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When I worked for QuIC [0] I had a chance to ask Rob Chandhok how I could connect maker spaces [1] to Qualcomm so they could buy SoCs and all the glue from Qualcomm on tape with data sheets without an NDA. He put me in touch with someone who eventually hooked me up with a Canadian VAR who sells (or sold) some sort of dev kit q10 or something for a grand a pop. It is a market that Qualcomm just doesn't care about. I was upbraided for using non-Qualcomm silicon for a demo - I asked where the Qualcomm version of the RPi was, and that was that.

[0] https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2010/04/07/why-qualcomm-in...

[1] http://metrixcreatespace.com and others
Vulnerability scanner for Linux and FreeBSD
I would love to meet the person who owns a printer using a hacked ink cartridge.
The environment is not just total carbon emissions.

It is also where you burn fossil fuels. This is why I'm so enthusiastic about Uber and Lyft in cities: The drivers have an incentive to use well-maintained vehicles instead of smoggy clunkers. If I can smell your exhaust, then you are doing something wrong.

The built environment also includes roads. Fuel-efficient cars pay less gas tax, and most are lighter than gas-guzzlers, but long-range electrics like the Teslas are monster road destroyers that pay nothing to road maintenance. I'm not arguing for fuel-wasting vehicles, though; I think people should be using cars far less. Congestion charge or something.
Windows Nano Server is briefly mentioned in the article but they fail to touch on just how lightweight it really is. Currently you can get it on a VHD coming in at 610 MB (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowsconta...). Not bad for Windows...

Combine that with a need (for whatever reason) to run .NET & IIS and it can definitely make sense to start running some Nano containers.
Yeah, until sshd breaks due to incompatible dependency and I cannot login. There are exceptions though. For example, RedHat does a good job (in contrast to some other distros) and I always had auto update on for RedHat systems. Windows works like a Swiss clock in this regards, and it is the biggest selling point for me. Slap, update and forget. It just works then without any manual intervention, and most importantly, does not break things after updates.
What 2,000 Calories Looks Like (2014)
South Park aside, I think there are few instances where it could reasonably be confused with the noun.
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Regulatory capture is a different beast from actual regulation. It is what happens when corporations get to stack the government

No. You do not understand the concept. Regulatory capture can happen even with the purest of intentions.

The problem is that for effective regulation, you need experts. Where are you going to get experts, if not people who have experience in the industry? The problem with this is not that they may try to corrupt the process, favoring their former employer or whatever (although that is also a potential problem, but that's outright corruption, not "regulatory capture").

The thing about people from the industry is that they have a set way of looking at things - they're going to have a hard time "thinking outside the box", and because of the very fact that they spent so much time gathering their expertise, they're going to have a world view in which that area is more important than it probably is to the rest of us. With people that are used to thinking about the system in a set way, and who think it's more important relatively than other things, the flavor of the output regulations is going to tend to be to reinforce the way the industry does things, you'll rarely get something that really pulls the industry out of problematic ruts.

From what I've read, the Navy actually recognizes this problem in their nuclear fleet, and so refuses to use nuclear experts from the power generation industry. Being the Navy, they can afford to train their own experts, but this obviously can't scale to every place in our lives where regulation shows its face.
With Firefox and uBlock Origin it's blank for about 20 seconds, and then forwards to the content.
I think part of the issue is that Chicago's downtown and inner city are small enough that you typically do want to get out of town. Compared to cities like New York where people can easily go months, even years or decades, without ever thinking about leaving the city proper. That tends to be why so many people (vast majority) in Chicago own cars. And I've heard no end to the rants about trying to park in that town.
Ask HN: Using AWS to Approximate an Academic HPCC
In a typical academic/super computer set up, multiple useres are allowed to ssh into some head node, and there is a job scheduler installed that allows you to submit jobs requiring some resources. It then farms the jobs out to other compute nodes.

Is it possible to approximate this workflow using AWS, where you ssh into a very cheap always on node like a t1.micro, but then from the command line can spin up another ec2 instance that runs a script or pipeline, saves the output to S3, and terminates itself?
Banks adopting blockchain 'dramatically faster' than expected: IBM
Sophia db design notes and internals
You're absolutely right. I 100% agree, and there's a single person at fault whom victims pursue. Who faces the blame whenever a driverless vehicle is forced to make a decision to strike a pedestrian or hit a wall rather than a head-on collision? Driverless cars do.

We may not like it but that's how the public will see it.
> Financial planners typically recommend that you save enough to replace 80 percent of your preretirement income, but Udo says his family lives comfortably on less.

