skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a lot of people are forgetting about Olestra.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olestra#Side_effects

Edit: I think that a well-known incidence of a popular food product which got FDA approval and saw widespread use also causing gastrointestinal distress is entirely relevant to the discussion.

If you disagree with me feel free to use the comments.
I used to believe that Blender was bad UI design, but now I think it's quite good, albeit different approach.

Take this with a huge grain of salt, as 3d art is rarely my primary job function, but after I deliberately sat myself down and tried to approach Blender in the way it's intended, instead of getting frustrated by it not working the way wanted it to, I finally grokked it. Now I'm frustrated by other programs not working the way blender does.

I can't really say if that make it better or worse UI/UX, because I don't really get what most people think of as good UI/UX as being all that great. (e.g. why is the iOS back button on the top left of my screen, when every other directional notion is at the bottom?!?!)

Anyway, I like to think of Blender as a series of UI workflows wrapping some python scripts, workflows that don't assume that all things should be done via the MacBook Wheel :-)
I still think the early Mac versions were some of the prettiest, friendliest UIs I've ever used. Sadly, there's nothing today with that combination of simplicity, elegance and friendliness.

I think the downfall started with the Macintosh II and colour …
> How much data is enough?

How much data do we have? In special, how much data not compiled that a party that would have monetary gains attached to an specific result?

Because, for the specific case of Monsanto varieties, I've never seen any that fits the later requirement. If some exist, the onus of making the public aware should be theirs.

Really, GMO crops were legalized in my country by the most undemocratic procedure we could have at the time. If something similar happened today, we'd probably see politicians losing their job outside of the electoral cycle because of that (and probably some journalists too). But nowadays it's done, and nobody cares, because (1) was mostly a failure anyway. But I don't trust anything anymore on that area unless there's some clear and unbiased validation.
Is actually more of a fat-drink than a carbohydrate or protein drink.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_(food)#Ready-to-Drink
Steve Ballmer’s Plan to Make America Great Involves Excel Spreadsheets
Morocco is a perfect place for the world’s biggest climate change conference
> Wool In The Gang, a supplier of knitting kits, was acquired for about the same price that investors put in; Crowdcube backers got a gift certificate in lieu of payment.

This had me scratching my head. Why would anyone invest in a company if you're not even guaranteed payout in the (already unlikely) event of an acquisition?
Simple answer: because Android is not Java. It's a compeletely different platform, that just happens to use a programming language similar to Java to write programs for it's virtual machine.
Zero is magic. People will try lots of things for zero they won't try for a small cost.
Around the new year, I looked at Perl 6 as a candidate for focus in 2016. This was around the time Perl 6 was officially released. I encountered two impediments.

1. At the time, there was not a great 'hello world' installation story for Rakudo Star.

2. There was not a good Perl 6 book published in the last ten years (that does not appear to have changed per a quick Google).

The most readable information I found was the Advent Calendars, but it's fragmented, poorly indexed, and doesn't form a coherent whole. At the time, there wasn't a good StackOverflow story (and the most recent question right now is from October 16, and the average is less than one question per day).

That said, Perl 6 is obviously a long term project and looks like an innovative language that could build mindshare with a bit of luck and the right resources (Ruby and Python didn't become popular overnight). All I'm saying is that it was not a good fit for me at the time.
So much HTML to complain about C working the way C is defined rather than the way the OP wants it to work! It's not that hard to write a fast ones'-complement checksum that's portable and compliant, but whining's always easier than coding.
> 1. Some GMO has a plant produce extra chemicals, specifically, pesticides

You are referring to GMO varieties of potato, corn, cotton and soybean. These plants have been engineered to produce Bt Cry proteins.

These proteins become toxic in the alkaline (basic, pH > 7) digestive systems of certain insects [1]. No signs of toxicity has ever been found for these proteins in the acidic (pH < 7) digestive systems of mammals, including humans [2].

Also, these Bt toxins are naturally produced by a species of bacteria, Bacillus thuringiensis. And either bacterial spores or extracted Bt toxins have been used as pesticides in agriculture since the 1920s. Also, as the Bt toxin is produced by bacteria, not a chemical factory, it is considered a natural product and is approved and widely used as a pesticide in organic farming [3].

