skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reasons for agricultural antibiotic use are twofold.

On the one had it is as you said, as a preventative measure to head off infection (which is obviously very bad), but it's worse than that - industrial farmers use antibiotics so they don't have to inspect and treat each animal. Just dump antibiotics into their food and if they are injured somewhere along the way it will hopefully heal on its own. Inspecting and treating each animal individually would be a lot more expensive.

The other reason antibiotics are given to livestock is to cause weight gain. If the antibiotics cost less than the value of the extra meat produced, then you make more money.

It's a fucked up practice that we'll be all pay for in a few decades.

Note the wiki page is an ok source, but is in need of some attention from someone outside the industry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotic_use_in_livestock
People complain about the special interests, but some fail to realize that the major backers of Extreme Copyright (TM) are a special interest that we created.

We, the US public, out of the goodness of our hearts and wanting to foster art, gave up our right to "repeat what we heard" (copying, when what you hear is digital) in return for incentives to create art.

And then bam; decades later the incentives are the de facto baseline, and have been extended with almost no public awareness (let alone debate) using the special interest money that our goodwill created for them.

It is the ultimate checkmate of democracy, and if it weren't so unjust, you would have to hand it to the media industries for playing so masterfully.

Well, good job. You got us. You took the rules we made, and took the public (US, but even more abroad, by exporting your draconian laws via more special interest money) and absolutely destroyed us. You won. Game over.

But wait... not quite. The game is politics. And if you had been content to simply swim in your unimaginable Scrooge McDuck pool of gold dubloons, you would swim until the end of time. But the public is finally starting to notice, and the technorati whose careers and employers (like Google) depend on having a level playing field (even though they try to tilt it in their favor when they can) are starting to notice. I'm not so optimistic that change will come, but if it does, my vote will be for whatever is closest to "burn the fucker to the ground". And some other people feel the same way.

What's the possible consequence of such an extreme change? I guess the risk of fewer Taylor Swifts. Fewer Kany Wests. Fewer Oracles. Fewer Microsofts. Fewer Steve Jobs. Those are such small consequences that, to be honest, they might be additional benefits.

It would be best if the copyright system were reduced to a smouldering ruin, so that the public could better understand exactly what we gave up when the copyright regime was created, and make a more informed decision about which incentives really are needed to make innovation happen. Until we do, the special interests created by those very laws will continue to make us pay for the favor we gave them.
Thanks, I corrected the typo.

As to the first round that occurred 4 years ago, the decision was Judge Alsup's. Here is my analysis of that decision at that time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4050490#up_4051761

Of course, in the verdict that just came down, the decision was that of the jury's and, yes, Google's use is fair even if API's are copyrightable - that is what fair use means.
Return can be two things: profit now or future profit.

A traditional business with $166m in revenue has few places to invest extra cash that turn $1 into $4 in < 24 months. Twilio has this.

What would be crazy is not investing in growth.
Agreed, I use NR24L01's for multiple low power arduino sensors that send temperature data every 10 minutes to a central hub: a raspberry Pi connected to the internet. The batteries on the sensors last for up to a year.
I often wondered why Google didn't. Simply owning Java alone and heading off this inevitable nonsense would have been enough reason. This kind of legal stuff is really the only way Sun were going to make money from Java. Heaven knows, Java has continued in spite of Sun, not because of them.

The trouble is, they would have had to keep a lot of legacy crap going like Solaris and SPARC which probably wouldn't have appealed to them. Sun was, and still is, haemorrhaging cash.
So, when I think about this, all the stuff that was unstable and therefore deprecated landed pre 1.0, but I _guess_ that was still RFC'd? Maybe my timeline is a bit off here.

I guess, my ultimate point is this: we have not made very many significant language changes in this first year of Rust. Now, we're starting to. It's new territory. Things can happen that may not have happened before, including these significant new features not actually landing.
No. PNG is lossless, it will do a really bad job at compression. Even those uniform colors won't actually be uniform because they are from image sensors.

