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A whirlwind introduction to Erlang
That's lame. Some competitors are working on DAX-capable PCIe devices. Intel seems to be surprisingly behind here.

How would a hypervisor sulution work? Trap and emulate all accesses?
"Medical care" is a broad category though. Of course emergency medicine will never work like food. But I wonder what percentage of spending, say, goes to things that are closer to food than to emergency medicine?
Come to Europe, you'll like it.

(this assumes, perhaps incorrectly, that you live in the US)
Murderous?
That doesn't help if they sell your email though, because you don't know what company to match the spam with.

I use mynamemicrosoft@mydomain.tld for each service, and i catch every email regardless of mail address.

Sure they can manually fool me or use more sophisticated regex to find their service name (and i can obfuscate it), but in practically all cases i know which service has leaked my address if i get spam against a certain address that's not the service i signed up for.
When Is It Time to Retreat from Climate Change?
Yep, this is why the singularity is a zero-sum game... I expect many entities to vie for the title, but the first one there will subsequently dominate... which is why it's my intention to program my conciousness into my own AI which seeks to become the singularity and therefor my digial conciousness version will become the ultimate god of the universe.

mad scientist laugh
Law enforcement has had a tough time with snapchat because they actually do delete the data according to their policy. They have a law enforcement guide which goes over what to expect for data requests, and it's quite sparse. Can't link right now, on mobile and it's a PDF.

In 2014, they were seeing 400 million images per day, 88% of which were to one person [1]. Assuming 0.33 mb/image, no videos, and 100% going to 1 person, that's 132 TB/day.

Per their recent SEC filing, they're now up to 2.5 billion snaps per day. [2]

There's a strong business case for deleting the files as soon as you can. Before they were a gigantic company, their brand trust and keeping things lean encouraged deleting the photos. I believe that holds true today.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/how-many-snaps-snapchat-users...

[2] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1564408/000119312517...

Edit: I decided to run some quick 'n dirty estimation and was a bit surprised by how "cheap" it would actually be to store it all. Snap uses Google Cloud Services, and given their volume, will have a pretty sweet pricing deal. For that reason, I estimated with $0.007/GB, which is the coldline rate per [3] even though they probably wouldn't be doing coldline storage.

http://imgur.com/a/Boqlm

Very rough estimate for 1 year of storing every image snap from now until next year is ~13.5 million. At 2.5 billion snaps/day, images only, it would cost ~$5775/month to store all the data generated today.

As an aside, I do wonder if there would be an opportunity for Snap to get and store context from an image without storing the image. It may be a balance between big data and minimizing costs. I'm thinking something along the lines of the list of words from Clarifai [4] stored with the metadata. It wouldn't be very useful to the police because the image recognition is wrong sometimes. "Marijuana" as a tag would be very weak evidence to put forth in court if the police didn't also have the image.

[3] https://cloud.google.com/storage/pricing#storage-pricing

[4] https://developer.clarifai.com/models/aaa03c23b3724a16a56b62...
Roused by Trump, Two NASA Engineers Try Out Politics
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars3d/ ?
First things in that post:

> the individual nature of the invitation, the private nature of the venue

also:

> You don't need to see an agenda behind every invitation to recognize the agenda behind this one.

How does "that guy" know what agenda there is?

If you can't explain any better then I can't accept your argument.
The detailed “roadmap” for evading severe climate change
Damn it guys. We've been on the moon! We actually launched rockets carrying people off the planet to the moon.

