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It sounds like you are calling the article "lawyer speak" because they included a "background" section. The rest of the article lays out what the current problems are, what they are going to do about it, and when they are going to ship. The article seems clear and straight forward. The background section makes it more accessible to people not in the know so that they can understand why these improvements are being made.
It would be interesting to see some counter arguments instead of down votes.
"a big diesel probably uses 25% of peak fuel at idle"

I have a very hard time believing this, especially for diesels, which idle much more efficiently than spark-ignition engines. Where did you get this figure?

What I'm also surprised by was the fact that they hadn't already allowed unstable voltages from the generators to be used. A modern switching powersupply can operate down to, what, 80 volts?

EDIT: rdl, for some reason I can't reply to your reply. Replying here.

Thanks for the info. Now that I think back, I recall reading that diesels operate with an air/fuel ratio as high as 80:1 at idle. 1/4 would put them at 20:1 at full load, which I can beleive, because diesels don't typically operate at stoichiometric even under full load, which would be ~15:1.
X. Cringely's always been a little crazy... I love his two PBS documentaries though, they're really nice.
In addition to the desktop software, there is also a new web experience that acts as a universal, and embeddable, player for virtually any song.

http://blog.tomahawk-player.org/post/25996507498/whats-the-b...
On a related note, does the voice get intrepreted on the device, or on Google servers?
An even better argument for a state machine (FSM or PDA)

* http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~sergey/langsec/

You can basically make security proofs in your protocol.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEfedtQVOY

I was thinking about extending this to bottle.py and replacing the routing elements with an fsm library. Then I wanted the views to be a bunch of regexps or simple includes.
Is a Loan-to-Deposit ratio above 100% really so unusual that they would engineer an IT failure to hide it? Some banks seem to be operating which much higher values:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/what-europes-loan-deposit-rati...

[Having said that, nothing would surprise me about RBS]
Some feedback:

1. The search is broken. I couldn't find the Apache license using a half-dozen tries, including searches like "Apache", "Apache2", and "ASL".

2. One of the big issues with open source licenses is knowing which licenses are compatible with what. Can I use the EPL with the ASL? What about the LGPL? That information is hard to find.
The end game is not all that fun so it's been losing 10% of it's population a week. Granted, there is no subscription costs so you can come back at any time.

https://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5968886836
We don't yet know if whatever we see is or is not the SM Higgs. That's why the LHC is scheduled to continue running through the year, so we can get more details. All we can really say at this point is we see something. Heck, we've been able to say that from December!
I think they also know that banning an interview with Steve Jobs from their store would create untold publicity for it, so if they are not including it in their 'new releases' section, then they are probably burying it. And it doesn't take much of a byline to indicate that something is an independent production, so I don't think there is much difficulty in avoiding that sort of confusion, while still having it more visible.
Awesome stuff. This 4 minute video gives a little more information than the BBC news one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQxQfQU_hsk
Yeah, lots of little BTSes, relay stations, etc. use Lister LPG reciprocating engines rather than diesel because the long-term fuel stability is better, and because they're a lot more reliable at unattended automatic start than diesels, especially in the 10-20KW range (where the available diesels are particularly bad).

I don't personally know of any datacenters using turbines for backup power. I don't know enough about turbines to know why that is -- maybe they're not available in smaller sizes, or have higher maintenance requirements, or higher capex per MW, or something else. The only turbines I've seen are cogen/prime power with grid backup, or marine.
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Looks good - 1 hiccup: the calculations aren't rounded correctly. (time: 4.10)

Rounded to 2 decimal places:
11.65600 is 11.66 not 11.65
80.4672 is 80.47 not 80.46

Sorry to be pedantic...
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This is not at all a surprising outcome. The result of the very redundant input file is (as a result of the limited range length of the compressors and the fact that they output chunks of literal data) a smaller, but still somewhat redundant output file. The subsequent passes are simply operating upon the redundancy created by the compression algorithm itself.

Try compressing a file of nulls and look at the output with hexdump or a hex editor. You'll see the patterns left over by the compression algorithm:

dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=1024 count=102400
gzip -9v test
"look at contents of 'test.gz'" -- lots of redundancy
gzip -9v < test.gz > test.gz.gz
"look at contents of 'test.gz.gz'" -- looks more random
because there are more asians then any other "race".....
What about datasets that don't fit in memory? How can a functional language deal with those (let's say we don't want to use a database)? Lazy sequences?

