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Well, we do have an environmental aspect of meat. Good that it works for him, but meat is _not_ sustainable, and the little meat that can be said to be sustainable is not scalable.
In the main, I agree: They got caught napping and didn't keep up so that's their own fault.

That being said up until a few months ago, I didnt't read papers or watch the news on TV since it's all stage-managed nonsense but I decided to take out a FT weekend subscription after buying one on a whim one day.

I must say it was very enjoyable reading a newspaper with quality stories and no fluff or click-bait titles and so on.

I don't consider tabloids to be anything other than literary fast-food for the masses but I am thoroughly enjoying reading my FT on a Saturday and Sunday morning with a cup of tea.

Oh, it's only about £10 a month too.
The New York Times also does this and it feels dirty.

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> application written in language like Ruby on Rails

Come on, MIT, you can do better!
> Although a large organization like the Globe will be able to negotiate better rates.

Or aggregate each customer's monthly payments into one larger charge, like Google used to do for Play Store purchases. From memory they waited until you'd reached something like $8 and then charged that in one transaction.
> People already seem to prefer to interact with a brand using Twitter than the phone.

Do you think they prefer to use Twitter because of the conversational UI? I've always thought it was because Twitter is public, so brands respond to complaints quickly out of fear that they will look bad otherwise.
Does it? And after that?
Would have been nice if they posted some of the output of the RNG's as well as the results from some tests on the randomness of the output like Die hard[1]:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diehard_tests
We have two cats and pondered about this long time ago. The best resource we found was the BBC documentary: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04lcqvq also has an e-book http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4Hbdn6T21hKDH6bfVBk...
You may be thinking of "implementation-defined behavior" which is not exactly the same as "undefined behavior".
I wish expiring credit card numbers existed to kill this sort of online quasi-scam (let's call it what it is).

I'd like to say, "$0.99 a week for 4 weeks? Cool, here's a temporary number that expires in exactly one month. Please cut my subscription off after then."

Of course, I suspect that the benefit of the entrenched system in the US for everyone but consumers will guarantee that this will be really difficult to accomplish in reality.
> The course content of the Chemical Engineering courses at Stanford are almost certainly identical to the Chemical Engineering courses at San Jose State.

Even if we accept that Stanford's teaching staff, resources, and student peer-groups are complete non-factors, it is extremely unlikely the content is the same. Both because schools differ on how they supplement that content (adding more & where they provide additional attention) and general quality of laboratories ect.

So even if they use the exact same books depending on how granular you define "content", I think we can say San Jose (or many universities) are difficult to compare directly. While I wouldn't put it as rudely as parent, Stanford has a reputation for putting out high quality engineers, although that is irrelevent to the point, which is that you certainly can't say general content guidelines map to "certainly identical" experience...
Ask HN: How do you find a mentor?
I think, the role of a mentor in our life is understated and another issue is finding a suitable mentor.

One can learn things on their own (after job/school) but a mentor can help you narrow down the things you want to learn and supervise your journey.

Please note I am not talking about spoon feeding but someone who helps accelerate your learning.
Yup, I made more friends in one year as a music major than the following four as a computer science major :)
They probably use the email address of the registrant of the domain name as the sign-up address for their own website.
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Sounds like cars.
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How would you rate the rest of the experience?
An idea floated around the time of their very first courses was that they'd double as a recruiter, like Stockfighter now (by my vague impression of both). I wonder what happened to that.
One good thing is that the number of "your generation's music vs my generation's" debates will vanish.

Hell, I'm having trouble figuring out what teenagers are listening to today. Radio will not tell you that. Apps like hypemachine may tell you what's popular on blogs, but I can't figure out a pattern. It's like there has been an explosion of artists and I can't understand the music landscape.
I thought about turning this into a hardware startup. GPS stickers for anything like bikes, guitars etc. Energy consumption was the big issue. Didn't pursue it further because of that.
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Theranos most valuable service to me was that they've shown me what a small man I really am, considering that I enjoy reading about their failure much more than reading about someone else's successes.
drug studies (or medtech) might not need to be peer-reviewed, but their underlining principles / entity / mechanism are peer-reviewed as scientific discovery. T is totally not the case. in fact its claim for using tiny amount of blood for medical diagnostics and its clinical results are disputed and questioned by comparing to its peers in peer-reviewed journals.
I don't know why, but if it is speed and visibility as you suggest, a chat bot hooked up to Twitter would be a really valuable asset to a business.
Keep in mind that the compiler doesn't always know whether code is undefined or not. Is x+y at risk of overflow? Maybe, depending on some logic in a separate compilation unit.

