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That should concern you for regular drives too.

The infamous IBM DeathStar problem was partly resolved with a firmware upgrade that added wear levelling, because the crashes were found to be due to material flaking off the platters when the head remained in the same location, leading to dust in the drive that had a high risk of trigger head crashes so bad it'd strip almost all the material off the glass platters.

There's a fun picture on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HGST_Deskstar#mediaviewer/File:...

We had an array of 10 of them in 2001, and when the first one failed we weren't aware of the problem and didn't think much of it. Then the second failed a week later. The third a week after that. And so on, almost like clock-work until all of them were dead. At the time that array made up enough of our capacity that we couldn't afford to just take it out of rotation until we'd replaced the drives.

It's the event that taught me the hard way to always at a minimum mix batches, and preferably models and/or brands (just mixing drives from different batches would've been insufficient with the DeathStar, as far as I remember). As well as to favour multiple smaller arrays... We never lost any data, and the array remained available for the entire time period it took to cycle through all the drives, though.
Exactly. It's not that the doctors know anything more here, they just don't (can't) quantify their confidence (and later reliably update on new evidence).

No offense to doctors/lawyers meant here; all human brains suck at that.
hahaha Did you really believe that claim? Intel drive documentation states clearly drive should switch to READ ONLY mode, instead it DIED.
most large C programs have a garbage collector of some kind

[citation needed] - the vast majority of Linux software is C or C++ and I can't immediately think of any with GC. It's not normally assumed, everyone does explicit deallocation, possibly ending up writing their own slab or pool allocators.
Because the ni scheme is separate from this proposal and it supports having a server there if you retrieve named information from somewhere else (implementation defined i think).
> Go's syntax and semantics seem ad-hoc, hard to remember, and inconsistent, but that's because Go was designed from uses cases and experience by prominent thought leaders such as Rob Pike and Ken Thompson, and Google. For example, sometimes you'll get Unicode code points, but sometimes you'll get bytes of UTF-8. The language was designed to give you the right one in the right case. UTF-8 is coupled with the language because it's the most useful choice. Another example is that pointers are automatically dereferenced, but not when you have pointers to pointers, because that's less useful.

How about Go's syntax and semantics seem ad-hoc, hard to remember, and inconsistent because _they are_ ad-hoc, hard to remember and inconsistent? What does your thought leader have to do with your genuine opinion?
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Did you every see that HN Post about QUANTA [1]? Do you think it would cover the last 20%?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8298887
I've done a lot of work with the Indian government, and yes it can be very corrupted. But from what my friends at ISRO have told me -- and I believe them -- it is a meritocracy of the highest order. Its consistently excellent performance over the years is further testimony to this. ISRO should be an inspiration to the rest of India.
Since realised that I've bought both SD and MicroSD cards with and without cases. A MicroSD got bent in the post, bought as new. And a accidentally put my foot on an SD while shuffling cards.
Bluemix has a impressive list of IBM technologies available: https://ace.ng.bluemix.net/#/pricing/cloudOEPaneId=pricing

Until Watson is available in Bluemix, what is the best way to get access to the q and a API for exploration?
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this one on spectrum allocation to help generate revenue:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Another-spectrum-sc...
Record it here http://predictionbook.com/, so that you can check by 2030 whether you were right :).
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Did you consider that that's not the point I'm making?

The confidences here provide misinformation. This is more harmful than no information.
Right now you need to apply here: http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/form_ecosys... but many Watson APIs will be available on BlueMix very very shortly (think weeks not months).
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Brilliant punchline.
> a girl with an italian name, gets an 90% answer rate, a guy with an arab name and is younger than 25 gets, 1% answer rate

Depressing.
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Application Metrics are currently only available for apps with two or more running dynos of any size

Of course, I can't be a freeloader and complain about this I guess.
I think you underestimate you important some of those are.

Specially for people doing big data analysis in JVM languages or jumping out of Java to languages like C and C++ for the last performance increase.
I think interplanetary missions usually start by reaching low earth orbit, and only then burning at the right time to start the interplanetary transfer. So getting stuck in LEO is not that unlikely.

For example, the Russian Fobos-Grunt[1] mars mission got stranded in LEO. Though indeed not in a stable orbit; it did re-enter and burn up two months later.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fobos-Grunt
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If the jquery version changed, their site could break anyway due to changes in how the library worked.
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Here's a recent one http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n404...

Also see http://clang.llvm.org/docs/Modules.html
This is one of them,

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n404...

