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For those that haven't read it, "The Female Brain" is a fantastic book about human nature and discusses how male and female hormonal levels fluctuate throughout life and how that influences behavior.

A man's and woman's oxytocin levels are elevated after child birth but it's much higher in women. So the PP reference that a man is more clueless when it come to playing and touching their baby is not without scientific basis.
I got to "enter your name" and leaked out of the funnel. I'm willing to give up my zip code to find out how you compare to my current provider. Give me some good rates to entice me out of the rest of my data.
> Uh no. I code, that's what I do.

If all you do is code I wouldn't consider you an engineer.

> Engineers design materials, structures, and systems while considering the limitations imposed by practicality, regulation, safety, and cost.
> It is laughable to assert "half of the viewership" would be male when they make up the majority of the workforce in engineering roles.

Does that not make my point even better?

Sure, all men should be interested in hearing a woman's perspective on being in the engineering field, but if we're honest with ourselves, most likely skipped right over this thread after reading the title.

To be even more honest with ourselves, we must admit if the title was "Ask a Male Engineer", most women would skip the article as well. It's simply because you either belong to the mentioned group or you do not... some will be curious enough to read anyway, but the rest... it just serves to alienate.

This thread largely turned into a flame war instead of commenting on the content of the post... all because of a word in the title.
I'm not sure I understand your question (non-native speaker here). What kind of leverage are you after? There's no benefit on this, apart from peace of mind, helping other without getting your ass busted or doing the right thing.
The "datastore" is a gzip+base64-encoded serialized PHP object written to a file.

PHP has SQLite built-in, which has the same single-file property with a lot better durability, portability, and stability guarantees.
Strange. A few days ago, I announced my bookmarking service (http://paperbin.co) and it was barely noticed. Yet,	Shaarli has 32 votes within an hour.
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It's generally difficult to find any form of funding/backing as a co-op, as it's far riskier when your sources of funding can't vet all the people who have legal power to push your organisation in a certain direction.
Not only that but there's expectations of people finding positive results.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hwang_Woo-suk

Although Thomas Edison said "“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."...no grant writer wants to hear that.
That's just not true.

Joel Greenblatt's fund beat an annualized return of 40% from 1985 to 2006.

Carl Icahn got over a 30% per year annualized return from 1968 to 2011. That's almost 50 years!
app != P2P
Yeah, and I'd be super keen to see that :)
Are you familiar with how compound interest works? Using this strategy, you may spend the first 2-5 years building up a broad but solid baseline of skills. After that, the amount of learning required to keep up with all the fads in technology would be very manageable by comparison.
Yeah but I'd pick stocks for them for a thousandth of that.
"What happens when all the Internet forums are full of people blindly recommending to change to AHCI so you can use your Windows 10 vanilla ISO to reinstall?"

How is this harder than the current procedure which requires users to sideload custom RAID drivers from USB that support the RAID at install time?

I can imagine the support calls coming from THAT.

Oh, and this is the Windows experience that is affected (ostensibly for some marginal increase in battery life).

"If they were to provide the unlocked BIOS version "at your own risk", would you use it? And if it bricks your laptop, would you or someone else sue Lenovo?"

When I think of risk associated with setting a BIOS to AHCI mode? I don't think of nuclear explosions...
I love NodeJS. So many NPM's to be had. I want to open source our ANSI-C Realtime Server - maybe someday. Our https://www.pubnub.com/blocks-catalog/ BLOCKS engine actually starting in Java. That was a M-I-S-T-A-K-E-E-E-E. It's better now.
For the love of any god you worship: Will the Microsoft-ecosystem developers please stop downvoting this just out of spite? This is so pathetic.

You guys have truly proven yourself to be civil today, haven't you? F*ng pathetic. You guys are so insecure it's funny.
2GB is more than enough for a system partition. You can fit two into a 16GB phone. The only real consideration is app and media size, and google's historically been on the low end of that.
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You get a bag full of coupons and advertorials, perhaps a free sample like a nappy in the UK instead. "Bounty bags" are the main ones.
I didn't realize pivotal and XP were different things
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sigh I think this is a bit of overreach in this particular case... In the end, it's not like Berkeley is keeping additional bits hidden... either they weren't created or weren't part of the original. I'm kind of saddened by this approach from the DOJ... it would be one thing to advise that future content contain said changes, but to do so retroactively and impose potential fines is ridiculous.
> Concurrency is also not more efficient on a single core.

This isn't a hard and fast rule. There is overhead to parallelism.
Yours seems to be a SaaS and Shaarli seems to be an open source product you can self host.