Exactly. You don't need 80% of your income, you need 100% of your expenses. If you're saving 40% of your income, you need to save until your investments can reliably generate 60% of your income. If you're saving 60% of your income, you need to save until your investments can reliably generate 40% of your income.
async[1] changes how the scripts executes so that it doesn't block the browser.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLScriptE...
Well if you rent you can't really buy an electric vehicle, because where will you charge it?
If you don't want a clustered index in InnoDB you can define the primary key as an auto incrementing uint.
That you're only breaking a small section of a site is a false assumption. You really have no way of knowing that. You will be breaking the entire site in the case of a site that writes all of its content using JavaScript obtain from that resource. This is fairly common with jQuery fallback document.write scripts.

document.write() calls are dependencies of the site, in many cases. Some times they are just worthless ad stuff, but you shouldn't make any assumptions here. Not breaking the web should be the priority.
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I am a customer of a competitive product, where we have a cluster of servers on port 25 that need load balancing. Pretty simple setup - if port 25 goes down for more than 2 minutes remove from DNS until it comes back online.

It's been incredibly stable and robust and a real life saver if you have gear in multiple geographic data centers that are not all with one provider. The competitors cost for the service is incredibly cheap hen you consider what it does - but the BIG GOTCHA is you need to use their DNS in order to use the load balancer.

And we move about 350 queries per second so the bill is pretty high (for our sized company). The place that I should be able to get an immediate impact and huge savings is that Cloudflare does DNS for "free".

I should be able to pay a modest but competitive rate for their traffic manager, but with no QPS it will be huge.

I just spoke to sales in the UK and they don’t actually have a good definition of the product yet. No pricing and really did not have their questions to ask prospects yet.

That being said we are already using them for pseudo-Traffic Management services we have a script tied to Pingdom.com that updates DNS from the port monitoring and adds and removes records in just a few seconds.
The only time I feel anxious in NYC is when it's rush hour and I can barely get enough space in the train to breathe, but that happens everywhere :-)
I understand where you are coming from and I think the disagreements come from underlying philosophical differences and differences in experiences that I don't have time to debate before going to work. Thank you for exposing me to a different viewpoint and staying polite in the discussion.
Try this right now: Pick an emotion. Fear, anger, etc. Now, using logic, make yourself feel that emotion. How did it go? I picked fear. I reasoned myself into feeling a little bit worried, but I sure didn't experience actual fear. So why do we think we can reason ourselves out of emotions?

Something that has been helpful for me is the idea of the 'Wise' mind. How individuals deal with experience like anxiety (or anything else) falls on a spectrum. On one end is the 'logical' mind, much like you described. On the other is the 'emotional' mind. In the middle is the Wise mind. I spent most of my life far into the logical side of the spectrum, and the most useful thing I've ever done for my anxiety is shifting more into the center.

Most of your post focuses on training yourself to think critically and using logic to treat anxiety. I've spent many years working on my anxiety with various techniques and therapists. The common factor among all the things that did help was that you can't just use logical thinking to fix anxiety! We may use logic all day at work to fix problems, but you simply cannot reason yourself out of experiencing anxiety.

Emotions play a huge role in anxiety and really cannot be ignored or just reasoned away. They need to be experienced. They need to be felt and expressed. And once they are, logic is a useful tool, as you said, to dive into them and think more about why you are feeling that way.

This is also my opinion, and I'm glad you have the logical portion figured out. But please don't ignore the illogical, emotional aspect. It's trickier and messier, but it can be figured out.
I just meant to indicate that if nothing depends on the script, you can also set the async attribute to prevent even the slightest bit of blocking.

Not really necessary if you append the script to the body, but it's good to do it if you append the script to the head.
Bleh. It is the same brouhaha that surrounds every overhyped game. This has been going on for ages.

I guess the new twist is that gamers pay up front, sometimes years ahead, and that only adds to the disappointment when the game actually comes out and is not the best thing since sliced bread.
That was the first thing that leaped to mind for me as well, specifically the line, "P.S. please if you get a chanse put some flowrs on Algernons grave in the bak yard."

Kidding aside though, anytime the question of, "Does this thing in mice do this other thing in humans?" the answer is always, "Who the hell knows until after the study is complete?!"
Igor Shuvalov, officially worth half a billion dollars. Has properties all over europe, his wife flies their dogs (corgis) all over europe for dog shows ... on a private bombardier business jet... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3695649/Vladimir-Put...

nice to be a pro-P. politician in Russia... sanctions somehow skipped out on this poor bloke...
Is this how we are finally going to melt the Arctic?
Also CFD guy, completely agree with the above.

