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How would you consider a drug that cures 5% of cancers a "game changer"?

Do you know what a game changer is? Hint: It means the game changes. In this case it would mean that cancer is at least 50% obviated.
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That is a very well-made video.

Like the video creator, I'm very surprised the humble SIM card has been made so capable!
When the number of old units full of rent-control tenants grows high enough, they can become a constituency in their own right. At this point, like any good constituency, they seek to preserve their position against dilution. Construction of new, un-controlled units would threaten such a dilution.

Some believe this has already happened in SF and has been a major driver of the current housing crisis.
Wow, the V20 looks amazing. I'll probably sell my iPhone 6+ and my Nexus 6P and get one. Not sure when I can get it in America, unfortunately. Any way to import it from Korea?
There are many other players in this space - yunohost.org, cloudron.io etc. https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted has a better list
It's a curly-brace language with similarities to C/C++/Java, not surprisiing you can understand a lot of it. There's not much in the way of interesting algorithmics going on either; it's what I'd consider "business logic" code that mostly consists of function calls. In fact the code looks quite Java-ish.
And this is why I don't use the term "open source" anymore. The "top 5 reasons to use open source" are all completely disconnected and don't really have any logical progression from the "ideals of open source" ("open source" doesn't have an ideology). Why libraries should use free software is a much more straightforward list:

1. Free software means that libraries can be assured that they can continue running on the same software and freely maintain it, without needing to worry about downgrades or license agreements.

2. Free software means that libraries can collaborate on improving the software they use (and help one another to run their libraries efficiently) without violating a proprietary license agreement.

3. Libraries are meant to be stewards of knowledge, and proprietary software takes away your ability to learn about software. Free software solves this problem, for the patrons as well as the librarians.

4. The reading history of an individual should remain private, and there is no way for a library to be sure of this without using free software. A reading history that can be used as evidence threatens human rights.

5. A library running on free software cannot ever be pressured by developers to stop distributing some form of book. As libraries are a primary source of information and knowledge, this is a freedom of speech issue and can only truly be solved by free software.

All of the above list clearly links to the four fundamental freedoms (with emphasis on my own politics). But that's why I invite everyone to refer to free software by it's proper name.
You are likely young and able to keep up with traffic. But not everybody is young and able to keep up with traffic. Older people will cycle slower (and are far more vulnerable if they should fall or get into an accident), and kids are going to get clobbered if they should occupy whole lanes.

Keep in mind that any advice that you give for a class of traffic should apply equally to all members of that class, not just to you.

And once a situation develops (such as causing traffic behind you) it is a little late to 'bike faster' (which may simply not be possible depending on age / wind / other conditions) or 'find an alternate route'.
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> libertarianism fuck yeah

Not libertarianism. But don't let that stop you from pathetic political pandering.
Yep. Twitter should have incorporated the concept of user switching to their UI by now. Trying to avoid (US/gender) politics by unfollowing technical leader people has left me with a, let's say, very manageable set of people to follow.

This would be largely avoidable if there was easy way to switch to a secondary/tertiary user to vent off thoughts that aren't the beef.
This is a much more interesting article than I expected.

Covers the entire history of 3.5mm, 1/4", and other types of phone plugs and jacks, including the applications we all know of and a bunch I never heard about before.
Why did Note 7's have this problem?

I assume the fault is entirely in the battery (?), so did Samsung change how the batteries were manufactured this year? Does the Note 7 have power demands that mean they can't go back to tried and tested battery manufacture?

(Hoping there are EE's or manufacturing people here that might have some educated guesses)
Looks like they've halted production as well: http://ausdroid.net/2016/10/10/psa-samsung-halted-note-7-pro...

I am guessing that the culprit here is Samsung's shift to directly compete with iPhone 7. All other Note releases were standalone and received very little announcements.
And of course it comes from Microsoft because Microsoft loves Linux!
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That's interesting an idea in Fossil that I've always assumed was borrowed from database ideology. When data is committed to a database and other data depends on it, deleting data risks damaging data integrity, let alone issues of falsifying the record.

Fossil enforces the ethical principle that history, e.g., of a project, should not be revised after the fact. If broken code is submitted to the repo, it can be replaced, the prior code ignored, but it still is part of the project history, perhaps serving as a reminder of how things can go wrong, often a valuable lesson to pass along.

Projects are like people, we all have warts. We don't have to point them out to casual acquaintances, but we shouldn't try to pretend we don't have them at all.
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Apparently they don't. Otherwise we wouldn't be reading this story.
You can bring it on the Ola E if you bought it in the airport. So you can't take a bottle of water through security check, but you can take a note 7.
It begs the question, if photons just are and experience no time during their travels thereby arriving instantly, where do they arrive at?
> I also find it interesting the Dutch rarely ever wear helmets.

