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Some people are comparing what NVIDIA has done to its hardware to crippled software. It's a bit different though. They didn't just cripple their hardware, they segmented their markets and crippled hardware and software as needed to make it almost impossible to use the same card for more than one application.

Geforce cards are crippled in software so you wouldn't want to use them for CAD work. Quadro cards are crippled in hardware and software so you wouldn't want to use them for gaming or computation, respectively. Although Teslas are also stress tested for data reliability so perhaps it's unfair to say the Quadro cards are unsuitable for computation because they're crippled intentionally.
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This guy is effectively popularising something that has existed for ages in the medical/weight loss industries: namely medical food/meal replacement drinks. The difference is that he is using them daily, without paying the premium for an off the shelf, tested, and regulated version by doing it himself.

My question for those more experienced in this area is:

What well tested, off the shelf, medically regulated products could I buy today that would allow me to eliminate the consumption of solid food altogether - and of those products, which ones are the best value for money?

I really can't be bothered doing all the leg work required to make my own meal replacement drink (reasons being: the chance of not measuring correctly + work + forgetting nutrients + risk) - I'd like to just grab a product every month or so and just go.
Heck yeah it is. I don't know anyone who keeps Accent / MSG on hand...

These are simple recipes, and I think the value to people who enjoy this style of food is learning about how to do the onions, where a bit of mustard or Miracle Whip comes in, etc. Most people would not put mayo on a burger nowadays, but it can add a lot (and provides a nice moisture barrier).
> "the ideas look good"

Clicked the link, didn't see any ideas. Bounced.
10K years hasn't been enough for cats, apparently. Plus, the lifespan of a dog is ~7 times shorter than the lifespan of a man, which will give them at least 7 generations more to adapt.

Obviously there has been some adaptation to the change of diet, and it is also obvious that this diet was not letal to human (or nobody would have adopt it), but this does not implies that it is optimal for human consumption. Most people in my region are not lactose intolerant... but do you know what? I threw up every time that my mother had me drink a glass of milk because it was "healthy" and good for my bones. If adaptation depends that much between humans (the % of lactose intolerant or lactase persistent is not the same in the US than in China or Africa, for example), trying to correlate anything with animals seem completely off to me.
"What many of you don’t know is that wasn’t the first time that day I had to address this issue around harassment and gender."

A few guys making idiotic jokes amongst themselves about forking and dongle size is now considered harassment? I can understand they were probably being annoying, but I'm having trouble seeing this as harassment.
Of course we wouldn't.
I am astonished there is no law to put you away for 10 years for posting such disrupting stuff ;)
This makes me re-evaluate the whole website. I was impressed at first, but now it seems to be tall talk from a guy with a printer in his basement.

To Pantastic: Without credibility, you have nothing. Be honest in your product description.
It's true. Returning a `~` pointer transfers ownership (so your caller will be responsible for cleaning it up).
Intab: Quicklook for your browser.
That room is just the tip of the iceberg, fiber splitters are everywhere (literally) and guess what happens to oversea ISP's that think they are protected, they also get routed to the proper sniff boxes, or get covert ones installed. That big data warehouse in Utah should be nicknamed the funnel.

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Factory-NSA-Eavesdropping-Ameri...

This book details some of the backroom agreements big telecoms have had for decades that "relieve" them of legal responsibility.
Aren't all websites I visit able to run arbitrary javascript code in my browser???
The process was revolutionized when I realized that I could search.
How did you mentally go from "expected forever to work exactly as you need it." to "Why shouldn't one expect to have one's purchased goods remain available indefinitely"?

There's a huge difference between being available and not ever changing. You're arguing against a point never made.
You should try making your own. The Coke recipe is actually pretty simple -- most of the "super secret formula" stuff is for marketing. A quick Google will bring up a bunch of different versions, like the ones on this[1] helpful page.

You can order the ingredients whenever you're sure you want to try it (most of them keep for a long time). Then, when you get a few hours free on the weekend, you can make a batch of soda syrup. You can experiment with the ingredients and fine-tune it to be perfect.

If you want to try something slightly different (which, unfortunately, requires processed sugars AFAICT), you can try making ginger ale at home! Here's a simple and practical guide[2] that I used to learn how to make some, which serendipitously was written by a San Francisco tech startups guy.

[1]: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/427/o...
[2]: http://tashian.com/carl/archives/2009/03/ginger_ale.php
That was going to happen anyway.
Are you sure that ARC is an appropriate name? Apple already uses the acronym for Automatic Reference Counting. Correct me if I'm wrong, but Rust's reference counting does not look automatic, since you must wrap it in "do" blocks. It's a bit misleading to reuse a fairly well-esablished acronym for something that is nearly, but not quite, the same.
How did we "kill" CISPA? It passed with a vote count of 248-168 in the house.
I guess the big factor here would be if they were purposely saying those comments in order to be assholes.

