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I used to do that for my media server/HTPC. The problem in my experience is that laptop fans are pretty noisy. Actually evenn the power supply can be noisy, many of them have a very audible AC hiss. Maybe it's because I tend to buy cheap laptops.

A few months ago I decided to build myself a super quiet replacement, I took a small well ventilated case[1], put an underclocked i3 in it, a fanless heatsink[2] on top, a super quiet power supply[3] and it's amazing. For about 350 euros I have a completely silent and rather powerful HTPC. A lot more expensive than the computer in TFA obviously, but well worth it if like me you can't stand fan noises.

[1]http://www.coolermaster.com/case/mini-itx-elite-series/elite...
[2]https://www.arctic.ac/eu_en/alpine-11-passive.html
[3]http://www.bequiet.com/en/powersupply/248
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Actually there are only a handful of places in the US where Uber is banned. Contrary to popular belief (and intentionally propagated by smear campaigns), Uber wasn't banned in Austin TX... they pulled out of that market voluntarily.
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Very first sentence of your source says "Google’s self-driving car gathers 750 megabytes of sensor data per SECOND!", here goes one fourth of the alleged 1GB.

Then this is about sensor data or raw data, but there is thing known as compression which is quite common and can shrink size by an order of magnitude.

75MB/s seems closer to reality and manageable.
Mr OT here.
IMO the best cookbook ever written was the one my mother had in secondary school. I don't know the name of it and I'm sure it's long out of print. She swore by it, used it all her life and was a marvellous cook.
Running multiple specific version of the JDK is kind of a pain. So if you are working on projects targeting specific versions of the JDK then isolating each on in its own container isn't the dumbest thing to do.
So why don't they apply for other jobs?

Also, there seems to be a market rate for developers, which is usually not a bad salary. What is the reasoning for assuming most of them are underpaid? Because a lot are 10 times developers?

Is it about information asymmetry, or worse, complete unknowns because even the developers themselves don't know how good they are?

Would helping developers discover how good they are help their cause? Do sites like HackerRank help, or are the problem sets not relevant enough to the real world?
How is that any different from manufacturing physical arms that somehow end up in the possession of some enemy foreign power?
I was expecting an article about DPI (as in raster printing dots), but it ended up being about PPI (as in screen pixels).

DPI in print is something I see many get wrong, and most don't understand the difference between DPI, LPI and PPI.
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I have been waiting for docker, docker-machine and especially docker-compose to get mature enough for such a cool feature like infinite demo servers (*.demo.example.com) or A/B testing (ab1.example.com) could be done w/o anything else but a simple 30 lines bash script.
Qualcomm makes a non-trivial amount of its revenue from licensing its patent suite in toto to companies participating in this space. So when a player wants/needs some of it, they have to pay for all of it.

And Qualcomm has hundreds of IP and patent lawyers employed full-time (not from an external firm, but as FTE's) to enforce same. Not to mention the continued investment they do in R&D required to grow their patent portfolio.

So while Intel and Samsung are not to be taken lightly, neither should be the ferocity with which Qualcomm will defend its IP revenue stream.
Which version of the Surface did you try? I recall they changed the stylus implementation at some point (after Microsoft acquired a digitizer company).

Personally, I want a real computer for the things you mention for a simple reason: managing files on iOS is hell. The single-app model and app-specific content silos would be a poor fit for my workflow, where files come and go.
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> can be presumed to intend the rationally foreseeable consequences of the policies they champion.

Well, I suppose it wouldn't make sense to call a foreseen outcome an "accident" or something like that, and I can see there being a sense in which you might call it "intent", but something that it clearly would not be, would be a "goal". "Trying to do <x>" when <x> has <y> as a known consequence, does not seem like "trying to do <y>" to me. If aware of some other means to achieve the other goals they have, with a decreased amount of death happening, it seems pretty obvious that they would pick that option?

Someone taking a morally abhorent trade-off (say, causing something that they want which is of little value at the cost of something much worse they do not want) is not the same thing as having both outcomes as desired outcomes of the action.

If it were, then anyone who made a reasonable trade-off, where the cost incurred is significant would be guilty of having that cost happening as a goal. That doesn't make sense.

I can't really imagine someone valuing the deaths of women, children, and the elderly, as an end in itself. That doesn't make sense. I don't see that as being a thing a real human person would value.
Uber has started allowing drivers to accept a new ride before they're done with the current one, as an incentive to keep driving (as opposed to ending their shift). I have had rides stuck in "Driver is finishing up a trip nearby" for 10 minutes or more. And I could see on the map that there were other available drivers around. I don't remember what the initial estimate is in those cases, but I think it's less than what it ends up being.
What was the question?
Highly recommend "Jim'll paint it" on facebook for a lot of ms paint hilarity.
Sometimes applications have to read and process data from the filesystem. I have several ~100gb datasets 9f large amounts of sensor data.
It goes back to Gauss and "no self-respecting architect leaves the scaffolding in place after completing the building" - about intentionally leaving all motivation, heuristics etc aside.

