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Bah, Pynchon can get in line behind Borges.

The Nobel committee is becoming a standing joke. Their general incompetence and overt political bias is even evident in the physics category these days. (Blue LEDs? Really?)
It's very evident that he was directly referring to the NSA spying program. Unless they were living under a rock since Snowden, the direct reason is the NSA.
I wonder if Tim Cook really reads that lengthy letter or some legal expert will just summarize the content. TL;DR version might be helpful.
I thought this article was going to be about ACL and ankle injuries. I've played a lot of ultimate frisbee. My anecdotal evidence says that ACL and ankle injuries are an order of magnitude higher on turf than grass.
We did a writeup after a whole bunch of statistical analysis of various factors that are correlated with higher ranking.

http://blog.sensortower.com/blog/2014/09/07/why-162727-apps-...

Of course, some of these things (like # of ratings, how long ago the app was released, etc) are likely correlated with other factors that are more difficult to measure in the app store.
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This site is very difficult to read on a mobile phone. The header sticks to the top of screen and never goes away, even after scrolling. It takes up at least half my screen.
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Anyone try to browse images on Imgur on iOS lately? I have. It's a huge pain because M4V videos take over the entire screen when they open. This looks great on a desktop browser where the videos play right on the page, but on iOS the experience is markedly worse than before. The videos load faster, but having to tap play, watching it loop, then tapping on the video again to bring up the header/footer, then tapping Done to stop the video... How is that better than just tapping Play?

Now, I understand that this is an issue with iOS and not with Imgur, but honestly, GIFV is not a great improvement, technologically or otherwise.

Also, note that most GIF's on Imgur end up there as screen caps of various web videos. In other words the process is now M4V -> GIF -> M4V. Instead, Imgur could just build tools for better short video creation that they could then host.
Micron announced they were working on this some time ago. Have they released something new? Or are we just talking about the same unfinished R&D project that we were back in the spring?
Firefox supports MP4, and they changed their position two years ago when Google and Adobe weren't as all in as they claimed to be. Further through an appropriate media plugins that browser should support anything the platform supports, and it was pure dogma that had it refuse early on.

Apple is never going to support WebM. This kills the format. There are hundreds of millions of devices that can hardware decode MPEG4 than can't for WebM. Nay, billions of devices. Of course WebM is always just around the corner, but this has just led to a stagnation where the scourge of animated GIFs reigned supreme.
Not hardly. This actually uses H.264, which in all regards is inferior to WebM's VP8.
Neat, I didn't realize that had landed. Thanks for the link.
kids and parents have the same breakfast. We're from bangalore and in bangalore. Here's what we eat most days of a month. Rotti, dosa and chapati gets repeated more than other items.

1) Bisibelebath -- http://goo.gl/zqlaFd

2) pongal(spicy and sweet)/kichdi -- http://goo.gl/KvFH4m

3) idli/RavaIdli plus chutney/samabar -- http://goo.gl/ykGnQa, http://goo.gl/RQro5r

4) dosa plus chutney/palya -- http://goo.gl/NzfOjj, http://goo.gl/kWDD8o, http://goo.gl/Jg9BD9

5) poori with palya/chutney/saagu -- http://goo.gl/m4D4QR, http://goo.gl/OVvL5Z

6) chapati with palya/chutney/gojju -- http://goo.gl/gPPPdV, http://goo.gl/Yqe6CT, http://goo.gl/kfV4OY

7) akki/raagi/wheat rotti with palya/gojju/chutney/sambar -- http://goo.gl/GXxvyF, http://goo.gl/gYZ9kg, http://goo.gl/rs7Ucn

8) chitraanna/soppanna/huliyanna/puliogare -- http://goo.gl/bmcxOT, http://goo.gl/ppxeMY, http://goo.gl/K0uzVS, http://goo.gl/MifvBT

9) avalakki(poha) (spicy and sweet) -- http://goo.gl/YtH1Lh

10) uppittu/upma plus kesaribaath(sweet) -- http://goo.gl/YtH1Lh, http://goo.gl/RPjWoV

11) Noodles

12) vangibath(rice with brinjal) -- http://goo.gl/8YI6J7

13) raagi mudde -- http://goo.gl/5UTwHR

---------

rotti -- can be made in rice, raagi, jowar or wheat flour

palya -- dry curry -- can be made in practically any
vegetable

gojju -- wet curry -- can be made in practically any vegetable
Patents need have little to nothing to do with products, and any article which claims that a patent disclosure reveals something unannounced about a product can be ignored without reading.
Actually in many SaaS products (KissFlow included), you sign up for a free level of service to check it out first. No billing info submitted, level of commitment low.

