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And if you look at body counts over time, Anglo Saxon countries are pretty indiscriminately bloodthirsty, and usually kill with much less provocation.

Wow, racist much?

Cruelty isn't copyright caucasian. Plenty of shit has gone down that had nothing to do with europeans.

I still don't condone terrorism and murder, since an eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind. I'm sorry you feel that your countrymen are such terrible people that they deserve to die. I'm not the biggest fan of my own country, but I can't say I've ever condoned wholesale slaughter of its citizens.
I'm confused. The article makes no mention of crops nor fertilizer.

It discusses the unsanitary conditions at a seafood exporter, specifically the unsafe water that's used to create the ice used for packing shrimp, and a tilapia farm that feeds its fish with manure that could be "contaminated with microbes like salmonella."
The algorithm is due originally to Gale and Shapley, in a 1962 publication in the American Mathematical Monthly, but Gale isn't eligible due to the rule against posthumous awards. Roth is included because he was the first to apply it practically in economic-matching settings, quite a few years later.
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I can't answer for others but here are my personal reasons (in no particular order):

1. The community. Its better than anything I can find elsewhere at the moment for its size and diversity.

2. The content. This, like the answer above, is the same.

3. Engagement levels are decent.

Please note that better does not mean best, it just means its better that anything else I can find.
The article is about fish and shrimp that are fed animal feces. Fish and shrimp are not crops (plants grown for food[1]), they're livestock (animals grown for food[2]).

"The manure the Chinese use to feed fish is frequently contaminated with microbes like salmonella..."

"... packs shrimp headed for the U.S. in dirty plastic tubs. He covers them in ice made with tap water that the Vietnamese Health Ministry says should be boiled before drinking because of the risk of contamination with bacteria"

Beef contaminated with even small quantities of feces would not pass USDA inspection, so how could shrimp grown in pig feces be considered safe? (Yes, the shrimp are grown in water that has pig feces in it; there's no other way to get a shrimp to eat something.)

That article doesn't sound in the least bit silly to me. It's saying that a large fraction of our seafood supply is dangerously contaminated with bacteria. Would you eat a shrimp that accidentally fell in your toilet and got rinsed off with water?

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livestock
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Of course, none of this actually matters anymore. The corporo-verlords have bought both parties. The only way is parliamentary system with proportional representation. This isn't a political statement, just that hackers should investigate how to hack the system into that form. One clever hack is being done by John Koza (inventor of genetic programming) to do away with the electoral college http://www.nationalpopularvote.com/pages/about.php . Some more hacking is needed.
> there is no indication that he was riling people up for the sake of it, and no indication that he would've become the incessant ban-dodger had he known he was banned.

Point of order: he did discover he was banned, and he did dodge it.

(I have no problem with this, because he shouldn't have been banned, and because we long ago reached the point where it's perfectly reasonable for a user to trust their own judgement over that of a moderator.)
Privacy-wise this strategy is bogus. It requires API users to do the right thing (TM), but has no real way to enforce it.
I agree with your analysis. However I've only ever sat in on a few programmer interviews, and was lucky enough to get only the few that had already made it through several screens and were quite sharp. However, if so many people can't do FizzBuzz, that's baffling. If they can't do that, what can they do? I mean that literally. Do they just have knowledge of certain specific frameworks or something? Can anyone shed light on this?

I know this may be derailing the conversation, and it bothers people, I'll not mind deleting this post.
I've worked for an ISP and I'm working on a shared hosting offering now. I think there are manifold issues between service providers and customers, few of which have anything to do with this particular case.

1. The race to the bottom in pricing has had two effects: it has turned hosting into a commodity, and customer service has suffered. As an immediate effect, you get customers who aren't loyal to you because they can pay the same or less somewhere else, and you anger more customers because you don't have the money to hire good staff.

2. Lack of technical ability on the customers' end. Everybody wants a website now, but not so many people understand all of the technology involved, so you end up with issues that are technically the customer's fault, but look to the customer like they're your fault. Worse still is that any attempt to explain the issue to the customer just comes across as unhelpful technical jargon. Service providers really need to take a default "We like all of our customers (even the pathological ones)" position, or they won't be able to cope with this.

3. Hosting is largely a dinosaur. VPS hosting is the biggest thing in the industry in a long time; during the race to the bottom, way too many hosting providers got complacent and stopped inventing new software and systems, and just crammed as many customers as they could onto their servers. Customers really resented that, and I've talked to so few hosting providers at any regional conferences that ever really got that.

All of these add up to what looks to customers like a business that just doesn't care, and customers are eager to give that attitude right back. The question that hosting providers should be asking themselves is, "What's to love about our service?"

