skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are definitely roundup-resistant weeds, if that was your question. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2010/05/04/business/energy-environ...
You don't need advanced economics to understand that setting a price floor will reduce quantity supplied and increase quantity demanded. It's evident from logic. What other good does not respond to changes in price? Everyone earns some amount of marginal revenue, say X, and they are paid Y where X > Y. Is there absolutely no-one where the marginal revenue that they earn their employer is between the old minimum wage and the new, higher minimum wage?

If you throw a rock in a lake, you probably can't reasonably measure the impact it had on the height of the lake. But you're certain that it had an impact. Similarly, you must use logic and reason to deduce that putting a mandated price floor on labor will reduce the amount of labor demanded.
> Yea these articles with zero evidence are basically pointless.

> Basically $7 sandwiches become $8 sandwiches and so on

Do you have non-zero evidence for this prediction?

> This situation has been anecdotally confirmed by about 15 other restaurants in the area

I guess you have anecdotal evidence for this situation. Is it somewhere we can access it?
Carrying a communist (or capitalist, or ...) banner around as you pillage doesn't make you a communist (or a capitalist, or ...). Attack the system, not those who usurp its name. Only then we can have a discussion.
Maybe on paper; in practice, communism has been a process of structuring inequality differently: the criteria is how good are you in serving your current leader/mentor/sponsor and how lucky/good are you in choosing your next one.

While this criteria exists in all systems, it is the most defining one in communism and other authoritarian systems.
Well, don't forget belonging, love, etc...
> I think we will see the modern small-to-midsize governments (e.g. Syria) that exist physically and legally within the boundaries of a nation-state also disappear

Are you predicting that Switzerland* will disappear? Bold, if so.

*Technically, Switzerland is not inside the boundaries of a nation state, but a larger political union (the EU). Being forced to join the EU would be equivalent for this hypothetical. So, are you predicting that Switzerland will be forced to join the EU?
"The thing you describe should lead them to struggle with virtually anything"

... And now you know how Comcast help pages describe settings that do not exist, and why RiteAid calls me "Nancy Brown" when I log in and on and on.

A bureaucratic IT department in a company that doesn't sell software as their main product usually does not have the meta ability to rock software development.
I'm not going to comment for or against GMOs or whatever. But can we all take a minute to appreciate the staggering stupidity of the CEO of Monsanto saying:

"Every farmer is a smart businessperson, and a farmer is not going to pay for a technology if they don’t think it provides a major benefit"

This is
a) obviously more marketing than anything, pandering to his customers
b) Demonstrably false. It's simply untrue that every farmer is a smart businessperson.
c) Besides the point. What the farmers "think" is not the same as what's real.
GMO + broadcast applied herbicides is a long term loser. For years cotton growers in the South Eastern US applied Round Up from planes. The chemical would dissipate on its way down and apply half doses to weeds. Some of these weeds could metabolize the Round Up while others would die. But the next year all that was left were the weeds that had some resistance. They bred w/ e/o and on it went. The annual selective pressure has created some pretty impressive weeds, most notably Palmer Amaranth. Growers I've talked to say, "Round up just pisses it off." It can grow over an inch a day, it has over a million seeds in its bud and once it has grown past 4 inches, no selective chemical can kill it. You can kill 98% of it one year and its population will be bigger the next year. Once you get an Amaranth population, you more or less can't get rid of it. It's a one way ratchet. As such, Palmer Amaranth is spreading.

The Dicamba story is quite interesting. Monsanto is selling Dicamba resistant seeds even though the chemical is not approved for use on those crops. As Dicamba is approved for other uses, growers can buy the Dicamba ready seeds and illegally apply it. Dicamba is finicky. In many weather conditions it volatilizes and drifts to a neighboring farm. If the neighbor doesn't have Dicamba ready seeds, he could lose his crop and have very little legal recourse. Today two growers got in a dispute about Dicamba drift and one shot and killed the other. The drift problem is forcing growers that don't use Dicamba to buy Dicamba resistant seeds as a defense mechanism. It's pretty nuts. I feel like the herbicide resistant weed problem is like a "Global Warming that nobody knows about."

