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Agreed. My skepty-sense goes off the moment I hear the word "superfood". Steven Novella on the idea:

First, the idea of “superfood” itself is not valid. There is no magical combination of nutrients that make a food into a “superfood” where it will start to have fabulous benefits. Food is just food. It also doesn’t really matter how you get your nutrients, as long as you get enough in reasonable proportions. The best way to accomplish this is to eat a variety of foods and make sure you get enough fruits and vegetables. This includes avoiding an excess of certain kinds of food and an excess of overall calories.

There is no “zone,” however, where proportion of nutrients turns food into anything other than food, that will boost your immune system (which itself is a problematic idea) or shift your metabolism into some sort of optimal state. There is no science behind any of these ideas, but they do sound satisfying to the scientifically illiterate. In short – there is no such thing as a “superfood.”

From http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/human-breast-mi...
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This reminds me of wisp:

https://github.com/Gozala/wisp
Just curious. What are the missing features in technical/programming ebooks in your opinion?
More than Toyotas...

"Geo models were manufactured by GM in joint ventures with three Japanese automakers. The Prizm was produced at the GM/Toyota joint-venture NUMMI assembly plant in Fremont, California, and the Metro and Tracker were produced at the GM/Suzuki joint-venture CAMI assembly plant in Ingersoll, Ontario. The exceptions, the Spectrum and Storm, were entirely manufactured by Isuzu in Japan. Geo Metro convertibles and early Geo Trackers were built by Suzuki in Japan."

Postscript: The NUMMI plant is now owned by Tesla.
Oh boy, this is going to kneecap CIA HUMINT ops overseas for many years to come.

Consider: you can't repudiate your fingerprints. So all the Chinese or Russian authorities need to do is to look for these fingerprints on folks entering the country and they can identify anyone with a US security clearance -- and in particular look for the other characteristics indicative of a CIA or other human intelligence operative. Such as, oh, a set of prints matching someone with a US security clearance attached to an authentic but definitely-not-in-the-same-name passport.

Spies are going to be so much a thing of the past ...
As the price of world class portfolio management approaches zero, the massive gap in investor sophistication between rich and poor diminishes.

Once the poor have access to this engine of wealth, the main issue becomes the paternalistic need to protect them from themselves... or put another way to declare morally acceptable risk characteristics of portfolios for those who might end up on social welfare.

So like motorcycle "helmet laws", we'll have classes of algorithms that are deemed acceptable and allow the non-rich to grow their wealth.

Our society still bows before investment oracles whose strategic investments seem to manufacture wealth... but now that human management is accurately viewed as inferior, the divide between rich and poor is less a matter of skill than a byproduct of paternalism.
Agreed, although I wonder how many companies like that will also want you to still have a lot of power to hurt them; in this case, I gather the original continued access was in good faith, but that changed to bad faith as soon as the old boss saw the pitch deck. In the long run of a court case it might be useful to show they were trying to entrap you by keeping the accounts open but removing access to various things or rights, but you've already lost big if you get there.

One more trick you can do, although I doubt it will help much in such a bad faith situation---but maybe do it with your lawyer for documentation---is to change your passwords to randomly generated ones that you don't retain. E.g. run pwgen and cut and paste the password into the change and confirmation fields. If with a lawyer or notary, put them in front of the screen at the right point and have them generate the new password and enter it in, and document that you didn't and couldn't see it.

And that will remove all temptation to touch the forbidden fruit. I've done that with a few forums where I really didn't want to continue joining in the ... discussions.
Amazingly, there is no easy way to define a type in C++ which can be "one of these or one of these", e.g. a sphere or a group in this case.

The author may have assumptions I'm missing here but the standard way to have a "one of these or one of these" thing is to have two classes inherent from a given abstract base class and use a pointer to the base class.

If one wants the device specifically as a type, one could wrap the base-pointer in a class.

Is there something I'm missing?
It's called "AdBlue": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_exhaust_fluid
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The word sinister used to mean left in Latin. You can still see that in things like optometry where the left eye is called Oculus Sinister. Seems like some sort of connection between left and evil is there for everyone in western culture at least, even if it started as something to do with religion

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/oculus+sinister
> So... just like Apple does every year

Difference being that Apple doesn't offer an extended return period for devices just because they released a new one. And why should they? It shows investors a lack of confidence in their products.

