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I don't really understand this comment. OCP, from what I've seen, is mostly dealing with designs for servers built using x86 and/or ARM processors, of which there are plenty of off the shelf motherboards already available. If people are building (or start building) OCP spec motherboards, so much the better. But with POWER, it's always been just short of impossible to buy an "off the shelf" motherboard with a normal form-factor, that uses normal RAM, etc., and put a box together.

And, IMO, when an architecture is that inaccessible to the hobbyists and experimenters and tinkerers, it really hinders it. I know it definitely diminishes my personal interest, and I want to be an IBM fan in many ways.
Just out of curiosity, what country are you in? In the US I've had all three current major cable TV providers (and several of their predecessors), and I've never had a long contract (it's always been month-to-month). Is it common to require long commitments in other countries?
The lack of any peer-reviewed papers backing up their approach is not a problem at all if professionals invest in that company. They should be able to get the data from the company and form their own opinion on it.

It's a bit different if you crowdsource the whole thing. The individual backers don't have the ability and knowledge to dig as deep to actually judge the validity of the approach. So I can certainly understand that this draws some criticism.
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If startups don't work out because of sensitivity in medical data, look at Northrop Grumman. They work with the CDC on big data analysis.
I have come to the same conclusions, for that reason I asked this question, one of the reasons that i like mongodb is that data is in JSON
When scientific progress mattered more, so why was cybernetics considered bourgeois pseudoscience?
Also, how can you progress on planetary scale, when there's shortage of toilet paper?
'"Hey, this price move doesn't make sense considering recent activity, how the broad market is moving, etc., I'm going to buy more"'

Betting you know more than the guy moving large size rarely a good move, though...
While this is true, I think "fuzzy forecast of the general future" is the thing that ties them together. That chronic depression is caused by chemicals rather than external data seems to be a minor point (well, not for treatment, but you know what I mean).

I'm not sure it's possible to simultaneously believe "in the future, I will be deliriously happy," and be depressed.
Reminds me of Infinispan [1] or other similar Data Grid software.

[1] http://infinispan.org/
I have a theory with peer review, if it works, it is important and it is reproducible, then people will reproduce it and build on it. If any of the three parts are not there, then no one will want / need / be able to reproduce it, and it will fade into scientific obscurity, while the rest of the scientific community keep moving forwards.
I have had that happen once or twice. But also I've encountered a lot of people who "aren't drug dealers", who only sell weed to their friends, basically so that they can smoke for free. This type takes the "not a drug dealer" thing seriously, and if you ask for large quantities or other stuff they will say no.
What can today POWER do that neither Intel nor ARM can? What is its relevance?
Thank you. It has been a challenging couple of months.

She was also a methamphetamine user (as a bipolar person she used meth when she was depressed and heroin when she was manic) and suffered no such "meth mouth" complications. The generally accepted reason for that side effect is a failure of dental hygiene and chronic dry mouth when dosed improperly, not necessarily the drug itself. If that were the case, the thousands and thousands of people prescribed Adderall would be toothless.

The major problem with the illegal "hard drug" market is that these substances are synthesized in abhorrent conditions and it is impossible to know what you are getting and in what concentration. For instance, there has been a recent rash of heroin overdoses across the country due to it having been "enhanced" with Fentanyl, an anesthetic designed for exclusive use in a closely-monitored hospital setting.

It took her death for me to change my stance on all of this. She found drugs that made her feel better. Heroin, meth, MDMA, etc. are no different than Seroquel, Xanax, Prozac, or any of those psychoactive drugs.
Can we all just agree that premature patterns is similar to premature optimization and move on?
This made me cringe:

> Your [bank] will set you up with a secure FTP server onto which you’ll upload ACH files.

Automated financial transactions, with lots of money involved. Secure. FTP server.

Of course I know that FTP is still considered "secure" for some business applications but this is absurd. With all the security (mis)features the banks have put forward with card payments in order to shift liability to account holders, the very core of inter-bank transactions then runs on something as insecure as FTP.

