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Different kind of whey... (from the article) the whey used in protein supplements is sweet whey from cheese production.
The story is the message. :)
But remember that much of US Greek Yogurt is Greek Yogurt + SUGAR + JAM + FRUIT

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Candy.
Kids who show a serious interest and aptitude and join competitive leagues definitely find themselves having a very different experience.

Those of us a little older remember when competition extended right into non-competitive play, for better or worse.

The overall point being that the move towards creating less "losers" by removing the opportunity to lose is actually a detriment to development.
I am excited to see how this go.Don't mean to pick side but I am rooting for the kid. I think he has a lot of potential.
I especially chose code.google.com over github. After the SourceForge troubles I thought, this is a big company, which will not go away soon. I can trust them hosting my repos there. In comparison to github. But unfortunately github turned out to improve their stack constantly in contrast to googlecode, and now it seems they are also turning down downloads, though that would be a feature that is much cheaper for them to support than for github. It's minimum support cost, their bandwidth is free and almost unlimited.
bad bad bad. I start to regret my decision.
Though really, binary downloads for open source projects make not much sense nowadays. Compile from source or leave it to a distro.
It's at least as clever as all the other questionable shit the finance guys do to make money nowadays (HFT, CDO, etc.) I would not be surprised at all if "Satoshi" is somebody on Wall Street. (Although (s)he seems to know a lot more about crypto than your average quant.)
But the Model S itself is gross margin positive? That's all I was wondering.
The article describes that it already gets converted by non-engineered bacteria into a biofuel - called methane. it's just that building processing tanks and methane capture equipment is expensive. Not like nuclear power plan expensive, but a million bucks is a lot of capital investment for a farmer - note that some farmers already do this to process animal manure.
Love the control, but hate that the page's text is kept down to a dim 40% opacity when the mouse isn't on top. I have weird mousing habits when reading blocks of text (I move the mouse around and click random things), and it's distracting to have the text fade out when my cursor ventures off course; I practically have to squint to read what the ultralight and not-quite-opaque text says when faded out.
It's just a pseudonym , possibly randomly generated.
I think that it's all a question of scale. The amount of whey produced by your grandmother is exponentially less than that produced by Chobani or Dannon. So, while she could just pour it down the drain, at industrial scale, that just isn't possible.

But, you do bring up a good point - what does the rest of the world do with their excess acidic whey? Is it produced anywhere else in the world at industrial scales?
I dug these up from Facebook:

https://twitter.com/XboxSupport3/status/336924786410278912

https://twitter.com/MrJonty/status/336924553848684544

Newer, Major Nelson has come and said that there is "no confirmation" on anything other than the ability to trade and resell games.

http://majornelson.com/2013/05/21/xbox-one-and-used-games/
Your Lebanese grandmother did not pour a few million gallons down the drain.
Ask HN: Listing my startup as a pink sheet?
Does anyone have any experience with this? Does it leave me with with more control over my company when compared with taking funds from investors? Is it worth the time?
The linked text is a press release, not the actual suit. So, I'm not surprised that the Attorney General would make an emotional appeal in a press release.
> If Apple was missing a publisher on iBooks, they'd hardly care
With 4 out of 6 major publisher in, maybe, but that would have been another game with only 1 or 2 in.
Note: Hacking is illegal.
Perhaps you should have read the article. It has nothing to do with manipulating your influence. At all.
There are many alternative crypto-coins (most notable are Litecoin and Namecoin). The main reasons that they don't get as much attention as Bitcoin are, IMO, the fact that Bitcoin was first, and the network effects of the number of people already using Bitcoin.
Satoshi is European, not Asian... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdrSP0V-KLg
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Is this any different from how it used to be for previous generations?

Yes, that is what we are trying to tell you.

I'm 38. I remember scores and standings in my soccer leagues all the way back to when I first started playing at 7. I don't ever remember not keeping score.

I'm not arguing this is good/bad. Coaching now I actually think it is better for younger children to not get too caught up in scores and stats and instead learn the game.

To say there hasn't been a noticeable change in the last 10-15 years though in our approach is just ignorant.
Its even worse at Microsoft China: they empty fridges after 6 PM or so, and they never stock them very fully. So if you work at night or on the weekend, you are pretty much SOL on anything but hot or luke warm water (its a Chinese thing, I would kill for a water cooler), or taking a 10 minute walk to the nearest convenience store outside the building. Suffice it to say, I never overtime at the office, its just too much of a logistical nightmare if I get thirsty.

But I guess they did have a big theft problem N years ago that justifies this behavior. It wouldn't surprise me at all if this would be a real problem.
Seems like everyone wants to make a name for themselves by knocking on others on HN instead of showing their own awesome work.
Agree with the "deep pockets" as standard operating practice in law suits but there are definitely cases where people without deep pockets are sued and there is no fraud just the same.

