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What's about all these comparisons with software in this thread ? It's completely irrelevant. Crops are used for people to eat, it's their means of survival. Microsoft can do what they want, it's still software, there is no comparison possible.

We should not be able patent/copyright seeds at all for obvious reasons, it's what people use to survive every day... And if that means that Monsanto will die and the research should be made public, then I'm all for it. No company should have that kind of power at all.
Good to hear that you have visited my home country before.

All the best.
Distributed accountability means no accountability. Everyone knows :).
A similar idea that comes to mind seeing this:

Every hour, you should see a quick summary of the pages you browsed through for the past hour.

It's easy to waste time not realizing how long you spent on AskReddit/TvTropes/whatever...

But if an hour of browsing flashes before your eyes and you can see nothing productive, it will wake you up.
Amazing. Sounds like a fun team :) sometimes tech work can be dull, so it's good to have people who can have a laugh together on a daily basis. Makes for great working conditions IMO.
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Most people have several stores for clothes (wardrobe/closet, wash basket, washing machine, in a basket waiting to make it back to the wardrobe etc) and depending how organised you are, the clothes you need could be in any of those on a given morning.

And in the wardrobe itself, I don't have enough separate shelves to be able to organise my clothes both by type and by purpose (so I've got sports socks, walking socks and work socks all in the same drawer for example). It can sometimes take several minutes to locate all of the clothes I actually want for a given day.

On days that I need to be out of the house particularly early, I will "cache" my next day's clothes by getting all of them ready the night before and putting them by the end of the bed, so that I've got instant access to them.

Similarly, I've got a cache of stuff that I need on a daily basis - keys, my wallet with some money and a single credit card in etc - on a shelf near the door, whereas the rest of my keys and the rest of my cards are grouped together somewhere else in the house.

I think it's this kind of stuff that the article is talking about.
The assumption that if you've seen something then we have too is wildly off base.
We went down the dark road of licensing restrictions on farmers almost 90 years ago.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_Patent_Act_of_1930.

Actually the first patent on a living organism dates back to 1873 when Monsieur Louis Pasteur was awarded U.S. Patent [#141,072](http://patimg2.uspto.gov/.piw?docid=US000141072&SectionNum=4...) with a claim to yeast .
> This article is based on a set of false assumptions, and is obviously written by someone ignorant of the history of economics.

And your rebuttal by someone who should check their ego and judgement of people with nothing to go on.

>ERIC R. WEINSTEIN is a managing director of Thiel Capital in San Francisco. He is also a research fellow at the Mathematical Institute of Oxford University. Weinstein speaks and publishes on a variety of topics including, gauge theory, immigration, the market for elite labor, management of financial risk and the incentivizing of risk taking in science.

As far as I can see this man is infinitely more qualified than you in economics, that is until you provide credentials.

And by all that I do not mean I agree entirely with Weinstein, just that your reply is so typical of internet discourse.

>I could go on to list many of the rest of the egregious errors in this post, but wouldn't want to further tax your patience.

Please do, this is Hacker News not Reddit or Facebook. Expend and source.
I'm on Arch, which has none of that bullshit.
I can't believe there is people disagreeing with that here... Like if copyright law was somehow more important than feeding people...
That whole section of the review was weird.

The analogy I was going to use was optical correction of fonts. Yes some characters are too big or too small by objective measurement, but if the typographer has done their job well they will look consistent to the human eye, with all its foibles.
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"Drivers will remain independent contractors, not employees;"

That - in my opinion - is not what the states should have settled on.
I found this out recently, in case anyone else doesn't know, messenger.com [1] gets you facebook chat without the rest of facebook. I use it a lot during the day when I want to talk to people but not get sucked into the news feed.

[1] https://www.messenger.com/
How Music Can Enhance Your Hotel Experience
Uber, Lyft and tipping
I do know former coders managing government tech policy now. Don't assume they all lack technical knowledge. That's increasingly not the case from my experience.
How difficult is it to do while adjusting each propeller's speed for steering etc?
as boatily.
Can anyone share links to some examples, showcasing the differentiating features vs. json? I couldn't easily find any via the main link
Life needs more whimsy; I'd buy you a beer.
UCI Researchers Accidentally Make Batteries Last 400 Times Longer
Because copyright law cannot more important than feeding people and it obviously should not be. You cannot compare other non-essential technologies with farming on the same level.
System python is not signed on OS X 10.11 El Capitan
You could look at the Clinton speaking fees, and contributions to the Clinton foundation as buying access and favour from large companies. Also, corporations can contribute unlimited funds to a candidates SuperPac (which we swear doesn't coordinate directly with the campaign! Wink, wink!)
The best thing to have come out of this is a headline from satirical online newspaper Waterford Whispers: US Military Introduce Childbomber McChildbombface

