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One indicator of a company's confidence in its product is how much money they are willing to bet that it works correctly. For typical consumer products such a bet comes in the form of a warranty. Although this doesn't answer your question directly, I will be looking to see how much liability a company is willing to assume.
We've been looking for a good bathymetric layer (with depth contours) for Leaflet. Has anyone done this?
here, footprint is 'memory footprint,' the amount of main memory used by the application.

this is useful b/c VPSes are priced mostly based on memory

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i like that this says it's mostly trying to be "ring for node" ..
Most of the comments here are the experiences of highly tech savvy end users, not webmasters who employ the pop-up technique on their site. They are not representative of the general population. So the feedback should be taken in perspective. That said, I have learnt a lot about usability from these discussions and that has shaped how I design my own site. Kudos to hners.
See that's the darn problem... "but it will require the elites" (not saying it is untrue), if the common man will not rise above himself, we as a species are doomed, regardless of what the elitists want. Build all the fancy cities, good infrastructure, good everything, but the common man needs external influence to do a deed that contributes to the civilization as a whole, what happens when that external influence goes away? we are back to square one
> P.S. What about if the drug is better to the people that has no the genes they are blaming for the placebo effect, but it will kill half of the people with these genes?

That's what the phase 2 trial is for. And in any case, you can just require a genetic test for the drug.
Does anyone know if the videos from this conference have been posted somewhere? The slides are. The talks referenced in the author's post sound really good.
To operate a fake US embassy, no less. Definitely badass.
I know it's not the same, but in Go you can compile with `-race` and it'll catch race conditions at run-time (useful for testing/debugging).
This is a pretty silly argument.

Obviously you apply different standards and methods to develop life-or-death regulating software than for customer grade game and web surfing platforms.

I agree that my Apple products aren't as solid as they used to be, but this would (I assume) be a very different team run in very different ways.

Sometimes I think we "anthropomorphize" companies and brand names. They're not monolithic things with one personality.
I didn't interpret Walden as an exceedingly subtle "joke," but as a lamentation of the nature of cultural, intellectual, technological, governmental, etc. progress. The space between lamentation and comedy is small enough for misinterpretation (in either direction). More specifically, I read Walden as a commentary on the accelerating erosion of individualism and self-reliance as we progress along those (cultural, technological, etc.) axes.

I might be projecting a bit, biased by personal struggles with (what I think are) the same issues today.
Ok. How do I delete my comment? I can't even edit it?? I feel bad now and would like to delete my comment.
If they are using different data sets, then I'd say it's an invalid benchmark.
Arc has served as material for a lot of speculative blogposts and helped create buzz for the lisp community.
Then again, I think its safe to say that traditional auto makers are developing electric vehicles exactly the same way they develop ICE vehicles. They market them the same, they build them the same, they sell them the same. I don't think its too much to say that when a company has gotten very large they tend to do the "safe" thing and build upon what has worked in the past. Given that, I would tend to expect Apple will develop its auto"mobile" products similarly to their iOS and macOS products.
> Apple sells several of the most popular consumer electronics devices in the whole world

But does this qualify them to build mission critical software to run devices that can kill 1 or many people with one mistake? I'm not saying they can't succeed, but pointing at the success of consumer electronic devices isn't very convincing.

And speaking of those devices, I've been buying Apple laptops since the PowerBook G4 and have owned every iteration of the iPhone except for the 6S, and while they usually work, almost every device has had some failure at some point. Some hardware, some software, but my point is, "pretty much just work" doesn't cut it for a piece of software that drives a car.

I have to disagree - moving into the creation self-driving vehicles does not come with automatic credibility. Only hundreds of thousands of hours of testing will make me feel ok regardless of who's building it.

Edit: Missed your last paragraph. I'm not betting on any random startup nor did I mention startups anywhere. I also doubt a startup is where this innovation will come from.
There's bias and then there's financial bias.

Here's the kind of thing he has been writing on reddit:

>I'm driven by facts and evidence and not by some big name person investing money. These people sometimes invest based on ego (which pretty much explains Google Glass). I would suggest you watch the movie "The Big Short" (not totally factual but it gets the point across). [1]

My eyes rolled when I read that quote from him: he started his whole debunking-Magic-Leap blog series by making a disclaimer that he was buying eMagin and trying to pump them up by showing that Magic Leap might be using them.

Only egotists would invest in hyped-up Google glass! That's why he wishes he did:

> The last time I played this game of “what’s inside” I was the first to identify that a Himax LCOS panel was inside Google Glass which resulted in their market cap going up almost $100M in a couple of hours.

A little bit of ego there, huh? Why, he was personally responsible for $100M of market cap and wishes he could have bought in so that he could dump the position during the hype, knowing that Google Glass itself wouldn't take off in the long run.

