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>what happens when the magnet becomes deplolarized?

I guess then you try the same thing floppy disk rescueing programs did : keep attempting to read it until you have enough data to make a stastistically significant bet. It should work pretty well since you get an analog value encoding a digital one to start with.
I still buy printed books because I refuse to pay for DRM enabled ebooks and I can't find a good source of DRM free books, other than project Gutemberg.

A printed book you can lend to others and will outlast any digital device or DRN platform.
Original announcement with hipster mode off. ;)
http://marc.info/?l=git&m=147286906121492&w=2
That distinction is a common lisp-ism. A "bignum" implementation in the context of this article won't allocate for the small values.
That tends to happen in EU countries with lower income disparity (mainly Germany and the Nordic countries), which doesn't disprove my point. With 10x disparity and more, it is not going to happen.
No this is the thing about anything involving people, as soon as you have a group -- the moral .

Governments have done horrible things.
Researchers have done horrible things.
Religious Groups have done horrible things.
NonProfits have done horrible things.

It's not about profits.
This is ridiculous, because the Roman empire did not collapse due to running out of Romans. Rome had a very generous naturalisation policy, part of its success.

The fall of Rome is probably the most overdetermined overinvestigated event in history; everyone has their pet theory. It's usually marked as the crossing of the Rhine by various 'barbarians' and the inability to mount an effective defence.
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Xkcd prophetic as always

https://xkcd.com/1508/
If you think underage muslim girls are normally going to go against the wishes of their father then you clearly don't know much about the kind of patriarchy they are exposed to. Fathers word > law.
Homeopathic "drugs" are sold in pharmacies in the us to an extent. It isn't a problems so long as they are clearly lableled and the contents actually reflect labeling (zicam got in trouble for containing active ingredients). Most times, they can't say they cure or help, and at most can say, "may help with X". Heck, these are even legal to sell in Norway, and we don't have a lot of the supplements available (melatonin is prescription).

The main thing with alternative medicine is that it is generally as harmless as water. Unless you are forcing it as the only treatment to your children or others, you aren't harming anyone else.

Antibacterial soap isn't in these categories. People truly think they are healthier for using the stuff - this is partially advertising and false claims. In addition, these things contribute to making the world unhealthier and a more unhealthy place by helping antibiotic resistance - general use does this. It is posing a grave general danger. This danger is the same reason antibiotics are prescription and we try not to prescribe them unnecessarily. It isn't that one will have immediate grave dangers themselves, but it is bad for humans in general.

"I prefer not to go to some government agency..." I think this is really key to your sentiment, and the solution to this isn't to eshew safety regulators, but work to make them more effective and honest and vote for folks (especially congress members) that share those sorts of interests. I don't think any of us have the time or energy to be able to parse out respectable information on each product to make sure it is safe, though we think we do. If you do, look around you. Do you think all of your neighbors do? All college students? I'm very doubtful on this - antibacterial soap is an example. We hear it causes grave dangers, but we buy it anyway. Advertising and culture at work, perhaps.
I do know that sometimes people do seek to start legal proceedings against emergency services. I worked with a fireman once who told me of a lady who wanted to start legal proceedings for some kind of assault based on how a fireman picked her up to carry her out of a building. Again, came to nothing.

In this day and age, if we cannot find any UK instance of someone being sued for providing first aid, I think we can label it "urban myth". Maybe some obsessive HN reader will find one for us :)
Justice is the overlooked leg of this tripod. Societies where the law is unevenly enforced find it harder to develop.
Check out spectacle[0] for the same functionality. It can run in the background, so gives you a set of customizable shortcuts to move winds (e.g. half screen right, left, top, bottom among many others) while being purely invisible.

0: https://www.spectacleapp.com
Beadm first appeared in Solaris, long before it hit FreeBSD (and then PC-BSD) - so the idea had been around for a while. The issue is fit and finish. Solaris had it tightly integrated and made full use of it. I haven't used PC-BSD for a very long time, but I don't remember it coming anywhere close to Solaris in that regard.
"Fault" is one way of looking at it. However, another way is to say that it's apparently not commercially worth while to the chip makers to support generation N-1 of Microsoft's OS. That says something interesting about the market.
France's most majestic castles are the result of megalomaniac kings and noblemen (Versailles, Vaux le Vicomte, etc).
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a == 1 || a != 2 needs a warning but it's not necessarily a bug

sometimes I may keep overlapping expressions in a statement to remind me of the triggers I'm looking for at this point - and would likely use some meaningful constant names for the 1 and 2

statements aren't just logic - they're often documentation too - especially on code you might not look at again for months

I used to have many arguments with a professor whose code I was working on - he would factor out everything in an expression - removing all the parentheses and rely on operator precedence - it was often impenetrable (for me) - so I'd unpack it, wrap parentheses everywhere, change single letter vars to meaningful ones etc. - he'd be in my office an hour later ranting
I'm not sure. compose.com, among others, offers PostgreSQL hosting with auto-scaling. But I ignore if they can match Aurora with 64 TB databases.
It is actually more important to wash your hands properly than it is to use antibacterial soap. This is why most restaurants and medical facilities teach folks how to do it - and why some places install timers on their sinks. Basically, you need to lather for 10-15 seconds, making sure to get between the fingers, top part of the wrist, and your fingernails.

