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I'm a vegan. I don't drink milk, ever. It's not about ethics or health or virtue signaling anymore: I've been vegan so long that I can't comfortably digest meat or milk and I can't stand the taste either.

Sometimes I need a protein/fat/carbohydrate suspension with approximately the same viscosity as milk. The various veggie milks (rice, oat, soy, almond, and cashew) all fit the bill to different degrees in different situations. If I make my own veggie "milk" it usually tastes something like whatever I made it from, but stale and with a cloying chalky mouth-feel. Commercially available veggie milks often taste bad, but not nearly as bad as anything I've made in my blender.

There are a few reasons why people might prefer oat milk over the alternatives.

* Nut milks are more expensive, Cashew being the most milk-like but also the most expensive.

* Rice milk tastes like water and has very little appeal.

* Some people claim to be sensitive to soy and others are
convinced that it causes gynecomastia (more likely it's the hops in your beer).

* Nut and soy milks curdle in acidic coffee and tea. This can be a problem in cooking too; I use both "milk" and lemon juice in my vegan scalloped potatoes. I don't know if this is the case with oat milk or not.

In my estimation, oat milk sits at the sweet spot on the milkiness-cost curve between cashew milk and rice milk. It's about as milky as almond milk while being cheaper. Like other vile liquids that people habituate themselves to (coffee), the taste for oat milk can be acquired. It may even be the case that 100 years from now, people will swill oat milk like wine and grate it according to the grassiness of its bouquet.
I thought that was always their long term strategy. They're taking a loss with human-driven cars. I thought their plan was to spend their way into market dominance, then cut out the drivers once their self-driving cars are ready to go and finally start turning a profit.
> Ubers product is running a bunch of servers, a mobile app, and bearing the first-mover disadvantage of fighting with all the regulators about ridesharing.

So if we /s/ridesharing/home renting/ then we shouldn't invest in AirBnB either?
> There is no point in using TLS if you can't authenticate the endpoint. Your encryption is but an illusion at that point

You're falling for the same false dichotomy browser vendors have fallen for. There are two, disjoint factors: encryption and authentication. HTTPS provides encryption and recognized CAs provide authentication. HTTP provides neither. The encryption is most definitely NOT an illusion, it's real and it's working. But perhaps you meant to say "your security is but an illusion," which is a very different statement.
The closest kind of such a display I can think of would be a cholesteric liquid crystal display:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholesteric_liquid_crystal

...and even that may not be. I only say that it might, because I have a credit-card sized (it looks identical to a credit card - same size, same thickness) device from my bank, that was given to me as a customer for generating a 2-factor authentication number. The number is displayed as a set of 6 7-segment digits on such a display. I've had it for over 15 years, and it is still running off its original battery.

That said, I've never seen such a display which was larger than what is on my card, nor one that had color (the one on my card is a "greyish-green" color). Plus the displays are very slow to update (but, like e-ink displays, they don't need power to retain the image - at least in the short term; over time, the numbers on mine "degrade").

But supposedly, when the card's battery is "used up", and the card no longer works, you're supposed to cut it up along certain "lines" printed on the back of the card, and throw it in the trash. I doubt that it is biodegradable, but it might be recyclable.
Guy hasn't seen my home--I paid about 6% of that!
You just need these speakers (http://magico.net/product/ultimate.php) to reproduce those frequencies! The problem, of course, is whether even "prosumer" recordings keep frequencies higher than 20 or 22kHz, even if they were recorded on equipment that sampled at 192? Seems like most would LPF the rest away in the process of mastering for the masses.
What's the incentive to go into management if you get paid less?

By management I don't mean product/project management, I mean general & strategic leadership of a large organisation.
>You can be an activist for more than one cause at a time.

I agree. But scale does matter. You are not going to be worried about if the person giving you CPR has cooties or not, if you are suffering through an heart attack.

>their evil-ness is irrelevant

It is relevant, because I think free speech is more important than speed of packets. I have to use this opportunity to point out the hypocrisy of these corporations.
Direct Rendering Manager: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Rendering_Manager

Very different from Digital Rights Management.
You're right. Unfortunately HN won't let me edit my comment.
The above is a recital which gives background and useful in interpretation. However Article 7 is the meat in relation to consent.

https://www.privacy-regulation.eu/en/7.htm

In answer to your question the two items are independent. The first item gets at the idea that it's not possible to provide consent where the you really have no choice but to consent (i.e due to imbalance of power). One area of particular interest is in the field of employer-employee relations. Bundling up consent with a job offers means it's very difficult for the employer to refuse.

The other item gets at general service provision. You shouldn't make consent a condition of providing a service where that consent isn't necessary to provide the service.

So really the feeling at least consent-wise is that Google cannot attach consent to gather info for advertising with a service provision like search.

