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I'm actually allergic to buckwheat, and it's becoming increasingly more difficult to avoid as people get carried away with gluten free options (pizza, crackers, etc). It's fine as long as resturant employees know what I'm asking about, but I've been caught off guard a couple of times now.
Anytime we reboot a pod, it runs a "significant" risk of not coming back up for a variety of reasons, and if a pod is powered off for several hours it is even worse. My completely unfounded theory is cooling off and heating back up is bad, short power downs things don't really cool off as much.

> How often do you see multi-drive failures(in the same lun)?

It happens - usually for a reason. Most recently a bunch of drives of one model all seemed to fail very closely together after running for 2 years, it's like some part wore out like clockwork. We are pretty relaxed about 1 drive popping, nobody gets out of bed and runs to the datacenter for that, it can wait until the next morning (the pods instantly and automatically put themselves in a state where customers can prepare restores but we stop writing NEW data to them to lighten the load on the RAID arrays). So if 2 drives fail within 24 hours on a Sunday then Monday morning we go fix it.

> each rebuild caused more drives to fail.

Same exact experience here, we feel your pain. We even have a procedure where we line up all brand new drives, clone each individual original drive to a new drive, then take all the new drives and insert them back into the original pod AND THEN run the RAID rebuild.
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You should definitely continue with your product, and you've now got a big stamp of product validation in terms of a huge company putting resources into the same market. To be clear, you should still do your own validation study (get your own product in front of customers) but I see this as good news that confirms you're heading in the right direction.
I was referring to the experiment (switching to [dead] status). I don't think fading out is a big deal.
I wonder if they even tested it out at small scale yet. Screens will give the wrong parallax–it won't look like the view out a window. (It might be fine for a view displayed on a distant forward bulkhead or maybe even on seat backs, but the large views on walls they portrayed would look quite odd.)

Also, even if they got it to work decently, I wonder how long it would take for the screens to be covered by ads or sitcom reruns.
I'm sitting here smiling, but I don't even know what to think. That was such an insane and amusing story. It raises some interesting questions about technology and how it relates to freedom, and the pursuit of a happy life.

> ...neither cost nor weight nor even sanity were allowed to interfere with the development of a state-of-the art technomadic adventure platform.
Who gets to control the "window"?

Digitised systems are amenable to networking, which increases the number of options for who or what controls them. The answer is increasingly "not the user", or a gilded cage which gives the impression of user control.

As it is, a manual window provides the passenger with some control of their environment. If the airline seizes control of the window, won't this feed into a feeling of lack of control and increased anxiety in passengers?
Why would you distribute NASM, or any other assembler, with your own code? You list it as a requirement to build your code. Would you also distribute GCC?
Re Question 2: Wheat is processed into flour, which has gluten. No one eats wheat raw.
I can safely say that the situation is complicated enough that neither you described is true.

Taxi regulation is corrupt and broken. I can't find a link but Seattle basically hasn't issued any new taxi medallions in 20 years. Suffice to say the area has grown significantly in that time.

Uber's business strategy is also derived from those medallions. I think they could offer a better service that is more efficient and higher margins if the drivers were Uber employees. Right now each drivers needs to be profitable by themselves. There's no room for loss leaders or any other kind of driver distribution strategy.

That's just two points. There are dozens more that could be made I'm sure.
hum, saying someone is a procrastinator is still a blame culture, it's just blaming them. Moreover if it's really genetic, then you'll need a system around them, probably managed by a government to compensate for the deficient genetic trait.

I see you where looking for confirmation for some kind of ideology, but I don't think I would blame short people for being short, but try to identify in which areas height is a issue and route around in various ways (climbing on stuff, abandoning some activities, or finding taller surrogates to do them).
Remember how Agile invented the "standup meeting" specifically to leverage the fact that no one wants to stand still for over 15 minutes?

Maybe the problem is that demanding students focus in the classroom for 5 hours of lecture per day is a stupid goal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intention_in_English_law

If the lawyer can prove or make BG admits JAVA is a threat then BG's actions against JAVA can be seen as deliberate rather than accidental or unfortunate.

Because the "Oops I didn't think tweaking JAVA API so it works only on Windows would hurt SUN that is trying to sell a JAVA thingie that works everywhere" card wouldn't work that well and it would established deliberate questionable practice.

In this case it might or might not be something like that.
I don't think all the blame belongs with the agencies. Certainly some, or most. But the legislative branch also tends to force agencies to regulate things they'd rather ignore. See also: the military declining orders for new tanks, but being forced to accept them because they're made in an important senator's state.
"Let us speak no more of faith in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of cryptography."

