skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Plus, much of organic food theory is total pseudoscientific bunk."

There tends to be more than one angle on organic food

1. It's more nutritious than non-organic cultivation

2. It's more flavourful

3. It's less damaging to the environment

I can't speak for the veracity of reasons 2 or 3 (although, anecdotally, supermarket organic produce seems just as bland and tasteless than the non-organic variety), but reason 1 was challenged some years ago (2008) by an independent study. The study was commissioned by the UK's Food Standards Agency. An overview:

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20120206100416/htt...

The final report: Systematic review of differences in nutrient content of organically and conventionally produced food

http://tna.europarchive.org/20100929190231/http://www.food.g...
>* The only good reason to buy organic is that it is often a proxy for higher quality in general*

I also favour "organic" eggs, because the chicken are treated better, even if that is not detectable in the quality of the eggs themselves.

But I agree that mostly "organic" is just a scam.
It'll always be the case because of size-weight-power constraints. I have a project on right now where we need it to run on a CR2032 style coin cell for year or two.

The OO nature of Python can also get in the way of certain things.
What a convenient license migration! Excellent.
And those ones you need to install? What is the problem? Are you upset because the app store doesn't solve every problem, just a lot of them?
Haha, you described many things perfectly! But what drove me the most towards emacs despite being suitable for FP, huge amount of tweaking and customizability it provides. And it felt much better doing it in Elisp than Vimscript. Everything has it's good and bad sides, that is normal imho. But really nice comment! :)
No, free, unlimited full-res is exclusive to Pixel, otherwise full-res photos count against the online storage quota (I think there's 15GB free, and additional storage available for a monthly fee.)
> We spend a lot of time in San Francisco and Silicon Valley thinking about ways to make people’s lives easier. And through that innovation, we’ve uncovered amazing opportunities – just think about life before Google Maps! But what if we aimed just 1% of that focus of looking out on what we can invent, in on what we can improve? What if we partnered with folks like those at ECS to match their decades of experience on issues like homelessness with our super powers in technology, software development, marketing, design and data sciences. What if we worked together – imagine all the good we could do.

Perhaps this is a failure of my imagination, or perhaps I'm misinterpreting the message, but this sounds to me like the author is inviting us to solve SF homelessness using technology.

Software is a set of tools for gathering and organizing data, but the problem of homelessness is a problem of budget and political will, not data.

If you took 1% of the software developers in SF and had them organize all of the data on homelessness, it would only document the magnitude of the problem. ("Big!")

Fundamentally, there just isn't enough political will today to buy shelter (and mental-health service) for everybody who needs it.

Even if someone could afford to buy enough land to build enough shelter, the residents of the city of SF won't let you build that many homes for the homeless in their backyard.

A data-driven political campaign might do the trick, but it really might not, and regardless that's really quite a different proposal from "why don't we use technology to solve the problem of homelessness?"

Am I wrong? Do we really just need to write a few good apps to solve this problem?!
Europe has twice the US population and less than half the farm subsides per captia. I am not sure about the indirect farm subsides which as I said may a huge difference by for example artificially lowering property tax rates.
> Are they talking about the same thing here?

Yes, they're talking about roughly the same thing. The kernel of the idea is called "equational reasoning", which exploits the key mathematical characteristic of functional programs, that they are referentially transparent [0].

> Also, are there advantages to having such an algebra of programs outside of correctness verification?

Proving correctness is a big one, but you can also use these techniques to derive more sophisticated algorithms from a naive (but correct) first implementation. For an example, see section 4 on the implementation of an efficient minimax algorithm in a short paper by Richard Bird [1]. (You will have to read some of the previous sections to understand the example.)

If that piques your interest, Bird's introductory book on functional programming written with Philip Wadler [2] introduces the technique, which is usually called "program calculation". (Though published in 1988, their book remains a great introduction to functional programming.) If you really want to go off the deep end, Jeremy Gibbons's extensive lectures notes, published as a book chapter [3], are the best source I know. (Beware: here be category theory.)

0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referential_transparency

1. R. Bird (1988), "Algebraic identities for program calculation", http://comjnl.oxfordjournals.org/content/32/2/122.full.pdf [PDF]

2. R. Bird and P. Wadler (1988), Introduction to Functional Programming. It's out of print and hard copies are scarce, but a scan is available at https://usi-pl.github.io/lc/sp-2015/doc/Bird_Wadler.%20Intro... [PDF]

3. J. Gibbons (2002), "Calculating Functional Programs, http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/jeremy.gibbons/publications/acmmpc-ca... [PDF]
Because they don't really have an incentive to. People still keep handing over software to their store.
I think you mean "Client did not pay".

Otherwise speaking. It's neat and simple. So simple that the client could very easily remove it (or have his 15 years old nephew who know his way around computers, remove it for him).
I wish you luck!

