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I have a feeling the country was at least 2% racists in a few low population states in 1964 when the twenty fourth amendment was passed to get rid of the poll tax. If you think the current system is bad, pass an amendment and fix it.
We messed around with bowtie - it seems like most of these are optimized for the number of alignments being small (i.e. close to 1). Unfortunately, the number of matches for a 20 base guide on the human genome is closer to 1000.
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Storage is cheap. Backup is easy (if you trust the cloud).

Keep as many TB local storage as you need (a non pro should probably be fine with a few TB for stills of you cull the imports of near-duplicates and OOF shots etc). Spinning disks cost next to nothing and are good enough.

Then, if you want, use one or more means of local protection, such as mirrored local disks or sync to a NAS, preferably at a remote location to protect against theft and fire but local is ok if you must. If you trust your backup service and you have a very good internet connection you could skip this step and just use a few TB of local storage.

Last and most importantly: have a proper backup. syncing to a copy isn't backup. A backup from which you can restore any file from history, after you corrupt it or accidentally delete it (you will do this, and it will happen many more times than you suffer from a disk malfunction or burglary). Even your own carefully crafted backup solution will fail. So plan for that too (by using a 3rd party service too).

There are several very cheap providers of unlimited backup of this kind, for example CrashPlan. Regardless of whether I used proper backup to a remote storage, I'd still make sure to also backup to a cloud service, or even backup both the PC and the NAS to the same service (at no extra cost if it's an unlimited service such as the CrashPlan 10 computer family plan).
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He's promotion quinoa as a rice replacement. I approve of the sentiment that rice is shitty and quinoa (I love quinoa cus-cus) is better, but it has nothing to do at all with the article itself.
No, it returns an integer. ECMAScript doesn't officially have a distinct integer type, but the number returned will still be an integer. Incidentally, most JavaScript implementations actually do have an internal integer representation, even though typeof will still just say it's a number.
The proliferation of mobile devices and the convergence of mobile and traditional end user operating systems is solving this one. Android and Windows 8.1 both have the ability to mark an arbitrary WiFi network as metered, and many core services as well as third party apps will happily discriminate between unlimited WiFi and metered WiFi/cellular connections.
I am trying to point out that your attempts to sound reasonable were, from the start, undermined by your stating that while the distinction between immediate and indirect deaths caused by nuclear accidents might be debatable, you were going to enter that debate from the start by positioning anybody who thought there wasn't really much difference as an ignorant fearmonger.

So yeah, you kinda headed off the prospect of civil discourse a bit there...
Interestingly, Elon Musk has a story about a McLaren that's almost exactly the same.
I’ll say upfront that I’m a Product Manager at Treasure Data, and we market to Data Scientists. Specifically to enable you to perform analysis on large datasets, directly from your local machine. More generally, Treasure Data enables the collection, storage & analytics of large-scale event data.

For performing preliminary analytics, I’ll agree with what the previous respondents have said - iPython Notebook is a GREAT tool. It’s certainly my go to. The libraries I think of using when working within this context are as follows:

The go-to packages:
> http://ggplot2.org/ (R)
> http://matplotlib.org/ (Python)

Graph visualizations:
> http://gephi.github.io/
> http://neo4j.com/

Online dashboards:
> https://github.com/stitchfix/pyxley (<- I’m particularly excited to try this out)
> http://bokeh.pydata.org/

Of course, the challenge is you don’t have a static dataset! New data is continuously coming in. Your dataset is growling larger all the time. It may be too large to fit on your local machine.

That’s why Treasure Data was founded, to enable the easy collection of, and analytics on, this type of data stream. Treasure enables complete removal of the engineering & devops for these collection & storage steps.

For example:
> Want a continuously updated dashboard of your incoming data? = Treasure Data + Jupiter Notebooks + Pyxley
> Want to perform graph visualizations on event data? = Treasure Data + Jupiter Notebooks + Neo4J
> Want to create visualizations in R? = Treasure Data + R + ggplot

The above is enabled through Treasure Data’s integration with Pandas & R. (http://docs.treasuredata.com/articles/jupyter-pandas).

Good luck in your work!
Google is a patent troll: http://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligenc...
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As a Brit, personally, I reckon it's because the train system lost the ball significantly last century.

Train tickets now are often more than the cost of petrol to drive across the country. So if you'd spend more on a train ticket, why not drive?

Sometimes it even cheaper to get a flight from Glasgow to London than it is to get the train.

To get a ticket, a week in advance, to go from Carlisle (where I live) to London costs roughly 120 pounds (that's 180 USD, ish).

