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Okay, I can definitely agree that this issue shouldn't be tackled by him -- there's too much emotion linked to diet and people seem to think their behavioural changes consisting of recycling and saving water are enough. But he, as the richest man in the world, could just say that he's on a plant based diet (he's currently not).

I believe a lot of people would quit the luxurious flesh eating habits if someone as Bill Gates says he's a vegan and just states his reasons.

Yes, it would be a pretty hypocritical statement since he's probably having a bigger footprint than most of the people on the planet but still, he shouldn't force his meat-dairy-eggs culture onto the impoverished nations of Africa. He's doing exactly that, stating also that there are enormous health benefits to eating meat - being surely wrong.

From just energy perspective it's level-2 diet. Level-0 would be picking berries, trees, hunting animals etc., Level-1 is raising plants, level-2 is raising plants to raise animals.

From an energy perspective it is entirely irrational of him to support this in developing world.
TL;DR Weed and alcohol in moderation are both fine. Alcohol in excess is far worse in the short-term.

Grandparent sounds like they might not be a drinker. Fair enough, I have no issue with that, but - as you point out - there is a whole world between being teetotal and being drunk. The stereotype (which, yes, also goes for weed) is that one swig of a drink turns you into a staggering, vomiting wreck. In actuality, the mast majority of drinking (that I have experience of, anyway) is in moderation, with a meal, and results in a pleasant relaxed feeling which is totally unlike being drunk.

Weed, actually, is different - again, IME - in that the effects aren't quite so wide-ranging. Now, I've not experimented with really strong strains/forms, nor smoked an insane amount in one sitting, but a small amount has a very pleasant effect, and - for me - a greater amount doesn't really change it that much. I prefer to smoke in moderation, have a great time, and spend as little as possible.

I have never done anything I've regretted under the influence of marijuana, nor have I injured myself, embarrassed myself in public, or woken up the next day feeling even slightly bad, let alone like I want to stay in bed for a week. Apart from the legal status (here in the UK), MJ is a far superior drug in every way.
I've often thought that it would be great if someone provided a storage-unit-as-a-service. Send me a box that I can pack full of winter gear and send back, for example. Then send it back to me next winter, and I'll send in my summer stuff. Seems like shipping is still too expensive to make something like that work, esp when you start looking at things like ladders and lawnmowers and snowblowers.
So what you are saying is basically that you are not doing your market research properly, instead depending on irrelevant anecdata?
Hello! :)

a) We will release it to the first group of alpha testers in couple of weeks from now. This will be couple of weeks, not couple of months.

b) We're going the Haskell route - we allow for non-total functions, and we will extend Luna's type-checker to understand as much as possible. In fact we treat type level very similar to the value-level, very similar to the type of types - level, etc, so there could be functions evaluated at compile-time and they could cause infinite loop. Please note that although we design Luna in order to be fully dependent type language, the compiler just hit the alpha stage and there is much more work to be done in this field.

c) The standard AST is really very extensible. In fact every term that belongs to AST is just different data type. We've written a library in Haskell that allows handling open sum types using all the type-level machinery to help it be bullet-proof. Luna will incorporate a library that allows you to change and manipulate the AST from within a language - something like TemplateHaskell, but without the stage restriction known from GHC. This is not available at the moment though. I doubt though you will ever need to extend the AST using a plugin, because it allows to express really wide logic, however I'm very interesting what idea do you have in your mind here! :)
A wonderful quip I picked up from a teacher couple might help on invites: "Presence Not Presents". The absence of "no" makes it easier to accept socially, I suspect.
The main perk is not getting bumped off an overbooked flight. I have to say I share your hatred of United, but I hate American more ever since they put me on the SSSS list [1] for having a round the world ticket. Morons - don’t they know the world is flat.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_Security_Screening_S...
>Honestly, it's crazy this isn't true for all governments and businesses

I'm pretty sure my entire firm would rise up and put management's heads on pikes if our frequent flier miles were taken away. Points are one of the few joys in life that we consultants are afforded.
I'd add that this is all too common with data/analytics startups I've seen. I've seen instances where the first thing they asked you to do is link your Google Analytics account. No privacy/data security policy worth speaking of, no info on the team, nothing.

For anyone who deals with this data (analytics, financial, etc.) for their company, particularly if it isn't of the "two guys in a garage with no real revenue" variety, we take data super seriously. I could lose my job (or worse, get sued) if I was negligent in handing out sensitive company data in a way that put the company at risk (let alone actually caused monetary damage to the business).

