skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone know how the nutritional content compares? For me, the fact that I can cook a 300g burger that, after trimmings, is 1000+ calories is a big deal. Also the massive amounts of fat and protein, and the low carb profile. All these things make burgers a great meal choice for me (taste matters too obviously).

If these fake burgers are cheaper, have similar macros and calorie density, and are better for the environment, I am super interested.
Agreed.

You're always going to have people that manage the details and edge cases of complex software systems. Those people will be programmers.

And if there is ever an AI invented that can replace those people then many white collar workers are at risk of losing their jobs, not just programmers.
FWIW (and I know this is a single data point), but my experience with NBN has been positive.

It's also Fibre to the Node (FTTN) which is often maligned in internet/tech circles for being a poor technology choice. I'd prefer FttP, but it's not an option and I'll take what I can get.

I'm now getting close to my plan's speed (50/20), but you're right about the increased cost. It's roughly 45% more. But the speed from the old ADSL2 plan is probably 4-5 times faster.

The only complaint I would have is that speeds during peak are pretty off the advertised plan speed. They fall to around 18-20mbs down at night.
Ah ok, with you now! Are you guys mainly a hardware company then? Anything cool going on software-wise for you guys?
How about we just abstract to "Intellectual Debt"? A subclass that I've recently encountered is "Learning Debt".
I think all these types of debt can equally apply to learning - as in formal education. Came to mind while reading "Undigested Ideas" because I recently had a conversation with my daughter (sophomore at Yale) that a bad test grade means that you may have Intellectual Debt that needs to be retired by taking time after the test to make sure you understand what you did wrong.
Music is a different animal. I can listen to a piece of music hundreds of times. I'll only watch a movie once, even the most diehard will only watch a movie at most dozens of times. I'm going to notice restrictions on my music way way sooner than I'll notice them on my movies. My only real objection to DRM on movies is philosophical, while my objection to DRM in music is practical, as in, I'll pirate my music if I can't move it around.
You don't understand how this works. Firefox just provides some APIs that the DRM blob can use. All the decryption is done by the blob, not Firefox. You can reverse engineer the blob itself to an extent, but that will also become impossible with SGX (hence 4k on kabylake + edge only).
Sorry friend but I just visited your https://www.exelion.net website and the level of arrogance in your comment is really unwelcoming and misplaced.
Windows is first-class-no-questions-asked-supported by Haskell.

The same cannot be said about .NET's support for platforms other than Windows.
Interesting, almost all of the ads I see are high quality and mostly brands you already recognize.
Just put it behind CloudFlare free tier, and apply some load testing and see how it goes.
What to do with a Raspberry Pi?
This is false. EME describes only the interface between the Javascript environment and the CDM. It says nothing about the CDM's interface with the browser code, which is the heart of the issue.
This could have been a really smart way to get Medium started a few years ago. The way the site has been built out, though, this will be quite challenging.

Right now, Medium is a very noisy site. Noisy in a good way. Lots of energy. Lots of advocacy posts, full of swear words for emphasis. It's become a place where bold new voices periodically show up to make a statement. (Talia Jane, etc.) I try to skim it a couple times a week. Skim is the key word; the site's stories are very hit or miss. It's possible to breeze past five duds in a row so quickly that I hardly notice, and that's okay.

Nothing about current Medium feels like it has the makings of a judicious, curated concert hall of careful writing. Signing up a few famous writers won't fix this mismatch. Erratic is a big part of Medium's brand right now, and to forfeit that in a belated dash to "quality" feels dismissive of what the brand stands for.

It's really hard for me to see Medium as a place for the kind of WSJ/FT paid content that's aimed at rich high achievers who want business or lifestyle tips that the masses don't know about. It's even harder to see it succeeding as a paid online home for long, magazine-style features. Too many rivals in every genre are giving it away.

Building up a paid online audience is hard work, and it goes slowly at first. Jessica Lessin at The Information is doing it about as well as anyone, and she's defined her mission very tightly.