Your fear of GMO based Bt-producing crops as "plants which produce chemicals" is wrong and misguided in two levels. Bt is not toxic to humans, and you cannot avoid digesting some Bt proteins by avoiding just GMO crops, as Bt is also used in non-GMO farming and also in organic farming.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacillus_thuringiensis#Mechani...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacillus_thuringiensis#Safety_...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacillus_thuringiensis#Use_of_...
Yep, he's an asshole. But, perhaps ironically, he talks to the electorate like an adult in a way that most politicians won't. He outsourced his manufacturing to Mexico, he's openly stated why, and what he's going to do about it so that it's likely that some of those jobs can come back to the US. He's talked directly about the tax breaks he and the wealthy elite take, why they're unfair, and what he's going to do about it to bring sanity back to the tax code. These are things you'll never hear from a Clinton or a Cruz. Yes, he has a big mouth and is kind of openly an asshole. I fail to see how his elite status or "good traits of a leader" is really different than Clinton. I mean she destroyed evidence in her criminal investigation and literally created ISIS by training, arming, and intentionally radicalizing Syrians during the Arab uprising. How could you possibly think she's got good traits of a leader? Because she doesn't cuss on Twitter?
> the thing we were trying to be accurate about was OP's article, right?

No, you said my comment was less accurate, because feminism, not that the article was less accurate. Except I didn't bring up feminism. Nor did Brie. @tnones did, his comments were inaccurate.

> You are double-counting the evidence.

How so? I was disagreeing with @tnones, who said there's "nothing" to support Brie's point of view. "Video games already have a diverse, demographically blind audience". "They're class and race-blind..."

Those statements are factually incorrect, and my comment was simply addressing that. I provided evidence to someone who just denied that there are any biases in games at all.

You have just acknowledged race, class, and sex biases, and it sounds like you also disagree with @tnones and agree with me.

> We are on the same side, some people just think the author is doing it wrong... her complaints sound misguided and superfluous... she was generalizing from a small sample and her theory might be wrong. (not the practice, though, since she is an actual game designer)

This sounds so presumptuous to me. Brie was a lead programmer (not designer) on Child of Light & Assassin's creed. She has more than a decade of experience leading teams making the very games you're defending, and your conclude her remarks are superfluous based on some internet commentary??

There is data that supports what she's saying, it's easy to find with almost no effort, if you look. Publishers agree with what she's saying, I know because I've talked to some. Like Brie, they're also trying to find healthier markets that attract a broader base and appeal to women as well as minorities, old people, poor people, etc.

You said her remarks are holding gamers back. What did you mean? How are you being held back? Why don't you share your experiences that shed some light on your point of view, or point us to some data that backs up your position that the industry is going the right direction and that Brie's is misguided?
The ceasefire in Aleppo city worked pretty well -- once the RuAF siege on the east was lifted, the Salafist-Jihadist forces wasted no time indiscriminately shelling western Aleppo city and killing scores of civilians in a matter of days. At that point the RuAF and SAA had every moral right to respond in kind.

It was always expected that there would be violations and it would fail, the idea is that they fail in a manner that benefits The Good Guys(TM). In this case, the al-Qaeda-linked Salafist-Jihadists supported by the CIA and Turkey will now be relegated to the sands of time, fading into obscurity (and rightly so).

It is unfortunate that the SDF and related groups (ie: YPG/J) never receive the same political and military recognition that their radical Islamist counterparts do.
It applies to the ones with crappy UI. Stuff like wxWidgets tries to look native for the specific platform. If it's non-native look & extremely inefficient, then it's simply a bad framework for efficient, usable, cross-platform apps. That some predecessors do better is evidence.
Well, the bank in question holds GBPs, converting to/from Euros to GBPs seems incredibly inconvenient and has no real benefits. Most people get their wage in a single currency and use a single currency in their every day lives.

I have a family member who gets their pension in Canadian dollars but lives in the US. Since he lives in the US he has no need for Canadian dollars. He says that his money loses a quarter of its value converting from Canadian dollars to US dollars. I don't know if that's true, its what he told me.
The laptop designed by its users
I made a similar point in defense of Shakespeare[0], and one reply pointed out a kind of category error on my part:

> The samples from all of the examples are nonsense. What's interesting is that they, mostly, follow the form of the original.

These examples appear much less nonsensical than those, but that is (I'd hypothesize) because rap is so much more grammatically and rhetorically liberal. It does make me wonder how we would distinguish "true" semantics from (trained) formal imitations, when the latter are growing in sophistication.

Still, it's a danger in this kind of article that, to quote again from that thread,

> it's a usual tendency of NNs to produce output that looks meaningful to non-experts, yet is complete gibberish to experts.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12338081
See DDT was bad for birds, but in a very short time frame we got rid of malaria in the United States.

https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/history/elimination_us.htm...

And we put down so much DDT that people around my age never had to deal with bed bugs till now.

