skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's possible that we could run out of food by ignoring the environment.

If we overfish, there will be no more fish for the FDA to regulate. If we pollute the earth, water and air, there will be less clean earth, water and air with which to grow crops to eat. The crops are fed to the land animals we farm, too, so those are also affected.

There is no government agency dedicated to making sure we have both good quality food and enough ("sustainable") food. The FDA and USDA are concerned with food safety and not availability or quality.

There aren't ecosystems, there is one giant ecosystem that everything is a part of. Until the majority of our food is grown in underground caves, both the FDA and USDA should make an interest in the environment a major priority so we can have the best quality (and most abundant) food possible. But this doesn't happen.

Why? Because the people with the greatest financial incentives to create food will profit more now by caring about the environment less now. Politicians don't get increased campaign funds to make sure your tomatoes are healthier for you. They get increased campaign funds to make sure the tomato seeds are copyrighted by a corporation.

Fish fall through the cracks in a big way because we never needed to "grow" them before. Between 1970 and 2010, fish stocks worldwide fell to 26% of their former levels. About 70% of current worldwide fish stock is overfished or at its limit. But USDA only regulates farmed fish like catfish. The rest is handled by the U.S. Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Fisheries Service. The EPA in collaboration with the FDA sets limits on acceptable levels of contaminants in fish products.
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it says: "TCP connection closed unexpectedly."
With all due respect to your experience, digging into the details of the FAA's data on these supposed drone encounters is telling: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/drones-are-the-new-ufos

For example, this is a report from this year that the FAA categorized as a drone encounter here in my hometown of Atlanta:

> A VFR aircraft receiving ATC service reported passing an object approx 500ft below him at 095. The pilot described the object as round circular, red in color, and reported it could have been a drone or a balloon. A80 ATC did not observe any targets on radar in the vicinity of N7745.

A drone or a balloon? Might as well just chalk it up to swamp gas at that point.

Having been in aircraft looking out and having watched from the ground as my own quadcopter disappeared into the sky significantly closer than 500ft away, I find it extremely challenging to see most reports like that as credible. Yet, the FAA has no qualms with aggregating this junk data into a scary story to sway public opinion. Disappointing.

I'm curious. Have you personally, definitively witnessed a consumer drone in restricted airspace during approach?
I dug up my original proposal from 2009, which eventually landed in Ruby 2.0: http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/...
Fines? They should be held criminally liable if they were told repeatedly that their drone activity was endangering lives!
I meant criminal elements from Russia will find safe harbour there since Russian police won't follow them or won't care to.
Which is exactly what Python should have done. Call Python3 a new language and not try to kill/degrade Python2 but have both live on... which they will anyway regardless.
Not sure the hinge of Surface Book is strong enough. If I put Surface Book and heavy things into a backpack, I will worry about the hinge. I don't worry if it is a normal laptop.
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You could point to government programs where the initial cost paid for itself many times over: the interstate highways system, the GI Bill, telecommunications and science grants, even renewable energy investments. How much of the US's technology industry owes its start to Department of Defense funding?

Also, ut's not clear what you mean by "the data works out". Deficit spending (or national debt hysteria) hardly began with the most recent financial crisis. Demographics are shifting as baby-boomers retire. The vast majority of countries that cut spending in the downturn have lost more in GDP than they gained in debt reduction.

Yet, your point of view still appears to drive policy in Europe and is a factor in US policy. Let the beatings continue until morale improves...
Yeah. No drones/RC aircraft/large kites/balloons within 5 miles of a major airport without contacting Air Traffic Control

Is somebody going to come after you for the drone toy you got at Target for $30, flying 5 feet off the ground? Probably not -- The FAA doesn't regulate throwing basketballs in the air either. Is it illegal? Probably! I wonder what ATC would say if you asked permission to fly your drone under 25 feet in your yard ;)
Where did you get the homegate api? I was looking for it years ago to do something similar. :/
They are sticking to their scope, actually. They're just not sticking to your baseless claim of what their scope is.

http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?navid=USDA_MISS...

> Natural Resources and Environment ensures the health of the land through sustainable management. Its agencies work to prevent damage to natural resources and the environment, restore the resource base, and promote good land management.

http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/

"going rogue, using up resources" -- doesn't apply to the USDA, does apply to meat production. And it's not like the industry just shuts up and makes meat, sticking to wasting resources that way; they also advertise and lobby, do they not?
>They should be _unbiased_ as to what constitutes a good diet and nutrition (not conditional recommendations).

This presupposes that there is one "good diet" and it necessarily includes meat, neither of which are true. Also, given, the way the climate is heading, those "conditional recommendations" might be environmental realities soon enough.