More interesting is the fact that it takes decades to produce a gene / chemical pairing and get it approved for use. The weeds evolve faster than the GMO / chemical companies' ability to deliver new products.

The startup I work for, Blue River Technology, is going after this problem. We make machines that detect the crop, detect the weeds and apply non-selective chemicals to just the weeds. Because we target selectively we can use non-systemic, contact herbicides will kill resistant weeds no matter what. The grower saves on chemicals, put orders of magnitude less poison in the ground and gets better weed control.

The problems w/ this article are numerous. The guy clearly spent more time looking at UN stats than he did walking the fields and talking w/ growers. Somehow he missed the rather obvious fact that GMO + roundup is more cost effective regardless of yield. Regardless, he brought up some interesting points and I'd rather be talking about it than not.

-- Disclaimer --
The company I work for is partially funded by both Monsanto and Syngenta. Not that anything I said is defending the status quo :)
Ask HN: What should I be doing to Maximize the Benefit Mankind can get from me?
All my life I was productive thinking I need to maximize my productivity because I want to maximize the benefit I can provide to mankind. I got into science because I thought that is how I personally could contribute most. Recently I am having a sort late 20s crisis. Are the chips I am helping design to improve efficiency of consumer electronics helping mankind at all? Probably not as much as I could be doing. I am wondering what I could be doing in terms of a different job or a side project to help mankind the most (or at least help me rationalize what I am doing is actually helping mankind somehow).
Enjoying any aspect of life without being bombarded with messages of social inequality is another privilege that I have to feel guilty about now huh?
Do people actually look at their keyboard when typing?

I think tactile feedback is still the biggest possible feature of a (real) keyboard.
WordPress's JS (and I'd argue its CSS/HTML) is much more integral part of the code for the system than mere "output", IMO.
My experience is dating a bit, but in 2009 I spent 3 months crossing the US as a tourist. My experience with the food was that you could get crap for next to nothing, or really good food at a premium. There seemed to be no middle ground; 'normal' food at a 'normal' price.

My first interaction with American food was on landing in LA - on arriving at the place I was staying, I started making a sandwich with some "healthy (check mark) wholemeal bread". I put a slice in my mouth while I was making the sandwich (I was that hungry and couldn't wait), and it was like biting into a slice of cake, flavour-wise. There was so much sugar in this 'healthy wholemeal' slice...
Correct.

For our coding screen, we use coderpad.io, which lets you chose whatever language you want.
Go try it out yourself!
The whole premise of your comment is flawed (people of different races and backgrounds would peacefully commune to partake in the passive non-violent tradition of observing the sacred and most magical National Football League). But what really stuck in my craw is this:
> The NFL has allowed players to hijack the sport platform to make their own political points. This is like pissing in your drinking water. Since the NFL did not remove or sanction these players, they are at least tacitly agreeing with them

If you're talking about the Kaep kneeling situation, you're being ridiculous. Are you also against Jesse Owens' demonstrations at the Olympics?

If you aren't, what are you alluding to? I'm legitimately curious.
And wordpress does seem to have the vanilla v2 license
> One thing that always puzzles me about r > g is that it's comparing a first derivative to a second derivative. How can this be meaningful?

It's not. It's Piketty trolling the economics field, which has become overly math-y, and try too hard to distil complex interactions into basic formulae.

It's basically his way of saying that capital's share of income is growing faster than labour's share of income, or that the return (r) on capital is outpacing the return on labour, which is represented by the growth rate (g) of the economy.

In other words, it's not a real mathematical formula. It's an idea, a basic premise, merely represented by a 'formula' because hey, it's how every economist does it nowadays, right?
As part of a class-action settlement, MLB will be required to change their blackout rules. The settlement notification lays out three things.