I've heard this action is actually more important than the soap bit for the anti-bacterial properties. But soap helps remove things like grease and 'juice' from the meat really well and helps us be less lazy when doing so.
One of the engineering achievements of the V2 was its guidance system. See "V2" by Dornberger. The heart of the guidance system was a gyroscope that was slowly tilted by a clockwork mechanism.
More likely: those brought over from Nazi Germany to help with rocketry.
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What would we use number 5040 for? It decomposes in 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 3 * 3 * 5 * 7.
Point is it doesn't matter, as a creator, maker, investor, etc. -- you always have a choice, and for some the temptation to follow the money even if the path is one they would not take if given another choice of equal financial value.
Ironically, according to the BBC, Brexit requires so much in the way of negotiators, and they're suspicious of pulling retired negotiators back into work (as they're overwhelming on the Remain side) that Whitehall is probably going to end up hiring foreign negotiators.

No-one does irony as well as the Brits.

> http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-37190357 "In such a febrile atmosphere Whitehall is likely to recruit some negotiators from other countries."
You assume being a fugitive only denotes a crime ? to me it only means running away from something.
Not that I care for the karma but why is it being downvoted ?
You seem to have this the wrong way round.

->There comes a time when the software exceeds the capabilities of the hardware, and this is no exception.

This is not "new software on old hardware".
OK, It's happened before with other companies. For example Sony saying PS3 games will run on the PS4.
But that kind of nonesense is why you don't buy Sony hardware, and their stock price is trundling along at record lows..

My advice is more specific.
Anyone holding AMD or Intel stock. Sell now.
What do you do when the compiler breaks, or fails to implement something you need?
Aurora being a closed-source fork of MySQL is a real problem in my opinion.

Look at all the comments here about new features and bug fixes introduced upstream but missing in 5.6.10 (online DDL, JSON, etc.).

We already have Oracle's MySQL, MariaDB, WebScaleSQL, MyRocks (Facebook's MySQL with RocksDB and DocStore), Percona Server for MySQL, and now Aurora. Each version has its own features and peculiarities. The ecosystem is too much scattered.
IIRC, in the US, airlines are required by law to book you on the next available flight on any airline. Of course, they prefer to keep you on their own planes, and it is probably impractical to move every single passenger, anyway, so you do have to ask.
Another major benefit I could have mentioned is that you learn better reading a physical book as compared to an eBook (http://www.businessinsider.com/you-remember-books-better-tha...). Again, a lot of that has to do with multi-sensory input.
No Starch Press offers DRM-free ebooks.
Wrong.
Anyway bbc fixed it by removing any complex Celsium to Fahrenheit conversions :)
This took 5 years to prosecute and the guy has at least one shell company mentioned in the panama papers.

Seems likely there's a little more to the story. (or they didn't find anything for 5 years until the guy bragged to someone)

However by far the strangest thing here is how very specific the charges are, one hack 5 years ago and no co-conspirators? How on earth didn't they find anything else to charge him with? [1]

[1] Of course this all could be explained away by them having a weak case, which they probably would have if they failed to seize his personal equipment
The kernel should close all your TCP connections properly when you die, so it should all be good. Mostly you need to autosave files every so often.
Unwitting biological warfare helps too. Conquest is a whole lot easier when something that gives your people the sniffles more than decimates your enemies.

But yeah, the Aztecs and the Incas didn't become great empires by sitting around the campfire and singing kumbaya. Which is part of the reason Cortez and Pizarro were able to beat them with such small armies of Spaniards... backed up by tens of thousands of native allies.
Alcohol-based hand sanitizers work differently. Instead of having some lasting effect on your skin to not only kill bacteria and keep it off, alcohol-based sanitizers simply kill the stuff on your hands at the time. In general, I haven't come across anything that says it is bad or has the lasting effects of the anti-bacterial soaps.
Like I said, eBooks do have many advantages, and yes, I do love my own eReader. None of which means that I would want to miss out on my library of real books, though ;-)
Very interesting! Thanks for pointing that out!
> worse than C and C++’s UB-on-overflow which at least permits an implementation to trap.