It's crazy expensive, and the benefit really isn't there any more.

Goods wise, trains could / should have taken the same kind of approach that the shipping industry did, with containers.

If our company (live events A/V stuff, mainly) is doing an event down south, we should be able to call a train company, have them deliver a container (or pick up one that we own) at our warehouse on a flat bed truck, we load it, they take it to the train station, it get craned on, and then we minibus down there the next day and have it delivered to the location. But no, it's easier and cheaper for us to run our own bunch of trucks.

If there was a service like that, we'd use it.
I agree. Money is my motivation, but not in and of itself. I am motivated to acquire money because it is necessary for me to live, enjoy myself, and also create more achievements that are personally gratifying but also ideally feed back into the cycle.
I ran into at least 1 error page on AMZN that day and their availability is captured as 100%.
To the government is one thing, you have to report all income to the government over a certain threshold. If you are a corporation trying to buy votes, then your finical dealings are highly private.*

*Citizens United v. FEC
Oh that's how I cook it. I prefer the texture, I didn't realise it had any other benefits.
Good heavens, Fixedsys as a webfont.
True, but I shudder at the thought of having to manage msbuild files by hand without the help of Visual Studio.
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Google on "great oxygen catastrophe" and prepare for an eye-opening experience.

(Note that neither Mars nor Venus have active plate tectonics. The surface of Venus melts every couple of hundred million years due to trapped heat, while Mars has no magnetosphere to speak of ...)
The problem with Tegel is, that they neither built the second terminal ring nor the subway station. And there is no room for another runway.
Even more straightforward still to hire a Mechanical Turk to read your email to you over the phone, and there's no risk of viruses capable of VM breakout!
Are they enough like us be incapable of sustaining a space program?
A patent troll is one who abuses such patents - not one who only files for them.

If Google is to be believed, they file and desire to buy these sort of patents to prevent patent trolls from trolling with said patents.

Google has promised (and so far has kept this promise) to only use patents defensively. A patent troll uses patents offensively by filing for absurd patents and then enforcing their right to the patented thing.

Given their history, I have less concern for Google being awarded these patents then a possible patent troll filing for the same patents but choosing to use them offensively.
Happens. Glad you're back up and running, and best of luck with your new setup. =)
We went for smaller stakes by doing Euro 2012.
I live in one of the hosting cities and it's easy to tell a lot of construction work was half-arsed and never finished (mainly roads). There is also not enough traffic to make the big stadium close to profitable but hey, that's another opportunity for the town to transfer some money to local football club (a lot of our politicians are connected to football structures).

It would be funny if it wasn't sad. No wonder people avoid paying taxes when they see the money being wasted all around and citizens not ever asked about new crazy idea to build with it.
We already have an expensive aquapark, huge stadium and two airports though. I wonder what's next for a town with a population of 600k in one of the poorest EU countries.
The only thing that the text of the Constitution compels is the first sentence: "neither a state nor the federal government may set up a church." That's a narrow, literal reading of the text, but it's a totally reasonable one.

So, to apply your reasoning, why shouldn't we fire the justices who decided Everson v. Board for contravening the Constitution by adding a bunch of things to the establishment clause that aren't in the text?
I agree with Crockford too. It's Microsoft, Eich & co that pushed the class syntax based on ideas that originated in TypeScript.

I am very grateful to Crockford for the "Good Parts" book and JS5 - I like that lean approach.
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Continuum are great benefactors in the Python community. With the explosion of "data science" in the last few years, I'm very hopeful that Python will keep holding its ground against the plethora of domain-specific languages that pop up, and Continuum are a big part of that.
Probably it's heading toward where niche ecosystem/platform is today: Haskell, Erlang. But with less uptake because the similar audiences/users of those platforms are less likely to touch Microsoft... (even if they're reaching cross-platforms)
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Yes, the .NET SDK had a command line compiler so theoretically, it could compile .cs files for free. However, nobody used it for serious Windows Forms GUI type of work. Realistically, corporations and hobbyists had to buy VS Studio to write non-trivial apps. On the other hand, people were writing Java GUI apps with free tools. Eclipse was free back in 2001 before .NET 1.0 was released.

The only common use case I remember for the free C# command line compiler was to type in exercises from C# tutorials.

Also, even if compiling C# source code was free, the execution stack for the NET runtime was not free. MS Windows operating system licenses and MS SQL Server cost money. In comparison, Linux and MySQL were free. The different costs for deployment affected social dynamics as well.
The last one I remember was Karger et al's paper on lessons they learned building Caernarvon smartcard OS for EAL7 security. They mentioned in the paper they chose the IBM tools for static analysis, etc because they were free for internal use. So, I'm trying to figure out (a) if that's IBM tools in general, (b) who it applies to, and (c) how much.

