skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're interested in sci-fi where biotech trumps cybertech, The Windup Girl is a great read.

Relevant to the article, too. It's set in a post-carbon dystopian Bangkok, where giant agribusiness monopolies dominate the world through control of the food supply, including offensive bioengineering to create mutant plagues that destroy native crops and introduce dependency. The main character is an agent of one of these agricorps, whose mission is espionage against Thailand's central seedbank.
Both of those solutions require Amazon to do "something" to the instance itself and thus limit the kinds of machines you can run on EC2. Custom kernels, FreeBSD, etc..

Their current metadata approach works across OSes.

And, yes, the data are dynamic. Things like AWS access keys change over time and can be accessible via the metadata if you've given the instances IAM profiles. I'm surprised the author didn't mention this.

I agree that the approach feels uncomfortable in general but it seems like the best approach for the functionality they wanted.
Wow, I love this. The graph-paper sprite design thing brought back a flood of memories from the mid 80s, as that's exactly how I learned to make sprites.
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You linked it on the bottom of the page, but how do you think the article compares with http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/cosc453/student_tutorials/principa... ?

I'm planning to read through it a little more this weekend, but I remember using the PDF and a whiteboard back in the day to understand PCA.
Thanks for sharing :D
Nice to see project that opensourced in fear of us. Very early alpha after two days of our promise to opensource our stuff.

But you are more succeeded in promoting that our project. Congrats.
Oh, come on. Just connect your Google router to your Google fiber connection and connect to it with your smartphone or laptop running a Google operating system and Google browser. Visit your Google home page (using Google's DNS servers, of course) to read your Google Mail, or perhaps catch up on the news with Google News, or use Google+ to see what your friends are up to, or get a little work done on Google Docs. Should you do some Google searches and end up on some non-Google sites, don't worry - you're still safe under the watchful eye of Google AdSense and Google Analytics. What have you got to be so paranoid about?
Very simple to understand and straight forward. Thanks for writing this up.
I did see the original comment. It was basically the same content as your post; handwavy assertions and logical acrobatics as to why we should downplay the racism in this incident. Except a lot more succinct.
I came to know about it recently only. The lack of knowledge costs us to be ignorant about with some really useful things/tricks in this Tech life.
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FreeBSD powered both Yahoo and Hotmail initially, though both have largely replaced it (I don't know that they've completely done so). BSD's networking stack offered genuine advantages at the time.
Yeah, I wasn't sure at first, but on second read, it seems that "questionable" in this context means "may break when piped through a system that thinks in latin-1."

This could be useful, then, for finding curly quotes that make their way into templates or HTML files (often by way of someone pasting text from e.g. Microsoft Word) and then subsequently break old, non-unicode template-parsing utilities.
How does header-only versus header+impl file have anything to do with deploying libraries? Versus a separate header + DLL, sure. But having an impl file isn't gonna matter if you link it all in. This sounds more like a source-vs-bin issue. What am I missing?
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Unfortunately when it comes to data and cloud companies these days, that's a little like saying you'd trust Blofeld more than Dr No because he's a more competent villain.
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You can use npm modules in the browser with webpack or browserify.
> Again - if you'd made these points, I probably wouldn't have commented.

> You didn't; you flat out suggested exercising in London was a Bad Idea

I've attempted to clarify any confusion. This conversation is going to be fucking tedious if you continue to refuse to accept that.

I'm struggling to see the relevance of your cycling document. It doesn't mention air pollution as a risk (perhaps I missed it?) to cyclists; it's about cycling; so it has no relevance to a discussion about the risk of running in London pollution. (As an aside: It also strongly over emphasises the benefits of exercise on mental health. That's something I know a bit about and the document getting that wrong makes it feel less truthy).

> Also, how does one commute to work in central London without exposure to air pollution?

When you exercise you breath differently. You take more air into the lungs; you take that air deeper into the lung. This means that you take a greater quantity of particulates into the lung and that you take them deeper into the lungs.

I'm really not sure why you think "don't jog through London rush hour" is such an outrageous suggestion. It's the advice given by public health officials. Here are three news reports giving pretty much the same advice (avoid the worst streets; avoid the worst times; avoid strenuous exercise)

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/how-to-stay-s...

(This article recommends not going out at rush hour, let alone doing exercise)

>> You’ll massively increase your exposure if you do strenuous physical exercise outside. It might be a good idea to skip your run today, especially if you have asthma. Indoor exercise like going to the gym or swimming at an indoor pool might make a nice change.

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/aug/05/air-poll...

