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Atlantis: Robust, Extensible Execution Environments for Web Applications (2011)
HPE’s Whitman Says Edge Will Drive On-Prem Data Center Demand
By the way, it's instructive to consider why that last example isn't a tiny capability system.

The answer is: it is a capability system -- or would be, except that something has been ADDED to that clean cap system, which is the ambient authority provided by the open() system call. If not for that (and similar), cp in that second example would be unable to access other files than those.

plash implemented a shell lacking that ambient authority (with limitations due to limited sandboxing at the time) by means of sandboxing at the command level. If I recall correctly you could use it with commands like the first one above, but the resulting semantics were more like the second command: cp could only read foo.txt, and only write bar.txt. In a capability OS (like Google Magenta?) that sandboxing would not be necessary (but OS-level caps are only part of the cap story).
This is more a problem with science reporting than with the science itself.

Saying 'modern humans' or 'homo sapiens' are X years old is a misleading statement. Evolution isn't some binary where all of a sudden you have modern humans. It's genetic change over time.

Better reporting would be to compare this find with relatively modern features in Morocco at 300,00 years ago, to Homo Naledi with archaic features in South Africa at 335,000 to 236,000 years ago. As other users put it, compare this data point to other data points.

This find implies that relatively modern humans had spread to multiple parts of Africa by 300,000 ya, while at the same time evolutionary cousins like H. naledi persisted in other parts.

"And if that is true, Dr. Gunz and his colleagues argue, then our species may have been evolving as a network of groups spread across the continent." This IMO is the best sentence summarizing the impact of this find, and makes the most sense evolutionarily. Instead of having one group evolve all modern traits, and then 70,000 years ago explode across Africa and then the globe, you have several groups with limited interbreeding evolving 'modern' traits. The interbreeding allows the traits to cross into other groups, and modern humans are the result of a particularly successful combination of traits where some traits arose in one group or location and some in others.

So sure, in evolutionary deep time (1-2 million years) East Africa remains the cradle of humanity. But this find updates the story that by 300,000 years ago, the groups that became human had left the cradle. That's a big story, and is a much better summation than the misleading "Humans are X years old, older than Y that we previously thought".
That XKCD feels spot on... https://xkcd.com/1838/
Shareholders of Alphabet squash plan to disclose its gender pay data
Is shorter always bad? With all the growth hormones given to cows it'd make sense some would go through to the milk and likely affect kids, wouldn't really be a good thing...
> Most are pretty boring and derivative

This is also true, sorry for implying that all the work is some sort of bleeding edge.
Not seeing how this is relevant. The tool linked here just helps you manage how much space different windows take up on your screen, it doesn't really care about how you open these windows.
The team (players and coaches) haven't been motivated by home attendance profits at any point, given that they've played the fewest possible home games in all rounds.

Players and coaches don't have incentives to extend series to manufacture additional games... and that's a good thing for the integrity of the game.

Given that the team has gained about a half-billion dollars in valuation in just a few years, shed no tears for ownership.
Net neutrality is bad for the market. What people think they want does not supercede decades of economics.

Regulating ISPs will do irreparable damage to the web, and it could be a decade or more before the average consumer can afford to be a part of a meshnet internet.

Y'all just don't understand the level of manipulation happening. Point at the comcast boogieman (and rightfully so, tbh) as they strip ISPs of their liberties and force a certain business model on them.

I have been somewhat disappointed with my fellow citizens before, and there's always been a certain kinship between Americans, but this is just too far.

I guess we will learn econ 101 the hard way.
All of that is a terrible idea, as you still suddenly have idiosynratic behaviour of some traffic streams, with some VoIP protocols working on some providers, stuttering on others, what have you ... just an unreliable, undebuggable mess that makes innovation essentially impossible (because now you need to upgrade/reconfigure all ISPs' routers to introduce a new VoIP protocol, say ... which in practice means that you can't).

