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I need citations that mechanical drives will fail from shock or magnetic fields? I'm not going to waste my time googling references for that.

> Most of planet earth relies primarily on magnetic storage including people outside the data center.

Right. And I'm arguing SSDs are sturdier in that regard when not safe in a chassis somewhere. SSDs can withstand higher shock forces, have no glass platters or mechanical arms that can contact each other, and are not affected by magnetic fields.
The quote is from the article, which is an interview with someone who's an expert on this but who is not one of the FDA officials who made the final decision. The interview includes both questions about the FDA's action, and questions about the expert's own personal opinion. The quote you replied to is an answer to a question asking for the expert's own personal opinion.

It's also not a very long article, and you could have read it to find this out for yourself instead of jumping to conclusions.
Valid points all, but if you were getting insurance from the traditional companies, you'd have to answer many more questions, or alternatively, pay for coverage you don't necessarily need. Our funnel tries to get you a personalized quote in minutes, so you pay for what you need. Most of the time this will be considerably lower than traditional carriers.
You are right I guess they could be covering a majority of the claim, but I would guess their reinsurance percentage is probably a high percentage.

For example if the probability of fire is 1%, but due to their limited geographical focus they were covering an entire building of 30 apartment and their coverage is 100 dollars well their rate should be 1 dollar + x%, but if their is a fire their payout will be 3000 dollars due to that correlation of all the apartments burning down. In that case the reinsurance company would have to cover that.
If I were Berkshire I would have to price the policy higher for the increase risk.
Yeah I totally agree. I tried to read some of the guy's other articles as the ideas are really interesting, but man are they buried in jargon.
Did they update the FreeBSD userland? The neglect to the core of the system the last few years has gotten increasingly more annoying to deal with. There are now glaring incompatibilities due to the age of a lot of the core tools. Stuff as basic as "readlink -f" works everywhere except on MacOS, simply because they haven't bothered to update it in a decade...

It also looks like the OpenGL support is untouched for yet another release from the article, and that's another pain point for me, since it's the poorest supported of all major platforms at this point.
Yes, it is possible, but the above are slightly different cases. And, yes, it's not going to be easy, but should we let the crooks win? Because this is not about somebody liking a domain name and willing to buy it - this is about someone liking the name and feeling entitled to get it for free. I am surprised that now two hackers are advising just to give up.
Season 1 had a clear goal, to hack E Corp to collapse banks, every chapter was about hacking E Corp, it was a little more simple.

Season 2 is slow, not as exciting, and who knows what the goal is, maybe to survive after the hack, maybe something that will be revelead in the last season episode that only Mr. Robot knows, still, it is more slow paced, and tries to over analise the complicated behavior of the characters. IMHO,Elliot's double personallity should have ended in season 1. Another thing is that despise the collapse of the banks, the series doesn't show an apocalyptic world, everything is just like season 1, like if nobody cares about the collapse.

And

Every character is overcomplicated, Elliot with his double personallity, Angela with her ackwardness, Darlene a control freak, White Rose a time freak, and so on, and every damn character always has a monologue, it gets boring, it tries to hard and there is little substance in the story.
Not really. Entanglement isn't anything crazy. It's just a conserved quantity being split among particles during some type of constriction (half-silvered mirror would make the velocities of both deflected particles add up to a straight line for example)

The hidden variable theory makes it more complicated than it is.

If any type of interference or interaction happens to either of the particles after their initial mirror deflection, the correlation is gone. The complimentary nature of the measured values only applies when the particles remain untouched - thats why news articles a couple years ago were praising the ability to "entangle" particles for such a long distance/time. It's not easy to prevent all interaction.

The correlation is really just the undisturbed conservation of some quantity that was divided between the two particles.

In any "path" which splits a wave stream into x%/y% chance of trajectory/spin/polarization, etc, there will be an entanglement. All this means is that for every x% that went one way, y% went another, and the total is 100% ( conserved quantity.)
This is really cool. One little detail I've noticed is that it doesn't seem to apply to private repositories, which seems like a bit of an oversight. The repo I'm checking clearly having an Apache 2.0 license text in the LICENSE file. Just because a particular copy of a repo is private doesn't mean that the code within it isn't still bound by an open source license.

EDIT: Before anyone replies with "Why would you want that?", it's fairly common to stage a project privately on GitHub before publicly releasing it. It'd be nice to see that the license is detected correctly before going public with it. As it is now, I don't know what'll happen until I go public, and my first public commit in the repo may well be fixing up something minor to get the license detected properly.
What is the data section? I don't see that on GitHub.
if that were the case, we'd use dog saliva and not soap.
What approaches do you mean? In which ways do you think it's broken?
>Why is it reasonable? Does it bring more money to Lenovo shareholders?