>> On high-pollution days, the advice for older people and those with lung problems is to reduce strenuous physical exercise. But even healthy people can experience discomfort such as sore eyes, a cough or sore throat, and are warned to consider decreasing outdoor exercise if they do. On days with very high levels of pollution – such as we experienced last month – everyone is advised to cut down their physical exertions.

http://www.itv.com/news/london/2015-06-05/pollution-warning-...
When I say "who is to decide?", I mean, as we have discussed, there is no way to be absolutely sure of the best course given the unknowns, so that reasonable people can differ, and they will, based on differing ideologies on things like risk management, duties to the public, and personal agency.

As for controversy, maybe I overstated that, but your flat counterstatement with no elaboration or support isn't going to change anyone's mind.
More specifically our eyes see luminance more than hue or saturation, and the change of gradients more than gradients or absolute values.
Your comment has nothing to do with the topic. It's a wifi access point. The idea behind is appears to be that it doesn't suck donkey balls like almost every other wifi access point. Please discuss _that_ instead of your strawmen (rent-seeking and selling people's data, which we have no reason to believe are on-topic.)
Its probably gonna get at least a few gay people killed in the middle east.
Unless I'm missing something from your citation, he wasn't sued. He was the suer, and he won. I don't see what's controversial about that.

Edit: I see that the other suit[1] was not cited. In the Monsanto v. Schmeizer suit, he was accidentally planting Monsanto seeds that he had harvested, and did not mount a sufficient defense against it.

"Schmeiser supporters argued that his account still leaves open the possibility that the harvesting and replanting of Roundup Ready canola from the sprayed region was accidental and resulted from a miscommunication between Schmeiser and his farmhand, or from a failure of Schmeiser to have the presence of mind to instruct his farmhand to avoid taking canola seed for replanting from the sprayed region."

He knowingly used Monsanto seeds in his crops, but thought that using the seeds would not be theft because he didn't apply RoundUp to them. That's like suggesting that if I steal a Tesla roadster, but convert it to a gasoline engine, then I haven't stolen it.

Again though, I don't see this as terribly controversial, unless I'm missing something.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto_Canada_Inc_v_Schmeise...
I feel you. Time tracking analytics is God awfully complicated and mostly impossible to get right unless you have a very disciplined culture. I've railed against such poor systems in my younger years.

But sometimes there are ways to make it work. At Pivotal Labs for example, you are allocated to a pair daily and then to a project or product over a few weeks. There are no interruptions or meetings beyond townhalls and daily stand ups... Unless you and your pair occasionally want a ping pong break. Productivity and resourcing becomes a bit more reasonable in this culture as its related to stories/requirements in Pivotal Tracker being completed relative to the number of pairs rather than tying it to individual worth. It's like an incredibly kind and collaborative culture that also gets good data.

Stepping back to a general management perspective, To me the most effective data is if you keep it relatively simple and do controlled experiments that are systemically tied to an external market result. A lot of companies in the logistics (and now software services) space get good at this.
Actually since 4.something you can enable "auto-updates", and it will keep itself up to date.

I wouldn't suggest keeping in client machine on an older release, much less on a 2,3,4 or 5 year old release as you suggest, and leaving it in 2.3.3 until now is downright criminal with all the security fixes that have come out since then.
This time there's less XML
Quick question. Is this a field that layman web developers/script developers should know? Or is this more of the domain of information security/network security? I don't make apps as a product, but I do like to tinker with stuff and make projects that sometimes my friends use. Not really sure what counts as a network transaction.
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How does it–It's really fast!
Yes but how can it be faster–Why is fast good? Because of all the things you do in your life.
Okay, but what technology does—Circular antenna LOLz!1
After hearing the kind of bullshit philosophers routinely say about relativity or quantum mechanics, I'm not sold on the idea that philosophy is important to science. Moreover, since we often see the same philosophers talking about hard sciences and about society (and drawing breathtakingly stupid parallels between the two), I expect their ideas about society to be rubbish as well. In fact, since their social ideas are harder to verify definitively, they are more likely to be rubbish. Though I grant you that philosophy is really complicated, in a pointless kind of way.
> It's [...] probably not so clear if you lack the background.

> So how do agricultural companies do this? By building special inbred varieties that have [t]he same genotype as phenotype.

Are you sure you have "the background"? What do you mean by this? Genotypes and phenotypes can't be said to be "the same" in any dimension; they cover completely different ideas. Possible genotypes are things like "A allele" or "G allele", where phenotypes are things like "tall" or "slimy".

If you mean that the company strains are all homozygous at certain locations of interest, and the seed they sell is heterozygous, that just means that you'll lose a certain amount of seed to quality issues when you breed your seeds directly. It also means you can trivially recreate the company strains by lifting chromosomes out of non-gamete cells. (Granted, I have no idea where the technology is for this -- it's cloning in the conventional "I have a biology lab" sense.)