If you want to do QoS, you have to do it using a standardized mechanism (such as the qos header in IP) and let the customer control which data streams they want prioritized.
I think we're at a point where the value of a traditional aircraft carrier is questionable (for the cost), and likely to decrease in the coming decades.

A smaller, possibly submersible craft that could launch and catch drones would probably be able to replace carriers in a variety of missions at vastly reduced cost. Pilots can be offloaded to military bases; launching/catching systems can be as powerful as the drones can be engineering to support, for shorter landing and takeoff distances; required storage space is less, crew is less, and cost is less for drones. DARPA has already done a little work in this direction - http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/darpa-develops-system-launch-retrie...
Related. I know a company that does analysis for soccer games. I thought it was state of the art too until they told me they just hired a bunch of people from China that logged every move (distance ran, kicks, etc) from eveyone and also put it in the database.
There was a plan for an upgrade, removing the ski-jumps and adding an EMALS.[1] This would allow using F-18 aircraft, among others. But that didn't work out.

[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/06/defence_committee_ca...
> Are you using rsync.net's "hidden" attic/borg option? This makes the price very attractive.

I am, yes, and it is quite attractive.

> You mention using "attic check" to guard against bitrot on the provider's storage. How is this in terms of bandwidth used? Does it have to transfer every byte or does it compute a checksum on the encrypted data (since rsync.net doesn't have the raw data) and just send that?

It's very bandwidth-efficient, but I have stopped doing that every day, as rsync.net told me they use ZFS and scrub their arrays regularly, so they would discover bit rot early. I only run the check once a month now.
Interestingly, the previous discussion is closer in time to when this article takes place (1999) than today (2017).
All true. It's never made much sense to me.

I mean, all food animals contain shit when they die.
The real problem for me is compatibility of NuGets with .NET core. I have so many which are just not compatible and many which have a slightly different Core variant with weird gotchas.

As such I've stuck with .NET 4.5 for now. On the positive side Mono seems to have got a lot better and I have a bunch of stuff running on Linux with surprisingly few problems "out of the box".
Well, you literally said that it was useless and that you gave up before you began. Given that, I'd say that revelation's comment was pretty useful - explaining how you could quickly and easily get up and running with .NET. Perhaps you could tone down the hyperbole next time?
EV cars do not solve congestion

Autopilot cars can do a lot for congestion. If every driver implemented the "stay halfway between" algorithm mentioned in CGP Grey's "The Simple Solution to Traffic" video, there would be far less congestion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHzzSao6ypE

EVs would also enable simpler tunnel construction and better tunnel economics. This is a part of Elon Musk's new proposals.
40 GB or so, enough that I needed a larger server :/
i don't think a kid being shorter in general is bad but if the average is going down it points to some sort of malnutrition. And by the way, mothers aren't given growth hormone. Also there is no proof of significant GH levels in cows milk or else every pro athlete would drink it constantly.
Many moons ago, I wrote a story for Red Herring magazine(I think) about European attempts to create their own versions of the Valley, so I'd thought about some of the issues. If I had to redo it now, your talk would make it a better article ;-)
Any growth hormone making it to the milk is likely to get denatured by pasteurization and further digested in the stomach.
Sorry to say that I don't know. I think only the mods can change titles and URLs...
The implementation of the ad examples is interesting. I'm not sure wireframes would be the most effective way to gauge annoyance. The times I really curse and want to smash my device is usually less about the design rather than the functionality of what it's keeping me from doing or interfering with. I'd have a much less visceral reaction to the same ad design if I was just looking at a wireframe during a study.
Few sections (like Big Sur) are closed so check before going on the road (like I did) and find the surprise.
I agree that bandwidth is not scarce in the same way as other goods. However, the fact remains that network infrastructure is expensive and it makes sense to pass more of the costs of that infrastructure onto those who derive more value from it (that is to say, those who use more of the available bandwidth).