Next, I'm not defending their actions (trolls that is) however there is no supporting evidence in the complaint (that would come out at trial of course) as to what constitutes a "small business" which is interpreted in various ways.

"That choice of prioritization of targets"

We don't know that other than what the AG has said. There is no list of all the targets so we don't know whether 100% of them are two person businesses (for example) or not.

One of the claims that the attorney general makes is that the defendants "can't pay for patent counsel" in other words can't pay (I'm assuming) to even ask a question of an attorney (a simple consult).

Of course we all know what is going on here (looks and quacks like a duck) I guess it just bothers me a bit that the attorney general appears to be using language to gain points with voters by appearing to be fighting for the little guy. Because that gains sympathy and political capital. I wouldn't be surprised at all if the trolls also targeted businesses (that while "small") had employees and could easily afford to pay for legal advice (add: even if just randomly, by accident or intentionally "shit at the fan").
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For a lot of people it's better to be just rich than famous and rich.
So now that you have my email you want money?

How about you make that more clear, eh...
Ploy, Noun: A cunning plan or action designed to turn a situation to one's own advantage.
Synonyms: trick

It definitely has a negative connotation.
Or a government.. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5547423
The guest account is quite basic. To see/test all features, I would highly recommend creating a trail account:

* Arrange by new / arrange by old

* View all items / view only unseen items

* Quick add feeds

* Create feed groups, discover feeds

* Like/visited tracking

* Remembered layout settings

* Google Reader Import

Hotkeys include:

* O: Open

* J: Next

* K: Previous

* U: Wide Layout
Amen, brother. Amen.
They are selling a corporate version, it's true. For home users it's free, though.
Probably, I tried the other weekend to read a kindle book on my ipad outside.

Yeah not happening with sunlight at all. Not sure how the kindle works out there, but the glossy ipad might as well have been a mirror.
A little off-topic, but thanks Krzystof for Sumatra PDF. Easily the best PDF-viewer on Windows.
Seriously! Most of what I know about relational databases, I learned by reading Tom Lane's emails to pgsql-hackers and -performance.
Ask HN: To Virtualize or Not to Virtualize?
Hi HN,

I am embarking on a project to set up a network for a small enterprise customer (~10 employees)

Basically I need:

(1) A file server, to be accessed by Windows clients.

(2) A proxy/firewall/gateway in the form of a Zentyal installation (an Ubuntu derivative).

I would also like to administrate these boxes remotely if necessary.

My thoughts

-- a single big server with virtualised instances of the servers I need. In this case I'm not sure how to do storage because I don't want the proxy and file-server to be hitting the disk at the same time. I also know nothing about KVM/Xen so a recommendation for noob-friendliness (in terms of virtualisation) would be great. The reason this appeals to me is because I am under the impression that I can easily back up VM images (and they can even be tarred, diffed and rsync'd). This would make backup a breeze, and disaster recovert easy (buy another server, dl vm's and you're good to go).

or

-- a cheaply built box for the proxy, and a nice raided box for the files. I can keep the settings for the proxy backed up so that machine can be easily replaced and RAID is not necessary.

Further considerations: should I build the server(s) myself or go for an OEM server like an HP/Dell?

Basically, I'd like your thoughts on this, especially how you guys approach problems in this domain.

Thanks :)
Backdooring major services may lead to the mass adoption of encrypted systems. Not immediately, of course, but after the leaks start. Who'd use a backdoored Google Drive for proprietary information when they could use SpiderOak?

Can't stop the signal, Mal.
how does water and sugar gets acid?
Don't confuse free market advocacy with anarchy. Buying up judges, bribing other officials, and other fraudulent transactions, including stuff like misrepresentation of goods and other deceptive business practices, are not necessarily okay in a free market. However, direct government interference is. I don't advocate for a completely dog-eat-dog, caveat emptor society, but I do advocate for one in which those in power cannot control the flow of private wealth (often to their own benefit).
If it returns metadata, why not call it getMetadata, to avoid any confusion? getSongFile does kind of suggest like it gets you a file!
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I was thinking of letting it evaporate too. It seems this is the less costly option. No need to truck it anywhere, just dump it in big artificial pools. Once in a while, collect the solid waste from the pools (lactose, mineral, proteins). They say this waste is dangerous for the environment, but maybe not when it is in solid form?
So wait... Levchin counts as a primary source but Musk doesn't?

It must be fun to give more weight to the side you support.
Thanks for this. I've burned out before. I enjoy my work, respect what my company's goals are, and am working to get better at my job and programming in general. I also like having a social life - try to think about how many people from past jobs you are really in contact with?
In a real-world app that was actually subject to performance requirements? If the bubble sort meets the goal where quick sort doesn't, hell yes that's what'll get picked.