Friends do make silly jokes with each other, right?

Surely the person could have just said something like "Guys, not funny, because..." instead of making it a huge public shaming in the Internet Court of Law.
My advice -

1. Start building the product. Once you have a minimum viable product, show it around. Get some potential customers on board (even if its for free). Have them test it out and see that it actually works.

2. Step 2 would be incorporation. With this, I would say get some legal help.

3. How long have you known the designer? Have you worked with him before?

- Get a contract in place. Make sure you own all the assets he creates. You can find a "Freelance Contract Agreement" online.

- Pay him on an hourly/monthly basis. Or give him some small equity...but if you don't know him very well, don't make him a partner or co-owner. (not sure if this is what you were considering)

- Get all the assets he creates for your product. This includes photoshop/illustrator files. You never know when you might need to switch designers and you don't want to start all over again.

- Set up a schedule that works for you and him. That way there is some level of accountability and stability in getting work delivered

- Start with a couple of smaller projects, like maybe the logo or buttons, to figure out a good working pattern.

Edit: Updated formatting
But monkey patching turns python from explicit to implicit. It just doesn't feel pythonic to me, and I don't think I'm alone in this.

A big reason I use (and enjoy using) python is because it doesn't feel like a "bolted on" solution. All current concurrency options for python feel bolted on to me personally.

The python internals weren't designed for this, which is the reason they have to use monkey patching. It doesn't mean that you can't make something work, but it means the language/interpreter sure aren't going to help you make it work.

I just couldn't write something which depends on speed and concurrency in python right now, knowing there are solutions much better designed for the problem. Python holds a special place in my heart, but unicode and concurrency aren't so good right now.

However, this future async support and unicode support in python 3 very much excites me!
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I'm sure they tried that. It is likely that the driver uses another "proprietary" way to read the ID as well and uses that as definitive answer.

Having said that, distinguishing in software would mean that open source drivers such as Nouveau won't see any difference between the cards and can advertise all the features always.
It's worth noting that, regarding consumer rights in our society, apathy is tantamount to concession.

The reasons why this statement is true would make for a very interesting investigation, methinks.
For most users, breaking Google is actually breaking the entire internet. How will they ever find the Facebook login page again?
Is this product a "more beautiful" ATS?
The pycon people are aiming to build a conference where women don't have to deal with this stuff at all. It's a lofty goal, and I appreciate them for setting a high standard.

Excusing little comments creates a culture where women have to put up with innuendo throughout the conference. I saw these people removed from the room, and it was done quite appropriately. (I did not hear anything directly.)
I really appreciate this comment.... I always wondered why it's so hard to make music quiet behind voice tracks. But the words you used don't make any sense to me and they're not that easy to Google. I did poke around a bit though, and I think what you're talking about is referred to as "ducking"?

For those who want to apply this technique, it's built into GarageBand: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulfKubMdxPA
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Yes, but its only civil law, not criminal. I had the impression that we were just talking about criminal law.
"real time Hacker News degenerated in to this"
Sounds like you've got a bad manager.
NVidia may not qualify for all that they're the stronger partner in a duopoly, but Intel's done this and much worse with impunity.
I've been using Aurora for the past year or so, and haven't look back much. Occasionally I'll switch back to Chrome, but that's only when something in Aurora or nightly is broken.
Google Cache as website is down
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
Let me know if you do. It works fine for me in Firefox (I'm an ex-Mozillian; that was the first place I checked), so I don't know why it's not working.
Amsung Preparing Wristwatch as It Races Apple for Sales
Schenker does quite nice generic laptops:

http://www.mysn.de/

You can do a custom configuration and for not so much money you can get a powerful CPU, fast SSD drive, lots of ports etc., and most importantly an IPS screen. The finishing quality doesn't look bad either. Example:

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Quick-Review-Schenker-XMG-A722-...

Might not be exactly ThinkPad quality, but when they start marketing a thinner bevel as a "screen innovation" one might want to reconsider...
> Touch typing on the full size iPad is extremely pleasant.

I don't find it especially pleasant. The keyboard takes up more than half of the screen, and typing quickly on it is much more difficult than any regular keyboard (though much better than any phone keyboard naturally). I hooked up on a Bluetooth keyboard to it once and felt an incredible relief at the effortlessness compared to on-screen typing. There's much that can be improved.
I'm only learning PHP and this made me laugh.
Next step, deal weapons of mass destruction using bitcoins. Final step, skynet...
Why would you have that impression? The threat of violence is also the means of enforcement for civil law. If you don't comply with judicial orders, eventually the sheriff will come by and force you to.
I am missing something here. I get that someone could be offended by these comments, but what does it have to do with being a woman? I know females who would giggle at such jokes and males who would feel uncomfortable.

