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Different tanks consume different amounts. If you subohm on a 2+ coil rig you will use a TON of product than 20w mod ever could. Maybe his equipment plays a significant factor into his volume consumed.
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One of the things that many economic experts agree on is that "deflation = bad", if things will cost less tomorrow and people realize it today, then nobody will ever spend anything and the entire economy will be hosed.

In the computer industry, deflation is one of the facts of life for many decades -- just about anything, e.g. gigahertz, gigabytes, cores, etc. will cost less tomorrow, and people realize it today. So the economic theory says that due to having been in the grips of deflation for many decades, the computer industry should be a barren wasteland with almost no investment, employment, or opportunity because no sane investor would ever spend any money on anything because their money would be able to get more of what they would have spent it on if they're just patient.

This is one thing that makes me very skeptical of the experts. Of course the following passage also succinctly describes my experiences having grown up in the Rust Belt:

> if you live in a one-industry town and the main workplace has closed, you are unlikely to agree with the professional consensus instead of your own lived reality of loss and decline.
There's no indication of long-term anything from Soylent, just people screaming that it must be bad, or people screaming that it's the future. It's mostly a ton of anecdote, and no reason to believe that it's particularly harmful, or particularly healthy in the long-term.

My feeling? You want to beta-test that with your health, I won't stop you, but I won't join you either.
Not everybodys escapism fantasy Highpoint in live is scoring a diplomatic victory at a cocktail party, to restore some social equilibrium.
but then doesn't the reciever have to pay taxes?
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People are criticizing this, but this is very valuable to someone like me, who just wants to brush up a bit on my C, having some minor experience, and a lot of python experience, so thanks!
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That is abysmal design, so many things wrong with it!
Do you have any links that prove the "allergy" hypothesis?
I recommend a Japanese Peace Lily.
Sort of. I suspect much of the banking collapse in the 30's was due to the value of the dollar dropping in half since WW1, yet the exchange rate with gold stayed the same. Like all fixed conversion rates, there's an inevitable huge correction. That manifested itself in the bank runs of the 30s, which only stopped when FDR suspended gold exchange.
This captures a lot of what I've been feeling lately. I can't stand most games, they just make me anxious and I will quit...I've probably spent more hours riding cars and bikes in GTA5's beautiful countryside and outback than playing actual missions.

Most of the time, games are structured by people whose viewpoint and incentives are radically different from the players. In the short term, the industry doesn't "care" if you play because you're bored and there's no real choice (for AAA levels of production effort) and because that's what your friends are doing, and there's a little variable schedule of reward that's gotten its hooks into you.

The most memorable times I had in Eve Online were entirely through emergent gameplay. I and my fellow alliance players in 0.0 security space couldn't give a rat's ass about anything the content team generated -- except as a source of resources in our own player-generated drama of building a player owned station. The emergent stuff is what really engages the mind. That's the real "play" that's going on in games -- not the publishing company's interest in keeping us paying a subscription. That stuff was 100X more engaging than anything some content team could dream up.

I find there's a whole subset of gamers today who remind me of the college students who would come up to you at the beginning of a course, and ask if you'd play their "college game" with them -- You tell them exactly what to spit back out during exams, they memorize that list, they get their grades, they satisfy their requirement, and no one has to actually care or be engaged or actually learn anything. Those students remind me of a lot of gamers. It's not about finding fun, genuinely engaging, unexpected gameplay. It's about getting expectations met, and getting the stuff they're entitled to.

I got fed up, and I've decided to do something about it. I'm self-funding and making my own MMO, and I'm going to do my best to have it be about emergent play. I'm very far from being able to tackle those issues, but I have a server cluster that can spawn any of the 2^87 star systems, and support 70 players in the same multiplayer battle. All but one of those 2^87 star systems are identical at this point, however. But that's the next thing on my list. No RPG progression yet, but we'll get there. I want to make an MMO that's specifically built for smart people, where no one gets nerfed, no one grinds, and devs never give any sympathy to forum whiners.

http://www.emergencevector.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3DPalL7p5w&list=PLnAL8xf0QQ...

(I'm planning a game that you'd have to spend hours and hours on, overall, but I'm going to try and structure it so you can play in half-hour, hour, or two hour sessions.)
Tragedy of the Commons really means "the structure of a market failed to produce the desired outcome". The common good may be the victim, but the market is the culprit.

The solution of course is alternate economic structures that respect the commons. The distinguished economist Elinor Ostrom wrote a whole book called Governing the Commons which presents real-life alternatives to markets for commons-like economic activity.

