skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It means traceability in the supply chain. E.g. all meat in Europe has to be traceable to the farm as a consequence of the BSE outbreak / horse meat scandal. [1]

Big cases in the US were the Peanut Corp of America [2], Jack in the Box E Coli [3] and the most recent Chipolte [4] and more [4].

Supply chains are protecting themselves through tractability and this is being turned into an opportunity.

It doesn't mean that the food is wholesome, just that if you get poisoned, the origin of that poison can be determined.

[1] http://www.foodnavigator.com/Policy/EU-traceability-requirem...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_Corporation_of_America

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Jack_in_the_Box_E._coli_o...

[4] http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2015/12/the-10-biggest-u-s-foo...
If done accurately it means that the food is produced using the most unsustainable and inefficient ways possible so that only the most privileged can partake. Other than that its just marketing that is targeting people that either want to think of themselves as upper class or have been falsely led to believe that this type of food production is actually eco-friendly and more healthy. (Also see "Organic" food)
Human psychology is great, isn't it? "X is a worse deal than before---I must buy it now."
On how honest, in-touch and well adjusted they are. He can rub people the wrong way, but he's usually right. That man can speak
We created certs with Let's Encrypt today, worked like a champ.
Australia Nauru: Asylum seeker fined for attempted suicide
Nice work putdat! I've seen a few of these lately and then I don't see them again. I feel like there has to be some sort of long term tactic employed so that you don't get run down seeking out and putting up data all by yourself. Right now I don't see any reason to upload my own datasets. For instance, could you require that in order to download unlimited data, they need to upload at least one data set? Just throwing it out there.
No it just means

We know which Farm --> we know about this bit --> Table
but but but but, a single point of failure NEVER fails... it's too big to fail... it can't fail. this isn't happening.
Build the hyper loop between Portland and San Francisco and prices will plummet.

I bet it would be a lot cheaper than building more houses too!
Or perhaps nothing in this article is surprising to anyone who has even in a passing interest in the world around them.
Eventually.

I doubt they have as many managers.
The Minecraft modding scene is amazing! The Japanese have been doing wonders. You'd be amazed not only by the content but also by the visual effects of some of the mods.

Some examples (Not Japanese):

ComputerCraft: adds programmable computers in Lua. With in game applications; programmable robots called turtles.

Botania and Thaumcraft are two magical mods with stunning visuals.

Buildcraft and AE2 are logistics-oriented mods.

All in all, vanilla Minecraft is definitely unplayable once you try it with mods.

Edit: Probably worth mentioning that Mojang hired the guy who created the modding API. (See SquareWheel's comment below for correction/details)

Edit: Just finished reading the article (I check the comments first). They mentioned the Redstone logic. Probably worth mentioning as well that a 16-year-old built a scientific calculator using Redstone. https://youtu.be/wgJfVRhotlQ
This is true. But I've noticed that when playing basketball I'm more willing to give a shooter an open shot in this area than behind the arc or a few steps inside of it.

It made me realize why some players are willing to take a shot with one foot behind the line: because they're open!
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> modern human medicine seems to include techniques that are similar to or just-short-of "GMO."

I think that is actually the root of the problem for some people, including me. I have seen what modern medicine does to people. "You cholesterol is too high, take this statin and your number will get better. Don't take it and you will have a heart attack". And then you have family members and friends take the drugs, and start having side effects.. random pain, random problems that stop them from being physically active. So then they go back to a doctor and get some new medicines, that maybe fixes the pain, but then adds a new side effect. And pretty soon they are bed ridden and taking 14 pills to stay alive. What a bunch of crap.

I am not anti-medicine, but I am anti-cutting-edge-for-margain-gain medicine. If you have AIDs, you probably should take some medicine. I vaccinate myself and my children. However I think that if you are active and eat well, I don't care what my cholesterol is. Maybe it is high, maybe it isn't. And if you aren't active or eating well - you need to fix that (not take medicine). If I start dying of cancer, I will throw every medicine I can find at it. But if I am good and healthy, I am going to leave well enough alone.