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Ha. I've seen $22/gram recreational with a max of 3 grams, and people are lining up in downtown Denver. Things aren't much better in Boulder, where the city is dragging their feet on recreational. You can get 1 gram of wax (concentrate) for $25 black market (the bicyclists love their sativas), or from $40 to $65 in one of the shops (lower price typically medical).

I think the pie is probably growing. Good number of senior citizens are waiting patiently in line for 15 minutes; favorite line: "Sativa edible? I can't wait for bingo tonight."
Central banks are creating house bubbles by artificially controlling the price of new money the interest rate and then they save the banks which default on bad loans so the debt is kept intact. This moves money from the middle classes up the chain to the upper class who owns most of the debt.
I might look into the Mandelbrot book. From my perspective if you accept that GDP is the economy's production plus the change in aggregate debt it seems a small step to see how debt growth builds during the boom and stops suddenly reducing spending to form the crash. Debt in itself is not bad but in the absence of stabilisation it is likely to cause problems.

I quite like his Modern Jubilee idea a.k.a. QE for the public (although it is an alternative to TARP and the QE that took place in the midst of the 08/09 crisis not for now) I'm not sure how a traditional Jubilee would work and how it would stabilise the banks at all. The Jubilee Shares are the Keen policy I don't quite buy.
Not so, numbers are being revised from 1:10.000 to as low as 1:1.000

Then, we have anti-aging. Big business here. Mitochondria is key.

Then, we have diseases with secondary mitochondrial dysfunction. Again, big business (Alzheimer, Type 2 diabetes, statin-induced myopathy, etc)
In the broader context, like in the legal context, it's not a claim about what is true, but rather a claim about what we should believe (or more appropriately, how we should treat the accused) given the evidence we have. You don't say "this person definitely didn't commit a crime, because we don't have evidence," but rather "we don't consider this person guilty, and thus don't punish him or her, until we get some evidence."
If you want it on GitHub, put it on GitHub. Put it where you'd like.
Well, I'm no super admin, but my mail server's been humming along fine for several months now, without needing intervention except for heartbleed.
"Since the traffic is anonymous, how do you propose to do this?"

Traffic other than your own is anonymous, but that doesn't mean you can't spot patterns that are almost certainly the behaviour of one other agent. On some exchanges you can track the history of resting orders, too, which gives you some more info (though still doesn't tie all of any player's orders together, anywhere).
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Is it possible to do write through / write back to some other data store?
To anyone criticising their decision for whatever reason; the key lies in the phrase

The sum of these events make it impossible for Ada Initiative (...)

To me, this reads that it's not about who has done what etc. But rather that one doesn't want to keep working with a company where an affair like this goes down the way it has. As some agreed before here on HN; github, or rather the participants in this affair acted, or seemed to act, like a bunch of immature teenagers. It's understandable that this irks business partners, as its simply not professional - usually what business is about (Or more often, pretends to be. But that's not too relevant here). Especially when your mission includes social/society topics, like the Ada Initiative.

I don't know, maybe it's the Ada Init. acting immature here.

Or maybe the whole "echo chamber" around github et al needs to grow up (seriously, usually such FUD, dirty laundry, who-kisses-whom etc. is written about in very low grade magazines, one would assume such are not read by techies/hackers). It would explain why many articles related to that are consistently upvoted (thankfully, they seem to vanish rather fast as well).

Or maybe there's a real, general problem of our/this society lying below all that; but I doubt that. (Not that there are no problems at all).

But serious discussion about this should go to a social science HN, in my opinion. I would prefer if we all could nudge the scope of HN back to tech stuff (or fields where YC backs startups, since it seems to expand since recently).

Cause I'm getting a little fed up with all this excitement and talk about failed social interaction between some other humans, which in contrast to the billions of other similar mishaps on this planet, just happen(ed) to be affiliated with a company whose products are often used around here.
At the moment, maybe, but look at the recent post about a plugin that does automatic background OCR for every image in a browser.