That might be why this one caught more interest.
Ditto FreeBSD, Fedora, and (probably) CentOS).
Cool concept, looking forward to seeing roll out. Under your definition of p2p would heyguevara.com not fall into this too?
After a while, overtly sarcastic tone gets a bit boring when you get to read it every day in the every corner of internet over any possible issue.

And in my experience, it's rarely very effective in changing people's opinions, if they are not tending to agree with you already in the first place.
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That's why you're not picking stocks for them ;)
Because the UNIX hierarchy is standardized. System admins only expect bin, lib, etc, share, etc. to be in /usr/local. Imagine deleting /usr/local with the intention of only deleting local packages and accidentally breaking a Homebrew install.

Not to mention it's an uppercase H which breaks UNIX file name convention.
Actually, I just tested it and Gmail works, I just haven't used it for a long time, so it took a while to update all the messages. :-)
I don't follow how this is P2P, and unfortunately it seems only available for New York zip codes?
Why is the "For New York" below the fold?
cancers are not broad, yes the areas of the human body they affect..yes that is broad..

Mark was reacting to this:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1994798/
No, 50% of the population doesn't take offense to hearing the perspectives of an underrepresented group who all too often have their points of view talked over, elided, or outright stolen. A small, bigoted percentage does take offense, but that's really more their problem than anyone else's.
Was not criticizing the company at all, just wondering why it calls itself P2P and whether my payback model would work.
this is marginally better than the Bluth family's fundraising efforts to cure TBA ...
I'd even go so far as to say it's worse than that. Those fines aren't coming from the top executives (or even mid-level) who made the decisions to promote this behavior, but rather the investors.

Frankly, it's more of the same, private rewards, socialized costs. "I make millions for the bank with fraud, I make millions. I lose millions for the bank through fraud, the investors lose millions, I still make millions with a golden parachute."

I'm shocked (shocked!) this type of moral hazard still exists in the banking world after 2008! I'm sure Congress will do something to make sure this never happens again.

But remember, this fraud was only perpetrated by a conspiracy of 5300 low-level employees who have already been fired. (and if you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you.)

But to quickly go back to the investors. Not only are these people eating the costs from incredibly poor (and criminal) management, but when the government fails to do anything meaningful, the smaller investors have no real recourse. What are they going to do, sell their stock at a loss? Sue a bank which spends hundreds of millions on lawyers in a year? At least theoretically, the government could get rid of some of the bad apples, but then, who would bribe the politicians?

Maybe a more apt analogy is someone who makes $100k a year having their parents pay a $215 fine?
Self-hosted open source projects tend to appeal to a different set of people than a commercial competitor to an established service.

Also, HN is weird.
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Hey, thanks for trying. Can you share more details? Browser, device, etc. It seems like everything works properly on our end
"Is this really true of all Lenovo systems? I recently bought a P50 (new workstation class laptop) and I could switch the BIOS to AHCI from what I recall."

No, only their consumer-level ultrabooks -- specifically, Yoga series.

I bought a P50 as well, and I love it; MUCH better for my use case (mobile app development that is "mobile") than any of the Apple products I've used.
I am wondering how they store OSX users administrator password, since it isn't being hashed - they actually store the password somewhere... it would be nice if that were addressed somewhere.

See discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12457067
FreeBSD only made it default throughout the ports tree somewhat recently.
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My guess is that they are using blockchain, but I cannot find any real details on their site, blog, or FAQs.
> Ignoring the color space is hardly a world ender for most applications, but it has an effect on quality that can be subtle to drastic depending on what you're doing. For example, arcade games emulated in MAME often have a washed-out look by default because the monitor gamma isn't included(but it can be achieved through user customization).

Actually, no emulator does gamma-correct scaling, and when I've tried adding some in the past a lot of games looked quite different and much darker. So different that I don't think most players, who grew up on emus instead of the real thing, would actually accept it.

It was hard enough getting them to accept correct aspect ratios, since NES pixels weren't square either.
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Yes, as I say (I'm a software engineer), the proof is in the pudding; it's one thing to read a sugar-coated damage control PR press release; it's another to look at the code.
That comment wasn't about a bug. This person is saying that you require too much information to get a quote. And I agree.
>A transparent 20% fee to run everything

how does that compare with the profit margins of a traditional insurance company?
"Build an atomic bomb" is a lot more specific than "cure all diseases." In fact, "cure all diseases" is kind of the opposite of a SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, time-based). Whereas, to goal to build a device capable of detonating via nuclear fission is pretty specific, particularly to a physicist. Also very measurable and highly time-based.

Not even the Gates foundation is trying to cure all diseases, and Bill Gates is smart and gets stuff done. This sounds like feel-good charity to me, but we'll see what the results are in 100 years, I guess.
> Merck people won't be able to mate with Novartis people

I think I'll stick with cancer for now
Sounds a bit like the Culture humanoids in Ian M Banks's Culture book series.
only the last three things are covered by my property taxes. Everything else is handled by private companies who I pay separately (yes even roads where I live).