What the fuck. If that doesn't give you butterflies and plaster a massive childish smile on your face, I'd conjecture that there's something wrong with you.
Every budding short seller needs to, at some point in their career, learn the lesson of never shorting a growth tech stock.
> You can choose who you share your stories with on Facebook.
This is very unintuitive though. It is very easy to make a mistake, like sending a photo to multiple people create a group of them instead of sending them separately. Facebook is doing everything in its power to make your posts public. If they had some kind easy to use circles, that would be best.
This title is click bait
The next cyberattack could come from sound waves
It has oxygen, water is relatively abundant, food can grow on Mars (in greenhouses or underground), dirt is excellent for shielding radiation.
You seem to assume that they have bad intentions. They are just increasing the number of value-add services they offer. They aren't necessarily trying to muscle out competitors, competition in the marketplace is ultimately great for the consumer.
[React] Review: Unit Test Is Easy
you're oversimplifying. the quantity and quality of the smoke is hugely important. cannabis smoke and tobacco smoke are qualitatively different, and the typical amount consumed by cannabis vs. tobacco smokers is a very different quantity (in that tobacco smokers typically consume tens or even hundreds of times more mass of tobacco per day than cannabis smokers do).

certainly any kind of inhaled smoke can cause issues for your lungs, but conflating the cancer risk of daily habitual tobacco smoking (very high) with the cancer risk of daily habitual cannabis smoking (probably present, but not yet known how much more risk it causes) is a distortion.
Why is thrott.com (ThrottleHQ) on your block list?

I'd argue that those emails aren't disposable. I use ThrottleHQ to track when service providers resell my email to other lists.
Problem solved then.
Wow, the two-level grammar concept is incredible! I have some learning to do. Thank you for sharing.
Smart move. Tencent's investing but not controlling strategy make it good supporter of the new generation of ambitious entrepreneurs against AAAAF(Apple Alphabet Amazon Alibaba Facebook):
- JD
- Didi
- Snap
- Meituan-Dianping
……
> Don’t build apps that encrypt customer data

Sarcastically interpreting this directive as non-generously as it is worded: don't use SSL?
I don't think smoking will go away completely, the effects are noticeably different than vaping and edibles. Agree that in the US, it seems everywhere it is legalized non-smoke options become more popular.
We can generate/recycle most if not all of these from or on mars. Surely not trivial, but possible. Air, water, food are a loop we already know well, and structures arent new...
Or, much harder to beat writer's block when there's a large audience waiting for more work. If the grip of "10,000 people are expecting X from me..." freezes you, you're blocked.

It depends on the artist, IMO. Some people are charged up by a large consumer base waiting for more work, some don't care, and some are frozen by it.

Best if you don't care -- per HR's discussion of Miles Davis. Sometimes Miles left his audience behind, but that was OK because he was being true to himself and his vision for his work.
If you are interested in printing your own newspaper check out http://www.newspaperclub.com/

I received their samples in preparation for sending out graphic design and photography promos and the quality is great.
The only example I can think of is when using temp-mail for serious stuff.

E.g. you register an actual account with temp-mail, this makes anybody able to reset the password.

I totally agree though that this service is user-hostile.
Facebook is known to A/B test features in other countries before rolling them out to the rest of the world.

Stories in particular launched earlier this year in Ireland, Chile, Greece and Vietnam.

> Facebook Stories, a feature that puts photos that disappear after 24 hours at the top of the Facebook mobile app, is rolling out to users in Chile, Greece and Vietnam, Facebook confirmed. However, it is not available to users in all markets. The feature was first tested among users in Ireland in January [...] [1]

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/15/facebook-stories-roll-out/
Twilio entered into an agreement with Amazon to power their telephony services. I wouldn't be surprised if this was built in collaboration as they'd benefit from the volume.

http://www.businessinsider.com/twilio-amazon-web-services-pa...
If I have no incentive login again, you should probably not ask my email. This service is a nuisance just like all those sites that require an email for no good reason.
This got me thinking of a tangential business idea: a user-hostile site blocker.

You take a quick quiz of stuff you personally consider unacceptable from a site (such as blocking disposable emails), and then it comes up with an autoupdated blocklist.