That's only true for signed integers, overflow is defined as wrapping for unsigned integers.

And even with signed integers the compilers handle it way worse than wrapping: When LLVM finds a overflow that will always happen, it won't report it (Only Clang will do that, but that's before any optimisations and thus can see far less) and optimize it to a `undef` value. The backend subsequently will treat the `undef` value like it's in all registers. If you make a function call with an `undef` value you will pass what's in the register used according to the calling convention before. This can be a pointer that will be leaking info about ASLR or a register that can contain user controlled information.

As an example compile this with optimisations (should work the same with signed integer overflow):

#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
int a = 1;
int b = 0;
printf("%d", a/b);
}

This prints some ASLR-protected pointer which you can use to calculate the offset, which allows you to break ASLR.
I haven't seen this attack mentioned before and it's probably extremely unlikely to happen in the wild, but it's possible.

I also found the article lacking because it doesn't talk about saturation arithmetics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturation_arithmetic
Rust offers some functions for it and it can often be less problematic than wrapping, for instance when dealing with the length of things.
Suppose you get an email from the boss saying, "singlow, remove the warrant canary script from cron. I just got out of a meeting with the Board, and they all agreed we need to inform the public that we've received this national security letter."

If you truly believe your argument, you wouldn't prosecute the boss even in the presence of this email. We all know anyone planning on using a warrant canary is intending to inform the public, so whether or not there's an email admitting it should be irrelevant if the action is legal. If you believe that the boss is not guilty, then you're consistent in your position.

Now, as a practical matter, you'd use an in-person meeting or telephone call or something. Or you'd at least use different wording. But the act itself would in principle still be illegal, even though there is no evidence to prosecute. And in that sense, a warrant canary could be a useful tool to allow one to get away with a crime that they consider unjust.
> it's hard to say that it is really restricted to the wealthy.

Good point - eReaders aren't really all that expensive (I got my first one for 60€). What might be more important when considering the distribution of eReaders is the correlation wealthy <-> educated <-> reads a lot.

> for most people, the smartphone they have in their pocket already is good enough for reading ebooks

I can't imagine reading a full book on the tiny screen of a smartphone. Do people really do that? (As in, for serious reading.) And if so, how much?
Hi Luke,

I tried applying through the link you shared.

However, upon reaching this page: https://precisionnutrition.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=5

The 'Apply for this job' button fails to send a request back to the server. I noticed you guys are using Bamboo Hr to process incoming applications, and I believe the bug resides inside Bamboo's JQuery, as two events listening to the button appear to be called by Bamboo Hr.

As '...jobs/view.php' plus the job id(which is 5 for this one) as a GET parameter is your websites way of exposing job applications, I took a guess that the button was meant to request '.../jobs/apply?id=5'. Loading that page in my browser was very promising as an application form was rendered!

But now this page appears to be either deprecated or is an artifact: https://precisionnutrition.bamboohr.com/jobs/apply.php?id=5

As you can see, the styling is suspiciously bare-bone and there is no submit button.

Now I could try to craft a POST request by using the form field names and appending my information manually, and perhaps get lucky, but then I still wouldn't know for sure that my application reached anyone at your company.

So here I give up my quest to force my resume onto your server, and am making this account to make this request:

Please advise how I may send you guys my resume to apply for this position.
Ah, thanks, I hadn't known about that, but I'm not remotely surprised by it.

I'm not even especially concerned by it, though I'd (obviously) prefer if everyone just used the standard charge protocols rather than thirty different "nod-and-a-wink" handshakes.

I suppose absent external pressure there's not much reason for the SoC vendors to opt for the standard over their own proprietary thing, though, is there.
http://www.realfirstaid.co.uk/dutyofcare/

> The most important thing to remember is that to date, no one in the UK has ever been sued for administering life-saving First Aid.

But also:

http://www.sa-cni.org.uk/uploads/4/9/5/4/4954631/the_legal_s...

> There have been some cases in the UK where a claim has been brought against a ‘rescuer’, although there have been no reported cases in court where a casualty has successfully sued someone.

> • Out-of-court settlements are more common and go unreported, so it is likely that some claims against a rescuer have been ‘successful’, but these will have gone unreported.

> • It should be noted that even if a first aider is successful in defending himself against a claim, it is unlikely that he will be able to recover the full legal costs in defending himself. In civil litigation, it is unusual for a court to award the successful party more than 80% of their costs and it’s possible that an accusation can cost tens of thousands of pounds to defend.

> • In some instances it can be less expensive to settle a claim out of court than to defend it. It is not uncommon for insurers to settle claims even when the defendant was innocent, as this is the least expensive and least risky option.
The ground clearance might pose a problem in a hardware store. Every time I visit a Lowes or Home Depot the floors have debris. Some aisles will have products scattered on the floor (the screws/bolts/nuts aisle specially).

