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>can use any lump of feromagnetic material and it gets so mich kinetic energy that no explosives are needed? If yes, then those bullets should be really really cheap.

it isn't explosives that costs money. A typical $3K "dumb" bomb is made "smart" by bolting-on $25K JDAM guidance kit. When Lockheed Martin is done with that "lump of feromagnetic material" you'll wish it was made of gold instead :)
Addiction.

My main gripe with video games is that they're addictive. Boring or not, they push you to play another 5, 10, 60 minutes... before you know it, you ruined your evening, and wasted your time and the next day at work...

Kudos to the artists, developers, psychologists who can build that. And probably I am weak.

At the end of the day, they are very successful in making me addicted, that's why i am staying away, that's why I am not a gamer.
The only thing that attract my eyeball is the tabs. Others are identical to all sorts of mail agent product out there. Also, you need to think about who is your customer. If you are targeting at developers, the front-end isn't that important but the performance and functionality are crucial. For what you currently offer, I don't see a clear position of your product.
I'll cite myself on this one. I've worked on two organic farms, both in very different environments (CA & FL), and neither used more than a trivial (or less) amount of pesticide. Regarding your difficulty imagining using less pesticides unless a monoculture; well, it's been the opposite in my experience - it's daunting just to think of listing everything grown on the farm in FL. And contrary to the many comments here asserting the inefficiency and unreasonable cost of organic farming, I have yet to observe much to corroborate. As for the quality of product, it's excellent, well beyond mere subjectivity.
Firewatch is a really big step in the right direction.

But try playing it as a child or a woman marginally interested in a gaming experience and you get unnecessary swearing and tropes from a man's perspective.

Oh well. I wish there was possibility for a mode. Not one you are forced to select, but one based on a profile, more akin to the predictive one advertisers already have on you.
I think the most remarkable part of my basement garden was that I did not put all that much effort into it. I got a Lithonia "high bay" 400 HPS fixture, reasoning that the reflector on a lamp made to be mounted high would focus the light in a smaller area. I just put a cord on it and hung it from a chain.

Except for the lamp, it is just like growing plants in pots outside, except there are 90% less insects and no hungry critters to snack on your crops.

I did some experiments with adjusting the lamp timer and long days didn't keep my beans from producing. Some plants want "seasons" but mine didn't seem to mind.

Now I have a wife, and a basement again, and we are both interested in starting a small "farm." LEDs are viable now and I want to look into this.
I would think you'd be concerned to get the food industry on your side. This seems likely to be more difficult than necessary if you propose to shift consumers away from some of their products and hand them inconsistent labeling standards across their product ranges.

Besides, free markets don't operate well if buyers have information on only half the products.
Those "white men" (I guess Asian gaming isn't a thing?) are apparently doing a pretty good job appealing to women as some studies have suggested they're roughly half of the game playing demographic: http://www.dailydot.com/parsec/adult-women-largest-gaming-de...

It may be correct that women want something different than men, but I don't think its true in the way they imagine. A lot of women seem to have enjoyed "The Sims", but many of them appear to have spent their time in-game torturing their hapless sims.
Uhhhh, that's not how GMOs work. Sometimes, maybe. But one of the most popular GMOs in the history of agriculture is roundup ready crops. Those are designed to allow you to slather your crops in pesticides that would normally be hazardous to them.
> 4. To feed the world, we need better distribution and smarter farming practices, not the sort of "solutions" that Monsanto et all have peddled (see what's happened in India where adoption of GMO seeds was widespread).

It's less about GMO, and more about mechanisms.

I've heard many stories about how Monsanto sets up incentives to the seed-sellers, which end up increasing the prices of seeds by 4-5x (plus all the propreitary round-up stuff one has to buy) ... all this, apparently for yields that are no better. People like Vandana Shiva have claimed that this increased financial burden (note that INR is undervalued by about 4-5 times) has been responsible for the suicides of many cotton farmers.

This is the kind of crony-capitalism that makes people run the other way into the arms of an all powerful state (which often is no different from such corporations). Very very sad, to be honest. I think someone said that between the powerless and the mighty, rules are liberating and freedom is oppressive. I understand now what this means (and why I'm not a libertarian); then again one can use this excuse to make so many damn rules and keep a captive impovershed population (as in India). It's really hard to claim any one "ideology" is good; finding the middle path with binaries is rather a bit like Zeno's runner.

The current government of ostensible "nationalists"/"nativists" in power in India, and their mouthpieces, appear to already have been bought out by the American big-ag people. Here's the kind of stuff one such mouthpiece puts out (with striking frequency),

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=GMO+site%3Aswarajyamag.com&ia=web

The instrumentality by which India's politicians and elite act (and let's be honest, this is no different from most democracies) is very very despicable; status quo-ist bourgeoisie all these people are. This is often well known in Socialist circles, but really though, they are often far far worse.