>Imagine getting medical care and the doctor says, well, yes, there is this cure, but if I put on my accountant hat, it would be too expensive, you know what, instead let me recommend this course of action instead. It's not as effective, but it's better for the budget.

Health insurance companies do this regularly. They will not cover certain medications until cheaper alternatives have been tried.
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Please don't make single-issue accounts on HN. Threads here are supposed to be conversations, so we want people to participate as people, not novelties or abstractions. Anonymity is fine, of course.
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Krebs has some pretty awesome stuff, but i came here to say this as well. inlitedataresearch.com doesn't seem like the place to do this and while he probably assumes you understand the risks/used a google image instead, it did not flow well.
One example is Bulleit Rye (but not regular Bulleit), produced by MGP Indiana: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulleit_Bourbon#Bulleit_rye_wh... It does get you thinking about whether the whole artisanal/small batch craze is a legitimate search for better quality products or whether we just like the story behind it. (Bulleit and Bulleit Rye are both delicious.)
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I know you're kidding, but can anyone explain why people believe the 5 second rule?

The instant food falls to the ground it's going to pick up any dust / mites / microbes, so it will be no less and no more infected after 5 seconds. It's perplexing to me, what mental model explains how the food is cleaner during the first 4 seconds on the ground?

Edit: the Wikipedia article is pretty clear that any bacteria attach basically immediately (each of the cases when tested showed no difference after 5 seconds).
USDA was the department that bought us the "food pyramid"[1] and somewhat controversial[2] plate[3][4] marketing campaigns.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_pyramid_%28nutrition%29

[2] Controversial due to the details surrounding the including the replacement of a water drink with a dairy drink placeholder. See [4]

[3] http://www.webmd.com/diet/20110602/plate-replaces-pyramid-as...

[4] http://friedmansprout.com/2011/10/04/harvard-vs-usda-dishing...
Democrats far better than Republicans at grammar
Community manager from Perforce here. Basically it's what Sytse said; we do bi-directional replication between a p4 server and a git repo. You can carve off any hunk of a p4 server and surface it as a git repo. What we've seen some people do is push a monorepo into a p4 server and then carve off smaller repos that are more tightly scoped. Everything still goes back into p4 though, so you can still get the benefits of a mono repo.

The neat thing is that multiple git repos can consume the same pieces of a p4 server making code sharing between git repos seamless.
I agree with you. If you open the lid, everything looks very good. But if you close the lid, it looks weird.
yeah, sorry. I just forgotten about it.
currently I work so much with the german thousand seperators that I totally forgotten about the other standards.
currently i use scala's bigdecimal library which handles these things really great.
While before I used python where I sometimes needed to manually convert between them.
but you are right I shouldn't use anything like that in a global forum.
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That would have been nice to see, since I expect these will have amazing longevity otherwise. Ideal might have been one USB 3.0 and one USB type-c. (Along with adapters in both directions if we're talking really ideal.)
3rd world (and Europe) average user still uses Windows as main OS. When you're in contact with only coders/devs you'll see a lot of Linux and macBooks but outside that small bubble Microsoft rules.
this country is slowly falling apart

People are literally dying to leave some other countries and people are literally dying to come here. And I mean literally as in actually not as in figuratively. People are voting with their feet.

Quite a few years ago Ken Hamblin[1] wrote a book titled Pick a Better Country. That same sentiment still applies. What are the alternatives? Do those alternatives allow as much immigration as the USA does?

To riff on the old Winston Churchill quip: America is the worst country there is, except for all the others.

there are so many huge problems

It's hard to disagree with that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Hamblin
Yes. If you pause and click on any of the dots, you can also see details about that slave ship:

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_history_of_american_s...
He lost his house? That sucks. Was that related to his felony charges? Like many others here I feel quite an affinity to the Perl community, sad to hear about that.
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So much win!

Also, I had to click the link, because I did not believe there really was an Wikipedia entry for fatal cougar attacks.
we opened it specifically for the hack zurich hackathon.
but we're working on providing a public api in the future.
Tried it, it was also a isbn number of some book :)
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Starting this month, Facebook will use them to track your visit to every Web page that displays the buttons--even if you don't click on anything.

As far as I know Facebook has been doing this all along. Perhaps they only made it official this time? Still disgusting, but otherwise nothing new.
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I believe in a indefinite period of time rule. The food might pickup dust / mites / microbes, so what? There are dust/mites/microbes everytime you breath. You probably swallow other people's shit particles several times a day. It's OK, you have an immune system that can deal with it. If you do (very very rarely) get an infection we live in magical times where an antibiotic pill will clear it right up. You could lick the floor at the sports stadium bathroom and you'll be OK. People need to stop it with the cooties crap.
Bad for startups and the interconnected Internet, but still damage minimization compared to allowing the NSA dragnet.

