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And there is a huge unspoken problem yet.

In many areas of northern Germany, even with the extremely strict limits on fertilizer and pesticides that Germany has, the drinking water, rivers and oceans are getting so massively polluted that we’re seeing massive algae blooms and drinking water slowly becoming undrinkable.

It’s a massive problem, and there’s no way to solve these without massively reducing fertilizer and pesticide use.

If the choice is between being able to feed less humans, and having no drinking water, I’m sure which one I’ll pick.

EDIT: Because I’m getting downvoted, here are some sources:

> EU sues Germany over water tainted by nitrate fertilizer

> The European Commission has lost patience with Germany over the high concentration of nitrate fertilizer in its ground water. Taxpayers could now end up paying hundreds of millions of euros in fines.

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-1453_en.htm

http://www.dw.com/en/eu-sues-germany-over-water-tainted-by-n...

https://www.thelocal.de/20161107/eu-sues-germany-over-water-...

https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/eu-ta...
This looks great. I've often thought the biggest issue holding back xmpp adoption is the lack of web clients. I'm convinced e-mail would be dead if it wasn't for webmail clients. People will eventually graduate to a native client that suits their needs but finding a client and installing it as well as finding a xmpp service provider is a much bigger initial hurdle than just trying out xmpp because a friend recommended you a service. I've been thinking about hosting my own xmpp server and I will definitely keep this project in mind if I ever make accounts for friends.
Yes, you might have to pay out of pocket for some things (special prescription eyeglasses, certain kinds of dental treatment, etc.), but the general idea is that you won't be hit with a surprise bill of several thousands because something went wrong.

Last year, my son (30 months old) spent a week in the hospital, underwent surgery, and had to keep a cast on for six weeks. The remaining costs, after the sécurité sociale paid its share, were 17€. Covered by the mutuelle.
I heard the story [1] that when people where able to cross the bering street due to the lower sea level, they could not proceed from Alaska due to the massive ice shield and when the shield was gone, the bering street was closed again, a mechanism described to be similar to a revolving door.

[1] Tim Flannery (2001), The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and its Peoples
The economy doesn't come into it. Consider the continued operation of such things as the IIS, which have no compelling reason to continue to exist. Research alone is a good enough reason, plus the potential for sponsorship/tv rights etc also recouping some of the costs for such things
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Because above a level of experience developers know that "rewriting" is not some magic bullet, and can in fact take you years back and kill your project.

And rewriting in a still-developing language du jour, even less so.
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Try learning shader programming. It's math based and you draw beautiful visualizations that represent math equations.
An excellent tutorial is at http://thebookofshaders.com/
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emberjs, it has strong convention over configuration and you can speed up easily.
I've dabbled a bit with permaculture while reading a quite a bit about it. They talk about combining plants into a "botantical guild" such that pests are deterred or controlled in a way that yields are maintained. I've not been successful with it. I live in the tropics and pests are ferocious here, much more so than where I lived in the US. The only success I've had is with low yield native plants.
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> Why stick with such an old codebase?

Because it works and is a full-featured mature product. Nothing stops anyone from starting a new project based on modern insights and try to become the next GIMP, but such an endeavour does not imply that this project should simply stop its development. The GIMP is used by a lot of people in their daily work or for personal projects. It's free, it works, and most crucially, it's here today. Why abandon it?

I'm sure the GIMP developers will adopt new technologies as they come along when and where they make sense (they are migrating to GTK3, and who knows, perhaps some parts will be replaced by Rust code).
I learn new skills at the job, but at the same time I find that it's not enough. What works best for me to really get into new areas and update my skill set is to regularly take MOOCs and then try to find ways to use the new skills at my job.

At the moment I'm taking this course in Deep Learning

https://www.kadenze.com/courses/creative-applications-of-dee...
OTOH there are non-human lifeforms we already spent quite some time together.

Sure, cats and dogs and other pets have always been the junior partners in those relationships.

Which made me wonder how well humans would do in a relationship as a pet with an alien master.
I'm taking a couple courses from Udacity. They have both AI and VR courses.
> Fresh ideas tend to pay off big in Sweden, even as the current government is less business-friendly and has imposed labor taxes that could crimp business investment

Maybe it is that high taxes and citizen friendly social system the responsible for the success of the country. I moved to Sweden to work in the tech sector because I like how socially advanced is the country.

Taxes are used to invest in society, and that's how you get a competitive environment. If you don't invest in your citizens how do you expect to grow? I really proud of paying taxes in Sweden and help society with my fair share of the cost. :)
I think this is just an example of 'elitism' on the part of the author. It is ludicrous to think that there is a chance that the 'local/organic' movement will ever capture more than 1%-2% of food production. Most people don't care, and some fraction of people that do care are intelligent enough to decide that additional cost for no increase in quality is not worth it.