I'm not advocating for spraying DDT again, I am suggesting that the history and use of DDT far more interesting than can be covered in a string of HN comments!
Yes.

My concern was with several cultivars that specifically produce non-mammal-safe pesticides, but are intended to produce them only (or primarily) in non-edible parts of the plant. There are lots of pesticides we absolutely shouldn't eat, and there's been some controversy over whether specific strains (of corn, largely) keep them at safe levels in the edible components of the crop.

I don't mean to imply general opposition to pesticides, just very specific combinations of pesticide/crop/cultivar.
I know some people get annoyed by that but this isn't hidden purposefully as much as overcrowded. Setting up a complex tool requires hands on help which is why the "annoying" chat window (and I agree those can be annoying) is quite useful and answers a lot of questions.

The push prompt is a one time thing that you can always disable. I'd expect most developers to know that. It wouldn't be there if it wasn't effective...

Growth hackers constantly bang on filling things with popups that fly in your face like the dialogs that jump up when you scroll down. That's far worse IMHO.
Maybe I'm just blind, but when I was looking at Hyper over the weekend I couldn't figure out whether it was possible to perform the rolling update for a service to update its environmental variables or other settings that you can specify when you create the service.

https://docs.hyper.sh/Reference/CLI/service_rolling_update.h...
HR Incentives and Unintended Effects on Hiring Engineers
Martech Stacks of 256 Google Ventures Companies
I recommend trying to get access to larger machines with more hardware parallelism. I have seen techniques that scale just fine to using 16 threads, but hit serious limitations when you get to over 100 threads.
Looks like it is challenging Surface. I am in a market for those
Crypto Sheriff, by the No More Ransom Project
If certain compilers provide functionality like __aligned__ or __packed__ it isn't undefined anymore on these particular compilers. I was specific about this being a GCC/clang thing (GCC to be exact, but somebody else confirmed clang).
You'll notice that that irc log is just me saying october what I'm saying now. The release was botched. Had I had any idea of the lackluster release that was to come I would have helped. This is a better log to read IMO: http://irclog.perlgeek.de/perl6/2015-12-24#i_11771099
Often a "proof" that P does not equal NP is that it would be terribly inconvenient if solvable in n to the second or whatever, and therefore in a sort of cosmic censorship saves us by claiming it clearly can't be the case because it would be so annoying.

A good argument can be provided by an analysis of statistical thermodynamics gas laws. It highly disturbs some people to think that atoms being in motion implies that all the oxygen atoms in the room air might coincidentally cluster into a small corner of the room leaving the victim to suffocate. There is no reason to think that impossible under most thermodynamics theories. However, it is nearly infinitely unlikely and you'd merely have to wait a ten to the hundred times the lifespan of the universe for it to coincidentally happen. I suppose it scales quite strongly with room volume and linearly with air pressure, you have one atom in the ISS airlock and being in one half the air lock at any given moment is a very predictable 50:50 odds...

Likewise if the smallest polynomial solution to a NP problem takes a google's worth of universes to calculate, then even if it is poly you need not worry too much about mere human inconvenience.

I'm not saying its a wise way to go thru life, but there exists a large set of people who get hung up on whats convenient or beautiful must be right, even if whats right turns out to be very ugly or inconvenient, so for them "P=NP but your bank account is still secure" is a very big deal.
Could be. Another possibility is that iron was found in other places where fuel was more abundant. I'm totally speculating though.
For those downvoting:

Is it because you think "enough" data would take longer to gather? Or, as I am assuming is the case, you think it would take less time but are unable to articulate it.

Personally I think 100 years is more than enough, and for most crops I would take 25 years of a double blind as great data.
Interesting link, I'm admittedly not that educated on this. However, not all organic farms use more pesticides. Some hardly use any pesticides at all.

What is the most sustainable and ecologically friendly way to get food then? Local farms, farmers markets, or growing your own food seems like the best but I don't think that's sustainable for the whole population.
How Humans Conquered the World in 200,000 Years
So, I don't get this.

The fact that the brain uses very little power and yet manages to solve really hard problems means that whatever it's doing is very efficient. The fact that ANNs need terrabytes of data and petaflops of processing power and still can only show rudimentary aptitude in mechanical tasks means they're not very efficient at all. Not that anyone ever called ANNs "efficient" (I'm not talking about backprop- but about iterating through covariance matrices). But if they were as efficient as the brain, they'd now be way, way smarter than us.

We know from undergraduate Comp Sci that there are problems that can simply not be solved, except with efficient algorithms. The fact that the brain is doing something terribly efficient is a big hint that whatever it's doing requires it to be that (because evolution hand waving hand waving). ANNs are nothing like that - they're practically brute force.

