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>How ironic CA actually gives a crap about the air their citizens breathe, wait, no, that's not ironic at all. Believe me china is beginning to give a crap also, in a major way. No one can live with sucky air, even the Chinese (and us expats who have to deal with crazy bad air quality...).

Even if they do eventually start cleaning up their act (which I doubt) the price has already been paid. The world now has to bear far greater amounts of global pollution (not just in the air either) than it would have if politicians and activists in the US had just taken a more incremental (and less stifling) approach.

Their blind and foolish over aggression in environmental policies resulted in worse consequences for the planet. That is plain to see now. Of course hind sight is 20/20, but there were plenty of people warning that this would happen so full blame is on the table IMO.

Did you know that 16 ships create as much pollution as all the cars in the world. These are the ships that transport these goods and raw materials to and from China
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1229857/How-1...
They're called cinemagraphs, here's a link: http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/cinemagraph/
I feel way faster using appcode - their refactoring is so powerful.
I agree with you. This may be a straight up barter with Samsung
The UK and Germany may be different but from what I've heard and read about French politics I'm not sure I'd prefer that in any situation over America. Isn't there lots of institutional racism and huge restrictions on enterprise?
I've been pair programming for more than a decade, so I definitely know how much it can help newbies. My point is more that one way they can skew the stats in their favor is by hiring people who would have been hired by those companies with or without the program. E.g., people whose issue is self esteem, or people who aren't good at self-evaluation, or people who lack the sort of personal connections that let other hard-to-evaluate candidates get their first break.

I'm not saying that's what they're doing, of course I'm just saying that in this market a strong hiring rate alone doesn't prove anything about the program.
The cost of cartridges are comparable to optical disks. However, LTO drives are non-trivial in terms of both mechanical complexity and cost. I can toss an optical tray into the recycle bin without batting an eye. Not true with LTO, and I suspect their MTBF is similar (trade the quality of the LTO drive for the mass production and cheapness of the optical tray).

Enemy #1 in a large data center is power. When he mentioned the entire rack pulls 1,000W for the density suspected in this thread (~500TB to ~1PB), that piqued my interest. Even if you can't push 2-3PB per rack, the top stat you're crunching forever and always is watt-per-gigabyte. Space is important but if it breaks into the top spot you've done something else wrong along the way.

Enemy #27 for cold(ish) storage might be, say, pressure per sq. in. on your floor. I'd be interested to see a weight comparison of a fully-loaded LTO/cartridge rack and this design.

Perhaps not what you were looking for in an answer, but I'm interested to look over the schematics.
Fracking and horizontal drilling are 20-30 years old technologies. The only reason they're practical now are high oil prices. Technological improvements have been rather incremental in last 20 years in those.

What was needed was not technology, but oil prices over $80 per barrel.

At least that's what someone who does this for living said.
For avoiding vendor lock-in with analytics tools, drip email, and getting your raw usage back out as logs or webhooks, you might check out Segment.io -- you can even change analytics tools on the fly without resubmitting to the App Store.
That is why I used the term "swift and strangling". They were too aggressive and now the planet has to pay. This is akin to vigilantes who end up killing innocents because they are overzealous. Unfortunately, these politicians don't have to answer to anyone. Imagine that, a group of "environmentalists" pushing stiff regulations actually caused more damage then they thought they would prevent. Idiots.

They could have done far more incremental regulating over a longer period of time and the world would have been a much better place because of it. How do these environmentalist planet wreckers sleep at night?
This is just a bit over the top.

Samsung was a Nexus partner 1 time. (2 if you count the play edition s4)

They've worked with LG and HTC multiple times.
The sequence is a shortcut accepted by the vast majority of regular calculators for most of operations. It simply takes the second operand to be the same as the first and repeated pressing of the = key repeats the operation ad infinitum. Ie. 1+== is 3.

I have written an iOS calculator app and had very interesting times trying to find and mimic these shortcuts. I have thought for a long time they had to follow from some simple implementation detail, as all the calculators got them precisely the same, but I never found this one consistent rule, I had to implement the features in a series of hacks.
Intensely boring - going to steal that one.
Good luck telling voters that everything at Walmart now costs twice as much. Our economy and infrastructure is now dependent on cheap goods from China. Peoples perceived standards of living have gone up because we buy all this cheap garbage.

What career politician is going to do this?
Not as annoying as the self involved people who go around talking into a plastic brick in public. Normally we only excuse schizophrenics of talking to inanimate objects.
Google search is also an example of "unsearched" terms finding a way to google's servers
The point of the project in this case is to detect the hypervisor from within a child container (which has a virtualized /proc and /sys).

