skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> some supposedly small risk for health or environment from GMOs
That's the part that's delusional.

I don't doubt that most research suggests that GMOs are safe for health and environments but I don't know how one would conclude that there are no residual risks. History has enough examples even if not many. Just asserting that it is safe is a unscientific as seeing it as declaring it the beginning of the apocalypse.

> Cows living in captivity for milk production

That - and most of your other concerns - has nothing to do with genetic modification.

That was only meant as an example why people want to know what they eat, they have diverse concerns.

Why do you believe a label about genetic origins will change farming practices? Monoculture farming, abuse of antibiotics, and other farming problems happen regardless of genetic origin.

I never said something like this, I only argued for labeling GMOs so that people can decide for themselves whether to buy the or not.

> needed GMOs to feed our people

We crossed that line a long time ago.

You left out the first world part. The EU, for example, does produce (almost) no GMOs but imports some. I didn't look up the exact numbers but given that we also throw away about a third of our food I am pretty sure we don't need GMOs.

> they are time tested

Testing is always important, of course, but "old" does not mean "better" (or worse). This is the "appeal to nature" fallacy.

My point was just that we have plants of which we know that they are good to consume so it seems not unreasonable to want to continue to do so instead of taking up risk - however small - with new ones.

Also, about those crops you are calling "time tested". Does that include all the crops from before the field of genetics existed? Before we had the technology to make small, specific changes to the genome, we used to simply force mutations[1] with e.g. cobalt-60[2], x-rays, ethyl methanesulfonae[3]. Even though the results are random an often include multiple significant genetic changes that are completely unknown, many successful varieties created from mutation breeding are not only in the common food supply, they can also be labeled organic and often "non-GMO".

We will probably have to back up a bit, the discussion became quite fragmented and we are losing sight of the original issue. I am not against GMOs, at best I am for being careful. My original point was that there is a nonnegligible number of people not wanting GMOs - for good reasons or not - and we should just label GMOs so that everyone can decide for themself.

In the EU we already do this - although it is in the small print - but in the end I have no stakes in what the US or some other country does. For me it just seems a reasonable thing to do in order to pour oil on troubled waters. It doesn't really harm and everyone can eat what he likes. It won't help for people afraid of environmental issues but I guess more people are concerned about their personal health than about possible environmental impact.
My internet speeds today are an order of magnitude faster than they were even a few years ago. Does that not count as innovation? It certainly required a fairly massive capital investment.
A Recurring Sickness: Pathological Déjà Vu
The privacy case that exposes hypocrisy of Silicon Valley power brokers
Décrisse avant que j'te dévisse !
Ownership of an idea is not really a thing, unless it's patentable. You have zero leverage in this situation.
I think it is mostly because having multiple companies laying physical wires is problematic. It is very capital intensive, and disruptive to infrastructure (digging up lots of ground). In the end, it might not be better for customers; for example, imagine 4 different cable companies spend all the capital to lay 4 sets of cables to every house in a town of 100,000. Since there are 4 choices of cable company to choose from, then you can imagine each company will only get around 25% of the subscribers. The infrastructure costs to cover running cable to 100% of the houses now has to be supported by only 25% of the subscriber base.

In other words, the same number of subscribers now have to pay for 4x the infrastructure costs.
Is the list correct?

It shows MySQL-python as 3.0 ready, but MySQL-python page (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/MySQL-python/1.2.5) notes:

> MySQL-3.23 through 5.5 and Python-2.4 through 2.7 are currently supported. Python-3.0 will be supported in a future release. PyPy is supported.
So effective monopolies are unintended side effects of anti-monopoly laws?
This again indeed, because Python 2.7 is going away. Python 3 is the future, and we've been resting on our "eh, python 2.7 is convenient enough" mindset for too long. We should just bite the bullet and move to 3, which isn't even that bad of a migration.

Also, "supporting legacy code for money" is already everyone's job, unless you're implying that there are as many Python programmers as there are COBOL ones.
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It detected Whonix as well

Not that it wasn't supposed to, just letting anyone know because its a waste of time for someone else to boot up their VMs just to see it, like I did.
The thing that strikes me about this is that likely far more people are being pointed at here than were likely involved in this fraud and cover-up. I'm not saying that the people who have been charged didn't do anything wrong. But for most people who were trying to use Fat Leonard, I suspect they did so because of there being distinctly less bullshit to deal with.

Because this guy was crooked as can be, he probably ignored the bureaucratic crap, or was able to push it to someone who worked for him because the extra income from his fraud could take care of it. And everyone in the operational navy probably loathes bureaucracy, or at least everyone else's. Actually, I'm guessing that hatred holds true for all people everywhere.

