skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And then you have the fun media like Blood Agar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agar_plate#Blood_agar).

But it's not just finding the right media, many microbes are obligate symbionts meaning that we'll never be able to culture them in isolation. I vaguely recall a spc. of Mycoplasma that would only grow in the presence of a peptidoglycan matrix containing E. coli (though it's been a while, so I could be misremembering). For situations like this, having the ability to do raw analysis on environmental DNA is hugely beneficial.
I'm sort of disappointed that the answer to this question is not: "All of them."

Ah well.
Illegitimi non carborundorum. Write a letter to HQ. Write a letter to the newspapers. Persist and publish their formula.

That may not have been the exact path of education that your grandparents had in mind. But if you muster the derring-do for the task, you'd make them very proud and blessed that they had you as a grandchild!
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So you want to be a proof engineer?
I think one thing you can do is try to avoid a typical fallacy. My brother gave me a great example:

- When people get older (say around 30-40), they realize that they can no longer memorize stuff quite as good as in their twenties

- They start to write notes a lot more in order to make sure they don't forget stuff

- Now they get even worse at memorizing stuff, because they challenge their memory a lot less
You're right of course, it's hard to imagine it as a household item, although having said that, I know a lot of people who invested a lot of money into 2d printers and ink even though it cost way more than having better quality prints produced commercially. Maybe the appeal will outweigh the impracticality, if you had a uniquely shaped hand and regular mugs and utensils just didn't work, I imagine you'd be looking to get one in the next 12 months :)
many open notepad documents :D :D
That's what I'm getting out of this as well. We're supposed to think about this; its supposed to give us a jolt. Talking about it critically is the desired result, no?

Well, it happens here. It doesn't happen too much "out there" ..
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I don't think a rifle would be a good anti-drone solution. The problem is you would be operating close to other people and missing a shot could end up killing someone else.
Perhaps the solution could be in shooting a web over the drone and having the wires entangled in the rotors or maybe a tennis ball cannon could work.
Yes. DHL the leading logistics company has scattered these: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/Packstati... throughout germany.
Conformity is more driven by our need to put food on the table(not some egotistical peer to peer competition). I'm sure many people would love to chase their radical notions and wear a bathing suit to work. But that will get you fired...

This essay feels like Peter needs to step out and speak with real people who don't have a bank account to fall back on.

More interesting question, in a post-scarcity society where everyone has their basic needs met, how does this effect conformity?
It has always been this way, and we're supposed to have a system of government that realizes and actively fights this desire.

Over the past several decades, however, the system of self-restraints has broken, however, probably irreparably. I don't think there was any one reason or master conspiracy or anything -- just lots of little compromises made by people doing the best they could.

Understanding why it happened doesn't make it any better, though.

Back in Lincoln's day you could ride all the way to DC, wait in line at the White House, and based on a lottery be able to go in and talk to the president. And he would feel embarrassed for whatever problems you had and would listen to you patiently.

Those days are long gone. And the goal of perfect safety for elected officials is still just as far away now as it was then. Not a good trade for the republic.
I think you either 1) didn't read the whole article or 2) completely misread it. The point is the meat remains, even as all the excerpt and link stuff has mostly moved to Twitter.
This ruling is issued by a kangaroo court that isn't like a normal court, and the "law" in this case says that GCHQ can do pretty much whatever it likes. So I'm afraid this stuff moved outside the realm of law and democracy a long time ago.
It's definitely supposed to be confusing and illegible as far as I can tell. The program as a whole is about the lack of linear narratives in modern events.
It is important to fight surveillance in the courts, but as they keep making ever more draconian and broad surveillance laws it will eventually become pointless. At the end of the day, this is a political question.

I'm not quite sure what we're dealing with here politically. I wonder whether this extent of surveillance is simply the will of the poeple or whether democracy has been subverted by a power hungry security aparatus.
Why on earth would it work on Yosemite? This is very clearly a mobile-oriented demonstration.
I consider companies competing for the ability to do those things. Rockefeller didn't just buy all the oil, he competed the shit out of everyone and then bought all the oil.
> I've no particular ethical qualm with it if you know full well what you're getting into and choose it. […] I'm upfront about the facts and ensure you know what you're getting into.

One could make the same argument about any laissez-faire economical proposal, like “Do I have the right to sell myself into slavery?” Some things are prohibited, even though people are, in theory, well aware of what they are doing. One could argue that this is one of those things that ought to be prohibited.