A seemingly-mandatory phone call in 30 minutes is pretty aggressive for that situation.
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This appears to be Clinton era. Remember, a lot of pioneering work in encryption was done for military purposes. At the time, I think it was fair for people to fail to see how it could be used by ordinary people, and think of it akin to exporting military technology.
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What, aside from the reduced mass of the robot arms, makes it safe? How, aside from operating pressure, is this different from traditional hydraulics?

I'm afraid I just don't see the novelty of a low pressure hydraulic system.
Apparently trees are carbon neutral or even net emitters of carbon once they're mature, so this is only true for young forests.

Edit: I am wrong in the case of old growth forests. After a bit of googling, they are still net carbon capturers. For an individual tree, I'm more right. And in both cases, young trees/forests absorb more carbon in a given span of time than old trees/forests.
Pretty much everything has hardware to decode h264; webm hardware decoding is still thin on the ground. Bulk encoding h264 is also typically cheaper than webm; the software encoders are faster, and hardware assists are available.
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Very cool article. For those who didn't read and might wonder why someone is arguing that Shakespeare isn't a genius, the title is a play on words. The article argues that Shakespeare's unusual use of language ("nonsense") is what makes his work genius.
I've been using the beta. Pretty great so far.
The most remarkable take-away from this whole genre of word-embedding is that just by doing 'dumb averages' of word contexts and then optimizing the 'vector[word]' on the input (and output sides), you end up with a SEMANTIC understanding of the English language in the word vectors.

This paper is the latest in the series (across multiple researchers), and seems to boil the task down to its bare minimum : Just a raw least-squares optimization works. And instead of the 'linguistic knowledge' being smuggled into the problem set-up increasing (initially, people used tree-embeddings, and WordNet bootstrapping, in the 2003 papers), this is getting rid of almost all structure. And ending up with better results.

So, instead of semantics being a naturally very deep problem, apparently common sense understanding can be derived from surface statistics. IMHO, more people should be excited about this (from an AI standpoint).
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They have to pay the smallest possible amount, in my country $0.01 (not in US dollars, of course)
>The effective way to fight disease would be health care, and that's the one measure the United States will never take to fight any disease.

What are you trying to say? That the US doesn't do health research? That the US doesn't have the best medical care in the world? That we haven't yet invented the magical cure to Ebola and shipped it to West Africa? Or are you trying to politicize a virus discussion into something about insurance?
The misquote is close enough.

"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."

Years later and people are still defending the indefensible by calling into question the messengers instead of responding to his actual message.
Hello Igor,

basically we can rule out synchronous systems: product mismatch from the POV of Redis. We are left with AP systems. AP systems trying to get as good as they can from the POV of Availability, and the consistency model provided (even if not "C"), do these two additional things that Redis Cluster is not able to do:

1) They are available in the minority partition. Redis Cluster has some degree of availability, but not to that extend. True "A" means, serve queries even if you are the only node left.

2) They provide more write safety, unless you use it with last-write-win strategies or alike.

"1" is actually related to "2". If you merge values later, you can accept writes even if the node has no clue about what is the state of the rest of the system.

About "2", if you check around, you'll immediately figure out that there are no systems available that are AP and can easily model Redis data structures with the same performances, and having the same number of elements per value. This is because to merge huge stuff is time consuming, requires a lot of meta data, and so forth.

Now there is another constraint, that I don't want a system with application-assisted merging. For example recent Riak versions provide data structures with a default merge strategy, so we have examples of similar stuff. I can assure you that there is either meta-data needed to merge, that would make Redis a lot less memory efficient, and sometimes, there are simply no good strategies. For example take the "Hash" type. There is a partition and in one node I set as "name" field of user 1234 "George" and in another node "Melissa". There is no better merge strategy than last-write-wins, basically.

Now, that said, there are certain things that don't add major overhead, AND, improve write safety. For example if the connection is declared as "SAFE" we could cache all the SADD commands (and others having similar properties) until they are acknowledged by all the nodes serving this key. Unacknowledged writes are retained as a "log" of commands, and are re-played when the node is turned into a slave of a new master.

