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> Efforts thus far have had only mild success (IIRC, it's been done at great cost, and it reportedly tasted terrible).

I have so much hope for this. I'm not vegetarian, but I wouldn't mind cutting out animal cruelty from my life as much as possible, as it is a place I recognize cognitive dissonance in myself. I'm really hoping they can get the cost down, and since it's controlled, can start experimenting on ways to improve taste (artificial stimulation, etc). I see no reason why we can't eventually grow meat that tastes multiples better. It's not like nature selected for pigs and cows to taste good (although we may have, over the last few hundreds or thousands of years).

> Assuming these efforts succeed, where does that leave me?

Hopefully, it means you'll eventually be eating the best burger you've ever tasted. :)

> at what point is it morally acceptable to me to buy and eat that "meat"?

I would assume immediately at the point there's a version that doesn't harm animals, if you're in it for ethical reasons. I'm not sure I understand the question, or the implications, because it doesn't seem controversial to me at all, given the predicates.

> I imagine it's similar to anyone in a field that benefits from ethically questionable research.

I'm not sure it's related at all. What animals are harmed to help us get better lab-grown meat?

That said, questionable research it's a very interesting question in itself. I've been culturally indoctrinated to belief that it's bad, but rationally, if the resaerch leads to improved lives for people during the time we would not know that information until we found it otherwise, shouldn't we weigh that correctly? Would a study that resulted in the death of 1000 people but eliminated heart disease be worth it? Yes, but we can't know what any specific research will result in, so all we do is increase the risk of our gambles with the hope of a bigger payoff.

That said, I think we need more nuanced rules regarding some studies and people that want in them. If someone is already terminally ill, but it shouldn't affect the study, I don't see the problem with a large payout to participate in a very dangerous study.
Thanks for the very informative reply!
Usage-Based Insurance and Telematics
Yeah, you either have to convince people to pay to upload or use it to feed into some other money-making enterprise (like serving ads).

We really need a better way to pay the people who create and serve the content we all love to consume.
I didn't mean "look" but what they do for the user ...
With all due respect we can agree on your factual observations, yet while you're pessimistic about replacing a top quality perfectly grilled London Broil steak, I'm feeling optimistic about replacing a mcdonalds hamburger, which also is immediately recognizable as almost inedible.

How about that stick of beef jerky I carry when I go out hiking ... replacing something that artificial with something plant based doesn't sound overly challenging and maybe it would have better shelf life? Or the mystery meat in canned store bought soups?
When I made my MediaWiki Plugin I don't think the sandbox attribute was not a thing.

What I did was run code in a worker with events and drawing commands passed through messages.

http://fingswotidun.com/code/index.php/Naughty_Bits

There's probably still a few more things to do to make it properly secure, but at least you can't just kill the page with
while(true);
Oh, nonvegetarian food from the subcontinent can be amazing. Even from Hindu-majority areas -- Indian (or even Hindu) vegetarians are the minority (30%), just a generally affluent and vocal minority. Aside from beef, of course.
The camera frame is indeed paired with the car adapter at the factory, which is a theft deterrent. They will not function without each other.

The RearVision also comes with a security tool that must be used to attach and remove the camera frame.
This seems likely to be a case where they say, well if you're going to torture them, here's how you do it and do minimal damage.
Oh please, demagogue of every stripe try to silence dissenting views. And you're really upset about safe spaces? Who cares if kids at liberal arts colleges want to shelter themselves from whatever bothers them about the world, they're hardly hurting anyone. And "radical Islam" vs. whatever else you want to call someone else's world view is really just a name. With respect to "radical Islam", it hardly tells you anything if you use the term. Are you talking about Salafism, Jihadist-Salafism, Wahhabism, various religiously tinged forms of Arab Nationalism, etc. They're all very different things and when you call them all "radicalism" you risk wiping away important nuances that inform better decision making.

Mostly, I think the term "political correctness" is asinine. I've literally never met a single person who claimed to be trying to be "politically correct," I've only ever heard it used as a pejorative used to brush aside other people's opinions and concerns. Historically it mean holding the party line above reason and compassion, and was repurposed in the 1970's to mean to have "correct" political thinking. See a quote from the time "a man cannot be politically correct and a chauvinist, too." Hardly objectionable, really.

The phrase was turned around in the 90's to mean loosely "liberal bias" or "liberal concerns" Not to be confused with Neoliberalism, but rather center-left American politics.

The term has really become more of a dog whistle than anything useful or meaningful. It's mostly used in political commentary to mean that the user of the term disagrees with another party's assertion that a particularly phrase, policy, etc is the product of bigotry. For example: John makes a statement about Asian-Americans, and Mary calls the statement racist. Mark replies saying that John isn't a racist, Mary is just being politically correct. However, this is a logical fallacy, as Mark has not address the merit or content of Mary's critique.

