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That P/E explains why I wouldn't buy Amazon stock either. It's a strong company, but that is a ridiculous P/E.
Their money spent is intended to affect change in the general population.

It's not as if they just spent it on cars and caviar.
Somebody must of forgot to tell the people:
- Pending Sales of U.S. Homes Unexpectedly Fell 1.4% in June
- Foreclosure Filings Increase in 60% of Large U.S. Cities
- Household Income Still Bottom-Bouncing
- June Home Sales Fall-Off, Quarterly Growth Slows/Contracts
- New U.S. home sales decline 8.4% in June
- One-Third Of Colleges, Universities In ‘Real Financial Trouble’
This is false. Unity is an alternative to Gnome-shell; it uses (sometimes patched versions of) the same underlying Gnome 3 libraries.
Really? Because the first time it went to the high 25s (its first rock bottom), if you had bought it you could've sold it in the 30s for a gain of 20-30% depending on where you sold it.

This is really only the second "rock bottom" its hit. The first one was a good place to make a trade, and when this one settles, it might be a good place too.
I think the main argument in favour of vegetarianism is neither nutritional nor ethical, but environmental.
Your comment would carry more weight if I knew what projects you recently contributed to.
Transplant technology has been around for a while, but only in the past decade have we started to get better at it. This is a function of improved training, improved facilities, experienced doctors, and better post-operation treatment. It had been theorized to work in the past, but only now are we able to implement it. As someone else noted, Bone marrow transplants are among the most difficult transplants.
It seems that Chris is just introducing this project to the community. Maybe there are flaws, I admit that I'm not the best one to judge that. But to focus on those flaws seems to miss the point.

Chris is trying to build a PHP framework where security is the prime consideration. To my knowledge, a project like this doesn't exist already. This is an open source project, and by Chris's own admission, a learning experience. This is an opportunity for the PHP community to have a discussion that is centered around the best way to solve the myriad of security issues that plague PHP frameworks and applications. The knowledge and experience generated from this project can be used to the benefit of other frameworks and applications in the PHP ecosystem.

I applaud Chris from undertaking this effort to challenge and improve his knowledge of web application security in a public way so that others may benefit from his experiences.

And shame on those who are trying to kill this project with negativity and condescension before it even starts.
As swGooF said, you won't be able to find too many places to do math without apply it to something useful.
Academia, in the other hand, is quite complicated, mainly because the famous "Publish or Perish" [1]. If you don't want to live your life publishing papers without too much sense, I'd say to focus on find a good place/subject of applied math and work on it. It should be as much as fun as do pure math, applied math has a lot of research and math as pure math, although probably less algebra :)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publish_or_perish
People who are on the fence or ignorant of the issue now know about it, and can be swayed.

People with deep but irrational convictions, can be pulled to rationality or vice versa.

I'm not saying this specifically about PETA, but that's generally how campaigning works.
Microsoft: Okay, Maybe We Are Alienating PC Makers With Surface
We feel the same. Our advisor (who is a very big player and believes in us, as well knows the potential CEO personally) is not opposed to it, but honestly agrees it's higher than he'd like. Ultimately it's up to the investors, you are right. We don't want to send them our projections and get laughed at.

Honestly, this thread is only re-enforcing that the other two of us are not crazy!
Excellent. I can now express my view of heartily not giving a damn about my vendors' political opinions by reading a book bought at Amazon while eating a sandwich bought at Chik-Fil-A.
Not quite the same, but recently two Brits were turned back and denied entry to the US, after 'jokey' twitter threats to dig up the body of Marilyn Monroe: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/la-tourists-arrested-d...
Wow this is quite stupid for this application. When I read the title I thought along the lines of compression by 'solving' the sudoku.
Science Fiction writers != some of the brightest minds.
"Protein" and "carbs" and "fat" are useful as high level indications of what you're eating, but e.g. the different compositions of amino acids making up the protein can be drastically different and is known to have substantially different impacts on your diet in various ways. It may or may not be different enough to matter, but it'd need a lot more detail to be able to tell (to the extent we even known enough about how to compose the "right" diet).
But I want to be able to make that decision. There's nothing stopping me from re-electing Zuck as CEO every year and letting him do his thing.

However, if he starts doing crazy things, or I think there's a better candidate for the job, I want to be able to vote to chuck him out. 1 share 1 vote!
Perhaps the word "breeds" is strong. I would argue that even though Khan's lessons are very imperfect, the accessibility offered may be a worthy trade-off.

If knowing math at a superficial level opens doors for other learning, it's hard to argue that it's NOT a worthy trade-off.

We as math teachers strive for perfection, but the truth is that having a deep understanding of what an equals sign is and how it should function isn't important for most people in their lives. Sure those in math careers will want that depth (and they'll get it, since Khan alone can't prepare them for that career), but everyone else will be fine whether they use the equals sign properly or not.