It doesnt have to become mainstream to be extremely valuable. If it could become a high quality niche community of geeks and hackers, like HN, it could be very awesome. Maybe it could be to twitter what HN is to reddit?
Yes, averages skew things, but then the wage figures are before taxation, which skews things even more... but as I mentioned, when you take transfers into account, the lowest income people are better off in Denmark, also when buying food.
It's not your product, it's theirs.
> Do you own the app store if you buy an iPhone? Is that what you are saying?

No, I'm saying that if I bought an iPhone, then it would be my right to install software written by anyone I pleased on it. I'm also saying that any software developer who wishes to has a right to write software for that putative iPhone. Apple simply isn't a party to such transactions.
Europe spends 59 bln euros on agro subsidies per year http://farmsubsidy.openspending.org/

The US spends about 20 bln $....
"Organic foods" is an idea. Organic foods in practice may often fail to live up to their ambition though, you're correct.
From another comment:

> Just noticed that Dash offers iOS docs. I wonder if Apple has a rule against charging a fee to provide their own documentation?

That seems like a good hunch.
Havala kavulah!!!!!
It may not be their responsibility (although if it had that information it would be the morally correct choice). However, regardless of the responsibility -- the CEO of the company saying "we're going to make your life better!" by an AI pushing products is almost certainly not going to make your life better.

> Should Google Now start giving me directions to the nearest breakfast place instead?

That may depend on how much Waffle House pays for advertising, and that is the problem.
>"Do you want to install this to the Applications folder?"

This is a sort of question that makes me hate windows. Do you want to browse files or play music? Do you want to uninstall program? Do you want to change that setting? You have unused icons, so I decided to install updates now, you can't stop me. Oh, come on!
Fool that I am, I stared at the page for quite some time wondering when the loading animation was going to end and the page load. Then I saw the scroll bar...
I think it's just sensationalist science journalism like usual. The research is well done, the reporting stinks.

Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/882/
For the lazy - http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttps...
Oh pardon me, I didn't realize we were having a shareholder meeting.
Before stating as fact what Ireland did or did not do it is worth waiting until the results of the appeal process.

It isn't as clear cut since Ireland is stating that they never offered Apple any unique benefits but rather there were available for any company in a similar situation.
I'd actually love to be proven wrong, Couchbase looks awesome on paper but some Couchbase staff even confirmed this with me here https://forums.couchbase.com/t/persistence-durability-guaren...
Or perhaps they released beta docs too early?
Are nonbank lenders still able to do the bank trick of money-creation?
You can find organic pesticides on label look-up services. Personally, the general toxicity, great frequency of application, marginally lower safety, and greater environmental impacts of organic lead me to choose conventional whenever I have a choice (in California you don't always).

http://agrian.com/labelcenter/results.cfm?
I have some similar mappings in mine. Capital J and K go up or down 4 lines, capital H and L move by words instead of characters. It feels like holding down the button to run instead of walk in Super Mario Bros.
Kind of off topic, but are there any low-end/hobbyist Tilera boards? The Linux kernel has support for it. I've always thought you could stress multi-threaded code in interesting ways by running it on tons of cores.
I know this guy. He's awesome.
Calling it a tax is misleading.

It's the price Apple charges to profit from their distribution channel.
Weird: I have JavaScript enabled, but the article is an unreadable grey-on-white.
Dynamic spectrum management, changing channels based on current usage and other factors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_radio
Tierion anchors the root of a Merkle Tree made up of all inbound records every 10 minutes into a Bitcoin transaction. With that root in a Bitcoin transaction, you can use a portable cryptographic proof (Tierion calls them blockchain receipts) to validate the integrity of each record at a later point in time.

The Bitcoin blockchain is a global immutable data ledger that makes for a great place to anchor hashes to.
First time seeing this site... DevDocs is nice!
Dude, you're not guessing: You're talking about your butthurt hypothesis as if it were established fact. E.g.:

> how much did the Google bribe influence it?
All papers should start with a dictionary? No clearly not, so there's always going to be some assumed knowledge - words change their meaning and have different meaning to different people so we're already on to a loser just with the medium we're using.

So, the possibility of things like, say, a researcher not mentioning something that is standard practice in their lab that later is found to be a crucial part of the setup for an experiment seems high. But just like you don't want to provide a dictionary of standard terms with a paper you don't want to provide a list of the chemicals used to mop the floor, or a list of the lumen and colour temperature ratings of lights in the fume cupboards, or ...

IMO if a paper is not reproducible then yes it should be published but also the original team producing the paper should be challenged to reproduce the results. It's not a fight, we're all on the same team - work with them and try to find the reason for the lack of reproducibility.
There are a few other manufacturers, but Sony has pretty much cornered the market. Much in the same way Intel has when it comes to CPUs.