And even after missing out on that opportunity, he missed another:

>About the time Himax stock hit its high, I found out about the Seeking Alpha article and posted a comment reiterating what my blog post had stated that I didn’t think the Himax panel was used in the newest prototypes (there were also comments from others stating the same). Himax then stock dropped back about 16% or about $135M in market cap. (Gad, I should have shorted before I wrote that comment ).

None of this is some huge moral indictment; just be aware the guy is now openly thinking along these lines when he writes technical analysis on his blog.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/magicleap/comments/5fyq6b/some_more...
Yeah, I looked at it recently and it seemed very narrow in scope atm.

I'm finding IFTTT and Integromat together covers most things, I'd love a good selfhosted option though.
The only thing missing, I guess, is 64bit 'himem' pointers.
does something like this exist for aarch64?
Or at least, there was magic.
I'm willing to bet oxytocin would work. One effect is to make people more trusting, so if you coupled that with an authority figure in a white lab coat intoning "Take this pill, and you'll get better," it would probably have a high placebo effect rate.
Being a Lisp, I'm not exactly sure what would constitute a proprietary fork. Furthering my uncertainty is that it [Anarki] is built on Racket and that kinda makes it hard to say one implementation is forked from another.

Anyway, I didn't intend to claim that Arc was a mature language.
One advantage over paper forms: you can hide fields which are only required conditionally.
I wonder how far you can go with these fake documents. I imagine the internet makes it a bit harder
That's fair, and I agree that we tend to think of companies/brands in a monolithic way, but there's also an organizational component. If you look at a company and seriously question the leadership from the top down for decisions they're making related to their core business, I think we should still question whether or not they can properly assemble a "very different team".

I've mentioned this in other comments: I'm not saying they can't - but they have some convincing to do.
I was thinking about something completely new. I know one can easily (more or less) follow along PCL and do the solutions in Clojure. I just think that Clojure space needs a book like this, with emphasis on practical. I like the practical section in PCL book at the end, where author builds useful little apps and guides you through the thought process. I know about Joy Of Clojure, great book, but it doesn't contain enough toy projects. I think the goal of the book is to help you start thinking functionaly.
Nuclear powered pacemakers
and if you go to archive.org and look at their version of http://r-s-g.org/kriegspiel/ on e.g. January 2014, you might find an old downloadable beta...
I've thought about this for a bit and I think that Jobs would have lost his shit over this.
It theoretically happens very slowly, so it probably does escape detection.
Hmmm. Interesting idea, but because beliefs aren't easily conscious or controllable, it seems unlikely a pill relying on the placebo effect to wipe out a later placebo effect would work.

Regardless, what if high placebo responders believed they weren't high responders (aka, "advertising doesn't affect me")? They would expect the first pill to have no effect, and thus the second placebo would. Or what if they expect it to wear off by the time of the second pill?
How come this isn't being protected? Shouldn't this go to the National Trust? Big Ben as well as America's Liberty bell came from this foundry. As I believe did the Bell of Bow(to be true Cockney you had to be born within hearing distance of them)

It's kind of sad that is survived the Blitzkrieg but not hyper real estate development.

I'm glad I got to visit while is was still an operating bell foundry. I remember the folks that worked there were very friendly to me considering I had wondered in off the street and it was a working foundry and not really a museum.
I have my MBP (with real function keys) set up to not require than I press the Fn key to operate them. Pressing Fn to access the function key is an undesirable workaround.
> This isn't coming from a place of anti-Apple sentiment...I use quite a few Apple products...I just accept that they're pretty bad at this stuff these days.

Honestly, I can't remember a time when Apple was particularly good at software. What sets them apart from their competitors is the integration of the whole package: style, above average hardware build quality, pretty good UX design, and most importantly a heavy dose of marketing.
Weather Underground also has a lightweight telnet service. Telnet to rainmaker.wunderground.com and enjoy the super fast ascii text interface.
The most shocking for me, from the section titled "The Deadly Haze":

>"Daily emissions from Indonesia’s forest fires last year at times exceeded emissions produced by all economic activity in the United States. A recent Harvard and Columbia study estimated that the fires caused at least 100,000 premature deaths across Southeast Asia. The World Bank estimates that the fires cost Indonesia’s economy $16 billion."
I'm using it as much as possible just to push it into language.
There are plenty of medical device companies in the Silicon Valley, not to mention aerospace.
I would be big fish in small pound rather small fish in big pound.
To be clear, I'm speaking about more or less permanent outage. The kind where even if the data center could continue to run indefinitely on diesel, there'd be no point because the customers of those companies have experienced sufficient disruption that shopping for things on the internet is no longer a major part of their lives.

There are any of dozens ways this can happen; suffice to say that Romans in 400 AD also thought their way of life was permanent, and a few hundred years later, there was basically nothing left.