Right now they have to begin offering a "this is my favorite team but I live in another team's exclusive market" subscription, which lets anyone with an in-market TV subscription watch their preferred team's games even when they play against the in-market team. So, for example, I live near SF but like the Cubs; on this package I could verify that I have a TV subscription which carries Giants games, and then Cubs-Giants would not be blacked out and I could stream the Cubs' version of the broadcast.

Right now they have to handle the "unserved fan" problem, by providing streaming to any in-market fan of a team who's unable to obtain a cable or satellite subscription for the team's games (if I were a Giants fan this would affect me, as my only TV option for the Giants is DirecTV, and DirecTV says my apartment faces the wrong way and has a blocked view for installing a dish; MLB would be required to let me stream Giants games if I wanted them).

For the future, the settlement commits MLB to reaching agreements to lift blackout restrictions imposed by Comcast, Root and Fox, and freezes the subscription price of MLB streaming until those agreements are in place.
Some studios, Electronic Arts notably, start new graduates as hourly with overtime for their first two years. At least in EA's case this was done in part as a response to the "EA Spouse" episode (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erin_Hoffman#.22EA_Spouse.22_b...). Paying overtime acts as a financial incentive, beyond the broader philosophical changes to improve work-life balance, to better plan and scope projects.
AFAIK it's because all app store apps have proprietary DRM by apple, and since it's built into the app, it would be violating the GPL to distribute the app without also releasing the source code for apple's DRM.
1. Be a female "graphics programmer".

2. Get an entry level job or go straight to filling some diversity quota if lucky. (There are quotas for working on government contracts and quite a lot of graphics programming jobs there).

3. Nobody will doubt your ability publicly for fear of being accused of sexism, mysoginy etc. (You seem to be downvoted for the same right here).

4. When/if you get fired - get a more prestigious job, using the previous one as a proof of competence. Goto 3.
You can say the same thing about National-Socialism or any other ideology out there. There are just not enough countries to try them all on, and I am not sure why should we...
The FSF argue that the App Store's ToS restricts app redistribution and therefore is incompatible with Section 6 of GPLv2: "You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein."

Similar language is contained in each GPL and GPL-alike license.

http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/more-about-the-app-store-...
This is being downvoted, but yes, that's a crucial element. For transportation, you hard, level, vegetation-free ground.

One of the sources I've been reading (probably Smil or Weissenbacher) looks at the regions in which wheeled vehicles might have originated.

They're generally suspected to have come out of the middle east (or present-day Ukraine / southern Russia), quite possibly being developed from potter's wheels.

Wheeled vehicles don't work in sandy ground because there's too much resistance. Pack animals (horses, camels, donkeys) are far more efficient. The wheel was lost in much of Arabia for a considerable period due to this, and even today, sand tracked and blown across highways is a problem for cars.

On grassy plains, you have the problems of both vegetation and mud / soft soil. On the American prairie, you can still find, a century and a half after their passage, the ruts left by wagon trains rolling across the soil.

Hilly or mountainous country, such as that of the Aztecs and Inca, isn't suitable for wheeled vehicles, especially if your roads have stairs (as Incan roads did). Again, human porters and animals can traverse these.

Even with suitable roads, overland travel was exceptionally slow and expensive in terms of animal power, drovers, and feed required. Ships and canals were vastly more efficient, and remained the best option until the advent of the railroad. Even that required high-quality Bessemer steel (1860s) to provide rails which could handle high loads and were resistant to splitting.
I agree with your first 9 words, my mistake, quotes removed.
The entire world is a huge web of social ties. It's ALWAYS about who you know. Always.
If you were slightly more careful about throwing ice water on the position and not the person, you and I would likely have zero friction. I have a different agenda from you, but our agendas are not incompatible.

You were quick to leap to conclusions about me and tar me. I see this as fundamentally problematic, regardless of your agenda, and quite counterproductive if you want to end rape culture.

