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> exemption for farmed fish

A) Farmed fish only. The same fish that comes with a hefty dose of antibiotics and other tasty compounds [0], stuff that does break up but only if the fish is cooked.

B) Now, wild salmon has parasites as it grows up and spawns in fresh water. I assume this is not a contention point.

A + B + tell me again that you are OK with eating raw salmon and I'll tell you that you either like parasites or toxins :)

And, after all, all salmon sashimi you'd get in any Japanese place comes from the deep-frozen fish.

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[0] http://www.albany.edu/ihe/salmonstudy/pressrelease.html - First hit in Google for "eating farmed salmon raw"
Remote pairing in the browser and it's open source
What if I wanted to just display a calendar and not a date picker?
Unfortunately there is no good solution. I followed Indian politics for a while, and the danger of multi-party elections is the dreaded 'coalition' where a bigger, more mainstream party, in an effort to come into power, will align with a smaller, more extreme/fringe party. In this manner extremist views start to gain ground, and gain influence beyond what the simple vote gave them.
At absolutely no point in our dev team's existence did we find a huge need to have more than the model files and/or schema.rb as a schema reference. If you can't infer what you need to from there, then maybe web dev's not your bag, baby
No, because the "money" involved is real goods with intrinsic value, not to be confused with "fiat money" where currency units have value unilaterally declared and have no market value on their own. Sure, unleashing all that gold etc. would have a massive economic impact (as the annual GDP jumps several times over), but not hyperinflation.

AFAIK, hyperinflation amounts to cutting a pizza into thinner slices to feed a large number of people: the total "value" of the pizza being inadequate to satisfy the group's hunger, cutting enough slices by cutting them thin renders each slice unsatisfying, and addressing subsequent demands for more by cutting existing slices thinner still just "devalues" existing slices while giving a brief (and absurd) stance of "I gave you however many slices you wanted - be satiated!" Fiat currency just represents the total value of the culture holding it, with N currency units each representing 1/Nth of total value; hyperinflation occurs when the government owes debt D > 1 and tries to make N*(1/N) > D by increasing the value of N, which of course doesn't work.
Ah, it's tptacek again: rarely right, but never in doubt.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20012583-281.html
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Most JavaScript runtimes no longer interpret JavaScript. It is compiled to bitcode and some subsets(see asm.js) can run within reach of native code.
You're joking. There's nothing simple about leaving a country of which you are a citizen! Besides, if you don't like something in a democracy, you work towards changing it. You don't just up and leave.
I'm baffled. One the one hand, the NSA wants their employees to "uphold and defend the constitution". On the other hand, they want their employees to keep secrets.

(... It is possible for these two things to not be in conflict with each other...)

They want their employees to honor the commitments they've made. At the same time they're lying to congress and the FISC.

Dear NSA: Let me help you un-fuck your business: Stop requiring your employees to uphold and defend the constitution. Stop hiring people who believe that the NSA should be held accountable to the citizens and/or to the congress.

(Perhaps you should start by creating a cult of personality around a strong, charismatic leader. And for the signing-in ceremony, instead of swearing to "defend the constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic", maybe they could just wipe their asses with a copy of the Bill of Rights.)

If you do this, you will never have another Edward Snowden again. I guarantee it.
> Thus lower startup costs have a double impact. First, they lower the price of the option, making them more attractive. Second, the crowded startup market that results is more volatile, increasing the value of the option.

I see what the author is going for but this seems like a pretty weak argument. But this line:

> Second, the crowded startup market that results is more volatile, increasing the value of the option.

doesn't seem to hold. More startups doesn't necessarily increase the volatility at all. Its entirely possible to have more start ups and less volatility. Whether or not that's true I'm not sure.

Furthermore, even if you subscribe to the market being more volatile, Black scholes isn't interested in the volatility for the market, but just for the individual stock/company. Which isn't guarenteed to go up at all either:)

And then there is this "cover my ass" tidbit...