This latest strategy switch by Medium seems very prone to trying a lot of different formats in a hurry, without the patience to stick with one quietly for 2-3 years, waiting for the first little bits of traction to take hold.
Google and Apple have very little leverage. If even one major studio withdrew all their content from Apple and only made it available on Netflix, Apple could potentially lose millions of subscribers. People want to watch what they want to watch.
"The Reddit user said the chief differences between the Apple prototype and that shown in the Sonder clip was all the keys had a screen and lighting panel, and the display updated instantly with no slow transition from black to white. As a design-for-testing model not due to be released before 2018, the design was far from confirmed but the Reddit user seemed optimistic about the early unit. “It’s really a solid indication of the future of input technology,”"

Hadn't seen this, though it was submitted five months ago. Makes the rMBP menu-bar look like a joke.
$5 = introductory price. I assume it'll go higher?

"We will be routing 100% of the revenue from founding members (those who sign up in the first few months) to writers and independent publishers who have important work to do."

How much of the revenue will be paid out to writers and publishers in time?

I assume Medium wants to make money from this venture so I'll hazard a guess that the $5 will become $10, and Medium will take 30%.
I tried to ignore your tone, and it is really hard to hold a conversation if you go back and change your post after someone already comments on it.

> Rich people would still live close to the best schools and even if poor people could send their kids there, they still deal with so many disadvantages. If all the best schools are an hour bus ride away, that's unfair to people who don't live in that neighborhood.

That is a result of schools being funded by property taxes and levies. Our current system allows this to happen and switching to a system where the school is paid per student reduces the problem.

> I guess I'd like to hear specifically what a private school that is using fixed tuition dollars could do differently. How could they pay teachers that much more?

Most private schools have less funding than public schools so it would actually increase their budget. Public schools spend a lot of money outside the classroom on admin which most private schools don't find necessary.
Not only is it not true that Netflix would cave if they didn't have native browser support, but we know it's not true, because Netflix for years relied on plugins to deliver over browsers. Meanwhile, every year that passes, browsers have less leverage as more Netflix subscribers get their content either on set-top boxes or mobile devices (where Netflix has total end-to-end control), and fewer are stuck with browsers.
>Finally, in your Scala example, keep in mind that unlike ML functors, it has the usual constructor problem that many simple genericity mechanisms have: constructing instances of the parameter type. In Scala, that means you end up working with CanBuildFrom or implicit arguments; C# and Eiffel have specialized (and ultimately, still less flexible) language constructs to deal with that.

What does C++ have? Or what do those languages not have? Do they not work the same way as C++, where you can just write:

auto t = T{args...};

?
It looks like a semi-static website. $4100 is an outrageous quote. If it's just for a day or two and the content will remain the same - then I suggest using a static cache and something like Cloudflare.
I'll echo this for biology too. Often, the jargon is the exact same word, but used in a very different way. A quick example is the word 'vector'. In math, a line in space, in genetics, a vector is a virus. There are many other examples, especially with proteins, where those acronyms are reused many times, sometimes inside of the same article.