So to tie this back to food... I don't have a big desire to be a food beta tester. I am sure 75% of GMO is fine. Could some cause something horrible to your health in 20 years, like increased cancer risk? For sure. In fact we are seeing that a lot of the veggies we grow now through traditional breeding practices have reduced the vitamin content compared to the same veggie 20 years ago. But if I can pay a few pennies more for stuff that has a 100 year track record vs something that came out of a lab a month ago? Yes please, sign me up.

Let there be GMO. Let me be able to pay to not beta test food. I like beta testing software, I don't like beta testing food and drugs when I am otherwise healthy. It is insane that there is such resistance to putting a label on food telling me the GMO status. GMO status is just the start, I would love to know 100 more things about the food I eat. Fertilizers used? Harvesting technique? Etc. Let me have more info and make an informed choice about what I put in my body. It may be a bunch of busywork for no gain, but that is my choice.
I once had an idea of similar product, CONFIGURATION AS A PROGRAM. All programs are json file. Each function is a json file. All algorithm as state machine. Operating System just move a step on each file, a step at a time. Eventually I could not figure out which direction it should take, of AI or of OS ?

.....

So, my point being, even if this is a very good idea, your chance of big success will only come if you can narrow it down to specific use cases instead of generalise it as a day to day programming. i.e. Android Visual App Development Platform, or, Cross Platform Data Visualisation Platform with backend connecting to google analytics etc.

Being Specific is the key here.
One jug of bleach per person would give everyone clean water for years. Even at $10 per jug that's only 100 million
I have an HP Folio9470m that is running Ubuntu 14.04 like a champ. These days I use it more frequently than my Macbook Pro, especially for Docker related stuff.
Kitten: compile to C, stack-based functional programming language
Obama Presses for Open Market for Cable Set-Top Boxes
It was a hypothetical "even if this wasn't trivial to bypass..."
So can I claim I'm the representative of Islam and everyone's supposed to believe me?
"Penalty", yeah because people have put in sooo much hard work to make their house values go up. (Sure, some people will spend money on renovations, and there could be tax credits for that. But I don't think that sitting on an asset and letting it appreciate should be a free lunch.)
GitHub spy on user reading emails (2014)
University of Toronto Mississauga is the same, with respect to overly nice student vehicles.
From the article you can see its a local equalization in process

While San Francisco had the highest median sale price in the nation at $1,042,500, that number actually fell 1.8% year over year, and declined by 0.7% month over month, an unusual change from February to March. * In neighboring San Jose, prices rose 3% to $860,000 and Oakland rose 5.4% to $590,000
Yes. In my experience good Linux hardware is mostly just good hardware, and there's an active surface linux community so there's likely to be good driver support. But I don't have direct personal experience of it yet.
I'm not an expert, but one criticism I've seen is that a lot of genetic modification is used to either get plants to produce pesticides or be immune to commonly used weed-killers, like Roundup. Some critics worry that lets farmers basically saturate their fields in herbicides to eliminate weeds, and that some of them are toxic to humans, other animals and plants near to the farm.

Another issue is that most genetic modification work is done by massive companies, which then patent their results. If they develop cheaper-to-grow crops, farmers may essentially have no choice but to license their IP to stay competitive. That gives those big companies a lot of clout over farmers and probably advantages giant farming operations, who can negotiate to buy GMO seeds cheaper than small farmers can.

Some people also worry that there will be "bugs" in the genetic code introduced into plants that will have unforeseen consequences. On some level, plant genetics always been a software problem, but now we're potentially deploying updates in the (literal) field much faster. If new corn seeds distributed en masse accidentally produce toxins, or are unusually conducive to harmful bacteria, or just don't grow properly in some areas, what does it mean for farmers and consumers?

