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Personally, syn-foods have the same problem as humanoid robots: the uncanny valley.

My daughter is vegan and has introduced us to all manner of syn-foods, like chicken and beef based on soy, and cheese based on nuts. In some dishes, particularly those that are significantly spiced, I'd fail a blind taste test. But as soon as I know its syn, I am repulsed. If I can tell it's not right while eating it, it's really hard for me to finish.

It might be just me and my focus on what exactly I am chewing on, but in order to be environmentally (and morally, some argue) responsible, I'll have to just be kept ignorant and not know when I'm eating a synthetic food.
Some stats if people are interested :

- People online right now according to GA is about 500 and has been stable like that for the last two hours or so

- ~80% of the traffic comes from HN, rest is FB, Twitter, etc.

- Last two hours - 9,414 users, 16,338 pageviews

Will write a blog post with more info.
Might be easier for tourists yes, but I just get the Oyster card last time I was there
I think it's important to realize that the budget is not 1:1 per person from taxes to spending. If hypothetically 50% of the population wants more drug research, 10% wants pure science, and 40% military R&D then using that breakdown for spending works. The real limitation is total spending and thus tax levels not how cash flows.
How Nextdoor reduced racist posts
well... yeah.

I'm not sure how often it happens, but it definitely happens. You'll be lucky to EVER get it back.
In Silver Linings Playbook, Bradley Cooper is triggered into a state of rage by his wedding song. This is due to it being a reminder of his wife's betrayal. Yet his psychiatrist purposely plays the song in his waiting room when Cooper comes in for a visit.
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People spend so much time talking about "the singularity" but billions of tiny dumb things seems much more like a danger.
I do agree, that it gets too big. I mentioned complexity for that reason.

Its also not very performant, BUT you can call C functions quite easily, and you can embed Racket programs into your existing C/C++ programs.
Hyperspectral Camera, an alternative to Lidar
Interesting year so far for PE M&A in SaaS companies

Vista - Cvent $1.65B

Vista - Marketo $1.80B

Vista - Ping $600M

Apollo - Rackspace $4.3B (moreso IaaS)

Thoma Bravo - Qlik $3.0B (debatable SaaS)
You're right. I should have prefaced my comment with, "I'd highly suggest that you" and end with "then you would be able to keep your site active and in the mind of HN users periodically." I would suggest he does the write ups on "hidden" pages on his domain and just link to them from his future posts regarding them. Much like patio11 use to do (he'd write up the revenue/expense update on a blog page on his own domain and then he or someone else, finding it interesting and useful, would submit the link to HN).
Trying to. You will not find many game frameworks for Lisp, but all of the pieces are there.

I mainly use Lisps for livecoding. I am currently trying to learn Extempore for livecoding. It has two languages: xtlang, a Lisp language that is strongly typed and compiled for close to C speed via LLVM, and a scheme for doing more high-level scripting stuff in the Extempore environment [1]. There are binaries available for all platforms. I run it in Spacemacs on Windows 8.1. It's very snappy, and powerful, for coding music/sound at the signal or note level, and it has OpenGL and Nanovg for graphics. Watch Andrew Sorensen rock it on YouTube or Vimeo - just search for Extempore and/or Andrew Sorensen. I hope there will be a way to distribute things created with it someday. Then it would be a kick ass game dev platform.

I tried Racket and SBCL briefly specifically for games. Both are very capable. I will probably go back to SBCL, since it worked well with SDL2, OpenGL and was fast on both my Windows and Linux boxes. CEPL is great for working with OpenGL in Lisp [2].

I would love to use PicoLisp. I almost did use it for a game jam, but you would need to create the game framework from the pieces it has, and again, the Posix / Windows issue. I'm really hoping for the Midipix solution. You can learn PicoLisp fast in a week or so by following along with the two great books - PicoLisp Examples, and PicoLisp Works. The PDFs are freely available on Scribd and the source code is available online [3][4].

Even Erlang is available as a Lisp - LFE, or Lisp Flavored Erlang, created by one of the original designers of Erlang, Robert Virding. Would be great for a game server with many connections. Elixir is becoming very popular but LFE has true macros, and why not, it's a Lisp! [5]

[1] http://extempore.moso.com.au/

[2] https://github.com/cbaggers/cepl

[3] https://github.com/tj64/picolisp-by-example

[4] https://github.com/tj64/picolisp-works

[5] http://lfe.io/
Gowdy: Clinton used special tool to wipe email server
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult#Metaphorical_uses_o...

"The term "cargo cult" has been used metaphorically to describe an attempt to recreate successful outcomes by replicating circumstances associated with those outcomes, although those circumstances are either unrelated to the causes of outcomes or insufficient to produce them by themselves."

