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Soylent will kill you over the years, certainly before the dairy and fruit only diet I mentioned above. Soylent is loaded with oxidized cholesterols and rancid poly unsaturated fats, as well as toxic gumming agents. I'll also bet a lot of people don't do well on so much oats.
Good read, thanks for linking. Some points I'd never considered.
Nobody defending the brutalist city hall building in Boston, I see...

> I somehow think that if you could populate the Plaza with more gardens, and make it feel more part of everyday life — which they’ve tried to do with farmers’ markets and using the basin for ice skating — then it wouldn’t feel so hostile.

Seems eerily familiar to the sentiment surrounding the plaza by the city hall in Boston.
This will always be the case, even here on HN, the vast majority of users/commenters haven't been through a start-up, especially not as a founder. Gotta just ignore it and move on. Having been through it 3 times now (2x as a founder, 1x as first employee) I can read some of these critiques and see how maddeningly simplistic they are.

That's not to say a founder has too much more insight into the specifics of what you faced. Without being in the thick of it, it's almost impossible to really see what happened.

Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth - Mike Tyson
Maybe you're just lucky. Or perhaps I'm just unlucky.

Whatever the case, I know it's not the hardware; wpa_supplicant (the underlying software that allows NetworkManager to function) has (in my experience) generally worked much better than NetworkManager, and OpenBSD's networking stack is also pretty flawless in my experience. So it's something about NetworkManager specifically that needs to be fixed or replaced.

And note that my criticisms about networking are not about Linux as a whole; on the contrary. My criticisms are strictly about NetworkManager. You probably understand this already, but your comment seems to be phrased in defense of GNU/Linux as a whole as if I consider the failings of NetworkManager I've experienced to be the fault of the kernel or somesuch - which is very much not the case - so I figure it's worth clarifying just in case.
When you don't actually know enough to make an honest assessment, then you can't come to an honest conclusion. Calling "whole food" safer is an emotional response not unlike that which make "non-GMO Himalayan sea salt" a thing people buy.
Psh. This is nothing. http://www.cs.columbia.edu/CAVE/projects/self_powered_camera...
This remembers me of that last paragraph of the chapter about the "Stationary State" of J.S. Mill's Political Economy. The tragedy becomes ever more imaginative and, of course, innovative.
The value prop that people will save money is kind of funny to me. My diet:

Breakfast: Oatmeal, honey, cinnamon $0.20

Lunch: Large Salad(spinach, carrot, tomato, cucumber, mushroom, bell pepper, sometimes almonds) $2.50

Dinner: Steamed Veggies and Seared Tilapia (kale, carrot, tomato, capers, tilapia) $3.50

If people just budged properly they would be fine. That being said, I'm curious to try soylent and have purchased a week supply of it. Could be fun to play with.
Then put your auto in manual mode and drive it by hand. No reason not to roll them out in the next five years. If it detects rain or snow it simply refuses to self-drive.
Phoenix/Firefox was Mozilla's own lightweight alternative to SeaMonkey. Then Chrome was the lightweight alternative to a memory-hogging Firefox. Now Chrome is seen as sluggish and a memory hog. Where do we go next?
Thank you for the suggestion and the feedback! I will do it tomorrow. I just have to decide if it should be a separate context menu item. If you have any other thoughts please let me know.
Yep! This improves decoding speed too.
It's amazing how simple and straightforward an idea can sound like in hindsight, but it this actually possible?

I've always assumed that it takes more energy to fly a drone than to charge it. So you wouldn't be able to supply enough energy during flight to charge it. Otherwise why would a drone need 1-2 hours of charge time for a 15 minute flight? How would that 15 minute flight last 1-2 hours of flying to charge the battery fully for another 15 minutes of flight? The numbers don't add up.
It's not especially near 110th Street :-) It crosses from 173rd Street in Manhattan to 170th Street in the Bronx. Washington Heights has seen a fair bit of urban renewal and there's also been work on the river paths etc. on the Bronx side. The short answer is that neither side of the river is especially rich and there probably wasn't much impetus from anyone to reopen the bridge and do corresponding park and path revitalization while they were in the midst of fairly serious urban decay which they were for a long time.
This bug report has been closed, we have been told to report this elsewhere. There are already many posts on their feedback forum, I haven't seen one on their governance forum.
What were you experiences with the turnkey analytical software industry like? What did you like and didn't like about it?
You said parse and pray in bash, don't be a jackass. Similarly, why even say that my argument is that Unix is better because it's not CMD.EXE when you know that's not remotely true, or that I assume Unix's infallibility (ridiculous). You're dishonest and not interested in a real discussion, so continue to enjoy your reinvented Smalltalk machine in peace (there's a reason nobody uses them even though they did more nifty tricks than Powershell ever dreamed of).
It's more like buying cash equivalents with a credit card like Visa gift cards and then liquidating them to pay off said credit card. Your cost is the purchase fee and any costs to liquidate the card. In some cases you can actually profit from this I.e buying Amex gift cards through a cash back portal.
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You may be ok with the world eavesdropping on some of your communications with third parties. That is your opinion, and you can use whatever protocols you want. What you don't get to do is force the rest of us to make the same choices.

