skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd think that the market for "I can't believe it's not dead chicken" for vegetarians would be a tiny trickle compared to if they can sell it as "good conscience, and healthier too" to the section of us meat eaters who also find the meat counter off putting.
"Manufactured problem" is exactly the right phrase, but not in the way you mean it.

Other animals hunt other animals, and the ecosystem ends up in a sustainable equilibrium. Humans, however, get most of their meat from industrial agriculture, which is an extractive system that drains water tables and pumps carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

That's very definitely an ethical problem that we have manufactured.
You're just concerned about unsprung weight? What about the now positive torque applied to those wheels? That's the whole basis of how ESP works: applying a counter-force to a wheel in order to balance the car thanks to the torque generated around the yaw axis, so how does each motor knows what force to apply so as not to actually throw the vehicle off balance?

Think RWD cars. Floor it on a curve and you can go into a tailspin. But RWD cars are designed as having power on the rear while FWD cars have not, so the effect could be much more dramatic with much less force.

It's not that complex to solve... as long as you have access to the various sensors (Hall, inertia... if any) and actual decisions of the ECU, and design data (i.e everything the manufacturer has), but piggybacking on it is quite an endeavor. And it has to be done for each car model since they all differ dynamically and in hardware.
Amazon’s New Worker Education Program: Good Business or PR Stunt?
Does money really have any affect on issues like this? It's great Bezos is taking a stand, but what good will this do? What harm can really be done by Chik-Fil-A's CEO?

Here in NC the amendment to ban same sex marriage passed with something like a 20% margin. That was despite anti-amendment spending beating them by 2:1 [1]. People have fairly deep convictions about these things and I don't think a campaign commercial is going to sway anyone's opinion.

[1]http://www.wral.com/news/state/nccapitol/story/11021903/
You are clearly in a minority though. I bet that at least 80% of internet marketers hate Google.
$7 stock. Their growth was less than google's %-wise, and google does what... 25X the revenue? Fundamentals say $7ish.
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Peter Thiel once said "The lower the CEO salary, the more likely it is to succeed". Reference: http://techcrunch.com/2008/09/08/peter-thiel-best-predictor-...
I find it odd that what people do with their own money gets so much attention. First Chick-fil-A's CEO, now Amazon's. For someone who is socially lacking, could someone explain to me why these generate so much news?
My guess is seitan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat_gluten_(food)
> And that does account for infant mortality

Though it doesn't account for general childhood mortality or death during childbirth, both of which were pretty big factors.
If only it was less "shiny". I just can't stand the visuals. First KDE 4, then GNOME 3. Made me use xfce.
Are you in a major city? Reddit.com usually has meetups going on, with atleast a few regulars.

Meetup.com is also a great option, especially in larger cities.
OAuth 2.0 leader resigns, says standard is 'bad'
http://blogs.marketwatch.com/thetell/2012/05/17/facebook-sho...

Unusually short lockup period.
It's recording TV shows, it's just also serving them to your neighbors. It's the neighborly thing to do.
How to add a new syntactic feature to PHP
Study: label litigation has produced an innovation "wasteland"
1yr survival rate article: http://www.mskcc.org/blog/msk-s-one-year-survival-rate-after...

Life expectancy alteration: http://jco.ascopubs.org/content/28/6/1011.full (figure 3) (keep in mind the cohort in the study excluded all those dying within 5 years)
Think of it like donating that money to PETA (or PETPeople).

PETA's goal is not to bribe politicians into enacting pro animal legislation, but to change how people look at the issue or when most people agree with them they can then inform politicians of this so politicians will then 'toe the line' so as not to offend voters.
Tony Blair bod's Gmail hack teen gets 6 months
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The first-mover advantage has resulted in telecoms capturing their markets in major cities. The question is just how free are these markets?

In my city, for example, the city has a contract with a cable operator that basically states that any competitor wishing to enter the city must provide services in all the areas the first-mover provides service. The argument is that this "levels the playing field" among competition while also forcing telecoms to cover areas of the city they may not otherwise lay fiber lines. But in practice it adds a huge barrier to entry for any subsequent companies.

Ultimately I think it comes down to governments making decisions in the best interests of their constituents and not creating these kinds of deals. Let customer demand dictate how much service will be provided in the various segments of the municipality.
"Gnome itself is decidedly uncool. No wonder they don't want to contribute to it."

This is the biggest weakness of FOSS in general. It is true that some people work on the stuff that has to get done or isn't "cool" but contrasted to "cool" parts where folks are available in abundance and it means people burn out and there is no one there so replace them. If there isn't someone out there paying someone else to be in that uncool part of the code, chances are bit rot sets in.
Click on the link in the first sentence of the article. The page it goes to has a complete (USA spec) nutrition label on the right hand side.