I guess my point is that "political correctness" isn't a problem, in my view the use of the term is a lazy rhetorical device. It is used when one has no interest in engaging criticism, or doesn't like being called out on being a demagogue.
There is always a link to Dr. Mercola's articles when people try to defend the health benefits of eating meat, but no one mentions that is an anti-vaxxer and has many other unscientific claims on his website.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. “We can’t leave anyone out. We’re proud to make this $75 million investment in computer science education to create new opportunities for students across the spectrum of diverse youth and help build a tech talent pipeline that will spark new innovations for the future.”

http://news.microsoft.com/2015/09/16/microsoft-expands-globa...
I am curious how much blacking out the solar cells reduces the incoming power.

It certainly looks cooler that way, though.
Supreme Court decided there isn't a Fourth Amendment in public anymore
Yup, they're inventing another game to play here, just like credit scores. If you know that you're playing a game and you understand the rules, you can usually figure out how to play better than most while investing the minimum amount of time playing. If you don't know that you're playing a game or you aren't aware of the rules, you'll spend a lot of time being upset and losing money, typically.

It's also true with credit cards. If you don't understand merchant fees and maximizing your rewards from purchases you'd otherwise make while simultaneously bolstering your credit score, you're leaving money on the table.

Humans will hopefully look back in a few hundred years and realize how futile and terrible of an idea it was to attempt to gamify every aspect of our lives so some company or another can extract a profit from the unsavvy, but since there is so much "value" to be "created" right now, I doubt that it'll happen any time soon under our current system of governance and beliefs about property, taxes, "free" markets, etc.
Non-Retina MacBook Pro Disappears from Apple Stores
It's a dozen people. I've known bigger families.
I just tested this on my iOS and this seems to be fixed on the latest iOS (9.3.2).
Yep, every fucking thread there's some "Oh wow, people have opinions that are different from mine" comment, and then a bunch of pseudo-meta discussion that just clogs up the site. HN is the worst possible implementation of HN.
I wasn't being critical of the OPs build process. I agree that uploading 200 MB to S3 is slow, but it shouldn't be.
the foxes example is interesting as there are foxes everywhere, and the further into the CA or African desert or into Arctic - the smaller the foxes are. Pure thermodynamics - like surface/volume ratio - would suggest otherwise. It most probably has to deal with [lesser] reliability of food availability, similar like in islands case.
With the exception of links to a limited list of other Wikis, one of which is Jimmy Wales' for-profit site Wikia. (At least, they used to be exempted from nofollow, it's possible that's changed at some point.)
Yeah we use the expression 'do good in your career' because it requires few characters, and in titles we often have to explain what we are about in under 60 characters!

As dianeb says, I think how to have a successful career would actually be 'how to do well in your career'.
This is crazy expensive for what you get. Most newer cars have this feature already and unless you have trouble turning your head I don't think it is worth $500 adding to a low-end new or used car.
Interesting product, but I just don't see how the inconvenience of opening up your phone, the concerns about using the ODB port, and the price point are going to make this a starter. You can get an easy to install backup camera + screen for half that, and no fumbling with a phone needed. If you already have a screen in your stereo, you can get a camera for less than $100.
> Gates mostly earned money by selling products to people in the top 10% of global incomes - products they willingly bought.

This is a bit of a foil; 10% globally includes many in the bottom 10% in the US. Buyers also include schools--computer labs are large portion of the increase in cost of education, which most would agree is extremely expensive in the US. And a lot of that money comes from corporations, who simply pass the cost of the tools on to their poor customers while not allowing those poor customers use of the tools. I'm also not sure how one can represent the fact that Windows products are only available to those in the top 10% income bracket as a positive thing.

I'm also not sure how you justify "willingly"; I've bought Windows products a few times because they were packaged with the hardware and I had no other choice.

> I think he intends to give away most of his money before he dies - like 90% or so.

This is true, but this doesn't respond to the point I was making:

1. Bill Gates is not the only beneficiary of Bill Gates' actions. Bill Gates giving 90% of his income doesn't give back all the money that Microsoft amassed.

2. 10% of Bill Gates' wealth is still more than most people will make over the course of their entire lifetimes. If you see this as "Bill Gates took a net of $10 billion from everyone else" instead of "Bill Gates took $100 billion from everyone else and gave $90 billion of it back" he looks a lot less generous.
Attestation ("I used it") and "proof" are used separately in the quote from the article, implying that the proof must be more that just attestation.
> If you were traveling at FTL velocities, you would effectively get there before you left.

