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> Free for 5Gb, $120/yr for 2TB. Google Photos offers unlimited storage for up to 16 Mpix.

No, Apple Photos is free. It's an app that's bundled with macOS and iOS. You don't pay for it. The prices you just listed appear to be iCloud storage. But you don't need iCloud Photo Library to take advantage of searching your images (because, remember, it's all local).

> As to your other stuff, I don't see the point in continuing since it's so subjective. On any feature which Apple clearly copied and improved, your answer is "whataboutism" to trace the lineage and claim long long ago, the seeds of it came from somewhere else. History for you is a long line of incremental, but uninteresting improvements, punctuated by Apple's adoption, which somehow defines a clearly new thing. When Apple makes an improvement, it is not diminished by the fact that other people had worked on something similar and that it's lineage can be traced as accumulated incremental improvements.

Is that really how you're reading this? No wonder your comments have been so off base.

I never claimed that Apple's improvements were somehow creating a "clearly new thing". You've made that up out of whole cloth. I said Apple improves stuff when they copy, yes, but that just means it's an improved version. By and large, Apple's versions of things are just improvements over previous iterations of the thing. Sometimes Apple does create uniquely brand new stuff, but those times aren't what we've been talking about.

But no, you have this narrative of Apple users being cult-like and as a result you're putting words into my mouth.

> People who diminish the work of others, try to hog all the credit by rebranding the achievements of others, and fail to give back are parasites.

You mean like people who try to claim that Apple isn't doing anything other than "blindly copy[ing]", dismissing the improvements Apple made to their implementations and trying to give all the credit to previous iterations, while meanwhile dismissing the idea that the previous iterations themselves didn't have a long history to draw from (such as the decades of machine learning research that happened before both Google and Apple were able to introduce photo library search)?

> And for the record, I am not an Apple hater

Then why did you reach for the cult metaphor and the "fanboy" label?
It seems pretty straight forward if you ask me.

You want an open discussion. James Demore wanted an open discussion...and was fired for his opinion. I personally find the biological argument hard to swallow, but I am strongly against firing people who have a different point of view.

Now - one wants to get fired = no open discussion.
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That makes for some genuinely interesting thought experiments.

What if, this actually becomes possible, but we discover that because we previously couldn't hear these frequencies, our instruments and equipment are HORRIBLY mis-tuned and sound terrible? We may end up having to re-record tons of stuff.

Something something premature optimization. And part of me is glad that the art of hand-making instruments is not yet lost; we might need the originals in the future.

Disclaimer: I say this as a completely naive person when it comes to instruments. The answer to this may be "if it wasn't built to resonate at frequency X, it won't by itself," which would be a good thing.
Fact of the day: fresh shrooms were legal in the UK up until 2005. You could buy them easily at Camden market in London for example and while I was at University around then some bright spark started offering and advertising deliveries of them to the uni and surrounding area with posters all around campus. Great fun, and no one went mad or gets violent (unlike with booze). I don't think 'sitting on your sofa listening to reggae and thinking about the mysteries of the universe' should be a crime...

LINK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4691899.stm
And it's only worse at the staff level. Even getting patient data variables for patients consented to IRB-approved studies is hit-or-miss. Groups build barriers by wanting to "work with" principal investigators (PIs) instead of providing data to PIs and study staff. Data moats are everywhere.

My own group (at a research center attached to a university school of medicine) has switched our focus from helping PIs with clinical data management and applications to helping manage research samples and sample processing, mainly by doing housekeeping around genomic processing across different lab teams.

It's kind of hard to convey just how much I would warn devs away from healthcare and healthcare research IT gigs.
What industry do you work in? I'm surprised there isn't a lightweight accounting software for freelancers / consultants
I'm intrigued by this "Venture Studio" model, but a quick Google search didn't net much in the way of good examples or a precise definition.

Can you share some examples you've run across? Thanks!
You realize the situation was just resolved yesterday, right?

I'm not that familiar with the Canadian legal system, but if its anything like the US its going to take more than a few days to work its way through the legal system. Just give it some time.
what makes you think your consciousness is capable of processing sounds in that range even if the ear is physically capable of it?
Im an alcoholic and I wish alcohol would be as illegal as cocaine.
I often dream of some self-registration no alcohol sale allowed list that would make it harder for me to be able to obtain it.
Alcohol kills.
When I started living alone the first time, I realised I miss someone to talk to, a friend or family. But I was into reading. So I started reading aloud to myself

1. I stopped skimming, actually started reading

2. I got tired faster and didn't feel alone anymore

3. Learnt more pronunciation and spellings correctly

It's a great exercise!
The IRB process he described did not have a sophisticated understanding of the ethical risks of research. It imposed arbitrary and useless rules on an experiment with few if any risks.
Can't speak for anyone else... for me, it was the shape of the data I was interacting with was best represented as nested objects... think a classifieds site... primary record is the ad/entry, but different types of products will have differing ancillary data. That was my use case in first using MongoDB. Why, because otherwise there were up to 30+ joins in order to bring up all the data around any given classified entry.