People do stupid shit to avoid paperwork. Guys fail to get paid thousands owed to them for moving their own stuff because they just got a new command and don't have time to chase people down to push paperwork to get paid. They sign off on stuff that didn't actually get done rather than trying to get priorities changed because they decided that the mission of the ship is more important than the second SAPR stand-down this year. So if you have this guy who shows up where you're going to be and just does the work that you need done, that's probably pretty appealing to people who do battle with bureaucracy for a living.

Here's a paper on the pervasive ethical numbing in the military (you can find writeups by various news outlets for a quicker summary): http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/PUB12...
To drive developers before me, and to hear the lamentations of their users--that is what is best in life.
Man, the amount of people and support going for Python 2.7 is mind boggling. Coming from another language, I find the slow adoption of Python 3 insane. Don't you want Python as a language to advance?

Python should've abandoned and deprecated 2 ages ago. I still see new tutorials teaching 2. What the hell.
This is an interesting article (about an interesting case) but the title is rubbish. There isn't really a single answer to the question "Is bitcoin money?" It depends on the context. Different laws dealing with money transmission, foreign currency exchange, and the like define things differently.

For the case that is the subject of the article, the relevant question is "Is someone who exchanges bitcoins for US dollars a 'money services business' as defined by chapter 560 of the Florida statutes?"

Read a few definitions from the statute and you'll likely be able to answer the question: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Displ...

Based on my (non-lawyerly) reading, I would say bitcoin is not a currency, and thus a bitcoin dealer is not a foreign currency dealer, but it is almost certainly a "payment instrument" which means selling bitcoins makes you a seller of payment instruments, and a seller of payment instruments is a "money services business".

Interestingly, you get different results depending on what laws you're looking at. For instance I reach the opposite conclusion when reading the Illinois statutes, and think you can probably sell bitcoins there legally. (http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs3.asp?ActID=1201&) Though this guy sold them even though the undercover cops told him they were going to use it to buy stolen credit card numbers. That's just dumb, and I would guess prosecutors can find something to charge you with if you do that in almost any state. (And it's definitely a violation of US Federal anti-money laundering law if you don't file a SAR)
Arnold would be proud. For those not in the know this is a reference from the Conan movie.
All companies were making money, but at some point, because of bad management, operational costs were too high and we started to lose profits so I decided to close early to minimise losses.

For example you build a car wash, first year is doing good, then you start to patch broken things not reinvest in new equipment, clients are not happy, they leave, you don't care, second year operational costs are almost the same as income, so you decide you don't want to own a car wash and you close.
There's a trend, small but growing, of people doing CPU's and algorithms without computers implementing them. Many strive for simplicity to enable learning or reduce subversion. Abacus is a simple, nonelectronic device for computing arithmetic. A similar device might be constructed out of physical components to emulate a primitive CPU or one part at a time.
Yes! How dare they not support a six-year-old version of the language for more than ten years!
Is `python-mode` and `ctags` all that you have for Python specifically or is there more?
I've run it on desktops before, but currently, I run it inside a VMWare Fusion virtual machine
My approach to tmux session management is the following

tm() {
if [ -z $1 ]; then
tmux list-sessions
return
fi
tmux detach -s $1 2> /dev/null
tmux attach-session -t $1 2> /dev/null || tmux new-session -s $1
}

_tm() {
local word completions
word="$1"
sessions=`tmux list-sessions 2> /dev/null`
[ $? -ne 0 ] && return
completions=`echo "$sessions" | cut -d ':' -f1`
reply=( "${(f)completions}" )
}
compctl -K _tm tm

I don't find I need to persist sessions, I just want a quick way to switch between them. This gives me a tm command that autocompletes session names and creates new sessions if they don't exist. It also detaches existing clients since I only ever connect once and this way I don't have to deal with issues of differing terminal sizes.
I was going to say the same comment.
Its great to see Michael Reynolds vindicated after originally losing his Architect license while developing these types of techniques in the 70s.
If everyone would label their non-GMO products that would maybe do, but what stops companies from putting non-GMO labels on GMO products if it is not enforced by some law? It also seems a bit backwards, why would one label all non-GMO products if one want's to know which products contain GMOs? That's a bit like labeling everything without honey as honey-free and not labeling honey and products containing honey. And we were already there - it is not you but a nonnegligible fraction of the population.
A Reddit user explains Net Neutrality in way even old people could understand
Your C code might still work but are you not relying on any libraries which might have been updated in 15 years in a non-backwards compatible way and thus broken your build?
Why the Mongolians stopped short in conquering Europe
One Time Pad Encryption Over Radio
The tool they use to determine py3 support is the following: https://github.com/brettcannon/caniusepython3

They have overridden mysql-python with mysqlclient https://github.com/PyMySQL/mysqlclient-python
In my University a team built one using a Leap Motion in 24h, winning the Hack For Good. Links (in Spanish):

- Project site: http://www.showleap.com/

- Article: http://www.ibertronica.es/blog/actualidad/show-leap/
And vice-versa, it is not like users have some grunt against developers. They just don't want to go through the pain of having to migrate their applications and the instability that this will bring.

