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Niels Bohr proposed that electrons don't have enough energy to radiate away, and thus are forced to continue to spin around the nucleus.[0] This was the seed that fruited the quantization of energy and eventually our modern understanding of Quantum Mechanics.

In a way, the quantization of reality at very small scales does appear to prevent the laws of thermodynamics from occurring. This is just one form of Zero-Point Energy[1]. Maybe these time crystals are another form - maybe some large objects radiate some kind of time-entropy, and these are too small (or configured in some other way), such that they are also mechanically prevented from doing so?

IANA theoretical physicist - I merely play one on the internet. Expert opinion and advice is welcome.

[0]https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/18473/where-do-e...

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-point_energy
> It would be fantastic if there was a way to start a download directly from the web UI.

There are browser addons that can send magnets and torrents straight to the remote APIs of torrent clients.
Off topic but my hatred for AMP is illustrated here as this looks like a link to Google but is instead The Atlantic. The latter is far more compelling for me to click than the former.
> [0] I spend over $200 a month on content subscriptions so I don't feel bad about utilizing the conveniance of NZB downloads + Plex

What do you spend $200/month on?
I assume the fingerprint reader?
A word of caution - these talks are highly technical and theoretical and I don't recommend them for anyone looking to understand practical applications of ML. If, however, you're interested in intro to cutting edge work at the frontier of theoretical underpinnings of ML, this is a fabulous group talks from some of the sharpest academics in the field.
It's also reasonable to sacrifice short term happiness around long term happiness, in some circumstances.
By ignoring regulations.
At one point 10ish years ago the starflight source code was posted online by one of the authors, but it went back down pretty quickly. Someone might have a copy though. A few of the files are on archive.org, but not the main body.

http://web.archive.org/web/20030214111810/http://www.sonic.n...
This quote from Black Swan has been very helpful in allowing me to justify my compulsive book buying:

"The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic, insightful, and nondull. He is the owner of a large personal library (containing thirty thousand books), and separates visitors into two categories: those who react with “Wow! Signore professore dottore Eco, what a library you have! How many of these books have you read?” and the others — a very small minority — who get the point that a private library is not an ego-boosting appendage but a research tool. Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market allows you to put there. You will accumulate more knowledge and more books as you grow older, and the growing number of unread books on the shelves will look at you menacingly. Indeed, the more you know, the larger the rows of unread books. Let us call this collection of unread books an antilibrary."
It's not mobile friendly at all. Playing it on a tablet vs a desktop browser are two completely different experiences.
https://www.sonomotors.com/sion/#1...made in Germany
>I use a credit card for online payment only

FYI I got a "prepaid" card for that - it's a card I use for online payments only - it has no credit and it doesn't have access to my account funds - I need to manually transfer money when I want to use it to pay for something. If it ever gets stolen online there's nothing on it unless I'm right about to purchase something and I always put in the exact ammount I'm about to pay so I can't get overcharged or some other silliness.
Not sure I'd want to continue living after making all these adjustments. What's the point?
I use Firefox for Android on a Moto E 2013. It's faster than Chrome. Ditto for my other phone, a Galaxy S3.
I see that active adapters that support HDMI 2.0 are about $25 now. Apple's $50 multiport adapter is only HDMI 1.4b, I suppose because it only handles the built in USB-C alternate mode.
As an aside, this provides an interesting before/after example of the editing process. The same article was on http://highscalability.com/blog/2017/1/2/efficient-storage-h... earlier this month, but has been edited here.

The title also changed from "Efficient Storage: How We Went Down From 50 PB To 32 PB" to "How Mail.Ru Reduced Email Storage From 50 To 32 PB" - the latter of which seems a lot better for places like HN where headline edits for context can be tricky to come by.
I agree that they could and should - I'm just speculating as to why they don't. As they probably could make their desired margins, it must be they would consider it a "distraction" from future endeavors (VR, cars, etc.)
I'm on call a day at a time roughly every nine days or so. It definitely matters how often pages happen. On my team they are very infrequent, so being oncall is hardly a burden at all. I just have to remember to bring my laptop.

Maybe it's a psychological thing, with different people responding differently. But it isn't a huge drain on my life, at all.
I live in California and pay an effective tax rate of around 35%. I'm single, but I max out my retirement savings (401k) contribution every month. I can save around $500 per month on top of that as well as 100% of any contracting income that I make, which averages a couple thousand after taxes. My rent is reasonable for CA ($2000/month) for a 40 year old, small house, but it has central heat and air, some remodeling, and a garage. I have a punishing commute, though, which averages door-to-door round trip time of 3 hours per day. Thankfully, my contract work is almost completely remote (would LOVE more work like this!) and I can telecommute two days per week at my full time job. Despite being able to save a good amount of money, actually affording to buy a house is out of the question. Something decent that is close to my work is around $1 million+ and houses with a long commute start at around $600k. I absolutely hate living in apartments and hate cities in general, so I would quit my job before living in a condo, but you could find an apartment here a bit cheaper. I hope that helps...
Some years ago when Java was relatively new, I had come across this company Esmertec, which was making Java toolchains for embedded devices. Site seems to be still there, not sure about the company:

www.esmertec.com
Not so. Ride sharing in other countries often happens without knowing the people you share rides with.
I think we have to recognize that the use of the computer has changed over time. It's no longer the "computing" device that the users of yore recognize.

