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what about experimenting & failing fast and cheap? will you buy servers / rack space / service contract for a year to develop your app when you can experiments with servers on the cloud in cents? public clouds are about muuuuch more than scaling, we can also talk about managed services, agility, payg, etc'
The blog author is wrong; this code is not the source of the problem his test-case triggered.
Blackout victims at Mexico resorts have little hope of justice
It's similar to my preferred terminal settings. Dark background, light grey text, some brighter colors to highlight important things.
I think there's some curation by the business operator. It's pretty unlikely that overseas residents have a good grasp of the current market offerings.

Also I think it's an interesting case study of the growth and evolution of a business that started very, very small, that's been documented closely by the operator. He even wrote about dealing with cc fraud.
> The printing press was the only form of news media

No, it wasn't. Criers existed.

More to the point, though, presses were and are used by more than the news media, and freedom of the press applies to those wishing to use the press whether or not it was in the context of news media.

The news media wasn't the focus of the original freedom, nor is it the correct generalization to new technology (which would be more “freedom to use mechanisms to reproduce and distribute expressions”.)
Eh. I've used ORMs and SQL extensively for many years. I think the concerns over mismatch are routinely overstated.
Yeah it's still the artist's choice how much dynamic range is needed to express their music. More dynamic range just for the sake of it, seems just as bad as sausage flattening to get as loud sound as possible.
It's not, it's meant for cases where people need entirely different custom hostnames. Subdomains are quick and easy, but people have become quite a bit more demanding about how their stuff is branded, and tend to want it all on mydomain.com (instead of me.service.com).

Actually I lied, it's probably a little easier than a wildcard cert. :D But not enough to matter. People who just need wildcard subdomains might want to use us for other reasons. We handle all load balancing, global SSL termination, etc. These things are stuff you'd use even if you were just using a wildcard cert.
you can already do that at https://myaccount.google.com/
I don't understand what the SPARC "front end" actually is, but the Tianhe-2 Top 500 figure comes from Intel processors <https://www.top500.org/system/177999>.
It wouldn't need many moving parts if you didn't want to mess with the data. Like if you just functioned essentially as a blob store. But as soon as you start touching data formats... things get fun and you should prepare to be a hacker playground.
It is, but any measure to reverse-tax and redistribute wealth is a non-starter anywhere in the US, even the most left-learning states and municipalities.

So yes, that's the cause, but it's unlikely anything will ever be done about it.
Well the project arose like this. I got interested in aging halfway through the PhD. I started collaborating heavily with aging people at my institution. But there are so many papers and so much data to get informed about the area.

So I wondered "is there some semi-empirical way to find out what is 'most important' in aging so I can focus my future efforts on that?"

The solution I hit on was to take all the available gene expression data and to build a system to ask "what genes/pathways/systems change most strongly and consistently with age across species, experimental conditions, and tissues"? This would be a "core aging signature", if it exists. Obviously this is only one of many ways to answer my question and neglects epigenetics, proteomics, etc, although we're currently extending the system to DNA methylation. There is not enough high-throughput proteomics data to make it possible to do this with protein yet. We do not use sequencing for now because it is much more of a processing burden and human RNA is behind dbGaP embargo. And at the time I started this, there really wasn't that much of it compared to GEO.

My boss's interests are much more general than aging, so he encouraged me to develop the system to be more generic while still answering my question, which I did. It became a general meta-analysis system for asking "what genes change expression with <arbitrary condition> across the available experiments in GEO?" We found other things we could do with such a huge amount of expression data, and some of them are in Chapter 5.

I would say the system itself is 80-90% done. But sadly I did not get to a really detailed analysis of aging yet, although my findings so far on that are in Chapter 4.
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Cloak VPN is now Encrypt.me
> Pretty much -- every reader and advertiser is essentially a voter.

