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Galileo Satellites Incident Likely Result of Software Errors
Can you elaborate more on the acetaminophen alternatives? We've been using it in my family, and would love to do better.
I'm personally looking forward to trying out the new compiler, if only to see if it can reduce the size of the executables it generates from "huge" to simply "big".
Ty Steve :-)
Put your work out there
Experimental implicits for OCaml
Arkitekter københavn
Ease of finding an exoplanet, among other things, increases with proximity.

A close and attentive reader of my original comment might possibly note that my argument wasn't for Gliese but against a. centauri. The salient point being that you'll need to schedule and budget for markedly more than 4.6 light years.
Thank you, I will give it a try, I enjoyed the think-x series for a while. You all have been helping me out in a great way, I will start here...
Nice.

If you have also used NetLogo, how different/difficult was it as compared to that.

I had used NetLogo a few years back in college to study tax evasion behaviour from agent based models, it worked out quite well to match IRS figures with similar policy variables with not much time spent in coding up the logic. But a major problem I faced then was dealing with a few matrix operations, for which I had to write out a lot of code. So I figure it would be fun to replicate it in python now, hence the question to gauge difficulty in porting that code to python...
Boligindretning arkitektforbundet havearkitekt arkitekter i københavn
This is basically what OSv is. It's stripped down virtualization environment meant to only run a single application on bare (virtual) metal.
A Simple Trick to Protect Your PIN from Thieves with Thermal Cameras
This kind of attitude is why were seeing a more militarized police. Police is made of of society. Everyone is growing to be uptight over entitled pricks.. so that's all there is to choose from when hiring police.

Chill out. The guy was given bad information about the suspect. Its not his fault it happened. He acted appropriatly for the situation. Hes a person like you and me.

The actual victim in the story isn'tas butt hurt about what happened as you are.
This alongside with two high end NVIDIA chips (Geforce Titan) in a Mac Pro would be insanely good. Not sure whether it's possible thermally though.
Because that is not the convention in the ecosystem - npm mandates the use of semver - if you follow it this can't happen. If you do what you say and pin it down to an exact version then you would have to release an update every week consisting of just a version bump.
Adobe products (looking at you After Effects) consume way more memory than you are giving them credit for. 64GB is not enough memory to support the computation this part is capable of. Next year, this chip will support at least 128GB.
Let's just completely make up some weightings to compare these companies! Oh, and we should specify them to two decimal places, because SCIENCE.
Its a great app. It makes adding of task and important text so easy. No copy and pasting. Just simply highlight, right click and add to tododed. Awesome guys!!
US cable giants calls on FCC to block cities' expansion of high-speed internet
> To be fair, banks may also be grossly overvalued.

In other words, such valuation of a big corporation has little to do with the direct utility to, or meaning for a single individual.

It's like a red blood-cell wondering why the eye is so highly valued compared to the liver.
Announcing Scala.js 0.5.4
Or a better anology. Your brain is (possibly) like ram and once you turn it off the data is whiped. So you'd need some thing like a hard drive to store the data on until the brain is powered up again and can be reloaded.
people use desktops with 64GB of ram this days?

I haven't owned a desktop PC in a decade but I seem to recall by brother still got by with 8 GB.
try advil
Looks like they're using https://github.com/basecamp/marginalia for the tagging.
Maybe it's unrelated, but I have a real beef with modern flat UI design and icons.

For worst examples, look up the modern Microsoft production, such as VS 2012 or Lync 2013. Is the future really that ugly?

These just seems to me, compared to old, nice colorful icons, as drawings of 6-year olds. I can't shave off the feeling that they are just cheap. Or maybe it's the consequence of de-skilling the article is writing about?
Great advice! However when I tried it, it took me 46 minutes instead of 45 (I tried it twice just to make sure)
15 Year Old Who “SWATTED” Gamer Convicted of Terrorism; 25 Years in Prison
as an ignorant of such matters, what does "E3 lost its way" mean?
For really simple apps, no.