Before the late seventies, the use of computers were restricted to those who absolutely needed them and could afford them.

In the late seventies and early eighties the computers started entering the homes of ordinary people and where primarily used by the 'nerdy' kids. These were the kids that actually used the computers to program things and even program their own games (or copy/import other freely available game source code) and played them.

Come the nineties and we see the proliferation of high end games and the 'non-nerdy' users focused on using the computer as a game console. This was also the advent of the web browser and now the whole new world of the internet became accessible to the normal folks.

The audience today considers the computer as nothing but a commodity device just like a phone or an MP3 player. Now babies and toddlers are as comfortable with them as their grandparents are still confused with them.

You can't blame the kids of today for not knowing what the computer was originally used for. We read email, browse the web, play games and occasionally use it for the odd assignments which require a Word processor of some sort.
This looks like a wrapper
around the PouchDB replication and storage, but with user-friendly APIs. It's high time somebody did this. They should make a bigger note of the fact that by using RxDB you get access to a large and established ecosystem. Not just PouchDB, but also IBM Cloudant and Couchbase Mobile, are part of the stack you can interoperate with.
Counterfactuals aren't very useful though. All other things aren't equal, specifically, you aren't going to be running all six-year-old versions of software on the device. So my point stands.
It depends. RxDB can be used completely serverless, while minimongo always needs a stream to the server. But minimongo is better integrated into your meteor-server-side.
The approach of RxDB is to fullfill the principles of offline-first ( http://offlinefirst.org/ )
I recently tried the Abaris life expectancy app and was pleasantly surprised when they estimated I will live to be 96 years old. Even if they are off by 10 years, it's still pretty good. Assuming the last 5 years are a wash due to dementia, I still have many years left to get to all my books.

I would try the app if I were you. I always thought it was more like the late 70s. Maybe we will all have more time than we think! Makes burning a few years on a startup now also seem like an ok idea. Life is long, for many of us - according to the actuaries.
Nothing you just said is true. Optional doesn't add complexity, it makes complexity explicit. The rest is just Java implementing it poorly.
I suspect they were holding out for Christmas sales, but even with that, the employees could have had a month notice.
Also shocking is that Saudi Arabia is not on the list of muslim countries.
I wonder if a better one sentence conclusion might be something like "Predictably nice players consistently distribute their gains to the group". After all, the interesting variable here is repeatability; that is, as certain players learn which players are consistently "nice" through repeated trials, they get iteratively better at gaming them to forfeit their (potential) gains.

In other words, over time, the "compound interest" on the gains the nice individuals lose gets rewarded to the group. Any individual in the group who can game "niceness" benefits the group at the expense of the nice individual. "Good guys finish last," or something of that nature?

Stabilized long-running cooperation seems like a very bad desired(?) outcome, by the way; is that what you're saying is a good thing? Pareto improvements are usually realized / discovered / gained by individuals who eschew tradition and playing nice.
> rise of rape

Please provide a source for this statement or be a liar.
He thinks writing closed source code is morally wrong. So he doesn't care if it's done for supposedly good or bad reasons, it's just bad to him.
CapEx doesn't reduce the earnings for the current year (it gets treated as an expense on subsequent years, though, and you get depreciation charges).
It's a reality of the accounting, financial reporting, and executive incentives that in any large publicly-traded company today, product lines that bring in a small percentage of revenue are going to not get the chance they deserve.
That Time Boston's Mayor Made a Pull Request
Warren Buffett extends his dominance of retroactive reinsurance
Yeah, based on public executive orders (like no privacy unless you have a green card or are a citizen), I've given up on the idea of privacy from law enforcement at work. There are people with visas in ear shot, and on many of the pull requests I send out.