Hosting providers do this with their Virtuozzo products so they can take advantage of memory deduplication. Such information can be helpful in diagnosing performance bottlenecks (think paravirtual steal-time).
I think this might be it: https://code.google.com/p/google-styleguide/source/browse/tr...
If I understand PFS and your idea correctly, the master site wouldn't need to send its RSA or ECDSA private key to CloudFlare, just an ephemeral connection-specific key once it has been negotiated with the master. I haven't thought enough yet to know if that provides additional security, or whether it cancels out the benefit of CloudFlare's caching.
This is more about the "I put a VPS inside your VPS" situation, which is common amongst the providers offering Virtuozzo at budget pricing.

In that case, we do not have files in /proc to look at, we have to do it the hard way instead.
Great ! Looking forward to coursera, edx and ocw videos too
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This is really cool.

I simply wished that the messaging was more clear and told a story that I could tell to my friends who ultimately are "too busy" to think about the value of this product.

Unfortunately "We've designed a distributed system for sharing enormous datasets - for researchers, by researchers. The result is a scalable, secure, and fault-tolerant repository for data, with blazing fast download speeds." Just isn't a story that I can tell to my buddies and get them excited.
You should be able to read the 10K and 10Q for such type of information.
Wolfram|Alpha does take boolean, but in the notation that Mathematica likes (&&, ||, !, etc). You can also write it out in plain english (NOT A OR B, etc).

I used it to simplify some kmaps for class the other day and it's very nice: prints out a truth table and various types of minimal forms.
Diesel doesn't require a spark to combust, just head and pressure (and oxygen).
These studies drive me crazy. Maybe I'm wrong, but I always feel like some researcher got busy with a dataset and a copy of R, saw some correlation and then wrote a blog post about how we're all doomed.

My personal experience is that I'm sharper at 40 than 20, I know more, and I learn more quickly because I've learned to be more efficient with my time. I cannot say the same about all of the other people I grew up with. Often, they're just too tired to read a book, learn a new instrument, write some code or (heaven forbid) start a company. They'd rather chill out and watch TV.

Which is fine, but if you're not using your noggin, it's not going to be as sharp as it was when you were being forced to use it in college.
I'm not sure if someone has said this but I think it was stupid for Google to get into the smartphone hardware business because it put them in direct competition with their partners. I bet you that all over the world management at HTC, LG, Samsung, Sony, Huawei, you name it, will be breathing a collective sigh of relief.
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Similarly, privacy is going away, and future generations won't care. You can already see it with the kids.

This keeps being said, but it doesn't have to be that way and may not stay that way for long. For one thing, if kids were so careless about privacy, they wouldn't be using Snapchat.
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There's a difference between having headphones on/in your ears and having something obscuring your face, between the person looking at you and your face. Doubly so when it has a camera pointed at said person. It feels like it's BETWEEN the two of you, and delivering extra information to you. It feels unnerving for that reason. Are you really looking at me? Humans establish eye contact for a reason.

Kind of like when I'm talking to someone with headphones on. They take them off before I feel comfortable to talk at length to them.
One problem with offering a dataset as a torrent is that it's impossible to edit it after it's released. However, it seems like that doesn't matter at all in this case, because any scenario I can think of which could be solved by editing the dataset (like redacting private info that was accidentally included) wouldn't avoid the original problem: that they accidentally released private info in the first place. Perhaps it'd be useful to edit the original dataset in order to add to it / enhance it with more info, but in that case they could just release a second dataset as an addendum.

So the core idea seems solid. Thank you for this!
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And then everyone complains about lost jobs ..
What about bit rot though? Some of my dvdr are no longer readable after 5 yrs, stored in very good conditions. Hdd backup, esp. with Zfs can provide very good bit rot protection.
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I would love for there to be some regular program of independent security auditing of major web companies focusing on social engineering attacks. It can be government-funded or privately-funded (companies would pay to be audited in order to be included in a certified registry). I'm not 100% sure how the details would work (they'd have to maintain a huge number of dummy accounts all over the place), but the value of such an effort would be tremendous.

The idea that these companies would rather cater to individuals who are careless with their accounts than uphold the sanctity of the majority of their users' identities is deeply troubling. The thought of a dispensable, minimum wage worker being all that stands between me and total calamity is terrifying.
>> You know, next thing they should do is have a little movies, you know, little sunglass movies so you don't have to look, either.

