skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Only Monsanto is capable of arguing that the most environmentally friendly option for agriculture is GMO.

You should talk to some farmers. Seriously, it's a great way to get another perspective of someone that has to do "organic" and GMO based farming. Monsanto gets a bad wrap but a large majority of the negative press they get is simply false [1]. Regardless there are plenty of other organizations doing GMOs even if you do have an axe to grind with Monsanto.

[1] http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/10/18/163034053/top...
You can self sponsor with this https://www.border.gov.au/Trav/Visa-1/189- bit of mucking about to get but once you have it you can work for any company. Otherwise company will need a company to sponsor you on https://www.border.gov.au/Trav/Visa-1/457- which is not hard to get but does limit the companies you can work for as not all will know how to do it.
Direct link [pdf] [9mb] http://libgen.io/get/B9E6052395BA047BD154EA45130026FC/Larry%...
Actually I'd attribute the difficulty to the culture of "Java-ism" that emphasises huge, complex, design-pattern-filled "extensible" architectures which happen to be extensible only in very specific ways.

I wanted to take up casual writing of Android apps as a hobby, mainly because I think the little portable computer I keep in my pocket could become so much more useful, but the unusual API combined with the complexity and general baroqueness of the architecture was a big turn-off. I don't get the whole "design patterns" thing either, but I do have extensive experience with writing Win32 apps, and a little bit of X (which is not all that different.)
For extra security, I like to employ "double ROT13" encryption...

(ducks)

:-)
The overall load time for clients would be a great statistic to have.
On the other hand, there were the days when you had to be born into the right social caste to have any chance for an interesting life at all, otherwise being doomed to a lifetime of menial labor.

I really do prefer our current situation to 99% of the history of mankind.
Yeah. I hear ya.

I completely appreciate the spirit of projects of like this. I doubt this dude is trying to "disrupt" the doorbell industry. It's just a fun challenge to solve.

I dunno. I kinda look at it like modern art. You might walk through a gallery and say, "Pfft. I could do that." But you didn't. And that's why it's not your work on the wall.

Make more shit. Shit on other's work less.
From the headline, I thought it was for credit card fraud! Order valuable, fenceable goods with a stolen credit card, and then use Uber to make sure you're at the random location when the goods arrive.
I hate to disillusion you, but your parents bank account will have more to do with your advancement than any intrinsic ability. Also if you study the last names of the current elite, you'll notice they are the same as bygone elites.
Being at the right place at the right time is one of the most important skills in life.

If you look back at these sorts of places across history, how often did they have systematized gatekeeping? Never. There's no shortage of these places and opportunities for any given field, you just need to cultivate the ability to surface them.
Or technology could help us maintain this one into the future and feed everyone. Even today, the biggest problem isn't food production but transport and access. Technology can absolutely help improve those areas, while providing the tools to enable more efficient local food production.

And while reproducing is literally what we do, when societies industrialize, their birth rates drop. More efficient agriculture allows workers to be shifted to other sectors, a critical step in improving the quality of life in least developed countries as well as developing countries.
Using 6000 as the divisor is post-$240M, not pre.

If instead the $240M helped every single homeless person become un-homeless except for 1, it's not the case that SF is spending $240M on the one homeless guy.
For believers, fear of atheists is fueled by a fear of death
>There are lots of neural network applications that have little to do with statistics (image recognition with convolutional neural networks for example).

You're kidding, right? The most fundamental reasons that deep convnets work at all are statistical in nature.
You're much more likely to be killed by the next earthquake in the Bay area then you are to be killed by dopey police officer.

What makes you assume he/she would base this decision on simple self-interest rather than principles?
Isn't it more accurate to say there's an elisp package called evil-snipe which does this? The spacemacs layer didn't write the functionality, it's one example of how to configure it.
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https://www.border.gov.au/. I don't know the details of the process though - I am a New Zealander, and I get right of residence automatically. There is always New Zealand of course, so you can live and travel between the two countries without hindrance once you get a passport in either.
Joining lines and looKing up definitions is far too useful for me.
On the one hand, the precautionary principle argues we should be careful of GMOs and research the long-term consequences of GMO. But there's been enough time, and it seems it's safe enough, and it's at least in GA if not public beta.