I think it's a lot of the usual technology-upends-formerly-slow-moving-industry issues, but that's especially frightening for a lot of people when it comes to things we're putting in our bodies.
Yeah, a much more likely explanation is the one the CDC actually gave: That map was made with a specific purpose, and source tracing wasn't it.
Which is fine for a single guy. But would you want to raise kids in a 1BR in Florentine (polluted, noisy, somewhat rough population in adjacent neighborhoods)?
I'm not familiar with US laws, but isn't this fraud?
Kinda makes me sad. José has always been so approachable.
>Are there any deep earthscrapers

Not exactly what you are looking for, but you might enjoy _Wool_ by Hugh Howey:

http://www.amazon.com/Wool-Hugh-Howey/dp/1476735115/
I think OP is living in a bubble. Sure we aren't #1 in Japan, but what is the size of business in Japan compared to the US? And Putin doesn't want to buy our software.. and you call our society fucked? seriously you're run by a dictator. I could go on and on but I think OP is too invested in his own little world and wants the rest of us to know he exists.
Is this the same Paul Le Roux who wrote the original software that TrueCrypt was based on?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E4M
Very excited, and then very confused.

Because nix and Rust are both great.
Here is an IDEA, shipping container housing, infinatley modular and to boot much cheaper, by almost half to 3 quarters the cost....i have been doing designs of these type of home for fun and you know what, i love them, not to mention the fact if i wanted i could pack em up and put them anywhere else, its not that we should seriously consider the change to the environment of San fran, for which i am sure there is merit in some cases, but why not make a location that can conform to your needs and then build how you want to build, live how you want to live, in a place that welcomes you... food for thought
Justin Trudeau explains quantum computing as diversionary tactic
I just don't know why mine is better, I can lie for 3 hours straight about my site but I need opinions from users to tell why it is better.
Not 2.5%, but close, FHA still allows 3.5% down.. but then you're talking MIP and such
it's going to work fine until it doesn't. that's not going to be a good day. smart people can rationalize anything.
Something like 30% of fish sold isn't the fish on the label.

Being illegal and being able to do something about it? No always the same.

Sure if your swap killed a bunch of people, you would get caught. Who is going to instantly die form eating a GMO though?
I interview people like this all the time. I'm long enough in the tooth to have been using telnet regularly, and it terrifies me that so many people doing what I was doing 20 years ago have found a path to obsolescence in an industry with such a critical skills shortage.
re: downvotes: i'm sorry, but is the legibility of the OP's article not relevant to the discussion of said article?
Uh, Eyeball Mark II? Where do I get my upgrade...
IMO the author is conflating two separate "issues".

> TL;DR: short URLs produced by bit.ly, goo.gl, and similar services are so short that they can be scanned by brute force.

This is not the issue for OneDrive. Everyone knew this already, right?

For Google Maps, it's definitely more nuanced. I'm glad Google acted swiftly.

> Our scan discovered a large number of Microsoft OneDrive accounts with private documents. Many of these accounts are unlocked and allow anyone to inject malware that will be automatically downloaded to users’ devices.

This is the issue for OneDrive. I'm not a OneDrive user, but if the documents are publicly editable per a setting the user controls, this isn't a "vulnerability" either.
I would check out Sirius (open source Siri) if I was you:

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/sirius-is-the-google-backed...

https://github.com/jhauswald/lucida

http://sirius.clarity-lab.org/
I really loved AbiWord in the early 2000s.
However, the fact that they refused to default to ODF meant I switched away. Who's going to store important documents in a format that only AbiWord can read.
Still though, it's got many advantages over the LibreOffice bloat.
Doom4 loadout system is really sad. The powerup mechanic is cool but minimally useful, the Revenant is just extremely unbalanced: He can fly, kill instantly and has 3x more HP than a normal player. If you get to play Doom4 multiplayer s with friends, all you need to do is camp the spawn (which is easy because its spawn is announced way ahead of time)

Unreal Tournament alpha is not much better, the netcode is weird, the new movements are extremely buggy and the weapons are unbalanced.
The only good thing about UTalpha is that they stick to the original vision: Fast paced, aim-skill game, with very little novelty (other than movements and like one weapon's behaviour has changed)

I am looking forward to overwatch, although its not a real FPS, at least I feel like Blizzard cares about the game they push out and are not blindly following trends.

