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This is just a plasma generator, not a fusion reactor. Not to dismiss this student's achievements, but any fluorescent lamp is a plasma source. Plasma is the "fourth state of matter", essentially separate electrons and nuclei in a relatively high energy, electrically conductive medium:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_(physics)
If this is the case it makes Monsanto's eagerness to sue even more ridiculous, as farmers who choose to buy second-generation seeds should be at a commercial disadvantage, preventing it from becoming a major threat to their market share.
If I were Samsung, I'd effectively just augment the development with sponsorship of some specific hires.
That is exactly what is happening where my parents live (in upstate New York.) The local telephone company now has fiber throughout the village and a WIFI network for customers that's accessible from most places in the village.

Their base-line internet service is roughly five times faster than my base-line internet service (from AT&T) in Chicago.
From your link:

"the court only considered the GM canola in Schmeiser's 1998 fields, which Schmeiser had intentionally concentrated and planted from his 1997 harvest"
> My understanding is that "hot" fusion is actually fairly easy ...

Unless you're talking about a thermonuclear weapon, it's not easy at all. In fact, decades of research have yet to produce a break-even reaction in the laboratory.
Did she by any chance happen to throw it into rikkus's car? The sibling comment here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5524101
How much is the organic lobby paying you jayfuerstenberg?
You can certainly plant non-GM seeds from Monsanto, but planting seeds that aren't from Monsanto or one of the other massive seed supply companies will get you into legal trouble because chances are they're contaminated with Roundup Ready soybeans.
It's a fusor - which does (as its name suggests) do fusion - which is why they are used as neutron sources.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor
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Yeah I'm also in the decimal point camp.
I wrote something similar in javascript a couple years ago and have some suggestions:

Have a look at the WCAG contrast ratio and luminance functions to gauge similarities/differences between colors. If you are looking to extract a theme those formulas are gold!

What sort of hashing/tolerance are you using for grouping? Using the above you can specify a tolerance level, and use sqrt((r1-r2)^2 + (g1-g2)^2 + (b1-b2)^2) to get a diff and then compare that with the tolerance.
The whole recommendations engine is based on user participation. Amazon naturally collects tons of data about their users, and they probably wouldn't be happy to lose this data. If you were the only user of Amazon, it wouldn't work nearly as well. I would think that features like "other users also bought," the thing that pairs up books into relevant groups, "Listomania," and so on, were crucial to Amazon's success.

And yeah, I do think the reviews are quite important to Amazon. A book with 4.5 stars and some intelligent good reviews must be good business for Amazon, don't you think? Even if some people are skeptical of reviews, they are probably much better than most other types of advertising.
let's not forget the farmer whose crops had monsanto mixed in, likely due to the windy conditions. Monsanto sued and took his farm because of a natural environmental occurence.

For things like that, they are a vicious and unethical fast moving train that will crush good people for their own profit. Don't just think you can avoid them and everything will be ok.
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Samsung have actually been contributing (well, people employed by Samsung) for a few months now: http://ruststat.youknowone.org/#group-Samsung%20Electronics
Maybe Google thinks that a PHP framework is kind of a threat somehow. You know, PHP.
Ha that's hilarious! This one hit the ground at 70mph and basically exploded to bits.
No, probably not. Think of how much Google earns per employee. Now think of how much they would earn per support employee. The numbers are probably not even even the same order of magnitude.

Moreover, Google makes money from each mailing list (for example) by displaying ads. The revenue that they bring in from each list is pretty small; the key to their income is the huge number of lists that they support. So losing even 100 lists every week, I have to imagine, wouldn't put much of a dent in their income.

By contrast, the overhead and cost associated with hiring, training, paying (salary + benefits), and supporting an employee are pretty high, particularly when you're offering a commodity product competing with other commodity (and free) products.