Or we could continue marching to the drum of neoliberalism and try to contort markets until they meet our needs. Love me some procrustean capitalism.
That's a very cynical view of humanity that doesn't match my experience at all.
«You can say the same thing about the food in any restaurant.»

Except you also have more accumulated debug time/expertise in a typical restaurant. Soylent tries to do a lot of things from first principles that otherwise people have spent many years building: food supply chains, logistics, recipes, kitchen procedures, etc.

Bringing it back to a code analogy, too, most restaurant food is "naturally" a more loosely coupled component model and it is easier to isolate components when debugging (no mayo, hold the lettuce), whereas Soylent is very tightly coupled and it shouldn't be surprising that it may suffer some of the same maintainability concerns in the long run.
How... what's the sound of a finger wagging?
`uint8_t` cannot exist on any platform with `CHAR_BIT > 8`. Such platforms are non-existent in the mainstream CPU world, but surprisingly common in the DSP world.

And yes, it's a compile-time failure, which is great. My comment should not be read as criticism at all (though I would likely use `uint16_t`, as the OP says the code is intended to work with [presumably aligned] 16-bit words).
No, their limits are too apparent too quickly, and frankly I'm often using my phone in a situation where I don't want to talk to it. We need subvocalization mics for this kind of thing, because standing around talking out loud to our devices is going to get old in a hurry.
Can't wait. I've been starving for more press releases regarding AlphaGo.

This is what I would have liked to know: How much did it improve in the meantime? What are they trying on next? Can we have multiple human opponents at once, or a human team against AlphaGo? Can we have a public server or even a paid service? Code release in open source? Can we use AlphaGo scoring of moves to analyze games, or for tutorial purposes?
No; I would argue that near-perfect food already exists. That's an opinion, but one I've come to through what I think are logical, reasonable precepts. The very limited upside of ag companies (or startups like Soylent for that mattter) messing with food and then immediately marketing it as safe and consumable, is irresponsible. Doubly so when what I have is near-perfect the way it is. And yes, I'm aware of the breeding techniques that went into a lot of what we eat today and view as "natural."

So-called "heritage" varieties of vegetables, as well as their still-"wild" counterparts, come close to what I perceive to be perfectly nutritious. Pastured meats, fed with the above if supplemented with feed, also come close.

You have to get into the nitty-gritty on which plants were hybridized which way to know for sure what, for example, your increased allergen risk might be as a result of that breeding. Heritage/wild/pastured is an imperfect but helpful heuristic IMO.
No. Not worth it.
On the other hand, what kind of electricity savings do you get from not owning a fridge?

I'm not really joking - in Taiwan we ditched the fridge and gave up on cooking. Ended up saving ~50$ USD/mo because it turns out it's just cheaper to eat and drink out there than it is to cook in, combined with the fridge and stove electric savings.

EDIT: I think it's worth noting that electricity was disproportionately expensive compared to other costs of living when I was there.
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It's the only way I've ever received a real raise in the past ~12 years. I even quit to start a company and came back to the same company 18 months later at $30k higher than when I left (I was originally underpaid, but still).
> I question the dev's priorities and judgement if authentication wasn't the first thing on the list before putting it out there.

Come on, this is the kind of thing I meant. You question his priorities and judgement? Seriously? Because he shared a little project he put together? He made a thing. He shared it. That's it. It's not like he is selling this, or promoting it as some great thing. I imagine he thought other people on HN would find it interesting given all the discussion of Apple's touch bar, so he shared it. No need to be so antagonistically critical of what is obviously not a finished product. A little kindness and consideration goes a long way.
Well, by this time we have plenty of evidence to declare "electronic products" to be completely safe. But each individual product still requires separate UL testing.

That is, you can't say anything about the safety of GMO organisms. You can only say something about the safety of the ones that have been created and studied so far.

(For that matter, Russia had a bioweapon laboratory that, IIRC, was doing something like adding smallpox toxins to anthrax. Does that count as GMO?)
PHP/Node/Phonegap Development in South Africa - R600/hour (about $50) for local customers, $70/hour for US based and 50 euro/hour for European based customers. I think I need to up my rates.
You can also get the answer book.
But you don't know anything about Christ that you didn't hear from other men. You can't claim to be a Christian while dismissing the priesthood with a rhetorical hand-wave like that.

Other faiths seem to have found workarounds for this problem. Islam, for instance, has no Nicene creed. There's just the "There is no God but God, and Mohammed is his prophet" thing. Instead, Muslims empower their imams to interpret the religion at the local level. This, of course, leads to violent conflict when leaders from different sects disagree with each other.