So there are plans to improve the consistency model, but it is unlikely that we go towards the Riak model, but the good thing is, there are stores like Riak that are exploring this other way of doing data structures without application assisted merge functions, with per element meta data and so forth.

IMHO what there is to ponder is that at the end of the day, is that a distributed database is the sum of what it offers when there are not partitions, and what it offers when there are partitions. Often to improve the latter requires to give up something in the former: simplicity, space efficiency, data model freedom, ...
It's currently running on a few IRC channels on snoonet. People seem to have lost interest in it though.

As I said, it only works for questions that are likely to have been posted on reddit before. Not a general search engine.
I wrote a service in Go to transparently transcode gif to video that you might be interested in: https://github.com/leafo/gifserver
We've had this conversation before [0], and I pointed out then that the tautological interpretation of the Tenth Amendment appeared only in the first decades of the twentieth century, not coincidentally in the jurisprudence of the very judges who started the parade of vast new federal powers rolling.

The interpretation of the Tenth Amendment as a tautology—as a uniquely meaningless bit of prose in our constitution—did not exist in the first eleven or twelve decades of our country's history, and it seems to be quite clearly at odds with the explanation of Federalist 45 [1], in which James Madison wrote,

> The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the Federal Government, are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State Governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negociation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will for the most part be connected. The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects, which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties and properties of the people; and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State.

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4948005

1. http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/amendXs4.h...
Trees are carbon neutral or even net emitters of carbon once they're mature, so a better solution would be to frequently cut them down and then replant them.

Edit: I am wrong in the case of old growth forests. After a bit of googling, they are still net carbon capturers. But not as much as young forests.
Eric Schmidt:

If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place. If you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines -- including Google -- do retain this information for some time and it's important, for example, that we are all subject in the United States to the Patriot Act and it is possible that all that information could be made available to the authorities.
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I'm curious why you'd undermine your point with a statement that is demonstrably false. Hyperbole doesn't do you any favors in trying to make a convincing argument. As measured by the CDC, mortality rates in the US have been on a steady downwards march more or less across the board for as long as we've been measuring them.

Making those kinds of statements just makes you seem like an angry, irrational person with an axe to grind.
FWIW, he does claim that he won't do that.

Depends on how trustworthy he is, though.
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I'm actually referring to the "Date Entry Created" on the website, not anything derived from the title or id.
h.264 streams support 4:4:4 via through the Hi444PP, but I think hardware decoder support for that is non-existent.
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You might want to check out the Prey Project:

https://preyproject.com/
The US government's propaganda machine is what made Americans "terrified of terrorism" in the first place. The government is sowing terror propaganda quite intentionally in order to claim and retain (historically, in the US) exceptional powers to control its own citizens. If the propaganda was toned down to 1/1000th its current volume, I think we'd suffer far less intrusion into our lives and would be no less safe, but the government would be the loser, with all of these mechanisms of control vanishing.
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For many it is...
Schmidt is not trustworthy when it comes to privacy. His views are stoneage. Seriously, would you trust any politician that said "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." because that's Mr Schmidt's well documented position.
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Cash machines are definitely not async in normal operations, though the authorization network is configured with rules for stand-in mode when third-party systems are unavailable. Without the primary authorization system immediately available the ATM is hard down.
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Thanks. I have a hard time defending Shakespeare well enough, but now I don't have to.

I wonder what translation of Shakespeare, to Italian for example, Booth prefers. Translators can make the archaic stuff accessible again, and so maybe the italian crowd gets the jokes that are lost on the english one.
I like it and I very much like react.js, but there's a very bad flash of no content followed by quick iterative loading, a frequent problem with pure JavaScript applications. I bet your react component's render is calling multiple times for each new item you load, and that seems unnecessary. I realize react says you shouldn't worry about this, but there I doubt that multiple renders are going to be faster than a single render as with each render the CSS has to be recalculated by the browser. When the browser parses pure HTML and renders Hacker News proper, it's not that slow, you do not see each item load.
But if we build awesome factories that will gradually reduce the global CO2 levels, they will be useless when they do their job too good. :)
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The Nobel Prize in Literature always has been and likely always will be a controversial category. No doubt any book-lover can name a handful of authors that ostensibly deserve the honor, but there are a lot of great authors and only one Nobel Prize per year! For what it's worth, Pynchon is notoriously reclusive and not the kind of person who's likely waiting for the spotlight that the Swedish Academy would be shining. As things stand, the film adaptation of Inherent Vice seems to bring promise of greater attention to his work that it has received in a while now.
Should papers be retracted if one of the authors is a total asshole?
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You all might find my book and online course about the future relevant: http://www.possiblefutureworlds.com. I referenced Peter Thiel's book and actually met him at his book launch in New York at Columbia. He's impressive and thoughtful, to say the least. I've also exchanged some emails with people involved with Project Hieroglyph.

