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Pound for Pound, I could still see an engineered meat cube having better texture than tofu. Even if this was just used for ground beef substitute, it would probably be fine.
I agree. I've ranted previously about how Samsung is toxic for Android in the past, mostly because they really did copy Apple too much, which gave the impression that "Android" (since Samsung is a very popular Android device provider) copied Apple too much.

eg: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4346221

The problem is that whenever they don't blatantly rip-off Apple the designs they come up with are terrible. And beyond just design they're clearly lacking on the software quality front.

Exhibit A, The easy root exploit via /dev/mem:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2048511

Exhibit B, the copy bug where copying more than 20 items in a single device session would break copy/paste across the entire device, causing any app which tries to access the clipboard to crash. The bug they didn't fix for close to a year (they never really fixed it per se, they just waited until the normal Android system OS refresh cycle and didn't include the bug in the next revision) and whose "workaround" was doing a factory reset of your device once it got into that state (you could also fix it by rooting the device and manually deleting some protected files but of course that wasn't officially supported).

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/feb/22/samsung-cop...

As someone whose current job involves Android development, it is nearly impossible for me to avoid Samsung's terrible devices (95% of the time they are the ones I have to investigate device specific bugs on in our app) despite the myriad of problems I have with them.

The only Samsung device I've touched that is tolerable to use is the ARM Chromebook, presumably because they had virtually nothing to do with the software on it.
I love the keyboard on my Chomebook however it's very similar to a Macbook Pro keyboard (which is similar to Macbook Air)
Eh, I can give up a bit of "unquantifiable property" if it means that living things don't have to die for it.
I thought this was more due to the 'embedded' culture. After all, under VxWorks, isn't all memory addressable by all processes?
I've recently done the same thing, although coming from the perspective of "you can have my MacBook Air when you pry it from my cold dead hands". It turns out that when all of your development has to happen on your Linux desktop anyway, which laptop you use matters a whole lot less.

For people who live remotely, Chrome OS is perfectly serviceable. I think you have to already be in that remote mindset for it to be a comfortable switch, though.

The objections I usually see (including those in this thread) relate to what the laptop can't do locally, and a lot of those objections are perfectly legitimate. There's a lot these little boxes can't do easily with the tools available today (which again, isn't to say these things aren't possible, just that they're not there yet), and for people who need those things making such a switch isn't going to be possible.
True, and I'm in one of those right now. Once you have enough in your account however you're better off handling the rebalancing yourself and using Vanguard's Admiral shares which have lower expense ratios.
i can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not - are you honestly complaining that a service you didn't learn about until its shutdown is shutting down? especially a service based on a technology that is clearly not long for this world?

of course things get shut down when they're unprofitable or not aligned with the business strategy. that is the most basic principle of running a business. google isn't running a charity to provide you with obscure and marginally useful services.
One warning.

It is very easy for people to have bad experiences, decide that they know what went wrong, then proceed to act on those theories. However hindsight is not 20/20, it is just speculation in the absence of being able to be proven wrong.

Therefore until you've either had feedback from people you trust, or have a success under your belt, it is wise to temper all "lessons learned" with the provisional, "I suspect" and the emphatic "I was wrong before, and may be again." This is difficult, but it is only when we keep track not just of what we think we know, but how certain we are that we know it, that we truly put ourselves in a position to actually learn from experience.

Now feedback on the new platform, WTF. Any site which seeks to offer users feedback from other users, needs to do some careful thinking about how you're going to attract people who are worth getting feedback from. Else you won't attract a pool of people giving feedback who are worth listening to. That is why Ask HN can work - there are a lot of people already here who can offer good feedback and sometimes do. But they are not here because they want to offer that feedback 24/7. And if this site became nothing but Ask HN, then they wouldn't stay.

