skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it hard reading articles like this. I agree with its main premise, but it fails to mention the valid points of the other side. And there are two:

1. Some GMO has a plant produce extra chemicals, specifically, pesticides

2. There is a unknown side to GMO, perhaps it can lead to super species that we can never get rid of in the future and will destroy bio diversity.

(1) are banned in the EU for human consumption, a reasonable choice I think until we have more data.

(2) is a much lower risk than most would thing. But it is one of those things where the naive/amateur answer is far from reality, and that naive answer is scary. (Like nuclear, or more rules vs more responsibility.)

When done responsibly, GMOs are fine. And even necessary if we want to feed 8 billion people and more in the future.

But an article that fails to mention valid (remember the eu) downsides, and discuss the tradeoff, will have a polarizing effect: Those pro GMO will think score and think anti GMO is stupid. But anti GMO will see their biggest concerns not mentioned, and will declare fail and conclude their position is well grounded.
> you weren't able to use them all the time for regular charging

But that in itself was a reduction from the original position, as of 2014:

How often can I Supercharge? Is it bad for my battery?

Supercharging does not alter the new vehicle warranty. Customers are free to use the network as much as they like.

Which was diluted in late 2015, with letters being sent to 'excessive' users, and now for 2017 with limits to inclusive usage.
Almost any papaya you eat in the US is GMO.

https://gmoanswers.com/studies/gm-papaya-saved-hawaii-papaya...
Jesus, this is an ignorant comment.

"How are these scientist be so sure" <- Not how science works. There will never be a point at which anyone will be able to accurately state with absolute certainty that any food is "surely" without danger or side effect, GMO or otherwise.

"Software engineers can't predict every side effect of modifications to code that they created." <- So? We still fly to the moon, Mars, even Pluto on software. We save and improve so many lives every day with software written by engineers who can't "predict every side effect".

This is not a standard you live by, and not a standard anyone actually uses. It's ignorance, and honestly this kind of "HOW CAN WE BE SURE" argument that should embarrass anyone making it.
https://www.slidingboxes.com/

Saas portfolio site for artists.
Launched Jan 2013.
0 Marketing.
5k+ users (not sure where they are coming from, not sure if they are spam accounts)
29 customers, but only 8 are currently active/billed.

Site exists on an AWS ec2 instance, mysql DB on RDS.
Application is split into three Laravel apps:
1) slidingboxes.com site
2) admin panel to manage portfolio
3) the portfolio itself

Stripe used for billing (via laravel Cashier package).

Ansible used to provision/deploy.
Local dev via Vagrant.
Source code managed via private Git repo on bitbucket.
How long's it been running for?
Layla Katiraee, scientist at Integrated DNA Technologies - hardly a disinterested party. It's in her direct interest to trash non-GMO everything.
I bought one board with an Allwinner chip on it. Great specs, but utterly useless. There is no support for the graphics driver, tons of bugs in the chipset, and virtually no help online unless maybe if you speak Mandarin.

I'm not making that mistake again.
Probably. They're right 538 has been all over the map this election cycle though. 538 never thought Trump would win the nomination, or that Sanders would surpass 15%, for instance.

I think the problem is in part because polls are relatively flawed. They can't really account for stuff like activism or excitement. For example, a poll may ask me "who will you vote for tomorrow? Trump or Clinton?" And I'll say, "Ugh, Clinton, I guess." And then I won't show up for the vote because I don't like Clinton and my favorite TV show just appeared on Netflix.

The other part is that 538 may try to account for all of these extra factors in their model - but still do it poorly and fail big time.

This sort of stuff gets worse the more "unpredictable" and crazy the race is, which is why 538 failed to predict Trump and Sanders' rise. When it's more predictable and everything is accounted for and everyone is where it should, that's when 538 seem like Nostradamus and get 99% of it right.
Author here. I'm sad that you think that. I love hip hop, and I know how far away this model is from the best MCs. The model has no idea what words actually mean, it's just spitting out a grammar it has learned. We are nowhere near the point where an AI can formulate an original thought and articulate it in rhyme, and I even called my model a 'parlour trick' in the post. It was just supposed to be fun.
It's also not a gift if it's compensation for doing work.
I have a reptile and feed it crickets daily.

You can't simply hope crickets will be full of good stuff naturally. We need to "gut load" them and cover them with vitamin and calcium powder. We make them eat quality nutrients before feeding them to the reptiles. Otherwise they are only almost only empty calories and not very good for the animal's health.

We humans would simply eat what the crickets eat instead of eating the crickets themselves. We have no issues eating non-moving pray.

That being said, I do agree that insects should be added to our diet!
Oh yeah, just like Prop 1 in Olympia WA this year.

