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Palestine's First Tech Product Going International
Hello Kate,

I am Lama, a 22-year old girl from Palestine and the co-founder of BOLD Gadgets.

We launched an Indiegogo campaign for the first Palestinian tech product, the most portable and fastest battery pack one week ago and raised more than 300% already (more than $50K). The most funded on Indiegogo's Design section.

We would love to get your media coverage.
Campaign page: igg.me/at/knot
Press kit: https://goo.gl/jjdHXE

Thank you so much for taking this in consideration
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Ha, just yesterday I went in the pool with my 3 year old. I was freezing and cursing (not in front of him of course) and he was as happy and active as on any summer pool day (I'm in the southern hemisphere).
I installed vmware fusion to run windows and linux vms on my MBP. It works great and the swiping feature is really slick, allowing me to jump between desktops as needed.
Nope, sorry dude. You're just wrong in your inferences concerning the author's experiences. To my certain knowledge, John has played many games from the indie/narrativist/storygame branch of the rpg family tree.

Now that that essay is dated 2006, so Fate and Apocalypse World had not risen to their current prominence. But the branch of roleplaying games precipitated by the Forge existed.

Maybe you'd like to make your point without explaining what the author must have experienced?
Apparently some teacher was jailed for teaching that in class.
They're creating stuff that's valuable to society. I don't see though how they're so much greater than other people who create value, like medical researchers, biotech researchers, engineers, artists, etc.
Rubrik raises 40M for enterpise backup
but that is amortized over a much longer time frame than renters
Their redesign is awful also. I stopped coming since it now requires 3x clicks to do the same.
Could they not just go deep enough to avoid all that?
I feel that the arch linux wiki is the best resource for these problems.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Solid_State_Drives

Personally I just fully wipe a new ssd and put discard in fstab.
How does that make it not a problem for Germany? Are you talking about Germany the landmass? Germany the state? Germany the nation or the ethnicity?

Cause, I mean, sure its no problem for the landmass or the state. For the nation/ethnicity though, it means extinction.
Controls are difficult. 'W' key to eject mass and 'space' to split aren't available either.
You kind of guys are still the hope for humanity. I do not understand all the technology completely. But i get the gist for what you are doing. Than you very much.
Not exactly. Unlike gnuplot, FLTK uses single precision internally to represent the data, which limits the range of values it can plot. If you try to print anything outside that range, it'll just print a blank graph.
+1 for responding point per point ;)

Welfare: At least you've experienced the Scandinavian model, so I'll give credit to your testimonial. I've lived in Australia so I've experienced another one, pretty much at the opposite, and if you say my Thai friend could have made the same money in Oslo, with more healthcare and education, then I'd vote for the Scandavian model.

Science: "We need to become multiplanetary asap"? Social inclusion or sustainability is a higher priority to me. Concerning the technological advance that space exploration brings us, well, wherever we pour dozens of billion euros we'll get a technological advance. So I'd rather we explore world hunger than space. But nowadays it's easier to get votes for supporting ESA than world hunger.

Tobin tax: If it could solve everything you mention, I would be all for it. But it won't solve inequality and it will slow down our economy again.
> Took about four years before the drive started failing (well, failing noticeably as a user).

Was the SSD made by OCZ or had a Sandforce controller by any chance?

Also anecdotal, but my 160GB Intel X25-M 'G2' has been working perfectly for the past 5 years and 10 months. So far I have written 16.92 TBs to it [1] and until I moved the drive into another PC I had been running games and VMs from it.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/u3AfP9R.png
Please provide better manners than those in your comments. :)
>People saying "well just allow dicks" - LEGO's brand is utterly trusted by parents. We had to uphold that trust. Which meant zero tolerance.

