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Coke Zero exists because they decided to try to make a diet version of Coke that actually tastes closer to regular Coke. Diet Coke does not use the regular Coca Cola recipe with sugar replaced, but a tweaked one, on purpose.

Compare to e.g. Diet Pepsi, which is to Pepsi what Coke Zero is to Coke, Coca Cola was for decades worried about making something that was too close to the original (hence Tab being their first diet cola)

Or Diet RC Cola, which is the only diet cola product I've ever been close to confuse with the real thing (my parents insisted I "wouldn't notice the difference" with diet colas as a child in an attempt to get me to accept them, and utterly failed).

If you want a diet cola that tastes like a regular cola, Diet Coke will never be it, and it left Coca Cola with a gap in their lineup for people who weren't as concerned about picking a diet product, but would pick one if there's a diet cola available that is "close enough".
Well, for one I don't care much, I run my hobby stuff on there, not my mission critical services, so cheap is good, even with some really minor drawbacks.

Secondly, I could not find a source if Scaleway uses ECC or not...
C:S doesn't really deepen over Simcity, that was more a case of EA flying Simcity into the ground with a whole set of unpopular design decisions.

I think both depth and verisimilitude are limited by the desire to make it possible to complete the sweep of history in a reasonable amount of time while still having the player micromanage most things.
:) Yup.
Did you actually read the article, or are you just here to snark on HN?

Here, let me do your research for you. First link on a search for "stapedius reflex" is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_reflex

A quick search on Google Scholar for "acoustic reflex noise" turns up this paper from 1962 which states in the abstract that the acoustic reflex is more easily triggered by wide bandwidth noise than a single sinusoidal tone. http://scitation.aip.org/content/asa/journal/jasa/34/9B/10.1...

I think we can safely say that this work is pretty evidence based.
What's TFA?
Not only it is taxing on planet earth I think there is more to it. Assume people of middle ages lived 1000 years longer than they did, I doubt the civilization on earth would have developed as far as it did.

To progress we need people to die and the new to born with radical ideas.
I'm 20 pages in. I'll eventually read it in full, but it is very math heavy and hard to digest. I am reading it at a very slow pace (a few pages per week) because that's the only way for me to assimilate the content.

My personal opinion is that it is a very good book, just a bit hard.
Mathematicians get a similar mental state from the release of dopamine that rewards working on and successfully solving ever more complex problems. I've also seen engineers comment similarly about it, and it sounded quite like what my great grandfather described when working on a complex math problem over a span of time.

That being said, make time for yourself, all consuming projects will make you discontent with life in general.
Those articles are clickbait, they don't offer a comparison between both.
The difference it's not small it's huge https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/82/Slimfastlabel...
Goose does too much IMHO, and sql-migrate is mainly a wrapper around goose. I looked at it for inspiration, but disagreed with many choices.

Migrates is another thing, and I like it more except for the lack of configuration file.
It's not the same price :)
Mildly interesting: when I played the sample pink noise in the article, my dog went mental.
same for me. Doing CRUD apps is fine, but how can I apply that in biotech ?
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I call complete bullshit. From having watched shows like NCS, we know the amount of direct evidence it takes to establish something like who was buried somewhere.

Like the shroud of Turin this is just another example of wishful thinking. They found some random tomb that has survived and announced that it was the tomb of this fictional character Christ. No chain of custody for evidence, just the wishful thinking of somebody who wants it to be true, just like the entire resurrection theory. Complete and total hogwash.

If we were to say this is the burial site of Joseph the plumber, the proponents of this idea would have no evidence to argue otherwise.
.sh and .ac are also run by the same folks - looks like there are issues with those tlds as well.
I read it Open Solaris (RIP)!
Actually they do. That is the entire point of Java.
And most software products are just skins around databases. What's your point?

This notion that some development should be considered "high tech" while other development should be considered "low tech" is one that bothers me, both for its elitism and for its simplemindedness.

