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Grid v1.5.0 now available – Introducing entity shadows
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Check it out! Example of its usage in Vertex Adventure: http://i.imgur.com/eqWgPAd.png
People have been asking for a features page as well, and that's being actively developed. It's kinda rough around the edges at the moment. More to come there, soon.
Example: http://www.andrewmcwatters.com/grid/features/GUI
http://www.andrewmcwatters.com/grid/ https://github.com/Planimeter/grid-sdk/releases
Even if what you say is true, quality of life must still be balanced with quantity of life. Your food is disgusting, full stop. I am not interested in living without food that tastes good.
I and most people here drink occasionally, but this doesn't change the fact that you're right.

People paint illusions around what they like.
Pod proposals (more like musings at this point) I've read include sufficient self contained locomotion ability to move slowly between egress points.
The deforestation has to stop, I've traveled in Indonesia both personally and professionally and have seen the devastation that illegal (but government tolerated) deforestation causes.

At the same time abandoning palm oil is both extremely impractical and causes numerous other sustainability problems. Palm oil has incredibly high yields per hectare when compared with other oil crops, which is important to consider when discussing it's 'sustainability'. It's yeilds are something like 3-5 tons per hectare per year, while soy/sunflower/others are less than 1 ton/ha/yr. Not to mention the human impact, it's a cash crop for many small holders who's livelihood depends on it. For these reasons, even very vocal environmental organizations like GreenPeace stop short of calling for boycotts... the focus needs to be on producing it sustainably.

Consumers need to demand that the palm oil in their products is sustainably produced e.g. via the Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) or otherwise. Unfortunately even knowing if palm oil is in your product or not has been difficult, and even brands who use sustainably produced palm oil are hesitant to draw attention to the the oil in their products.

I've worked closely with this program on technical projects, and while it certainly has a number of flaws, the accountably is much higher than for conventional palm oil. I'm really hopeful that research into other methods (Algae oil production) will be more economical/efficient/sustainable, but at the moment it's still theoretical. :(
> Hell, if the US banned guns I would still own one I would just hide it better.

You probably wouldn't, because the risk of ending up in jail or prison would be unacceptable.
Not my favorite government institution. Off the top of my head, there's the constant flip-flopping on what's healthy and what isn't (often unrelated to scientific consensus), there's their handling of consumer gene sequencing, there's the downright dumb laws on medical devices (ask me about the fun and expense of getting a freakin' CPAP machine), their ignoring scientific consensus on cannabis..

"Mobsters" implies a level of malice for profit that doesn't exist.. but I'd settle for "criminally incompetent and neurotic". I honestly think the IRS is better staffed and more reasonable as an institution than the FDA, yet the former is almost universally (undeservedly so) reviled.
An english version:
http://www.delfi.ee/news/en/news/delfis-struggle-for-freedom...
Put your passwords on the cloud they said, nothing could go wrong, they said
You misunderstood, I didn't mean that there has to be a consumer benefit. I just mean I thought consumers would still be able to choose it in many cases. Or the amount could be limited, rather than banned. I'm not arguing for this, I'm just saying it's shocking!

I mean, it is obvious that if you were to ban sugar, high fructose corn syrup, corn starch, and even all-purpose white flour, forcing all food companies to use alternatives, there would be an instant health benefit for the entire country starting the same day. But that doesn't mean such a ban wouldn't absolutely shock me, especially as an outright ban rather than limitation, labelling, etc. The only thing I'm expressing is surprise.
PPAPI is just providing an alternate, lower-level interface to the same web techniques accessible via JavaScript APIs. There's a bit more power (OpenGL ES 2.0, not the crippled WebGL standard based upon it) but nothing very significant. It's not browser-specific but it's also not going beyond what browsers provide.
Sears grew up as a mail-order catalogue merchant — they were the Amazon of the day, tookin de jerbs of local brick-and-mortars.
That's actually a very good observation! There does seem to be a major discontinuity between those two study periods.

Very strange that it seems to only affect fats, and that the effect was so dramatic... They do mention "There has been some research that addressed the impact of changes in methods and/or databases between selected surveys"... it'd be worth digging that up to see what the effects were determined to be.

Edit: Found it?

http://naldc.nal.usda.gov/catalog/7349

Nothing in the abstract explains a major discontinuity in reported fat intake, though. They only report small but statistically significant effects on various other nutrients.

Edit 2: They also have a FAQ on this topic. From http://www.ars.usda.gov/Services/docs.htm?docid=13793:

"Is it possible to combine WWEIA data from different release cycles?"

It goes on to point out that sample weights, number of days, and the nutrient database do change over time, and so you have to take into account these effects.

The above study covers effects as a result of changes in the nutrient database.