Reshaping the data into a document store, with a handful of indexes made a lot of sense. Nearly effortless replication was also a nice feature, and needed for some extra endurance and scale. I'm pretty sad that RethinkDB didn't get farther, as their management interface and approach was a lot better than MongoDB.

To me it's about what does the data look like, what are the performance needs, and how much do you want to spend, cross-train or hire out expertise. Not to mention the lock-in options. There are lots of options, and it depends on the project and use. I've worked in enough applications where at least parts of the application needed to be moved off of SQL short of spending FAR more on licensing and/or servers that were insanely expensive for the need the value wasn't good.
Maybe not science, but the Rosetta Stone?
Now setup 3-5 replica nodes with at least automatic master election and failover.
That's an excellent idea. We read to our kids constantly when they were young, and after they got old enough to read themselves we started reading books and plays as a family on holiday weekends. It's still nice, and reading a play together as a family can be a lot of fun.
Ask HN: Would you buy Pricemoji, my side project? Why? Why not?
It's not an Overton Window problem so much as a federal law problem; state decriminalization is easy and low legal risk even when it conflocts with federal law, state tight regulation is more problematic, since compliance produces evidence for federal criminal prosecution. With marijuana, there has been federal tolerance of state liberalization which somewhat mitigates that concern, but that seems less likely with mushrooms.

The Overton Window encourages factions to push extreme positions to move the middle ground of what is acceptable, but still it is the middle ground that is acceptable, not extreme positions with an excluded middle.
Does anything comparable exists for Python?
How about building more, if the demand exists? Yes, an actual dense city block, for instance.
I don't have much information on Mushrooms personally, but shouldn't the default be that anyone is allowed to use a substance unless a case can be made that it needs to be restricted?

Given the current opioid epidemic, that exact same process of deciding when things should be restricted should be applied to opioids - but that practically gets a different treatment because there is a lot of money involved...
The initial meeting with the IRB where they proposed ridiculous and irrational changes to the consent forms was strikingly reminiscent of every conversation I've had in a third world country where someone was asking me for a bribe, but couldn't say it directly.
>I think the most interesting question though is would they be able to get MVP and initial customers that set off this if they were moving (slightly) slower due to SQL and slight overhead that comes with?

Why the heck not? People (startups and others) were using RDBMSs and SQL for years before NoSQL was a thing.

Also, if slight delay is a thing, how about the impact of your point 7 on customers?
I've done similar for most SQL databases having either an xml, or json column to store ancillary information that didn't need to be accessed or indexed in ways that aren't programmatic.

For example, if you support Amazon Payments, Paypal and a payment gateway, the shape of the data for the transaction is different, and rarely looked at, why not shove it into a bigtext/blob field as xml/json.
I use this along with Chris Albons similar repo of recipes (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920023784.do).

It is a great compliment to Wear McKinney's "Python for Data Analysis" it is more like a recipe book than the internals as Wes' book is. Also, JVP includes more than just Pandas and NumPy goodies.

Highly Recommend, and fork to create your own curated handbook.
http://cheapestuff.com
When you buy a doohickey on Kickstarter, it's just like buying from a normal vendor except that you accept the risk that it might never arrive. When you buy a magic token on the average ICO, you're usually buying an interest in some future business that you hope to resell at a profit.

One of these is a doohickey. The other sounds awfully like a security...
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Pretty much everyone knows it's a good idea to get flood insurance in Houston.. We still get lots of localized downpours, floodplane or no, which can easily overwhelm local drainage, etc. Whether they actually do it or not is another idea
There's the all too real prospect that Hatsune Miku has been singing secret messages calling for the robot uprising, and none of us humans can hear those frequencies. Winter is coming desu~!

The good news is that you strip out all of this robot propaganda and still hear the exact same music, simply by encoding at a reasonable rate.
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Kind of a side topic, but does anyone know what's up with Sirius XM satellite radio? Whenever I listen to that in my wife's car, I find the sound quality to be obnoxiously bad, to the point that I choose to listen to plain old FM if I'm driving her car.

The higher frequencies (hi hats for example) are mushy and
sound like they are warbling, and the sound just generally has a lack of depth. What is the explanation for this, or am I just imagining it?
Thanks

> I'd like to know, how do you feel about the legality of cigarettes and alcohol.

I wish they were illegal. I don't see any societal benefit with cigarettes, and I don't drink alcohol so am only left to deal with its consequences.