That kind of "processing the ambient environment all the time, just in case you might need some part of it" is going to thrive when computing power allows it.

Permanent background face recognition, just in case there's a face in any picture. Permanent background face identity checking just in case you know them. Permanent audio speech recognition. Permanent searching of all sorts of things to find contextually relevant information. Permanent local analysis trying to work out "what's going on" and "what mood are you in" and "what are you working on" and "is now a bad time to interrupt?".
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Those are victories, but I wouldn't credit them to peer review. I think of "peer review" as what happens between a manuscript being submitted and it being published.
Used to be that way when I first moved to Nebraska in the mid '90s.
Me either. But to scrape off 80% of memory use, you had to be wasting 400% of the lower limit -- which seems dumb in retrospect.
Yeah, I was gonna say earlier, but got distracted... it would also help if one could call up IBM (or a reseller) and actually buy a POWER chip - for a reasonable price - to plug into said motherboard.

In the end, it's the entire ecosystem... it's either affordable and accessible or it isn't. It's sad that IBM keeps coming out with pretty cool hardware (Cell, POWER, etc.) that nobody can afford to get convenient access to. :-(
It's not a false dichotomy in the context of the discussion here. The 'bets' alluded to in the title are financial bets. And the first screen of any bet is "how big is the market" etc. In Academia science, the "market" is simply prestige...in "VC" backed systems, the market is simply "money". Basically everything in academic <as a system> is geared to polishing a reputation/presitge of the sponsoring institution. That prestige is the currency that allows the various non-profit entities to raise more money (ie, make money) so even this "prestige" is just another "invisible hand" of the market for donation or tax dollars. The marketing and propoganda around fundraising for universities, foundations, or tax-based government funding sources is "achieving our mission"...and the measurement of the execution along that front ("success"!) is the <term of art> called "prestige". As your story points out, "prestige", and the money that accrues to it, is only loosely correlated with "the truth" or "good science"...{etc}.
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Just curious. How hard is it for a bank to agree to be your “Originating Depository Financial Institution"? We currently use Balanced for ACH payouts, but it sounds like we could actually do this ourselves and significantly speed up the process as well as cut down on fees.
I'm going to re-assert that I'm not an expert on this specific issue, and so I'll just repost the EFF's reasoning:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/01/after-nsa-backdoors-se...

The EFF, on its part, is not basing its stance just on the existence of intentional wrongdoing, but on what it regards as carelessness by RSA to not fix a protocol that was publicly questioned in 2007. That this protocol was questioned is not under debate. And that the protocol was flawed is also not under debate.

So again, you can say, "Well how was RSA supposed to know that those Microsoft researchers were onto something? And how do you expect RSA to figure it out after just five years?" But that's a different deal than we have with Github. The only evidence we have of Github's collective wrongdoings are that Horvath felt that she had to quit. We do have (implicit) evidence that the co-founder did something wrong, because he offered his resignation. But he has made it adamantly clear that what he screwed up in had nothing to do with gender-based discrimination. Which is purportedly the issue that Ada Initiative is most incensed about. What we have now, though, is that there were clearly bad management problems at Github. And if Ada Initiative wants to boycott a company for having such internal strife, then that's their right.

But that sounds about as right as someone ripping on Ada Initiative (which some did) for this incident of internal strife and miscommunication: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Initiative#Violet_Blue.27s_...
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Github isn't the only provider of resources out there. Presumably the opportunity cost of breaking off relationswith Github seems to be lower than the opportunity cost of maintaining them. Also, the choice I mentioned was not about whether to maximize resources but about how to sutain its mission. For all I know a large portion of the membership might have been threatening to quit the organization.

My basic point is that it's rarely profitable to be in the middle of someone else's bitter conflict. Given AI's mission and the existence of intense bad feeling on both sides following an accusation of workplace sexism, it's easier and smarter for the organization to just walk way from the whole situation rather than taking sides in a conflict whose parameters they don'tunderstand.

