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> It's only been in the past few years that flash memory has been accessed through interfaces that weren't made for hard drives.

Just how few years are we talking about? From what I recall, Fusion-IO's model didn't use a hard disk interface, and their products were in the sub-millisecond latency range over 6 years ago, maybe even a full decade.

At the time (and more or less continuously since then), I've questioned why anyone would want to pay such a huge premium over disk-imitating flash (that is, enough of it to match the storage, throughput, and IOPS).

Low latency would be a credible explanation, although I don't recall anything in the way of even benchmarks showing the difference with real-world software like a database.

All that said, unless I'm missing something like an order of magnitude drop in latency, I'm wondering why.. this time it's different?
Love this library, I've used it with the python wrapper that makes it pretty easy to get going.
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I'm using a node version: https://github.com/fent/node-ytdl

The only bug I found is that name escaping sometimes breaks, but I usually name things manually. Ffmpeg audio conversion needs to be done manually, but that's just an extra line.
Check out the Australian city of Coober Pedy where half of the residents live underground:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/unearthing-coober-pedy...
There's a lot of hysteria surrounding these freebie swag items, enough that you have to wonder if either exactly this sort of reaction was expected, and their laughing at exactly the expected level of fear and paranoia produced at the mere sight of a USB jack... or... they could only but roll their eyes, as they dropped a USB device into the mix out of curiosity to see if there would be any reaction at all, expecting possibly a muted, cool brush off, unconcerned about exploits, and instead caught ten or one hundred times the wave of hysteria, for something they might have internally estimated would be rated as being perceived as a mild security hazard.

Seriously, this has all the alarmist fear mongering of the Cuban embassy sonic weapon mystery, but none of the smoking gun who-dunnit clues.

People are going to be chasing their tails on this one, wondering if the fan rotors spin at resonating speeds to give off infra-sonic beam-forming geolocation signals, and that's after they sample scrapings from 1000 different components in a gas chromatograph mass spectrometer only to find that they were some standard chinese USB components, purchased in bulk orders months ago, but had arrived too late for Olympics swag and were basically left-overs.

It's funny, but I think the volume of this knee-jerk reaction caused more damage than an actual attack could have.

If North Korea was going to try and swindle it's way onto targeted USB interfaces, I'd have to imagine that they'd attempt a level of indirection (at least one), and launder the swag through a secondary shell entity, like some shady third-world press corps gadfly to the event.

If they hadn't thought of that before (even though I'm sure they already do think that way), this hair-on-fire reaction has certainly taught them to do so, unconditionally, going forward.
One could say, to be fair, there wouldn't be any Unix & C without the mathematics of Gottfried Leibniz from Germany. This discussion is ridiculous.

https://www.google.com/doodles/gottfried-wilhelm-leibnizs-37...
One standard measurement of IQ is the Stanford-Binet exam. It's been around since 1916 with extensive concern given to consistency in the 5 updates it has received over the century. And that consistency is determined through thousands of trials with demographically representative samples to avoid predictable issues like a self selection bias in testing.

But like you mention the tricky part is that IQ is measured across an average in a generation. The mean is normalized to 100 with a standard deviation of about 15 points. An IQ of 115 does not mean you 'scored' 115 in a vacuum, it means you performed better than 84% of people. The idea that IQ would substantially increase or decrease for an entire population over very short periods of time (thus changing the meaning, in a vacuum, of e.g. 115 IQ over short periods of time time) was surprising, and that's precisely what the Flynn Effect [1] is. However that change is precisely measurable and enables researchers to produce comparable values between generations.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect
The legal claims seem spurious at best. The letter provides a list of infringements and claims that each of them is violated. I’ve not used the (claimed) offending apps, but from an overview understanding of how they work it seems like precisely no items from the list would be true.
I can’t see how you came to that conclusion whatsoever, though I may be biased as an SF-born Democrat.

If you’re looking at the governor race, the votes eyeball to 2.8m Dem, 1.7m Rep.

As well, it was surprising to me that you would choose to remove SD, as a Republican lead that county, though the Democrat leader there was only down by 10k (of ~400k total) votes.

Edit: 400k, not 350
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If the emperor were ever naked, this would be it.

Contrast this "trade secret" to a chat with an Oxford don, and you'll find the don is quite straightforward in admitting they are fallible. Some admits are duds, and some are hits. Decisions are made based on a small amount of information, but only the dons decide what happens. They try hard to let in disadvantaged kids, but it's a crap shoot deciding who has potential and who doesn't. They rarely care about anything other than academics. (I'm not sure how they recruit the rowers.)

