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The extremely acidic and enzyme rich system in your stomach demolishes the chemical structure, DNA, and proteins into constituant amino acids.
Thats thinking in the SV VC fueled startup way, where everything has to be Facebook, Twitter, Netflix or something else directly aimed at the hindbrain of the masses.
Since there are nutriments and water (even solidified) on mars, the biggest problem is really energy. If you have energy, you can make greenhouses fir fast growing plants such as bamboo and hemps, that we know how to turn into clothing, building materials, and many other things.
Do not update it. Technology is actually painfully slow. Maybe you need to change technology once in ten years (such as moving from C++ to Java).
Ask HN: Would you join a listed company calling itself a “startup” and high risk?
I'm offered a CTO position in a listed company that calls itself a startup. They are yet to release their product and operating on a loss for the past 2 years while spending investor money.
There is a high risk since they are running out of cash and their burn rate is high.
Asking the obvious. but I'm interested in different perspectives.
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> the GIMP has a more elegant UI

GIMP must have come a long way for those words to form a sentence!

Not that it was ever necessarily inelegant, but GIMP's reputation has always suffered from a big chunk of it's natural audience being experienced Photoshop users who find the transition jarring, and trash the UI for that reason. Hearing someone praise the interface is a bit unusual, still!
I'm sure they enjoy the loans at low interest rates though
My answer was to your "SPoF is an advantage" comment as a general question. Maybe unnecessarily pedantic of me (I need my morning coffee ;)).

In context of sustainable ecosystems, I agree with your detailed explanation. Controlling and maintaining a complex system of feedback loops (that we still don't completely understand) is a very difficult task though, so I'm not surprised that currently the most crude methods (genocidal chemical warfare) are also the cheapest / most efficient.

I wonder if this isn't a good field to benefit from computational models though - from tools to design, predict and manage natural feedback loops in agriculture. I don't know, maybe it's already a thing in the industry?
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I'm stuck in a strange loop: videos change, but the music doesn't. I think it's Debussy, the effect is very strange (and nice too). Bug or not? :)

Oh, and the small button below has disappeared.
The actor in the film Oldboy ate a live octopus for a scene. He ate three before he got the scene right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv_OxuZzIxY

It's a good film, but this scene really puts me off it.
I find it scary. If they could do that 100 hundred years ago, what are they doing now with the added century of experience and the new tech ?
Ask HN: Cloud server vs. custom PC for running machine learning algorithms
Hello all,

I have been pondering the pros and cons of building a high-end PC vs renting a high performance instance from a Cloud provider (e.g. a P2 instance from AWS) for running Data Science/Machine Learning algorithms.

Has anyone faced the same dilemma before, and if so what were the deciding factors for you?
1. Given I buy a lot of locally sourced stuff, I know for a fact that no pesticides are being used.

Yes, it’s more expensive. No, your industrial GMO food won’t be healthier, because they’ll still be using pesticides. But it will be healthier than the alternative (i.e. having to use a ton of pesticides).

2. I’m not against GMO food, but I am against heavy pesticide usage. If certain crops are modified to be resistant against certain insects, for example, and less pesticides have to be used because of that, that’s good.

An “organic” GMO vegetable (i.e. increased resistants against common diseases etc, no actual pesticide usage) could be an interesting avenue to explore. We just need to get pesticide usage down.

3. Maybe I have my tinfoil hat on here, but I do not believe for a second that Roundup isn’t massively unhealthy. Most of the positive research was funded, directly or indirectly, by Monsanto.

Even the most legitimate scientists can be bought and paid off. Don’t forget that.

In addition, do we really have to prove something is actually bad? In this case, I think there really should be conclusive evidence that something ISN’T bad.
> Sweden is perhaps one of the most individualistic country in the world: we value the individual over the family or community, and we believe that everyone should have the same opportunities regardless of the circumstances of their birth. This is the reason we have the social safety net we have: it is a substitute for family and community and other more traditional support systems.

I think this has its costs; humans are social and they need the social context. The state certainly can't deliver a social context on a limited budget care & support machine. (Example: Your grandmother will meet 100 different caregivers for home care in a year, if she has that. That's 100 strangers instead of having a personal relation.

That can be solved either with a more expensive consistent employment regime in elderly care, or care from family.)
Just like you have to fight feature creep in your products, you have to fight "shiny new tool / language / framework" creep in your skillset. Become an expert in your topic of choice and use the best tools to get it done quickly, whether its 20 years old or two. If you spend too much time learning new tech, you won't get it done quickly, but you shouldn't force an old tool to do something just because you don't want to learn something new.

