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I love the analysis of terminal latencies! And I'm in full agreement with the overall goal of less latency everywhere. But, of course, I feel like picking a few nits.

> And it turns out that when extra latency is A/B tested, people can and do notice latency in the range we’re discussing here.

Yes, this is true. But the methodology is important, and the test used doesn't really apply to typing in terminals. The test isn't a "type and see if you can tell it's slow" test, it's a hit the mark hand-eye coordination test, something you don't do when typing text. Latency when playing Guitar Hero is super duper important, way more important than most other games, which is why they have a latency calibrator right in the game. Latency when playing a Zelda game is a lot less important, but they still try very hard to reduce latency.

The same people who can distinguish between 2ms of difference in a drum beat also can't distinguish between an extra 30ms of response time when they click a button in a dialog box.

I'd like to see a stronger justification for why lower latency in a terminal is just as important as it is for hand-eye coordination tasks in games.

~2 msec (mouse)
8 msec (average time we wait for the input to be processed
by the game)
16.6 (game simulation)
16.6 (rendering code)
16.6 (GPU is rendering the previous frame, current frame
is cached)
16.6 (GPU rendering)
8 (average for missing the vsync)
16.6 (frame caching inside of the display)
16.6 (redrawing the frame)
5 (pixel switching)

I find this list pretty strange. It's generally right - there are a bunch of sources of latency. But having done optimization for game consoles for a decade, this explanation of game latency feels kinda weird.

Games that actually run at 60fps usually do not have greater than 100ms latency. They also don't miss vsync every other frame on average, that 8ms thrown in there looks bizarre to me. Render code and GPU rendering are normally the same thing. Both current and previous frame GPU rendering is listed, huh? Sim & render code run in parallel, not serially. The author even said that in his article, but lists them separately... ?

Consumer TVs come with like 50ms of latency by default. That's often half of it right there. Games are often triple-buffered too, that accounts for some of it. The ~2ms right at the top belongs in the 8ms wait, it disappears completely.

I just get the feeling the author of this list was trying hard to pad the numbers to make his point, it feels a like a very hand-wavy analysis masquerading as a proper accounting of latency.
Didn't say it was a problem. I'm only saying that it being activated on LTC isn't an indicator of segwit's merits and faults.
It's part of Gsuite, so that's unlikely.
>> How?

That is why they have to write a proposal, it could be used to get advice from someone else. Another possibility is to use a more complicated algorithm (like, if two doctors gave the same advice last year, one of them should leave this year).

>> This alone ...

That is why I mentioned it.
The question was about "scientifically valid ways to maximize life", my assumption is that only one (or more) doctor could provide a valid advice, I also assumed the parent was not interested in trivial answers on an Internet forum.

HN being what it is I supposed some clever and funny algorithm would do the job (I was clearly wrong).

>> even if someone did have the money...

I do not get this part, hiring three doctors is not a big business for companies.
Even if you limit it to individuals, you can look at other parts of the world, for example in India doctors start at $20,000 per year. Hungarian doctors earn roughly one tenth of what a western European doctor earns [0], etc...

[0] http://budapestbeacon.com/public-policy/hungarian-health-car...
The repo has been on github for a long time, but the issues are on trac for some reason
Should they not?
Is this going to be put to use finding bitcoin hashes or what?
This app store thing just burned me pretty bad when I cleared my machine and did not back up Airmail 2. When I went back to install it, It was no longer on the app store and I was informed that there was no way to get it again unless I paid for Airmail 3.

This is where just having a license key and a dmg somewhere is preferable.
Take it easy my friend, you are wasting comments. And it actually works, I can upload a video anytime.
Bash scripts, curl, a daemon, and a Slack bot! Just whipped out an interactive todo list demo. Won't be sticking with Bash, but it was fun to start with.
Yes, thank you. We've updated the title from “Google launches a larger analogue to AWS Snowball”.
It's the generic drug business. Competition is purely though price. That squeezes margins significantly, even for more capital intensive product like injectables. If you're a manufacturer who has a sudden quality control issue, it often makes more sense to just shut down production than try and fix it and lose a ton of money.
Telling Siri to set reminders for me has been far more useful for me than I would have suspected.
A year ago.
I meant in the general use case, where I talk/text a random person and then "burn" the number.
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One of the issues I noticed in a lot of beginner PHP developers is that the official docs is the last thing they look at. They'd rather copy/paste some crap from W3Schools or a 10 year old blog post, and given that they put it on shared hosting with a prehistoric version of PHP the "mysql_query" garbage will work as expected (as in, allow their site to be exploited).
Google Sheets for most of my todo and idea lists.

Qbserve for time-tracking.

Just started using Todo, Microsoft's replacement for Wunderlist. Seems pretty decent.

Alexa for Pomodoro-like timer.

