skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a propaganda article on a food-hipsterism advocacy website. Do the research for yourself. Very quickly though, their points about organic food being more efficient, tastier, healthier, non-GMO, and pesticide-free are either wrong, conflating correlation with causation (as overpriced luxury food is more likely to be organic), or misleading (as GMO and many pesticides are totally safe).
Which is exactly what will happen as the code is written.
For comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12646320
Cheeseburger at McDonalds is about $1.29ish in the US.
> There are also essentially no total languages today.

As you obviously meant, no total general-purpose languages. I'm sure that HTML is total, for example. You also later qualified that "no total languages" meant "no widespread, simple, total languages", which I think is a very different statement!
As I said in another comment, this thread was about how average people could influence politicians. Government-sponsored assassinations are a different discussion.
Bingo. The movie Her was awesome. But rewatch it. In every scene the AI does something cool, think what permissions it would need and what data it would have to have access to about you to accomplish the task. It gets scary pretty quickly.
Remarkably it is another two-sided argument. Trump is running on "strength" of the kind that tortures and kills people (and their families) if we label them terrorists. Total access to all communications is also a "strong" move toward a new "law & order" government. There are tens of millions of Americans who want the government to have this power. They actually, really want it. They admire Kim Jong Un and Putin's "strength".

This is, of course, an utter failure of American democracy, based on the catastrophic failure of countless American minds left rudderless by institutions (religion and education, arguably justice and science), and unbalanced by effective terrorists and their ultimate weapon, a charismatic fear-mongering demagogue.

Yes, I hope the media fights like hell and whips out their precious humanities degrees to help educate the rudderless about the values they have forgotten.
I could nitpick your statement to death, starting with the fact that the implicit definition of "environment" in your statement makes it tautologically true that no other animals share the environment of the lobster.

But, really, that's not the reason you're wrong. There are two major reasons that you're wrong:

1. The idea that lobsters experience no senescence is, at best, unproven.

2. Even if we assume that lobsters experience no senescence or vastly less than humans, there is no particular reason to believe that the source of their longevity does not depend on things that are vastly incompatible with humans. If "the only difference" between humans and lobsters is genetics (it's sort of not, see below) it can still be the case that the only way to get the longevity of lobsters into humans is to turn humans more-or-less entirely into lobsters.

Bonus third thing: Understand that genetics and environment aren't two ingredients that you pour together at the last minute and out comes an organism: they're a many layered system of feedback loops. A portion of an environment triggers a genetic expression which then alters the environment which then alters more genetic expression and so forth. You can reductively call that "genetics + environment," but when you actually try to turn "genetics + environment" into a result, you have to deal with the extreme complexity here.
We havent seen a whole lot of real world demand yet, but something that could likely end as a trigger or activity in Flogo.
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Sounds like the options are the same. Note that it isn’t some kind of Vim standard that j shouldn’t be used repeatedly, just this author’s opinion. I do it all the time.
The article is quite misleading with its claims of organic being better than conventional agriculture

1) The UNCTAD report that is cited actually has the following text:

"The views expressed in the articles contained in this Review are the personal views of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of their respective organisations and institutions."

Many of the authors have ties with the organic industry (see https://thoughtscapism.com/2015/09/21/myth-un-calls-for-smal...)

2) Organic food has less pesticides exposure.

Not necessarily as organic agriculture also uses pesticides (naturally occuring ones). Though they tend to degrade quicker than synthetic ones, they are not as effective and need to be applied more often. Also the use of copper sulfate is allowed, which doesn't biodegrade and builds up in the soil.

The following is also completely rubbish

"Yes, pesticide residues are regulated by the U.S. Food Quality Protection Act, but the tolerance levels assigned for some pesticides pose potential health risks, even though they are considered “allowable.”"

3) Organic foods are more nutritious and taste better.

