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To be fair, if you give someone and tell them it's a chicken nugget, you are setting the bar pretty low. People have come to expect pretty much any quality of meat and even texture in a chicken nugget.
I remember going to Apple Camp as a kid (around 2006). At the time, they had different sessions teaching kids how to "edit movies", "make music", "build websites" etc. They were showing us how to use iMovie, GarageBand, and iWeb.

After attending those camps, I so badly wanted a Mac.
I'm sure it's far more than Crud. Access control, analytics, filtering, probably some pseudo-science, etc.
I agree. If I remember suddenly that there is information at the top or bottom of the page that I want to access now I can't just click on the scrollbar to redirect me, but I have to wait an extra good five to ten seconds just to get back to it.
I was late to this and didn't expect a reply, so thanks for taking the time to come back and respond!

I agree with the practice, as for some periods I've noticed an increase in speed when I've been consistently reading every day.

Regarding the second point - short and long-term memory - do you have a link or other suggestion for where to learn more, please?
Plus, solving inconsistencies with simple head math: $ to the end of lines to get the character counts from the two line and say, add 3 with 3i=[Esc] or subtract 5 with 5x. With over and under decoration you can . the other side to fixup both.
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Hmm, I was going to say "No way!" but looking around it seems like 60M buffalo back in the day [1] and at times 100M cows [2], certainly not "order of magnitude" but more cows that buffalo.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_bison#Range_and_popul...

[2] http://www.cattlenetwork.com/advice-and-tips/cowcalf-produce...
This is all based on your definition of inflation and nothing else.

In the full report (http://www.urban.org/research/publication/growing-size-and-i...) we can see that in Figure 1, all ranks of income have increased their income since 1979 except those < 5%. At the median we have ~ 30% gain in income.

This result is a product of the choice of an inflation measure called the "personal consumption expenditure". Here http://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/charts/census/hous... you can see the difference between median income as adjusted by PCE or by the more traditional CPI.

With the former, we see a median income gain of almost 36%, and with the latter a gain of only 7.5%. CPI adjustments also show that since 2000, median income has actually fallen by 9% (see here http://www.advisorperspectives.com/commentaries/images/house...).

In other words, this result means nothing unless we believe that PCE is a better measure of inflation than the CPI. What's the difference? As far as I can tell (I've never studied this before), CPI measures only out-of-pocket expenditures by households, whereas PCE measures services targeted towards individuals as well.

Especially (from WP): "CPI measures only the out-of-pocket healthcare costs of households where PCE includes healthcare purchased on behalf of households by third parties, including employer-provided health insurance. In the United States, employer health insurance is a large component and accounts for much of the difference in weights."

In other words, what's being measured here is not that America's "upper middle class is growing", what is ACTUALLY being measured here is the rampant growth in health care costs, which means that more and more of American's income is being lost to employer-provided healthcare.

This would be fine if we believed that health care outcomes were actually improving at the rate that health care costs have been increasing (well ABOVE the rate of inflation), but this is not, in fact, a reasonable assumption.

This is just saying, because you pay your doctor twice as much now as you did in 1979, you are better off, and are now 'upper middle class'.
It's considered a given that money laundering occurs at every big bank. It's impossible not to happen at an organization of that size.

This entire subthread is about how AML is enforced. Specifically, it's enforced by regulators doing whatever they feel they need to do. The punishment wasn't for money laundering, it's for money laundering in a manner that obedience, according to the regulators, would have caught.

For international banks, it's especially arbitrary because regulations are so loose overseas. In the UK it's very easy to move small amounts anonymously. This is routinely used for small-time laundering by organized crime and banks are fully aware of it. The long arm of US law goes after UK banks handling Mexican dirty money, but not UK banks handling UK dirty money. A lot of what constitutes "illegal money laundering" is actually political.
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>A lot of German and Austrian small business owners see no good reason to pay the credit card companies the ~3% fee when most of their customers are perfectly happy to settle a 500 EUR bill in cash.

Well, and mostly to avoid paying taxes. Card acceptance cost is down to under 1% since last year and often depositing money costs more.

There is no requirement for proper cash registers here in Germany, so card acceptance remains low in small businesses.
Such a person wouldn't necessarily even be abusive to all women. They tend to choose the most vulnerable as their victims.

In this case we've seen a group of women publish a statement saying "Appelbaum never treated us like that" [0]. Well, it's nice that he wasn't a jerk to absolutely every woman he ever met, but that really doesn't prove anything at all. (At least the statement is fairly carefully worded so as not to dismiss the possibility that Appelbaum harmed others... but I still have to wonder if it was a good thing that they published it.)