> According to Black-Scholes, all other things being equal, increasing volatility increases the price of the option.

This is basically saying, there are many factors that affect the outcome of a startup, I'm only going to chose one of them and assume the others stay the same. Furthermore I"m going to assume that the one variable I'm going to chance will move in a direction that supports my claim and not in any other direction.

This claim strikes me as being a bit dubious.

I do think this is an interesting thought experiment though:)
"Debate" generally does mean "argument" (and if on the Internet, a contentious one), but it also has the connotation of discussion. That said, I do think the judge asserts a point that the ex-convict rebuts:

Judge Kopf:

> Hopwood proves that my sentencing instincts suck. When I sent him to prison, I would have bet the farm and all the animals that Hopwood would fail miserably as a productive citizen when he finally got out of prison. My gut told me that Hopwood was a punk–all mouth, and very little else. My viscera was wrong

Hopwood:

> I wouldn’t say that your sentencing instincts suck. While I meant what I said at sentencing, I was hardly the person that could back it up. I was a reckless and selfish young man back then. I changed.

And later:

> But as a judge, you’re constrained by the system we have. I’ve never believed that it’s up to judges to fix that system on their own. It requires citizens to view criminal justice issues differently (and heck, to view prisoners differently), and a Congress to actually pass some legislation.

Hopwood disagrees that the judge's instincts were off, because at the time of sentencing, the judge was right to see the convict as a "mouth-off". Furthermore, Hopwood disagrees with the Judge Kopf's implication that he, a judge, bears the agency and responsibility of harsh sentencing. The system is not one that judges alone can fix, Hopwood says, and up to the legislature (and the voters who vote in lawmakers) to effectively reform the system.

That last point is, IMO, an extremely important nuance that is often overlooked in debates over controversial judicial matters. It's easy to blame the judge (hence, the focus on the party of the executive who appointed a particular federal judge) because it's the easiest part of the system to personify. Much harder to sustain interest in the chain of laws, voter attitudes, and societal values that puts the buck in the judge's court.

So in other words, it is a debate, albeit a small one that doesn't catch fire...which makes it so unusual. Also, note the comment thread in which a Huffington Post reporter tries to get Kopf and Hopwood to participate in an online talk, and how Judge Kopf declines: http://herculesandtheumpire.com/2013/08/08/shon-hopwood-and-...
I switched from Unicorn to Puma for my relatively low-load Heroku-based Rails app and have seen nothing but improvements across the board. Less memory usage, lower response times, overall better performance. It's working very well.

Note: I'm an amateur and I know I'm not nearly optimized across many areas -- the app could be better, I'm not using JRuby (where multi-threaded shines, or so I read), so this is from a pretty novice perspective. But from here, Puma has been great.
On a global scale, Soylent is very very expensive. Their current pricing is $65/week. Many nonprofits feed someone for $50-100/year in the third world. The price would have to come down to 2% of the current value to be considered. That's unlikely with such a heavily industrialized product.
But this is what I don't get. We literally already have this. Some cancer patients live on a liquid diet for YEARS already. We have complete liquid nutrition. It's a solved problem.

Now, the application can be debated, but soylent doesn't seem to bring anything new to the table.

It feels like this is just old solution with new marketing.
I think this is a little bit off. What I want is an embedded device that runs node.js and npm, not just JavaScript. That enables you to use JavaScript and C (using a native npm module) and get the best of both worlds.
Ecmaboard, or CallbackCard would've been more fitting.

Maybe $Board.
> I trust my diet to an unqualified individual (me), as do most people.

If you live in a country which adheres to standards of food safety and has regulatory bodies to protect and promote public health then I disagree. You entrust those bodies and the qualified individuals within them because they ensure what you purchase is what it says it is. Soylent has not reached this level of evaluation.

> An hour a day is 6% of your waking life.