In a lot of ways it's like prescriptive vs. descriptive linguistics. Are we going to be the equivalent of a grammar nazi and come down hard on everyone we see that uses improper notation? Or can we be satisfied if there is some understanding there, even if it's imperfect or communicated poorly?
This is really cool to me. But it makes sense. It just uses a unique numbering system. I suppose instead of adding a new tens or thousands placeholder to increase the number, you just add a new grid reference. Pretty cool really.

edit: I guess it's basically a base-9 numbering method, yes?
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> Attachments.me co-founder and CEO Jesse Miller says that since the company added Google’s service on June 12, it has consistently seen 50 percent more Drive accounts added per day than Dropbox.

Translation: New service growing faster than older established service.

Nearly all of the quotes point to this same truth.
Sources?

Anyway, the "chemicals" going into this are a relatively small part, the bulk being the vegetable protein.

And how can you argue that storing beans and additives is more complicated than storing cows???
I just found it strange that of the 42 countries who have yet to win a gold medal, one of them was "the Olympics". Am I missing something?
This study seems to be counteracted by millions of Asian people that are living well into their 80s, 90s, and 100s, and eat a diet that has quite a bit of unfermented (and fermented) soy in it.
According to Tim O'Reilly, open-source has made Web hosting cheaper than ever.
I meant open webos 1 not 3
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A Letter From Mark Zuckerberg About Facebook's Earnings
Its been a few years since I last checked, but having 'real-time' quotes is better than 15-minute delayed, which I seem to remember it was before. As well as the graphical overlay of the news bulletins on the share ticker graph is good too. Just seems to provide more timely information now, including overseas listings, than it did before. Won't replace my primary broker site, but good if I don't want to login to check a price or two.
Very instructive.
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1: Being processed doesn't in and off itself make it the "exact opposite" of vegetables, lentils and nuts.

2: The ethical justification for humans eating animals has exactly nothing to do with the bible.

For the record, I'm no fan at all of battery chicken, and if that market can be displaced by a cheap non-meat substitute, that's clearly a big win.
As a meat eater who happily eats pretty much whatever animal part I'm offered, I hope they succeed too, because I'd love to see a market for meat substitutes that are good enough that I get more delicious meat-like products to choose from that eventually taste better than the real thing.
Don't be fooled by P/E. P=>future E=>past

Current price reflects the market believes that, somehow, FB will find more revenue streams (not only ads).

I see FB stable at 24$ for at least a quarter.

If you need VC money, you just missed the last train.
There is very, very little evidence that soy products are harmful to men because of phytoestrogens. The evidence is basically this:

1. Phytoestrogens found in soy are chemically related to human estrogen

2. Phytoestrogens are readily absorbed by humans when consumed

So it was a reasonable hypothesis that soy might be harmful to men due to phytoestrogens. This hypothesis has been tested, and falsified, by numerous studies.
The money is spent on political advertising, organizing and polling. The intention is to influence votes on some electoral question, most often on selection of officers but here on a particular referendum.

A not-unimportant percentage goes to political consultants.

In financial markets it is well understood that brokers' fees, though a tiny fraction of transactions, are an important driver of marketing activity. It is widely thought that these fees create dangerous conflicts of interest requiring extensive regulation.

The possibility of similar forces in other arenas is not so carefully noticed.
I think this is not so much teacher blaming as wishing to put additional pressure on Yelp for being terrible dickheads, via those teachers. If nobody ever stands up to bullies they just keep doing their thing.
Once this gets rolled out to more cities, this will certainly be looked back as a disruptive product in the home internet market. Google is well-placed to destroy the traditional ISPs.

Google Fiber: come to Canada please!
Wait, how can the OnLive controller support iOS? AFAIK iOS only supports Bluetooth HID keyboards, not joysticks/gamepads.
3 cheers for Flask. always wondered if flask is slowly picking up market share like django (even though it is a micro-framework compared to django)
Physicists have a knack for treating living, function-filled animals as complicated, dynamic – but dead and functionless – goop.

When one enters into mathematical logic and the theory of computation, one enters into the world of computer science, and in that world function and purpose is central.

So the insight is not just to describe what a system physically does or could do, but also to rigorously analyze what it means or could mean.
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I thought the article was crap

> We should be careful not to draw too strong a conclusion from such a small sample

But they go ahead and do that anyway

> It is early days for both Google Drive and Dropbox

Early days for a company that has been around since about 2007?
What's missing in this thread is a description of what kinds of Linux jobs are going unfilled. I'm genuinely curious to know what the landscape looks like.
Thats the old response to this critique
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/khan-a...
Right on - thank-you! Be warned - its incomplete! You'll probably bump into what you consider to be missing key functionality, broken things, etc.