The other one is the clang one

http://clang.llvm.org/docs/Modules.html
Is it by any chance connected with the need to produce nuclear ballistic missiles, for basically the same reasons as the other cold war powers?
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your entire comment is crap but the following bit definitely is:

>Go isn't very successful at Google

Go is used heavily for networking and server stuff at Google. The entirety of dl.google.com runs on go (ported from C).
My sympathies, I lived in Munich 15 years ago and it was a nightmare to find a place even back then. I've heard it's only gotten worse.

We (Nestoria.de) aggregate listings of most of the players in real estate in Germany (IS24, immowelt, immonet, süddeutsche, others) and offer an API. We also offer an API of price trends (ie what the avg rent is in an area and if it's going up or down).

Enjoy: http://www.nestoria.co.uk/help/api-search-listings
I have thought the same thing for awhile. I use an Ipad way too much. Meaning I'm not really working. I think my next
purchase will be something like the Surface 4, or 5. When
they get it just right?
These seem interesting for those of us heading into middle age - where lots of background noise can be irritating when you are trying to concentrate on a conversation or the television. $25 seems a bargain too, I'll be getting a pair to try for sure.
Your way of thinking is interesting, but in all of the examples you give, the execution was vastly more difficult than the idea. Furthermore, most of them weren't commercial products and couldn't have been done by a startup.
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This problem is even worse when you're outside of the US, and the Netflix selection is even smaller. On the upside, I don't think we ever had the Netflix DVD service, so we don't miss it.
Oh how did people change the world before keyboards were invented?

How will people be able to create when their smartphones just have useless stuff like cameras?
It's the distinction between producing and consuming. It's important these days to make a conscious effort to produce more and not slip into constant information consumption mode, which new technology seems to encourage.
why is it OK for "consumers to get the movie either way?"

If you insist in asking the wrong questions, you will receive a lot of useless answers.

It's not that it's OK. It's that people don't care, as simple as that. If you don't understand that, your ignorance of human nature is astounding.
C++ only needs the preprocessor for two things

- includes (until modules become available)

- conditional compilation

Macros are better replaced with inline, constant expressions, templates with the added benefit of type safety and debugger support.
"The race to zero (or more accurately c)"

Some interesting speculation on using Neutrino-based messaging to eliminate the latency caused by the Earth's curvature [1].

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey/2012/04/30/neutrin...
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(Btw neither Go nor Rust have all-caps names.)
cue haters talking about lack of toilets/education/too much rape/other random social issue that exists in India they heard about that one time in the news - and how India should fix that instead of developing technology...in 5..4..3..2..1
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You're right, sort of. Most of the time that's certainly the case. But OCZ QA appears to have fallen off a cliff at some point, to the extent where it was presumably a large factor in their bankruptcy, and it was a systemic problem with most OCZ models.

A huge list of models have failure rates way above average, with a number of them exceeding 5%, and some claiming that the failure rate for some of the Octane and Petrol models exceeded 30%.

The best ones have been in line with other manufacturers, though. Unfortunately the problems were so widespread that your odds of picking a "safe" OCZ drive for a while were ridiculously bad, unless you were prepared to wait for a year or two to get hard numbers on a model before buying.

The Vertex line has been a crapshot, for example. Several of the Vertex 2 models had unreasonably high failure rates (5%-10% range). Your Vertex LE is as far as I know based on a different design/controller than the regular Vertex 2 and might have "escaped" the Vertex 2 problems. The Vertex 3 appears to have been much better (and none of the Vertex 3's we have have failed). Vertex 4 has been disastrously bad for us - every single one failed hard after less than a year, to the point where even the SMART data is partially corrupted on most of the drives (claiming it's been powered on for 75 million years for example..), and marked the end of buying OCZ drives for our part.
Or maybe you just shouldn't watch terrible Micheal Bay films.

But seriously, what are you basing this on? Film sets aren't chaotic at all. Independent ones - maybe. But 100 million dollar pictures are meticulously ordered and have several ADs keeping to schedule. Source: I work in production.