Nope. The article just cherry picks a few studies. Following meta study comes to conclusion that organic food is not more nutritious

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22944875

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11833635

4) Organic foods help achieve biodiversity and soil fertility

Maybe on the area farmed, but it tends to not be as efficient as conventional farming, so increase acreage is needed which reduces biodiversity.

Regarding soil fertility, GMOs have actually helped thanks to no till agriculture.

5)Organic foods have no GMOs.

GMOs actually can help reduce pesticide use (but its not a silver bullet)

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
OK, thanks. I was focusing on the "definition" part, rather than the "usage" part of the types.

It never occurred to me to put variables names inside parens in a declaration when I did C, though. But OF COURSE it's legal obfuscation.

As stated elsewhere, I don't know why C had to screw up Algol's syntax so badly. I guess K&R liked curly braces much more than BEGIN/END, and why stop there, once you get going. Maybe somebody had a love affair with APL???
>Organic food is pseudoscience.

Organic food is a misnomer.

Or rather, it's a label that comes with extra guarantees besides non-GMO, that not all make sense, and is there to make a quick buck on the upper middle class and the hippy types.

What's actually neither GMO nor Organic is plain food stuff, you know, the plain food that the planet produces, maybe with a few pesticides or some treatment that's a-ok, but doesn't qualify as Organic.

Of this (and of its Organic sibling) some of it is evolutionary created and consumed by humans for 10s of thousands of years, and other is cross-bread in a slow and limited process (e.g. not being able to do stuff like take fruit-fly genes to put into bananas) by farmers -- and still tested and consumed over centuries.

GMOs, on the other hand, are not "science" in the same way that while Donald Knuth or Djikstra is Computer Science, J2EE or the latest foobar.js some company pushes are not.

They are of course backed by science, but what they really are is applied technology as driven by business interests.

And often the same business interests that could (and some would) put poison in kid's milk, if it made for a cheaper product and higher margin.

I'd rather have food stuff that passed evolutionary tests, than the latest gene-mix from the inventors and pushers of HFCS and several other crappy quality food chemistry substances that increase their margins...

Then there's the whole seed-control with IP rights and forcing farmers to rebuy them (and not save them) year over year can of worms...
I have heard the future and it sounds very much like AirPods
Without getting too into it, they thought some data visible in the App was in violation of US drug law (Schedule 1)

Yet other, semi-related consumer apps have this data.

In fact other apps in the store assist with the purchase/sale of these regulated items. A clear violation of Apple policy.

I'm not so mad about being blocked. I'm really mad about the inconsistent/random application of said policy.
I don't mind Zuckerberg going to Nigeria. I don't even mind the fluffiness of the article. But the whole narrative of Silicon Valley saving the world by showing up, is getting old. Zuckerberg isn't going to go home again and be like "You know what? We need to deploy ipv6, bring computer science curriculum's closer to the real world, have a fundamental programming language that lives up to the requirements of today, fix software patents and get robust standards in place instead if reinventing everything all the time, so these guys can catch up to us and build their own future".
I think we're further away from that singularity than you think.

It would take decades of testing before human trials could begin on any type of treatment. Initially it'd probably only be trailed on the elderly and it'd probably have a high rate of cancer as a side-effect (cause making cells that don't know how to die might be a bad thing)
That's a big mac, not a cheeseburger.
That article could not keep straight whether it was talking about average lifespans or maximum expected lifespans, or maybe average maximum expected lifespans?

The only claim it managed to get across to me was that we can expect the end of the lifespan bell curve to get steeper and steeper as average lifespans continue to increase from better longevity, while maximum lifespans (and the number of people who reach them) increase at a much slower rate.
ESPN (owned by Disney) subs are sliding. Have been for a while. I imagine that, given how the clusters of traffic on Twitter can be pretty dense around sports that there could be some integration there. Second, Disney has a pretty massive property book right now (there's, I think, either a Star Wars or MCU movie coming out every year until sometime into the 2020s) so maybe they could view Twitter as a sort of natural channel to deliver that content?