Does this exist?
Flight Risk – The Verge
Insurance 201 will point out that you may be better off paying for regular, scheduled services, when you see it reduces your risk for irregular, high cost variances. To use your example, if auto insurers proved that once yearly "tire check" reduces catastrophic payouts by enough, you bet they would offer to cover them (or reduced rate if you do it, which amounts to the same thing).

"Health insurance" doesn't really work like most insurance anyway, because people. It is of course sensible to construct a system to understand true costs, but sometimes you're just going to pay them, even if the math doesn't work (although honestly, it probably works fine if your model is good enough. An insurance company won't think about the externalities that a federal government has to, for example)
... so the EncFS-backup-your-6TB-media-drive trick isn't threatened yet? That's good.
Going along with my racecar example...the side view mirrors are essential...so does that make the Ford Escort a racecar?
Thanks, it looks like this one was done after I was searching. This study doesn't really have the outcomes we need to measure though. There is no placebo group, they didn't check for measles diagnoses (by doctors who didn't know whether they were vaccinated), and they only measured antibody levels for 1.5 months after 1 vaccine dose in children 12-23 months old (ie before going to school when exposure usually occurs).

Unfortunately, I really don't think this study offers us anything about whether "vaccines work". You can see that the main concern is whether doctors are much more likely to diagnose measles when they do not believe a vaccination occurred, and whether introduction of the lab tests made the diagnostic definition more stringent:

“This was not a blind study, since the investigators knew which children had received measles vaccine. It seems probable that the occurrence of so much ‘measles-like’ illness in the vaccinated children was a reflexion of the difficulty in making a firm diagnosis of measles in the African child at one visit.”

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2134550/

“A likely reason for this is that the case may have been misdiagnosed as a non-specific viral illness. Measles has become relatively uncommon in Singapore with two decades of widespread measles vaccination, and especially after the second dose policy was implemented in 1998. Many primary care doctors may not even see a single case of measles in a year. This makes diagnosis more difficult.

[...]

As only approximately 7% of the clinically-diagnosed cases of measles reported locally turned out to be measles by laboratory testing, there is a need for laboratory confirmation of measles to avoid misidentification of cases and improve disease surveillance.(2)”

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17609829
> Print media provides a common landscape

Only if everyone reads it.
Only applies to Amazon Drive? So I'm assuming that they don't want ransomware-type third-party apps.
They're going for user experience, not security.

They want users to pour data into Amazon Drive and for that to be useful to any and all applications that connect to Amazon Drive.

If one app encrypts that data, then no other app can make sense of it.
Ending digital copyright act would fundamentally change Internet
The raise will dilute earnings for common shareholders, so definitely a downward force on stock price. That being said, this investment and the recent raise you alluded to should clobber the put skew.

http://www.volcube.com/resources/options-articles/what-is-op...
I read it as "Don't build apps that let people back up their entire datacenter to Drive"
Exactly, just took the 2 MYR ticket since I had no clue how much I should prepay.
and great for amazon. They make more on AWS that way.
Yeah the title is highlighting one part of the text 70% down the page, but it does seem to be a disconcerting part of the text.
Completely agree with this, and so do all the kids at school apparently. Since release, the only content I see on Messenger Stories is shitty memes from people I already hid from my feed (the same reason I don't use Facebook is shitty memes). Instagram stories has some semi interesting content, but all the good FOMO inducing content is usually on Snap and there might b research on this as well (something like the effect of FOMO on millennial social media addiction).
With gmail you can use periods in the email address and gmail will ignore them. i.e. bob.smith@gmail.com is the same as bobsmith@gmail.com or even bo.bsmith@gmail.com.
In terms of smoking, pipes and hookahs have been the strong preference, but of course prohibition made having that kind of obvious paraphernalia difficult or impossible. By contrast, in a time when a lot of people were rolling their own cigarettes, a joint with half-pot half-tobacco was truly very stealthy. You could make it with a little grass so you didn't have to buy much or have much on you, and if you had to ditch it then it was no big loss. When you were done, nothing was left, but ashes and memories.