If Soylent works completely as advertised yes you gain time. Should it lead to any kind of health problems it's more than likely you lose time.
Perhaps there's a reported bug for this, you could add a comment describing what you saw. If we report bugs in software then we're contributing to better software.
I shall now write a blog post with dozens of links as to why my "no capitals" stance is the one and true way and you are wrong and unenlightened.
Well while I can produce large swaths of elegant code when I need crazy instances I usually call upon my colleague for his invaluable assistance. I don't claim to be an expert in the language. Many people know much more about it than me.
'etc etc...'

The problem is that you run out of built-in components really quick. Not sure why Mozilla chose to start with existing controls, but the point here is that it's an easy way to introduce new controls.

'look up Emmet and add bootstrap or some other giant framework. Don't start making brand new HTML elements that have absolutely no meaning unless there is 150kb's of JS to read them.'

The problem is that every framework has a different way of writing controls. This is a standardization of the control model with built-in support in the browsers (FF and Chrome at least). Doesn't take 150kb's of JS at all, or even a framework.
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I think Beaglebone Black already does that. Please correct me if I'm wrong? Also, it has an embedded micro-controller inside making it a fantastic piece of hardware.
The looks like a quack part is strong with soylent, imo. I'm getting a very big snake oil salesman vibe from this whole thing.
Didn't know about Ensure Complete and it seems that you are right, it looks pretty complete. The problem though is the variance in the DV% of different nutrients. For instance, if I wanted to get 100% of sodium from Ensure then I would have to intake 3500 calories and 260% protein, and I haven't heard too many great things about having too much protein. The DV% of most micros is not listed so there may be a lot of problems like this.
No, they don't disagree at all. They say you can replace A MEAL with ensure. Not all of your food consumption period. There is a big difference. They only ever talk about using ensure as a supplement to your diet, not a replacement for it. If you want to live on ensure you need to drink 5 ensure completes per day, plus consume some extra calories, possibly some extra protein, some salt and a few vitamins. But they explicitly recommend that you do not exceed four servings per day: http://ensure.com/nutrition-faq
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Everything made sense to me except for the part about writing tests.

If you're confident you're product will have a long lifespan then tests make perfect sense. But from what I've seen most MVP's are experiments that may or may not stand up to real users.

If you're in the latter camp, writing test code is prematurely optimizing for stability.
This is the beautiful of the internet. People always look at the internet and see the facebooks and the twitters that connect us, and that's cool, but people don't see the beautiful parts. this is the beautiful.
> It would be interesting if we genuinely tried prison as a reform institution.

Yes, until the 70s. People came from all over the world to see the californian prison system.
Well, he only talks about school algebra. I'm not familiar with the US high school curriculum but I doubt it goes much beyond polynomials…
FTA (3rd paragraph):
> (I should stress that in this article I’m focusing on school arithmetic and school algebra. Professional mathematicians use both terms to mean something far more general.)
I’m pleased that the open-source approach gov.uk has taken is paying off.
Aaaand it's toast.

Watterson is the most notoriously reclusive artist in his field - if somebody got an interview with him, that's a feat.
Movie tickets, airline ticket, most online stores. Being Java it of course also doesn’t work on mobile phones, pads, etc.

They are starting to roll out a version for mobile phones now, but it requires that your operator supports it and many will need a new sim card so it takes time.

In the meantime if you are out with your friend and you finds out you want to see a movie, you will have to walk to the theater or call a friend with a pc to buy a ticket. You can't just do it online from you iPhone (some movie theaters may have a app for that, but not where I currently live :( ).

It feels especially bad because it wasn't always like this. Before the massive adoption of Bank ID you could do almost anything online from your phone.
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pin.net.au supports USD. Doesn't support AMEX yet though, which is a bit annoying.
One of the most surprising things about the commentary on Soylent, is the level of vitriol and anger that they are pushing out a meal replacement product without an exceptionally high level of testing and scientific design; and that the entire _concept_ of trying to create a meal replacement product is morally wrong, or totally and completely impossible.

