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UX defines products, not underlying tech. VS & VS Code share default keyboard shortcuts, UI look & feel, Intellisense, refactoring tools, and in-editor debugging. As a long-time, long-ago user of VS, VS Code immediately felt familiar to me. That's no accident.
I worked a earth imaging system (EIS) back in the 1990s. I didn't have security clearance (almost got it and realized it had no benefit to me but a bunch of crap I'd have to do, or not do/say, so I passed).

I'm pretty sure that the satellites at the time could read 3 inch newspaper print under the right conditions which happened rarely.

I've got a tack sharp 600mm Canon lens and it's sort of useless for a lot of stuff. If there is any haze, heat, dust, whatever, in the air, all that expense glass sees is that instead of what you want to see.

That note aside, it was a fun project. I was the I/O guy, I did this work:

http://www.nfsv4bat.org/Documents/ConnectAThon/1996/bds.pdf

and I got Seagate to redesign part of their 9gb (I think, might have been 2 or 4g) barracudas. I've got a benchmark in lmbench that shows how the disk performs as a function of seek distance, looks like this:

http://mcvoy.com/lm/bitmover/disks/seek.gif

The lower edge of the band is what you get if you seek and get to the track just as the sector you want is to about to pass under the head;
the upper edge of the band is what you get if the sector had just passed under the head;
the height of the band is a rotational delay;
and those outliers? In this case I think they were either bad blocks or I don't know.

But when you ran this benchmark on two drives, mounted in a rack right next to each other, you got tons and tons of outliers which blew any chance we had of meeting the performance metrics. I bitched at Seagate and they hemmed and hawed and finally admitted there might be a problem with their internal mounts.

The problem was that their mounts were so useless that the vibration caused by one head moving vibrated the drive next to it enough that the other drive's head didn't settle properly and you blew a rev waiting for it to get where it needed to be.

Seagate redid the mounts.

Fun project.
I don't know all of them, but I know some.

* zbackup: Appears to be unmaintained, superseded by attic/borg.

* attic: deduplicating backup repository. Doesn't seem actively maintained anymore either.

* borg: deduplicating backup repository. I used this recently. It's cool, but the performance is disappointing. It's single-threaded. I got into the GitHub a little bit and they seem committed to their current way of doing things, which makes it hard for an external multithreaded compressor to take over (everything is processed in 2 MB chunks).

* rclone: Meant to provide an rsync-like interface to any cloud backend

* duplicity: Automatically performs encrypted, compressed delta-enabled backups, but requires some upfront configuration. Been using this for years.

* rdiff-backup: Haven't used, but it seems more like an ad-hoc backup utility for "I want to keep an old version of this folder". Duplicity seems like a better choice for disk-scale backups.
I hope you're right that this goes the way of emacs. I've been productive in emacs for 30 years, but I'm growing impatient for emacs to get a real programming language with lexical scoping like they were talking about doing with Scheme 20 years ago. Despite its lack of macros, JavaScript is arguably a better Lisp than Emacs Lisp. I've toyed with Atom a couple of times recently and am seriously thinking of switching.
That pretty much sums it up. The author says rather early in the article, "At this point, I am by no means a full time developer, and I'm not even sure I could call myself a hobbyist. But thanks to the resources I present in this article, I have moved beyond the point of basic knowledge."

So this is basically a list of languages they've found to be the most useful at their (low) level of expertise, and very likely this holds true for their worksite, which is a sample size of one.
BTW, rclone, duplicati, duplicity, and others now support Backblaze B2: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/integrations.html
OEMs require yearly refreshes. AMD's slides show comparisons to cards 2 generations ago, so this refresh is to appeal to their own former customers who haven't upgraded for a few years. It's not that appealing to anyone who's upgraded recently.
Doesn't look like it, Wikipedia says a W87 is 440-600 lbs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W87
From somebody that has actually read the first 3 of TAoCP, it isn't worth it. Don't get me wrong, it was fun and it gives some bragging rights, but I can count on one hand the number of times I'd actually have had use of the knowledge.

I've used them to look up some details when needed though.
Magento Affiliate Plus XSS Vulnerability – Update If You Use
The US price subsidizes the Sierra Leon price. You also don't have multi-million dollar lawsuits in Sierra Leon.

Want to lower drug prices? Enact tort reform.
Hi Gleb,

I'm about to sign up for the B2 Cloud Storage, just noticed a tiny typo in the "Keep costs down" section on https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html:

"...the fist 1 GB of downloads per day are free."
> Maybe I don't understand who has the power to "flag" a post.

Anyone with more than 30 karma can flag a submission or a post.