Prior art.
Are you too young to know all the asthma kids that grew up in no and so cal in the 70s/80s? Pollution in California used to be bad, then the people got serious about it, and now California has clean air. Incremental my ass. I guess you would have settled for incrementally decreasing numbers of asthma kids?

Pollution has gotten so bad in china that it is seriously threatening the CCP's continued existence. They will eventually get their balls just like California did, because it's a life and death kind of situation. After living with shit air for the last two+ years! I'm convinced pansy solutions won't work.
Not sure who did it, but yes.
>I am actually pretty shocked at the responses here on HN, of all places. Not because, as technologists we should all automatically love any new technology, but because, as technologists we should have perspective on its inexorable march.

Perspective also means opinion. Not just accepting the "inexorable march" as fate.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.0741

http://www.thorium.at/?page_id=4

I could not find many references, but I think clocks mainly make the instrument cheaper, or possible in the case of long-baseline satellite instruments.
I've no idea; I've never actually purchased any Kogan product. It nevertheless made news when they released the tax and they repeated the process so I guess it worked out for them?

(The lesson here is that many people will probably just blindly pay whatever the final cost is without checking the itemised receipt and why it costs what it does)
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There's an agreement between Twitter and each user. And depending on the name used, Twitter users have own rights too, trade marks and of course domain names are examples.
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True. However this mode isn't very useful when you need to lift something from Earth - or just to keep it in the air.
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Personal anecdote time: I feel my cognitive abilities enhanced by reading. When you're paying attention to how the author conveys ideas, puts thought into words, you can subconsciously retain that structure and put it to use for your own purposes. After going without reading any novels for an entire semester (college life without humanities classes ugh) and then voraciously consuming Richard K. Morgan's Altered Carbon I tangibly felt my vocabulary and capacity for articulated thought come easier.
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My experience is pretty much the same as yours. I feel sharper in some ways. I definitely work much smarter than I did in my 20s by magnitudes.

Although, mildly annoying, I find myself more frequently going to another room to fetch something and forgetting what the thing was.
>I remember thinking how stupid the iPad was when it came out. It's just an iPhone with a magnifying glass attached, after all.

No, it's an iPhone with a much bigger screen real estate. Which changes all kinds of things, user experience and UI design wise. Things that are awkward on small screen are easily done on a larger screen.

If it was just a magnified iPhone it would be stupid. Now, what's really bad is how many tech pundits though of it exactly like that...
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Glass and bluetooth have the same problem, they are peripheral, accessory devices.

That's what makes them uncool, they're unnecessary. Maybe someday glass will cut the rope of being paired with a phone, but not anytime soon.
Thank you. However, turbine exhaust can't provide much thrust - both flow and speed aren't large. So the spike nozzle doesn't get much thrust from turbine gases - yet it can get it from chamber gases.
Just some fun speculation - perhaps it means on average we're consuming the same amount of data no matter what we do (assuming full mental cognition; and with a +/- ~25% variance depending on intensity of data consumption). So the hard-drive fills up regardless, with our choice being what the data consists of.
>Your ability to predict what amount to fashion trends in the future is not particularly related to your ability to do so in the past.

I don't know, your ability to predict trends in the past sounds like the best predictor of your future ability.

Except if you think that there's no such an abilily, and it's all random guesses and luck.
I addressed it in the other half of my post

I see that you did say "for any specific task", but, as I noted in my response to that, it seemed inconsistent with the much stronger nature of the claim that seemed to me to be either implicit or explicit in the other things you said. So I was confused about exactly what position you were taking. I'm clearer about it in view of this post; see below.

Per my understanding of relativity and the present state of physics (significantly received from others but I think that I followed it at the time) this is simply not the case (in particular, if time is finite then "everything our light cone will encompass before the end of time" is finite - and I think an expansionary universe makes things worse).

If you think this, then your understanding of relativity is wrong. As I responded to your other post upthread, "time is finite" only if space is finite, per the Einstein Field Equation. And the expansion of the universe does not "make things worse" in any sense that I can see, because the only reasonable solutions for the universe as a whole are dynamic (the only static solution, Einstein's static universe with a nonzero cosmological constant, is unstable, like a pencil balanced on its point, so it's not really reasonable as a real-world solution).

You hold that, for any task in any situation, with sufficient knowledge, the resources it can take can approach arbitrarily close to zero?