On the other hand, GMOs have saved countless lives where if it weren't for GMO I'm sure millions of people would be suffering.

The truth is the whole world can't shop at Whole Foods.

Sustainability might eventually push out the need for GMO. But GMO despite the nastiness of Monsanto has helped many lives. I personally shop local and support local farms (that's easy in SF with the Ferry Building, Divis, and Clement). But until local farms make a resurgence worldwide, it will be difficult to push out GMO.

(In fact, the seeds of a lot of GMO products cross-pollinate with so-called non-GMO; soy is one of those products where it is difficult to find unadulterated variants, despite being labeled "organic.")
It's a root crop. Objects in the soil (twigs, leaves, stones, bark, etc.) block root growth. The same goes for carrots and potatoes.

Think of it as hydroponics. It's even done for non-root crops. All tomatoes in Florida grow in pure sand. Just add water and fertilizer.

BTW, this is partly because we turn our best farmland into condos. San Jose was the best place in the world for apricots; now look at it.
> But you've mentioned a bunch of scripting languages, and CL was never competing with these.

Except that it WAS. Programmers have a limited amount of mindspace. So, the question as a programmer in the late 1980's/early 1990's is how I'm going to allocate that space:

1) Systems language--C is pretty much your only option at that point unless you are in assembly (God help you). Anything bashing hardware (graphics, audio, networking, etc.) goes straight for C.

2) Many programmers are also system administrators in this time frame. So, I'm going to use a language that mangles text well--Perl wins here. People transition to other languages only once they get fed up with Perl.

3) Operating system specific languages. Unix pushes you toward C. Windows was C or Visual Basic (that ecosystem was huge at one point). Mac was C or Pascal.

So, in this time frame: Lisp is painful for system programming on small systems (fails 1). Lisp manipulates strings badly (loses on 2). Lisp is not tied to an architecture that would drive adoption (loses on 3).

So, as a programmer, Lisp is, at best, at slot 3 or 4 in terms of programming languages for daily use. Is it any wonder Lisp never got real traction?

You also have to consider how knowledge got disseminated in this time frame. The web doesn't exist. Email is actually scarce unless you are at a university or a big technology company. Netnews is something that soaks up enormous amounts of disk space so sysadmins hate carrying it in useful ways.

It is hard to appreciate, in this era of instantaneous, ubiquitous information, just exactly how much the pink camel Programming Perl book with its cookbook section singlehandedly drove adoption of Perl. I had 3 copies of that book that I used until they disintegrated. Can you think of ANY other programming language book for which that is the case? (Actually, I can, but I'm the odd duck. My workbook copy of The Little Lisper got the same level of abuse to disintegration).

> The unstructured text-oriented philosophy is frankly insane

It is NOT insane when memory and disks are small--which defines most of the time when Lisp was popular. Structured text requires lots of extra overhead that simply wasn't going to fly when RAM, disk, and bandwidth were very restrictive.
Yeah but *BSD isn't nearly as wide
spread as Linux.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
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> Only Monsanto is capable of arguing that the most environmentally friendly option for agriculture is GMO.

No, plenty of objective scientists argue it as well. It's just common sense.

You don't need a PhD to understand that for crops, you will have to choose between GMO or heavily pesticided products. The equation is that simple.

The author of the article certainly has its own agenda but you can make up your own mind about some of the points he makes, in particular the cycle of around the clock pesticide spraying that non-GMO seeds require in order to produce an acceptable crop.

It's time to step back and be a bit rational about all this, the anti-GMO movement is reaching levels of absurdity and hysteria approaching the anti-vax movement.
Australia is corrupt? Compared to where?