I know Aptina[1] has made sensors used in smartphones in the past. And was also the initial manufacturer for sensors used by Nikon in their 1 series mirrorless cameras.

Toshiba has manufactured some in the past, but sold their image sensor business to Sony[2] last year.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptina
[2] http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/4/9848222/sony-buys-toshiba-...
Except that there are whole swaths of tools and applications that cannot be published at all due to limitations of Sandbox

You're right, just ditch whole damned sandbox thing because a few tools won't work.

Or in an ideal world where we didn't have to decide between one extreme or the other, we could sandbox everything that doesn't have a problem with it, reserving the exceptions for those few tools that don't get along well with a sandbox. (Vetting the hell out of those non-sandbox apps, of course, because we don't want to "<make our computer> limited to the whim of someone on the other side of the world" which in this case wouldn't be Apple.)
That's because there are no proven systemic benefits to organic. It is sometimes a signal for higher quality growers, but almost every organic cropping system could have higher safety and sustainability by adding some conventional inputs.
I don't know why anyone develops apps for Apple's walled prisons.

It's because there's such a large (and arguably, wealthy and influential) incarcerated population.
They could at least say what you just said, right? At least it's an explanation for why they can't say more.
No, the setting is Preferences > Editor > Default copy behavior

When i turn it off (default) and copy/paste into notepad it only pastes plain text with no markdown.

When i turn it on and copy paste into notepad it retains the markdown formatting characters (*'s, ```'s and etc...)

Pasting into MS Word (a rich text editor) always pastes as rich text regardless of the setting
Show HN: Lead capture widget made with ReactJS
Private Blockchain or Database, Whats the Difference?
> If the latter, then not vetting them using the newer and better methodology would be unethical.

On the contrary, it would be unethical to hold people to new standards that didn't exist when the work was done. If you have a beer and then next week the laws change the drinking age to 65 years old, should you go to jail?

This is simply not how things are done, in science or in society. Laws and standards change all the time, you are only subject to the laws or standards that exist when the work or action you do is performed & evaluated. For the purposes of scientific publication, we do not and will never revisit all prior work and formally re-judge whenever standards or policies change.

You may be conflating publication policy with general scientific understanding. Old papers will always be informally evaluated under the thinking of the day. But that doesn't help the old papers, nothing can be done about the old papers, they are part of a fixed record that can't change, it only allows us to publish new papers. What will and does happen now is new papers will be published that refute old papers. The new papers are subject to the new methodologies.
Your questions lead me to believe you would be someone ideal for trying out their beta and providing your feedback.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/11/yahoo-nsa-laws...

"The US government threatened to fine Yahoo $250,000 a day if it refused to hand over user data to the National Security Agency, according to court documents unsealed on Thursday."

"The size of the daily fine was set to double every week that Yahoo refused to comply, the documents show."

Two years ago
Spack: pkg manager supporting multi version, config, platform and compiler
> HW design is not that different from SW design.

Shouldn't be. But it is.
A Year with Pebble Time Round
Haha this reminds me of the feedback I got on a report in Comparative Religion, when I questioned some French dude's really elaborate and fanciful interpretation of the paintings at Lascaux. "Ummm... what supporting texts do we have from 17,000 years ago?" "No, you can't ask that sort of question and it's really disrespectful."

FWIW, I wasn't really upset by that feedback. Senior spring; I don't care!
Hiro Baby – personal assistant for new parents
"I am 100% sure there is nothing this product does that can't be done with Lambda, SES, and AWS API Gateway from a technical standpoint."

That's a strange thing to say. How many products are there that cannot be done with Lambda, SES and AWS API Gateway?
I would hazard a guess that you're right.
It is helpful when the Python doc's search sucks.
Also I keep a copy of all the documentation offline, which is good when I don't always have WiFi
What on earth are you talking about ?

You can choose your own messaging platform (WhatsApp, Line) home appliance integration (Zigbee), media player (Spotify, Tidal), TV (Plex), car integration (Bluetooth). I use all of those apps and technologies daily and none are dictated by Apple.
Perhaps try stack overflow or /r/webdev

I too want to know
You also need to take in account the considerably higher energy cost, water cost and overall negative environmental impact of "organic" crops.
Organic crops are bad, sorry they are awful.
Not just American fast food chains. Everything is more expensive. Yes, I can see how people think it is bad.
>Unless it has a monopoly, or is too-big-to-fail, or for some other reason.

Yes, but that is the exception, not the rule. In contrast, central economic planning is power without market validation, by definition.

>The what now? "Work or starve" is no kind of consent, and it's the most prominent marketplace relation around.

Taking a job because the alternative is to starve is still a consensual interaction. We need to work to survive. We can go out into the wilderness, and live off the land, which would let us survive at subsistence levels, or we can go into civilization and work within an employment contract that gives us a much higher standard of living.