Compared it to the NutritionData info for "USDA commodity, chicken fajita strips, frozen", it stacks up about like this:

- 13% fewer calories (100 vs 114 in a 3oz serving)
- 75% less fat (1.5g vs 6g)
- 100% less cholesterol (0mg vs 75mg)
- 72% less sodium (190mg vs 670mg)
- 67% more carbohydrate (5g vs 3g - but 3 vs 0 of that is fiber, so from an 'Atkins' perspective it's a lower-carb food)
- 27% more protein (19g vs 15g)
- And a good bit more calcium and iron.

Don't know about the amino acid breakdown, but judging by the ingredients list it does have all the essential ones.

Less fat, less net carbs, more protein, more vitamins. . . at least judging by the label, this stuff beats the real thing pretty solidly in the nutrition department.
If you're not buying a significant share and are 'just investing' in a company's potential, you should actually feel more confident knowing that the company is firmly steered by the hands that created it and made it successful.
He did a pretty good job describing it - somehow, we need to reach the market.

There's probably an infinite number of possible routes to do this, everything from "viral growth" to direct marketing to "one of the co-founders is good friends with our 30 halo customers."

One thing that product can do that marketing can't - an amazing product can grow itself. (Slowly, but still...)
would be very much a "rich Western countries only" solution by a very wide margin.

Assuming this method pans out as a cure for AIDS... what starts out today as a solution for those with money causes interest in making it more widely available. Interest leads to new techniques for reducing the cost and complication of bone marrow transplants. Reducing the complication and cost of bone marrow transplants spills over to benefit many other ill people.

Best of all, curing AIDS with any method whatsoever will likely lead to discoveries about the very nature of the disease that could obviate the need for a full marrow transplant.
I started vague as to not sound for/opposed to the question, so happy to reply here.

Originally we agreed on 1/3 splits as we all brought a key piece to the company. I was heading up dev, my other partner originally had the idea and provided great insight to what I was developing, and our third (person in question) got us face to face with our new advisor who is the one confident in raising us a seed round. We may or may not have gotten this far without him to date (in terms of the seed), however to be fair on all ends, we don't need a large seed to have an MVP. If we do accept it, it's absolutely because the seed players/funders will help us better position the company as well of course fund development.
So do you agree or disagree with the actual article?
Awesome and insightful comment. Thank you.
I've never had trouble keeping multiple programming languages straight in my head. To me, its really just a matter of "context switching" much in the same way that a multilingual person can switch between various languages on the spot. If the context calls for a specific language, then its that language that naturally arises.

It goes even further than that. When I code I instinctively take on the "mannerisms" of the surrounding code. Brace style, indentation, alignment, etc. This is all part of the same mechanism that helps one use the appropriate idioms in the right context.
That P/E is especially worrying because of the scale FB already works in. They just don't have all that many people left to grow with, especially people that are in any way attractive to advertisers. The growth is going to have to be with better monitizing their existing users while trying to keep down expenses, not typical for a very high P/E company.
I really hope they are. Comcast did some lobbying some time ago in Utah which prevented local fiber ISPs from being able to install new lines in many cities. It's very frustrating!
Sal Khan responds to critic
I saw that article as well when doing some homework on this. Thanks for the reaffirmation.
It depends on what you mean by "ok".

Would this person lose weight? Sure, if they consumed less calories than they burned.

Would I recommend it? No, because snickers and coke are not satiating yet are very calorie dense. That person would probably end up consuming a lot more calories due to increased hunger, which would lead to weight gain.

Is it optimal? No, because whole foods are better at keeping you full, generally have less calories, and are richer in micronutrients.

So what approach would I recommend? That the majority (~3/4 or more) of your day's calories come from whole foods, and the rest can come from whatever you want. 100% of your food should fit into your goals, however. Junk food is not "free". If you're trying to lose weight, set your appropriate calorie goal for the day and make sure 100% of your food fits within this.

If you're interested, check out [this article](http://www.wannabebig.com/diet-and-nutrition/the-dirt-on-cle...). It has a weightlifting slant, but it's a well sourced article that goes into detail about how 10-20% of your calories can come from processed foods with no ill effects.

The paleo/primal diets are fine, but that line of reasoning behind them is not scientifically valid. If you can provide some peer-reviewed studies that prove otherwise, I'd like to see them.
I see. But how do they change the way people think about this kind of issue?
It is no coincidence that the biggest proponents of this style of learning have strong AI backgrounds. Their vision is a centralized system that can deliver that highly customized material on a per-student basis. It is still early days, but the technology has a lot of room to evolve over time.
> Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and that company’s CEO, Steve Ballmer, each pledged $100,000 to fight Referendum 74

They mean "to fight for" the referendum, right?
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According to Wall Street Journal, it's August 19th: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2012/05/24/facebook-lock-up-expi...
> My options for acceptable Internet are nil

And it will remain that way for a long time. Google doesn't serve the whole metropolitan areas they are in and there is no known plan to expand beyond the two areas they are in. Google has stated they do not want to be an ISP so no plans to expand may not just be them being quiet.