So what your asking is to define behavior for all code, such that the compiler can prove locally that's it's well-defined. That's not a crazy idea, and a lot of languages do that.

But C counts itself as special, for better or worse.

I think we really just need more alternatives. There's C++, Rust, Ada, and not much else. I am very hopeful about rust.
Visual studio has the vsvim plugin for vim emulation - for me it was quite a changing experience.

I took a while to learn, but totally worth it.
I knew Mozilla was working on it, and at some point abandoned the process, but I wasn't aware they had picked it up again. Thanks for the pointer!
I'd include Apple on that list. Sure, the company was founded a long time ago; but for practical purposes you might as well consider that Apple 1.0 (the computer company) died and Apple 2.0 (the iGadget company) launched in 2001.
You could hook it up with a dyno that attaches to the bottom bracket with the gps sitting in the down tube. Cycling would charge it. Also checkout lock8.me . They made a smart lock instead which makes a lot of sense.
Well, I have used IDEs for a big part of my life, but for all my personal projects I tend to end up in (spac)emacs. My personal projects are all written in scheme, and that is probably a big reason why. For work we have a freepascal code base that is a couple of million lines. My biggest personal project is about 20k lines of chicken scheme.

I really miss my home environment when I am editing code, but thinking of navigating such a huge pascal codebase makes me think twice.
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I feel like this has become less and less true in engineering and software in the past decade. A portfolio of projects with varying complexity speaks equally or more about your ability to code or build things. Google and other companies have come out and said they haven't found strong correlations between degrees (with GPA measurement included) and being a better engineer.

> 'college dropout' featured in nearly every early article. It became something of a compliment after a bit though and helped them stand out somehow.

'Standing out' is irrelevant in this context unless your business is entirely based on you being a famous figure in the press. Gates and Jobs are famous because of the incredible companies they built, not the other way around. The press needed to paint a story, so they went with the college dropout narrative. However their success, and the success of every company/founder is entirely independent of founder social validation.
Find someone who you think you'd like to be mentored by and ask. Obviously you need a bit of realism (Mark Zuckerberg isn't going to mentor you), and it helps to have an existing relationship on some level, but seriously, you just have to make the first move.
Nice, but doesn't work if they require confirmation.

Me, I use Chaos Computer Club's https://anonbox.net/ :)

Accounts are created on the fly, and last just 24hr.
It's very beneficial in society to have lots of friends and know lots of people. Unfortunately the default mode of making friends is very extroverted and thus the usual advice is as well. Just chat up someone...that is not something that a decent chunk of the population is comfortable with.

I haven't read the science but I'm a bit skeptical about the claims. As an introvert I'm often uncomfortable in mid-size+ social gatherings and need to recharge afterwards (with a good book for example). The article claims health benefits form having friends and seems to imply that making more friends is the way to go. I very much prefer deepening existing friendships. Being around very good friends is sometimes exhausting as well. I'd be very interested if the claimed health benefits have been tested on groups that were split into intorverted/extroverted. I often feel like these "self help by making more friends" articles are very biased towards the extroverted mode of living.
CC companies would never go for that. But an independant like Apple might be able to with their temporary CC number system that they have already.
If they'd operated with even the slightest veneer of humility, and if the whole thing had not turned out to be such a house of cards, then you probably would not have such intense feelings of schadenfreude. I think it's pretty normal to feel some pleasure at the misery of others when those others have made themselves out to be such Paragons of Virtue, Captains of Industry, Movers and Shakers of 21st Century Health, and whatnot, and turn out to completely full of it.

And, just to make sure it's clear that I'm not exaggerating, we're talking about a company whose founder literally received something called the Horatio Alger Award last year:

She was the youngest person ever to be awarded
the Horatio Alger Award in recognition of
“remarkable achievements accomplished through
honesty, hard work, self-reliance and
perseverance over adversity.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/30/business/the-narrative-fra...
iCloud is ridiculously broken, and if you've ever tried to develop for it, you know its API is grossly lacking.

But Apple has always refused to learn. They persist in regressive and amateur-hour policies, like this one: http://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2012/06/forcing-people-to-use...
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Yes, and Finland for example has consistently lost. The problem is that in practice these court decisions only end up benefiting the individuals bringing the suits, as it's almost impossible for public workers to get fired here they can safely ignore those decisions in most cases.
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I'd place the date for Apple 1.0's death at December 20, 1996, but agree with you 100% on the iGadget part. http://www.cnet.com/news/apple-acquires-next-jobs/
Why did you define both negate and (-)?
That's one of the things that's mentioned in the paper: don't seed one bit at the time. Moral of this discussion (not of the paper) is that you should regularly reseed, but only when you can completely replace the seed with entropy, and don't worry about making users wait for randomness because it makes you look interesting.
Nice idea. I might turn that in to a Chrome extension.
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> the devs working on some project and the people who care about that project.