You sold us on the Time Steel just 6 months ago, and now it already might not be good enough to keep? Why not?
FWIW, minus the Burning Platform memo, it's entirely possible that we could still be looking at Nokia as a large player on the world stage.
It's to start a conversation. A good interviewer would probably say "okay, Mondays off for personal projects, good idea. What would you do on Tuesday?"
> software actually checks to see if it was in test mode, and altered emissions

I saw this reported, but also saw that it actually just looks for acceleration and steering conditions often found in testing scenarios. There was no mention of whether these conditions are also found in routine use of the vehicle. Not sure which is true.
From this article and every other article I've read, yes. It specifically detects when it is being tested versus normal road driving.
VW has also built a huge reputation on diesel. They go and win Le Mans with diesels. They have a giant budget and research ability. They've pushed diesel forward in a lot of ways.

Maybe the others knew they were cheating, I can't imagine that it wouldn't leak out some how. I also can't imagine how you wouldn't go buy a hundred VWs and meticulously take them apart and understand them after getting brutalized in the diesel market.

With mid-sized and heavy trucks, there is an entire subculture of guys that mod them for "more power" and such. There is a little industry built on it and nearly a religion surrounding the "better mileage" and "more power." Some of the systems and devices are sophisticated enough that they have integrated on/off switches for passing smog tests and such. If we really really cared about it, that would be illegal, there would be much more stringent emissions testing more frequently.

I'm of the belief that the regulators knew or suspected there was some cheating but it's political to make waves.
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And about 1/5th of the "I've strapped a toy can of dog food on my wrist" from the 360's thickness...
It's not feeding any fears.

It's telling us the simple fact that our food consists of plants and trees selected for taste and appearance. This article specifically is discussing how this has led to diminishing nutrition in those plants.

This is not controversial. A different article could have talked about the same issue but presented a different effect which is that nearly the entire banana crop in the world is at risk of being wiped out because we've pretty much eliminated any variety in order to get the sweetest and best looking bananas.
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E-ink readers are small and suited mostly to black-and-white paperback-sized novels or non-fiction. That still leaves an enormous number of books (perhaps the majority) that don't fit the paperback size such as illustrated children's book, or oversized books or...anything with a non-standard layout or larger than paperback-size. Plus, the lack of colour in e-ink readers remains a severe limitation.

E-books have taken their place alongside print but I don't think many people expected them to displace print books. Certainly not with the current crop of e-readers.
It doesn't use e-ink. It uses a Sharp Memory LCD (http://www.sharpmemorylcd.com). I think Pebble calls it e-paper because they promised e-ink in their first kickstarter but were unable to deliver on that. No one else calls it that. I assume a custom e-ink display was too expensive. The first Pebble used the same display as one of the early Nike watches, which made it a lot cheaper.
My understanding is that some companies like Google have special image comparison algorithms that allow them to store a hash of an image but still perform a likeness comparison of the image. This is useful when filtering out (and alerting authorities about) images where storing the original is illegal, but also catching images in different formats, different resolutions, or even with some extent of color changes to them.

While I would not consider it a simple problem, I would think that given enough resources something similar can be made for fingerprints. The problem is that, to my knowledge, nothing like this currently exists and you are not likely to get the needed budget approved for building it, especially in the land of government contracts.
except for, you know, the environmental damage.
For the record that is a very similar allocation to a Vanguard 2040 target fund.

https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/snapshot?FundId=0696&...

You might want to a) compare the price of betterment + those funds to the target fund and b) use that target fund as your benchmark.
> While this is, technically, just another memory leak...

I wouldn't consider it a memory leak* at all, the memory is not lost as it is in a leak, space leaks get cleaned up if they are evaluated before you exhaust memory. Memory leaks are not cleaned up until your process dies. I can cause a 1gb space leak 100k times and it will only ever use 1gb of memory. I cannot do that with a memory leak.

* the literal combination of "memory" and "leak" greatly imply the loss of the memory, as is generally what happens when you describe something as leaking; you lose it. additionally, wikipedia[0] seems to agree that the loss of memory is part of the definition.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_leak
Also discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8212984.
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It's not just that they have no incentive to pass on the savings, they actively do not want ebooks to become popular -- they've stated this outright at various points in their battles with Amazon, that their goal with ebook pricing/policies is to preserve their print business as much as possible, as they believe that's totally key to their future success.
If you're opposed to downloading these ebooks for free, you might consider getting an inexpensive used copy digitized.[0]

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After a long day of working in the garden, on my car or on a home improvement project, I like to relax in a hot bath with a good book. I'm not comfortable doing that with my Kindle.

I may not be the average book consumer but I buy a lot of books.
> You can't have the software allow violations of emissions limits because the driver wants to go faster at a particular point.

It depends on how the emissions are measured. They could be measured per RPM, per mile, per gallon, per pound transported, or by any of those over time, or some basket of utilization patterns modeled after real-world use.