I mean, I loved clojure when I tried it out, I just do not know if I can use it to process data as with other languages with really good libraries (python, for example).
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No ATLAS or CMS member is currently allowed to release these numbers. Then numbers these sites are releasing are just pure rumors (although they may have an element of truth). Just wait until the press conference tomorrow and you will see all in gory detail.
What's up with it showing directions to Moscone Center and then when he closes it there is something about Wooster College? I don't wanna call fake, but that's definitely strange…﻿ Then later on he asks a question about Wooster College

Edit: Also, he says "Where is that museum with Egyptian stuff in San Jose?" and after he closes it, it shows "where is the tallest building in the world"
In the Finance sector, I suspect the answer would be "doesn't exist". RAM is incredibly cheap.
What is the best source for open source news?
I'm looking for unbiased (as close as you can get) news sources for everything open source.
> They are clearly saying that they are only going to fix problems within the first year (Apple One-Year Limited Warranty).

That's simply not true.

> They say that the EU law says: "Defects present when customer takes delivery".

And that's what EU law says, although several countries have gone further in their local implementation of it.

> If I hard drive breaks on the 15th month, is my fault or Apple's? If the battery drains too quickly? If the screen starts doing faulty things?

Apple's if it breaks during normal use, yours if it's due to abnormal use.

> They have enough margin not to be cheap about that and making European customers angry.

What you mean is that some wrongly informed people are angry after reading some biased press articles and are taking sides in a supposed 'Apple VS EU' battle - the big mean corporation against the little consumer.

If you ever have this problem, take it to small claims court and it will get sorted in no time. Caveat emptor.
Another great interview, 5 years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nMD6sjAe8I
I thought I was just being really tired until I realised that the article had gone through a translation mangler.
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Both ATLAS and CMS have legitimate, crazily cross-checked data and therefore they are releasing it. That's all. This is how science is done - all CERN is doing is updating the world on its of progress the search for the Higgs boson.
Sure, sometimes mistakes are made. But you'd have to be an idiot to think that scientists pull these for publicity. Press is a pain in the ass and we try to stay away from them as much as possible.
It's such a shame there's no iOS build anymore. I write a streaming media player for the iPad ( https://github.com/orta/puttio ) and would love to be able to support more codecs than just mp4 by either chucking a URL to VLC or being able to directly work with it in my app.

Glad to see the update improves the mac user experience, a quick look at the user stats show we're a tiny niche: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/stats/downloads.php
As of JB, it can do both. Though I believe the offline mode is only used as a backup if the network's acting up.
Adam Lisagor has produced a lot of great videos for startups: http://sandwichvideo.com/

He also made this great AeroPress tribute video: https://vimeo.com/40980282
fjh - thank you. That is exactly the spirit of science.
From the link text on the post:

Disclaimer: the only edits I made were to cut time between each of my queries, as well as re-order some of the demos from the original order I recorded them in, so they would fit into categories. None of the queries themselves have been edited or cut down, and the sequences are intact. The processing time happened exactly as you see. This demo is made on the early build of Android 4.1 (JRN84D, takju build for Galaxy Nexus I/O edition), on a wifi connection. Consider this beta.

So what you're seeing are places where the queries were reordered.
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if you read the page he says he cut the video down a bit, and also recorded some of the clips to fit them in to categories and not the order he record them.

That could explain why some of the results have other things shown when he closes them.
I had to change ".es" to ".com" in all those links to get anything.
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From what I've read It's all done on the device.

"One of the biggest issues with Siri is that it requires access to Apple’s servers in order to work. In Jelly Bean, however, Google will provide full offline voice dictation to users. Granted, that’s not a full Siri competitor, but the fact that the search company has been able to take it offline in a mobile setting is very important."

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Android-41-Jell...
Direct link to original article (in German): http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/eugh-zu-oracle-vs...

Link to English press release of European Court of Justice: http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2012...
In Australia, the Australian Consumer Law forbids a seller from requiring a guarantee that already covers their implicit rights. Apple might want to watch themselves here - they've already been fined $2.2 million over deceptive advertising claiming th iPad3 is compatible with 4G in Australia.
I don't know Bassel but the fact that he's been detained secretly in Syria suggests that the government thinks he's involved somehow with he uprising/democracy movement.