Presumably it will be slurped real time into some NSA data center. Thanks to that thing Obama did in the 11th hour, it will then be streamed back to local law enforcement for data mining.
T-mobile will sell you a prepaid sim and ask you no questions at all.
Yes you are right with the wrapper-thing. Before I started creating RxDB, I used pouchdb, minimongo, gunJS and lokiDB and had just too many things to handle by myself. RxDB is an approach to create a database which is easier to use and does not create discussing-point when using it in a big team.
have a look at switch payments as well
There's already an (albeit deprecated) debugger package called pydb (http://bashdb.sourceforge.net/pydb/). It would be good to choose a different name for this, most importantly because `pip install pydb` is already taken
Get a NUC5i5/NUC6i5 instead, that works with OS X like a charm. Kaby Lake won't work till Apple releases something with it. I have a quad boot on 5i5, Linux/W7/W10/OSX, a perfect little development machine.
Uber sounds pretty evil

> The FTC claimed that Uber was advertising an annual median income of over $90,000 per year for uberX drivers in New York and more than $74,000 for uberX drivers in San Francisco. But, as the commission found out, less than 10 percent of all drivers in those cities actually make that much. The complaint also alleges that Uber was inflating the hourly earnings on job boards like Craigslist.

> New drivers who financed a new car through Uber's Vehicle Solutions Program found out the company's claims were too good to be true as well. Although Uber told new drivers they would be able to lease a new car for around $119 per week, the actual lease rates never dipped below $200 from late 2013 to April 2015. And, despite it's promise of delivering "the best financing options available," it turns out that Uber's rates were actually worse than consumers with similar credit scores could have gotten elsewhere. Adding insult to overpriced injury, Uber tacked on mileage limits to lease agreements that were advertised with unlimited mileage.

I like “taking an Uber" but if they’re screwing people over by false advetising I’d consider boycotting them. Been in several Ubers where the driver had just bought a high end-ish car specifically to be an Uber driver. It sounded risky to me and I was sad the driver was taking such a big chance although assumed it’s possible his calculations showed it would work out. Now thought it’s apparent that Uber lied about how much he’d make, lied about how much the car would cost, and lied about the lease terms.

Continuing to support Uber seems problematic knowing I’d be helping screw people into more debt and poverty.

Oh yea, and they're a YC company

Oh and don't get me started on AirBnb. I've documented all kinds of issues on my blog. The latest is they removed a negative review. Log in and it says I never submitted it. Not only did it used to be on their site I still have the confirmation email for it.
Jobs for all? In the US that idea is about to be tested to destruction
Well if you consider all billionaires and not just the top of the top, the trend is the opposite. Billionaires who inherited their wealth were 55.3% in 1996, 41.9% in 2001, and 30.4% in 2014.

https://piie.com/publications/wp/wp16-1.pdf
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2017/jan/28/world-d...

Here are some stories of what is this causing to people around the world, ATM.

"Hamaseh Tayari, a UK resident who holds an Iranian passport, has been on holiday in Costa Rica with her boyfriend for the last week. She was due to fly back to Glasgow, where she works as a vet, this morning but was denied entry onto the flight because her flight went via New York and she would need a transit visa, which was revoked.

Tayari and her boyfriend are trying to find an alternative route home. A flight to Madrid on the 30 January will cost them £2000 and they’ll still have to find a way from there to Glasgow. She says: “We had been saving for months for this holiday and it will cost me a month’s salary just to get home. "
thats only for mounting 9p file systems, it doesnt offer kernel services
Let all of us know! We will have an auction!
It is funny how advanced physics sounds to my layperson ears like something a stoned teenager might come up with.

This reminds me somehow of the "one-electron universe": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe

(Just to be clear: I am not mocking physicists, it just seems the universe is really, really weird.)
I understand this blogpost is meant to point out that Apple is abandoning desktop computers and their various use cases. It's all very bad and we haven't had enough articles discussing this yet, why won't Apple think of us anymore, etc. etc.

But I'm surprised he quickly says "No worries you might say, go to Apple and buy a new Mac mini!". If your Mac Mini behaves like he describes, wouldn't the straightforward response be to open it up, give the fans a good cleaning, maybe replace any HDDs with SSDs, and give it a fresh install (of either OS X or Windows 10)? If you blog about tech as this guy does surely it would be no issue at all to just (attempt to) quickly fix these issues.

Don't get me wrong, I too like buying new toys. But I'm amazed at how some apparently tech-savvy people think "this computer does not work as it used to, so it logically follows I should buy a new one!". The problems with his Mac Mini don't sound particularly bad and perfectly fixable in less time it would take to set up a new computer.
Cassini spots a small moon surfing through Saturn’s rings
Which model is that? I've considering a dedicated windows dev machine, ogling the Surface Book but can't find anywhere that sells the 16/512 model in Czech Republic. I hadn't considered an NUC, I just presumed they'd be low on RAM and non-upgradeable
This fake epidemic of "fake news" is what is ironically orwellian.
My guess is they're mostly working on the "next big releases", so between iphone, ipad, and previously the touchbar mac and watch.
There's two other factors that the Mac Mini doesn't do well on though: Performance (both per dollar and absolute), and size. Not having an external PSU is less important to me than both of those factors, and I'm sort of struggling to see how it could be considered more important.
> the "digital" parts of a PC do not age and their age does not affect program execution speed (all other things being equal)

Maybe not in six years. But I've been shopping for 25-year-old music synthesizers and the field is filled with discussions about how to replace bad capacitors, broken power supplies, and (most interestingly) failing chips.
$60/week isn't bad, though I'm not sure quite how that is in NYC. In the Chicago suburbs I feed two of us on something around that level (including the TP as well), and that's with dietary concerns as well.