So this is 'elitism' because people think that a very high-cost, niche, atypical behavior is in some way a 'threat' because 'everyone will do it'. Maybe everyone the author knows, but only a tiny percentage of people overall.
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While I agree with you on the flawed metrics, I think that on a per-capita basis some of the Nordics are on par (and maybe have even surpassed) the US when it comes to tech innovation.
Learn to learn, and focus on your current client/task first instead of technology. People still get paid to write Cobol.
But the estimates the footnote is referring to are in the first table. Those are not per year but already summed; there's no corresponding fiscal year to refer to (I think?).

Regardless, this is a tiny point so I'll drop it. I still feel confused though :(
I've switched off Chrome to firefox on my mobile because of 1, so it's not minor.

I hate those bars that reappear when I scroll up, I scroll up to reread a paragraph that I realized I just skimmed or I didn't quite comprehend and instead I get a big blank space with a link to somewhere I do not want to go. They fundamentally break expected scrolling behaviour.

AMP is cancer and should be roundly decried. It's disgusting you can't even turn it off in google search.

They're breaking the web and breaking everyone's web pages and content makers are meekly supporting them instead of kicking up a stink.
I wonder if that picture is somewhat distorted by the overwhelming dominance of reporting on every little thing that a couple of large US tech conglomerates do.

That said, I tend to be skeptical of such rankings as well.
Is there a list of all the changes for Webpack 2, or an upgrade guide?
There is a lot of discussion in generalities in this article and precious few hard facts. I would love to see a less chemical approach to farming but articles like this are not going to convince very many people that organic is a viable method of feeding the masses.
Just out of curiosity, why downvote? I can assure you that non-retina graphics on retina display looks awful. In spreadsheet software the lack of retina support may not be a dealbreaker, but GIMP is software for creating graphics.
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If your hosting provider is cheap, then that's one reason for why they might provide bad service. You get what you pay for in general. Or in other words, changing one cheap hosting provider for another won't help with reliability much.
It is hard to imagine a valid reason why GIMP developers have taken so long to implement them.

Time.

It's not that they're unaware of the importance of non-destructive editing. But adding it to GIMP required a pretty complete overhaul of the underlying architecture, which ended up taking much more time than initially anticipated. Basically the developers had to choose between completely stopping the development of GIMP and focus all their time re-implementing and re-writing the underlying architecture, or to keep working on GIMP as it was, and to slowly changing the underlying architecture bit by bit as and when they found the time. They chose the latter option.

Non-destructive editing has been in development, on and off, for about 15 years now.
This bites especially often if you are steadily switching between JavaScript and a server-side language where that code actually does what you expect (e.g. Python).
Interesting article, though the answer in the title seems pretty obvious: Germany was offering a previously hostile neighbor of the US land as long as they'd enter the war. No matter whether that was transmitted in secret, in the open, or through diplomatic channels, that's virtually a declaration of war.

Even without unrestrained submarine warfare, that alone might have been enough to bring the US into the war in 1915. It took some restraint from Wilson to prevent an earlier entry, anyway.
I upvoted you for your ambiguous sarcasm. GIMP has been around for a very long time, and I'm sure they're considered all the options with the amount of developer time they have available.
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Marked will decide. In France I already see more Bio (Organic) shops around than those selling conventional food. I don't go there because of the price but the demand is clearly growing. Most of the organic food is produced by the same companies that do conventional farming anyways, shift will come.
The history of Europe in the 20th C. is really the long march towards a EU with Germany at the heart. It is more than a shame that so many died to end up exactly where we would have been if the Schlieffen Plan had worked [1].

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlieffen_Plan
I'm colour-blind, and Firefox the text in the console is completely unreadable to me. The Firefox console background is grey (I think), while the text is blue or purple (I think) and I can't make it out against the background.
This particular assumption is pretty safe: current farming practice depends heavily on oil. For energy of course, but also for chemicals. Nothing that depends that heavily on fossil fuels is sustainable in the long run. Whatever change we devise, we need to weaken that dependency.

> Surely it can be adapted as opposed to rejected and completely changed, can't it?

Personally, I see organic agriculture as a modernization: it's healthier (no poisonous pesticide in my apple!), easier on the soil, but it's not easier. The knowledge required to grow food organically is quite precise, and research is still ongoing.
/jp/ was made expressly so it could be forgotten about, which works out for both sides.
I don't agree with labeling as spam only messages sent in bulk.