Though, compare it with https://terrytao.wordpress.com/, full of insight.
These overviews are very useful to return to after you have understood a part of the subject.
> No one knew about it before them.

That we know of, it's entirely possible that other governments have been using the same exploit and that this could have been prevented with NSA disclosure.
In terms of using Stack Overflow to help you track down a problem? The answer, of course, is found in this relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/979/
It is a matter of point of view, how many waymo car have been sold to customers ? how many waymo cars are out of the waymo car factories every months ?

There are several things to tackle and different approaches to things, the DARPA grand challenge is the practical one and waymo did not took part in any edition AFAIK.
To clarify, I was not attempting to argue that the republican healthcare plan is a morally acceptable one (I need to read more about it), just that saying that the goal is killing people is clearly incorrect?
Of course not, but they don't use the same signature techniques on all forged documents either -- that would just be silly.
My education has never got me my foot in the door, my reputation and demonstrable open source work has. Education was really only due diligence after they wanted to hire.
I see where you're getting at. I won't deny peer recognition is very nice, but it isn't the sole motivation - its just booster rockets that I'm happy to use.
Everytime someone asks what you'd think would be a simple yes or no question, the top answer is a 600-word story about something their mother did on a hippie commune in the 80's, or something. It's bloody irritating, yet I keep on reading. What can I say, it's something to read when you're in a waiting room.
I know, right?
Like - years ago, back when The Matrix first came out, we all laughed at the implausibility of it. And now here it is!
Implement once in nginx vs reimplement in dozens of (possibly third party) applications? Sounds good to me.
You, thinking KDE is a linux (OS) makes me understand why you use windows.
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It's vastly faster and more reproducible, enough so as to make it a different environment with different considerations.
Ever heard of the DARPA Grand challenge ? The first edition way in 2004 and the project aim is to have one third of US ground military vehicles autonomous by 2015. It seems the US DoD has a quite a headstart on waymo.
> what prevents the now uber driver to switch to become lyft drivers ?

The (non)availability of Lyft all over the world except one country. According to some quick googling, Uber exists in 80 countries without Lyft.
I have been an iPad user from day 1. In the beginning, I have been very enthusiastic about the iPad, but while I am still using mine, it is only very lightly these days. The reasons and some things for Apple to change are:

- The iPad is getting cornered between large smartphones, which cover many mobile needs and the very portable laptops.

- Software. There are very few iPad-specific apps, which are really great productivity-wise. Software development was ruled out by the App Store conditions and still is difficult. The builtin applications didn't really grow over the years. Last time I tried, photos still didn't support hierarchical folders. This worked well in my first year of usage, but after 5 years it became unusable.

- Data transfer. For anything relating to productivity, the individual sandboxing of apps just gets into the way of working productively. Also getting data in and out of the iPad is not seamless.

- Software again :). The "desktop" just showing a grid of icons was nice for the iPhone, but the life tiles of Metro looked more useful on a phone already. A larger device like an iPad needs this or any other "real" desktop. I am not talking about "MacOS on the tablet" though. It needs a tablet-optimized desktop, but not a phone OS either. Multitasking needs to be improved. And why is it, that external bluetooth keyboards are still not fully supported with all special keys, e.g. for ssh clients? Why can't I browse photos on a SD-Card without importing them?

- Connectivity. Have courage, Apple, add USB-C. Have a real HDMI out, and if there were an HDMI-input dongle, it would be an instant buy for me. Duet is nice, but having the option to use the iPad as a real second screen would be great. A mode for the iPad pro where it would be an extension screen for a MacOS computer with full pen support would probably sell a lot (and hurt Wacom)
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At least the Jews seemed to have found a way around it, though - why were they successful? Did they build their own schools, or how did they do it? Afaik at least for some time they were banned from certain professions, which is why many become money lenders and became rich - might have been before the 20th century, though.

I don't know that much about the history of the US, but it seems Jim Crow laws were in effect till 1965? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws

Women, as I said, had other things to do, before the invention of the washing machines.

The question remains, why not found a company hiring those supposedly cheaper workers, and blow the competition out of the water?

I suppose a company hiring only blacks in the early 20th century would have been unable to sell it's wares because of racism?