Prop 1 is an initiative to "help educate the children of Olympia", using a little tax to help pay for college tuition. So noble!

Except: it proposes a levy on households of $200K or more (not constitutional in Washington), is an income tax, also not constitutional in Washington, requires the city of Olympia to fund the administration with no enforcement clauses, and multiple groups have already announced that they intend to sue the City if it's passed (which it will, because it's a 'think of the kids' measure), and the City knows it won't win but could not get the measure struck off so is already budgeting for constitutional lawyers. Hell, the City doesn't have the authority to see these people's tax statements, so it'd rely entirely on self-reporting. It's just a mess.

So you look a bit closer, and who is pushing this bill? A bunch of locals concerned about local education.

No. A bunch of multi-millionaires from Seattle who want to use this as a proving ground for their challenges to state taxation law. Of the top ten donors, not one has ever lived in the County, let alone the City, nor does any of them have any children who attended school in either. (Olympia, like most state capitals, is far smaller than the largest city in the state), which makes you wonder why they're not pushing this in Seattle/King County - probably because they don't want their own taxes going to fund the defense of a proposition that's very specifically unconstitutional.

"Think of the kids" at its worst.
Homebrew is what keeps me working on a Mac, plus now that Docker for Mac is out....
Great story and many great lessons. Being "intentional about the people you work with" is a great piece of advice and one that we usually like to stress too when talking to aspiring entrepreneurs. We wrote about some of this too in a previous HN thread https://betterthansure.com/answer-hn-growing-a-side-project-....
They can't launch until the thing is at least portable - and in the carefully-managed rumours are right, it started out as an optics bench and then a tethered rack and ... nobody's seen anything that can be launched. We're still waiting for that "DK1".
Write an email to the EU Antitrust Committee ;)
Wait. America made up Osama. Killed him in 2001. But quietly so no one would know. Then digitally created new videos of him, all to kill him in 2011. Uh huh
maybe one of the flaw of HN is you only have the UpVote Button for most of the users..
You are assuming that the site is not evil.
I think the lack of any news on other products accounts for at least 50% of the backlash. As Apple's product line stands the only products looking forward to a USB/TB3 future are laptops. Evaluated in this vacuum, the new MacBook Pro doesn't deliver. If they had showed us new iMacs and and updated Mac Pro there would be more options and more insight into what Apple's vision of that future looks like.
They're busy regulating life saving drugs. If we got rid of the FDA all together, there would be more competition for products like this, and companies would need to win the trust of consumers by providing real health study information.
> BGP won out because it was simple, solved the problem at hand and proved versatile enough to keep data flowing as the Internet doubled in size, again and again and again.

So if you want to replace it, make something that is equally simple and solves the new problem(s) at hand without un-solving the original one. If you don't do that, people have no incentive to switch.

It sounds like the (vaguely described) new alternative is more complex. If it was better for business, things would have gravitated toward it quickly.
It's great to hear about your success!

For discussion's purposes, it's worth pointing out that there is a venture-funded company that is doing the same thing (but with a big data science team): https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/entelo
I seriously thought I was going to click on that link and see the stereotypical cliche rap:

Yo yo yo

I'm Deep Rhyme and I'm hear to say

I figured out how to rap in a whole new way!

My name's D Prime and I'm an A-I

Maybe some day I'll calculate all of Pi!

Deep Rhyme in the house, yo!

(mike drop)
http://www.rayandterry.com/products/more-categories/weight-l...

http://www.procapslabs.com/Products/Details/268447427/Secure...

Both have 5g net carbs per serving, but are intended more as a single meal replacement than something a person could solely subsist on.
GMOs don't increase crop yields and don't reduce the use of pesticides
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/10/30/business/gmo-promise-fa...
I think Huffington Post is both invested in the outcome (wants one candidate to win) and feels they have to explain why their forecast differs from one as popular as 538's. All the same I found the article interesting.
Maybe it's because you're entirely uninformed about the specific ingredients and macronutrient ratios of new products like Soylent vs old school meal replacements.

But enjoy your high fructose corn syrup slop Ensure / Jevity.
They seem to have confused "every car" with "any car"
Care to explain, or are you just rambling?
Do you think my comment was out of proportion or very different in tone to what he said?

I think there is a noticeable tone difference, assuming one is sensitive to these sorts of things.

He dismissed Brie's words as "typical feminist schtick"

While this is true, as a whole if you compare his first couple of sentences to yours, his remains much more closely related to the overall subject matter. He dismisses the author's words, but goes right into talking about video games.

On the other hand, your opening is too focused on tnones. The subject is always tnones and neglects the topic of video games. You can see this with the constant instances of "you" throughout the first line of the comment.

