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Welcome and glad to have you. And while you're not a shill, I find your site misguided, in overly relying on equating natural, traditional diets with healthy, leading you to some recommendations that are orthogonal to healthiness, like fermented veggies and sprouted grains, and some that are unhelpful to health, like red meat and butter. The people of Finland drastically improved their health metrics when they transitioned to a modern mainstream European diet away from their natural, traditional Finnish diet of lots of red meat and butter.

Modern scientific findings, properly analyzed, are an astonishingly better guide to human health than any traditional collection of folk wisdom.
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Well, that was kind of my point. It's completely valid for Andy to propose a new site design, whatever others may think of it. It's difficult to take him seriously when opining on the paper's business model, especially when he's being so harsh about it and hasn't really worked in the industry.
We do know basics though, like "you need vitamin C." If you eat no foods that contain essential nutrients (that our bodies don't produce) you will become deficient.
Not to hijack the post, but this sounds like something I'm interested in. If OP is swamped, would you mind dropping a line? dblsprout@gmail.com
but...news isn't accessed only via subscription, so you can't really use that justification...
Favourite Home-Made 'Juice' Water Kefir[1]. Why?

Can Make massive batches at home.

Add any fruit.

The bacteria eats majority of the sugar.

It's Fizzy.

Slightly Alcholic.

[1] http://nourishedkitchen.com/water-kefir/
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Same rules apply to any university that is not a name brand.

It doesn't matter if it's Edinburgh University, University of Moscow or anything else if you have a degree from a school like that almost nobody cares about your degree.

Every university in the world produces some amazing people from time to time, but their awesomeness is always backed by something else than their degree. What those east European universities are good at is producing TopCoder winners and that's the 'credential' that gets those people jobs at Google.
Also if I were to release a new version of a compiler and VM for a widely used language, I'd try to run some really big projects on top of it and see if they work fine. There's no luck of those in Java world.
Workaround: run with -XX:-UseLoopPredicate. (http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-compiler-dev/...)

But yeah, pretty bad bug.
This is extremely bad. From their resident registration numbers, their entire lives and can be exposed.
That's a good summary. I admit that putting a "start" on this mess is a bit difficult, because things happened one step at a time.

I think the problem, though, is in how 35 USC 101 (patentable subject matter) got unhinged from 102 & 103 (novelty / non-obviousness). So you could meet the novelty requirements with something that wasn't patentable subject matter at all.

Once the lawyers could pry them apart like that, they could pass 101's requirements by saying the software is running on a computer and pass 102 & 103 requirements by saying that the software is new, even if the hardware in the patent is a normal PC. If they reversed that old decision and said that you can only pass 102 & 103 with something that is patentable subject matter, the scheme would fall apart.

You will note that this is, in effect, exactly what the decision to treat the stuff that isn't patentable subject matter as part of the prior art accomplishes and that Parker v. Flook does precisely that. Meanwhile, with Diamond v. Diehr, they got considered separately and ultimately separated.
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A lot of the challenges in making driverless cars has been in visual object recognition, which is probably the "visual post-processing" you mean.

It is important to note that humans, and other mammals, are very hard-wired to process vision and other inputs. For example, the retina is more than just an organic lens; it also encodes information about the motion of objects seen within its field of vision:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627307...

So in addition to post-processing, there is probably significant pre-processing done by the sensory extensions of our brain. Similarly, the physicist Georg Zweig studied the cochlea and found how it mechanically separates sound into its frequency distribution. Zweig's research on the cochlea also resulted in the discovery of the continuous wavelet transform, whose discrete version may be familiar through its use in JPEG2000.

http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Zweig.html
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I drink 88oz of coke every day...I also snack on chips a lot... ...by your logic, I should be about to overtake Gabe Newell. I'm not.

be patient bro you're on the right track
Certainly. That was an important step in our understanding. And we need to do more research.

I'm merely saying science is harmed when people blatantly decide to overlook reality.

It seems very interesting to me that I can drink 88oz of soda every day for the past 6 months and still be at the same weight. Why is that?

