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I came in here to recommend this too. Great book. It's a fictional story that kind is accurate in that it keeps with the known time line of events and fills in all the blanks with a supernatural twist to the whole thing. Quite a scary book, too, as I remember.
No, you don't always get caught or suffer the consequences. Many facts go with people to the grave and in many cases this causes less suffering to people. That's just reality. Being able to keep a secret is a valued trait often for very good (as opposed to criminal) reasons.
The first article doesn't contribute useful metrics - it simply infers that it would be bad. Here's the thing: have you run filesystem recovery tools lately? Because if you're at that point, your data is toast.

It's toast if you were running mdadm or RAID. It's toast if a file gets deleted and recovered by ext3/4 (good luck figuring out which chunk you're looking at in lost+found).

The second article is simply stressing my original point: ZFS cannot protect you from bad RAM. No file system can. If data is corrupted in RAM, ZFS will checksum that and write it to disk. This is exactly what will happen with any other filesystem.

ZFS storage pools can recover from fairly dramatic failures. You can lose a disk out of a non-redundant stripe and still have complete metadata (just incomplete data, but checksums tell you exactly what you lost). Unimportable pools are not something that easily happens without severe damage - a corrupted uberblock can recovered by using the zpool import -T to rewind a txg and get back a verifiably complete copy of your data.

This idea that somehow the failure mode of other filesystems to faulty RAM is better is destructive fiction. You have no idea if your data is valid on disk. You have no way to verify if the data is valid in the first place. And the degree and number of failures required to wipe out a pool would also wipe out any other storage system. The idea that recovery tools will save you in a catastrophic failure (of what kind?) is laughable. This can be trivially explored by trying to recover a deleted file in ext4. Sure, it can technically be done. Good luck with doing it more then once.
I think the book you're thinking about is this one: http://www.amazon.com/Buried-In-Ice-Time-Quest/dp/0590438492

I too found that in my school's library.
You had to dial into AOL and Compuserve?
Sapphire screens that size are commonplace in real watches. I'm guessing that only added a few dollars to the BOM.
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I might be able to give some insight, I helped found the RO emulation community back in 2003. Along with AppleGirl, I (AjS15822) made some of the first English NPC scripts used in all Athena servers, participated in YARE, contributed code to Athena, and ran several of the forums.

It's been a decade so my memory is a bit fuzzy, but here's what I remember about that time:

We started with AEGIS (leaked Korean server files) on the asb-sakray board [1] but it was notoriously hard to setup since it had major MSSQL and ODBC driver dependencies (I wrote guides). We started work on an installer for Aegis but realized we wanted to customize the server even more.

A few emulators started to take hold at this time (YARE probably the biggest) but Gravity (creator of RO) threatened legal action and shut it down.

Enter "Athena"— we discovered a Japanese RO server emulation project on the "Avethes" BBS that had the most complete packet mapping at the time. AppleGirl did most of the first translation of the code (AppleMod) which spawned a ton of other English emulation forks as the YARE developers jumped back on.

It was a really fun time for me— age 14, not much programming experience, in the middle of this massive, open-source MMORPG emulation war. I learned so much about C++, network programming, and server architecture during that time (as did many others). All the different forks openly stole code and ideas from each other so things moved very quickly.

The beautiful thing about writing code for RO private servers was the immediate sense of gratification you got. I could implement a small change to a skill, or a new NPC behavior, and then immediately log into the client and see it in action (and then thousands of users would see it in action when we committed the change).

We weren't concerned so much about code quality in the beginning since Athena strived to be a server modder's paradise— if you wanted raw stability, you went with Aegis instead. Stability came later once all the projects eventually aligned under one flag (eAthena).