I immigrated here from the U.S. and the only contact I have with the "government" is my annual tax filing.

Where previously I had nearly 6-monthly encounters with police just for (I guess) being a black/Muslim man. "Random" traffic stops escalating to inquiries into everything about my life.

Long live Australia.

[Edit: I DO routinely run into my neighborhood Australian police on Fridays, that's because we frequent the same local bar and catch up for drinks and games of pool.]
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Corrupt?
Not that bad according to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index
To add to the other posters, Slackware also included other Subgenius recruiting material in the source tree in /ap/gonzo. They stopped doing so for slackware 8.1, sadly. A link to the last version's material

http://slackware.cs.utah.edu/pub/slackware/slackware-8.0/sou...
From the Gantree README:

"The name is derived from the word gantry which is a large crane used in ports to pick up shipping containers and load them on a ship. Gantry was already taken so I spelled it "tree" because the primary use is for elastic beanstalk and I guess a beanstalk is a form of tree?"
A comment from the link that seems relevant:

> Seed control is another interesting thing about sugarbeet. Monsanto doesn’t own any sugarbeet germplasm, meaning they don’t sell or control sugarbeet seed. They certainly make money from Roundup Ready beet seed, since they’ve licensed the trait to the seed companies. But Monsanto doesn’t have much say in how sugarbeet seed is bred and sold.

Also,

> Only Monsanto is capable of arguing that the most environmentally friendly option for agriculture is GMO.

Science is actually quite capable of arguing a similar point as well:

http://www.cell.com/trends/biotechnology/pdf/S0167-7799(12)0...

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1871678410...
According to this: http://www.transparency.org/cpi2015 Australia does not fare too badly (13th overall).
I was under the impression that oil combustion, not oil production, was the part that hurt the environment. Is that not correct?
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Seriously, either Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore are safest countries than in USA. Need more startup in Singapore.
Bill Nye had an interesting chapter on his change of view on GMO's in one of his recent books.

Personally, I see genetic engineering as the path to apotheoses. The risk of it leading us the opposite direction is very real, though. The solution is not to avoid it all together, but rather to tread carefully.
The work was done in California, where the minimum is $10 (though it was $9 at the time Lesnik was injured).
Interesting. The Chinese devs I work with hate Kylin (probably because it's approved by the Party) and seem to really prefer other Chinese-created variants, particularly Lubuntu and Xubuntu. I've got no experience with Kylin, so it's interesting to hear these points.
> Canada is cold.

Not sure if you're being sarcastic here... In Vancouver, the summers are gorgeous without being sweltering. The winters are mild.

Affordability is definitely an issue, but if you work in tech then it shouldn't really be a problem.
Simple example today in the US is welfare. The government prevents people from buying alcohol or cigarettes with their welfare money. Of course there are numerous work-arounds, but the point is that it happens today. Now extend that to the whole population, and the issue is considerable.
Are there any companies that are still innovating in search? Google is so broken, it's almost worthless for at least half of my searches. At least, I have to modify my search terms at least 10 times before I can narrow the search results down to what I'm looking for. Advanced search operators used to be sufficient for a lot of deep searches, but I'm not sure which search engine still support them.
And America gets plenty of Canada's smart ones. There's an estimated 350,000 of them working in just the Bay area.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-magazi...
In Japan (except with some minor providers), your contract is linked to a concrete terminal. If you break your terminal, you must buy a new one from the company that is providing you the service.

Also, if you want to use iPhone, you must get a contract with Softbank.
Contracts bind you and the services with a fixed price, regardless on the value and emerge competitors.
I also disagree. I have a 5X and hotspot works perfectly.
Are there any governments which do have high levels of accountability? Honest question.
So then the only way to get it going faster is to raise voltage for the pullups?
On my iPhone 6 for work, if I try to hotspot, in told to contact ATT. US.
Yeah, I mean if the goal is the "enterprise" solution, which is usually the solution where the setup, as well as the risk and damages of a break-in, can be shouldered to another company, then yeah RSA is usually the answer. I was primarily referring to the cryptographic security. Yes, RSA does avoid the transfer of plaintext secrets over the network, but instead you are placing your trust in RSA as a company to not have stored the secrets elsewhere (which, in most cases, is probably just fine).