So picture a future archeologist exploring an abandoned data center populated by AWS hosts or Backblaze storage pods or whatever, attempting to recover information from the hardware he finds there. Even assuming all the disks are fully intact, how much chance would he have of recovering anything at all of meaning?

We don't know tons about the Egyptians or Romans or Aztecs from what they left us as their worlds collapsed, but it's possible we know considerably more about them than we'll be leaving for those looking back on us a millennia or two from now.

(And it doesn't even take a catastrophe— look at the effort YC is putting into getting that Alto working, and that's a machine that's just a few decades old!)
PSVR vs. HTC Vive vs. Oculus Rift vs. Gear VR: Which VR Headset Should You Buy?
My opinion of Thoreau (or at least Walden) is very similar to yours but narrower. I think Thoreau, via Walden, is _intentionally_ nutty. Walden is a sort of sweeping commentary written with a bit of whimsy and a bit of melodrama because the message is more of a feeling or stance or point-of-view than it is a specific, well-structured, logical argument.
Yes, but the defaults matter.

And I do understand why CL is the way it is. That doesn't mean it's perfect (neither is Scheme: I just happen to prefer it).
> I know one can easily (more or less) follow along PCL and do the solutions in Clojure.

Maybe for the first chapter or two, certainly not most of the book. They're very fundamentally different languages.
Darn, I was hoping that they were created with some custom [plantuml] theme that I could steal, but it seems like they're [manually created] with inkscape.

[plantuml]: http://plantuml.com/

[manually created]: view-source:http://blog.mbrt.it/2016-12-01-ripgrep-code-review/crates.sv...
Here's one: neurons are cells, and cells are really complex and have all sorts of internal state on different scales (organelles, molecules, etc). Neural network models in computers are an extremely simplified abstraction by comparison. And that's still ignoring all the other things that may or may not be happening in the brain beyond the connections betweens neurons themselves.
That kinda makes my point.

You had an explosion of pent up demand for a neglected core product line.
Huh, I had never realized that purpose of the open enrollment period. It always seemed unnecessarily restrictive until now.
Can you provide any guidance on how to do this? Can it be done when the Linux partition is on a non-NTFS filesystem? It sounds extremely convenient, especially as I've already got a dual-boot setup.
It's basically like Bartab Plus for Firefox ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bartab-plus/ ) but for Chrome
Either you didn't comprehend what I said, or you're intentionally being obtuse; I love the aesthetics of gold as much as anyone, but that simply does not account for the price of gold from an economic perspective. The vast majority of gold is sitting around in vaults, not being looked at by its owners.

> gold requires minimal knowledge to protect.

That's true, but you also can't protect it very well. Governments have a bad tendency to take people's gold away at certain times (even the US has done it before), and good luck protecting against that. It's not exactly hard for standard-issue thieves to get away with either. Bitcoin may take slightly more effort to protect, but you get a lot more for your effort.

> it's historically been very easy to trade gold for food.

You're just re-stating the fact that it has value.

> gold is worn on the body to show status and to look good.

Yes, this is one use of gold, as I already mentioned, and as I also already mentioned, this only accounts for a small fraction of gold's value.

> gold has industrial applications.

While true, this again is a very small market compared to the use of gold as a value store.

> you can look at gold and hold it in your hand.

That's true, and convenient, but hardly a necessary feature of a store of value. I can't hold in my hand the money in my bank account or my copper holdings. I still value them.

> It's quite shiny and surprisingly shiny.

OK, I think you have a repetition problem.

> None of these things apply to BTC.

And none of them are particularly relevant.

> Gold has inherent value because people inherently want it.

People don't "inherently" want it any more than they inherently want rubidium. It's just a metal; and yet, due to a confluence of circumstances and the network effect, it's subjectively very valuable for pretty much everyone.

> 10,000 years of people digging it out of the ground

You're repeating the fact that gold has been around for a long time.
No, you don't understand. I'm not trying to disprove a theory.
I'm saying that the person who's writing what we're reading hasn't said anything even meaningful enough to dispute. The words they write don't have logical content as a theory. You can sort of squeeze them into statements that sound possible at a hand-waving level, but there's no scientific content. They're "not even wrong" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong).

I'm not rejecting the guy cause of hubris or because I'm obsessed with the orthodoxy or something. I'm rejecting him cause his words are meaningless garbage, according to my ability to critically analyze what he's writing. Of course it's possible that I'm too dumb to understand them, but, statistically speaking, when I can understand most of the good physics out there, I come to trust my intuition on this stuff and write off people who can't communicate an idea at even a basic level without become super vague and defending themselves by saying "no one's taking them seriously" and "everyone else missed this" instead of an actual argument.

