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>Minitel: what should have been a cautionary tale. Allowing "service providers" to charge money for every last little thing anyone does on a service

Which reminds me, that's also one of the rules of Project Xanadu:
http://xanadu.com.au/general/faq.html#2

I wonder if that had turned out the same way had it ever been completed (or shall I say whether it will turn out the same way if it's ever completed?)
Then you misread the title, unfortunately.
Tom Watson has agreeable views in a number of areas, but he's unlikely to be a candidate for the leadership any time soon. Quite aside from anything, Corbyn is unfortunately unassailable at the moment.
One thing I learned when working with Varnish Cache, which I did for a number of years, is that one should interact with the kernel as little as possible.

PHKs obsession with using as few system calls as possible meant we couldn't do stuff like allocate memory when dealing with a connection. Varnish Cache would rather abort and have the operator increase the preallocated memory per worker.

This practice has paid off now and the minimal slowdown shown here is a direct result of that.

Well done.
Whats a 6-wide core?
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This sounds very promising especially considering Amazon's logistical expertise and amount of financial resources these 3 companies have.
I think you misread that. They said "comparable to" (equally sane), not "compared to".
Having worked there, I think any CEO would have struggled. It was a mess of middle management and "clever people" fiefdoms run rampant.
I'm not sure about Theora, but Musepack was further developed already as a free software project.
>> So, complete stagnation is viable.

If you consider compression from an information theory point of view, for any given measure of "quality" there is theoretically a limit to compression. It's not clear where the limit is, or how close we are to it, but because it does exist stagnation is inevitable eventually.

As it gets harder to make gains it will become less of a business proposition and more of a research/academic thing.
> In many areas, engineers need to get paid to innovate.

What do you think: How many engineers can be paid for reducing Netflix's traffic by 10% simply by these lowered traffic costs, and not counting secondary effects as a larger user base because more people can watch the videos with their available bandwidth? Also YouTube, Amazon Video, public television, ...
If I break US law over the internet against a US company/person, even though I do no business in the US, have never been there, and don't plan to be there, guess how long before I'm dragged making license plates with words like "liberty" or "freedom" on them in an American rape gulag?
I had very similar reasons for starting with Ubuntu, but when it came right down to it, all the software that I thought would only work on Ubuntu works just fine on Debian.

Hardware support wise, newer kernels generally come to Debian sooner too, as the latest stable kernel generally gets into Sid a week or so after release, then added to backports for Debian Stable after a few weeks. Currently you can nab 4.14 from backports on Debian Stable, and 4.15 should be coming down the pike shortly (seeing as its just a few days old).
you say that like undermining Corbyn is an objectively bad thing. He's an extremely divisive element of the current Labour party and the primary reason why I (and I consider myself a liberal first and foremost) cannot support the current Labour leadership. Labour's always been a mix of liberals and socialists but in my opinion Corbyn is too far to the latter to ever unify the party behind his ideas.
Donate them, you can drop them off at your local library or even some bookstores.
Certainly the hardware was great and the Xserve RAID was a surprisingly good value for its price.
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You can take the SAS cards out of your Mac Pro and put them into a Thunderbolt expansion chassis, and keep using the same disk array. No need to reformat or convert to APFS.

And you can export your disk array via SMB2 or NFS to the other Macs.

It's a pity Apple don't make a decent Mac Mini anymore which could serve as a decent server. Maybe they'll release a new one some day.
> See the multiple charts at http://opus-codec.org/comparison/, for one presumably-unbiased source.

Further nitpick: the page is very misleading. Audio compression has different targets, a crucial one being music.

The Opus official page has comparatively little test references for music, both of which are at 64/96kbps for AAC [1-4], which is significantly below the general audience listening standards (160+ kpbs).

This implies that the red line on the top right of the first diagram is literally made up.

Until further blind listening tests are performed, generic conclusions such as "Opus outpeforms the competition" are unfounded.

> It attempts to summarize results [...] and (when no data exists) show anecdotal evidence

This is borderline offensive for people who are serious about researching music quality. Any anectodal evidence [in this field] is garbage.

[1] http://listening-tests.hydrogenaud.io/igorc/results.html
[2] https://people.xiph.org/~greg/opus/ha2011/
[3] http://listening-test.coresv.net/results.htm
[4] http://opus-codec.org/static/comparison/GoogleTest1.pdf
1. I'm suggesting that if you are hosting and supporting your own physical infrastructure and file hosting solution, your first interest should be solving the problem, and as far as I can see Apple gave this outdated setup the best solution available. You can either whine about it or accept the fact that you did not keep your house in order and do whatever it takes to solve it for your users and customers.