http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2016/04/18/us-military-intr...
Please don't, no matter how right you are and how wrong someone else is. I understand the frustration, but it only makes things worse to take discussion to the level of "fuck you", and it flagrantly violates the HN guidelines.
I'm getting the same behaviour when I use python that is bundled with OS X! Very frustrating...
Yeah, the hysterical response has come from the public this time. I fly drones, perfectly legally, and this week have had people variously tell me that I'm either a terrorist or I'm "helping the terrorists" or I'm am idiot or "Isn't that dangerous for my children" - even stood in a field, people wander >100m over from the canal towpath to complain at me. Popular opinion in the pub is that they're dangerous and should be banned, didn't you hear 5000 people almost died on Monday when ten drones crashed into twelve aircraft, all almost certainly carrying nuclear weapons that failed to go off because gchq saved us?

a few years ago the response was positive and interested, almost universally - even though I was at that point flying in town due to lack of regulation.

Media has trained them to be scared of drones, like everything else.
"I'm hoping you did actually have a proxy in front of it and Orange just didn't catch that."

That sounds a lot more reasonable than actually having the private key on each individual server.
I preach online what others should or shouldn´t do to save the earth while I drive an SUV.
The story is more complex than the article says. A Spanish forum (one of the top-40 more visited sites in Spain) voted massively the name "Blas de Lezo" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blas_de_Lezo ) a Spanish admiral who in 1741 defeated a British Army far bigger than his own one.

After gaining the #1 position the organization decided to withdraw the name from the polling, causing more controversy about this digital process.
The author has conflated democracy with voting. Sortition - the selection of Government at random from the citizenry - is a far superior mechanism, and results in a Government that is genuinely of the people.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
> “The key point is that representatives’ voting behavior was not strongly constrained by their constituents’ views,” Achen and Bartels write. “Elections do not force successful candidates to reflect the policy preferences of the median voter.” The authors claim there’s no hard evidence to suggest that these dynamics would vary in countries with political systems of proportional representation and more parties than in the U.S.

I'm not a fan of grover norquist but I think it is unfair to say our representatives should be free to disregard the pledge they so publicly made when they were campaigning. Yes, we expect our representatives to go against their platform in extreme cases for the greater good but I'd say if that happens, the representative must turn right around and resign immediately from office and not run for office again.

No, it doesn't matter if the cause was an "obstructionist" Congress. It didn't matter with George HW Bush and it won't matter now.

Can you imagine if we had a referendum for independence of Scotland and had Cameron said "nah jk" after the results came in favor of Independence? Or if he started attaching new conditions to the promised he made Scots to vote no? "Oh we will get right to the issue of devolution but we must make sure Scots can't vote in England only legislation" but then who didn't they say that when campaigning?

Imagine a system where there was a yearly pie eating contest to determine the king for a year. Would it be OK for the current winner to abolish the contest and make the position hereditary? Of course not!
Why worry about something that hasn't happened? Why not worry about a careless teenager wanting to get a sick Camera angle of the inside of your fridge? It's as valid a concern.
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My guess is TV rights. All of the streaming sites have a very heavy ad-load, and are nigh-unusable without an ad-blocker. Poland and Greece probably aren't particularly profitable markets, so translations/releases may be delayed, creating demand for the streaming services and as a consequence pushing up ad-blocking.
Not only the PR but all the merch for kids: stuffed toys, models, t-shirts, caps... follow Boaty through his artic adventures!
It would be interesting to see how many of us that has had conversations with Pieter Hintjens. I suspect a sizable chunk of the HN crowd has interacted with him. I've enjoyed his company on many conferences, and while he presents himself in a very direct manner, he is also friendly and enjoyable to talk with.
And this is exactly why euthanasia should be made legal everywhere.

If I ever have to die of some horrible disease I want to go on my terms and do exactly like op.
Edit: the date has been fixed in the artice. Also: I'm sorry.

So, what's up with the dates?

First, the article date:

> wrote on 22 Apr, 05:43 (4 hours ago)

Then later in the text:

> and on 25 April my oncologist confirmed it was cancer.

Seems like someone is a secret time traveler...?
If they became classified as employees it would completely destroy the competition (Lyft).
This has been done by breeders for years; no need for any "biotech" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F1_hybrid
These are only client-side interfaces. The server-side is usually much larger.
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The article should mention why you would like to run something in docker. What many forget is that when putting stuff in a container, you create future work for yourself to manage not only your own stuff, but also all the dependencies in the container.
If you're just after isolation, that could be accomplished with Linux name-spaces and apparmor.
پکیج بهاری تور کیش در هتل های ۴ ستاره ورود ۱۰ اردیبهشت ۹۵
I'm sure that the crew and people who do research on it, if they have any sense of humor, would get an enormous kick out of it too. How'd it be to tell your mates that you'll be out for 6 weeks at sea on RRS Boaty McBoatface ? I'd personally bust out laughing every time I talked about it.