Pinboard for bookmarking.
Everyone makes the assumption that computers should get to be as smart as humans but in some ways, its the other way around. For example, the human brain is not a turing machine, it doesnt have memory (in the sense that its lossy). You need memory to have a turing machine so with a paper and pencil, a human is a turing machining but a very slow run. Compare the difference to read and write on paper than a computer has to access ram.

I think there will be some kind of meta deep learing (still using deep learning but compose of algebras which are augmented compared to today's standards). We have already started this by using pretrained networks for tasks. There is no reason RNNs won't go this way (i imagine they already are but this isnt my research area specifically) after all, RNNS are a turing machine.
I heard the head of R&D (of Scotiabank) talk at a conference a little over a month ago and at the time he made it seem like Scotiabank had experimented with existing cryptocurrencies and blockchain tech and were disatisfied and thought it would be some time before the technology was approachable for their bank. I guess they were just playing coy.
Your second link says including $546 for six liters of saline that cost the hospital $5.16.

That doesn't sound like the cost of the saline is much of a problem. It sounds like hospital billing is the problem.
Eye in the Sky. Now I have a worm in the ear, thanks a lot! :P
For grocery shopping, I use Google Keep and constantly update the list of groceries the next time I go grocery shopping, which is usually 1-2 times a week.

I usually add items on the desktop version and then remove them on the mobile version when I'm at the store.
LSD has an exceptionally wide therapeutic index, but fentanyl's therapeutic index of 270 is pretty good as prescribed drugs go. That's a far wider TI than over the counter painkillers like ibuprofen. Warfarin, a common narrow-therapeutic-index drug, has a TI of ~2.
I don't know if I'd be comfortable relying on a third party for data export.
Headline is neither source headline not technically accurate; while X started life as Google X before the Alphabet reorg, it's a separate subsidiary of Alphabet from Google.

This story is about X, not Google.
This is a nice list.

Some things I've used at various points in the past for specific goals:

-My fitness pal for tracking food

-Spreadsheets for tracking workouts. I found it worked easier if I just listed everything I was going to do weeks in advance and just cross it off as I did it, vs writing it down as I did it

-Tiny but gmail keyboard shortcuts - makes sorting and going through email a breeze.

-Back again chrome extension. When you land on a page it tells you how many times you've been on it that day. Useful for curbing the HN and reddit habit.

That's it!
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Maybe you can choose to use only the open source parts of Android?
Online searching: Flawed queries can lead to poor decision-making
How come an intern has access to the main production line PLCs?
These all rely on a user being logged in, right? So the Watergate approach doesn't seem as useful, unless the machines are unlocked by default.
Most "modern" GUI terminals make this artificially fast by not rendering every flushed buffer; instead, they simulate what ought to be on screen, and then render at 60Hz or whatever your refresh rate is.

The point being that it's not measuring latency, nor throughput of the rendering, but rather throughput of the emulation.
Thanks, this is something I've been thinking about for a while.
Having Amazon split up into dozens of smaller companies for different categories just sounds really annoying to me.
She donated all of her share ($150m) to charity to boot.
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"Slow and featureless" isd hardly an advertisement for good software.
Yes, and it's even more bizarre when you realize what we need it for-- critically ill patients who are so acidotic that drugs like epinephrine (adrenaline) don't work. Bicarb reverses that acidosis, it doesn't cure it, but it does make it so your epi and other drugs have a chance to work. The main alternative is sodium acetate, which depresses heart function, causes low blood pressure and reduces respiratory drive.
- Todoist for all work & personal tasks I want to complete, scheduled by target completion date. Native OSX global keyboard shortcuts plus Android task addition "OK Google, note to self- mail out quarterly taxes on Tuesday", it's far and away the best todo tracker I've ever found to date.

- Workflowy for structured idea-generation and brainmapping

- Gmail for all inbound tasks, that other people want me to complete. Chained with followupthen.io (which lets you bounce/snooze emails for specific time intervals)

- Gcal for fixed-date events (meetings, birthdays, vacations)

- Dashlane for password mgmt. Used to be unstable but great now!
> but what solution do you have?

It isn't easy, but as long as nation states are plausibly more powerful than Google, we—humanity—can hope.

Use antitrust to inhibit moves like the one under discussion.

Use privacy legislation to plug the Google data vacuum nozzle.

Suspend net neutrality in ways calculated to allow ISPs to suck Google dry, while not hurting anybody else too much.
I've found reddit to be a questionable place to get customers. Traffic, sure, but customers? Not so much. If you want to spike up your traffic for a few hours, post on reddit. But the conversation rates from reddit traffic are a fraction of the rates coming from other sources, in my experience.
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- atimelogger for tracking all my time on my phone : http://www.atimelogger.com/

- Zim for my todo and write down my ideas/projects http://zim-wiki.org/

- Syncthing to synchronize and backup :https://syncthing.net/

- Secret voice recorder to save a quick vocal message without the pain to turn on my phone and write my idea: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.miragestac...