I have trouble believing that sampling method or the data cycle length would result in such a major discontinuity in the data.
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For those asking "Why was this announced at the Sony event?", note that according to the rewards, Shenmue 3 will be a PlayStation 4 exclusive for consoles: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ysnet/shenmue-3
I linked to WUWT for the video, clearly there were people politicizing science at the time and if you bothered to read my wikipedia link you can see how this stuff got into the press and public consciousness via the scientific community.

>There was never a widespread consensus about global cooling:

The problem is that its hard for the public to weigh these claims when experts go on TV. Again, my point is that consensus changes, politics change, etc. Scientific consensus is often more wrong than right and later replaced or refined by something else. Denying that is sophomoric. Scientists aren't immune from fads and hysteria, especially when that stuff results in grants and fame.
Get ready for the coming smart home shakeout
Why This Blue Whale's Massive Heart Is Being Blown Up Like a Beach Ball
PHP 7.0.0 Alpha 1 Released – “Up to twice as fast as PHP 5.6”
It's entirely the other way around - the consensus that they are safe no longer holds, therefore approval for use in food is withdrawn.
Yeah, that's how science works.

We start from a position of ignorance, and we incrementally gain new pieces of knowledge. Years ago, we learned about the health risks of saturated fats and moved away from them. More recently, we learned about the risks of trans fats and are now moving away from them. The people at the Center for whatever are updating their position based on the latest findings rather than sticking to outdated facts that have been disproven. I wish more policy-makers would do that.

Our knowledge and understanding of the totality of nutrition and health is still pretty small, in part because there are lots of interacting components and because many aspects of nutrition are correlated with ethnicity and lifestyle. Nonetheless, it has been demonstrated that trans fats are bad for your health, independent of other factors. We shouldn't keep consuming them just because science didn't manage to uncover this fact until recently.
The whiteboard pens we have at work have a semi-transparent barrel:

http://www.postofficeshop.co.uk/images/product/extraLarge/2/...
Reviving the Statistical Atlas of the United States with New Data
I like this advice. I don't know many programmers that feel that their code is perfect or complete. Whiteboards and sticky notes make great planning if you need help visualizing.
I find the erasability of blackboards and whiteboards is a function of the quality of materials. Crappy markers look washed out and yet erase poorly, as does crappy chalk. Better markers (I bring my own into work for this reason) write smoothly and erase nicely. Obviously the quality of the boards themselves also plays a role.
Don't forget salt and sodium. The gov't is still trying to work up sodium regulations, while the scientific evidence supporting it withers and dries up (kinda like a salted slug)
sadly to videos don't work anymore (to download)
We've already seen many isolated corrections in the public market over the last few years. 3D printing has corrected in a massive way. Biotech had a big correction a bit over a year ago, however it has recovered and continues to rally. Solar suffered a correction recently and many small to mid-cap technology companies had a correction about 1.5 years ago too.

Apple even saw an isolated correction a couple years ago.

That is one reason I believe the public markets are in fact healthy. Sectors have been allowed to correct on their own instead of everything just failing in a systemic way.
David Kaplan also made Particle Fever: http://particlefever.com/
Forget apps your business needs a marketing robot
You can find it on Kickstarter here:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ysnet/shenmue-3

I didn't see the link in the article.
Unlike Android, Chromium is mostly developed in the open. As someone who has contributed to both projects, I wouldn't say Chromium is any less welcoming to contributors than Firefox. Mozilla is a lot better at presenting themselves in a positive light. Firefox even has similar automated downloaded of binary blobs like the EME plugin.
Jokes on you. I know powerlifters who are deadlifting hundreds of lbs, and they only consume a vegan plant-based diet (google "vegan powerlifting").

Animal proteins are an inefficient method of consuming nutrients. You may like meat, but its not efficient, and data has shown that it can cause cancer in your GI tract given enough time.

EDIT: There's a reason Soylent is vegan; not to appease animal lovers, but because its healthier for you and more efficient.

[1] http://blog.soylent.com/post/102285900727/announcing-soylent...
Why Is America Obsessed with Perfect Teeth?
I thought this stuff was already banned in the 90's.
It occurs to me that zero days are kind of like lethal force. We would really rather the government have none, but it must to deal with defense. It could be levied at us, but we usually believe it won't.

Does that mean we need a Second Amendment for encryption?
Meh, I think the whole low/non-fat trend is also a scam.... but who knows.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/why-eating-a-low...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/melaniehaiken/2013/07/02/lowfat-...
Indeed, it always surprised me that TBB didn't have more traction in the scientific community. The Intel compilers and MKL are pretty popular in the HPC community as is, so it seems natural that TBB would get more attention.

