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> When evolution invents a chemical it's completely random and untested.

This is where I think your argument breaks down a bit. Let's take your example of sugar: humans have been consuming sugar since before it would be reasonable to call them humans. That's why our bodies have adapted to crave sugars and seek them out--because they have been tested by evolution and found to contribute to survival and reproduction.

And when you say that sugar is decidedly toxic at average consumption levels, you're correct, but that's a human-created problem: the levels of sugar naturally occurring in the fruits a person could obtain, say, 10,000 years ago, were much, much lower than the levels we can obtain by harvesting massive fields of sugar cane, sugar beets, and corn, and refining the sugar from them.

So evolution did test sugars, and then humans refined them to a far greater extent than nature did and, without adequate testing, integrated sugars into our diet to an extent that's culturally very difficult to reverse even though we now know it's deadly.

And the same goes for a lot of things: coca, consumed in leaf form, is relatively safe and effective for treating altitude sickness, but when refined and mass produced becomes cocaine. Alcohol when consumed from rotting fruit has little danger until it's produced in quantity and consistency that enables alcoholism. Chances are, if there's a whole chunk of plant that humans have been interacting with for millennia, it's pretty safe because it has been tested, but refinement processes invented by humans bring otherwise safe chemicals into concentrations and quantities that become unsafe. And while we do test these things, it's often after-the-fact, too late, or just completely ignored.

To be clear, I'm not advocating a "things from nature are better" stance. GMO grain has saved millions of lives. Most of the medicines out there are the results of human innovation. And there are plenty of poisonous plants out there which are perfectly natural.

What I am advocating is that the human track record versus evolution track record is pretty bogus, and vulnerable to selection bias. The fact is, that's just not even a good way to choose whether to consume something. We rarely have enough information to make an informed choice. Even when we study something for a decade we don't completely understand that. So in the absence of information, basing our decision on "organisms pretty biologically similar to me have survived by interacting with this other organism for millions of years" is not a metric to be dicarded.
Soft white sandwich bread was an aspirational food. People didn't start eating it because they were excited about the health benefits of fortified flour, they started eating it because they had been taught to believe that white flour was a sign of wealth. The government decided to fortify flour because deficiency diseases are pretty stupid to put up with when you know how to prevent them. This happened quite some time after modern milling brought nutrition-less white flour to the masses.

And to be clear, at one point, refined flour was a sign of wealth and status: http://contemporaryfoodlab.com/hungry-world/2015/09/white-is... .
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So it sounds like the problem is systemic - this is why I'm never eager about companies going IPO...for every Google that ensures shareholders can't kill the company, there are hundreds that guarantee mid-term failure for short-term gain.
A while back on HN there was a discussion about whether shooting radio waves into space was a good idea, because the game theoretic solution to "why are we alone" might be that extraterrestrial civilizations pre-emptively destroy any other competition they can identify.

What finally made me reject this hypothesis is that A: you shouldn't actually wait for intelligent life to develop, because even if humans are somehow progressing at the fastest possible rate and nothing could be faster, a claim I would seriously doubt, we're still developing at this rate dangerously quickly and B: Earth has been broadcasting "I very likely have life!" for not a century since the invention of radio, but approximately 2.3 billion years, since the invention of atmospheric oxygen, which is something that should be possible to determine from great distances by looking at the spectra lines when Earth occludes the Sun. We're already doing that a bit ourselves, and our telescopes are tiny compared to what a full Kardashev-1 civilization could put together, or even what we could put together if this was our top priority.

Even on the cosmic scale, 2.3 billion years is a Real Amount of Time.

Unless nearly every solar system has life of a similar degree of obviousness from light-years away, making Earth's signal just noise, we've been broadcasting that we're at least worth a probe for a long time. I doubt every solar system has free-oxygen-generating life or any equivalent; you don't have to believe the "Rare Earth" arguments prove that Earth is alone for it to show that even with our current understanding of physics, chemistry, etc. it is very unlikely that every, or even a majority, of systems have advanced life in them. Given that the limits of technology that we now believe in strongly suggest that an unopposed "probe" is probably on its own sufficient to colonize a planet (and thus render it no longer a threat), it remains very strange that we're here at all, not long since displaced by an aliens.

In a weird way, it would almost make more sense from the Fermi paradox point of view if we obviously hadn't developed here and if humans were obviously aliens-to-Earth, but humans have an immaculate pedigree for being 100% all-natural Earth-sourced ingredients.
I am curious where you live. I get along just fine using a $150 BLU phone.

Edit: Thought about getting the $50 version, but I'm not quite that frugal.