So what does this mean for existing large ISP's? Nothing. The same nothing that every little regional ISP means to them.
Oh for God's sake. Khan Academy is great complementary source. It doesn't replace schools and teachers. If you're a student and you devote extra time to understanding material you learned in class by watching Khan's videos, you're already on the right track, and you're going to do well because clearly you care. If you gain some incorrect understanding of a concept because the video either omitted some fact, or got it wrong, you'll get it wrong on the test, and you'll learn why. If there's a discrepancy between one of Khan's videos and what your teacher taught you, that's a great opportunity to ask your teacher to explain it.

I don't see the downside to such a great resource.

//

Also, there are many many terrible teachers out there. I had terrible teachers at the elementary and high school level. Teachers who were either incompetent or did not care. Khan Academy is not the problem.
Appreciate the simple point you made, we agree we're trying to think through it with long-term in mind while not killing our goals for the short.
What's always interesting about these kinds of predictions is not the predictions themselves, but the window into the hopes and fears of people at the time. It's all here: Japan as an economic superpower, space travel, AIDS, poverty, hunger. Now compare to predictions that sci-fi writers today make about 2037 and you'll have a similar window into our own hopes and fears--many of which will be just as accurate, at least in the next 25 years.
Maybe you can view it as an intermediate step, the next being in vitro meat.
Amazon's P/E is currently 191.93

I personally wouldn't touch FB with someone else's barge-pole, but that single number isn't proof of anything.
It's about 6 times more energy intensive to order chemicals from new jersey and stir them in a vat than it is to ship live cattle to a slaughter house and butcher them.

Essentially all the cost of feeding and cleaning the cattle is very low, and storage of raw meat after slaughter is very cheap.

Alternatively storing the raw products for fake chicken are incredibly complicated. Furthermore, once the product is produced there is a ton of regulation about its care and handling. What's perhaps most troubling is the risk to workers while producing the product. They require fairly risky industrial tools, and not every manufacturer is really dillagent about providing good guards for people's hands.
Except the self-fixing process you claim to be characteristic of physical institutional learning only happens when there is a significant number of people in the class that are A) In a position to think confidently and critically about the material B) willing to invest time and effort (often lots of both) in finding the correct conclusion and C) in contact with you about their insights. I have found the confluence of those factors to happen exceedingly rarely in physical classes and significantly less rarely in hybrid physical/online classes. This isn't surprising because lectures place severe limitations on two-way communication that online environments don't. With a traditional class structure (lecture/discussion section) I suspect at least 3/4 of questions go unasked and at least 3/4 of the received answers never get shared beyond the immediate group of individuals doing the asking (in comparison to an online forum, where the answers are googleable or at the very least spread to the entire class).

Also, online learning wins in the limiting case where courses have been iterated and feedback / FAQs taken into account. In a brick and mortar institution, "institutional memory" is effectively lost as professors retire or shift interests (if it ever existed in the first place) and their replacements introduce their own slew of idiosyncrasies, poor methodology, and misconceptions. In contrast, an online lecture never suffers this degradation. Sure, new lectures may replace old lectures (presumably at different sites), but both will be available for a time and during that time, students will pick up on inconsistencies. That's not true of brick-and-mortar lectures, where the only source by which a student can verify the material they are presented is the textbook or its alternatives. Combined with the tendency of courses to discourage reading the textbook (it's almost always a less point-efficient use of time to read textbook chapters than to do homework, practice problems, and go to office hours, which provide information better matched to the material that will be tested on), the status quo is a recipe for failure. My experiences confirm that this recipe for failure produces failure (in the pedagogical sense).

The third factor that favors online learning with regard to misconceptions are its twin killer features: the pause button and the rewind button. These reduce self-inflicted misconceptions tenfold.

So, sp322, I think the opposite of what you stated is true. I would welcome a conflicting opinion, because usually when I go on rants similar to the above three paragraphs all I get are nodding heads.
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Winamp Pro Bundle (2012) - Android - RUS
One assumes that drivers will need to drive with ESP off after the retrofit.
The operative question here is whether Google is taking Dropbox users, or introducing new users to cloud storage. Assuming Dropbox is still growing, having another player holding the hands of new users might actually be beneficial for Dropbox, because it's easier to get people to switch services for something they're already doing than to get them to do something new.
Fun fact: Kansas City is not in Kansas. :)
I'm aware of that. But it's essentially a shim layer, albeit one that is semi-automatically generated. The preferred way of doing Python FFI is to use ctypes inside Python, not write (or generate) C or C++ code that works as the shim.