What's wrong with Whirlpool subsidizing the electricity use of their customers? So long as the electrical utility allows any appliance manufacturer -- not just Whirlpool -- to participate in such a program, I don't see a problem. Like the original commenter, I see it as fundamentally no different than certain retailers subsidizing the cost of shipping for purchases.

You might argue that smaller appliance manufacturers don't have the resources to participate in such a program, but that's just the nature of business. Being big affords you certain advantages, like economies of scale. Smaller companies have to compete in other ways.
I am fortunate, in that I got a lesson in not over-engineering things very early in my career.

My first programming job was a 3 month contract at the maintenance department of an international airport. They had a bunch of information in large, unwieldy ERP system and wanted to automatically generate job sheets for the different maintenance crews. So I did the simplest thing possible - I generated an excel file from the ERP system, then using that file as input, I outputted different excel worksheets for the different crews.

It was very plain GUI app that had one or two buttons. I remember being a bit worried that it wasn't nearly fancy enough for 3 months work, but everyone seemed pretty happy with it.

Later on I found out that - before me - they had hired an experienced software developer who had worked on the same problem for 6 months, and at the end of that 6 months had apparently not produced a solution. I had done the dumbest, simplest thing - not because I had any insight or wisdom, but because it was really the only thing I had the skills to do. But I delivered.

It was a brilliant, accidental first lesson in not over-engineering.
My argument is that superior military capability (whether through technology or through numbers) may prevent military conflict. This is not a new concept, and would not have been foreign to anyone at the time. It's how European colonization worked. They swept in a proved (or presented) themselves as capable of decimating the countries in question, and subjugated them. Sometimes with relatively little violence, sometimes with a lot.

When in the middle of a war, new technology that might actually end that war, which to that point killed more people than any other recorded war, could be seen as some as a positive. Even if WW3 is assumed, making sure you have the capability to end it quickly and decisively can be seen as ethical, given the alternative they were actively living in.

In the end this discussion is about whether the people involved in the development of atomic weapons could have through they were acting ethically (that's what I was responding to originally). Regardless of what we think of the actual outcome, all these decades later, I think they could have believed they were acting ethically at the time.
It comes with more than just the database. The package includes, but not limited to:

1. All enterprise features.
2. All nodes being managed by Citus themselves. All the upgrades or rebalancing will be done by them.

Another option which should be cheaper is paying for the Enterprise license and manage it on your own hardware with your own setup.

Finally, you could also spin up the community version, which is free but lack important enterprise features such as rebalancing the shards when you add more nodes to the setup.
"The floppy shuffle" as we used to call it. It's why I'd never willingly buy a system with only one drive.

The floppy shuffle on the original Mac was a particular nightmare....
The New Shadow IT: Custom Applications in the Cloud
You're one of the good ones. It's as though, for some, this perspective jeapordizes veganism as a movement, which is ridiculous.
And then two machines have the same seed and bam collision.
When it goes into a server, as in the article, it's on the top.
Are any of those discussions around better way to write the benchmarks public?

From a very quick look, something like http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/program.php?tes... looks like a direct port from a C program, rather than idiomatic C#.
Ah, I misread it as "alternative to cow's milk" which I've seen around a lot.
The point of the timestamp is to make UUIDs somewhat sortable.
It is an interesting property for debugging or optimizing.

But yeah 20 bytes is an odd compromise.
Yeah, the two things that really piss me off are:

1. I scroll down, read the article a bit, move to scroll again, and end up clicking an ad that has just popped into existence (Cynical reason: The delay improves their CTR and hence revenue. Less cynical reason: They were too optimistic in how fast their ad would load on my mobile connection).

2. I click your page and it starts playing noise. It doesn't even have to be an ad, a lot of news sites autoplay their videos when I just care about the article.

