default optimization level. https://github.com/jl2/qt-fft-viz

The REPL and code reloading makes iterating on ideas really fast, and I find I experiment more in CL because it's just easier.
Couldn't you just adjust the driver/engine position to account for this?
Ha. I also noticed this. Perhaps they speak Engrish.
The article contradicts your statement.
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I use Diceware for those things, in case I have to use them over the phone. "My dog's name is effervescent mandible egg voldemort; my mother's maiden name is regent utterly busted harpy"
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This is new:

2.1.1 Rights. Customer may install and use one copy of the SOFTWARE on a single computer, and except for making one back-up copy of the Software, may not otherwise copy the SOFTWARE. This LICENSE of SOFTWARE may not be shared or used concurrently on different computers.

2.1.2 Linux/FreeBSD Exception. Notwithstanding the foregoing terms of Section 2.1.1, SOFTWARE designed exclusively for use on the Linux or FreeBSD operating systems, or other operating systems derived from the source code to these operating systems, may be copied and redistributed, provided that the binary files thereof are not modified in any way (except for unzipping of compressed files).

If I have multiple developers at my company developing games with the driver, wouldn't I also be in violation of said EULA? How does this impact things like deep-learning? Is Linux/FreeBSD exempt from this limitation?

Can anyone clarify?
Right but after "Rip" is "Mix," i.e. create a playlist of different tracks, then "Burn," burn them to a disc (as an Audio CD or a data disc with MP3 or AAC files). Since it's the the 00's version of making a mix tape, that burnt disc is probably going to someone who didn't buy the CDs in the first place, i.e. copyright infringement by distributing works without permission.

The British record industry in the Eighties had a "home taping is killing music" campaign, the could've updated it to "home burning is killing music."
The TSA does not block terrorists. It blocks idiots. Some terrorists are idiots, but it has also blocked idiots that were not terrorists. Of course, not all terrorists are idiots, and not all threats are terrorists. Which begs the question, who asked for this?
I believe Safari's HLS implementation is incompatible with Chromes. You can load the stream in VLC though: http://devstreaming.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2016/701q0pnn0ietc...
> So basically we can only determine the general direction?

With current-generation detectors installed at three stations which is all we can hope to achieve at the current level of funding in the very near future.

More money, more detections at lower energies, better idea where they come from. There are plenty of instruments in cosmology, astronomy, and physics that have already been designed and planned out, but which do not have the funding to be built; Wait 20 years and five percent of them might come to fruition. You could pour trillions of dollars on these problems without running out of novel questions that we've already proposed ways of answering, and novel results from exploratory instruments we've already proposed building. We spend about 30 billion a year on basic science research according to the NSF, spread over all fields. For comparison, the military gets upwards of 600 billion.

We have good ideas about how to make gravitational wave detectors much, much better, but not how to make them much, much cheaper.
There 'aint no such thing as a free lunch.
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Correction to my post above:

I used the word "parallax" poorly to refer to the offset between the detectors - localization is most definitely not done via parallax. It's arrival time + some signal processing, so with two detectors, resolution is limited.

Additional details and an image depicting the improvements made by adding a third, properly positioned detector are available at: https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/news/ligo20160404
> it would let us (theoretically) cut the number of real-life crashes by a huge degree

Do you have a source for that claim? I know people have done tests with running large molecular simulations on hundreds of GPUs with/without ECC for days on end, and who've come to the conclusions that ECC probably isn't worth it [1].

And this makes sense. Most of a program's memory usage is data. Thus the rare event of a bitflip is most likely to occur in data. Such a bitflip doesn't cause a crash in a consumer system; maybe it changes the color of one pixel in one frame of a video file, or adds some other tiny noise somewhere.

[1] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2484774
This seems horribly prone to manipulation by cosmic radiation, gravity, and a million slower alterations like the rotation of the earth which when combined produce a noticeable effect.

The assumption here is that no force has acted on the energy arriving enough to distort two arrays on earth.
I think the TSA's primary job is that of a common door lock. Door locks aren't designed to stop everyone, they are designed to dissuade amateur and opportunistic thieves. The old TSA did a fairly good job of dissuading your average nutter from trying to hijack aircraft.