The progress made by Christianity over the centuries can arguably be credited to the prescriptive tradition shared by almost all of its denominations. Christ supposedly appointed Peter as his vicar on Earth. It seems perilous -- historically, if not spiritually -- to dismiss the importance of that act.
But how do you learn assembly?
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The training data would give them a considerable advantage against non-experts. However, the human pro's have managed to bluff them or exploit their patterns in every competition to date. You might be underestimating the risk of bluffs or just odd behavior to the future competition. I hope they figure out how to nail it down as it's critical for AI in general. They just haven't yet.

The other angle is that humans got this good with way less training data and personal exploration. Success with training on all available data would mean AI's could solve problems like this only with massive, accurate hindsight. Problems we do in the real-world often require foresight, too, either regularly or in high-impact, rare scenarios. We'd still be on top in terms of results vs training time even if humanity takes a loss in the competition. :)
What is the point? GET isn't even guaranteed to return the same payload every time, without PUT. Look at this website for example. The idea that you need to PUT something that be GET in exactly the same representation makes no sense given these basic facts.
There is nothing wrong with calculating your own additional checksum, but as far as I can see, sha256 is now the only supported checksum type in Homebrew at all.
It persists because JavaScript had always been a toy language for the front end devs to make web sites "pretty" rather than useful. Generally all of that pretty broke the site, and it was always blamed on the back end.

Node may be turning the perception of JS, but it is a slow process. Node is still very young. It's community is still highly focused on building the tooling, while the community around a more mature language like Python has long since found its voice. Right now, Node is seen as a chaotic mess for web devs that are forced to do back end work because management thinks a code monkey is a code monkey and doesn't want to pay for the vastly more expensive systems devs. (To be fair, a little start up likely doesn't have enough of a customer base to require that level of performance tuning.)

Python devs are usually seen as academics, more experienced, and very mathematically inclined. But there was a time when Python was the kiddie language because it abstracts away so many details. Now it is the majority language for machine learning, which is a very hot trend.

Once the toolsets stabilize, Node developed a robust multi-threaded model on the server, and it actually solves an engineering problem better than any other language, you may start seeing more engineers picking JS as a tool. Till then, it will just be the hip startup toy used to interest young CS grads that the companies will have to rip out later to continue scaling.
Ask them.
Erm, didn't you just perform the exact sort of spin you're arguing against?

>More genes are changed in plants by the environment they live in than through GMO methods. //

Which is to pretend that the potency of any genetic alteration is simply down to the number of genes altered. So, ADA deficiency (a disease caused by a single mutated gene) is less troubling than having red hair (due to [possibly] 4 pairs of genes, AFAIK).

We're making alterations that it would be mathematically impossible to occur by natural mutation, to pretend that direct gene manipulation is only an evolution (eh!) of normal farming methods is exceedingly disingenuous IMO.
Looks interesting . Have you generate any revenue from it yet?

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I enjoyed K&R C, but I know it's a bit outdated - I was thinking of picking up a more modern C book.

Build Your Own Lisp implicitly claims you don't need to know Lisp to learn from the book:

> We will be covering many new concepts, and essentially learning two new programming languages at once.

Do you think that true? Did you know Lisp before reading it?

(I've done the first half or so of SICP so I know some Lisp.)

Right now I'm working on designing and implementing a virtual 16 bit CPU and an assembler, I guess the logical next step would be an OS class, then something like Build Your Own Lisp.

(For context, I write Python applications at work, but the work done by our embedded system C guys seems more interesting; I'm trying to learn enough C that I could be useful on one of their projects.)
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I've worked at a number of places which had this basic policy. Upper management gives middle management a % of their budget for merit increases, and its up to the middle manager to break it up how they see fit.

While you can certainly try to negotiate increases in compensation outside of this, I've never seen it happen successfully.
Dualvars come up naturally. Treat a number as a string (try using Data::Dumper on some scalars) and suddenly your json ends up coming out like: {"something": "12"} rather than {"something": 12}

Just because both slots are filled with the same "value" in perl, doesn't mean it's _not_ a dualvar. It's just a side-effect of the way scalars in Perl work.
Are you seriously asking me to do division for you? Do you own a calculator, cellphone or computer? Or are you actually that helpless?

AMD RX 480 has 5.8TFLOPS @$200 ($37/TFLOP) @231Watt Peak (2.5GFLOPS/Watt)

Nvidia GTX1080 8.9TFLOPS @$600 ($67/TFLOP) @318Watt Peak (2.8GFLOPS/Watt)

See Furmark benchmark for wattage values [1]

Typical KW-H in the US $0.12KW-H [2]. So the delta-cost of GTX1080 vs RX480 will be mitigated by GFLOPS/Watt efficiency savings in 4 years, 4 months. Which on a typical 2, 3, or even 4 year hardware replacement cycle the extra cost will NEVER be re-couped.