Regardless, the property tax could be moved to an income or sales tax instead, so if your income drops and you can't pay your taxes you don't risk losing your home.
You'll probably need a beefier backend and an authentication service, to serve your existing customer base.
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Absolutely. I can't find the source, but I remember reading somewhere that the beverage companies put together a "CO2 Purity Requirements" thing, and it turned out industrial CO2 was already way more pure. Surprise!
No, it's true for some of their newest ultrabooks, like Yoga 900S, Yoga 900 Business Edition, Yoga 710 and newer revisions of Yoga 900 marked as 13ISK2.
Noise. Deep learning looks for trends in data. If there's a bunch of noise (extraneous random data), it's very difficult to put together trends.

For example, lets say you want to throw off Google's targeted advertising algorithm. Let's pretend you want to buy a stapler. Right now, if you go visit a bunch of sites that sell staplers, or a stapler manufacturer, then you'll probably start getting ads for staplers. In order to counter this, you could visit a bunch of random sites while mixing your stapler research in. This way, it's difficult to spot the trend.

This is a gross simplification, because a smart algorithm is going to see that you've visited a bunch of random, non-correlated sites, and eight stapler websites. So the noise that you're hiding in needs to be specifically crafted. For example, you still want to do stapler research. But you know now that you need to be even sneakier. So you visit twenty sites on subject a, twenty on b, etc, then you do all of your stapler research in a single 'window', and then continue onto more random subjects. Thus it's more difficult to figure what you were actually researching. You could probably write a script to do this pretty easily.
I posted a separate comment, but will post here again...

Dropbox do store one password AFAIK. It appears that they store OSX users administrator password... I am keen to see if they address this somewhere.

See discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12457067
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Well yes, it's discretionary. That's what discretionary means - you can use it for whatever you want. Using it for savings or investment in no way invalidates my argument, because that's exactly what I'm talking about. If you have a bunch of money in savings, then getting hit with a $215 fine isn't a big deal, you can pull that small amount of money out and pay it. But the whole point is that since the extra "revenue" you get from a higher salary is discretionary, then you should be able to easily absorb a small fine, but a company with large revenues doesn't necessarily have a lot of discretionary cash.

Now it's certainly possible that your investments aren't liquid enough for you to free up the $215 to pay the fine, but that's a different situation (and is your own damn fault). Companies can be in this situation too, but don't mistake the existence of this situation as a refutation of my argument, because it's not. My argument at its core is that a person making $100k can be expected to much more easily be able to absorb a particular fine than a person (with the same cost of living) making $50k, but you can't necessarily say this about companies, because a person's salary isn't dependent upon how much they spend, but a company's revenue is, and so if company A has a higher revenue than company B that does not mean company A's profits are higher.
> How is this harder than the current procedure which requires users to sideload custom RAID drivers from USB that support the RAID at install time?

It's not harder: It degrades the overall experience while using the laptop (battery, temperature, performance).

> I can imagine the support calls coming from THAT.
> Oh, and this is the Windows experience that is affected.

True, but I'm sure they plan on make money out of these calls. People will be more inclined to pay when "they" screwed up Windows than because "this piece of crap doesn't work well, even with Windows freshly installed".

Again, this is a guess of Lenovo's thinking.

> When I think of risk associated with setting a BIOS to AHCI mode? I don't think of nuclear explosions...

I mean flashing a non-supported BIOS :)
Alright, total stream of thought here:

Guile is cool, if possibly immature.

To this day, the largest project I've done in Guile was the entirety of the exercises short of Chapter 5 in SICP, wrote unit tests for the interpreter and the 'Prolog' implementation, the whole lot. All told I generated approximately 10KLOC of Guile code, some 20% of it using features like GOOPs, threading, dynamic-unwind and so on. It was largely a positive experience and I am really glad I read ahead and implemented a few things as GOOPs classes rather than used the OOP system described in the Book (particularly for the Constraint Solver!)

As part of this, I did run into some faulty code generation (inappropriate optimization) on the master branch while completing an early Chapter 4 exercise: "This code could do multiple things if we apply different models of an idealized computer language (each of which was advocated by 'Susan' and 'Bob' in typical SICP fashion)", I wrote an implementation inside my guile interpreter that got an unusual answer and asked the channel about it and everyone got to the bottom of it fairly quickly.

Speaking of which, Guile has a community of absolutely rabid fans all over the world and so the support in #guile is absolutely phenomenal, people like ijp and mark_weaver are both true 31337s and always can be relied on to offer sage advice.