Crossing the line is also not as much of a problem as you make out. Everything is super storyboarded, or a DP will no instinctively if the 180 rule has been crossed.
There are languages for those who can and those who can't...
The license isn't based on the amount of sales. He licenses it for $300. I get that NG has more money than he does but I don't think it's relevant in this situation.
I write Go on a daily basis, and the lack of generics support is really not high on the list of problems that I encounter. I think it's a great tradeoff between C & say Java for the kind of programs that I write -- backend server software with moderate to high performance requirements.
There are already devices on the market that do this, but they're only targeted at rescuing a car with a dead battery. Instead of actually jump-starting the car, it's really just a low amp charger.
Whenever I see an article like this where only one side of an email chain is posted, it makes me question the content. The start of the NG email reads "I must respectfully disagree with the implication set forth in your reply email that statutory damages for willful infringement in the range of $150,000 per work are applicable to this situation.". That makes it sound as though his email may have just reach out and said "You guys are so screwed, you do realize stealing my shit is going to cost you $150k right?". How would that prompt anything other than a carefully crafted response from a legal team?
Yes,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3meJyiYWFw#t=1566

- Java is the official language, that is what the team has invested into

- You can use the NDK for your favorite language, but beware that you are required to use JNI anyway for Android APIs

- Not possible to do any comment regarding Java 8 support.

- Only use Scala for business logic, no tooling support plans
what if consumers got irritated enough and repeal copyright altogether? and then where are we?
Not the only one. Someone set up NHibernate on a project I was working on to run logging in DEBUG mode and throw it in a log file capped at 100k. Pages were taking 4-5 seconds to render. Wasn't obvious that the logs were being written as the file was capped at 100k.

Took ages to work that out.

Ugh.
You have now revealed that if somebody were to get access to one of your servers, they just need to drop some script kiddie trash at the very front, and then put their heavy stuff deep into the system.

You'll clean up the script kiddie trash, and call it a day.
Disagree completely with the very first opinion expressed - 'Don't do a startup just to do one - do it only if you really want to solve a problem'.

India has produced about 3 big ~billion dollar compaines in the recent past - inmobi, flipkart, druvaa. None of the founders really started to 'solve' a problem they were passionate about. What they were really passionate about was just 'starting up' - and based on their personal strengths, industry knowledge and what they thought could be sold, stumbled on these big businesses. This was probably true for HP too.

It is absolutely ok to do a startup just for the heck of it. Get in the game and find out the intersection of what you can build and what a customer will buy. If you build a big business - the passion will follow. Do not forget to bullshit though on your big interview on how the so solved problem kept you awake at nights - it makes for some good reading and impressionable pr.
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This is a brilliant tool for those of us who test JavaScript. A bit of a hack, but it seems to work.

It's also a reason why browsers should allow some sort of tracing API for JavaScript. I know V8 and Firefox do not expose the interface because they couldn't think of a decent enough use case to justify exposing the surface area of this code. This is the use case.
It's not big satellites in controlled orbits that are a major problem from a space junk standpoint. Mostly it's the smaller fragments that are the problem, which outnumber satellites by a huge margin. Besides which, the easier it would be to launch satellites into orbit the easier, and cheaper, it would be to launch programs for cleaning up debris and abandoned satellites.
It's not sharing, it's theft, whats the argument for "downsizing copyright"
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It's not big satellites in controlled orbits that are a major problem from a space junk standpoint. Mostly it's the smaller fragments that are the problem, which outnumber satellites by a huge margin. Besides which, the easier it would be to launch satellites into orbit the easier, and cheaper, it would be to launch programs for cleaning up debris and abandoned satellites.

In fact, if launch were significantly cheaper then Earth orbiting satellites could be equipped with special sub-systems designed to deorbit them if the main satellite became inoperable.
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The conclusion from this little study, is that a girl with an italian name, gets an 90% answer rate, a guy with an arab name and is younger than 25 gets, 1% answer rate. The master of all, is the young munich guy who is around 25

Sadly, this doesn't surprise me.

Across Europe, numerous anti-discrimination laws have been (rightfully) enacted, but it just pushes any inclination to discriminate that might exist into private. Oh, we "didn't receive" your e-mail, or oh, I "didn't see" your résumé.. This is why some people got upset about Google+ demanding real names and similar "use your real name" policies elsewhere, as even a name alone can be a huge trigger for discriminatory behavior.
Yes, but the people who do a lot of the criticizing seem to just shrug their shoulders then start criticizing the next thing. As humans, we often don't learn from our mistakes. And in democratic societies, we expend a lot of energy dealing with the noise.
And it's a big problem in New Zealand too. Possibly exacerbated by the high prices Manuka honey fetches for its interestig properties.
http://m.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=...

http://m.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&obj...
I was recently looking for a new flat in Berlin, and I didn't have the same type of problem the OP had, but once I had an interview, I had to make a decision on whether I wanted the flat or not quite quickly. So I used a variant of the optimal strategy of the secretary problem[0]: Decided on a rough maximal number of flats I wanted to visit N, visit N/e flats without real intention of renting, to sample the market, and then take the first flat that is better than all of the previously viewed flats. Worked out remarkably well for me.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem
Even if you invented a machine to produce infinite amounts of soybeans, the supply would not be infinite, it would be whatever amount you want to produce! Property rights are just as important in Economics as costs, and illegally obtaining cheaper-than-book-value goods is older than any of these entertainment companies that you call dinosaurs.