Not that you are in any way required to take that point of view under advisement or act on it.
This isn't anything he hasn't been saying since his days with NSFWCorp, except the stuff about Applebaum.
> in my country, Canada, progressive income taxes are not the answer IMHO.

They would be if they were actually progressive in a meaningful way. The problem is that they're only progressive between the poor and the middle class, then taxation on capital returns is low again, taxation on wealth is non-existent, and the rich have all sorts of mechanisms to avoid taxation.
Seems like you got the right things out of it. Do you mind my asking how much it cost? The article cites RISD at 245K. That seems crazy. But 80K may not be too awful.
Oh sure, they definitely were. Except:

1) They are presented as content, not advertisements, and obviously seem endorsed/encouraged by the NFL
2) These demonstrations waste taxpayer money
3) The relationship was only disclosed after a report by NJ.com

Sources:
http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/05/taxpayers_pony_...
http://www.sbnation.com/2015/5/8/8573341/national-guard-payi...
Very interesting, I'm interested in how you came to this understanding. How did acquire information about this? Did they blog about it, or do you happen to follow their mailing lists, or ... ?
A typical "crappy senior dev":

Able to talk for hours about design patterns, but not able to print the sum of four integers when given thirty minutes, an editor, and a compiler for their favorite language.

A "senior dev" whose qualifications are only recommending Cisco hardware (for others to manage) and HP blade servers (for others to manage) is not what I'm looking for.
Ars Technica on the history of PLATO games
I don't believe it is as bad as BoorishBears says.

Yes, configuration changes cause a tear down and recreation of your view/controller layers, but there are several patterns to deal with this cleanly (view controllers whose lifecycle spans multiple instance of a view is one of the more common, with the view instances detaching/attaching as they come and go). If you use a Flux like pattern for handling application data state you don't even necessarily have to do that since your views are just observing data stores whose lifetime outlives the views anyway.

As for asynchronous handling, there are quite a few popular libraries that are very powerful and make it easy to compose multiple asynchronous operations, update views on changes, etc - RxJava for instance has been pretty popular for the last couple of years and is very powerful, but has a steep learning curve. There are others such as Agera (from Google itself), as well as simpler async libraries like Bolts (similar to .Net task futures).

The Android SDK itself does not contain much in the way to help with any of this though (I would avoid pretty much any of the async classes that come with the SDK such as Loaders and AsyncTask) - so you do have to research and learn about third party libraries to get to a state where you can write clean and concise code.
The problem with continuously changing technologies is that it doesn't allow you to become a master of that stack, so your constantly relearning how to accomplish the same thing. It's inefficient. If I build my applications with well established technologies, then I can do it quickly and accurately. Sure, I might miss out on some cutting edge benefits, but my shit works, always.

However, if i switch to JS, I feel like I will have to not only relearn how to do things I already know how to do, but I will be stuck in a cycle of continuing education and won't ever be able to expand my skillset beyond those things.
At little old (2002) but just what you are looking for: https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/as...
Thanks! I haven't read every word of the GPL and hadn't heard about the written offer to provide source code bring a requirement.
The domain under discussion is transportation, not use of the wheel in industrial applications.

Spinning, water, and grinding wheels all postdate the wheel-and-axel in transportation. It is thought that the transport wheel may have evolved from the potter's wheel.
None? Are you sure about that?
Ask HN: Editing Date Formats for Different Regions?
For the webdevs/product guys/girls, when having editable dates do change the format of the editor for each region?

Example:
Americans - MM | DD | YYYY
vs
Aussies - DD | MM | YYYY

If you do, did you allow for this change at the get go of your MVP or did you wait for a little traction and see what region that traction is within?

Or did you resolve this by using a fancy editor where its <Name of Day> of <Name of month> selector? (Drop down boxes)
Prison labor is used for menial labor. See what I wrote about the nazi's use of concentration camp labor. Sweatshops and workhouses are not slave labor (and also are used for menial labor).
I recently ordered a sample pack of Meal Squares and I love them! So tasty and so quick. Particularly good with a glass of milk. My boyfriend isn't as much of a fan, but I've been eating at least one a day since we received the sample pack.
Generating Donald Trump speeches using recurrent neural networks
Thanks, I'll check it out!