I been playing UT since early 2000s when i was just a kid and I feel sad that so little importance has been given to this title.
I wasn't expecting Doom to be another QuakeLive, but at the same time not another "CoD12: Future Ops from Hell - Mom get the camera edition"
It was a troll. it was just a joke and a marketing idea for promoting the book he is writing. Use Google Translate if you don't speak Italian: http://www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/2016/04/15/news/cancella...
Not being able to afford to live in SF is not a quality of life problem. If you can't afford it, don't live there. There are lots of places in the world that I can't afford to live in, but that doesn't really affect my quality of life.

The argument that many residents have against urbanization of SF by removing building height limits is that an urbanized SF is no longer "SF". Skyscrapers built on pilings down to bedrock are almost certainly more safer in an earthquake than most of the old low rise housing in SF, so earthquake safety is not the reason SF isn't full of high rises.
I always thought crowd-sourced feedback on whether a class + instructor combination required the textbook would be incredibly useful.

A) There are 20+ students in typical undergraduate classes

B) Professors tend to teach undergraduate classes extremely similarly from year-to-year

So I imagine it wouldn't take long until I could plug in a school, class, and professor and get a list of impressions back. E.g. "Homework taken directly from book"

Second idea. OCR + diff would be incredibly valuable for version diffs of popular textbooks. How much was rewritten? Were the homework questions changed? If so, which ones?

Thanks for the good work though!
No hate. Dave Cutler is the real deal with a long line of successful and groundbreaking systems. NT kernel is the work of a pro.

Why do you imagine that technical people will look down on him despite groundbreaking innovations and steady decades worth of work going back to VMS? That's hardcore on a level only reached by a few, and only those also mentioned in the article - Alan Kay, Vinton Cerf and Tim Berners-Lee, are equals to Dave Cutler.
There are a couple of issues with the lasts MacBook pros.
https://teamsammut.com/blog/2015/09/apple-macbook-pro-linux-...
ok why do that? think of it as a means to learn and then proceed from there, down voting is just a means to lower an opinion because you don't agree, fine don't agree, but your opinion is no better they are all like asses, we all have them.
This reads like some slightly useful, but obvious, advice mixed with attempts to "stick it" to companies based in the US.

I think it's telling in your example that the friend laughs because their grandma did it, not that the friend themselves did it. Beyond that, by your own admission all the money in tech makes bootstrapping harder, not easier, because it drives up costs. So your example makes even less sense, unless you intend to point out the ignorance of laughing at someone bragging about it.

You're also not the first to recognize that labor is more expensive in the US. Many companies acted on this information in the early 2000's, and it did not exactly result in a complete exodus of software development jobs. Culture, language, and even timezone differences can be a problem. Paying someone in Eastern Europe 30k/year instead of a US developer 100k/year to develop a product does not necessarily result in 70k/year worth of savings.

Interestingly I feel like some of what you say here goes against your recommendations in your internationalization article: the implication is that we should all hire Eastern European developers, but your internationalization article talks about the perils of thinking that all you need to do is slap a new language on your product and think that it's OK for another country.

If you're developing a product to be sold in a given country, and you hire developers from that country, you can empower your developers to act with more discretion.
It's only scary if you believe rent control is a net benefit.
It sounds cool, but it turns out it's probably not a winning idea: http://marketurbanism.com/2016/02/02/return-to-sender-housin...
Emphatically agreed. Migrating VMs (IME especially Windows VMs) is a frustrating proposition.