- GPSLogger to save my gps position every 10 minutes and save it as gpx, and synchronizing the files with my server : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mendhak.gp...
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> HN has probably mentioned this before but is there a reason Google makes announcements on Medium and not on Blogger?

X’s blog is on Medium, not Blogger, but X is not Google, it’s a separate subsidiary of Alphabet.
Just in case you are reaching a wrong conclusion, if someone creates a few new account just to upvote the story, then the system detects it and it doesn't improve the rank of the submission. It doesn't mater if they just upvote or they upvote and write a non substantial comment. Also, it doesn't mater if they are a lot of real fans that are not HN users, or they are just virtual sockpuppets. (I don't know the details, it's part of the secret sauce.)

If you have lots of real fans, it's useful that they help to give relevant technical replies to the questions that the HN users. (My recommendation is to avoid exclamation marks and oneliners, try to write at least three lines of text.)
A notebook.

I note everyday my hours, and go to my manager's office every time I have extra hours in regard to my contract to get them back.

Boss is happy so am I, since it means we both care about balancing real life and company goals.
* Gmail's inbox for TODO list (email myself if it wasn't initiated by an email)

* Google Calendar for events and reminders

* Google Docs for finances and checklists

* Plain text editor on smartphone for personal notes (keeping them cloud-free)

* A few social networks for keeping in touch with people in my life
Right, and it also prevents positive outcomes. People chronically lie to their doctors about their actual lifestyle behavior and then are surprised that the Dr. didn't catch all the warning signs for some disease.

More data = better outcomes.
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React IS the HHVM in that example; there was no React prior to Facebook creating it.

"...the only thing hack/hhvm offers in the near future is being tied to the hip with a single large company that both consumes and produces it."

Both projects are of course open source so "tied to the hip"
may not be applicable (though they of course have difference licenses with the nuances that go with)
Number one thing is discussing the equity split and what happens if one of you quits.

I have a friend who helped start someone selling a breakfast product. The plan was my friend would invest $20k and the partner would run it as a local business, and they'd split 50-50. Very quickly my friend got excited by the potential and started working full time to help, ends up investing hundreds of thousands of dollars, doing all e-commerce, marketing, negotiations, paying for industrial quality kitchen, etc, while the partner just mixed and packaged. Sales shot up and the company begins to have significant value, but still requires more investment.

They needed to switch from an LLC to a C corp so they could get funding and start giving stock options to attract/keep good employees. The partner conceded that my friend was doing the lions share of the work and had put a ton of money in while he had put in nothing, and that my friend should have most of the initial stock in the C corp. But they struggled to agree on an exact split.

So then the partner talks to friends and family who of course tell him "it was YOUR IDEA, you shouldn't have to give up anything!" and comes back refusing to sign anything (which scotches the C corp conversion). Eventually he's able to force my friend to buy him out for a totally unreasonable price.

So my specific advice is.

1) Never start a new venture as an LLC unless you don't plan to ever share equity with employees AND you expect it to be a cash flow business that will pay out all profits directly to partners.

2) Always force all partners to vest their equity over years. You can do incentive stock options, or restrict stock units, or however you want. If you can't afford a lawyer to draw it up yet, at least put the arrangement in writing and agree to it, so that if you have disagreements and need to part ways, you aren't being forced to buy half the business from some guy who mixed ingredients for 6 months.
Sad that you can't open the doors, pick the containers, spin the wheels or open the hood :D It is a nice touch though!
Or, that statement is true, but the genuinely want to explore blockchain technology and thought joining the EEA would be the best way to do that.
I'd love to have something like this to show me step by step how to do repairs on my car or an appliance. Recently I was fixing the turn signal lever in my car by referring to youtube videos. It would be awesome if I could just download to the device a file for whatever thing I need to fix and it just walks me through the steps.
Perhaps the controversial part to me was your last two lines.

> If you hate your job, quit your job. Don't manage the hate.

> If you love someone, go for it. Don't manage your love.

These lines appear to contradict the idea in your reply, where we seem to agree that your emotions of hate or love should not be taken at face value. Instead, these two lines suggest you should give into your id, based on the "fact" that you've experienced those emotions.
If we contrast it with .. stressful hard work,

Then we'd be shifting the goalposts.

The point is that, while it's not like he toils away in a coal mine -- and we know he ain't no brain surgeon -- whatever it is that Branson actually does, by any common sense definition it qualifies as "work".
Except that it is far from true.
> They mix it up: the "Transfer Appliance" announcement also on the HN front page is on googleblog.com. Different teams of course.

