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I read in Fernand Braudele's "Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century Volume 1" that bread in many regions was only baked 2-3 times a year. Bread would grow mold or get that hard that people would chop it with an axe!
I suspect both, as well as time constraints and lack of an educational environment, are at work.

It's not impossible to learn, say, discrete math on your own. But it is sufficiently difficult that many who attempt will either fail or quit in frustration.
FWIW there's been a flurry of interesting torrents on the subject of food preservation and processing over the last couple of years.
Since there are no more upvote-points, we can't know how many people agree with the comment, so "this" are again required (or show alternative).
Refineries are making more money than ever despite the influx of oil supply, lower per barrel cost and slightly above average demand (although demand for oil is expected to be going down worldwide). [1]

California's 4 oil refiners control 78% of the state's gasoline-making capacity. When a refinery goes down for coincidental 'upgrades' or 'repairs', the cost to consumers skyrocket, keeping gas prices high while oil prices maybe rock bottom.

California refineries reaped an average of 49.3 cents on a gallon of gasoline from 1999 to 2014, according to the California Energy Commission. But this year, the average was around 88.8 cents (caused by refinery troubles) creating record breaking profits.

The U.S. hasn’t built a major new refinery since 1977 and many of the refineries do not run at full capacity. Why would they when that would just cut into their profits?

Keep the supply down and keep the prices high and you will have record breaking profits every year. Line the pockets of politicians and you'll be in business for a very long time.

ENRON 2.0

Graph of pump prices across the nation: http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/BT-AD814A_REFIN_9U...

[1] http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-gas-profits-20150722-s...
Only played New Vegas for 8 minutes? Please. This is obviously a fake.

:)
Design aside, the consistency is so bad with Gap jeans that you could try on three pairs in the same "size" and they'll all fit differently. It's simply not possible any more to expect off the rack clothing to fit perfectly the way you think it should. You just have to try something on before you buy it.
Could it be an alloy designed by Liquidmetal?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquidmetal
Yes people seem to have short memories these days. After 1929 it took a long time for people to think about investing in the stock market again.

What is probably more of an issue is that wide-scale bag holding will trigger new regulations that will make it much hard for startups to raise money in the future. Even if people want to invest it might prove impossible to raise money in practice.
Both of these are excellent projects to check out if you're interested in such things. And, bonus, the RISC-V folks have produced an open source, modern manufacturing process, 1GHz core that I hope is a game changer in open source hardware. It's not quite on par with ARM (lacking the billions in investment), but it's in the ballpark and it's the real deal. Definitely worth keeping up with.
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I'd be curious what google answer you find isn't already on StackOverflow :)
Isn't an LP just some person with a lot of cash but not enough cash to hire a VC firm..?

Wouldn't this just indicate that VC firms are charging too much for LP's to invest in a VC, or that there's some rich investors out there (LP's) who are willing to risk direct investments in small businesses, rather than investing blindly in the stock market?

Why would more direct LP investments indicate a peak in an "investment cycle"?
Fixing your link:

http://i.imgur.com/ncTIdHL.gifv

Using ".gifv" in the link sends a video instead of a gif, way smaller file size and higher quality animations are better for everyone.
Purchased... lemme check it out...
No question; But this is one of the coolest things I've seen on the internet yet.
It's probably not worth getting bogged down in the details when it comes to Pollan's polemics, but in my (admittedly limited) understanding the whole point of GoGurt is that it's less thick than ordinary yogurt, so you can suck it out of the tube...I'm having a hard time believing he's ever actually eaten a GoGurt.
Current research shows a link to the type of gut bacteria we carry around. http://www.bbc.com/news/health-23970219
The opposite of Snapchat launched today – Your life in a monthly magazine
I dont want to change the name honestly. We do own the .io domain for it but the name is really good and particularly fits the application. I think it's being squatted on by the owners of the now defunct company in Canada by the same name (appears to have ended ~2010)