This is the saddest thing. Lego permits violence in its products, but a penis built out of bricks is a problem.
Read the text of COPPA - http://www.coppa.org/coppa.htm

Its all about collecting personal information from a child, not allowing them to see lego dongs.
She/He never said it was. It is being suggested that, er, enthusiastic anti pedophile groups think that. I think that its implied that its a dubious argument at best. None of us can answer for the flawed logic of campaigners with tunnel vision.
I've been going to CS meetings for years and they've always seemed the same to me. Half residents (foreign and local) and half travelers. Most are there because their life, or the times, don't allow for making easy friendships, thus they get several of the benefits w/o the commitment.

At this point, personally, I end up making a few 'friends' and then sitting at a table or in a small standing group with half friends and half travelers. The friends part means I don't have to ask those hostel-type questions to every single person I talk to (where are you from, how long are you here for, what are you doing here, when are you leaving).

After some time, no matter the city, I start to realize who has been hooking up with/is interested in whom, and often times, one realizes most are there for a combination of this and the easy social aspect.

...

As for the site, their new redesign messed up a lot of functionality and completely did away with crowdsourced data from the communities. The CS city groups have totally become a "let's go get drinks since I'm in your city for two days" type thing, not to mention travelers are constantly asking the same questions and since CS took out the search function, including the previously mentioned deletion of years of crowdsourced info/tips, the site & quality of content has just gone downhill.
Those who remember famine and war are usually past their reproductive age. The young people take it for granted that they will live until their eighties, even on their low paying jobs.

If poverty was causing reduced birth rate, we should have gone extinct long time ago. I suspect though that increased competition for non-essential resources and territory (like a new car or a house) might somehow turn off our reproductive instincts because in the past this was usually a prelude to self-destructive competition for essential goods.

I'm not encouraging or discouraging anything, I just don't see the problem. Everything seems to work according to the nature. The only thing that needs adjusting is the social security system which is based on the flawed assumption of infinite population growth.
From what i can tell i think it's actually the only one, been to Japan several times since these were initially posted online and I've never seen them, or any other type of an automated bike storage service.

Heck from what i can tell all the pictures and video seem to cover exactly the same bike storage, and for some odd reason it's always empty when they film it. While it's a nice idea i think it's way too impractical.

This seems to be less dense than what turns out of most traditional bike parking systems, it's also much more expensive to build and maintain, and i don't even want to start thinking of how easy for it to just get stuck, miss read the tag on your bike, or heck for that RFID tag to simply just die / fall off during storage.

If you use something like a Santa Cruz racing frame with every part made out of carbon to commute to work, yeah the extra security is probably worth the costs when you deal with 10K$+ bikes, but as far as most commuting bikes I've seen in Japan and Asia in general nope, they aren't worth it.
The purpose of the smudge pane should be obvious.
There are two panes and a hole left to explain.

First for the panes:

The article says the two panes are for safety reasons and I buy that. Equally important in my opinion is another reason.
It's the same reason you probably have double panes in your home: thermal and noise insulation.
Air has terrible thermal and noise conduction. So you need two panes and air between them.

Why the hole:

Remove moisture, I buy that.
Allow pressure to equilibrate between the passenger cabin and the air gap between the panes.
I buy that too but the article does not really explain why this is necessary.

If the two panes would be sealed absolutely tightly the pressure between them would stay at normal level in any case.
As an aircraft climbs, the air pressure drops in both the cabin and the outside air — but it drops much more outside, as the aircraft’s pressurization system keeps the cabin pressure at a comfortable and safe level.

Without the hole and with perfect seal if the pressurization fails for some reason you'd have maximum pressure gradient on both panes. The redundancy of the second pane would be lost.
It's unlikely that this is a major contributing factor. German laws are extremely tenant-friendly, there is no social stigma associated with renting, and renting vs. owning is often a lifestyle choice rather than one explained by income (according to a recent study, a great many Germans could afford a home of their own, but choose to rent, anyway). Keep in mind that even Angela Merkel is among those who rent, even though between her income and that of her husband (who is a tenured professor), they could easily afford a pretty nice home.