I feel like the person here being the most sexist is the author, for insinuating that there's something inherent in her gender that makes "forking" jokes offensive to her. I would welcome an explanation of what I'm not seeing.
I used to buy ThinkPads all the time. But they just keep getting worse (along with all other Windows laptops).

As for the new Thinkpad described in this article... lack of physical mouse buttons = instant fail. This seems like a weird style-oriented consumer move, not a business-user kind of move. I don't understand why everyone is in such a hurry to try and copy the MacBook (badly).

At this point, availability of physical mouse buttons is very high in my list of selling points for a laptop. I doubt I am alone.
Twitter as river, RSS as filing cabinet
This post really resonated with me. I'm a Joomla! developer and the learning curve for the Joomla! Framework and CMS is a bit steep but once you understand the extensions architecture building web apps becomes enjoyable. Being able to break down an app to templates, components, modules and plugins is what I feel makes a system like Joomla! (or in your case Drupal) worth the time investment.
Don't think further away. Think corners. Corners are easy to hit, you know where they are. Second from the corner requires more effort. Same reasoning as "hot corners" in operating systems.
> Normally, you want the convenience of home delivery - but this allows you to trade that for security.

That's funny, because the reason I want this is because home delivery is usually anything BUT convenient.
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On the other hand, high-end CPUs on a warehouse shelf are of little economic value to anyone.
Ah, so an oligopolist.
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The term you may be looking for is oligopoly - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligopoly
Since transactions are irreversible, buyers need to fill less forms and have lower prices. Coindl.com sells you stuff with no registration/forms/emails - it shows a QR code and gives you a download button within two seconds after you sent a transaction. And buyer does not need to trust his CC details to new merchants. He only risks the amount to be paid, not the whole bank account.
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Also the renderings that alternate from wireframe to solid fill. It just changes too quickly which is distracting when you try to read the text around it.
https://bitfloor.com/ which is not a particular shady site (in fact, apparently they're already registered with FinCEN) allows you to buy BitCoins by depositing cash into their Bank of America account. There's an upper limit, of course, but there's no ID required, so nothing stops someone from driving to multiple Bank of America locations.
Tell HN: I'm selling some domain names
Maybe one of these is of use for your next project. If so, make me an offer; email is in my profile.

this.do

togetherlist.com/net/org

queue.do

process.do

pettl.com/net/org

notebetter.com/net/org

qualityleague.com/net/org

ringfinger.co

tinysocial.com/net/org
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If those documents you take a photo of are "an email address" and posting it online is "giving it to a journalist who redacts information before taking a screenshot and doesn't release a dump of the data" then I would suggest that, while I wouldn't be too happy with you taking photos through my window, I wouldn't expect you to go to jail for it.
NZ post also has parcel forwarding service from the United States. It's pretty great being able to order anything from US online stores.

http://www.nzpost.co.nz/products-services/online-shopping/yo...
Damn, that Amsung sure is working hard for it's ales.
There's nothing wrong with saying: "If this bill is bad, let's kill it." The proponents are free to fix it and try again.

To answer your question more directly, if privacy law $i or $j or $k interferes with information sharing, then let's identify those privacy laws and have a discussion about how to amend them to allow information sharing in the case of an ACTUAL cyberattack. As anyone who's made a mistake with /bin/rm knows, wildcards can be dangerous and have unintended consequences. I haven't seen this argument answered directly, and I'd like to read a thoughtful response.

More:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57422693-281/how-cispa-wou...
And lots of industries aren't. Why should it be possible for HW manufacturers?

It's not relevant that some industries have different practices. It would be like asking why can't manufacturing let people work from home, since it works in programming. It's because they are different industries. Their attributes, particularly in terms of R&D and capital costs, aren't on the same scale.
Hacker case leads to calls for better law
Please don't joke about this. Perception of ownership has changed so much over the last ~20 years, that I wouldn't be surprised if someone actually tried to jail people for improving hardware they bought, by claiming that you only 'license' the device instead of having bought it, or some other contorted reasoning (give it to the IP maximalists to come up with twisted lines of thought and sad analogy stories).
Luckily NVidia isn't that sue-happy, but still...

Edit: see also this, currently on the frontpage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5394928
How to lose your job - "Start a war, get a gun" 
Youtube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=CYgWsKQJcLo
That's my conundrum.