Really awesome interview, with some ideas discussed within (e.g. Binney's notion that transmissions be encrypted with a key that only a court has the power to decrypt) that I hadn't encountered yet.

In truth it's less of an interview and more of a platform for Snowden to talk about his thinking around certain things, but he's so well informed that it's a fascinating watch in spite of that.
Some day, maybe. For now, I'm much more focused on getting my next great adventure off the ground (which I'm also not really seeking publicity for...my cofounder and I are trying to go directly to target users for feedback and not the general public). Plus, one thing I learned at Google is that there are a large number of employees that do awesome work without seeking credit for it...I was happy to be one of them at the time, and I don't really want to steal the limelight from them.
> If they exist, WIMPs would have a mass between one and 1000 times that of a proton. They would interact only through the feeble weak nuclear force

And gravity. The article even mentions this earlier, but seems to have forgotten about it by the second paragraph. Honestly, I think that a lot of dark matter's popular science reputation as misguided and made up is that articles like this seem so eager to ignore the relatively large amount of information we have about its gravitational behaviour.

(Not that it is necessarily WIMPs, but I think people would be a lot less eager to dismiss this explanation as 'aether-like' if they had a better idea of why WIMPs are proposed in the first place)
Brian from Backblaze here.

To expand on this, we require our client because of our pricing model, which is $5 per computer for unlimited storage FOR THAT ONE laptop or desktop. An API would mess with that pricing model, so we haven't opened it up yet.
While the design and function of the Leica body is not to be dismissed, the real differentiator as far as I always understood it was the glass. The camera body is just a shutter and film carrying mechanism for the lens, and the Leica/Leitz lenses were what really made those famous images.
I think you've missed the point of the game that's being played. Gates is in the hot seat, and he is doing his best to wiggle his way out of a tight spot. So saying that you admire how he handled that is a bit like saying that you admire how he weaselled his way out of the trouble he was in for MS abusing its monopoly and other anti-competitive behavior that he and the rest of the MS board were up to at the time. But, yeah, he obviously did his job well, so long as by "well" you mean in a way that optimized MS chances of success, while hurting MS competitors' chances of success.
Frustans is new to me.
It's interesting to witness the flat world at work. You can't silence smart whistleblowers anymore. They have resources to draw upon away from home base that will allow them to continue pushing for reforms of what they blew the whistle on. The 21st century will be interesting times to witness.
Is there anyone there who can proof read your landing page at skurt.co? I know you don't need it to be perfect but it reads like an email from a Nigerian prince.
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It has everything to do with it being a funny hat. The power structure had decided that women wore low power clothes, and the men wore high power clothes. So we can snicker at their clothes, even if they were an admiral.

For example, waiters wear those funny aprons or other uniforms. Because that way you can tell who is serving the meal and who is buying the meal.

As an aside, in today's U.S. Navy, the clothing is somewhat less important. My cousin was recently promoted to two star, and the ceremony was performed by the Chief of Naval Operations. He hung around for chatting afterwards and I couldn't help myself. I asked why my cousin had more medals on his chest than he did. CNO gave a great reply (he was a submariner, fewer chances for medals) and we agreed that the rigid linking of number of medals to rank has been relaxed in the modern military.
Has anyone else seen a big difference between the original AoE2 and the Steam re-release? I swear that the AI is barely aggressive anymore, even on the most difficult setting.
Trying to stop these people feels like an exercise in futility. Having voiced my opinion to my own representatives over and over again it becomes very disheartening not seeing any change for the better.

If only people didn't discard morals at the first sight of power and money.

Having said all that, I would encourage more people to talk to their representatives regarding these issues. It goes without saying that unless the people have a voice then their desires won't be heard.
I agree absolutely. I've no experience of medallion systems but they seem clearly ridiculous. I do see the argument for quota systems that enable limit licence numbers to keep wages at a level where drivers are incentivised to maintain their cars and work a 40-hour week.

I suppose my complaint is that every dispute seems to be unquestioningly painted as Good (Uber) vs Evil (Council, State, Government, Police).
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> These things have been true for all of human history [...]

They have not, actually. Not b and certainly not c.
At work, in Lync (worst IM ever), email, and so forth, I just switched OSs and I'm getting alot of irritation from the spell checker.

The sheer amount of jargon that it thinks are misspellings and tries to fix is staggering. Dozens per day, at minimum.

I'm assuming all of those would require custom definition. I can't seem myself going through the hassle. And even if the job is done collectively, our department has less than 50 people in it (maybe 70 if you include the data center). It's not a big enough community for it to spread thin.