Yes (with an appropriate definition of "any task in any situation"). Julian Simon, AFAIK, was the first to defend this claim in detail, in a series of economics papers in (IIRC) the 1980's. It was in this same time period that he made his famous bet with Paul Ehrlich (of "Population Bomb" fame) about whether the price of 5 common resources would fall (Simon's bet) or rise (Ehrlich's bet) over a period of some years. Simon won the bet for all 5.

I don't think the bounds given by physics have any impact yet. I'm not convinced they ever will

Then what's the point of talking about them? If you think there are more practical bounds, what are they?

My original point, which I think too much was read into, was simply that there are situations in which some having more can lead to others having less, and that paying attention to whether we're in such a situation is worthwhile.

But this is a different statement from "resources are finite". Some having more can lead to others having less even if there is plenty to go around (for example, consider investment banks and the economy tanking in 2008). I would say that skewed incentives, and our failure as a society to properly punish people who undermine basic institutions, are far more pressing problems than resource limits.
There are attempts to feel out a process for "updating torrents". However, this is long from becoming a standard practice in the BitTorrent ecosystem. Check this[0] out for more info.

[0] http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0039.html
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This will be interesting...

I wonder how the government will respond?
That 1981 story is bizarre. Pocketable (AM-only!) transistor radios with an earphone were on the market in the 50s and the "little Japanese radio" was ubiquitous by the 1960s.

By 1981 I'm sure there were people still grousing about the good old days but it would have been the equivalent of complaining about e-mail and the death of the handwritten letter in the 2010s (and I'm sure NPR has done more than one story about that in this decade because that's their shtick).

The Walkman was revolutionary because it was a portable cassette deck, the first true plays-anywhere format that allowed someone to completely divorce themselves from radio music without any compromises.
If you think voters would comprehend a debate about tariffs, on its own merits, you are vastly mistaken.
>That means that in less than two years, Google shredded 85% of the $13bn paid for Motorola.

You did not even make it down to the third paragraph of the article?

Under this deal the search giant will keep the majority of Motorola's mobile patents, considered its prize assets.

SMH
>And yet most people don't have that reaction to pervasive CCTV. Which, in some places, is virtually omnipresent and constantly recording.

That's because they don't see those recordings posted around and embarrasing them or affecting their future lifes.
Deterministic realtime attribute was required condition on Apple product, and any GC based language was not acceptable at the time. But sometimes I think they could solve the issue if they could research longer.
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We all plan on using all of them. :(
Please explain how CA regulations forced manufacturers to China, and not merely to Arizona.
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My wife has had a couple mysterious illnesses that sent her to the ER. She saw a doctor within a couple hours. In both instances, there wasn't any life threatening issue. Granted the ER was pretty empty, but waiting a few more hours rather than weeks wouldn't have been a big deal.

Copays aren't that big of a deal when you're in extreme pain. Ours was $100 per ER trip. Surely that would dissuade people with ear aches. Had it been a 20% coinsurance charge, then we probably would have tried urgent care first, or waited longer. But you can see how having insurance (or a certain type of insurance) can affect your behavior, in a way that's not so predictable. Many policy makers were surprised by the results of the Oregon Medicare Study as are many people learning about moral hazard for the first time. It's counter-intuitive.
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Skimming the original NPR article:
"Unidentified Man #2: You know, it's nice when you're walking around to hear other people talking and see what they're doing. And you're kind of putting blinders on."

Culturally we've evolved to taken wearing headphones publicly in a public place (such as a Grocery Store) as a subtle social cue that "I don't want social interaction".

I imagine with early augmented reality devices like the Google Glass, we will adapt social etiquette around them. Its less of a question if it will be accepted but how social graces will accommodate such a technology. I imagine similar behaviors will evolve around the Glass. I can speculate what those might be but I think more importantly that the Google Glass may not stop looking super dorky, but rather we will develop culture around said device, and its acceptable uses.
Flag this post, because HN is nowhere near mature enough to have an intelligent conversation about this topic.
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Forever yours,
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PS. Still crazy for your elegant beige on the outside. Wow, just wow!
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Well, for one you tend to reply defensively with sarcasm.

You seem to be surprised that someone can talk about other people's psychology. You know, there is such a thing as people having motives and hidden motives and other people discussing them.

In any case, I was speaking on aggregates. If you really want to learn about your specific psychology, visit a psychologist and tell him more about you. If you even browse relevant bibliography though, you'll find that "because it makes them happy" is quite low on the list of explanations for why people do things (or, more accurately, doesn't tell even half of the story, with the important part being: "WHY does it make them happy").
i'm interested now - what does that expose about the internal architecture for you?
I wish they'd add support for not double-counting my credit card purchases instead.