I think that the Bloomberg article gets both books wrong, simplifying each authors' notions of the future. They both attempt to stimulate us into thinking about possible futures that no one else is thinking about, either because we are biased against the fanciful, we are too consumed with making money rather than creating value, or that we no longer dare to dream big. It is not that incremental improvements in technologies add no value in Thiel's case or that space elevators themselves should be the goal of humanity in Stephenson's case. However, a large number of copycat competitors will not steer us into a fundamentally different and better path, and not daring to be audacious will prevent us from achieving something extraordinary. In short, people today are letting the good be the enemy of the great.

Of course there are two valid visions of the future that we could hope for. One that takes what we value presently and improves upon those values. Or one that creates new values and expectations that hopefully fulfill our old values. Both are attempts to expand the frontiers of humanity. So it makes little sense to me to say that one is wrong or the other is right. The future will be whichever we want it to be.
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Why on earth would you use WebM? WebP is actually an image format and is based on the VP8 codec.
Wouldn't extra water vapor end up as clouds and reflect sunlight away from earth?
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Unfortunately, the only way trees make money is when they're cut down. Apparently, the only way we're going to embark on any sort of program to stave off environmental catastrophe is if someone can make a buck off it — and until then, we'll just keep doing what we're doing, consequences be damned.

Priorities, huh?
Really? You just said that?

Undeveloped land is a treasure trove for biology. We use it for food, medicine, natural resources among other things.

And money means nothing if we cannot breathe.
Well lets test that too then!
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If this can be made reasonably small, it could supply CO2 for carbonated drinks in fast food outlets. Many fast food outlets have a CO2 fill port out back, where the tank truck connects to refill the tanks. That's not going to make a big dent in CO2 emissions, but it might be a viable product.
Google has contributed to that nicely. Google undermined privacy wherever possible. They make money from having access to as much other peoples data as possible.
Primarily because they were 'first'. Part of the Nobel was awarded to Betzig & Moerner who helped make single particles identifiable. They developed some of the chemistries and molecules to make the microscopy possible. Hell did a bit more hard microscopy - he made the scopes, and took the photos using those single-particle techniques.

I've never actually used STED, (PALM & STORM are the same, simultaneously co-invented). I have used STORM, and I think the reason is because they're technically a bit more straightforward and require some nice software on a standard scope rather than a bit more complicated scope. So STED, while a bit older, I think might be a bit harder to do technically than the newer (computational) techniques.

All of them are super cool and in the past 5 years are quickly becoming 'standard techniques' that really will change the way people think about the structure of cells. They've increased our ability to peer into live, unperturbed cells from a resolution of ~200nm to as few as ~10nm - or the difference from being able to see that there is protein structure, to seeing what the structure is.
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Why does every small town police department need its own staff for investigating "digital" crime? A centralized agency would actually be much more efficient for this, one that can collaborate with the local police department to match physical and digital evidence, perform arrests, etc. Not that I want yet another acronym agency charged with investigating everyone on the Internet, but it seems a waste to have each police department try to set up its own digital forensics lab.
Check out http://www.mypromovideos.com/.. They have some pretty good portfolio too..
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Hey geomaster! Long time no see... You probably know who I am... That's a great app, mine (Wi-Fi password search) failed since Mozilla didn't want to approve it due to it sending location data to the server, so in the end it never even had the chance to enter the Telenor competition. Congrats on the app and the prizes.
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I'm loathe to get involved as I know this is a very emotive subject to you friends over the pond, but from my various (largely anecdotal) readings on the subject I fear the view may be correct.

I don't think it's unfair to say that there's a percentage of the population that is scared of incurring healthcare costs and that these people will not seek medical attention as pro-actively. With something like Ebola this is very bad news for their family, friends and community.
>Or perhaps it's time for a modern lossless animation format?

APNG?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Animated...