It's definitely a risk to continue though because if it gains traction we may never be able to acquire the .com

Additionally, because of the way things are set up where anyone can just hold a domain indefinitely, basically there are barely ANY available .com domains now which sucks for people trying to create things.
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You didn't know that in Windows 10 until the news hit that disabling Cortana doesn't prevent that. Hell, I've never even seen Cortana since I'm in Dragon land (perhaps that's on the positive side for once) and I would've never thought the Start menu search isn't local only. Can I opt-out ? Nope. I can on Ubuntu, Android and iOS though.
I've been accused of elitism before on this subject.

Let me tell you about a person who did so. This person wanted to help the team design database schemas. This person did not have a background with strong computer science fundamentals and did not understand relational calculus. The person struggled to contribute, ultimately becoming a drag on the schema design process. When offered educational materials on the subject of relational calculus that would have addressed this lack of knowledge, using them was quickly given up as too difficult. This person was thus sharply limited, and extremely frustrated, by their lack of Undergraduate Computer Science fundamentals.

Your find-and-replace is only meaningful if you treat "Undergraduate Computer Science" as a string literal with no semantic meaning.

Elitist is not the same as wrong. Medical education is pretty elitist too. That doesn't mean I want to designate everyone who owns a knife as a surgeon. Should I find-and-replace your comment to the tune of s/elitist/populist/, on the assumption that elitism == bad and populism == good?

And before you say that we're just programmers and thus not dealing with life-critical things like doctors are, I refer you to the case of Therac-25.
I don't see any mention of where the author mitigates, or prevents the ABA problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABA_problem

- Some systems will use a double-CAS where one word is a counter.

- People lucky enough to use RCU can use grace-periods.

- You can also mitigate it (to a degree) using the bottom bits of the pointer and the kernel area of the pointer as a counter.

- Also, Hazard Pointers.
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That's because it's not the same. When my japanese wife has the same body temperature as mine, she has a (slight) fever.
Edit: Conversely, my body temperature when I have a slight fever would be considered serious.
Ah. I used thema lot when I was day-trading a couple years ago. Guess they've really gone downhill since. Only use them to place long term trades now.
I assume it means Limited Partner, though you're right, it should have been defined prior to its use in the article.
This article is quite interesting but I'm not too sure why the author felt the need for such a pedantic attitude toward the guy from the video. Its presumptuous without adding much to the discussion.
See comment below but basically I think it's owned by a now defunct Public Relations company in Canada (probably holding onto it for namesake).

I'm not going to choose a new name based on this. What I'm really getting at is the bigger picture of people being able to sit on domains and hold them hostage indefinitely AND be able to hide their identity. When someone buys a house or a building, it is public domain and they can't hide (in theory). Why isn't this the case for domains? Why is a private company like Domains By Proxy (GoDaddy) allowed to both hide the domain AND charge you to unhide it? That is the part that seems shady and definitely unethical to me.
I've been reading about Plan9 for a while. While I love the elegance of everything being a file addressable through the 9P protocol, I wonder about the feasibility of piping a "framebuffer" or other heavy process. Does someone know how the Plan9 holds, in this area, agains Unix in performance?
I've read that people think offering to many choices is confusing...

I agree though, unless you directly tie into another service direct sign-up is a must. And I still don't understand why OpenID had to die...
I used to hear a story, not sure if it was made up or not about Japan objecting to rossignol skis because, it was claimed, Japanese snow was not like European snow.

And apparently it was true[1]. It was claimed by an industry go up [Consumer Product Safety Association]. Some other equally comical claims was that Japanese stomachs were too small to consume American oranges...

[1]http://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive...
The classic Mac OS did not even have a command line interface, so people who began their programming careers in the Apple world between 1984 and 2001-2002 would only have had reason to learn how to use one out of curiosity, or if they happened to be doing cross-platform work with a Unix system. I had a wee bit of Apple II experience prior to the Macintosh, and I suppose you could call the various BBS interfaces I used a form of "command line", but for the most part I never touched a command line as we know it today until the late '90s when I started messing around with Linux and with shell accounts on the Internet.

