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> Meanwhile /u/searine is a well-known reddit mod for /r/GMO

You flatter me.

But seriously. Stop by https://www.reddit.com/r/gmo . We actually try to be very inclusive of all opinions. So few people are interested in this topic that we really love to have everyone there. Usually its just kids asking for help on school projects...

>his argumentative style of writing isn't new either. IMHO it's people like him who give the industry a bad name.

See here's the thing. I know I won't ever change the mind of anti-science true believers. As a scientist, I've had to deal with climate change deniers, creationists, anti-vaxxers, and anti-gmo kooks. To me they are a lost cause.

However, I can impact how the audience views them. I may be crass, but I cite my sources, and I expose poor arguments. Deal with it.
Author here.

The point is not to delete the flag promptly, the point is to delete it cleanly, when you are confident the new feature is good.
What is your definition of "Safe"? Because, to a farmer, a huge piece of machinery that will shred you to pieces at a moments notice is much less safe than a chemical that might give you cancer in a few years.
That make no sense since the web is successfully used for many other things than reading document.s
Heh, a placebo effect would make sense ...to someone that hasn't tripped. The explosion of neurotransmitters can not just be simulated or induced through coercion.

There's a chasmic divide between the effects of psilocybin and any mental state you can will consciously or subconsciously.

EDIT: unless your hypothesis is that the dissolution of the ego, lack of regard for the conventional, and overwhelming sense of identity with the cosmos are unrelated to depression. Sure a control could tell you that.
They also forget about the energy costs and the subsidies. If we had to pay what food really costs agriculture might be considered the sexiest area to work in.
Fight for making the genome of our food supply FLOS?
I would think you'd do this server-side, I've had similar issues outside of JavaScript: users play a game and create a custom client that connects to my server, they send custom packets thereby I have to make sure that they: don't access too much data at once (a user asking for 100 different things in 3 seconds is not even normal in certain scenarios) or the data they're requesting is formatted wrong (a string where a integer is expected?) the solution I guess is server-sided. This issue isn't unique only to client-side javascript, it is relevant in networking as well. So long as the back-end is designed intelligently it could all work out.
It's great news :) I've already migrated https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.truesocia... A+ grade!
The Chinese regulatory system had been preventing any actual integration of the two companies for some time. They finally agreed to allow it to proceed in late 2015, but sales and marketing have to remain separate for another 2 years.
ACA was very complex and the time from the law actually passing to the site going live was pretty short. Until the law was completely signed there was basically no spec for GCI to work with other than some vague generalities about what it'd have to do. I'd put a fair amount of the blame for how shoddy it was to that compressed timeline as much as contractor waste and inefficiency.
Yeah it's a big task compared to doing a html or javascript document.
The convexity of the founder CEO
I'll give it a shot, if you can shoot a couple of short stable videos and images of your parking spaces and upload them somewhere.
Not really. Many of these people are being found because they're in the background of one person's photo untagged, and they're in the foreground of a friend's photo and tagged. The person in the picture may not even know there are any pictures of them on the internet and they need not have posted any photos themselves.
Management Isn't a Promotion
I don't think there is much of a stigma around hallucinogens compared to Heroin or other opioids. Peyote has long been legal to use. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peyote#Legality
I still have to read more about this but shouldn't mounting EBS to docker container as external volume (using -v docker flag) give us similar effect?

Also, who handles application based conflicts when two same 'component' containers try to write on same volume (as they are exactly the same just replicated). I hope I am not being naive.
I really do believe some of the more negative stereotypes and stigma is beginning to lift surrounding the therapeutic use of entheogens. Like you stated time and accurate information with disciplined research hopefully leads to change. I think we have all seen that occur with marijuana for both medical and recreational use. I am very optimistic about the future of psychedelic use for those that need it and those that desire it.
I'm thinking more along the lines of this one: https://xkcd.com/790/
If you ever come to LA let's do it :-)

Should add: Would meditation experience help? I feel that my experience helps me dealing with fearful situation. The fear is there but I can watch it and it doesn't define me.
Notice how 5 out of 10 of these title have the word "committee". It makes me think about politics and all the nasty quotas or irrational ideas.

But finally I found someone who created an app that I like, it has a purpose!!!

First ten examples:
Associate Coordinator of the Subcommittee for Athletic Compliance
Associate Assistant Coordinator of the Committee on Alumni Outreach
Executive Associate Chair of the Committee on Learning Relations
Deputy President of the Subcommittee for Academic Outreach
Deputy Vice Chair of External Technology to the Subcommittee for Donor Communications
Assistant Chair of Internal Affairs to the Office of Academic Relations
Deputy Vice Chair of the Office of Academic Services
Principal Assistant Liaison to the Office of Academic Partnerships
Lead Associate Chancellor of the Task Force on Academic Affairs
Lead Deputy Chair of the Task Force on Neighborhood Planning
For apps that don't necessarily have the realtime requirement, Kinto [1] is another really cool open-source backend solution that focuses on the offline-first scenario. It's built by the Firefox Sync team and used in production at Mozilla.