The flaw in this definition is that the recipient has no way to tell whether a message was sent in bulk or not. After all, if spammers have a database with your address in it, they can have your name as well, or they can guess it from the email address and thus personalize the email you receive. And if the recipient can't tell whether a message was sent in bulk or not, then guilt can't be easily established, requiring a costly investigation from competent authorities.

The problem with email is that it's very cheap to send, much cheaper than making phone calls and the problem with spam is that if unaddressed, it renders your email address unusable, with important, legitimate email being lost in noise, so it does have a high cost for recipients. And that cost for recipients is the same, whether those emails where sent in bulk or not.

So you see, such a rule is designed to protect spammers, to shield them from legal liability.
I wouldn't call this spam. Specifically because it is prompted and truly individualized.
Moreover, they use only intentionally public info (twitter and whois).

They also aren't pushing hard, this is essentially the softest sales-pitch that is actually a pitch.
South Korea just steals and takes credit for everything Japan makes.

They're like China, but they get away with it better.
It may not be in the spirit of HN, but deliberately being 3 years behind on the latest technologies is a really good way to stay employable without driving yourself mad keeping up with the latest and greatest. After 3 years, the flash-in-the-pans and the duds have been winnowed out and you can just concentrate on the stuff which will earn you paying gigs.
They are also comparing tf unfavourably to theano.

Personally I've found a somewhat obscure low-level and (comparatively) little documented DyNet [[1] much easier to understand than tensorflow, so the critique rings true to me.

[1] http://dynet.readthedocs.io
I actually didn't enjoy bing much so completely switched browser.

AMP doesn't work on firefox.
I know they want to sell windows 10. Sadly Windows 10 sucks. Maybe Microsoft hasn't earned a percentage of every new laptops sale price in perpetuity.

GWX control panel to prevent windows 10 installing over your windows 7: http://ultimateoutsider.com/downloads/
O&O ShutUp10 to try and regain privacy in win 10: https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

Win 10 reports to Microsoft corp what programs you run, when and for how long by default. Reports other data on what you do with your computer (they call spying telemetry) Nearly impossible to turn off, and they keep turning it back on with updates. And your computer is going to need rebooted often with updates, so hope you weren't working on anything too important that you needed to save before reboot.

This man says it better: https://itvision.altervista.org/why-windows-10-sucks.html
That is responsive layout! Something people love
One of my favourite project is by Gina Häußge, creator and maintainer of OctoPrint.

"OctoPrint is the snappy web interface for your 3D printer that allows you to control and monitor all aspects of your printer and print jobs, right from within any browser on your network."[0]

https://www.patreon.com/foosel

Disclaimer: I work closely with Gina on (open source) plugins for OctoPrint.

[0] http://octoprint.org
Warfare is much more economic in nature these days. One of the reasons we don't go to war as much is because if you have the economic clout it's much easier to dominate nations and less destructive to boot.

The EU is a remarkable construct, and obviously in its roots has the desire to prevent conflict. At the same time, there's plenty of parties that can use that same construct (and have) to dominate in other ways. If you are an unscrupulous German leader of industry, the ability and desire to gain more power is not so different from Krupp or other German businesses serving the Nazis. They are different in kind and end results, yes, and this economic warfare is kinder and more acceptable to peace. At the core, though is domination.

The OP's comment is offensive because it is so short, but he's right in that Germany dominates the EU, for good and bad.
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I don't think the yields go back to pre-fertilizer levels, otherwise we wouldn't be able to sustain so many more mouths than before Haber-Bosch.
But how do you know you have a great product before you ship? Until you have paying customers, you don't have a real feedback loop.
Right... Except, of course, that the EU is a voluntary union rather than an attempt at conquest.
I've recently been thinking about xmpp making for a great federated identity provider for multiplayer video games. With communication already built in, initialization of peer-to-peer sessions already a common use-case, and the right XEPs it could replace centralized services like steamworks, psn or xbox-live.
>The Swedes themselves promote an atmosphere of great personal ambition — unlike some European neighbors that emphasize the collective — and that’s a boon to innovation, he said.

>“In the culture, people are super individualistic — this means that people have ideas and are very interested in pursuing them in this way in order to become wealthy,” said Henrekson.

This is very true, and a thing which is often misunderstood about the Swedish mindset. The sterotype of Swedes is frequently that we're a bunch of socialists who all believe that everyone should work for the collective good. That's totally wrong.

Sweden is perhaps one of the most individualistic countries in the world: we value the individual over the family or community, and we believe that everyone should have the same opportunities regardless of the circumstances of their birth. This is the reason we have the social safety net we have: it is a substitute for family and community and other more traditional support systems.
Another way of putting it: German history since 1870 is series of attempts to recreate the Holy Roman Empire. Bismarck & the Kaiser's Second Reich, Hitler's Third Reich, and now the Merkel led EU imposing the ECB facilitated Eurozone diktat. To paraphrase von Clausewitz: finance is the continuation of politics by other means. Hence Merkel's ability to remove uncooperative heads of govt in Italy & Greece in recent years.
Organic isn't the answer, it's trying to address some legitimate concerns, but it's a movement full of scientific woo-woo that's been legislated.