While I've never been part of the Windows world myself, it has always seemed to me that the DOS command line plays a much smaller role there than the shell does in the Unix world. From '97 or so onward it has always been possible to buy a copy of Visual Studio and use it to build software without ever touching a command line, and I'm sure a great many people have done so.
This is a great point. My great-great-great grandmother lived in Martin County, Kentucky, most likely ate mostly cornbread and string beans in fatback her whole life, and never saw quinoa or kale so long as she lived before dying in childbirth. I'm not exactly sold on this as a model lifestyle.
The cycle of getting burned than getting burned again is shorter than you'd think. Just look at the housing market in some US regions. "Come on! Housing will never go down here!"

Apparently most people's memories don't even go back as far as 2008.
I'm not at all surprised at this based on my friends and I's experience with the medical profession. If we go in for anything more subtle than a broken leg, it's very difficult to get a busy doctor to pay attention to what you're telling them or send you for testing. It becomes so frustrating that you end up turning to the internet and trying things like food cures, just because it's all you can do. I'm gradually learning to be more assertive with the doctor, even going so far as to take my mom along for moral support (pretty embarrassed about that but sometimes that's what it takes). But I've given up plenty of times in the past when I had various kinds of muscle and tendon injuries that made it difficult to work. I usually ended up self treating with stretches, ice, expensive trips to physiotherapists and chiros, just on the wild guess that maybe they might be able to help when my doctor refuses to. I have no doubt that if I had any weird cancer-like symptoms I'd try to self-treat for a good long time before I bothered taking a day off work to see a doctor. Doctors suck.
>"Willingness to sext (and candor to discuss it) is probably just standing in for open and positive views on sex, and/or the presence of a vigorous and passionate sex life."

Totally!

Candidly; I sext a LOT. It IS a skill such as foreplay... I only mesh well with others who have the same propensity for sexting. Also - I am 40, and those with whom I sext are in my age range +/-5 years...

It is not a young thing by any means. It is also not a new thing.
Well for the time being, retail is likely going to be scarred from the correction in public markets that we are in the midst of.
Some already skip the VCs. But a good VC should not be brushed aside lightly - especially some with certain domain expertise. The best VC firms generate great returns fund after fund. Although, if you can't get into one of these prestigious funds, you might find it more advantageous to invest alongside them if possible, thus not investing in a lower tier fund.
From his web page: "My new game is about a character name Barb B. Queue"

It's enough that he's an amazing 10 year old programmer but he's also funny!
The concern is that the surgery would hurt you more than it helps.
Yes, a 30 second google search (which the author apparently didn't do) shows that the answer is "no".

http://www.quora.com/Do-Japanese-people-or-other-people-from...
Reflective satellites may be the future of high-end encryption
Kind of weird just taking the middle row of pixels. He mentions using a pano library at the bottom, so he could have just fed every frame into it instead of one row per frame and gotten a clear panorama instead of so much blurring and messes. The whole point of the pano library is to remove the dupe pixels, after all, something that didn't happen effectively with what he did.
I'm wondering how much this is skewed by playlists -- i.e. a popular song's stats are amplified by its inclusion on popular playlists and Spotify radio. It'd be fun to see if these stats would change if you included only songs that people actively seeked out.
NSA worried quantum computing will foil the cryptography protecting all data
I didn’t think that identifying the good bets was what YC was wanting to do? Sam mentioned a couple of days ago that if YC was doing their job right the median long term valuation of all YC companies should be 0 (i.e. more than half should fail). Unless you are able to invest in all YC companies, then as "dumb money" you are very likely to end up investing only in the duds.
However, FUSE implementations are actively maintained for all the BSDs and OS X as well.
I'll describe the robot I'm imagining. It requires power and a flat service (floorspace or bench). It makes an Indian curry in a large quantity and is managed by one operator who can probably handle 3-4 of these without breaking a sweat.