I was talking to a student the other day. He and I took many of the same classes in different semester in which we were assigned to read articles and then present them as part of class discussion. Typically this ends up being a talk all about the figures of the paper. He mentioned that most of the time, with bio papers, you have to read the article at least 3 times before you can start to grasp what is going on with it, not to mention the online methods section that goes on for ~20 printed pages. Often, the figures are quite clever and really do a good job at conveying the data in a great way, but they are presented as 'in-field' and the graphs, the diagrams, the data, etc. will be very very difficult to understand from a 'novice' point of view. For example, they will present the data out in a polar plot where the 360 graph is known in the field to represent only the arc of sensation out of the right 7th whisker of male mice under anesthesia. In that (contrived) example, you really have to dig about in literature to find this out and if you don't know that then you'll end up confused and really frustrated. Essentially, if you are a person that is somewhat interested in a very closely field of research, you have to spend hours upon hours trying to parse out some piddly little paper. It really is that bad. I don't know what that is, but it sure ain't 'science'. A paper in a closely related field should take you no more time to read and understand to the point of being able to tell someone else than the time it takes to eat a sandwich, a bag of chips, and drink a coffee in total.
This overlooks a key detail, namely interlacing. The C64 wasn't producing 60 frames per second, but rather 60 fields: sets of odd or even scanlines. So on the CRT TVs of the time, you'd get one colour on the odd scanlines, and another on the even scanlines. Scanline striping, essentially.
Plagiarism v. cherry-picking (or is that pit-picking in this case)... It's difficult to say which is the bigger ethical issue. Both are extremely dishonest and misleading.
I tried it. It tastes good because of the heme, but it tastes wheaty otherwise. I think most people would like it, but not going for gluten-free recipe seems shortsighted
φ is expressed in terms of 1, so if you have "φ" you have "1."
I suspect by wheat they mean the gluten part.
I will agree that the built in Windows OS help is very sparse. But I find myself (since 3.11) needing it less than I ever needed help with Linux.

If I went back to trying Linux, I'd need a suite of 'just-works' solutions; Plug & Play was the main reason my family moved from DR-DOS & Norton Commander to 95. And of course driver compatibility.

Honestly, if I went to an open OS from 7 at this point, I'd go to ReactOS.
Sure, once we have a holodeck that can understand arbitrary requests and make them physical reality, I might be worried about finding work as a programmer.
Here is a better summary from Nature: http://www.nature.com/news/amazon-rainforest-was-shaped-by-a...

Here is the actual article (published on March 2nd): http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6324/466

My takeaway: yes, humans may have aided in the dispersal of useful plants across the Amazon in pre-Columbian times, but other factors were more important. The authors also did a poor job (as they acknowledge) separating pre-Columbian effects from those in more recent times.
I saw this article awhile ago and was puzzled by it. Unknown ancient peoples planted productive trees thousands of years ago.

What does that mean with respect to the makeup of the forest thousands of years later? What does pristine even mean in this context?
> We start with good beans: currently from a co-op called Biftu Gudina in Ethiopia, roasted by 49th Parallel in Vancouver, BC.

Can someone explain how cities like SF and Vancouver, where nobody can afford to live, can sustain indie coffee shops? I have never understood this.
EME strictly reduces the amount of "closed" code on the web. Without EME, more of the content protection stack is proprietary, and the trusted code base that enables content protection is larger. This is a very simple point that I think we all understand; I don't understand why EME's opposition thinks they can dodge it.
> PhD students obviously stick around for longer but they are in graduate school to do research.

I've spent my first two years of grad school working on NEXT [1], a system useful for active machine learning but not a real paper producer.

I'm planning a conversation with my advisor about getting less involved in NEXT and more involved in research very soon (hopefully in the next week). This article validates this conversation.

[1]:http://nextml.org
What if animal fats are too heavy for your personal digestive system and you aren't obsessed with your BMI?
Why is density important. Is cooking a 500g veggie burger that much more effort? (Its not, especially since you don't need it to be properly cooked)
fair observation overall, but not sure about "patience" - in 3 years, who knows how much of current VC funding remains.
You're rebutting an argument I didn't make. The CDM is closed-source, but it was closed-source in the pre-EME world too. My argument is that EME opens up DRM stacks; it's that it opens up more of the DRM stack than was open before it.
As programmers, we are the automaters. Programming is precisely taking ill-specified tasks and automating their completion by a computer.
As someone who would love to buy this for long bicycle trips, I'm a bit turned off by the subscription model.

I know you want to hook me with a steady supply of superior coffee that's quicker to make, but I love the ritual of brewing my own pour-over coffee too much to think I'd give that up.
I've never really understood where this water "goes". A kilogram of cotton can contain no more than 1 kg of water, so the rest of the water must somehow be involved in growing and processing the cotton.