What has become very clear in recent years is that far too much usable data can be extracted out of noisy channels. Any amount of identifying bits leaked where an eavesdropper can hear them can effectively remove the privacy you thought you had elsewhere.

Also, keep in mind that the ISP itself is often the enemy. Are you cool with Verizon editing ALL of your HTTP to add X-UIDH identifiers? What about if they do the same trick in a side channel, keying to a hash of your HTTP request and IP?

The problem here is that the idea that there exists a subset of HTTP requests that do no "need to be secure" is really just a restatement of the "but I"m not a target" fallacy. Targeting presumes a human with intent, when the threat is a computer that builds a database of all the traffic it can see. So yes, data needs to be secured, and that means all that we possibly can.

> If you want us to listen

If you want US to listen, you will need to wake up to the brave new world of pattern-of-life analysis and stop trying to keep the world in plaintext. I don't like a lot of things about TLS, but it is the crypto we have right now; I would love having better, less complicated options in the future.

If you find it complicated, that's your problem. What you apparently see as a technical discussion some of us see as a human rights problem, and stopping the surveillance-as-a-business-model industry (and the occasional overly-ambitious government agency) ranks quite a bit higher than complaints about a few standards becoming a bit more work to implement.
I fail to see how this is different than payphones. Even if there was a difference, I fail to see how the appropriate way to stop the behavior of a small subset of people is to punish everyone when you can just punish those individuals. Even if is was the appropriate way, I fail to see why it would apply to prisoners and not the public at large. Maybe we should just turn the internet off for everyone because it's unfeasible to prevent it from being used in a crime?
I think the key is the quote says "...start to become aware. It's just the beginning..." In your forties, many have teenagers or those on the cusp on college, so I think the shift is moving from provider to wanting a legacy, and what you described is the bit of turbulence that comes with that shift.
Interesting that my experience with Mac and Windows has been completely the opposite. I owned 2 PowerPC Macs which went the way of the dodo and I had to replace hardware AND software to run on Intel. So running my old Final Cut Pro and Adobe suite was not possible on new hardware.

Compare to Windows, I am able to continue running very old software without having to upgrade them. OSX is not free (as in freedom). You can't legitimately virtualise it on non Apple hardware, yet running Windows on Mac hardware is very straight forward.

If I had to pick a platform for web projects though, I'd actually pick Ubuntu. It's very easy to automate.
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It's aimed to a better and neater version. It aims to have separate pages for article in each language, which builds on each edit and thus maintains standalone fully compilable (or one that builds successfully) programs.
soo, hyperloop alpha?
I don't see how autos could realistically cost $250k each anyway. They are not using significantly more raw resources. Electric cars are an accurate comparison, because they also have top of the line tech in a specific domain - batteries. And volume batteries are a much bigger manufacturing problem than radar systems, which have been assembled (but not at auto-fleet scale) for decades, albeit not with current tech, but much more closer to current assembly than what Teslas LI batteries are.

I imagine something like this Google car could go to market for around $80k today, and thats factoring in huge amounts of per-unit overhead for building factories to assemble them en masse in the first place.

An auto upgrade kit to a traditional car probably won't cost more than 20k if they permit the retrofitting of old vehicles when the ball starts rolling.
Some (most?) people care about other things than money.
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> vital, living, high-density, sustainable city

I get what you mean, but La Défense is more or less the opposite of that. The people responsible should be shot, as it taints the ideals of what you mentioned. Tour Montparnasse should be loaded from cellar to attic with excessive amounts of explosives and be put out of its misery.
It's understandable that it will take a while to get used to (it's a fairly new interface/form factor combination for an input device), a Valve employee on Reddit has confirmed that the steam controller use in the launch video was live action[1] and that the programmer who designed the keyboard interface can type faster than him on a standard keyboard using it.[2]

So it might require practise, but according to this anecdotal evidence, it has the potential (if your dedicated enough) to form a suitable replacement.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/38jcel/introducing_th...

[2] http://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/38jcel/introducing_th...
Odd that it's asking for the admin password.

The more common issue with passwords is that it incessantly prompts for the user's password or for the wireless network passphrase due to some strange inability to talk to whatever keyring daemon is in use (and thus an inability to retrieve network passwords). I usually work around that by disabling the keyring (either globally or simply preventing NetworkManager from using it).
The startup aspect is that it is small and needs to grow quickly right? The admin fee would be the return?
It seems that the risk of giving incorrect information to FBI agents while being interviewed, whether intentional or not, is so high that it's better just to not to agree to an interview, especially if you're innocent.
"but blogging is a great mental exercise on getting your thoughts on paper. The only way to become a better writer is to write, and blogging is just that."

