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Why associate natural with organic? Natural is utterly meaningless label marketing while Organic (USDA) and Non-GMO are actual certifications that have requirements, the latter of which is more trustworthy. There is absolutely a scientific basis behind them, and that is that there is a lack of transgenic crops in the ingredients.

This is where I first stumbled upon evolutionary psychology:

http://www.lloydianaspects.co.uk/evolve/evolmenu.html

I was trying to make sense of some feminist arguments and this provided answers for me as well as lots of other fascinating ideas. He also made a series on YouTube about the stone age man in a modern world.

I was taught that funner is not a word, but after reading a debate about it I came to the conclusion that fun has transformed into an adjective in the modern English language, and it is therefore acceptable. It's just difficult to hear it because of years of rejecting it, but I can get used to it (I don't think there's anything inherently wrong sounding about it). Just don't use "more" or "most" with "-er" or "-est" (they already imply it), that still really irks me.

Isn't that what net neutrality is for?

I believe the ideas of containerization used by docker actually cam FROM Google. I remember listening to a speaker talk about how it was based on what Google uses for their production server and is docker is a way for them to share that technology without actually sharing their own proprietary stuff. So I doubt Google would be interested, and I think most other big companies should already have solutions to this problem (at least Microsoft and Amazon for sure).

I don't understand why so many people in the Apple vs Android debate are completely oblivious to the fact that Apple is just a lot smoother transitioning from task to task and handling lag so that the user doesn't notice it. I've been a majority android user (Droid 1 '09-'11, Galaxy Nexus up to today) but I did purchase a 5s last year, which is currently waterlogged due to lending it to my mother.

I borrowed my mom's 3GS and even though it is quite slow, it has a magical ability to accurately detect and respond to my inputs as I would expect it to. Even on my Galaxy Nexus I have trouble with video lag switching between tasks, very long delays between my input and a response, and sometimes complete ignorance of my inputs. One of the most frustrating things for me when using the device is opening a web browser and trying to type a query into the search bar without having to wait for it to do who knows what in the background and attempt to load the last page I was looking at that I have no desire to see, while ignoring my spam clicking of the "X" to try to get it to stop.

Not to mention the app support for the 3GS is amazing compared to my Droid 1. I certainly can't get all the latest apps, but older apps still function extremely well, it really lives up to the UX hype. My Droid 1 can't even run YouTube anymore.

It's obvious that the advantage Apple has is that it has it's walled garden, closed hardware/software ecosystem. But it really shines in making the devices usable.

Even better, why not just let people enable/disable the ethnicities? Could even make it so it draws the most recently enabled race on top of the rest. I'm trying to get an idea for where each ethnicity lives and it would be so much easier if I could just look at one at a time.

"Technically, what happened was that the virtual machine manager abandoned the event currently in progress and returned to the event dispatcher. It's the kernel-mode equivalent to swallowing exceptions in window procedures and returning to the message loop. If there was no event in progress, then the current application was terminated."

Can anybody explain how Windows 95 and beyond use a virtual machine manager? Is it just referring to the separation of kernel and user space (the virtual machine being the application/"window procedure" and the virtual machine manager watching for exceptions from kernel space)?

How about paying thousands of engineers/designers $100k+ salaries to work on it for the past year?

So it's socially inappropriate because it's not allowed by a gigantic corporation (that films everything we do at their restaurants), as well as stuck up fancy institutions that will scoff at your shoes and not let you in for that?

University of the Pacific had the six month co-op 5 year program as well (was required in my time but I believe there are some alternatives these days). My manager in my first internship would actually hire from our school and Waterloo, normally 3 from Waterloo and 2 from our school. He made an exception the year I went and we ended up with just 1 Waterloo and 4 from my school...thankfully for me!

I became good friends with the Waterloo student working in our department. The interns throughout the company (a few other Waterloo students, some other schools too) would hang out together at lunch every day. Another Waterloo student rotated in while we were there as well. The four of us from my school lived in an apartment in the same complex as the Waterloo student, who had three Waterloo roommates working at different companies. We got together for quite a few activities and dinners outside of work and got to hear stories from their friends about the other companies they were working at.

I agree that six months is a lot better to really get involved in the work and accomplish something, but the short duration internships certainly kept them on their toes. Also, as stated elsewhere in this thread, they do have the ability to double up their time at one of their positions. I was pretty envious of the huge amount of connections they have and the fast, relentless pace of their program, but not so much of the fact that they have no breaks!