That said, at first glance there doesn't seem to be anything stopping anyone from building a caching layer on top of Horizon to enable offline-first functionality. Definitely going to be keeping an eye on this as well!

EDIT: It looks like they are in fact considering offline-first support already [2]!

[1] http://kinto.readthedocs.io/en/latest/overview.html

[2] https://github.com/rethinkdb/horizon/issues/58
super nifty and really useful, does it require https ?
Some chronic pain and cancer patients see dramatically improved quality of life with medical marijuana.
I was addressing your mobile / web vs. native angle. In those markets, in my opinion many of the products, having to choose between being done right or not being done at all would do better if they chose the second option.

I don't have anything against Python per se. Sure, it isn't the fastest language out there (even considering the high-level features it provides), but rarely the problem with application performance lies squarely with Python. It's more often about not putting time to "make it good" and "make it fast" after "making it work". Especially with - from what I hear, quite good - FFI capabilities of Python, in the worst case one could always push the most intensive computations down to C.
unsure here but isnt it the same but in this case it is just not yet using a service worker to listen for new push notifications ?
Crystal 0.17.0 – Named Tuples
Nope. I guarantee you've appeared in the background of people's public photos a lot of times in your life. You don't have any control over it.
Thanks. Great points and agree 100%, especially on empathy and understanding of end users. We'll add that to the next version.
>surfactants were safe,

Safe when used properly.

>safe to drink even.

Never said that.
Some 66% of those who voted on R6RS voted "yes" (including me). Some 88% of those who voted on R7RS voted "yes" (including me).
isn't it logical that you would get rid of your super obtrusive scrolling opt-in box on every page then
The entire ecosystem has changed. Microsoft really isn't in a position to "embrace and extend" and they probably never will be again.

And they're taking more radical steps towards ongoing transparency and fairness than most other companies I could name, including things like their compiler & runtime licensing, pledges to never use over API use, directly supporting their cloud service competitors.

I'm not sure what value your grudge gives to you, but let me offer you a new target for hate: The only people given a free license to lock down the ecosystem from hardware all the way out to setting prices and fees in the software market is Apple, I guess. THEY won't betray us!
Yes, Chrome is the current 800lbs gorilla, and they continue to grow.

I am still operating under a browser wars mentality where Netscape/Mozilla's marketshare completely collapsed and they slowly recovered over time. I'm just impressed that Firefox is in double digits in terms of marketshare given that they don't have a huge marketing engine driving them (Okay, I guess Yahoo is pretty decent as engines go.)

I remember when Chrome shipped with V8 as being a big turning point for the way Firefox was run. Management went from complacent to reactionary. The bug reports regarding JavaScript performance in the Firefox bug tracker at that time were really fascinating to watch - Mozilla was a very disturbed hornets' nest! Then came rapid release and all the arewe*yet.com websites, etc.

Mozilla has been punching above their weight class ever since Chrome came to market, but I perceive that recently Mozilla management has been transitioning from reactionary to offensive. Their moves on Rust and sunsetting XUL and XPCOM are geared towards security AND performance, which are painful and necessary shifts. Largely hitting pause on FirefoxOS and Thunderbird and everything else not Firefox is also the right, if painful, thing to do.

That's why I'm going to stick with my assertion. Every day that Mozilla/Firefox doesn't shrivel up and die has to be a concern to the Chrome team!
why didn't NASA or anybody else do it before?

Why haven't we gone to the moon since the 1970s? Because there wasn't the political will to keep funding the programs that went there. Why was the Space Shuttle such an awkward and ultimately non-viable way to go to space? Because there wasn't the political will to fund genuine reusable launch technology. SpaceX's big advantages are in having the hard up-front R&D already done for it by someone else, and in not having to rely solely on political decisions for the existence of its market; even if there are no more nice-PR resupply missions to the ISS, there are still going to be private actors who want to launch satellites.
You want everyone to be wizards but they are not. You want everyone to find value in only the most advanced forms of science but hey newsflash they are not.

Most people are finding value in very very simple even simplistic things.