(For examples, just read the comments on this article, or any of the Soylent-related articles).

It seems to be based on a presumption that we all have amazing, carefully designed and scientifically tested diets as is, and Soylent is going to make our diets demonstrably worse, or (apparently) make us really sick, or (even) kill us.

Given that 69.2% of the adult US population is overweight, it would seem that our current amazing diets are perhaps not working.

Of course, the vast majority of us make it up as we go along, influenced by food manufacturers and marketing, and the people around us, as well as our parents.

Sure, food manufacturers have more scrutiny than you or I, but no one is making sure that any particular combination of food in the supermarket is going to lead to a healthy diet - nothing stops me from choosing and carrying out a bad diet - and many many people 'choose' and carry out bad diets as is.

Do you seriously think that, when the supermarket put in an entire aisle of confectionery, that they were doing it as some attempt to give us a good diet?

Or that coke is attempting to help us lose weight when the dump all that sugar - or HFCS - in?

If you think the person buying Taco Bell for breakfast, McDonalds for lunch, and KFC for dinner is following a carefully designed, healthy diet, you are deluded. If you think these people don't exist - you're deluded there too.

To be not evil, Soylent only has to be _not worse_ than the average existing diet.

Now, I agree that a complete meal replacement product should get more scrutiny than the average person's diet - and Soylent is! I certainly haven't had my diet designed by a group of food scientists or dieticians.
Why are people so hypocritical that they claim soylent is not nutritionally complete but ensure is, despite the obvious fact that nutritional labelling laws allow us to see that soylent contains everything ensure does and more?
It's every other day for me unless I go out of my way to tell it to stop. Even then it starts up for no reason later on.
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Does anyone have an original thought on this, or is everyone going to keep saying "this is bad because I read it in a book about bad things"?

I personally, coming from admittedly a position of ignorance where I don't know what secrets may or may not exist and what their implications may or may not be, have trouble picking a side. As we don't know the secrets, any opinion we take on them, other than a general one, is purely emotional.
> Most JavaScript runtimes no longer interpret JavaScript.

Yes, JavaScript implementations have been more or less JIT-compiler based for quite some time now. But they are still quite far behind in performance and this does not address the real time requirements at all (in fact, it makes it worse). There's also a significant memory hit from having the JIT compiler around.

Asm.js is cool because it can be compiled to native code ahead of time (addresses the performance gap at the expense of startup time), but this project isn't talking about Asm.js at all. It's about running human-written JavaScript as opposed to Asm.js which is intended to be emitted by compilers.
Meeting a guy/gal is a major biological driver in life. Other than food/physical safety, what is more important in life?
If we stay in Europe, you can see what you just described in the last 70ish year of Italian history.
I think there is a third type in between your two types of people.
Totally agree, but I thought I wrote that ;) "If you know that you will start from scratch soon you can most likely skip the tests and focus on testing your hypotheses as quickly as possible."
>If you live in a country which adheres to standards of food safety and has regulatory bodies to protect and promote public health then I disagree

Soylent has to adhere to all those same standards.
My cynical self would say that this is the perfect training for when XP runs out of support next April. Just because their vendor dropped support doesn't mean that usage will suddenly stop nor does it mean that no exploits are going to be found and used.

Right now it's "just" Java 6 which isn't installed on every machine out there (but still on a huge part of all Java capable machines). Next year it will be Windows XP which still has between 40% and 80% usage.

Me personally, I'm really interested how this is going to turn out. Will we see unofficial patches? Will we see anti virus vendors step up and provide semi-official patches? Will vendors have to cave and continue issuing patches? Will the malware issue just be ignored? What kind of damage does need to happen before something changes?
> This is marketing, and HN users are gullible to it like everyone else.

Exactly, and here's another example: What's the difference between Diet Coke and Coke Zero?

