skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is starting to happen. See: https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/31zo1r/a_future...

>"a system that produces pure nutrients at up to 220,000 pounds per acre per year (the global record for agriculture is 3,600) at less than 20 cents per pound, all while generating 99% fewer greenhouse gases than conventional farming means." ... "Berry and his team found these organisms. They gave them the ability to take in sunlight, CO2, water, a final ingredient that changes based on the end product, and the ability to secrete a pure nutrient when all these ingredients come together."

...

>there's a company called proterro[2], that's producing sugar, at the third of the price of current agricultural methods - AT 5 CENTS PER POUND!.And they make 30 times sugar per acre as regular agriculture. And at their website , they say they can also make aminoacids - which are the building blocks of protein , so maybe they could also make proteins. that kinda validates essentient's vision , furthermore , their system basically eats CO2 - which is great.

This stuff has to pass massive regulatory and protectionist hurdles. It will be fun to tell all the world's farmers their income will stop and their assets are wothless. Or fight against political groups that want to outlaw or heavily restrict artificial foods.
> travel the world, programming and documenting tropical flora and fauna.

That is damned cool. Tell us more.
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Could you add an examples page? I think it would be easier for potential clients to understand what you're offering, as well as gather inspiration, if you distinctly show a demo of how each page type works (without having to sign up).
Downside is that the "6-8 items on the menu" often means "vegetarians have 1 option" and similar problems for people who have restricted diets.

At the other end are the Vietnamese restaurants with 2 pages of soup where English-language names are "soup with noodles and pork" for like 4 different items.
Subresource integrity keeps CDNs honest. If a CDN is "incompatible" with subresource integrity, they're doing a MITM attack on your users and your site.
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Source? Most startup founders pay themselves a market rate salary after funding[1] (even if it's seed).

1. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgrWVeoG5divdE8...
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I dunno about the amount of risk, but at least the risk is quite well-defined for the employees from the start. You get your salary each month, and maybe something on top of that. You might learn something in your job, or maybe not.

Founders have to start with their own savings/debt and salary in the beginning is usually zero. Of course situation changes if they get investors etc. But I would say that the risks are really not that easily comprehensible for founders.
To eradicate these viruses, Dr. Church and his team engineered a new set of genes and inserted them into pig cells. The genes produced enzymes that hunted for PERVs and snipped out bits of the viral DNA

So the genes were put in some cells that then created the enzymes that actually had the CRISPR/cas9 mechanisms? If so, that's clever. I had imagined that the CRISPR was delivered more directly and I was wondering how you could ensure delivery of CRISPR to all cells in the tissue. With a gene that actually produces an enzyme that delivers CRISPR, the treatment would continue in the cells until the gene was disabled.

What would really be interesting is to have the CRISPR edit include the gene that created the enzyme so that it could recursively deliver the treatment. Of course I wouldn't think that we'd want a recursive treatment like that in an eventual solution... but it would be interesting.
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There is a portion of the spectrum that seems like it is in the "wants a job, but is not looking" category that is not properly represented. I am in sub-category of "wants a gainful future (after being laid off - essentially forced into early retirement - from a long aerospace career) but is not looking for a job (either in the sector I left, or in the service sector). Aerospace is notorious for ageism, and I have no future there. I will not look for a job as a barrista or a clerk at Home Depot, so, no, I am not looking.

I am however trying to create my own future as an entrepreneur and build my own company. This effort being bootstrapped, on my own dime, using funds that should have been reserved for retirement. There is a lot of solid engineering talent and experience that is laying dormant - I am trying to counter that by building my own asset/company.
What's painfully missing is a way to properly style the textbox of a file upload separately from its button.

At the moment it's only possible in Chrome, with the added downside that you cannot combine the pseudoselector with any other rules because Firefox and IE will drop the ENTIRE rule as they cannot parse the pseudoselector.
What resources do you recommend for a Java dev if courses and building sample apps aren't enough?

Is there an Effective Android or Android the Good Parts type of book?
I'm not denying that it is risk, I argue that it doesn't allow for the subtleties and nuances (opportunity cost vs responsibility increase vs positive/negative association after exit/failure).

There are a lot of different variables involved and a great many of them boil down to calculated gambles on the part of the employee and employers. Those are worthy of discussion and there are plenty of discussions to be had around those. But simply calling it "risk" and saying you need more of the upside is so simplified its nearly meaningless and impossible to have a conversation about with everyone involved having the same idea about what is being discussed.
I joined a startup that went IPO and experienced how those options are worthless, funny enough my options are negative with current stock price!. Now if I decide to join a startup company I would just value the options precisely $0.00
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Because its been repeated over and over and over again in research.