Yes, the skills needed to make a pretty CRUD app may be "lower tech" than the skills needed for someone to master, say, machine learning.

But there are also many University professors doing work considered "high tech" who couldn't practically architect or code a basic application to save their lives.

Meanwhile you have CRUD app developers contributing to frameworks that powerfully advance productivity being looked down upon because they only work in "kiddie languages" like Ruby or Javascript. Their work, even when it produces very high value appreciated by millions, is looked down upon as little more than copy-and-paste coding -- with zero appreciation given to how long it takes to develop the heuristics to do this kind of work well.

I don't think this attitude is healthy. A more healthy attitude would be to recognize that value can be created in different ways.
The difference is in the number of features. Rambler doesn't do many thing to keep the overhead low.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_reflex#Protection_rol... :

According to the article Significance of the stapedius
reflex for the understanding of speech, the latency of
contraction is only about 10ms, but maximum tension may
not be reached for 100 ms or more.[6] According to the
article Le traumatisme acoustique, the latency of
contraction is 150 ms with noise stimulus which SPL is
at the threshold (ATR), and 25-35 ms at high sound
pressure levels. Indeed, the amplitude of the
contraction grows with the sound pressure level stimulus. 10]

Because of this latency, the acoustic reflex cannot
protect against sudden intense noises.[10][6] However,
when several sudden intense noises are presented at a
pace higher than 2–3 seconds of interval, the acoustic
reflex is able to play a role against auditory fatigue.[10]

I did not bother to check more than the abstracts of the references, but it does seem like evidence exists.
Did it sit in the trunk of your car for an extended period of time?
Damn law of gravity!
OECD area should look at German training and employment model
Spot on. The US education system is fairly elitist. It supports the top 5% and neglects the lower scoring pupils. That way (and with imported brains), the US can maintain a high level at academia while at the same time affording a fairly bad average education level of the total population in comparison to some other industrialized countries. The university system is also very elitist through student fees, Ivy League schools, academic societies, etc.

That's why it's such a weird contrast for us egalitarian European schmucks when we get to know US colleagues in academia, who are extremely professional and well educated, while watching the daily news makes us think that the majority of US citizens must be mentally retarded and suffers from chronic lead poisoning.
I don't know about you but I can tell how important flossing is by the amount of blood that comes out of my mouth the longer I take a break from flossing
Because the world was crying out for another "ecommerce tech stack"?
Two of their servers were sending out NXDOMAINs which are then cached by downstream forwarders. It seems they have turned those off now.
It looks, the the problematic nameserver "ns-a4.io" is down. So, the problem should be disappeared...

At the same time, it looks, there is only one "ns-a3.io" nameserver working for IO domain, at now...
Thanks. Enlightening.
You can't have a society without having any social constructs.

Nice try at Libertarianism tho.
Rambler doesn't have any custom DSL, it use plain SQL. Just like Mite :p
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> Also, would you say the same thing if it was another car company that did this?

Why would I have something against Mercedes?
MacBook Pro only needs 61W - https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs/

Admittedly, your phone charger is probably going to struggle with that too.
Ignoring the effect on your teeth, it was my understanding that the fibre in fruit helped counteract many of the negative effects of fructose (at least, keeping your insulin in check). I don't have any proof on hand, so perhaps I'm wrong.
Not allowing my 3yr-old son to use tablets, mobile phones.
I am a big fan of physical stuff, and cause-effect in the real world.
Well, I read the marketing piece, yes - but thank you for pointing me at the evidence. The level of 'snark' may have been influenced by me previously reading the Soylent story. Marketing masquerading as science is certainly a thing, though not in this case.
Right, but where's the tech innovation? I mean check it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Met-Rx - meal replacement powders/shakes have been around for a looooong time, and you can order online too...
Guess What Uber's Promising Now: Flying Cars
I'm an atheist, but I don't think Jesus was a fictional character.
In the 'Pro' section it claims 500+ customers. Assuming that's true, at $950/year, that's $475,000. This doesn't include Enterprise ($1950/year).