However they may instead seek to rely on a separate processing ground under art 6. The main one would be legitimate interests. There is some debate over the applicability if that ground is acceptable though.

/edit Plus the new ePrivacy Regulation brings additional considerations - in particular there's not currently any legitimate interests ground for processing
Pretty much -- every reader and advertiser is essentially a voter.

Many more layers of indirection for NASA officials. Still, I think NASA has heaps of politics.
It's an old Lisp term going back decades. Strictly speaking it's not the same as interprocedural DCE, because due to the dynamic features of Lisps you might need the user to specify the extent to which they are willing to disable the dynamic features to save space.
When told that multi-threaded access is hard and messy, "X program uses threads and it's not a mess" is not an argument -- for one because nobody said X program is a mess. Threads being messy is not a transitive property.

Nobody doing threads ever said that they are not messy or that multi-thread access and locking et al are easy.
It's not exactly a reliable benchmark for many reasons...
It just hit me why people continue to ask for headless browsers to be able to print to PDF -- for reports!

To get better control of the print job, do you ever use Adobe InDesign?
2008 for Sauce Labs, to be precise. Before that, BrowserCam (founded in 2002, acquired by Gomez in 2007) was part of my inspiration for Sauce Labs. BrowserCam was one of the first screenshots-as-a-service sites. The only thing it was missing was Selenium support for end-to-end test automation. :-)
In your original post you said "they [the authorities] judged". In the case of a bank robbery, it is the bank owners who are seeking protection of their property rights. It's not analogous to picking sides to stop a protest in the public square when multiple sides have a stake in it. The bar for abridging freedom of speech in the U.S. as a precipitating cause of immediate danger is very high.
But that doesn't really answer my question, which is what can delaying IPO actually do for them? I agree that the bird can't fly but I don't see how it's going to fly in 18 months or 80 months and I don't see a way around that. Uber exists in a market with no barriers to entry (it destroyed them) and it can't run a profit. Kalanick himself has said Uber needs self-driving but I'm a skeptic on that as well. It's 20+ years before there's going to be real, safe cars without drivers. Kalanick is delaying the inevitable, investors are trying to cash out before the public realizes self-driving is vaporware.
Their market position is worth something, if played correctly. When you go to Target now, the only cleanser option is Comet. 30 years ago, there were at least 4 choices. The ride share industry will undergo a similar consolidation.
He wasn't opposed to taking Uber public, he wanted to delay IPO as long as possible because going public places restrictions on how the company is run. Dara said the same comment. But 18-36 months doesn't go against anything TK said.
Not fake news, more like Clickbaity title.
This is Python, where lots of things are iterable/indexable. If for some reason you don't want an iterable/indexable object, then don't make one. But don't blame a tool other people use for the fact that it wasn't the tool you wanted it to be.
Oh sorry. In that case, my understanding is that they are independent.
I've spent a lot of time reviewing the original Bitcoin codebase.

It's brilliant code. It's production-grade C++. There's nothing in it that hints at academic origins. Most people are either academics or professional coders -- to be both is a rare exception.

The codebase seemed to materialize out of nowhere. One of the earliest commits in the SVN repo contains 36 thousand lines of code. "Satoshi" (or this group of people) must have worked months or a year on this before putting it up on source control.

The code also uses irc to find seed nodes, which is amusing. It just connects to #bitcoin and assumes that some of the people in the channel are running bitcoin nodes. That's a cool way around the "What if all the hardcoded seed nodes fail?" problem. I know it's probably a standard tactic, but bitcoin integrates so many standard tactics so well in addition to its academic work.

Here it is as one gigantic file: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/b4d5d1ab333c5d6e238fdc2242...
Ask HN: Does anyone here trade cryptocurrencies successfully?
If you do, what is your strategy? How do you make trading decisions, and what resources did you use to get started?
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Interesting, very interesting. Thanks for the reply. Would you like to share a link to your thesis ?
The camera is not the interesting part. The cartridge is the cool thing, and the camera was designed and built solely as the means to show it off from a very restricted frame of reference.

In order to maximize the effect, the cartridge should be programmed to "develop" the initial image with a visual effect from a black screen, and then hold there for a few seconds. And then, when the person you're showing off to starts to think "Ah, this is just a digital version of a Polaroid photo--that's not so impressive," that is when you start looping the animation.

You have to give the person a chance to make an assumption before you break it.
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Thanks. I mean it.