I left in 2005 to work on server emulators for Lineage II, and later got bored of servers and jumped to client-side graphics programming, where I've been happily working for the last seven years. (Funny enough, my latest project [2] was used in Lineage II as well as hundreds of other MMOs and games, so I've now written code for both emulators and official. :))

[1] http://forum.asb-sakray.net/

[2] http://www.awesomium.com/
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They should've used Google Hangouts on Air :P
And here I thought he was making a joke about his address being j.appleseed@example.com.

Doh!
One should never differentiate a sampled signal without a low-pass filter (at least second order is preferred). The original cases/day plot was smooth, but also leveled off at the end. IDK if the people collecting the data are on any kind of weekly schedule, but that type of thing would certainly come through in the data with enough samples and Fourier analysis.
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If that's the only issue, why did 23andme remove all medical information, rather than simply adjusting their marketing to say "this is all experimental, take it with a grain of salt"?
We're getting flooded with assumptions that the dad knew he had a kid.

Could have been a 1 night stand and he never knew. Of course him and mom could be super religious and swore to each other they're virgins. Or for extra stress, mom 1.0 is mom 2.0's best friend or ex roommate or co worker or something. I dated two roommates in university (not at the same time) and they both knew it, but eventually it was just too stressful and I was spun out of orbit.

(edited for another possibility: One spouse thinks 18 years of child support is a great idea and the other disagrees. Not exactly the first time financial stress collapses a marriage)

Another peculiarity about the story is it has a fixation on:

"people discover their parents aren't their parents"

Well assuming no adoption, birth mom usually is mom, although much more often her husband isn't kids genetic father. It would be quite impressive although possible I guess to discover your birth mom isn't your genetic mom. Maybe an epic fail or record keeping at the fertility clinic, I guess. Statistically it sounds much more likely you'll find out mom's husband isn't dad more than you'll find out birth mom isn't mom.
Wait, so this pastebin is saying that http://i.imgur.com/9ngtiK5.jpg is Satoshi?
That did seem like a feature dreamt up for the youtube commenter generation, sadly.
Every company copies Apple, even when Apple makes it afterwards. Didn't you know that?
The project seems intent on keeping the build and distribution processes up to date along with the evolving codebase. For example, you can install now via Homebrew:

brew install --HEAD https://raw.github.com/neovim/neovim/master/neovim.rb

From there, it's not going to be difficult to get a build from your own clone up and running.
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The admins here retitle submissions all the time.
http://www.minnowboard.org/meet-minnowboard-max/ might be closer to what you're looking for.
The issue is health-related genetic information must be given to the individual by a qualified genetic counselor. Informing an individual about genetic health risks requires counselors with adequate training re: potential outcomes associated with the genetic factors and ability to express these facts and concepts in plain language.

To me that seems a sensible standard to uphold, and obviously not a task a company like 23andMe could responsibly accomplish. Perhaps there could be a mechanism for the test results to be forwarded to a qualified counselor who could go over the results with the individual who provided the genetic sample.
I went in thinking there's no way it could interest me.

But the payments, the "crown", the haptic feedback, and the gamification of health... I'll probably pick one up.
Didn't like it as much as I did "Hyperion" or "The Fall of Hyperion" but it was great historical fiction. Balls out scary, too.
> Well, we know that CIA was doing something like it in Pakistan.

Wow, got a source for that?
Actually you will usually find BOTH the private IP address behind the NAT and the public IP address of the router in the headers. Check out a few mails you've received from a few different sources, see for yourself.

I just picked the two latest I got (and redacted them) as an example.

The first one sent through GMail (SMTP I guess, not webmail) :

Return-Path: <xyz@gmail.com>
Received: from [192.168.1.18] (123-123-123-123...bbox.fr. [123.123.123.123])
by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id ...
for <multiple recipients>
(version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128);

and another one, through OVH this time :

Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.23?) (xyz@abc.fr@123.123.123.123)
by ns0.ovh.net with SMTP;

Both "123.123.123.123" were the public IP address from their DSL connections. In both cases as you can see, I could know both IP addresses.
Though if you're on TMobile, you get roaming calls for $.20 a minute - now this seems like a lot, but we just spent 2.5 weeks in France, and our total bill for both phones using the data/voice/message roaming was like $40 (all voice, data and messages were free). We made lots of calls - and the local ones were charged at the non-usurious rate above. I pay nothing monthly for this perk and I didn't have to swap sims or anything like that.