A clear privacy policy, details on the team and information about where the HQ is located (so I can make sure they are in my legal jurisdiction should it ever come to that) are the absolute minimum IMHO.
Ask HN: I'm about to vest stock options – I don't want them. What do I do?
I'm coming up on a year at my job, so I'll be vesting my first 25% of options. Since I wasn't given the total number of shares (to say nothing of preferences) when I received the agreement, I'm not sure how I'm even supposed to evaluate their worth. Therefore, I don't be buying any of them.

How does this process work? I am afraid of being asked if I want to buy them, and having to come up with an answer that makes it sound like I'm a "team player". But, I don't consider lottery tickets a good investment, especially if I don't even know the theoretical value!
Hopefully some of the tax revenue is going into research on marijuana as well, if we hadn't basically banned research on this substance for so long we'd have more data. However, can't the officer give a field sobriety test if they suspect the citizen is high? What would they do if someone took too many xanax or went on a drive while on ambien?

While I understand why a "highness-measuring" device would be nice, I think this underlies a sore point in our policing and governing. It's not enough for the officer to make a judgement on whether the citizen is too impaired to drive, we must have a quantitative measurement. I think both a subjective judgement and any one quantitative measurement can overlook a ton of factors, but one is better at negating legal repercussions.
>I know people who do a lot of crazy routings to stay with their preferred carriers. As you suggest, it's not necessarily about spending more money but taking a less direct route.

That generally doesn't work anymore. Almost all airlines now use a revenue model for milage awards, not distance.
Stop writing specs, start finding needs
> That said, there isn't much we can do other than wait for Google to fix it.

IE. "Cloud ops"
> since when do you NEED to spend less than 30% of your take home on rent to survive?

Yeah, that's the same question every scumbag landlord in America started asking themselves a few years ago when demand for rental units started going up.

You don't "need" to spend less than 30% of takehome on rent. If you assume you're going to be running in a treadmill your whole life, and you're satisfied working for subsistence only, then sure, go for it, blow half (or more) of your paycheck on rent. Lots of people in San Francisco and other expensive cities do this.

If you have life goals that don't involve being stapled to a desk forever, it's probably not such a good idea.
It's not. I haven't come across any software that relied on it.
Do you mean first-world problems? I don't see what race has to do with frequent flier programs.
ZNGA's market cap was 10x in 2012, when they bought the location for the 340/sq foot mentioned in the article. They occupied 65% of the building, which is a good capacity to be at if you're planning on growing.

Regarding buy vs. rent, I think at the time it made sense, if they were planning on sticking around for 5+ years, given the price per square foot they paid and the fact that they would fill up the entire space.
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I would categorize data tooling as a moving target - we have some, it's never enough, it probably won't ever be enough. It's a moving target (p.s. obligatory we're hiring!).

I think this Quora post does a good job of redshift vs. bigquery: https://www.quora.com/How-good-is-Googles-BigQuery-as-compar...

More generally speaking, (excuse me for being a little hand-wavey here) many of the AWS offerings feel like polished, managed versions of familiar tools. Redshift, for example, feels a bit like "hey we figured out how to abstract away a bunch of mysql instances to feel like a big processing cluster". That's not a bad thing, necessarily. The google stuff feels much more intentional - "we need to solve the problem of doing these sorts of queries at scale" vs. "we need to solve the problem of scaling mysql to solve these types of queries"

Maybe they're just better at abstraction, but whatever - that works for me!
That was a fairly naive perspective you had. Capitalism, money, and strong puritan morals are at the very heart of America's culture (that is changing, slowly).

Of course it was going to get picked up by companies and exploited for every penny its worth. Of course there are going to be sensational moral debates that spiral out of control and detract from the issue.

This isn't the Netherlands. And since when did one country's policies blindly apply to another?
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Not only that, but most people in this thread are STILL missing the multiple elephants in the room.

First, Rust allows unsafe code in the core language [not simply through FFI as in other safe languages]. So there's a gaping hole that we know will be abused (performance! performance!) right there. Even if we grant
that this is not the case, here is the deal breaker:

The Rust approach to security depends on an ecosystem that follows the same approach. To think that this is more than an utopic dream is to enter cuckoo-land in my opinion. So we digress back to the castles-built-on-top-of-sand.

There's millions of lines of code written in unsafe languages plus all mainstream operating systems. The Rust approach will never work in this sort of environment.

An approach that might work however is unikernels and using a language that promotes design with failures in mind [and makes it extremely easy to rapidly rearchitect/rebuild/redeploy]. Erlang is the best example in my view, but there could be more.