> but are rarely used to do so because people understand the negative tradeoff associated.

I don't think the masses are good at making decisions. You have to weigh the benefits of glue and paint against the small number of people who are going to injure themselves with them. I think we've gotten along fine without psilocybin, and any societal benefits are outweighed by the problems it can cause.

I don't think mushrooms are all out bad. If they're used responsibly, they probably help you think about things in a more intelligent way. But I don't want my kids eating psychedelic mushrooms. They can be horrifying and torturous for 8+ hour stretches of time.
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> Now try to pour me a glass containing exactly 1/7 gallons of milk without making an approximation.

This is an exceptionally silly argument. Now, I happen to live somewhere where the metric system in use, so allow me to translate your challenge.
So you're saying that it's harder to pour 540.773 ml of milk (ie, 1/7th of a gallon) than 757.082 ml of milk (ie, 1/5th of a gallon)? (Notice how both of those are numerical approximations? How strange...)

There's nothing harder or easier about pouring 757.082 ml compared to 540.773 ml, nor do we have some magical pouring tools which allow one number to be poured with greater or lesser accuracy than the other. Nor does it suddenly become possible to pour it with more accuracy if you use a measuring cup with ounces on it. :)

You seem to be under the hilarious misapprehension that it's somehow easier to pour something if you happen to be measuring it in units that happen to have a non-repeating decimal representation in whatever base you happen to be working in. That's not really how reality works.

(And I'm not even going to start on what "exact" means when dealing with a non-molecularly homogenous fluid.)

Real world examples are not going to help your argument here, because the real world can only be interacted with via approximations. 1/7th of a gallon of milk is every bit as much of an approximation as 25 gallons.
http://www.cheapestuff.com/switch-renewables-create-24-milli...
A lot of life insurance is term insurance. So the bet is "will you die during the years that your policy is in force?" Whole life is much, much more expensive.
IRB stuff can be painful, but in my experience submitting these through the process is a lot less problematic than it was described in the article. An experienced PI knows how to navigate these issues.

Practically, there are two issues with which the IRB is concerned. 1) Protection of particpants 2) Protection of the Institution from litigation by participants.

Realizing the second oft unspoken goal can help you manage the IRB process
> > have a look

Please don't do this, on the Internet or anywhere else. Blind people don't need you to speak in ghetto terms or start self-moderating the things you say to any greater degree than you (probably) normally would.
Hi guys,

I sell it to focus on my startup. Pricemoji is an API for pricing products in emoji. I had this idea one night to build an emoji-driven transaction marketing platform, and https://pricemoji.com is the beginning of just that.

It's been feature on Product Hunt last November https://www.producthunt.com/posts/pricemoji and even commented by a Financial Times correspondent at some point (https://twitter.com/hannahkuchler/status/803348128174899200)

Would you buy it? How much would you price it? Any advice on how to properly pass the torch to someone willing to make it successful?

Thanks all,
Cheers
Hey we've got a legal mandate to fund insurers now with our 'public private partnership' healthcare system.. pick this up as your issue and you might have a lucrative career in lobbying lined up..
Did you read the post? There were multiple ridiculously stupid things the IRB insisted on that had no impact on safety and were pure bureaucratic BS, the insistence on blinding patient's names with the blinding instrument right next to the blinded data, the signing in pen only, the person in the Research office having to do the course when they did not do research. All of this for a study that involved taking notes on things the doctors were going to be doing anyway, which posed no risks to anyone.
But the cost of a server big enough to handle a million simultaneous users can be cost prohibitive if you can get away with a few smaller nodes and something that scales horizontally... not to mention failover/redundancy which can be downright expensive and/or painful in many SQL variants.
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Also because people like typing "weather tomorrow", pressing Enter, then immediately seeing what the weather will be like tomorrow.
Major earthquakes are less frequent than major flooding. If the time frame is large enough and the timing uncertain enough, it can still make sense as a bet.
Only if you ignore cultural path dependency which has a huge impact on the utility and adverse consequences of a ban.

Laws can only be meaningfully evaluated in a concrete social context.
Your "#if" logic sounds perfectly reasonable, but what does it have to do with implication? Except that the boolean test just happens to have the same truth table.
There would be no way to answer that question with our current technology.

Even the idea of contracting a virus is not well defined. Does it have to reproduce from human cells? What if it just passes through us or lives off our gut bacteria?

The whole world is soaked with viruses. They're everywhere all the time and if they don't specifically interfere with us we never notice 'em.
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There is no reason the DAC or ADC can't internally do the resampling itself. In fact, most take it to the extreme - they resample to several MHz, but at 1 bit per sample, with noise shaped dithering as explained in the video linked elsewhere. They then have a very simple analog low pass filter - the noise is shaped far into the stop band of the filter.

