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> Google unambiguously owns golang.org and and therefore controls releases of Go.

Even with the subsequent explanation, this is a tiresome level of what I can only call paranoia.
This looks super interesting! I've been working on a Raytracer in C++ and I was recently looking into a threading library which I can use to parallelize the rendering. Surely going to try this out in the coming weekend.

Unsolicited suggestion - while benchmarks and the motivation are important for a threading library, a code snippet of a simple parallel program on the home page would be something that I'd love to see.

Great job, though!
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All those examples you've mentioned fill a very different niche than what Soylent is filling. Most people on Soylent aren't looking for something to keep them from getting hungry until they get a more balanced meal. They're looking for a quick, healthy, balanced meal. Soylent fills that desire, your examples do not.
Id say texting is worse for me. Before 2000 I called my friends and talked, sometimes for hours. Now I never talk to friends on the phone because social norms have changed that calling might be interrupting where as texting is not. Texting is slow and annoying so the conversations are not very long or in depth. The overall effect is I'm far far more isolated than at anytime in my life.
I don't understand. You just charge money for the Supercharger network when used not as part of a long-distance trip.
Getting ERR_CONNECTION_CLOSED on that URL. Edit: URL is not https, it's http. http://json-porn.com/
I do the same (but installed to ~/.homebrew). No issues so far — if anyone knows why this isn't the default, I'd be interested to know.
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http://www.secretsantagenerator.net

Lets people organize secret santa gift exchanges via e-mail, including rules about who can buy for who.

At its peak in the holiday season, gets about 10k uniques per day. Close to a million people have used it since launch in 2011.

Very easily monetizable - just provide affiliate link gift recommendations. I had intentions of doing this so many times but just never followed through and got bored with the project.
Don't you think it's reasonable to make that sort of thing opt-in? This feels like the kind of presumption of a right to observe users that normally makes HN howl.
It's a web-based email client with some features which will only work fully when both users are using Ivelope (but most features work for everyone) - and also does it count as a protocol when [] in text is converted into a task? :P
Which is a feature! If you use `char` instead of `uint8_t` your program would still compile on a system that doesn't have `uint8_t`, but it is likely to do something entirely unexpected. At least when you use `uint8_t` you are warned at compile-time that your program is broken.
Current GMOs aren't designed to create higher crop yields, and have massively reduced harmful broad-spectrum insecticide use. They have also replaced harmful broad-specturm herbicides like atrazine.

http://geneticexperts.org/national-academies-report-looks-at...
In regards to organic produce, imagine how much money the producer can make by charging a lot extra. Organic does not necessarily mean better for health or environment, in fact in some cases organic may be even be worse

https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~lhom/organictext.html
Of course we're just talking anecdotes, but large surveys back up that Apple just makes more reliable hardware,

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/laptops/LaptopReliability
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Our culture has simply deemed us incapable of consent.
i think because it is really actually new
i think perl 6 is only being considered as production worthy since 2016

also as of now, most people who used it complain it is slow

give it 2 more years before you worry, and for now continue with python or whatever you like to use

no one is in a rush to make perl 6 popular ... it is not a commercial project ... so don't bet your career on perl 6 ... yet
I had been aware of the hanging chads in the Bush-Gore election, but I had not seen the butterfly ballot design itself. In such a close race, many voters likely voted for Buchanan when intending to vote for Gore... crazy.
Yes, it is not an open-source project but the intention is to make it into an SaaS if the beta launch goes well and people like it enough to pay a small fee for extra features.
They have a bootloader, they just don't have a BIOS, or ACPI, which you would need for the operating system to detect and interface with peripherals.

I think right now they are trying to decide between Device Tree (FDT) and ACPI for ARM, in the mean time nothing gets done and I'm not confident anything will get done until ARM the IP holder itself mandates something.
Hiding something behind a layer of abstraction is, essentially, removing something from view. So, from one point of view, you're adding another layer (of abstraction), and from another point of view you're removing unnecessary detail. Same thing.
Whenever I read about claims of "nutritional equivalency" of GMOs to their non-GMO counterparts, I am reminded of scientists in the 50's claiming that baby formula will replace the need for breastfeeding for the same reason. Today we still know very little about human nutrition so claims like nutritional equivalence are not terribly meaningful.

And as far as "feed 8 billion people", I hate to say this because it's unpopular, but when has pouring gasoline on a fire ever extinguished it? The goal of feeding the world will annihilate it.
I hope Apple is going to hook Siri up to that layer to get better results though...
Perhaps they're used to dealing with competent proprietors?
This seems cool. Have you done any marketing for this?
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Thanks! good point; now that I look at the page, there is not a single sample code in there. I'll update it soon.
No Free Lunch ;)
"I'm pretty cynical and jaded, though, so I went looking for and finally found the "Security and privacy considerations" section of the FlyWeb (draft) Specification [0]. I'm quite disappointed by what I see there -- or, rather, what I don't see."