In other words, you might have fun copying these people, but don't expect it to have any meaningful impact on your success.
Me too. I think people should be allowed to do ridiculous things like this if they want to. I think the main issue is that there are two aspects to the burkini, one a cultural one and a religious one. The cultural one is where one doesn't want to invalidate others' cultures so long as nothing bad is being done (say genital mutilation), and there is the religious one which gives cover to another aspect if the cultural aspect and that is making people feel weird about their bodies and having to be 'modest' not for oneself but for family etc.

But please don't go swimming in these (or any other fully clothed manner) it adds to your bulk, in the event you encounter swimming difficulties.
Back in 2009/2010 when I was looking into it AWS was half the price for a roughly equivalent instance.
Is Facebook About to Get ‘Myspaced’ by Next-Gen Social Media?
Most days, HN threads make me feel really dumb.
On rare days, they make me feel really smart.
what was the use case when they wanted you to have a load balancer for a single server..?
This deserves all the upvotes. You saved me a trip to eBay.
You should try jps it's similar to ps but only lists java processes with their real names instead of just "java". It's included in pretty much every JDK.
+xinerama == GOOD LUCK
The tinier, the worse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_goo
Modern Linuxes have pgrep to help avoid the inevitable "lol, the grep process I fired will match" issue that results in having to filter that out as well with yet another program.
Probably. Oxygen and Nitrogen react quite a bit in the upper atmosphere where there is plenty of sunlight to initiate reactions. There is a litany of byproducts that can be produced, including NOx.
I'm a big fan of meson [0].

The one thing it doesn't have over this Makefile is automatic detection of source files - you need to manually specify them. I haven't found that to be prohibitive in practice.

0: http://mesonbuild.com/
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Hi tptacek big fan of yours here...

Well if i were part EQ and saw my exploits leaked somewhere else, this is what i will personally recommend doing, to level up the game and meanwhile let's blame russia so my job is secure (finding exploits in TAO) and to keep out of the game the small league players (HackingTeam, NSO, FinFisher, et al).
What am I gonna do with 32,000 kflush processes?
What I mean is that the images are still being served from the original server. They load eventually, but very slowly for me.
I don't think they actively tried to prevent it but I don't think they understood the power it contained. They were amazed when I showed them the in-built functions to solve many of the problems we were apparently learning to solve as well as the programs I wrote myself to automate tedious homework exercises.
They've done amazing things for the community. I can only hope that Apollo group continues the local outreach!
I still have a couple of dedicated servers with Rackspace. Been with them for over 10 years and am sad to see this. They truly did have the best support and were an amazing partner to my business in the earlier years.

I knew this was coming and have moved a lot of our stuff off in preparation. Partly because of the unknown but also partly because their support has diminished over the past 2 years.

I was kind of hoping Amazon would acquire them. I don't have much faith with the purchase being a PE firm. Time now to move the rest of our stuff off.
> The reason why this has come to a head is high deductible health plans

That was one of purposes of high deductible plans -- to expose people to the prices.

In an ideal situation they would go search for more reasonable alternatives so create a market, but other, unintended perhaps consequence is it creates an outrage. So far, though, it is more of an impotent outrage. The stock went down from $50 to $45. That's not huge, it will recover soon.

The results of such an outrage is often the opposite -- other companies see and say "Ah, well, everyone else doing it without repercussions, we should raise our prices by 200% as well".
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From what they're saying in this article, it seems like they're just using it to push air around in the right spots, ionization is a byproduct.
Did you run any benchmarks? Because I was looking at both during the same timeframe and Rackspace offered about 20-30% more 'operations'/dollar in our case.
"Now all we need is for the government to swallow their pride, along with the evidence presented to them, and change the law."

Little chance of that happening when politics is pure ideology. They pick the course of action beforehand, for the manifesto, and seek evidence that supports it later. If your evidence supports the counter view expect to be ignored or ridiculed.

So perhaps come the next government, depending on who gets elected...
I think the difference between then and now in terms of making this a viable technology is the presence of computers fast enough to process the shape of the incoming airmass and shape the plasma to compensate. I would imagine the calculations required are fairly intensive.
1) However chasing unserserved markets doesn't reduce the cost of making a drug, it just diminishes the financial reward.

