sengstrom

Not all topics instill a desire to comment even if they are cool. This may be something like that - nice work but don't have much to add...

Now I'm off to upvote :)

Yes. A simple assertion does little to convince me of anything.

I did an experiment when I was in my early twenties: I went to bed when tired and got up when I woke up. My time awake shifted an hour or two every day, soon moving my sleep time to fall squarely during day time. I functioned just fine with this schedule but the bad thing about it was it shifted me out of my social life - hard to keep that going when you are asleep when your friends are awake and vice versa.

I was offered a hotel discount if I posted a (good) review for the place. Just another source of biased commentary.

yup

I don't do twitter, but I have wondered what it would be to write or read a longer work composed within the limits of 140 character chunks - parceled out over time. It is not so much the size limitation on tweets as it is the disconnect between them that causes the dissolution of bigger ideas.

It is an odd definition of concave. It would make more sense to me to require that the line joining two points on the state's border does not cross in and out of the original state when determining the number of other states it crosses... This doesn't really capture concave as a geometric concept either but more aligned with the idea that it is a local property.

Ubuntu is moving to Mir instead of X11 - existing proprietary drivers will not work after the switch. It would benefit all parties if graphics support would not be a deal breaker for upgrading 14.04 which is when i think Canonical plans to support mainly Mir. From what I've read it seems that Canonical are actively working on getting this hardware support to work out by talking to vendors. Maybe this is part of that effort?

It is a push to allow Dropbox to publish the NSR numbers. It is also a public relations campaign. Uncertainty can hurt your business.

For one it is larger than 7373170279850.

"Even a two-year old iPhone 4 beat out the other Android devices,” Relan said. “You expect this from Apple’s design team, while others may view their responsiveness as good enough. Now we know why the Android touch keyboard is not as snappy."

They know why but don't bother to tell us in the article...

Organic vs. Mechanic is a false dichotomy. There is some latitude in how you define either of those terms, but I think you have to be rather extreme to put them in complete opposition.

Now in Bulgarian! http://agronet.bg/agro-news/interesni-novini/874-2009-02-09-... Tineye seems to be out of date, but google image search comes through with a wealth of copies out there.

This was my thought as well - how can you verify the fingerprint if you don't have a representation of it to compare to? Don't think there is much value just an internal comparison would have.

I don't think that is the main problem with that calculation. They assume to know the risk of failure over one year. Having three separate copies would allow you to estimate the risk as they do if they don't intend to monitor failures over shorter times than that (which would be a very very bad idea). Therefore the risk is actually much smaller since one would presume that they do something about it when the first hard drive fails...

As noted elsewhere this is hardly the only source of potential data loss however.

"This makes it possible to rigorously test our intuitions about trends like."

let me fix that for you

"This makes it possible to put numbers on our preconceived notions and play around with them."

It may be entertaining, but rigorous? I don't think so.

I don't think it takes hours to take the teeth out of HFT - just put in a delay one order of magnitude above the timescale it is operating on currently should be enough to neuter it.

Love the pretzel to illustrate "soft"

I usually sign "Chuck Norris" at the grocery store.

Not to promote botnets but it does benefit TOR to have more nodes operating... Involuntary recruiting?

They are expected to do it (bug), but not be found out.

Hmmm...

You attempted to reach tosdr.org, but instead you actually reached a server identifying itself as *.5apps.com. This may be caused by a misconfiguration on the server or by something more serious. An attacker on your network could be trying to get you to visit a fake (and potentially harmful) version of tosdr.org.

Good extension of that analogy :) The real issue isn't scraping the data (which is very hard to prevent unless you put in some sort of access control), but what you do with it once you have it. This is where I can sympathize with CL's complaint. It comes down to ownership of the information in a particular listing and whether you can prove that it is yours or not.

When I read site-wide I thought it would be progress bars reporting on time-demanding process initiated somewhere else on the site. Silly me - it is site wide as in across your screen...

Yes, but how does it arrive at the number it reports?

How do you even measure max capacity of the battery? Is it by keeping track of the current balance or is there some other direct physical way to do it?

Measuring once per minute seems like massive overkill for a property that changes on a timescale of months, but the interesting question to me is - does it do anything to the life of the battery?

Who invented "magnetic"? Hmmmm.

There is a science fiction story where there exists a network of anonymous listening "terminals" - supposedly anonymous for both listener and speaker (in the end not so much for the latter). Anybody here remember a title that describes that scenario?

I found it an engaging read with little clutter after I started scrolling...

Not knowing anything about Apple leadership in the first place I was struck by the male homogenity on that page.