> You might want to update it, but there's a big difference between want and need.

I would argue that it is my right to update the software to changing circumstances. Otherwise, it’s like a solid-block car with DRM; unchangeable, and (once support is dropped) increasingly unusable due to changes in its environment. These characteristics (pay for a limited time of support, after which it becomes practically unusable) is more akin to renting than buying. If I buy a thing, I would expect it to be my right to modify it according to my circumstances for all time, since I now own it. For software, I can’t practically do so without the source code.

> Do you actually think my day job - making (proprietary) games - is immoral? A daily dose of evil?

Words like “evil” have unreasonable amounts of emotional attachments, so since you are pressing me, I feel like you are setting an rhetorical trap, so I will refuse to use that word. I will say, though, that you are quite possibly making the world slightly worse instead of better. The fact that people are taught to be helpless and powerless is a bad thing. Whether you are, on the whole, doing a bad thing depends on whether any positive impact of your game (your game, mind you, as compared to any possible replacement game) is large enough to offset this. This could possibly be true, and perhaps not – I do not feel competent to judge this.
Everyone should watch this in addition to the main film. I kinda wish he'd done a feature-length investigation of this instead TBH.
Where I live, at least, I'd have to make a special trip between 9-5 on a weekday to a battery recycling facility. And when I'm free on a weekday I'm not spending that time schlepping batteries across town. If they included batteries in curbside recycling pickup, you'd get the same high rates you do with paper, plastic, glass, and metal.
I use ST because it's faster.

But I would like to use Atom instead, because it has JavaScript plugins.

Also @ doesn't work out of the box on Atom, because "alt gr"+"q" is a hot key, lol
big shout to the journalist that actually reported the issue instead of vaporware shenanigans. @JuliaAngwin
Agree on all points.

For what is worth, the last page of the brochure says black on white in a visible font that device relocation is subject to Japan's export restrictions. They don't care if your machine stops and they are under no obligation to make it work again.

Now, if it is _also_ about precision, then the contract will probably have some fine print about it too...
It's like they think people should fear government not the other way around.
>>a huge percentage of the population wants a king

Only because those making arguments against having a king are not persuasive.
What did you expect it to do on your laptop? It's a compass. It's pretty fundamentally tied to the orientation service. And of course laptops don't tend to have gyroscopes in them.
"Available to play in the UK only". Better link to the Youtube version.
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The documentary is long (2h 16m 44s), and somewhat nonlinear. It includes many segments of footage presented without explanation or context, though the narrative is highly informative.

There's a YouTube link for those outside the UK:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXcpDO8_3qU

The story told is a fascinating one, and links up with a few others I've seen.

There's an alternate telling of the Bitter Lake story in Daniel Yergin's the Prize. See episode 5, at 23m 34s:

http://fixyt.com/watch?v=IIJxBrHcSUo

(The entire series is excellent.)

And while it covers some different ground, Robert Newman's "History of Oil" also covers the petro-politics of the middle east in a highly provocative mannner:

http://fixyt.com/watch?v=2DCwafIntj0

Some have claimed here that Curtis is creating opinion pieces. ThatsThePoint.jpg

The stories we've been told of the Middle East are opinion pieces, with a specific narrative and agenda. The introduction to this piece notes that the stories that narrative is composed of no longer hold together, and no longer make sense. A frame is necessary for understanding (though as I've said, Curtis often removes that entirely), and yes, Curtis is offering an alternative one, but also quite deliberately breaking the conventional frame.

It's a large part of the excellence of the piece.

I'd also like to credit dmschulman for pointing out the documentary to me.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9006688
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Can someone knowledgeable about this field comment on how big this invention is?
I see it as absolutely deliberate. See my top-level comment just posted.
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Thanks, meant to include that.
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> The point is the meat remains, even as all the excerpt and link stuff has mostly moved to Twitter.

I thought I addressed that by saying:

"According to the article, a large part of where blogging moved on to seems to be mere social link aggregation and propagation."

Update: I just realized you're the author of the article; I'm sorry you feel misrepresented, that wasn't my intention. I think my main problem is reconciling sensationalist statements like 'blogs as streams of regular essays are mostly over' with points that follow later on the basis of 'the meaty content remains relevant'. You might argue that I put the emphasis on something other than what was intended; maybe the central claim was 'link blogs are over', but in that case there would be very little need to have that particular discussion at all.
I think the main problem this article highlights is the lack of control users have of their wearables.

