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Are these Blu-ray disks rewritable? If so, wouldn't this be a great tech for Amazon's Glacier service? I believe they currently depend of costly tape drives to store data.
Only until they decide to recycle the usernames.
It depends on the situation. If a hospital is nearby that specializes in X for area A they won't admit you, will send someone outside to you, and get an ambulance to bring you to the other hospital.

Source: Second hand knowledge. Take it for what you will.
Relevant sessions from re:Invent:

Building Scalable Applications on Amazon Simple Storage Service (2012) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYnVRYbUR6A

Maximizing Amazon S3 Performance (2013) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXHw0Xae2ww
- still cheaper than SAP/Oracle

HAHA! Yes! that shit is ungodly expensive.
My hopes were dashed when I realized that this wasn't a new type of optical hard disc, like holographic drive technology or something.
There's a new emulation mode in -HEAD http://beta.freshbsd.org/commit/freebsd/r260368
My New Zealand address is meaningless in the US unless you want to find my house. I see patient numbers on things displayed from time to time and wince - interesting case studies etc. I most certainly could find out who the person is. A distinct pathology is probably enough to identify someone in New Zealand if you tried hard enough.
I just submitted a question on "running out" of renewable energy that included this scenario, so fingers crossed!
Why bother with rewriteable disks? This is cold storage meaning that they will likely never throw this data away. I'd suspect Amazon's Glacier runs on something similar.
In my experience, it is very common for the recruiter and/or HR person to suggest what you should wear. If they don't, I would think it somewhat safer not to wear a suit to most tech interviews. (As much as I know y'all want to be all contrarian - "I'm not a nerd, I love looking smart!")
Haha! I had to go out and check, and sure enough, there it is in CNET.com's source.
Honda offers 3D printing files for its concept designs
Headphones are STILL smug and alientating.

I wear them all the time because I like listening to music on the go. However, I still think, objectively speaking, they are silly and off-putting. Just because they are so common now doesn't mean we have to deny their intrinsic nature.
The data available won't include that those personal identifiers. At time of extraction, the patient record in the database is assigned a new unique identifier which has nothing to do with the NHS number.
Google just bought Nest.
Totally agree. I refuse to talk to anyone with one of those on. It's not only creepy but also really unfair. It also throws the whole concern of private conversations out the door. Get rid of the camera but keep the glass. Maybe then we will be more comfortable.
After 30 years, why did the Mac never break into big business?
Big difference IMO is that the Glass is worn, and even more, is worn on the face, specifically around the eyes.

Remember how douchey the bluetooth headset people were? Very small by comparison, and that was mostly hidden if you had long hair, or were viewed directly from the front.

The Pebble is about the limit, which is why the wrist-computer thing is so interesting, even though it doesn't provide a huge amount of new capability for "heads up" computing vs. a vibrating smartphone. I'm mostly unwilling to wear the "old" Pebble, but probably will wear Pebble Metal, and will definitely wear Pebble 3.0 (if it improves by roughly the same amount; 1-4mm slimmer would be nice).

Glass would be fine alone, or in a car, or in the field, but probably not something I'd wear at dinner, or in a casual meeting (unless by using it I were much more productive and useful).

The article seems to think wearing headphones in public is ok. It's fine when you're sitting down avoiding people, but the kids wearing large, crappy headphones in other environments (e.g. at meals) are kind of pathetic.
Love how it is opt out. If it was opt in would they have any takers? If you set up auto-opt in systems where I live you would soon have the commerce commission, privacy commission or the police knocking on your door asking hard questions.
I've found that in my own experience that depressed people focus on and recall negative details moreso than the good.

This form of selective memory, remember the good things and forgetting the bad, is a primary tool that ordinary people use to stay sane. Something that records everything you do forever has the potential to serious mess with that.