The bad consequences are explained very well here:

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2015/10/6/end-of-safe-harbor/
tu quoque washington post?

"Smart judge put Safe Harbor under the right light to be axed by the European Court"

but then if the whole title contains most the content, what's left on page views, mright?

And interestingly what that right light was is in another page altogether, here http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/06/2...
Typical fluff piece. Let's face it, bouldering (setting) is pretty boring, the writer has to make it seem "more exciting" than it actually is.
Not quite. I recently ported a script from Perl (which I can barely read) to Python (I used to know 2 pretty well) and took the opportunity to see what the differences between 2 and 3 are.

There's a pretty big page of changes, rules for maintaining compatibility and suggestions and it pretty much killed all my enthusiasm.

I'm speaking from memory and might be wrong, but one annoying thing was that I couldn't detect the Python version and print an error message, instead the P2 interpreter would throw an error at runtime when encountering a P3 construct.

There are many nice P3 books and libraries, but 2 vs 3 is still a PITA.
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As bad as it can be, it is still damage minimization compared to allowing the NSA dragnet.
Right. There was no collision, the cyclist fell because he had to break hard to avoid it, but the car driver did not even notice what happened. The license plate number was visible in the video.
yes, walmart is one of the largest us grocers. the issue is that walmart is not in many areas despite being in a much larger footprint than TJs. traders joes, on the other hand, is only in ABC1 demos in the US which means its an upper/middle class niche biz. While wallmart is much more avail than TJ it is still limited to Interstate corridors, which is another form of premium real estate. That link is sort of important to think about. Also, wall mart does not have cheap meat for the most part and its fresh produce is mid-tier pricing. More expensive than say, Aldi.
Looks like a "portal site", which were popular in the 90s.
I believe they used to tracke you only when you clicked on the button.
Servers are far more secure then a users computer so I would trust a server over even my own computer. All things a user can do very badly if they don't know what they are doing, will. I have been in software long enough to know that. Good luck but I just don't think this is the solution as it still relies on SSL which I think is the weakest link, not the server or the make believe bad employees.
To be precise on this: Redfin covers 75+ metro markets and the vast majority of the United States by population. "Spotty" is fairly inaccurate if your intent is to describe the % of the population that can use Redfin to find a home.

(I work at Redfin).
As a eurpean I can't help but feel like this is a step to move the internet away from only "adhereing" to US "law" which would be nice change.
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You might be interested in http://www.tweetd.com/. It extracts links you tweeted and presents them in a easy to use style.

Think of it as your link blog,

for example http://girishso.tweetd.com

Disclosure: I am the developer of Tweetd.
As many others have pointed out this is exactly where a lot of our medications come from. We isolate a naturally-occurring chemical, refine it to make it more potent or eliminate unwanted side-effects, test it, then release it as a drug.
This: https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.0.html

Doesn't look small and I already saw several things I was using that have changed behaviour. Someday I might even learn how to use them. :)
The 15-pin I/O connector for ethernet was part of the PCMCIA CardBus standard, which is why dongles could be shared between cards. After PCMCIA picked up speed, a "non-practicing entity" pulled a patent out of their portfolio for a "programmable connector". Because the PCMCIA ethernet card itself plugged into the computer and presented a different connector to the outside world, the NPE was able to sue and/or settle with something like 90% of the companies making PCMCIA ethernet cards & modems.

3COM had a cool connector on some of their cards called XJACK. It was a little tray you slid out of the card. It had a hole that your RJ-45 plug slid into and some pins. It would certainly make for thinner devices today, but the connectors broke pretty easily and you ended up with an ethernet cable sticking out at a weird angle.

Before everybody standardized on RJ-45, there was a standard called AUI which used a 15-pin D connector. Your network card would have an AUI connector and you'd buy an adapter for whatever kind of network you needed to attach to. Apple had their AAUI which was much, much smaller (about the size of 2 mini Display Ports?). But I think licensing kept that from taking off as a standard.
The last time the feds tried to influence the nations diet, it was a disaster. That disaster involved pushing macro-nutrient consumption away from meat/dairy (fat, protein) and into vegan/vegetarian (carbohydrate) sources. That should be abundantly clear, but you can google it as it is very well known in the usa, see for example this article front page WaPo this morning:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/10/06/f...

and for background, an left-wing politics view on usda the old food pyramid that has been discredited

http://www.healthy-eating-politics.com/food-pyramid.html
Url changed from http://www.vox.com/2015/10/6/9461471/nobel-malaria-tu-youyou, which points to this, which is actually from 2011 but has an update (and a headline, of course) about the Nobel Prize.