For instance, organic farming thinks GMO's are bad, but is just fine with irradiating large fields full of plants to accomplish random mutations through radiation breeding.

This article is one example of this, the author decries traditional corn fields, and as a counterexample wants us to believe that some hilly permaculture farm in Austria which just from the looks of it obviously has to be harvested & maintained by hand would be a viable replacement.

Organic is largely just a western luxury product supported by people with no concern about producing food at true scale, and how we can satisfy the global food supply without impoverishing a large part of the population by doing manual labor on farms.

There's no panacea when it comes to farming, but GMOs seem to be the best shot we have.
I've seen screenshots of Thief before but I never thought that the actual game is this smooth!
> It also opens blazing fast. With these in mind, minor inconveniences (like the address bar) are probably something i wouldn't mind.

Of course you wouldn't mind, since, as you've said elsewhere that you work at Google.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" — Upton Sinclair
We first should get a good definition of what "organic food" is, as currently (at least in Europe) is, more or less, equivalent to "crops grow using tradicional methods". The "tradicional methods" is very vague, but gets described in some laws. That's the main reason why is less efficient, is not using the latest improvements.
"Organic food" is also an incredibly silly name, as there are no "inorganic food", but whatever.

What is NOT guaranteed by those laws is that the food is:

- More ecologically friendly (some tradicional pesticides or fertiliser are quite nasty, and you may need to use much more)

- Better (either as more nutrients or tastier)

- Locally produced (and Co2 emissions can be high when you purchase an organic crop produced in Australia)

- Produced in small farms (there are big corporations as well)

- Rigorously following the rules, as inspections are small

Again, the key word here is GUARANTEED. Some organic farms may be doing things is a good way, but most are not improving anything, and there's nothing in the "organic food" industry as a whole that promotes a good analysis.

Given that they are "tradicional methods", I find difficult to change into a more "let's try to improve farming into a more sustainable and less aggressive endeavour". Which I think is what we all want. And I think the "conventional farming" is, at least, in a better position to approach this problem.
While on this, are there any tools floating around for summarizing a Mailman archive into some basic stats? I have a few lists that I'd love gathering some stats for. Things like most prolific writer per week, general mail count per month, first occurrence of authors, etc. I wanted to throw something together myself, but thought I might be able to find something similar online, unfortunately to no avail.
Start by picking GMOs instead of the woo-woo that is organic farming. See e.g. a German-funded meta-analysis[1] that found that:

"[...] the adoption of herbicide-tolerant (HT) soybean, maize, and cotton, and insect-resistant (IR) maize and cotton has resulted in a 22% increase in average yields, a 37% overall decrease in pesticide use, and a 68% increase in farmer profits.".

1. http://www.theskepticsguide.org/gm-impact-meta-analysis
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it's healthier (no poisonous pesticide in my apple!)

That is simply not true. Organic farming uses pesticides just as conventional farming, and I'm not aware of any studies that find that organic pesticides are consistently better for your health than non-organic. Rotanone for example is popular with many organic farmers, and has been linked to causing Parkinson's disease.

PS: This is not an argument against organic farming, and I buy organic as much as possible, but there is no reason to believe that doing so has any effect on my health.
Sure but if this was the 1950s and the article was about abstaining from smoking, you could have made similar arguments.

The people of tomorrow will not think like the people of today.
You seem to assume organic food is much more expensive to produce than chemical food. You'll need to justify that assumption, especially in the face of hidden costs: scorched soils (that require chemicals to grow anything), light but pervasive food poisoning (pesticides), growing resistances to our pesticides and antibiotics, heavy dependence on fossil fuels, as well as quite a bit of oil for chemicals.

As a not so separate issue, there is the cost of distribution. Carrying food across the country, across the world, has costs: more need for energy, and degradation of the food (fresh is better). Such costs could be lowered right now, but cannot be eliminated as long as we keep large monocultures: with them, you don't get any diversity without moving lots of food around.
Record a bit if you see any more, maybe.
Ask HN: Does a quick, “Are you considering new jobs?” phone call bother you?
If you get a quick, polite, non-pushy phone call from a recruiter to see if you are looking for new jobs at the moment, does that bother you?
If you have the possibility then try joining larger and younger teams at work. Also: be constantly aware of the current state of technology. You can't have a deep knowledge of everything but at least knowing which problems a new technology solves helps a lot.
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