But more complicated ones, with resizable widgets/layouts, selection changes, scroll view positions and widgets which display a lot of data, or layering/parenting of widgets make things a lot more complicated.
I feel though consumer hardware is going to be a lot more standard from now on. The wild west hardware age may be coming to an end, so VMs-everywhere would be trying to solve a problem of the past rather than to be a solution for the future.
Can't wait to ditch my hard drives and run a RAM Drive only plugged to a portable RTG.
Intuit successfully got laws passed that prevent the government from communicating to tax payers the information it already has about taxes owed. User name is apt.
Why? You're like one of those people who still uses Windows XP. Spend $100 and get a device that runs something released in the last SIX years.
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your life is complicated?
go to africa, ebola countries, urakine, iran, then you will se what is complicated
Chart.js is not being actively developed or patched. Dealbreaker.
What? Paracetamol, when taking correctly, is very safe and effective. The toxic dose is close to the therapeutic dose so care needs to be taken to avoid overdose and acute overdose is particularly dangerous.
There is a little more info on query comments here: http://samlambert.com/posts/the-power-of-query-comments/
Serious enterprise guys are planning applications to last 20-50 years.
Massively Parallel, In-Database Image Processing
>I'm not sure what you would do with billions of dollars thrown at cancer.

Giving every cancer research on earth the freedom to actually research instead of preparing grant submissions would probably be enough to substantially decrease the amount of time before significant strides are made. Especially if the money would pay for research assistants, statisticians, and quants to parse the data being collected. Outfitting labs with the latest in high throughput robotics, microfluidics, sequencers, etc. would amplify their efforts.
How well commonly quoted benchmarks (passmark, geekbench, cinebench etc) measure a processor as a VM host? Obviously single core benchmarks are somewhat representative, but miss things like cache sizes at different levels and hyperthreading. Are there benchmarks that would take those into account or would otherwise be good for planning VM host use case?
The US does tax people while they are abroad but it also extends it services to Americans who are abroad. You are in some ways insured by the US. If you get kidnapped you might just be rescued by the US gov't directly or indirectly. Also having a US passport allows you to travel more freely than some other nationalities.
I enjoyed the article. I really like the passage where it said:

"The Stanford Illustrated Review, a precursor of Stanford magazine, appealed to alumni for help in employing recent graduates. “These men and women . . . face a far harder and down-at-heel world than that which welcomed you.”"

While we can complain for years about the heritage our parent generation have left us - education cost, housing prices, healthcare, or a struggling economy - without seeing things change, we are responsible to pave the way and make it better for the generation to come.
I'm not sure tbh, I think it makes it easier for graphs to stand out. I do love the interface of Haystack.
The Price of Modern Life Is Depression and Loneliness?
Funny Little Boy Goes Off on His Mom for Getting Pregnant
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Ehh. The UK doesn't tax its citizens abroad and lets you into more countries with more rights than a US passport does.
Taking it to Th’emacs
Star Trek didn't pretend to be a realistic portrayal of current technology.
Reminds me of the "Triumph of the Nerds" were Robert X. Cringely sings with Sam Albert (former IBM executive):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afACnAMG9iM

74. OUR I. B. M. SALESMEN
Tune: "Jingle Bells"

1. I. B. M., Happy men, smiling all the way.
Oh what fun it is to sell our products night and day.
I. B. M., Watson men, partners of T. J.
In his service to mankind-that’s why we are so gay.

(Sam Albert mentions: "Now gay didn't mean what it means today then, remember that")

-- http://www.digibarn.com/collections/songs/ibm-songs/index.ht...

And the following up TV movie "The Pirates of Silicon Valley﻿" that features the IBM song too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YwJmb0N9GQ
There certainly is imagination in creating software, from deciding on architecture, to micro-refactoring and optimisation.