Not all optimization is premature optimization. Some apps care. And the point of this article is that some operations which people are trained to think of as "fast" (like the "O(1)" pointer operations in a list traversal) actually aren't.
How much more time would it have really taken them to get TOTP out the door? I mean, a toy implementation only takes a few minutes... I get that the scale is completely different and they would need to audit all of their systems, but how long have they been working on this already? I can't imagine they only got the idea that maybe 2FA is a good idea last month. They probably have spent months on this already; had they wanted it from the beginning, would TOTP have really delayed anything?
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All I took away from this was that AAPL wanted to make about $0, AMZN wanted to make about -$3, and in both cases the author makes about $3, meaning that of the $13 wholesale, the publisher is getting a 75% cut of the sale.

I cannot fathom that the publisher performs any function possibly worth this much money. How, since we no longer have to ship dead trees, have we not evolved a system that gives authors 75% of the sale price?
1 in 20? Someone has extremely high standards.

That being said, this was interesting, as recently I have taken in interest in applying computer science to dating.

I recently wrote a program that takes a list of attributes (attractiveness, intelligence, etc), then, tournament-style, matches them against each other and lets the user pick which is more important. After enough time, it has a decent idea of the relative importance of each attribute (without necessarily pairing them all, which would require N(N-1)/2 pairings, far too many for a decent sized attribute list).

Then it takes as input a list of people (in my case, a list of girls that I know). It then asks questions such as "Who is more [attribute], [person1] or [person2]?".

After asking a sufficient number of questions, it can produce a weighted average with which to rank people.

I then treat this list as a heuristic in my metaphorical graph-search algorithm for a girlfriend.

I could post the code if anyone is interested.
What makes you think there is health damage from coffee? All the evidence I've seen points to health benefits.
Right, but I might make the determination that I'm willing to pay that extra on a given day. If that's the market price for it, then I get to say if I'm willing to pay that price. And now my kids' teacher has to stay an hour later.

But if it was just a social contract keeping me from picking my kids up late, I'd feel guilty about it and make sure that it didn't happen again. And the teacher might only have to stay a few minutes later.

In my case, I know that my kids' daycare will charge me if I pick them up late. But I don't know what the fee is, and I don't know if they've ever told me. I don't care... I'm not going to pick them up late (I've been close), because I know their teachers have other things to do, and I consider it rude. If I knew it was $50/hour or $100/hour, if I was working hard on somethings, I, on occasion, may have chosen to be late.

Social contracts are tougher to break than market based contracts.
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> Anyway, I don't understand one thing: why is it safer to let developers host the download files on their drive? What's the difference, really?

Drive's intended use case and sharing model may support dealing with abuse reports more efficient (for instance, it might make it practical to shift a reported file to non-publicly-shared after receiving an abuse report but before confirming that it contains malware.)
Neither late Soviet nor contemporary Russia are responsible for millions of deaths. Any meaningful number of deaths anyway.

They're just boring and insincere.
Couldn't agree more, especially if you're a voracious speed reader, watching video is like trying to suck ice cream through a coffee stirrer.

Apparently Microsoft's designers agree, since emphasizing text via typography is one of the goals of Metro [1]. I've been working with it lately and have come to appreciate it.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_(design_language)
very nice design.
Also gone for unrelated reasons, sorry: https://files.dreamhost.com/
How so? I think it's quite clear that this notice is mistaken, or in any case not specific enough to have merit. Is it infringing on their source code? Which code, then? Is it circumvention of their DRM? That doesn't fall under DMCA takedowns. Is it a TOS violation for not using the public API? Again, doesn't fall under DMCA.
Didn't this come out a few years ago? ... Ahh, here's the HN thread about it from 2010 years back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1052158 .
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> how does water and sugar gets acid?

Yogurt (which is what the whey is the result of straining) is not just water and sugar, it contains a number of other things -- notably, lactic acid.
I use links2 -g a lot, but as you pointed out, many of sites are pretty bad on it, having pages and pages of crap before the content starts. That said, there are very few ads and paywalls and multimedia distractions.

I do wish it supported animated gifs. Most of the time when I see a gif these days, I don't mind it flashing.
> My (Lebanese) grandmother used to make it by hanging a cloth above the sink, so her solution was merely down the drain.

Which is exactly what companies would do, on an industrial scale, if it weren't illegal. But in a sense what your grandmother does is wrong. Even if we assume that there is no inherent value to healthy oceans and rivers, it robs, in nickles and dimes, fisherman whose catches are affected by the acid in household wastewater. Your grandmother saves a few cents on proper disposal while costing other people a few cents to deal with the problem she created.
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So some conjecture:

I can't understand why Google doesn't do SIP or even a full telecom play. The only answer I can come up with is that they don't think the business is worth the extra regulatory scrutiny.