Rest assured, there has been a lot more thought put towards security and privacy than the draft spec document currently shows. That's not to say that we have a complete security story at this very moment (we are still working on it), but there are many more considerations than what is currently in the document. I hope to try and provide an update in this regard in the coming weeks.
Some GMOs result in lower use of applied pesticides. Bt corn comes to mind. Such crops reduce the risk of unpredicted side-effects from spill-over.
Android Security Bulletin–November 2016
For a moment there I thought that thing had learned to rhyme on its own.

Then I figured out it's got some rules that help it along.

Phew. That'd have been scary.
Nix package manager on my Mac [1]. Deterministic builds, plays well with POSIX/UNIX, though fewer repo's available than Brew and others.

[1]:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11772686
Although I am old and have terrible eyesight, I don't have an issue reading HN on mobile. But there are plenty of themes and apps out there that you should try. For exampke:

http://m3mohsen.github.io/HackerNews-DarkTheme/

https://userstyles.org/styles/133209/hacker-news-dark

https://jamesfriend.com.au/hacker-news-theme

http://ihackernews.com/

https://www.bing.com/search?q=hacker+news+android+themes&go=...

And Google search turns up multiple Hacker News apps, though I am not clear how to link that here.
Is there a write up on howto use lambda for this? I've been wanting serverless crown for ages and I feel like an idiot for not thinking of lambda for this... this should be promoted (if it isn't) - but I'm an example learner... point me please?
They need to merge with Palantir
Great post. Seeing both sides is skill that many don't have.

On another note, I see GMO as similar to global warming. Avoiding the catastrophic risk doesn't seem to have a huge cost, so why don't we just avoid it.

Regarding nuclear: when the Fukushima Disaster was just starting, a senior engineer/executive at my company was so certain nothing would happen. He gave a presentation on all the technology and safety mechanisms and how the engineers thought of everything... Yes, the naive answer is scary.
You bypass most of the usual supply chain by buying from local farmers directly.

See http://www.localharvest.org/csa/ for an in-depth explanation of the concept.
It's quite ironic you chose to have children, despite being so concerned for resource depletion.
Yes, I think it is like that.
> Especially compared to Apple, I think the hardware as always lagged behind

No, they're ahead I think. You can argue that on the SoC front Apple is ahead, but compare the WQHD OLED screen of an S7 with the screen of an i7 (or even a Plus, which is larger). S7 is IP68 waterproof (you can make nice underwater videos, etc.), larger battery (and longer battery life, actually). It also has more built-in sensors (which you might call a gimmick, but still, it's not _behind_ Apple in any sense).
> Lack of rigorous testing, especially long term testing.

There have been hundreds of studies over decades testing the safety of these gene products. Just because you choose to ignore them does not mean they do not exist.

Also, just because something isn't tested each time you re-make it, doesn't me it isn't safe. How long would it take to build a car if you re-tested every part, every time?

> They have a supreme court justice who has refused to recuse himself on cases with obvious conflicts of interest. They have a massive online pr (read: propaganda) operation to keep these things out of the limelight or at least remove them quickly. They have basically taken over the most prominent FDA positions.

This is extremely paranoid and nowhere close to the truth.
I would kill for that kind of onboard storage. Even 4 or 8 GB would be great with an SD expansion slot for additional storage.
If not Redux then what?
Saying that prostitution should be legal is like saying that drugs should be legal. Lots of people applaud because they only understand the issue in terms of their perspective.

It's one thing to say that pot should be legal, but ask a doctor about the thousand other drugs you don't know about. There are some scary things out there. The same is true of prostitution. There is a safe way of doing it, but there are some big areas that the general public doesn't think much about. That;s why those countries that do allow it, including a tiny part of the US, heavily regulate the trade. As with drugs, the end result of legalization shouldn't be the ability to pay anyone for anything.

Something to think about: Should prostitution be legalized, should people be able to settle debts with their bodies? Instead of paying rent, could a college girl just have sex with her landlord? Doesn't that create perverse intensives? The answer in many countries is to mandate brothels so that the girl is paid in money, not in relief of a debt held by the person having sex with her. That way you cannot suggest, or insist via contract, that anyone who owes you money might settle the debt via sex.
Why? There are plenty of developers that use Angular.

If I speak from a place of experience, is that less valid if I use a language that you do not particularly like?

It is not always the correct language in a lot of cases, but it can be for creating the feature set that I have described above - an approach for a more functional application structure that would provide server and client-side routing without Turbolinks.

You don't even need Angular or Rails for this, but these are both tools that I have enough familiarity with to know that it would work.
There is a very high likelihood that this has already happened, and the voting will follow in the next day or so.
While some of the points are valid I'd take this with a grain of salt. This piece was written by a Staff Scientist at Integrated DNA Technologies.