Best I could do.
This is highly incorrect. The french experiment "ferme du bec" did some really important studies in that field going well beyond simply "organic". Using the latest bio tech of permaculture, (combining different plants completing each other instead of monoculture); they showed higher per square meter production rate, and sustainable income for farmers, without subsidies. They don't even use a truck, as the tools are not there yet for their approach. The experiment has been since reproduced, expanded, repeated with success in other European countries and under different climate. http://www.fermedubec.com/inra/ENGLISH%20-%20Ferme%20biologi...
I looked through your website and saw that the only listed intern position is for a marketing intern.

Do you offer an engineering internship?
You still have not provided any evidence for you first claim that the government has total access to those companies. And your last link also doesn't say what you think it says.
Based on my experience with feminist though in academia, objectivity as a mask for bias is the issue. The preferred method to address is to surface as much of the implicit bias a possible so the whole can be considered. I don't find this problematic.
None of the reasons listed in the article are backed with published science.
Police unions.
Ask HN: How often do you check your spam folder?
Years ago, I regularly checked my gmail spam folder and often found things were mis-categorized. Now I check it maybe once a month, and perhaps once a year I find something in there that didn't belong. What's your approach to the spam folder?
Point #3 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/science-sushi/httpblogss...

“The unfortunate truth is that until organic farming can rival the production output of conventional farming, its ecological cost due to the need for space is devastating. As bad as any of the pesticides and fertilizers polluting the world's waterways from conventional agriculture are, it's a far better ecological situation than destroying those key habitats altogether.”
Encryption app Signal wins fight against FBI subpoena and gag order
TLDR: maybe
Then it will be easy to provide a link.
Yes, they still have a pretty high PPI though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)...

In Sweden we usually talk about marginal tax rates and how Denmark usually has got us beat on that front but it seems it's mostly their high VAT that makes that possible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_rates
No, they still could. The message could say: “We have received X complaints of fraud for your app, "Totally Not a Scam Lite", and it will be removed in 2 days unless you contact us immediately at <number>. In addition, if this is found to be true, any sales of your app will be refunded and not credited to your developer account.”.
"Organic" food doesn't mean a whole lot, and it's produced at such large scales that the ecological benefits attributed to "organic" food aren't there. Now, on the other hand, you can apply those to small scale, locally produced, sourced, and distributed food. Buying locally grown food is a benefit to your community yourself, and often your environment, whereas organic is just a marketing word.
More than this. They work with and infiltrate companies in order to insert vulnerabilities and backdoors in otherwise correctly designed products so that they can be exported and exploited overseas.
To confirm, http://www.fastfoodmenuprices.com/mcdonalds-prices/ lists $1, then add tax.
Yep. That was, best I can tell, the original "app store".

Also, still the best implementation.
I visited Denmark from San Francisco in 2014. The food there was atrociously expensive. ATROCIOUS.

Denmark does many things better than the US ... such as bicycle lanes. But food isn't one of those things.

Plus, much of organic food theory is total pseudoscientific bunk.

Check out this survey of research on organic food in the Gimlet Media podcast:
https://gimletmedia.com/episode/5-organic-food/
Where my cynics at?

Are we really so naive that we're just parroting whatever Musk's PR team says? Musk isn't doing this to further the human race, he's doing it to make money.
> [Founders in Lagos] struggle everyday against obstacles that are unimaginable to their brethren in San Francisco. .... For startups, there are particular challenges. Every hour or so, the power goes out. Most people do not have bank accounts or credit cards, so it’s hard to collect money from customers. Funding is elusive. The nearest Philz Coffee is 5,418 miles away.

Sometimes it's easy to forget how first world our own problems are.
Related to this, Idris has a totality checker. It does not require totality, however.

http://docs.idris-lang.org/en/latest/tutorial/theorems.html#...
Damn it, the email tests for javascript!
> buy advice/services from an expert with similarly aligned interests.

