skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
16USD per pound, which is 44AUD or 35USD per KG, thankyou Wolfram, is high, but considering the environmental and ethical advantages it's almost miraculous. That's just about dead on 5x what I pay for chicken breast now, so it's not at all crazy to imagine splurging on this once in a while for a meal with a vegan friend, and that the price will come down to a mass-market, regular purchase level in the not-so-distant future.

Much like how a Tesla Model 3 isn't as cheap as a Corolla, but still not completely out of the question for alot of people like a Model S is.

Even if it settles at double the price of meat I could see myself buying it regularly. Given how unethically meat is produced now, I don't mind accepting some price increase.
Browsers should be browsers, not a way to get a whole bunch of trojan horse software installed on your machine.

If I wanted voice search, file sharing and/or note taking I would find the appropriate piece of software for that task and install it separately.

All this does is increasing the attack surface of the browser in a ridiculous manner providing features that only very few will use. File-sharing? What could possibly go wrong?

And in the meantime Thunderbird, a stand-alone program that had a decent following got the axe in favor of more browser bloat.

I really no longer understand Mozilla's mission.
TP's OOP was modelled after Apple's Object Pascal. It was an awkward ugly implementation that had e.g. slicing problems and weird initialization syntax, and was fairly quickly deprecated when Delphi came around.
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When I was a kid in the 80s, it was totally normal for our gym teachers to tell us to "hustle" when we were running, lining up or doing some drill. I'm not sure about the dependable part, but working hard and moving quickly are absolutely what the word has meant to me since I first started hearing it.
Really? They list this as one of the examples of him being terrible:

>Nawaz tweeted out a cartoon of Jesus and Muhammad — despite the fact that many Muslims see it as blasphemous to draw Muhammad.

Looks like they're just upset anyone would upset Muslims.
Most burgers are improved with MSG, it is a miracle salt.
I've been programming for 14 years in about 10 different programming languages... It's a struggle for me to list them all (let alone learn them). I only really needed two of them; all the others were a waste of time because they're so similar to each other.

Learning new languages is not hard for me, I can pick up a new one in a single day and my code could fool someone into thinking that I've been doing it for a while (if you ignore development speed)... But unfortunately that's not true mastery, you can only truly master a language or framework after working with it full time for a couple of years.

It takes a long time to absorb all the intricacies of a language to produce really good software.

You could spend a few years studying French and think that you know it all by the end just because you can talk fluently, but in reality you couldn't even write a basic child's novel, let alone a top-seller, or a Pulitzer prize novel.

It depends on what kind of work you want to produce.
Good point! I don't really have enough (or any) economics knowledge to know how to model the value of voting shares in this case, but I think that there would also be downward pressure, for example as the voting power of company founders increases due to the reduction in number of voting shares.
> But they ALSO replaced the Air 2 with a really nice device at $330 instead of $500.

Yep. And if you watch Best Buy, you can get it on sale even cheaper (~$299). An iPad at that price pushes out almost every contender tablet out there.
> If the spent fuel was re-used correctly, we could run all the humanity's toys with it for several hundred thousand years without breaking any sweat.

And here we go, the fabled magical Thorium reactors.

There are many reasons why we don't do this, one of them are engineering constraints because molten salt is very corrosive as such maintaining a reactor like that is a real pita.

You should also be aware that, contrary to popular belief, even Thorium reactors can be used to produce fuel for nuclear weapons, it's not impossible to weaponize U-233, after all this process was used to produce the fuel for Operation Teapot in 1955.

And lastly: The only reason why thorium reactors have such a great "safety track record" is that we barely build any of them, our sample size is way too small to make any useful statements about this.

We have roughly 435 commercial nuclear plants in operation, with another 63 being built [0]. There have been around 20 major nuclear accidents over the years [1]. In contrast to that, there are only around 15 Thorium reactors [2], imho that's not a big enough sample size to make any statements about the actual failure rates, especially when you consider that none of these 15 reactors are run on a commercial basis.