As for the anxiety, turn off HN every so often and just focus on being a good engineer with your current tools. Nothing changes so fast that you can't go a few months or even a year without being in the know. When it comes time to stsrt a new project, spend a week researching the current tools and see how they fit into your stack.
What specifically do you suggest? If you're being pedantic and snipey, you're not engaging in good faith. If you disagree with the general argument, be honest and say so. If you're looking to have a constructive discussion, help move the conversation forward, which includes showing you understand what they intend to say, even if you disagree or they're not expressing themselves as clearly as you'd prefer. Understandably you can't read their mind, but you can speculate charitably.

If you don't think they're discussing in good faith, you can choose to civilly explain why that's so, or choose not to comment at all if you don't think there's a constructive way forward. For controversial topics, it's even more important to do this as it's that much easier for discussion to devolve into a flamewar.
Cadmium is also in tattoo ink and completely harmless because it's not bioavailable.

Your exact example proves the parents point: be specific about what you're talking about because it matters.
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Top IoT Solution Companies – App Developers 2017
This is the era of sixth sense technology and the decade belongs to Internet of Thing (IoT) related mobile application development. So, 2017 will witness mobile application development companies plunging with gusto into IoT solution design and development. There is a large demand space as businesses are vying customers with their IoT enabled products, especially in the consumer electronics space. The application of IoT technologies in the retail space has already expanded and is being heavily for marketing and delivering better customer experience. We look at ten IoT Solution Companies that are making a headway in IoT-based mobile applications with their products and will led the pack in 2o17.

More: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/top-10-iot-solution-companies-app-developers-2017-mitesh-patel
Ask HN: How do I learn math for problem solving in CS?
My CS career started from High School, where I learned data structures and algorithms, and used them in problem solving competitions/olympiads and I still do (ACM-ICPC, TopCoder). I feel confident in applying these data structures and algorithms to a real world problems.
Since I'm passionate in problem solving. But I feel that I'm missing one important thing - math. Math (Number Theory, Probability, Geometry and every topic CS student should now in this field) which will help one to come up with a solution and make one able to prove this solution.
If you know how can I fill this gap, or materials which will help me to do that, please, share them with me.
I really want to become better at problem solving.
Thanks in advance!

PS. I am novice here. If someone else already asked a similar question, please, send the link and I will delete this post.
Depends. I'm shepherding http://www.airwindows.com/ through a switch to Patreon, by expressing new DSP ideas in a context of very, very old audio plugin frameworks. The dev tools I'm using won't even work on current computers. I code on a time capsule laptop and depend on the very simplified plugin formats I've chosen (generic interface AU and VST) to remain functional. They'd have to break the most fundamental interfaces to kill my stuff (which doesn't make it impossible to do, just very user-hostile)

Don't confuse advances in technology with intentional churn generated by vendors and platforms. The latter is a plague, and it doesn't only cost people money, it costs them productivity. You may be getting confused and mistaking skillset for toolset. Large companies will always be able to replace your toolset and demand you learn a whole new one, because the more you do, the more you'll be locked in to their toolset. If you can abstract out the functions being implemented and express them in different ways, you can take your skillset different places.

Whether you do that, depends on how good you are at finding niche markets. As someone who's stayed in business for ten years selling GUI-less audio plugins with no advertising and no DRM of any sort, I can tell you (1) niche markets exist and they're loyal, and (2) they're small, which is what makes them niche. :)
"With a good (or properly resuscitated) soil, it appears organic agriculture have higher yields per unit of surface than chemical agriculture. However, it requires more labour. It would seem the yield per man-month may actually be lower."

Even leaving aside what 'organic agriculture' means, there is no evidence that yield are higher than conventional farming. Yield could be enough to sustain enough people with the same area we use now for farming, yes; but super-yield claims are unsubstantiated.

But apart from that, what's swept under the rug here is that labour is a major component of food cost; so saying 'sure we need 50 people to harvest what would otherwise be done by one guy but the per-surface unit yield is enough!' is disingenuous. It's not realistic to expect people to go back to harvesting their own food; nor is it realistic to count on huge price rises to pay for 'organic' ag (labour and packaging make up about 60% of the cost of the food on your plate).

And there are no scalable techniques for growing food in mixed ecosystems, except maybe at the very basic silvopasture level. But those aren't the ones that are going to wean us off traditional agriculture.
Knowing what you want is half of the job indeed.

And then somewhere down the life you change that phrase to "knowing what you need" and you start all over again.
I think you overgeneralize industrial meat production to all forms of ranching.