I have no opinion on the whole Horvath/Github situation because I simply don't have enough information to judge whose version of events is truthful, and I don't even have a GitHub account so I don't care much either way. I'm just pointing out that a small nonprofit might have good reasons for not wanting to be connected to a potentially toxic situation.
I felt like that, when i finished my first programmin course i was like, well how do i make something useful now? Because you know i could solve some Euler problems. Finally when i started to "get it" was simply when i started to do it.

E.g
You break your problem in pieces and start making something.
Wanna make a music player?
Well how do you play music oh theres a library that you call song.play, cool.
How do you read the tags?
How do you get the files? Isnt a playlist just an array?
And so on...

This is the approach that worked for me.
Burnout for me was a self propelling entity. I'd work 12 hours a day, but not get anything done. So i'd work 16 hours a day. Not get anything done. I was depressed, unmotivated, unwashed, my personal life was falling apart, and my professional life was falling apart. The worst part is I didn't actually diagnose it as burn out until I got out of the company.
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Unfortunately, you are also paying with my privacy (assuming I were to send you an email).
But the accused knows whether or not the accusations are true, and the claim is that legal action will be taken only if the accusations are false. This is pretty normal. False accusations, especially about serious crimes or misconduct, are usually taken very seriously.
Yes. Some are much farther from perfect than the others. Economic systems came from biological systems that came from matter and physical forces. Therefore astrology?

The impetus is on the claimant to show how their models are "better". From the link above, it sounds more like a religion or cult than as a science " ecological economics is defined by its focus on nature, justice, and time" . Economics is supposed to be descriptive, not prescriptive or ideological. What financial crises/trends did these ecological economists predict to claim that their methodology is better?
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> Congratulations, Bob!

Thanks!

> He also graciously answered some questions I had regarding his writing workflow

I've got a long blog post about the whole writing process I'll put up soon.
People undervalue nutritious food, especially for powering our brains which ultimately enables our hacker culture. Our brains are mostly saturated fat, yet we eat low fat. Tanking blood sugar limits mental processing, yet we eat tons of sugar, sending blood sugar levels on a roller coaster ride. Better yet, ketones (an output from using fats as energy) and medium chain triglycerides (MCTs) provide better! more consistent brain fuel. Resistant starch powers our gut biome, leading to increased production of neurotransmitters, again, providing positive effects in the brain.

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I purchased a quarter on the street for $100. It was a medical strain that came in a jar labeled with all of the manufacturers information - somewhere out in California. I looked it up on the manufacturers web site, and they were charging $200 to customers with a card. If that is the standard, then they are going to have a hell of a time overriding the street market with retail.
> If Github was truly hostile towards women, why would they support the Ada Initiative in the first place?

It's never that simple. Almost everyone says they want more women in tech. But few take steps to actively promote that -- by increasing hiring of women, by fighting misogynistic elements of company culture, etc. Misogynistic company cultures are far more likely to arise through unconscious propagation of stereotypes and behaviors than from misogynistic leadership.

The Ada Initiative isn't trying to call Github misogynistic. It's just saying they haven't done a very good job of living up to their principles.
I'm not sure it can do anything that ARM and x86 can't. But the relevance is that it provides competition to both of those, and competition is good because it keeps things moving forward. And diversity and choice are (mostly) Good Things.
I'm not familiar with the bounds checks in rust, so that sounds a bit more reassuring. However, I could imagine logic errors if people assume they have a certain size, but they don't, as I assume you don't trap wrapping and so on.

If they're intended for indexing arrays, I would have given then a name to reflect that, and discouraged people from mixing them with normal integers for doing arithmetic with. Perhaps forcing people to convert integers to array indices would be good. I try to use size_t and friends when programming C++.
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> This raises an interesting point: it is very useful to have a diversity of government because then one can see the effects of a variety of different legal and governmental structures and learn from them.

Federalism at work. :)
What isn't simple about Red Hat paying a third-party to write some software and get it certified? Other companies are doing it for themselves, surely Red Hat can find someone qualified.
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