I can't tell you how to get the people you want involved. You'll need to form your own theory. I believe there are multiple possible successful strategies. I also can't tell you how to monetize it. From what I've seen discussion forums tend to be popular but don't monetize that well. (Though if the feedback you get allows you to launch a successful parallel startup, maybe that is good enough for you?) However if you aren't constantly trying/testing your own theories around those central questions, I guarantee that you'll not find workable answers.
This is indeed a terrible, terrible article. I have no idea how this got to the front page.
Keep in mind, Schumpeter was not a libertarian in the vein of the Austrian school of Mises, Hayek or Rothbard, which seems to underpin modern libertarian thought such as Thiel's.

He was more properly a conservative or classical liberal in the tradition of J.S. Mill: supportive of business and the free market, but supportive of "intelligent monopolies" themselves at times, like the early Bell Telephone system... He also met his intellectual opponents (eg. Marxists) with respect (a rare thing these days), and didn't place market economics at the centre of all human activity as is common with libertarian thought which reduces all acts to market transaction.
He'd probably have to agree that writing smart-arse books about economics is a durable career.
This article is just wasted bytes since no one can work with the code or even see it. The author may as well be talking about a fictional kernel. Closed source isn't worthless because of its terrible code quality, closed source is worthless because it is closed.
Well do you have any figures to back your clam that this is an idiotic piece? Comparison of India and China is a common topic on the Economist (and elsewhere). These are countries with comparable population, demographics, history of exploitation by the West, and they are both in Asia. Sure, theere are large difference in the details but I think the question that, given its tremendous presence in the tech field, very much comparable to China, why has India not excelled as much as its neighbor? This article is trying to argue the thesis that the "Chinese economic revolution" was mostly due to them exploiting their manpower to great effect (even when Mao was in power this was their strategy, it was just done in a misguided and primitive way) while India has
been less successful in achieving this.
You mean "living things that look cute on pictures"? Cell cultures are alive too, and have to die for you to consume them.
Second Life is adding support. This may make it actually useful for collaboration. I also sometimes wonder what programming with Oculus rift would be like. A screen as tall as ones entire field of view, multiple monitors without the multiple monitors, a bit of a sensory deprivation effect to help with concentration--it might be pretty cool
As usual when someone posts an Economist leader article, someone is indignant that it is a little thin. The actual briefing article, at a couple of thousand words longer, is still journalism rather than a scholarly paper, i.e. it doesn't cite every fact, but it does state the numbers behind its assertions.
I suppose, but in my mind a true "flying car" is VTOL. Anything else is neat but doesn't fit the vision.
> "... Kodak's former space (i.e, basic snapshots)."

From a case study at uni I learned that Kodak was never in the 'basic snapshots' business. Kodak was in the 'making memories' business and they marketed to mothers as the chroniclers of the 'family history' (those who would carefully curate and treasure family photo albums).

It was the advent of the casual snapshots that marked the beginning of the demise for Kodak since that was a completely different demographic with different drivers. Kodak failed to see the underlying shift and then couldn't adapt fast enough.
I've used Second Life to do such. Though there are more direct options like poser.

Hers an example of using an avatar with some purchased poses (layout and image effects were added with comic life):
http://larrymade.com/samples/tech-noir.png

Warning- SL is kinda fun, you might get lost in it for a while before seeing productivity.
Some people hate filling up at the gas station so I don't think this is a scam at all.
I wonder why he had to be funded privately. This seems to me as high priority research.
Commander Chris Hadfield's final post from 236 miles above us
3D printed ear binds biology with electronics
it's a "dead man walking" everywhere. SMS has no future except death. in some regions that death will come later than others but that doesn't mean we're going to see a great SMS resurgence any time in the near future. nobody cancels their data plan and gets SMS instead.
And 'papa' is a synonym of grandfather in eastern Georgia (e.g. Kakheti).

Regarding the first "word" (a nonsense actually) - it is usually "Aghu". Even before a baby starts talking anything, parents encourage them - "Say aghuu, aghuu" :)
before reading the article:
Yay! we are in the future, finally.

after reading the article:
oh, it's just a steerable parachute powered by a propeller attached to a something like a car.