[0] https://ourresponse.org/
as the parent poster in question:

* I think it was absolutely unethical of me. But it's one of those unethical things you do with in-laws, and falls within "white lies" territory as long as am I'm not endangering anyone's health nor causing them to violate moral principles.

* It was done simply to serve food we'd all eat, it was not my goal nor intention to "convert" anyone. Personally, I don't try to convert people beyond example and offering my reasonings when socially appropriate.

* I would consider tricking me into eating meat as worse than tricking someone to eat more non-meat than they would. That doesn't make what I did less of a trick.
http://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/06/a-team-of-ex-apple-engin... There's a long design cycle, and it only appears in some makes and models; it can take 10 to 20 years to appear across the production line. The other challenge is the technology in new cars is designed to be stagnant, so it stays the same throughout the lifetime of the car, which is over 17 years now.
It's just a theoretical play, they won't need it because Ethereum will be forked and this will solve their problems.
Thanks for clearing that bit up. Glad that dietary considerations were made :)
That would be why I add bacon fat whenever a certain someone brings over ground turkey when I asked for ground beef.
Consuming the ODB port for autolaunching an app seems like a really pointless addition. It weirds me out that I'm installing an always-on (when driving) computer in my car when it provides no major benefit other than knowing when my car is in reverse -- and since I've got to set up my phone anyways, opening an app is not much more work to save from having an entire separate dongle needed.
A security researcher from the access control industry agrees that Solidity has far too much complexity for the job.[1] He also suggests simple, declarative systems, and lists a few from the access control industry.

[1] https://tonyarcieri.com/a-tale-of-two-cryptocurrencies
Lone Hacker 'Guccifer 2.0' Claims Responsibility for DNC Breach
Start by reading "A Random Walk Down Wall Street" by Malkiel, it covers the ins and outs (and gives you a starting point for more research on anything you don't understand).

After that it's on you to read financial news. Knowing that the Chinese market is hyper-inflated, coupled with the knowledge from the Malkiel book about P/E tricks, it's easy to make the connection.

edit: I was reflecting on the last line and I want to point out that nothing is "easy" in finance, it takes a lot of hard work to reach a level of competent understanding. More that once you have the toolkit to understand the basic financial shenanigans that have been going on for a century (or more), a lot of seemingly strange behaviors become rational.
> fully purchased

Did you? The remaining battery is essentially lent to you.
>>A friend of mine from India once told me "if a mob would burn down your restaurant if you got caught mixing meat and vegetarian, you'd take it seriously too". I still don't if she was joking with me, and if so to what degree.

Yes, that is (unfortunately) a possible outcome, if not outright murder by an angry mob of people who take their religious and societal taboos too seriously[1].

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/10/ind...
I use Erlang and plan on sticking to, but do like Elixir's community and am following it closely.

Jose Valim and team did an outstanding job being welcoming to new members, emphasizing documentation, friendliness and ease of learning and paying attention to usability. That is no easy feat and requires a lot of hard work and determination, very impressed by it.
Aha! The OBD port connection isn't even necessary since it's a trip to the phone UI anyway.

So why OBD?
> Self regulating? Man that works so well, especially in 2008.

What self regulating existed in 2008? Banking and finance have been hyper regulated for decades. There are no industries more regulated than those. There was no self-regulating and you won't be able to point to any substantial self-regulating that caused the housing bubble and crash (unless you're talking about the Fed's low interest rate policies). The SEC, Fed, FHA, CFPB, and Treasury were intentionally looking the other way while vast fraud was occurring because all of the voters were getting rich off of housing and stock market bubbles. The Fed was laughing during their meetings about the bubble, you can read the minutes today.

Oh yeah, and guess what, housing is higher today than it was at the bubble peak (and so is the stock market mini-bubble today). So are we self-regulated again now? Nope, we're even more regulated now, with all the big banks directly and strictly under control of the Fed; it all has to do with artificially low interest rates, which is universally understood at this point - the Fed now openly admits to creating asset inflation to try to spur the economy.
Imgur has a community. Tons of users that goes directly there to see funny images and GIFs.

Yes, Google can create a infinite scalable image hosting overnight, but creating a community is a lot harder.
Thanks. What type of training did you do?

I'm not keen on skipping chapters! Do you do the same with non-fiction?

Another question - how do you keep track of what you've read? (would be happy to hear from others esp. Alan on the same topic)
For me it's the opposite, i never use Paypal because i keep reading evil stories about them - i don't want to support a company which behaves like this...
So suppose I'm a member of the upper class, and I always act in a selfish and rational way, seeking maximum benefit to myself at all times, without regard for benefit to others unless it also helps me.