And it raises other interesting questions, too. Like the meaning of "health". For example, I know my muscles haven't been impacted, because I just armwrestled my wife's father and won, and the dude builds pole barns for a living. Like, goes out and actually builds them himself.

So if soda is so terrible, why haven't I been affected? Or is the truth that I'm overlooking some aspect of my health? I'm interested in the answers, but I won't ever find out if arrogant scientists continue with the "soda is terrible!" mantra.

Edit: as pyre points out, if someone reads this and thinks "Gee, maybe I'll try suddenly drinking 88oz of soda every day too!"... don't. I was just pointing out what I do, not saying that it's safe.
Yeah, it sounds like you have a pretty good solution. Especially compared to some I've seen.
It's also potentially the case that intelligent people recognize that it's silly to be completely upset over ads and that few sides with really obnoxious ads have good content in the first place. Perhaps, to them, it's just not worth the trouble.

But neither is trying to convince anyone on the internet that you're smart in the first place.
> properly analyzed

That's the catch.
A great release (professionally handled by Oracle), but still I am waiting for Java 8 (esp. closures + modules)
It's still annatto, which is also used to color butter (among countless other things).
I hope they get it back! I would be lost if my data were taken from me!
"don't know how to start putting them together to make something that works"...try a Github search?

Design patterns is a great next step, but it sounds like you're not quite there yet. Something intermediate-level like Dive Into Python will give you more ideas.

I made apps with WxWidgets and Django after learning the basics, but there are a million directions to go in. They just all involve building things and learning as you go.
Design is adjustment. Reduction is adjustment. So is addition.
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CCHIT is in no way controlled by large healthcare vendors. For example, on the Ambulatory work group only 3 of 11 members work for vendors.
http://www.cchit.org/workgroups/ambulatory
(I am a former member of another CCHIT work group and work for a large healthcare vendor.)
The argument is what things should be government grant incentives to that wouldn't happen otherwise. By incentive, this could mean patents, or it could mean subsidies, tax-credits, etc.

What we have to solve is which side is larger for each option:

SocietalReturns : OpportunityCosts + USPTOCosts + EnforcementCosts

If you did this for each patent and averaged this ratio, we should come to the right answer of which option(s) to pick. I'd be surprised if something like drastically raising the NIH/FDA funding budgets didn't solve the incentive problem better than patents - especially for drugs that are probably the best case for patents.
My weight fluctuates between ~90kg and ~105kg. I'm over 200cm. In no sense of either word am I overweight or a bodybuilder. It is definitely possible to be over 100kg and not considered overweight if you are tall.
I was thinking the same thing in different terms: open your sources, hide your test cases.

I'm sure the creators of readability have an awesome regression test suite. It would make no sense for them to publish it.
Dude, don't put me on the spot like that. I'm not going to judge your bloody photo. What is this, hotornot.com?

That said, you're pretty young, and your awful diet has evidently not caught up with you yet. When it does, I predict a swift re-evaluation of your ideas about nutrition and self-exceptionalism.
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I believe this is called the continuum fallacy:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Continuum_fal...
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Most people watch TV or play video games in their free time. These people choose to work on the Hurd.

What you are doing is simply being an asshole.

"IMO they should work on projects that are objectively interesting."

I rest my case. If you have a better idea of what they should be doing, pay them to do it. Don't tell anyone what they should or should not do otherwise.

Furthermore, my background, p9idf's background, and the PhD process all have fuck all to do with what other people do with their own free time.
Sigh... I for one am getting extremely tired of people freaking out because they see organic chemical names among the ingredients that go into food. Lots and lots of perfectly ordinary and harmless chemical compounds (e.g. ethyl butyrate, valencine) have scary-sounding names, and lots of toxic ones don't. If you want to educate yourself, pick up a copy of _On Food and Cooking_ by Harold McGee, and learn about what those compounds actually are.

Or you can run around screaming about the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide.

I for one would not be the slightest bit bothered if somebody added orange juice to my orange juice.
"Steve Jobs Sometimes Lies to You" but following other posts... "Does he respect you in the morning?"

