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Nestle is a very big company making all kinds of products, and since ever more people are following the health and fitness craze, there are so many people obsessed with health, they want to profit from it. They want to adjust their company in order to guarantee future profits, that's actually (a) the most normal thing in the world and (b) a form of following consumer's choice and wishes.

I don't see how selling sugary products for those who buy them and selling health products for those who prefer them is any kind of evil moral conflict. No matter if "health product" means low-fat low-sugar foods or pharmaceutical products.

Scepticism is good, control and regulation is good, blind condemnation is not, not sure what the article is representing. For me it actually is healthy scepticism, some of the comments here are more condemnation I presume.
This is in beta right now but pretty much everything works. Would love to get some feedback on this to see how I can make it better!
You're so right... but you can substitute "powerful", " secure", etc for "good"; and also sometimes "because of secret reasons".
Do you feel that a consumer is responsible for what they put in their body?

If they never tasted the food, they would miss out on this "marketing." The fact remains, if those manufacturers have always produced their beans with sugar, then they should not be at fault. If those companies changed their recipe to contain sugar after they found people grey addicted to it, there should be a label to warn the consumer that a change has suddenly been made.
It's impossible to have global citizens without a global government. Those "global citizens" not satisfied by National organization will seek leaders and rules, and there will be conflict until a power fills the desired role.

And ultimately, they'll discover that the "global human community" has as many differences as similarities and not all of those differences are compatible.
The same logic can be applied to your genetics and is a classic argument in favor of a welfare state.
It's paywalled for me.
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sugar does not reduce acidity, it masks it.

Bicarbonate of Soda reduces it, and brings
the sugar already present to the fore.

a micro pinch in the tomato sauce makes it
bite less and reduces digestive acidity reflux
from eating a tomato based meal(spag.sauce)

jrjr
That's fair enough, although if you're looking for a non-technical partner it places a barrier in their way. Having a partially obscured contact address in your HN profile would be significantly simpler for a non-technical person trying to get in touch, and would seem reasonably spam resistant.

But that's your choice, and all I was doing was trying to point out something you might not of thought of. I, for one, don't have a Reddit account, and have absolutely no interest in acquiring one.
Global citizen means person without culture

Does it? Seems more like people without a strong connection to a national culture, which doesn't mean they don't have culture. The example of Spain, pointed out in the article as one of the OECD countries where more people identify as "global citizens" versus of their country, is informative, as much of Spanish culture is highly regional. A citizen of Catalonia or the Basque region might have plenty of local cultural attachment without feeling a strong connection to the country overall.
Have you heard of the China Brain thought experiment?
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I think it's considered "secret sauce". I think it mixes the upvotes and time with other factors (user karma?, average?, manual weights?, ???) (I think they dropped "average" a few years ago.) The source code that is available is very old and don't have a lot of the small details. I think you will have to wait until kens does a black box analysis.

Related: "How Hacker News ranking really works: scoring, controversy, and penalties" (2013) http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really...
Looks like https://www.getme.com/ is sticking around
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He was a cofounder, chairman and CEO so it's a big, and sadly a very negative, event.
Investigation finds Baidu's objectivity compromised by profit model
The article is not about cultural identity. It is about membership in a country/nation/state versus not.
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SentinalOne probably approached VirusTotal with specific requirements about how they wanted to contribute back, and VirusTotal said 'you can contribute the same way everyone else does.' The rest is marketing BS.
This is sad. Diversity of implementations is a plus.
Here is current price for Sofosbuvir in India
http://www.medplusmart.com/compositionProducts/Sofosbuvir-40...
All I know is when I started getting mailers DAILY from lendingClub with magical terms I figured it was some sort of pyramid scheme. I worked in finance during the recession, you can smell a desperate entity a mile away trying to cover its books.
This hysteria exist mainly because most people are led to believes "genes" are something that they are not.

They are not "blueprints" much less some sort of engineering document.

More realistically, they are a simple list of materials (in this case a listing of proteins).

They only describe the materials that make up a structure, not what that structure is nor how it functions.

Its the equivalent of someone saying: 14,234 tons of steel, 23,000 tons of concrete, 8000 tons of glass...etc. Now, what does it make? Why does it make it?
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The $1000 is also minor compared to the computational and personnel costs required to interpret a clinical genome. It's almost cheaper to re-sequence a genome than store the raw data long term. And the interpretation of the genome usually requires a multi-disciplinary team with advanced degrees (MS/PhD/MD). That part of the problem is still largely a manual process, and will be for the foreseeable future.