In terms of extracts, that's an even bigger case of "don't want to be caught with that on me!" as well as issues of knowledge being lost, and the fact that extracting any amount requires growing a large amount... so again the law is a factor. Joints really aren't ideal, except for stealth (in a time when most smoked), and certainly they're less efficient than a pipe, hookah, or bong. Efficiency doesn't matter as much as not going to jail though, and especially if you only had a bit of grass to mix with tobacco, it wasn't a concern.

The last thing, that ties all of this together is how difficult it became to grow cannabis in the US, and the associations with racial and social issues. Over time, marijuana (and heroin) were intentionally associated with hippies and black people- "We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did." (John Ehrlichman) -and as a result complex social dynamics evolved that we still see remnants of today.
Having access to the internals at Tesla is interesting and potentially powerful -- significant ownership share brings many benefits that are by no means small. Albeit on a need-to-know basis and through a peephole, it is nonetheless advantageous.

It may cost $1.7B but it guarantees continued access, whereas throwing technical exfiltration (ie: hacking) and manual exfiltration (ie: mole in Tesla staff) whose resources are limited and unpredictable.

It's also a good financial investment.
The discrimination referenced in the article is not just about insurance costs. Even if health care costs were totally removed from employees they would still have reason to discriminate on genetic factors.
No. I am a black magic^W "matter/energy" skeptic.
twilio isn't going anywhere. Its not worth amazon's time. You're talking lots of integrations with legacy ISPs which takes time, and not profitable / revenue heavy enough for Amazon's time.
When I was a kid (before the publicly-used version of the Internet that we know and love today) and wanted to download software, I'd log into a BBS for my download.
If you ask somebody their phone number and they give you a fake one - they don't trust you and think you are an asshole. Same with e-mail. When you feel you need to protect yourself from "disposable emails" then your problem is elsewhere.
I really liked the way that Iverson built up concepts in his [Arithmetic (PDF)](http://www.jsoftware.com/books/pdf/arithmetic.pdf) manual for J. I found it very intuitive and useful even if you never plan to use the language. There are others at the site like his manual for Exploring Math and one for Calculus as well.
The designer of Comic Sans has only ever used his typeface once
Amazon buys Souq.com
> this seems to be a way to write the complete CSS in JS, and then to have it compiled into CSS.

That isn't what this is although I also had to poke around the source code to figure out what it is exactly.

It's a set of mixins and utility functions that return a js object that is then used as input for either inline styles, or for one of the may CSS in JS libraries that convert do a JS object to CSS.

As for how useful? Well, the color utilities seem to replicate what color.js does, so nothing new there. The mixins seem to be mostly about prefixing, and you're going to need to prefix the rest of your CSS-in-JS anyway - for which there are various standalone libraries, and plugins to the aforementioned libraries.

The shorthands let you do things like:

borderWidth('12px', '24px', '36px', '48px')

=>

{
'border-top-width': '12px',
'border-right-width': '24px',
'border-bottom-width': '36px',
'border-left-width': '48px'
}

Thing is, I can already do that without the expansion:

{
'borderWidth': '12px 24px 36px 48px'
}

As much as I respect the guys behind this, I'd question how useful it is overall.
One era (early 20th) is the industrial revolution; one era (approx. 1960-now) is the information revolution. It is true that the industrial revolution has slowed down and mostly focused on incremental improvements, but it seems strange to discount the information revolution gains completely. There's been a lot of information revolution gains.

That said, I would argue that medicine too has made some pretty significant advances in the 2nd half of the 20th century... mostly in surgery techniques (transplants are 2nd half 20th century), scanning techniques (NMR and CT both were 2nd half 20th century), and pharmaceuticals. Significant vaccines (polio, measles, mumps) were 2nd half of the 20th century developments. Genetic science has made huge gains as of late. Etc.
This post's (current) title is verbatim in the content: "Don’t build apps that encrypt customer data", and in my opinion is significant and surprising enough to call out as a title.
This recent thread about an APL compiler for the GPU was so interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13565743, that we invited the author to do an AMA about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13797797.
Account Based Marketing – It’s All About the People
I think acquisition is a totally legitimate exit strategy, as long as they're aware of the direction they are heading.
>"This figure shows projected greenhouse gas concentrations for four different emissions pathways."
https://www.epa.gov/climate-change-science/future-climate-ch...