This would seem to depend on the store, I've been spending a lot of time at each since I bought a house built in 1910 in late May, and that doesn't describe either of the ones I've been visiting (in Joplin, MO).

A store that wants a LoweBot to succeed, or one picked to get one, would in theory try to make sure this is generally true, on the other hand, creating floor debris would be a way for the staff to throw a monkey-wrench into a deployment.
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The only flight Delta operates of this length is between Atlanta and Johannesburg, so they would have been over the Atlantic.
Yea that last point is where I'm struggling with. I've done quite a bit of software dev in the Bitcoin space. I built at least 5 different wallet apps (mostly contracting), but I'm still struggling with how I can use blockchains to build other stuff than payment systems. The distributed storage definitely sounds interesting and I can see how that would benefit certain scenarios.
What would it take for a community to "break off" the grid and not need money? Land for agriculture, solar panels, 3d-printers for parts, water filtration, AI and robots for automation (maybe the robots can build more robots, as well). What a single person can't do, maybe a hundred or a thousand can. Some technologies are converging towards independence, there might be a way to escape the system as it is now. Maybe we get to see various lifestyle experiments popping up, as long as the communities can take care of themselves, and seek independence.

I think independence research should compliment UBI as a strategy for the automation age. Give people the necessary means of production to provide for themselves absent wages.
I wish that Ubuntu wasn't the default desktop Linux - they have a development process that means that they don't necessarily ship stable software, they use their own graphical interface stack that nobody else works on, and they don't have the resources to deliver on any of their ambitions.

Ubuntu Server is quite good, since it's mostly a polished-up Debian, but Ubuntu Desktop is probably always going to be almost good, and no better.
It's natural that we think differently behind the veil because we cannot remove from ourselves our different knowledge of what lies beyond. I don't think this makes Rawls wrong; it makes some arguments from behind the veil ignorant in a different way, not an ignorance of where we end up, but an ignorance of what it's actually like across the spectrum of possibilities.
Why do people always look for a motive in his 'latest' leak.

Democrats turned on him when he leaks Clinton's emails so he must be pro trump (As stupidly demonstrated by Bill Maher in his interview)

The assumption seems to be that he has perfect information on everybody in the world and is cherry picking for some grand motive. I think he just publicizes what he can get his hands on, and there isn't much more to it than that.
I feel like there's a really good answer to this that doesn't involve taking the thing apart, but I'm no EE.
Ebooks also have the killer feature that you can increase the font size. Maybe to people in their 20s and 30s that doesn't seem like a big deal, but trust me, as you get older that's a big deal.
This really does seem the same. Actually, I invested in one there just so say I could.

But there's some weird things on this site:

- there's something called investment clubs where you can recommend companies to nearly-passive investors and get 10% of something out of it. But there's no inventory on this site either so why are they being paid for no work? I'm sure I could guess every investment just from the name of their club and skip the middleman.

- several companies are just selling you bonds ("revenue share" and "loan money"). Seems strictly worse than buying some regular bonds, and why does a startup want to return capital anyway?
Good job missing every fucking point I was trying to make. You have the reading comprehension skills of a termite mound.

(Hello to the Red Hat shills monitoring this discussion. How much do they pay you? America may be sleeping, but Tel Aviv is wide awake I see.)
> If you want Linux to be a primary end-user OS, it needs to stop trying to approximate the experiences of other OSes, and provide an experience the others don't.

You say that as if they were mutually exclusive. Linux is not just one OS which has to do one thing. It's hundreds of OSs which all can do different things. If some of those want to solely offer an improved experience over other OSs, while others decide to completely diverge from any known concepts, that's no problem at all.

Also consider that there's only so many concepts which will work with a desktop OS. You can build something that's completely different, but chances are that you end up with Windows 8 or Android or a media-center or Eagle Mode [0] which are great in their own right, but not exactly what most people will expect on a desktop computer.

[0] http://eaglemode.sourceforge.net/index.html
> No, that kind of "extension table" is a well-known antipattern being fragile, unscalable, and denormalized.

Ok, I agree. This is the reason why I was asking :-)

> Just a table with columns for id, keyname & metadata about the key will do.

Isn't this the Entity-Attribute-Value model (which has the well known drawback of requiring a join for each attribute)?
Typically https://news.ycombinator.com and scroll down.
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> You just have to chuck a decent theme on (I use Arc)

IMO that's half whats wrong with Linux...

https://www.google.com/search?num=20&q=ubuntu+how+install+th...

https://github.com/horst3180/arc-theme

A burnt user like me just sees a bunch of instructions that might fail - I much prefer the experience of starting a modern Android phone for the firs time...