> It is removed from view

You can change the "showdead" option in your user settings to show killed submissions and posts.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Next Big Bet: Making the Real World an Extension of Facebook
There is massive anthropological and biological evidence to suggest that animals and "stuff you pick up" (seeds and so forth) are the original human diet.

On a personal note, I was a vegetarian and later a vegan for a decade and I am familiar with the sort of "I feel it must have been this way" appeals to emotion (like referencing a baby and a presumably cute little animal) of the sort you're making. Arguments like yours are simply not supported by science.
If employees are more motivated, one would expect a greater level of employee productivity. So by the metrics of productivity, productivity growth, and most of the metrics used to measure corporate performance.

The obvious response, of course, is that none of these metrics matter because they only apply to traditionally structured highly inequitable corporations. There's a lot of truth to this! Yet it perhaps attempts to dodge the question. If cooperatives are more efficient at convincing people to be more productive, you would expect that this would allow efficient, motivated cooperatives to outperform traditional corporations and their inefficient, demotivated, dehumanized structures by financial metrics.
This a thousand times. It especially resonates with a geek outside of the field, as it explains all the mysterious science that is completely overstepped by every other source.

Cookbooks on the other hand are prescriptive - they direct you to do this, don't ask why. Don't deviate ... unless you can get away with it, in which case go ahead.
I cannot help but think that Docker the company is in deep trouble reading such product announcements. It's incomprehensible.

That said, what do I know. The folks at docker are brilliant marketers (with a great product). The marketing is the main reason docker is so wildly popular.
Little reason to run anything other than ubiquitous Wi-Fi imho.

You can run an ESP8266 or ESP32 chip, or the Realtek RTL8710 chip which is $2 from Pine64, and probably have enough input and output pins to do the job.
See, I just don't understand why you would want to use emacs over an editor that does all the work for you. Thats why I avoid it, it seems like a big cost that I don't have to pay if I just use a different editor.
Congrats on the raise, Jon!
Rabbits don't sue you if they are harmed.
Zuck says copying Snapchat was just step 1 of Facebook’s AR platform
Perhaps we witnessed the birth of a new Chaos God? Or the Emporor did some maintainance work on the Astronomicon.
Facebook Spaces Beta – Oculus
The detail is great but the coverage seems limited. There's no 3D in Moscow, Kiev, Beijing or Singapore as far as I can tell, for example.
This is such a ridiculous argument because you will never replace all taxes with a simple 20% tax since states, counties, localities, and ports all have the ability and incentive to tax and impose fees.

Due to this, I will focus on what it means to replace the income tax system with a flat 20%. A family of 4 (2 kids under 18) making $50,000 per year pays about $200 in federal income taxes if they do nothing but file their taxes and take the standard deduction, personal deduction, EITC, and Child Tax Credit. A family of 4 making 70k pays something like $2000. A family of 4 making $150k last year contributing to 401k, HSA, IRA's, 2 kids under 18, have an effective tax rate of like 8%.

In every single one of these cases, the families would be worst off (some significantly) if they were required to pay a 20% flat tax.
Please name them.
Thanks for the suggestion (and for being a customer.) We've contemplated adding functionality to send the Backblaze laptop/desktop restore to your Backblaze B2 account. Then you could put multiple restores in a 'snapshot' and get that delivered on a drive. Useful?
YCList – list of name, description, and status of YC companies
I'm reminded of the Müller workout, aka Kafka Calisthenics: http://www.slate.com/articles/life/fitness/2011/01/kafkas_ca...
Quitting smoking has an incredibly high failure rate, but the overall smoking rate has declined massively. Most smokers repeatedly relapse before eventually quitting for good. I'm not suggesting that meat is addictive, but I think it's dangerous to assume that relapse is a sign of failure rather than simply an intermediate stage on the path of behavioural change.
Not really buying it. Sending each keystroke and paint update over the network isn't a great experience on slow networks; even just ssh has noticeable lag. (Mosh is designed to fix this, but it's not trusted in most places yet.)

Being able to run the UI locally and using ssh to load/save edits to files seems like a better way to deal with latency.
>... we have around 7 hours to go....

!

Surely, they have made their decisions long ago. Why not just create a script to run at 00.00hrs and automatically send the results ?

Can't speak for anyone else, but the waiting is killing me :)
When I read IR in the post, I thought, "well that's not thermal, is it?" and the thought was incorrect. FLIR's page [1] has a more understandable to me summary than StackExchange [2]. Also interesting is how lensing works with radiation in the IR spectrum [3].

Thermal cameras cannot use regular glass lenses, as glass will reflect thermal radiation rather than allowing the radiation to pass through the lenses. Commonly used materials for thermal lenses are Germanium (Ge), Chalcogenide glass, Zinc Selenide (ZnSe) and Zinc Sulfide (ZnS).