(Disclaimer: I am not supporting any side)
My python code from 2000 will be supported until 2020, so I'm not sure which language you refer to when you say it'll "break within a year".
Good point - I have seen that myself.
No, I just leave. In the last 4 years I have tripled my salary.

At a lot of companies there is a a max promotion of like 10-15% - often times companies will only give 3-5% increases, I deal with that once and then move on.

I've gotten 30% increases each time I leave.

My mantra has become, "The only way up is out"

That said, I have a "remote only" policy, I don't entertain relocating (I have two houses in my town) and I have already tried and left both of the local industries in close proximity after getting "stuck".

Reference: http://russell.ballestrini.net/career-development-is-a-game-...
There's something to be said about "small" languages. Whenever Golang does a point release I update all my production code without a fear in the world, not because I have to, but because their may be a performance improvement here or there that I get for "free". I think I skipped 1.5 and 1.5.1 because of a slight regression when they switched to a go-based compiler/runtime but other then that yeah, awesome.

Conversely I'm always behind on Node as it's realllly annoying when a third-party lib breaks from an update. Larger packages will be fine but when you're dealing with say a Meteor package derived from an NPM package it's pretty shitty.
"buy low, sell high"
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It's almost as if the crisis is all these people that think this or that little item, feature, observation, insight, idea, etc. is soooo terribly important.
it's now impossible to use foraging or subsistence farming as a last-ditch survival strategy because all land is claimed by public or private actors (not to mention regulatory and land use obstacles). With the disappearance of that formerly natural right, we are obligated to provide at least minimal support to persons we've locked into the modern system. While there might be other mire common justifications, the loss of the choice to opt out is the ultimate grounding behind the social safety net, in my view.
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If you find this interesting, do a google image search of Man Plastic Surgery Dog.

Warning: Graphic and way worse than it sounds. That is, if it's real.
It's called "moving forward". The technology sector moves fast, and you need to keep up. Nothing is ever going to get better with that sedentary mindset.
...and 200x slower than those in Korea.
The Wifi outlet seems like mega overkill to run a schedule. Couldn't you just use one of these? https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=socket+timer+us&safe=off&b...
The "corridors program" is ramming severs 3-4 story high density housing projects along several of the main arterial roads in the city, mostly on the east side.

Those proposing them and voting to support them do not live in the impacted area and throw up their hands when residents complain -- "we need housing".
Simple: Don't use Python (or any other untyped language) :)
I wonder if this inverse effect happens. Suppose someone from a bargaining culture is forced to deal with someone from a retail culture. Do they feel like they're being ripped off because they weren't given a chance to ask for a lower price?
HP just officially made backpack VR computers a trend
I feel like hes allowed to do what he wants with his influence/money/connections. If I fell victim to defamation by a news outlet and I had the ability to put a stop to it, I would.
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Cable companies don't compete because the market has reached a Nash equilibrium. This is Game Theory 101. If one company lowers their prices or increase their services then as soon as others start seeing attrition they simply lower their prices in response until attrition stops. At the end of the day no one gains any customers and they've all lowered their prices. No one wins.

Similar things happen with turf wars. If I install services in one community then the incumbent can simply lower prices to match mine very easily. At the end of the day I've spent a bunch of money and may not gain any of my competitors customers. Even if my competitor is still paying off infrastructure in that region and may now be running at a lose the companies are so large one community isn't going to make a difference.

Even if you offer faster services the majority of people don't care, they just want to be able to watch Netflix as cheap as possible.
The US has American Sign Language and Signed English, that breakdown is quite common. There are a lot of criticisms of the "signed x" systems: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manually_coded_language
Read and write arbitrary bits using HTTP server-side caching
they ran this piece on the same they ran an editorial denouncing the government of Saudi Arabia for exporting Wahabism. this is not subtle stuff.
Yes, and kind of. You'd probably avoid a Madoff-like kind of scheme, but scammer will always exist and they'll find new ways.
I think it was Bruce Porter in an AI class at UT Austin who described the fifth generation project as "we need to do machine translation and planning and...so therefore we will build a Prolog machine."
Management wants you to wait and give them a chance to solve your problem before you e.g. cancel. This kind of thing tricks you into waiting longer than you otherwise would, it doesn't trick you into going away.
Not entirely accurate though. "In closed-door meetings where we've secretly agreed to not have differing prices" is called price-fixing, which is 100% illegal.
My home broadband speeds are, apparently, 15x the 2013 South Korean average of 13.3 Mbps.
My point is that as soon as the state creates artificial rules - for reasons I do not judge - you need to remain coherent to avoid an explosion of the system.