For contrast, check out some work on India's historical agricultural traditions,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O84KGmAvBcU
Well I think it's great. Nurture it as best you see fit. Definitely an interesting project in my books.
No, the rail-gun projectile will be a fairly sophisticated thing. It has to have a guidance system to be able to hit things at long range, so it includes a lot of electronics. (Similar, in fact, to the projectile in the article we are commenting on now.)

But the projectile is not the most tricky part. The plan is to develop a single "hypervelocity projectile" which can be fired by both chemical and rail guns, so it seems likely that that part will work out.

The rail gun itself needs a lot more research and development to get to a usable form. See e.g. this rather pessimistic article[0]. Meanwhile, the Navy doesn't care enough about the Zuwalt guns to even buy ammunition for them. How much will they spend on building a better gun?

[0] http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2016/06/can-navys-elect...
Show HN: Android SMS/MMS from macOS iMessage app
I also carry my laptop everywhere and have never felt the weight to be an issue. Perhaps you should go to the gym more. The last-gen laptops weigh less than a decent hardcover book. How is that too much to deal with?
GPL ensures GPL softwares remains free of charge for the user. It isn't concerned with the person that tries to make money with GPL software. it's free as liberty, not free as "free market", though it gives the user freedom of choosing free software instead of paid one.
Ah, that looks like the standard Japanese layout; it has the extra keys.
Well, the obvious one is to move back to upgradable hardware. Why they feel the need to keep reinventing M.2 I don't know. Even for non power-users, an extra year or two out of your machine, or the remote chance to get your data back if e.g. logic board dies is definitely handy.

A few other reasonably obvious things I can think of are the ability to run iOS apps in OS X, potentially even move an iOS app to OS X (there would be a hardware component involved here I would assume), pen input on the display or trackpad, quad core CPUs in the 13" model.
Principal–agent problem
The scenarios you describe are not that bad. People are just fine carrying a few pounds around.
Intel drone fireworks – first step towards drone billboard
A life in ruins: On the architectural vision of John Soane
It's probably all tooling costs. We are spending X + 80k/rd, and the counting looks different even if the cost's don't really change.
Is that a side effect or the main effect?

Hardware makers wanted to exercise the right to use open source software without returning that right to the people who bought their products from them. GPLv3 was designed to remove the loophole that allowed them to do that. It's true that GPL has more restrictions than BSD or MIT. But the freedom those licenses give is the freedom to steal without giving back.
>Soylent is trying to do something more ambitious than other packaged food manufacturers.

I have never understood why people think Soylent is doing something so interesting. It is essentially baby formula for adults. And its not like the nutritional requirements of infants are any simpler than adults. The formula industry has existed for decades and has generally done a good enough job of producing products that are able to make up 100% of a human's diet.
I apologize. I didn't mean to put words in your mouth. The word "disingenuous" was ill-chosen and I can see that I should have phrased it better. Let me try again.

I'm responding to this phrase:

"crops with random genetic mutations are sold as organic and have been in the food supply since 1930"

As you say, this simply says that these crops are allowed to carry the organic label. It's a small move from here to say that people accept these crops as organic. And then another small move to say that since transgenic crops are no different from these other crops, that transgenic crops should also be accepted as organic. Is this fair? This is the sense I get when reading your "What is ironic about the GMO debate" phrase. Perhaps the shoulds are a bit strong. How would you change my analysis?

You've rightly pointed out where I made a mistake in my use of "disingenuous". What do you think of the rest of what I wrote? Is there anything you agree with, at least in part? If not, what's your take?
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I don't think you're weak at all. They do build the games to be super stimulating and addicting. They build reward models into the games that help you form the habit of playing every day for a small reward. Then eventually you're logging in every day to play for something you don't care at all about.

Once you realize that, you're free.
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Google Soli RadarCat for object and material recognition
Delivering Privacy Badger and HTTPS Everywhere to Mobile Users at WARP Speed
You get what you pay for. A lot of times the real-time OpenGL render looks better than the legacy render.
Wolfram Alpha gives 1.
Bing gives 1.
I suppose in many applications it is. My career has pretty much been in Web apps and generally most work is I/O-dominated
Open source UI design suffers from Benders “I am going to build my own theme park with blackjack and hookers, In fact forget the park..". Everyone tries to force their own way of doing things, mostly contradicting established standards. KiCad is another good bad example.