Wikipedia calls it the negative triad
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_errors#Depression
This may feel a little harsh but I do agree with the sentiment. I loaded the site, skimmed through a bunch of product names and had to go back and read the much less emphasized description which felt like a pain in the ass. My eye kept being drawn to the bolder, darker product names. I then closed the site. Mind you I'm very interested in the topic.
Yeah. This was... my biggest takeaway from running my own company. I struck out on my own because I thought the business people who ran the companies I worked for were unethical idiots, and being not-an-idiot, I could do better.

Turns out? Nope.

I also find that the arguments I had with my bosses come around again, from my employees.

I still don't really understand how business works - but I've learned enough to understand that I don't understand how business works.
Because they wouldn't blink an eye and strongarm a small business or individual that don't have legal budget. They even hint at it when "we were surprised he didn't settle since he has to come to us for permits anyway". Now that opponent actually has legal budget, they play the victim and "oh, now, this fight that is actually within our legal framework is not fair!"
Facebook has built a novel implementation, but this isn't a new idea or product. Similar to how they used to buy servers and now build them to spec, they probably used to buy these and now design and build them.

http://www.disc-group.com/products/bd-series-benefits/
http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/29/google-keeps-motorolas-adva...
Maybe I'm just old, but I still think wearing headphones conveys a detached air. My reaction isn't as strong as the 1981 interview, but it's there. Anyone else feel that way?
The guy was very explicit that this is a cold storage solution. Probably "backups of backups."
Do rewritable blurays last as long as write-once discs?
Now, I'm not sure if this is the case here but using Irish operations for tax purposes is part of a well-understood loophole. Here's a better explanation around Google's activities:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKfxVlyh98Y
Robot Dialer: The NHS wish to sell your medical data for use in a study of people who had blood transfusions. Press 1 to accept, 2 to refuse, 3 to speak to an agent.

Robot Dialer: You pressed 1 to accept; can we use your data for future studies? Press 1 to accept, 2 to refuse, 3 to speak to an agent.

Robot Dialer: You pressed 2, can we contact you to ask about using your data in specific studies in the future? Press 1 to accept, 2 to refuse, 3 to speak to an agent.

Umpteen marketing companies appear to be able to afford to do this sort of calling (yes even though it's against the law for them to contact me as I'm on the no-call database [which wouldn't apply to the NHS]).

If it's too costly then the studies can hardly be worthwhile? Remember the NHS wasted £10 Billion on a single IT project over the last 10 years. What would this auto-dialer have cost? £10k in "management", couple of thousand in IT staff and set-up (join study NHS numbers with main database ID table and contact info tables, select phone numbers; set-up dialer script, test, initiate) maybe £500 in direct call costs. They most likely already have systems in place to do auto-dialed calls for disease outbreaks [UK Environment Agency use one for flood warnings].
Each LTO-6 tape cartridge stores 6TB of data. Each quadruple layer Blue-ray disk stores only 128GB. I am surprised that FB went with Optical Disk instead of Tape.

Optical jukeboxes/libraries for MO/DVD/CD used to be popular a decade or so ago and now considered antique. There is just not enough density with optical.
I 3D printed a flying disc
Good points. Of course, I'm going to quibble a little, else I wouldn't be replying!

>...our economy is so screwed up right now is because employees are getting a smaller and smaller share of the pie, not because technology is displacing jobs"

But, the two are related right? When tech displaces jobs, which it of course has, then there is lower demand for labor and the price of labor (wages) goes down. There are other forces as well, but all primarily stem from a drive to keep costs (and hence prices) down, while keeping profits up.

>If more people are out of work because of technology, great! That means we have more people who can go work on things like curing cancer and colonizing space :-)*

I know that was half tongue-in-cheek, but would that it worked that way! Alas, what we value economically versus what would benefit us as humans are too infrequently aligned. There will come a day though, when only a tiny fraction of the population will be "neccessary" to create what the world produces. It will be interesting to see how society realigns itself and evolves when so few people need to do traditional (economic) work.
>Why bother with rewriteable disks?