Sidenote: Dan is awesome. If you're into Telephony and you don't read his stuff you're making a mistake.
In other words it simulates browsing the grooveshark website, instead of using their public API. I think it's this that they are upset about, but it makes little sense because if people can see something on their browser then that user should just as well be allowed to see it through a script.
fear that letting Detroit go bankrupt would have a domino effect that would leave a gaping crater in employment

You mean like the +20% currently unemployed in Detroit? The best thing about Detroit is that one day it will be used as a case study of why entitlements don't work out the way people think they do.
"He" might be a "they."
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> But theres always that chance he didnt

Check the logs yourself. He was extremely careful about using tor.

http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/irc/bitcoin-satoshi/

More: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5733582
Thank's for clarifying. I respectfully disagree that deference to the status quo, existing authority structures included, is the only path to "success".

I'm not advocating going against the grain for its own sake, but I would happily argue that the process of innovation is itself rooted in a deliberate choice to reject the reality "that exists" in favor of the reality that could or even should exist.

Furthermore, I'm not entirely convinced that the "reality" you are describing is in fact aligned with highly productive work environments, especially for creative and technical companies. The companies I have been exposed to the internals of along my path have all valued contribution over conformity, and focus on empowering their employees to contribute more, not nitpicking over decorum.
Sometimes I can't help but think that Dread Pirate Roberts is Satoshi. He would have created Bitcoin for the ultimate goal of enabling The Silk Road:

- Notice how Satoshi disappeared from the community in late 2010, saying he is "moving to other projects", and The Silk Road opened in February 2011, a surprisingly early Bitcoin adopter.

- DPR, like Satoshi, has a financial background and relates to Austrian economics: http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/04/29/collect...

- Both DPR and Satoshi are known to prefer british spelling and expressions.

- Both DPR and Satoshi have technical/cryptographic skillsets: they use TOR, PGP, etc.

- One reason for Satoshi wanting to remain anonymous would be to hide his involvement with The Silk Road, as too much media attention on his life might uncover he is involved in an unknown/secret project.
please stop talking about dave winer. at all. _please._

-bowerbird
Yes, totally agree. Please, smart people who just want to find a good job for money, do not take PhDs like no-brainers, and leave some vacancies for people who want to do some real research......
To avoid future confusion, how should I be pronouncing the domain?

Should I say out loud "JIFY", of is it a hard G like "GIFY", just like how you say "GIF"
I'd suspect they don't want to get AT&T'd

a lá http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_System_divestiture
> So wait... Levchin counts as a primary source but Musk doesn't?

> It must be fun to give more weight to the side you support.

No, actually an interview with Musk is a primary source, too. You realize "primary source" is an actual thing and not just something I made up? Are you trolling or just being argumentative for no reason?
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I think what's happening here is that NoSQL is just an anti-category.

When I think of NoSQL, I think of something like MongoDB or Cassandra which are designed to handle tons of data under heavy load. When I think of BerkeleyDB and friends, I think local persistence. It's a true statement that these too are NoSQL stores, but, at least for me, they're not of the variety that first comes to mind.
I'm starting to get tired of this 'we don't need no suits' talk on HN. You need a marketing strategy, regardless of how good your game is.

Publishers have the know how and capital to devise and implement such a strategy. Don't make the mistake to assume that they are just there to take a cut of your profits without putting any value on the table.
Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't think I understand. You really think those are likelier typos than, say, "buontyoss.com"? Where does one stop? (I do have "bounteoss.com".)

In any case, the site has had $0.00 in revenue to date. I don't think protecting variations on the domain name is my biggest problem :-)
Huh, apparently Greek yogurt doesn't fall under the Protected Designation of Origin scheme (and I don't think the US follows that anyway), so it doesn't actually have to be Greek to be called Greek. Interesting.
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I was using "Detroit" in this context as a metaphor for the car industry. GM going bankrupt would bankrupt a ton of suppliers spread throughout the midwest.

As for Detroit, its problem has nothing to do with entitlements. Detroit was never New York or San Francisco, after all, in terms of entitlements. The midwestern industrial cities all have the same problem, and it's not entitlements, it's the automation of American manufacturing. Optimists tell me that its a good thing and any day now there will be new jobs for these folks, but looking at cities like Detroit, Buffalo, etc, that have been gutted for decades now doesn't make me optimistic.
RPG with an Indian setting by an Indian Developer. Doesn't get better.
It's my understanding that "Satoshi Nakamoto" is pretty similar to a Japanese "John Smith".
I didn't see it broken out in the financials, but I didn't look terribly hard. I don't think it's unreasonable to assume it's similar to the overall gross margins in the low single digits (2% by my math - ignoring emissions credits).