I'm not saying that it's not worth it in some cases, but the sequencing is only a small part of the overall costs.
I assume you are referring to Searle's "Chinese Room" [1] thought experiment

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
The whole polyglot programmer thing is totally weird to me. Why would you not be a polyglot programmer? And why are we celebrating it as if it was something special?
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Smaller regional entities doesn't work if there exist larger global entities. Government or corporation, doesn't matter. City hall can't fight USA or Walmart.
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There is an interesting rule from biological evolution of rates of extinction with species age that I'd thought of in relation to this. Essentially: they're constant. That is, a species is as likely ro go extinct when old as young: there is no increased survival probability with age.

Leigh Van Valen's Law of Extinction, related to the Red Queen Hypothesis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen_hypothesis

I don't know how well this translates to areas such as software, but it does give me pause.
Wouldn't the commonality of singing and dancing be much more likely the result of it being a social behavior, and social behaviors increasing the odds of reproducing? This is true even today - dance clubs are still one of the best ways to meet women as a man.
So we should remove all choice that isn't considered safe? Who decides what is safe?
"the application date on $3 million of those loans had been altered to make them comply"

I'm curious whether the initial discovery of this problem came from API users noticing the discrepancy, or from a more traditional route, like a whistleblower.
The stock is way undervalued tho.
They have a solid growth.
It feels like a cheap way to generate press portraying Twitter as a staunch defender of liberty. I'm not sold.

Especially given Twitter's more censorious habits regarding hashtags..

Anyways, I think there is some small amount of value here. Making it a ToS violation for certain groups to access your service makes it a bit more difficult for such programs to officially continue.
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Valid points but I have some objections.

What you described is mostly descriptive while I argued purely normative. That doesn't make your arguments less true but we have to acknowledge the different viewpoints. The problem with the EU is that is not a government, stuck in some sort of limbo in-between sovereign European states and people that would like to see a fully integrated European government. I myself living in Germany would like to see such a European government if the structural issues within the EU are solved (e.g. lack of democratic legitimacy of the European Commission).

I agree with you on the currency issue. But it is solvable through more European integration and solidarity. In the US for example some states are economically weaker, while others are economically stronger. A fiscal union allocates federal taxes to the weaker ones, in order to ease economic differences. Such a model should be considered in the EU.

What worries me most about the current state of the EU is the pessimism. Yes, there are pressing issues and controversies but instead of choosing isolation (e.g. Poland and possibly the UK) we should rebuild and innovate what fundamentally is a rather successful project. Prosperity and peace are at an all time high. These all time highs are in danger now but can't be solved through reverting back to national states. Problems are global now and therefore have to be solved globally.
An interesting tidbit embedded in the news is that $22mm in loans was sold to a single investor - the model they talk about on the website is peer to peer, but this appears more peer-to-institutional-buyer (which I always kind of suspected, but this clarifies it)...

An article on the trend:
http://qz.com/355848/wall-street-is-hogging-the-peer-to-peer...
British journalists twice as likely to be leftwing [Reuters Institute survey]
>The nation has provided that person with certain values which she/he deeply appreciates and feels strongly about: is that stupidity? Isn't it a good idea to determine what those values are and how they relate to other people before you generalize so crudely?

Indeed it is important to understand how they relate to other people, but not just people within the artificial boundaries of a nation state.

Those values weren't spontaneously and independently invented by the artificial lines drawn on a piece of paper, they were developed throughout all human history across the whole planet.
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Do you use YouTube while logged in?

In my experience, the content recommendation on YouTube is the best. I've been learning about electronics and watching a few videos about it. Now YouTube recommends me new content and channels that are extremely relevant.

My brother is into guitars, and his frontpage is all about that.
I signed up with Apple Music and didn't lose a single thing.

And your accusations of bad faith are both infuriating and against the site rules.
Pharmaceutical companies have an average profit margin of about 17%. That's about the highest by industry in the world. I think it's more accurate to say that America subsidises the profit margins of pharmaceutical companies.

Important to note is that that profit margin is after taking into account that pharmaceutical companies spend more on advertising than they do on research. How about we just take out the profit margin, take out the advertising and give the money directly to universities who already do a lot of the research and then make the results freely available? That way US citizens on HN will still be able to feel superior about subsidising the healthcare of the 'entire world' and everyone will have access to low cost generics.
Android’s Stagefright vulnerability hardened against exploits
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So Swift has been out awhile, what do people think of it? What other language would you compare it to (e.g. C#, C, C++, etc)? What about the libraries are they well laid out?
No, China Brain. It is more analogous here.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_brain
I appreciated "The End of the Tour" vibe of the writing. I'm always fascinated by men/women who are obsessed about something. It makes me think of the http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=989... a piece of art created by one man over 14 years in a rented garage. Nobody knew of its existence until his death. I'm glad that Atomic John was transparent about his obsession.
My father is currently under treatment (for around 50,000 EUR)
He's not an IV drug user, never was, most probably it was a dentist who infected him many years ago.