JPEG is the appropriate comparison, as the authors are solving the same problem as JPEG tries to solve (i.e. a good enough lossy compression for natural images).
Trusted URL validation too much, my bad!
A deep dive into Internet infrastructure, plus a visit to a subsea cable site
I think it cost her money to not be working while covering the case.
Ah, The Futility Illusion "If I don't do it, somebody else will."

It is a famous and time-honored rationalization that sidesteps doing the right thing because the wrong thing is certain to occur anyway. The logic is faulty and self-serving, of course. Sometimes someone else won't do it. The soldiers asked to fire on their own people when the Iron Curtain governments were crumbling all refused, one after another. Sometimes someone else does it, but the impact of the refusal leads to a good result anyway. When Elliot Richardson was ordered by Richard Nixon to fire Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox, he refused and resigned. Cox ended up being fired anyway, but Richardson's protest helped turn public opinion against the White House. Even if neither of these are the final result, the individual's determination to do right is always desirable in itself. The Futility Illusion is just a sad alternative to courage.
You are presenting a very cynical view of the justice system and judges without any reasoning backing your claim. "Good luck with that" is not really a valid debatable response.

There's a huge backlog of fair-use cases for them to base their decision on. I don't think it would be particularly difficult or nasty in this case, given that the ability to copyright APIs was a presumed fact during the trial. Also, the judges do not all need to agree; majority vote wins. So the moment they feel that further debate is unproductive, it's time to vote and move on.
Pretty much. You get tax breaks for it though.
Do you really expect anyone to sensibly respond to your passive-aggressive tone?
I wonder, what would be your answer is someone came up to you and said "We need a computer that we can maintain and keep in service for 50 years or more. What should we do?".
Sexual mechanics
I think pretty much anything, that doesn't involve full-time coding job, works. Be it freelancing, your own company or even a part-time job.
As I understand it, she was taking unpaid leave from her day-job at Vice Motherboard (despite then producing full-length articles for Motherboard on the topic).
Is this Greek hilltop the 2,400-year-old burial place of Aristotle?
I suspect that connecting 10s of millions of people to each other to share ephemeral photos in real time actually does pose some interesting engineering problems.
Nope. Not sure where you're getting that from.
Wow I didn't know about WeMos D1's, thanks for the tip, I'm buying a batch now
I'm having trouble understanding your comment.

Neither the homepage, Getting Started, the tutorial, nor the downloads page mentions CommonJS. If you do choose to use browserify or webpack, you'll want Node and npm, but Node's homepage doesn't suggest using Homebrew so I'm not sure why that would be necessary. (Besides, in my experience, most programmers using a Mac have Homebrew already.)

> When you actually get into the tutorial, it starts with "Running a server". Running a server?

We included this as a sample because most people write clients against an app server so we thought it instructive to show how to fetch and post data via AJAX. Nothing about it is inherent to React and people make React apps without any server component all the time. It sounds like this was misleading to you, which is good feedback for us. I was thinking about revamping the tutorial soon anyway and my new example wasn't going to have any server component.
I still don't quite understand what he means by a "fiber". Is this basically 160 blocks of memory allocated on the heap?
Can you rewind today?
Isn't Amazon only profitable because of AWS? If you cut that out or put AWS into a separate company, Amazon still wouldn't be profitable as a company if I remember correctly.
Male and female are not "stereotypes". Biological sex is the most binary thing since zero and one.
Ask HN: 2FA hardware?
Right now I'm using Google Authenticator and I manage the services manually on my smartphone.

I use 2FA for my e-mail accounts, VPS, games and more. But it feels really silly to have it on my phone. Specially since I use 2FA for my phone e-mail account.