Both are less about where the ad is and more about how it behaves
I'll believe that when you attach your real name to your comments.
A volume of Robert Silverberg stories blew me away when I was young and eager for ideas based fiction. I think he might be the under-rated author of that era - talented with characters and narrative, yet provocative and thought provoking in terms of his conceptual exploration.

However - decades (and probably puberty) sit in between me and my last reading of his work so this is probably an unreliable viewpoint.
i used divvy for one thing: making a window take up the full screen. on my laptop, i dont ever want to use half a screen... or at least i dont think i do. so dumb that i need to use divvy for this one thing. or maybe i dont? havent checked in forever.
Why Worthless CEOs Laugh All the Way to the Bank
For OS X, I use Optimal Layout: http://most-advantageous.com/optimal-layout/

Here's a screenshot of it in action: http://i.imgur.com/2N8czFR.jpg It took about five keystrokes to get the windows arranged like this. No mouse.

It's a product which has gotten far too little love financially compared to the value it produces. It's become an integral part of my OS X usage, and I can't imagine spending a day without it.

I have it set up like this:

Alt-1: Stretch the current window as wide and tall as possible. (Fill all available space.)

Alt-2: Make the current window occupy the left-half of the screen. Press Alt-2 again to occupy the right half.

Alt-3: Make the current window occupy the top-half of the screen. Press Alt-3 again to occupy the bottom half.

Alt-4: Occupy the top-right quarter of the screen. Pressing Alt-4 multiple times moves the window clockwise: bottom-right, bottom-left, upper-left, upper-right.

Alt-5: Center the current window, fill all vertical space, and fill 75% of total horizontal space.

Alt-Tab: http://i.imgur.com/SRFb16t.png Better version of Cmd-Tab. Pressing Alt-Tab once will go to the most recently active window. Twice goes to the second-most-recently active, and so on. Note that this is by window, not application. This alone is a massive improvement.

Alt-F: Search for a window whose title contains the specified string.

Remarkably, these hotkeys have never conflicted with any apps I use, and I've been using it for like two or three years.

The free version works just fine, but pops up a nag screen every day or so.

I wish it defaulted to these shortcuts, because it takes some work to set it up as I've described above. There's also no easy way for me to export and share my configuration with you. But once you've set it up this way, you'll never want to go back. OS X's maximize button is very inconsistent and it's remarkable that there's no hotkey to make the current window fill all available space.
Narrowing Isn't Boring If You're a Mr. Miyagi
I'm somewhat new to this topic (and therefore might not understand correctly) but another user, 'oillio', made a response in a different thread [0] which could explain 'getting diluted away to nothing', for example, an investor invests money causing dilution, the company squanders the money or uses it on something that doesn't positively affect the company trajectory. You now own a smaller slice of a pie which is the same size as it was before.

Using his example, if you estimate the value of a company to be 100M and estimate 10 years until IPO, if the investment doesn't raise the value of the company at the time of the IPO in 10 years then the dilution is not good for the employee because the pie is the same size (100M) but his/her shares have been diluted.

Seems like it's pretty difficult to estimate the value of the company in 10 years or the IPO date though which is probably why people just use the amount invested to estimate the value of the company.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14510483
Slant? I read the Facebook post.

Curious, what did you think her original point was?
Increased population and increased industrialization of more countries. Another World War, were it to happen, might pull in more countries that could capably contribute than in the prior wars. Additionally, industrialization is often accompanied by urbanization, which puts people at greater risk as those urban centers are attacked. Tokyo has almost 38 million people in it. That's one city. As I showed above, firebombing killed more people than atomic bombs in WW2, so I don't see any reason there wouldn't be enormous casualties in another World War.
To me this quote is the best gauge of how incredible of a human feat this was.

"One way to measure the greatness of any sporting achievement might be to consider the amount of time that passes before it’s achieved again. New world records are set in virtually every single Olympics. Every year brings new sports stars who stand on the shoulders of those who came before them. Look at someone like Usain Bolt, who has a dominant record in the 100-meter dash that might last for generations. The difference is, lots of people can run the 100 meters (albeit not quite as fast as Bolt).