For all purpose and effect, Thorium reactors are just an attempt to "rebrand nuclear" to get rid of the horrible nuclear track record and public reputation. Even if we'd go full Thorium we'd still need some reactors to cycle uranium for the Thorium reactors to actually work. In that regard, it's not really a solution but just another excuse for keeping the problem going.

[0] http://www.euronuclear.org/info/encyclopedia/n/nuclear-power...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_and_radiation_accident...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium_fuel_cycle#List_of_tho...
Sorry, this is just a trivial observation, but if you're going to accept

x + x + 100 = 500

and

3x - x = 400

you can probably list any variety along the lines of

(n)x - (n - 2)x + y = 400 + y

so clearly that isn't a finite transformation space.

Now, these transformations might look trivial, but this problem is too. So there's an interesting question of bounding your algebraic transformations to a subset of all possible transformations that still make all possible solutions available, which ultimately doesn't answer yours.
It's a huge leap. AlphaGo used data to train itself well against a game with extremely clear rules and outputs.

So while impressive, it's an example again of specialized AI. Real life is not at all like this, nor is what Google achieved clear that it can be a roadmap to anything like General AI.
Not really. There are very few people who consider 'freedom' in that sense to be an absolute right; the argument is merely about which restrictions are acceptable, and which are not.
I feel like the value in AR lies more in knowing where the user is, in proximity to what, and trying to draw them somewhere than necessarily showing them virtual overlays of items already in that physical space.

In other words, you use your phone's camera to do whatever, and the phone notices you linger at a window or a billboard (by tracking your eye movements and retinal responses.) You get home, and suggested items are virtually added to your living room.

Maybe you walk past a clothing store and it adds a new suit to your reflection.

Or AR games that require you to move past physical ads or storefronts, and take pictures of them.
How does "You need my private key to sign the cross-env package" stop someone from creating a "crossenv" package? What does the specific workflow look like that makes sure I don't add the wrong thing to my project?
Apparently, no parent is vague enough for trolling. But maybe that is getting harder now with the recent decisions about jurisdiction.
No, and it's really obnoxious, because there are thresholds where content doesn't have to be listed. For example, a package of tic-tacs will say that it has 0g sugar per serving (a 'serving' being one tic-tac), but the whole (small) package will have something like 20g of sugar.
Maybe I like taking up more bytes with my comments ;-)
lemonodor? Haven't heard that name in years.

Super glad that Patrick has found so much success, and created what seems like an amazing organization.
>He ripped of tons of people with a subscription scam in Germany a couple of years ago.

Can you provide a source relate to the subscription scam?
I discovered that there were roughly three times as many colo[u]rs in the USA vs the UK when I moved 20 years ago. But thanks to globalization I bet they have Aqua and Taupe in Blighty now...
Applied for Product Manager role. Radio silence from your end. I would love to be a part of the team that is building the future.
Last time I tried it still was slow... I'll give it another try.
> but the goal of proving a theorem is only rarely finding any proof

No. The goal of proving a theorem is proving it any way possible. And "inelegant" proof is just as much a proof as an "elegant" proof.

> and in the best case scenario a proof that actually forms a sensible new theoretical framework in which the theorem becomes almost trivial to prove.

What?
It's either a seemingly random measure or, if in a single serving container, the total calories.
I don't know the specifics of your situation so my suggestion may or may not be applicable.

That said I would suggest you spend your own time trying to solve some difficult problem that your team faces or designing or prototyping a solution for some complex software component your team needs. If you succeed that should earn you more respect for your technical abilities.

This has worked for me in the past. Once you get to a more senior role though I'd be careful of making a habit of it or you may get taken advantage of.
Yeah, "profiting" is a typical stupid liberal accusation to invalidate people, because liberals have this shitty idea that "making money == bad". They use the same argument against the Kochs, even though it's been clearly debunked: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-hate-koch-brothers-part-...

I have no problem with Maajid fundraising and paying himself a salary. You need to be careful with the "X profits from fundraising, therefore they're just trying to profit from Y sentiment." That argument could be applied to Planned Parenthood, Churches, and just really anything. Just because an organization is well-funded doesn't mean they're morally bankrupt.
> If I wanted voice search, file sharing and/or note taking I would find the appropriate piece of software for that task and install it separately.