From a user's perspective, it seems insane for Google to ignore the business opportunity associated with support. But I have to believe that they've run the math, and that ticking off a number of their customers is cheaper than charging them for decent support.
The problem is that after so many years of free coffee almost nobody will want to pay for it again.
Get real. People can still grow food naturally as they always have. They can't use patented technology that took billions to develop and use it for free without approval of the patent holder.
Judging by the "Nowy Sacz" location, I am guessing it's a Polish application. Makes me pretty happy :D
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The point is that you do have to use their seeds. Previously you could get seeds from other sources or even replant your own seeds, but Monsanto have been suing seed cleaning firms and people who buy seeds elsewhere, which means that even if you don't want Roundup Ready seeds you have to buy them from Monsanto.
Try mailman. It's pretty old, but it's pretty widely used for mailing lists.
I can't see any pricing - I'd like to use you guys for a project, but I don't want to invest time writing a bunch of custom software to send our metrics to you, if you're going to disappear in 12 months... What's the roadmap re pricing and sticking around?
Yes, you do. You made a claim. Prove it or quit making unjustified claims.
It doesn't necessarily. It's simple to think up of economic models where, just because some people are willing to pay for something, doesn't mean it makes sense for someone to sell it.

In this case, it clearly does not. This type of (completely understandable) bitching has been going on for years, and Google is not changing a thing.
You can't unless you submit it to techcrunch and Google’s pr sees it...

I just spent a couple hours figuring out how to get blogger custom domains to play nicely with google apps.

It pains me to say this (CISPA, Elephant hunting et al) but Godaddy actually has decent customer support and last time I used it, it was based in the USA. Hell even Comcast has an office down the road.
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In some ways that's true - a lot of employers don't care if something is done right or done well, just done fast. Youth and enthusiasm can get you shipping quickly.

It's just that what you're shipping, and how often you have to rewrite whole chunks of the product, can be questionable.
I disagree here. If growth is the main factor for a startup, charging one-off fees guarantees you not to be delusional about your growth. It is actually much easier to get stuck with the recurring fee model, where you reach ramen profitability but don't grow as fast or worth - not at all.

EDIT: Actually the same psychological effects that push entrepreneurs to charge a recurring fee, push the customers to prefer a one-off fee.
He's only willing to pay for support when something goes wrong. That does not cover the cost of providing support. It must cover its costs with subscribing members who pay for service even when they don't immediately need it.

Its like healthcare. The system doesn't work if you don't pay when you're healthy and only decide to get coverage when you're sick.
If so, why depend on an bunch of assholes like Google or Facebook? Get a proper server and manage it yourself.

And you're ripping yourself off if you regard services from Google or Facebook as free. They're mining every piece of content and every message you send on their services, so they're making money off of you. You're helping them, so putting up with this kind of bullshit is selling yourself short.
I suggest you read actual peer-review scientific journal articles on the matter instead of relying on a documentary you saw on NetFlix.
Herein lies the problem.

Mixed seeds are still partially owned by Monsanto.

This is why we should never be able to patent life.
Less bling and more function for us. We use Librato Metrics to report on anything that moves. It makes it very easy to pick our aberrations and monitor trends.
This is very early, preliminary research. Actual fruits of a manned or otherwise fusion rocket to Mars may be decades ahead. Even at NASA's slow pace they could get there by the 2030es (or 2020es if they listen to Zubrin).

Edit: at 150 tons payload for low orbit (early estimate) it's not exactly easy to launch. If you can do that on a man-rated rocket you're all ready for Mars on just chemical propulsion (in a Mars-direct/Mars-semidirect scenario).
Perhaps I didn't explain clearly. With F1 hybrid seeds, farmers buying the second generation will lose the yield traits. But Monsanto's Bt crops are not necessarily F1 hybrids - the major beneficial trait is the engineered one, which is stable across generations. So with the Bt crops, they maintain the breeder-farmer relationship with licenses, because the biology doesn't require it anymore.
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How exactly are they making "naturally abundant plant life" scarce?
A quote from your linked article: "Hopes at the time were high that it could be quickly developed into a practical source of fusion power. However, as with other fusion experiments, development into a generator has proven to be difficult."

Translation: no break-even fusion reaction. If this approach held promise for fusion power research, it would be being explored instead of the millions of dollars in the much more common laser-confinement and tokamak approaches.

Strictly speaking and from a technical standpoint, if it doesn't produce more power than is present for conventional reasons (like electronic current flow), and in spite of its name, it's not a fusion reactor as that term is understood in physics.

It's a nice plasma source, and it produces neutrons -- very useful -- but it's not a fusion power source.
Yes but:

a) we're not allowed to put phones in it due to the lithium content.

b) I doubt in the moment of anger at the piece of shit, taking it home and politely disposing of it would have the same mental satisfaction as smashing the bastard thing to bits on the motorway.