Answer: Diet Coke is popular with women, so some men won't drink it. Hence, introduce the more masculine Coke Zero, but basically the same thing. But make some tiny little tweaks to caffeine content and sweetness to create plausible deniability about it being identical.

Reference: http://foodwatch.com.au/mailbag/item/q-what-s-the-difference...
Fluffing your CV with skills
Perhaps I get more cynical as I get older, but I get really annoyed when applicants put 'fluff' on their CV.

I've recently been interviewing for low to mid level IT jobs.<p>To give a few examples of the things I've come across in the last month:

* SSH protocol

Several applicants have listed this. It always gets my attention because a) I don't believe simply being able to connect to a host via SSH is a noteworthy skill, b) if you're actually into the protocol itself I will probably love you.

It always turns out to be the former. I try to salvage that by asking some more pointy questions such as 'explain to roughly how I would tunnel with putty?' which get blank stares.

* Linux command line

This is touch and go in terms of relevance. I guess it depends just how junior you are, as well as the specifics of the role (yes I would tailor my CV to a role). When I ask you what 'cat' does I would expect an answer. Said person could not tell me what the default shell was under CentOS.

Again, a lot of people fall short under questioning. Being able to change directories does not qualify for a CV mention.

* PHP (Zend OO)

Very specific example but this applies to any scripting/programming language mentioned on the CV. If you claim something specific, be prepared to answer specific questions. If you put 'Zend OO' and it turns out you read the cover of a book about Zend (literally admitted) and 'did a course in OO PHP' whilst your real work is fully procedural, please be prepared for a frown.

Now, am I being too cynical with these juniors? Perhaps working in a city like London makes it hard to see the forest for the trees, but I am sorely disappointed with perfectly capable people ruining their own chances by senselessly fluffing their CVs.
Java 6 (1.6) is EOL. You won't get an update unless you update to 7
Actually, some of the posters from Die Grünen (Green Party) have a rather personal taste to them. See [1], which shows Merkel and Röstler (figureheads of the current ruling parties) with the caption "It's always someone else's fault". And then of course, there's the fringe parties, like [2], saying "Which ass will you choose this September?".

[1]: http://www.gruene.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Bilder/Webbanner/...
[2]: http://img01.lachschon.de/images/153979_WelcherArschdarfsden...

Of course, that's still kittens and rainbows compared to the rabid, poisonous insanity that is considered normal in the US.
Not fast enough, not broad enough: The US Internet in 2013
The best school of meditation I've found is Clairvision: www.clairvision.org. Their body of knowledge is extensive and has a no bull-shit approach to reaching higher states of consciousness. Definitely not a meditation school for lightweights.
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I've never believed otherwise. This is why when I'm debating an issue with someone and they throw up research papers and claim "See? science says so!", I don't really know what to say. I don't think issue is specific to behavior-related studies either. I highly suspect USA's science data when it's related to something that makes lots of money or promotes a certain predominant view point. Not to say it doesn't happen in other countries, but we're talking about USA right now.
Specifically things like:

- Studies show corn syrup not harmful

- Studies show cellphones don't cause cancer

- Studies show 1 in 2 children need meds for ADD

These are not exact quotes, just giving a general idea. I suspect these things because if they turn out not to be true, millions of dollars to some big corp entity somewhere would be lost. Or maybe they need science-data to justify their funding. There's just too much money tied up in scientific results to trust they haven't been tampered with.
What I like to see, is when many countries do studies and they all come up with similar results.

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EDIT: Yeah, I see this getting downvoted but I stand by what I said. Science is influenced by money a great deal these days; you should reserve a little bit of skepticism for scientific results that have close ties to supporting a belief required for bigcorp to keep making money.
If you are interested in the programmatic version of this, I'm working on a project called Nitrogen that enables you to manage a fleet of Raspberry Pis (or any embedded device) and write applications that work across them.

See http://github.com/nitrogenjs/service for more details...
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