It has a large pot, a stirring method, and a few canisters above loaded with relevant ingredients. These arrive preprepared. Sliced onions, peeled and quartered potatoes, spice mixes, water, stock, yoghurt, pureed tomato, whatever. Each canister assesses weight. An app predicts demand (based on day of week) and instructs the operator as to the quantities required. He tips in the prepared onions, potatoes, etc - the required weight of each. The robot doesn't have to peel or chop anything. The ingredients arrive in bulk.

The machine is given the recipe (basically temperature graph and time to introduce each canister. Oil, stir, stir, onion, stir for x minutes, potatoes, protein and so on. Imagine a Thermomix that you can preload with ingredients.

The operator has loaded up one machine, then does another, and another. While waiting, he starts to prepare packaging. As machines finish and switch to warming mode, he serves portions to packages and loads the delivery method which has backed up to an open window/door nearby. The vehicle is like a post office mailbox wall with a warming method - it drives up to a house indicating the order is in a particular box. The recipient grabs their order and a server is notified.

The operator back in the "restaurant" wipes down the machines as required. The app calculating servings auto-places orders for replacement ingredients based on what was used.

If you have a sole driver, most of that could be built and solved now. We could make a set of warming drawers that sideload into a stock van. We could build an apparatus that sits above a giant Thermomix or KitchenAid-type appliance.

I think the keys to it all are not trying to solve the most difficult bits of each equation. IMO, those are: robots that can prepare ingredients, delivery from street to the front door, and a menu that includes things that are difficult to produce and serve en masse. This approach could still handle countless stir-fries, curries, soups, and a few salads (a Thermomix makes a half-decent coleslaw in 3 seconds - we do it all the time).
I use http://to/ for testing purposes. It has the shortest url and the the webpage consists of only 4 short lines of html.
I don't worry about people being turned off investing in startups. I think that would be a very good outcome, both for retail investors (they should be investing in broad indices, not picking individual sectors or stocks) and for the tech sector (less cash floating around = less talent being wasted at companies which would immediately shut down in less bubbly times).
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This actually happened in biotech in the last 15 years. Everyone bought into the promise of genomics and it all blew up (not genomics itself, but the idea you can make oodles of cash from it).

The biotech IPO window was almost closed from ~2000 to 2012-2013. Look at it now! Companies with nothing more than a promise raising $150M+ at IPO. I haven't kept track, but it wouldn't surprise me if close to 100 biotechs have IPOed in the last 2-3 years.
Curious why the article's title is "The LeBron James of Weightlifting" when the USA Weightlifting Exec was quoted as saying "The Michael Jordan of Weightlifting?"
I've always wanted to do this, neat.

I bet you could regularize the horizontal dimension by scaling each pixel's width proportional to velocity (say via an interpolated GPS tracklog). As-is everything is either oddly compressed or stretched, depending on how fast the train was moving at the time.
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What a ridiculous article. If you take the most cursory look you'll see that the Japanese have the same length of colons as non-Japanese. While the story itself is interesting, it's irritating that the author doesn't even bother looking at the science.
It's interesting that the new alloy was not recognized by XRF. In the video it looked like they had a large set of standards from which to build an empirical model. I don't know how likely it is that Apple created their own alloy, but I have experience with XRF analysis and I know it's easy to make mistakes preparing a sample. It's possible the tungsten came from the sandpaper used to remove the anodization layer or it might have been part of the anodization layer. Another tricky detail when analyzing materials is how the different elements adhere to the surface. The X-rays only see the atoms at the surface. If sanding the alloy removes more of a softer metal or smears it over the surface covering the other elements you may get inaccurate results.
> sending search terms typed into a search box to a search engine is pretty much what people expect. Ubuntu does it.