It's just laughable that an admissions process is a trade secret, and unless there's a compelling explanation given, I would assume they claim this because they are being sued by Asians about bias, and giving places to legacies, which is just as bad for a place that sells itself on excellence.
Agreed.

Amusing that people could find lolicon to be corrosive of one's virtues or psyche, but worshipping a corpse nailed to a cross and consuming its blood and flesh on a weekly basis under the penalty of eternal torture is perfectly acceptable.

We sure are great at missing the log in our own eye.
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...and specify to only grab the videos as mp3's to download that perfect song/mix playlist!
> IOW, crawling is part of the "price of admission".

Yes, but I think the comment you responded to were saying that it is an insignificant part these days.
> First the end product is pretty much identical nutrition-wise.

In my own experience, organic fruits and vegetables at least taste much better.

> Second, organic produce requires more land, so it's unclear whether that scales to feed all people.

This isn't strictly true. In practice it has been, but it's not inherent to organic production in general but rather how it's been carried out so far. The agricultural system Permaculture addresses this directly and can yield on par with conventional farming.

> And third, many "organic" pesticides are not shown to be better for the environment than the non-organic alternatives.

This too isn't a strict requirement in organic farming, but I guess I'm arguing semantics here. To be more clear, non-conventional farming doesn't require pesticides.
I am sure this is why the majority of software in use today is written in programming languages with great ergonomics such as C/C++ or Java. Besides you can’t use cargo once you are not developing a green field project and multi-language ergonomics can totally suck.
Oh boy, where do we even begin... Let's try this: http://archive.is/YcIDb
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It has improved a lot over the last years. And python falls flat in other areas once you’ve hit a critical mass of code.
youtube might not even be the worst offender these days

https://old.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/8vs5na/what_kids_re...

disclaimer: i did not watch the video, but guessed from reading the reddit comments
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I'm sorry, but the idea of a product designed specifically to facilitate the mass redistribution of communications normally assumed to be private by default is deeply disturbing. Do I need to start including EULAs in every email I send? In what multiverse is this sort of thing okay?

Unless permission requests are mandatory and forever will be (regardless of anonymization), I will automatically refuse to communicate via email (and possibly any other implied-private medium, including one-to-one chats, mail, and SMS) with anyone I know to be using this service; instead, the only communications from me with these people will be through systems/services in which communications are already assumed to be public or shared (e.g. forums, mailing lists, public social media posts, blog posts / webpages, etc.). Likewise, I will never use this service myself; there are plenty of services out there that facilitate public-record written electronic communication while being upfront about it.

To reiterate: my emails to others should be considered private between myself and the recipient unless both of us explicitly consent to their publication, anonymized or otherwise. That's basic fucking courtesy - courtesy which FWD:Everyone seems to be explicitly designed to violate.
Again, IANAL. But copying in replies seems readily distinguishable from forwarding and publication.

But anyway, sorry about taking this down the legality path. It is a cool service that you're providing. And I would never argue that you're legally responsible for what users do. I'm just concerned about the abuse potential.

Maybe you could enable publication without explicit authorization only when all correspondents were registered users. That would encourage users to get their contacts to register, increasing your userbase.
> can be argued is worse for the environment.

Worse utilization doesn't mean worse for the environment overall, especially considering the extreme damage conventional farming leaves on the health of the soil, as one example.

> Organic uses pesticides yet they advertise themselves as not.

I do think that it's frustrating the level of permissiveness that the term "organic" encompasses in the US especially, but pesticides aren't required for organic farming -- check out Permaculture.
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Re: correlation of income to fertility. The causation could perhaps go the other way when looked at as potentially genetic preference for smaller families. Smaller families mean children receive a larger percentage of their parents' time and money which will give them an advantage over children whose parents divide their resources among more children. Of course effective birth control is still so new that it throws a wrench in this argument.
If they reveal their policies, those are highly publicized and enough moral outrage is generated, they'll have to commit to changing their policies or risk having their reputation permanently stained. Of course, being Harvard University, they would probably wouldn't take too hard a blow, but it would still devalue them.
But if people didn’t talk about this, I would have have known that I could use it to watch BBC iPlayer without going through the annoying login-wall!
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Hmm, I have found that where I live the voice only navigation is most of the time enough for me. It has the benefit that I can turn off the display which saves battery, the phone is protected in my jacket pocket and I have one less distraction in my cockpit to look at (really I just want to keep my eyes peeled at the traffic)
So basically have Twitter expand its character limit and ask everyone to replace their emails with Twitter? How cool is that? :)
Yeah, I remember that from Usenet and mail-list etiquette.
The new paper claims to add to the confirmation of "the strong equivalence principle of general relativity."(0)

Reading Wikipedia to find which theories are (or were) the alternatives which assumed that principle not to hold:

"The strong equivalence principle": "The first part is a version of the weak equivalence principle" "The second part is the Einstein equivalence principle (with the same definition of "local"), restated to allow gravitational experiments and self-gravitating bodies."