Now maybe this is because you're trying to establish the thesis that tnones is part of the problem as you state in your first line. However, I think approaching your rebuttal this way has led us to where we are now where you come off as condescending. Ultimately it distracts too much from the subject matter and distracts from the points you make later.

Simply leading off with "we do have a culture problem that is well documented" without anything else in the first line would have been a better way to start. The impact of a statement like "you have identified yourself as part of the problem" would have been better in your conclusion after all was said and done.
Is 1 really a valid point of the other side, when it applies just as well to many non-GMO plants we consume?
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Technically, if a compiler specifies how it handles undefined behavior (as opposed to implementation-defined behavior, which it must define), it stops being a C compiler :-)

I also think it is fairly unlikely that any C compiler will say anything about how it handles undefined behaviour because it would mean it has to generate awfully inefficient code. For example, a compiler could not optimize away most pointer dereferencing code if it promised that dereferencing odd addressses segfaults.

Yes, such checks might add at most a few percent to a normal program's running time, but add in all the other corner cases (int overflow, boundary checks, etc.) that also dat a few percent, amd before you know it your program runs at half the speed it could run at. If you find that acceptable, you shouldn't be writing C in the 21st century.
Does it have support for the graphics though? That's the first big stumbling block these alternate SBCs run into. Without support for graphics acceleration you won't be able to play video properly or run fancy desktop apps. It's a huge drawback these days.
You weren't replying to me, but I genuinely do keep my phone on silent (no, not vibrate) and will never answer it (both because it's rude and because I don't notice it).

But I do try to check it regularly whenever I get the chance.
I worked in a big ag company with a genetics lab and in a DNA sequencing lab later (as a sysadmin), so I feel like I have a decent amount of insight into this issue.

My two primary (I have more) objections to GMO are:

1) Lack of rigorous testing, especially long term testing. Many of the GMO products in production spent a minimal amount of time in the lab before being selected for production, with little to no long term testing being done. (to find any number of potential issues and side chain-effect issues that can happen.) For example, while at the sequencing company, I learned that it's not just about the genome of the thing itself, but it's surrounding microbiome, which of course is almost an after thought to the big-ag gmo producers.

2) The way in which the pro GMO big ag has essentially corrupted the bodies set up to regulate itself. Monsanto is a perfect example of this, but only one of many. 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. They abuse K-street beyond what even most of the K-Street abusers do. It's this kind of systematic corporate corruption that makes me sympathetic with those who are anti-gmo.

I also have a huge issue with the whole patent system when it comes to genomes, the system is broke enough for normal tech, but there have been some dangerous precedents set that I don't have the time to get into but they will have major consequences as sequencing costs and manipulation costs are reduced and therefore it becomes a more prevalent tech.

Now, all that being said, I see a ton of FUD on the anti-gmo side that is easily refuted, but the problem is that I far too often see the illogical/irrational FUD of anti-GMO being the strawman used by pro-gmo people against the more reasonable and scientific anti-gmo arguments, which seems to be intellectually dishonest, very much like I find articles like this.

I could go on, but just wanted to offer a quick two-cents.

Oh, and don't even get me started on the horrible state of peer-reviewed science. As a layman with a huge interest in science, I held the process up on a pedestal, that is until I saw it from the inside. Bad science abounds and is rarely challenged, which only gives fuel to the anti-intellectual/anti-science movements which is the last thing we need as a species!
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I've actually been tossing around the idea of creating a program like this, although for a specific use case.

In Bethesda games (Oblivion, Skyrim, Fallout) there are large modding communities adding new quests, areas and plot lines. But one technical and financial challenge for them has always been voice acting. Not only do they have to worry about voice acting new potential characters, but they have no means of writing new dialogue for existing characters.

In Fallout 4, for example, the protagonist is fully voice acted. That means a distinct change between the way the main game feels, and any modding efforts made by the community (barring actually re-hiring the original voice actor for new lines).

I'm envisioning having this tool train on the already provided voice lines in the game(depending on the character in question, that's quite a bit). And then letting mod authors input new dialogue lines to be spit out in somewhat the actors voice.

Lots of problems with the approach of course, not to mention the fact that these are actors and not just voices (there would probably be significant amount of emotion lost). But it would give the modding community such a powerful tool to add new plots for existing characters.
For the last year, I've seen you several times re-iterate that point that just-if and if-only the handful of volunteers who drive this project made some sort of a massive media spectacle then everyone and their brother would be using Perl 6 these days.

Sorry, but that's just wishful thinking. We don't have infinite resources or infinite number of volunteers. Maybe instead of endless critique, you could offer a helping hand. You did want to at one point: https://irclog.perlgeek.de/mojo/2016-10-09#i_13366119
But non GMOs also use pesticides.
You can say the same thing about the food in any restaurant. I really don't understand the hate that's directed towards this product. Nobody was seriously injured, it was a relatively small number of people that got sick.