Car analogy would be really good cheap cars you steer with foot pedals.
also interested potentially. cant see an email in your profile though.
GPL preserves the hacker's freedom to modify the code in the hardware they own. It doesn't preserve a corporation's freedom to take the code, package it up and sell it in some other hardware. Which licenses are more free? Depends who you are and what you're trying to do.
Gmail and Google Calendar get a whole lot better on iOS
See also Tyler Rogoway's excellent article on the numerous other design flaws in the DDG-1000 Zumwalt class destroyers.

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/5343/the-navys-new-stea...

It was designed to operate close to hostile shores, yet its stealth features were compromised, and it has no long-range air defense or CIWS.
WebRTC is the HTML5 equivalent of RTSP (they are both based on RTP). You can use Janus to translate between the two - feed RTSP into Janus and it'll apply the necessary encryption and do the necessary firewall hole-punching to make it WebRTC compliant.
The GPL, fundamentally, is about control and restrictions. It's about specifying things you cannot do with the code, ensuring that the original author's political and social goals are retained no matter what. There's nothing inherently wrong with that, but where some people see freedom other people see restriction.

If you release your code under the BSD license, no one can 'steal' it. That's a misrepresentation of reality. They're using it according to the license. If I release code under the BSD license and someone takes it, uses it in some closed-source router whose code or behaviour I can't fix or modify, then so be it.

Likewise, your code is never 'monopolized' or 'disappeared'. Anyone else who wants to do something with that code is still able. Nothing is taken away from the rest of the world by one person using that code for their own purposes, whether you disagree with those purposes or not.
You should not give up on this. More products are needed.
That's needlessly painting it as black and white.

It's also not nearly as commonly used as a way to profit off third parties as it is to keep out third parties. The 10NES being a great example, or K-Cups, or proprietary e-book formats or phones locked to carriers.
> I've seen plenty of people that only go "out"

Well, it's kind of a dick move to have people over frequently or until late when you live with two or three roommates. Which is how most people I know in SF and NYC live.
Way to casually ruin Soylent Green, Bloomberg!
http://www.technologyreview.com/s/602094/ais-language-proble... by Will Knight on 2016-08-09 addresses the same problem of NLU (Natural Language Understanding). I have long been working on True AI programs that think with automated reasoning (inference) in English, German and Russian. My webpage at http://ai.neocities.org/SOTA.html invites AI Projects to expand upon my http://github.com/PriorArt/AGI/wiki/MindGrid software by assigning their own staff members to work on specific AI mind-modules. I feel that I have been able to solve the AI language problem because I first spent thirteen years creating at http://mind.sourceforge.net/theory5.html a linguistic Theory of Mind for concept-based artificial intelligence. My http://www.linkedin.com/in/mentifex profile indicates that creating the first True AI is not a team project or the work of a committee, because some one ambitious intellect must grapple and wrestle with the ordeal of initial creation, after which teams and IT departments and commercial AGI Projects can parcel out the individual enhancement assignments for the further development of an Artificial General Intelligence. At http://groups.google.com/d/msg/de.sci.informatik.ki/4ikvL8rO... I discuss in German the difference between a simple, primitive, concept-based AI which operates on the assumption that all verbal inputs to it are true statements and not lies, so that the AI may think and reason without suspicion, and on the other hand a conscious AI which bears the onerous burden of judging whether statements made to it are truth or lies.
When I interviewed some important people for a personal blog about game development, one guy claimed, half on record, and half off the record, that the import tariffs exist because of TecToy lobbying in first place.

Also, TecToy has very strong ties to the government, for example I saw once the government organize an event to advertise their publicy funded loans for new companies, and everyone that spoke something there had some tie to TecToy and Workers Party at the same time, including some actual TecToy employees.
Yeah but # of arrests looks good in the end of year evaluation.
My suspicion, without a background in marketing, is that marketing concepts towards males are more clearly identified in terms that easily apply to gaming. Men like sports: winning, fighting, competition, stealth, dominance. Some men don't like sports: politics, dominance, competition, exploring.

I recall from a psychology lecture in one of my courses, many years ago, that women tend to play games like the Sims as if they were dollhouses, building their dream lives. On the other hand, my ex- used to play it in a masculine fashion, torturing the Sims by shutting them in a room without a door or a toilet, sending them for a swim and removing the ladder, things like that.

Exactly what this means, I'm not sure, but I think it is a piece of the puzzle.
At least in startups. You salaried gets lowered when funding gets tougher. This has happen to be at every startups I was employed at.
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Of course. But I get your our point -- this is a corner that might bite you.

It don't happen to me often, but I sprinkle "+ 0" and so on, without thinking about it.
While we're on the topic, it should also be noted that Sony has made extensive contributions to Clang/LLVM.
Never heard of them.
I know this is six days old, but 2 questions:

Whats the environment like for those network users? Are you only using 1 server? There's ways to load balance that. You're probably hitting throughput issues for sure.