"This is the only form of the equivalence principle that applies to self-gravitating objects (such as stars), which have substantial internal gravitational interactions. It requires that the gravitational constant be the same everywhere in the universe and is incompatible with a fifth force. It is much more restrictive than the Einstein equivalence principle."

"Einstein's theory of general relativity (including the cosmological constant) is thought to be the only theory of gravity that satisfies the strong equivalence principle. A number of alternative theories, such as Brans–Dicke theory, satisfy only the Einstein equivalence principle." (1)

So it seems that "Brans–Dicke theory" and similar are ruled out by this observation, that is that the following line from one Wikipedia page can't remain:

"At present, both Brans–Dicke theory and general relativity are generally held to be in agreement with observation."(2)

But note that the authors of (0) don't claim that the alternative is completely impossible, but that they have measured even bigger space where the "strong equivalence principle" holds, compared to all measured up to now:

"our limit on the strong-field Nordtvedt parameter, which measures violation of the universality of free fall, is a factor of ten smaller than that obtained from (weak-field) Solar System tests"(0)

That is, of course, a success, as every scientific and measured increase of "known" is. Note that other "Solar System" tests mentioned in (0) are also very new, from this year. Also: the parameter is "a factor of almost a thousand smaller than that obtained from other strong-field tests"!

The article from Nature, of course more scientific that the OP on HN (currently: from discovermagazine.com), ends with:

"Although the [scalar–tensor] theories are not completely quashed, their hopes for validity have been made that much fainter."(4)

0) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0265-1

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalence_principle#The_stro...

2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brans%E2%80%93Dicke_theory

3) https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.48.34...

4) https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05549-4
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If we assume your hypothesis is correct, wouldn’t this research still be useful in the context of a particular mouse? I imagine researchers could identify specialized brain areas first, and then dissect that particular mouse’s brain to see just how those neurons had been spatially organized (assuming this is useful? I’m only a layman).

Admittedly, this sort of technique wouldn’t work well for human subjects.
Yes, but I think the comment you responded to were saying that it is an insignificant part these days.

Maybe so. In which case, I'd say I disagree. Great crawling ability is definitely a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for building a competitive search engine. And while the technical aspects of building a large scale search engine have been at least partly trivialized by OSS crawling software, elastic computing resources in the cloud, etc., what is at issue is the possibility of site owners blocking anybody who isn't (Google|Bing|Baidu|etc).

In this context, that's my concern: being blocked from crawling, if you're not already on the "allowed" list. Hence my reference to the question quoted above, from TFA.
I got that, but the previous comment argues that the heterogeneity of the European market is the main reason for the difficulty of launching successful companies rather than European lawmakers. This argument doesn't explain the success of American companies in Europe.
Well, OK, but I really do wish you would answer my original question as to whether you have an objection to split-dns separate/independent of anything to do with rfc1918.

That's what I've been trying to do all along, which I admit requires talking past whatever point you're trying to make about private addressing and non-uniqueness. I have made a concerted attempt to address those points as they pertain specifically to my question.

Of course, I also hope you'd share your proposed alternative, even for 1918. I doubt anyone here actually enjoys the pain brought about by forced NAT and non-unique IPs (naive VPNs!).
Some of it also likely occurs because the children of Harvard graduates will have a better idea of what the process is looking for, not least of which because they have an N=1 daa point of a successful application.

Similarly, if you're trying to have a successful interview with a company, it helps to talk to people who have interviewed there before, preferably people who have interviewed there successfully.

(The process may well have other issues that make "legacy" applications more likely, but a higher acceptance rate of such applications doesn't inherently suggest a problem.)
I haven't studied this issue much, but was surprised to hear on one of the learning scientists podcasts that generating cards may not be very useful for learning / consolidation.

(It was in one of their first 6 episodes, not sure what to think of the claim)

http://www.learningscientists.org/podcast-episodes
I feel you - I have tried attaching my android watch to the handlebars and functionality wise it's perfect UI for navigating.