To get what I want from my database, I want SSDs. If I move my database to another provider, then I have to move everything else to keep the latency to the database low.

Not having an SSD option even when it's expensive leaves me shopping around for where to move all of my Linodes.
First time I've seen this use-case for Sentry :)

(I didn't actually see Sentry within the source code, was I missing something?)
I couldn't find anything that made it free with conditions. I thought there was a catch when they said "free to register" but everything seemed to be legit.
>>>I'd like to see some surveys on how many Americans support abortions in which terms and why, but haven't found any.

Yeah, me too. Anecdotally, most people seem to be fine with first trimester, reluctantly accepting of second trimester, and against third trimester (except where the mother's life is in danger).
As services like services like WellnessFX become more sophisticated (NOT affiliated) it will ultimately lead to people being better able to both self-experiment and provide evidence after an initial baseline to demonstrate what they're arguing. Exciting times ahead, I think.
The Minuum Keyboard Project: the little keyboard for big fingers.
There is no such thing as starting over. As you age/mature, your objectives will change. What you are doing now is simply evolving your career path as your life goals change. Don't feel despair and never regret the past.
Toughbooks are extremely costly and heavy, I'd recommend them to people doing field work, otherwise they are a bit excessive,
I agree in principal, with a few nitpicks. The javascript bit irritates me the most, especially the suggestion that only crazy people would need to disable it.

The post is absolutely right, though, whitelisting javascript breaks the internet.

I learned that when a family member found some new cooking blog on tumblr. The site was compromised, and serving malware to make people join a botnet. After cleanup, we started whitelisting javascript, leading to howls of protest over the next week as every site loaded broken. Eventually I realized that she was just automatically whitelisting any site she visited. (I'd laugh, but I'm probably just doing the same thing... someone posts a new demo here... I usually give it a pass.)

So we've decided we want to read random paragraphs or recipes from anonymous strangers. And we somehow decided that that means the strangers get to run code on our machines. I don't know why we thought this was smart, but fine, that's the ecosystem, how do we let it work?

Ignoring javascript vulnerabilities doesn't work, user management of javascript doesn't work, what's left?

Browsers should have managed, up-to-date blacklists built in. Maybe antivirus companies could help carry the load and manage the lists, but someone should be out there actively hunting down malicious sites so we can break them for all users.

Users shouldn't have an "add exception" option, either, we all just prop that door open.

It absolutely should NOT be an add on. If javascript security is saved for an add-on, no one will bother, because it requires first knowing what "javascript" is.

Javascript security needs to be baked in, and it needs to be better than what we've got.
Daily computer activity all over the world.
To recap, m_d wishes to see a comparison at the same protein+fat+carbs (normal non-junk food) vs. soylent.

gnaritas objects.

gwern supports m_d.

gnaritas has an opportunity to qualify his objection, but chooses not to.

(fwiw, I'm also extremely interested in all manner of "are there valuable yet-to-be-identified substances in real food" experiments.)
You can't get high snorting a Bitcoin. In that sense, it's very much different than drugs, weapons, gambling, prostitution, or even file-sharing.
Can we make no social spam a rule? I'm happy to see this extension, but it adds no value to make me clickthrough Designer News first.
Yep, I've had "instant breakfast", it can even be tasty if you don't have it very often.

When writing my comment, I wasn't really considering the sociological implications of where I was going, I was simply thinking that I, if living on a $5/day food budget, would be pretty happy with something like Soylent, especially since I presumably wouldn't get that general feeling of malaise that overtakes you after a few McDonald's meals in a row.

You're right, you can't simply go in and say, "Dear poor people, please consume this nutritious gloop". It could be effective as a form of rations in case of emergency, but attempting to put it out there as a basic staple food would be more challenging.

If Soylent is actually as awesome as the creator makes it sound, and it were available in a tub or in pouches at the grocery store, I'd definitely buy it.
> The take away is that it's very easy to fool yourself into thinking you've learned a lot from a math book when you're reading it like a novel. In practice, though, if you aren't doing the exercises (or if they don't exist, working through your own), then you probably aren't actually engaging with the material in any deep and significant way.

Agreed. That doesn't mean he didn't read it and glean a little from it though.

> I actually think this is in line with many of his other claims: he seems to be a person who seems to believe he has learned everything important about a field in a relatively short amount of research time, without having a deep background in it already, either through reading a single textbook or by spending a few hours/days/weeks researching and reading. I think most of his claims should probably be considered in that light.

Agreed, it just smacked of elitism to say that it's not possible to read a textbook without interpretation or instruction. That sort of doctrinaire thinking is just bad policy.