What we are asking the TSA to do is stop people who are trained and sponsored by states or quasi state actors. Instead of asking the TSA to stop these people we need to go after their handlers, even if they are members of our own clandestine agencies.
I'm guessing it's never come up before, because why would anyone ever DDoS the Internet Archive? They have no ideology, make no political statements, back no movements. They have no real money to extort.

I suppose the lesson here is "never underestimate the stupidity and destructive power of wannabe vigilantes."
Many times the website needs your address to know the shipping, it's quite different sending the thing to an island in the middle of the pacific ocean or to a major US city.
More or less everyone I've ever talked to or seen discuss it agrees (including several people in the comments on this blog post) -- Apple Legal felt ZFS was a no-go without patent indemnification from Sun/Oracle. Sun was willing, but Oracle said no as soon as they purchased.

At that point the word came down from Apple Legal to Engineering that it wasn't happening. And there's nothing more insurmountable than your own legal department.
I definitely want this, but their goal is to have you visit their sites daily. I highly doubt they have an incentive to build this.
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By 2011, there had already been a lot of pushback against the TSA, so I'm sure part of the rationale for the cuts was to force TSA to stop growing out of control like it had been. A leaner budget could force the TSA to become leaner, which in a rational world would mean it would have to become more efficient to do its job. Of course this is government, so the TSA just did its job less.

The flip side, redirecting increases in TSA fares away from the TSA and towards the general budget, is also typical government behavior: can't raise taxes, so raise "fees" instead and use the proceeds like a tax.
In China they fool you into thinking it's going to go quick by being low-tech with relatively spartan cordoning, and just a nondescript agent at a metal table. Then suddenly and unceremoniously they dump all your shit out everywhere and wave you through while moving onto the next person, leaving you to spend 10 minutes repacking everything. (Maybe this is only for foreigners though).
Are there any startups working on the actual breeding/growing process itself?

I know in recent years it's been a little easier to work on this stuff openly with medical grows in California, but the vast majority of breeding has been done illegally and therefore at smaller scales than you'd really want. Feels like there's still plenty of room for optimization of both the genetics and the overall growing process, and both areas could benefit from some specialized software.
I'm not sure this is a smart promotional strategy
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media made it sound all but official that Russia hacked them.
of course no one ever publishes any proof for these sort of claims.
I work in backup (this has become a core part of my business: http://macdaddy.io/mac-backup-software/) and part of the reason I wrote that is because of the continual reports of Time Machine backups failing to restore when people needed them. The numbers are huge. I wouldn't touch Time Machine in any conditions. I would manually backup before using that. This may be anecdotal evidence, but if you want to see some of the issues people run into with Time Machine just read through some of the posts people make about it: https://www.google.com/search?q=time+machine+backup+failure&...

Most of this is indeed directly related to directory backups. I also do Snapshots of sorts, but it only makes hardlinks to files, not directories. That proves to be remarkably more reliable.
It's ok, most bots are smart enough to avoid invisible fields. This probably hasn't worked in 5 years.
> I don't know why tractor trailers haven't followed this same diesel-electric pattern.

A high-load tractor trailer can deliver around 500 kW of power. I believe the main problem is that there is no wheel-mountable motor available to transfer that kind of power. The Tesla, for example, is rated 345 kW peak in the P85D, but a tractor trailer needs this amount of power continuously. When we do the math and assume 500V (which is a ridiculous high voltage anyway!), you'll need 1000A-rated cables, switches and motors/generators.

That's not your home 2.5mm2 cable, and discarding the waste heat (assuming 95% end-to-end efficiency) at this scale is a hard task as you have, essentially, a rolling 25 kW heater.

With ships there is MASSIVELY more space available, and the heat can be (and often is) used for heat distribution, and a diesel loco also has lots of space available to put components in.

A loco can take up to eight times the same space as a single tractor-trailer...
Another interesting theory: The Trump campaign alleges that the DNC hacked itself

https://twitter.com/JTSantucci/status/743194156739108865/pho...
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I thought the shaking was Santa on the roof!
> That leads to some random behaviour.

Mostly on sites that both have traditional login forms and use forms where other fields are mis-identified as password fields.
Mossack Fonseca is accusing this employee of breach of trust

Take a moment to enjoy the irony
If you assume that the Apple implementation is perfect then sure it does contradict.

Hell given the amount of information people store on cloud, It might not even be a big deal.