That is not the least bit similar to being voted for.
/me waits for the citation for the prior fault tolerant 'consensus' with O(N) scaling; or for the consensus process that doesn't have approved membership but still achieves some useful security properties
Russia Is Raising $100M USD to Rival China’s Bitcoin Mining Farm
And have a button on them that cycles through previously taken gifs.
The reality is that the 2% or 4% figure depends on which part of the GDPR you have breached and isn't a tiered approach. Breaches of core requirements (for example valid processing grounds) will attract a 4% fine straightaway technically speaking.

Art 83 covers the different triggers.

Having said that there are various schools of thought around levels of potential fines, including from different data protection authorities in the EU.

Considering the ICO in the UK is yet to levy a maximum fine despite egregious violations is at least one factor to suggest fines will not increase dramatically.

Also there are not only increased fines to consider but an increased focus on compensation to data subjects in the event of a violation of their rights (together with an evolving case law to support that in the UK at least).
BigDecimal has nothing to do with the issue.
There is no race conditional. The code is textbook example how to use (cheap) unsafe publishing with no locks/CAS -- assign to local variable and 'return' the variable value (not a class member one). There is no global cache, it's per BigDecimal instance.
As for 'this bug', yes JVM concurrency bugs are serious by definition.
Same here. I do most of my browsing in an incognito mode-like environment (so no persistent cookies or sign in to my Google account), and even when I am signed in I turned off the search history a long time ago.
Yeah I use those, too. Turns out you can use some url hacking to get them, even if they don't have a <link rel=alternate>. The URL is https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id= followed by the channel ID (if your channel URL is https://www.youtube.com/channel/something, then you can just take that 'something', if it's https://www.youtube.com/user/something, you may need to search for the ID a little). EDIT: Oops, that last one actually exists :S
In addition to the solutions you mentioned, This might create more jobs at facebook and google as compliance will take a huge amount of effort.

I predict, lawyers are going to make a lot of money on this.
UK here, sounds expensive to me. I mean, it's calculated as a percentage of your salary - so if you don't work at all, or earn below the taxable threshold, you never pay anything and still have full coverage. Earn loads of money = pay loads towards health insurance. As someone on a moderate salary, ~569USD/month sounds like a lot to me, but I can only assume that with his profits, it's not bad at all.
You're right. I'm a moran.
https://psal.cs.drexel.edu/index.php/JStylo-Anonymouth

> JStylo is used as an underlying feature extraction and authorship attribution engine for Anonymouth, which uses the extracted stylometric features and classification results obtained through JStylo and suggests users changes to anonymize their writing style.
Which, in practice, tends to devolve to what's effectively a four-star rating of some sort: Want two hours of my life back, OK/meh, Good, Excellent

A humorous take: https://xkcd.com/1098/
Since you mentioned the Open Data Stack Exchange, it might also be worth pointing out a couple of sub-reddits that might also be of use to the OP (or anybody):

https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/

https://www.reddit.com/r/opendata/
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Breakthrough Cancer Therapy for Dire Cases Gets FDA Approval
Personally I find the heavy use of ioctls in modern Linux APIs bit distasteful. Sure, its pragmatic and easy, but it really feels abusing the UNIX mantra of "everything is a file" when the only operation you can do for that "file" is some specific ioctls. I first noticed this in the very nice KVM article that ran on LWN few years back, and now again here. I really wish there was some more structured way of talking to the kernel, but I can understand that introducing a ton of new syscalls probably is not practical.
Skylake-X vs. Threadripper
It's a good thing practically no large cities are built around ocean ports, or else it would be real cause for concern that even minor storms becoming frequent could wreak havoc.
The Next System Project is a similar think tank doing a lot of investigation into what this idea (and others) look like when implemented on the scale of a whole economy.

https://thenextsystem.org/
couldn't you make the argument that the USA showed that Europe has no real power, and militias could easily usurp their authority?

you're all idiots.
Which is why I wouldn't be surprised if "Satoshi Nakamoto" turns out to be, not an individual, but a tightly-knit team of people, including BOTH professional coders who write software for a living AND computer scientists with strong academic backgrounds. Bitcoin is in my view too impressive an achievement to be the work of a single person working in isolation.
It's a truly ridiculous argument. Users of telephone service don't specify the routing of their calls either, yet somehow that fact is sufficient to transform an ISP from a carrier to a "content provider".
Yes. A few weeks ago.
I don't agree that rights only make sense in the context of a society, as rights may exist without being codified, it's just significantly more difficult to assert them without societal assistance.