Instead of being offended by that instead find solace in the fact that you can create things most other cannot.
This strikes me as a plainly false equivocation - railing against political correctness or "acting proper" as a way of justifying being "immature, racist, justifying". But one can (and must, imo) agree that too much political correctness can be problematic and unproductive without accepting the next proposition.
Welcome, school 42. Seriously
I think prior comment is saying that police routinely ruin people's lives by locking them up over drug use.
On WHO carcinogenicity---note that their "probable human carcinogens" include Red meat, Hot mate, Emission from household combustion of wood, etc. That doesn't mean the list is meaningless. They just say those are "probable" carcinogens in the literal sense, based on limited evidence on humans and sufficient evidence on experimental animals. It may be wise to avoid exposure to them more than necessary, but you don't want to take the list as if they're deadly chemicals or something.
The USB stick reference is mostly bad tech journalism. For raw flash media itself, 3000 cycles is in the right ballpark for multi-level NAND Flash. For whole USB sticks or SSDs, many mechanisms are in place so that a user doesn't need to worry about the specific 3000 cycle life of a specific chunk of flash.
UI Responsiveness probably, any perception of speed is lost if loading a website freezes the entire browser for several msecs.
What a time to be alive. Microsoft IE shipping modern features! Well done.
All developers start as technical illiterates.

Most projects don't need python to be successful.
You're being very disingenuous throughout this entire thread. Your posts (specifically the "glyphosate/roundup" pairing) indicate to a layman like me that roundup is synonymous with gylphosate, yet through further reading I discovered that approximately half of it is glyphosate, and the rest is a combination of surfactants and whatever else.
If you use "in the national interest" as your threshold, you can apply it to almost anything:

It's in the national interest to have a healthy population. For everyone to work out regularly. For everyone to read every day. For everyone to travel the world and learn about other cultures. For everyone to get a full night's sleep.

That's why that is not the US standard. We explicitly have restraints and constraints on government. If you want to remove those restraints and constraints, that's fine. There's a process for that.

But if you ignore the restraints and constraints instead, then government power is based on whims and preferences of whoever is in power. And we know how that works out.
See also https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/01/web-push-arrives-in-firefo...

WebPush is (going to be) an IETF standard: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/webpush/documents/
Leading a Child to a Computer Culture (1975) [pdf]
> the market is what determines progress and there isn't much push by consumers for environmental impacts.

That's only because externalities haven't been included in the pricing. What about the $14t that it will take to relocate people displaced by rising oceans? The repair costs from the increasingly-common severe weather events? There are real costs of climate change that aren't being accounted for and will have to be paid by future generations.
I think you may be confusing push notifications with browser notifications?
> I may be crass

One of the guidelines we have on HN that works well is: pretend like you're saying something to someone in person. You could certainly state a strong opinion that way, but it's less likely that most people would be outright rude and vulgar about it.

I think your're on firm enough ground, scientifically, that you can state things strongly without being crass.
That makes sense. I don't know if this factors in, but I didn't post the link here. And if I ever did post a link here to ontolo, the HN post title would be very different.

And I agree that few, if any, folks that talk about their own stuff are able to do so objectively.
Google's not at fault; Adobe, Oracle, and every other greedy software vendor are.
An Entity Resolution Primer
This is similar to my experience, but there have been situations that are similar to what the article posted. Usually however, those are weeded out by the time the deployment to production comes around.

In that case, the QA team is already testing off the feature branch and when they're done testing, you probably don't need a cleanup branch as you've tested the case where you're going to not use it.

It seems that the method posted in the article would be very useful for when you have a strict release cycle with versioning/features in place and you know with pretty good certainty when you are either going to sunset an old feature or require all users to be on the new feature. In that regard, I could see this working very well.
You can turn off unwinding as of a few days ago in nightly. We'll see how long it takes to hit stable.
> There are millions of teachers in the U.S. not to speak of parents, administrators, and kids.

How's the number relevant? It's not like they'll charge per user, and each school only cares about O(10,000) users at most.
Too slow; didn't wait to load.

Has anyone tried training a neural network on anything that isn't the NIST digits? I've seen that one so done to death and a dearth of other examples that I'm starting to get skeptical that it would work on any other cases.

Or is it that the data is expensive and the data "scientist" is cheap?
You could just let Google build 300 of these https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superjednostka#/media/File:Kat... on closest possible lots.

https://www.google.pl/maps/place/Superjednostka,+aleja+Korfa...

Googleplex to scale: https://www.google.pl/maps/place/Googleplex/@37.42302,-122.0...
How did you choose 10 years?
Plug in a webcam, and upload a photo to a server every minute or so. Or put the Pi online.

Humans are still better at parking spot recognition than $35 hardware.

Of course you'll need a camera with a time machine so you know the spot will be free when you arrive, and not just when you set out.
Simpleshow – Handcrafted Explainer Video Production
From the article Firefox didn't even have any growth, just slower fall than IE.
The reason IE used to be behind was that at one point Microsoft decided to only publish features which had been standardized, which sounds nice, but the rest of the web wants to be on the bleeding edge with new features.
> ACA was very complex and the time from the law actually passing to the site going live was pretty short.