Irresponsible or not, humans aren't perfect unless they make condescending remarks on the internet.
They actively don't want to support you.
Google have an official explanation - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU0Z_HAzO3I

It boils down to the fact that even if every customer needed 1 minute of support every 2 years that would mean they'd have to employ 6 trillion people (or some rubbish).

As I said earlier this year, Google have total contempt for their customers - yes, even their paying customers.
http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2013/02/googles-customer-contempt-co...

Self host. Don't rely on Google. Sadly, that's the only way to do it.
At the moment their only feedback mechanism is social media / back door complaints and people leaving their services. This seems suboptimal.
So starbucks wouldn't be able to hike the price after giving it away for free? Consumer still wins.
If you get it contaminated unintentionally, you won't.
That's not a peer-reviewed paper, it's a book chapter.

I actually agree that the regulatory testing doesn't really operate as openly as it should. But there is a huge amount of independent testing done which is open, and it all (so far) supports the same conclusions as the regulatory testing. See for example the list of independently-funded studies at biofortified: http://www.biofortified.org/genera/studies-for-genera/indepe...
The point is that he probably has many people already subscribed to this list which he will lose without getting it turned back on.
You have to be kidding if you think your link passes the "peer reviewed" test. I can't even find the publication of your PDF.

Who reviewed it?
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That is totally not true. I know of several people, myself included, who now have access to BT infinity and never have and still don't have access to virgin media.
If nobody else can sustain a free model then either the price will rise or people didn't actually want coffee all that much anyway.
You're right: PHP silently converts your vars to strings and then does the wrong thing without ever telling you.
If you measure something, people will adapt their behavior to what you're measuring. If you measure productivity by volume of mails, people will try to increase the volume of mails at the expense of what is in those mails.

From that perspective, I think dashboards are useful as a sort of warning signal for things going wrong, but not as indicators of whether things are going right. So, the right way to approach it in my opinion is to measure whether mails are being sent at all, because that would indicate a major issue.
It's a good idea in theory.

In practice a conservative government will end up selling off and privatizing the company. Subsequent governments will still act like they own it though, because that one company now controls 99% of the country's infrastructure. The share price will then stagnate forever.

Kinda damned if you do and damned if you don't.
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I love the claims for calling this company "evil" with absolutely no scientific proof given. I thought we were supposed to be believers in science and due process.
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"Evil" has special meaning with Google, since their unofficial motto in the early days was "Don't be evil." Which was an ironically hyperbolic way of saying "Don't be a dick." Which they often are these days.
jayfuerstenberg, look up "ad hominem" attacks. Don't use logical fallacies if you don't want them used against you.
and you think that getting x nuclear bombs into orbit is safe?

and even when all bombs go into space without incidents, having them there until start is no risk neither?

i think something more conventional would be better, even when less economically ...
It's what's happening currently with the National Broadband Network (NBN) in Australia too. NBN Co (the government owned company building/running the network) is not an ISP but provides about 120 datacentres around the country where the retail service providers (the privately owned ISPs) bring their backhaul and hook into the network.

I agree that this is 100% the best way to do it - currently here, internet is delivered over a decaying copper network owned by privatised monopoly that is openly hostile to open access, who also competes in the retail space. So the new model should be so much better and encourage so much more competition.

We're just hoping that the opposition government (which are likely to come into power in September) will have enough pressure from voters and industry to not put in their awful policy which stops the fibre to the premises rollout and installs fibre to the node instead (costing almost as much, and offering a maximum of 50Mb/s instead of the 1Gb/s that the current plan will provide).
One do not need to look for altruistic motives. Investment into research happens as long it reduce cost and risk for businesses. Its true that a individual farmer might have a hard time to justify research investment, but those companies who is depended on grains as a form of resource has all the reasons in the world to invest in cheaper and more sustainable farming. Its the same business motive as why Microsoft sent in kernel patches as open source. No one doubt that the motive was for-profit.
I've managed to find a fax machine in the Mountain View offices that someone might be checking? Any use?
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We've already beat famine. Aside rebel-controlled areas, can you name the last famine?
To be fair, the current telephone network, including fibre is owned by BT Openreach. Under agreement with ofcom they have to provide equal and fair access to their network to any company who wants it.
I'm sure most of those people are there to review apps and write recommendations in various languages.
I guess the point is less about the fusion method being efficient (and getting past break-even) but more about propulsion. ie. for 200KW of input do you get more propulsion from initiating a fusion reaction than using an ion ejection method.