I happen to agree with the general opinion that hosting providers are in such a position of responsibility that they can't really afford to make mistakes like this. Most (not all!) startups get a pass because it's accepted that they're a small team building a service; if you build your business on top of that, well, buyer beware. But, if you choose to be a hosting provider, you're taking on some serious responsibility. You're no longer a small team, you're a commodity service that web-facing business absolutely live and die on.
You absolutely can do it without COUNT. Just increment a counter value, the same way they're doing it in Redis.
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I can't say I have practical knowledge that will be of help, but here are a few thoughts. If people know about your app and don't download it means that they perceive the value of the app to them to be less than the effort of downloading it. That could be because you have failed to explain the value of your app to them. It could be they understand what your app does and they see it as yet another "me too" social app and they are simply burned out of dealing with yet another app. Is your app something different that solves a real problem in their life? If it is, then make sure you communicate the value to them.
Why is Jeff building a server when he can get the EXACT same server at Hetzner [1] for just 79 euro per month.

That translates to literally the exact same 3 year cost as building the server.

[1] http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-pr...
What if there is a power outage? You say battery? What if the battery fails? And you would still have the problem of keeping thousands of batteries and electronics running, those fail too. In the end you are adding complexity to the system, so physical locks still have advantages.
> The problem here seems to have been that ServerBeach didn't bother to make a phone call before shutting off the servers of a not insignificant customer.

Well, two things:

Most hosting companies don't call for anything, and most don't even take a number. I've dealt with many. Amazon, in particular, won't call you for anything. (I know because I work at an account several orders of magnitude larger than OP that hosts with Amazon.) Google won't call you before they terminate your Gmail, as has been shown before, and that's simply because the resources required to maintain a call center don't make sense for (the almost entirely automated) hosting industry. Margins are low. Calling every customer that receives a DMCA complaint would, at an average-size host, require probably a dozen employees just making calls. This is seriously busy work, and people outside the hosting industry don't see that.

The other thing is that we keep saying "pull the plug," "shut off servers," etc -- that's a pretty drastic intervention, and I'd be shocked if that was what was done. More than likely, the IP address was just dropped from the Internet, which is rather quickly reversible. The same thing will happen if someone points a DDoS botnet at you and starts disrupting service for other customers as collateral.

> for what turns out not to have been a very good reason.

ServerBeach does not have the liberty to debate whether a reason is good or not. A valid DMCA complaint is a valid DMCA complaint; to remain "carrier neutral" and preserve safe harbor for other customers, a hosting company must act as if every complaint is valid and enforceable.

Once a hosting company makes decisions about complaints and selectively enforces, safe harbor goes bye bye and the copyright holder claims ownership of the hosting company. Then many, many customers beyond the original customer are affected, which is a really big deal at a hosting company (scope).

> But if it is their policy -- and until they say otherwise, it's natural to assume that it is -- then I can see why people would have a problem with that.

I don't disagree about having a problem with a policy. I do, however, detest the directions these conversations take. Look around this thread. I don't see a lot of "that's a bum policy," I see a lot of "what horrible people" and implications that the employees are incompetent, and so on. I do take issue with that.
I have been dieting for months. I am an average male, 220lbs 6'3" and I can say that he will have a very hard time as he continues this trend. By all means willpower can overcome how he feels, but the amount of calories he needs to sustain that kind of weight loss will leave him drawn out. Extremely drawn out, to the point he feels like he is starving when waking up.
I hope he can do it, but at the same time he should reconsider his time table. In pounds that is about .7 pounds a day. That is an incredible amount of weight to sustain losing.
He also mentions beginning working out. This is also a problem, since once he begins working out (since he hasn't been) he will immediately get weight gain from muscle production. This will hinder his ability to lose the weight.
I always suggest that people chose a diet or work out routine, but not both. Then as one of the two is going along, and the willpower is there to sustain it slowly start doing the alternative. Most people when they do both, feel like they are taking a crash course, their body works different while working out, feels starved because of the diet, and ends up breaking them down. Doing one and moving to the other help to balance the changes.
I am hoping for him though.
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At least on Android, this becomes a little more transparent, and why so many Android apps request permission to access to network and/or phone state, to get access to unique Ids.
my problem with ifttt: it does it's job just fine, so well I don't remember the last time I logged into ifttt.
There's another article that makes an attempt to disentangle nature and nurture in the sex gap at http://www.lagriffedulion.f2s.com/math2.htm . Like I mentioned earlier, these articles are a few steps above Fermi problems; there are ways to calculate these things more accurately. However, these calculations should agree with the estimates, and the estimates indicate a significant genetic gender gap.
Where, in the article, did you see any mention of recycling pig waste? The article is about food contamination, not sustainability.
Thanks for this succinct info.
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Amusing to see other gatech people here on here. I remember taking a systems class as well either 2nd or 3rd year (CS '03). Pretty much exactly what this is implemented all in C.