Quantum computers have several algorithms for various applications, such ashort shors for factorization. Not aware of any algos for CFD.

Perhaps a rarefied gas dynamics, bolts man distribution sort of application could be created? At least in some cases quantum mechanical effects are significant...
Can anyone recommend an a good paper or essay on this subject? This development looks like an amazing economical shift and I would love to read semi-sci-fi-ish scenarios by serious economists studying past and present systems.
It was interesting to me that the gang isn't even fighting over turf for lucrative drug sales -- the drug business doesn't make them any money to speak of.
Quality of life at $600 a month is greater in SF than Texas? You must be kidding right.
Could you please elaborate what kind of damages you go by following this diet to your liver?
> It is true. Counselling is not good enough though. Given how ineffective it is, it is essentially permanent denial.

I disagree--in fact, I think a large part of the problem here might be this very conversation. It's unclear how much of the reason that counseling is ineffective is because obesity has become an identity politics issue. If you tell someone that it's okay to be fat, and go so far as to say that obesity isn't the cause of their problems, it's a lot easier for them to just cry "denial of care!" than to actually lose weight. The first step to solving the problem is admitting it is a problem, and fat acceptance is actively impeding that part of the recovery process.

I don't have personal knowledge to say which way the direction of causality goes: whether identity politics causes counseling to be ineffective, or whether counseling is inherently ineffective and therefore identity politics are right. But I think that doctors are the ones with the most information to decide that, not identity politics activists.

What I do know is that even if counseling is only 10% effective, it's far less dangerous than surgery, so it should always be the first choice. If someone tries weight loss programs for a few years and fails to lose weight, then maybe it makes less sense to deny surgery (this would be a situation I'd be interested in hearing medical opinions about). But I see no evidence that this is actually happening. What I'm seeing is people saying that demanding people try weight loss first is equivalent to denial of care, and that people should be allowed to get surgery without even trying to lose weight.

And while this firmly steps outside science, I think obesity makes sense to treat as an addiction problem. I've been treated successfully for alcoholism via a program which equally has very low success rates to weight loss programs. My personal experience with this is that, as identity politics say, it makes little sense to shame people for their addiction or to discriminate against people because of their addiction in cases where it doesn't affect their ability to perform. Blaming me for my addiction or punishing me for my addiction didn't work. However, what also didn't work was living in denial that I was an addict and that my addiction was a problem. I don't blame myself for my addiction, but I did need to take action and participate in my treatment.

You wouldn't give someone with alcoholic hepatitis a liver transplant unless they stopped drinking, and you shouldn't give an obese person a hip replacement unless they lose weight.
Eat out for cook in for dinner.
The Luddites were highly skilled workers.

If computer systems do most of the thinking, and users don't understand how they work, I'm concerned that people will lose those cognitive skills. We're already seeing this happen with calculators (mental arithmetic) and satellite navigation systems (orienteering/navigation).
Driving a car and learning a foreign language might be next.

Some, probably most, people will give up, while the rest will pursue the gradually dwindling number of things computers can't do.

So it could well be that most people, rather than the new Luddites who will try to keep the old skills alive, might never learn, because they don't need to.
A Smartphone Game That Captures the Futility of “Work-Life Balance”
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Interview with Head of Data (Science and Engineering) at SoundCloud
In this interview, http://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2016/03/14/state-program... Jeff Atwood describes building Discus on *nix versus his experience building StackOverflow [and previous work] using Windows server and related products. My recollection of what he says is along the line of he believes the Windows Server ecosystem requires substantially less systems administration staff/effort at scale. My understanding is that he's not talking about how much work he had to perform on one versus the other [which could be just his level of experience] but rather the way in which the different stacks affected hiring priorities and business finances during growth at Discus versus StackExchange.
You know, I'd be fine with the printer detecting the use of 3rd party ink cartridges and signalling this fact to the computer, so that a warning C n be displayed, as long as the printer and driver don't use that information to deliberately degrade the output.

And I'm not necessarily against using that information to void the warranty too.
Did you store the plain text of each PDF in PostgreSQL or just the ts_vector resulting from the plain text?
I wouldn't be surprised if a micro-controller, if it had enough RAM, would be good enough for a ton of tasks we use desktop computers for.
Same, but for whatever he talked about in PyCon 2015
There are qc simulators online like http://www.davyw.com/quantum/ but my naive understanding is that dwave is a bit different from this.