I'm sorry, but re: FaceTime, not opening it up is old news. There is probably more traction in following what is going on in the RTCWeb world than there is in any particular company's opening of their video calling API. Keeping eyeballs in the realm of the proprietary app is key.

Many companies are in paying attention to WebRTC, but it's not there yet. Some companies, I suspect, like Apple, probably don't care (at least for now). It's better to focus on the primary customer experience.

Speaking of experience, I haven't researched, but how do the assorted non-facetime apps compare w/ facetime?
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I think the idea is to NOT do that. If you're doing it in production, you probably run your node in user level anyway, so you should have node installed via nvm or similar tool.

Why would you want package.json to list native dependencies, shouldn't that be the responsibility of the npm package author? Usually npm packages that compile to native code will run 'make' on 'npm install'.

Another reason that you would NOT want this is because npm packages could potentially use older conflicting versions of the same library. NPM can manage this internally -- you wouldn't want rpm to install 2 different versions of the same package globally.

In the contrived example below, cluster & express are using 2 different versions of the 'log' npm package, but the main system using cluster & express have no clue that there are 2 different versions installed.

├─┬ cluster@0.6.9
│ └── log@1.2.0
├── ejs@0.4.3
└─┬ express@2.0.0
├── log@1.0.0
├── connect@1.1.0
└── qs@0.3.0
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Apple flipflop ranking, any explanation?
Not much they could have done after that Nortel incident.

I do appreciate their sentiment:

“We buy companies all the time — for both people and interesting technologies. This would have been north of $4 billion for none of those things. We were bidding on the right to stop people from innovating"
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Personally having encountered this issue, I do agree with Alex here. Most of the projects are left out unfinished, so collaboration sure does make sense here.
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Until one of them stops doing so well with customers...
He didn't say it takes 10 neurons to compute the action, but ten steps. I am sure he is aware that millions or billions of neurons (? sorry, I am lazy) are involved in those 10 steps. His point is that even if we had those millions of neurons or transistors at our disposal, we don't know how to program them in such a way as to get a result in ten steps.

At least that is how I read it.
A stay at home mom discovers the secret ingredient JUICE COMPANIES DON'T WANT YOU TO LEARN? Sounds just like one of those ads about tooth-whitening or one weird old trick ;)
It is worse than 17 years, actually. It is 17 years from date of grant, not date of filing. The USPTO takes years to review a patent, so your effective monopoly period is 17 years + USPTO review time.

In Europe and other jurisdictions the protection period is 20 years from date of filing (rather than starting at the date of grant). There's patent reform legislation currently being considered that would make this improvement to US patent law (and, yes, you understand correctly that the typical software patent review takes more than 3 years, often much longer. That makes the terrible job they do all the more inexcusable, even though companies do game the process with things like claim amendments). In any case, you're absolutely right that the 2-year software patent doesn't solve the novelty and non-obviousness issues.

I'd add that a 2-year software patent would have to be 2 years from date of filing. Anything starting at date of grant would be far too long. Unfortunately, a 2-year from filing software patent would mean that you'd need to speed up USPTO review by an order of magnitude and make it higher-quality. If anyone can come up with a way of doing that that is better than a robot just stamping "No" on every application, I'd be pretty impressed.
Entire article is copied from here:

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/07/28/data-stolen-from-...
Speaking as a UC Berkeley grad w/ many coworkers who weren't from UCB/Stanford (which is common in SV companies), having the school on your resume makes it easier to get noticed from recruiters, but it's just one of many factors considered to "get in the door".

I've seen more companies look for other publicly visible areas of code output:
- Github/Stack Overflow/Quora
- Blogs/social sites like HN, reddit at times
- Open source projects

Internships or experience at well-regarded companies also helps a lot, and once you get through one of these avenues it's easier to keep the ball rolling and get introductions to the hot companies in our industry.

Of course, you still have to pass the interview, regardless of which university you studied in. =)
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My brother in law is quite a computer illiterate and he DOES use altavista as only search engine. God knows why.