That's the way many languages prefer to do their FFI, write "foreign" declarations in the language itself, not in C++ land. E.g. in Haskell, you can call C with very little effort. When dealing with C++ you have to get along with ABI issues and things get a lot harder.
The talent does exist and is easy to find.

Problems these companies have are:

1. They are not really willing to compensate what it takes to attract the talent they really need. Most of these places start screaming bloody murder if you ask if they cover interview expenses or relocation, and trying to get them to actually state the range (which is no big deal to state if they really pay top rate since that's a huge recruiting advantage if true), is like pulling teeth. Which tells you they are not really paying top rate.

2. They aren't willing to do the work needed to recruit. This can include pushing hard from inside to make their company less unpleasant to work for, improving its reputation in industry, removing absurd contract requirements, treating workers fairly so Googling their name doesn't reveal the place is a nightmare and management are clueless. A lot of companies treat the employees as the enemy rather than an asset and in every case word gets out about this and good people stay away. A lot of companies are beseiged by politics so only the highly socially manipulative and dishonest do well. We see their representatives comment on boards and interviews on how it's impossible to find anyone, but going from their comment to a description of open positions that includes a clear statement of offered compensation is impossible. Companies are not reaching out to actual competent people and making offers. Instead they are hoping running an ad through a recruiter who posts ads on monster that often don't say what company it is, where it is, how much they pay, or clearly what it is they do. Why would anyone competent respond to these ads? Sure the desperate and incompetent and those that need visa sponsorship will respond, what about the people they really are trying to attract? Are qualified people really randomly searching monster these days? (Answer: no.)

3. Places with lots of mediocre and incompetent workers already in place simply can't attract talent at any price other than by the hour consultants who know they can leave at the end of the contract.
It's a bold move, to be sure. Nobody has ever had a fake meat product they were confident enough in to market to meat eaters, and as an ethical vegetarian, I certainly hope it works.
Something I've been hoping for for years now[1], is a good "istance os". By this I mean a super-stripped down linux or bsd kernel + userland, or alternately a few heavily customized task based OS (or both). Instead of a full OS for each application instance, you use and Instance OS. This will have the bare minimum functionality to do the task it was intended for (caching, database, app server, pub/sub broker, whatever), and the actual app itself. OS and app tuning parameters can be passed via the kernel command line, and the instance just does its job. Instances get launched and live in VMs - and you can log/console, etc via VM manager utilities, and combined with a decent tool-chain, it should be easy to just build/launch a new instance as needed just like you would with an app anyway[2]. I see this sort of paradigm as a huge benefit to PaaS vendors, anyone running their own platforms/server clouds, and even just IT shops trying to keep Biff from doing stupid things.

[1] unfortunately I don't have the time to focus on this, nor do I have the skillset required (yet).

[2] Or use good development practices, and run your app in a regular OS instance for most development/debugging and then do final stages in the limited environment before deployment in that env... just like you should be doing anyway :)
For a start I found being part of a class with limitless number of students very chaotic and at times a waste of time.
Having to go through the various projects, knowing it would be physically impossible to be reviewed as expected in a traditional course..
I doubt any other President would have done much different.
Arguably more importantly, this gives researchers a very strong new lead on developing therapies that have similar effect to bone marrow transplant.
The purpose of money isn't to sway the opinion of people, its to mobilize them into actually voting or to signal to those actually in power that this is an issue that you Man-with-deep-pockets cares about.
"Just buying a soy protein" and cooking it that way tastes nothing like chicken. That is what is wrong with it.

If you like it, great. In some dishes I find tofu nice. For the most part, though, I dislike the consistency and find that outside a few types of dishes it can't compete on taste at all. I love chicken in a wide range of forms. I have no qualms about eating chicken. That it's the result of murdering animals does not disgust me the least.

In that context, it would have to offer something other than not being chicken as a benefit before I'd consider buying it. That is where there's a huge opportunity: Competing on price, taste or health factors with the actual animal products in the segment of the market that want something that tastes at least pretty much like the animal products.

Whether or not it is "fake" is irrelevant. Nature does not have a monopoly on making things good. What matters is how it stacks up with what it replaces in your diet. For most of us what it would replace is presumably chicken.
I'm not sure I agree with the "it's in our nature" argument. The thing about being human is that we're able to act according to a code of ethics and not just our base desires/traditions.

Your point about activists makes no sense. Would you accuse someone campaigning against sexual assault of going on a mission to stop male geese from raping females?

Just because we used to do it doesn't mean it's right or ehtical to continue doing so now that we can avoid it.

Then again, bacon is yummy.
Ask HN - How to find APIs, API directories?
I found http://www.programmableweb.com/apis/directory

Are there others that I am missing?