I talk to my other friends at CS schools and lately some of them don't nearly go into as much depth.
The slightly obnoxious answer would be volumes of people trying to suck up to the YCombinator decision makers. Despite this sucking up, the discussion, especially if you are good at scanning through comments, is still the best I have seen. So that is why I like it.
The point is they are both de facto platforms. The fact that its free is irrelevant, its not like its a non-profit, they are just making money via advertising instead of directly from a consumer.
Tried running the redis benchmark app to see how your figures compare to other published stats?
Yeah, I've gotten an earful of it IRL too, though. I'm liberal and hang with a mostly liberal crowd, so any liberal extremism usually comes from direct interaction (and/or horrifying stuff from the hellhole known as tumblr) and I just watch the conservative craziness on the news.

I don't deny that there is some relevance of gender studies to reality, but now it seems that "privilege" and "trigger warnings" are being thrown around as insults so much that they've lost all of their meaning. As someone who would benefit from those words not being diluted to the point of absurdity, I wish that the crazy tumblerites would kindly shut up and not presume to speak for people like me.

I 100% do not condone phrases like "die cis scum." Hatred towards cis people is just as gross as hatred towards GLBT persons. Just because you're GLBT doesn't make it ok to start hating on other people for their gender/sexual orientation. The goal is to get discrimination based on these things to stop, not just reverse the polarity. :/
Why do people love to act like both parties are the same? Is it just errant, broad pessimism?

I understand wanting more options or not liking either available option but they're not the same. They don't have the same values, beliefs, principles, policies or experiences. They have many things in common, but they're not the same and it's not useless to talk about them and their perception in the polls.
The big swings left, though still overall on the right, for Ford after Nixon and GHW Bush after Reagan also foreshadow the eventual shift—Nixon and Reagan gained a lot due to being a California senator and governor, respectively, before running for President.

(And for the Nixon era, that time's Republican party is a very different one than the one today. See also Texas being blue for Kennedy, Johnson, Humphrey, and Carter.)
Really what should be happening is that Google Play and iTunes should support affiliate tags on URLs/intents that are passed through to the app on install.
The main support for the Republicans was the Defense industry in Southern California. After the collapse of Soviet Union the defense industry shrunk. The only remains of it is Orange County.

Meanwhile, you have the big influx of Latinos, that vote strongly Democrat.
Couldn't agree more with most of your points. Almost everybody defaults to assuming their broken Wordpress install is the provider's fault. I'm not sure that I agree with any company being beyond mistakes.
A great interface, but I see one huge omission - a place to discuss or comment the patterns. A pattern doesn't live in vacuum, it is good under certain circumstances and bad in others. So the pattern is only valuable to me if it comes with an explanation of what it's trying to achieve and why it looks the way it does. Link it up to Stackoverflow or at least throw in some basic commenting function and this would be a useful tool.
kind of similar work of zbig rybczynski way way back (using analogue gear). on a side-note, discussed this with sean of autechre on how to achieve the same effect in maxmsp/jitter by delaying each horizontal line :)
That's a thin argument, because it really depends on what the startup does. There are plenty of turn-and-burn startups that have become mission-critical for other startups, I'm sure.

Whether that's wise, well...
Intensive agriculture produces too much manure. Pig manure is high in nitrogen, but smells really bad. It's only relatively recently (mid 1980s)[1] that techniques of sub-surface manure spreading were developed. These techniques are important not just for reducing smell, but also for reducing run off.

Too much manure, and environmental protection laws were causing a problem in some EU countries with "slurry lakes" and "manure mountains". Some regions were deemed to be nitrate vulnerable zones, and thus not suitable for too much manure.[2]

> until very recently in human history it was either decomposing trash

Untreated waste was probably the source of the 2001 Foot and Mouth outbreak in the UK. This cost the UK £8bn.[3]

> The consensus today is that the FMD virus came from infected or contaminated meat that was part of the garbage being fed to pigs at Burnside Farm in Heddon-on-the-wall. The garbage had not been properly heat-sterilized and the virus had thus been allowed to infect the pigs.

Animal manures can carry a number of pathogens. E. coli, Salmonella, Campylobacter, Yersinia, Cryptosporidium, Giardia, etc. Some of these kill people, so it's not trivial upset stomachs. Well rotted, or heat treated, manure should be safe. I'm pleased that regulatory bodies are taking this seriously.

(http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ynCJrnxolsUC&pg=PA30&...)

[2] (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1387466/Farmers-warn-...)