To be more exact, aren't you saying that you would seem to get there before you left, from the point of view of someone not traveling with you who is observing you from some particular vantage point?
Yes, but if you have 10 million bakeries, you can afford a team of 10 software engineers to increase your efficiency to produce the same output with 7 million bakeries and 10 million bakers.
By that logic Apple's users could have purchased cheaper non-Apple products and donated the remaining money to non-profits. This entire line of moral reasonsing just doesn't work. Charitable causes do not trump the entirety of the rest of human endeavour and for-profit entities are not intrinsically amoral.
Which is really unfortunate. Because most adults are really, really nice. But if they express any interest in helping kids they are assumed to have a nefarious motive.
>Other categories of products are more careful to use distinct terms. That's why you see things labelled "naturally fat-free" instead of just "fat-free", for example.

Are you sure marketing didn't just want to include another buzz word to attract sales? 90% of the food that got labeled fat-free 10 years ago (Before fat was good again...) was always fat free.
Thanks for the paper. Didn't have it. Just skimming it for now.

"legal contracts, and other humanly interpretable specifications, are always stated within a background of common sense, to cover the myriad unstated and unstatable assumptions assumed to hold in force. (Current computer programs, alas, have no common sense, as the cartoonists know so well." (Smith)

Most appropriate quote of the paper for purposes of this discussion. Human negotiators have common sense plus legal precedents (and lawyers) that guide the process to create sensible terms. They might argue over them later but the process works well enough. You'll rarely see something enormously simple and stupid happen. Whereas, computer programs, when asked, will happily divide by zero, overwrite their own system files, or make some prick investing in blockchains richer than deserved. They're idiotic. The part of INFOSEC dedicated to reducing impact of inherently risky and idiotic computers running arbitrary programs has been a miserable failure. The ones using constrained, predictable programs on less risky or idiotic HW/SW combos have a steady stream of good results. Especially in safety-critical industry. One trick is they, like legal contracts, are extra clear on the Why, What, and Where of their operation. The typically implicit assumptions are explicit enough to check with regular brains and smart tooling. Smart contracts will need this property as well.

"consider the following super simple function:"

That function isn't simple because it has floats. I've forgotten too much C to be sure of what the error is. I'm suspecting one or both of two: no sanity check on lower bounds of input value in Celcius, which might affect correctness; errata related to floating point math (esp rounding) which is not decimal math that we teach students to use for conversion functions & likely was in the mental spec developer had in their head. I avoided floating point wherever possible due to its weird issues. Was I close or what was the actual error?
How much of this change is simply the result of the rise in women joining the work force? Given that something like the female labor force participation rate is some 20% higher now than in the 70s, it seems likely to me that most of the change reflects the rise in two-earner households and the decline in family sizes.
Money didn't stop WWI. Britain could not afford the completely batshit insane 3.251.000.000 (thats more than 3 billion) Pound Sterling it paid for the war (in 1900s money)[0]! and there are still bondholders who haven't been paid back, 100 years later.

[0]:http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zqhxvcw#zy4gjxs
> This irks me. Like somehow you can claim this public space because you're in it? Every kid should be enrolled in a Civics class.

Just because something is legal doesn't mean it is socially acceptable.

Drones are normally really loud and annoying. In addition, the sound tends to radiate because it's above the things that would absorb the sound. If I'm out to enjoy some quiet on a trail, and I've got a gaggle of "Drunk Go-Pro Drone Bros", I'm going to be upset, and I'm going to have words with them (been there, done that).

The threat of a physical altercation is a good check on people who don't seem to get that, yes, you are causing problems for other people.
Yes. I also think that part of reddit's unspoken strategy with this is to get more people using their mobile apps instead of the high-quality third-party alternatives (which allows them to control the reddit experience more tightly, which they want to try to rehabilitate their image away from 4chanLite, and also allows them to get the ad views instead of giving them to third-party devs).

reddit is trying to squeeze back some of the juice from the third-party devs who use their API without being too overt about it, because they know the community would revolt. Twitter did the same thing much more loudly when they realized that they were giving away the farm by letting most of their userbase access the content via third-party apps.

This works because imgur and other image hosts are already well-integrated into third-party reddit apps, but reddit's image hosting isn't yet, and they can change things around/break it repeatedly until users get annoyed and just move to the official app to try to get a more seamless experience.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9tlwi/im_the_imgur_gu...

> I posted it on Reddit, Digg, and a couple forums that I frequent at the same time.

Imgur was never a reddit exclusive thing. It was just mentioned to advertise and gain loyalty from reddit users.
Nobody's not sad that Gawker (lost because they were bad journalism). They're (not sad that Gawker lost) because were bad journalism.

Gawker lost, rightly, because they published revenge pornography. They did so in an inflammatory and libelous fashion; The target being a public figure is a good defense against libel, but it is not a perfect defense, and Gawker crossed that line.

Many people are experiencing schadenfreude because Gawker was an ardent crusader against 'revenge porn', and then became a purveyor. Their system of morality was obviously flawed, and their downfall because of it is a cause for humor and celebration.