Steno seems like last century's solution to the problem, not this century's.
> The non-shitty way to accomplish their goal would have been for them to organize the people who wanted the laws to change and to actually participate in the political process, rather than trying to end-run the system by just moving in to town and setting up shop.

Unfortunately, Uber's process is much more likely to evoke change than "participating in the political process". Consumers are much more interested in the interests than your average voter.
> I've heard the following advice frequently amongst non-tech entrepreneurs: aim your first exit for a million, then 10 million, then aim for the home runs.

This idea seems laughable to me. As if you can perfectly time and control those outcomes. Ha! :)
> Is that the story here?

As opposed to your mental narrative where the taxi industry represents democracy. Because the public collectively decided they can't handle the freedom of choosing their transportation. Why thank you wise regulators, for my brain is too little to understand the dangers of choice.
Indirectly I'm referring to flour as the processed ingredient.

My assumption is that you cannot make bread without milling the wheat to produce flour. Thus processed.

I believe you are correct there are no hard studies. But I did scan a report that said removing gluten from schizophrenic patient diets reduce symptoms.
Brian from Backblaze here.

> data centre visits gets expensive

Early on going to the datacenter was expensive (and time consuming, the datacenter was a 1 hour drive away from the office). We had some success with training "remote hands" (the datacenter provides some basic services like rebooting servers for hourly fees).

Now we employ several full time people who go to work in the datacenter (they don't even have desks at the corporate office). It makes our world SO much better and smoother now that there is enough work that they can be there full time.
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> I think it's equally disingenuous to suggest that a vision, and associated definitions, aren't allowed to evolve - and to suggest that "X failed" because "X" isn't exactly the same today as it was in 1999.

I think that's absolutely a fair criticism of my critique. However, I stand by my critique. Nobody is still calling cars "horseless carriages". At some point, things stop evolving and become something else. The SW has had 13 years to demonstrate value and really hasn't been able to do it in any broad sense while everything else the SW was promising has been met and exceeded by non-SW approaches (which are now being co-opted and called the "Semantic Web" simply because they work).

I think my main thrust is that the Semantic Web failed. That's okay. We learned a lot. Now it's time for something else to take over, call it "Cross Domain Reasoning Systems" or "Global Presence" or some other Gartner Conference ready term.

The Dinosaurs died, and that's too bad, but we learned a lot, and out of that we ended up with birds, of which Chickens and Turkeys are delicious.

But it's time to put it to bed and move on. I've found it always curious that people who work with Semantics have such a bad understanding of what things actually mean.
No more car keys just cell phones
The original vision was just a starting point. Did you really expect nothing to change or evolve over the past ~15 years?

Honestly, your argument, to me, sounds like saying "cars have failed since Henry Ford didn't mention fuel injection, overhead cams, or turbochargers".
At what point in history did searches without a warrant expand from border searches and searches by consent, and when did a standard of "reasonableness" come to mean "it doesn't need a warrant?"
Yeah, well aware that Glutinous rice has nothing to do with gluten. Because rice has nothing to do with wheat.
The Forgotten expansion ships with a much improved AI. Expansion-less uses the old Petersen AI from the original game, and that isn't particularly intimidating anymore!
Less of an interview and more of a platform for Snowden to reiterate his views, but still good to hear directly from the horse's mouth. He says he's no good at public speaking, but it's clear that he is very articulate, very thoughtful, and had the courage to act on his convictions despite the extraordinary threat to his personal safety. If I were to define what makes a strong public figure, it would be those three characteristics.

His commentary during the 2016 presidential election will be interesting to hear, at the least (assuming he hasn't struck a deal with the US to come back before then).
Just keep doing the best you can. If you don't have what appears to be a world-changing idea right now, you still are providing value by creating jobs and offering value to your customers. I didn't know I was going to create Treehouse until it happened. Hindsight is always 20-20.
This is nothing new, something similar happened to me 9 years ago.

I had just started contributing to wikipedia, a couple hours daily, then after about one week an admin decided one of my article title was typographically wrong, after a couple silent reverts from him I got to his personal discussion page to ask why and he brandished some arcane internal rules. I checked and he was wrong so I told him so but he refused to acknowledge this and suddenly I was faced with a bunch of people picking on me. I was followed everywhere i contributed and all my edits were reverted by seemingly fans of said admin who also showed up to gang vote against me in all attempt at resolving conflict.

So I went to the public wikipedia space to ask for help and discovered said admin had silently modified the internal global wikipedia policy to reflect his view and it's all downhill from there. I started receiving threats and at this point I was spending 4 hours daily on wikipedia but barely contributed a thing to the content anymore. After a bunch of ineffective bans I worked around, all my contribution were deleted on ground that I had no right to add content while banned.