Good or bad; I am Dutch and I would confidently say that all people I know would never ride a bike again if they have to wear those silly helmets. More likely if it would be mandatory, they just would refuse and not do it, but if largely enforced they would just not use bikes anymore.
>It is also entirely possible that Dark Matter and Energy don't actually exist.

Exactly. The whole basis for belief in "dark matter" and "dark energy" is basically: "our theories on how the universe works don't compute, so there must be some invisible things (dark matter & energy) we cannot detect since our theories can't be wrong."
All works should have a free license. It's better to be safe (I'll just add a licence anyway) than sorry (I didn't add a license and now users are technically violating copyright). If a court decides otherwise, that's a separate issue. But until that court case, I will continue to license everything I make under free licenses.
You are aware this catalog is from 1981 right?
IRC is already more widely used than Slack. So yes. A better question would be of Matrix.im will compete with Slack -- and to that I'm not sure.
Surreal? Hardly. There's room for plenty more. Most UK (hell, most countries') cities have extremely crappy bicycle infrastructure. Which is stupid, considering the many benefits of having a population of cyclists. Fewer road deaths, less obesity, less air pollution etc.

Dutch (and Danish) infrastructure is pretty decent.
According to /r/lgv20 T-Mobile and Sprint are getting it in Oct. Not sure about the import part sorry, I live in Seoul these days :)
I used Duplicity[1] to backup to Amazon S3

[1]http://duplicity.nongnu.org/

http://mindfsck.net/incremental-backups-amazon-s3-centos-usi...
The people in rent controlled units do not have enough power to stop construction. They delay projects, they even block and reduce some projects, but as time moves on, sf will build units and their power will shrink rapidly.
Invented here syndrome (2015)
Makes sense, no? You're driving around in a 1000kg death-machine with an engine powerful enough to be countend in the order of a hundred horses. Don't you think that being extremely cautious is the least any driver should be doing?
Sounds reasonable. Not being able to undo a checkin does not seem like a problem to me, as checkins don't usually bring about ooops moments, if ever.

Also, immutable history makes a lot of sense, not just for SCM, but for RDBMS, too.

So we see quite a few people are now going with the append-only databases.
Would not stained tusks have an impact on the elephants perception of each other? We as human beings have all sorts of perceptions on obesity, skin colour, hair colour..
You'll find many startups in Berlin, anything else not so much. Try München, Hamburg, Frankfurt and Stuttgart if you want a good wage and interesting work.
>"The stars in spiral galaxies are settled thin disks with an exponential surface mass distribution"

Can you expand on that post? The paper you linked appears to assume the very thing being questioned here...
IMHO, no need to actually mirror. You may simply keep the same project under both Git and Fossil, just add ".fslckout" and "_FOSSIL_" to your .gitignore.

1) Setup Git repo on GitHub.
2) Clone the Git repo.
3) Create local Fossil repo.
4) Add the cloned project to Fossil repo.
5) Work with Fossil.
6) Add/commit completed features to Git.
7) Push to GitHub.
8) Pull/Update respectively.

A bit of overhead, but for personal projects easy to get used to.
Holland didn't get rid of street parking. They just became more careful about about how they placed it relative to bike lanes, sidewalks, and traffic lanes.

The issue of lines-of-sight around parked cars is a big deal, and as you said, it's critical for drivers, pedestrians, and cyclists alike. Part of the solution is to make sure that the no-parking regions near intersections are appropriately sized for the speed of the street—they need to be long enough that drivers can actually see that there are no cars that will collide during the time it takes them to pull out. (I'm disturbed by how often this isn't the case in residential neighborhoods in the south bay.) Another part of the solution could be curb extensions, to physically prevent cars from parking near the intersection and allow pedestrians to see more clearly. (And ease the ability of drivers and cyclists to see pedestrians.) There are probably other tools that would help, but those seem like they would yield a big improvement.
Yeah, and it costs 10x as much as in a regular super market, despite being the same water.

I really, really dislike flying. Not because of the flying itself, but because of being treated like a potential terrorist all the time.
> I also hope it breaks the Samsung monopoly over Android and let brands like LG, HTC shine

I have a Nexus S (Samsung), a Nexus 4 (LG), and a Nexus 5 (LG again). As you might guess, I bought those without really bothering to consider who the manufacturer was.

The 5, the most recent one, has failed catastrophically and eaten my data. The 4 is suffering from a swelling battery, and will be thrown away as soon as my OnePlus 3 arrives.

The S, two years older than the 4, is still going strong, although it doesn't seem quite up to the demands of modern android software.

To the extent that a "Samsung monopoly" exists, it's not at all clear to me that breaking it would improve anything.
Letting 16 year olds drive is probably part of the problem. In more bicycle-friendly countries, kids start drinking before they start driving. Cycling to and from parties until they're at least 18. Hell, want to go anywhere at all? Cycle.