The advantage of U2F is that it uses an asymmetric scheme where a keypair is generated for each authentication endpoint, so the secrets never leave the hardware token in the first place. Compared to RSA SecurID, you would need to have a really severe threat scenario such that you can't even trust RSA with your keys. Of course, U2F is also a much more complicated protocol than say TOTP, and has not existed long enough to stand the cryptographic test of time.

To answer your second question, I'm not sure I understand what you mean. TOTP (Google Authenticator), RSA SecurID, and U2F are all different types of 2FA. They could all be combined with Kerberos if that is what you want.
Ok, wow. That is pretty stunning. That is months of painstaking layout and research. I am in absolute awe.

Windell and I talked about building a discrete 7400 (quad NAND gate), in theory you can build any logic you want out of enough NAND gates :-) but implementing the CPU on the PDP 8 was going to be a very , very big arrangement. at 13 in on a side this is pretty manageable. A lot of boards for the MicroVAX are larger than that.

Now the question is if you make a proportionally sized 40 pin package for it, how big is the Apple II motherboard? :-)

Nicely done, congrats on an awesome project. I must go to Makerfaire now to see this in person.
By what definition is this an "isolated" act? And why do you think a death by earthquake is more likely? I don't think the data supports that.
Better tick that "high-priority" flag too. Your message is more important because it is from you.
Agreed. I think some of good indie musician on YouTube are much better off alone than with a record company.

People these days have many more means of entertainment. I think it is hard to get super popular by just doing music alone. Pairing with movie, games, or other multi-media seem to be a better strategy.
I am well aware of growing practices. I live on 7 acres farmland and have taken courses in agri etc.

You're describing a pretty reductionist model of plant growth.

Plants don't just need NPK and a few micronutrients. The interface between a healthy plant and its soil involves millions of microorganisms. And a healthy carbon content in the form of humus etc. in the soil is extremely important for water conservation and consistent root growth.

Not to mention getting carbon into the top soil is a great way of getting it out of the atmosphere...
Tech Startups Come Up with Some Creative Definitions for ‘Profitable’
Was this the result of much reverse-engineering, or was there a recent Broadcom release/leak of the needed information? The files in https://github.com/christinaa/rpi-open-firmware/tree/master/... are interesting... I'd suggest making a copy of them for safekeeping. ;-)

I looked a little more in detail, and this might make it easy to enable/unlock the hardware codecs that were initially locked-down.
You got it. Immigration is a decision that will not only affect me but also my better half, my family, and my offspring. It's totally about the environment, the society.
Even if you're in tech... my impression is with Vancouver you get the high cost of living without the high salaries you find in SF.
It's the principle of "first, do no harm". Almost nobody follows it, but there are good reasons it is the first and in many circumstances the only real piece of advice that can be given. Look up 'via negativa' as well and daoist wu wei philosophy if inclined.
It wasn't a leak, Broadcom publicly released all this code a while ago to aid the making of an open source GPU driver. All this has been licensed under 3-Clause BSD license and distributed by Broadcom themselves. There's no point in making a copy since you can just download these files from Broadcom themselves.

This won't help you with codecs, codecs are mostly code in the firmware that uses vector instructions of the VPU to accelerate the video decoding. If you want to use the codecs I would recommend paying for them instead of engaging in piracy.
Few months ago got an LG G4: the "unlocked international" version had a locked bootloader so you couldn't change the software, but the europe and t-mobile versions didn't. So, sometimes it can be the reverse.
I'm not sure everyone said it would never exist--just that it would be hard. There has always been a small but dedicated community around reverse engineering the thing. Though this has come quite a bit sooner than I expected!
Don't overlook the fact that lots of bug-finding tools support plain old C best. Yes yes, it needs them more, but... at least the tools exist!