She might truly believe what she has written, but she is clearly economically vested into people consuming more GMO products.
> I have wished for such a meal replacer all my life.

why aren't any of the very many other products that have existed for years been good enough?
Smells a lot like the same industry propaganda over and over...
I very much enjoy clean, simple platformers with interesting mechanics and a minimum of story.

I spent hours playing N v1.4 in grade school, and the update, v2.0 is free online [0]. There is also a more reworked version, N++, on Steam that I can't vouch for but is probably good. There is also Dustforce [1], which has some very unique mechanics and is on Steam. Super Meat Boy [2] was inspired in part by N and got a lot of press. It has the same fundamental gameplay that N does (everything kills you, run and wall jump with physics) but not written with Flash and with some bells and whistles (I still like N and its physics better).

Also in the bucket of skill-based, storyless games is Devil Daggers [3], though it is first person, not a platformer. Some people love it, some hate it. I found it very compelling.

[0] http://www.thewayoftheninja.org/

[1] http://dustforce.com/videos

[2] http://supermeatboy.com/

[3] http://devildaggers.com/about
Your concerns are valid and I agree they should have been discussed in the article. Had they discussed them and explained/refuted them, then you would have the choice whether to believe them or discount them. (Most GMOs target yield, shelf-life, and appearance, or are resistant to a proprietary herbicide, rather than introducing pesticides; the effects are well-studied). I included the uncited explanation as a parenthetical remark because I don't see the actual facts as central to your comment, which more stated that the anti-GMO viewpoint should be respected.

I think the goal of the piece was to address the feelings portion of GMO avoidance. The use of "moms" and the attention to the butterfly logo highlight this emotional appeal. I think this piece was written to address an audience that approaches these decisions from a different level. Many consumers don't approach GMO avoidance with your concerns; they see prominent non-GMO labeling and make an emotional decision from that. The article intends to discuss that aspect.

I'm not using emotional decision making as a pejorative; it is the default when a person doesn't have time to learn about a subject in-depth. Many people simply do not have the bandwidth to look up GMO articles while at work or while taking care of their families.
I think people had cell phones before 2006.
Implementing `memcpy` can be a challenge of its own. Gcc has a tendency to replace memcpy implementations with a call to... memcpy. Which is quite smart, just not in that particular context...

[1]: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56888
This really sucks for AutoMate. They've been offering exactly this for years now.

Never nice to have a bigger company eat your lunch, but it was always going to be a victim of it's own success plugging that hole.

Hope they can keep going, but it looks like the writings on the wall here.
Seems like the sort of common-sense strain identification regulation we should require for all crops. After all, it was 60s-era breeding that brought us a toxic potato - the golden lenape.
1. That is a non issue when most GMO food specifically allow us to do the opposite, use less pesticide. We can't vilify over something which is a more serious problem to non-GMO foods.

2. The alternative to GMO is mutagenesis which has been used for decades and means massive random mutations through radiation. This is how a lot of non-GMO food is developed. It can even be labeled organic. Obviously this is far more dangerous than doing a controlled changed of specific genes.

This fact alone demonstrates how the anti-GMO crowd is scientific illiterate people engaging in scaremongering. There is no scientific basis for the anti-GMO position.

(1) No it isn't reasonable as it allows uncontrolled mutations to be utilized rather than safe and controlled genetic changes.

The concern and safety steps taking towards GMO is hysterical. Every day plants like potatoes would be illegal to eat today if they were required the same testing regime as GMO food.

The real valid concern I think is the commercial aspect. Especially in the US with its insane patent laws one allows companies to take control over too much of what is important for society and life.
If Hillary wins, Wikileaks will be expunged from history and she will pardon herself.

I have many friends that voted Sanders and now are voting (and fully supporting) Hillary. I have no idea why you would vote for someone that destroyed your original choice through collusion and corruption.
Not to rain on anyone's parade, but I find MacPorts to be superior to Homebrew in every way, from writing the ports themselves, to installing them and managing them. I used to use Homebrew some time ago, but when I got my Mac Mini, I decided to forgo it in favor of MacPorts and Pkgsrc (which Joyent also provides binaries of for OSX). Whatever MacPorts doesn't have (a rare occurrence), Pkgsrc tends to have it. If not, writing a MacPort is incredibly easy with their provided DSL.