If you just work on the typical websites you perhaps don't see this, because the domain is very well explored at this point. You have frameworks that solve most common problems and you just need to paint within the lines they draw. Hence the emphasis on UX as that is where there is still rapid change and the chance to innovate.

However, change your requirements and things get interesting. What if you want your website to respond within 50ms to anyone anywhere in the world? Suddenly you have a very interesting problem. You had better get creative with your architecture, because a bunch of stateless webservers talking to a relational database isn't going to cut it.
Well, I was talking emotionally, not conditionally...
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Getting started with meditation in 7 minutes a day
Pyjs: write JavaScript-powered web applications entirely in Python
Musl libc will have one in the next release it seems. It is the only one I know of.
I think arohner's point is that as soon as you use a separate work queue for asynchronous actions that are only executed for their side effect, then you don't need explicit futures anymore. Futures are building material for libraries and not something to be used directly in your code, because they need adornments that need abstraction.

As soon as you want to make the use of futures robust, you will basically start reimplementing parts of a work queue library.

E.g. futures assume they will be handled within the lifetime of the current process: they do not survive catastrophic process failure. If you want to overcome that assumption with persistence, you can either reinvent a wheel, or use a work queuing library that has already implemented this for you.

E.g. you can reinvent your own generic on-fail-retry or you can submit the work to a queue managed by library code that has already implemented retrying for you.
Shocking Picture of What Life Will Look Like When You Can't Afford to Retire
I visited the David Hockney gallery in Salts Mill recently, and came away a big fan. His works done in Yorkshire are beautiful (to my eye) even from a superficial level. I'd say there is skill in each of his paintings, but to clear any doubt, his Bigger Trees Near Warter (http://britishartresearch.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/bigger...), which is 12 x 4 meters large and painted en-plein-air, are undisputedly the product of real talent and technique.

Some examples of Hockney's Yorkshire work that appeal to me:

- http://thebikeshow.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/david-hock...
- http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/20...
- http://colourliving.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/blog-pe...
- http://www.patternpeople.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/davi...
- http://www.lalouver.com/html/gallery-history-images/large/da...
- http://ainhoainsardinya.altervista.org/wp-content/uploads/20...
There is now going to be commercial support for 15 years. There was a discussion with the company doing it on bsdnow.tv recently.
Thread patterns (2007)
4 hours of sleep is not a nap. The refreshing feeling you get after a nap is completely different from the one you get when you've gone into deep sleep.
Alpha Centauri is actually the right target for our first interstellar probe since it's the closest system. There's just no inhabitable planet there, as far as we know.
I haven't read the scientific study on JAMA, but I would venture to speculate that there could be several reasons for such sharp drops in mortality due to opioid overdoses:

- fewer people resort to opioids for recreational purposes, due to higher availability of marijuana

- alcohol + opioids is a deadly combination. People who are high on marijuana tend to drink less, because alcohol doesn't go well with marijuana either. Marijuana, however, can be combined with many drugs and tends to enhance the experience, requiring less of the drug.

- Marijuana makes people more cautious and health-conscious due to it's capacity to induce temporary paranoia and anxiety at larger doses.

A quick google search for 'marijuana combined with heroin' led me to a forum where people are reporting full-blown panic attacks when combining the two, with users generally reporting that the two drugs tend to enhance one another. Such panic attacks are powerful experiences and can be life-changing in a positive way.

Several countries have eased on marijuana prohibition due to the opiod addiction problem getting out of control (Switzerland, Portugal, Spain and probably other countries) and as a consequence saw decreases in overdoses and HIV infections so this study just corraborates what has been observed in other places around the world.
One aspect thats always stood at is the system/userland divide. The BSDs have both kernel and userland developed by the same folks. The leads to a consistent, enjoyable, user experience. In linux land the divide between kernel and user is quite stark. Throwing problems overthe fence, and blaming the "other side", is far too common.