It's a pretty effective cycling motivator.
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I think many have a setup where the server grabs your website repo and creates your site. It's generally good to create your static files directly from your actual repo, whether that's on the host server or an artifact builder, etc.
> Strangely, a big percentage of these disappearances have clues in common: Huckleberries, dogs, ...

All clues point to Huckleberry Hound, known associate of Jellystone denizen Yogi Bear.
Yup. I suggested this in 2012.

http://justinvincent.com/page/1972/its-time-for-an-open-twit...
That's hilariously silly. Based on what? Their own love of cars? Research in car-centric communities?
Yes, it makes sense, and yes, I agree that being extremely cautious is the least any driver should be doing. If I gave you the impression that that is not the case then I apologize.

I'm both an avid cyclist and I drive a lot so I'm pretty aware as a driver of what my responsibilities towards more vulnerable traffic are. The same goes for interactions between cars and motorcyclists.
How do you get sales? Do you have any customer analytics on cross-selling through amazon's recommendation engine or anything?
`git reflog` almost always works. You can end up losing data when you have changes to untracked files and you do something like `git clean`.
Wouldn't fighting poaching just increase the overall value of ivory? Drones, guns and enforcement will just cause x10 in price?

Seems like instead of following the "war on drugs" model we should stuff the market full of practically identical synthetic ivory? Or focus on mass elephant reproduction.

One of the comments suggests money to fight poaching - I fear again, wrong approach.
i am suprised how watching out for cyclist, or anything really, is not common sense. I do that and i do not even have a drivers license... Oo
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The obvious thing that jumps to mind is CI/CD systems like Travis and Gitlab CI. The workflow for a lot of folks is to push to a git endpoint and then have the site picked up and then compiled automatically, rather than building on the dev machine then pushing.
Didn't Zuckerberg spend a ton of money trying to fix education? How'd that go?
Where's the flush method?
https://www.mail-archive.com/fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.o...

> To be clear: Fossil should not have malfunctioned. Yet even so, no work was lost as a result of the malfunction. The safety mechanisms built into Fossil did their job and uncommitted changes were preserved. The work was lost when Zed panicked and started entering a bunch of additional commands, in an attempt to recover, without stopping to think through what was happening. In fairness to Zed, I might well have done the same thing.
Depth vs breadth. The president has a lot of power, but has to deal with a zillion things every day. As a private individual, he can think deeply about one (or 10) things as long as he needs to to find a great answer.

He's certainly someone i'd say can handle both depth and breadth very well. I'd agree with you, generally, but i'm not super enthusiastic about any of my options this year.

disclaimer Not interested on being sold on a candidate. I've made up my mind.
I must also apologise for the fact that I have made it so, quite possibly unnecessarily, targeted at transport streams. I work with a lot of transport streams, but am quite ignorant of other formats - I had assumed that transport streams were relatively unique in having multiple video/audio channels... but I could imagine I'm very wrong.
That obviously depends on the infrastructure. If the bike lane is an actual bike lane, then cars turning right should wait until cyclist are done crossing the road. Please don't assume your system is universal: it's broken and it's not.
They really need to do a full recall and refund for all sold Note 7 phones as well.
Relevant: https://www.savetherhino.org/rhino_info/thorny_issues/dyeing...
Sounds like a good side business for you to start :-)
I think part of that perception may come from the kinds of companies you have dealt with. There are many companies where the "IT" side of the company is considered to be mostly superfluous. In fact, most programmers work for these kinds of companies. In my experience, there is still very little training. At best you'll get a 2 day "Scrum Master" course, or a couple of days to go to a conference here or there (which is sadly often seen in the same light that sales people view a sales junket). Even in big insurance companies, etc people don't stick around as employees for long. Of course these companies are not the ones paying double for good programmers.
Fair enough but dont other github alternatives provide that?
This is partially why I'm wary of devices with batteries which aren't easily removable...

This argument is made all the time, but I don't understand it. If the batteries were removable, a large number of owners would eventually replace them with low-quality Chinese lithium batteries whose brand names contain the word "Fire" somewhere.

The result will be, big surprise, more fires. The difference is that there won't be one central manufacturer who can be forced to take responsibility for them. Publicity, if any, will be too obscure for most users to notice.

There is no way on Earth you will end up with fewer battery fires if the batteries are replaceable. We just won't hear about them.
When you do a git clone you should always have a copy of the whole git on your dev computer so I am not sure why they would have to look for their backups.
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> Wouldn't fighting poaching just increase the overall value of ivory?

That implies that less ivory makes it to the market which means that more elephants make it through life without getting killed for their tusks.

Ivory isn't as easily produced as most drugs so the price of ivory is dictated by scarcity even absent any other controls.

You could make as much of most drugs as bulk chemistry or farming allows.