The biggest greenhouse gas by far is water vapor, not CO2. So it makes no sense to call a plot of CO2 a plot of "greenhouse gas concentrations". This type of "information" is low quality and will only make people not trust them.
For email forwarding, you can have a look at https://github.com/danisola/forward-cat. However, I do not know if this would work for your setup. On top of that, I do not think it handles replies to the email alias, but I am not sure.

What could work is to just use an internal system for messaging, so that each of your users has a private inbox in your store platform. Kind of like direct messaging in a forum...
Skype's Stockholm office to close
That sounds like you are making engineering decisions by superstition. Unless you have some source of data to back it up, please don't spread your subjective misinformation.
Apple Responds to Hacker’s Threat to Wipe Hundreds of Millions of iPhones
iZettle are counting on exactly this, a North American player buying them for their market share. Margins are non-existent
Atlassian announces they won't add Mercurial support to Bitbucket Server
New flow battery could run for more than a decade with minimum upkeep
Synology NAS Bug Bounty Report (Remote Code Execution)
It's probably:

1) they'd rather encryption didn't become widespread on the service because they want to spy on users (users encrypting things themselves is still fine, they say)

2) they don't want support calls from people who've lost really important files because your crappy app lost their key, and/or because the user lost it, because typical users cannot and never will be able to handle manual key management, but if you encourage them to do it they might try.
The difference is that Facebook already has a captive audience and G+ never did.
That's why countries regulate it. So you don't have "incentives" where care should be provided.
If a society is not able to pay for 'perfect healthcare' then it will not pay for 'perfect healthcare' under any system.

However, as your reduce the cost of providing healthcare with single payer systems you increase society's ability to provide high quality healthcare. Remember, if a doctor sees 1000 people a month then you can detect fraud by randomly sampling 20 cases. However, if 10 companies each need to check for fraud they may investigate 10 cases each, but with 10 X 10 that's still more effort. Further, they are each going to try and cost shift to the others, which is an expensive zero sum game.
Findings from the Casey Eye Institute:

http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/health/services/casey-eye/clinical-se...

It's also worth noting that LASIK has improved drastically over the past 10 years. Bladeless procedures, wavefront imaging, femtosecond lasers, etc.

http://ophthalmologytimes.modernmedicine.com/ophthalmologyti...
In my understanding, in the usual case, you don't use OpenSSL. You use https://golang.org/pkg/crypto/tls/.
"Van Houten and Sanchez have both turned for information and advice to 314 Action, a nonprofit that supports Democratic candidates from the STEM fields"

"A majority of scientists identify as Democrats, yet, according to the Pew Research Center, sixty-four per cent of Americans currently perceive them as non-ideological."

I've got news for them, the problem is that both parties are corrupt, top down, inside out, and attempts to reform from within the party, while laudible, are doomed to failure due to entrenchment.

This is why after much deliberation I can think of no better solution than to remove both parties majorities via election of indepednents and third parties as a first step in taking back our country.

If we can get enough third parties/independents elected in 2018/2022, I think when we keep both parties nominees from the required 270 electoral votes and the decision goes to the house, that's how we get an independent into the white house.
It's less the tax and more the inability to get it conveniently, since the LCBO is closed for all holidays and also tends to keep short retail hours.

The alcohol laws in Ontario date back to prohibition and I would like to see them relaxed so I could get a beer at the corner store.

MJ is currently in a position to avoid the whole "nanny state" treatment altogether, which is what people are talking about.