You've brought up it's utility as a GNU extension language, and although I feel it's public documentation is not given a fair shake in the important arenas like GDB scripting, it is tremendously useful in this capacity. Of course, as an extension language itself, it excels. Excellent exposure and interaction with the bare-metal, good parallel & concurrent primitives (although they are more 'traditional', taking after the proud line of Pthreads than `link' or send/recieve in Erlang). It is quite large to statically link into your binary in comparison to other languages however, so be careful there.

Weechat itself is written in C, but it does have Guile extensions (and unfortunately I may be the only person in the world to take advantage of this while writing an extension however https://github.com/zv/weechat-gateway-replacer ).
Hey, same here. Can you share more details? Thanks for letting us know btw.
In a lot of fields, you just can't do this. We have to remember that a single article should not be taken as gospel, but more as a step in a direction, like a single log entry in a captain's journal. "We saw X happen Y many times in a 1000+Z step process with ABC cells in FGH media at P temperature at N phase of the moon. Our p value is being required by the journal, but is meaningless because we are just reporting that you should look out for this thing, if it exists at all"
Seeing a manufacturer use fake RAID, by default, on a single disk system, then unfathomably hardwiring this into the firmware so it can't be changed, then have a Lenovo rep actually admit the reason with the forum thread censored and then see this kind of defence is downright hilarious.

Garrett should be condemning Lenovo for not making a perfectly configurable chipset feature....configurable and defending Linux and freedom of choice on hardware that has always traditionally been that way. But, no, he doesn't. He defends stupidity as he always does.
We're already partly there. Infant mortality is way down, allowing weak babies to live on to reproduce. Antibiotics and immunization of course. A lot of the good things we do for individuals are probably bad for our species because they remove stressors.
I don't work on The Witness, but here is an example of an issue I noticed just today on the game I work in.

Look at the particles inside the pit at the bottom of the screen. http://imgur.com/BQjJD25

Can you see what is wrong?

Now take a look at what it used to look like: http://imgur.com/9z9b1cq

After seeing the correct version the problem is really obvious.

The particular problem here is that at some point in the pipeline the colour of the particles were stored linearly instead of in sRGB. That results in the colour banding.

A programmer who was working on the engine managed to accidentally break this, and the thing that really sucks about it is that the issue is really subtle and nobody noticed it for quite some time. Thankfully it didn't get to production before I noticed it, but that was complete chance. It could easily have gone out like that.
I would buy it in a heartbeat if they didnt insist on selling it with the numpad. I find it upsetting that it is virtually impossible to find a 15 inch laptop now that doesnt have the numpad (macbook pro and dell xps15 are the notable exceptions). Not having the spacebar centered and having the numeric keys off center is hard for me to adjust to.
A power law plotted on a logarithmic scale will be a straight line. log(x^2.2) == 2.2*log(x).
Eat less, exercise more? Easy to say right, but the simple message isn't working obviously. Obesity levels have doubled over the last 40 years. Its not sporadic either, it's affecting the entire population now. Why is this happening?
From what I can tell P2P means it's essentially an insurance co-op. It's definitely not a world first - I had renters insurance over 10 years ago that worked this way (except I got actual dividends instead of donations in my name).
I thought they created a setuid executable on first run (when they asked for your password), and then use that later?
Yes, I wholly disagree with Garrett's attempts to redirect (or should I say, deflect) blame to Intel instead of Lenovo in this case. I've succinctly outlined my argument in most of my other posts in this thread.
I've been thinking along these lines recently; we currently design treatment plans using statistical methods, i.e. averaging effects across 'representative populations'. But imagine if you took your car to the garage and they said "90% of cars showing this symptom respond well to this treatment".

When we truly understand how these biological systems work (which could be more than 100 years from now) we'll be able to measure what is different from the individual's baseline, rather than extrapolating based population averages.
The language the project is written in can also be found in the data section, still there is the language bar :)
The next thing they should be taught is that even if an existing serial implementation can be made more efficient using concurrency, that doesn't mean it should be. That should be followed quickly by teaching that concurrency should be implemented over the smallest possible surface of the code.
If you're using a Razer mouse, don't upgrade :) Causes kernel panics and a reboot loop (remove RazerHid kext to fix and launchctl remove all com.razer stuff, then replace Synapse with something like SteerMouse).

This was sure a weird one - everything works fine until you start moving a mouse at which point you catch a kernel panic.
I'm fairly certain it isn't possible. If you can detect, with high confidence, that an entity received a message and that an entity sent a message, timing attacks can be done. The traditional means to prevent this involves sending dummy traffic, introducing unpredictable latency, or using some sort of broadcast to conceal the exact receiver. None of those things are practical for a low-latency proxy.

It's been a couple years since I studied this, so I might be wrong.
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