We are able to run our desktops, laptops and servers (and some mobile devices) almost only on free software. Why shouldn't we demand the same for wearables? Is it even possible? If yes, will this happen? What's keeping vendors back in this sense?
I get the impression that the agencies actually do want to act legally. And the government go to great efforts to make sure that these kind of actions are legallised after the fact. I wouldn't be suprised if this ruling is used as an excuse to leave the ECHR.

Personally I think it is better to have tight laws that are sometimes broken than loose laws that authorize anything. I understand that there are situations where agents may have to break the law and should have a reasonable defence against prosecution (akin to self defence). Instead we get this world in which these grey areas are ignored to the detriment of everyone.
Why did you write it? What are the use cases for synchronising videos like this?

A sentence or two in your README to answer these would be handy.
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>> "For a wearable to 'really' succeed it must be 1. Unobtrusive. 2. Elegantly hidden."

I disagree with point 2. If you make the wearable into something that it already worn (e.g. watch) and make it just as fashionable you can succeed. The problem is that technology is an industry with almost no fashion sense. The closest product I've seen to succeeding design wise has been the Apple Watch and even it looks a bit clunky (hopefully this will change as the technology improves).
I don't know. If it's a big enough edit to warrant waiting for start up time, then why not just use an appropriate IDE which also has lots of additional convenience features in addition to just being an editor.

Atom takes about the same amount of time to start up as RubyMine but it only provides a fraction of the functionality.

The one thing a pure editor has over an IDE is start up time and Atom is not even having that.
Counter argument, beautifully illustrated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
Is there a fee for your predictions?
> seems to have a "pay me to fix bugs" attitude

There's nothing wrong with that attitude. There's no reason why he should be doing work without pay.

If people send him bug fixes and he refuses to merge them, that's something else. But he doesn't have to work for nothing. I assume that whatever money he may be receiving from the German government may be used for other kinds of developments, not bugs that don't affect him.
This was the first thing to come to my mind too. That's a lot of people who are going to need re-skilling.
It's a (mathematically) multidimensional thing; if things can "move" there are clearly dimensions those things can be spread across.

There are lots of things we can't know, but it's like toothpaste; if we posit certain things as fixed, if our observations mean anything, something else has to vary.
X86 instructions are getting a bit more specialized over time. Like Intel's new SSD (solid state disk, non-volatile storage) instructions.

Seriously.

http://danluu.com/clwb-pcommit/

Description for PCOMMIT from Intel's documentation:

The PCOMMIT instruction causes certain store-to-memory
operations to persistent memory ranges to become
persistent (power failure protected).1 Specifically,
PCOMMIT applies to those stores that have been accepted
to memory.

...

Intel's description about CLWB:

Writes back to memory the cache line (if dirty) that
contains the linear address specified with the memory
operand from any level of the cache hierarchy in the
cache coherence domain. The line may be retained in the
cache hierarchy in non-modified state. Retaining the
line in the cache hierarchy is a performance optimization
(treated as a hint by hardware) to reduce the possibility
of cache miss on a subsequent access. Hardware may
choose to retain the line at any of the levels in the
cache hierarchy, and in some cases, may invalidate the
line from the cache hierarchy. The source operand is a
byte memory location.

https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/managed/0d/53...
I really enjoyed this, but I was a bit dismayed that he didn't really back up or explain his assertion that politicians don't believe in anything and are now reacting at random (particularly because that makes it sound like an over-simplified story itself!)
Given the chance, would you go back to school?
>> "Why shouldn't we demand the same for wearables?"

This is a nice idea but it seems to me that in order for this to work well the hardware and software need to be integrated tightly. Even Google Wear seems to be heading in that direction. I could see Ubuntu trying this but they still seem to be trying to get the phone right so it'll be 2020 before we see anything good with wearables. Maybe Google's modular phone project could lead to open/adaptable hardware for wearables and that opens the door for open/free software too.
How does Apple figure into this? I did not mention Apple, I was countering the parent’s FUD, which also did not mention Apple.
> So many people say this, presumably because "it must be true".

Consider this link:

http://www.smh.com.au/business/property/median-asking-price-...