He is 29 and does not even have an email address.
Good, loops are just gotos in disguise, and gotos are already banned in Java. This just makes the language more consistent.
Without any processing or additives? I'm for the most part quite glad the juice and milk I buy at the store has been processed--without pasteurization and homogenization, for example, milk would be significantly riskier AND less convenient.
oh so it's good if Google's buying the patents?

the hypocrisy.
I guess that wasn't clear, I meant literal executive bonuses.

Whether or not you can treat tax cuts as spending is debatable, but either way it was a revenue stream they threw down the toilet.
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If Apple, Microsoft and Oracle managed to drive Android out of the US, that might be enough, but I don't expect that to happen. Even if they won all their lawsuits on the broadest possible terms, some other large patent holder (e.g. Sony, IBM, Nokia, etc.) would have a powerful incentive to pick it up, invoke MAD in the other direction and milk the US Android exclusive for all it was worth.
* It's also possible that human beings are complex enough that we process foods differently. It's not like all humans are allergic to the same things, for example.

* It couple possibly have something to do with the discovery that all of our digestive tracts can (possibly) be categorized into three different sets of bacterial fauna.

* I certainly hope that you aren't recommending that everyone should just drink nothing but soda because, "it works for me, so it should work for everyone."
49 million people live in the country, 35 million of them have had their personal information exposed because of this internet hack.

Wow.
"Parallel" isn't even the correct word to describe how the brain processes.
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Spotify is just getting established in the US market, so they might be particularly attractive, weak prey that can be easily killed in order to establish a precedent.
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YPO is awesome, join when you can :-). Nice write-up.
Yeah, I'd like to know about fractal geometry too :)

Sadly not in my field, but good luck!

To help with book learning, try adding interactivity back in, e.g. by writing a short blog post on each small topic you want to learn. This will switch on the bits of your brain that like getting stuff done, and also challenge you to understand things more fully; having to explain something to someone else really points out what you didn't know that you don't know.
Dude I hate to break you're little bubble - but you fat. You might not be as hopelessly obese as people you are used to calling fat. But the truth is you are fat too.

You don't look healthy either and with continuing your lifestyle like you do, You are a ticking timebomb of diabetes, cholesterol issues, gout and other nasty metabolic diseases.

Take an example of my mother, she is 70 and has developed both gout and diabetes. Now imagine what you are allowed to eat - to not have issues with your body (hint. For diabetes - sugars are verboten and for gout proteins are denied.). Now imagine that there is a very real risk, that you will be in same condition by your mid 40's.

Wake up. Now.

Edit: I understand that a lot of HNers with our geeky lifestyles deem OP completely "normal" and "healthy" - but this is simply not the truth. And thus everybody might be in a deep denial.
This seems fishy to me. I actually got this message as well, and we're evaluating the impact - but this is a tremendously serious and obvious bug to appear in a shipping release of one of the most used softwares on the planet. It just doesn't add up to me.

Does anyone have more details than this message?
That's true. The brain has billions of neurons, and trillions of synapses. Parallel doesn't even come close to describing the density of connections, or the method of "computation" done by the brain. But it was an easy analogy. Don't look too hard into it :)
This is mostly the same reaction I had when I read the redesign article. Andy blatantly chose to define what is news to drive his design. For example he defined that the most read articles list is not news. Like, the front page of Hacker News is not news because it is a list of elements that have been ordered by how many people read, comment or upvote them and not by the news value specified by grown journalists.
In India we don't have the concept of software patents, unless some sort of hardware is involved. I am guessing that this is way better than the system where all business methods are patentable. This kills innovation. We should all just petition for change.
Software is represented and conceptualized as math. But when you put fingers to keyboard you set in motion a bunch of electrons and magnetic domains; you're assembling mechanical objects into a complex physical machine, a computing system that's in a new physical state it never existed in before. Nothing about the process couldn't be done instead with hydraulics or gears and levers instead of electrons and magnetic domains, except it would be a lot bigger, slower, harder to ensure a precise 1:1 relationship with our mathematical abstraction of it, and harder to ignore its physical nature.