Its okay for Facebook and other single entities for backups. However for Glacier, it would mean throwing away the disk whenever someone deletes their data. It would also means constant replacement of disks.
> I disagree that people will become comfortable with Google Glass - the primary negative reaction is the voyeuristic-rejection of having a camera always pointed at you (that may or may not be recording).

A core assumption of this argument is that people won't eventually become accustomed to the idea of being recorded consistently, often without their knowledge or consent.

I can't see why that would be the case. Video surveillance is nigh-ubiquitous in London, and this appears to be both accepted and tolerated. Closer to home (US), I was probably recorded on camera 10-12 times today alone - anywhere from office buildings, retail stores, gas stations, etc. Moreover, I understand that I'm being monitored or recorded in some fashion during the majority of my waking hours (internet usage in the workplace, mobile apps with access to my current location, etc.)

Why do you feel people will forever resist this particular loss of privacy, when we already take some measure of persistent surveillance & recording as a given?

NB : This does not mean I feel comfortable speaking to someone wearing glass. It's unsettling. However, the very crux of the OP was that what we currently consider unsettling or strange is subject to change. I can't find a good reason to disagree with that conclusion.
One simple solution that I like:

- You have a row of credit card icons. By default they are in full color.

- These icons react like buttons (hover shows clickability) and act like radio buttons if clicked -- all the others gray out.

- When a user starts typing a credit card number, it selects the appropriate icon if not already selected (graying out the others).

Because they aren't radio buttons (or a dropdown), it doesn't force people through the step, but because they can act like radio buttons (providing only visual feedback), they don't confuse anybody who thought they were supposed to be there.

The forms I've used that feel the most natural do something like this.
The technology has spread but to date no other shale formation has been identified that has the same advantages of those in the US, namely a government friendly to drilling. France has some promising formations but they've banned the tech. There are other possibilities in Poland and Ukraine but there have been difficulties bringing them online.

It's not just about the technology, above-ground risk is in many ways the bigger problem.

But sure, it's a risk inherent in this sort of project. Cheniere Energy was building its Sabine Pass LNG facility in Louisiana to import gas until advances in fracking and horizontal drilling led to a glut of gas in the US market and importing ceased to make sense. Cheniere had to pull off a multi-billion dollar pivot to export instead, scrambling to raise billions and get approval to build the liquefaction trains required to export gas.

(OT: if anyone in Silicon Valley thinks theirs is the only industry ripe with crazy schemes, insane pivots and huge disruptions, read up on energy. The Prize by Daniel Yergin, Private Empire by Steve Coll and The Frackers by Gregory Zuckerman are the places to start)
Well in Cardiff you'll be opted in to organ donation automatically of course.
Where does the money come from when you inevitably fall sick and need care?
Sorry,

I should have put things in a more nuanced fashion.

But the point is that there was no "let the debts fall on the floor, start afresh" action.

And yes, a lot of international stuff was left hanging but as other posters have mentioned, the UK and other central banks stepped in for a lot of consumer-level deposits.

Some portion of speculators were left hanging by the US response to the crisis too. Wow!

My main point is there was many differences in detail but no really fundamental difference between the US response to the crisis and the Icelandic one. Both supported their banks in the main because they had, at least to maintain their existing money-economy.

Part of this is that anyone on Facebook or similar sites is going to see a steady stream of factoids about how Iceland wasn't "fooled by the bankers", I'm responding to such rot.

Also, all the state created entities were eventually returned to private hands, pretty much the same private hands.
Good point, some things are not completely clear though - there is still access by water, and since they own all coastland, by definition they have access through their own property.
Someone convince me that Big-O notation is useful anywhere outside of interviews. Because I don't believe it is.
I would rather expect .Net/c# since it is Microsoft-owned
> I'm not allowed to disclose details about the technology stack, but I can say that the database querying functionality was kept separate from the actual parsing and semantic analysis, and was implemented in a different language.