There was also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10338213 earlier today, which turns out to have been her 2011 paper, though few of us seem to have recognized it.

Edit: there's also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10342856.
In a lot of meaningful measures, America is at the very bottom, or close to the very bottom of Developed countries.

It's often in good company with the better Developing countries.

So I think it's safe to say in many ways it's not a world leader, but it's also very far above undeveloped countries, where billions of people live.
Post deleted upon Zillow's request?
I have a few questions about this:

>In a nutshell: this was the only reason any modern internet service could keep their primary user data in the United States on services like Amazon EC2 or Heroku.

But shouldn't you be fine if you use EC2 with a European location? (Then you can approximate by using the instance with the lowest ping to the user)

>The harder part is to figure out which user belongs to which jurisdiction.

Does the climbing website have to do store personal information in the first place? Does a random user-name like "a_bonobo" count as private data? An e-mail address? An e-mail address from a throwaway host? Pictures of climbing walls? What constitutes "personal data" here?
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> What are the alternatives? Do those alternatives allow as much immigration as the USA does?

America has ranks #40 on the list of net migration per capita [1]. So to answer your question: Every developed country on the list before #40, like, oh, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Switzerland, Sweden, etc. etc. etc.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_net_migra...
..aand it's gone.

I just got:

"–This post has been temporarily removed at the request of Zillow. We are collaborating with them to write a more complete version of the story, and will have an updated version posted on October 7th.–"

Nothing creepy about that. Certainly doesn't leave me feeling that whatever it is the article said about Zillow apparently hit them pretty close to home.
I really like this article. To summarize it:

Author contends

- Managers (etc) try to quantify engineers' productivity. Even though some are 10x better, quantifying from the outside is an impossible quest.

- Developers are treated like blue collar workers and that when viewed as professionals (doctors, lawyers) it's more
readily apparent why it's so hard it is to assign a number to the quantity and quality their craft.

- There are several ways to help developers be more productive such as tracking and removing impediments. These methods are essentially Kanban.
Yeah this has made me MUCH more interested in what the article said.
Windows is quickly becoming the OS for VR as well.
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Hey I got pulled away from this conversation and didn't continue.

In most systems where the server never sees your password, they store a hash that is generated from the password.

Then the login code on the client takes the password, performs the same operation and then sends either that same hash to the server, or one that's simple to calculate from it.

So if I steal your password file, I can log in as everybody without even knowing what their passwords are. I just change the code in the client to skip the hash generation part of the authentication algorithm and use the one I supply.

The idea with asymmetric ciphers (at least the ones that interest us) is that one party HAS to know the secret, and the other has no way to get it.
Those people are risking everything for the America they saw in the movies, not the reality, which they obv can't know in advance.
Huge amounts - I stumbled upon this story recently and it was a pretty interesting read - http://qz.com/475494/how-a-cheap-indian-whiskey-beat-smirnof...
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The wikipedia article claims most people who invoke the rule use it in jest, but there is research that indicates different surfaces allow for different speeds of bacterial spread: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-second_rule
> since it was designed for diversity

Not diversity. US immigration laws have never been designed for diversity. The history of US immigration law is littered with incidents of xenophobic immigration laws targeted at Chinese, Japanese, Irish, as well as East and South Europeans.

Usually the argument for capping or blacklisting immigration from specific nations relates to low observed assimilation rates among immigrants. I suspect that's mostly why most Mexican immigrants to the US use their family contacts in the US to get their immigration requests processed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_laws_concerning_imm...
Other comments have covered this angle already; we do actively look at herbs, "traditional", and "plant-based" cures. The vast majority (99.9%+) do absolutely nothing. The tiny percentage that have some effectiveness are usually just starting points.

In fact this woman's discovery is exactly that because the malaria parasite is already developing resistance to it which is why the recommended therapy combines it with other drugs to prevent a resistant strain from spreading. That doesn't belittle her accomplishment by any means, but if you stop to check under rocks you'll occasionally find some money hidden there. Doesn't mean we can find billions in free $$$ by sending an army of people out into the world to turn stones.

Much like pyrethrin-based insecticides, this chemical is already being studied and modified in an attempt to discover variants that are easier to make, have fewer side effects, or which organisms can't develop resistance against quite as easily.
We changed the linkbait title to a representative sentence from the article. If anyone can suggest a better (i.e. accurate and netural) title we can change it again.
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