I defend Gawker's right to be an asshole. I will still cheer when they are unsuccessful, because they are an asshole.
Most people in the US, UK and so on are in the top 10% of global incomes: https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/get-involved/how-rich-am-i/

Some people in developing countries would have paid for Windows too, but they would have been unusually rich to have computers when Microsoft was raking it in. And from my experience in developing countries, Microsoft software was pirated almost 100% of the time.
Thanks for a good answer. Sorry to have been unclear.

My point was that to me it seems clear that IQ tests do measure something outside of previous exposure or training.

IIRC most people will not manage to get 125 (just a number) on a well-designed test even if they are allowed to prepare with the exact same type of questions or even get trained for them.
http://opportunityoverload.com/
Cheese and ice cream for the lactose intolerant are the same as normal cheese and ice cream, just with the lactose removed.

Vegan cheese is completely different from lactose-free cheese, and is one of the worst things I have ever eaten. It does not retain a single attribute that makes normal cheese appealing, but still manages to smell like an old sock.
As I understand it:

It's true of any platform, but Etherium is at a far higher risk of getting hacked because the language is Turing complete. There could conceivably be a smart contract blockchain with a simplified language that was still capable of most of Etherium's good sides with the safety net of static verification tools.
"ether is there simply as a token to facilitate payment of transaction fees and incentivize mining"

Translation:

Ether is there simply for our pre-mine profits :)
Yeah, unless he was just embellishing when he posted this: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/7zlyd/my_gift_t...

Which, honestly isn't a bad thing if he did.
nevere EVER take away a users ability to scroll.
I've tried a few different methods.

Two years ago, I switched to using Evernote and just recently back to pen and paper. The two big issues that I had with Evernote where:

(1) It didn't really support a nice view for code snippets & diagrams

(2) I don't really want to store my notes "forever"

To me, notes are ephemeral. I want to hold on to them only as long as I need them and then either toss them or copy them into a more formal document structure.

These days, I keep all my notes on a legal pad as just one running disorganize scroll. Once a week, I go through the pad, tear out all of the pages that I wrote on. Then I copy all of the notes that I still need on to a clean sheet of paper and toss the old ones. The copying process helps me to review the notes and internalize them.

If notes are really important enough that I need to keep them long-term. Then I type them up into a nice LaTeX document, convert it to a pdf and print it out. Then inevitably end up writing all over the print out.

I don't think an application could be made to make me switch. The mechanical process of hand writing helps with memory and couldn't be replicated with a computer environment. As for my document store. I prefer everything to be in plaintext on my system where I can automate a lot of my interaction with the documents. If anything, I would like an easier method for asset management -- I take pictures with my phone of my hand drawn diagrams to include as illustrations in my documents. The process of take a picture, get it on my linux box, clip the photo to the relevant section, put it in an asset directory, and link to it still has too many steps. But I'm hoping to automate that myself one of these days.

Just as an aside. It seems like a lot of note-taking applications keep focusing on team-note-taking. Which doesn't do anything for me. I take notes for myself. They are often rude, crude, and full of shorthand jibberish that I don't expect team mates to ever understand more or less look at.
I generally don't use a debugger on my own code or when there's input I control.

But when I need to fix a bug fast in somebody else's code, or when there is user-generated input of gigabytes, debuggers are invaluable.

I can set a watchpoint in 10 seconds that saves me weeks of debugging.
Thank you! I've seen a lot of great articles and tutorials on HN about this subject, so you can probably find a lot of good resources doing a search here. To start I can link you to an article I wrote that teaches the basics of tokenizing and parsing: https://angularclass.com/making-a-mini-lisp-introduction-to-...
Animals absolutely do synthesize nutritious substances that you can't get out of plants. For instance humans, as long as we ingest the 9 essential amino acids, can create from scratch any protein our body needs. Our bodies are also capable of turning protein and fat into carbohydrates when needed (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluconeogenesis).

Animals, us included, are not inefficient filters, or tanks that hold minerals and energy. We are chemistry sets designed for survival in a wide range of conditions.
What cars are you supporting at the moment, and what other cars on your road map?
Why would they purchase a forum site for sharing funny cat videos?
Very cool. Knowing little about programming language implementation, I wonder what it would take to make a compiler. For so simple a language, I would think it would be not much harder, no?
They're also using information from OBD for car power state, backup state, and speed (to turn the camera off when you're going 10MPH or more). For the way they decided to implement it, I think they've got a slick device. How they secure the data streams and communication with the dongle would be my big questions.
The writing was always on the wall. They needed to start their own community because they were essentially a commodity product that could easily be replaced.
Thanks for your support tgb! I hope you enjoy the newsletter. :)

The full article is indeed quite long and nuanced. Figuring out the best thing to do with your life can't be reduced to really simple slogans.
That absolutely would be classed as a physical assault, not a psychological one, however, as I understand the law.