IMO, the reason is probably because of exactly what you said - the programming model is a bit different from the standard "slap an OMP pragma on it" and requires deliberate design to target TBB. From my small amount of experience with it though, it's actually pretty easy to use and can often be much more approachable than the more down-and-dirty OpenMP shared memory approach.
This already happened several years ago. There was about a year where all snack foods were utterly disgusting - Cheetos were like fried glass, potato chips were limp and off tasting, Oreo cookies were brittle and the filling tasted like chemicals.

They slowly figured out replacements for the trans fats that improved the quality. We'll never know quite what they are because of trade secrets. But it's probably far less natural than hydrogenated oils.

Oreo cookies, by the way, never recovered. They are terrible.
Ultimately I guess it depends on whether you're optimistic about human nature, over time.

I think we're seeing a gross abuse of it, esp. from the leaders of the US and the people pulling the strings. But, I'd like to think we improve over time, despite this kind of evil. And there is no doubt in my mind its an evil, perhaps not biblical, but a vast and greedy, sickening selfishness.

Pity we won't be around to see it if and when it turns right, but time is a great healer. I don't think the level of greed we're seeing now can be turned around in a generation.
Control for what purpose?
Digital archeology is going to be an interesting field sooner or later, sooner from the looks of this.

It's amusing to see the video sizes - "Large bandwidth 640x272"

My, how times have changed...
It's also not spec'd; there are many edge cases in the implementation that are undocumented and would have to be specified precisely in order to be implementable by others. Nobody has done that work so far.

Here's a random example bz pointed out from a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5452098
Debit Card That Builds Credit Helps Millennials
Perhaps to get other people to realize the impact of online-all-the-time shopping has on brick and mortar retail and the people it employs, and the human contact lost.

I might have said the same thing, with no malice.
I didn't misunderstand, my point is that there isn't ever really a reason to choose it (other than say, confusion).

Sugars taste better than the alternatives, and refined flour allows production of baked goods with a much finer texture, so there are real actual reasons to use those in foods.
"“I don’t know how many lives will be saved, but probably in the thousands per year when all the companies are in compliance,” Technically that could be 2000 which in turn would be out of 380,000 which in turn is at the order of magnitude of statistical blip.

That said I'm all for going back to good old fashioned, exists in nature and is yummy saturated fat. Bring back the beef tallow french fries McDonalds! in ten years the FDA will say it's good for us!
The sandbox binary uses setuid root if user namespaces aren't available, but that's a necessity for making the empty chroot and process/network namespaces used to sandbox tabs. The layer-2 sandboxing code (seccomp-bpf) doesn't require anything like that, but they're meant to be complementary (although both are strict enough that they could act as a meaningful sandbox alone).
You will notice that I first presented hard evidence that they were wrong in the form of a scientific paper that actually reviewed the climate science published in the 70s.

I then provided additional commentary about the quality of the site.
As a person who doesn't wear/trust bike helmets, if the certainty of an accident on a particular ride was increased to 100%, I would choose to not ride the bike rather than trust the helmet to protect me in a collision. If I knew a brick was to dropped on my head at a certain time, I would reach for a steel helmet before a styrofoam one, but first endeavor to not be at the appointed place and time for a braining.

That's tragic, because this debate is about a tradeoff: a moderate benefits of exercise vs. a small risk of injury. I am a very regular bike commuter, and it is my main form of exercise, but collisions are very, very dangerous. I would not get on a bike in the case of 100% certainty of an accident. Helmet advocates focus on the risk of injury and tend not to consider the benefits they're trading off against, or consider how they are dissuading people from the benefits of cycling.

It seems like this boils down to an argument not to cycle as much as to wear a helmet.
But the federal government has banned marijuana, which is arguably much safer than alcohol, and a potential substitute. In fact, they've banned to such a degree that for most purposes even scientific research on it is illegal.

It really does seem arbitrary, and once the arbitrary decision is made, all bridges are burned and we commit ourselves 100% to the capricious decision.
I live in france and apparently there is no law to force manufacturers to indicate those. I often see "hydrogenated oil", but I don't know if it's possible to get away with those tricks mentioned in the article.

Got coronary disease in my family...
Building a simple web app in golang, dart and angular2
Sketchfab and the democratization of 3D content
DevOps is many things, but they’re all about building the right product
Note that the theregister.co.uk link points back to ircmaxell's blog.

The SO link is for an answer from 2009, pointing to an email from 2006.

ircmaxell's blog is spot on - if you actually bother to read what it says. Not keeping a very important part of a webserver up to date with security releases is insecure. Is that a surprise to you, or anyone?

Is Windows or OSX or Linux insecure because they have security patches coming out all the time? What's insecure is user behavior when they keep running old, unpatched versions of software.

You're spreading FUD, repeating words and showing links without actually taking the time to understand the message they are trying to convey.