It's not to say that the work isn't serious or important, just that sometimes it's OK to have a laugh, even in an omgsrsbzns environment. It's not really at the expense of anyone (aside from perhaps the pride of a few) and it's not really disrespectful or non-kid-friendly (actually I'm sure kids would love it) like e.g. RRS Naff Minger or something else that the internet at large might dream up. My point is that it's actually a viable family-friendly name, and I mean...just look at it. Totally looks like a Boat McBoatface to me. It has that Pixar anthropomorphic look to it. It also looks like a big toy version of a real boat. Very cartoony, especially in bright red

Boaty McBoatface it is, then.
Objective-C is not a brilliant language and it's finally being discarded by Apple and replaced with something better. This is hard to accept for the (surprisingly) many fans that it has, but Objective-C is almost legacy - jobs, docs, APIs will be Swift-first.
Talking about performance and dynamic typing and message passing won't change that.

Apple looked at the competition and saw that Java 6(!!) was kicking Objective-C's ass - it was easier to program in, less error-prone, easier to understand and fast enough.
Very interesting stuff. Some of the better direct evidence for regulatory capture I have read.
Yes exactly. If anything, it's a great way to get kids interested initially and tell the story about what it's doing, why, how they do something like that some day, etc.
STL compatible C++ memory allocator library using a new RawAllocator concept
As an Eastern Orthodox Christian, euthanasia would not be an option to me, but I really hope I'd never have to think about it as a choice. I had an early stage melanoma in 2004 and I know I "beat it", but I also know it's all a matter of time and I made some important lifestyle changes and most importantly - switching to a ketogenic diet and intermittent fasting. (Well, also as an Eastern Orthodox Christian, I'm currently undergoing Great Lent, and I know for a fact that carbs are terrible in the long run.)

It's so pathetic that we as a society waste so much time and energy on non-essential stuff instead of curing major killers. Yes, cancer is a hard one to beat (each cancer being different, too), but we've done even more complex things as humanity. I really don't think curing major diseases has ever been a top priority of our society! I hope one day soon people finally realize that diseases are not what other people get (the arrogance of the healthy), but what we all will eventually!
Comparing Boaty McBoatface to electing a democratic official for representation is a little disingenuous. One is a popularity contest of suggestions to a concrete answer of a question, the other is marking a preference for someone who you hope will perform executive actions in line with what you want.

Surely it's closer to compare it to a referendum: in which, the public majority agreed on an answer that the establishment didn't like, and will now renege on.
Openframeworks and Cinder are C++, so that's probably not fit for a first experience.

Check out LÖVE: https://love2d.org/

It's in Lua (so learning the language won't be a big part of the whole experience) and runs on many different platforms.
Yup, as I thought - looks like Apple didn't codesign their executable.

http://bugs.python.org/issue23117
Amazon AWS revenue was 2.4B in Q4 and 2B in Q3. GCE would be obvious next (and the easiest as a lot of components is already in-place) big money printing thing for Google if done right. Yet it seems that they struggle even there.

One of the main issue i see here is pretty typical for Google in my view, ie. that Google isn't really trying to serve customers - i mean in search Google is monopolist and thus advertisers would pay attention to and follow every whim of Google. In cloud computing customers don't have to appreciate the honor of being a GCE customer, instead they can just go to AWS (where automated tools as well as real customer service are really geared for customer).
This is a gross simplification. Internet trolling and mockery doesn't really represent the will of the people.
What the poll results don't tell you is how much people care about the choice they picked. In a representative democracy, it's not just about what the majority wants, but how much people really care.

If a majority prefers pepperoni pizza but will eat basically anything, don't be surprised when the representative orders vegetarian. The vegetarians care far more about the exact type of pizza that's served and are more likely to change which representative they vote for in order to get what they want.
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No, broadcast and Blu-ray 4k specs specify the BT.2020 color space. Of course, you could argue that neither of those are relevant to an iPad.
I really don't get why people are trying to manufacture drama over the name of a boat, seriously.

"tyrannical" because a group that got a boat, asked some people what their thought on the matter was, and then said "no that silly"?

"What happened to disapproving of what you name your boat, but defending to the death your right to name it" and now this is infringing on free speech as well?
What's wrong with AMQP? (2008)
> It's the same for systemd - you can always configure: `ExecStart=/etc/init.d/something start`.