The good thing is that these are all separate browser extensions, none of which are bundled by default. So that's exactly the case.
Being anti Islam, which, as practiced by hundreds of millions, is simply not compatible with Western values, is not being anti Muslim.

And extremeist? I'm not sure what they say is even remotely extreme.
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There is damaged and there is zombie state. I suspect Theranos is in the zombie state, too wealthy to fold but it is really no longer alive. Damage you can recover from Theranos as a brand is so tainted that no other company with a successful line of medical devices will ever want to be associated with them for fear of getting contaminated by proximity, and no customers will sign on for fear of being used as a stooge in the next round of fraud.

Any acquisition of Theranos will be after the book is closed and the assets are sold off. People working there will likely have a big hole in their resume's that they'd rather not talk about.
I wouldn't say I've underestimated anything. That was an honest question; as in: "what mental gymnastics did the FCC do to even think that keeping secrets is allowable?"

That aside, I would agree with you.
It's too bad the screen isn't quite as nice as the Air 2, but the processor is dramatically better.

It really is a fantastic price point.
* Capital: https://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2016/10/07/why-thera...

Theranos raised $750 million, including $633 million last year.

* Social Network: Theranos raised money from a wide range of influential investors who can support the company's efforts to secure new customers and who stand to lose to varying degrees if instead Theranos completely folds, even if it returns the remaining balance of funds raised.

* Core organizational processes: the company still has hundreds of employees on the payroll, most of whom are qualified professionals in this field. It is not trivial to recruit and bring together an organization like that. It's unlikely that most of those hundreds of people were directly involved in the shenanigans of the company.

I think those are 3 assets the company would use towards a pivot like I described. But you can't do it without removing the leader who got them here.
There is one plausible solution to this inequality: the Unix philosophy. Small parts, loosely coupled. Individual parts can't be significantly changed or removed, but they can be deprecated and better alternatives added. Because the parts themselves are small, they're less likely to have errors and replacing them is cheap.

Rich Hickey also has a talk on this. And there's also an overlap with CRDTs (basically you have a distributed system unless you can refactor everything atomically).
Speaking of speed, or lack thereof on Googke properties, has anyone else noticed how insanely slow the Google Admin interface is?
Preferred shares also have senior claims if the company is dissolved. I believe the classes in question have none of those advantages.
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The day you can point your AR goggles at your SO and turn them into the anime/fandom/porn character of your choice, is the day AR porn gets its killer app.
The organizations whom Cisco sells these expensive devices to also tend to have bandwidth several orders of magnitude above what the average consumer has at home.
>nobody but the most tinfoily of us is going to do that

Are you characterizing people who verify keys as crazy? It's not like you can't just reach out to @kentcdodds and get an answer in under 5 hours as Oscar Blomsten just did in the OP.
How messaging digitizes human interactions
Did she really use a "No True Scotsman" argument to say the Scots don't need privacy and security?
Reminds me of digg.com
Gl hf reddit execs.
Based on my skimming, Revlon is about directors' obligation to go for a high buyout price in sinking-ship conditions, rather then dig in their heels and poison-pill. The GP's point was about being able to buy control from buying only a tiny sliver of the shares, AIUI.

Edit: Or your point is that the share A class is the poison pill? I'm in over my head here...
> What's a paid service that facilitates access to unknown artists?

Other people have been mentioning Bandcamp. Seems like signing up as an artist is free, and they market themselves as a way to discover and support new music. Am I missing something, or isn't that the kind of service you're talking about?
For now. And then because not enough people install them they will be bundled by default. This has happened over and over, for instance with sync, pocket and so on.

The whole idea behind test pilot stuff is to trial stuff intended for future inclusion in the main distribution, getting it force-fed to be able to claim a large installed base is the logical next step.
It's not about consensus, it's about verifiability. When the president justifies policy because group X believes Y, I could theoretically fact-check what X actually says -- we unfortunately live in a post-truth world where that's a necessary check on democracy. I can't do that if Google has decided X is too unpleasant to be heard.
Hmm, but why cut off comments or restrict search results if it's just about placating advertisers? There seems to be more here at play.