Is there any specialized hardware that I could use to replace this setup? Something that is compatible with any service and doesn't require a phone or a computer? Like a standalone solution.
You can now browse entire subreddits.
> The GPL does not depend on copyrightable APIs

True in terms of the GPL as such, but the FSFs interpretation that the GPL applies to works that link, even dynamically, to a GPL covered work, which it holds to be derivative works, depends absolutely on the API presented by a library being a copyright-protected element (it also probably can't stand even then without an extremely narrow interpretation of "fair use".)
I didn't say "other peoples' work is shit and meaningless".

I did say I would have a hard time motivating myself to work on something so trivial. It is why I turned down the job.

Scale is a solved problem, their whole infrastructure is based on Google. They brag about having 0 ops employees.

What are they actually building in house? A UI, some photo filters, and a mobile photo app.

Not worth $20b and not worth a couple years of my professional life.
I love the alerts. I setup an alert for when I have been distracted for more than 30 minutes.

Could you disable those distracting sites after 30 minutes? I'm only half-way kidding..

Still a fantastic app.
Patients pile lawsuits on Theranos as Walgreen’s laments not vetting tests
http://www.sparkel.org/
Oracle, Inc., and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, clearly.
Totally fine, but what had the bigger impact? What was the problem actually worth solving?
Your fear is not invalid. That said, one can make the argument that speed of innovation trumps everything, and partnering with the best innovator is the most important thing when innovating yourself. This is akin to not wanting to ever date for fear of eventual breakup...

Some folks discuss this more elegantly - http://www.cloudtp.com/2016/01/21/dont-let-vendor-lock-in-fe...

You make a good point on No-Ops vs Ops. I think it's a gradient. I also think that Snapchat is on the far far left (on No-Ops edge) against virtually any other large-scale technology company in the world, Google included (singe Google is Snapchat's Ops largely), largely because of the nature of Google AppEngine.
Designer/Product Person here.

Product: As others here have said, you are a two sided marketplace, but you have a really strong value prop to indie artists. I'd make the homepage about building crowdfunding campaigns for indie bands rather than the consumer side of your marketplace. You really need to fill up your supply, and that will increase the demand side. This happens because your artists likely already have a following who would want your product.

UX: Your primary CTAs (call to actions) compete slightly with your secondary CTAs. I'd consider using color for your primary and something greyscale for your secondary actions. Also, try to have only one primary CTA on the page.

I'd ditch the categories for now as well, you don't have the stock to divide it up like that. the result will be that your catalogue will feel empty.

Visual Design: overall a decent direction. I'd try really hard to keep everything gridded up though. At 1280px wide, you don't have things aligned down the left and the right, this makes the user's eye jump around the screen instead of moving smoothly down the page. Try using a grid system and sticking to it.

Logo: It feels a little off balance, if you found a way to make the dot of the I the hole of the record I think the logo would lay out nicely and better reflect your company.

Overall I think this is an awesome start!
The thing about antibiotics is that you should run the full course. It reduces the chance of resistant strains developing. So this person's problem was saving the rest of the bottle instead of continuing to give it.
Network Interception Device Manufacturer Given a Certificate Authority
YC startup Coinbase has been hacked? Unable to withdraw $25,000
I believe that coinbase has experienced a hack on a large scale, as there have been multiple people having issues with withdraws recently on coinbase. Several other people on the coinbase support forum have recently stated that coinbase has also stolen their funds.

So I wanted to warn the reddit community from using Coinbase.

Here is what happened:

Coinbase shut down my account, and then there was a message displayed saying that I need to transfer the 60 Bitcoins (about $25,000 ) to another address. I attempted to do that at least 10 times, but it simply says "please wait..." for over 2 hours.

Next, I sent 3 different support tickets asking for help on this topic, but it has been 4 days already with no response at all.

I have about 60 BTC on this account, worth around $25,000 at this time.

In conclusion, Coinbase is not to be trusted and has most likely experienced a major hack.

Attached is proof on my coinbase account: http://imgur.com/AK8lCgF

UPDATE 05/26 6:30PM EST: someone else just posted about this. (I swear it's not me )

The person said that they were unable to withdraw their money.