And the federally-run state exchanges were a fallback that was intended to not need to be used, anyway; the whole point was that every state was going to have an exchange and that not setting one up wouldn't affect that, with the idea being that in that scenario even states that didn't support the idea would prefer to have control of the state exchange rather than handing it to the feds. The timeline from determining that there'd actually need to be federally-run exchanges to the site needing to be live was even shorter from the time from the law actually passing to the site going live.
I believe that GAAP requires accounting for work expenses at the time when the work is performed - e.g. the salary due for last week of March must be counted in March, no matter if you issued a paycheck right at the end of week or haven't paid it yet for whatever reasons.

Though, one way for companies to game the system in GAAP is to be late in paying their employees & contractors by having part of their renumeration be in stock options - people perceive it as compensation, but it can be excluded from GAAP since the value technically doesn't come from "within the company" but from reducing the value of other shareholders.
Downvote me all you want. But at least have the curtesy to explain why so our argument can stand for the reader to judge.
Hairdressers in the UK are unlicensed. Somehow, we have managed to avoid an epidemic of severed ears and burned scalps.
We understand fine. The standard is freely available and reusable, the implementations are free software (now that Chez has become so), the process is as open as can be. If you'd rather maintain your own archive of posts, please do, and let us know where it is. As things stand, the posts that weren't on Google Groups lists have been lost because the person who volunteered to maintain them (I had no influence over that decision) didn't keep backups.
The huge piece of machinery will come with a huge warning telling you it will cut you to shreds.

When you're well informed about the risks you can take precautions or change your behaviour.

Monsanto has taken California to court to prevent such warnings on Roundup.
You know, I had a long comment filled with frustration and anger. It seems kind of silly when re-read.

I wish you luck in your quest, but I don't hold out much hope. I've lived too much of it.
it's not a russia issue, it's an everywhere issue. snowden stuff aside, police just got caught installing automatic listeners in california. texas police are trading license plate capture data to camera makers in exchange for free LPR equipment.

Private companies are using surveillance technology on their employees and on their users.
>So ... are you saying glyphosate is known to be mutagenic and likely to cause cancers or that the common understanding on cooked meats is wrong.

I'm saying that glyphosate is probably less carcinogenic considering it has less evidence of mutagenesis than meat.

And despite millions of tons of meat being consumed by the kilogram per week, we see relatively low levels of colon cancer.

We eat several dozen orders of magnitude less glyphosate/POEA. The conclusion then, is obvious.
It would have been more honest to modify the headline and put corrections inline, for sure. (Still, 170x faster is not bad — I would still have clicked :-) )
The California HSR project hardly needs extra FUD, it's managing just fine on its own. And I'm not sure that it's really a competitor to owning a Tesla anyway -- people don't own cars in order to drive back and forth between LA and SF (or Modesto and Stockton), but for local commutes and errands.
In practice, proprietary Schemes have not survived unless they have become free software.
>If the driver can sleep, than the car needs to handle everything that can happen on the interstate, including deer or people on the road.

Interstates are less complicated overall. You don't get a lot of jaywalkers or bicycles doing unexpected things. Nor negotiation of left-hand turns, etc. What you do have is events happening at higher speeds but handling the car in front jamming on its brakes is probably easier in general for a machine that's always paying perfect attention. As a result, I do expect to see autonomous systems on limited access highways before I see them in a busy city.

That said, I fully agree that once you have full automation you can't depend on human backup that can take over quickly. Whether or not people are supposed to, they will doze off, read, text, etc.--even more than they do today.
The Berkeley team proposed aerodynamic suspension. There's an analysis with ANSYS which indicates that the design can be tweaked so that at no point does the air go supersonic.[1] But nobody seems to have published a stability analysis for the vehicle in the tube.

The "flying height" in the original proposal was to be about 1mm, so this thing has to be really well behaved aerodynamically. And the tube has to be really smooth. (Expansion joints, emergency escape hatches, pressure doors, and switches would be problems.) The whole point of the Hyperloop is that it's cheap because the tube is simple and dumb.

When you look at the MIT design [2] it's really a maglev monorail that operates in an evacuated tube. (Or outside of one, as they've demonstrated by sending down a rail). It doesn't have any of the fan propulsion or air cushion lift or tight tolerances from the original Hyperloop proposal.

[1] http://www.ansys-blog.com/20130925hyperloop/
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiyPQU48Ef0
Based on most of the posts here I'd say "someone on HN" is just as likely - if not more, due to misplaced confidence - to ignore statistics.
Because we can choose to draw the line somewhere, however arbitrary it might be.

Using matches to light a stove or fireplace is so common that we've as a society decided to not place restrictions on that activity because the cost outweighs the benefit.

However, doing electrical work on your house is not quite as common and the result of your work will stay with the house and possibly affect future owners. Added to that the work is generally hidden or not obvious and future owners may not know about your substandard work.

Yeah it's a totally arbitrary line, but either we license nothing or we just pick somewhere to draw it.
what are the chances that they will accept a friend request from a stranger?