However it takes about 10 seconds for the screen to dim to the monochrome power saver mode and then it's impossible to see anything during daylight.

Android wear does not support a permanently on screen all the time and I would totally buy a cheap device like that just for navigating.
> Can’t Talk‘s premise is simple. All it does is automatically reply to people when you aren’t around, making use of the quick reply (RemoteInput) API native to Android. […] It’s a paid application if you want to support more than SMS and calls, such as WhatsApp, Slack, and a lot more.

> DirectChat is another useful application. It works just like Facebook Messenger’s chat bubbles but it supports a lot of different applications too. It feeds your chats into another window where you can then reply back as well. Its most popular usage was probably with WhatsApp.

I think the "Cease and Desist" letters are being sent because these two specific apps, unless there are others not mentioned by these article, are making use of APIs that are not directly part of WhatsApp but interact with it in a kind of direct way.

I wonder if the letters were sent directly to the developers or via Google Play.
Will google maps route the bike riders through their already current de-facto routes such as pedestrian footpaths and other such lanes that are completely abused by motorcyclists?

Slightly off tangent but having been to Jakarta (never again, what an absolutely disgusting slum of a city) the traffic in that city is probably the worst ever (maybe Indian traffic can have it beat)

Even more off tangent but it's crazy how illogical some places can be (from my perspective). In Jakarta all addresses are more or less useless since the house/street numbers are in completely random order (the order they're built I guess) so you have no idea where some building with some particular number resides on a road/street relative to some other building.

Finally a tip to a fellow traveller, if you're asking for a taxi and give them the address and the driver goes to the other drivers to ask about its location the chances are he doesn't have a clue but he'll be very happy to take you for random spin and ask you for money.
> the perceived power of the UK press to manipulate governments.

Isn't that how democracy is supposed to work? I mean not for Mr. Murdoch personally, but if you take the whole press, isn't that one of the instruments through which the society controls - or, if you will, "manipulates" - the government? And if the government can't be "manipulated" by the society, isn't that the definition of tyranny?
Skinner boxes like WoW are extreme examples of trying to make you play for as long and often as possible. So when dying, if your choice is between quitting on a low or grinding a bit more to get at least a bit of satisfaction out of the session, I suspect a lot of people will do the grind.
Hopefully the app creators that received those notices are in a jurisdiction with good anti-SLAPP laws. If they really are only using Android APIs and not accessing WhatsApp through any other means, the claims are clearly designed to intimidate them into removing their apps and settling rather than go through a prolonged lawsuit that Facebook can easily afford, but small developers can't.
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For those curious like I was how much it would cost to scrape the entire internet with the method and numbers provided:

250.000.000 pages come in at $580

There are 1.8b websites according to http://www.internetlivestats.com/total-number-of-websites/

Lets say on average each site has 10 pages (you have a dozen of huge blogs vs tens of thousands of onepagers), that would put the number at 18 billion pages.

Following that logic would mean the total web is 72 times larger than what was scraped in this test.

So for a mere $41.760 you too can bootstrap your own Google! ;-)
Could not agree more, especially as it’s a tool I use multiple times a day and I don’t think it’s ever failed me.
What about children? With an appropriate case, it can become a great toy.
I really like this. If you are concerned about BPA exposure, you might rethink the thermal printer: https://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i35/Touching-thermal-paper-r...
India.... Stupid autocorrect, obviously southern Indiana was not the one of the top 6 empires in year 1500...
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> Get rid of FPTP first, since that is the worst of your problems

No, unequal apportionment and the electoral college are the biggest problems, FPTP and single-member districts in state and federal legislatures are, in combination, just the biggest problem which isn't federally Constitutionally mandated and which can therefore be fixed with legislation at the appropriate level(s) without federal Constitutional Amendment.

> With a STV system like Hare-Clarke you will likely see independents standing with very centrist platforms

Perhaps, but every candidate elected being a compromise candidate that relatively few people feel they would have preferentially votred for first is horrible for representation, and that's what you get with any STV-like system with single member districts in an electorate where political views aren't unimodally distributed (and if views were unimodally distributed, FPTP would get you exactly the battle for the center you propose and you wouldn't need STV to get it.) You want compromise in the legislature on policy where the voices in the legislature reflect those in the populace to the degree feasible; you don't want the compromise to happen mechanically in selecting members of the legislature.
What advantage does that offer over something like LibreNMS which will do everything ?