Not just different teams, different companies. Glass is X, and they don’t use Google Blogger. Transfer Appliance is Google, and they do use Google Blogger.

Both Google and X are Alphabet subsidiaries, but they aren’t the same company.
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A few systems, always a work in progress.

- https://xph.us/2013/01/22/inbox-zero-for-life.html for managing email

- bitlbee + weechat for managing social messaging. Slack for work.

- A custom deployment of https://github.com/gollum/gollum for managing all notes, personal and work related. Can easily share Markdown files with teammates / friends. https://github.com/zachlatta/mullog is code for custom deployment. I usually edit locally using vim and have tons of shell scripts specific to note management to automate file creation, renaming, and git usage. This is my most used life system and I'm almost constantly using it.

- Arch Linux with i3 and tons of custom scripts for managing how I use my computer. Have heavily customized my machine in https://github.com/zachlatta/dotfiles.

It's difficult to predict the future and unlikely that someone else will build a tool that will always meet my personal needs, especially as they change over time. Better to use systems that lend themselves to customization so I can always build systems that work for me – hence heavy reliance on scriptable programs.
Current game ai is vastly different than this I think. I think there is a good writeup on the ai from FEAR that might be a decent read
I use Strong for tracking my lifting as opposed to a spreadsheet. Found it to be good for at least my style of working out.
I think the best option would be to use 13 months. You get 13 months with 4 weeks and an extra day (365%13=1). This extra day could be set aside as a special case. I would use it for the first day of the year.
I'm also interested to see how the worlds of program synthesis (specifically type directed, proof-checking, dependently typed stuff) can combine with deep learning. If recent neural nets have such great results on large amounts of unstructured data, imagine what they can do with a type lattice.
> As a consumer, having the manufacturer "transfer" money from your pocket into their own sucks. Seems like the article's logic is actually pretty decent.

As I addressed in my second paragraph, it is not actually a transfer unless you introduce new assumptions into the standard model of a monopoly. Please describe them.

> There are real costs in time, money, and resources for creating the packaging, transporting drugs, stocking/shelving them, unstocking them, sending them to a disposal location, and then disposing of them.

These are, in almost all cases, trivial compared to the development cost of the drug. You can group them under the marginal cost of the pill.

> Basically, outside of theoretical econ-land, wasting perfectly good things is wasteful.

Much worse than theoretical econ-land is non-quantitative land where all "waste" is bad and cost-benefit analyses are never done, not even at the order of magnitude level.

Please, by all means, construct a more accurate model. But just criticizing the imperfections of a model, which always exist, and then making non-quantitative value judgements is how we get recycling programs that cost 10 times the value of the material they recover.
I have a notebook called "Captain's Log" that I constantly post things into. I have my Evernote app set to default to that notebook. Everytime I hear something on the radio I want to look up, I type a few of the lyrics into a note and save it and it goes into the Captain's Log for perusal later. Everytime I have something I need to remember to do I post a note into the Captain's log and add a "todo" tag to it so I can sort those out when needed. All meeting notes go in there too. When I start coding something I take notes on what I'm working on in a note so that I can go back and remember what I did when I was working on that thing I can't quite remember.

I can sort that notebook by "date created" and see a log of my life going back in time and I've found it very useful.
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Was curious and tried this out a bit on Linux+X11 on an i7 6700k with the igpu:

stdout [MB/s] idle 50 [ms]
urxvt 34.9 19.8
xterm 2.2 1.9
rxvt 4.3 7.0
aterm 6.0 7.0
konsole 13.1 13.0 note: stops moving when printing large file
terminator 9.1 29.4 note: stops moving when printing large file
st 23.0 11.2
alacritty 45.5 15.5
It's not entirely clear to me how that wouldn't be illegal.
I dont leave todo lists, cleandar events and life handling tools in general to take over my brain. He is the best tool because it pop ups the mos important thing to the present and if something has been forgotten, well, that's because there was a more important thing in the stack : )
In the same theme: moving very large amounts of data between GC and AWS, in either direction. I wonder what it would take for them to make this cost zero. Legislation?

It likely wouldn't be very expensive to get a very high-capacity fiber connection going between GC/AWS datacenters in relative physical proximity.

Not expressing a particular/immediate personal need here, just noting that this could help keep the lock-in factor down and level of competition up.
Larry Smith gave a powerful talk on Parenthood + Living the "Safe" Life...

this moment i picked out.. was the heaviest for me :

https://youtu.be/iKHTawgyKWQ?t=10m41s
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This is addressed in my second paragraph.
FINALLY. So frustrating having to wait all of this time. I couldn't get a definitive answer from them on whether a Trasmit 4 license purchased at present, would be eligible for a Transmit 5 upgrade.
> Huge Aircrash

Is that a jab at Hughes Aircraft? :) Looks like "Firefinder" is some kind of radar system developed by them.