Here's one example:

http://mobile.businessinsider.com/psychology-biases-that-ben...

In 2003, Frank Flynn taught a Harvard Business School case study on Silicon Valley entrepreneur Heidi Roizin to a class at Columbia. Her story is epic: After graduating from Stanford's Graduate School of Business in 1983, she founded an early Silicon Valley software company before becoming president of Software Publishers' Association and later serving as Vice President of World Wide Developer Relations for Apple. Then she became a venture capitalist and Stanford lecturer.

But when those Columbia students read her story, only half of them knew her as Heidi Roizin. The other half read the same story with a changed name: Heidi became Howard.

The students reacted very differently to the same protagonist, depending on the perceived gender.

"Although [students] think [Heidi is] just as competent and effective as Howard, they don't like her, they wouldn't hire her, and they wouldn't want to work with her," Flynn later said. "As gender researchers would predict, this seems to be driven by how much they disliked Heidi's aggressive personality. The more assertive they thought Heidi was, the more harshly they judged her (but the same was not true for those who rated Howard)."

In short, men are liked for being assertive, while women are disliked.
> The <input> API isn't quirky — it's literally just a jar of spiders, and the moment you open the jar, it's too late. You're covered in spiders.
I read that as orgasms ... now I am disappointed.
> If privacy is a concern you wouldn't (or at least shouldn't) be using chromium in the first place.

Privacy is a concern for everyone, whether they understand that or not.
So Integrity checking it just that, checking that the code is actually what you have uploaded. Having worked closely with the great people have made the SRI specification(www.w3.org/TR/SRI/) I can guarantee any CDN supporting integrity checking want to ensure you get the correct content.

If they didn't care about delivering the correct content they would be pushing back against the specification / using it.

This is why I have pushed bootstrap to start using integrity checking to prevent this form of code injection. But yeah there isn't a requirement for you to use this with a CDN either (I get whilst the browser support isn't there on a bank site it wouldn't perhaps be ideal - this has always been the case unless you are in charge of the CDN content) what it does do it inform me that they won't be delivering variable content of any kind whatsoever as SRI would break that code if they tried to load malicious content.

Justin who has also replied to this message works closely with developer outreach at MaxCDN and cares greatly about their product 'doing the right thing'™

Let me know if you have any further questions about SRI as I can probably answer then for you.

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I think it's akin to how a couple of days of training could prepare someone to work at one of those oil change places but it won't make him or her into a car mechanic.

These bootcamps can teach people the basics of programming and if they have the interest and aptitude, they can grow into mature, experienced developers.
Yeah, take this one company and generalize it, makes perfect sense. There are bazillion of companies and only one instagram.
I use incognito mode to get Chrome (or Firefox) to pretend to have an empty cookie jar. So that I can log into some site again with a different account, for example.
I was really surprised by this so I had to check by myself. This is true! And I never learned that all the time I roamed the Internet.

Thanks for spreading arcane knowledge!
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I continue to find it infuriating that the Republican party preaches "small government" and constantly fear-mongers about Obama forming a totalitarian government, and then they fail to vote against things like CISA.

Yes, I know that politicians say one thing and do another[1]. I just badly want to live in a world where people pay some attention to what their officials are doing and hold them slightly accountable, at the very least.

1. http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/john-kasich-a-jeb-bush-i...
Yeah because being a founder equals to being unfair, always.
It sounds to me like they erred on the side of caution on this and initially only performed Git operations serially. Presumably this allowed them to iterate quickly on a product without doing destructive things, with the downside being an unresponsive application. It likely wasn't built in to the product in the first place because it was seen as premature optimization. As the product matured it became more apparent that optimization was needed.

I'm also not so sure that this concurrency model was rediscovered. Sure, they applied it to Git, and created their own implementation, but they probably borrowed the idea from the countless Grumpy Old Guy's that have done this in the past.

Of course, this is all speculation. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
What's especially troubling is the difference between early engineers and early exec type hires. Engineers tend to get marginal salaries and not enough options. Early marketing, sales, ops hires tend to get more than all the engineers, even if they join post series A as person number 40.
would someone over 40 with kids, who doesn't have some self-provided stability be working at a startup with high risk anyway? That seems both foolish and more or less no-existent in any I'm familiar with.
I too enjoyed her writing style - quirky, lighthearted and jovial, which in retrospect is odd, since the entire article is basically one big complaint!
As a Dutch citizen, I'm not too excited. Why should our government spend time and money promoting a document format that is little used and not very suitable for document exchange, when conversion between formats is easy and loosing relevance because of cloud based services.