Those two aren't mutually exclusive. Toyota employees in the US probably still care about the cars they're working on. I can verify that the Finnish employees at Microsoft do great work (e: and care about it), despite being 4700 miles away from Redmond.
I wonder how much the friction of signing up factors in. It may be that there are lots who would pay $1/month, but the friction of going through an onerous signup processes fraught with these dark patterns, giving out your CC number etc, means they just google up another source. For the subset of people people who are motivated enough to over that signup hump, the price elasticity curve may be different.

We really need some zero-friction mini-(if not micro) payments solution. I'm imagining a Paypal subscription button that's as frictionless as a Like button (on both subscribe and unsubscribe). Click once to pay $1 for access, without even leaving the page (no logins or signups). Unsubscribe is just a single click away, with no hidden cancellation periods. I love the idea of flattr, but only someone like PayPal has the existing userbase to get any adoption. They also have a balance feature to reduce CC processing fees.
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Since they looked at the top 150 public companies, the revenues are most likely sourced by company's' annual or quarterly filings.
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I don't care about religion or sexual preferences either, to me it was just surprising that 2 brothers actually feel that they are a woman, something you don't hear everyday but is entirely possible. And I thought maybe this is hackernews worthy because the Wachowski's are maybe some hacker's heroes.
I don't think technology will revolutionize education the way everyone in Silicon Valley thinks it will.

Accessibility issues, yes.

Disrupting traditional teaching, learning, practicing....hmmm?
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This lady is no Lebron James. More like Darko Milicic.
eFax in Europe also does that.
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The only feasible technology to remove carbon from our atmosphere is burning biomass with capture and sequestration of the resulting CO2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BECCS
Right, I was taking the release of the iPod as the date that Apple 2.0 launched; we can certainly say that Apple 1.0 died five years earlier and it existed as a zombie company for five years.
She wore black turtlenecks ffs. If that's not hubris then I don't know what is.
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How is this any different than Google, Facebook, etc.?
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> I wish expiring credit card numbers existed

Many banks actually offer exactly this feature. You set a dollar limit and an expiry date. E.g. Bank of America ShopSafe: https://www.bankofamerica.com/privacy/accounts-cards/shopsaf... My Swedish bank offers the same thing and even has an app to generate card #s
We do this all the time. If you are paying us then enjoy your clean, nice experience. If you aren't paying us then fuck you.
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>Is Mark Zuckerberg or Patrick Collison considered computer scientists?

No.
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True, though by leaving a bad last impression I'm less likely to restart my subscription later and less likely to recommend your service to others. I guess if you work out the relative values, you can still decide this way is the most profitable for your business and that's fine.

A good example from my own experience was freelancer.com. Their account closing procedure was so bad that now I won't open another one.
Anonbox's SSL cert isn't working in Google Chrome for me, so I'll plug a similar service that I use and like: http://10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/index.html

No affiliation, just enjoy the utility.
I mentioned before PC in my comment to your comment right? You are still going on about PCs; I was not referring to PCs but rather MSX, CPC, Amiga etc. They had distinct RAM & VRAM (in the case of the MSX the cool machines had 128kb-256kb RAM & 128kb VRAM and you could not map one to the other => it was really different memory) and when you used text input screens you were wasting 112kb of memory if you didn't do this. The memory was slower to access from the CPU but it was much much faster than disks.

Not confused, just not talking about PCs in general (although I have heard cases of this happening there but that might be just indeed demo groups); I still do this on those old computers today for hobby purposes (the last work I did was somewhere end 90s on a legacy system which counted on video memory and which had to be ported so I had to remove & test that 'feature') ; there just isn't another way to get memory if you don't want to cheat (and solder in 1024kb).

Edit: I don't know if it was used in practice because there were so many different VGA cards, but [1] shows that it was common to have 256kb on a card which, depending on the era, was significant. And like said above, for business applications in text based environments (screen 0) you can use a large portion of video memory for storage while you still see something. But I can see the issue there; with other computers we didn't have that issue as you could trust a certain amount to be there for sure.