I agree with your 3 points but I would add one more that isn't positive:

4) designed to the limits of failure, low design quality/resilience

Not much of an answer. How the heck do they lay it and control slack at greater than 8000 meters? How do they verify the cable is on the seabed at those depths?

I read the entire article. It does not go into detail about the deepest parts of the ocean. The closest it gets is when it talked about the calculations required to lay cable from the UK to Africa, but this is still close to shore (I remember seeing a diagram showing how the cable angled down a steep slope into deep ocean, but this archived version doesn't seem to have pictures).

Edit: this is what it actually gives you as an answer in that article:

"The answer has to do with slack control. And most of what is known about slack control is known by Cable & Wireless Marine. AT&T presumably knows about slack control too, but Cable & Wireless Marine has twice as many ships and dominates the deep-sea cable-laying industry. The Japanese can lay cable in shallow water and can repair it anywhere. But the reality is that when you want to slam a few thousand kilometers of state-of-the-art optical fiber across a major ocean, you call Cable & Wireless Marine, based in England. That is pretty much what FLAG did several years ago."

That's in shallow water, not answering his question.

One that doesn't use x86, iOS, or Android?

>Where do data for HDI computation come from? Life expectancy at birth is provided by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs – the UN Population Division; mean years of schooling are based on UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) educational attainment data and Barro and Lee (2013) methodology; expected years of schooling are provided by UIS; and GNI per capita in 2011 PPP by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

To me it sounds like a recipe for a miserable work life. The Japanese/Korean schooling systems are very tough and strict compared to other wealthy countries. Maybe this is why they became so wealthy? Also, this statistic claims to not be based on economic output, but it basically is. And in order get the highest economic output, that is going to require really hard work and a lot of rich people/companies/countries investing in you. Of course some countries have unfair advantages and don't need to work so hard.

I'm certainly interested in trying it out! I've really only gotten hands on with virtualizing Linux within itself. Being more advanced than the average user I've never had much of a desire for running Windows apps within Linux (just switch partitions), and I definitely try to roll with option 1 for personal purposes. I love trying out all the different kinds of OSes. I'll take a look at Qubes though; even though I'm not dependent on Windows, investigating ways to help others break their dependence is highly beneficial for everybody including myself.

I believe he is referring to x86. ARM has the advantage in mobile because of power efficiency, but it does not have the compatibility with the commodity consumer hardware necessary for the desktop/laptop experience. I would like to see evidence of ARM being able to match the performance of x86 in difficult desktop computing tasks, and then I might consider that being an option.

All popular tasks done using Windows applications need to be accessible to users. Some ways I see this happening:

1) An alternative application for everything is provided (many companies are working on this, including Google...)

2) Provide seamless interfaces to Windows applications on the same platform, utilizing hardware virtualization

3) Provide seamless, high performance abstraction at application/process layer that can run Windows apps (JVM, WINE)

Options 1 and 3 would liberate the operating system from x86, but major improvements to the hardware and/or the software stack are needed to drive options 2 and 3. I am not confident ARM will be efficient/fast/compatible enough to knock x86 out of the box for typical desktop computing tasks even if option 1 is achieved. Though there is certainly potential for improvement/development of ARM in all of the aspects where I'm suspicious it is lacking compared to x86, I think that would take longer than it would to achieve option 1. There is also the possibility of creating a new architecture that is either compatible with or has features equivalent to x86, or performs so well that it can accomplish option 3 seamlessly, but that will also take a long time to pan out.

Here's a post about the technology behind SoundCloud from a couple of months ago [1]. I agree that this is a great example of a cloud service. While it might not be completely optimized for one particular platform, I am able to hop between IOS, Android, and PC browsers with all my data being updated flawlessly and in realtime.

My biggest peeve with SoundCloud, though, is keeping track of what I have listened to and trying to remember a song that I thought was amazing. I didn't have an account for the first several months I was using it, but I would just remember the Artists I like and listen to their profiles/likes. Not being able to remember songs and artist names motivated me to make an account and start following them, and liking the songs I wanted to hear again, reblogging the ones I want to share with others... In the end, even though it was frustrating for me, I suppose this is good for SoundCloud and getting people to provide feedback.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7878433

It was sarcasm. I'm implying the most common societal deterrent used in the US, based on my observations. I honestly have no idea how we could deter stealing in society. If I were to be serious I'd say the biggest source of the issue is horribly imbalanced wealth and power, but really it's a tough problem to solve. I definitely believe that Law/Justice is important though!