I'd guess it's his full-time job now.
Actually i don't believe it's illegal they just claim it is, I doubt it'd stand up in court.
Nope, at least not in Norway or Sweden. Or possibly only in the sense that non of those professions are held in particularly high regard. And they certainly aren't paid like doctors of lawyers.

Sure if you ask people, they respect teachers in the abstract sense that they're people doing a very tough job for very little money, but it's hardly a career people aspire to, and certainly most teachers I know will admit it was their second or third choice that they kind of fell into.
Not exactly a copy, sql-migrate is based on goose, and does many things I don't want rambler to do.

I agree with the easy distribution thing, Go is awesome for this kind of things. I only wish the cross-compilation of binaries that embed C would be easier (XGo is the thing for tkhe moment).
Omg please don't, I can't stand touch screen computers, keep concentrating on privacy avocation and OS X stability and performance.
Probably not. Looks like will need two cables unless switch to an Android.
Stack over
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I've been loving Scaleway. It's a great service and I'm glad to see they're expanding. Hopefully they'll come to the UK and North America next.
5 common mistakes in developing maintainable apps
>I clearly said It was more related to poverty and tourism than Islam

No you didn't.

>But I stand by what I said: Marrakech, particularly the Medina is occupied by scam artists, thieves, thugs, and scum of every stripe. Perhaps this is based on an unusual and unrepresentative experience, but after six weeks of being harassed, conned, and abused I'm unlikely to return to find out different.

And that is fine with me, it's a tourist city and you would find similar cities around the world. I personally tend to avoid Marrakesh and Casablanca.

> Your contention that they treat everyone this way, regardless Of race, religion, or nationality, isn't comforting.

I still don't think you understood what I was saying. You are generalizing and tend to jump to conclusions quickly. I said scammers generally don't care about your religion, they only care about the money. Which happens surprise suprise everywhere in the world.
Pssh, the best Civ is still Alpha Centauri. Nerve stapling your populace was also a bit more extreme than mere slavery.
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The testing framework of sqitch is pretty cool, I used a something to do database testing a long time ago, but I didn't though of integrating it in the migration tool.
If you don't know dolphin exists, it's not that reallistic how it could happen either.
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Of course he did. Poor thing, he realized you were going to be involved in a car crash in the next 100ms.

(sorry couldn't resist :-))
The irony is that on my 12" MacBook 2016, the Esc key is yuuuge.
Not if you are eating 5000 kcals and getting enough sleep...
Linux in Windows 10 is pretty usable now - I am on insider preview. You still have to use VM for things like Docker, but thanks to having real native linux shell at your disposal, the experience is great. In my opinion much better than with macOS.
Yep, rather than no such domain or a bad delegation, the "bad" servers seem to just be down now.
I recieved this reply from nic.io support a few minutes ago: http://imgur.com/a/wV2Kk
Aw shucks, you don't say?

and here we all were thinking they'd irrefutably proved Christianity.

there's still history to be learned and an interesting story to be told about life thousands of years ago regardless of its lack of real supernatural content.

in other news Apple didn't revolutionize everything again with the touch bar, welcome to life :p
I might have ignored the parent: got lost in discussion.

"It's either one or the other"

The problem is that once a woman gets pregnant, you have different physical needs. Lots of women need healing time afterwards, and sometimes needs time off pre-birth. Especially if you have a cesarean. In a sense, this is just like punishing someone for having their appendix taken out or having a heart attack and needing time off.

Folks are generally willing to look over that sort of thing and give promotions based on the time they spend at work. Even if they wind up seriously sick or need surgery 2-3 times over 5/6 years - which more closely imitates the time folks take off with children. Actually, it is a bit better as a company can plan for the time off with children much better than a sickness or surgery.