The freedom to choose ensures that generally speaking, people in a market economy are choosing one of the better options available to them, rather than one of the poorer ones. It also ensures that when people DO interact with others, it is because it is generally mutually beneficial. This basic dynamic leads to an emergent property of actions carried out in markets generally being a net-value gain for the economy as a whole.

>Under general equilibrium assumptions that were shown even by the 1950s to rarely apply in real life.

The ideal (general equilibrium) does not ever have to be perfectly realized for the principle to still apply. We don't have to have absolute proof to have reasonable cause to believe that a particular system is working.

>I think you're confusing the autonomy of firms with the profit motive of firms.

Where am I confusing the two? Sorry I'm trying to deduce what you mean but can't see how you're seeing that.

>In order to really compare different styles of economy, you can't just axiomatically assume one is better, nor "work your way back" to axioms which prove analytically your favored approach is better.

What suggests to you that I've done either of these things?

>You need to define a basically empirical performance metric, and show how well different systems optimize that metric, including allowing for measurement uncertainty and computational difficulties.

We have an empirical performance metrics: GDP, HDI, etc. They perform better under market economies. We can't obviously prove it, due to the inability to conduct controlled experiments on economy-sized systems, but common sense, and extrapolation from obvious axioms, leads us to the undeniable conclusion that a market economy is the most efficient means of advancing the public interest.
Yes, and scientists don't care. Science, as it has been explained to me by scientists, is a penis length contest, where impact factor and prestige serve as ersatz penises.
blogspam of:

http://www.massgeneral.org/about/pressrelease.aspx?id=2001
Perhaps this is just another case of Apple/USG assuming the name Dash is associated with terrorism. After all, Dash is similar to Daesh...
You do not have to type the markdown. You can press Ctrl+B and bold text. You can right click and insert a Table and fill it in as WYSIWYG.

You can always type markdown but you don't have to.

Pressing Ctrl + / will toggle the whole doc to pure markdown so you can tweak for a second and then flip back to WYSIWYG.
I loved this book when it came out (at the time I thought it had been translated into German because of the Sebald's exile in the UK) but am not sure how exciting this is for most HN readers.
It's not the same. That will only repeat the change of the number of characters of the length of those 2 words. c2w, when repeated, will change 2 words, no matter how long the words are.

For example:

This is a string of text.
This is a string of text.

If the cursor is at the "i" of "is" on line 2, and you type v2echello<Esc>, you will have:

This is a string of text.
This hello string of text.

If you move the cursor to the "s" of "string" on the first line, and press ".", you will get:

This is a hellong of text.
This hello string of text.

However, if you had used c2w, it would have replaced "string of" with "hello" like so:

This is a hello text.
This hello string of text.

Visual mode is lossy in terms of text objects. It only remembers counts of character movements, that's why it replaced 4 characters with "hello" instead of replacing 2 words with "hello".
The chip is about the same size as the Apple A10, so in terms of silicon area it's in the consumer domain, but price will only come down to consumer levels if shipments get into millions of units. Big companies take a leap of faith and build a product hoping that the market will get there. Small companies get one shot at that. With University volumes and shuttles, we are talking 100x costs. So the $300 GPU PICe type boards become $10K-$30K with NRE and small scale productio folded in.
That's the best reference I've heard in ages, I might have to re-watch the entire series as a result.
Agreed. It's a bugfix, that's it.
Is that a blog or Twitter account?
Right, I'll get on fixing the styles for that.

The error messages are a bit close to programmatic at the moment, 404 means user hasn't been found, 422 (unprocessable entity) means validation error (like if you submit empty status or over the character limit). So it's all intended, just the error messages could be humanized a lot.
Then we should either:

a) Educate users and give them more knowledge and better tools to easily protect themselves

or

b) Have app-stores organized in such a way that user interests and legitimate security concerns are not conflated with commercial interests of the platform owners as it's currently the case. Either treat app stores as a public utility with rights and regulations or require all devices to support competing stores.
Esc is the bad one in my view, but I never press it at all while using vim. This comes down to two factors:

- I use "jk", typed quickly, to exit insert mode. Most vim users I know use either this or "jj".

- I have rebound Caps Lock to Ctrl, and in the few situations where I would otherwise hit Esc, I hit Ctrl-C, which causes much less strain. (This is technically different than Esc, but the difference doesn't usually matter; if it's necessary, Ctrl-[ functions exactly the same as Esc.)
I followed your link, but it does not support your summary. It is arguing about one specific point (the 60% point) with no discussion on where people actually are. For instance, the 1/3 "poor" in the US could earn 1$/year and it would not invalidate the discussion, but it would clearly invalidate your summary (and the title of the blog post).
Will clickbait to paywalls continue to be voted up?

A nonbank seems to be an independent loan counter, likely backed by multiple banks.

So, they create some money at one bank, then sell it to another bank (while doing the work required); essentially.