If you do go in and try it out, I would love to hear your feedback!
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>We hypothesize

That's key right there, and it's all you'll ever get from a longitudinal study. You want to make strong claims about the effects of soy like "soy is a terrible idea", you're going to need a controlled trial, not a cohort study.
It would be awesome to have a productivity tool start up today with both and see who "wins". My guess is it would be Dropbox.
The raw products for fake chicken are mostly soybeans or chick peas, hot water, and a mineral coagulating agent. The biggest energy input is for boiling the water and growing the crops.

Cows require 50 times more protein from grain as input than they provide after being slaughtered (you can google this, it's research from Cornell). You are 180 degrees wrong on that point, the cost of feeding them is _very high_. Unless you can genetically engineer them to have more efficient metabolisms, this is a fundamental problem for beef.

I can't tell if you're serious about the last paragraph. Citations would be great, because it's hard to believe that real meat is less regulated than plant-protein based fake meat or that the risk to workers that make it is less than to those working in an industrial slaughterhouse.

I'm not even a vegetarian...
From the article:

> Below is Khan’s e-mail to me, which I shared with the author of Monday’s post, Karim Kai Ani, a former middle school teacher and math coach who is the founder of a company called Mathalicious. He said Khan is wrong.

So, to summarize, "Khan is wrong, but I won't bother to explain why, he just is, and I have a self-proclaimed expert that says so."
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I have very little sympathy for those people that lost money on this stock. For months, there were articles about the overvaluation of FB ($100 billion number was thrown around quite often). Here in the office, we had discussions around that, and though everyone agreed FB is a valuable company, 100$ billion was an insane number, considering their revenues were more or less public for a while. And then the IPO happened, at 100$ billion and ... they dropped.

So, where's the surprise?!
This is absolute pedantry. Nobody claimed that Yelp is offering services within the security industry. They are "in the business" in the sense that they are concerning themselves with security to such an extent that they have a policy and are kicking people out of events based on a blacklist (after the fashion of an authoritarian government).

Since they are doing it they should be concerned with doing it right.

If computers are critically important to a company (as they are for many web companies) then they are expected to manage them in an intelligent way. That doesn't mean that web companies are all acting as ISPs, but it is absolutely routine and expected for them to take various measures to maintain their computing infrastructure correctly. It's irrelevant that they are not selling computers.

It is totally irrelevant that Yelp is not selling security services to other companies.
People gravitate towards these hot button, black or white issues. And when a major figure (be it a company, celebrity, athlete etc.) comes out for or against one of these issues, it generates a lot of unnecessary buzz.

It's easy to rant about most people's priorities when it comes to the information they consumer (trivialities over real news) but the saddest thing to me is that the universally positive causes that public figures/companies etc. donate huge sums of money to (charities & the like) usually go unnoticed as a result.
I don't think the issue of separate address spaces is unsolvable. As long as you have a type system powerful enough to forbid aliasing between the CPU and the GPU code, you can do it. (For example, Rust's type system can encode task-local data.)
The way we (obviously not all of us) think about culture is pretty fundamentally flawed IMHO. Copyright exists only to create incentive to produce more copyrighted works(aka culture) and not explicitly make anyone money. Culture can't, and shouldn't be contained. When you release a song, movie, drawing, game, some source code, you've given it to the world. You took everything the world gave you, got inspired, worked hard, and gave back. To think that you in some way own those vibrations, or light recordings, or bits is kind of childish. You've been granted a temporary monopoly on their production and that is all.

Should you make some money? Absolutely, but pretending like anyone actually owns any intellectual property is a mental deficiency induced by our childish need for control.

In the face of unprecedented sharing, all culture producing industries are thriving. More money comes out of movies, music, games, and other software than ever before. So anyone that really thinks that they can create culture and then own it can cram it.
They do: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnUGvfCkvbk&feature=playe...

Make the rims part of the engines (or the opposite).
Amazon's revenue is over 10x that of Facebook, and it's earnings are low at the moment because they've been expanding like crazy. However, Amazon is a leader in several large and quickly growing industries (retail goods, e-books and other digital goods like music, and "cloud" services). Do Amazon's activities warrant a market cap that's about twice their current annual revenue? That's a pretty easy bet to make. Do facebook's activities warrant a market cap that's over twenty times revenue and is on the same scale as the entire global advertising industry?
With marketing. [Obviously subjective opinion ahead that reflects my personal take].. In California, Prop 8 (Same-Sex Marriage Ban) won because of money spent convincing the middle (people who frankly didn't really care much one way or another) that if gay marriage was legal then we'd start teaching kids to be gay in schools, or something. I'm not kidding.