It might be the same kind of thing though ... I'm curious if it is.
This has been proven, I can't find the link but there was a study done with statistics for New York and they found that the homeless cost on average about $30k a year to keep homeless, between interactions with the police/jails, ER visits because they can't get medical care any other way, reduction in property values, etc. On the flip side putting them in cheap housing with a shower, food, and a TV would cost s fraction of that but there's no way in hell you're going to sell that to the American culture as long as the bootstraps narrative holds.
It's confusing to me that you're calling it "less-constrained." The signed-bootloader world really caught fire in SoCs like Snapdragon and indeed the 410E and 600E include SecureMSM/TrustZone. It hasn't (yet) found big popularity in x86_64 designs -- even when the processors offer it many customers don't leverage/enable it.

The "locked down" designs come from two big motivators: DRM and security. Since many snapdragon phones are sold with subsidies, the signed bootloader allows the network operator to restrict the phone's "owner" in various fashions. The security provided by a signed bootloader is real -- it's much harder for a malicious actor to create ransomware that targets mobile phones like they do PCs.

I'd expect/hope that you can decide not to opt-in on the Snapdragons' SecureMSM features, but it doesn't seem any "less-constrained" than Intel or AMD's offerings.
World’s First Clock Made of Automated Trucks
The invention of the car has almost certainly led to more jobs, even if you were to include the jobs lost by horses. In part because there were exponentially more cars that needed manufacturing, maintenance, roads to drive on etc.

Heck, I'd be interested in seeing the ratio between total employment numbers before the advent of the car in the late 1800s and automobile-related jobs at their peak (US only).
Paid maternity leave has high cost and little benefit
We might as well use an unencumbered ISA as well, like RISC-V. I'm hopeful that that project will take off. It seems to be doing quite well so far. There is still an uncomfortable amount of proprietary junk and questionable hardware modules in the ARM world as well, even if it's a lot easier to get a plain SoC and turn it into a computer.
One reason might be that it's just not available in their area. I just went looking at the Chevy Spark EV (since it was so low in the charts and base price both) and find it's only available in participating dealers in like 3 or 4 states.
The saving glut and the failure of capital in the 21st century
Some places offer charging in their attached parking. Some workplaces offer charging as well, so you can charge there during the day, and leave it unplugged at night. Neither one is commonly available (yet?) though.
If we hypothetically took you and kept you identical,same worldview,same education, same income, everything the same.....except we made your skin black. Congratulations! You are now 4 times more likely to leave a police encounter dead! and if that somehow happend..... then, in this one hypothetical case, I would indeed agree with you that they were "culling the stupid"
It seems like what amelius suggests in another thread would work too. I'm not advocating for this as desirable, but I'm thinking about the "possible" bit.

It's basically the same as what a JIT compiler does around type inference. If it can reason about the underlying type that's really going to Sort(), it can code generate a specialized version. The machinery for escape analysis that Go already has probably gets you at least part of the way there.

That pretty much boils down to a non-user-controllable templating done entirely through the compiler. Like I said... possible vs desirable.
This is the biggest issue for me. I would happily pay for any metered electricity to a parking spot in my apartment complex, but the managers aren't interested. And my building was built in 2014!
Hugely helpful - thanks!
IMO the article is clearer and more explicit than the press release. It also summarizes data sheet features which are only referred to in the press release.
"I'd argue passing AP calc in high school is 90% of the battle. If you can tackle that the basics of programming are nothing."

As a math major who took on programming later in life than most, I feel a lot of ambivalence about this statement. Data structures and algorithms, and even basic control flow, is more complex than I think you're making it out to be.

Zed Shaw made an excellent point about this when he wrote about the "pipe" for boolean OR. He pointed out that you aren't just teaching people about boolean logic. While they're trying to understand the concepts, they are also wondering what you mean when you say to use the "pipe". In fact, you can't even say use the | character, because very intelligent people may have never used this to the point that they weren't aware that there was a | character, yet these people could make exceptional programmers given a bit more time and the right intro material.

This isn't just a nitpick, I always cringe when I people downplay the rigor of programming, even basic programming. It isn't easy at all, it takes hard work. My own experience as a math major who took on programming a bit late in life is that there is a pretty tough hurdle at the beginning (one that I felt Zed identified very well through his "pipe" example).

I also think that people should take more pride in learning to program - while we could quibble over what the "basics" are, I'd put it up there with my more rigorous math and engineering coursework.