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They haven’t announced anything like that - they’re just using LiDAR rigs to validate data from their vision based approach, particularly distance. It actually even mentions something about it at the bottom of the article you referenced.
Re:Fat-fueled brain: unnatural or advantageous? on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @01:57PM (#12599777)
There are some great resources on the keto subreddit (reddit.com/r/keto). I personally had similar issues when I first started keto - several times a week i found i had to be conscious of my electrolyte intake and would supplement with broth and often almond milk (potassium). However 6 months in I've found it's less of an issue, even at lower electrolyte intake, but I'm not sure why. I never found the need to hit the super high recommendations on /r/keto though - I found that 4,000 - 5,000 mg per day was more than enough, and I'd get heart palpitations and muscle cramps generally under 2,500 / day. You'll see a lot of people on /r/keto saying you _have_ to hit 7k+ a day, and people who drink salted water all day - personally, I think that's overkill.
Re:Fat-fueled brain: unnatural or advantageous? on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @11:20AM (#12598345)
Yup - and it's got a lot of potassium too! Definitely a keto staple for me.
Re:Machine Learning and Ketosis on Saturday August 13, 2016 @08:42AM (#12281238)
Unsweetened Almond Milk is also an awesome source of both sodium and potassium - a staple for me while doing Keto.
Re:AWS Application Load Balancer on Thursday August 11, 2016 @11:01AM (#12268742)
They finally added support for websockets! Really looking forward to giving this a try with Phoenix.
Yup. I've been doing a ketogenic diet the past 6 weeks and it's pretty awesome.
Re:A Haskell Reading List on Sunday May 01, 2016 @01:06PM (#11606918)
I'm reading Haskell Programming from First Principals right now it's just awesome. I've gone through a couple books on Haskell before this, and it's by far the best. Can't recommend it enough!
Re:Microsoft Acquires Xamarin on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @02:11PM (#11169303)
Congrats to Nat and Miguel! This seems to make a ton of sense, and unlike other acquisitions by big corps this seems like a great move for both Xamarin and their customers.
Curious what you see out there that's higher performance and lower cost than AWS? In my experience it's been a great fit for small apps all the way up to large complicated applications at scale - and once your infrastructure is large enough you're buying reserved instances anyway at anywhere between a 33% and 70% discount.
Re:Red Hat is buying Ansible on Friday October 16, 2015 @09:36AM (#10399120)
I don't think that's necessarily true - both Puppet and Chef are Ruby, and you'll often hear Ruby referred to as the "lingua franca" of DevOps.
Re:Amazon Aurora Now Available on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @03:04PM (#9963790)
Here's the point in the keynote where he starts talking about it - really interesting stuff! https://youtu.be/0rPpCnFE-hU?t=33m34s
Re:Amazon Aurora Now Available on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @09:38AM (#9961342)
So the way Werner Vogels explained it at the AWS Summit in NYC recently, Aurora is built from scratch and is MySQL compatible, but it is not a fork. He mentioned that they broke it down into components which are each built on pre-existing AWS services - for example, the storage layer just DynamoDB which I thought was really interesting.
Re:AWS Service Catalog on Thursday July 09, 2015 @12:54PM (#9859113)
Nah - I happen to be at the AWS summit in NYC today and submitted a few things as I saw them announced. I use AWS heavily, but don't work for AWS or anything. I'm sure there's plenty of upvotes coming from other folks at the conference like myself.
Re:Does Amazon Web Services Pricing Follow Moore's Law? on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @10:40AM (#9138195)
Whoops - totally missed that assumption!
Re:Does Amazon Web Services Pricing Follow Moore's Law? on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @10:29AM (#9138124)
Quick comment on the comparison of AWS cost to DIY cost - for AWS costs you're using the on demand pricing for 3 years and comparing it to the cost of buying hardware over 3 years. If you're going to be running instances for 3 years you're probably going to be using reserved instances - in the case of m3.medium instances the rate drops from $0.070 / hour to $0.0261 / hour.

So, with the 3 year reserved pricing your total cost ends up being something like $411,544 - less than half the cost of the referenced $880,000 hardware purchase price.

Re:Metaprogramming Elixir on Thursday February 05, 2015 @10:23AM (#9003634)
I bought the ebook last weekend and I have to say that Chris has done a really great job here. For anyone looking to get deeper into Elixir, this is a great read - can't recommend it enough!
Re:Show HN: Bond – A Swift binding framework on Friday January 30, 2015 @11:15AM (#8972694)
This looks really great - especially the simplicity of all of it - great work!
I don't think so either. The impression I get is that this covers retention policies for communications incidentally acquired during intelligence operations. A (perhaps poor) example might be, a raid on safehouse that yields hard drive that contains email records, where some of those emails are unrelated communications with a US citizen - it sounds like records like that would now be destroyed after 5 years if there is no specified need to keep them. Sound right?
Yup. Also, this bill actually passed the house in May of this year.

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