I guess it boils down to this:

If you can't tell this guy is crazy, how would you tell that anyone is crazy? Is there anything that can be written down that you wouldn't take seriously? Maybe something like "what if the world is made of tiny lemons, in various configurations?" Well, I draw the line way higher than that, and considerably higher than where this guy is, and I can see that he's below the line with five seconds of reading, and it's no surprise at all when 5 more minutes of reading, or 30, or whatever, completely corroborates my initial instinct.

Edit: actually, it boils down to this:
Your ability, cm127, to critically analyze theories and determine if they're scientifically meaningful is deficient. You don't have to believe me, of course, cause this is the internet, but I implore you to consider the possibility.

Edit 2: also, you're wrong that "you can't use a hypothetical to disprove a theory" - well, almost wrong. You can use a hypothetical to argue against a theory. It's not that it's disproving. It's that the hypothetical shows you "here are some things that would probably be true if this theory was legitimate", and because those things are not true, it raises the probability (via Bayes rule) that the theory is incorrect. You are supposed to consider this, think "ah, well, that makes the theory more likely to be incorrect". That's the point of the argument.

Also, it's really disingenuous to write off a whole post as baseless without responding to the points, each of which (I would argue) is a valid criticism.
AWS Console went from 284 to < 150 but that was the only tab that broke 100mb. Not sure what all of you with 100s of 250mb+ tabs are doing.

Excited for electron + node to get this improvement.
Indeed. Chrome losing tabs after a crash and subsequent session restore is what led me to Session Buddy.
It does seem largely a media boom, maybe somewhat due to the recent generative models that are much more interesting to include in an article.
If this is really important to you, I'd suggest starting first thing in the morning to make meditation easier. Aside from the basic difficulty of turning any task into a habit, meditation itself will be more difficult should you start say, mid day. When the mind is already wide awake, the inner chatter can be overwhelming, whereas in the morning it's much more peaceful. Making a task more difficult will compound the difficulty of forming a habit of that task. Hope that helps!
HHS nominee Tom Price's membership in medical group raises troubling questions
Why calculating is better than scheming (1987) [pdf]
Less extreme alternative: it's completely ineffective in the people with these genes.
How much of an edge do you get from information? The average car fare wants to go from A to B, for some price, probably usually cheap. They are going to be pretty willing to share A and B.

There's probably some more sophisticated planning you can do to increase utilization by using further information, but I bet that ends up being a pretty small edge.
As a Turk I always knew that our criminals were good at creating fake stuff. But faking an EMBASSY for TEN YEARS? This is something beyond being good at something.
Namely, bad coding practices. Globals everywhere (including "register globals" enabled by default), horrible security practices (tons of XSS vulnerabilities for example), no modularity, mixed concerns, mixing HTML and PHP, etc...
So? If one likes the quality of the product, why not?
>then he will write a blog post about how kids and wife make him unable to maintain his project anymore

I chuckled.
Oh, Rats! Well when speaking about quantum entanglement, we (as Naive realists on HN (see my profile)) should just ignore it for the next 2000 years, hopefully by then physicists will have a definitive yes or no answer for that domain. Like an unfortunate cardamon seed in our tasty sweet rice kheer, I guess just navigate around it and enjoy everything else presented in the book with a back-up-with-references-from-pub-meds-from-the-last-40-years format.
Kickstarter was especially lucky to have you from the beginning. Because of the humble person you are you would never state this but I would attribute a decent amount of their success to your empathetic nature. Sustaining (note not growing) a community of creative makers is not about code and product, but of communication. Congrats on all your accomplishments and contributions. We need more people like you in tech!
Untyped program synthesis from examples [video]
On Windows, using the built in notepad, you can block any shutdown by having an instance pen with any unsaved changes. Handy when Windows schedules a reboot and you've got your debugging session setup just right.
Thank you, this is the kind of review I was looking for.
> Honestly, I can't remember a time Apple was particularly good at software.

I'm not following this argument.

BnL, people use Macs because of the software, not the specs. It's hard to make an OS that works that well for both luddites (GUI) and hackers (BSD flavor CLI). Who else pulled off this software feat this well?

People were pissed at loss of Aperture, because of software. Pages, Numbers, Keynote, serve lots of people's needs well. Even Preview is nice.

People use the iPhone because of software. Every new Android, tech press is agog about its specs, but iPhone switchers stay more loyal because of software over specs.

Marketing doesn't keep you using a phone, or an OS. I actually cannot recall the last MacBook ad I saw. MacBooks on TV shows these days even tend to have the logo covered.

I suspect what's going on here is that aspects of software are more important to mass market than to you. You may be aggravated at technical details, while the mass market likes the overall experience of not having to think about it.

Much like the debate of convention over configuration, Apple's value system is different than the hacker value system.

They have historically particularly good at software that iterates towards those values.
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