On the second point: do you know whats missing from before? I'm pretty good with macOS server related terminal-foo. Might be able to help.
People keep saying that, but no one point me to a webpage where I can buy these.

(even getting downvoted =) the hate against soylent is strong)
I think it depends on the reasons and the means. I backpacked for 11 months. Everything I owned, I carried in two bags:

http://khanism.org/perspective/minimalism/

..and I had scaled down originally when I started my journey and moved to Australia. It's easy when you have flatmates because almost everything you own is in your room and I could always pack up almost all of it.

After 11 months of backpacking though, it really wore on me. Being in hostels and hearing people snore every night. Even when I was staying with friends for a month or two, it was still different from having a place of my own.

Now that I have a place to myself again, I just see all the just I've accumulated in such a short time and I remind myself I need to put stuff on eBay soon. I buy things in terms of wondering when and how much I'll sell it for (I just think of it as renting stuff).

I have a feeling I'll always scale down ever few years. Next trip won't be as extreme as two backpacks. I'll probably buy a car (sold mine 5 years ago) and road trip this time.

I will say this tough: that 11 months was totally worth it. I've never felt more okay with my life, healthy and happy about the world. I see engineer jobs as just a paycheck; saving up to see if I can sustain myself longer next time.
Ask HN: What's a good browser if I want privacy above all else?
Meaning my passwords/browser history/settings etc aren't uploaded to the cloud anywhere.

I'm thoroughly creeped out by https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity

I want to go back to 2001 where the browser was just the browser and not tied to everything you do and who you are.
> Women working in tech sales are offered roles with a median salary of 5% less than their male counterparts.

As a non-native speaker, this makes it sounds like they compare different roles.
A simple idea is to remove their incentive to make it addictive:

Never buy anything that has in-app-purchases where for $ money you get something and for $$ money you get more something.

If you see a screen that has $1.99 for 5 gold/gems/points/cards and $4.99 for 20 gold/gems/points/card then RUN!
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Hi I created http://www.didyouhearyet.com I was wondering if I could get some feedback on it and suggestions on improving it.

Here's a little bit of information about the product:

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Is this 60hz or 50hz?

(U.S. gamers might not have experience with crappy 50hz PAL ports of games which ran annoyingly slower...)

Edit: Looks like PAL.

This is one of those things I'm so glad I didn't know about as a 10 year old because it would have driven me nuts, but now that I do know... old consoles are forever ruined.
Why is Linux still licensed as GPLv2? There can be many valid reasons to not want to move to GPLv3 beyond hating software freedom.
Russian doctrine appears to be to overwhelm AEGIS et al with many, many missiles. After all, only one needs to get through to sink a 5 billion dollar (NOT including the aircraft and thousands of sailors on it!) carrier. Carriers are a prestige weapon now, like battleships in the 20th century: good for bullying brown people, useless in a "real" war. I don't see what the Zumwalt does about that.
Using Artificial Intelligence to Identify State Secrets [video]
The trick to teaching pointers is to model memory with boxes. You have a stack, and a heap, and you draw arrows to represent pointers. At some point, you need to reveal that those arrows are just numeric indices, but the visual helps early on. The * and & operators just let you follow the value in the pointer. I've had a number of students who were baffled up until I showed them this model.

Notational Machine for the win!
you're right. Inflation though :) Looking at the history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M982_Excalibur#History - it was well under under $100K in the first years. In that 2015 order of 7.5K units the program cost is $2B with the procurement cost is $790K - looks strange with that $1B+ tucked on that late.
From my experience in teaching C beginners, I think declarations are one of those things in C that people either get frustrated by very early on and give up, only memorising a small set of fixed patterns for the common cases; or see the pure elegance of the system, once it's presented to them in the right way. The two things to keep in mind to become one in that second group are "declaration follows use", and the operator precedence (array and function-call are on the right and have higher precedence than pointer indirection on the left.) Declarations must not be parsed left-to-right; in the same way that

2 / 3 + 4 * 3

is not parsed left-to-right but as (2 / 3) + (4 * 3),

int **foo[10];

is parsed as

int *(*(foo[10]))

. What "declaration follows use" means is that the ultimate type of the object is exactly as it says after all the operators are applied (in the correct order): when the array subscript is applied to foo, and then that object dereferenced twice, the type of the expression is int. Thus foo is an array of 10 pointers to pointer to int, foo[i] a pointer to pointer to int, * foo[i] a pointer to int, and * * foo[i] an int.

http://ieng9.ucsd.edu/~cs30x/rt_lt.rule.html