So is writing an email. In a typical day I probably send 5 important emails. Writing opportunities abound!

Not to even start on writing designs, memos, technical briefs, position papers, meeting notes, technical docs, user documentation, etc, etc.

The opportunities to practice your writing skills at work are limitless. I'm not opposed to blogging in any way; let's just not pretend blogging (or tweeting) is in anyway important or necessary for building communication skills.
So glad I majored in bioinformatics / comp bio. The future looks bright =)

& FWIW I know of a few postdocs who are either currently employed or are in the process of being poached by Google. It seems they are very serious about this.
That's the point. Paris is the second-lowest on that list. The other places listed are all Parisian suburbs.

"Because they exiled all future high rises to some far neighborhood like La Défense, they were segregating growth."
This looks very interesting. So donors can pick a family and fund a house directly. Your spreadsheet shows a total building cost of about $6000 including everything and the houses are clearly not pressboard shacks.

Is your agency having problems dealing with title claims like the Red Cross is claiming is the issue that prevented them from fulfilling any of their promises to build?

Also, another source claims that the Red Cross only spent $400 on each of the 6 permanent homes they managed to build (http://hotesfoundation.org/500-million-for-6-shacks-in-haiti...). Since you've been down there and are involved with building I wonder if you happen to have seen the 6 permanent $400 Red Cross homes? What are they like? I wasn't able to find photos of those, only of the temporary shelters made of press board, and the tents.
I should also point out that I came from a dirt-poor family, and this was when I was 17, making it the more significant to me.
Elon was nearly illiquid for moments when spaceX and tesla were struggling. I think the fact that both companies were at the brink suggests that the struggles are very real to him as well.
No, many other crimes have a mens rea requirement.
What was so bad about UCSD Pascal?
Why would this create a risk of deficiency for most people? Excepting exercise - the maximum daily recommended amount is 2,300mg; for people who have problems with sodium (particularly those with high blood pressure), the recommendation is to limit sodium to 1,500mg/day.
I upvoted you because I agree that it is actually pretty easy to eat healthily for pretty cheap if you are willing to manage it correctly.

I will say that you seem to have a surprising low daily caloric intake, though. I have a high metabolism, but sit in front of computer all day and I still need 2500 calories/day to maintain my weight.
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It's a toy project. It's for fun, learning, and stimulating new ideas that can be applied to "real" projects.
The extension runs with background permissions so you don't need to start chrome for using it. It starts automatically at user-login to OS. The projects is open sourced under MIT license.

Repo: https://github.com/yankee101/HNDN
They aren't after transactions of any specific amount, just "interesting" ones. Large rare transactions are interesting, as are big transactions that have been broken up to hide from reporting.
Oh I agree. I endured and ignored a ton of assholes' simplistic reductions about my business, motivation, work ethic, etc, when we shut down. I agree.

But, as a community, we should try to builds things that don't encourage this sort of shit. If you want to promote learning from failure, it's in your best interest to make sure that you don't accidentally dissuade people from writing about it.
Is there a talk to go with this? It's hard to internalize bullet points.
I would purchase a days worth but I am not going to toss eighty odd bucks on something I might not like. At least mealsquares has a sample pack at twenty five that is about my threshold for trying specialized food products.
There are two laws/rules in question.

A. Transactions above $10,000 must be reported by the bank.

B. Bank customers can't structure withdrawals deliberately to evade the reporting requirement.

Ignorance of the reporting law de facto means that you haven't violated the evasion law. You can't deliberately evade something you know nothing about.
I'm not talking about the absolute best possible deal, I'm addressing larrys' observation that he picked up an investment property for significantly less than the broker could have sold it for if he shopped around. Fiduciary duties require brokers to act in the client's interest, not their own. This isn't something a broker can just blow off if a dispute arises, it's a legal obligation. That's why it's referred to as a duty.

http://www.realtor.org/sites/default/files/handouts-and-broc...
First google hit for "face generation from dna"

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/24/science/building-face-and-...

You're right of course, there is a lot more to appearance than genetics, but these approximations do exist now, and will get better. jakeogh's litter example is closer to reality than he probably intended, which just shows how fast this technology is coming along.

> Nonetheless, the police in Columbia, S.C., last month released a sketch of a possible suspect. Rather than an artist’s rendering based on witness descriptions, the face was generated by a computer relying solely on DNA found at the scene of the crime.
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I wish I could find a link, but I recall years ago an interview on NPR with an architect that designed some building in LA (for paying parking tickets or something). Anyway, during the interview he accidentally admitted to not actually caring about the people that would end up using the space.