Do some women take a very short break to give birth? Yes.

And that is just part of the health aspect. Nevermind that the maternity leave helps with knowing how the non-verbal little human operates and I've read somewhere that it helps descrease post-partum depression - or that it can be difficult (and more expensive) to find childcare for infants.
I love math too. Even have a Masters in it. Still wouldn't say I'm particularly good at it, certainly not as good as many of my classmates.
Agree 100%. And even if it's not a pro tool, what's wrong with having options? I think it comes down to two reasons:

1) It clutters the user experience

2) App designers are benevolent gods that keep users from self-harm

Now 1) I can understand, though in that case I prefer something like Overcast, where the settings menu has a submenu called "Nitpicky Details", for those of us who really care. 2) seems to be a prevalent opinion in the business these days -- while it makes sense for security on mobile devices (no root access etc), a lot of times it's just pure conceit IMHO.
But those properties may not be relevant to you when consuming garlic anyway. The vast majority of such studies are showing the properties in isolation (petri-dish).

People love to extrapolate that to "garlic prevents colds", but it doesn't follow. I'm not going to pay to read the full article in this case but you at least have to be careful about this.
Gotta check the latest release notes [1]. No more rice in Soylent Powder version 1.6.

I find the concept of release notes for things I eat pretty discomforting. Not that I would ever put Soylent in my food hole.

[1] http://files.soylent.com/pdf/soylent-release-notes-1-6-en.pd...
> Not saying it was the first, just that it was the first I'd heard of it.

There are a wide variety of sole-source of nutrition liquid feeds.

The reason you haven't heard of them is because they've been marketed to medical professionals, for use with ill people, and not to the general public.

The lack of caution in the promotion of Soylent is a worrying sign.
> you do everything you can to avoid dying at any time there is a chance that you might.

I'm (poorly) trying to point out this is a false premise. If I have the choice between 10 years of bliss, or 11 years of hell, I'd choose the former.

While things are rarely quite this clear cut in real life, some risky-but-profitable behaviors work out this way - where, statistically speaking, the decrease is pretty much guaranteed. I don't have the best diet - because I want to enjoy my meals. I don't have the best exercise regimen - because I have other things I want to do with my time. I'm assuming these will shorten my lifespan, but choose to continue down this path anyways - as I very much feel I am profiting (in merely the enjoyment of my life!) by accelerating my future death.

The cost is high enough that I do pay some attention to my diet, and try to make sure I'm at least walking to lunch regularly as a means of exercise, but nowhere near so high as to make it my singular focus in life. I'm not doing everything I can - not even close - as I would assume I'd do were the cost "infinite", even if we're not speaking literally.

> If you want to be very precise about it, the cost of dying is not infinite, literally, but it's the highest cost you'll ever pay and you can never profit from your own death, so it might as well be infinite. There is no risk that surpasses it and there is no profit that justifies it.

If this were true, even if only just in the moment before one's death, nobody would ever sacrifice themselves for a cause or a loved one. Depression would claim no lives. Religions would condemn their gods for giving us finite lifespans. Medical research would be a much higher priority.

> That's how this "infinite cost" thing works.

Which is exactly why I'm arguing that the cost is, in fact, not infinite. Perhaps you disagree with how other people choose to value their own lives, but I suspect even then you'd find yourself to have a breaking point - where the costs simply aren't worth extending your life.

Assuming you're not a sociopath, you're probably not willing to, say, murder an entire room full of people just to extend your life another hour - even if you only have minutes left. And I suspect even sociopaths wouldn't be willing to, say, be the victim of significant torture for the entire duration of their extended lifespan, to achieve the same. Because the cost isn't infinite, and in such scenarios, is in fact outweighed by the cost it'd take to stay alive.