Our least expensive portion of the trip and historically the most frustrating (well aside from the autoroute tolls that don't accept US credit cards).
There is a team in Denmark, working on building body and face models from persons genetic code. Stuff like age, height range, skin, hair, eye color, big/small/regular nose, wide/narrow face.
I think interface wise Cook has the right of it when he says they didn't just strap a reduced iPhone on the wrist.

It's clear that they spent a large amount of time and effort with the haptic feedback and the crown.

But functionality wise... well I completely agree with you.

I can't see anything a smartphone cannot do, better and more efficiently, with the exception of the heart rate sensor.

Some functions in particular seem very awkward to me: I cannot see a reasonable way of using it as a phone or an audio player, in public, without bluetooth earphones.

With mobile phones, mp3 players and smartphones the value proposition was clear, but what is the killer application for smartwatches ?

That said, I would be far from surprised if they sell like hotcakes.
Apple tends not to lower their prices. Instead, they offer newer models will with more features at stable price points.

If prices do drop (e.g. the 5s) it's because an older product is still being sold alongside a newer one at the standard price.
".... as well as DSLRs". Dammit, better sell off those Zeiss master primes and get me some Apple glass ;)
"We all know that genetically it's hard to distinguish a son from a grandfather"

Shouldn't that read, "a brother from a grandfather"?
Then why does Apple Pay have to be "compatible" with visa/MC/Amex? I don't think it just stores a digital version of the credit card...
Did you disable WLAN on the iPhone during the run?

That's what RunKeeper recommends, because the AGPS using WLAN-SSIDs lowers the accuracy of the tracking.
No, it's saying that this is the guy that has allegedly hacked Satoshi.
> People want new experiences without leaving their sofa and VR will bring that in spades.

It's far from clear that they're actually willing to do anything about it. Look at 3D TVs. No one wants to sit on their couch lazily watching whatever's on with special glasses.

If VR was a passive technology like HD -- by which I mean you buy a new TV and everything is better without any further action on your part -- I'd be more confident that you're correct. But it's not. I can't see headsets as a thing people are going to wear sitting on their sofa with the family. Game consoles seem like an obvious target with an audience that might be receptive, but otherwise, I just can't envision mass adoption.
Gattaca was very prescient and thought-provoking movie, one of my favorites. The story described a future where individuals are allowed or denied opportunity based on a genetic test at birth. I think the point was that technology cannot predict or limit the human heart.

That same idea applies here too. This article illustrates that there will be other, nuanced perils to bioinformatics besides rewarding genetic lottery winners and punishing losers. Genetic testing is a powerful tool that should be used wisely. Of course, it will be a bumpy road until society settles on what "wisely" means.
Good to know, thanks!

Sadly, it might be outside of my price range. It does look like it's the perfect thing for tracking my workouts, but damn is that one hell of an investment.
I did this for a while when I was working at Sun but it wasn't to avoid rent (I paid rent) it was to avoid my commute. When I was in full on work mode I viewed the commute as too much of a time drain (I lived in San Francisco, Sun was in Mountain View, 30 minutes without traffic, closer to an hour with. Each way. Blech.)

I had two VW vans parked next to each other, one was set up as a "bedroom", the other was set up as the "living room" and was also my daily driver. It worked pretty well if you don't count social life (I didn't have one).
I don't know if maybe the one-time number capability is tied to hardware, or tied to network connectivity - or maybe you need only one of the two paths. In which case, you might be able to do it with a 5/5c/5s with network connectivity and a Watch, but you can only Pay fully offline with a iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 / Watch.
Or its a very optimistic push to try and make a new market area which is fraught with difficulties work well?