Second Edit: You probably need NFC for this huh? Drat.
Wikipedia mostly doesn't allow primary sources though. It needs to be corroborated by a reliable secondary source.
The video schedule for all QCon NY 2016 should be available shortly, so we'll know exactly when the video will come online.
I wonder if that's a bit of snark about how, if he were to actually edit the Wikipedia entry on the topic, his edits would be removed because of Wikipedia's policies on primary sources contributing to an entry.
As I understand it, she/they did try to make a play here, acquiring Jerry Shen and Bignoggins for fantasy innovation, including daily stuff.

Unfortunately, he was quickly fired from Yahoo! for sending out an inter-department email quoting N.W.A. (the rap group) with language one wouldn't consider work appropriate – particularly at a company that size.
why ....
Yeah. I think the "natural" people aren't saying all natural things are better than all man-made things. e.g. Poison ivy tea isn't better for you than Pepsi.

But, looking at what generations of long-lived people tend to eat[1] is probably a reasonable guide to nutrition and health. Manufactured/artificial stuff simply isn't on that list since that stuff hasn't been around long enough to be part of a multi-generational study.

[1] https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_buettner_how_to_live_to_be_100...
I guess this is where we're submitting typos.

"Persiste" should be "persist" on the "Containers" graphic (https://deis.com/images/blog-images/kubernetes-illustrated-g...).
API Gateway in AWS can't directly talk to the DB. It has to either hit a mock (where a canned response is sent back), a lambda function, or serve as an HTTP proxy. You may of course be referring to the more abstract concept of an API Gateway that then talks to a backend DB directly without passing through intervening code, and yes, that would be stupid. But you hardly need serverless infrastructure to achieve that level of wrongness; even with a server in between, you can easily achieve the equivalent of that by taking a SQL string from the client verbatim and executing it against your DB.
The next few decades of adverts that I couldn't unsubscribe from would be less than awesome though.
When I read "I am the reference" it reminded me of "I am the danger".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v_zlyHgazs
> Few people took a stand against her when she made those bets

Plenty did, but it was not politically correct to attack her publicly, so these people's concerns were quickly dismissed as you know what (it begins with a s... ).

Yahoo has zillions of product. How about integration between these products ? there is none. That's how you start building a valuable ecosystem, that's what Google, Apple and Microsoft do ! You can't buy your way into success if there is no real global strategy to interconnect all the apps you bought.
Gas stations have a special loophole for that
Well that would be a criminal act and the state would be pressing charges, not the victim. Bad analogy.
To stay on topic, I'm calling Stevia natural as a comparison to sugar coming from sugar cane, which grows in nature and not in a lab. No marketing speak here.
To clarify: if it's HTTP, you can request the end of file "header" first if the server supports the `Range` HTTP header (many servers support this when it's appropriate). So it's not doable by simple bash-style piping, but a dedicated tool can request the required bytes in the correct order.

I'm pretty sure I've used something similar, which was already implemented in the .NET framework. See their docs on constructing a ZipArchive object:

"If the underlying file or stream supports seeking, the files are read from the archive as they are requested. If the underlying file or stream does not support seeking, the entire archive is held in memory."

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.compressi...
This seems like part of the global retailer war against credit card companies, such as seen here in Canada: https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2016/06/11/walmart-canad...
All my recent comments got downvoted, I'm going to assume it was just collateral damage from one of my other posts.
Thank you for this. I learned something new today!
> I don't even know if that's up to date, those number are at least a few months old.

Yeah, probably not given this recent announcement:

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/05/Google-supercha...
Sure, but presumably the technology was chosen because there were trade-offs and the developers found it worth while. It's the same argument as writing a program in a dynamic language, in Java, or in C/C++ (or any other bare-metal low resource implementation, such as Rust). Complaining about a program being written in Java because it's bloated and used too much memory isn't useful in itself, if there are no better alternatives with respect to those complaints. Pointing out the alternative forces you to think about it more critically. Saying use C++ instead of Java opens you up to thinking about the choice the developer made in using Java. Perhaps it was specifically to avoid some pitfalls in C++, or because it was perceived as easier to work in. Similarly, saying to use Java instead of Python opens you up to those same considerations.

All that's really just a long way of saying, maybe the developer decided that using this system accelerated their development enough that it was worth it. It's up to the users to choose to use the program, and if they find the drawbacks of the developer's choices to be not worth it, then they can choose something else (if it exists). If nothing else exists, then maybe the reason the capability exists at this point in the first place is because of those developer choices, in which case it's hard to fault them.
"1. Often require vendor-specific language, or at least vendor-specific frameworks / extensions to a language"

...

"(1) is definitely not a concern for the FaaS implementations I’ve seen so far, so we can scrub that one off the list right away."