I'll leave it to you to decide where the break even point is for yourself. But I suspect you'll agree with some advice: Enjoy life! Don't sacrifice all happiness just to extend things a little - the price isn't worth it.
Thanks for directing me to LaunchBar and Keyboard Maestro.
I'm a touch typist, so for me the new touch bar is a no go.
Regarding function keys, they are configurable. I'm a programmer: debugging using function keys is been part of my coding live since I can remember. I guess this MBP is not for me.
Regarding the waste of space, I don't see that: there's plenty of space. The screen size mandates the amount of space available in the base of the laptop.

I understand Apple's rationale: touch bar = dynamic function keys but, why not keep the physical function and esc keys and add the touch bar on top of that?
I actually asked them directly, and they told me their ram doesn't have ECC

Furthermore if you look at what CPUs they use, especially for the x86 solutions, the cpus themselves don't support ECC.
It's still tech though. Actually, I'd say anything involving computers is still high tech, even when it's not innovative. Shiny CRUD website is not innovative, but it's still on the internet. Well, maybe it's more that it relies on high tech than actually being it.
So basically a Simpson's Paradox?
Have you ever seen the ads for Diet Coke and Coca Cola Zero?
Thank you for the insight, it really is appreciated.
Citing what TV drama as an example of how hard it is to prove something seems an unusual way to argue a point.
I wonder if that noise is going to be a major ptsd trigger for people involved in an accident afterwards. (Of course probably any loud noise would be). It will be interesting to see any data they can collect out of this on the benefit in practice.
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Yes it was hacked. Here's a list of the files:

https://goo.gl/3K1VVF

And you also have here a direct download of the full leak, including the database:

https://archive.org/details/B93B1C2921EFF0846DA268968755D01B...
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I am not here to provide evidence for someone else. If you need evidence, look for it.
So you have a mostly-good-enough tech to sell a mostly-good-enough product. Then what exactly justifies the $20 mio venture capital?
Interesting...

I guess I'll use more hashes.
Well if they really cared they would have learned Cantonese

/s
There are now collapseable comments. Just click on the [-]. This works at any level of hierarchy. Of course, you need JavaScript enabled for that to work.
A friendly reminder: "a quick search on Google Scholar" is not research.

That paper you mention is just a functional description of the "accoustic reflex". I don't think the parent comment was putting the existence of the "accoustic reflex noise" in doubt; rather, and I agree with him, it's its effectiveness to protect the driver in a car crash what is in doubt.

The page makes a reference to a human trial in 2011. It would be great if they included a footnote with the reference to the actual paper.
I would argue that every instagram filter is merely a linear algebra problem.
Soylent in its name implies cannibalism ... so it's interesting that the name would sway people away from Slimfast.

How do they differ in ingredients?
Mashed potatoes is a big one for me. Would never eat 5 boiled potatoes, but if I make mashed potatoes out of them I'll happily eat that much and quite possible still want more.
Java bytecode is too highlevel for it to be suitable to run directly on hardware. Each instruction can map to multiple machine instructions. A JIT or AOT compiler can optimize the code on a lower level. A hardware implementation cannot do inlining, loop unrolling, hoist array length checks out of a loop, etc...
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This seems unlikely. Perhaps in Finland. But the Danish teachers that I know have complained about the collapse of respect for the job as well as the system for as long as I've known them.
Just some more info:

These machines are everywhere. Here is an image: http://www.toponline.ch/uploads/pics/sbb_automaten_neu2.jpg

Daily limit is CHF 500.- which is around USD 500.-

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That's what I don't get. Most people have difficulties keeping their weight in check rather than vice versa, and you can get all kind of snacks, ranging from healthy to extremely unhealthy, practically everywhere. Streets and shops and cafés are plastered with food, the abundance is mind-boggling if you think about it (or come from some really poor country).

How is mixing & drinking a glass of Soylent easier or less time consuming than eating a sandwich with cheese & lettuce? Or an apple?
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Which also takes its toll of many thousands of young men trashed.

Besides movies and games, of course.