So how then can anyone expect that we're going to solve the hard problems the brain can, with ANNs?
"THIS PRODUCT IS LIMITED TO 1 UNIT PER CUSTOMER"

Always. Everywhere. Wanted 25 units to teach a robot class to some local kids at the Hackerspace. Had to buy 3's instead. Even if I'd placed 25 separate orders, the cost of individual shipping on each vs the cost savings of the combined shipping on the 3's put the price within spitting distance.

Pi zero is an ad. A loss leader. A way to have an answer, any answer, to the flood of $7 Allwinner wonder-boards on AliExpress.
> Give us some filters like "vocal fry", "perplexed", "angry", "wonder" etc and then we'll really have something here

Neural networks can already do style transfer for images. Seems like it should be doable for voice, too.
Alcohol on a full stomach will delay Alcohol absorption which leads to delayed intoxication peaks and for many people higher Alcohol consumption. "Beer before liquor, never been sicker; liquor before beer, you're in the clear."

Granted the real issue is drinking more liquor because you don't notice how much liquor you have already drunk.
Hipchat does this.... or am I mistaken.
or mattermost?

Interesting to see what didn't work in the above ones?
Also, what is with the pricing?
The weeds around the edges. http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/feb/...
Sorry, but this article is way to fluffy. Big words, and not much to show for it. The way I see it, it's basically an ad for the author's upcoming book.

Magic Leap itself does seem to be doing amazing stuff, given how much money has been pumped into it. At least, I hope that's the case!
At least in the US, this is incorrect.

There is a gift tax, but it's paid by the donor, and they can give up to the annual exclusion amount a year without hitting it. This year, the limit's $14,000.

Once a gift goes past that for the year, the excess starts counting against the donor's lifetime exclusion and needs to be reported on the donor's taxes. Gift taxes come into play once the lifetime exclusion limit is exceeded, and it's $5.4 million.
It's funny that every single game you mentioned is a "theme park" open world game, and exactly zero of them are "sandbox" open world games.
Your first point does not seem obvious to me. GMOs generally have a) significantly higher yields and b) smaller variation in yields than traditional products. That means far less land needs to be used for agriculture than otherwise. Considering ag is one of the more environmentally harmful industries, it seems like it would take a lot of bad behavior on Monsanto's part to offset the gains. Not defending Monsanto's actions, but at the very least it does not seem blatantly obvious that they are a net negative for the environment.

I like your second point more, but the reality is that at the moment the risks seem tiny and the benefits are fairly large. There is essentially no way to prove that any technology doesn't have subtle, negative externalities (what kind of evidence would you like to see?) and in practice any "rule" so risk adverse that it bans GMOs would also ban many, many modern conveniences (for example, cell phones). Is that a net positive? I don't think so, but I know some people who might.

Three is a bit generic so it's hard for me to argue. Yes, industry support for "independent" science is problematic, but the problem swings both ways. Supplements and "health food" are a massive industry and sponsor research/lobby the government the same way Monsanto does. That being said, it's unfortunate that companies muddy the waters, but the bottom line is that there is essentially no credible evidence that GMOs are in general harmful to humans and a lot of evidence that they are not. (Additionally, you used the word "most", which implies that you know of at least some studies that do not have industry funding and declare them safe. Are those studies not conclusive enough for you?)

For four, "unadulterated food" seems clearly not perfect (at least to me) given the amount of time and energy that farmers spend trying to grow it. At the very least, you must surely agree that there is some variation in the desirability of "natural" plants. Doesn't that imply that not all "natural" plants are perfect? Additionally, the "unadulterated" food you buy in a grocery store has been bred over thousands of years to be more appealing, resilient, etc. Is it only the "natural" variety of the food that is perfect, or the version in the grocery store? If the latter, when did they reach the global optimum and at what point did any further variation become bad? Finally, if natural plants are perfect, how do you explain cost and risk sensitive farmers using the presumably less perfect GMO products?
> The name is appropriate in the context of the movie

Only if you don't see a problem with buying from a company whose other product lines include ground up paupers.

The name is like a stupid teenage joke which somehow managed to survive onto packaging.

Also it's objectively ironic that the problem is related to algae, which is commonly green.
Amid Clinton Controversy FBI Docs Show Why US Should Worry About Intel Gathering
Hey gnepzhao, great work! I had a question on your quota/metering. How can I get in touch?
If you're on Pencil team, then you should know the links to zip's under Stencils and Templates are broken.
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