And Canonical has received a barrage of flak for it as a result. I outright stopped using Ubuntu as a result. Users expect the search box on their computer to search their own computer, not bombard them with ads.

> GNOME does it.

By default? Which distro? Last I checked, the GNOME search tool is limited to local objects. Maybe if you've explicitly integrated an online account, but I've yet to encounter that if that's the case.

> Android does it. iOS does it.

These systems aren't nearly as oriented around local file access, so the online-first approach for search (while I personally disagree with it) is not as jarring. Siri and Google Now are specifically marketed for online searches as well.

> OS X does it.

Again, by default? Because I've yet to actually see online results when searching for things in, say, Finder. Not that I wouldn't hold it above Apple to pull such shenanigans, of course; they love fucking over their users for the sake of a "more beautiful" (please) product.

> Windows is very nearly the last one to do it.

Hardly. None of the BSDs (that I know of) do it - even the desktop-oriented ones like PC-BSD. None of the KDE-based GNU/Linux distros (again, that I know of) do it - that category includes Kubuntu, openSUSE, and quite a few others. KDE itself certainly doesn't do it, nor do LXDE or Xfce, last I checked, and nor do the distros which use those particular DEs by default. I'm pretty sure none of the GNOME-based distros do it; in particular, I'd be very surprised if Debian stooped anywhere close to such a level of depravity.
The watercolor bot can do pressure.
Who is Schimmel?
Well you just added 10 years and an awful lot more poorly-worded, awkward morgue conversations to Andy's follow-up research!
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Good pano software takes, like, a minute to stitch say 10 photos together, sometimes requiring manual intervention. At 30 fps, it would take 180 times as long as the journey to complete the stitch. He'd expect the results sometime in 2018.
This looks familiar!
> Does shape matter for yogurt?

In this case, yes? Gogurt is full of sugar. Of course the same can be true for yogurt in tubs as well. I feel the straw-manning of Pollan's writing is usually achieved by taking what is meant to be general guidance, pretending it's quite specific and stringent, and then poking logical holes in it.

Generally, the more packaging and marketing that went into something to get you to buy it, the more horseshit you'll find in it too. Generally.
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No, I don't think that's the primary driver here. I personally believe:

1. There's a broader trend of LPs moving to invest directly in alternative asset classes. There are a number of reasons for this. FOMO is one in this particular market.

2. Because the market is so hot, folks are more interested in ground-floor (seed stage) investments that are harder to get exposure to in traditional venture funds.

You must also realize that optimizing these direct investments is a PITA. Newbie direct investors are going to learn a lot of harsh lessons when it comes to pro rata rights in this market, assuming they even ask for and get them.
Looks like the Liquidmetal alloys are zirconium-based, the XRF showed that it was an aluminium-based alloy. So, no.
"That shouldn't deter the scores of other cities in the U.S. and elsewhere considering their own plastic bag bans."

Actually that's exactly what it should do. Austin should also repeal its own ban, at least, in light of the evidence showing that it's ineffective.
That can conceivably be split across multiple datacenters in multiple countries - something which Microsoft almost certainly has access to.
gizmodo? not even once.
Thanks for that link - very interesting!
Ask HN: Why is Telegram Messenger not popular in US?
Comparing to Whatsapp, Telegram has awesome performance, when someone sends you message and you have installed in >2 devices they are instantly updated, If I open message from one another device shows it as read instantly, blazingly fast for me syncing two devices in such speed.

Why is the Telegram Messenger not popular in US?
~60-70Mln users are small comparing to Whatsapp, WeChat, Line, Kakao, Kik.
Quite interesting post. I feel that a lot of the numerical Pythonistas are in the same spot:

They tolerate most languages, but find R's syntax a bit unnatural, Matlab lacking when trying to go beyond pure matrix stuff, and are waiting to see if Julia picks up (which it seems to be from what I can tell)
https://i.instagram.com/prin_mcgui/