Dear god, am I supposed to care about the shareholders now? People don't buy products out of empathy for shareholders.

I don't consider "higher support costs" to be a valid pretext for trying to obstruct me from configuring my property as I please.

The idea that people may cluelessly mess around in the BIOS and render the machine unbootable is not a particularly sensible basis to argue about the configurability of AHCI mode. It is always going to be possible to render a machine unbootable via changing the BIOS configuration. A BIOS setup menu cannot serve its purpose if it doesn't allow you to change settings which could render the machine unbootable. (Most directly, a boot password you immediately forget.) If machine manufacturers aren't willing to offer options that may render the machine unbootable, they may as well not offer BIOS setup menus at all.
It's possible the quote is not the actual price - for home insurance, at least, you typically pay the quote & you're covered until they can do an in-person inspection & give a "real" price. You can then either pay / get back the difference, or cancel with a refund for the remainder of the term.
A simple camera charger that costs $5 or 10 in the US costs €70 to 100 in Finland, due to "luxury" taxes.

Nonsense.

Also, store opening times are nowadays unregulated in Finland.
My question is how do you model the ridiculous punishment that they already face for not getting done with their work?

In the sports world, there is already a huge punishment for not winning. To the point that most punishments of cheating are actually just on par with never having competed at that level in the first place.

That is, don't just try to dream up punishments for people that act in negative ways. Try to come up with scenarios that don't require superhuman levels of achievement just to play. Make sure failure is OK at all levels. As it is, many look at the punishment of getting caught acting negatively, and the reality of failing, and conclude somewhat rationally, that cheating might be worth it.
I am trying to envisage the different possible ways new banking services can emerge. Can we ever expect a crypto currency to work? Or are we forever reliant on trusting third parties (ie banks)?

Having mobile banking services is possible of course but actual banking services are more than tracking my latte spend. The guy who founded Bank Of America walked into San Francisco the day after 1906 earthquake with a wheelbarrow of cash and started lending to the shop and business owners who needed to rebuild immediately.

That's the kind of banking service Africa will need in the next few decades, and New York or London or SV are not planning on an app that can do that.

So the consumer banking apps, they will come, but a banking infrastructure, funnelling loans into real businesses and infrastructure - that's a different kind of banking. One it seems we forget.
I wonder if you could make use of the timescale command that exists in certain game engines for faster training.
But they wouldn't need to share state. They could run independently, and any client that wanted to tie their clocks together could request the signed time from one and then send it to the other, causing it to get logged in the other server's chain.
I'd like to see their efforts in stopping the spread of the most rapidly increasing disease to challenge humanity in any man's lifetime.

It's called Facebook.
“Sequence of state transitions” implies you can order them by time. Generally, various state transitions happen in parallel, their relative order is undefined even on an SMP system.

You can serialize the transitions if you want, but that usually costs performance. This is especially true for distributed parallel computing, where the state is also distributed.
His writing is pure gold. For anyone that hasn't ready Money Stuff, I'd highly recommend it.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/topics/money-stuff
Ask HN: Would you pay to keep your comms secure, ad-free, based on open tech?
Given some the recent developments in the chat space:

- Google releases Allo, and most of the people on HN don't really know what to make of it. [1]

- Facebook/Whatsapp might face legal action due to the sharing of data [2]

- Smaller contenders keep their products free, but who knows how they expect to make money?

Let's assume (for the moment) that the technical part does not matter. Let's assume that we can overcome the chicken-and-egg problem by giving paying users the ability to "sponsor" a limited number of free accounts. Let's assume that most of the infrastructure costs are low enough compared to the cost of keeping a good number of developers and UX/UI professionals focused on closing the gap between the most popular messengers and the existing open alternatives.

The main reason I am asking is that my current employer[3] is about to launch yet-another-messenger, and while there a few differentiating features (mostly about ntegration with PSTN/GSM), what we have is not different from 2003 Skype, modulo group chats and a web app?

I am wondering if there is enough of a critical mass of people willing to pay someone that will be service provider and a steward of a fully-open solution? I'd really like to make a case for higher management that taking the "be as open and consumer-oriented as possible" route can be a good strategy.