2) The regulatory threshold for efficacy doesn't change just because the drug maker isn't trying to make a profit. They'll still need the same rate of postive outcomes for a drug to get FDA approval. Yes, if a drug is deemed life-saving, the approval criteria may ease to expedite the approval process and lessen the thresholds for efficacy and toxicity. But such fast tracking applies only to critical care drugs and without regard for their potential market size or profitability. The need must be dire and unserved.
Finally finished reading and that's an amazing interview. I thought I had read all the histories of Apple but I stilled learned something new. Love the technical content.
It's useful in that now we don't have to blame ourselves for contributing to carbon emissions but instead get to blame others for the carbon emissions we contribute to.
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It's based off of links to Amazon, O'Reilly and Safari. SICP probably isn't counted much because I'd imagine most people link to the free text on MIT press.
Nice aggregation -- Would be handy , if the books available will be by Category and Source (Amazon , Safari, O'Reilly)
Onenote should support markdown
I am a heavy Onenote user, but it doesn't support markdown now. Let's make it happen.
Like what? normal disclosure or leaking the exploit to big guys like taviso? nah this won't do shit... cisco will patch and charge you his "premium membership" to download updates and sysadmins won't update now that shit hit the fan and the average kiddie can, cisco will be forced to release the update as free (to protect his stock) and sysadmins will be forced to update asap.
I have a friend who recently became a pharma shill. Job pays far better than running the biomed lab, and comes with fantastic perks (and expense accounts) for simply educating doctors about drug options.

There's no way a GP can keep up with everything that's out there. Less expensive remedies have no one to fight for them either.
Chase's app for buying cars
Ah, now that you mention it I recall seeing that. Whoops! Thanks for identifying :)
+1 serialise things without the processing complexities.

In general, an event is either scheduled in the future relative to a specific physical location, in which case you want to record it with a symbolic timezone reference (in case the TZ DB changes in the meantime), or it's timed absolutely, in which case you want to record it as UTC.

The trick is knowing which events are which. If you're scheduling something for a machine, probably just use UTC. If you're machine-recording the time of an event, even if it's based on a human pushing a button, use UTC and convert back to local time for display if necessary. If the user told you what time they wanted to store, store it as local time with a symbolic timezone.

Where it gets really difficult is interoperating with systems that don't do things properly, or working within systems that don't let you do things properly.
I've had this experience as well. I thought it was a little funny that they would let us pay them to move us off their own service.
Well, that's the thing, though: sure, for machine parsing it really doesn't matter what you use as a delimiter.

But the only reason to get rid of commas is to eliminate the trailing comma problem, which only occurs when hand-editing JSON. Replacing that with whitespace, or worse both whitespace and commas, would be a lot more prone to hand-editing errors, I think, than would the much less drastic change of allowing trailing commas. Or better still of just leaving JSON as is and letting people use a more robust protocol, if that fits their needs, or pre-parsing whatever special snowflake variations they want into standards-compliant JSON.

I'm more or less in agreement with the commenter on his site who said

> this entire proposal pretty much comes down to "I like JSON, but need more and am too lazy to write the extra 3 line wrapper to process type 'x'." I'd say no thanks. https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2016/08/20/Fixing-JS...
Text to Image Synthesis Using Thought Vectors
Have you ever listened to Ben Shapiro? That the content of his talks can be labeled as hate speech is the very problem with the idea of having hate speech be a thing. It rapidly becomes "Anything that disagrees with the majority, regardless of facts."
>Re: "Business not in terribly good shape" - there are 4.3 Billion reasons to suggest otherwise.

I believe the "not terribly good shape" is a measurement that's _relative_ to other competitors in the cloud infrastructure market.

Rackspace's yearly revenues ($2 billion) have gone nearly flat[1]. On the other hand, Amazon's AWS has seen so much growth[2] that they now pull more revenue per quarter ($2.5 billion) than Rackspace does for the entire year.

Back in the early 2000s -- before AWS hit the scene, Rackspace hosting was attracting customers with excellent datacenter uptime and "fanatical support"[3]. Those 2 factors are not meaningful enough to the cloud subscribers today which is why Rackspace tried various strategies such as promoting OpenStack (hey don't be locked into proprietary AWS!) and then eventually "consulting services" to help customers use AWS. Neither of those initiatives really moved the needle.

I'm currently a Rackspace customer spending $120 a year for them to host my email but customers like me are part of a dying source of revenue. (Everybody can use GMail for free!).

Rackspace is "mature" instead of being "hot growth" which often translates to "not doing too well".

[1]http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/rax/financials

[2]http://www.statista.com/statistics/250520/forecast-of-amazon...

[3]https://www.rackspace.com/en-us/dedicated-servers/promise
Ehhh, I'm gonna have to disagree on the HF bit. Ham modes haven't kept up with the times: there needs to be a good and flexible HF packet system in place to enable scale. PACTORIII is proprietary garbage and Winlink seems to be just for email? And neither is very widespread anyway.

Short range, "walkie-talkie" stuff is fine but when you move up to the regional level, it's going to be a super bottleneck. Unfortunately, the majority of hams seem to be content to just do contesting using SSB or CW. There needs to be a huge, directed push to innovate here.
From the outside it seems like the USA are overdue for a deep change. Other Western countries (except maybe the UK, it may be related to the mindset of Common Law) have had multiple deep political changes.