That's so surprising to me that such a large percentage fail, especially if they get to choose the language
It's because the gold standard is meaningless, only trotted out by gold bugs conspiracy theorists. The concentration and division of wealth is what matters, not nominal values or gold pieces.
Does your correlation go both ways, though? If you think you have evidence that competitive programming is correlated with higher ability, do you have evidence that higher ability is correlated with competitive programming?

Or do you not think about that part, or conclude that anyone qualified you pass on is a fair cost to pay?
You may be surprised when you stick a multimeter into a standard POTS jack and read 48V. (Admittedly, the voltage is lower when the line is in use, but it's still there, which is why old-fashioned phones don't need separate power cords.)
Prices have certainly rose in Dallas, but not to the same extent, probably because Dallas is a larger city and can absorb the growth better.

From wiki:

Dallas

2000 1,188,580 18.0%

2010 1,197,816 0.8%

2015 1,300,092 8.5%

Austin

2000 656,562 41.0%

2010 790,390 20.4%

2015 931,830 17.9%

That's pretty substantial growth. DFW experienced similar growth in the 90s and it has taken 20 years of building for infrastructure to catch up.

Edit:

Just as a comparison, here's Seattle:

2000 563,374 9.1%

2010 608,660 8.0%

2015 684,451 12.5%
Did you actually read it? Like maybe the part with the question regarding damaging devices with c to c cables?
"rather than bloating the current tools, you.." just bloat the whole stack.
Museu de la Tècnica
God Save America in the 7th inning stretch post 9/11 couldn't get more jingoistic.
We've lost long-form and investigative journalism as a counter-balance, but we've gained ubiquitous surveillance and crowd-sourcing social media. Traditional corruption is much easier to see. "White collar" corruption runs rampant.

There will be a period of adjustment as our institutions adapt, die, or new institutions arise. I am optimistic as long as the powers that be favor the creation of wealth rather than appropriation.
Yeah, exactly since the camera in the previous generation MBP actually had 4GB SD storage on it.
Do you think they still care about developers or other creative types? Judging by what the did to Final Cut and then to the Mac Pro line I'm not so sure.

There are several good alternatives to the Mac Books now and I'll be moving to Linux for my development efforts the next time I buy a machine.
This is what happens when you reply to spam email [video]
Maybe that's part of the problem. Most people don't start a new project every week, so we get to know the same tools pretty well for a year or two or longer.
Development usually involves tasks that range from the easy and mundane to the difficult and arcane. And those tasks are usually not simply assigned to a single engineer to either succeed or fail - usually the hard stuff is given to the more advanced coders and the easy stuff is reassigned to whoever can handle it. I can imagine a single coder on a 10 person team who can spend 10 years on a code base doing all the 'easy' parts. There are always tons of maintenance tasks (or 'bookkeeping' bits of work as I like to call it) that are simple, boring, and ever-present up for grabs.

Coding is just like anything else - some people only do the minimum in order to get a "passing grade" and so they never really get past the basics. It isn't so much that they code without knowing how to code, but that whoever is in charge of managing them isn't necessarily an expert on coding and often times people find it easier to improve their ability to trick their manager rather than the difficult task of learning new or more advanced things.
I discovered leetcode recently and left a drive-by forum comment pointing out an algorithm nobody had considered for one of the problems in the recent-discussion list.

Then I tried out a couple of the beginning problems, selected Python as the language, and discovered that since they apparently port the test cases over without modification from other languages, my Python solutions had to check for integer overflow and return special values in those cases.

I decided then that it's probably not going to be a very reliable measurement for the stuff I do or care about.
Again and again? Uprisings and revolutions occur in unfree countries. (And in the US, the armed revolt happened in the slave states!)