I'm pretty sure coinbase has been hacked. DO NOT USE COINBASE.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4l7tde/coinbase_down/
I can't find the video, but apparently at some canneries there used to be a person who would very rapidly hit the tops of cans with a metal rod and listen to the noise that it made. "Bad" cans sounded different and would be removed from the line. After years of practice these workers were inhumanly fast at the job.
Didn't you hear though - there's no racism, sexism or homophobia in south amercia.
do you lose all your data if the disk suffers from any kind of data corruption?

or can you somehow still mount, unlock and retrieve the files that weren't affected?
Would swizzling methods violate copyright?
Your wife performs (or, can perform) arbitrary experiments on classic microprocessors to see if popular data analysis methods from neuroscience can elucidate the way they process information?
Personally, I am definitely not interested in defending most of Gawker's behavior here. I think Denton is a heel, a reprobate, and frequently a fool.

What I do care about is that people recognize that using money to silence reporting, however lowbrow and however nettlesome, is a step on the road to oligarchy. The 1st Amendment is a cornerstone of our democracy. Thiel here isn't trying to litigate an issue of concern to him. His only goal is to destroy a publisher, regardless of the merits of plaintiffs' complaints.

Now there are plenty here who are fine with a little oligarchy, and some who would like quite a lot. If they want to openly argue for that, great. And plenty of people, me included, have contempt for Denton, and who will enjoy his eventual comeuppance. But as much as I'd like to see that, I don't want to see it come with a major chilling effect on our already-mostly-toothless tech press.
Similar talk:
CppCon 2014: Jeff Preshing "How Ubisoft Develops Games for Multicore - Before and After C++11"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1T3IQ4N-3g

Ubisoft's talk spends more time getting into the weeds with atomic ops. Naughty Dog's is more of an architecture discussion. If you can only watch one, I'll recommend Naughty Dog's.
I agree, snapchat is the lowest common denominator of narcissistic communication.
At least according to the man himself, he's not (at least not directly).

> As you can see, this blog's Oracle v. Google anti-unfair trial campaign--not affiliated with any party in any way whatsoever--is continuing.
Fiber[1] is another term for coroutines. They are essentially an implementation of cooperative multithreading.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_%28computer_science%29
> Biological sex is the most binary thing since zero and one.

It is really not, though for most of human history a reasonably informed person could justifiably believe that; but even that hasn't been true for decades, at least.
Tesla Model S driver crashes into a van while on Autopilot [video]
Basically they are fine grained tasks that get executed by a pool of threads.
Oh hell. This can't be good.
As a Hispanic, I would never work at Github because I find this quest for "diversity" to be extremely patronizing and objectifying. As a male, I'd never work at Github because their policies are sexist.
She's strengthening her personal brand and potentially gaining access to new clients for future work. I have absolutely no problem with her asking for donations, but let's not be disingenuous :)
I'm not sure what private sector you're talking about, but the healthcare industry keeps systems updated only due to regulatory requirements, and even then there are a fair number of practices that stick with old systems and just have their upstream providers (e.g. billing services) massage the data on the way to its destination.
> The Bono law may have slipped through Congress with nary a dissent in its day but this will not happen again, whatever the lobbying power of Disney and others.

Copyright maximalists realizing this have moved to circumvent democracy globally by enshrining their most draconian laws into "free trade" treaties. These treaties have the proven ability to overturn the will of national democratic bodies and are almost impossible to remove once imposed.
I don't think you do.
And there's almost nothing crystal clear in US fair use law. I agree it seems inconceivable to argue that 'no reasonable jury' could have done just about _anything_ regarding a fair use determination. There are so few clear lines in the established law.