The low birthrate is primarily driven by college-educated women having few or no children (over 30% of all German women who were born between 1964 and 1968 and had a college degree did not have any children). It has historically been difficult to be a working mother in Germany; it was both more challenging (school being out at lunchtime) and society frowned upon you being a working mother.

This has slowly been changing; reunification happened and East German women weren't having any of this nonsense; politicians realized that the net effect was that the fertility rate dropped; and the abortion debate and a subsequent judgement by the Constitutional Court forced legislation that made having children easier. As a result, it is now a whole lot easier to be a parent (single or married, male or female) than it used to be.

This did at least stabilize the fertility rate, which had been dropping before. While nominally, Germany's fertility rate is 1.4, this does not account for the fact that the great majority of German children are being born after their mothers reach the age of thirty; current estimates set the actual fertility rate -- i.e. the average number of children a woman has over her lifetime -- at 1.6. More importantly, this number did stabilize in the aughts and has actually been increasing since then for college-educated women.
Yes, but it's a matter of time, and it's more likely that the country would just decline in global status to a state of stagnation.

Last I looked the US were still below 1% of the population being incarcerated (~0.7% total, ~0.9 adult). This is (or was, there may be newer figures) the world's highest rate.

These numbers are disgusting (especially considering the number of people in US prisons purely because they can't afford to post bail), but I think it would take substantially higher rates to cause the collapse of a country.

The detriment of a country is a completely different matter, and this situation in the US is already recognized by most of the rest of the world.

Similar issues are being seen in China and Russia.

From http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/uk/06/prisons/html/nn2... (which is probably well out of date by now):

"Half of the world's prison population of about nine million is held in the US, China or Russia.

Prison rates in the US are the world's highest, at 724 people per 100,000. In Russia the rate is 581."
It's the same case in Warsaw. They earthier find some medieval remains, massive graves from WW2 or a bomb.

I read in Bloomberg it's 20% more expensive to build a building in London than NY.
>Moreover, there are very few day cares that accept children after three months

Doesn't the baby need milk in that period? Sounds like opposite of how it should be.
Great to hear that they have special programs for that. Americans could learn a great deal from them.

Regarding the Stari Most reconstruction effort I can recommend an excellent documentary by Jasmila Žbanić "Builders diary", and there are numerous more TV movies about the technical challenges there.
Yeah, Moscow would certainly make sure that their funding is easily discovered and attributed.

For example, Le Pen's Front National got EUR 40M loan[0]. Also Greece’s Golden Dawn party, Belgium’s Vlaams Belang, Italy’s Northern League, Hungary’s Jobbik and the Freedom Party of Austria.[1]

An overview from The Guardian[2]

[0]http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/40m-of-russia...

[1]http://www.theweek.co.uk/europe/61498/russia-funds-french-na...

[2] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/16/russian-resurge...
That's something I often wondered about, but I'm pretty sure there will be some reasons why it's not feasible... I also think that the biggest problems are the stations.
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So nothing about UK parties?
This, like most, advice from random websites, is a mixture of out-dated notions half-truth and and outright wrong-headedness.
Better to ignore it.
And 32 bit only.
It doesn't cover the 64bit conventions which deviates more wildly on Win64 from the common amd64 ABI.
Well, the 17 psig number I found was an estimate, so if you found the soda can holds about 4*7 = 28 psig, I'd say we agree.
Subway lines need stations, ventilation and often big shafts to build the tunnels from.
Together with my friends, we are living in a large apartment, so there's often one room empty or extra space for people to sleep. We used to frequently host couch surfers, but in the end we have made the most friends and had the best experience with airbnb priced to just cover the room rent.

We found it to greatly reduce conflicts between guests and hosts, and actually get people more engaged in our small community.