I guess this is how sensationalist headlines work.
I think it's a pretty neat device (based on the last time I checked out their website, a year or so ago.) Generally safe since it's a dune buggy under a parachute, and entirely appropriate or so it seems for their mission, flying a few supplies in and out of Africa and other places with no roads.

And even readily field reparable.

(I am a bit shocked by the $100K price tag.)
It is not universal but it seems fairly close to universal. I do think mmm comes as an early sound in part because of suckling. If a baby can't suckle, it likely won't live. The article is being a bit humorous about it but I made the same basic point to someone recently while discussing this.
I mean "things with nervous systems that can feel pain".
> Why is it, then, that he has
> this reputation as being a great luminary?

because reputations can be manufactured
like any other kind of lie, that's why.

-bowerbird
You appear to be the sole voice of sanity. The Trusted Reviews article is a badly written illogical pile of mish-mash. And you can quote me on that. I've read most of the comments here as well and they're well wide of the mark. Android is here to stay, Samsung are not going to make any headway with Tizen. Firefox OS does not stand a chance in my opinion, though I admire their efforts. I still use Firefox the browser and I have tons of respect for the Mozilla Foundation. It's a win-win for open-source either way.

Google is doing what Microsoft should have done years ago but couldn't because it wasn't in its DNA. Android is Linux folks, don't forget that, Google is the steward at the moment but anybody can fork it if Google starts behaving badly. A whole consortium could get together. I really wish people would quit with the griping and conspiracy theories and appreciate what Google have done. It's unprecedented and I salute them. And to prove I'm not a total fanboy, I'm writing this from a Macbook, not a Linux box, and I own a HTC One X. I say hats off to Google and Samsung and HTC and Motorola and Huawei and whoever jumps on board. Every sale of Android is another vindication of the open-source model and I wish them all well.
Okay, but I'm not suggesting that spreading DPCs over multiple cores is the only solution. It is a solution in some cases. Originally I was merely responding to your point about not being able to schedule DPCs on other cores. You were speaking more generally from the OS schedulers POV, but I took it more literally.

Honestly.. I've spent countless hours hunting down bad drivers to fix audio stutter and other crap on my gaming PC. I've finally got DPC latency under 10microSec and I'm not touching a thing :)
Desktop 3D printer prices will rise
Are you seriously trying to compare individual cells and fully grown mammals? Or are you just trying to be contrarian.
It's just a start. There's no reason why we couldn't eventually engineer meat to have all those qualities, and even improve on them. It's just matter.
Before everyone goes on about college life, the study was done on elementary and middle school students. Not to say that college life and university students aren't sleep deprived. But I feel like the exact result being reported here is even more worrisome. This isn't going sleep deprived while you're (hopefully) adding the academic final touches to your more or less developed brain, this is going sleep deprived while your brain is still coming together.

While the article tries to end on a happy note ("Don't worry! There won't be any permanent damage... if there hasn't been any permanent damage"), I feel that it's still worrisome.
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South Croydon Man with Van CR2
using fetal bovine serum?
So who gets to eat it at the event?
Don't forget taste -- some vegetarians simply don't like the taste of meat.
Are you implying the primary difference between cell cultures and animals is that the latter 'look cute on pictures'?
If you try to take the addiction formula of a game that's been honed over a decade and re-implement it imperfectly, of course you won't be able to unseat the king.
I think sentient is probably closer to his definition. Yes, vegetables are 'alive', but (as current knowledge) they do not feel. Which reduces the apprehension of eating it.
Given what some outlets (Taco Bell[1], looking at you) pass as meat, it won't be much of a change anyway.

[1] http://www.justmeans.com/editorials?action=readeditorial&...