He then followed up by back-pedaling of course, but I've always remembered that as a moment when my cynicism about "modern" architecture felt validated.
Yeah my roommate has commented on this as well. I'm thinking of adding in more nuts and other calorically dense foods. I've only been doing this for a few months so it's a bit of an experiment.
s/respected/regarded with suspicion/
Flyertalk.com has a very active manufactured spending forum. I'd start there.
To learn how LPeg works, and how interpreters work in general, so you can make more powerful languages later.
Given that it's sort of bland, I imagine you can easily flavor it and make fun beverages. Part of why I want to get it is to experiment. My coworker drinks soylent and I bet I could make it taste fantastic after playing with it a bit.
I'm pretty surprised by the comments regarding integer overflow penalties. I'd gotten the impression that we've been able to easily able to get it for < 10%, and sometimes closer to no overhead: http://danluu.com/integer-overflow/
Explanation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6308017
Ramez Naam had a good response to all the fear surrounding CRISPR:
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/05/don...
He could simply not speak to them.
(Disclaimer, or self-indictment, or something: I am in my early 40s.)

Of course we are making incredibly broad generalizations here. But what part of what you are saying is incompatible with the post to which you reply?

Self-awareness is frequently painful. Not everyone reacts the same way, or well. Personally, I do find that I'm reflecting differently than I used to on choices I've made, opportunities missed, times I've been less than the human I want to be, and it isn't all zen gardens and rainbows. People react to disappointment, shame, unfairness, etc. differently, and lashing out, trying to make up for lost time, and far more inexplicable reactions are all pretty common, I think.

Not there yet, but I certainly hope that by the time I hit my 50s, I will have gained some equanimity about the more painful things in my life.

And if not, I can always take up whacking the kids with my cane.
In my opinion ignorance should be allowed. Unless: there was a conflict (which would require you to figure out what is the law on the subject); you endangered someone; clear cases of don't do to other what you don't want done to you. It's even impossible to know the law, how can any SANE person request to do the impossible ?
I see what you're saying and think we were at different ends: I thought you meant 'I wouldn't hire someone who only graduated HS' rather than 'I wouldn't hire someone who just graduated HS' and fair enough.
Except sometimes your silence will be used against you:

http://www.npr.org/2014/10/05/353893046/you-have-the-right-t...

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudenc...
Well in that case... if you consider optimizing non-hotspots as "bloat"(?) then you are coming at this from a whole other viewpoint than most of us who have embraced optimizing compilers. :-)
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The first two issues (JIT code compilation and integer overflow/underflow) add up to a significant fraction of the crashing bugs in Gecko that have security exposure. I can't provide specific numbers, but both are well over 10% of that subset of security bugs.

On the correctness of unsafe code, we have very few instances where Servo will actually crash (as opposed to panic and unwind "gracefully"), but they've overwhelmingly been in unsafe code blocks when we weren't properly respecting lifetimes and caused a use after free.

For interactive applications, the ability to incrementally reflow the page (say, after an element's value for the display property is changed) is crucial. Modern browser engines have a ton of code that tries to minimize the amount of reflow performed (and sometimes loses correctness!), because it's really easy to accidentally reflow too much and fail to maintain 60fps. We of course hope that throwing parallelism at layout will solve some of this in Servo, but having a more principled approach to the problem of recomputation is interesting, too.
Here is a bit of interesting history that I bet few people know about.

Doug Cutting worked on VTwin at Apple long before he wrote Lucene. This was a codename for Apple's search technology they were building into the OS. I knew about it because at the time I was building computer labs for my college and bought a lot of Apple hardware (about a million dollars worth) and my rep added me to the private beta.

Many years later, when I saw the Lucene project being worked on and saw that Doug was behind it, I immediately reached out to him and asked him if he was interested in joining the Jakarta group, as I thought this would be a great addition to our growing community.

Needless to say, the rest is history, but I feel like if nobody had reached out to Doug, he may not have gotten as much exposure and may not have been motivated to start the rest of the amazing projects that he's worked on, including Hadoop.

=)

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=apple+vtwin+codename
Yes, of course ;)

But seriously, let's say that I'm being blackmailed, and that it's about something that's either not illegal, or where statute of limitations has run out. Can't I just talk to my lawyer, and work out a payment system that doesn't flag me for money laundering?
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This is part of why you shouldn't talk to police without a lawyer.
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London is 2 to 3 times more expensive than Paris at the moment. And Paris is denser than London. Kinda kills the argument.
I believe that too is against the law, but you can delay by insisting on doing it with an attorney (who would confirm that), and in any case refuse to say anything on 5th Amendment grounds.
The world's best programming languages weren't made in a day. Got to start somewhere mate