Yes, but you cannot embed shell script directly in the job/service definition... thus making the "good path" simpler and more natural, which is a Big Deal(TM) in software usability. (As evidenced by the fact that many many upstart jobs on Ubuntu at least used "script" sections.)
Ah, SMF, that was it! Thanks
My experience: M.Sc. in Computer Science, worked for 5 years in industry, went back to do a Ph.D. but quit after 1 year.

I liked industry much better than doing a Ph.D., even though I loved all the subjects I studied at university.

More details here: https://henrikwarne.com/2016/03/07/ph-d-or-professional-prog...
Intellectual property rights law can be an important tool in feeding people and helping them in other ways as well. If there is less new development without seed rights laws, there are fewer new breeds and potentially poorer development for the whole of mankind.

There is a balance to reach, and I think e.g. Monsanto has reached out quite nicely. For instance, both by law and contract, subsistence farmers may use even licensed breeds. You don't have to pay licenses to grow your own food. You only have to pay if you are utilizing the IPR commercially.

Same is with medicine: new medicines help curing people of diseases.

Your argument resembles a requirement for farmers to work for free because everyone needs food so it's wrong to charge money for it.
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I'm not very well informed, but this probably has to do with the Dotty platform. Based on the Dependent Object Types calculus [1], which Martin Odersky says is the ultimate essence of Scala's types:

> [...] new foundation of Scala and languages like it. DOT features path-dependent types, refinement types, and abstract type members. Proving the DOT calculus type-safe has been [...]

Now, as Scala currently runs on the JVM, questions abound: What is native here? Will this compiler emit JVM bytecode? x86? LLVM? Also, what about GC? Or is the compiler getting bootstrapped, but we stay in JVM land? Are there opportunities to plug it seamlessly to the Truffle/Graal initiatives?

[1] http://www.cs.uwm.edu/~boyland/fool2012/papers/fool2012_subm...
Wow this really hits home. I can only hope that when it's my time that I can go with such class and dignity. My only fear in dying is that I would regret having not lived more, spent more time on things that really matter, or being held back by myself.

I couldn't agree more about euthanasia, I've always envisioned a Dia de los Muertos style party for when I go :). I would much rather go when people have a chance to see me happy and reminiscing like you mention. I would say thank you for your work, but I know there's much more to you than that!
> whether that's achieved by reducing the number of things you do, or by doing them more efficiently

Is there any way to do stuff more efficiently instead of doing less things (i.e. doing it in less steps)? Optimizing is always about trimming out the fat.
It's because you haven't thought it through. Should farmers be paid for their work? We are indeed saying that commercial rights of farmers are more important than feeding people (i.e. taking from farmers for free and giving to people).
My older son has been engaged with this - mainly DoTA2, CS:GO and H1Z1. He has had a fairly limited budget of real cash in (a few 10s of pounds) - and has taken (and lost) significantly more than that in game through tournament prizes, trades, gambling & drops.

My initial impression was rather negative - but I do concede that it has acted as a kind of 'Kerbal Space Program' for markets and gambling - including the spectacular explosions. He now has a far better understanding of supply, demand and timing, along with a healthy respect for probability and risk vs. reward.

It may have worked for him because of limited funds (have to go in thru' my card), and there were things inside the system (knife skin) that he really wanted to acquire.

I did, however, get him to name that knife 'SSD' in honour of what he could have bought if he cashed out.
Plastic bags, not thats one thing I won't mind being banned...
Uber sees drivers as only temporary thing that will be soon to be replaced by self driving cars - on navbar on same page "Today, we are excited to announce that Uber will give $5.5M to support a new robotics faculty chair as well as three fellowships at CMU"
Oh, yes, re-read it and right you are.
Or he may have been diagnosed one or more years ago.
I think that in most programs the performance depends on the architecture. A well written Python + twisted or Java + netty network code can easily outperform any naive C implementation. The same goes for algorithms used. Number crunching is the exception, not the rule.
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They can circumvent it pretty easily by not saying "We will not extradite Edward Snowden" but simply doing by making a very clear statement of two facts: i) "We do not extradite anyone who would risk a death penalty" and ii) "We believe it is clear that Edward Snowden would risk a death penalty in the US".

Having said those two things (which they can), they have implied the what he wants to know, without breaking any laws.
Yeah... it's deployed on a free AWS server... and I think we're starting to get popular enough (and some spam bots) that we're running out of server threads...

Will be hitting that ASAP... but got to get my dev machine back up and running...

It's a work in progress... but this is a deployment issue, not a coding issue... not that that makes much difference from a new user pov.
Many years ago I visited a large (junk) news site several times every day (aftonbladet.se - largest site in Sweden). I asked myself why, but couldn't tell. So I started writing down what articles I had read that had been worth ready. Not much it turned out. So I stopped visiting it, and don't regret it. But it was really hard to break the habit, like an addiction.