I agree Google doesn't care about free speech.

I'm not sure about the best remedy to the problem. Things as diverse as legislation to alternative non-centralized social network to simply trying to change corporate and cultural values all come to mind...
Sorry, but I don't like Hacker News turning into reddit threads where unproven speculation gets read as truth.

Care to provide some substance to your claims with examples of precisely what kinds of funding supports (in $$$) the Canadian government actually gives to new migrants?

There's a common meme out there that refugees get more money than welfare recipients, and it's outright false. (Source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/do-government-assisted-refug...)
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I was of the impression that a lot of the fertilizer runoff in the Gulf of Mexico was actually from lawn irrigation.
CS student here, why is Turing completeness a bad thing in this case?
It's outrageously unfair because when you hire an advisor you typically know so little about their domain of expertise you have no idea what questions to ask them.

So you have no effective oversight over the quality - or otherwise - of their work.

Of course you can hire another professional to double check the advice of the first professional, but that soon gets expensive, you're pretty much guaranteed some angry muttering, and you're still not guaranteed a reasonable outcome.

It's a remarkable fact that consumers have more rights when buying a toaster than when hiring an accountant or lawyer - and the toaster is going to be more reliable, and much less expensive to run.
I do something similar. I set up a "pair" user on the system whose login shell is just a script that attaches to the tmux session. The script that starts the tmux session, sets the group permissions on the socket to "pair". This means that even though the "pair" user has their ssh key in pair's authorised_keys file, they can't log in unless there is an ssh session with the appropriately shared socket. Also, they are never logged in as your user (though, sharing the session, they can do whatever you can do -- only you are guaranteed to be able to see it).
If you believe in passive investing, it might make more sense to buy something like the Vanguard Total Stock Market Index rather than the S&P 500, which has inclusion rules and isn't a true broad-market index. (Although the S&P 500 performs almost exactly the same as a total market index).
Also there's unpkg for npm projects.

https://unpkg.com
Eh, depends what you mean by "scale".

When you start talking environmentally sustainable meat production, you're talking about utilizing land and calories that would not be well utilized otherwise. Pastureland that is too rocky or arid for grain or vegetable production, grazed at a level that is sustainable for that land. Food waste and mast you can feed to pigs or goats but not people.

Scale is "a whole lot of meat" but "not much as Americans eat now".
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Note that the dividend effect is dependent on the share price, and may only be valid if you sell shares within a short time of the buy back.
So how come we can have Youtube but not Soundcloud?
They're probably counting e.g. SWEIII with an intern. Still, I'm more amazed that a single person has done feedback session with 9000 people in two months ;)
Good link but probably better to keep build-in functions alone, since many many libraries use them and expect them to be a certain way.

\PHP\function_name() is fine IMHO.
> I saw comments by lots of genuinely afraid laypeople who were producing platitudes to the effect that scientists don't have common sense, that we're "playing god"...

We have the same here on HN, see some of the comments in this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14877920

The fear mongering is reaching pretty high levels.
My email address is also my full name and I was in at the very beginning as well. And 2004-2017 is 14 years.
NSA Unlawfully Surveiled everyone in the world.
Nothing new here.
A manager can also be a report. I assume that statistic includes middle managers, such as group managers, directors, etc.

Ex:

* Director might have 3 group manager reports

* Each group manager might have 3 manager reports

* Each manager might have 4 engineer reports

In the above example, we have 10 managers and 36 engineers, which isn't too far off from the 25% management statistic.
I once had a similar discussion about a phrase that was something like "smooth soft stone," describing a surface someone was walking on. It's a straightforward description of a sensation: if you're walking on a stone surface in bare feet, smooth stone feels much softer than rough stone. If you know how it feels, the phrase sounds perfectly smooth and natural, but if you've never experienced it, or don't remember experiencing it as a child, you might think the phrase is meant to sound jarring paradoxical, instead of gently referencing a paradox doesn't even feel paradoxical to us because it agrees with how we perceive the world.