I can assert rights to other people without being a member of human society. My right to the apple on the ground is the classic example.
CEO and OTOY Co-Founder Jules Urbach introduces blockchain driven rendering
You could also call it "Free Market Socialism" which is my person favorite term for it.

Although "Democratic Economy" is also apt.
Kaspersky Lab turns the tables, forces “patent troll” to pay cash to end case
R workspaces are an idea borrowed from APL: http://aplwiki.com/LearnApl/AplWorkspace

Common Lisp and Scheme do not have any specifications for persistent state, and the implementations that do have images are all over the place in what those images do and how they are made.
>Am I missing something, or would this let any node (supernode/browser) in the system potentially replace arbitrary content with their own content?

collision attack != preimage attack (what you're thinking of).
What was the amount of Finnish taxes going to healthcare? Probably a few thousand euros per year.
While it is probable that some will dope in the clean league, a simple matter of instituting lifetime bans and reclassifying any and all records held by an athlete would put a strong disincentive.

As to your unsupported statement that all the fame and prestige will be associated with the clean league, that is a matter of marketing. If there wasn't a market for doped up, super-humans athletes professional sports would be very different. Look at WWE, it's not even really a sport, but it takes in half a billion dollars a year on the promise of watching steroid guzzling guys throw each other around.

For many people the problem with PED is the dishonesty, the unfair advantage it gives a cheat. But when the stigma of cheating is lifted, all that changes.

A more likely outcome is that fans of some sports would shun PED and unlimited league events, others would see it as a natural extension of their attitudes about competition.

https://www.wired.com/2012/09/sports-and-doping/
"asic-vulnerability" is actually an asset. If Bitcoin were mined with CPUs or GPUs, any large organization or government could just point their computing power at Bitcoin and disrupt it.
I imagine that we will eventually reach this point:

https://giphy.com/gifs/harry-potter-scream-newspaper-883Tl1M...

Fun to imagine that the Harry Potter Universe is really just a bunch of people that have inherited super advanced nano technology from some alien race that long ago arrived as refugees escaping some galactic war that devastated their planet.

After millennia they've lost touch with their history and only their access to their old technology remains. Technology that can only be accessed via a DNA marker.

This type of technology is able to bend space and time, hence the ability to jump through space.
Nice set of features, that the majority of Android users will only get in a few years.

Maybe we should start making bets if Android Oreo be able to beat Nougat and be above 13.5% next year this time around.
Agree it has the potential to be as disruptive to world society as the web or smartphone.

I mined a few satoshis in early 2014, stopped when hash difficulty got too hard and didn't pay Bitcoin much attention for the next few years.

A couple of months ago I decided to jump back in to the whole crypto coin ecosystem and check out what's going on and, honestly, it's staggering how fast this space is evolving. I'm getting the same feelings I had in 1997/1998 with the web: there's something big going on and it feels exciting.

Playing around with Ether Delta, watching smart contracts execute on etherscan, syncing my wallets up with blockchains, anonymously trading coins & tokens on exchanges, chatting to believers/trolls/curious peeps on forums. The whole vibe reminds me of geocities / audiogalaxy / slashdot in the late nineties.