But its not wrong to seek verification via peer review since they are making bold claims.
This makes some excellent points, but this is not one of them:

> A related problem is the way startups are valued. Theranos wasn’t valued at $9 billion because it was bringing in massive amounts of revenue or held vast assets. Rather, venture capitalists valued the biotech company so highly because it had the potential to be worth that, or more. It held $9 billion of expectations. Obviously, this is not the same thing as cash.

This implies that valuations are intrinsically an overestimate of wealth.

$9 billion is the statistically expected value (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expected_value), which weighs outcomes by their likelihood. The best case is far, far more then $9b and the worst case is far less (assuming rational investment...ha ha).

Now, there can be trends of humans broadly overestimating value (i.e. a bubble), but there's nothing intrinsically wrong with counting illiquid or unstable assets. There's a chance that the future is better and there's a chance it is worse; the estimate takes the middle of the road.

Omitting these assets would be an underestimate.
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What's that saying again? Never attribute to malice which can be adequately explained by incompetence?
FRP is awesome and is an example of how something previously thought of as an inherently imperative problem can be much easily done declaratively; we completely agree on this!

What I was talking about is: almost all lower-level abstractions are designed with the view of computer as a state machine. If we are solving a problem at an abstraction low enough to make us deal with this analogy, it is easier not to have a declarative layer in between.

machines/pipes/conduits are all very interesting and I was going to mention them too, but I still don't think they solve this problem in the way OP was referring to.
Typical neural networks have multiple layers of hundreds of thousands of nodes, which then get updated very frequently during the learning phase.

It would be suicidal for these updates to be immutable (e.g. returning brand new neurons with the updated value instead of updating the neuron that's already in the graph).
We always over-provision any way, but with ZFS the overage is a requirement for any reasonable performance. With XFS, you can get away with 90-95% full; yes, there's degraded performance but nothing like the 10 IOPS you get from ZFS.

Don't get me wrong I like ZFS/btrfs; I adore snapshot send/receive. It at times though really handicaps itself.
But you only need them to counter nukes. There's absolutely no need for the US to be the first to stoop to nukes.
One of the commenters on the linked bug to discuss valid use cases for autocomplete=off hits a wonderful nail on the head:

> Actually there is a famous site called http://www.google.com they use autocomplete="off" for their search form since every time you visit the site you want to search something completly different.
When the victim willingly climbs into bed with someone who has previously made him/her uncomfortable, it's time for even the most stalwart SJW to acknowledge that the situation is not entirely one-sided.

Sure, but could the same be said if a lone female gets into a taxi with a male driver, feels uncomfortable, but doesn't get out? If the taxi driver takes this to imply sexual consent, does saying that only "the most stalwart liberal Westerner" would defend her behavior make the situation any less one-sided?

We've spent the last 10,000 years or so doing just that. So far, the answer seems to be, "Don't sleep with people of the compatible sex that you don't want to, um, sleep with."

I'm claiming that there is far less uniformity to these beliefs than you imply. Some societies take it further, and say "Women should not show their face to anyone who is not their spouse or kin", and others take a more liberal approach. Even in Western society, approaches to sharing beds have changed dramatically in the last couple hundred years. Try here for explanations of "bundling" and "pigging": https://books.google.com/books?id=WnrEAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT259&lpg=...

Sorry, I'm not sure what this means.

Based on your statements, I'm guessing that you hold relatively standard conservative Western beliefs regarding the implications of certain interactions between non-married members of the opposite sex. As such, a woman inviting a man to non-sexually share her bed is a difficult situation to comprehend: how could anyone be blamed for misinterpreting and overstepping the bounds of this arrangement?

I'm saying that just as we in the West might condemn a taxi driver or shopkeeper for raping an unchaperoned female patron (even if that patron felt uncomfortable with the situation but entered it voluntarily), others might be justified in condemning someone who "feels up" a woman whose bed they are allowed to share. I don't have the answer as to whether condemnation is justified in this case, and can only say that the "rightfulness" of the condemnation depends on the societal context within which it occurs. I don't think there is an absolute basis by which the "right" limits of propriety can be judged.
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Graphics and audio are usually pretty similar, other than the volume of data is usually quite a bit larger for graphics than for audio.

There's no silver bullet how to structure such flexible, dynamically configurable high performance system.