I, for one, wouldn't mind trying it out, but I have serious doubts it would approach the quality of real meat grilled burger anytime soon. And I understand that there are places where people are starving and such technologies can save lives, but realistically being the part of the lucky billion that is not under the threat of starvation I would always prefer the real thing if it's available.
Exactly.

Expectation wise virtual reality is like artificial intelligence. Whatever AI solved just became "computation", while the mythical "real AI" was always just past the horizon.

During the early years, VR was 3D immersive MMO dungeon (MUD) environment. VR caves and head mounted displays aren't common place. But I'd say in most other ways, the vision for VR has been largely realized.

In the mid 90s, I worked on a blacksun (Snowcrash) inspired virtual world kinda thing. We tried to divine a collaboratively built world that would then be used as the scenes to host other games. Not too different from SecondLife. It sucked.

At no time did any one come close to conceiving something as simple and awesome as Minecraft.
I am just playing devil's advocate.

I work for Fortune 500 consulting projects and don't believe in TDD for UI code that works across the myriad of technologies we use in work projects, while scaling across multi-site development.

TDD only seems to work on the business logic, and only in code written with testing in mind.
I think this is still the cheapest solution (edited for links):

If you are interested in building a repstrap to bootstrap the RepRap project, or are just looking for the quickest and most cost effective way to start 3D printing, you need a clonedel. For the uninitiated, it is a fork of the Prusa Mendel, optimized for easy casting and updated by the UW Solheim lab and Metrix Create:Space. This project is fully Open Source, and is designed to be both the fast track and the cheap track to 3D Printing.

http://wiki.metrixcreatespace.com/clonedel

http://reprap.org/wiki/Prusa_Mendel

Start designing in Inkscape:

http://inkscape.org/download/?lang=en
I say this on every Chromebook thread but I'll say it again because I see a lot of the same negativity as usual: the Samsung ARM Chromebook is f*cking awesome.

It's $250 so there's no argument about buying X or Y netbook instead, you can barely get anything with a keyboard that browses the internet for that price. Also for that price you get 2 (3?) years of 100GB on Google Drive and 12 Gogo WiFi passes, which together are already worth over $250. So you can throw the device in the trash and still come out on top. Now to the computer itself:

First, the battery life is awesome, 6.5 hours of solid use (WiFi model) and since it turns on from cold in ~7 seconds you can turn it off between sessions and not lose any power at all. If that's too long for you just close the lid, you'll lose about 1% per hour but everything resumes instantly when you open it (and I do mean INSTANTLY).

Second, the hardware is really excellent for the price. The keyboard is my favorite laptop keyboard out there (even against my MBP) and the trackpad is second only to Apple devices imo. It's the same weight/size as a MacBook Air but maybe 0.2" thicker. The only hardware downsides are the plastic chassis and the screen's somewhat bad viewing angles.

Third, it runs most of what you need right out of the box. I don't even have my in developer mode, you don't need that to use Google's Secure Shell and Remote Desktop Chrome extensions. It has an Offline version of Google Drive so you can keep your most important documents local and everything syncs when you're connected.

Fourth, it's stress-free. Because everything is synchronized to the cloud and the hardware is so cheap, you never have to worry about this thing. If it breaks (which it won't easily), just go to your nearest Best Buy, drop $250, and sign in with you Google account and you'll be back exactly where you left off (even down to the tabs you had open).

I really can't recommend this device more highly. It's definitely not the right device for full-time development but as a companion to a larger laptop or a desktop it's a perfect second machine and much more useful than an iPad or Transformer-style tablet (I've had both).
I agree with what you said in THIS comment, but it makes it even more obvious that your previous comment contains untrue statements.

You think car manufacturers practice TDD with their prototypes? Ha! People who are building physical prototypes...

1) don't test first (they test AFTER building the prototype), and

2) don't use automated tests to avoid regressions, at least not typically

Bottom line, there's nothing even approaching TDD in physical-goods manufacturing.