[1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/10325/the-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1... for load wattage numbers

[2] http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2011/10/27/141766341/the-p...
Our brains may be more than the current iteration of extremely simple, layer-by-layer neural networks, but there's no reason to think they're something fundamentally different than the NN principle of parallel distributed processing at many nodes.
Into performance art.

With murder, it's harder to make a case, but a videotaped burglary by someone who is a skilled burglar could certainly try to make the case that it's art. There is a number of film scenes that are basically that, except the burglary is faked, at which point you're left arguing that this one artistic expression involves harm to people and this other one does not... and the analogy to the porn/prostitution situation is pretty clear at that point, I think.
Accelerationism
As a former working cook, you need more than one good knife. there are different knives for different purposes, and when you're cooking a lot then hygeine requires that yo don't use the same knife for everything unless you want to massively increase the probability of food poisoning. Use the right tool for the job. There is no One Tool To Rule Them All.
Note that it is not being "cut" lengthwise, but instead is being "split" lengthwise... it's an important distinction. An alternative for split could be "un-braid".

Some of the comments below yours seem to be confusing the 2 times the author mentions the dividing of the rope.

The 1st is when he outlines the problem (at the beginning)

>Yet he divides the rope in half, ties the two parts together, and escapes to his freedom.

The 2nd is when the author provides the answer (at the end)

> The answer: he split the rope lengthwise, tied the two halves together and shimmied to freedom.
I think you have been downvoted because your statement is pretty much anathema to the HN ethos (if there is one). If nobody will ever change their mind based off of discourse, what's the point? Why even have comment sections?

Are you saying you've never changed your mind after ruminating over time about information you've received?

When I first heard of GMOs, especially since my information/propaganda channels inexorably linked GMOs with Monsanto's controversial business practices, I was lead to distrust GMOs. A few years later, I read a few articles about GMOs in popular magazines. It turned out that I had some basic misconceptions that are extremely common. The most important being that traditional breeding is far more fraught with uncertainty. The second misconception is that GMO practitioners are just tinkering around; where in reality genetic modification is narrowly targeted and predictable. The outcome is to increase food safety; fewer pesticides are used, causing less damage to waterways and ecosystems. Less food is wasted, meaning more is available for consumption.

What didn't work was overt ridicule of my ignorant position. Several opportunities to digest non-confrontational information were required.
I'd be interested in operating this with you. I see the appeal and have my own customer-base that would definitely want this type of product.
exact same usage. 90% of my usage is setting alarms/timers/location or time based reminders. Voice instructions are a lot easier than ANY interface for that stuff.
> I think that the success of a ceasefire depends on the people sent to the round table, not the people on the battlefield. And the failure of a ceasefire depends on the people on the battlefield, not the people sent to the round table.

This makes a lot of sense.
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The charitable response is that it was a metaphor. I would assume you understood that but it would mean you intentionally posted that terrible half-pun. I'd rather assume you just didn't realize it was a metaphor in the first place.
All true. I actually took a class in Prostitution in college (no, there was no homework!). The main theme was the double standard for women. For instance, most prostitution laws are enforced against the prostitute, but not the "john". Also, historically, women were considered a man's property, but they could not sell themselves. It also studied legal prostitution in the Netherlands. There, the prostitutes are taxed, regulated, and protected. There is less disease, violence, and exploitation. Seems better all around to legalize it in my opinion.
To be fair, that would be a far more impressive result than this!
It is worth nothing that another way to get a raise is to earn a promotion :)
I charge $120/hour for development work. I specialize in low-level, performance critical stuff, lock-free algorithms, C/C++, assembly, SIMD code. But most of the work I get is typical full-stack web application development, with a little mobile stuff sometimes.

I charge half rate to startups in top accelerators, like YC, that haven't closed an A round yet. The idea is to build relationships with future customers that have lots of growth potential - but who can't afford $120/hour.

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I made more when I was working full-time though.
It would be possible in principle (especially if you can write a Python module bridge that can wrap your C++ / Rust / etc. code), or something that you can load in Java. But, all of the RDD and SparkContext APIs are going to be available only in Java / Scala / Python without a significant amount of work. It's probably not worth it to use another language and wrap it in that way.

I would recommend using Scala (for the static typing) or Python (numpy and other libraries are very useful with Spark). They're not hard to pick up, especially when using pyspark + ipython for prototyping locally.
That's great and all, and I support labelling to ensure people can make that choice, or some other choice. The big question for me is why those who support GMO want to not let other people choose?