Creating new Linux VMs expressly for the purpose of reading particular file formats is a much safer bet. It is unlikely that the ability to conveniently emulate a basic i386 system with block storage will go away in the next few decades. My assumption is that any formats I can read on Linux today will be readable in the future, as long as I have a copy of the source / binaries. This is why I included a copy of lrzip's git tree with my backups -- everything else is in a standard Ubuntu install.
of course :) it's a troll
Why not implement a massive property tax hike for non-owner occupied units - with exemptions for apartment complexes & other properties designed as rentals? Something along the lines of 15x the property tax for units not owner occupied for at least 2/3 of the year / ownership period (if less than a year).
not spam just my humble and informed opinion
Great article, and I loved the mooshroom in a pen with pressure plates hack. That is indeed very creative thinking. But this ...

>> “My art teacher always says, ‘No games are creative, except for the people who create them.’ But she said, ‘The only exception that I have for that is Minecraft.’ ”

I guess his art teacher didn't play many computer games. If she was familiar only with board and party games then perhaps this comment would make sense, but "builders" have been a part of computer gaming for a long time, as any obsessed fan of Railroad Tycoon or Civilization can attest to. In Fallout 4, a relatively new title, you can build entire towns.
> It's amazing how many businesses have no problem flat out lying to their customers.

It has been ever thus. This is where regulation comes from.
It's not a GMO specific problem but lack of biodiversity.
>Is this a correct understanding?

No. That is a five-year-old's understanding of how science works. HN's readership quality has definitely declined if every phenomenon without an obvious explanation is immediately attributed to "aliens" or "beyond our understanding of the cosmos."
You have either brute force with more characters or if you have a file in there with a known content there is a known-plaintext attack on zip encryption. I've used it once and it worked nicely but it's rather tricky to find another file with the exact same content for this.
Yeah, I generally give people the benefit of the doubt on that one, given that the new way is sftp... FTP is still a reasonable shorthand.
Perhaps "found" refers to "the tool for the job" rather than connoting something in the vein of Product Hunt or Medium or PR News wire.

That is it advice regarding a solution to a particular problem related to cryptographically securing content than those related to growth hacking.
It is not. The problem is that short URLs are often only six characters long, so they are just as safe as a six character password (ie. not very safe)
The article says 10-15 years. Certainly not permanent, but I think it can be considered 'a long time'. Knowing it will come to an end eventually likely will have an influence though.
If George Hotz came in HN and asked about the feasability of doing a self driving car by himself, people would say the same thing, tell him that was impossible. Lucky for us he neither asked HN if he could hack the iphone or the playstation 3 because if he did he could be desencouraged.

Anyway, geohot built a self-driving car and received investment from a16z to hire more people and expand it further.
http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-george-hotz-self-driv...

My advice to you is study really hard and make it happen. use other people work to leverage your software and go faster. And after that show me and the others what have you made.
I thought Qt was a bit conservative, but then I read the wxWindows API (late 90s).
Single platform often wasn't that much better, though. The awefulness of MFC was one big reason why Delphi was so popular.
I see your point, but it's not just moving in/out. It's the subtext of why. I don't think anyone can be faulted for fleeing a neighborhood in the name of safety. The same can likely be said for moving into more impoverish areas that have the potential to grow into prosperous neighborhood. This holds true regardless of race.

If someone is just throwing those terms around just because people move in or out of neighborhoods, then they're missing the overall context of what those terms mean.

> what exactly is the inequality and diversity solution that "everyone" wants?

I don't think this can be easily addressed. Most people want their neighborhoods safe with drivable streets and walkable paths. Some see culture in the history of their neighborhoods. Others want modern architecture and amenities. It really depends on who you ask.
LunaSea is making an interesting argument that I hadn't considered.

You on the other hand have levied a substance-less complaint about a user's attitude. Who is really undermining discourse here?

Pessimism ought to be welcome here. If you need protection from other people's attitudes go join a university safe space.