But yeah. 'Round here laws are products, and marketing is a huge part of how they're sold.
Probably the same reason iPhone camera output is filtered (or any other technical term that ends up with photos looking better than they really are).

I had my doubts WinAMPs shuffle was acting on some heuristics, though I never bothered to check.
Actually I may have an explanation for that. When an athlete is not officially represented by any country, they might still be allowed to compete, but whereas other athletes will have their nation's flag next to their names, that athlete will simply have the olympic logo. So I think that means that an athlete who has been in that situation has never won a gold medal. I believe there is at least 1 athlete in 2012 who is in this situation.

Yep, found him. Guor Marial, a runner from Sudan.

"Marial -- who was born in what is now South Sudan, a newly independent African country that doesn't yet have a national Olympic body -- was one of four competitors let in at the London Games as independent athletes. Three others from Netherlands Antilles also were allowed to take part under the Olympic flag, but the case of Marial was the first of its kind at the Olympics, IOC spokesman Mark Adams said."

http://espn.go.com/olympics/summer/2012/trackandfield/story/...
They compare "77 other people +1'd this, including Larry Page." to "Larry Page and 77 others +1'd this."

The latter definitely sounds better, but I suspect most users care more about # of likes than an individual person, as usually the individuals aren't particularly noteworthy.

I'd rather separate these two pieces -- a larger icon with # of likes, and a list of people to the right
Just as a counterpoint: I'm of exactly the opposite opinion. I just couldn't get used to unity. The full-screen assumptions in early versions were baked too far into the metaphor and I just couldn't get it to do what I wanted. Gnome 3, on the other hand, brought new stuff to the table (like the dynamic desktops) which actually improved my workflow. It wasn't a clean transition, but I actually prefer it now.
To do regenerative braking the motors have to know when you're braking. That means hooking into the car's controls to detect when the brake pedal is pressed. It also means preventing the normal mechanical brakes from engaging while regenerative braking is being done. And it means being able to engage the mechanical brakes if the batteries can't accept incoming energy fast enough. All this is a highly non-trivial controls problem, which requires close integration with the car's control computers. I don't see how that can be done with a retrofit.
It's less that money magically changes minds, and more a few other more important factors:

1) Awareness raising. A lot of people are partially or completely unaware of what laws are on the ballot, what initiatives actually mean and what the stakes are.

2) Driving turnout. This is actually probably much more important than #1. If you look at the statistics, the percentages of eligible voters who actually vote in elections is not incredibly high. Money can be used to ensure that people who are sympathetic to your cause are properly registered to vote, know where their polling places are, even literally give them transportation if they don't have it. For this issue, to take an example, it is extremely likely that college students are overwhelmingly for gay marriage, but a lot of them are not yet registered to vote, or are from out of state and haven't re-registered in Washington, so this kind of money lets pro-Marriage organizations have a heavy presence on campuses getting kids registered in the state, telling them where they need to go and when to vote, possibly even renting busses or vans if polling places are inconvenient for campuses.
Those diets are rich in fermeted soy and are balanced by additional products that counter the negative effects of soy.
Confusingly enough probably not. Our governor signed the marriage act into law without it being on the ballot for public vote (correctly in my opinion). Referendum 74 was started as a way to force a public vote on the matter. The people who started it clearly think/want the public to reject the law. I am somewhat nervous about the vote as outside the King county area (Seattle, Redmond, etc...) the state can trend fairly conservative. So them fighting the referendum would mean fighting against putting this up for a public vote and fighting for leaving the law in place as it is.

Edit: for more clarity in last sentence.
Let's take a poll: How many people here understand that Google is doing this because Internet connections are a complement of your personal data, which they would like to monetize, and not out of the goodness of their hearts?
Ask HN: What do you guys use to check browser compatibility
What do you guys use to check browser comp? Is there any software/plug-ins out there that work? Do you guys just do it the old fashion way? We're struggling with it (www.hangtrend.com)Advice?
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What is with phrases like "psychopathic small-business owners"? I don't understand why we are villainizing people who run small businesses.
What's preventing you running a VM to let you use it (and all the other helpful bits)?
Science fiction, science fact: Does infinity exist?
That is +5GB of storage on top of whatever storage plan (free/paid etc) you currently have with SpiderOak. If you do not have an account, just create one before you play!
I imagine it's because 'processed foods' aren't bad in themselves. That you can add something bad to them doesn't mean they're inherently bad. If someone wants to crusade against bad foods, saying 'processed foods' is the wrong way to go.

It's like protesting against DHMO. Sure, it kills people. But it's not even a good simplification of the whole situation. (Yes, I know that DHMO is H2O, just in case anyone thought I didn't for some reason.)
Out of curiosity, why'd you stop? Difficulty maintaining healthy diet?