Their aim is to move a heavy object with as little fuel as possible not necessarily produce perfect fusion. (although obviously that would be nice for everyone!)
Not as much since the algorithm has evolved. Personally, I'm more interested in a site's Domain Authority[1] (anything over 30 is good)

[1] http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/domain-authority
> All in the screen space of an iPad

This is quite clearly meant to be used on a big screen via HDMI or Airplay.
HN won't let my reply to you both individually any time soon it seems so I'll do so here.

The paper was submitted as part of a book, yes.
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ncmh/BGER/volume-21.html

As for the actual individuals who did the peer-review you'll have to ask William Freese and David Schubert. The university only mentions that the papers were reviewed.

You could perform this on me if you wish, I don't really care...
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/the-fallacy-fallacy

Even if I did call these guys up and inquire about the reviewers you'd no doubt move the goal posts and say "well those reviewers aren't accredited and don't have much experience yada yada..."

In any case the past record for Monsanto isn't a glowing one (Agent Orange, DDT) and there is no reason to assume it cares to change its ways any time soon.

I feel confident I'm on the right side of history.
aren't these people evil then?
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Its like healthcare. The system doesn't work if you don't pay when you're healthy and only decide to get coverage when you're sick.

On the contrary, it works pretty well, in many countries across the globe.

You probably mean some kind of health insurance. In many countries, this insurance is actually a government tax, so you cannot opt out.

So the parallel here would be a mandatory "Google Support Tax" :-)
My guess would be that the products would be gases. Pinching a little ball of deteurium would make it very hot, and vaporise the metal that squishes it.
Soybean seeds aren't finite like fossil fuels. They're specially grown. If you don't want to use patented seed, don't use it. Use organic seeds if you want (and many farmers do). Otherwise, pay the IP holder. Monsanto isn't a monopoly, and you have several other GM competitors to choose from.
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I never said it was a "reactor", or that it was close to break even - merely that creating a device where fusion reactions do occur is not that difficult.

Read my comment above I say "Nowhere near break even though."

Incidentally, there has been a lot of work in inertial electrostatic confinement - it doesn't look terribly promising and no it is not break even but people do appear to be working in this area:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell
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If Monsanto doesn't own the next generation of such tech I can assure you that they will sue the living bejeezus out of anybody who owns it, or uses it.

It's part of their corporate DNA.
I think you needed to read the second half of that sentence before replying.
jayfuerstenberg, that "book" is not recognized by any serious scientific body. I can't even find the authors' resumes through Google or any of their qualifications or the methodologies they used to prove their case.
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> I guess the point is less about the fusion method being efficient (and getting past break-even) but more about propulsion.

But "break-even" means yielding more energy than is required to start the reaction. Obviously anything less than break-even is not worth having -- a chemical rocket would be more efficient.

> Their aim is to move a heavy object with as little fuel as possible not necessarily produce perfect fusion.

This misses the point that present laboratory fusion reactions require more power than they release. It's not a question of "perfect fusion" but any fusion that has a net positive energy yield.
I'm paying for our company's google email accounts. I did that solely so I could get access to their support.

The support experience was outstanding. There was a smart, informed person handling the case. It was a tricky case, there were a number of emails exchanged and several lengthy phone calls, and it turned out not to be Google's fault at all (it was Rackspace's fault), and yet they were courteous, helpful, intelligent, informed, hands on.

One of the best support experiences I've had - but it only happened after we started paying for our email accounts.
> If Starbucks invaded your city and used their cash pile to give away free coffee for years until there were no more independent coffee bars left

That's why it is illegal (in some countries at least).
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Yeah. Was trying to read that as "more free from social and clutter"...
It's a risk-benefit analysis. For investors it's a lot more reasonable than for founders and early employees, as investors usually can diversify. That is, if you invest in ten startups, nine goes bust, and one gives you 30x returns, you're net ahead.
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Not only that, but people would probably be wary of investing too much in a new coffee shop. After all, if Starbucks changed their mind so suddenly, what's to keep them from changing their mind again?
Panic's previous foray into this space: http://panic.com/stattoo/

Not many panels. Payware that was abandoned in 2006.
They do have support. For example http://contact.googleapps.com/?&rd=1
That makes sense; however as a visitor of this page I don't know about all these details so I might think it's a possible error and I shouldn't trust your app. Basically there is a small risk to lose potential users here. I suggest choosing another example with a calculated vs intuitive time gap different from exactly 10 minutes.