[1] http://www.osdever.net/FreeVGA/vga/vgamem.htm#detect
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Happy to see that they are doing so well. I was so excited when I joined (one of) their first class(es), A.I. At the time I was still a university student and had a hard time going to class, seeing how far technology was ahead of our teaching methods. Learning online is a much better method for me.
eFax does it everywhere. I paid $0.99 to send a fax and ended up with two monthly statements for $16.99 that were not refundable. It's disgusting and it should be illegal.
privacy.com offers this.
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Wow, look at this huge list for how to cancel from these kinds of sites:

https://www.truebill.com/how-to-cancel

That's pretty awesome. I'm just going to check this list from now on before I put my credit card info into a web form.
> There is no suggestion that any of the cars tested broke the law on emissions limits or used any cheat devices.

Since all these cars passed the laboratory test, that means there must be something very wrong with the test and the way the standards are enforced. Or all car makers do cheat.
What's the endgame? Theranos spends the next five years burning a billion VC dollars and then goes bankrupt?
I feel it's a failed graft. MOOC cannot play nice enough with current education system without causing too much interferences, hence the no parternships.
I think that it is grossly democratic. Everyone is on the same playing field.

And anyway the whole registering to vote thing is undemocratic. You have valid citizen id - you show and vote, and that is it. In Europe where everyone has government issued id card the system works fine.
At my local university, there is a salsa dancing group that meets every week, and goes on outings to clubs regularly. There seem to be 4 girls for every guy. The guys have to timeshare across different girls, and of course girls end up dancing with each other much of the time.
What they mean is: the seafloor is raised up by the process of plate tectonics over millions of years. Sounds less catchy though.
This link points to the "structure" graphs instead of the "adoption" graphs. It shows some unnecessarily difficult-to-interpret graphs about the structure of pages served with and without HTTP/2.

The fact that the graphs are going dramatically up and to the right is a consequence of the fact that they are cumulative graphs. Keep in mind that none of these axes represent time.

I believe the link was supposed to be http://isthewebhttp2yet.com/measurements/adoption.html .
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>Kernel CSPRNGs do need continually updated entropy pools. But not because their original entropy is depleted! Rather: you want your RNG to be updated so that its "key" changes regularly, so that if your system is compromised transiently, you'll recover.

It's very unlikely that a compromise will be temporary. This situation "transient compromise" will never happen. Moreover, once a system is compromised, by definition you cannot trust it until replacing it from a known-good source or backup, at which point, you just start the CSRNG with new entropy.

No system should need or even attempt to recover from a transient compromise, you are just causing a false feeling of security.
> but not really outright dishonest

It's actually incredibly dishonest, at each and every step of the way. It's anti-consumer, and makes distrust the organization and it's integrity as a place of good journalism. You never bothered to explain how you thought it wasn't. How is a huge surprise bill at the end of a year not dishonest? Hiding truth is dishonesty. Low level used car lot sales type strategy.
Accessibility definitely, but I think it's naive to assume that just because the centralized teacher-student model of education has been around for a long time necessarily means it will never be supplanted.

I think the evolution of education is probably technology supporting traditional teaching, along with some way of easily varying the curriculum or the learning mode to accommodate different learning styles.

For that to happen I would guess that making designing curricula, lesson plans and activities easier to do would be a good start.
Maybe there is an addon or addition to adblocker that simply can stop us from reaching these sites? Would be nice with a global list of dark pattern sites and simply be warned about them.
“the number of people who have consistently beaten the S&P 500 over a period longer than 20 years”

If someone is managing money for the long term, why would they care about 'consistently' beating the S&P 500 for 'longer than 20 years'? Shouldn't you care about aggregate, compounded returns, rather than consistent returns?

Would you rather have annual returns like this {5%, 5%, 5%, 5%, 5%} or this {4%, 2%, 13%, 4%, 4%}?
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That's only true if you don't consider FDA approval to be a form of peer review.
So maybe it's not that learning online is a better method but that you found better teaching material and online is obviously a easier method to do so?
Why not? Everything I've read about Theranos seems to suggest she should have been subjecting some part of her process to peer review.

“I don’t know if she’s another Steve Jobs,” said Jerry Yeo, professor of pathology at the University of Chicago and director of the Clinical Chemistry Laboratories there. “You have to subject yourself to peer review. You can’t just go in a stealthy mode and then announce one day that you’ve got technology that’s going to disrupt the world.”

Professor Yeo said that he and his colleagues wanted to see data and testing in independent labs. “We have a small army of people ready and willing to test Theranos’s products if they’d ask us,” he said. “And that can be done without revealing any trade secrets.” [1]

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/30/business/the-narrative-fra...
We (or at least I) miss your long insightful rants :-)