Get all the tools. There are free tools like "sparse", a tool Linus wrote for his kernel. There are expensive tools like Coverity. Get them all. Use them all.

Build your code with all the warnings enabled. Use multiple compilers, even if they don't compile for your target.
Wow this is awesome! Keeping track of the line I am on is very difficult for me (moreso than for other people). Reading the example text on your website was a breeze.

Keep it up!!
I imagine sugar producers are far more concerned about the current focus on the health effects of heavy sugar consumption. Surely reduction in general demand is going to have a greater impact on prices than a small trend towards non-GMO sugar.
I worked with Dianne fifteen years ago, and she was good. However, hearing from others who were involved in early Android, and then left in disgust, the designers who set out the initial form did boot have extensive application framework/developer experience, and we're still hiring to this day because of it.

Let's say it all together: Implementation inheritance is a mistake, and interface based design is a clearer option.
No, it doesn't work well for C and C++ at all. Turn off InstCombine and see what performance you get in LLVM for an idea of what will happen if the compiler doesn't know about the semantics of + and -.
How would the ndk help, doesn't it run within an activity?
I just tried HTTP/2 on nginx 1.10.0 and got constant "client sent stream with data before settings were acknowledged while processing HTTP/2 connection" errors from many different client addresses. This was on a standard website with regular browser traffic.
I know all the history books say it was PageRank, but that wasn't the only reason. As I remember things, Google gained adopters as much from its interface being super fast, dead simple, and easily shareable.
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The Craft of Making the System Work
My 12 year old ipod has fm radio, I think a smartphone could do it.
The precautionary principle can also be misunderstood and mis-applied. GMOs are already subject to ridiculous amounts of scrutiny for little reason than ill-informed fear. For years, the findings produced by that scrutiny have clearly rejected the idea that GMO is dangerous. But the fear lives on, in large part because people parrot the precautionary principle without recognizing that the principle necessitates a consideration of plausibility as well. Their refusal to recognize their own ignorance on the subject is no different than that of climate change deniers decrying the "scientific cabal looking for grant money."

I'm not criticizing you here, because clearly you're trying to look at both sides of the issue (though I'd argue there's an empirical side, and an imagined one). But that's incredibly rare. People are scared of genetic modification, manufacturers and stores are jumping on the bandwagon so they don't lose customers, and everyone loses out without even realizing it.

Anyhow, sustainable agriculture is--for better or worse--a very politicized term. It means different things to different people. But if the general idea is an approach to agriculture that seeks to minimize ecological impacts, then there's no reason to argue that genetic modification is in opposition to it. They're not. Every goal of sustainability can be furthered through genetic modification. But too many advocates of sustainability refuse to even consider the possible benefits of genetic modification.
Those headers are as I recall all part of Broadcom's release at https://www.broadcom.com/support/videocore.

The rest is a matter of looking at register traces and lot's of hard work on Kristina's part.
I remember her name. Wasn't she the one who vehemently was defending activity lifecycle and other broken multi-threaded API, something every Android developers I talked to would consider totally broken?

To be fair, developing on Android has become so insane releases over releases that her crazy write up about no engineering design hardly comes as a surprise...

Shame on Google for forcing us to use that POS.
What? How does C have "better optimization" than LLVM? As far as I can tell, this seems clearly false: you can't do custom alias sets, for instance, in C, whereas you can in LLVM. None of your examples mention optimization at all (and BF is also totally unrepresentative of anything in the real world).

Also, C may have easier debugging support, but it's significantly worse than having exact control over the contents of your DWARF DIEs. Making it easy to have a bad debugging experience isn't a plus as I see it.
Those days are today: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/05/recruitm...
What's the tech scene in New Zealand like? How are things there going compared to Australia?
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