If you slam the accelerator to the floor, the vehicle produces more emissions than if you'd continued along at a steady pace. Emissions control is a combination of active and passive systems, along with careful moderation of inputs to the engine. So it seems plausible that a complex, computer-controlled vehicle would optimize emissions vs performance by modifying many of the available variables in response to driving conditions.
> CloudFlare’s graph shows a 1.07 increase in IPv6 requests under iOS9:

I'm curious: is this written correctly? The number of IPv6 request did go up by 1.07%. But the way it's phrased I would think they'd be referring to the percentage compared to before... a 33% increase.

Is this one of those cases where English can be ambiguous? Or to be correct does it need to be changed to something like "CloudFlare’s graph shows an additional 1.07% of requests use IPv6 under iOS9"?
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What's the current law regarding resale of ebooks? Do I "own" them or am I merely licensing them?
Makes it convenient that the watch was never marketed, promoted, or sold as a sleep tracking aid...

That said, @_davidsmith 's new sleep tracking app for wOS2 is quite nice, and I found that his charging strategy does the trick - https://david-smith.org/blog/2015/09/21/how-to-wear-your-app...

I only needed 15-20 min in the morning and evening to get to all day usability.
The new Time Round has a two day battery life, FYI. Even more reason to not buy it.
Wasn't advising, just stating the facts: people are coming here from the Bay Area in droves.
The biggest one for me is that it is hard to read them on the typical < 6" e-reader or phone. Most of them are type-set for big, larger-than letter paperback formats. That means you need to have a second monitor to read them and look at code at the same time.

I thought about getting a Kindle DX when they were making them. Although even then, my copy of Code Complete is as big as a 19" monitor, when it is open and laid flat.
True that.

But the thousands of Kickstarter backers might have loved an option
I wonder why they didn't use Duktape[1]. It seems like the obvious choice for this kind of effort (e.g., if the 2 main Lua implementations have any counterpart in JS, it's probably Duktape).

It's possible that Duktape was still too early in its development to use when Nginx started this project, but even then it seems like they could have collaborated and saved a lot of man hours.

I wonder if there a good reason why Nginx didn't use Duktape, or could this be a case of NiH where some Nginx dev got excited about the opportunity to build a new superfast JavaScript implementation just for Nginx? Surely it would have been less work to integrate the two event loops and use Duktape's (well-documented) API to build whatever features they wanted?

That said, although I've built significant async programs in other languages, I've never done anything in C on this scale, so take my words with a grain of salt.

1. http://duktape.org/
The engineering team met the demands by cheating, which is not meeting the demands and is criminal. Being afraid to tell your boss it can't be done is not an excuse.
> I also think technical reference books (like programming guides) are best served in paper.

The iBooks extended format (the one with hierarchical pages and pop-out asides and embedded media and so forth) is amazing for reference books. I wish Apple had any desire to open it up and get other device manufacturers displaying it; it'd be the perfect replacement for the PDF manuals that ship with most things, while actually enhancing accessibility.
I haven't seen specific proof of this, other than describing the computer as detecting a lack of steering, etc. Conditions that could also describe the car idling or being driven in real world use cases. It would seem that this point is the crux of the accusation, so I find it odd that more detail hasn't been offered.
Got any links?

Google image search of "PRIVACY IS DEAD" + bus didn't turn up anything. Then I dropped the quotes and replaced dead with NSA, and got a bunch of bis pics with THANK YOU EDWARD SNOWDEN, so I don't think Google is part of this conspiracy.
Do people who wear those watches just wet their finger tips when washing their hands?
I didn't understand what 'hire' meant in this context.

I'm self-employed. I have use the services of a CPA to handle my bookkeeping, taxes, and invoices. She works for her own company, which is a partnership.

I've also paid designers to work on my web site(s). But they did the work through their own respective companies. They were not employees.

While I would use "hire" in the more general sense of "pay for someone's services" (eg, "hire a taxi"), this essay seems to use 'hire' only in the sense of 'When you take on an employee...'

Those are not the same.
During the actual outage this write up was about, didn't it go red?
In addition to being a beautiful design I like how NASA is making use of personas. As I've discovered in working with open data it isn't just developers who are interested.

In Michigan mappers, citizen activists and journalists are drawn to it in equal numbers with developers. Giving different views that allow them to get what they're looking for is very powerful.
Good luck, SV is what 4-5 times (if not more) larger than Copenhagen and consists of spotty urban, suburban, industrial areas, connected by high speed motorways and highways.
Thanks for posting my notes! Happy to answer any questions if anyone has any.

Also the recorded video of the class will be posted soon. Will share link once I get it.
Stupid elitist title.
False dichotomy. There are many variables at play and nutrition is not necessarily the loser on any particular selection choice.
But a lot thinner and presumably a far better battery life.