There are huge areas of the USA that are not amenable to farming but which can be ranched. Raising cattle on these lands does not necessarily consume any water, food, or arable land that would be productively used otherwise. This form of ranching serves many purposes, one of which is to simulate the effect of millions of grazing animals roaming free over the prairies as they did for millennia until about 150 years ago. Another is to eliminate the need for antibiotics, which are not required when grazing animals are not confined and fed a corn diet, and when sick animals are much more easily culled.

There is such a thing as sustainable ranching, just as there is such a thing as sustainable farming. The trick is to incentivize the right kind of ranching. Unfortunately, your suggestion would probably produce more unsustainable ranching, as it would lower margins across the board such that only the industrialists could turn a profit.
> Before Google there was others like MS, and after they will be others

MS had their cases in court where they had to pay a lot of money for violating laws. Maybe it's time for Google to go through the same phase.
Well, isn't it the whole point, though? :)
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I am always confused by this topic.

Having browsed the web via mobile for several years with chrome, I have yet to encounter an AMP page. Do I have to enable something or is this region specific? I live in Norway if that matters.

Six months ago I switched my mobile browser from chrome to firefox but I still se nothing (nor the bar with the X everyone are talking about).
> It should work both with Coreboot and with the factory BIOS.

So, basically any computer?

Also, how safe is it?

EDIT:

> Bricking is very likely to happen! Just in case you didn't hear me the first time
Those home food gardening systems aren't sustainable, if you're implying that. They very often use artificial fertilizers (and in wrong dosages ,too - hey if one gram is great, 2 grams must be better, right?) They are often based on tilling and/or small monocultures with maybe a basic crop rotation system, etc. Sure, they have beneficial aspects that traditional farms don't have, but home-scale subsistence farming is just bad in different ways from conventional industrial scale farming.
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Maybe only a fraction of farm workers understand the entire process at their farm, i.e. some drive tractors, some stick milking machines to cow udders, some are itinerant workers following crop harvests, some fly crop dusters, and none of these groups would be able to run the entire farm on their own.

Even so, it seems a strange thing to worry about.
Parrot is more of a tool for managing your translations and distributing them (via REST API), while being self-hosted and open-source. I haven't looked at Smartling in depth, but seems cool! After reading a bit about it, one feature that differentiates it would be the "Marketplace of professional translators", Parrot does not intend to go in that direction :)
> Maybe he one you linked to is better

So you didn't try it.

> but I've always felt

Stop feeling, do some testing instead.

O&O Shutup even suggests doing a system restore point before doing any changes and its settings can be restored easy.
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It looks like its wiki sheds some light on the details:

https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner/wiki
What exactly is the point in your opinion? I have no idea which exact point you're referring to, and the point as i understood it is 100% undermined by the implementation.
I'm with you.

But I know people around me making a lot of money with it. Because, unfortunaly:

- a lot of users open those mails;

- they read it;

- they click on the links;

- they don't report it as spam.

It sounds crazy, until you spend a lot of time working on website for people outside of your geek bubble.

I worked in porn quite a lot, and you see 80% of the male population in there. Spams work on them. Crazily stupid ads as well : "click to fuck now for free". Yes they do click. And yes they pay.
The youtube embed normally has all of that by default. They explicitly prohibit the user from accessing any of those.
The agility of the UK to negotiate trade deals is far higher than that of the EU, where any one of the 28 nations is able to veto the deal. TTIP, a case in point.

And as Trump has made clear, post-Brexit, the UK is now at the front of the queue.

We're the World's fifth largest economy. We originated the language and many of the standards that the World uses to trade. We're not pretending to be a superpower, but we do have a reasonable chance at striking up free trade deals with all the Commonwealth countries. Especially as the Commonwealth was our own creation.
> 3) Adobe can pay programmers to work on boring parts. OSS programmers tend to navigate to the "glorious" and "fun" parts.

Aka CADT...
Many aquarium fish are delicate little creatures, far more so than pretty much any human.
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You would not believe how hard the "no pests" thing is in real life. It only takes a few insect eggs to start an infestation. It is hard enough to do that on a "sack of grain" scale, let alone on industrial farm scale.

Only way AFAIK that pest infestation are successfully forestalled in large food storages are through refrigeration or inert or even toxic atmospheres. Both of these will not work if you are actually trying to produce food.
> Instead of responding to comments individually I wanted to make one comment (and one comment only)

That's not how this works. I mean, you can do whatever you want, but if you show up to a discussion, give a long rant, and then leave, I'm definitely labeling your comment a PR stunt and adding your company to my "never do business with them" list.
Sorry, but do you have a source for this? The EU only sets a maximum level (50 mg/l apparently [1]), but member states are free to set lower maximums.