If you mean that the company strains actually have just the one chromosome N times over for each chromosome, that's hard to believe. An animal would almost definitely immediately die with genetic makeup like that. But, again, genetic engineering could still do this. Also, there's no way the genetic information of these company strains could be considered "trade secrets", since it's all freely released to the public in the hybrid strains.
Actually, building straight down is substantially easier than straight up.

You are incorrect with your statement about "the way stresses work". The reason it is substantially easier to build straight up is due to our implicit basis where up is towards space. This is getting rather high level but stresses are actually tensors and hence are dependent on the chosen basis. If your basis has up pointed towards the north then it is substantially easier to build a different direction than up.

This may seem like a semantic argument but it is actually an extremely important distinction when discussing any tensor (position, velocity, stresses).
But in this case, deducing the exact secret is trivially easy; everyone knows how to do it.
It's unlikely Google drops projects any more frequently than startups fail. I have (or have had) a lot of paperweights manufactured by failed startups, so I know it happens. I'm sad when startups fail, but they usually failed for the right reasons. It doesn't taint my overall perception of the startup concept.

If you think the Nexus Q was a fantastic product and that Google made the wrong decision to kill it, that's one thing -- you're saying they have bad taste, or bad product sense, or an inverted sense of quality vs. crap. I wouldn't agree with that assessment, though I admit it's an valid, internally consistent opinion.

But it's more likely you never owned a Nexus Q and are just using it as an example of how projects at Google get killed. Sure, Google kills projects. Just as startups fail. That's no more astute an observation than saying that sometimes it's sunny and sometimes it rains. You wouldn't expect Google to keep funding a stalled or not-quite-thriving project any more than you'd expect investors to keep plowing money into a startup that can't find product-market fit. Sure, the opposite outcome sometimes happens. But generally it doesn't, and that's OK.

Some think Google is valuable because it takes more risks than companies its size. The implication of your opinion is the opposite -- that Google should be more risk-averse (not starting this router project because a router is a crazy thing to build), or innovate more slowly (launching it later than today because it's not ready), or ignore market feedback longer than a startup would (damn the torpedoes, it sucks and nobody wants it, but let's keep its team on a death march). Is that how you'd run Google if you were its CEO?
The PDF through the link is excellent. Two thumbs up.
What an amazingly insightful post.

I've always wondered how people derive the internal strength to do amazing things in the face of severe personal adversity. This post addresses this in some ways.
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They also don't really seem to put much effort into releasing bugfixes in a timely manner. For a month and a half, you could reboot any iPhone in the world remotely via text message.
>Your qualm, apparently, is that this # is not built for all use cases of tables.

My qualms are multiple:

(a) this is an operator when it doesn't need to -- a function would do --,

(b) this only works for contiguous list of items.

(c) Lua, like PHP and JS, has the same type for "contiguous list of items" and hash tables, not even providing a builtin just for the first and/or the latter (e.g. ES6 now does with "Map").

I can understand the powerful metaprogramming capabilities of tables. I also understand that they are not needed, and are even a hidrance, in the tons of cases where all you want is a simple hashmap or a simple vector that wont change under your feet.

>* In C++, what operator tells you how many instance variables a class has?*

Nobody said C++ was well designed ever, too.
Yes, which is why we're discussing Chinese people digging corn seeds out of American farms.
I was hoping this was a programming language to help do spreadsheets, not the other way around.

What would such a language look like? R? Pandas?
In the Legend of Zelda, the envirvonment's color rules were even more strict: You could use one palette for all the tiles at the screen's edge or one tile away, and a second palette for all the tiles in the middle.

That's the reason, if you zoom in on the water in this screenshot, you'll see that the edge of the lake has brown sparkles, and the inner lake has green ones:

https://skoce.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/legendzelda-35.png
Even software from Google sometimes has security holes:

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/08/google-pushes-update...

Here's more... granted, these aren't all vulnerabilities that Google is responsible for, but many are:

http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-1224/...
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tldr
there are some people that are wrong on some things. some of them advocate people eat 'paleo', whatever that is. therefore, you should not eat 'paleo'

bonus: a study found that you can lose more weight on a low fat diet than a low carb diet. of course, part of the weight loss in the low fat group was from people chewing off their own limbs, but still, you should do a low fat diet because its more effective, even if you can't think straight while you're on it.
My TV is also in the basement and that's the most demanding wifi load I have.
Well, if "s73v3r" on Hacker News sees no reason, surely the matter is settled.
I thought this was going to be about a Git application for Windows 2.5 :(
Apache Solr did well.
If you have to manually reboot something quarterly then it's a piece of shit. Your standards are way too low.
The biggest value is that you don't have a link-time dependency, only compile-time. This means that you don't have to concern yourself with a lot of the versioning problems that plague C++ application deployment simply because your dependency is compiled into the binary.
So, why do the companies aggressively prevent seed keeping and sowing? Why do farmers have to buy seed each year?