I'm not going to get the Pebble Round, but I'd be far more willing to strap one to my wrist than I would the Moto 360 monstrosity.
Woah, two days? I missed that in the description. Yep, not going to get one of those at all.
it should be noted that the french word for 'left', 'gauche', also has a negative connotation when used in other contexts.

and 'maladroit' comes from 'droit', which means 'right' in french.
This VW scandal has done everyone a big favour. There is a chance that air pollution by all cars - petrol and diesel - will be taken that bit more seriously in the future.

Anyone with the remotest interest in automobiles knows that petrol engine cat-converters do not work when cold, i.e. for the first fifteen minutes or so. Therefore all of those school runs and all of those trips to the local supermarket to pick up a few things are pollution nightmares for people with asthma. Nobody thinks this through to that conclusion, even though it is not rocket science.

The real evil with diesel is the ultra small particles that are too fine for one's lungs to cough up. This has not been addressed, again, it is just the way it is and someone else's problem - maybe that asthma sufferer.

This don't care attitude has history, our parents were quite happy to drive around pumping lead into the faces of children just because everyone did it. Maybe there can be a turning point here with car driving becoming the new smoking, with drivers made pariahs too.

As much as VW are a remarkable company in many ways with many highly desirable products, I do hope that the lawsuits keep on coming - total bankruptcy would be just desserts. I also hope for contagion with pretty much every other car maker also given a severe grilling.

As a product the car really is enemy number one as far as the environment is concerned. There is the noise, the danger, the wars for oil as well as the air pollution. Imagine how much our urban centres would be improved if every road had those rows and rows of tin boxes removed.

On a recent trip to the countryside I opened a local paper. Page after page concerned road accidents. It seemed that was all there was to report. We have got to move on from these horrible little tin boxes and the filth they spew as our lives depend on it.
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Well, TIL. My bad! And I just checked the battery life - only two days? Ugh. Guess I'll be holding off on smartwatches for a while yet still.
According to addons.mozilla.org, the number of Firefox users with ad blockers is much smaller:

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By reinstall I mean fdisk, dd if=/dev/zero
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Indeed; in other recent (last month or so) reports that others have mentioned in blog postings, indie e-book sales are skyrocketing. Anecdotally, a number of indie authors are reporting healthy and increasing sales.

And of course after the big five (and I suppose others) renegotiated their contracts with Amazon to agency pricing, to raise e-book prices above $10, often more than paperbacks and sometimes more than hardbacks (see other comments in this topic to that effect), their e-book sales, unit and revenue, took a substantial hit.
I'm on a work retreat in a beach house right now with several coworkers, all with different roles in the company. I can tell you with absolute certainty that the folks with iPhones do not know what IPv6 is or anything meaningful about it, while the folks that do know about IPv6 are all using either a Nexus or Samsung phone. That isn't to imply Android users are more technical, but you really can't draw conclusions like the one you have drawn. Being technical does not mean you're guaranteed to drive adoption either. Hell, a plurality of the seriously techy folks I know are more likely to not fuck around with it for the fact that they know shit's gonna break and that's just one more thing to debug before calling $BigTelco to piss and moan about service.
Obviously not, except for debugging. Scoring logic is most likely where the "secret sauce" of the thing they did is hidden.
That's a problem with the device more than anything. The ultimate e-book reader form-factor (that all the device manufacturers are gunning to eventually get to, with research into flexible e-ink et al) will look like nothing more than a laminated sheet of paper, and would be pretty much just as safe to get wet.
The key paragraph, located near the end of the article:

>A second reason for the delay in adopting modern automation is the effect on union jobs. Some have estimated that if the Port of Oakland were to implement a modern level of automation, 40–50% of the jobs would be eliminated.
Agreed. Once the accusations were made public and the stock price dipped, the optimal solution may involve the CEO stepping down... and likely goes a long way to appease regulators and deflect further scrutiny.
Does American copyright law really extend to Finland? (I assume few people sing the Finnish version in the US...)
This could make for an interesting Disney ride!
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The "2 days" battery life makes me reconsider. The Moto 360v2 can get nearly the same (not in ambient mode), but it has a better screen that you can even see in the dark... The only reason I would want to get a pebble vs the moto is that it has a longer battery life (a week or so?), but this thing gets only slightly better battery life, yet costs nearly the same, eh, to me it's just not worth it.
So wait, you're faulting Pebble for having a generous return policy, and praising Apple for not giving you any options? ...I don't get it.
But keep in mind it has to detect the test pretty early. Because non-test-mode emissions are 40x, it has to detect it well before 1/40th of the test is over or it will dominate the average.

You can see the test schedule at http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=457ac7ef4b94883cc2c.... It starts with 21 seconds of warm-up at zero speed, which is probably unusual for real drivers.
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