[1] http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/indicators/nitrate-in...
>Nah, that is just Jobs being Jobs. Trying to market himself as a design guy when in reality he is all marketing.

Actually Jobs was all design and vision (and business deals) -- and very little marketing. Apple had in-house and outside ad and marketing teams.
Background, ie why you might want to clean Intel ME: https://recon.cx/2014/slides/Recon%202014%20Skochinsky.pdf
The issue is right there: previous immigrants in France hardly assimilated, so when a new wave comes in, without change in the country there is no reason for them to assimilate either.
I agree with all of that, apart from your last conclusion.

The British intelligence service was, it appears, acting logically given its motivations and capabilities. It achieved the outcome it wanted.

Note that the motivations do not always align with what is good for Britain (nor, rather obviously, other countries) - see e.g. Iraq intelligence.

From what is visible (e.g. Snowden data), GCHQ continues to do the same thing. But it has vastly greater capabilities, both in collection and analysis. This means we have been heading towards an ever more capable/powerful surveillance state.
This could really use an asciinema showcase: https://asciinema.org/
XMPP is still pretty relevant in the server to server space and in large companies requiring a scalable API which offers async, full duplex comms over a single socket connection and offers libraries and message brokers in pretty much every language.

That said I do believe some of our XMPP customers are starting to look around and ask for REST/Websocket based APIs as their new dev team hires look to reinvent the wheel ;)

Seriously speaking though - I think XMPP missed the boat as far as messaging goes. Smart phone apps took everyone unawares and XMPP didn't move fast enough to provide a solution for low power devices on high latency networks.

That said I wonder if there is a future in which XMPP does prove to be a compelling solution. I wouldn't put money on it, but even today a full duplex API which is highly secure, async and which offers schema enforced validation of your messages sounds pretty damn compelling. That said there is a lot of progress with things like STOMP, RabbitMQ etc. providing the pieces necessary to replace XMPP.

It's a pity since XMPP makes it so damn easy to build reliable, realtime apps.
The problem with monoculture is the you have a potential for a complete and utter failure. Ant it is not really "single-point", there are numerous mechanisms by which crops will fail.
The flip side of that is, if they are stronger than us, many would take it for granted that they would attempt to communicate with us, even though we've made no such attempt to do the same with species on our own planet.

Peter Gabriel has though tbf

http://petergabriel.com/news/the-interspecies-internet/

https://www.ted.com/talks/the_interspecies_internet_an_idea_...
Despite all the complaints and open letters about Amazon's horrible work culture and bad organization, they seemed to be building great products at an amazing pace. I read somewhere that AWS deployed 1000 new features to production every week. Whatever they're doing, it seems to be working. My only complaint is that most of their UI interfaces feel like Web 1.0
This game was beautiful and truly exciting to play when it came out. The graphics really contributed to the feeling of being there, sneaking around, watching light dancing from torches and shadows of moving NPCs.
> Bonus point: all your taxes are prefilled by governement you just need to confirm on the website.

A very odd thing to say, since in most of (Northern, at least) Europe salaries are paid tax-deducted. When I was in the UK my salary was my net income, nothing to declare or confirm. And it's been like that since the 60s.
There are very little guarantees in the "conventional farming" either and I find it more disturbing.

"Organic farming" doesn't mean a lot since there is no clear agreement on the definition. However, considering it should use less and safer inputs, why should it provide more guarantees than "conventional farming"?
I don't really understand why people want to funnel themselves into these ml frameworks when you can have the freedom to implement arguably more interesting things in c++/fortran with libs like armadillo, openblas, superlu, etc? I mean, i get it if people just wanna copy paste the functions they see used in blogs/press/toy demo releases and get on with things, is that it?
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Project looks fine - but I don't see myself switching from latex beamer any time soon.
What one builds is important, when describing the core competencies of a person.

Describing Trump as someone who builds his buildings gives him credit for a depth of insight and an active hand in the process of architecture, and the gp comment that appears to liken him to Steve Jobs further implies that Trump has an equivalent level of talent and genius in his field. I see no evidence that he is to real estate what Steve Jobs was to Apple computers.

Donald Trump is a builder of fortunes, of his own celebrity and business relationships. As such, I would judge him on the quality of the network he surrounds himself with, because his core competency appears to be choosing people to build things for him.

And I wouldn't necessarily claim that any business co-founder is a builder. Otherwise, I might as well say I build rockets if I invest enough money into SpaceX.
Yeah, I couldn't figure out why I was supposed to be terrified by that. Yeah, man, civilization and specialization. Sounds like progress to me. What's the concern? A Lucifer's Hammer style apocalypse? Failure of society at large to adequately meddle in the affairs of farmers?
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