Living thus in a society with a socio-economically paralyzed, beaten-down underclass will have negative outcomes for me. Parts of town fall into disrepair, limiting my movements and driving down my property value. More bums pester me on the street. Class-warfare politics threaten my interests. Etc. Crass but there you go.

In the grand scheme, I'm incentivized to avoid this scenario, and if raising taxes on myself can do it, then maybe I'd consider it, arguably without acting at all in contradiction to my purely selfish, purely rational nature.
As an economist, I have always found the terminology used in this paper confusing. The primitive should have been named "payment". A payment in a specified currency, needs, at a minimum, a date, a payee (beneficiary, owner, buyer), an obligant (debtor, seller, counter-party), a payment time, and a payment place to become a contract.

Calling everything a contract confuses me. ... it's probably just me.
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> If you dive into the bug, you tend to fix the local issue in the code, but if you think about the bug first, how the bug came to be, you often find and correct a higher-level problem in the code that will improve the design and prevent further bugs. -- Rob Pike

I'm usually not allowed to fix bugs in that manner since there is a false sense of risk to go along with it. That being said, when I do work in games a debugger is essential, stepping through the code and watching the vars change is needed since most of the code is a simulation and you can't just /think/ the problem away.
I'll believe it when I see it. I've seen too many connections to russian intel outfits here.
Wasn't there an article on HN recently that said something along the lines of "just because Apple does it doesn't mean you should"?
You forget - taxes pay for all sorts of infrastructure, the legal system, and the underlying mechanics that allow those successful people to find success.

Tell me with a straight face that the next big startup is going to come from Somalia or hell, even Flint, Michigan.
Regulation has done a great job in several industries of concentrating the industries into a few major players, because it is incredibly difficult to comply for new/small companies. Banking and finance is one, telecom is another.
> Last year, Impossible Foods turned down Google's offer to buy the company for $200 million to $300 million.

Looks like there isn't any business that Google won't get into.
Yeah, and it might even be the best choice to use it. I'd guess it would be. But it feels against Apple's "house style" to use unreleased software in that way.
Traditional Indian food is perfectly healthy. Fresh vegetables, grains, etc. Even clarified butter used to be prepared differently.
How are the data paths between camera and OBD module and the module and the phone app secured?
I agree.

>> In general, money in construction changes hands when construction happens or materials are sold. Monetizing information about stone is perhaps more likely the more it is directly tied to such transactions.

This is useful, and hadn't thought about it like that. Tying it to specific stones (as there is a lot of variation even in the same lines), and to the sale.

This is not something that I've seen a market for, but every natural stone company has its own internal database. We have one, and this is a effort to make it accessible.

Thanks.
I will just reply that many of my best friends wound up at SFI and I've had a long association, etc.

And that -- I think you realize this -- what I was advocating is something simpler than the "Big History" idea ...
I guess not really, but a search for "fertile mule" shows lots of resources discussing female mules giving birth.

(which I think illustrates the complexity more than it does anything else)
In the "Dictionary as a Switch Statement" example, how come the @staticmethod decorator is on a different indent level than the method it wraps?
Flying cars just took a big step closer to being legal
I'm guessing the "cues" mentioned are triggering the app to show up on the lock screen. Without it you'd be forced to sift through your apps every time you back up. I don't think there's any other way to know for sure you're in a car and will be backing up soon. Ideally you'd want your backup camera on before the accelerometer knows you're backing up.
> Consider those children for whom learning a CLI was prerequisite to playing video games. All of those kids who I knew quickly memorized the requisite commands.

Ah yes, I still figuratively remember all the commands for loading Sinclair Spectrum and Commodore 64 games, and their "FastLoad" variants, typing in those PEEKs and POKEs from magazines for cheating/hacking, then the fiddling with AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS while trying to juggle HIMEM and EMM386 and whatnot to be able to play DOS games..

It definitely piqued my interest in the workings of computers, spurred on by the generally more technically-inclined (not to mention humorous! oh how I miss CRASH and ZZAP!) magazines of the time, and it did get me into programming.

BUT, all that CLI voodoo was just a routine ritual to my other friends, in the way of what they really wanted (games.) They just had all the commands written down, and would rather ask someone than consult a manual when something needed to be done differently. They already had other interests. It didn't make all of them programmers.

So as with everything else, you can't really make a general statement that "X will make children do Y." People who are inclined towards doing something, will do that thing, on their own. I think what we (the adults) should focus on, is making things easier for them after the fact, after they've decided to get into programming.

Let's start with why the major operating systems of today require separate downloads and online research to get started with programming. macOS comes with that Grapher app, Windows comes with Paint, why can't they come with a nice coding app and some tutorials? So kids can just start poking away on their $500+ tablets and computers out of the box, like we used to on the C64, 20 years ago?
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Given Ruby on Rails, COBOL on COGS, silly naming pattern, I'm a bit disappointed this isn't called something like Fortran on Flumes.
Or JS with Scala.js
Or literally anything with Scala Native, which is being sponsored and supported by EPFL directly.