Don't oversimplify things like this, there are lots of situations you aren't thinking about..
I appreciate the thought. As a note, I didn't downvote you (and couldn't, it doesn't allow it on children of one's parent comment)
Since OpenBSD can be backdoored[1] with the same ease that the Linux kernel could be backdoored, I have no idea why all the fuss. Debian is pretty thorough in NOT including proprietary software if that's what we're talking about.

As far as I'm concerned, it's good to have options and the OpenBSD developers have created software that I use daily (OpenSMTPd, SSH, PF, etc.) and for that, I'm thankful!

ps. I know that developing IPSEC backdoors is not easy by any means. But the subsequent Theo De Raadt answer, was that he can't tell if there are backdoors or not. That was my point.

[1] https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=129236621626462&w=2
The survey asked journalists to self-define their politics on a 1 to 10 scale. According to their own judgement about half of journalists take a left-of-centre political stance, with barely a quarter outing themselves as right-wing. Right-of-centre political beliefs seemingly increase with seniority.
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Yeah, we've been pretty happy with protobuf in the projects where we've used it.

Cap'n Proto would've been a pretty strong contender if it had existed when we started using protobuf, though. Serialization/deserialization was on the critical path for our server-side code, so we most likely would have been able to get at least a bit of a performance boost out of Cap'n Proto.
> Other platforms, such as Prosper Marketplace Inc., Avant Inc., or On Deck Capital Inc. have reported either slowing investor demand for loans or a drop in lending volume this year, the result of investors’ skepticism of future returns on online loans and because they see greater opportunity in other bonds.

So where is the smart money going? Lendingclub and Prosper have had reasonable returns for me, and seem like a good way to diversify my investments a bit.
While this analogy is most likely not understood by people who don't understand gene expression, I still like it.

I think of genes as the initial configuration in Conway's game of life. Small initial (genetic) variations can cause large differences after some generations. Some don't matter at all and just die out. But no matter what is the end result, it's not a blue print or a description, it just _is_, and the result flows from it using some basic rules.
Well for me it sounded more like he wanted to stress the fundamentality of the magnetic force, and the weirdness of it by not showing up in other familiar areas to wich he could relate to in an analogy - but I agree that he didn't do a very good job with that answer.
FreeBSD is pretty anti-secure too. https://vez.mrsk.me/freebsd-defaults.txt
The coming wide-spread use of drones in agriculture
One look at the UK housing market shows that capitalism doesn't efficiently allocate resources. (But then it is anything but a free market).
>Not if you're going to say the projection is flat. If the projection is flat, and the projection is the model, then I should be able to lay a flat ruler, appropriately scaled, between any two points on the flat map and read off the actual distance between those two points.

Is a constant distance metric part of the definition of flat? Why don't the grid lines on the map count as an appropriately scaled ruler?
whosampled.com is a nice website that catalogs samples. I've lots a lot of time on that. :)
We can start by providing homes and medicine to people who need and want homes. We'll work on the hard cases later.
Where is your basis for this statement? Pharmaceutical industry profit margins are about 17% which about the highest of any industry. Pharmaceutical companies spend more on advertising than research and development. Looks less like Europe and the rest of the world are free riding and more like the US is being conned.
Finding your ideal customer profile as a startup
There are countless of survey tools around (surveymonkey, google forms, typeform, responster) but how do you usually find respondents for your market research?

Would you find valuable a tool that takes care of respondent targeting and acquisition and optimizes for finding an ideal customer profile (a small set of traits or characteristics of people that are very likely to use your application or buy your product)?

Are you aware of any tools like this? How do you usually tackle this issue?
The truth is you can add enough corn syrup, fat and salt to pretty much any cheap low quality ingredient to make palatable. Often, the available or cheaper option is not the healthiest. I don't blame consumers for having to make that trade off.

Personally, to find products that I enjoy that aren't loaded with sugar beyond reason (29g vs an equally enjoyable 6g per serving?), I had to visit four shops. That's not something you should have to do for each food product you purchase.