2. Of course anyone can voice any opinion about Apple in any forum they want, but I'm not the one with a current ongoing issue that I know a solution to but am choosing not to implement to the benefit of shaming Apple in public instead.

3. You are correct that deprecating isn't removing, but when you're in a niche market (Apple servers), using any setup that includes deprecated protocols or components is a bad idea, and you should know this and plan for it if you elect to roll your own.

The person who wrote this post seems to have a very entitled sense of what he as a customer deserves in terms of continued software support from Apple, and very little sense of what in turn his customers and/or colleagues are entitled to and should expect from him/those that are responsible for keeping their business critical solution working.
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Theoretically, if the premium brand smartphone dropped Qualcomm and managed to make a go of it, that does put a lot of pressure on them and, perhaps, encourages others to do the same (Samsung, for example.)
I can believe that it happens in some cases but I doubt it would make a lot of sense to do it for the mass surveillance of the population, if only because it would also make it extremely easy to do large scale industrial espionage. I'm pretty sure Germany wouldn't want the USA to have access to all of its trade and industrial secrets for instance.

At least I would require a better source than "if I remember correctly" in order to be convinced.
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I really enjoyed watching Ben Heck trying to get a faster score with the help of Todd Rogers using simulated inputs? on the real hardware:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfXwSYzEjcE
Even to Goodwill or other places. I don't care for how Goodwill deals with their profits but I sometimes find good books there for really cheap.
You're right! I read the German version and translated back from memory.
Germanys intelligence agencies, for example, are entirely beholden to the US, and have been since the end of WW2.
For reference that’s less than dry wall...
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> Of course, an app store for genetic editing doesn’t yet exist.

That actually sounds amazing.
How not to build a yet another mediocre internal tool…
Consumables consumables consumables.

It's remarkable the perverse economic rules that make disposables with vendor lockin a feature. Opex vs capex.
Car2Go is already owned by Daimler[0] why would they share that with BMW?

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car2Go
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I've participated in several large projects that worked to detect SVs from short reads in humans. The results, which remain best of class, are simply disappointing. A tiny fraction of the variants detected were actually resolvable to near-base pair resolution. The vast majority were described in approximate terms, using estimates of breakpoints and allelic structure.

Most structural variation I've seen based on whole genome assemblies is not even classifiable into neat categories like "deletion" or "insertion". If you think that "most" things are detected with short reads then you are deluded by the dominant technology.
Have we really arrived at a place where "conservative blogger" is an accurate description of a person who:

* "isn't exactly allergic to the stuff" (re: white nationalism)

* wrote "Not all humans are born the same, of course, and the innate character and intelligence of some is more suited to mastery than slavery. For others, it is more suited to slavery. "

* asked "What's so bad about the Nazis?"

* etc

?

I'm not sure if it's liberals or conservatives who should be offended by that. Hopefully both.
He's divisive among a lot of the MPs especially the ones who came in under Blair because of his policies. By historical standards they're soft-left but they're to the left of the overton window so he's "extreme".

The members, most of whom are disgusted with establishment politics and neoliberal dogma are about 90% behind him though. Enough new members were inspired to join by him that they now have the largest membership of any party in Europe.

Anti-establishmentarianisn is only natural given the failure of the status quo to deliver egalitarian growth and freedom. You can have it from mild liberals like him or the far right. Either way the days of the dominant neoliberal era are numbered.
> Is a product obsolete as soon there is a newer product?

If it's an Apple product, yes. Apple only makes money when they sell hardware. Several years ago they made a conscious business decision to quit supporting old hardware the way they once had because it didn't make money. Now the only purpose of Apple software is to push more hardware sales, which is why the MacOS and IOS upgrade cycles are so frequent, why there has been a continual decline in Apple software quality, and why you see things like the IOS battery scandal that slows down older devices.
It was worded at the time (2013) in a way that I can see people not familiar with typical soft-balled IT marketing speak could have misinterpreted.

"SMB2 is the new default protocol for sharing files in OS X Mavericks. SMB2 is superfast, increases security, and improves Windows compatibility. ... SMB2 is automatically used to share files between two Mac computers running OS X Mavericks, or when a Windows client running Vista, Windows 7, or Windows 8 connects to your Mac. OS X Mavericks maintains support for AFP and
SMB network file-sharing protocols, automatically selecting the appropriate protocol as needed. ...

The Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) is the traditional network file service used on the Mac. Built-in AFP support provides connectivity with older Mac computers and Time Machine–based backup systems."

https://images.apple.com/media/us/osx/2013/docs/OSX_Maverick...
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It doesn't have to be binary.

Sure they wouldn't want to let USA complete access, so they can spend their time keeping the US espionage on the desired domain and everyone happy and politicians elected.
It never ceases to shock and disappoint me the depravity that humanity can sink to.
Hopefully it can materialize into something that can have an impact on the healthcare industry, but it's disheartening seeing no doctors or anyone with medical expertise in the mix.
I'd tend to assume that any genetic trait that improves intelligence without significant drawbacks would spread rapidly through interbreeding and selective pressure even without wholesale population transfers. It took about 10,000 years for adult lactose tolerance to spread to its modern range and this brain organization trait would have 35,000 years and potentially give a larger selective benefit.

EDIT: The corollary is that the large genetic component of intelligence is mostly non-linear. E.g. being
heterozygous is an advantage and being homozygous a disadvantage.
I liked that he pointed to NPEs as a problem. I've never thought of MPEG-LA as anything but a giant NPE.
> they plan to collaborate on a way to offer health-care services to their U.S. employees.

Is it clear that they will be offering these services to outside clients? Or is this just a way to keep down Healthcare costs across their organizations?
It's called the Five Eyes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes?wprov=sfla1
What sorts of things would not be ok in your mind? Speaking strictly of editing your own genes, of course.
The per base error rate is bad. In the case of pacbio, this error process approximates white noise, and so you can deal with it perfectly by increasing read coverage. Things are somewhat complicated with the nanopore tech described in this post, as errors may be correlated due to the way the basecalling is done, but in practice it's nearly as big a problem as you think it is.

For things approaching a read length the per-base error rate of a single read is simply irrelevant. In practice, with sufficient coverage (e.g. 20x) you simply don't care about the per base error rate of the reads.
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See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes#Domestic_espionage_s... for the Commonwealth version.

According to the Guardian and other sources, there's something called the 14-Eyes, which is a working agreement between the FVEY and the SIGINT organizations of nine other countries, including multiple European ones, like Germany: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/02/nsa-portrait-t...
What about https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/01/gchq-europe-...

On your second point, industrial espionage is, I suspect, a large factor in determining which countries should be spied on. Does anyone really think that Boeing doesn't get competitor info from US agencies?
Sounds much more like science revealing its still-lingering capacity for producing racist hierarchical judgements of human anatomy
It's annoying, but if you scroll near the bottom there's an image with what looks like the available sites
There are also different calendar formats.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc194816.aspx
The method is simple and practical enough that--if anything--it would have been covered as part of supplemental lab supervised by a graduate TA after professor lays foundation for PID control in lecture the week prior.
I grew up in the ghetto. While my friends smoked dope, I studied with free resources from the local library. All the books were old and outdated, but I didn't care. The drive to learn and improve is still with me today.
The technology really works and is generating results at a rapid pace. This will absolutely not be the next Theranos, although you may be right that there are issues of burnrate and maybe even mismanagement.

To me the fact that they have a patent monopoly on "putting DNA through a protein pore with voltage sensing" is tragic. Who knows were we would be today if these patents had been granted to the public domain.
Can you provide links to blind tests supporting these conclusions?
> Is the premium you'd pay equal to or greater than the sum of the 15 services you'd subscribe to

Probably not but I would be happy to do $30-$50 depending on whats included. I prob only read a couple of articles on each which is another reason.

> If not,then you've answered your subsequent question (why haven't they done this)

So take $0?
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> Beyond the software analysis evidence, which speaks directly to Todd Rogers’s Dragster 5.51 score time

I didn't understand this sentence: it means that, looking at the code and calculating all possibilities of gear changing moments, it would be impossible to achieve 5.51 ? If so, why would any other evidence be necessary ? Or, if it wasn't such analysis (and I think that this one would be definitive), why wasn't this one done ?
The Five-Eyes nations wholesale spy on each other and share the data they collect. They can't spy on their own populations, so they collect the data of foreign nations and then swap it for data on their own citizens. It's been widely known since... Hell, Echelon was "revealed" in the 90s?
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In principle that's a nice start.