With couch surfing, I often had thoughts like "I pay for your room and you can't even put your dirty dishes away". Since we offered the room for free, we kind of expected some sort of autonomy from their side to help us out in the household or maybe cook some dinner for everyone if they stay longer than one night. They often expected that we would go explore the city with them and give them a lot of attention.

On airbnb that problem somehow mostly vanished. If things with the guest aren't great, at least you get paid. Thus you also don't need such a strict screening process anymore.
Due to this, there seems to be much more diversity regarding the types of people we get to meet.

Many of them actually just want a quiet room to sleep in, and it's absolutely fine.
Some people however really get involved and become good friends. Especially when they stay longer (which almost never happens on couch surfing), the fact that they pay rent just like everyone else seems to make some of them much more open to suggest improvements and be proactive.

We've met a lot of diverse, interesting people through airbnb, some of which ended up staying for a long time, some coming back regularly. On couch surfing we've mostly met the traveling couple, group of friends coming here to party and young backpacker stereotypes.

What killed couch surfing for me personally though, was that no matter how many people I've hosted, I could never find anyone who would host me when I was traveling somewhere.
That really destroyed the magical vision for me.
Copy/paste the following command line into the terminal:
sudo mv -v /etc/cron.weekly/fstrim /fstrim

Uhm. What? That's how this article 'disables' a cron task? Why?
Windows 8.x does defrag SSDs once a month by default.
The Japanese can themselves decide which option to take, rather than being forced into one from the outside. The current elected government seems to have taken the route of inflating away the debt.
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That said, COPPA concerns will almost certainly come into consideration here. It's not just data storage, but ways that Personally Identifying Information (PII) might be shared through a product, and whether that sharing is approved by a responsible adult, etc.

User generated content is almost always a candidate for PII leakage; for example in a block building game, you might reasonably expect a player to proudly build their full name in huge letters for all the world to see. If other players in game can see it, and a legal guardian hasn't approved that kind of behaviour (and been unambiguously informed that their child can do that) then you've got a COPPA violation. And COPPA violations are routinely prosecuted, so you need to pay attention when making a product explicitly targeted at under 13s. It makes it remarkably hard to design games for kids that are both creative and social.

It feels very bureaucratic, but despite that I still very much believe it's worth having legal safeguards like COPPA; we're still in an era where society is changing drastically in response to the internet and I wouldn't want to see the more vulnerable members of it open to exploitation.
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I agree! Many of the SSD "tweaks" mentioned are unnecessary and seem to originate from the early days of consumer SSDs (2007-early 2009). For some bizarre reason they still perpetuate and I am not sure why.

Disabling the browser cache is a good example. Back then we had many drives based on JMicron's infamous JMF602 controller such as the G.Skill Titan and Apex, Core v2 & Solid from OCZ. Once thing these all had in common were incredibly poor random 4KB write latencies of between 0.5-2 seconds [1][2] which understandably lead to frequent pauses or stuttering in the operating system. The general advice in these cases was to move the browser cache to a HDD or RAM disk in addition to disabling or moving the pagefile. I am not sure why but many people seemed happy with this solution. If I had purchased an SSD that exhibited this problem I would have returned it to the place of purchase for a full refund since they clearly weren't fit for purpose and shouldn't have been sold in the first place!

Item 17 isn't true [3]. Windows 7 onwards will detect solid state drives and will make the necessary adjustments itself (including disabling defrag just for the SSD). What many of these guides fail to mention is that if you completely disable defrag you are also disabling the automatic defragmentation of any HDDs that are connected to the same computer. Also, in Windows 8.x/10 the defrag tool now deals with storage optimization and does a lot more than defragging such as sending TRIM hints to SSDs [2][3] so you definitely don't want to disable that.