Alas, Rust is not really suitable for this either due to its static nature.
So, Apple? They are sitting on cash.
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Sure thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Citizens_Redistrict...
Just as an FYI if you are going to cross the bay bridge you should not get on the freeway before the turn. You should drive down regular streets and get on the freeway on 2nd street. If you're coming from the peninsula there are exits before potero hill you could take. I shave off 30+ minutes from my commute this way.
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There is a paper from IMF, whose authors are current Reserve Bank of India Governor - Raghuram Rajan and India's Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramaniam about How Charity does not work.

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2005/wp05126.pdf
"Fomer CEO of company that installs backdoors,
critizes company that refuses to install backdoors."

Proprietary Back Doors
Here are examples of demonstrated back doors in proprietary software.
http://www.gnu.org/proprietary/proprietary-back-doors.en.htm...
>"They worry that the burgeoning marijuana industry, like alcohol and tobacco before it, could eventually use its profits to gain clout and subvert attempts at regulation."

Or they worry about corporations being corporations, but put the onus on citizens. Maybe the problem isn't with our citizens, but with our laws? Maybe corporations shouldn't be able to use an unlimited amount of profits to affect laws and regulation, but no mention of that in the article.
Really? Never in my life have I ever bought a tool except when I had a specific need to use it. I can say with 100% confidence that I have used every single tool I own at least one time.
They need a warrant to draw blood and really can only get one if you injured someone or destroyed their car.

http://www.larryformanlaw.com/blog/can-the-police-take-my-bl...
My approach to answering this comes down to a very simple phrase that explains my political beliefs succinctly "my rights begin where your rights end."

I don't think anyone has any problem with people wanting to adhere to their faith. The problem they have is with people of faith demand that someone else, who is otherwise "following the rules" do something that inconveniences them because of beliefs they don't share and probably don't agree with. I've had vegan friends who choose not to eat meals with me because I am a meat enthusiast. I'm fine with that and with their life choices. But if we're dining together and they begin dictating to me what I can and cannot eat on the menu, you can expect that I'll be aggravated and won't comply.

It's wrong to ask someone else to accommodate your faith for you, especially when them accommodating might just as well fly in the face of their own, personal, convictions. Now, if this person attempted to purchase a second seat next to them and had that seat filled by another passenger, then I can understand them asking if they could be moved elsewhere. But if they're refused, the only remaining choice is to politely get off the plane and wait for a flight that you can be accommodated on. It's not "standing in the aisle and holding up the flight for 15 minutes". That person's religious convictions just ended up aggravating every passenger of that flight.
I think Python is a dead language walking at this point. It was big enough that momentum will keep it going for a while, but that's more a case of dying slowly than living long.
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Check out this webisode what do you think?

https://youtu.be/bNVvghMms2M
Babun seems to solve none of the issues that the original commenter mentioned.

Awful fonts, worse rendering, crappy copy/paste, limited
size, no split screen or tabs

The screenshots on the Babun site show the same 90s-era looking shell container. ConEmu looks to have more features, but is similarly stuck in the Win-98 design aesthetic.
Yes, I understand your advocacy position. My goal was different.

When I saw the title and comment I wondered what the bug was - was it something I should worry about for my projects? How serious is it? Is it something that should get me to move away from Firefox?

It took some reading of the bug report thread to figure out what was going on.

My summary was for other HN readers who, like myself, might want that precis before diving in, either to ignore the topic or to really jump into it.
That headline is saying it's the global appeal that's weird - not the 'something'.
Where'd you hear that?

Not without risk of giving an argument from authority, your sources are inaccurate. As late as November of last year Snapchat was on stage talking about their broad AppEngine use. (I work on Google Cloud).
> I don't understand how my colleagues put up with the terrible trifecta of mathematica, matlab, and labview

In my experience, it seems to happen because those are the tools taught to science and engineering students, who then take them to the workforce (post-doc, industry, etc.). Those entering academia then use them for instruction, rinse & repeat, just like you describe.

For what its worth, I've tried very hard to move folks I work with from MATLAB to Python.
Eclipse still has problems, its refactoring doesn't really work, and the UI locks up every so often, but its compiler is substantially more reliable than IntelliJ's. It's a case of picking your poison really.
Well if such a situation comes up I just won't ask :p The only point of this thread is that it's not unusual to talk about large purchases when it might affect another person, especially when the other person is your spouse.
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> Sigh. This is incorrect. Pi does not give the "nothing up my sleeve" property, because if I have a desired bit sequence in mind, I can find it in Pi, then retroactively claim that because it comes from Pi it wasn't "up my sleeve". Specifically, the methodology of transforming the its of Pi into the desired key was "up my sleeve".

Pi has not been proven to be normal, so you can't be completely sure that you could always find any particularly long (backdoored) sequence.
> The #1 perk any frequent flier will tell you matters the most is having competent people who pick up the phone instantly during IRROPS (e.g. weather/flight problems). Simply using this once a year trivially pays for itself by putting you so far ahead of the regular queue I still get amazed sometimes.