This is simply aimed at replacing Microsoft Office for Open/Libre Office, and breaking the Microsoft monopoly. But less than 1% of the national IT budget is spent on Microsoft licenses, less than what is spent on other closed software and an order less than what is spent on Services from companies like IBM, who lobby for these policies to get more government business.

If the Dutch government wants to support open source and open standards, it should create a policy that requires all its own software projects, outsourced or not, to be published as open source. That would save much more.
Why is that is there any verifiable statistics to back this up?

There is very little statutory protection for employees in the USA so the actual cost of firing some one isn't that high.
>Is the problem that you can't join the team without fundamental skills, or that you can't do the work?

In some of the easier cases, a person who is only a bootcamp graduate will be able to do the work. In other cases, they absolutely won't. The latter will be those that require more knowledge of at least some CS theory (parts of it), algorithms, data structures, OS fundamentals (and particularly the interactions between the programs you are building and the OS, i.e. system calls, I/O to/from peripherals, data representation format and conversion issues, etc.), troubleshooting (and I don't count looking up issues on StackOverflow as troubleshooting), etc.

https://mobile.twitter.com/vasudevram/status/656512523840147...

https://mobile.twitter.com/garybernhardt/status/656512550570...

For example, I've come across both devs and sysadmins who didn't know that a binary (Unix term) / EXE (Windows term) compiled for one hardware/OS platform will not run on another hardware/OS platform (with maybe some exceptions). - due to the different hardware instruction set and OS system calls.
But the "in the labor force" category includes people who are forced to work part time so they don't collect benefits, get bumped from job to job, have unreliable hours, make less than the cost of living, etc.

The graph should be split:

- Has a reliable full time job with benefits

- Has a minimum wage job, or is a part time employee/contractor making less than $20-30k a year.
Ah, I had assumed that because the plex app in the announcement is an app for opening videos on your computer (I know that Plex does other apps as well, but this SPECIFIC one is just desktop OSs), that you were talking about that.

Anyways, it seems that standard DLNA is what you are looking for. I don't know the current state of support for this is, but I know my 8-year-old Thecus NAS and PS3 both supported it and worked great together.

Otherwise I recommend switching to a RasPi2, and trying out the media player images, several based on kodi, which were able to play from network drives just fine in my experience.

Plex has always been about libraries and metadata. Sure, it had vestigal options from it's break from XBMC, which WAS focused on that, but these were never a focus in the past 7 years.

Also, according to other threads here, Plex Classic was mainly released to ensure that there was a free version on the Roku, while Plex Pass is required for the mainline app. This isn't how it works on any other platform (ios/android = pay for the app, plex pass is only for sync).
Or even just temporary problems with your ISP or local internet.

Somebody took out a local connection with a backhoe? There go your TV/movies, Xbox One, VOIP phone, security cameras (if you've got the GP's system), etc.
Yes.

http://www.indexmundi.com/commodities/?commodity=palm-oil&co...

http://www.indexmundi.com/commodities/?commodity=palm-oil&co...
I don't think that what the article describes is a balance of fairness, rather an observation that employees are taking a lot of risk! The message to me is that you should probably think twice before joining a company. This is not a one-sided battle. Employees clearly have the power to start their own company, avoid risk, and reap the same rewards that so many founders are achieving.

Over time, if enough people are starting companies, then risk will have to be shifted back in the direction of founders and becoming an employee will become more appealing.
> There is no getting around the elephant in the living room: population. Either we control it

Fine, lets not talk around it. Bluntly, experience has shown that "population control" boils down to one of two things:

(1) Strong and effective social security networks, which shift incentives and produce declines (often to negative levels) in natural population increase, or

(2) Brutal authoritarian repression, extending (among other things) to either including or incentivizing outright slaughter.
You obviously never had the misfortune to deal with image maps - the Ramsey Bolton Bastard brother of Flash. :-)
does that even work nowadays?
The $5 VPS only has 20GB of storage.
There is policy on conflict of interest, which is why this is surprising. I've taught at both public and private universities and had to (annually, I seem to remember) fill out forms listing all sources of income and all potential conflict of interests. There should have been a red flag somewhere.
>However, with a multi-section course, which is the case in Bourget’s situation, “the individual (faculty member) would have to work with the other people ... to make the best decision together on what those materials would be,”

What exactly do they mean by multi-section?