Soylent is trying to do something more ambitious than other packaged food manufacturers. It's not unreasonable to expect there to be some small hiccups. If you can't tolerate that, then don't buy it.

People get food poisoning randomly from restaurants all the time. And usually they can never figure otu exactly what it was that caused it, they just carry on and maybe get their rating lowered or license taken away if it keeps happening. Chipotle even just had the same problem.

Yes, they get a bunch of shit for it. But it's not like this is a problem that doesn't afflict the 'normal' food industry as well.
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Does say Senior too
except they seem like they're all business method or software patents which will much hard to enforce:

At the time the Mayo case was decided, there was some uncertainty over whether it applied only to natural principles (laws of nature) or more generally to patent eligibility of all abstract ideas and general principles, including those involved in software patents. The Alice decision confirmed that the test was general.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patent_debate
> I also think it was less accurate because I believe the feminism angle is a red herring.

How does that reflect on me? I didn't bring up feminism, @tnones did.

> Like, suppose I complained that videogames are rarely marketed to poor people ... maybe I should support small indie game studios instead of complaining

I don't understand where you're going with this. There is a class bias in the video games market, as with more or less our entire economy. That is probably much better documented than the sexism bias. But games cost money to make and money to buy, and they're a luxury entertainment product, so I'm not sure what there is to do about it, not do I see how that changes anything regarding cultural sexism.

> it's only her discourse that is, in my opinion, holding us back as gamers.

What did she say that is holding you back? How is it holding you back or working against gamers? Did we read the same article? She's trying to appeal to more gamers, not fewer, she's trying to help people who don't current like games start to like them and see games the way gamers see games... I'm confused.
The sharing economy: now literally selling leftovers
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Move fast and make people vomit
Why Historians Must Use Wikileaks to Write the History of the 2016 Election
All is fair in love and war. Ceasefire can be used for any kind of goal, including to gain tactical advantage.
The gospel preached in modern startup circles is uniquely unsuited to certain product types.

That doesn't mean that it is wrong, necessarily, but that it isn't always exactly applicable.
> Instead, to instal in /usr/local it wants me to recursively chown /usr/local to myself, which is a Really Bad Idea (tm).

Why is this a really bad idea for a personal machine? The only problems I can think of are some subdirectories that are conventionally given some other user ownership to make running a related server under a specific user, and the problem of putting potentially arbitrary probably unreviewed executables in a system-wide path. But the former problem is one you wrestle with anyway if /usr/local is owned by root. And the latter problem... you're going to have some path where you're putting all this stuff, and it's either going to be a personally owned or system owned path. The system-owned choice means giving your package manager sudo and having to run things with sudo (which, without attention, means giving the executables system-wide access). What other problems does a personally owned path create? What's the alternative?
Agreed 100%, and I'd go even further: Even the most honest attempt at finding "failed ceasefires" seems likely to over-emphasize ceasefires followed by offensive campaigns.
All this talk has made me glad to pay the premium to stay with x86/amd64 supported boards. I've been buying PC-Engines for years, and run whatever I please on them (but mostly OpenBSD). They are 3x the price of the RPi (more if you want WiFi, bluetooth etc), but for certain applications, are quite a bit more powerful and flexible. This is especially true if you want to remain up to date for years. I have never been left without an upgrade path.

https://pcengines.ch/apu2.htm

https://pcengines.ch/newshop.php?c=4
Alaska's pilots are its lifeblood (2015)
I use `brew bundle` for this.
if you're interested in serverless cron you can use AWS lambda for the same experience
Yeah I was wondering why they put it at the top of the article. Not really related at all.
I have had that as a low-intensive side project for the last three years. It's amazing how responsive a virtual touchpad you can create using touch events + HTML 5 + websockets!
That might once have been true, but these days most of the public own a pocket-sized video production and distribution studio.
> Law is not code

Remembering this would put a stop to 90% of legal "discussions" on HN.
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Is that still true? Some uvloop benchmarking has shown it to be equivalent to gevent when using streams: https://magic.io/blog/uvloop-blazing-fast-python-networking/ . Plus Python 3.6 has a bunch of optimizations for asyncio where all of these numbers are going to have to be re-evaluated.
In Korea, both sides definitely could fight more. So it's a ceasefire.
I remember reading a story about some generic GMOs not too long ago. Can't find it here on HN, but it might have been this, or something similar:

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/539746/as-patents-expire-...

Basically, a variant of a twenty year-old version of Roundup Ready soybeans.
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