>Take action

I am, by speaking up here.
Can you create a self-contained deployment (SCD) of a GUI app, or does it only work for console apps?
I don't think they meant "establishment left" as in "left-leaning" but possibly more as "establishment remaining". I think they were trying to make the point that "the establishment" is crumbling in around itself because of all the corporate intervention and there's not really anyone remaining in the establishment that can fix that. I may be wrong, but that's what it seemed like to me...
Whether it's a good addition to the language or not is debatable, but as a browser feature, it sounds terrifying. Browsers have a huge attack surface as it is (I mean, WebGL is a thing – exposing GPU drivers to random untrusted code on the internet, what a brilliant idea...), and exposing threading will only make it worse. Every single API would have to be carefully audited and made thread-safe, and I'm sure that many 'fun' bugs would crop up as a result.
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> > If something wasn't feasible to do until the moment Apple copied it from others, why didn't Apple do it first?

> I really don't know what you mean by this.

You've answered to Apple copying others with "it was an obvious step forward, just infeasible before". Which fails to explain why was it infeasible for Apple until after it became feasible for others.

> I feel like you're trying to accuse me of saying that nobody but Apple is capable of innovation, which is nonsense.

It is a strong predictor of how you responded to the examples that were raised. The obvious question after seeing that is "is there a counterexample?"
Yup, all food is death. Vegetarians and vegans are just picking their ethical battles, really.

I sometimes idly wonder things like how far we are from sci-fi synthesis of a complete diet from entirely inorganic materials that have never been in a living thing. It might even become a necessity as a spacefaring species. Although, humans separated by interstellar distances would almost certainly diverge to the point where maintaining a single “species” becomes dubious, even if you had constant interbreeding, so you might have humans eating local plants & animals on other planets that are nutritionally useless or hazardous to Earthlings.
cat /proc/sys/kernel/unprivileged_userns_clone
1

$ systemd-nspawn
Need to be root.

looks like it requires more
Everything is built on top of previous work which I do not intend to diminish here. But, Satoshi is a total genius. The complexity and ingenuity of Bitcoin are just amazing.
So does it have to boot up before you can use it?
The Raspberru Pi has I2C support, right? I would expect that can be used for data transfer, though it will probably be slow.
> "Growth comes primarily from investment in science, technology, and other areas of innovation."

No, it doesn't. It's quite simple, none of those advances in science and technology mean a damn to the economy if there's no consumers buying new products. A working class person is much more likely to spend £1000 into the economy faster than a rich person, mainly because their needs are more immediate. Spreading wealth around leads to a broader base of consumers and a healthier economy. Also, it's quite clear that the opposite (trickle-down economics) has been a dismal failure.
I think mayank wanted you to say "Bitcoin's peer-to-peer protocol, on the other hand, is a new distributed algorithm"
So you've blacklisted AT&T, CenturyLink, Cox, Exede, HughesNet, MediaCom, StarTouch, SuddenLink, and Comcast?

All of those have the majority of their subscribers paying extra fees once they cross an invisible usage line, AKA a "data cap".
I can easily choose to avoid Amazon - they aren't seeding the entire internet with sly tracking technologies. They are a logistics business that makes money by moving stuff from warehouses to customers.

Similarly Apple wants to sell you an iPhone and a laptop and Microsoft wants to sell you an office suite and a database. Real companies with real products and services. But Google's ONLY business is stealing and selling personal data.
This makes no sense. You're saying the rich invest their spare cash into science and tech? That's not at all true, the rich invest into areas that provide returns on their investments, that's how they got rich and how they stay rich.
Always the danger of using 3rd party services -- their downtime is your downtime. I try to use few of them.

I always thought their posts were kinda neat about racking odd shaped Apple hardware in the datacenter. But it very much seemed to me like a software problem -- I would think it's much easier to build competing image scaling libraries that do not require Mac hardware and software.

And it made me think that they had just hired like datacenter guys with a passion for Apple kit -- a supreme case of where if you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
You shouldn't invest in AirBNB because cities can't withstand inflated housing prices forever and will eventually crack down on "home sharing" aka real estate arbitrage in the short term rental market.
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Economic inequality is the sole reliable predictor of a high level of violent crime in a society. Thousands of different indicators have been examined, and economic inequality is literally the only one that correlates significantly with violent crime rates. And that's before you even get into the principles of the matter. If capitalism is supposed to be based upon people being paid relative to the value they actually create, outsized executive pay clearly betrays that standard utterly. While a small number of people could replace a business analyst who knows the operations of the business inside and out, almost anyone could do the job of a CEO who shows up and is gone within 3 years, off to a new company, serving as nothing more than temporary figurehead and whose primary actual job duty is to cash large checks so investors think the company is healthy.
There are hundreds of startups planning to IPO in 18 months. Many have held steady with this plan for 5 years or more. For as long as four years they've been saying, "but this time, really, 18 months"
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Because the UK intentionally built a loophole into their version of the law.

The actual original cookie law, that was decided on EU level, requires users actually to be able to opt out.