That point do not make any sense to me. You have to follow the AWS Lambda programming model which is specific to AWS Lambda, so either way you are tied to some libraries and patterns which are vendor-specific.
This is a common occurrence long before Mayer became CEO. Thorsten Heinz of blackberry took away a chunk of money too after he failed. Many many examples of this in the industry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T_Mobility_LLC_v._Concepc...

5 to 4 decision, along the same lines as you'd assume.
Zip files can be streamed. See for example https://developer.android.com/reference/java/util/zip/ZipInp...

It even allows you to stream the zip while creating it, i.e. you do not need to know the compressed size of the files before starting to write the compressed file content.
People kept quiet? I'm not a Mayer apologist (or even a "fan"), but she has been criticized for everything. From her looks (people said she is a dumb blonde who is going to wreck everything) to her decisions (everyone knew tumblr was a bad idea). I have even read about people saying that Google offloaded her to Yahoo in order to sink them. All of this right here on HN.

So no, they did not keep quiet. They've treated her worse than Jobs. Who by the way, conspired with others to pay tech workers less...
I assume that's a joke about bloat, but anyway: http://php.net/elephpant.php
To stay on topic, I'm not talking about anything other than stevia coming from leaves of Stevia rebaudiana whereas sugar comes from sugarcane. The process by which these two plants grow is natural and not synthetic. I'm not getting into the pointless debate about food being "natural", which I think is complete marketing hype.
It's legal because the five justices who decided that money is speech decided that money now gets its own courts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T_Mobility_LLC_v._Concepc...
In the technical sense that the admins wrote the equations, it has always been "admin-influenced", and the new version is influenced no more than the old version.

The the more straightforward interpretation of "admin-influenced" is that the admins have any control over particular stories or subreddits, and that interpretation is false.

The old algorithm has no editorial control. A theoretical algorithm that allows one story per trending subreddit also has no editorial control. The current algorithm that's in between those two extremes also has no editorial control. Calling it "admin-selected" is wrongheaded and trying to invoke false outrage.
But people often have friends and family stay in their home. How often do adult women actually share clothes? I don't mean teenagers or students, I mean actual adult women.

People's comfort level is going to be lowest the more invasive a product is and clothing is probably an order of magnitude more invasive than a living space. But, as you said, maybe this becomes the next airbnb. I doubt it, but maybe.
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Is vitalism actually discredited though? Sure, urea & synthetic urea are chemically the same and behave identically in a chemical sense — but wouldn't a vitalist argue that there's more than just chemistry at play?

The problem with vitalism is that it's unfalsifiable; that doesn't mean that it's wrong, simply that science doesn't have the ability to refute it.
I'm pretty sure you were using the deflate stream format. There may be other formats (maybe with different magic numbers in the header) that have slightly different capabilities and needs.
What do you mean cache the swipe? You can swipe and have a receipt in your hand before the chip cards tell you to remove your card. They are simply way slower. NFC is similarly speedy in comparison to the chips.
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It'd be something you'd have to write yourself, of course.

On the server side, read it and send it before the file. Maybe go through all your zips and copy the needed metadata to another location.
Top tip. If you damage your magnetic strip but the chip is fine, don't go to the Coromandel without another payment method. They don't have chip readers there.
You should be more specific if you want useful replies. Otherwise, people will chime in to soapbox on their pet constitutional issue.
I don't have an Apple Watch but I could definitely see using it for payments if I did. As it is, it's at least as easy and fast for me to pull out a credit card as it is my phone so I haven't seen a reason to pay with my phone.
Kinda chocked that nobody mentioned JuliaLang yet
I'd argue that it might be a good thing. Should it take infinite energy to solve the problem of creating a decent CSS framework that works in modern browsers?
Each of those houses is home to two or three families.
using `x` as a variable name is not the reason this code is terrible.
Who says we need guns to defend ourselves from our own government? Who says that guns would be adequate to the task against the well-equipped US military? Who says that that is the best way to accomplish such a goal if it came to pass? Who says the trade-off of 'maybe we need these to defend ourselves from the government' outweighs the daily damage done?
Why ban it? Just make it so that when it's person vs. company, the person can choose the arbiter. Then they can't shop for a biased arbiter.
It's not misleading. " Of course it is. People are not the companies they work for. Period.

Did you read the leaked Sony email where one exec was hounding all the other execs to make large donations to a particular politician?
I respect that position, the moral hazard question is quite significant, particularly this early in the lifecycle of this network.
For more information about arbitration courts, read this New York Times article:. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/business/dealbook/arbit...
Ask HN: Have you ever created a private app with commercial appeal?
I've created apps (rss client, online bookmarking) for personal use, but I didn't bother making them into commercial products since I worried they would get just enough users for me to feel obligated to support them, but not enough to make any meaningful profit.