Computers in UNIX

http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/pipelogic/index.php

Keeping the ni$#(!s out?

I'm still pretty noob at Japanese, but I have lived there for 6 months and took 3 semesters of introductory classes. I've never had the motivation to study, but I thought I'd plug a really cool flash card type app called Wanikani [1], from the guys behind Tofugu. I maxed out the free level but I didn't want to dedicate my time to learning yet, so I haven't moved on to higher levels. I'm hoping this can be a way to develop my vocab, but I also like the idea from elsewhere in this post of finding some sort of radio broadcasts in Japanese, it would be super helpful if they had a text-based script of the dialogue too.

Also, in my comprehension of Japanese on the internet, a firefox extension rikai-chan or the chrome version rikai-kun (which I use) is invaluable. With computers even Japanese people don't need to know how to write kanji, they just type the hiragana and hit space til they see it. This extension allows you to highlight the kanji, going in the other direction (kanji -> pronunciation/meaning, use your japanese keyboard to go from pronunciation/hiragana -> kanji with spacebar).

Also, for a dictionary I use Alc [2] which I found is very commonly used by Japanese people that need to find English words. The main benefit to using this is that there are many examples of the words used in context, and showing other kanji used for those same meanings. This allows you to make sure the kanji you found for the meaning you want is actually used in, or find the correct kanji for, the context you are trying to use it in. It is important to have a database maintained by people that know proper Japanese for sure, it's much easier to understand broken English than to try to use broken Japanese.

[1] http://www.tofugu.com/resources/wanikani/ [2] http://www.alc.co.jp

I guess that works for the majority of people, but in order to satisfy me they need to admit to and take responsibility for their widespread product failures. With each of the products I listed in my post above I have long stories about their widespread failures and plenty of evidence from websites, blog posts, forum posts, and even HN discussions, that it wasn't just me having these issues (with exception of the 5s, unless iPhones are expected to be waterproof; I was having issues with the earbuds though).

I'm over them though. Honestly, I loved each one of those products deeply (the video was actually under warranty, but it was stolen from my car before I sent it in). They are obviously very pleasant to use, and their high price tag provides quality material and sleek designs. I just have no more patience for the failures that render them unusable. With a higher price tag it should be even more crucial that the product does not fail, as we see with cars.

For my future computing device purchases I will opt for the lower cost products that have less failures. I hope that there will be more high material cost devices that can compete with Apple and maintain quality assurance. It is also a plus to get out of the walled garden.

I have been using cable internet here in the suburbs of SF since 1997 or so, which is currently owned by Comcast (it was originally @Home, then ATT Broadband Internet, then Comcast or something). The product they own is top notch. I got near 1 MB/s download speeds on Napster when it came out.

Of course Comcast is just a puppet of media companies that are trying to monopolize consumer communication and monitor/identify users. I do indeed believe I have experienced poor quality service due to the controls they have been implementing, but overall the product has been quite a satisfying experience most of the time.

The problem with Apple's service is that it really doesn't even exist. There is no way to talk to anybody at Apple about the technical issues with their products. They just tell you to take it to completely clueless people at their retail stores or mail it in for replacement. This is all fine and dandy, as long as you bought the product a year ago or pay for Apple Care.

It's difficult to compare to Comcast.

"Tesla, like its Silicon Valley cohort Apple, often goes above and beyond the call of duty when carrying out repairs, swapping out entire components to keep customers happy."

Pffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffft.

My experience with Apple failures/replacements has been worse than any other customer service / quality assurance experience I've had. Products owned: Nano first gen (replaced with nano eighth gen), Video first gen, MBP 2007. Also a 5s but that can be an exception because my Mom brought it in the pool while I was lending it to her and we were trying to figure out random shutdowns on her 5, which were due to the battery.

More like the original CPU/microprocessor. The man behind the Z80 was also the main contributor to Intel's 8080 as well as the 4004, which is arguably the foundation of a general purpose computer (calculator + memory) on an integrated circuit (microprocessor). I wouldn't say so much simple as it is ingenious.

Yeah, I imagine there was a testing aspect to what he was doing, and you pointed out some potential tests. Maybe just making sure the version that went live responds the way he predicted it would.

Here's a discussion about the topic: http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=29285

Edit: Actually, it's not just an issue about the proper noun ending in "s", but the proper noun ("Consumer Reports") is actually using a plural noun, reports. For the case of making a plural possessive, most would agree that you just add an apostrophe without an additional "s" (s' rather than s's).