The state of documentation and man pages is indicative. Nearly everything in the BSDs has a well written up to date docs. Determining behavior in linux all too often comes down to reading opaque kernel code and old mailing list threads that may or may not be relevant.
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Learn One Weird Trick and Easily Solve the Product-Sum Problem
That's precisely why, IMHO, if you aren't prepared to make a complete well-thought-through argument, then you should think twice before venturing into a philosophical discussion.

On the other hand, due to the nature of HN, one has to choose between either spending a few days researching the comment and posting it with a very slim chance of being read or answered, or blurting out something not very polished.

In this case it's the latter. (How you define “objective”? “reality”? A rough example of how could the answer to the question “what reality is” roughly look like? Any links to existing research—people certainly attempted to ask a question of this nature before?) The resulting discussion may be worth it, though.
If you spilled paint on a canvas and accidentally produced a fresco by Raphael, it would be considered one of the wonders of the world. It would sell for a higher price than any real artwork ever, and people come from all over the world to see it. The occurrence of this vanishingly unlikely event would be a major event in world history, which many would claim as proof of the existence of God, while others would come up with other even more bizarre hypotheses to explain it. Oh, and it would still be beautiful, although it would not be "art". (Though I'm sure many books would be written debating both sides of that very question...)

As a more realistic example, many naturally-occurring things (trees, mountains, women) are beautiful but are most certainly not "art". So I'm not sure what the real debate here.

As for furnace ducts: sure, you can say "look, a pile of ducts!" You can say that for anything. You can follow me around all day and point out random objects and say they're neat, and heck, I'll probably agree with you the first couple of times before getting annoyed. But it's like writing a book consisting of only one word -- it might get you a press release, but nobody's gonna buy it.
Seems like tech crunch is trying to take a stab at Five Thirty Eight type reporting...
"I work in the drug industry. Trust me,"
Sorry.
Numbers, toys and music: A conversation with Manjul Bhargava
Wire up your MacBook Pro fn keys to control your laptop hardware in Crunchbang
That's exactly what was done. The guys we had were shit hot ex Microsoft admins.

The DR environment was the staging environment for the patches. Periodically the production kit would be block copied back to the DR environment and sysprepped.

Every step to prevent differences between the two clustered environments were taken.
It depends on what your desired outcome is. Angular is not as solid, not as fast, nor is the whole product as able to be statically analyzed.

Longer term maintenance is a pleasure with closure, adding new features a breeze, there are tons of exceptionally well tested components and I cannot stress enough how wonderful deep static analysis and dead code elimination is.
I accidentally upvoted you with a fat finger.

Come on this is a crap argument. I work in academic science. The irrational paranoia that the many people have about scientists is unbelievable. Many seem to think that researchers are in it for the money.
This just shows that there is a link between marijuana and the feelings of pain (anecdotal evidence with sample size 1, but still).
And the way you are describing it, it seems that it gives you 'ideas of pain' rather than pain itself, a subtle but important distinction.
If this is the case, it is more aking to the way hypnosis reduces pain, rather than painkillers.
Which makes sense, since marijuana does make a person a lot more suggestible, which can be used to the user's benefit if properly controlled.

In your particular case, might it be that you're hypnotising yourself into remembering and feeling old pain ?
I'm both excited and not. This is more power in a CPU and that's great progress, but for a desktop? I mean servers, games and graphical applications would be faster but the majority of our waiting time when using a computer is on a single-threaded calculations. As someone who doesn't game a lot and uses GIMP only for the most basic of purposes, I would much rather have an improved dual core CPU that produces less heat in total (compared to 8-cores) and can be clocked higher because of that.
I'd switch over just to get rid of that stupid mustache.
He’s talking about colonisation, so that’s a bit of a different topic. Also, the references to travel time measured in millennia should everyone clue in that it’s not easy, even in the linked article.
Every system has bugs, but as the other reply said, quality engineering and most importantly transparency determine the impact.