Think Germany, the current system isn't 30 year old, France is at its "fifth repupblic", Spain democracy was formed after Franco's death 1975, etc. In short the old world isn't so old.
Have a look at Conan [https://www.conan.io/] then. It has solved the problem you described and its usability is great
HAMs are great but imagine if everyone had a shortwave transmitter after a disaster - if 4G networks can't handle the traffic, amateur radio would be pure noise. Getting wifi and mobile data working means everyone has a shot at communicating
Oh, I completely agree. He was naive and he has some responsibility for the issue but they were clearly dishonest while he was only naive.

Even if there's responsibility to be shared and good lessons to be learned by new developers reading this, it doesn't stop the fact that he was not the dishonest party in this.
Off topic, but can you tell me more about the issue with being taken over by a private equity firm? I work for a 10k employee company who will be taken off stock exchange and sold to a Chinese equity firm.
Cool, that mostly just works (had a socket error the first time I tried).

However, there's some usability problems here that I'd like to bring to your attention:

- There is no indication that the pull is different; no output from trust verification that it is indeed signed. This means I have to trust that Docker did the right thing, with no means of verification.

- Inspecting the image after pulling gives no indication that the image is signed, and gives me no way to do my own signature validation on the image.

- It does fail properly when pulling an unsigned image. Yay!

- Docker run initiates a connection back to notary, and fails if it can not connect. This makes me uneasy - it makes me wonder what data is passed, how it's being used, what changes are being made according to the response, and so forth.

- Using trust is a per-command decision, instead of a daemon setting.

- There's no clear method to revoke a signing key if identified to be malicious.

- This seems like a good candidate for "secure by default" once some of the usability issues are resolved.
Abstract:
Symbiosis—the close and often long-term interaction of species—is predicted to drive genome evolution in a variety of ways. For example, parasitic interactions have been shown to increase rates of molecular evolution, a trend generally attributed to the Red Queen Hypothesis. However, it is much less clear how mutualisms impact the genome, as both increased and reduced rates of change have been predicted. Here we sequence the genomes of seven species of ants, three that have convergently evolved obligate plant–ant mutualism and four closely related species of non-mutualists. Comparing these sequences, we investigate how genome evolution is shaped by mutualistic behaviour. We find that rates of molecular evolution are higher in the mutualists genome wide, a characteristic apparently not the result of demography. Our results suggest that the intimate relationships of obligate mutualists may lead to selective pressures similar to those seen in parasites, thereby increasing rates of evolution.

Journalistic intro: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/evolution-theory-l...
That's a prediction, I believe, that Apollo will run Rackspace into the ground or perhaps just accelerate their demise in the confrontation with the big three competitors.
A relevant previous HN discussion on Martin Fowler's "GUI Architectures" article (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9770362)
There have been theories for over a decade that the B2 includes a technology like this: http://starburstfound.org/electrograviticsblog/?p=21

(Edit: Here's the farthest-back link I can find, allegedly from 1993(!): http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/ciencia_flyingobje....

Alas, it's full of anti-gravity and over-unity and other such rubbish, but the bit about the B-2 using electrostatic discharge to shape the airflow around it certainly does sound like what's being referenced in the OP. Almost make me wonder whether anti-gravity etc. aren't simply smokescreens to fuzz up the S/N ratio of leaks about legitimately cutting-edge technologies.)
Profound: "Because we have misdiagnosed the cause and effect of economic growth, we have misdiagnosed the cause and effect of job creation."
Whenever "configure" is looking for a fortran compiler in a clearly non-fortran program, one has to wonder why no one fixes the configure scripts. From all I learned it is, because the underlying scripts are close to unmaintainable. So from that perspective, a better build tooling should be a high priority.
Someone had just posted some snarky comment about "Winning Through Intimidation" listed in my profile as a must read so they implied my standard operating procedure must demanding and aggressive. I tried responding to their comment but they apparently deleted it before I could hit submit on my reply. So here is what I was going to say:

"Winning Through Intimidation" is not about what you think it is. It's actually a fascinating story about a fellow in [commercial] real estate from the 70's? and the things he learned. Somethings include "marketing" and projection and how he went about getting big deals done. One thing I found fascinating, and perhaps where the title came from, was after he got burned a few times he started thinking "If the seller has a lawyer and the buyer has a lawyer (to get through the paper work and finalize the deal) in the room (to which he wasn't in) then maybe he, the broker, should have a lawyer in the room too since he too was a party to the transaction but didn't have fair representation. So he started hiring his own lawyer to sit with the other lawyers to hash things out and soon learned that the buyer and seller lawyers didn't seem so work so hard to find a way to remove him from the transaction and not pay his fees.