I'm definitely curious about this. Are you allowed to disclose which language?
Your business is a ship. You are the captain.
As someone currently suffering and having gone down the road of expensive keyboards and changing keyboard layouts -- can I confirm with you the specifics of your strength training program?
Once you're part of Scandinavia all your problems will be gone. http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16050269
After I saw this on James Hamilton's blog the other day I did a quick check of BD-R versus 4TB HDDs cost per GB. Using whatever I could find after about 5 minutes of looking around, I came up with $0.05/GB for both types of media.

If anyone can provide a link to BD media for sale at a price that make this economical I'd be interested to know.
Think you forgot to include the URL?
Is there a checkstyle config floating around somewhere that I can use to enforce this style?

Edit: Or an eclipse formatter config?
Can anyone knowledgeable explain why they use Blu-Ray instead of tape backup? When would an organization use Blu-Ray, and when wouldn't then? Is this reflective of any kind of general trend?
Believing the CFO when he made a point of telling me, "If you ever need anything, let me know."

Gratitude is demonstrated through actions, not vague verbal commitments.
Verizon FIOS modem -> Firewall --> Switch --> Cat5 to computers and SIP phones, wireless access point

* You absolutely want a firewall. Defense in depth. A firewall that supports a VPN that runs on your office's laptops is very handy for working from home or the road.

We have a Watchguard Firebox firewall. It works well but is very annoying to configure: the primary configuration mechanism is a Windows program, but I run linux, so that just pisses me off. The secondary mechanism is a web page running Flash (I dislike flash). The configuration is a very leaky abstraction, with further pisses me off.

* For the switch(es), you definitely want a "small business" managed switch ($500 and up) that supports RMON/SNMP. (We have some old Linksys/Cisco "managed" switches with no RMON - cannot tell me where my traffic is going - and can only be configured with IE 7 or older(!!!) POSes!!!).

* For wireless, I installed the Ubiquity UniFi wireless access points (threw away some older Cisco WAPs that were POSes). If you only have one AP, this is overkill... we have several of them to cover our facility. The system is very reasonable and the central management is very very convenient. The primary interface to the software is Flash (ugh) - but it works well enough. There are other ways of interacting with the controller, but I have not much that way (I have written some MongoDB scripts to extract useful information nightly).

* You are also going to need DHCP, DNS, etc. Windows Server with Active Directory is dominant at businesses. Linux and OSX interoperate fairly well with AD. LDAP (and Kerberos if you want single-sign-in) would be the alternative to AD. Being a linuxhead, I would run a Debian/Ubuntu server with bind (DNS) and isc-dhcp-server (DHCP) - that is what I'm running at home and it works well. You will probably (eventually) want to run Icinga/Nagios/equivalent and Cacti/equivalent to monitor your systems on this server as well.

* I assume your SIP phones will be using a SAAS outside company PBX. I don't have experience with that, we have an on-site PBX (predates me, and is now obsolete).
I can't imagine that Google doesn't weigh significance when picking a winning ad. Is that really the case?
Check out dwolla or balanced.
When I first signed up for thefacebook, the summer before I started college in 2004 I would have never in my life imagined that I'd one day read a news story that began with the following sentence:

> Today Facebook reported its fourth quarter financial performance, including revenue of $2.59 billion and earnings per share of $0.31.

This is insane to me. Also... 945 million mobile users. What?
I don't know, there are plenty of cases where the stuff we thought qualified as "evidence", and definitely turned into medical practice, turned out to be wrong.

Examples: stress causing ulcers, cough medicine for children, diet (carbs good or bad? cholesterol horrible or inconsequential?), prostate cancer screening, certain kinds of corrective surgeries.
You have a point and insight. This is critical to a lot of Android users. I sort of believe what you said because other sources also implied Android's head is gone and it's under ChromeOS now. we can imagine what will happen. I tried the ChromeBook for a second, even the sellers don't like it. Other than lock users to the Google platform, I don't see any value there. Really sad if what you predicted is true.
As in, it is ironic b/c Google is limiting our ability to deep search conversations while facilitating the NSA's deep searching of our communications.