In college I had a very large, expensive calculus book that covered 3 semesters of calc classes. In that case I appreciated the uniformity of using one mandated textbook.

But if that is not what they meant by "mulit-section" then I question why such strict enforcement.

By and large most college textbook requirements do feel like a scam, and it only seems to be getting worse over the years.
If this were true, then it should be easy to reproduce. It's not like the software has disappeared.

Which versions of DOS broke compatibility with which versions of Lotus?
The limb? Animal donor cells do not spontaneously start to reconstruct the tissue when removed from host. Otherwise we would be sprouting all over the place.

Anyway, consider the washed out matrix just as a scaffolding for the proof of concept. We can probably eventually print cartilage so then the scaffolding can be done from first principles.
Can one only submit articles on topics in which one has professional experience?
I would say that Javascript as a language doesn't suck, but many of these old browser API's do.
I don't think that helps. I think that, if you use variable values for "perfect", and you turn the value down to the point where you start getting systems (more than one) that are considered perfect, then by that time you get some that come from corporations, and some that don't.

I think jordanlev is committing the opposite fallacy of the one RyanZAG made. RyanZAG said "companies have produced badly-architected dreck", which is true but doesn't disprove jordanlev's point. But jordanlev looks at web standards and says "open standards can only produce dreck", which is also logically wrong.

As a minimum level of validation for jordanlev's position, I'd like to see someone name the systems that corporations have produced that are above the standard of perfection that has ever been achieved by open standards.
I did have a professor that taught the class with the textbook he wrote. To prove that he believed in the book and not the revenue, he donated the royalties from our class from the book into the student fund.
35 years ago, I learned with David Ahl's books. I knew nothing, but I could type in what was on the pages and make cool stuff happen on my computer. This engaged my interest and eventually I went on to learning 6502 assembler, register maps, etc, in a quest to do cooler and cooler stuff. I don't know if it would have happened without those books.

In trying to find something similar to pique my kids interest, I found Invent With Python to fill the bill, My kids can type it in, and cool things happen. There's a bit more structure than Basic Computer Games, in that it introduces different concepts in a more logical way, but it still captured the magic for my kids of making the computer do what they want. I'm a fan, and my kids still love to code. https://inventwithpython.com/
I installed it actually but never tried it out.
Decentralized identity revocation requires a blockchain. It's easy enough to give people statements that you control a given public key. It's hard for them to know whether they should still trust that key. Blockchains are the only systems that are censorship-resistant enough for us to rely on for this purpose.

Sure, lots of people have done lots of thought experiments about what to use blockchains for, some of which weren't the best. However, if you haven't gone through that period yourself, your blockchain use cases are probably too narrow.
YC-backed meaning almost nothing these days in terms of my friend group. It carries no additional prestige.
I believe yahoo search is bing.
Competing anecdotes here and both can be true, but as someone working in the industry since the 1990s I personally never noticed any particular bias against people due to the prior company associations during this time period.

People who lost jobs due to their companies going out of business were pretty SOL during this stretch of time (early 2000s), but in my experience the problem wasn't bias against them due to prior employers but rather that hardly anybody was hiring at all. Almost everyone (that wasn't busy filing for bankruptcy) was in a hiring freeze holding pattern waiting for the sky to stop falling.
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> soaring textbook prices

Yeah textbook prices are really out of order --- the calculus text at my university is $130+, which is just insane.

<selfplug>Anyone interested in a cheaper option for mechanics + calculus should check out my text: http://noBSgui.de/to/MATHandPHYSICS/ </selfplug>
This is great. There are several such bootcamps around, some of which have had great success with getting people set up in Jr. Positions. With a big Corp like Google behind the idea, it certainly sets a precedence -- and in a way, some leverage for people interested in the idea.

Personally I'm currently 20 years old, and I'm studying and working at the moment. I intend to self-learn, to enable to to get a Jr dev position as well. Even with a 20% chance of success, the risk is worth it considering the off-trade of debt and 3 years for a bachelor.

Does anyone have any input on whether it's viable or not? What would you require from someone self taught, to hire them?
A lot of F1 guys will have BSc's - there is even a University in the UK that runs Degree programs for the f1 market
We're using S3 which is around 9 cents per gigabyte downloaded plus 3 cents per month per gigagbyte for storage. This is a pretty standard approach for reliably hosting files.

Using a server on digital ocean to store files would be bad practice in lots of ways.