I don't think signature campaigns will do any good since not even pressure from the US and Turkey has slowed down the bloodshed so do we really think they will care about a bunch of virtual signatures collected online?

There's a few more viable options that should be considered:

1) Leverage someone who has influence with the Syrian government to take up the cause. Given Bassel has been an open source contributor, maybe look at which tech companies are still contracted by the Syrian government and try to get them to lend a voice of support. Make sure to play up the positive PR that releasing Bassel will have on improving Syria's image.

2) Stop collecting signatures and start collecting money to work the back channels. Let's be honest here, corruption is rife (high corruption index on Transparency International study) and the situation pretty chaotic, if you really want to free Bassel, consider a pragmatic approach.
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2MW Cummins use about 130 gallons/hour at max load.

At 1/4, about 34 gallons/hour.

You can't idle them at low loads for long periods without damaging them. That's basically 1/4. You usually want it to be more like 50-75%. So "no real load" is artificially set higher than engine idle to keep the system functional, using a load bank. (what you actually do is have N generators and just use some of them, or have different sizes and use the right ones to sort of match the load)

The output from the generators is going into the UPS. The UPS input is probably pickier than any switchmode power supply. Especially because most big UPSes let you set in software how picky they are about input power before they switch to battery, and they apparently had it set to conservative mode.
Had to check the date (April 1st??) before believing in this. Cool stuff.
In France, it would be Tara's responsibility to prove her claims. It makes more sense than the opposite.

One of the rationale of this principle is that setting up a trial to contest defamatory claims is reproducing the defamatory action.

Beside, if someone claims you are a pedophile, a human body eater or like to kill for instance, how could you objectively prove you're not ?

Those who claim things should logically have the burden of proof, especially if it is defamatory.

This is surprising because it seem to me like a common sense limit to free speech. It is also why I feel much safer in France.
Oops, weird. Changed them.
AD1. You need to type "apache" and wait for suggestions to pop up. I agree it's broken though, the search shouldn't be so strict.
IPhone 4 allegedly smokes in man's pocket, finally explodes on ground
The whole story is filmed with a poor quality surveillance camera. Could it be true or is it another scam by people who want to go viral?
How many times must the same type of thing occur before Hanlon's razor falls to Occam's? :)
Holy... mother... of... god...

I know, this isn't the most insightful comment, but I can't see this NOT having a huge impact on the software industry.

I don't know why you focus on STEAM, this could touch iPhone / iPad / Android apps as well.
Has there been any more information on that startup documentary he was filming?
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> forbids a seller from requiring a guarantee that already covers their implicit rights.

AppleCare is not required, and in includes other things that are not covered under implicit rights, such as onsite support, or telephone support outside of 1 incident/90 days.
This is going to be interesting for software distributed through systems like Valve's Steam, which is tied to a user account. If they want to continue selling their games in Europe, they will have to create a way to transfer your license to someone else.
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Why would anyone do that? We use immutable collections, immutable value objects, unmodifiable views and deep/shallow copies, but never serializing data to a string just for passing it around. I think most experienced Java developers would go for the type-safe alternatives.
http://ideone.com/ntqCb - similar example in VB .NET
This case involves business software (Autodesk, Microsoft, SAP, etc.). But I wonder if it applies to my Steam games library, as well. That would be crazy. In the extreme case, it would reduce the number of digital sales from #(people who want to play the game) to #(people who want to play the game simultaneously).
Today yes. But imagine that our technology gets refined in the following 10k years, even assuming no more technological breakthroughs, but only incremental improvements.

Even today we use some technology which is not really necessary to solve a given problem, just because it uses off the shelf components which are cheaper even if more complicated (e.g. a embedded cpu instead of dedicated and simpler electronics)
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Nothing you said negates my comment.
What makes sense, to me, is to regulate electrical devices so that standby power levels are as low as can reasonably be achieved. This saves energy without consumers having to make an effort.

Things like the 1-Watt initiative have made huge strides in this direction:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Watt_Initiative
I think it's important to remember what journalists are looking for - a story. I've had journalists basically admit to me that they don't have time to put together all the stories that they need, so they look for interesting stories that are easy to understand. A common problem that we had early on was that the media didn't understand our data - so we worked to refine the story down to a simple sentence that just about anyone could understand - and we tested it with people outside our company.

