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which are active and in wide use?

didn't amazon buy out blazegraph? eg no more active open source effort?

md5/sha1 is useful because they're still used in UUID (rfc 4122) generation. obv not from a crypto standpoint but more from a unique (non-exploited) approach.

This is an interesting idea. If I want to personalize the urn to my company's uuid, would it be, urn:uuid:mycoid? can it be shorthanded to urn:mycoid?

are they stored as strings or 16byte blobs?

Byrne's has had an interesting life to say the least. I followed him years back when he was on a mission to fight naked short selling & steven cohen. What a trip. That said, if you've not read his speech about his fight with cancer, you owe it to yourself to do so. Probably one of the most inspiring things I've read to date. Tried to post in it's entirety but too long for the bots here so will just start with the intro (link follows).

Good evening, Heavy Hitters of the Pan-Massachusetts Challenge. I am deeply honored to speak to you this evening.

There is a Zen saying that happiness is planting a tree knowing that you will not be there to enjoy its shade. Tonight, I am thinking about the meaning of that saying in the context of cancer and cancer research that is supported by men and women such as yourselves.

Mr. Starr has asked me to speak to you about my own experience, my own struggle with cancer, a struggle which occupied the three years of my life immediately after college, as well as the three transcontinental bicycle rides which helped me to recover physically and mentally from my cancer ordeal. I do have a doctorate in philosophy from Stanford, which he mentioned, and he asked me to share with you all the philosophical and inspirational lessons I learned from these ordeals. I told him if I share all of the lessons, this is going to be a very short speech.

I should tell you that I've never spoken publicly about cancer, and only rarely privately, to a handful of friends. And to borrow a line from Oscar Wilde, I warn you that you would have to have a heart of stone to listen to the story of my struggle with cancer without laughing. I'll be laughing and you're welcome to join in at any occasion. Also, I should tell you that I've always declined requests to speak about cancer because I feel as though I’m boasting, “Hey look at me, I cheated death.” And in general that’s just a bad idea, because I think in the end, he will take the last round.

So with such caveats in place, per Billy's request, I will tell you my story of cancer, pausing to note such meager philosophical and inspirational lessons as I may.

Read more: http://cmkxunitedforum.proboards.com/thread/13175/patrick-by...

Hopefully I'm not the only one that thinks that prices for iphones are insane. I use a handful of apps (yelp, maps, mail, news, music, and (occasionally) browser) which are readily available on all phones. Paying $300 for my moto vs 700-1000 for an iphone is a no brainer..

had my first impossible burger this weekend. the patty itself was like 6oz and cost $15 just for the burger (no fries). i'm in NYC and even this is a bit high for the area. it was also sitting on a large bun topped with lettuce/tomorrow. the patty was overwhelmed. I thought it tasted just ok and would give it a C. The whopper patty tastes better IMO.

I think it's somewhat insidious in that it forces a confrontation between workers and customers and the benefit goes to the owners. it also gives the impression that the product (lets say food) is 20% less than what is printed. yes I u/d tipping is optional, but it is more or less expected (at least in nyc) and you can be ostracized if you don't participate.

I hope this doesn't come across as me trying to justify what happened but can anyone be explicitly about what laws were broken and who should have gone to jail? I know there was a bunch of outrage but want to cut through all that and get at exactly the issue.

The information was disseminated to all parties at the same time and they weren't in a "dark" period. I know several people are upset given their bet but I don't see this being any different than some headline in an AP release. If anything, twitter is more immediate to the masses and there's no middleman.

scientists tend to pursue these adventurists/esoteric opportunities to try and provide unique solutions that may have utility down the road.

there was a House episode where someone was diagnosed with naphthalene poisoning due to termites in the walls. so following occams beliefs, we could also have lots of termites in space too. ;-)

Are there mining algos that also help to solve real world problems (say gene mapping)? It seems that you could leverage some of the gamification happening here to better some social facet of society.

can you provide details on your setup?

this probably removes the AMT if you're making < 500k individual or 1M married, which, for us, was huge last year.

I use a wok, an oven thermometer to get it to the initial heat (~200F), and a wooden spoon to stir. I try and finish my roast by 9-12min.

You get a little bit of smoke but nothing like what I read online. That said, I don't generally roast to expresso dark but have roasted to 30-60sec past 2nd crack with no problems (happymug gives tips on how much to roast in their green bean profile).

We live in an apt and no one has ever complained. Also, it's not foul smelling at all. Generally just a little burnt coffee smell. The beans and grind, however, smell superb!!

started roasting our own coffee on the stove. best decision ever. takes about 10-15min 2x a week (1/2lb per roast). still experimenting with the 7lb sampler at happymug.

moccasmaster + baratza grinder

I'll note the original date for the 5k and 10k/week numbers were end of 2018 and 2020. Musk pushed it by 2yrs so "floundering" seems unfair here.

Are there any legitimate arguments for anti-net neutrality proponents? Or is it just more "republicans prefer less regulations"?

What's even more amazing is that F or GM couldn't possibly do this. First mover advantage plus the allure of someone like Musk is what is needed. I know many bash him for spreading himself too thin among all his other ambitions but it gives him good will capital (which can translate to economic capital) when needed.

I thought the same. These consumer "loans" along the way are a brilliant marketing tactics. Anyone know if this is refundable?

I too am curious how this is superior to electrical lines in a storm. The best I could come up was that the grid is now more distributed such that storms could take out some but not all systems. I suspect getting certain critical assets back online would necessarily be easier since additional nodes aren't necessary to interlink power from a central system. Can anyone provide other benefits?

I point to 2 things that puts the US as leader of the pack in the world.

1) English is spoken in lots of places (don't forget songs and movies are great propaganda). 2) The USD is recognized in a lot of place

I must have a lime since my nexus 5 randomly turns on the flashlight and goes into airplane mode sometimes. For the price, I'll bear with it but it's definitely not as polished (even the apps are UI-strange). Not sure I'd recommend it to anyone unless they are just looking to save money.

I'm seriously puzzled how reddit isn't eating facebook's lunch. the content is light years better (and is upstream for much of the facebook feeds I eventually see)

"...realize that the types of bugs that hold them back can be reduced by using a more powerful language."

I hear this a lot with FP but would love to see some real world examples of this if anyone has any links.

surprised the valuation is so low for a top 5 destination (per alexa).

even more amazing is that a lot of his [gates] fortune has been amassed as a result of one money manager after his departure from msoft.

I'd imagine this could work on a small fleet of miniature cars (rc size?). A model town/city could be built with various obstacles for training a large amount of the ai, I would think.