However, suppose I use 10,000 L of water to irrigate my cotton plot. A lot of this water is lost to evaporation and transpiration. A little bit is bound up in the non-harvest-able parts of the plant too. However, none of this water seems like it's really "lost"--it eventually comes back as rain or snow, right? If we're not spending tons of energy moving the water around, this doesn't seem too awful. The worst possible outcome seems like it would involve the water evaporating and then returning as rain over the sea, which would make it more expensive to reuse as fresh water.

On the flip side, I can imagine that some water is also contaminated by the processing in a way that makes it expensive or impossible to reuse. That seems much worse.
Oh god what if centipedes developed flight. A dozen sets of wings all down the body. Aaargh.
Michael: What do you think of when you hear the name, "Sudden Coffee"?

George Michael: Coffee dressing, I think. But for some reason I don't want to drink it.

Jokes aside, best wishes. Got a trial subscription for $?
See http://www.impossiblefoods.com/images/faq/nutrition-facts.pn...

Their competitor Beyond meat has also the following comparison: http://beyondmeat.com/media/img/home/weigh-in.jpg
So basically just one bug and community goes bananas on conspiracy theories.

What is most plausible? Microsoft does vast majority of user testing on Microsoft Windows or that they added sleep() for Linux? Do you know any software developer that works like that?
English is such an ambiguous language, I would think that training would be a lot harder (especially for native speakers to unlearn the imprecise parts of English).
Whatever: incompetence or foul play, doesnt matter because I'm far away.
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Quoting PG used to be all the rage around here, but it seems to have gone somewhat out of fashion. Anyway, he basically credits the power of Lisp with the success of Viaweb, in exactly the way you suggest:

If other companies didn't want to use Lisp, so much the better. It might give us a technological edge, and we needed all the help we could get. When we started Viaweb, we had no experience in business. We didn't know anything about marketing, or hiring people, or raising money, or getting customers. Neither of us had ever even had what you would call a real job. The only thing we were good at was writing software. We hoped that would save us. Any advantage we could get in the software department, we would take.

http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
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Absolutely not. If you can, run it on your own machines, or GCE/AWS, where you can commission a large server or build a scale-able infrastructure (wp frontends, EFS, aurora on AWS or wp frontends, gluster, cloud sql on GCE).

For $4k, you can pick up a couple of used servers off of ebay, 4 ssd drives, and probably colocate them for a year.

Hell, if you want to, you could probably even go with just one larger server from hetzner or scaleway or aws and you should probably be fine, depending on how much traffic you anticipate.
> Try getting them to deliver to a person using some other location than an address

So, like, General Delivery?

> If I have something mailed to me at my office, are you claiming the post office hasn't made a mistake when they deliver it to my home?

There's a question of principal/agent there, so maybe, maybe not.

OTOH, I'll maintain that the post office is not making a mistake when it keeps delivering my mail from my employer to me at my actual address, even though they keep sending it to an address which resembles mine only in that the street name and zip code are the same, and two of the four numbers in the street address they use also appear (in different positions) in my actual address.

Which I suppose I should go talk to HR about again.
The writing is on the wall, this is a hail mary!

Its a decent platform that would make some money, but not the kind of amounts it raised.

I like what YouTube did with YouTubeRed, give an option to people not have ads is the way, but keep it accessible to every one. I think that is their only solution, but now they have doubled down on no-ads. God Bless Them.

Good Intentions is a not a great business plan.
Will FSS be added later?
If you're looking at it purely in terms of nutrition. But taste? Socialism doesn't measure the actual utility given by goods. Capitalism does by virtue of us spending our money according to what we like.
So, you're telling me Microsoft is unable to tell the difference between code that doesn't work (the 'old' code) and code that does work (the 'new' code), and that to be safe they are returning the non-working code as a fix for potential problems that do not appear to exist?