That is no reason to store or even process your music at higher rates, though.
Think of it like the SEO you would set up with a Wordpress site. Think about what skills you want to advertise and update your job descriptions and summary to reflect that. You should make it a point to update your LinkedIn every 6 months or so until you feel comfortable with the types of contact requests you're receiving.
What do you mean by "voxplaining"?
> unrestrained access to something and increase its availability

Nothing about decriminalizing the use of something does that. It's still illegal to sell it but people won't have a felony on their record for trying it. I don't think the drug should ruin people's lives just because they used it or had a personal use amount on them when they were driving while black/mexican/suspicious looking to a cop as they tend to get pulled over more in a vicious cycle.

I don't use them and have no real desire to but I am not a fan of 1. paying for nonviolent drug users that are in prison and 2. ruining someone's life with a felony possession charge and 3. even if they can get off without jail time and have their record expunged they are in debt to a lawyer for thousands for no really good reason.
Is the work on adding TUF to RubyGems still happening? I can only find this stagnant PR: https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/pull/719
No, I hear it too and would like to know how it works. I think some stations get more fidelity than others, but it's almost always compressed as you described.
Wait, how do the fraud VCs make money?
For relative values of "quickly".
HN is paeudonymous and even allows one-off throwaway accounts for those who think their main account is too easily traced to their real world identity. What's so dangerous about discussing the topic here?
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If you are interested in performing ultra low latency (<1ms) CEP via SQL, take a close look at SQLstream Blaze (http://www.sqlstream.com) and it's full implementation of Allen's Interval Algebra (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%27s_interval_algebra) via SQL temporal predicates: http://sqlstream.com/docs/sqlrf_planned_feature_temporal_pre.... This stuff runs at 1,000,000 events per second per core and can scale out in conjunction with Kafka across any number of servers.
Makes me long for the day when consumer audio products were proudly labeled as having a 1-bit DAC. Nowadays you couldn't sell audio hardware that made such truthful statements about its internals. Gotta have the bits.
I thought I remembered a proposal to create some new categorical exemptions from IRB review, one of which was somehow related to studies where you just talk to people. (I've been interviewed by several social scientists and very often their "protocols", consisting exclusively of informal interviews, had clearly been through extensive IRB reviews, which felt super-odd because journalists wouldn't need any ethical review at all in order to carry out exactly the same interview in exactly the same way.)

On the other hand, you clearly can harm people in various ways by or as a result of interviewing them, for example by breaching confidentiality, by being forced to breach confidentiality, or by making them feel bad about themselves by insulting them during the interview or just by bringing up painful and distressing memories. And also it's hard for researchers who aren't doctors to extend the same level of legal protection to what their research subjects tell them:

https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2017/01/social-science-ne...

So maybe one idea would be to create a categorical IRB exemption for studies that combine non-invasive observations, or existing datasets, with interviews not reasonably expected to be distressing to the subjects, and conducted subject to otherwise existing norms on patient confidentiality and medical privacy? (recognizing that limited legal protection for that confidentiality still poses problems for some studies)

(I'm certainly happy to apply the Chesterton's fence principle and learn more about the history of unethical experimentation before seriously advocating this.)
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> white, middle-class, middle-aged married couples

Doesn't that describe all the hippies now? That is exactly the image that comes to mind when the topic is psychedelics.
> Nothing about decriminalizing the use of something does that.

Behavioral economics wholly disagrees with that. When you take away disincentives, you increase bad behavior like people selling, consuming, etc.

I agree with you about not ruining peoples' lives over it. Maybe a $5000 fine would be enough of a disincentive.
You wouldn’t be provided with a fixed lump sum, but rather your costs would be covered up to a limit.

So it’s about determining the expected value of losses for a given risk. You’re right that given a long enough time, there is a near-certain chance of a flood, but the question is more about how much that’s likely to cost.

That is entirely insurance.
While I agree that the author is being a little facetious (with the constant Nazi references and such), I don't think he is arguing in favor of removing ethical considerations in research, or even arbitrarily weakening the constraints put on scientific studies.

But what purpose is having a review board made up of people who can think for themselves if their behavior is going to be indistinguishable from a program running through a checklist without any care whatsoever for whether or not the checklist makes sense in that context?

Massive inefficiencies in bureaucracy are always hidden behind the fig leaf of consistency and accountability, but it's worthwhile to consider what aim they serve and at what cost.
So, potentially stupid question but here goes...with a new CEO coming in, what impact will this have on the company in the short-term? Did they foresee this probe coming or is this something that they will have to scramble to react to?

I mean it sounds like they may have expected this investigation with the handling of obtaining medical records, but wow.