But the federal circuit could surprise us yet.
> No one has a stake is seeing that Oracle be awarded $9 billion in damages just because it bought Sun Microsystems and found an opportunity through its lawyers to make a big money grab against Google

My paraphrase: ~[No one outside of Oracle is overly sympathetic to their money grab against Google. Everyone sees their claims as overly-litigious--based on the simple fact of having purchased Sun Microsystems rather than a legitimate defense of their own creative and value-creating effort.]
Is this technique related to compressed sensing?
> price is going to go up "soon".

Ugh, smells like marketing tactics. Whenever I see leading yet vague language, I become a lot more likely to close the tab.
This isn't showing to be true despite proliferation over the last twenty years. Most kids don't want anything to do with programming because to most kids, it's a lot like doing math all day. Even as programmers become more enabled to solve more problems, the pace of problems being created is far outstripping the human race's ability to create (or inspire, whatever) programmers to solve those problems. I am willing to put a paycheck on a bet that no sane, knowledgeable person will ever be able to say that "we have enough programmers in the world".
Do you know where to find the definition of rational that applies in these cases?
Hey Peter. What's the point of stories? Seems like a more limited version of Twitter - you can post photos and videos on twitter too... and there you have 21k followers. Surely a better place to post stuff if you want to reach an audience?
Given the widespread use of pro-black affirmative-action (practiced by GitHub, Apple, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft; nearly every major university; many government contractors; and probably the majority of F500 companies), isn't it only logical to view black resumes with more suspicion? Objectively, blacks need to display lower competency in relevant skills to achieve identical resumes as whites.

On a side note, affirmative action policies ultimately help middle-class blacks at the expense of lower-class whites. The upper-class whites who push for affirmative action are not affected by it, and neither are their children.

Helping middle-class blacks at the expense of lower-class whites is a prime example of virtue signaling gone awry.
How many republicans work at GitHub? How many evangelical christians? How do these numbers compare to the distribution in the larger population of the country?
That's another argument I've never understood.

I've been working on applications with javascript for over 10 years.

Not once can I remember a javascript bug where someone passed a value as the wrong argument and it made it into production.

Maybe it has happened, but it's just not a common bug. I just don't remember it.

Like, you can easily write it as a mistake as you're developing but it's obvious as soon as you run it. But if that bug gets in production your dev didn't even bother to run the code to see if it worked as intended.
Because for those who didn't know better Müller appeared well-informed and it was convenient to cite him if he was on your side or you were writing a mainstream article and too lazy to find another source, especially after Groklaw shut down.

At least the Oracle vs. Google case revealed that he was actually a paid consultant for Oracle and Microsoft. It might be bad form to attack his character rather than his arguments, but it does save time when dealing with Müller.
> Inasmuch as there are problems here, they're with the legal system in general, not this suit specifically.

To me that's like saying, "Inasmuch as there are problems with this massive data breach, they're with computer security in general, not the thief in specific."

Sure, there's a broader problem. But that doesn't mean that people willing to take advantage of a problem aren't also a problem. When many factors contribute to a bad outcome, it's worth looking at every factor when trying to fix the problem.
> 15. Scrum ignores the fact that any task that has been done before in software does not need to be redone because it can be easily copied and reused. So, by definition, new software tasks are truly new territory and therefore very hard to estimate.

Wait, you want me to create a webpage that didn't exist before. Sir, we are truly in new territory here; there's no way I could ever give you a reasonable estimation. It could be a day, could be a year! It's very hard to estimate such a monumental task.

If you'd like, Github has a wonderful selection of pre-built webpages that we could just copy and paste onto our site. Like this page for catpics2ascii.js. I realize that it doesn't do what YOU think it should do, but I'm an ENGINEER and you should trust me, I know what's best. WHY DO YOU TRY TO STIFLE MY CREATIVITY?

Seriously though, I think we've all worked with this kind of developer before. The know-it-all that can't get anything done and constantly bitches about all the obstacles holding him back. In my experience, PO's listen to developers much more than any one else. You just have to earn their trust by showing them you can do good work.
What, you want them to go kidnap black people and force them to apply?