I think the ideas (technical & political) Satoshi Nakamoto crystallised in to Bitcoin represent the beginning of something fundamentally transformative and can't wait to see where it ends up.
70,000 to be evacuated over WWII bomb in Frankfurt
im actually quite surprised that the online candy market is still so small. candy in general is a multi billion dollar industry and with the benefit of the large hn community and its multiple first page posts, i expected them to have grew to a mega online mall for candies by now. its quite an interesting case, what could be the problem here?
> I see this as yet another tax on (European) startups who have to invest even more resources into regulatory compliance.

This also affects American companies and the degree it affects you primarily depends on how much of your business model was depending on you doing nefarious things with customer data.
There are two things that a full-sized electric multi-rotor vehicle must contend with to be practical:

1) Battery power density must have a tremendous breakthrough, in both terms of weight and stored capacity.

2) Electric motors capable of producing the energies required to produce the thrust necessary to propel a full-sized vehicle must also have a tremendous breakthrough in size, weight, and heat dissipation (especially if we're discussing vehicles capable of typical cruise altitudes over long distances).

It would be far more simple and efficient to make a full-sized Kerosene, AvGas, or any other petroleum-based fuel multi-rotor vehicle... but then you must also overcome the unnecessary challenges multi-rotor systems introduce at this scale. Which... leads back to today's average helicopter and airplane designs.

Like I said, it's not impossible... it's just not practical for these reasons. If someone wants to do it, they can... obviously... but it's not the most effective way.

> Perhaps one or more of those investments will surprise you

Indeed, people often invest in some very surprising ideas... sometimes even without really understanding what they are getting into...[1]

[1] https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/33541/are-fixed...
Cdist 4.6.1 has been released
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The p2p network could be implemented over radio and without computers we'd just have a far lower hashrate and probably a different PoW algorithm. I don't see any reasonable way we would have discovered cryptocurrencies before the internet and computers though.
It's a percent from revenue not from profit. So 5% from google revenue is a lot
I don't find this very shocking or offensive. Pragmatic people don't bite the hand that feeds them. That means that every think tank will have at least one blind spot in the form of its major donor. This is also true of many media outlets. Bloomberg News is very careful when it reports about Michael Bloomberg. The same could be said of many other publications' relationship to their owners. If you don't like the people paying the bills, it's time to start hitting up their rivals for funds...
Throwaway account.

I have national sales responsibilities for one of the majors. Think IBM/Microsoft/Oracle/etc leading a sales team of 74 reps.

You'd be surprised at how LITTLE sales we've generated from GDPR. We've been providing free GDPR assessments for the past 1.5 years for over 200 accounts as lead gen opportunity and very little sales have resulted.

It all boils down to companies simply don't believe the fines will be enforced given just how expensive the fines are.

And since GDPR doesn't go into affect until May 2018, companies are just waiting and seeing what happens.

It's really hard to sell GDPR because it's essentially an insurance policy. Why spend $5m on software and another $5m in services ($10m combined) if your total fine is only $20m. Do you as a company have a 50% chance of getting fined? If not, then roll the dice and not buy a solution.
This was (is? I haven't really used them much in a while) an issue with eBay's reputational system as well. Anything other than a Positive and "A++++++++++++ seller" was interpreted to mean they shipped you a box full of bricks rather than they took a week to ship things.
In case you are puzzled the same way as me, GDPR stands for General Data Protection Regulation.
I agree, I'm not fond of mindfulness hacks, but there are some tech approaches that can help someone build a practice without a book or a teacher.

I'm in love with a meditation app called Timeless on iOS.
So there are tools like that one can use to start and maintain a meditation practice.
It doesn't seem like an expensive premium for a family of 3 compared to what's on the federal exchange (what people ignorantly call Obamacare, as it were an insurance plan in and of itself) for the State of Florida.