Are software developers on a "market for lemons"? Because employers presumably can't know how good a developer is, they bid too low, which in turn makes good developers avoid the market altogether? (ref https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons )
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I thought MIT wasn't free software as defined by the FSF?

Open source would be the term for that. Free requires end users to receive source, open just allows you to use the source if you have a copy.
Actually the proposal is a bit more complicated than using a 12 meter large antenna, it is sending this antenna at 550 AU (the FOCAL in "FOCAL antenna"). Geoffrey A. Landis wrote:

"The gravitational field of the sun will focus light from a distant source to a focal point at a minimal distance of 550 Astronomical Units from the sun.

A proposed mission to this gravitational focus could use the sun as a very large lens, allowing (in principle) a large amplification of signal from the target, and a very high magnification."

https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.06351
Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Arch; many Linux distributions provide excellent curated software repositories that just work for general purpose software. Have done so for well over a decade. All without locking the user out of his own computer.

And of course Steam, GoG, and the HumbleStore provide curated repositories for proprietary games on many platforms.
I agree, but I also think it's an incomplete answer to the situation.

I think that it's unreasonable to expect there not to be some sort of acting technology strike force within the US government, on the sole basis that they wouldn't let themselves fall behind as a super power in this manner. For the sake of one-upmanship alone I imagine this is happening. But as to what it should be doing? That needs to be reviewed.

Cyber weapons aren't traditional weapons - cyber weapons are nigh-infinitely replicable, easier to lose control over, fast and easy to redistribute, and they're just as harmful to US civilian targets as they are to political/miiltary targets. They're unconventional warfare in that once you let it go, it's almost impossible to reel it back in, and the current state of technology just lends itself to so much collateral damage by the nature of software dependencies. A lot of places have no control over the dependencies for their mission critical software, and either no money for better alternatives or legitimately no alternative.

Cyber weapons are going to be a weird thing for a very long time, since they have the same uncontrollable nature that a lot of banned weapons have, but they don't have the same immediate impact or lasting effect [1] that munitions, chemicals, and so on have. The lack of an immediate real world impact (read: a 'boom' or something toxic) is going to make it a challenge for people to see how damaging this an really be.

[1] - I mark this because I think it's arguable how lasting the impact for any given bit of malware can be. There can be a lot of long-lasting damage if major infrastructure pieces are targeted, or downing entire networks, ruining small to medium businesses, and so on.
And most of your valuable stuff will be in your user dir if you're on a personal computer.
yeah. They finally said "look, get off this thing" which is fair enough, but they then cut funding to the bone, and IT is always the first thing skimped on.

I'm told by a friend in IT in an NHS Trust that the NHS actually came off quite lightly - all the affected systems were front-end PCs that don't store patient data locally, the patient data was safe on back end databases, so he spent Saturday reimaging a few hundred PCs and not one satoshi of ransom was paid to the attackers. Hopefully they won't get complacent about the bullet they dodged. (Ahh, who am I kidding.)
Is there a meaningful difference between linebreaks and other whitespace if you have no comments?

I understand that it might constitute a breaking change now to delimit the comments since:

# HOCON is great you can have #comments!

would now be a compile error but I'm interested if there's another issue that prevented optionally delimited comments in the original spec.
I actually have quite fond memories of the documentation that came with Sun workstations around '90 - a huge amount of documentation and boxes of ring binders to put them in. Later on you even got a complete set of PostScript books for NeWS.

I learned a lot of lower level Unix programming from those Sun documents.
I was extremely lucky and stumbled across a particular IRC channel where some kind souls took pity on me and patiently answered my questions and gave me advice. I think it's fairly likely I wouldn't be a professional programmer today if I hadn't found that channel / those people.

For me at least, there was a certain level of aptitude I needed before I was able to productively seek out knowledge on my own. The range of possible things-to-learn in the programming world is so vast and daunting that I needed some hand-holding at the outset, until I had enough knowledge to reasonably separate things I needed/wanted to learn about from things I could confidently disregard.

If I were learning from scratch today, I think it's fairly likely I would still need something similar, even with the existence of SO.
But initializing the JAVA_HOME and related env variables before launching your java process should help, right?
not necessarily, with logistical costs to transport goods. The alternative is that those firms start up local factories, but then that's helping the local economy. With digital goods, many Western products aren't translated or localised. Even with translation, there are a lot of cultural artefacts built into software products that may translate to a poor user experience in other cultures.
> an Addison Lee private hire vehicle

As a Londoner: Huh? AddLee minicab drivers are infamous for being even more aggressive/xenophobic/inappropriate than black cab veterans. "Premium" they ain't.