Case in point: PHP being "heavy". A PHP app can be as lightweight or as heavy as you need it to be. The more you build and the more it does, the "heavier" it becomes. If you throw a proper caching solution at a codebase, it becomes much better, but this is true for anything.

Look at the TechEmpower Benchmarks [0] - PHP raw is usually towards the middle, upper-middle of the pack. Of course, it gets handily beaten by compiled and multi-threaded languages.

[0] https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/
I have a friend whose company is similarly using C++ for cross-platform components on mobile devices. I find it cool to see C++ getting new wind in its sails.

Originally of course that was one of its strengths (following in the footsteps of the C language), but with each mobile platform having its own preferred development language, and with C++ not being a popular choice for web backends, it fell out of fashion. Seems like that is starting to change now.
It's completely subjective. Some people like the taste.

If someone wants to go full vegan, good for them. Just don't try to force that choice on everyone.
JavaScript.com, by Code School
This looks incredibly helpful - I wish someone would do one for the US/Canada
It's more secure than JavaScript, which is a start. Dropping the need for just-in-time compilation while gaining performance is nice.
I think you misunderstand how much access to the President even high level techies in the government have. He has an enormous amount of demands on his time, and limited waking hours and political capital to spend. Reforming Fed. tech is not one of his priorities.
Margarine was the healthy alternative. The damage done to the American public's arteries must be immense.
Well, I cannot compile the current version, nor install the deb. Using latest Linux Mint. It took some effort getting all the dependencies right, and it wasn't clear that I had to install the httpseverywhere plugin also provided on your Github account :)

While building, I get the following error that I cannot seem to solve:

CMakeFiles/rainbow-lollipop.dir/src/config_dialog.c.o: In function `rainbow_lollipop_config_dialog_construct':
config_dialog.c:(.text+0x265e): undefined reference to `gtk_switch_set_state'
Yeah. Spies have regularly provided data, for free or minimal compensation, to nation-state actors. Sometimes, this is information they know will result in the deaths of others. Often, the very act of doing it may result in the death of the perpetrator if caught.

Appeal to patriotism, a few million bucks, and immunity from prosecution? Surely someone highly placed at AppGoogAzonSoft is susceptible to that.
So you get asthma from whiteboard markers but chalk dust doesn't bother you? In my anecdotal experience, that is anomalous.
Firefox has similar code to download the proprietary EME plugin but it prompts the user about it first, which Chromium could be doing here.
Honestly, this sounds like the South Korean governments version of Superfish:

"Parents will be able to to see what their kids are up to online and block access to "undesirable" sites."

Given any number of browsers could be installed on the phone, I'm thinking there's a high likelihood this could be a proxy based solution since that would be the simplest approach. While such approaches to nanny guards aren't necessarily inherently broken, there are some real-world difficulties that make the design and implementation hard to secure. I hope they had a really good security review.
Is there an archive of deleted Wikipedia pages, or are they gone forever?
Can confirm. I just hired an ops engineer from the underdog.io list.
Seconding underdog.io. They helped me find my last job.
Maybe not rich, but if 5000 people buy a $5 app that you spent 30 hours on, that's a pretty good ROI for your time.
That makes good sense. Thanks for explaining.
And so dies the last of Indonesia's remaining natural forests.
Covered by cultivated palm trees.
No, I am not. Good effort though - Google needs spanking.
And no healthy person will gain 26 pounds when growing an inch. Get real man.
30,000 people are willing to "buy" this game 2+ years before it even gets released within just 10 hours of it's "announcement". There are still 31 days to go on the kickstarter campaign, and a lot of people who didn't watch Sony's E3 presentation yesterday are waking up to the news of this right now.

That means once the game is released, has an actual marketing/advertising budget, and word of mouth spreads, it's probably going to sell significantly more than that. They are also certainly going to port Shenmue 1 and 2, (since a lot of people will want to play the originals) so those should also sell reasonably well.
You lie when you say Eich could simply have reverted to CTO -- as CEO he had promptly promoted Andreas Gal to CTO. To promote with succession plans in place is good business practice; to undo those commitments is fatal for a business. Note now that not only is Andreas Gal no longer at Mozilla, but a number of other key leaders have left. Mozilla's undoing of _its_ decision to make Eich CEO looks to be fatal too, with its leadership departing and market share sliding into single digits.
>And for some reason, the new truth is usually the old position of ignorance.

I doubt it's 'usual'. It's just more obvious and widely publicised (often for political reasons from people who don't want any regulation at all). There are plenty of times when the initial position was right and doesn't get changed.
This is very cool! One thing I noticed though is "a pokemon master can only have 5 pokeballs (prisons for pokemon that you can carry around)". However, (at least in the video games) a pokemon master can actually carry with him a party of 6 pokemon.