Still the premium means relatively little, what matters is what kind of network coverage he/his family gets as well as the deductible and copay. As many have found especially with some of these fly by night insurance companies that initially popped up on the exchange in Florida and after two years are no longer in business, there is no point in claiming people are insured just because they are paying premiums, if the have relatively limited access to care and/or can't afford the deductible.
I like how Microsoft added this but the major drawback is it is Windows 10 only.
Interesting. At the institutions I'm familiar with, you can do all kinds of unspeakable crap to animals and no one cares unless PETA gets wind of it.
Bernie Sanders (who is currently a United States Senator) nearly won the Dem nomination in the last election.
A fair point but I've not seen even a hint that Amazon themselves are tracking me across AWS hosted services. Do you have any evidence or links?
> I can most certainly hear the compression when compared with CD digital audio.

with 256kbps AAC, really? yeah MP3 is old and even at 320kbps it throws away everything above 18kHz (which I can't hear personally, but some people can). However AAC is newer and better and blows MP3 out of the water (so do OGG and OPUS, btw). We got a lot better at psychoacoustics since MP3 started out. I strongly doubt you could hear it in a proper A/B test.
You're precisely wrong, actually. The source I would quote is unfortunately a dead-tree book, specifically the first chapter of the book 'Nine Crazy Ideas In Science'. The first chapter isn't even ABOUT economic inequality, but actually about the 'crazy idea' that tons of guns in a society could lead to less violent crime. The only actually sensible thing to do, of course, is to study EVERY society and not to cherry pick 'oh we'll only look at the developed countries and then claim to have found something about human society in general'. You look at all of them. And when looking at all of them, prevalence of gun ownership in a society had no correlation with violent crime. Not positive, not negative. So they threw in a thousand+ other demographic factors and couldn't find a single one that was a statistically significant predictor... except economic inequality. Poverty itself wasn't predictive, wealth itself wasn't predictive, only a presence of both poverty and wealth together was predictive, with the extremity of the gap predictive of the severity of the violent crime.

One thing I am uncertian of is how exactly they defined 'violent crime'. Most people only consider street crime when addressing the issue. But most death from crime is due to white collar crime. White collar crime (at least in the US) kills more people and causes more economic damage than street crime by a large margin (but is socially normalized among the upper class so rarely punished, and then only lightly).
Glad we are making it more secure. On a side note I love that we now have https://googleblog.blogspot.com/index.html http://blog.google and https://android-developers.googleblog.com/ and https://googleblog.blogspot.com/ (which redirects to blog.google without index.html because it appears to be the new site) which is slightly weird.
Yeah, D3 is what we're working with as well; also need to be able to embed the charts in Powerpoint, but that'll be a different story. All fun and games.
>>I looked into this once and it was a few thousand dollars.

Our IRB cost is 10% of that, or less, depending on the number you are choosing for "few." Maybe if you used WIRB or another IRB that is specific for drug trials, yes, it can run that expensive. For run of the mill published papers, no, you should not be using services like that.

>>There's also something vaguely worrying about the incentives of a for-profit IRB.

This would imply any reviewer or journal actually checks IRB qualifications on submission, review, or referee. Devor et al in the JSCR/Ohio State case and all the reviewers coming out as a result of that and saying they don't check IRB shows that it is anything but. Again, this isn't true for drug trials, but for expedited review minimal risk studies, there is no reason to be using bureaucratic and slow moving IRB providers.

EDIT:

>>Even $1000 is going to be prohibitively expensive for many of these projects.

There are many IRB providers who do expedited review, minimal-risk, standard studies for less than half of this cost.

EDIT2:

>>I think overseeing research is part of a university's job (and, as I complained above), one that is already paid for via overhead.

Sure. I'm not going to argue against the idea that the government or the university should do their jobs that they were paid to do. But they regularly and demonstrably do not, in far more fields than IRB. Private markets exist to go around this bureaucracy. IRB is no different.
Will you develop a noir cartridge for making beautiful black and white error diffusion dithered animated gifs?

https://media.giphy.com/media/l0K7o6Tn4JsJtvDMc/giphy.gif

https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832.msg112434...