So the value of ivory going up as a result of being tougher on poachers would be proof that it is working.
I love your country's approach to bikes.
You'd be better having it out of the OS directory and a path reference surely, no?

In any case I'd think the drawback to this is the manual updating everytime, although overwriting a single file with curl/wget is probably not much more laborious than updating gems. And less likely to break. And wouldn't have dependency problems during the update.

.. you win this round rocky1138, but don't think this is over!
People moved away from sf fast enough im pretty sure the same thing would occur if things turn sour for github.
Created a rust version https://github.com/ivanceras/svgbobrus
Silicon chips are likely one of our more enduring forms of art. I used to have a really nice blow-up of a CPU as a poster in my room.
Coffeescript, Flask or Bottle, Heroku. Maybe Firebase if I need a database.

Or if I don't need anything dynamic, Hakyll (Pandoc integrated!), and GitLab Pages (automatic CI deploy via any docker instance from git push).
I don't know if it's just me, but these days instead of seeing inane photos of my friends, all I see are photo's my friends liked (especially if they have 1.5k other likes).

I don't "like" anything on fb so it's not just fb deciding for me what I want to see. I think that it's moving closer and closer to curated TV than a true social network
I can see making a heuristic assessment that says "based on the blues and greens there is probably a large expanse of sky and some trees in the original image" but getting from there to where the trees are and putting the leaves back on the trees in the right places, I can't see that being even mathematically possible. It's a million-piece jigsaw puzzle where each piece is square and monochromatic.

If enhancing a low-resolution image to regain lost information is basically impossible, getting back a picture from a color histogram would surely be much more impossible.
> There's just more people who want to colonize mars.

Completing the circle of comments, this is exactly what this SV adage warns against: Don't trust customers promising to buy something once it is built, because they may not.

The "demand" on Mars colonization is essentially unproven.
The problem is that for every unit that is built.. then the new dwellers then become in support of rent control. Even worse for each developer that is able to build, right after building the development they then start supporting rent control to prevent their prices from falling.

Basically everyone who joins the club essentially tries their hardest to shut the door once they get in.
With the strong push for color _quality_ (please excuse my lack of a better term) on iOS devices lately, I find the OLED-equipped iPhone rumors a bit confounding.

Last I recall they looked a bit off. Nice, but a bit off. That said, my experience with OLED screens is a bit dated, so maybe the color reproduction has improved.
The article makes the case for the world descriptions and concepts introduced in SF being an inspiration to real world entrepreneurs, such as Stephenson inspiring the PayPal co-founders and a series of portal companies.

But science fiction has a greater impact in being one of the few forms in 20th century arts that dared to present an optimistic view of the future and of values that led to a better world, be it Picard's exemplary leadership in Star Trek TNG, or Heinlein's "normal person finding their courage and values has an impact" novels.

Apocalypse Now or Brazil may be "great" movies but they are incredibly depressing. "Resign yourself to the brokenness of the world, people. The state/realpolitik will crush you." "No", says Asimov, "your actions matter and have an impact. Courage and reason are great qualities, go build the world you want." How many other mainstream movies, books or artworks have this message, outside of science fiction?
Why is it a joke? It's been around for a couple of hundred years so it can't be that terrible.

Also, it helps avoid the problem of settling close elections--we saw that in Florida in 2000. Without the electoral college the Florida mess would conceivably extend over all 50 states any time there is a close contest.
Screwing up once happens, even if it shouldn't. Doing it twice will seriously shatter peoples trust in these devices and make them think twice before purchasing a new Samsung phone again. Samsung is a behemoth but this can really hurt their smartphone division.
Clover (building a Medicare Advantage health insurance company from scratch)

I've been at Clover since January. Cannot recommend enough.

If you want to learn why, I'm always open and willing to chat about it.
I can backup these claims via a third party testimony. I had a friend who worked at Microsoft Redmond for many years and grew tired of the operations a big Juggernaut company and how it can be wasteful and less daring and all the other undesirable behaviors that deep pockets can afford not being in a state of survival. He hopped ship over to LinkedIn to experience a more daring startup lifestyle. According to him it's added a great deal more meaning to his work life. I guess he'll see how things steer under Microsoft's sailing.
In Belgium we don't have a word for doored either. But we don't use our right hand, we are just learned to look and make sure we are not going to smack someone of their bike.
Also often the lane next to you is a car-lane. As such you also learn not to swing open your door wildly, as you might loose your door ;)
I don't disagree. A while back I met a founder of a respectively successful startup who was pulling an Elon and was saying he hopes to cash out so he can follow his true passion and start a space rocket engine company that will provide infrastructure for the beyond-satellite-orbit space journeys.

I think the problem is this guy is the only person I've met who describes his current venture as a stepping stone towards a grander vision. Most people just see the dollar signs right in front of them.