Then came the messages from people experiencing the same situation who supported me because I stood up, I got tipped that a bunch of admins were discussing me on a secret page and escalated the issue until it reached jimbo wales himself who dismissed the whole thing as he said he fully trusted his admins.
Then I discovered that other people went through the same process before me, I wrote an article on the importance of newcomers for a healthy wikipedia long term and the bias of the power structure and a weakness of wikipedia that would allow a few individuals to ruin the whole project. For this I received a permanent ban from all wikimedia project and a request from the top of the power structure to delete all my contribution to wikipedia side projects, wikitravel just deleted everything no question asked.

So i did the same thing others did before me I replaced a key article of wikipedia with this very story that happened to and reverted my change so now this story would live hidden in a page history inside wikipedia and stopped contributing to wikipedia to do something worthy of my time instead.

back then wikipedia was already a totally different thing that what it pretended to be and imho the problem wikipedia has cannot be solved with a better editor.
It's worrisome that a senator is getting involved in a niche social apps privacy practice to this degree. However when it is a government agency that violates American's privacy the same Senators couldn't be bothered.
Google Wave did this.
As someone whose wife is severely allergic to gluten, please don't do that.
I think Z-Type would work great adapted for Plover. Heck, with Plover installed, it'd be great now!

http://phoboslab.org/ztype/
It's funny because we're almost complete opposites. Between a regular plane and a windowless plane, I would choose the windowless plane any day, even without the lower fare advantage.
Interesting cat picture
He does it a couple times, I think. I noticed that as well.
> former 1st world non-socialized medicine country

This is a painfully accurate description of the USA
If the average voter doesn't want the system to change, should it?

I'm not sure I'm fully a fan of derailing this thread into a discussion of the disconnect between progress and true democracy, but if we allow the minority of the population to override the majority's decision because we "know better" than them, are we still being democratic?
Totally agree. I guess what I had in mind was an agency that constantly re-evaluates other agencies and writes the legislation to wind down and then shut down needlessly bureaucratic agencies that preserve the problems to which they are the solution. At the end of the day, an act of law needs to be passed to shut down agencies which came into existence via acts of law.

The more I see how government is run, the more I see that lawmakers are commit generators that never take the time to re-factor all the code they've committed to production. Think of this agency as the ones that sit down and get their hands dirty refactoring the code and handing it off to the lawmakers for code review before being committed to the code base.

I appreciate that many laws are passed to solve genuine problems. I don't appreciate the fact that they are never checked to make sure they were effective or continue to be effective.

Regarding the specific military tank example, I'm certain that there must be a way to set things up so that stupid stuff like that can't pass. I honestly don't see how purchase orders for military equipment could ever be a law issue. The fact that the military can't make purchases according to their own needs and budgets is insane. The money spent on those tanks would be better off being spend on all the veteran's affairs programs that are often underfunded.
I've been wrestling in my head about which parts are physics and which parts are mathematics.

Especially from an epistemological perspective: Can we know, for example, that encryption becomes easier / cheaper more quickly than brute-force decryption because, in some sense, the physics of the universe have it that way?
This is cool, I have a reason to boot up my RPi again for the first time in a few months. Looking forward to how this project shapes up.
On technology progress and the possible negative outcomes
Sorry to ask, but what have you tried so far to contact them? (assuming they don't read hackernews)

There is a 'contact us' page on comodo.com with email addresses and toll free phone numbers. More phone numbers on the support page. A live chat on the sales page. Facebook, Twitter, G+ account are linked.
I know someone who is sure that her kids misbehave because of gluten, so she does everything to control their diet. At parties, she hovers around and takes cookies and cake and other things off them. The kids generally become whiny and behave badly. She usually puts this down to them slipping in some gluten while she want looking.

The other kids stuff their faces, roar around feeding off the energy of the party, and go home happy.

If we are going to talk about anything, it should be unhealthy obsessiveness with diets. Get some exercise, eat fresh foods for the most part. Go crazy and eat some ice cream ,pizza or chocolate cake once in a while. Job done.
To me it is more about learning and doing better at each attempt. But yeah, "perfectly time and control" these things I doubt anyone actually seriously thinks they can do.
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A little bit off topic: Setting goals is something that I'm pretty bad at - at work, I set obvious goals like "finish project X by Y.", but other than that, I have a hard time setting goals in my life. I have some higher level goals - eat healthy, exercise, read a technical book every quarter, but barely anything approaching SMART goals. Because of this, I feel like I lack ambition sometimes. How do you identify goals? What do your goals look like? How do you measure yourself against them?