When you get down to it the fundamental issues of smart watches haven't been fixed. We do not have batteries big enough to give the sort of runtime which would make it acceptable, and people are already burdened from device charging fatigue.

Smartwatches have runtimes measured in under-a-day, depending how they're used. That is nowhere near good enough.
I work for a major genetic research and diagnostics laboratory. This is what's known in the biz as "incidental findings" and in a clinical setting is an enormous no-no (not as big a deal in research).

It's this kind of careless disclosure of sensitive information that makes more than a few of the non-consumer-facing organizations (not to mention the FDA) a bit wary of companies like 23andMe.

I haven't used 23andMe so I can't speak to how well their ordering system addresses this issue beyond what the article states. Regardless, customers ordering these kinds of panels should be well informed as to what they're getting into.

EDIT: I did mean "wary" not "weary"
If they did that before the FDA came knocking, and/or hadn't ignored the FDA until it was too late, that very well may have worked.
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That's not how it "originally happened." Perhaps you're too young to remember the days before AOL and CompuServe, but email was being used more than a decade before those services. When those services started bringing messagint to consumers, yes, they had some proprietary set-ups but that was not how it "originally happened" -- that was a short-term glitch in the much longer and more open history of email.
That's almost certainly standby as in turned off, given the figures I've seen for previous Intel IoT boards with much lower end chips than this one.
My Basis watch takes readings regularly (not sure the interval once a minute, maybe) of my heart rate. Battery lasts about 3-4 days.
While someone else already made the reference to this quote, it's hard for me not to recall Commander Taco's (in)famous dismissal of the original iPod when I browse these comments.

Personally I don't know that there's any watch that would really get me to start wearing watches at all again -- I never liked them that much to begin with. But this knocks down an awful lot of the criticisms I've had of existing smartwatches. The smaller Apple Watch is 38mm, certainly not small but by no means an irrationally huge behemoth. (Even the larger is only 42mm, I believe.) When you consider the three lines, two sizes, and multiple bands, there's dozens of combinations available. You may personally not like the fashion sense, but other than the Moto 360 this is the first smartwatch that's had a fashion sense to criticize. (And guys, the Moto 360 is 46mm, so let's not pretend it's svelte, either.)

But what's really interesting to me is that Apple has clearly put a lot more thought into how interactions on a device like this should work than anybody else. Yes, I'm sure every single component has an antecedent you can point to, just like the iPhone's interaction model. Except that nobody put it all together like that before the iPhone. And nobody put it all together like this before the Apple Watch.

I'm not so glib as to say that catcalls when Apple introduces a new product are a sure sign of success (I remember the iPod Hifi, thanks). But again, it's hard not to see a few recurring patterns in the responses: oh, look, it doesn't do everything that it could (or that competitors already do!) and it's too expensive. If it sells well, it'll only because of the Apple faithful buying everything.

And, of course, if it sells well, than within a year all smartwatches will adapt its interaction model. Other manufacturers will come out with variants that Apple isn't making, and we can move onto the evergreen phase of dismissing Apple as a company that just copies everybody else.
wait, you define vaporware as something that will be released within the next 6 months?
Also math is a lot quicker in FORTRAN
Does anyone know why exactly payments in apps also require the iPhone 6? I thought that iPhone 5S also had a secure element for storing data (Touch ID).
I worry this will be a massive target for theft. If someone sees you wearing an Apple Watch they know you have at least a $350 watch and $400+ phone on your person.
Assuming that Google hasn't spent "years" working on the Android Wear platform compared to Apple's "years", does it mean that based on what we've seen tonight vs. Wear, that Google has done better? I'm certainly of that opinion.