If you have cloned a Windows install from a HDD to an SSD you can force Windows to detect the drive as an SSD by running the following from an elevated Command Prompt (although WinSAT will run without any user input eventually):

winsat formal -restart clean

One reason for disabling hibernation was because SSDs were small (< 64GB) and the hiberfil.sys in Windows would take up a non-trivial amount of disk space if you had a PC with 4GB-8GB RAM. These days it's a non-issue since capacities are larger and the as The Tech Report have proven, it takes a lot of effort to wear out an SSD. Also, if you are using Windows 8.0 onwards disabling hibernation will also disable the fast startup feature.

Another very recent myth is that SSDs will lose data in as little as 7 days if left in a powered-off state [5]. Thankfully this has been thoroughly debunked [6].

[1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/2738/17

[2] http://www.anandtech.com/show/2614/7

[3] http://www.hanselman.com/blog/TheRealAndCompleteStoryDoesWin...

[4] http://www.ghacks.net/2012/08/19/why-weekly-defrags-are-turn...

[5] http://www.extremetech.com/computing/205382-ssds-can-lose-da...

[6] http://anandtech.com/show/9248/the-truth-about-ssd-data-rete...
Well, In my opinion configurable autotuning exists. Do not confuse a server that never reboots, with a system that never stops.

For example the AWS services integrate metrics to define behaviors (scale up, scale down, etc), you can implement pretty convenient autotuning algorithms, even those that learn from previous metrics.

The Linux kernel networking and I/O layers are plenty of autotuning code. Powertop is just another example maybe. Even a perl interpreter makes some dark magic.

If I think on my own systems implementation, I think I have do noob autotuning too (alert control, alert frequency, recovery steps, recovery notification... systems increasing their swap before a cron runs, dynamic filtering tables based on app/network input, sysctl autotuning daemons.... etc...)

There are too much to improve regarding autonomous systems, but autotuning is just about programing programmable components, for react on events. Depending on those components, you have to coordinate some kind of events or very different ones. From IRQ interrupts, to a cache hit in the other end of the connection, there are a plenty of parts to implement autotuning, from many vendors, and maybe, this is the root of the issue.
That also makes me think about Aloha Airlines Flight 243

http://www.vfrmagazine.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/fretti...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloha_Airlines_Flight_243
Sane people don't trust closed-source encryption. FTFY
Uneducated you say, strange, I live and work in Germany as a software engineer in an IT company with 25 others immigrants, there isn't a SINGLE german there...
I've been yammering about something like that for ages: I want to arrive at my desk, place the phone by the screen and start working as I would on my laptop. However, I want this with my Linux desktop loaded up, not my Android one. Ubuntu did almost nail with the initial videos of Ubuntu phone but I never seen it take off.
Ukip has been cosy with Moscow[0] but I am unaware about any reliable funding stories.

[0]http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/mar/31/nigel-farage...
Has anyone written a clone for http://agor.io yet?
Having a roof over your head costs money! The basic premise of this article is rising cost of real estate in perpetuity. If that were not true there would be no difference to ownership just different timing of cash flows due to different financing! It is atrocious that Bloomberg of all places published such low quality writing simply using appeal to authority and not going deeper into the assumptions!!! In the long run it makes no difference if you factor all costs! There is also a major lifestyle issue besides the costs.
Let me save you some googling :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_electronic_color_code_...

The one we are talking about is in the list.
> The current elected government seems to have taken the route of inflating away the debt.

Yeah, and it's not a pretty way to go with solving the debt problem. This will result in higher prices for everyone, destroying savings and hurting in result the private sector. "Just" to save the government.
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It seems like he made fair points about HTTP2. The presentation urges change as a topic, but fails to provide compelling arguments to do so. Nowhere in there did he imply it was worse, nor did he "overblow" anything...multiple slides imply this is highly questionable advice dependent on current tech. 41-42 say "check for yourself or do your own way that's best for you based on your server for which we don't know enough" - Most of the time it works as well as http1.1 - so great. I'll keep doing that.
Taiwan is estimated to have had a fertility rate of 1.1 in 2014, and that's up from 0.89 in 2010.