I was pleasantly surprised that, despite Homebrew taking so much of the OSX package management mind-share these days, MacPorts still has an active and vibrant community going strong. I was also pleasantly surprised by just how well Pkgsrc works on OSX, despite its origins on NetBSD. In fact, Pkgsrc works so well that I've switched to using it on Slackware as my primary package manager for anything not in the base system, preferring it to SlackBuilds.org and sbotools (though I still use sbotools whenever Pkgsrc doesn't have a package I want — which sometimes leads to duplicate dependencies in different paths... still haven't figured out how to avoid that yet...).
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our brain is a 20W meat computer. i'd say that believing it can't be reproduced is quite mystical indeed. it's a matter of time; it'll be a 20MW factory-sized supercomputer at first, but it'll be done. not saying it'll happen in this decade, or the next, but this century must be it, assuming humanity makes it to 2100s.
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What really blows my mind is that Buchanan himself conceded the point - he said very clearly he thinks the ballot design accounted for him getting a bigger percentage in districts that used it.
Cease fire is used to buy time, most times both sides understands this
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I want to believe Magic Leap is going to deliver.

With investments from tech companies AND banks AND movie studios, and with half-a-dozen R&D outposts all over the world, it's hard to believe these investors just bought into vaporware.
Awesome! As an example, Rayon[0] does a very good job (IMHO) at this.

[0] - https://github.com/nikomatsakis/rayon
One of the problems with studies is that they are short-term relative to the period of time that the product is in use. We have a tendency to assume safety if heads are not immediately combusting upon consumption. I don't mean that literally and I am not demeaning testing protocols, but once the product is approved and in wide use, it becomes difficult to discern long-term effects. Many conditions are sharply on the rise, and certainly you cannot point to a study that implicates GMOs as the causative agent. But, neither can you exclude them definitively, as the time in-market eventually dramatically outpaces the study duration.

One thing for certain is that something is causing a marked increase in certain conditions, which our best science ostensibly tells us is as safe as GMOs.

Another shortcoming of testing is that GMOs tend to be tested individually. This tells us nothing about how they may interact or how the "total body burden" of new and foreign proteins might affect us as a higher percentage of our food moves towards GMOs.

I get that all we have is our best science. But, I also find nothing unreasonable about being cautious in choosing what to consume. There is too much belittling of people who elect caution, especially given the history of presumed safe products that turned out to be anything but safe, and--at times--disasterously so.
Uh,can I get a more detailed, longer write-up on this??
Blender is not actually that bad. 3D modeling is just a hard job. You have to make a set of 2D tools that are fundamentally conflicted with the 3D work you're trying to do. You cannot realistically use Maya or 3DS Max in a professional setting without also learning a raft of keyboard shortcuts and non-standard UI.

I keep hearing this "Blender doesn't adhere to common UX standards", but nobody ever says which particular parts are the non-standard UI elements. They don't use a standard UI toolkit, but that's not the same thing as not using standard UI design. I look at it right now and I see: tabbed documents, buttons, sliders, textboxes, accordion panels, all in relatively easily recognizable formats.

You have to right-click instead of left-click to select things. Maybe that's a good thing. Maybe that initial, small, tiny road bump encourages people to look up tutorials instead of trying to forge ahead without any training.

But there are some things that are just not going to be easy. There is a reason why materials are separate than textures. The modifiers interface has actually been drastically cleaned up and things like particle emitters greatly simplified within even the last year. Where it has "non-standard UI elements", it's because there is no standard UI element to do the job. The shader node editor is quite intuitive, if you ask me.

So again, if you're going to complain about a specific thing, please cite specifics.

So save your money and put the effort into Blender. 3DS Max is not $5000 better than Blender.
Schildt does not have a stellar reputation: https://www.seebs.net/c/c_tcn4e.html
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To cast a free and fair election, we should run a good election. Perhaps a standard ballot design could be required in all states?
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Yes, that's the one. Thanks for looking that up.
And don't forget that some of these pesticides, even if they do wash off, are harmful to other things we care about. Like... say... bees (yes, I know the mite problem is bigger).
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> A neighbor of mine has an allergy to MSG and it took him years to realize it.

I'd really like to see him take a double blind test to see if it's actually true. Saying you have an allergy to monosodium glutamate is a lot closer to saying you have an allergy to monosodium chloride (i.e. table salt) than it is to an actual food allergy.

You need glutamate to live [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glutamate_(neurotransmitter)
I have a strong feeling that Sony VAIO probably has the worst quality BIOSes for years.
Queal, Joylent, Jake, ...

I've tried Queal myself and was given a "bad batch" that was making me nauseous. But I forced myself to drink it until a friend told me he received an email from them about the problem (they never contacted me). I complained and got a whole new batch and the taste was completely different, not making me nauseous anymore.
Well, if people use twitter, github etc, they will be findable and their trace can be used to predict if they are 'jumping ship'. It is common to start blogging around the time you are looking to change work for example.
"Learning Perl teaches Perl and programming at the same time, and may not be the best way to learn either;"

That's a great point. I've never thought of it like that but that is no doubt the reason why I strained with "Learning Perl".

Thanks for pointing that out!
By the by, graphql-sync has been updated in the 3.1 branch and the updated version will ship with the upcoming 3.1.1 bugfix release.