1. http://www.flir.com/cvs/americas/en/view/?id=30052
2. https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/6869/what-is-the...
3. https://www.axis.com/fi/en/learning/web-articles/technical-g...
> No, nuclear war doesn't count, even the worst nuclear war imaginable won't be as bad as WW2 was.

Let's do some math.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed ~100,000 people, making it 50,000 per bomb.
The US has currently 31,175 nuclear weapons at its disposal.
If it were to even use 5% of its arsenal, assuming they have the same power as the bombs from '45 (which they don't), it would amount to 150,000,000 deaths. This is 2.5 times more than the total casualties of ww2, without even accounting for the nuclear weapon use of the opposing side.
Survival of the Fittest: The Impact of the Minimum Wage on Firm Exit [pdf]
We have the same kinds of conferences in the US. (I'm not going to name names, though.)

The fact is that you can pay a lot of money to do just about anything, but running conferences (and meetups, to an extent) is, for some organizers, a business.

They're trying to create and capture value out of mostly thin air.

But as a community, we can create a lot of value for ourselves. It may not pay a lot of salaries, but we can create an awesome experience with each other.

We just have to get organized ourselves.

The same organizers of the groups I help co-organize run PyGotham, NYC's Python convention.

We are a bunch of unpaid volunteers for the most part, but we create an awesome conference year after year.

It takes a lot of our free time, and we do it on shoe-strings and through the kindness of corporations and non-profits. But we get it done. You can do it in Europe too.
From a user's perspective, though, I'm a little annoyed how Patreon has "won" in terms of user-backed content. I don't want to commit to a monthly. I would've preferred if something like Flattr had market dominance for this kind of thing.

Although obviously, content producers sided with Patreon because it gives them predictable income, which keeps them from starving.
Fairly certain the prosecution can't appeal innocence, right? Wouldn't that just entail being tried again?
What software do you use to actually do the backups/manage them? (Wondering if we'd need to work with someone else to integrate to make that easier for you.)
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I assume militaries don't provide news outlets with their highest resolution spy imagery as to not disclose the extent of their capabilities.

I'd also suspect anyone recording a news-worthy "incident" on their mobile phone in a war zone has other priorities than maintaining a stable image.
>We would have a budget surplus if we actually made Social Security/other Gov. retirement program replacement actually sustain itself perpetually. What. A. Concept.

Why is running a budget surplus necessarily a "good thing"?

Seems like if people are willing to trade real assets for paper, we should do that as long as there are willing counterparties.
Here are screenshots from my various tests:
http://imgur.com/a/eRxd4
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Survival of the Fittest: The Impact of the Minimum Wage on Firm Exit
...a formal category in the United States on forms

Ah, USA Forms. That well-known global standard.
Funny how everything old is new again. Dumping an image, something seen with Emacs, and with SmallTalk and LISP languages since before Emacs was derided as "eight megs and constantly swapping" :)
Honesty matters very much.

Marketing also matters.

So honest marketing matters very much. The point of marketing should be to attract attention to useful features of Monero and increase its usefulness by promoting its adoption by third parties that add value (such as wallets, exchanges, merchants, etc.)

The seemingly principled idea that focusing only on tech, and not strategic promotion and collaboration, has resulting in the under adoption or stagnation of many promising technologies.
Congrats!

Can you talk about how Mux's focus differs from your previous efforts in the video space?
Not to mention that discrimination in hiring decreases opportunities for minorities. Which in turn increases recidivism.
Government Finance data can be downloaded here: http://willamette.edu/mba/research_impact/public_datasets/in...
An OT question about the list() function, which also applies to S3 and Google. Why does it return such a verbose, heavy response. Here's an example: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/docs/b2_list_file_names.html.

If I have a 10000 files, this will be a LOT of bandwidth. I JUST want the list of file names, NOT the other redundant fat. Solution:

1) let me specify which fields I want OR
2) compress the response
Why Amazon is spending $4.5B on video this year – and how it compares to Netflix
Why Restaurants Are Abandoning the No-Tipping Policy
What a condescending, shallow view.

> The point being these principles are nothing but an explanation of "cohesion and coupling" for dummies in a very primitive, ambiguous, and marketable way. Dummies will buy books, seminars, and trainings, but won't really be able to understand the logic behind them

And then he goes and does the same thing:

http://www.yegor256.com/about-me.html
The 480 was 14nm as well. It's literally the exact same thing, same process. New default clock/voltage, new model number. The process did improve over time, sure, but a late 480 is pretty much the same as a 580.
I've had the Voder's version of Daisy Bell stuck in my head for years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41U78QP8nBk
About 10 seconds of startup opening a directory, from terminal to loaded workspace. I'm on a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015). I have 76 community plugins installed.
The thing is, Apple hasn't really made those profits in a foreign country - there is very little profit to be made from manufacturing mobile phones in China which is why Apple outsources this task to Foxconn. There is also little profit to be made in selling phones - if Apple's retail arm was a separate company it would have no leverage to negotiate a good deal.