I think the problem with most PR is that it isn't a compelling story - but the people go to the trouble of doing a full PR release (including throwing it on the wires) for something that really isn't news and will never get covered. For items like that, the blog is a perfect outlet combined with social outreach.

In my opinion, it is also worth measuring the impact of your PR - not by number of article placements, but with a brand awareness survey of your target buyers. Yes, it costs money, but you can do it these days for a surprisingly low amount of money (like $1000). This can give you a benchmark for brand awareness among your target buyers and you can then measure the impact over time.

Finally, I think the reason to hire a PR person is because they have the relationships with the media outlets that you target. Yes, they can help with messaging, etc - but at the end of the day it's about whether or not they can pick up the phone and call XXX and have them take their call. Not something for all startups naturally - and as @brackin said at the top, developing those relationships yourself is very powerful.
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4184317

Was only posted to the homepage 2 days ago.
It isn't any different. It's still a few thousand first-world armchair warriors thinking their click matters. I'm sorry for this guy no less and no more than any other Syrian, but I can't believe anybody who knows who Assad is is fool enough to think they will touch his emotions with an email. It's not a damn breast cancer avatar ribbon, stop acta or save the whales, he got arrested by a regime making massacres on it's own citizens. I'm sorry to burst somebody's bubble of trust in the power of internet, but sadly guys like him will be very lucky to get out in one piece, and even if he does, there's very little to celebrate as thousands like him are there, without a hacker community support. Still good that you are worried about your email, let's choose a good platform, follow me on twitter and change the world with a click so we can sleep well.
Are you claiming that every question with an objective answer can be encoded in an algorithm guaranteed to terminate? If so, would you care to provide the algorithm used to determine if a particular question has an answer that can be arrived at using such an algorithm? :-D
I wonder if they can get the resolution high enough to do proper interference patterns. It would be a cool way to do digital holography.
He's going to put it on YouTube "in a few weeks." http://www.cringely.com/2012/06/28/why-youtube-isnt-future-t...
> take it to small claims court and it will get sorted in no time

Hope you're not under the impression that Apple will just 'cave in' and fix it out of court to minimise hassel.

Check out http://www.seattlerex.com/seattle-rex-vs-apple-the-verdict-i...

> If Apple could have replaced my logic board at no cost to themselves, then why in the hell did they drag this out for so long, and why did they send two people to court to try and make sure that I got absolutely nothing? Friends, this is a question I have been asking myself for three months, and it is a question that I do not have the answer to.
"Any" software license? Hardly. Although this is quite useful for the FOSS licenses they have now, what I really would like is to have all those licenses for commercial proprietary software to be translated into something clear. Same for websites and online services served through apps.
Really? Well may be they are for the big boys, none of the commonly used CDN advertise it, All Hosting providers reselling Level 3, Akamai, EdgeCast, NetDNA or even Amazon Cloudfront dont show it either.

I wonder why these aren't available to normal users.
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I'm not 100% sure where it fits in, but I tend to write have a Formatter service that is used by the controller to pass the model to the correct view.

The Formatter inspects the Request to determine what format it should be (html, json, xml, etc.), and returns the correct View to the Controller, which then passes the Model to that View.
Ah, and that also requires JavaScript, which I normally have turned off.
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I'm beginning to wonder if Ulster Bank have reached the event horizon beyond which they don't have the computing power to recover from this.
True. I typed "gplv3" too fast for the autosuggest dropdown to kick in, and got nothing. Had I typed "gpl", I would have gotten some suggestions.
Ah, I did not notice the cuts.
In theory a separate company who's core competency is running IT systems should be less likely to mess this up, not more so.

That's true. Rather than "Don't outsource" the warning should be "Don't fire all the existing staff who understand your systems".
It would be more interesting if they did not find it. LHC needs more exciting results to justify its cost.
Here this is Chrome being tired and acting up in a recursive manner so I can't read TFA: http://imgur.com/XZqAs
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I like this comparison to MVC.

Views + a state machine is basically a description of CouchDB and CouchApp style programming, so I've seen the OPs architecture being used in very real life situations.

I've been calling it an event architecture, that that's not a great name. It's not just events, because events can cause the client to query, so there has to be a whole state machine backing up the event system.
I'm imagining that the byte-aligned LZ matches (e.g. one match emitted for timestamp and another for the remainder of the log-line) in the first pass are using relative offsets, so they are actually exposing a deeper pattern to the second pass.