I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but I get better service than you even when I don't have status. I can and do rebook my flights on my phone, with my preferred routing and timing before the rush for seats begin as other people go try and call someone or god forbid, walk up to a desk and stand in line to do it in person.

No status needed. Delta's app will definitely automatically recognize a delayed or diverted flight and allow you to rebook. It even allows you to browse flights to alternate destinations, so I have totally switched from a plane going arriving at OAK to one arriving at SFO while taxing at SLC.

Oh, I also regularly switch to better seats in the days before my flight. I switched from middle to window on my flight leaving tomorrow this morning and moved up seven rows on the return flight, all without needing to make a phone call.
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Part of it is timing, part cost. If you can fill a building and plan to be there for a while, generally it pays to buy it rather than rent it. (The renter generally charges a premium to short term borrowers) For financial accounting/engineering purposes (not wanting to show liabilities) firms may do long term leases.

This is why it pays for companies like Apple to own their headquarters.

Overbuilding the HQ is a classic sign of hubris, similar to putting your name on a stadium. (Look to Lehman and Bear Stearns for the former, Enron and 3com for the latter)
You hear a voice in your head when you're reading, right?
You can also just pay the $100 fee for Global Entry, which is good for ten years. $10/yr is a pretty slim benefit.
The old App Engine / API / Admin console era is over. All tasks have been migrated to https://console.cloud.google.com/ including some of the last App Engine specific administration things.
the author of this article argues in favor of GMO on the basis of certain short term material benefits provided by them. he does not refute anything that I imagine Taleb might have conceivably presented as an argument in favor of his version of an anti-GMO stance based on the precautionary principle.

this gives me the impression the author of this piece has not read or has not understood Taleb's style of argumentation and general philosophy with respect to black swan events, risk evaluation, and fragility/anti-fragility.

if I might be permitted, briefly, to act as a surrogate for Taleb in this case I will try to present my interpretation of a Talebian argument against GMOs. this is not necessarily my position but I believe it is the argument the original author _should_ have addressed.

Taleb would note that unintended consequences can have outsize impact on the world in ways that are not easy to anticipate and that our statistical and inferential models generally fail to account for due to the limitations of the underlying mathematics and the philosophy by which those models are interpreted.

In his working paper Taleb refers to several possible "black swan" risks that could have catastrophic consequences if they do occur, and under Taleb's method of evaluating risk we must account for the fact that anything that is possible will eventually occur, so even low probability events must be accounted for if they have enormous impact when they do occur. It only needs to occur once, after all.

The outsize risks Taleb discusses in his paper are the following: catastrophic ecological damage due to GMO vulnerability to specific pathogens, catastrophic ecological damage due to transgenic transfer of accidentally deleterious sequences to other species in the environment, catastrophic ecological damage due to unforeseen consequences that simply cannot be anticipated through rational, inferential models.

Note that his primary concern is that GMO crops present a potential risk of catastrophic ecological damage. That is the agricultural equivalent of global nuclear war. It is an unacceptable outcome under any circumstances and it cannot be recovered from if it does occur.

This is the basis of Taleb's criticism. He seems to be willing to forego the short term economic upside of using GMO crops as a price of avoiding the catastrophe scenario. The author of the reason.com piece slurs Taleb and calls him an "alarmist" but I don't think that is a fair or accurate characterization. Taleb is simply doing risk assessment in the way he knows how. Perhaps the rest of us should be alarmed that we remain naive and ignorant about how to perform risk assessment around events with potentially catastrophic outcomes. We seem to be especially prone to avoiding this type of risk assessment when it concludes that we SHOULD NOT seek short term material gain. And yet, that is what Taleb's method advises in this case and he is once again receiving a lot of pushback because of it.
And in my experience, a Sepultura tshirt did wonders for not getting picked for jury service.
The problem (I suffer from it as well), is that people naturally feel that the corporate offerings from Google will mirror the experience that they have with the consumer offerings from Google. And the big issue with Google's consumer offerings is that they seem to have limited to no support and that there is a very real chance that Google will just shut them down all of a sudden. This is the exact opposite of what you want in the enterprise space, where Service & Stability are paramount. Even though I know that Google's corporate offerings are treated differently, that little niggling doubt remains. Plus, Google really needs to hire some damn marketing experts to sell the features & benefits of their offerings and make them cohesive - they just have their stuff plastered everywhere.
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One thing that is ignored is that you can't be sure that a lottery isn't rigged. We've seen cases (Serbia) where lotteries were rigged, so it's very possible that someone with enough money could rig your entropy source.