So yeah, no.
Sorry, this is what I get for typing on my mobile.
Aside from power, we do use the OBD port to detect things like reverse and speed (to stop the video automatically when you hit 10mph).

In general we want to integrate our products into the car and the driving experience as much as possible.
I can't make useful guesses about the V8 developers' reasoning, but I'd assume they considered several options and chose this one for a reason, concerning how much performance is at stake. I don't know about Crankshaft's inner workings, though, so I can't make qualified comments about it. Maybe something like http://jayconrod.com/posts/54/a-tour-of-v8-crankshaft-the-op... can answer some of your questions?
Yeah, then he would've been a terrible nurse instead of standardizing the PC platform on a shoddy OS, creating the notion of "software that gets paid for forever", the windows xp hardware lockout, and ruining the educational system by promoting vouchers to private schools.

Yay for Bill Gates! What a great guy!
Right, which is why I'm more excited by "fake" meat vs meat alternatives. There are some trying to recreate literal meat (chemically indistinguishable) but without the animal. If you consider the stomach of a cow to simply be "input grass, output beef" it's obviously a vast oversimplification, but is sort of what is being aimed for, and where I see most of the potential in this market. Numbers I've seen have been close to 1/9 the caloric cost to create a calorie of "fake" meat as opposed to real meat (3:1 as opposed to 27:1).

When it comes to Morningstar's black bean burger, we agree it's not an adequate alternative in terms of taste, but I'd argue it's also not an adequate replacement in terms of health. I mentioned most existing meat alternatives do not provide enough protein. Black beans are generally fine and normally thought of as high protein, but they actually aren't a great source protein since they do not have complete amino acid profiles.
There was quite a bit of discussion about this on the HN gig about my long ago "reading list"
>> dystopian future in which the only people who need to know about plaintext and file systems are the full-time Apple programmers

> We're heading into a dystopian future where the only people who need to know about manual transmission and fuel injectors are auto mechanics.

To be fair, "auto mechanics" is a wider class than "Ford technicians".
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My niece seems to love minecraft vr on the samsung gear too. I think vr will stick this time around as well.
Note the lack of technical claims that one is superior to the other, thanks for pigeonholing what I was getting at.
No, because Wikipedia citation links have rel="nofollow".
What makes you think imgur is dead? They have a thriving community independent of Reddit. Some might even argue it's a better community.
Agreed, but equally, the cost of Windows products doesn't stop at paying for a license. I think you'd be hard-pressed to say that the cost of using Linux is higher than Windows, and when you throw in licensing and support, Windows is almost certainly more expensive.

When you take my full proposal, which is that perhaps 10% of the money spent on Windows were spent on Linux instead, I think that 10% would go very far toward making Linux cheaper than Windows even if you discount fees. Keep in mind that a lot of the money put into developing Windows goes into branding and creating vendor lock-in, which Linux doesn't have any reason to pursue.
Hey, this is a really neat idea -- thanks for sharing.

Take special care to review the "Async-signal-safe functions" section of signal(7) [1]. Some of the functions you're using in your signal handler aren't safe to be used there. If you want to still have a correct example of this feature you should focus on narrowing your handler down to something extremely minimal. For example, some enumeration representing the program state stored as a sig_atomic_t. You can write to it in the handler. If you don't like polling the sig_atomic_t you can use the write-to-your-own-pipe trick [2].

[1] http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/signal.7.html

[2] https://www.sitepoint.com/the-self-pipe-trick-explained/
I love indian food, and the vegetarian options are superb.

That said, I still adore tandoori chicken. >.>
That is my point. I suspect GAAP numbers paint a wholly different picture about Uber's business health.
Why don't you try to pick a few, and I'll try to comment?
The context of the request was to figure out if the stunt of firing a gun that was attached to an UAS was done with the purpose of gaining notoriety and money, and if it was in the public's interest, as it could cause harm to the public. The FAA won, drones are aircraft, and the FAA regulates all aircraft. But broadly, this was a case about public safety, not about revenue from YouTube hits: "On the broader question of the legality of arming a drone, the law prohibits recklessly endangering the public when flying an aircraft."
The idea of smart contracts is a good one. The design of this particular implementation (Ethereum) is a bad one, mostly for the reasons identified in the original post. The complexity -- and more importantly the undecidability -- of the contract language ensures that ethereum will never take off as a working solution. People will never be able to trust that a DAO-like attack isn't lurking just under the surface of their contracts.
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