But, simply stating "NSA?" is too subtle for the down vote happy set.
It would be interesting to read more about what you did. In particular it would be interesting to hear the details on the 5 year long espionage plot. Have you written about that somewhere?
Ask HN: Crazy payouts loophole?
Popular payment processors (Stripe, Balanced, Braintree) all allow you to make payouts to customers...and ask for info to verify the recipient's identity along with bank account information. However, they don't ensure the identity you provide is the person (or business) that actually owns the bank account...meaning I could theoretically provide the identity of someone else (i.e. fake someone's identity) along with the bank details of an account I control. Is this some crazy security loophole or not as bad as I am picturing it?
I think this does a good job of speaking to one issue with Glass. "It looks dorky" will fade. There are negative reactions for other reasons, but conflating all negative attributes of Glass isn't a good analysis.

For those raising privacy concerns as an issue with this analysis - do you think the "that looks dorky" reaction is in fact significantly motivated by privacy concerns, or can you imagine a hip-and-chic styled product that is nonetheless equally (potentially) voyeuristic raising only some of the present objections?
Actually, I still find big headphones weird. I bought one myself so I started finding them okay, and there are a lot of people wearing them now that it doesn't look so silly anymore.

Makes me think about this as well:

"Annette Kellerman promoted women’s right to wear a one-piece bathing suit like this circa 1907… She was arrested for indecency"

http://i.imgur.com/3aFSWSg.jpg
It's certainly useful when you find that someone accidentally made something n^5 instead of n and you need to explain to that person why they were very, very wrong.
I've run into plenty of cases where something was unacceptably, brokenly slow for a handful of inputs, and I wanted to figure out why, and then I realized "Oh, this bit of code is O(n^2) and it's running into a weird edge case with a large n", and then fixed it. I've also run into cases of regular expressions running in exponential time, which is always entertaining.
I'd ignore the hyperbole in the article--and really, what does that have to do with the little girl? It's still very impressive for her to score in the 99th percentile--no matter what her age.
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A lot of people are unhappy with the their latest laptop models, particularly the Thinkpads. Much of this centers around the physical design changes, but I seem to recall some observations regarding an increasing amount of struggle with UEFI and bootable images and such, as well.

In absolute terms, things may not yet be "awful", but there is a worrying trend, in many minds.
Big-O is an extremely easy way to sum up the running time of an algorithm. Sometimes it's misleading, but usually it's fairly informative, and with most code it can be worked out with just a glance or two. It's so simple and yet still reasonably informative that I'm not sure how it wouldn't be useful.
You have included cash which Motorola had when getting acquired but have conveniently ignored their short term debts (current liabilities) which they were liable to pay. A better number to look at is net working capital.
And yet most people don't have that reaction to pervasive CCTV. Which, in some places, is virtually omnipresent and constantly recording. "Smile, you're on camera ☺"

And many people have no qualms sharing pretty much everything on Facebook and the like.

I don't know which way it will really go, but it is really not obvious a priori that everyone is that concerned about privacy, or that society will not adapt to make things like constant filming more acceptable.
"Look at insane costs of healthcare/education in the US - no doubt caused, in part, by "free money" either through government-assisted programs or employer-sponsored insurance."

Huh?

Even with the modest ACA reforms implemented to date, the growth of healthcare costs has already slowed down. First time since the 90s.

Medicare, which is most akin to single payer in other countries, is the most efficient guarantor (highest medical loss ratio). Long term cost reduction requires extending Medicare to all and embracing the capitation model. Bonus points for resuming prior levels government funded basic R&D.

Tuition costs are rising as subsidies have been removed and student loans have been privatized. The combination created a bubble. Which happens often enough when deregulation and privatization co-occurs, that my hunch is it's casual.

So while universal basic income may prove to lead to inflation, your two examples do not support that argument.