Honnold, meanwhile, is performing in an event that no one else is even qualified, much less willing, to participate."

http://eveningsends.com/is-alex-honnolds-el-cap-free-solo-th...
Can you whitelist a CDN but only for a specific site?
Maybe everyone has just grown up.
Another factor in #1 is advertisers don't want to pay for ad impressions if the ad was never actually viewed (because it's way down the page and the user never scrolled that far).
Challenging Mainstream Thought About Beauty’s Big Hand in Evolution
Note: The regex in this article is wrong. What the article currently lists:

(?:\\u200d(?:#|@)(\\w)

But this is an invalid regex (parens aren't balanced), and it wouldn't work anyway. I believe the correct regex is

(?:\\u200d|#|@)(\\w)
Thanks for that: https://github.com/dotnet/core/pull/326#issuecomment-2624791... is the clearest instructions for building from source* I've seen.

Note that that still seems to require an existing binary (the bootstrapping problem). I wonder if the Debian CLR people have seen this.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=779970
It's on Wikipedia so it must be true! /s
WebRTC has codec negotiation, which means you can give preference to a particular codec while still supporting both.
Not really relevant. It just makes my life easier and people in this topic are interested in window managers so I thought I'd share maybe someone finds it useful :)
Building a Better Web Browser (2015) [video]
My wife is a portrait artist, and when she usually does a commissioned portrait for someone, I am astounded by the amount of time that she spends purely working on the eyes. (ex. [1],[2])

Looking at these in comparison to her work, it is definitely true that the eyes are the windows into the soul, and define a LOT about a person's face. (Or even an animal - she does pet portraits too).

Even in looking at her very early work in art school - I can forgive the odd crooked nose or askew mouth as long as the eyes tell the story.

Looking at these AI generated portraits, I find the facial features really interesting, but it is the artificial, dead quality of the eyes that make me somewhat uncomfortable with them, and induce a slight feeling of horror, as exceptional as the artwork is.

[1] - https://www.instagram.com/p/BRhU7fKjdhS/

[2] - https://www.instagram.com/p/BRZormMDyB3/
Well now we're getting somewhere. Specifics are much nicer. Maybe you were using some rarified academic terminology where terms like "coercion" "competitor countries" and "serves the US National Interest" have much more specific meanings than standard English would imply, although I'm not sure how specific you could get with such broad terms even in an academic setting. If anything I'd expect more acronyms and nitpicky details.

But in any case, we've clearly never followed through on the threat of a nuclear first strike, and according to this page we haven't issued one since the 1950s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_blackmail

I was especially shocked to hear we threatened Iraq with one in the run up to 2003... I just googled around to be sure and while there was tons of rhetoric about "pre-emptive strikes" it was always in a conventional context.

Where are you getting your information exactly?

Also that "rambling" was me poiting out scenarios where a nuclear reponse would be reasonable under your terminology, or at least understandable when taken in context. It wasn't meant as a question.
The analogy seems perfect. http://www.defensenews.com/articles/new-warships-big-guns-ha...

Even down to the serious opioid problem we are having.
link worked for me. https://i.imgur.com/I7RKlW5.png
> perversions that cannot presently be expounded upon by reason of their horror, but that will be disclosed in Latin at the appropriate time and place

Priceless! I have to use that in a comment, or piece of documentation.
The most recent nuclear policy I can find for the US rules this out. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Posture_Review
Local loop unbundling is a very much needed thing and I've been for since Bob Metcalfe used to push for it back in the 90's, but the name hardly virtue-signals like "Net Neutrality" does.

I don't really see how the two are at all similar though.
All the "what happened to ryan dahl" questions have been answered.
Take it anecdotically or not. My two daughters almost never consumed milk because of allergies and have an average height and will be taller than their past generations women.