If the harvested seed isn't the same as the sold seed what's the problem for the seed company?

(You can probably tell that my information comes from mostly anti GMO sources. But I'm not particularly anti GMO)
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We are doing real estate software for property managers. Having trouble coming up with a name
I remember that in 1994-1995 Linux was a shock: you were able to run for free in your personal computer a system that did similar things to SCO Unix or Coherent (Unix clone) without the need of pirating it (students were used to pirate SCO Unix 20 1.44MB floppies using a special DOS copy program called "PC Trace" in order to copy non-DOS formatted disks, that "tradition" was lost because Linux was able to run using less space, and usually performing quite well on cheap hardware)
Also "Calorie Man". Seemingly available here: http://www.nightshadebooks.com/Downloads/WindupStories.pdf
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I'm not even sure what you mean. How can one discipline be more correct than another when they ask different questions?

I doubt that you think that philosophy is pointless. Something I can believe is that you think that the academic and professional institutions of philosophy are pointless. That sounds plausible. To reject philosophy itself? That is to reject the means by which you can even justify the sciences, down to the most quantitative and most successful theories. That is to reject the heritage of human thought that grapples with reality and the mind.
It seem a good product
Anybody who cares enough to read this article should have enough interest to watch this video "What Francis Really Believes" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvjmveYw0tE
I think this is a 'right tool for the job' problem. Frequently you don't need an operating system to do basic tasks. I don't see this as a problem at all for simple things to a point.

Even something that seems as complex as as reading a sensor and writing data out to a CF card doesn't require an OS if the basic library support is there.
The dystopian part of it, in "The Calorie Man," at least, is the implication that the global crop blight that wiped out all non-GMO crops was engineered and spread by the GMO companies, which then inherited near-total control over the economy and, thus, the government.
You can't go wrong with the Motorola SB6141. It's 8x4 bands, and certified to work with pretty much every cable provider around.
No it doesn't, assuming there is an ounce of coordination and everyone is on the same page on coding standards and so forth.
Reliance Network. Oh wait that's taken.

.io domains are all the rage today, how about propert.io? Or pREm.io?
A really fascinating personal story. One thing that bothered me though:

The author's wife quit her job to become a full-time mom. I would guess that the author was only able to have so much professional success because of this. Perhaps you can't get tenure/be really successful while also taking care of a child with disabilities. It just happens to be the case that the author didn't have to take care of a child with disabilities (his wife did), and so his professional career was unaffected.
Just a heads up your first issue should now be resolved.
Not directly, but they would certainly have included it as an entry point to bring users into Google's account-driven services, and to make a Google account "stickier".

That indirectly does increase ad revenue and targeting, and you can be sure that over time different people in the company will keep having the "bright idea" that if they correlate OnHub data with data from Analytics, DNS, and location services, they can improve ad-targeting by 0.x%, leading to $Y million in additional revenue, and within a few years it will be.
Thanks! We're happy to be collaborating with Spinpunch. We're not sponsoring them, we're just helping to grow Mattermost by bundling it.
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Seems like all the comfortable chairs lack a power source! An all too common occurrence in cafes as well :(

Stop doing this interior designers!
Just like Facebook's Internet.org is not intended to make Facebook money via ads, right?
Anyone who has enough interest in this article should have enough interest in this video "What Francis Really Believes"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvjmveYw0tE
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Even if it were a database of known murderers (or sex offenders , or whatever crime you consider to be the worst), it is still private information. So it's a shame that those 'hackers' got away with it.
Your first sentence is overly harsh. But the gist of what you are saying is correct.

I'm not sure HN is the correct venue for discussions of small-scale ag, though. Many people online have bought into the corporate premise that small-scale agriculture cannot produce enough food. They tend to have studies backing their claims, while all I can show is an actual homestead, actually producing food.

To be honest, I've stopped caring what people online think. I'll keep just growing my own food, offline. If I am wrong, I am just sustainably feeding my family, using renewable energy instead of fossils fuels, and eating local organic food, all the while teaching my kids a good work ethic, for nothing.
Mattermost has been open source for a while and this announcement has been worked on for 18 days https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/merge_requests/...
The wrongest dude who ever was.
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It is very much unclear to me that you have any valid basis for assuming that.
But you didn't.