It doesn't have to be much, but if I see a good number of people saying something along the lines of "I can pay $X0,00/year to have unlimited on-net calls and messages, provided I get modern open-source clients for my platform and that I am in control of my data", or something along the lines of what is really important, then I can start figure out if any of this is feasible.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12545292

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12547705

[3]: I am writing this on my behalf, so I'd rather not disclose the info at the moment.
> I guess if there were still land-bridges between the continents 50 million years ago

There are land connections between two groups (of 3 and 2) of the inhabited continents today, and as recently as 11,000 years ago five of the six human-inhabited continents were mutually connected by land.
"Cancer is a fundamental dread of all higher multicellular life."

Yes, we wouldn't exist if cell division didn't exist. Cell division is the basis of life and death.
The article is not especially pay-walled, from what I can detect, using multiple devices. It seems to just use the typical 10 article cookie variable that all NYT articles usually check.

I'd estimate your current machine is behind some kind of network/web proxy that's browsing with a separate session, on your behalf, with a stale cookie that has reached the free article limit attached to its session.

Maybe you're the victim of an A/B test? That's the only other idea I can imagine.
The "and" wasn't the point.

I don't see much in the literature regarding retardation of abstract thought due to the formation of myelin.

Quite the opposite.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myelin

"Myelin is a fatty white substance that surrounds the axon of some nerve cells, forming an electrically insulating layer. It is essential for the proper functioning of the nervous system."

Further

"Myelination continues through the adolescent stage of life."

And finally

"The main purpose of a myelin layer (or sheath) is to increase the speed at which impulses propagate along the myelinated fiber"

I'd say myelin is a pretty good thing.

Pat Wolfe, in "Brain Matters: Translating Research into Classroom", goes on...

https://books.google.nl/books?id=BzccMxS56LAC&pg=PA79&lpg=PA...

"Neurons in the frontal lobe receive a myelin sheath late in development, as evidenced by the increased ability of children to engage in higher-level and more abstract thinking."

I'm really stretching to understand how to interpret the conjunctive here
This is very good and useful; I'll have to update my ray-tracer accordingly.

One thing not discussed though is what to do about values that don't fit in the zero-to-one range? In 3-D rendering, there is no maximum intensity of light, so what's the ideal strategy to truncate to the needed range?
GNOME 3 on Debian Jessie works decently well with high-DPI screens - I'm using it now on the 3K 2015 version of the XPS 13.

Some controls won't scale up (Java Swing is particularly miniscule), otherwise it just works compared to most other desktop environments I tried last year.
Scala can be profiled with VisualVM.

You can monitor Akka with kamon.io, or using the tool offered by the authors.
That's probably a sign of a cheap monitor.

You can try the calibration instructions here, which does a decent job of calibrating the monitor, and showing you whether yours is good or not: http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/
Insurers are able to offer lower base rates by differentiating customers on many other variables more indicative of risk than a zip code. Property insurance is more than just catastrophe insurance, you're also factoring in your history of claims, personal likelihood of having a claim, replacement and liability costs, etc. It's impossible to segment your quote off of just a zip code.
Respectfully, I disagree.

The fundamental discoveries necessary for the nuclear bomb weren't discover until after Leo Szilard [0] proposed the weapon. Given that none of us were alive between 1906 and 1945 it's hard to fully grasp how the scientific understanding evolved over those 39 years.

Einstein's work paved the way for Leo Szilard's vision but that vision was in no way a given. If it weren't for WWII, and Einstein's support, Leo would not have been able to garner the $2 Billion (1940's money) in support that was necessary to build the bomb.

Even then, there was a coin-toss level certainty that it would do anything.

Similar to Einstein's work preceding the discovery of Fission and the Atomic bomb. We have a great deal of work in biology around aging, telomere's, transcription errors, and more that hasn't been leveraged by the medical industry for varying reasons.

I'm not ready to be a naysayer on this topic, historically as a species we've had remarkable success in accomplishing things that were considered impossible before we did them.

[0] http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Med/Discfiss.html
Hey, Gil from Lemonade here. I see quite a few p2p related comments here and I totally understand how P2P can be confusing as a term. This video can help understand the concept - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U08uhV8c6Y.
tl;dr: We use each group's premiums to pay their claims, and unclaimed money goes back to the group's common cause.
Workplace Wellness Programs Are a Sham
this is why Cassandra works this way
Maybe I missed your point, but as far as I am aware myelination is a very good thing.
This is the one part of the article that is counterintuitive:

> Worryingly, poor methods still won—albeit more slowly. This was true in even the most punitive version of the model, in which labs received a penalty 100 times the value of the original “pay-off” for a result that failed to replicate, and replication rates were high (half of all results were subject to replication efforts).

How can bad results still confer a net reward on their producers with a penalty like that?
Do you happen to know what RAID mode does exactly? I will gladly write the Linux NVMe support for it if it's reasonably straightforward, but I couldn't get my XPS 13 to boot anything at all in RAID mode so I'm a bit stuck.