Never been a fan of Xen. It doesn't strike me as quality software. Then again no virtualization solution has to me, yet. I'd rather just deploy all the services to the base machine and use MAC to isolate them.
I went to see the SS Great Britain in Bristol recently. It's the best museum I've ever been to. Highly recommended.
If you send automatic probe, you do not have to decelerate to take a few pictures and measurements.
This ignores using closer targets. Suppose a small group on starts living in space and they mine asteroids and a become reasonably self sufficient. Now, they have no real reason to go outside of the solar system any time soon, but self sufficiency is a hop skip and a jump to growth and there are plenty of useful materials in the Ort cloud if you can self sustain on say fusion instead of just solar energy.

And thus a long slow boat to the stars starts off as simple resource extraction. Sure, long term we might only be looking for gas giants as a ready supply of fuel vs planets to live on but there are other paths to the stars than a one shot moon landing style.
"Do you even lift?" has a new meaning in space.
No idea. I never solved the problem. It just worked again randomly after a period of time (a couple of hours).

That was enough to scare me away from CentOS 7 and systemd to be honest.
Well obviously it is a brief statement. Linux generally does have enormous numbers of features, but they are no use if they do not apply to you. My guesses about Facebook is that network stack issues would be around ipv6, performance or large scale (eg lost of routes).
Probably FreeBSD pays the fact that (well, almost in EU) is much more simple to find a linux kernel developer than a BSD one. And I think that for a company this is far more important than a debate about GNU/Linux or FreeBSD.

In terms of FreeBSD shops, I think that actually Netflix is one of the biggest FreeBSD shops out there.
It was calculated that 2 people would die from exposure every time Orion spaceship takes of. It is hardly 'nuking the earth' as article suggest. Millions of people die every year from background exposure.
If we get a spike in slow queries we get alerted via pager etc. If a query is slow enough to be killed Hubot tells us https://twitter.com/isamlambert/status/502818333914566656

I am working on some query linting as a side project.
(not so)Fun fact: Only 2 countries in the world tax you base on your citizenship rather than your residence. One of them is Eritrea...and...the USA.
I've just published a tmux plugin that let's you save tmux environment and restore it later.

https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-resurrect
> An exemplar indica might have 20% THC and 1.5% CBD, which would be considered an extremely high level of CBD.

https://budgenius.com/ATF-B-Shangri-La-Farms-BG0010001EB64.h...

https://budgenius.com/Titan-OG-7-Points-Medical-BG0010001EE9...

Many strains according to this site of yours certainly seem to contain significantly more than 1.5% CBD. Ditto this study:

http://www.amjbot.org/content/91/6/966.full

... which doesn't include any modern US strains but provides strong support for the idea that there are plants with large amounts of both CBD and THC. I actually may have made a separate mistake...

>Elevated levels of CBDV and/or THCV were much more common in plants of C. indica than in plants of C. sativa. Plants with elevated levels of THCV, sometimes exceeding THC, were detected in all four biotypes of C. indica, but not in all accessions.

So my memory has failed me, or the common-wisdom I absorbed: Cannabis indica contains more of both THC and CBD than Cannabis sativa, but also contains larger amounts (and proportion) of the antagonist homologue THCV. And modern strains are all really hybrids anyway.
The logic here is always mind boggling.

People leave their citizenship because of things like FACTA make compliance hard. So, the response (rather than making it easier), is to make it harder? I don't get it.
Feel free to downvote, or better yet comment as you did in the proper spirit. The drug industry has earned its reputation. Skepticism is the proper response. "I work in xx. Trust me" is pretty weak at the best of times but as ever, falsifiable evidence trumps argument from authority.
Marching in Formation Raises Confidence and Changes Mindset
Semantics3 (YC W13) is looking for an API platform engineer in Bangalore
Make any content available for millions of people in proper place and time
What is Static Analysis? [video]
X79 Socket 2011, which this is the successor to already supported 64GB with 8 DIMMs so nothing has changed yet. They've yet to announce a socket 1150 successor, most likely it will have 4 DIMM max., however, I expect 16GB DIMMs to appear in DDR4 soon.