For most people, that's probably the walled gardens that people not on HN don't complain about.
OK. Thanks for the reply. So that might be a continually updated value, as opposed to an originally scheduled date? As a seller we have an interest in knowing when a package is delivered later than originally expected. I'm doing some programatic, carrier-specific things to monitor this internally, but would be interested in finding a way to this through something like Shippo's API. Basically, show me delivered and undelivered shipments that are beyond the originally scheduled/promised delivery date. Possible?
It does, just look under paragraph.
>as GMO and many pesticides are totally safe

Pesticides, yummy.

It doesn't inspire much confidence on the other hand that the pushers of GMOs are huge conglomerates that control seeds (similarly to IP rights and DRM), would sell any BS for a quick buck, and are not that dissimilar to the tobacco industry that testified that "smoking is not harmful" and sponsored tons of studies in the 70s and 80s (with real scientists, universities et al) to prove that point.
Yes, there's also the subset of SQL that is total - or, at least, not-Turing-complete.

Edit: As far as HTML goes, I was attempting to describe "programming languages" - or perhaps algorithmic languages - which I don't consider HTML falling under.
Dash advertises offline use. And that it packages docs.
> Aging has not been a priority yet, because the vast majority of people die of something else (infections, heart attacks, cancer, etc) before they die of the problems specific to extreme old age.

Eh, depends what we mean by "age". My grandma's doctors were quite frightened when she slipped over in the shower -- she broke her leg! And that was just in her 80s! Seems like a degrading resilience and healing ability against injury over time should qualify as a substantial "background problem" negatively impacting health among most adults.
How does one find the magical line with food whereby doing millennia of untargeted poorly-understood genetic engineering is what nature intended? Does it only become artificial when we get good at it?

I think I have too much of a scientific bent to understand the religious reasoning involved.
"I don't trust Apple to have my best interests at heart."

Then don't buy their device.
Do I like that the journalist is using the author's success as justification for trying to cross into the personal life of a person performing a professional task? Not really.

Do I think using a real name or pen name or any kind of pseudonym is a fool-proof, legally protected avenue to avoid being the responsible person for one's art? Not really.

>Ferrante’s steadfast artistic choice to be anonymous can only be that: an artistic choice, made at the beginning of her writing career for private reasons that she deemed essential. The cost of anonymity is high; she told her publisher that she would do nothing to promote her books, and, indeed, they could well have sunk to the bottom of the literary river without a trace. That they succeeded, and reached the kind of audience they have, has happened, if anything, in spite of Ferrante’s anonymity, not because of it.

Mostly I feel that because the novels were presented as fiction then researching the "fictitious" author using a pen name is against the spirit of art. Sharing art is very risky, emotionally speaking, and I feel the tradition of using pen names is worthwhile. It's not quite like journalism where there are mechanisms to protect sources who would be personally / professionally endangered by speaking out, but I think they're closer then we may believe.

The article brings in quite a bit of gender-related discussion that could be appropriate, but kind of rubs me the wrong way. It somewhat - and not too forcefully - asserts that women have not had access to writing and publishing historically. As a studied male, I can surely assert that writing has traditionally been seen as a feminine and not masculine enterprise, much like teaching or nursing are seen in modern times. Women flat out effing dominate literature historically, so I don't really like inferences to the contrary. Well, maybe I'm exaggerating here but women in literature are plentiful and highly respected.
And notice those weird hashed links? IPFS hashes.

As a quick primer, it's a hash that points towards a directory of content. Everything's deduplicated. Based on Torrents, GIT, and self-referential filesystems.

an IPFS hash is immutable. The hash points at the hash, no matter what. Indestructible. Publish stuff by

ipfs add -r folder

An IPNS hash points towards an IPFS hash. It's a pointer you publish every 12 hours. It IS mutable. Do this by

ipfs name publish <ipfs key of resource>

The browser plugins with IPFS running allow you to pull the DNS text record of the IPNS hash, and you never touch the website!