A lot of how much you can save like this depends on your situation. If you have storage space and decent cooking facilities, it's a LOT easier because you can have some reserve to allow you to take advantage of economies of scale and opportunities like that 20 pound bag of rice on sale for $6. Similarly, if you have a full-size refrigerator and freezer you can pretty easily make a week's worth (or more) of meals to take to work.

It's also important to have a good grasp of how much each individual meal costs, because you may realize that some less-expensive options may actually be preferable. That gluten-free bagel plus cream cheese? That's $1.50+, or would you prefer oatmeal, a couple of breakfast sausages, and a couple of eggs over the top of that? That easily clocks in at under $1, including with your choice of rolled or steel-cut gluten-free oatmeal (and if you don't care about gluten it's even less), and it takes almost no extra time in the morning over toasting and cheesing a bagel if you've pre-made the oatmeal. It's worth not getting carried away with this though - for some things it's just worth getting the more expensive option because making it at home takes more time or energy than you want to spend.

Knowing your cost of getting things is also important - don't drive 5 miles to save $0.50 on milk, because you're spending that much extra on gas. This is where shopping lists are important, as well as having a good feel for typical prices at different stores if you have multiple shopping options. If you know you're doing your shopping for the week at a store the cost of getting there is less of a factor, and conversely if you know cost of getting there is a concern then you'll want to avoid forgetting something that you have to run back out for (hence the list).

Finally, if you can stockpile some things and have multiple shopping options it's well worth keeping an eye on sales flyers and per-store discounts. Using myself and Meijer as an example, in January so far I've saved $12.34 using electronic coupons through their "mPerks" app and another 6.25 using paper coupons (either printed at checkout or on product packages, I'm not a couponer), plus $47 off of the regular prices of items by getting them when they're on sale - and I've only spent $128 there so far this month. I rarely buy items just because they're on sale, so that's almost all savings on items that I'd have been purchasing anyway.
This is a lot of things, but shocking isn't one of them.
Yes, but Amazon uses the job title "Software Development Engineer" instead of SRE.
Carbon monoxide poisoning from 3D laser printer may have killed Berkeley couple
This can apply to online purchases as well. A charge from buying something from ebay, for instance, can be charged back if you end up not getting the item, broken, etc. It's probably harder to get your money back in a case like that with a debit card.
They make nice build/CI servers for iOS development.
Google Criticizes Impact on Staff of Trump Immigration Order
Possible to automate, but limiting your report/block activity to spam-accounts that follow your real account would have the most impact.
Oh yea, and they're a YC company

No, they're not.
The Linux kernel was released in 1991. If you were born in 1991 you were 6 or 7 in 1998.
"Opaque" as in completely uninspectable, unknown and unknowable to the language itself; as opposed to methods, which can be discovered, inspected and manipulated via reflection.
"It's bizarre to see a company with the wealth and resources of Apple not even putting out spec upgrades for their machines."

What's so bizarre is that the things that people want are actually the easiest and cheapest things for apple to do.

All anyone wants is a macbook air with a retina screen. Not a new 12" one, not a new form factor, not design and engineer some new razor thin design ... just take the same old cad drawings and put a nicer screen on it.

All anyone wants is a mac pro tower (not the wastebasket) with nicer internals and fast SATA/USB ports. That's it. Nothing new to design, no new manufacturing processes - you don't even need new press photos.

If you're going to relegate the product line(s) to second tier, why not just save a ton of money and give people exactly what they were all asking for ?
It's probably related to the frequency of notifications. I don't get many, and they're easily missed, so the vast majority of my phone-checking was just compulsively making sure I hadn't missed anything, or "did it just vibrate? better check". Same goes for email - I was checking it way more than I was actually getting email. Needless stress, feeding an intermittent reward causing addictive behaviour. Converting all my communication to "push" instead of "pull" eliminated the intermittent reward (if I have a message I'll already know), and hence the addiction. To achieve that it's critical the notification be reliable, otherwise you'll still check. As a bonus, my phone is silent 100% of the time now.

I can easily imagine it from the other way around, though - if every time you check your messages you have tons, then making each one come through in real time would indeed drive you mad. One solution is to try and manage things so only important stuff gets "pushed" - another is your social solution of only treating phone calls as time critical, which is great if you can make the rest of the world fall into line.
FTP is broken regardless of NAT. It flat out does not work with a default deny firewall policy.