[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_United_Kingdom_foot-and-mo...)
I am not an expert on food safety, but I believe the stricter standard for beef is because people often eat it rare. The bacteria in the shrimp is not a big deal if you cook it. There are many meats that you NEVER eat undercooked (chicken and pork among others); why not shrimp?
> Since you bothered to create a throwaway just to post this

It's one click to deduce that is certainly not the case.
I believe it's more of a distribution problem than a quantity one.
Simply beautiful! I love how advances in technology (like the ability to view these fractal patterns) allows us to expand art as well as our understanding of the world around us.
I think it has more to do with Reagan being a Califonia Goverernor, Nixon being a California Senator. The early 90s recession hit California particularly hard and Clinton trounced Bush in California.
There's plenty of food to go around. Starvation only happens because of war/religious/political reasons.
The problem sometimes just gets pushed back in time by funneling unprepared high school kids into AP Calc classes. They don't have the algebra for it. I've seen this first-hand and while there are sometimes one or two kids for whom it is a godsend (and it's possible the benefit to them alone justifies having the rest of their classmates in an inappropriate class), the rest of tend to flounder.

AP! AP! AP! the cry goes. How can our kids succeed without the AP classes the suburbs have? But then you are really just renaming trig as "AP Calc" and with very few (but again important) exceptions, no one scores above a one.
Ask HN: Going to Startup School After-Party and want a free dinner?
Hey,

I'm Matt, an Aussie flying over for Startup School 2012 who unfortunately missed a ticket to the After-Party (timezone difference).

I'm obviously pretty keen to go and catch up with everyone after, so if you have a ticket and haven't allocated your "+1" I'd love to shout you a meal for it - your choice where (anywhere in SF/bay area) and when as long as the cost is somewhat sane :-)

Includes free conversation (I'm working on a travel idea, and am interested in tech, startups, philosophy etc).

If you're interested (or just want to say hi) please get in touch at matt@mattmitchell.com.au
I'll admit I skimmed through his blog, so I could be missing his magic ingredient. But I see he isn't fasting and he is introducing? light cardio?

20kg in 60 days, what is that, 1kg every 3 days.
Assuming fat loss primarily, 1kg = ~7000kcal.

7000/3 = 2333kcal a day deficit. Assuming a fairly sedentary behaviour, but ignoring his excess weights effect on his metabolism. He is going to be a few hundred calories away from pure starvation.

500kcal a day max is what he could be eating to sustain that sort of progression. And this is assuming a decent metabolism and a little activity.

You can't sustain this, and introducing exercise of sufficient intensity (I burn ~3200kcal a day, so about my level) to maintain that deficit while eating say 1000kcal a day, is just ridiculous. You'll be burning through muscle tissue like its candy.

This is not a good idea, and for so so many reasons. All you'll end up with is a bag of skin and bones.
the computer history museum provides:
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Consider doing the math on how many paid users need to exist to subsidize each free user. Suppose each free user uses, say, 20% of their space and does every single available promotion, yielding 20GB of space. This means each free user uses 4GB (a huge overestimate, I suspect.) This means that given S3 storage rates (and if Dropbox doesn't have better than the public rates, they're doing it wrong), each free user costs Dropbox $0.22 per month. Let's say that each paid user uses half their space, and that all the users are only using the 100GB plans. Then paid users cost them $2.75 per month. This also assumes that absolutely no data is deduped.

Now, let's assume that Dropbox pockets a quarter of the money to pay salary, other business overhead, and so on. This means that Dropbox needs a conversion rate of about 4% to be profitable. Sounds completely reasonable and sustainable to me, especially given how generous my storage numbers are.
> This should probably be rectified: hosting providers should be held accountable for unwarranted terminations as much as they are held accountable for hosting illegal content.

A: Hosting companies are not held accountable for hosting illegal content if they cooperate with authorities. There are specific procedures for the gamut, including child pornography. The FBI is very active in working with established hosting providers to investigate and take down illicit and illegal content.

B: Your suggestion would shutter smaller startup hosting companies, raise prices at others, and cripple the startup community that Hacker News loves so much. The fallout from your suggestion would be so colossal that the harm to innovation from software parents would look minuscule in comparison. Should we punish the telephone company for every bomb threat that traverses the line? Dreadful.
One issue I've had is that if a question is too easy, I start out thinking "this must be a trick question..." and then tie myself up in knots trying to find the (non-existant) catch...

Of course in an interview, one should presumably just say "hey this seems too easy, is this a trick question?" but ...
Sorry for going off-topic, but I tried to open this on iPhone and it never finished loading. It's 1.25 MB for one page of 3500 chars of text. Maybe the ratio of polish vs content is a bit too skewed here?