If tools were available, I'd certainly consider Rational's modeling, testing, and cross-platform features as worth due consideration. :)
If the planet is not transiting there are two other ways to detect it: radial velocity measurements, and direct imaging. In the radial velocity technique you measure the wobble of the star due to the gravitational pull of the planet. This also requires that the planet be somewhat edge-on, but the requirement isn't nearly as strict as with the transit method. The difficulty is that Earth size planets have very little mass, and so impart a very small wobble to the star, on the order of only ~10 cm / s.

In the second method, you just try to block as much light from the star as you can and go look for the reflected light of the planet. This is much, much more difficult and so far has only been done for very large, distant planets.
I predict that VR for "live" music and sports events is going to be huge. I would (did) not spend $200 to see the Stones. But I would spend $25 for a good VR version of the live concert. I would not spend $1000 for a season ticket for the Pirates, but I'd spend $100 for a VR season ticket.
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At least 1/2 the blame is on them. No excuse not to have jr dev completely busy. That's incompetent management on their part.
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What do you think artificial means? Here, I'll help you:

"made or produced by human beings rather than occurring naturally"

Artificial may be considered a proper subset of "natural", but what humans do is different enough from what the rest of nature does that it's useful to distinguish between those things that exist because we humans put our effort into making them exist and those things that exist without our help. Cities are in the former category.
Well, he is right, JavaScript is a Prototype based language which is technically more powerful than a class based one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype-based_programming
In that case I can vouch for Max because of personal knowledge and for you to a lesser extent by association :-)
Nice article!

Wondering why a custom built solution was such a pain to maintain to the author - he mentions updates, but once you have a working system, no real reason to update unless there is a feature or security issue that needs to be addressed.
I'd like to see a source for that. Early government was religious in nature (Many kings were considered gods). What is your solution? Change the name? I can agree with that as long as 'married' people don't get any benefits that unmarried people do not.
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If they are capturing only 500 status code and not soft failures (which might be amazon's case), that could explain 100% availability.
The flexibility of prototypical inheritance is one of JavaScript's greatest assets. JavaScript: The Good Parts includes several different approaches to OOP which prototypes make possible.

`class` just picks one and pretends the rest never existed.
I don't doubt that they are friendly but honestly that's irrelevant to most people. The problem is, while they may be friendly, nearly all of them will want to pickup and drop off in the same location because they know it's harder to pickup outside of Manhattan.

This doesn't happen with Uber's model.

Also, I'm paying for a ride somewhere. The top priority for me is not sitting in hot, smelly, filth. I'll stick with Uber.
I had a bigger, older cousin when I was a kid. He was awesome. He showed me his Playboys and taught me how to shoot.

On a serious note, I'm looking forward to the discovery of a smaller cousin. That seems to me to be more promising for life: Stuff in water oceans won't sink as readily, so will be able to absorb more sunlight. Avian species will find life easier going (predicated on a suitably dense atmosphere). Any advanced civilizations will have an easier time getting out of its gravity well, and so on.
"the benefit really isn't there any more."

Going from city centre to city centre on business I find trains to be much more pleasant than flying or driving - even going to London from here in Edinburgh is worth it - the trip is fairly scenic (e.g. going through Durham) and not that much longer than flying.

Mind you - I agree it's not a cheap option!
My mother worked on some of this stuff back in the 1950s (though I think not at BRL). She wrote surface-to-surface missile trajectory simulations in octal. She thought it was great when she got an assembler.

First thing in the morning they ran a memory test. If the memory failed, they would slide out the failing tray of memory, slide in a new tray, and keep running while a technician diagnosed the failing tray of memory. A tray was perhaps 2 feet square, and contained 100 words of (36 bit) memory.

She complained to me about these "dumb physicists" who couldn't understand that changing a constant took 10 minutes, but changing an equation took all day. Note well: These people she's calling dumb are literally rocket scientists.

The most mind-blowing thing she told me: One of the early CPUs she worked on, you could change the instruction set with patch cords.
Per my parent comment, comparing AWS networking functionality to Google's is Apples-to-Oranges.
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Does anyone use this except when absolutely necessary in libraries like with retrolambda? Anyone on HN write ever use bytecode manipulation in their apps?
>Goods wise, trains could / should have taken the same kind of approach that the shipping industry did, with containers.