But sure, if you want good service for the pampered "talent", you get a premium German private hire car, not the average Essex barrowboy...
Microsoft still are supporting XP. Just not for the the general public.

Organisations with high value software that relies on XP still receive ongoing support from Microsoft (such as the US Navy and anyone else who wants to pay big bucks for it). The difference is none of these patches usually make it to the public.

For Microsoft to patch this current issue, there would have already been a pre-existing team working on XP patches, the only difference is this one was released publicly due to it's impact.

http://bgr.com/2015/06/24/windows-xp-support-us-navy-million...
Iran becoming a nuclear superpower seems objectively worse. And it was thanks to cyberweapons that this was delayed.
We need to go docker -_-
You have to understand that there are many people that do not feel this way. Geometric 'intuition' does nothing for me.

That's why there are two books. :)
Here's the bad news : even with a brand new Ipad, the stock podcast experience sucks. Indeed it declines with each version of iOS. (You can however install Overcast)
Free software is software that doesn't cost any money, hence it is free.
No, mathematics is [naturally] hard to understand and this is why it's fun to understand: it's very challenging and immensely gratifying when you get it.
My baseline here is this white paper: http://www.nber.org/papers/w19843

It's from 2014, and basically says that an increase in $40,000 in parental income (that is, incoming money today) would translate to an increase in the child's expected income at age 30 of about $13,000. If you're going to say that choosing domestic labour over a $40,000 job is economically rational, that's what it's got to beat.

There are, of course, other drivers for parents. No parent is perfectly rational in an economic sense. That's why I qualified my comment.
A friend of mine built one of these 5 years ago with an iPhone and on that hardware the darkness problem was insurmountable.
What would be the benefit for consumer if lyft/uber switch to driverless cars? Are we going to see a huge price drop or just a bump for these companies profits?
Some people as Louis Friedmann says that only moving 10 meters away from the focal point (at 550 au) would reduce the gain by 10 dB.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEZ6zYZ6lDQ

That said I like people proposing big ideas.
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That's like believing a politician is ACTUALLY resigning to spend more time with their family.
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They offer 4K streams already, but they don't use this DRM standard. They mostly now use Widewine or some similar which is also slowly pushing to the same restrictions as AACS 2.0 on BR discs has.

It was more demonstration of a trend.
This seems to already be happening with Docker. I can think of a couple of Open Source projects where there official Windows installer just installs Docker, a Docker container and a .bat file that starts up and connects to the docker container.
Is it enough to check if the eyes are closing for long enough? I fear that there is a "pre-sleep" status, where one is unable to drive but not with his eyes closed.

When sleepy and driving I blink more, I feel loss of motor skill, and I may give off other hints well in advance of finally closing my eyes.

When I finally close my eyes it is way too late.

To put it bluntly: I fear that checking if the eyes closed for too long is as useful as checking if the airbag has deployed.
Developing/testing for multiple versions at the same time, having repeatable tests, versioning, using the same environment for development as your final deliverable (e.g. a Linux environment not OS X), being able to take your container and run it on production as is, and more things besides?
Have there been reports of Wine-aware malware already? (If not, the next generation probably will, though.)
It's not hard to figure out all whom you name won both popular and electoral votes, though jfk only by a very small margin.
I can remember feeling really intimidated by the proofs of theorems. What I now think is that at least some proofs are analogous to code you struggle when writing to get something working. Later, once you'd gotten the thing done you'd realised that there were steps that could be eliminated and still others that could be cleverly combined. Then later again when you wanted to show it off you tidied it up some more and what you then presented to others is much more elegant but perhaps harder to understand.
It would only a surprise to people who may believe that companies are worth what they're valued, people who do not understand that investments are bets.

Ever heard of bubbles ? Well they inflate until they burst in a poof where a few trillions disappear.

Remember the dot com bubble bursting at the beginning of the 2000's ? Expect something similar in a not so distant future as the bubble cycle repeats itself.

So yes a 69 billion dollars market valuation for a company does not mean anything other than investors made a bet this company would somehow pay them back their money plus extra at some point.
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any script that you are using to automate your life? How's it been done? Appreciate you sharing codes.
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Second, this attack demonstrates the degree to which cybersecurity has become a shared responsibility between tech companies and customers.

Victim blaming at its finest.
I am a self taught programmer who later made an engineering degree. The courses only told me the names of the concepts I already knew. This is in itself valuable because it gives you a language.

In my youth I found my first gigs by good contacts (in German «Vitamin B»). After that it was easy because of «official» experience.
So I could run this in Wine on top of windows subsystem for linux and screw up my host windows?