* Across Australian state and territory capitals, the median asking price for detached homes jumped $6,400 over the week to $755,100, the figures show.*

At a rate of 6% the interested alone on that loan is $45,000.00 a year. Move that rate to 7% and that jumps to close to $53,000.00 a year.

How can any family earning average or better than average wages every have enough income to cover those interest re-payments?

> Australian demand is propped up by Chinese flight-to-safety money, and housing demand (especially in Sydney and Melbourne) remains very high.

I don't disagree with this and I have no doubt the prices are being over inflated by a large numbers of oversees investors.

Hover, part of that problem is the Australian government is not enforcing it's own rules regarding home ownership. If a foreign money buys a home in Australia the owner needs to be a student or a permanent resident.

Currently there is massive level of overseas investment in Australian driving up the prices in the housing sector but most of that investment is actually illegal:

http://news.domain.com.au/domain/real-estate-news/parliament...

Australia also suffers from demography issues in that there are so few cities where you can live.

Unlike the US where there are numerous big cities options, in Australia there are less than a dozen such big city locations to choose from.

That factor alone is also putting upward pressure on housing in those areas.

The question is will interest rate every go up. That is not certain since the world is still suffering with the issues of the last GFC.

But in Australia if those interest rates do ever start to move upward, which would be an indication the country is finally showing something in the form of economic growth, those rising interest rates are going to cause problems with those massive $1 Million+ home owner debts.
Once you've been laid off for a while it is hard to find work - they may be desperate. Ageism is very real.
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What's up with the abundance of cheap extrusion printers, while (almost) no consumer-grade SLS (selective laser sintering) machines are available? The latter technology seems vastly superior to me, in terms of freedom to actually print anything you want. Is the technology that much harder?
Last year when I was looking into silicene it was all very controversial and nobody seemed to have given all the necessary evidence to prove they'd made it (i.e. honeycomb lattice with the right atomic spacing AND dirac cones in the bandstucture).

Now I guess it's not only accepted but there are already devices? That's some rapid progress.
I hope other governments will take notice of this ruling in considering political asylum for the person who blew the whistle to expose these human rights violations on a massive scale.
Great job, how much time you spend to create the price prediction model?
Lasers would be more effective. 1W and above lasers are readily available on the open market, and output more than enough power to fuse or burn out any optics that are not shielded.
No, it says eveything is free.
Some of this is simply looking at the characteristics of companies that are more mature (eg. incorporated, trademarks) as a predictor of success.

I wonder if the data takes into account the companies that incorporate in DE.
These machines are usually sold and installed through 'certified dealerships', in other words, people making money on having spent the time to learn how to properly sell and service this stuff prior to and after delivery.

That's a fair investment and I wouldn't put it past them (the dealers) to pull tricks, for instance to charge for supplying an unlock code (which they really should not do, you can always switch to a different dealer if they do though).

The manufacturer however has very little say in what happens to the machines after they leave the factory, though to comply with ITAR I believe the codes are only produced at the source so I guess they theoretically could strongarm someone into paying a fee for equipment they already own.

But any manufacturer that would do this would generate a lot of headwind and word gets around very quickly in the metalworking world. Such a manufacturer would not be selling much longer.

A colleague of mine had a very large and precise (those two a contradictory, so you can guess at the kind of expense involved) machining center installed and it took two months before the workpieces were acceptable.

That machine too had a gyro and it was definitely there with 'dual purpose', on the one hand the ITAR compliance made it mandatory but I'm pretty sure that both parties were happy the gyro was there in one case to prove that it had not been moved and in the other to make sure that it wasn't moved.

There's a lot of money riding on machinery like this, imagine QA at the recipient of a load of parts deciding that they're worthless scrap and then you're arguing with the manufacturer whether or not the machine is at fault or you are at fault because you have shifted the machine. Better if everybody is on the same page in situations like that.
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Correct. I can't imagine that a government would be so morally corrupt as to incite, finance and source weapons for Islamic extremists that they then unleash on their own citizens, and then make sure they they all get shot during the rescue to make sure they never talk.

I can imagine that the security agencies make mistakes. I can also imagine that they don't always effectively manage and identify the correct intelligence. Whilst blanket surveillance provides you to monitor all the things, it just makes the haystack bigger. Good intelligence and reliable sources on the other hand (which require smart man-power), is costly and laborious. It helps you know in which bale in the haystack you should be taking a closer look at.