In the US, containers are transferred from ships directly to trains. A train may have hundreds of cars, each single, double, or triple stacked with standard shipping containers.
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I am really curious about video content in VR. How does it work? Obviously a 360 degree camera lets you look around the scene arbitrarily, but you're still locked to whatever position the camera was at. Moving within the scene requires 3D rendering, which isn't nearly on the level of actual film. So, what gives?
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It isn't difficult to connect the external world to an otherwise external sensory deprived VR environment, either with external cameras or smart overlays. I suspect Facebook may try something similar to how Steam functions within games.
Even if your initial strategy is less sound, if you can (and are willing to) update it faster, you can still win (so long as your initial strategy wasn't too horrible).
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Showing/hiding the button or changing its state for the current tab seems so comparatively painful to do with a Firefox addon (versus Chrome's declarativeContent API) that the fork is no better than using the bookmarklet which does this, at the moment.
Or more tersely:

myMethod = arg => this.value + arg;
Before airline deregulation in the US, when routes and schedules and fares were regulated, I often found myself on nearly empty flights. After deregulation, when airlines were free to set routes, schedules and fares, the flights are nearly always packed.

Looks like the same situation with British trains.

I also recall back in the 70s when the DOE regulated which gas stations got how much gas to sell. The result was a patchwork of gluts and shortages across the US. That ended immediately when Reagan abolished those regulations.
If you have tons of TBs, you don't want to care about random failure with some third party. Amazon S3 has the reputation that they never lost a file, AFAIK. On their scale that provides an argument to just fork over the cash and forget about it.

While I think ZFS is great, it's just not a solution for really large storage.

Also, if you are still using s3cmd, that only tells me how inexperienced you are.
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This article is a perfect example of this: http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-poisoned-n...

The author was able to take an off by one error which allowed writing a single null byte all the way to full code execution. These guys are unbelievably good at what they do, and as you state, you can pretty much assume that any vulnerability is exploitable with sufficient effort and skill.
Exactly! Sadly many misunderstand JavaScript and don't even know or misunderstand prototype-based inheritance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype-based_programming

Lua is another well know language that has prototype-based inheritance.
Also google cardboard and all those other "put your smartphone in and watch 360° videos"-things
But from the point of view of a phonon, the solid is indistinguishable from a vacuum. What distinguishes the 'real' vacuum from what the phonon sees?

Why is what we call 'the universe' necessarily primal? Maybe it is 'vibrating solids' all the way down. If there is something primal, then what are its characteristics that allows what we see as the vacuum to emerge?
Sounds like you Brits need to learn a few things from the Germans about trains ...
I think VR is going to end up being an intellectual holocaust if it keeps going the direction it is going, people designing the technologies seem to view it as a way to keep the "inferior" contained in a world that caters to their every emotional desire.

Just look at all the porn and gaming comments..

Augmented Reality is the real way to go, VR simulations have their time and place - but this technology is nothing more than an overinflated dream from 80's sci fi.
What does 99% even mean? I don't care personally if the data isn't available for 4 hours; I do care if it is not available ever again.
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Would anyone familiar with the various qualities of FPGA boards care to weigh in on how to pick a good development board for this project? I personally know nothing about FPGA specs.

Additionally, the first blog post in this series can be found at http://labs.domipheus.com/blog/designing-a-cpu-in-vhdl-part-...
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Can you show me the equivalent java code? I would guess it's 200 lines of java or more. I would much rather spend the time to learn what that's doing than reading 200 lines of java.
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Would you be able to foresee the existence of something like Uber back when you were using your Nokia phone (10+ years ago)? We can't imagine what VR technology will be used for.
Using your own software for development is one thing, but building a production SaaS by mooching off other divisions probably isn't sustainable.
The website was created more than two years ago... today I'd do things differently. But that's on the TODO list for when I have too much time ;)
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Interestingly they used a similar approach at Berlin Tegel airport, with the current terminal building opened in 1975 (which is supposed to be closed down after the airport featured here is ready).
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for proportion, studying that planet and its sun is like trying to observe a flea orbiting a ping pong ball floating in space as far away as the moon...
I've seen a teller exactly once in the last 17 years and that one was only because I had to. I'd prefer the place which is fully automated
Not having those technologies but being captivated by the possibilities enabled by their existence is essentially what motivates many scientists. Instead of looking at it like a harsh reality, look at it like a grand challenge for yourself to be amongst those who contribute to their development (or provide the building blocks for later generations who do).
Choosing anything other than the best option is irrational. Why would I choose second best over best? It's not really a choice, just a word game to rationalize disturbing facts.