The bulk of Apple's profit has come from design, marketing and engineering by employees, plus outstanding judgment and leadership by Steve Jobs. Those things were done in California. The problem is that Apple uses accounting tricks to transfer the profit to Nevada or Ireland or some other low-tax jurisdiction.

It doesn't matter where the company's headquarters are located. If Samsung has profitable operations in California it should be taxed on that activity at the same rate as any other Californian business. That leads to another point - there are plenty of Californian businesses which cannot use the same accounting tricks that Apple uses. So you have a situation where two businesses that draw from the same pool of resources pay different tax rates. It could be that Business A uses those resources more efficiently but Business B gets funding because its tax rate is lower. That strikes me as inefficient.

Running a business in California is like growing crops in a particularly fertile field. You get a great yield, but you should also pay high rent.
You're right that with repeated sampling you can learn more about the data set. If I understand it correctly, I think the solution to that in DP is that you have a limit to how many times you can make your repeated query before you have spent your privacy budget and are cut off. The idea is that for a given budget level you are limited to fewer queries than you would need to learn enough to de-anonymize the data set.

If your signal processing professor was already taking that into account then I would be curious to know how that attack would work.
Unfortunately which data they choose to show and how they frame it makes a big difference. There are objective facts but we all color them intentionally or unintentionally despite our best efforts.
Ask HN: Can you recommend any good computer science audiobooks or podcasts?
Aloha, HN. Do you have any recommendations for good CS/Programming books that are audiobook-friendly?

I've started listening to a lot of audiobooks and podcasts while commuting or doing chores to make better use of my time, but I've noticed that there are few computer science audiobooks because the subject matter does not seem to lend itself well to being read aloud.

The more technical/conceptual, the better. There are plenty of audiobooks about tech culture (especially on the business side), but few about technical subjects.

I think some good examples of CS audiobooks might be:

- "The Information" by James Gleick, which discusses a lot of mathematical theory and the physical nature of information.

- "Where Wizards Stay Up Late" by Katie Hafner, which chronicles the creation of the internet, but revels in some of the engineering details and technical challenges the team encountered.

- "How The Mind Works" by Steven Pinker (tangentially related to CS, but valid), which is a psychology book, but actually delves into the computational theory of mind and even discusses how our brain's tricks have been used to improve neural networks.

Thanks!
Congrats! Few questions I have - I'm also not knowledgable about the space, so forgive me if they come off a bit naive.

1. Can you give me an example of how a company would use Mux? I can't quite grasp that from this page alone + looking through your homepage. Are you hosting video? Plugging into 3rd parties for metrics?

2. Is Zencoder still around? How did your successes / failures there translate into Mux, both from a tech / product standpoint & a management / operations standpoint.

3. You discuss how Netflix is only the size of a more niche channel like Discovery. Even so, it's large in the realm of online video - how do you aim to protect your product / strategy from being swallowed up or replicated from Youtube or Netflix, who are big fish even in the cable / satellite video world & even bigger in the smaller pond of online video?

Again, congrats & best of luck to the team going forward.
Democratic in this case means bringing it to a wider audience, making it more accessible to regular devs in this case I guess. See definition #3 here https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/democratic
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> Finally, the Roman Empire was in no way comparable to the current global regime. The political systems seen by Rome were downright primitive compared to our representative democracies, multi-state unions, and trade federations. The Anglosphere is in no way vulnerable to dictatorship, and while Europe was once capable of fascism in the past, the days where a would-be Hitler or Mussolini could whip populations into a murderous frenzy are long gone. The worst that can happen is sovereign devolution AKA Brexit, Grexit, Scottish independence et al.

War is the ultimate test of political systems. In France alone, the First Republic, First Empire, Second Empire, Vichy France, Third Republic, and Fourth Republics all collapsed due to strains of war. Similarly, loss in WWI proved the end of several strains of government. In the United States, the American Civil War prompted Lincoln to more or less tear up the Constitution (although it should also be noted that many provisions only apply in times of peace).

Merely asserting that Western governments are immune to the foibles of fascism and dictatorship is folly. While I agree that many countries have fairly strong checks against reversion from democracy, a prolonged period of weakening could still very well happen.
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Theranos starts to agree to things