There were a lot of speculators who should be humbled by putting the "iWatch" on a pedestal before it was even released. I personally don't like the way it looks, though Apple considered something interesting, that not everyone's wrist is huge, and made 2 versions (Android Wear OEMs can of course counter this by flooding the market with 'choice')
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Web is the enemy of Apple. iOs devices need unique features to sell, not Web stuff that is easy to duplicate by the competition.
Apple Pay gets a token from your card issuer and uses that to pay. Google Wallet pays with their own card and charges your card the same amount. Only difference I see is that Google knows about every transaction you make. Apple doesn't.
If you are performing your own data analysis, then you are beyond the typical (common?) role. "Marketing intelligence" / "Market analyst" / someone who works with data is unfortunately atypical in many businesses, where marketing does not utilize a skillset that takes time to develop.

I have the current good fortune to work with some people who I would describe as you have above. But my experience has unfortunately more often been with those who took a "quick path" through education and experience to get a front-line, visible, and reasonably well compensated role.
Depends on the webmail. Some do, some don't. Easy enough to test for yourself beforehand though.
Actual Moto 360 owner here to dispel the two most common complains because I'm tired of hearing them parroted online. You'll find that you only hear them from people who've never actually used/seen the watch in person.

1. Battery life. The initial reviews complaining about battery life are simply inaccurate. I have ambient mode on (always-on screen) which is supposed to kill battery, and am easily getting a day out of this watch (ending 16 hour days with 20-30% remaining). I'm using the watch all the time to read emails, respond to messages, etc. If you don't believe me, check /r/moto360, you'll find a bunch of people who actually have the watch corroborating that the battery life is perfectly fine.

2. Size. I have tiny wrists and it looks great on my arm. Not too thick or too big at all, and very much on par with typical men's watches. The fact that it's very light helps too.

It's a fantastic device and I'm really enjoying it.
The MacBook Air went from being their most insanely expensive product to their entry-level without changing all too much (besides the requisite performance upgrades).
That sounds different than Google Wallet. With an NFC Android phone you can pay at any PayPass terminal, without them needing to change their software.
I have to be honest. The draw pictures to each other was actually something I want. My wife and I usually devolve our texting sessions into a series of emoticons. The ones on Kakaotalk are pretty hilarious and we frequently use them.
I think we've passed the point where even if the original Satoshi steps forward with a PGP signed autobiography nobody will believe it's really him. We like our legends I guess.
Fellow triathlete here! 100% agree.

It looks nice though...
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Yeah, it's not terrible, but $6 for a half-hour conversation every few days will drain your coffer pretty quickly. I would have loved to have Wi-Fi calling at the start of my latest trip. (Now I just use Google Hangouts with my old cell # transferred to Google Voice. Hooray for free Wi-Fi calling!)
On the horns of the GMO dilemma
My wife and I had our first child at the beginning of the year. The desire to photograph every second is very real, and photos burn up a LOT of space given these modern phones with their super high res cameras these days.

Not starting with 32 gigs seems like a bean counter somewhere trying to be clever and force more people to opt for the higher storage (read: more expensive) versions. Might just be my tinfoil hat talking.
> The credit card gives away data that can be used for fraud.

Not with chip and pin or contactless it doesn't
I hope many other big companies will join them. Google, Cloudflare, Rackspace, Digitalocean, Linode, and many others, I'm looking at you
Without context and metadata, I cannot fathom how finger-drawn pictures could convey data clearly, much less those done on a 1" screen. If someone got a picture of a fish, as demonstrated, for instance -- presuming they actually recognize it as a fish -- are they really going to think of sushi? That seems like a bit of a reach, a tonne of narrative adding context that the picture most certainly doesn't add.

I've done the drawn picture thing. It isn't new, and many messaging clients have supported it for literally years (ICQ supported it in the 90s). And when it was added everyone sent pictures around, and quickly (very quickly) it was completely forgotten.

It's a gimmick through and through.
> Genetic material obtained through a fake door-to-door hepatitis B vaccination programme reportedly helped the CIA confirm Bin Laden's whereabouts in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad.

http://bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-27489045