Someone that doesn't go to those lengths certainly isn't stupid either.
Multitasking (at least for some definition of the word) is possible and I do it; I have done it for many years. Maybe if I could single-task I would be more efficient; I will never know because I can't. And yet I am efficient and 'get shit done'. Maybe i'm doing simple stuff; I usually am writing coding, chatting on skype/wechat/slack, browsing the web and having some movie or tv show or youtube tech event video on (I pick up enough to enjoy it and learn from it in the latter case). It works fine and has worked for 20+ years.

The exception is when someone feeds me dense enough information that I cannot process together with other things but I cannot focus on it very long without needing to reprocess it which is why that rarely happens and this kind of information is usually provided (and requested) on paper.

So yes, I agree with you; I have never been diagnosed with anything but I always have been capable of getting work done while others are sitting through slow talking people in meetings (usually the case). It actually helps me not just completely shutting the presenter out and hear nothing at all.
> "more and more people don't feel much loyalty for their respective states"

The world will not be stable with that sentiment for long. At some point, the "global citizen" will seek to express their political will; a will that will inevitably conflict with the will of the Nation-State.

To do that, the "global citizens" must have sponsors, leaders, and some way to organize. Would-be sponsors, leaders,and organizers will see the potential for gain here and will step in to sponsor, lead, and organize the "global citizens." And at that point, a central world government has been seeded and will begin to grow.

Alternately, people will remain organized in Nation-states and the "Global Citizen" mentality will fade away since it won't have any relevant meaning.
-500m

Check here: http://www.scintilena.com/speleoit/atlas/molise/pdn.gif

I got until the first P80. People camp close to this place few days to explore the part after that - here (remember, at -500m): https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bancaca....

Edit. Uhm, I think the guy in the middle is my father like 15/20 years ago, I have to ask him.
Theoretically, this is the best time for small investors to buy LC loans. The hedge funds have backed out, so you can get better yield loans for much more competitive pricing. This is unless you think the institutional investors know something you don't, as opposed to just rebalancing their portfolios.
Did you scroll a little bit? It's not visible unless you scroll up.
Google says the Stagefright vulnerability has not harmed users' Android devices outside of the lab. But the libstagefright exploit, falls into the attention grabbing category of heap overflow exploits because for the last 20years OS developers and security analysts patched many different OSs to prevent memory corruption. Heap overflows are well understood and a very long game of cat and mouse between black hat and white hat hackers. Memory corruption is the first place that black hats look for an exploit condition and the first that white hats look to stop an exploit.
Nutrition is no longer taught in school, so you cannot demand that people know this.

Also, the acknowledgement that sugar is unhealthy beyond children's teeth is relatively new. I don't think you'll find it in nutrition books from over 15 years ago.
I would prefer not reusing closed lock since it represents encryption in most browsers.
I loved Raster Blaster as a kid, and for its time it was an amazing piece of programming for the Apple ][. Budge is a personal inspiration of mine.

Although I kind of wish people would acknowledge that Raster Blaster's playfield design was directly copied from Firepower, a Williams Electronics game from 1980 designed by Steve Ritchie and Eugene Jarvis.

http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=856&picno=19164
>Do you feel that a consumer is responsible for what they put in their body?

Of course. But the average consumer is not only at a disadvantage, they are regularly deceived into believing that unhealthy foods are in fact healthy. In reality, culpability is a complex calculation that passes through the farmer, the food processor, the manufacturer, the ad firm, the grocer, the consumer, and any other party involved in the transaction. All share some part of the blame.

However, the blame game is rarely productive. When something is having a serious negative impact on 50%+ of the population, it's time to stop pushing blame around and start focusing on finding a workable solution. If 50%+ of your website's users were getting lost on your page and having a hard time finding an efficient way to do things, would you spend all your time blaming them for their idiocy, or would you up the ante for your UX people and make it work? (hint for the n00bs out there: in this situation you should up the ante, not sit around and blame your customers)

It's society's problem to figure out how to fix this public health crisis, because regardless of our beliefs about whether someone should be able to carefully select healthy foods, the evident reality is that people aren't able to do so, and we have to accept that and adjust our processes and habits to accommodate.

The goal is not to admonish or uphold anyone, not to protect or liquidate profit, not to see one brand or flavor triumph over others. The goal is simply to cause the obesity rate to rapidly decline and stay declined. That's what we should focus on making happen at the macro level.
Genomic data needs very strong privacy controls. HIPAA would probably prohibit making entire genomes public without patient consent, even if they have been de-identified. Just sequencing a fraction of the patient's genome subsequently could make identifying the entire public genome easy.