Example, PageNodes :

http://ipfs.io/ipns/QmVjH4F65fnqy1GkBBYiuAkdazKzYsw3LbMVANGF... POINTS AT ---> http://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmbLPfyehFnViKZpU237P6a6DpjCfWFSoDBMQFGU...

Tl;Dr. DDoS makes no sense regarding IPFS. Everybody makes the network faster.
Dudayev was using a satellite phone, detected by reconnaissance aircraft. But it could happen will cell tower location, too.
As a share of eligible voters, Rep turnout does appear to be a record.

14.8%(2016) vs 11.8%(1980)

http://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/20...
Enjoyable and interesting article. Didn't know about the problems 3DR is having. They posted some interesting engineering jobs in 2015. Too bad they couldn't make it work. Their drones were desirable mostly because it was based on open-source. They had a software advantage over DJI but probably not enough to make it an easy purchase - especially after DJI cut prices.

Drones will still take on more roles than most of us can imagine. There is still mountains of work for drone developers. Good luck to 3DR!
Confusing, but makes me glad I bought Dash outside of the app store.
If I understood correctly, you are connecting directly with each utility company's API and exposing your own API.

Are their APIs used for bill payments? is yours?
Keeping Linux Containers Secure
there's a proposal to turn Twitter into a co-operative: https://boingboing.net/2016/10/04/proposal-turn-twitter-into...
>Or it could just mean that the person they talked to couldn't see any other information beyond what had already been communicated to the developer

Which is, in and of itself, a problem.

It's understandable that the information might not be immediately on hand, but then the correct response would be to direct the caller to someone who can help. Otherwise, yes, it does come off as a big "fuck you".
“We don’t know yet what the impact will be of new pharmaceuticals, new technologies,” said David Sinclair, an aging researcher at Harvard Medical School. “The past doesn’t predict the future when it comes to technology.”
https://www.statnews.com/2016/10/05/human-lifespan-limits/
"The only real question in my mind is whether we are the first generation to live forever, or the last generation to die?"

That is an incredibly optimistic view of where our understanding and technology are.
I read Hacker News.
You are saying that we don't do food better because it's more expensive? But it's expensive to you. The local purchasing power in Denmark is higher than it in the US. To Danish people (such as myself), it doesn't feel expensive. Although, it doesn't feel cheap either. We are quite aware that we have the third highest cost of living.

But seriously, food being expensive is not the same as not doing food right. The few times I've been in the US, I've always been disappointed about the food available in supermarkets. It's hard to find stuff such as good milk or butter.
And that is how I quickly explain ORM-D (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORM-D) class items like small arms ammunition, which of course is allowed to be packed in small quantities in individuals' checked luggage: things that aren't particularly dangerous by themselves, but if in a plane's cargo hold in sufficient quantity, could accelerate a fire beyond the capabilities of those fire suppression systems.

Whereas few overly worry about shipping 1000+/- rounds by ground, except e.g. the movers that just moved me to my new home, they really can't afford to play the game of numbers with the few trucks they have (no batteries, or liquids (which could make a schedule breaking mess), either).

Big enough high energy batteries on planes, or too close to my skin ... those give me the heebie jeebies....
That's still considered a viewer unless it the iOS docs were included in the application when you installed it.
Head over to /r/androiddev sometime. You'll see constant wailing and gnashing of teeth from people because Google banned their account or sent them a warning over their app.
> run the app from the disk image every time.

So mush nostalgia.
Mozilla now, and not sure how long it's been doing this, does code review on all submitted extensions to their extension marketplace. Google chrome's store is less restrictive as they don't do any review of it but rely on user reports to find violations of TOU/malicious activity.

Similar approaches to the apple app store vs. android store... up front binary check from apple vs. a permissive store with user reports being the primary thing that pulls apps from circulation.