Maybe you don't know what TDD is, and have assumed that "tdd" means "good testing"?
and not many people will notice: unless they try to run their favorite Android apps - starting from the Google ones - and they discover that they're not there...
In rural areas and during the pre-republican period mother is "ana", in Turkish.
Pain is not a necessary component of the animal being eaten (unless it's being hunted down in the wild, of course, but most animals that are consumed by humans aren't), so if that is the problem it can be (and, as far as I know, is being) dealt with without reinventing the whole lifecycle in the lab.
VTSMX, VGTSX, VBMFX - with corresponding Admiral versions if you have enough money, which are the same funds with even lower expense ratios.

Edit: You wanted the rebalancing funds (those are the component funds.) The rebalancing funds are called "LifeStrategy" - see VASGX for an example.
Argh - that site uses onswipe! :-(
I have a SmartTV as well. Tried the apps once and never touched it again. It really is 90's era software.

I honestly can't fathom why the TV manufacturers are just sitting back, twiddling their thumbs and waiting for Apple to come in and make them look stupid. I mean really is a TV so much more complicated to build a decent UI for than a smartphone or computer ?
I suppose that's true and theoretically useful. I don't find myself coding nonsense very often, but python has not been a language that gives much support (or is appropriate) to use cases that can't tolerate any.

I now see some good uses for Enum, but (with a skeptical eye to additions) I believe that the reasons to keep the language/libs small are equally important.
I Needed Some RFID Tags So I Went to the Factory
There's definitely a status component to it. In the US we tend to glamorize working ridiculous hours, not sleeping, and just generally being busy.

There was also the "I never study" crowd, who claimed they coasted by regardless of how much work they actually did or didn't do. For some reason both these groups were/are considered cool and high-status.

When I was in college I tended to study a fairly average amount and took an average course load. I got good grades by virtue of good study habits-most of my study time was spent wide awake and highly focused without internet or distractions. If I got tired/hungry I would sleep or eat, not force myself. I only pulled one "all-nighter" in college, and that was to read a Harry Potter book the night it was released so that I wouldn't see any spoilers.

By only studying when I was in optimal condition, it was much easier for me to retain new material. However, this gave me nothing to complain or brag about, so I quickly learned to act like I was always busy and sleep-deprived, which significantly improved my social life. C'est la vie.
They look like they're just gathered for a photo to me.
As someone who grew up in a rural place eating organically, humanely and affectionately grown (in the local terroir) animals, i am thrilled that the possibilities for in vitro meat are opening up. It's amazing that we have the technology to replicate the properties of real food sources in a way that will (ultimately) be cheap and eco-friendly. Raising animals organically is messy and impossible to do on a large scale. Replacing that with a machine is a much better solution than growing animals in factory farms stuffed on antibiotics.
I'm not saying that metabolism has no effect, I'm saying the effect is small relative to calorie intake. I'm well aware of how a keto diet works, and that it can be useful for people looking to lose weight. It's no guarantee, though. There are actually people out there bulking on keto as well.

As for the parent poster, I haven't seen any evidence of calorie tracking. To me that means he doesn't really know how much he's eating, and I think you're just encouraging his flawed metabolism theory when you should know better.
If he'd being funded - which seems to be the case - what't the problem with it being private? I can understand calls for public funding where the need is there but the private funds to serve it for one reason or another are not - but here the funds are supplied already, I see no problem.
It said "living things". If it said "sentient things", that'd be different.
Those features are nice but unnecessary. Just use planar graphs. Then you don't have to enforce single-visiting either. Limited scrolling will bound the longest edges but you don't need arbitrary edges. Only problems of a limited size will be able to fit in the limited memory of the game but that's still NP-complete over what does fit.
Apart from pain, I would not like to die, and thus I would not kill anything that also does not want to die.
Not concurrent players. Garrys mod has around 20k. Here are more stats: http://store.steampowered.com/stats/