If there is anything that would be more damaging to Microsoft than calling them malicious it is probably calling them incompetent, that's their core expertise you are challenging there.
Yup, the relevant part of that article:

"Post and his team are now working on replacing the serum [fetal calf serum] with something that doesn’t rely on animal products, and told the ABC that while they’re making great process, it’ll be at least a couple of decades before they can scale the technique up and make it commercially viable."

If you're using fetal calf serum (FCS), you're definitely not particularly vegetarian, nor are you reducing the need for physical cows. Let's assume you can eventually get rid of that requirement though.

Cost estimates for something that is quote "decades" away isn't quite meaningful. The hard part is scale, and it sounds like they're quite aware of that problem.

Finally, $11 per burger is still insanely expensive. I can get a burger, with bun, cooked and handed to me on a platter for $1 at McDonald's. It's an enormous challenge to get lab grown meat down to an industrially relevant cost.

I'd still bet on Impossible Foods's approach.
Perhaps the 'sad'/'damn sidebar'/'should realize' passive-aggressive entitlement doesn't help?
This is a good way to show how a PhD can be relevant to one's career outside academia, contrary to what is usually discussed here on HN..
Good questions! Most people working in these cafes can't afford to live in the city - most baristas in SF seem to live in the East Bay. A lot of people are still able and willing to pay $3-4 for a cup of coffee so instead of going to Starbucks people choose to buy better coffee in smaller shops?
Ok, but where is the material to learn from? How see the "baby steps"?

With compilers you have a lot to get from, but database building are more hard to find.

--

One of the problems is that "databases" are assumed to be a ALL-OR-NOTHING system, with a lot of parts (like storage, transactions, invisible-indexes, triggers, cross-table validations, crash-recovery, query-optimizer) so is assumed a huge undertaking, instead of something more small and contained.

--

BTW, I'm on the hunt because I wish to build a relational language (alike kdb+ but with more "normal" syntax), for build the same kind of apps as with c#, python, etc.

I only need on-memory processing and not storage or transactions (or maybe transactions? I don't see how practical it could be for normal coding)
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I've tried the Impossible Burger twice at Cockscomb Restaurant in San Francisco. It's almost identical in taste to a good beef burger, when prepared by a professional chef at least. But at $19, it's not competitive with a $7.75 Super Duper Burger or any cheaper variants one might find at In-N-Out or fast food joints further down the ladder.
Define 'tastes good/bad'
A 4K HDR strip and capture rig is more expensive.

But Netflix and Amazon Prime content still turns up pirated in 4K. But Netflix and Amazon can be seen to be doing "everything they can to prevent piracy!"
You need to address this:

> This is the idea of the open Web. CDMs are literally the opposite idea.
Probably not. Currently, the part of training/learning time spent in educating developers that refers to the language syntax is at most 5% of the whole; perhaps 10% for the most junior developers; so 'programming in English' saves you just a tiny part of the training.

However, as a specialized language can quite plausibly make you 10% or 100% more productive, no one serious would use general english even if it was a possibility. You might imagine a somewhat efficient programming in a very "jargony" english (similar to "legalese") with very specific (and likely unintuitive) meanings of a large number of particular phrases, but then there's no meaningful advantage of it, it's just as far from everyday english as any other programming language, and requires just as much training.
This is something i am really (REALLY!) excited about. I am a Vegetarian because of the environmental impact, but the desire for the taste is still there (been a few years). All the substitutes i have tried (until now) were bad and left me disappointed and i still have to fight the urge to order a good old schnitzel at a restaurant.

EDIT: if somebody asks why i am being so strict...i will stop being strict when we start living sustainable on a global scale. I don't see that happen in my lifetime. Until then being a strict vegetarian has a good impact on the people around me. I don't try to persuade anybody, i will even grill your meat, i am just a vegetarian for myself and the planet.
And yet there's a lot of effort in automating lawyers, so maybe the future will be setting more higher level .