But it was a directive, and so countries could interpret it for local implementations.

The GDPR is a regulation, which means its text is directly law, and it also means it can be a lot stricter.
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The employees are hired out to do the job. If it really was the case that the average employees talents were so rare, then they would be making much more. See for example deep learning and self driving car company "average" employees
The Linux attempt was pretty successful. https://lg.io/2015/07/05/revised-and-much-faster-run-your-ow...
They're making noise but they're not being heard. No one with any ability to instigate change is listening to them. Just because they're talking doesn't mean anyone is taking them seriously. For the record, I definitely think they should be taken seriously.
They aren't being a genuine, credible anti-corporate voice either.

These are nation states. They can start arresting Google's employees too. "Officer of the company" is not just an empty phrase.
Huh. I think it's how HN parses the trailing suffix of '.' on the URL.
From what I've observed, the "crowd" is easily seduced by performance above all other concerns - correctness, security, science, etc. NoSQL was invented and gained popularity b/c it originally was easier to scale via sharding, and that was seductive enough [1] to give it industry momentum. While performance is a feature, it seemed many folks originally advocating NoSQL did not understand or appreciate the mathematical foundations of the relational model. A decade of experience seems to be driving zeitgeist back to scientific fundamentals.

[1]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
Luckily we don't have to guess about this. We aggressively cut taxes on the richest in the US for all of the 80s and 90s. They did not invest in science, technology, or any area of innovation. They did not create more jobs. They invested solely in the financial services sector, and the money remains locked up in there still.
If I was his kid, I wouldn't listen to him either. His kid no doubt knows what a blowhard he is.

I dropped out of college at age twenty. I went back later. Neither of my sons felt compelled to go.

It is fine to argue against the idea that young people should feel compelled to go to college and to catalog the fact that people have a lot of erroneous ideas about college. It is not so cool to try to actively campaign against college as an option.
Just an extension to your post...

I sold and retired but I used to get shocked looks when I revealed that some of my employees earned a higher wage than I did. Basically, I paid myself a reasonable salary and paid other people to do things that I could not.

On the whole, I think this fostered a good work environment. There was a physically demonstrable level of respect. Salaries weren't ever really hidden, so it was almost certainly a motivator/morale boost when crunch times came. I paid myself enough and, for the most part, just kept pushing funds back into growth and a nest egg. I also kept the business as a separate entity.

To give an example, this was the early 1990s and quality programmers weren't easy to find. New hires started in the six figure range, unadjusted dollars. As an aside, it's notable that folks tell me that wages haven't really improved and, in sme cases, have declined.

Anyhow, the gist of this post is that showing respect earns you respect. Granted, the company never expanded beyond 250 people and I haven't actually ever taken a business class. So, I guess this is largely anecdotal.
To be clear. I never said that start-up time wasn't important. Instead, I pointed out that in the previously studied example, the measured impact on start-up time of a single named tuple was a fraction of a millisecond and less than 0.1% of start-up time.

At Guido's behest, I agreed to treat this miniscule component of start-up time as being important and will review and implement some optimizations in the sprints next week. I've agreed to do this even if it comes at the expense of code clarity, complexity, or maintainability. I expect that when I'm done, _source will be a lazily generated attribute and that much of the code currently in the template will be pre-computed. This seems reasonable to me.

FWIW, I've devoted 16 years of my life to optimizing Python and care a great deal about start-up time. I'm not happy about all the Raymond bashing going on in this thread.
The author believes that users have little incentive to allow Google to provide personalized Google Search results.

I don't think any technical-oriented people in this thread would agree that they have "little incentive" to allow Google Search personalization. When I turn off Google Search personalization, I get inferior search results that are less likely to be what I was searching for.

If you don't want your results personalized, there is an option in the search results to turn personalization off.

The problem I have with this law is that Google will need to default to non-personalized results and then prompt users if they want personalization. Google probably doesn't want to increase UI friction, so they will most likely just disable personalization and not prompt to enable. This will result in less-engaged users and inferior search results for the average EU citizen.
Hi guys, I am the creator of this camera! happy to answer any questions.. didn't know it was doing so well here on HN :)
When you send the result of Object.freeze() to or from a WebWorker the object is still copied and comes out the other side as fully mutable (aka, not frozen).

Immutable JS is orthogonal in this case. That's "just" a fancy wrapper on top of a bunch of regular, mutable JS objects that makes it look immutable. It's not truly immutable to the runtime, and has no special interaction with webworkers as a result. It gets deep copied just like any other object.
> In the late 1970s, the US FTC was worried about rising executive pay. So they pioneered similar 'transparency' requirements, forcing publicly traded companies to reveal the compensation of their executives.

I think you mean “early 1990s” and “SEC”, not “late 1970s” and “FTC”.
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