I call male bovine excrement on the assessment of Sweden though.
Full take collection, installed by and heavily integrated with FVEY, is the gist of it. Describing it as "Little or none" seems like a cynical joke.
That seems expensive. I got a personal sequence done (at 15x) four years ago for 750 usd. It was part of a group deal so maybe it isn't relevant to your search.
FF usually just CTD after an update.
Hmmm... i have an FT subscription but i STILL need to turn off ad blocking.. sub cancelled.

This is a real shame as the FT is a good paper.. damn they need to modernise!
The judges invoked EU privacy laws, so I guess this one of those cases of „the yoke of Brüssel imperialism“ that the UK may soon(ish) be liberated from.
Tragedy of the commons much? It's disturbing to see corporations occupy the vacuum US policy has left here.
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"China Construction Bank opens up accounts for foreigners without Visa." - do you mean bank accounts that don't include a VISA credit card? Like anyone can show up and open a bank account? I've heard it's easy in HK but not a given, especially with more recent strict KYC laws.

Tell us a bit more about the tours of advanced manufacturing facilities if you can, I'm fascinated.
Software is only 1% of the story. We need reliable public data from many people linking genomes, diet, life history, and phenotype to do the other 49%.
No, it's exactly that and it was done years ago. He's just been untouchable until recently.
I've always wondered what's stopping someone from creating a non-profit and just having people join it in order to give the non-profit ability to negotiate lower prices.

I imagine there's a cost to set this up, but is that cost less than the marginal cost of each employee and the savings they would (presumably) receive if enough people joined?
Do you have anything particular in mind or are you just guessing? This is all very vague and smells faintly of tinfoil-hattery.

Not that I don't believe that the USA are heavily involved in Europe and cooperate pretty tightly with European intelligence services but the original question was about mass surveillance of the citizens. For example how do you explain the GDRP if the point is to let the USA snoop on European citizens?
What’s the point of this invective-laced polemic piece?
There are more Labour members supporting Corbyn than there were Labour members total before Corbyn became leader.

Labour will never be unified as long as there is first past the post in the UK, and currently at least the left of the party dominates the membership. Any challenger to Corbyn at this point would depend on the support of the left of the party even more than during the last challenge.
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Watson is one of very few British politicians who seems to care about privacy, surveillance, and internet issues. He was also a big part of the "phone hacking" case against the Murdoch press. It's a shame we don't have more politicans like him. And it's not even a partisan issue - it doesn't surprise me that the Conservatives want to bring in more surveillance and internet laws, but even their biggest opponents on the left rarely oppose it.

>is this guy eventually going to replace Corbyn?

Not likely. He seems more of a background figure who does best focusing on the issues he cares about, and not so much of a leadership type. He's also more in the 'centre ground' of British politics, and has been quite critical of Corbyn over the past few years. It's likely that the next Labour leader would be someone with similar views to Corbyn.
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He really was quite an amazing individual.
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What we have learned thanks to Snowden is this:

You can never trust your government.

Mass surveillance was conducted illegally before and continues to this day. Does anyone really think some "law" will change this?
> The three companies said they plan to set up a new independent company "that is free from profit-making incentives and constraints."

I wonder if they will be setting it up as a health insurance cooperative, an organizational structure in which the primary goal is to serve its members, rather than to generate value for external shareholders: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_insurance_cooperative

It's not at all unprecedented for publicly traded companies to create cooperatives for their employees. Employee credit unions are one example.

Co-ops were part of an early proposal while the ACA was still shaping out, but unfortunately, due to pressure from for-profit health insurers, they were later shot down: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/17/health/policy/17talkshows....

As a fan of distributism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributism, I would love to see an increase in health insurance cooperatives, and cooperatives in general. Under a cooperative structure, the members/policyholders fully own the company, so it's not beholden to outside shareholders seeking to profit at the expense of its members. Any profits that a cooperative generates are returned back to the members/policyholders in the form of lower premiums, or improvements to services.
For now. (?)
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Ask HN: Quarantine (dangerous) Internet traffic with VirtualBox?
In order to improve security on a developer machine, how much sense does it make to "quarantine" (potentially hazardous) Internet traffic by using a virtual OS (such as with VirtualBox) for it?

In other words, here's the scenario:

- Host OS: used for "sensitive" data/applications (code, login credentials, etc.)

- Client OS (virtual): used for all Internet traffic activity (Web browsing, email client, SSH client, etc.)

And what is the safest way to manage the data-transfer interface between the 2 operating systems? Would you use shared folders? Or the shared clipboard feature? Or the drag-and-drop feature?