Has anyone else created a nifty app with commercial appeal? Do you sometimes feel like sharing it with the world even though you know it will be more trouble than it's worth?

Please share your stories.

Note: You don't need to share the URL--you can just describe the app.
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Most of what you're saying is right, but the saying isn't nonsense. It's just describing the problem that comes up when you can't find evidence of something. If its presence would necessarily present evidence, as with the gorilla (unless it's a mutant ninja gorilla), then it's evidence of absence. If its presence would not necessarily present any detectable evidence, then it's absence of evidence, meaning that you haven't really learned anything. With something like aliens, we don't actually know what evidence to look for, so as you're saying, there's no evidence of absence yet, only absence of evidence.
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This isn't exactly rare. It's a very, very common clause in TOS's. It's also often a clause that isn't exactly enforceable (and I believe different venues have different rules about it).
I think you're getting downvotes because your point could have been stated much more concisely. However, I agree with you that there is a market for temporary clothing. Clothing subscription companies like Gwynnie Bee[1] are attempting to also solve this problem.

[1] https://closet.gwynniebee.com/
>you eat nearly a pound of sugar per month?

You don't?
arent plastic cards arguably more vulnerable to magnetic fields?
May be I missed mentioning this. For whatever reason, we never had a female engineer in that company. Either too few applied or whoever applied did not made it to job offer.
>> Just read the old header, append new files, append new header. This was important back in floppy disk days

Don't forget 'overwrite old header'

Important for floppy disks in two ways, one because of space constraints and two, because of how slow floppies were.
Introduces Q, which is a proprietary, more verbose wrapper around K, another proprietary language, inspired by APL.
Interesting. Is that different than a cash advance on the CC?

My cards which are otherwise great have ridiculously high fees for cash advances (20%+).
I can certainly see that, especially the corrupt companies side of things. But the argument doesn't make sense for anyone over 30 years old. Pre-industrial humans had a lifespan of about 30-50 years (30 years in-city, 50 years outside of city for most all of human history). Those are the humans who vetted all these natural chemicals; people who died at 30. If you're over 30, you're in unknown territory when it comes to natural chemicals.

Human derived chemicals and engineering have given us over 40 extra years of life. That's more than double our previous lifespans. So on the one hand you can trust nature and live for 30 years (which would mean most everyone on HN is either now dead or getting ready to die), or you can trust humans and live for 70 years. That, to me, is clear evidence that despite the rare incidences of human negligence and corruption our batting average far exceeds evolution's.
But opium and cocaine have strong medicinal qualities.
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Strongly agree. I discovered YakYak a couple weeks ago and haven't looked back at the plugin or native apps. For those curious why people may not like the alternatives:

Chrome Plugins/Apps:

- Cmd-tab doesn't work properly with apps. It will bring up my browser window instead.

- My browser has to be open. Chrome has a large battery impact even when just sitting there. I often completely close Chrome when roaming. YakYak barely even registers

Pidgin/Adium:

- You don't see missed messages from when you weren't logged in. I used to get in lots of fights with my girlfriend because of missed messages.

- Can't paste images/screenshots from the clipboard. Maybe Pidgin supported this? Adium doesn't.

- History isn't shared between multiple computers (chat history on home PC isn't available on work PC)

YakYak solves all of those problems for me. I am thrilled YakYak exists. Huge thanks to the author.
Not really. Arbitration has long been a path that judges recommend for non-criminal cases to reduce strain on the court system. I know that it can often seem nefarious, but a major part of the modern civil court system involves reducing the (frankly, unbelievable) strain on court resources, which are finite (and in many states, being reduced for budgetary reasons).
> which means, in other words, you are rich

Or it means I'm not planning to sell for a very very long time and thus appreciate the tax break a lower appraisal gives me. The same logic applies if I am a landlord--as long as the rent and thus cash flow stays the same, I don't particularly care about what some appraiser says the property is worth.

Anyways, it seems to me that restrictions on construction are a lazy owner's way to maintain property values. After all, there is no better way to add value to and capture the revenue from my house than to add another 2 stories to it and rent it out. I do own the land underneath it, after all.
They want your number so they can prevent you from creating multiple accounts or know which accounts are linked to your real identity.
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Mark Adler is such a boss. Check out his answers to space questions on http://space.stackexchange.com/users/265/mark-adler
This was in direct response to the article, in which Google Fiber's new policy strips users of their Constitutional rights.
The law isn't a formal system so I'm pretty sure incompleteness doesn't apply in a straightforward way.