P.S. that missing NVMe power saving piece is now implemented for Linux and will hopefully be queued for Linux 4.9 :)
> what's the ideal strategy to truncate to the needed range?

This depends on your aesthetic goals. There’s no single right answer here.

There’s been a large amount of academic research into “high dynamic range imaging”. If you do a google scholar search, you can find hundreds of papers on the subject, I recommend you start with the most cited ones, and then follow the citation graph where your interests lead you.

Or start with Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-dynamic-range_imaging
Your exactly right, my bad... I'll correct the article later today (and I'll also remove the word 'logarithmic' from a few places). Thanks!
Bloom filters are great, but unfortunately don't support deletions of items as a particular key might be being used by more than element in the filter and you don't know if it's same to delete. A few weeks ago, someone posted about Cuckoo Filters [1] which are like Bloom Filters but allow for key deletion.

[1]: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dga/papers/cuckoo-conext2014.pdf
http://mourad.benamar.free.fr/tuning/chassis/pneus/pneus.htm

search for "pneu inusable". I don't have a better source.
Eh, that comment suggested to _sterilize_ Saudis - where has reasonability gone?
I think Daniel's comment in the video that the common cause could be a local PTA helps make the point clearer.
What's the state of other language interpreters for guile? It's one of this things I always wanted to have a play with until I remember how much I hate lisp.
Interesting, I've had the exact opposite experience. When I'm working for someone else, I feel like I need to stick to the tools I know. But when I'm working on my own project, I have an itch to try out the latest and greatest thing, even if it's irresponsible to do so and will only slow me down.
Thanks!

I added a sample-based ChucK class with examples here https://github.com/heuermh/lick/commit/be60769ae32ca955b35b9....

I'll dig into the docs you linked to and see if I can come up with a synthesized version as well!
Titanic clash over CRISPR patents turns ugly
While to understand iteration, just keep studying until you're done.
Sweden's Military Recruitment Problem
So why does the reciver need the two bits?

I'm not prone to study too deeply because I've learned (apparently) very bad analogies or schemes for entanglement.
Thank you. There are many armchair historians online. Getting the whole picture requires hearing from all sides. Kissinger also did a few Google talks which you can find on YouTube.

I believe he is generally respected among those who study foreign policy. I'm still learning more about the history myself. I don't think he is as evil as Hitchens would have you believe.
Ayup. Basic income and universal health care. That way people can concentrate on their health, first, without having to worry about their daily salary to keep themselves housed, clothed, and fed.

Oh, wait, that wasn't what you meant? :)

As for your snide solution:

There is research coming in that your body will reduce your metabolism in order to conserve fat. Fat cells "remember" the environment when they were created, and take between 3-5 years to be replaced. So, you are fighting the fact that you were fat 3 years ago even if you weigh correctly right now.

I can also tell you from personal experience that stress us a HUGE factor. I haven't changed anything obvious in my life, but I'm down almost 15 pounds since my life became a lot less stressful (external factors went away). Am I magically more virtuous all of a sudden? Doubtful. So, what changed? Am I feeling fuller? Am I sleeping better? Is my survival system not being so wound up? Who knows?

So, from my point of view, if you want to cut down on obesity, cut down on people's stress. And that translates to fewer hours at work, help with young/old family members, healthcare improvements, etc.
I was living in Finland at the time we had our first child, we received one of these. I can tell you from first hand experience that what you've written was precisely the case for my wife and I.

However, there's still plenty of companies there that want to guilt you into buying their stuff at a time when you're especially susceptible to it...
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I think the OP here was hinting along these lines perhaps:

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/245251.php

Facebook is by some considered an addiction, so in some regards a disease that should be tackled along with others.
Levine's opening paragraphs are always so strong. The content marketers within us all would be wise to learn from his methods.
Google backtracks on privacy promise with messaging service Allo
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What do you mean? Other languages running on top of the Guile interpreter? Or implementations of Guile in other languages. Why would you want to run Guile if you don't like Lisp?
Slack is a perfect example of this.
please dont use condescending titles barking what all coders should or shouldnt know (invariably the topic is a niche that the author wants to cajole others into caring about too)
...and how do they keep track of how many articles each person read each month? Oh right, by cookies.
> The graphics libraries of my operating system handle gamma correctly. (Only if your operating system is Mac OS X 10.6 or higher)

Not just OS X. The majority of Linux games from the past 2 decades including all SDL and id tech 1-3 games relied on X server's gamma function. An X.Org Server update broken it about 6 years ago. It was fixed a few weeks ago.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27222