> Well, tough luck, MPAA. The market's invisible hand is slapping you and you'll have to adapt.

How in the world did a comment like this not get downvoted into oblivion? Pirating content has nothing to do with the market's invisible hand.
For creating decentralized mesh networks, it might help to look at what the freifunk project has done. Freifunk is a community project that builds open mesh networks (mostly in Germany) using cheap (€15-20 range) off the shelf routers. The routers usually provide two wifi networks, an open access point as well as a mesh interface that will mesh with all other access points in range.

The used firmware (called "Gluon") is based on OpenWRT and all open source:

http://gluon.readthedocs.org/en/v2014.3/
https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/gluon

http://freifunk.net/en/

Apart from that, for communicating with systems that have no or only temporary internet access, the pretty ancient UUCP protocol comes to mind:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP

I actually had my first email and news accounts subscribed over the UUCP protocol. The main advantage of UUCP is that it will queue all data destined for a remote system and asynchronously transfer everything when a system is reachable. It is also possible to relay data using multiple hops that are not online at the same time. It was used mostly with dial up systems that were only online during data transfers.

So with UUCP it might be possible to implement a sort of drive-by update where a mobile node (maybe installed in a car) can connect to a local server, exchange incoming/outgoing messages and relay them to the node in the next village when the driver moves on.
They are only misinformation if it is misunderstood what they represent.
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Er...I am the 'they' you are talking about.

I love it when I'm being paid by the day because actual money ends up in my pocket. I have ownership interests in a number of films and the only reason I hold onto the contracts is sentimental value - none of them will ever make any money.

Only about 20% of films break even, and only a very small number of those make long-term royalty income - and that was true before the internet upended distribution models - which is why the careers of studio executives are so precarious. For indie producers, creatives, and technicians it's almost all business risk. Most projects don't pay very well (if they pay at all) and never recoup their production costs. At the indie end your goal is to win some prizes and get a film into distribution, and maybe make some of your money back if you put money into it. The win condition is that having distribution shows you can make work to commercial standard and maybe someone will like what you've done and give you a larger budget to work with.

To break even typically requires a film to spend about the same money on marketing as production costs, and of course films compete mainly against other films that are released around the same time. Unless you are exceptionally lucky and talented, there is little chance that you will make money with a production budget under $1 million. The typical 'low budget indie movie' that most people think of - quirky romance or gritty crime story - costs $5-10m.

Those are pretty high barriers to entry. It used to be that you could bootstrap yourself by doing some straight-to-video films that were not necessarily very good but were sufficiently adequate to find a small audience in between good big-budget movies, eg James Cameron's first directing job was on the Piranha 2 which was every bit as bad as the title suggests. But now that you can stream many movies you'd want to watch or download a high-quality movie if you're not happy with the streaming offerings, the fims with very small budgets are competing head-to-head with larger-budget offerings and of course the large-budget offerings win for all but the most devoted cinephiles and genre fans, of whom there are not that many.

Most people in the film industry never see any residual income worth talking about. And when they do, residuals are basically compensation for the fact that there are few regular paychecks to be had. You know the best way to make money in film? Run a food catering business. Regardless of the budget, it's an iron rule that production pays for the food and everyone gets at least one square meal a day. For short films and micro-budget projects, food is often the single biggest expense.
Fair enough - for me rsync(+bash+cron) and a $80 external usb drive (or just clicking the buttons on TimeMachine on Mac OS X boxen) is a small enough "I" to easily justify the "R" - even for data I could retrieve easily enough if needed. For data I actually care about, I put a lot more effort/money into ensuring I don't lose it.
This had substantial recent discussion. You can check this by using the search box at the bottom of most HN pages:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=what+do+animals+see+in+a+mirror#!/...

Reposts are ok if a post hasn't had significant attention, but if it has, we demote them as dupes until a year or so has gone by.
Gamer nation needs log viewer for Nginx or/and Apache?
Looks like a great way to harvest active email addresses.
Again, why the focus on the average person? Does the average person actively, directly participate in space industry? No. Has the average person been profoundly affected by the technologies developed by space programs? Undeniably.
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