- Protected free Press / diluted journalist accountability, manipulations and lies

- Gender equality / systemic bias against men in judgements - thus creating a new form of inequality

- Plug your own

To answer your message, I am not necessarily saying that free press or gender equality is bad.

What I am saying is that these systemic incoherences are killing our societies right now because they are at best down played and at worst treated as afterthoughts like what you do here.

It's not because the regulation seems right that we should ignore the side effects. When you decide to take the role of God - not judging if it's right or wrong - you've got to be at the level of the task.

Doctors have enough protections and benefits to be expected to behave in the market following particular ethics and a particular code of conduct. The article outlines many ways they can protect their best interests while remaining compliant and keeping the system consistent.
What a superlative way of completely missing the point.
I know that [kertex](http://www.kergis.com/en/kertex.html) works on plan9, if there are parts missing between kertex and texlive, Thierry (the creator of kertex) could probably give you some pointers on getting those working too.
Great analysis. Cartel behavior as I call it should never be ignored in discussions on these subjects as it's been discovered so many times. Even more so when organizations are both non-competitive and taking taxpayer subsidies.
> Thwaites had finished his toaster three years before. Now he was beginning to worry about the future. He was semi-employed and living with his dad. Would he always be a scruffy man-child? How would he earn enough to start a family? Was the making of toasters—or other wry statements on the absurdity of modern life—a good use of his time on earth? Thwaites asked himself these questions and observed Noggin as commuters streamed past. He thought it must be wonderful to live in Noggin’s eternal present—to smell the grass, the wind, and the water without worrying about the future, the past, the meaning of life, or the inevitability of death. How much simpler to be an animal!

This piece rather idealizes life of nonhuman animals. Animals must learn to live on their own, independent of their parents. Animals are moved to accumulate resources needed for reproduction. Maybe domesticated animals have easier lives, but except for pets, they eventually get eaten. It's just that they're less aware of all that.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11789659

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11790683
It really is shockingly similar and a lot of the arguments against net neutrality try to dismiss it as applying "laws made for railroads" to the Internet.

Back when oil was getting to be useful, lots of people discovered it. Usually, it was in a remote area. The only way to make money off it was to get it to a refinery and then the market. Standard Oil bullied and bribed the railroads into giving them preferential rates and charging high rates for competitors. It's exactly like what cable companies would like to do by subverting net neutrality, give preferential treatment to the traffic that profits them most. It's just information instead of oil, which is even more insidious since it can control the public discourse.
Raising 150M is no small feat. Anything that happens to that money will be interesting. Everything about the DAO is interesting given that it has never happen before. So if you can't find it interesting right now, you won't probably find it interesting later either.
Why does end-of-life mean you have to migrate your application? 2.7 isn't going to just go poof and self-destruct on your computer.
Those normally work in 30min increments minimum, this stays on for 20 seconds, once a week. I already own a "smart outlet" so the cost for me would be less than $10 to build this, I just got into growing herbs and this would be a really awesome setup.
Averages are meaningless except when measuring trends. What you said has no bearing on whether you or they are getting a better deal. You'd instead have to look at what work went into proding what speeds at what rates in whatever geography. That would be more fair comparison.

Note: I can't get unrestricted Gigabit for around $30 almost anywhere in States because companies don't want it to exist.
Ask HN: Learning VR dev without a device
I really wanna learn how to develop for Htc vive. Where would i start? I don't plan on buying the device till i feel I'm competent at developing for it.
http://www.richsoil.com/hugelkultur/ | hugelkultur is real autonomous plant watering - I have built 4 of them on my .35 acre property.
But I am speaking exactly of the scenario where a dao project curator/contractor is perpetrating a financial crime. In that case, most countries would in fact extradite. If that's even necessary. I mention US laws not b/c I'm in favor of US imperialism but b/c I am familiar with these laws. I'm sure that there are other relevant jurisdictions that would frown upon financial crimes regardless of new age window dressing.
Not fully a developer nowadays, but I either self manage or use cloud services.

Lately I have been thinking about hiring a freelancer to optimize some servers, but other than that I control the servers for my business. I should probably pay someone to help me since I use my servers for tracking/redirecting my campaigns, and if a server goes down I am just losing 100% of money.
A pair of glasses were left on the floor and everyone mistook it for art
I have used tmux and vim daily for a few years now and haven't a clue about what's being demonstrated in the linked animation.

They seem to load tmux, then some files in vim, then change panes.
Brazil ‘mass rape’
Well, if you ask me, backward compatibility should only be broken with extreme reluctance, because it's a huge waste of time to be rewriting things that already work. See also Angular 2.